Bearing Arms media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Bearing Arms on the right. We have seen it on 8 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Bearing Arms biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Bearing Arms on the right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Bearing Arms left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Bearing Arms on the right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is Bearing Arms reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Bearing Arms are Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Bearing Arms has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Bearing Arms’s own report linked underneath.
A new legal opinion from the Justice Department states that a federal law prohibiting licensed dealers from selling handguns to individuals aged 18-20 is unconstitutional. The opinion suggests federal prosecutors may stop pursuing felony charges against dealers selling to this age group, though it is not legally binding.
Bearing Arms reported it asNew DOJ Opinion Says Young Adults Have Second Amendment Right to Buy Handguns (opens Bearing Arms in a new tab)
President Donald Trump is hosting over 100 hunters and outdoor industry leaders for a White House dinner where he is expected to sign executive orders aimed at expanding access to public lands and waterways. The orders will also reverse certain Biden-era restrictions, including those on lead ammunition.
Bearing Arms reported it asTrump's New EO Defends Hunting, Rolls Back Inane Hunting Regulations (opens Bearing Arms in a new tab)
A federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by California and the Giffords advocacy group challenging a Biden administration rule on ghost guns. The court ruled that the plaintiffs did not sufficiently demonstrate harm from the regulation, deeming alleged damages speculative.
Bearing Arms reported it asNinth Circuit Tosses Gun Controllers' Lawsuit Against ATF (opens Bearing Arms in a new tab)
A federal judge in Texas ruled that a Biden administration regulation targeting 'ghost guns' violates the Second and Fifth Amendments. The decision blocks enforcement of the ATF's 'frame and receiver' rule, which had expanded firearm definitions to include unfinished parts. The case was brought by Defense Distributed and the Second Amendment Foundation.
Bearing Arms reported it asAnother Biden-Era Gun Regulation Goes Down in Flames (opens Bearing Arms in a new tab)
A coalition of Second Amendment organisations has sued New York over its prohibition of Glock-style handguns, arguing the measure breaches constitutional protections. The case joins a series of legal challenges to state gun-control statutes across the US.
Bearing Arms reported it asNew Lawsuit Filed Against New York's Glock Ban (opens Bearing Arms in a new tab)
A Texas federal judge’s ruling striking down federal regulations on firearm suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and shotguns took effect after the U.S. Justice Department did not file an appeal by the court-imposed deadline. The decision removes restrictions for qualifying owners.
Bearing Arms reported it asPlaintiffs in NFA Challenge Press DOJ for Clarification After Injunction Takes Effect (opens Bearing Arms in a new tab)
Two members of Gun Owners of America purchased suppressors without filing Form 4 or complying with National Firearms Act registration after the Department of Justice failed to appeal a federal judge’s injunction by the 12 August 2026 deadline. The transfers mark the first unregistered suppressor sales since the NFA was enacted in 1934.
Bearing Arms reported it asSuppressors: It's a Brand New Day (opens Bearing Arms in a new tab)
More than 100 of Abdul El-Sayed’s YouTube videos were removed or made private before his 2026 Senate campaign. CNN reported that some criticised Fourth of July fireworks, the Second Amendment and American football, prompting backlash from Republican opponents and scrutiny from Democrats.
Bearing Arms reported it asThe Second Amendment Stance El-Sayed Doesn't Want Voters to Hear (opens Bearing Arms in a new tab)
Who says so
2 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Mixed factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckmixedCheck it
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Bearing Arms.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Irving, Dallas County, Texas, United States
- Official site
- bearingarms.com
- Seen publishing on
- bearingarms.com
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 8
- Reports listed
- 8
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 11 August 2026
8 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 1 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and Bearing Arms ran the story anyway.
Across the 8 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Bearing Arms: its report arrived a median of 19 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 25 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 24 September 2026. Ratings pulled 11 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
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