Bearing Arms' Cam & Co

Reason's J.D. Tucille says new polls offer little comfort to the gun control lobby, and as Cam details, the anti-gunners have been losing ground far longer than one or two polling cycles.

Santa Clara County D.A. Jeff Rosen is proposing a ballot referendum for California voters next year that would trample all over their Second Amendment rights by mandating that only "smart guns" could be sold in the state, imposing a new per-bullet tax on ammunition, and an annual registration fee for every gun legally possessed in the state.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is appealing several rejections of the state's Extreme Risk Protection Order statute after multiple judges have ruled the law violates the Second Amendment rights of residents; setting up what could be a major court fight over the constitutionality of the "red flag" law.

California Rifle & Pistol Association head and 2A attorney Chuck Michel is back with details on a Ninth Circuit panel's oral arguments over the state's Handgun Roster scheme, as well as a look at the first briefs filed with SCOTUS in the Rahimi case.

Connecticut's draconian gun laws haven't made a dent in Hartford's homicide rate, and now a group of community activists say they're ready to take to the streets and conduct armed patrols in some of the city's most violent neighborhoods; a move greeted with scorn and opposition from anti-gun activists and the city's mayor.

Cody J. Wisniewski, FPC Action Foundation General Counsel and Vice President of Legal, joins Cam to talk about the upcoming Rahimi case, Bruen response bills, and why he's optimistic that many gun control laws currently on the books will disappear in the years ahead.

A recent interview with Harvard professor David Hemenway makes clear that, despite attempts to portray a "public health approach to reducing gun violence" as separate from the agenda of the gun control lobby, the two are essentially one and the same.

California Rifle & Pistol Association legislative affairs director Rick Travis joins Cam with an update on the latest threats to the Second Amendment in Sacramento and the crippling impact one existing law is having on youth shooting sports in the state.

While the Massachusetts legislature is out on summer recess, 2A advocates in the state are going on offense to educate the public about the dangers and threats to public safety inherent in HD 4420, deemed the Lawful Citizens Imprisonment Act by Jim Wallace of the Gun Owners Action League.

Mark Oliva of the National Shooting Sports Foundation sits down with Cam to discuss the group's newly-filed lawsuit challenging Illinois' First and Second Amendment crackdown on gun makers, as well as the impending ATF rule on private sales and transfers of firearms.

We're one week away from the start of a special session in Nashville, and John Harris, executive director of the Tennessee Firearms Association, joins Cam with a preview of what to expect and what gun owners should be doing to ensure the defeat of any anti-gun legislation when lawmakers return to the state capitol.

Yehuda "The Pew Pew Jew" Remer believes social media is absolutely censoring pro-2A voices, but as he tells Cam, he may have found a way around the algorithms that allows his voice (and others) to still be heard.

California Rifle & Pistol Association head Chuck Michel joins Cam with updates on several lawsuits taking on gun control laws, as well as sharing his thoughts on the Supreme Court's decision to stay a nationwide injunction against the ATF's "frame or receiver" rule.

Grassroots NC head Paul Valone joins Cam with updates on a lawsuit challenging lengthy delays in issuing concealed carry permits in the state's most populous county, as well as a preview of Wednesday's meeting with firearms instructors pushing back against proposed regulations that could make it much more difficult to host training classes.

Ammoland's John Crump joins Cam with news of another ATF rule change lurking on the horizon; this one aimed squarely at criminalizing the private sale of firearms.

Honolulu police chief Arthur "Joe" Logan says his department is making progress in processing concealed carry permits, with 175 licenses approved in the past two weeks. Still, with a backlog of about 600 applications more than a year after the state's "may issue" licensing regime was ruled unconstitutional, many gun owners are rightfully wondering what's taking so long.

U.S. District Judge Consuela Marshall says Ventura County's 48-day shutdown of gun stores and ranges as "non-essential businesses" during the early days of the COVID pandemic didn't violate the Second Amendment rights of county residents; a decision that could have far-reaching consequences, potentially leading to even more open-ended shutdowns based on "public health" emergencies in the future.

We're less than three weeks away from an expected special session in Tennessee where "dozens" of bills will be introduced dealing with firearms, mental health, juvenile justice, and more, but good luck getting ahold of the text of any of these measures. As Cam details, Gov. Bill Lee is still keeping a lid on details of the session in the face of mounting opposition from many Republicans and Second Amendment advocates.

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares joins Cam to talk about the early success of Operation Ceasefire in the state, including the nearly 100 repeat violent offenders who've been indicted and programs underway to help steer youth away from heading down the wrong path.

Ohio Democrats are mounting a full-scale push to make gun control a top issue for voters next year, blaming the state's "liberalized" gun laws for an increase in crime in cities like Cleveland and Columbus while downplaying the damage done by their own soft-on-crime policies and practices.

Gun control activists and anti-gun politicians in Massachusetts are scrambling to save their sweeping legislation obliterating the right to keep and bear arms after ferocious pushback by gun owners, law enforcement, and even some mayors. Gun Owners Action League executive director Jim Wallace shares the latest, including a surprising new development in the state Senate.

Legally Armed in Detroit's Rick Ector joins Cam with a preview of a huge gun training event for women taking place this upcoming Saturday and Sunday in the Detroit suburb of Taylor, Michigan. Two local ranges will be hosting hundreds of women with volunteer instructors providing a basic gun safety course free of charge for all those who attend, and Ector is hoping to train some 1,500 individuals over the course of the weekend.

California Rifle & Pistol Association head and 2A attorney Chuck Michel joins Cam with updates on several cases pending before U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez, the half-dozen lawsuits challenging Illinois' ban on 'assault weapons" and "large capacity" magazines, and what he sees as a disturbing trend among some judges to misapply or ignore the Supreme Court's decision in NYSRPA v. Bruen.

While anti-gunners like Shannon Watts are taking aim at country singer Jason Aldean for singing in praise of pro-2A small towns, they're ignoring the failure of their gun control agenda to stem violence in cities like Washington, D.C., where kids as young as 11-years-old are being arrested on a regular basis for armed robberies.

The editors of the San Jose Mercury News are starting to realize what gun owners have known for months now: the city's mandated insurance requirement and annual fee for most gun owners isn't a serious attempt to fight crime, but a political stunt meant to generate headlines for the anti-gun politicians who put the ordinances in place.