Concealed Carry

During his Wednesday town hall on CNN, former President Donald Trump told moderator Kaitlan Collins that the U.S. needs a strong focus on mental health and hardening schools, not gun control.

“Firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens make our communities more safe, not less safe” former Vice President Mike Pence told Breitbart News during a few moments backstage at the NRA’s 2023 Annual Meeting in Indianapolis.

While speaking at the NRA’s Leadership Forum Friday, former president–and current presidential candidate–Donald Trump, said he will ask Congress to send national reciprocity to his desk during his second term.

During his speech at the NRA’s Annual Meeting 2023, former president Donald Trump, a candidate for president in 2024, pledged a tax credit for teachers who take the time to be trained in firearms proficiency for classroom defense.

A report from KHOU indicates a veteran in a wheelchair shot a robbery suspect “several times” Monday night in Houston, Texas.

Constitutional carry legislation passed the Florida House Friday afternoon by a vote of 76 to 32 and now heads to the Senate. 

Oregon Democrat lawmakers are pushing a new package of gun control measures which includes one control giving cities and counties the ability to curtail concealed carry.

On Thursday, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) reportedly told Gun Owners of America (GOA) that he would like to see open carry added to the constitutional carry legislation currently making its way through the Florida legislature. 

The NRA-ILA reported that constitutional carry legislation passed in the Nebraska legislature by a vote of 36-12-1 on Friday.

College students aged 18–20 are getting Texas concealed handgun permits to carry firearms for self-defense on college campuses and in businesses around the Lone Star State.

Sports commentator Rich Eisen pushed gun control during his program on Thursday and blasted constitutional carry by citing a shooting that occurred in a state that does not have constitutional carry.

The West Virginia House of Delegates passed campus carry legislation by a margin of 84-13, sending the legislation to Gov. Jim Justice’s (R) desk to be signed.

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Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) says Republicans’ push to make the Sunshine State the 26th constitutional carry state is “fascism.”

The race is on as South Carolina Republicans push for their state to adopt constitutional carry before Florida does. 

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) used a press conference Wednesday to make clear his response to recent mass shootings in California will be to limit concealed carry.

Sens. John Kennedy (R-LA), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), and John Cornyn (R-TX), introduced legislation Wednesday to treat concealed carry permits like drivers’ licenses, making a permit from any one state valid in the other 49. 

Maryland Democrat lawmakers are pushing legislation that would bar licensed concealed carriers from carrying a gun for self-defense onto someone else’s property unless given explicit permission to do so.

Months after the Supreme Court of the United States Bruen (2022) decision changed the concealed carry landscape, the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office approved a concealed carry permit application.

Legislation that would make Florida the 26th constitutional carry state in the Union was introduced in the state House on Monday.

The Daily Ridge reported that an alleged intruder, 27-year-old Tyriek Tramaine Washington, was hospitalized in “critical but stable condition” after being shot by a Haines City, Florida, homeowner Friday morning. 

A Chicago concealed carry permit pulled his gun and shot an alleged robber a little before 5 p.m. Friday on the CTA Green Line train.

A good guy with a gun stopped an alleged knife-welding Applebee’s attacker a little bit before 7 p.m. Saturday in Upstate New York. 

Legislation was introduced in the House of Delegates this week which gives Virginia the opportunity to become the 26th constitutional carry state in the Union.

Maryland Democrats are pushing restrictions for licensed concealed carry that would prevent the legal carriers from being armed for self-defense in pubic places. 

An alleged robber pulled a gun in a Gilmer County, Georgia, convenience store Monday night only to have his plans thwarted when all three of the store’s customers, at the time, turned out to be armed.

Rep. Richard Hudson (R) introduced national reciprocity for concealed carry in the 118th Congress on Monday night. 

U.S. District Judge Renee Marie Bumb granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) Monday against New Jersey’s new gun control barring licensed concealed carry in “sensitive places.”

HOUSTON, Texas — A customer at a taqueria on the southwest side of Houston shot and killed a would-be armed robber, according to video released by the Houston Police Department. The customer reportedly gathered the money taken by the robbery

A masked alleged robber died Thursday night after being shot about 11:30 p.m. by a customer in a Houston’s “The Ranchito #4” restaurant.

A woman in Philadelphia with a concealed carry permit shot and wounded an alleged attacker about 1 a.m. on New Year’s Day.

An alleged armed robber was shot dead Monday morning around 9:30 a.m. by a tow truck driver with a concealed carry permit. 

Texas has decided to drop its effort to appeal an August 25, 2022, U.S. District Judge decision that found the state’s ban on 18-20 year-olds carrying guns in public unconstitutional. 

A 56-year-old concealed carry permit holder shot and wounded two alleged robbers Monday just before 6:00 a.m. in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.

A 23-year-old woman with a concealed carry permit shot an alleged Chicago carjacker in the head Wednesday at 2 a.m. 

The number of Americans who leave their homes with a pistol or revolver on their person jumped from approximately three million in 2015 to six million in 2019, according to a study conducted by University of Washington researchers.