News
Experts weigh in on expanding firearm safety education
Tennessee is expanding gun-safety instruction for their public school students to improve child-death statistics from accidents.
News
Constitutional carry bill clears NC legislature, sent to governor
The North Carolina House passed the Freedom to Carry NC Act on Wednesday afternoon along party lines, sending the permitless carry legislation to the governor's desk.
News
Freedom to Carry bill advances in NC, but governor signals impending veto
North Carolina’s permitless concealed carry bill—the Freedom to Carry NC Act—cleared another hurdle Tuesday with a narrow 6–5 vote in the House Judiciary 2 Committee.
News
Public safety bills targeting thieves and intruders pass House unanimously
Two pieces of legislation passed the North Carolina House unanimously on Tuesday afternoon that target criminals looking to take advantage of households and businesses alike.
Opinion
Mass shootings and valuing human life
The tragic death of five shooting victims in Raleigh should give us an extended pause. First, it should remind us of the immense value of life. For the ideologues, politics is and will remain the sole focus of the shooting. In fact, for many, frantic calls for gun control inevitably become the only solution. Yet,...
Opinion
Jim Crow pistol permit remains a shameful blot on our state
Despite a new research paper by two Clemson University economists proving that black lynching decreased with greater firearm access, North Carolina still clings to its Jim Crow pistol permit. The state remains the only former Confederate state with the pistol permit law enacted here in 1919. Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a repeal of the Jim Crow law...
Opinion
The folly of an ‘assault weapons’ ban
The bill, expected to receive a floor vote in August, is about disarming Americans, classifying them more as serfs and not citizens.
Opinion
Beto makes Texas school shooting about himself and other outrageous stories
A new Civitas Poll released yesterday has President Biden's approval at 33% in North Carolina.
Opinion
Why can’t journalists just be honest about guns?
Recently, Judge Roger Thomas Benitez, a senior U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, ruled that the 1989 California assault weapon ban is unconstitutional. The ruling prompted the media to fall back on a common yet egregiously incorrect claim that the AR-15 is the “weapon of choice” for mass...
Opinion
Time to pass constitutional carry in North Carolina
Individual states should be looking to expand the scope of more contemporary understandings of the Second Amendment, orienting more towards the intent of the American Founders.
Opinion
General Assembly should not shy away from expanding gun rights
Citizens should remember they are masters and not servants of the government.
Opinion
How far will North Carolina fall behind on gun rights?
Getting rid of the county pistol permit process that has a well documented racist history should be the first step by the General Assembly.
