Illinois Supreme Court weighs challenge to state gun restriction --- SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois Supreme Court began weighing arguments Tuesday in a case that challenges the state’s ability to prohibit people with nonviolent felony convictions from possessing a firearm. At issue is [...]

The Armed Citizen® Reload March 13, 2026 --- These accounts of brave armed women who defended themselves and their families appeared in an earlier edition of The Armed Citizen®: A mother and her two children were asleep at home early one Monday [...]

Second Amendment advocate William Kirk in Quincy with a warning to gun owners --- William Kirk: “I have never seen a state with more corruption baked into it than Illinois.” VIDEO QUINCY–Defense attorney and host of a popular YouTube show on gun rights, [...]

Mass Shootings Do Not Change How US Politicians Vote on Gun Policy --- In new research, Jack Kappelman and Haotian Chen investigate how mass violence impacts legislative voting on firearm-related bills. They conclude that on average, state representatives do not change [...]

Virginia Is Becoming a ‘Gun Desert’: Firearms Community Pushes Back on New Gun Laws --- Why have I been blocked? This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. [...]

Another municipality in New Jersey has joined the effort to nullify the exorbitant fees charged for carry permits in the Garden State which were adopted in response to the Supreme Court’s 2022 Bruen ruling. According to the Citizens Committee [...]

The new Vortex Strike Eagle 1-10x24 FFP LPVO comes with motion-activated illumination and 10x power for distance. --- Vortex Strike Eagle 1-10×24 FFP Riflescope For tactical and competition shooters, the jump from close-quarters speed to longer targets can expose a gap in [...]

Smith & Wesson has just added the Equalizer to its Carry Comp series. The post First Look: Smith & Wesson Equalizer Carry Comp appeared first on Gun Digest. --- Smith & Wesson has just added the Equalizer to its Carry Comp series. The [...]

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced an overdue piece of legislation on Thursday that, if passed and signed into law, would go a long way toward erasing the unworkable patchwork of state laws governing the legal carrying of firearms. Fox [...]

The American appetite for exercising the right to keep and bear arms is alive and well in 2026. The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) culls the raw numbers from the FBI monthly as accumulated by the National Instant Background [...]