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More guns, less crime in 2009

7:00am Friday, January 15, 2010
By Gerard Valentino Now that 2009 has come to an end, giving America time to take stock of the year that was, we can once again see the true relationship between guns and crime. Driven by fear of Barack Obama's anti-gun past, Americans bought more guns in 2009 than in any other year on record, and homicide and violent crime rates plummeted nationwide. The most striking decrease took place in...

An End to the Lautenberg Amendment?

12:01am Wednesday, January 13, 2010
By Jeff Knox The Federal Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit recently accepted the Second Amendment as valid grounds for reversing a conviction under the infamous Lautenberg Amendment, barring possession of firearms from anyone ever convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. That's good news, but don't fire up the band just yet. The actual conclusion of the 7th Circuit panel was that...

Mayors Against Illegal Guns' poll proves just one thing: We still have work to do

12:02am Tuesday, January 12, 2010
By Jeff Knox Mike Bloomberg and his Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) caused quite a stir in the gun rights community recently when they released a poll declaring that gun owners and NRA members support the group's gun control agenda. The poll was conducted by Frank Lutz's company "Word Doctors." The media gleefully reported the poll as indisputable fact while NRA and others cried "Foul,"...

California Microstamping Law Not In Effect

12:01am Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Flawed Technology Remains Encumbered by Patents Firearms microstamping, signed into law by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Calif.) in October 2007 and slated to take effect this New Year's Day (2010), is not in effect since the technology remains encumbered by patents. Microstamping -- the process by which firearms manufacturers would have to micro laser-engrave a gun's make, model and serial...

Americans hemorrhaging rights to schools, employers and the government

12:01am Friday, January 08, 2010
By Gerard Valentino After a recent morning duck hunting trip, a student from a rural California school district parked his truck off campus and walked to school to avoid running afoul of the school safety zone law that makes it illegal to have guns on school property. For his trouble, he was expelled.

Exposed: Bloomberg's Blueprint for Gun Control

12:02am Wednesday, January 06, 2010
By Sebastian (snowflakesinhell.com) I have obtained a copy of Bloomberg's secret "Blueprint for Federal Action on Guns" which is really a blueprint for how the Obama Administration can screw gun owners without needing anything from Congress. Chuck Michel is responsible for filing a Freedom of Information Act request to get this one out in public where it belongs. (If you want to get the exclusive...

Gun control run amok: British hunters complain of 'hysterical' police response to legal field sports

12:01am Wednesday, January 06, 2010
The U.K. Telegraph is reporting that British sportsmen are complaining they are increasingly being targeted by armed police responding to panicky calls from the public. The Countryside Alliance has described the "massive overreaction" by officers as "hysterical", while the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has warned that an incident could lead to a lawful shooter being...

Cox Publishing newspapers at it again: Columnist regurgitates anti-gun statistics in attack on concealed carry

12:01am Monday, January 04, 2010
By Gerard Valentino "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." - Joseph Goebbels, Reichsminister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 A recent op-ed written by Dayton Daily News columnist Martin Gottlieb, and entitled "In wake of conceal/carry, new stats worth a look," tries to paint Ohio's concealed handgun license-holders as one...

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