The social utility of firearms extends far beyond self-defense. From preventing violent crime and protecting innocent lives to preserving individual liberty, lawful gun ownership provides benefits that deserve recognition in the debate over firearms and the Second Amendment.
New analysis from John Lott's Crime Prevention Research Center challenges FBI active-shooter statistics, reporting that armed citizens stopped 36.6% of incidents between 2014 and 2025. The post CPRC Data Shows Armed Citizens Stop More Than One-Third Of Active Shooter Incidents appeared first on ...
NRA Director Jeff Knox weighs in on the effort to shrink the NRA Board, explaining why he voted to refer the proposal, what happened to the Organization Committee, and why meaningful reform must go beyond simply cutting seats.
Roughly 30 to 35 million white-tailed deer live on the North American landscape today. That figure comes from the National Deer Association, which surveyed state and provincial wildlife agencies across the continent to build its estimate, and it lines up with independent research putting the curr...
A new CPRC survey finds nearly one-third of Americans carry a handgun at least occasionally — and some of the demographics might surprise you. The post Study: Nearly One-Third Of General Election Voters Say They Carry A Concealed Firearm appeared first on The Truth About Guns.
A new AP-NORC poll shows a sharp partisan divide over whether the right to keep and bear arms is under threat, with Democrats far less concerned than Republicans and independents.
The idealized concept immediately took root and blossomed: the Royal Air Force saved Britain from invasion in 1940. The conventional wisdom holds that Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s legendary “few” handed Nazi Germany its first defeat in World War II and paved the road to eventual victo...
Does shooting a bear make the bear more dangerous? In most cases the bears run off or are killed. If the bears persist in the attack, most are killed or driven off.