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Virginia Gun Sales Double As ‘Assault Firearm’ Ban Nears
Cam Edwards – Bearing Arms
We’re now less than a month away from Virginia’s ban on so-called assault firearms and large capacity magazines taking effect, and gun sales are still soaring ahead of the ban.
In fact, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s adjusted NICS numbers, the 74,959 background checks conducted on gun transfers in Virginia in May are a 103% increase over the number of background checks performed in May, 2025.
April 2026 saw a 79% increase in gun transfers compared to the year before as well. In fact, sales have been up in Virginia since at least February of this year, as residents seek to purchase one or more of the popular rifles, pistols, and shotguns that will be pulled from store shelves on July 1 unless enforcement of the law is halted by a judge.
Last month Virginia had the fourth highest gun sales of all 50 states, behind…Read more here.
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Why Did NRA Political Victory Fund Endorses Alabama Incumbent?
Ton Knighton / BEARING ARMS
Endorsements probably shouldn’t matter all that much in politics, but the truth is that most people don’t devote all that much time into looking into the candidates. They get slammed by commercials for and against each candidate, leaving them a confused mess in the primaries, only to become a team sport in the general election, often without much more than a few articles or soundbites about what they actually stand for.
So, endorsements matter because it’s a stamp of approval from someone you might trust. The issue is that some people trust some sketchy sources.
The NRA’s Political Victory Fund, though, is a big endorsement for anyone who supports gun rights, and an endorsement in Alabama raised a couple of eyebrows, including mine.
The political action committee for America’s largest pro-gun rights organization has endorsed U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) in Alabama’s upcoming Republican runoff election for U.S. Senate.
On Monday, the National Rifle Association’s Political Victory Fund released a letter of…Read more here.
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Here’s Another Reason Cops Aren’t Checking to See If It’s a BB Gun Pointed at Them
Tom Knighton – Bearing Arms
When a gun is pointed at you, even for a split second, the barrel seems a whole lot larger than it really is. I’ve been unfortunate enough to experience that due to someone’s unsafe gun handling, so I’m talking from first-hand experience. Because of that, I don’t get worked up when there’s an officer-involved shooting, and the person shot by the police has a BB gun. I hate that it happened, and I feel awful for the officer, because I know that’s got to screw with a person’s head.
They’re not going to measure the barrel diameter before acting because they can’t.
However, there’s another reason why officers shouldn’t be getting blasted by ignorant people when something like that happens. That reason is that BB guns aren’t harmless.
Initial information informed deputies that an adult male, later identified as 33-year-old Geovanni Malacara-Hernandez, had been injured from an accidental discharge of a pellet or…Read more here.
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Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon Turns Sights on Colorado
Tom Knighton / BEARING ARMS
As Second Amendment supporters, we find ourselves disappointed quite a bit. We elect people who claim to be pro-gun, only to find out that they are anti-gun control at best. There’s a difference between those two positions, and it matters, especially if we want to get our rights back as we deserve.
The Trump administration is a prime example. We expected much of President Donald Trump this go-around, but what we got was a DOJ that continues to defend gun control laws.Yeah, they’re better than any other administration in my lifetime, but the
bar was so low that an amoeba couldn’t limbo under it.One consistent bright spot hasbeen Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who heads up the Civil Rights Division. She’s been aggressive about taking on state and local gun control laws, and now the state of Colorado has earned the legal Bat Signal’s attention.
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