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Around the Fireams Industry: Not everyone is running 24/7

12:05am Wednesday, April 22, 2009

By Jim Shepherd While the entire outdoor segment mirrors the general miasma of American industry and commerce (business generally stinks), there are some commonly accepted points being accepted as fact. In fact, they're not all dead on target. First, the commonly accepted belief that the entire firearms category is going like the proverbial house on fire, with gun owners and speculators buying...

Lies, guns and tea: The Obama Media propaganda machine kicks into high gear

12:10am Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. - Franklin D. Roosevelt A lie can run around the world before the truth can get it's boots on. - James Watt A lie told often enough becomes the truth. - Lenin By Jim Shepherd Any of us who believe and defend our right to own firearms know that we face a virtual torrent of half-truths and outright misrepresentations from those who have made the...

John Lott provides more insight into ABC’s Shameful ‘20/20′ Experiment

12:05am Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Recently, Buckeye Firearms Association's Dean Rieck wrote that Diane Sawyer had rigged a mass shooting experiment on 20/20 . Rieck pointed out the many fallacies with the experiment, including an attacker with a shooting skill level far above the average mass shooter who had knowledge, not only that a student would be returning fire, but WHICH student, and the presence of cumbersome and...

FLASH: 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Rules State and Local Governments Subject to Second Amendment

2:10pm Monday, April 20, 2009

In a bit of a Pyrrhic victory, the 9th Circuit today found that the Second Amendment applies to State and Local districts, joining the 5th Circuit which previously ruled similarly in the Emerson case. At the same time, the Court found that the city's ban of firearms on public property did not violate the Second Amendment. While gun owners might scratch their heads over this "logic", the important...

Exposed: The anti-gun agenda behind ABC News' "Before Arranging Playdates, Ask About Guns"

12:10am Monday, April 20, 2009

By Jeff Riley ABC News is on a mission. They have the target picked out, and are throwing everything at it, including the kitchen sink. What or who is their target? Why it's YOU, dear reader - one of millions of responsible gun owners who reside in America. In the past two weeks, the airwaves were filled with a litany of anti-gun stories promulgated by ABC: " If I Only Had a Gun (Carrying a Gun...

25-year police veteran to Toledo residents: "Buy guns. Invest in precious metals: lead, gun power and brass."

12:05am Monday, April 20, 2009

By Chad D. Baus For the past several weeks, the Toledo Blade has been reporting on a severe budget short-fall that the City of Toledo has spent itself into. After weeks of back-and-forth debate between Mayor Carty Finkbeiner - who is likely to be facing a recall at the ballot box this September - Toledo city council, and unions representing police and firefighters' unions, the Finkbeiner...

Is Rush Limbaugh's cat being held hostage by animal rights extremists?

10:21am Friday, April 17, 2009

Our laws do not prevent us from killing animals for food or sport, so the right to life of an animal is nonexistent. ...[W]e are confronted daily by people who wish to obstruct human progress and individual economic choices by elevating the importance of animal existence to that of human existence. - Rush Limbaugh, The Way Things Ought To Be , 1992 By Chad D. Baus I have been listening to Rush...

Media attention focused on firearms

12:10am Friday, April 17, 2009

By Jim Shepherd Last week, California Senator Dianne Feinstein said that there would be no big moves to reinstitute the "Assault Weapons Ban" because the "time wasn't right". That, however, doesn't mean the "assault on your weapons we want to ban" has died down on the liberal side of the question. On Sunday April 12, CBS News' Leslie Stahl delivered one of Sixty Minutes ' vaunted hard-hitting...