‘Tis the Halloween season of fear and disguise, and, in step with the holiday, the gun control ghouls are embracing a familiar tradition of their own. When facts aren’t quite frightening enough, firearm prohibitionists often manufacture their own phantoms.
Our regular readers understand what should be axiomatic for all: Violent criminals cannot prey on law-abiding citizens if they are behind bars. Unfortunately, we are hearing more and more regularly that many in our criminal justice system simply cannot grasp such a basic concept; and that failure often leads to tragedy.
In late July, the White House announced that through the first half of 2026, homicides were “on pace for the lowest level in at least 126 years.” In mid-August, the FBI released data showing that from 2024 to 2025 violent crime dropped 9.3%.
More than half a century ago, Stanley Kubrick’s film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, introduced the world to HAL-9000, a sentient “supercomputer” with advanced artificial intelligence (AI) processing. When HAL, responsible for running the spacecraft, decides to exterminate the human crew by stranding them in space, its response to the instruction to open the doors is the now infamous, “I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
Another election, same former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg working to shape the nation’s gun laws. For years, NRA has exposed Bloomberg’s relentless efforts to export New York style gun restrictions to the rest of America.
It’s well established that certain offenders remain disproportionately responsible for violent crime. A 2001 report on such “chronic offenders” in Minnesota concluded that over a four-year period, just five percent of offenders were responsible for 19 percent of the criminal convictions in the state, including 37 percent of all felonies.
Some arguments succeed by being true. Some attempt to succeed by confusing the debate and substituting misdirection for clarity. And some attempt to succeed merely by dogged persistence, refusing to die or go away, no matter how often ignored or refuted.
NRA-ILA Grassroots Field Coordinator Darius Diggs recently attended the Arizona State Rifle and Pistol Association's (ASRPA) Annual “Education & Training Dinner”, alongside FrontLines Activist Leader (FAL) Doug Stead and NRA Board Members Jacqueline Janes, Jeff Knox, Buzz Mills, and Sharon Caron.
The National Rifle Association and Second Amendment Foundation filed an amicus brief in United States v. Cordova, a case before the en banc Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals involving a challenge to the federal lifetime prohibition on firearms possession by felons under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1).
The National Rifle Association of America, along with the America First Policy Institute and Knox Williams, founder of the American Suppressor Association, filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to rehear Richards v. Newsom en banc.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that the federal Switchblade Act’s restrictions on the interstate commerce of switchblade knives violate the Second Amendment.
