FBI 2025 Crime Data: Murder Rate Ties Historic Low After Record Gun Sales

The FBI reports that violent crime recorded its largest one-year rate decline since national estimates began, while the 2025 murder rate tied the historic low set in 1955 and 1956. Years of record firearm purchasing did not produce the bloodbath gun-control advocates predicted.

By Bill Cawthon •

9th Circuit Tosses Giffords ‘Ghost Gun’ Case

Gun-control advocates took their second ghost-gun beating of the week — and this one came from trying to make the ATF’s rule harsher. On August 21, a unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit ruled that California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun ...

By Mark Chesnut •

CA: 5 Bad Gun Measures Head For Floor Votes

California lawmakers are moving five more anti-gun bills toward final floor votes, including measures targeting 3D printers, firearm purchases, gun-owner data and red flag laws. There is one piece of good news: the so-called FFL Killer Bill is dead. The post CA: 5 Bad Gun Measures Head For Floor ...

By Mark Chesnut •

Virginia State Shooting Exposes the Failed Logic of Gun Control

Five people were wounded at Virginia State University, but police were still determining who fired and why. Sandy Hook Promise nevertheless invoked the familiar “gun violence” narrative and the same disputed logic used to promote additional restrictions on lawful gun owners.

By Dean Weingarten •

Sour Grapes: Gun-Ban Advocates Lose Their Minds Over DOJ Not Appealing NFA Ruling

Giffords, Brady and Everytown are predictably furious after DOJ declined to keep the NFA injunction on hold. Suppressors, SBRs and SBSs are suddenly being called some of America’s “deadliest weapons.” The post Sour Grapes: Gun-Ban Advocates Lose Their Minds Over DOJ Not Appealing NFA Ruling...

By Mark Chesnut •
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