Guns in the News

Attention Lamestream Media...I Am the Gun Lobby

by Jeff Knox To all of those "reporters" and pundits at ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, CNN, The New York Times and all the other Times , The Boston Globe , The Spokane Spokesman-Review , the Cleveland Plain Dealer , Arizona Republic , all of the Tribunes , Stars , and Ledgers ; Let me make something perfectly clear: The NRA is not the Gun Lobby. Neither is the NSSF, nor the GOA, nor even The Firearms...

Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry: I will only appoint pro-gun justices to U.S. Supreme Court

Texas governor "the only candidate trying to connect with gun owners" by Chad D. Baus The only Republican presidential candidate to have made his support for gun rights a part of his campaign is discussing it yet again. On Monday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry told attendees at a town hall meeting in Manchester, Iowa, that if he is elected president he will only appoint U.S. Supreme Court justices who...

Headline: House GOP proposes ‘lost confidence’ resolution on Attorney General Holder

TheHill.com is reporting that nearly two-dozen Republicans are backing legislation stating that Congress "has lost confidence" in Eric Holder to continue as attorney general. According to the article, the resolution, introduced by Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and supported by 21 GOP co-sponsors, resolves "that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress has lost confidence in the...

Canton police officer who threatened to execute concealed carry licensee fails to appear for his disciplinary hearing

by Chad D. Baus The Canton Repository is reporting that Officer Daniel Harless, who testified just last week in a murder trial , was not present for his long-awaited disciplinary hearing on Thursday. The hearing is the culmination of an investigation of Harless' conduct during a traffic stop in June involving a concealed handgun license holder. The officer's actions were captured on dash cam...

Arizona gun club offers photos with Santa

The Associated Press is reporting that an Arizona gun club is offering a chance for children and their families to pose for photos with Santa while holding pistols and military-style rifles. From the article : One image shows Santa in a wingback chair with a snowflake background, a Christmas tree behind him and flanked by an $80,000 machine gun and a tripod-mounted rifle. Next to Santa is a man...

Op-Ed: Gun owners to count at the ballot box

by Wayne LaPierre The fight for 2012 is a fight for our country, our values and our freedom, and if the National Rifle Association (NRA) has anything to say about it, Barack Obama won't get a second term. Mark these words - the NRA and America's gun owners will have plenty to say about it. President Obama doesn’t want to hear that. He doesn't want gun owners active in the next election. He doesn'...

Fast Furious Follies

by Jim Shepherd After spending most of the day [Thursday, December 8] watching Washington's definition of government at "work" on answering questions about Operation Fast and Furious and the failure of MF Global, I found myself looking at more than 28 pages of notes and asking myself a simple question: why bother? In a single day's time, I watched as a former Senator, Governor, and self-described...

Ohio and New Mexico Sign Concealed Carry Reciprocity Agreement

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and New Mexico Department of Public Safety Cabinet Secretary Gorden E. Eden, Jr. have signed an agreement that permits reciprocity between their states for citizens who have valid concealed carry permits. "I am pleased that this agreement between Ohio and New Mexico will allow Ohioans who have concealed carry permits the same rights to carry a concealed handgun...

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