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Sen. Cornyn Sends Letter to Holder Demanding Answers on DOJ's Proposal to Push "Smart Guns"

3:00pm Tuesday, April 22, 2014

As we reported [yesterday], Attorney General Eric Holder recently testified on Capitol Hill that the country needs to spend $2 million to study "smart" gun technology, as part of a $382 million expenditure on what the Obama administration calls "gun safety." "Smart Guns" is a made-up term for a conceptual firearm that incorporates technology that theoretically permits the gun to be fired only by...

Grassroots education: Bloomberg's "Everytown" launched on Facebook - by pro-gun rights advocates

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Last week, anti-gun rights billionaire Michael Bloomberg announced that he was rebranding his gun control lobby apparatus under a new moniker, "Everytown for Gun Safety." Announcing plans to deploy staff in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington, Bloomberg told the New York Times...

Holder Floats Taxpayer-Funded "Smart" Gun Research

3:00pm Monday, April 21, 2014

[Last week] week, Attorney General Eric Holder testified on Capitol Hill that what America needs at this pivotal moment in its history is to spend $2 million for "smart" gun technology, as part of a $382 million expenditure on what the Obama administration calls "gun safety." Translation: Federal "universal" background checks, "assault weapon," and "large" magazine legislation was defeated in the...

Seventy-two killed resisting gun confiscation in Boston

by Author Unknown

7:00am Monday, April 21, 2014

Boston – National Guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed on April 19 by elements of a para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw. Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the...

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NRA Opposes Administration's Plan to Broaden Reach of Mental Health-Related Gun Bans

3:00pm Friday, April 18, 2014

On Monday, NRA filed formal comments in opposition to a plan by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) to expand the categories of persons prohibited under federal law from acquiring or possessing firearms because of having been "adjudicated as a mental defective" or "committed to a mental institution." The proposal is commonly referred to by its BATFE docket number, 51P...

Billionaire Bloomberg's $50 million plan to take your gun rights away

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Friday, April 18, 2014

One nice thing that can be said for the gun ban extremists from the 1970's - at least they were honest. Groups like Handgun Control Inc. and the Coalition to Ban Handguns didn't try to hide what they are. These days, however, the same people who were involved in those groups are involved in groups like the Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence or the Violence Policy Center. Then there's...

ATF Rules Against SIG SAUER MPX

by Jim Shepherd

3:00pm Thursday, April 17, 2014

While filming last season's studio segments for "Guns & Gear" TV, SIG SAUER brought several of their new guns to the studio as highlights of their 2014 products. One caught the eye of everyone -including production crew members who normally had no interest. It was, even to a "gun person" a strange-looking thing. The "thing" was SIG's new MPX carbine. OK, a 9mm carbine isn't all that big a...

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2014 Buckeye Bash is one to remember

by Larry S. Moore

7:00am Thursday, April 17, 2014

Celebrating 10 successful years of concealed carry with many of the people who made it happen April is the ten-year anniversary since concealed carry in Ohio went into effect. House Bill 12 was sponsored by State Representative James Aslanides. Sheriff's offices were jammed as lines formed to apply for a Concealed Handgun License (CHL). Opponents screamed that shoot-outs would be on every corner...