(from rtve.es) [Ed: We welcome new DRGO contributor, Mark Preston. We would love to publish more stories by our members about their entry and participation in the world of firearms and 2A activism.] When I was about 8 years old, I was blessed with being sent to Deerfield, a day camp in St. Louis, Missouri. The activities provided included going to the gun range and getting to shoot five .22 caliber Long Rifle bullets down range at a time. Oh, what joy this was! And I was pretty good, earn...

(from eezlaw.com) In a recent Research Letter in the Journal of the American Medical Association (“Knowledge of State Gun Laws Among US Adults in Gun-Owning Households”) Ali Rowhani-Rahbar MD et al present data regarding knowledge of state firearms laws. Specifically, they assess the knowledge possessed by adults living in “gun-owning households” as to these state laws. They approach this from the perspective that many such laws are designed to prevent injuries, and that following them wo...

(from xklsv.com) [Ed: This was first published November 19 on The Arbalest Quarrel. Reposted by permission & minimally edited for DRGO.] A couple of days prior to the jury’s decision in the Rittenhouse case, the New York Times posted an editorial, titled, “The Truth About Kyle Rittenhouse’s Gun,” by Times Opinion Columnist, Farhad Manjoo. In part, the Manjoo said this, “I’ve spent the past couple of weeks riveted by the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the whi...

(from justiceforgunowners.ca) [Ed: Dr. Mauser first published this on his site, JusticeforGunOwners.ca, on October 25.] Can firearms be kept safely at homes with young children? Yes, with proper precautions. Millions of North Americans have guns at home and do so safely. Around one-half of homes in the US possess guns as do about one-third of homes in Canada. Thanks to a widespread culture of safety, in Canada and the United States, firearms can be owned safely by anyone willing to take r...

(from huffingtonpost.com) [Ed: These excerpts from Personal Defense World come to DRGO courtesy of SCOPE-NY's Richard Rossi.] Some facts that will never see daylight in our National News Media or Social Network sites. United States Court of Appeals – Fourth Circuit district.Ruled that 18-to-20-year old’s have the same Second Amendment rights to purchase handguns as older Americans do. Judge Julie Richardson wrote; “when do Constitutional rights vest? Our nation’s most cherished constit...

(from haciendapub.com) [Ed: Dr. Faria first published this August 6 on Hacienda Publishing.] The truth is the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT; formally the UN Small Arms Treaty) has failed to materialize because the negotiators have not been capable of reaching a consensus, but as Gun Owners of America (GOA) stated years ago, “It would be a mistake to believe that it spells the end of the effort to regulate small arms worldwide.” GOA is correct. The Seventh Conference of the ATT will again rec...

(from zazzle.com) [Ed: This was first published yesterday on Ammoland.com by our friends at the Arbalest Quarrel.]“I must own, I know not what Treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason, in the eternal and original Nature of Things.” ~ John Trenchard (1662-1723) & Thomas Gordon, English Journalists and political theorists of the late 17th and early 18th Centuries, the two writing together under the nom de guerre, “Cato.” The passage comes from “Refle...

(from nlc.org) On October 25, an article appeared in ABC news online written by Ivan Pereira, who believes he sees that America has a problem with “gun violence” (“America has a gun violence problem. What do we do about it?”). There is little to recommend this piece, but he does make one good point when he refers to people developing behavior patterns that ". . . make them more prone to violence in all of its forms; violence against partners, violence against the community and violence again...