“I am flabbergasted. After all the horrifying shit that we’ve seen so far in Trump 2.0, she still doesn’t think civilians should be able to own ar-style rifles. Doesn’t care about the fact that they are no more or less dangerous than something like a mini-14.”
By going after the most popular firearms “in common use” for lawful purposes, gun control advocates are demonstrating an unbridled disdain for American gun owners, the Second Amendment, and judicial precedent.
Building your family’s preparedness skill sets with knowledge and some affordable equipment not only can pay off in good times, but it can come in handy and then some for genuine emergencies.
You’re imagining your regret were civic life to unravel, and you had failed to prepare. Maybe there’s a “Last of Us” scenario flickering in your heads, but even then, I doubt that whatever firearm your husband is contemplating would help.
Call them Red Flag gun confiscation orders, or Extreme Risk Protection orders or just a plain old Order of Protection. Regardless of the name, if police show up out of the blue with one of those orders against you to take your guns, what should you do? Think about it now to help you minimize the disruption to your life and to keep your options open.
The April 2025 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,174,294 is a decrease of 3.4 percent compared to the April 2024 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,216,116.
Guns embody multiple paradoxes. They are fun and frightening, dangerous and protective, diffuse and concentrated, unifying and divisive, attractive and repulsive, interesting and controversial, useful and useless, good and bad, and neither good nor bad.
Firearms instructor Joe Drammissi is a member of the Board of Directors of San Diego County Gun Owners PAC, a
Shame on Guns Save Life. The plucky Illinois grassroots gun rights organization filed a legal challenge to the crown jewel
