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Gun-control advocates play fast and loose

7:00am Tuesday, January 19, 2010
By A. Barton Hinkle More than 900 black males between the ages of 14 and 17 killed somebody in 2007. Should we be scared of young black guys? Of course not. There are roughly 3 million black males in that age group in the United States. It would be horribly unfair to toss around the first statistic without mentioning the second; doing so would be misleading, if not malicious. Now consider this...

Supreme Court Update: McDonald v. City of Chicago

7:00am Thursday, January 14, 2010
By Ken Hanson, Esq. Chicago and Oak Park have filed their brief ( http://www.chicagoguncase.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/08-1521-bs.pdf ) with the U.S. Supreme Court in the McDonald v. Chicago Second Amendment case. By way of review, this case will decide whether the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution applies against the states, a process also known as Incorporation. Originally, the Bill...

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.

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...

2009 - The Year In Review

12:01am Friday, January 01, 2010
By Chad D. Baus While there is far too much to cover in a single article, we reflect on some of the important events of 2009. January: The year begins with the inauguration of former Joyce Foundation board member Barack Hussein Obama, who quickly proves he lied during the campaign in describing himself as a pro-Second Amendment candidate by announcing the administration's declaration of war on...

USSA: United Airlines hears sportsmen, antlers to be allowed on flights

12:05am Wednesday, December 30, 2009
The voices of sportsmen were heard loud and clear by United Airlines as the company made the decision to change a new policy that would have banned antlers from being allowed onto any flight. As previously reported , sportsmen from coast to coast were enraged as it became known United Airlines had quietly initiated a policy preventing passengers from carrying on or checking antlers or animal...

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