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NSSF/Harris Poll: Target Shooting, Home Defense Top-ranked

3:00pm Thursday, April 08, 2010
A new National Shooting Sports Foundation poll conducted by Harris Interactive found that more Americans are target shooting now than six months ago, and that "home and personal defense" were the main reasons Americans recently purchased firearms. The poll also showed that 43 percent of respondents, which equates to nearly 98 million people, expressed some level of interest in participating in...

Retail stores and open carry: Responsible gun owners can knock down inaccurate stereo-types

7:00am Thursday, April 08, 2010
By Jim Irvine Across the nation, the media have been reporting on the controversy that some nationwide chains have found themselves in regarding store policy on firearms. In "Stores Land in Gun-Control Crossfire," the Wall Street Journal examines how Starbucks, Wal-Mart, Home Depot and other stores who allow guns are attracting law-abiding, gun-carrying customers. Best Buy spokesman Sue Nehring...

Don't send your other to jail: Get your concealed handgun licenses together!

3:00pm Wednesday, April 07, 2010
By Bruce Knodel Spring is in the air and the daffodils are coming up. It is time once again to be thinking about self defense training and obtaining that CCW license you have been mulling around in your mind for the past two or three years. O.K. Now you've made up your mind, and you're going to go get the training you need to apply for an Ohio concealed handgun license (CHL). You may even have...

The national news' perverted priorities: Heroics ignored while villains become famous

7:00am Wednesday, April 07, 2010
By Tim Inwood Atrocities go national, but heroic news is buried. Why? For many years it has irritated me a great deal what the national media decides is worthy to become national news. On April 1, I sat reading of a drive-by shooting in my old stomping grounds, Washington D.C. In the shooting, four were killed and five were wounded. Sensational stories dealing with the misuse of firearms always...

NSSF/Harris Survey: Support Grows for Applying 2nd Amendment to States

3:00pm Monday, April 05, 2010
With the U.S. Supreme Court set to issue its decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago in a few months, a new NSSF poll conducted by Harris Interactive finds 8 in 10 Americans agree with this statement: "State and local governments are bound by law to comply with the Second Amendment." The 80 percent who indicated their support in the March 15 online survey of general population adults 18 and over...

This is How Freedom Died – By Choice

7:00am Monday, April 05, 2010
By Gerard Valentino Two stories that any liberty-minded American should know about sneaked by unnoticed last week because of the overwhelming negative reaction to the health care debacle. Both were indicative of how little value some Americans put on their personal freedom and how some people are willing to turn over their well-being to the government, instead of taking responsibility for their...

A Tribute to Ben & Nikki Goeser

7:00am Friday, April 02, 2010
By Linda Walker One year ago today, the world lost a special man that I never had the privilege of meeting. Yet this man left a huge impact on the world after his death. On April 2, 2009, Hank Wise walked into Johnny's Sports Bar in Nashville, Tenn. He had stalked Nikki Goeser as she and her husband Ben Goeser ran their karaoke business at various clubs throughout the area. Wise had tormented...

Book Review: From My Cold Dead Fingers

3:00pm Tuesday, March 30, 2010
By Jim Irvine The Federal Government may neither issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the states’ officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program. It matters not whether policy making is involved, and no case-by case weighing of the burdens or benefits is necessary; such commands are...

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