The number of active concealed carry licenses across the United States has soared to 18.66 million, representing a 304 percent increase since 2007, according to a new report from the Crime Prevention Research Center. The number translates to 7.3 percent of all adults in the United States, and approximately 8 percent growth over the number […]
Recent Events Guarantee Lively Gun Rights Conference in Phoenix
Recent high-profile mass shootings, and the promise that Congress would take up gun control issues when it returns to work in September promise a lively program at the 34th annual Gun Rights Policy Conference in Phoenix, Ariz., Sept. 20-22. The event, sponsored by the Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep […]
32nd Annual Gun Rights Conference Brings ‘Top Guns’ to Dallas
Scores of America’s “top guns” of the Second Amendment community are gathering in Dallas this weekend for the 32nd annual Gun Rights Policy Conference, and the timing could not be better for the co-sponsors of this event. The GRPC is a joint operation by the Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee for the Right to […]
Rasmussen Poll on Suicide Timely for Gun Rights Conference
A new Rasmussen survey on suicide comes as the annual Gun Rights Policy Conference prepares to take on the issue in Dallas, Sept. 30. (Dave Workman) A new Rasmussen survey released Tuesday showing that 55 percent of American adults know someone who has committed suicide offers a timely tie-in to a topic that will be […]
For Teachers, Learning to do it FASTER May Save Lives
A growing number of teachers and school administrators are learning to use firearms under an ambitious program launched a few years ago in Ohio that has now reached educators in several states. Called FASTER (for “Faculty/Administrator Safety Training and Emergency Response”), this project was profiled by Fox News, and it has been discussed at the […]
Stronger Second Amendment Support from This Surprising Group
A Tuesday piece in the Washington Times detailed why there may be hope yet for the Second Amendment, and why the gun prohibition lobby just might not have as clear a horizon as it might like. Millennials, according to the newspaper, are not the mind-numbingly stupid or geek class as they might be portrayed in […]