Bearing Arms' Cam & Company

While Constitutional Carry bills have been introduced in Florida in recent years, they haven't gotten much traction. Next year's legislative session could be a very different story, however, with several key GOP figures signaling support for the measure.

Thousands of gun owners and those interested in exercising their 2A rights flocked to Fort Worth, Texas this past weekend for the US Concealed Carry Association's Concealed Carry & Home Defense Expo, and USCCA's Kevin Michalowski says despite fears by anti-gun activists that the state's new Constitutional Carry law would lead to untrained folks toting guns, its clear that there's a strong demand for education and training.

When the booster club for the Cedar Cliff High School football team decided to raffle off several firearms as a fundraiser for the team, there was one lonely voice in the community who tried their best to turn the good deed into a controversy. But as the Washington Examiner's Salena Zito explains to Cam, the folks in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania weren't about to let one bad apple spoil the community's support for their team or the Second Amendment.

Armed American Radio's Mark Walters joins Cam to talk about California's AB 173, a new law that utterly obliterates the right to privacy for gun owners. As Walters explains, even gun owners who don't live in the state should be gravely concerned about the new law and how the gun control lobby will try to expand on it at the state and federal level.

With polls showing a neck-and-neck race for governor in Virginia, anti-gun Democrats are pulling out all the stops to depress turnout among Republicans and conservatives, including running ads portraying GOP candidate Glenn Youngkin as soft in his support for the Second Amendment.

Detroit's new police chief says there are "too many guns on the streets," but with many residents choosing to obtain their concealed carry licenses, the real issue isn't how many guns are out there but how many individuals are illegally using guns in the commission of violent crimes.

Democrats have tucked away a "red flag" law aimed at military members inside the 1300-page National Defense Authorization Act, and the proposal suffers from the same lack of due process and Constitutional concerns that we've seen with Extreme Risk Protection Order legislation targeting civilians.

Democrat Mark Herring, who's up for re-election in the commonwealth of Virginia this November, isn't shying away from promoting his extreme anti-gun views even as early voting begins. The AG is hoping to expand the state's "red flag" gun seizure law, and has also signed on to a Supreme Court brief arguing that the Second Amendment doesn't protect the right of the average citizen to bear arms in public spaces.

While Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke is expected to announce a run for governor in the near future, polls in Texas show that actor and gun control supporter Matthew McConaughey would pose a more serious challenge to Gov. Greg Abbott's re-relection.

Former Arapahoe County, Colorado District Attorney George Brauchler has prosecuted several high profile cases, including the Aurora theater shooter. But unlike gun control activists who've pointed to that shooting and others as reasons to restrict the Second Amendment, Brauchler says that in his experience these gun control laws do far more harm to the rights of citizens than to the violent criminals they're supposed to stop.

New York Times columnist Gail Collins is deeply unhappy over the defeat of David Chipman and Joe Biden's inability to ram his anti-gun agenda through Congress, but as Cam points out, there are good reasons why the kinds of policies Collins supports aren't being enacted.

After the city of Bridgeport was sued by the Connecticut Citizens Defense League over delays in accepting gun permit applications (a permit is required before anyone can legally possess a handgun in the state), police officials suddenly discovered that they could make some changes that will result in a much speedier application process. As Cam points out, this type of bureaucratic B.S. shouldn't be allowed to stand between you and your civil rights.

Does Philadelphia have a "gun violence" problem, or a murder, attempted murder, and aggravated assault problem? Former police officer and public safety expert Benjamin Maness joins Cam to discuss the name and blame games being played by Philly officials, and why their refusal to call a murder a murder is making the city unsafe.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has a new plan to tackle gang violence: sue gangs in civil court and take their assets. As Cam details, there are a lot of problems with the mayor's proposal, including the fact that the city should be bringing violent offenders to criminal, not civil, courtrooms.

The decision by the White House to pull gun control activist David Chipman's nomination as ATF director doesn't mean that the Biden administration is done pushing gun control, but as The Reload's Stephen Gutowski tells Cam, Joe Biden and his anti-gun allies have been dealt a serious setback, and gun owners can celebrate a significant win.

Could the new anti-abortion law in Texas lead to anti-gun states to put similar restrictions in place that allow for civil suits against gun store owners or manufacturers? As Cam explains, the gun control lobby's already been working to put laws like that on the books long before the Texas law took effect.

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is entitled to his own opinion about Texas' new Constitutional Carry law, but he's not entitled to make up his own facts.

Central Texas Gunworks owner Michael Cargill says he's excited to see Constitutional Carry take effect in Texas today, and he's celebrating with customers with a unique giveaway at his Austin gun shop.

A new report from Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun news site The Trace claims that data shows gang violence isn't nearly as prevalent in Chicago as you might think, though there are some fundamental flaws with the figures.

Apparently so, though not every county sheriff and police chief take that dystopian step before signing off on permits to carry a handgun. As Second Amendment reporter John Petrolino details, however, in Murietta, California, the police chief's policy is to force every applicant to fork over $150 and undergo evaluation by a psychiatrist before they can be approved.

Earlier this summer, the inaugural Gun Makers Match was held in St. Augustine, Florida, and a reporter from the typically anti-gun news site Vice was on hand to not only cover the event, but participate as well. Now Vice's documentary is online, and as match organizer and 2A activist Rob Pincus tells Cam, the result is a surprisingly fair and positive piece on the gun-making community.

With shootings and homicides on the rise in Los Angeles, local politicians want to show they're "doing something" to address the concerns of residents, but as Cam reports, their big idea will do absolutely nothing to stop criminals.

The Second Amendment Foundation's Alan Gottlieb says Joe Biden's recent comments about wanting to ban 9mm handguns have gun owners fired up and engaged, giving him hope that the grassroots army of 2A activists can block the president's anti-gun agenda in both Congress and the courts.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation's senior vice president and general counsel Larry Keane joins Cam with details on the Biden administration's new sanctions on the imports of Russian firearms and ammunition, as well as the next step in the AFT's attempt to redefine frames, receivers, and even firearms themselves via a rule change instead of a vote by Congress.

The Biden administration is showing its support for a state-level challenge to Missouri's Second Amendment Preservation Act, arguing in a new legal filing that the law forbidding state and local police from enforcing federal gun control laws violates the Constitution's Supremacy Clause.