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No, Hillary, the Firearms Industry Isn't Immune from Liability

7:00am Monday, March 14, 2016

NSSF Corrects the Record on Firearms Industry Liability NEWTOWN, Conn. - The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®), the trade association for the firearms industry, issued a statement today to correct the record and refute ongoing misrepresentation of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) by Hillary Clinton. In a Democratic presidential primary debate in Michigan, Mrs...

Band Member Targeted in Paris Terror Attacks Stresses Importance of Armed Self-Defense

3:00pm Friday, March 11, 2016

[Recently], heavy metal rock group Eagles of Death Metal made a triumphant return to Paris. The American band performed before a sold-out crowd at the city’s Olympia music hall only three months after terrorist gunmen attacked an Eagles of Death Metal concert at the Bataclan theater, killing 89. By all accounts the concert was an enormous success, but even before the band took the stage, Eagles...

West Virginia Legislature Overrides Veto of Constitutional Carry Bill

7:00am Friday, March 11, 2016

FAIRFAX, Va. - The National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) applauds the West Virginia state legislature for overriding Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s veto of HB 4145, making constitutional carry the law in West Virginia. “Self-defense is a fundamental right that must be respected,” said Chris W. Cox, executive director, NRA-ILA. “Law-abiding West Virginians are now free...

February 2016 firearms sales jump 16.2% over prior year

by Chad D. Baus

3:00pm Thursday, March 10, 2016

As we predicted last month, sales of firearms continue to rise in the wake of the December 2 terrorist attack in San Bernadino, CA and President Obama's latest attempts to intimidate peaceable gun owners through executive actions. The February 2016 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,487,871 is an increase of 16.2 percent compared to the February...

The Advent of Mobile Killers (An Observation About Two Recent Active Killer Events)

by Greg Ellifritz

7:00am Thursday, March 10, 2016

Within the last two weeks there have been two very high profile active killer events in the United States. The first was when an Uber driver shot eight people in Michigan . The second was when a lawnmower manufacturing worker shot 17 people in Kansas . Even though the two killings had nothing to do with each other and were thousands of miles apart, the killers used similar tactics. The tactics...

Remember Justice Scalia when you go to the polls

3:00pm Wednesday, March 09, 2016

If Barack Obama and those like him fail in their goal of “fundamentally transforming the United States of America,” it will be in large part because of United States Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonin Gregory Scalia. Sadly, Justice Scalia passed away [recently]. Since his nomination to the Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, Justice Scalia championed the view that the U.S...

Headline: "Despite pledge, Obama endorses pro-gun Strickland for Senate"

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Wednesday, March 09, 2016

In October 2008, less than a month before voters would go to the polls to chose between Senators Barack Obama (D) and John McCain (R) to become president, then-Governor Ted Strickland (D), the NRA "A"-rated governor who is also a former Buckeye Firearms Association endorsee, told the press that "as a result of direct conversations that I've had with Barack Obama, if you are a sportsman, if you...

M855 – A One-Year Retrospective

3:00pm Tuesday, March 08, 2016

Remember a year ago – February 13, 2015, to be precise – when the Obama administration presented a convoluted rationale by which M855, the second most popular variety of ammunition used in the nation’s most popular rifle, was to be banned? At the time, Obama’s White House spokesman said that banning M855 would be a “common sense step” about which “everyone should agree.” Banning the ammunition...