Bearing Arms' Cam & Co

LEPD Firearms and Range's Eric Delbert joins Cam to discuss his recent interview with Ohio state Rep. Willis Blackshear, who's proposing a ban on "mass casualty firearms" that could make the ownership of almost any semi-automatic firearm a felony in the Buckeye State.

Twelve years to the day after it opened for business, Bordertown Guns in Momence, Illinois closed down for good. Doug and Staci Duncan say business was good until the gun and magazine bans that are part of the Protect Illinois Communities Act took effect, which devastated their sales and led them to the heartbreaking decision to shut down the shop.

The mainstream media is in full defensive mode after Hunter Biden's conviction on federal gun charges; portraying Joe Biden as a sympathetic father figure while downplaying or outright ignoring Biden's support for the gun law in question and his failure to mention the conviction when he addressed Everytown for Gun Safety just hours after the verdict was delivered.

The National Rifle Association's new executive vice president Doug Hamlin sits down with Cam for a wide-ranging conversation on the efforts to reform the NRA, restore the organization's influence... and the trust of its members.

The Second Amendment Foundation's Alan Gottlieb joins Cam to discuss the latest news from the Supreme Court, which declined to issue any orders dealing with pending challenges to gun and magazine bans in Illinois, as well as New York's "good moral character" requirement for gun licenses.

A 10-year-old brought a stolen handgun to an elementary school in Los Angeles this week; an increasingly common occurrence in the gun-controlled city, where more than 900 "weapon incidents" have been reported in the public schools over the 2023-2024 school year.

Firearms executive-turned-gun control activist Ryan Busse won the Democratic nomination for governor in Montana on Tuesday night. Does he have a shot to flip the seat come November, or is campaign shooting blanks?

A Kansas man has finally regained possession of a pistol seized by police in Fremont, Nebraska more than a year after pleading guilty to possessing a small amount of marijuana, and almost twelve months after a local judge first ordered the police to relinquish the firearm.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation's Jake McGuigan joins Cam to discuss the demise of a "Fix NICS" bill in New Hampshire that would have mandated the reporting of involuntary commitments to the NICS system.

The Supreme Court has unanimously agreed that the NRA raised a plausible First Amendment claim that a New York official violated the organization's First Amendment rights by coercing insurance companies to sever their ties to the NRA because of its Second Amendment advocacy.

Dr. John Lott, head of the Crime Prevention Research Center, says despite a decline in homicides in 2023, crime remains elevated compared to the pre-pandemic years, and there's plenty of evidence that crime is getting worse despite FBI statistics to the contrary.

Wake Forest sociology professor David Yamane has a simple message for his fellow liberals: gun ownership is normal and normal people own guns. Yamane details his own Second Amendment conversion story in the new book Gun Curious: A Liberal Professor's Surprising Journey Inside America's Gun Culture, and recently sat down with Cam to discuss his experiences and what he hopes the impact of his book will have on the gun control debate.

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's John Diedrich joins Cam to discuss a recent meeting of the minds in the 2A community featuring gun owners, gun store owners, and mental health care workers all dedicated to saving lives without infringing on the right to keep and bear arms.

Retired ATF deputy assistant director Pete Forcelli says a new report by USA Today on guns recovered in Mexico isn't a "nightmare" for the firearms industry, as the paper alleges. Instead, he says the report paints gun dealers and makers in a false light while leaving out important information about the lax enforcement of straw buyers from the U.S. Attorney in Phoenix, as well as the corruption and graft south of the border that's fueling cartel violence.

After a marathon 12-hour board meeting on Monday that saw reformers win key leadership positions, NRA board members Amanda Suffecool and Jim Wallace join Cam with an inside look at last weekend's Annual Meeting, the fight to reform the organization, and both the challenges and opportunities ahead for the NRA as it seeks to regain the trust of members and 2A supporters.

With the Supreme Court's decision in Garland v. Cargill looming, gun control activists are engaging in some Big Brother-esque torture of the English language to defend the ATF's abuse of its regulatory authority.

The Supreme Court turned away two Second Amendment-related cases on Monday, rejecting cert petitions challenging Maryland's ban on "assault weapons" and New York City's "good moral character" requirement for possessing rifles and shotguns in the home. But the Court took no action on several cert requests challenging Illinois' ban on so-called assault weapons and large capacity magazines, giving 2A supporters a little hope that SCOTUS will still weigh in on a semi-auto ban in the months ahead.

California Rifle & Pistol Association president and co-founder of the Second Amendment Law Center Chuck Michel joins Cam to discuss the multiple challenges to "assault weapon" bans that are being considered for acceptance in the Supreme Court's weekly conference today, and says he's crossing "all his fingers" in the hopes that SCOTUS will grant cert to one more of the lawsuits.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation's Larry Keane joins Cam & Co with the latest on the Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act, which has now become the law of the land in fifteen states across the country.

Armed American Radio's Mark Walters joins Cam for a wide-ranging discussion on whether or not SCOTUS will grant cert to several "assault weapon" ban cases, this week's NRA Annual Meeting in Dallas, and what a second term for Joe Biden would mean for gun owners and Second Amendment advocates.

The Supreme Court is set to consider whether to accept challenges to "assault weapons" bans in Illinois and Maryland at this week's conference, but as Cam reports, the justices are also slated to debate granting cert to a case taking on New York City's "good moral character" standard for residents trying to exercise their right to keep a rifle or shotgun in their home.

It's another two-fer on today's Bearing Arms Cam & Co! Rob Doar of the MN Gun Owners Caucus and David Trahan of the Sportsmans Alliance of Maine join the show with updates on the efforts to defeat gun control bills in Minnesota, as well as a court challenge to Maine's impending 72-hour waiting period on gun sales.

Former (and hopefully future) District Attorney George Brauchler joins Cam to discuss the demise of Colorado's "assault weapons" ban bill, as well as his recent column warning gun-owning parents that Democrats in the state will soon be making them a target of anti-2A legislation.

It's a 2A Tuesday two-fer on Cam & Co, with Grassroots NC's Paul Valone providing an update on the grassroots push for Constitutional Carry and SAF's Lee Williams joining Cam to discuss the Washington Post winning a Pulitzer Prize for its 14-part attack on the AR-15.

Citing a colonial Virginia statute barring Catholics from owning or possessing arms, a federal judge in New York has upheld the state's ammunition background check law, claiming it comports with a national tradition of keeping "dangerous" people from exercising their 2A rights.