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ID: Idaho voters can help pick the state’s official gun in 2026 general election
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But in the mix is a poll that the Idaho Legislature called for: What should be the state’s official gun?
Idaho, a Republican supermajority-controlled state, has strong protections for gun ownership — such as not requiring permits for concealed carry in city limits. The state Legislature considered a bill this year to allow members of the public to carry concealed guns inside parts of courthouses that aren’t meant for court, like offices for county commissioners and clerks.
The advisory question on the ballot this year asks voters to weigh in on the Legislature’s possible decision to declare a firearm — out of a mix of well-known Western and American guns — as Idaho’s official state gun. |
NY: The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus Honors School and Student Leaders in Dramatic Fashion
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The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus (The Campaign) bestowed the 2026 Conscientious Campus Award this evening during its annual benefit to Wesleyan University’s Center for the Study of Guns & Society (CSGS).
The Conscientious Campus Award honors a school, college or university for exhibiting extraordinary commitment to the examination of firearms and their impact across history, culture and society. CSGS achieved the honor as the first academic center in the United States dedicated to interdisciplinary humanities research on the social and cultural history of firearms. |
Fitting Together Two Self-Defense Frameworks
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Spend enough time studying the law of armed self-defense and you will eventually run into two influential ways of thinking about when deadly force is justified. Massad Ayoob has spent decades teaching ability, opportunity and jeopardy—the AOJ triad. Attorney Andrew Branca, author of The Law of Self Defense, offers a five-point framework: innocence, imminence, proportionality, avoidance and reasonableness.
More than a few gun owners have seen these as competing systems. Which one do you pick? But that’s the wrong question. AOJ and the five elements aren’t rivals. Rather, they are complementary frameworks and understanding how they fit together makes both more useful. |
SC: Jury acquits man of murder in 2021 Cheraw-area shooting.
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A Chesterfield County jury found Jesse E. Long Sr. not guilty of murder Wednesday afternoon following a three-day trial, according to Fourth Judicial Circuit Chief Public Defender Nathan R. Scales.
The jury deliberated for about an hour before returning its verdict in the Chesterfield County Court of General Sessions.
Long was accused of shooting a person multiple times outside a residence in the Cheraw area on May 12, 2021, during an altercation that began between that person and Long’s son, Scales said.
The defense maintained that Long acted in self-defense. Long testified during the trial. |
MN: Austin Teen Acquitted of Murder, Guilty of Attempted Manslaughter
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The verdict in the case says the judge found Gills' claim that he was acting in self-defense when he fatally shot Nathanael to be credible. During his trial, Gills testified that Nathanael had threatened to shoot him and harm his younger siblings.
The judge rejected Gills' self-defense claims regarding the shooting of the other man in the vehicle, noting that Gills did not know the passenger and had no reason to fear imminent harm from him. The verdict, which acquitted Gills of attempted murder for shooting the passenger, indicates that the evidence supports a finding that Gills was acting in the heat of passion and is guilty of attempted manslaughter. |
FL: Florida thug attacks elderly woman feeding stray cats in middle of night. But she makes him pay dearly.
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A 77-year-old woman was in the parking lot of a Florida veterinary clinic before 4:30 a.m. Monday when investigators said a male attacked her, WJXT-TV reported.
The woman was at the Macclenny location at that hour because she regularly volunteers to feed community cats at local businesses, Baker County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Dave Mancini told the station later that day.
Mancini added to WJXT that deputies and county residents know the woman well because of her work in animal rescue.
Deputies responded to the parking lot following reports of gunfire, the station said, adding that the 77-year-old woman opened fire in self-defense at the male who attacked her. |
SC: Woman charged with kidnapping after self-defense stabbing in Richland County
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Deputies responded to the 7100 block of Parklane Road around 9:45 a.m. after an emergency report.
When deputies arrived, they found a man suffering from a stab wound to his upper body. Two women were detained at the scene.
EMS took the man to a local hospital, where he remains in critical condition, according to the sheriff’s department.
According to investigators, one of the women had been held against her will by the man and Gailliard.
Authorities said the victim armed herself with a knife and stabbed the man in self-defense. |
TN: Killing of Woman May Have Been Justifiable Because She Was Trans, Tennessee Court Rules
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Paris Lee was shot six times and killed by Samuel Ward Jr.; this is an indisputable fact. Ward was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in May 2025. He claimed it was self-defense, but the jury didn’t buy it.
This week, however, the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals reversed his conviction. A three-judge panel declared that the jury was under the impression Lee was cisgender; that in not disclosing the victim’s status as a trans woman, the trial judge “misled” the jury; and that Ward was entitled to a new trial where he could use this fact to bolster his claim of self-defense. |
NRA urges SCOTUS to hear challenge to lifetime ban on gun ownership by nonviolent felons
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The National Rifle Association, joined by the Firearms Policy Coalition and Second Amendment Foundation, filed an amicus brief Oct. 1, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a challenge to the federal lifetime prohibition on firearms possession by nonviolent felons.
A firearm regulation is unconstitutional under the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment test unless the government proves that it is consistent with America’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, however, has never applied the Supreme Court’s test to the federal prohibition on firearm possession by felons and precludes any challenge to the law — regardless of the nature of the offense or how long ago it occurred. |
CA: SAF Win: California Sheriff to Allow Red Dots, Weapon Lights and 1911/2011 Handguns
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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has reached a settlement agreement with the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office over policies that previously prohibited permit holders from carrying handguns equipped with red dot sights or flashlights and an outright ban on the carry of single action only 1911- and 2011-style pistols.
Under the agreement, the Sheriff's Office will withdraw its prohibitions on red-dot sights, weapon-mounted lights and semiautomatic single-action 1911 and 2011 platform pistols carried under a county CCW license. The office will update its concealed-carry website within 10 days to reflect the change. |
MD: Maryland Judge Finds Glocks Are Protected Arms, Yet Lets Sales Ban Proceed
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Maryland’s Glock sales ban remains on track for January 1, 2027, after a federal judge recognized that the targeted handguns fall within the Second Amendment’s plain text but refused to block the law.
In an October 5 memorandum opinion, U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett explained his denial of preliminary injunctions in Bathras v. Moore, consolidated with Duffy v. Moore. Bennett had announced the denial from the bench on September 25.
The result leaves law-abiding Marylanders facing a ban on acquiring covered, factory-built semiautomatic pistols because criminals might illegally convert them into machineguns. |
Dems Now Want Gun Control for Air Rifles
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In the 1983 film A Christmas Story, all young Ralphie wants under the tree is an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle. But everyone from his mother to his teacher and even a department store Santa has the same response: “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.” Rep. Kevin Mullin (D-CA) turned 13 that year, and the film must have had an impact. Now he’s pushing a bill to have “lethal air rifles” regulated by the Gun Control Act as if they were firearms. Because when it comes to Democrats and gun control, too much is clearly never enough. |
Everytown’s $10 Million Push Targets Eight House Races and Gun Rights
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With the midterm elections less than a month away, Everytown for Gun Safety—the billionaire-backed gun prohibition lobbying group founded years ago by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg—is reportedly pumping at least $10 million into eight key congressional races in five states in an effort to shift House control to anti-gunners.
Axios and Yahoo News are carrying the report, which identifies the eight candidates so far getting support from Everytown. They are all reported to be “former volunteers for Moms Demand Action,” a subsidiary of Everytown. |
Bans on Assault Weapons Reach the U.S. Supreme Court
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The U.S. has already seen approximately 343 mass shootings as of late September 2026. Research indicates that despite extensive media attention, mass shootings are actually quite uncommon. But the complexity of defining “mass shooting” and lack of consistency definitionally suggests that our understanding of what they actually mean may be incomplete. How research incorporates (or not) both location and motivation of the shooter can impact incidence. Currently, there is no federal database to specifically capture mass shooting incidence other than the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR) database. |
Primary Weapons Systems Joins SAF as Newest Silver-Level Corporate Partner
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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is pleased to announce that Primary Weapons Systems (PWS) has joined the organization as the newest Silver-level corporate partner.
"Primary Weapons is excited to support the Second Amendment Foundation in their effort to restore the rights of gun owners across America," said PWS Marketing Director Dan Groce. "SAF is on the front lines fighting in courtrooms every day to ensure our right to keep and bear arms remains for generations, and we're happy to support such a noble cause." |
TX: Trump ‘won’t allow’ Democrats to take away Second Amendment
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US President Donald Trump promises voters that nothing will happen to the Second Amendment as long as Republicans are in charge.
“As long as we’re around, nothing’s going to happen with your Second Amendment,” Mr Trump said.
“But Talafreako is a vote on the other side; he wants to terminate … not going to happen.
“We won’t allow it to happen.” |
Next front in fight for Second Amendment rights could be corporate boardrooms
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During a speech to the Second Amendment Foundation’s Gun Rights Policy Conference on Sept. 27, Public Square (a company providing payment processing and financial services to companies that are discriminated against by traditional banks and financial technology firms) general counsel Jim Giudice warned that the fight for gun rights would be more about securing access to financial services as opposed to trying to strike down bans on firearms like Glock pistols and AR-15 rifles. In interviews conducted by the Daily Caller News Foundation, the extent of the issues firearms industry-related companies experienced with debanking became apparent. |
CA: Contra Costa Sheriff Drops Red Dot, Weapon Light and 1911 Carry Bans
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Contra Costa County’s sheriff has agreed to withdraw concealed-carry restrictions on red-dot sights, weapon-mounted lights and single-action 1911/2011-style pistols following a Second Amendment Foundation lawsuit.
SAF announced the settlement October 8, delivering a victory for gun owners whose county-issued carry licenses came with restrictions on common defensive equipment. Under the agreement, the Sheriff’s Office will remove those prohibitions and update its concealed-carry website within 10 days.
Gun owners should never have needed a federal lawsuit to get here. A constitutional right does not give a sheriff permission to dictate his personal preferences for everyone else’s defensive handgun. |
CO: FPC Asks Federal Court to Block Colorado Nonresident Carry Ban
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Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced today that it filed a motion for preliminary injunction in Hoffman v. City and County of Denver, asking the federal court to immediately block enforcement of the Colorado and Denver gun carry ban regime as to Plaintiff Gene Hoffman and similarly situated peaceable nonresidents, and require Colorado to allow them to obtain carry licenses on the same terms as Colorado residents. |
Malcolm Gladwell and Harel Shapira are up in arms about guns
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FEW THINGS about Americans baffle foreigners more than their attachment to guns. Thirty years ago mass shootings in Australia and Scotland prompted both countries to tighten their gun laws; today, legally owning a handgun in Britain is almost impossible and getting one in Australia requires licensing, registration and a background check. In America, meanwhile, 40% of people live in a household with a gun, and each year more than 1m Americans become first-time gun owners. What explains this form of American exceptionalism? Two new books try to answer that question in very different ways. |
Best Hunting Rifles
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Having shot hundreds of rifles over the years, any list of the 10 best hunting rifles is sure to omit some worthy long guns. But when the rubber hits the road – or the rifle hits the field – these 10 can be trusted unequivocally. Not just this season, but far beyond.
For the sake of this list, we’re talking centerfire rifles suitable for hunting anything from medium to big game. Whether pronghorn, whitetail, bear, elk, moose, or even dangerous game, these rifles have been there for it. They have stood the test of time and will continue to be passed from one generation to the next. |
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