Bearing Arms' Cam & Co

After a weekend that saw shootings at protests in Austin, Texas and Aurora, Colorado, as well as vehicle attacks on both Black Lives Matter and pro-police activists, Stephen Gutowski of the Washington Free Beacon sits down with Cam to discuss whether this is the "new normal," and what can be done to return some calm to American cities.

Del. Nick Freitas tells Cam that he believes anti-gun lawmakers will try to push for more gun control laws when the legislature returns to Richmond for a special session in mid-August, though he says Democratic leaders may try to hold off on a sweeping gun ban until after the November elections.

Fordham University student Austin Tong says he's fighting back after the school declared that an Instagram photo of Tong holding his new AR-15 rifle was tantamount to a hate crime, and joins Cam to talk about the spirit of totalitarianism lurking in the hearts of many students, faculty, and administrators at the private university.

Culpeper County, Virginia, Sheriff Scott Jenkins has vowed to name thousands of Virginia residents "reserve deputies" in order to ensure that a potential gun, magazine, and suppressor ban from Gov. Ralph Northam won't turn them into criminals for keeping their lawfully possessed arms. Now the sheriff tells Cam that he's taking the first steps toward making that plan a reality, an...

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner may have charged the St. Louis couple with unlawful use of a firearm, but with Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt seeking to intervene in the case, what are the odds that the McCloskey case ever ends up in front of a jury? Townhall.com Senior Columnist and trial attorney Marina Medvin joins Cam to break down the most likely possibilities of what she calls...

As the "defund police" movement targets more school districts and school resource officers, Ryan Petty, whose daughter Alaina was among those murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018, says it's more important than ever to take a look at the research and data that shows the many benefits of having SROs in place.

John Rochford, a graduate student at Iowa State University and former columnist for the campus newspaper, joins Cam to talk about his experience as a minority gun owner and why he believes increasing attacks on diversity of thought and opinion have little to do with justice or equality, and everything to do with power politics.

Retired NYPD officer Rob O'Donnell says the increased shootings and violence in the streets isn't going away anytime soon, thanks to the feckless leadership of Mayor Bill de Blasio, the city council, and the Big Apple's gun laws that turn law-abiding citizens into unarmed victims.

Lawmakers in Virginia are set to head back to the state capitol for a special session in just a few weeks, and while the agenda hasn't been finalized, Del. Todd Gilbert (R-Shenandoah) says he and other Second Amendment supporters are getting ready to fight against an expected push to pass Gov. Ralph Northam's ban on modern sporting rifles, "high capacity" magazines, and lawfully-...

Dr. Manny Sethi, an orthopedic trauma surgeon who's running for U.S. Senate in Tennessee, sits down with Cam to talk about why he doesn't believe that gun bans, red flag laws, and other gun control bills are the right way to address violent crime.

A special session of the Virginia General Assembly later this summer is expected to address budget shortfalls caused by the coronavirus crisis, but Democrats in control of the legislature are already pushing to add gun control legislation to the agenda. Phillip Van Cleave of the Virginia Citizens Defense League joins Cam to talk about what 2A advocates are doing to push back against a possible gun...

According to Tim Schmidt, the founder of the United States Concealed Carry Association, the answer is a resounding "yes". Schmidt says membership has grown by 300% in recent months as new gun owners are seeking opportunities to train with their firearms.

After coronavirus closures put many public meetings on hold over the past few months, it was starting to look like the Second Amendment Sanctuary movement might have come to an end. As local governments begin to open up again, however, gun owners are back to push for pro-2A resolutions and ordinances and are once again seeing success.

Many members media outlets quickly clutch their pearls and head to the nearest fainting couch when they cover stories of armed Americans exercising their Second Amendment rights, but as Cam discusses with Kerry Picket of the Washington Examiner, those reporters seem to have a very different attitude when it comes to armed protesters that they align with politically.

Tiffany Teasdale, owner of Lynwood Guns and Ammunition in Washington State, says folks are lining up outside her doors each morning waiting for the store to open, and many of them are completely new to the Second Amendment community.

A half-dozen new gun control laws are now officially on the books in Virginia, but new NICS figures from June show record-high numbers of background checks being performed around the country. Is gun control dead, as some are suggesting, or will the gun-grabbers double down on their efforts to restrict the 2A as more Americans choose to exercise their rights?

Shootings are soaring in New York City, but that's not stopping Mayor Bill de Blasio from axing a billion dollars from the NYPD budget. Former officer Rob O'Donnell joins Cam to talk about what the cuts could mean to public safety, and why it's long past time for the city to recognize the 2A rights of residents.

Gun owners turned out to protect a Missouri sheriff and Tennessee war memorial over the weekend, while the national media is spotlighting a St. Louis couple who displayed their firearms and pointed guns at protesters marching through their gated community.

The Second Amendment Foundation's Alan Gottlieb believes the influx of new gun owners across American will be a "sea change" for the 2A movement and could mean trouble for anti-gun candidates this November.

Cibola County, New Mexico, Sheriff Tony Mace says Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who's rumored to be under consideration by the Biden campaign as a potential vice-presidential pick, has been awful on the Second Amendment and in her response to the coronavirus crisis in the state.

Jim Wallace of the Gun Owners Action League in Massachusetts joins Cam with disturbing news that many jurisdictions across the state are still refusing to process new applications for Firearms ID cards (required to purchase a gun) and Licence to Carry cards, including in the city of Boston.

Townhall Senior Columnist Kurt Schlichter joins Cam to talk about the unrest on city streets, the toppling of statues across the country, and the need for conservatives and Second Amendment supporters to think tactically and strategically in their response to what he calls an insurgency campaign.

Steven Bukala, who's now the former police chief in Lowell, Michigan, joins Cam along with his attorney Katherine Henry to discuss his dismissal after nearly 25 years on the force, all because of one line in a Facebook post expressing support for the Second Amendment and the concept of the armed citizen.

Wishful thinking, a disaster in the making, or a little of both? Cam takes apart an argument by The Atlantic's Derek Thompson, who claims that sweeping and draconian gun control laws must be a part of any conversation about police reform.

Some residents in Washington, D.C. say they've been waiting for weeks for the Metropolitan Police Department to transfer their lawfully purchased handguns to them, and the Washington Free Beacon's Stephen Gutowski joins Cam to explain why the police are now playing the part of gun dealers to begin with, as well as what possible recourse residents might have.