Bearing Arms' Cam & Co

Larry Keane, the National Shooting Sports Foundation's senior vice president and general counsel, joins Cam with reaction to President Joe Biden's new executive actions against DIY firearms, stabilizing braces and AR-style pistols, and the nomination of former ATF agent turned gun control activist David Chipman to head up the federal agency that oversees our nation's gun laws.

The American Medical Association is throwing its weight behind H.R. 8, the universal background check bill approved by the U.S. House a few weeks ago. Dr. Robert Young of Doctors For Responsible Gun Ownership joins Cam to explain why the org is off-base in claiming the legislation will save lives and address violent crime.

Cam is joined by Army veteran and political strategist Jim Hanson for a wide-ranging discussion about some of the ideas in his forthcoming book Winning The Second Civil War: Without Firing a Shot.

From 3/29/21 Frank Bruni of the New York Times admits that the phrase "gun control" is accurate, but he doesn't think it's helpful to the cause, so he's asking other journalists to stop using the phrase and start using less accurate and more biased phrases like "gun safety" instead. 

Another week has come and gone without the Supreme Court taking action in an important Second Amendment case involving the right to carry. Is SCOTUS setting 2A advocates up for disappointment once again, or could something else be going on behind the scenes?

While gun control legislation appears to be bottled up in Washington, D.C. at the moment, anti-gun lawmakers in Delaware and Illinois are rapidly moving to restrict the rights of legal gun owners, while leaving violent criminals untouched.

The Secret Service is out with a new report on how nearly 70 threats of active assailant attacks on schools were thwarted in the years between 2006 and 2018. Ryan Petty, whose daughter Alaina was murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, says no new gun control laws are needed to prevent these attacks; instead, we should be focusing on identifying threats before they act.

While the Supreme Court didn't take any action on a right-to-carry case out of New York on Monday, SCOTUS did turn away a challenge by New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal in a case that has far reaching implications for both the First and Second Amendment. Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation joins Cam to discuss the Court's decision, and why he views it as a hopeful sign...

Attorney Rachel Citak joins Cam to discuss the Ninth Circuit's ruling in Young v. Hawaii declaring that the Second Amendment doesn't protect a general right to bear arms, and how gun control laws like the one being challenged in Hawaii have traditionally been used to disenfranchise the rights of racial minorities and others throughout U.S. history.

From social media scolds to the heads of gun control organizations, we're hearing some absolutely ludicrous arguments in favor of gun control laws in the wake of the Boulder shootings. Cam breaks down some of the most nonsensical claims he's run across over the past few days, as well as offering a better approach to reducing violent crime.

Media outlets, including Denver's WestWord, are pointing fingers at the NRA for the shooting in Boulder, Colorado that left ten people dead, just a few days after a local ban on most semi-automatic rifles in the city was struck down by a judge in the state. As Cam points out, those who say the gun ban would have stopped the crime are ignoring the many gun control laws that have been put on the...

Democrats in the Senate are making it clear that they're more interested in targeting the NRA and legal gun owners than violent criminals as they wrestle with the best strategy to advance some type of gun control measure.

With attacks on Asian Americans rising, the right of armed self-defense is more important than ever. Top Shot champion and competitive shooter Chris Cheng joins Cam to talk about the targeted violence and why he rejects the calls of anti-gun politicians and organizations for more gun control laws as a response.

Maj Toure, the founder of Black Guns Matter, tells Cam that officials are not only doing enough to address the atrocious amount of violence in his hometown, but that he believes they simply don't care about putting effective solutions in place; instead, focusing on more gun control laws and reducing legal gun ownership.

Members of the gun control group Moms Demand Action are threatening Doordash with an organized boycott campaign, simply because the company does not have a policy requiring their contracted drivers to be disarmed in their own vehicles while on the job.

The anti-gun agenda of the Biden administration got a big boost on Thursday with the House approving a pair of bills imposing new requirements and criminal penalties for firearm transfers. Cam details the prospects of passage in the Senate, where once again West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin could hold the key to the bills' success or defeat.

The head of the gun control group Ceasefire PA says lawmakers need to "innocuate the public" against the scourge of gun violence, but as Cam explains, the remedies proposed by anti-gun activists are more snake oil than science.

Rep. Doug Lamborn joins Cam to discuss the problems with two pieces of Joe Biden's anti-gun agenda that are expected to come to the House floor this week, and why he won't be backing the gun control bills when Nancy Pelosi calls for a vote.

A pair of gun control bills imposing sweeping new restrictions on legal gun owners and lawful transfers of firearms are slated for a vote in the House of Representatives on Wednesday of this week. The Second Amendment Foundation's Alan Gottlieb joins Cam with his reaction to the news, and why he believes these bills are just the start of a onslaught of anti-gun legislation in Congress.

Phillip Smith, the founder and president of the National African American Gun Association joins Cam to talk about the organization, which just celebrated its sixth anniversary, and why he and the group are speaking out against gun control measures like the universal background check bill just introduced in Congress.

California Rifle & Pistol Association president and general counsel Chuck Michel joins Cam to discuss the latest legal wrangling in the challenge to the state's ban on ammunition magazines that can hold more than ten rounds, and why he's feeling cautious optimism about the ultimate outcome of the case.

As the NRA and other 2A organizations are warning that Democrats in Congress could start moving on gun control bills in just a few days, a trio of new gun control measures have been introduced in the House, each of them targeting legal gun sales with new restrictions while ignoring violent criminals and illicit gun sales.

2020 saw the biggest one year spike in both gun sales and homicide rates across the country, but as Cam explains, the idea that legal gun sales were responsible for the sharp increase in violent crimes doesn't hold up to scrutiny, despite the efforts of gun control activists who claim otherwise.

New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed her response with the Supreme Court to a lawsuit seeking to overturn New York's subjective-issue carry laws, and the Court is set to consider accepting the case in the coming weeks.

Would you buy a gun that decided when it was okay for you to pull the trigger? Three researchers in New York say the technology is workable, but there appear to be some serious issues with the idea.