Gun control advocates seek to "tighten" gun laws

By Gerard Valentino Over the last few months, the anti-gun movement, with help from the establishment media, has started a new attack campaign with their usual flair for the dramatic and lack of concern for the facts. Every article on gun-control during that time period mentioned that America has "loosened" regulations on buying, carrying, and owning guns over the last three decades. It is as if...

Ohio Republican Party does not endorse in Attorney General race between staunch pro-gun/ anti-gun candidates

By Larry S. Moore The news that the Ohio Republican Party (ORP) did not make an endorsement in the Ohio Attorney General race is making waves. Blogs have been making the most of it. Ohio political columnist William Hershey had pieces in the major Ohio newspapers, including the left-wing Dayton Daily News . It is reported that DeWine is not disappointed but pressing forward with the race. Hershey...

Protecting Gun Shows : It's Time for Some Self-Regulation

By Jeff Knox Anyone who does not hold an FFL and sells a firearm to someone he doesn't know well is incurring a certain amount of liability. And, a bit of bad judgment could cause trouble not just for the seller, but for the rest of the gun owning community as well. There is no question that individuals have the right to buy, sell, and trade firearms between themselves without government...

Terrorism and Gun Control: A Perfect Match

This is an extended version of an article that appeared in USCCA's Armed American Report. Get your Pro CCW Sign at the end of this article. By Gerard Valentino The terrorist attack committed by Major Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood, Texas brought the lack of security at such a large military base directly into homes across America. Leaders of the pro-gun movement, and many soldiers, weren't quite...

CHALLENGE! We want 2,000 Facebook fans by New Year's Eve!

Our new Facebook Fan Page is growing fast. We now have over 1,400 fans. But we want 2,000 by the end of the year. Will you help us? If you're on Facebook, become a fan now. If you're already a fan, use the "Suggest to Friends" link to invite all your friends to become fans too. The Suggest to Friends link is on our fan page, upper left, below the red BFA logo. Why is it important to get more fans...

The 25 most popular gun rights stories of 2009

We publish a lot of stories that are read by a lot of people. Over the past year, more than 410,000 separate individuals visited this site from the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Ireland, France, India, and 163 other countries looking for information about guns and gun rights. And our authors served up well over 550 original articles, an average of 11 new articles every...

Deer-gun Hunting Continues December 19-20

Ohio's popular deer-gun season will run an additional weekend, Saturday and Sunday, December 19-20, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife. The extra weekend days were added beginning in 2006 in response to comments received from hunters for more weekend time to hunt. Deer can be hunted with a legal muzzleloader, handgun or shotgun from one half-hour...

Ohio man hunting for deer bags a bull elk instead

The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that Todd Tomlin, a 45-year-old truck driver who's been hunting for more than 30 years, was hunting with permission on private property along Inskeep-Cratty Road in the southwestern corner of Union County about 8:30 on opening day of Ohio's deer gun season when he spotted something most Ohio hunters will never see. From the story : ...He saw three does in the...

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