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U.S. District Court Dismisses Lawsuit to Ban Traditional Ammunition

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia today dismissed a lawsuit brought by the radical anti-hunting Center for Biological Diversity and six other groups demanding the Environmental Protection Agency ban traditional ammunition containing lead components. Traditional ammunition represents 95 percent of the U.S. market and is the staple ammunition for target shooters...

Op-Ed: Bloomberg Uses Commencement Speech to Push Gun Control, Rails Against ‘Extremist’ NRA

by Alicia Powe America's most dangerous Mayor used his commencement address at Kenyon College in Ohio as a political opportunity to slam members of Congress for failing to pass background check legislation. "Have courage to act on your hopes, don't be paralyzed by your fears," Mayor Bloomberg told the graduating class. "Have the courage to think for yourself and to believe in your ideas. That...

Headline: Advocates put police, gun laws to the test

by Chad D. Baus WHIO-TV (CBS Dayton) is reporting on a lawsuit that has been filed against the City of Riverside after an incident involving the arrest of a man who was open carrying a firearm. From the article : Advocates of "open carry" of weapons are testing police on their knowledge of state laws and then posting the results on the internet. The most recent case involved a Tipp City man, Roy...

The Gun Control Lie

by Jeff Knox Gun control advocates are compulsive liars. They have to be because the truth doesn't support their agenda. Even the names of gun control groups – suggesting "violence policy," "violence prevention," and "gun safety" – are all lies. And the term "gun control" itself is a lie. Virtually everything coming from gun control advocates today is a lie. I'm not talking about simple...

Confiscate! Confiscate! Confiscate!

Hell hath no fury like an anti-gunner who doesn't get her way on gun control. The Star-Ledger reported last Friday that after a closed-door hearing on gun control in the New Jersey Senate the previous day, three state senators--believed to be Democrats Loretta Weinberg, Sandra Cunningham and Linda Greenstein--were caught on tape, complaining that bills introduced in the Garden State--including...

3D Printing is Way Scarier Than Plastic Guns

Editor's Note: Today's feature is reproduced with permission from http://www.shellypalmer.com/2013/05/3d-printing-is-way-scarier-than-plas... . We might not agree with Shelly's characterization of printing guns as the "dark side of the technology" but we agree wholeheartedly with his description and assessment on the future of 3D printing. by Shelly Palmer Ever the publicity hound, Sen. Chuck...

The Terrorists Won in Boston

by Jeff Knox That demented, hate-filled terrorists could build bombs and detonate them in a crowded public place should not have come as news to anyone. That's what terrorists have been doing around the world for decades - centuries. That it could be done in the U.S. by people we had welcomed with open arms, should also have been no surprise. Islamist extremists have been promising, and...

Attorney General Mike DeWine denies backing away from comments made in support of arming school employees

by Chad D. Baus and Jim Irvine This week, an Associated Press article by Julie Carr Smyth, entitled " Ohio's state school board urged not to arm teachers ," hit the wires and shot around the state and across the country. The article is making waves because, according to Carr Smyth, Attorney General Mike DeWine made comments at a State Board of Education meeting that go against his previously-...

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