Education

NSSF asks gun owners to practice firearm safety every day

3:00pm Thursday, June 10, 2010
Children across the country will start their summer vacations this month and, as a result, spend more time at home -- some of it unsupervised. With that in mind, the National Shooting Sports Foundation reminds gun owners to review their procedures for safely storing firearms in the home -- a reminder in keeping with June being National Safety Month. A few simple steps -- such as storing firearms...

Are you prepared for when a criminal comes knocking? This family was.

7:00am Thursday, June 10, 2010
By Jim Irvine Recently I sat down with a friend who was the target of a home invasion. He lives in a nice neighborhood with his wife and two young kids. In the middle of the night, there was a noise downstairs. “It sounded like the blinds being moved. My first thought was: 'there is somebody in our house.'" Such a thought can be terrifying. In a "hot burglary" the FBI statistics show that the...

May second highest all-time for background checks on firearm sales

3:00pm Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Data released by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported 1,016,876 checks in May 2010, ranking the month the second highest May for most NICS checks. This figure, while being a .6 percent decrease from the 1,023,102 checks conducted in May 2009, is an increase of 14.7 percent over checks in May 2008. The total number of background checks reported since the...

England shooting proves fallacy of gun control laws

3:00pm Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Last Wednesday's mass shooting in northwest England is more proof that restrictive gun laws do not prevent horrible criminal acts, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. Wire service and British news agency reports say 12 people are dead and 25 people are wounded, and suspected gunman Derrick Bird is among the fatalities. It appears he died from a self-inflicted...

Research: Concealed Carry and Guns Save Lives

3:00pm Thursday, June 03, 2010
Guns save lives, and are necessary for protection. That's according to research from David Burnett and Clayton Cramer, who track incidents of defensive gun use at TheArmedCitizen.com. The stories include senior citizens fighting off robbers, and women defending themselves against rapists or attackers, proving armed citizens prevent violent crimes everywhere from restaurants and grocery stores to...

Anti-gun Ohio newspaper editorial board member embraces "denial" like a baby does his "binky"

7:00am Thursday, June 03, 2010
de·ni·al - "An unconscious defense mechanism characterized by refusal to acknowledge painful realities, thoughts, or feelings." - The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary by Ken Hanson, Esq. In a May 30, 2010 column, Cleveland Plain Dealer editorial board member and columnist Thomas Suddes says, " Just hand Ohio to the gun nuts and get it over with ." While I would like to oblige him,...

Obama backs international gun control treaty

7:00am Tuesday, June 01, 2010
The OAS Firearms Convention Is Incompatible with American Liberties by Theodore Bromund, Ray Walser, Ph.D. and David Kopel President Barack Obama has called on the Senate to ratify the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials. President Bill Clinton signed the convention in 1997, but neither he...

Brady Campaign's slipping relevancy underscored by NRA convention

3:00pm Friday, May 28, 2010
by Alan Gottlieb and Dave Workman Adhering to a pattern of behavior that has developed over the years, a tiny contingent of gun prohibitionists paraded outside of the Charlotte Convention Center while the National Rifle Association was hosting its record-breaking members' meeting, but they remained only long enough to get some camera time with local news crews. Paul Helmke, president of the Brady...

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