The number of permits to carry in New Jersey is publicly available. The number of retired police officer permits are excluded, though, and New Jersey is mum on providing those numbers. In early 2024, then-Attorney General Matthew Platkin unveiled the New Jersey Permit to Carry Dashboard. The dashboard makes data available to the public on permitting statistics. As of Dec. 2025, there’s been over 92,000 approved applications in the Garden State. Of those approvals, just under 64,000 were valid — nonexpired. Previously reported, retired police officers are excluded from the dashboard accounting and the state…

While 2011s have taken center stage in the market over the last couple of years, there is still excitement to be found in the single-stack 1911 space. The 10-8 Master Class 1911 may be the most exciting development in the factory 1911 market in recent history. Hilton Yam of 10-8 Performance has partnered with Springfield Armory to once again bring a specialized production 1911 to market. While the first collaboration between 10-8 Performance and Springfield Armory resulted in a limited run of pistols, this new partnership promises a standard production offering. The 10-8 Master Class is classified as a Red…

The United States has seized a seventh oil tanker, the Sagitta, in the Caribbean for violating its sanctions. According to military officials, the Sagitta was seized as U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to tighten control over Venezuela’s oil exports. It’s All About The Oil: Trump Wants “Oil Rights” In Venezuela The seizure comes as U.S. ruler Donald Trump seeks to tighten control over Venezuela’s oil exports following the January 3 raid during which the South American nation’s president, Nicolas Maduro, was abducted. It is the seventh tanker apprehended in international waters for defying unilateral U.S. sanctions since December. This blatant…

The one thing that Vox correspondent Ian Millhiser gets right in his coverage of the Supreme Court’s oral arguments over Hawaii’s “vampire rule” is that he anticipates the law will be struck down when the Court issues its opinion in Wolford v. Lopez. Almost everything else in his column, however, is so colored by his animosity towards the Second Amendment that it defies reality, like his claim that the oral arguments show the Court’s framework for Second Amendment cases is falling apart. The Supreme Court’s Republican majority spent much of Tuesday morning trying to figure out…

We recently reported that a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals declared California’s ban on open carry in most parts of the state unconstitutional. On January 2, the panel, in the case Baird v. Bonta, held that the Golden State’s ban on open carry in counties with a population of more than 200,000 people violated the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms as applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment. With its 200,000 population threshold, the law actually prohibits open carry in areas of the state where 95% of Californians live and work.  “For most of American history,…

This article was originally published by Mike Adams at Natural News.  Introduction: The Dangerous Crossroads of Tyranny and Alliance The geopolitical stage is set for a showdown not seen in generations. US President Donald Trump has imposed a blanket 10% tariff on imports from eight European NATO allies—Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, and Finland [1]. The stated reason is naked coercion: these nations dared to deploy small military contingents to Greenland in opposition to Trump’s renewed and aggressive campaign to purchase—or seize—the vast, resource-rich Arctic island [2]. This is not merely a trade dispute. It is an act…