List your Firearms or Gear Related Business in the GunLink Directory
If you are reading this post, you obviously already know about the GunLink Blog. You might also visit the GunLink Forums to read or participate in discussions, firearms related or otherwise, with fellow firearms enthusiasts. But are you familiar with the original heart of GunLink?
GunLink’s origins (and name) come from the GunLink Directory – a yellow pages of sorts for firearms, hunting, shooting and gear related businesses. It is no secret that many popular search engines, social media outlets, auction sites and similar websites are rabidly anti-gun, so we wanted to provide an online resource to help firearms-friendly businesses connect with customers and potential customers. Thus, the GunLink Directory was born. Continue reading
Texas Open Carry Leaders Issue Statement
Leaders of several open carry advocacy groups have issued a statement on the heels of Chipotle’s decision to ask customers to not bring firearms into their restaurant:
Come and Take It Texas, Texas Carry, Gun Rights Across America, and Open Carry Texas Joint Statement on open carry of Long Arms
Over the past year, our members have done what no other gun rights organization has been able to do – put open carry at the forefront of the fight to restore gun rights for all Texans. As we have grown, we have had to adjust our efforts based on lessons learned through hundreds of open carry events, big and small.
Looking back, it has become clear that there is one area in which we have gotten the most resistance and suffered the largest setbacks. Open carry of long arms into private businesses. This is not a new phenomenon Continue reading
More No-Gun-Zone Backlash: Open Carry Events Going Too Far?
No Guns & Coffee. Or Burritos.
It is a story that we have seen play out before, most notably at Starbucks but also at numerous other businesses. Like Starbucks, Chipotle has largely deferred to the law of the land when it came to carrying firearms in their restaurants – if not prohibited by law, the stores would generally not put a specific policy in place to ban the practice. And, like Starbucks, some patrons took things a bit far. Now, after a push from anti-gun zealots “Moms Demand Action,” Chipotle restaurants are asking customers to leave their guns at home… just like Starbucks.
It starts out ordinarily enough. People who choose to carry a firearm simply have another business which they could patronize without having to change their carry habits or unnecessarily handle their firearms un-holstering and re-holstering just to grab lunch. Once word spreads that the business is “firearms friendly” certain people start making a bigger deal out of it; purposefully drawing attention to their sidearms, taking selfies or pictures of each other with their firearms in the store. Then come the celebrations – the Second Amendment rallies where a crowd of people with long guns slung across their shoulders, signs raised above their heads and then… #hashtags. #LookIHaveAGunInThisRestaurant.
All of this is almost immediately followed by the predictable outcome: the restaurant simply disallows firearms at their business.
And that is exactly what Chipotle did with a statement today: Continue reading
NRA Freestyle’s NOIR Episode 2 – Colorways and Gun Culture
Episode 2 of NRA Freestyle’s NOIR with Mr. Colion Noir and Amy Robbins is now available. On this episode of NOIR, Colion and Amy address some criticism the show’s first episode received from the mainstream media and discuss the ideal experience when shopping for a gun.
Check out Noir Episode w, “Colorways and Gun Culture,” below. New episodes will be available every Sunday at 8 pm Eastern on nrafreestyle.tv/noir.
Pennsylvania Lawyer Claims ATF Determination Allows for New Machine Guns
Pennsylvania attorney Joshua Prince, Esq. is making a bold claim in his blog entry Did ATF’s Determination on NICS Checks Open the Door for Manufacture of New Machineguns for Trusts? that may be music to NFA enthusiasts’ ears.
In his post, Prince points out that, although the NFA regulations include language to include trusts under their purview, the 1968 Gun Control Act (GCA), codified in Title 18 of the United States Code, includes no such language. A 2013 inquiry by Dakota Silencer received an ATF response reading: “Unlike individuals, corporations, partnerships, and associations; unincorporated trusts do not fall within the definition of ‘person’ in the GCA.” As many already know, transfer by a person of a machine gun that was not registered before May 19, 1986 is forbidden by the Hughes Amendment to the Firearms Owners Protection ACT FOPA, which added subsection 922(0) to the law.
Prince’s conclusion is that:
[P]ursuant to 26 U.S.C. 5812 and 5822, an unincorporated trust may lawfully transfer and make machineguns, as it is not a “person” for purposes of the GCA and Section 922 only applies to “persons” as defined by the GCA.
This conclusion is Continue reading
NRA and Colion Noir Bring New Show to Online Viewers
If you are a firearms enthusiast, social media user or some combination of the two, you are likely familiar with Mr. Colion Noir from his YouTube channel rife with snappy, well-stated commentary on guns and gun rights. If you are not familiar with him, now is the perfect time for an introduction. The self-proclaimed “firearms aficionado, concealed carrier, gun reviewer, budding attorney” has teamed up with NRA Freestyle as of late in a new online talk show sponsored by Mossberg and co-hosetd by Amy Robbins.
Check out Noir Episode 1, “Start Here,” below. New episodes will be available every Sunday at 8 pm Eastern on nrafreestyle.tv/noir.
