Here is a perfect example of why it is important that you not let information about your guns creep into your medical records…
HHS Leaks Your Health Records And Your Right to Keep and Bear Arms
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Get Ready For Montana’s 2015 Legislative Session
Montana’s once-every-two-years legislative session will begin on Monday, January 5th 2015. You need to be prepared to keep up and weigh in…
Montana Shooting Sports Association & NRA 2015 Legislative Reception
Montana Shooting Sports Association/NRA Legislative Reception. Montana Shooting Sports Association & the NRA will hold a reception for legislators at the Red Lion Colonial Inn in Helena, MT…
Elect Gary Marbut for Montana House District 94
People keep asking me, “How’s the campaign going?” I do know a few things about how the planets are lining up, although not enough to be counting any chickens yet. So i’ll tell you what I do know…
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership & SAF a Positive Merger
If you see criticism about the proposed association between SAF and JPFO, I urge you to see it as I do, an honorable effort to keep JPFO afloat and doing what it does so well, cutting edge activism…
States Push Back Against Federal Gun Control ~ Video
Montana lawmakers and citizens have led the nation in crafting legislation that would make it difficult for federal gun laws to be enforced in the state…
Montana’s Amanda Curtis, No Friend of the Second Amendment Despite Media Spin
Curtis is virulently anti-gun. Her claim to support the right to keep and bear arms is flat out not true…
Target Stores And Customer Guns
Some like Fords and some like Chevrolets. Some like Open Carry and some like Discrete Carry. Hey, that’s why we live in the Land of the Free….
Controversy About Ryan Zinke, Montana Candidate For Congress
A0 heated campaign in the Republican Primary for Montana’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. New information has come to light about candidate Ryan Zinke…
Injecting Rational Thought Into the Montana Stand Your Ground Debate
I’ve found it very difficult to get the media to correct the misunderstanding and assertion that Montana Shooting Sports Association created the “castle doctrine” in Montana with HB 228 in 2009…
Montana’s Self-Defense Law Clarified
Far too many misunderstand existing laws and make irrelevant or nonsensical claims regarding Montana’s Self-Defense Law…
MSSA Issues Legislative Endorsements For MT Primary Election & Grades For Congressional Candidates
Montana Shooting Sports Association has recommended candidates in contested races where information on issues significant to gun owners issues is available…
Another Look at the Federal Raid Of Bozeman Brass Company
It seems the subsequent raid by EPA, FBI and others was conducted to teach USA Brass a lesson about federal power and proper cooperation…
Advisory – Video Recording of Police
Generally, the courts reviewing these situations in other states have held that when police are doing their public job in public places they have no expectation of privacy…
Montana Shooting Sports Association Annual Meeting After Action Report
Also Montana Shooting Sports Association finalized its legislative agenda for the 2015 Montana Legislative Session…
US Supreme Court Declines to Hear MSSA v. Holder aka ‘Firearms Freedom Act’
The US Supreme Court has declined to accept the State of Montana’s separate petition to validate the principles of the Montana Firearms Freedom Act. We’re now at the end of this particular road…
Firearm Safety & Self Defense Class – April 12th 2014 – Missoula, MT
A course entitled “Gun Safety for Personal Protection and Concealed Weapon Permits” will be hosted in Missoula by the Montana Shooting Sports Association on Saturday, April 12th 2014, instructed by Gary Marbut…
Montana’s Right to Keep & Bear Arms Celebration Week Coming Soon
Montana’s official week to celebrate our right to keep and bear arms begins Monday, March 3rd. I urge you to plan some club, group or personal celebration for that week…
Mental Health & The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
This Thursday the Montana Legislature’s Law & Justice Interim Committee will hold a hearing to consider whether or not Montana should do more to capture mental health records & feed those into federal electronic systems, such as the NICS…
Montana AG submits cert petition in MSSA v. Holder
Attorneys say that this separate cert petition by the State of Montana will significantly improve the chances that the Supreme Court will accept and rule on MSSA v. Holder…
Montana Plaintiffs Appeal to U.S. Supreme Court Validating the Firearms Freedom Act
The Montana Shooting Sports Association, the Second Amendment Foundation and Gary Marbut have appealed MSSA v. Holder to the U.S. Supreme Court…
MT Gun Owners Health Care Privacy, Effective Oct 1st, Providers May NOT Ask About Guns
HB 459, now Montana law at 50-16-108, M.C.A., prohibits health care providers from asking patients questions about firearm ownership, possession or use…
Join Free Montanans to Protest the Bloomberg Anti-Gun Show Bus Tour
Here’s our tentative Plan for the Bloomberg Anti-Gun Show protest at the University of Montana, Thursday July 25th 2013…
Montana Prepares ‘Special Welcome’ for Bloomberg’s No Names Bus Tour
Mayors Against Illegal Guns is doing a bus tour of the US trying to drum up support for state-level and national gun control and Montana gun rights supporters are looking forward to his arrival….
MSSA Firearm Safety & Self Defense Class – June 23rd 2013, Missoula MT
A course entitled “Gun Safety for Personal Protection and Concealed Weapon Permits” will be hosted in Missoula by the Montana Shooting Sports Association on Sunday, June 23rd 2013…
My Take on the Ammunition Shortage
The only thing that would turn this around in the near future is if conditions change to remove or moderate the perception of economic and political uncertainty in the U.S…
Anti Gun Org to Demonstrate in Bozeman MT Area – Noon Friday – Counter Protesters Needed
Mayor Bloomberg is attempting to organize a protest in Bozeman at Senator Max Baucus’s office to criticize Max for voting AGAINST enhanced gun-buy background checks…
To Senators Baucus & Tester Re Gun Powder Control Amendment
Senator Lautenberg’s amendment will be the camel’s nose in the tent to invoke similar federal control over manufacture, distribution and sale of the components of ammunition, and eventually ammunition itself…
Montana Firearms Freedom Act, MSSA v. Holder, Update from the Ninth Circuit Court
The three judges from the panel hearing oral arguments in MSSA v. Holder seemed interested in and attentive to the arguments made by MSSA’s counsel and counsel for amicus Goldwater Institute…
Montana Shooting Sports Association Legislative Update for Friday March 22nd 2013
A lot of action is happening on MSSA bills right now. The full rundown is below, so I’ll only cite bill numbers for the ones which need your action…