Guns in the News

Wal-Mart retailing giant resumes sales of rifles & shotguns at half of its stores

3:00pm Monday, May 23, 2011
by Chad D. Baus The Wall Street Journal reported recently that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is bringing back rifles, shotguns and ammunition to hundreds of U.S. stores as the hurting retail giant seeks to reinvigorate its one-stop shopping appeal and attract more male customers. From the article : The world's largest retailer stopped selling hunting rifles and bullets at all but a third of its U.S...

Dad who split up fight in McDonald's shot dead...in "no-guns" Great Britain

7:00am Monday, May 23, 2011
"A free people ought to be armed." - George Washington "Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion in private self defense." - John Adams "Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms." - James Madison by Chad D. Baus The Mirror , a British newspaper, recently reported that a...

Chicago's Daley a hypocrite to the bitter end

7:00am Thursday, May 19, 2011
Having retired from office on Wednesday, May 18, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley remains a monumental hypocrite to the bitter end and his request for publicly-financed armed bodyguards proves it, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said recently. As Daley prepared to leave office, a Washington Times editorial bared the anti-gun Democrat's hypocrisy. For years, Daley has had...

Guns are not allowed in Restaurants: The forensic examination of the anti-gun claims

3:00pm Tuesday, May 17, 2011
by Ken Hanson, Esq. Ohio has now passed bills in the House and Senate that would allow concealed carry licensees to carry firearms in liquor facilities. Since this legislative action is contrary to the editorial position of Ohio's major newspapers, and since editors such as The Columbus Dispatch 's Joe Hallett cannot allow facts to interfere with their own biases , it is left to Buckeye Firearms...

New Study Points to Truth About Mexican Cartels' Guns

10:00am Tuesday, May 17, 2011
The Woodrow Wilson International Center, which previously accepted as fact that incredible numbers of newly purchased firearms were being smuggled from the U.S. to Mexico, has just released a report showing that the numbers have been incredibly exaggerated. The revelation shifts the blame for Mexico's drug cartel problem away from America's "lax" gun laws, and squarely in the direction of Mexican...

Irate property owner arrested after firing shotgun at Ohio concealed handgun licenseholder

3:00pm Monday, May 16, 2011
Dayton's CBS affiliate, WHIO TV, reported recently that a property owner fired a shotgun at a man and his son after they accidentally drove on the edge of his lawn. From the article : Max Lawson and his 16-year-old, Mentee, were out collecting used toys. At one home, they accidentally drove onto some grass near the driveway. Deputies said Dennis Neumann then came out to complain. Lawson said he...

"The Lundy List": Three legislators who indicated they'd vote for Restaurant & Car Carry before they voted against it

7:00am Monday, May 16, 2011
Last month, Republican House Speaker William Batchelder made headlines when he revealed that his 59-member caucus was unable to muster the 50 votes necessary for passage . A review of our 2010 candidate surveys showed that, so long as everyone kept their word, the votes were there. However, sources in the Statehouse told us that some were considering breaking their word and voting against the...

AG Holder: "I frankly don't know" how guns were allowed by the ATF to "walk" across the Mexican border

3:00pm Friday, May 13, 2011
According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the Project Gunrunner program was intended to stop the alleged flow of guns to criminals in Mexico. That didn't happen. Instead, the program may have facilitated the illegal smuggling of thousands of those guns, some of which actually turned up at the murder scene of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in December 2010. As the probe...

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