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The Shrinking 'Vast Majority": NSSF Responds to ATF Mexican Trace Report

3:00pm Tuesday, May 08, 2012

By Larry Keane ATF [recently] released a report on firearms submitted by the government of Mexico for tracing since 2007. One screaming headline referred to the "Vast Majority of Mexican Crime Guns Originate in U.S. New ATF Trace Data Reveals." If you have been following the issue of Mexican gun traces on this blog, you will realize the truth is a rapidly shrinking "Vast Majority" and the so-...

Ted Nugent's newsworthy comments on Romney overlooked in flap over comments about an Obama second term

7:00am Tuesday, May 08, 2012

by Chad D. Baus Every year, the anti-gun media look for something with which to paint the NRA Annual Meetings in a negative light. This year was no different, and the media frenzy took shape when NRA Board of Directors member Ted Nugent stated in an interview on NRANews.com that he will "either be dead or in jail by this time next year" if Obama is re-elected. (Rather innocuous comments, if you...

Op-Ed: Stand Your Ground makes sense

3:00pm Monday, May 07, 2012

These are sane laws that protect people by John Lott Call them what you will: "Stand Your Ground" or "Castle Doctrine" laws. Mayor Bloomberg and members of Congress, speaking on the House floor, go so far as to label them "shoot first" laws. This is a gross exaggeration — a slander, in fact, against legislation designed to reform a flaw in our treatment of self-defense. Earlier statutes...

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CNBC: The Rise in Girls with Guns

7:00am Monday, May 07, 2012

Gun shops across the country are holding "Ladies Nights," as the number of women who own guns increases. Profits are up, and investors are taking note. CNBC's Diana Olick explains.

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“Turn Tail and Run” Law Proposed

3:00pm Friday, May 04, 2012

Editor's Note: We typically reserve our satirical posts for April Fool's Day, but this one is too good to pass up. by Evan F. Nappen Washington, D.C. - Senator Lousenburg (D. NJ) has filed the "Turn Tail and Run" (TTR) bill in the U.S. Senate which, if passed, would preempt ALL State "Stand Your Ground" (SYG) laws. The new bill would impose a national duty to retreat at all times when one...

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Does YOUR financial institution support your Second Amendment rights?

7:00am Friday, May 04, 2012

by Chad D. Baus Two recent pieces of news drive home the importance of making sure that your bank respects your Second Amendment rights. Earlier this month, McMillan Group International, LLC announced that Bank Of America had severed ties with their company specifically because, in the years since they'd opened their accounts, McMillan had transitioned into a firearms manufacturing role. From a...

"Change" one vote at a time

3:00pm Thursday, May 03, 2012

by Sean Maloney, Esq. But I'm only one person; what can I do? The statement that "I'm only one person; my vote doesn't mean anything" has been discredited over and over again by razor-thin election victories throughout history. Remember "hanging chads" or "dimpled chads"? My point is, don't underestimate what you, one person, can do to change the outcome of, well, the world. Take this year's...

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Buckeye Firearms Association Responds to Attack on Representative Conditt's "Shooting" Fundraiser

7:00am Thursday, May 03, 2012

Several Democrats have joined with a gun control group to publicly attack State Representative Margy Conditt (Liberty Township, District 55) because of a fundraising event she has scheduled for May 12 at the Middletown Sportsmens Club where participants will have the opportunity to shoot GUNS. The group linked her fundraiser to a recent Ohio shooting where three students died and called her...