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Modern Sporting Rifle Owners Are Most Active Shooters, Says NSSF/Responsive Management Survey

Overall Target Shooting Participation Reaches New High -- 34.4 Million The first comprehensive survey to look at ownership and use of modern sporting rifles reveals that 8.9 million Americans went target shooting with AR-style rifles in 2009 and that participants using this type of rifle were the most active among all types of sport shooters. "These findings underscore that modern sporting rifles...

Book Review: From Luby’s to the Legislature - One woman’s fight against gun control

ANNOUNCEMENT: Suzanna Gratia Hupp will be offering proponent testimony at the Wednesday, April 28 Senate hearing on SB239 . Following the hearing, she will be appearing at Gander Mountain in Reynoldsburg, OH from approximately 2:30-4:00 PM for a book signing for her new book, From Luby's to the Legislature - One Woman's Fight Against Gun Control! By Jim Irvine Suzanna Gratia Hupp's new book, From...

Practicing Politics: Ignoring it will make things a lot worse for gun owners

By Chris & Jeff Knox Conditions have lined up for 2010 to be the year of the perfect electoral storm. But in order to create the kind of storm the Republic needs, one that cleans out an insubordinate and defiant Congress, GunVoters and pro-rights activists need to get organized. The time to start is now. Just as my friend, noted author and radio host Dave Ramsey says about saving money, it's...

Neighbors cheer Ohio CHL-holder for fighting back during attempted robbery

Cincinnati's CBS affliate, WKRC, is reporting that "a neighborhood beaten down by crime in the last two weeks is cheering one of its own for fighting back." From the story : Three masked men tried to rob a man on Rosemont Avenue in West Price Hill Monday night. But the trio didn't know their victim had a concealed carry permit- and was prepared to shoot. Troy Hammond and Tremaine Hughes are...

Buckeye Firearms Association leaders to speak at Second Amendment Town Hall

The Dublin Republican Club of Northwest Columbus is sponsoring a Second Amendment Town Hall meeting, to be held on April 28 in Dublin, OH. Guest speakers include Col. Danny Bubp, a State Representative from the 88th District; Linda Walker, Buckeye Firearms Association Central Ohio Chair and winner of the NRA's Sybil Ludington Women's Freedom Award; Ken Hanson, Buckeye Firearms Association...

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

Data released by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported 1,300,100 checks in March 2010, ranking the month the second highest March (fifth highest month overall) for most NICS checks. This figure, while being a 3.3 percent decrease from the 1,345,096 checks conducted in March 2009 -- the early stage of an ongoing surge in firearms and ammunition sales -- is an...

Has The Gun Purchase Bubble Burst?

By Jim Shepherd For the past few days we've been asking our industry contacts, insiders and observers a simple question: has the Obama gun-bubble burst? Since President Obama's election, certain segments of the firearms industry have been running at full -and beyond- capacity. Some, myself included, were quick to attribute the early surge in firearms and ammunition purchases to a fear that the...

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