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Police charge five "legal" open carry citizens in Wisconsin - victims need your support

7:00am Monday, September 27, 2010
by Ken Hanson UPDATE: Our supporters have once again shattered all of our expectations. The $2,500 dollar matching fund was exhausted in just a few hours. We have already written a check for $7,500 to help the victims fight this police harassment. If you wish to donate to Buckeye Firearms Foundation's general fund for future cases please visit: BuckeyeFirearmsFoundation.org UPDATE #2: Wisconsin...

Texas bank posts sign encouraging concealed carry

7:00am Friday, September 24, 2010
The Brenham Banner-Press in Texas reported recently that a bank in Chappell Hill, TX (about half-way between Houston and Austin) removed a "no-guns" sign over the summer and put up a sign of an altogether different kind. From the article : Any would-be robbers looking to walk into the bank here had best think twice. There's a new sign in town. About a month ago, Chappell Hill Bank president...

Good Samaritan couple with Ohio concealed carry licenses stop beating

3:00pm Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Cleveland area media are reporting that Wadsworth police are crediting a gun-carrying couple for helping them catch a man who was allegedly beating his girlfriend in a parking lot in front of her two small children. From NewsChannel5 (Cleveland's ABC affiliate) : Officers said the couple pulled into the Wadsworth McDonald's on High Street Sunday and saw a man hitting a woman in another vehicle...

Cleveland announces "voluntary" handgun registration - help us tell them "NO!"

7:00am Wednesday, September 22, 2010
According to WKYC.com, "Cleveland residents who want to register their handguns can do so 24 hours a day, seven days a week." Let that idea sink in for a moment. Cleveland has launched a voluntary handgun registration program. For what purpose? Are they expecting criminals to register their guns? Not likely. And if any law-abiding citizens register, what will authorities do with the information?...

Obama reveals anti-gun U.N. intent: Sends ex-Seattle mayor as Rep

3:00pm Friday, September 17, 2010
The appointment of anti-gun rights former Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels as an alternate representative to the United Nations has removed any doubt about the Obama administration's intentions regarding global gun control initiatives, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. Nickels, a founding member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns and the author of Seattle's failed...

Crime Rates Continued to Fall as Firearm Sales Soared in '09

7:00am Tuesday, September 14, 2010
The National Shooting Sports Foundation is reporting that, even as firearms and ammunition experienced record sales in 2009, the nation's crime rates continued to fall, according to new report from the FBI. "During 2009, violent crime declined for the third straight year, with an estimated 5.3 percent drop from 2008 figures. Homicides were down 7.3 percent. The FBI statistics undermine a favorite...

The Uninvited Ombudsman Report, No. 90 - Hidden Firearms Threat

3:00pm Friday, September 10, 2010
Taken from the most recent "Page Nine", Alan Korwin's "The Uninvited Ombudsman Report" -------- 1- Hidden Firearms Threat The lamestream media told you: Nothing. The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: The two plants that make smokeless powder in the U.S. are the General Dynamics plant in St. Marks, Florida (manufactures for Hogdon and Winchester, plus military contracts), and the Alliant...

August sees 4.6% jump in firearm sales from same period one year ago

7:00am Friday, September 10, 2010
The FBI has released its National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figures for August 2010. NSSF-adjusted figures (718,971) show a 4.6 percent increase over August of last year (687,252). The adjusted NICS data were derived by NSSF by subtracting out NICS purpose-code permit checks used by several states such as Kentucky and Utah for CCW permit application checks as well as checks...

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