National Politics

U.S. Park Police loses track of more than 1500 firearms

3:00pm Monday, July 15, 2013
by Chad D. Baus Fox News reported recently that the U.S. Park Police has lost track of a huge supply of handguns, rifles and shotguns. From the article : In the scathing report, the inspector general's office of the Department of Interior faults staff at the agency for having no idea how many weapons they control and says the department has no clear policies or procedures for investigating...

Case Against Student Who Wore NRA T-Shirt to School Dismissed

3:00pm Thursday, July 11, 2013
On June 27th, in a positive resolution to a case which has captured the attention of advocates for First and Second Amendment rights, the case against 14-year-old Logan Middle School Honor Student Jared Marcum of Logan, W.V., was dismissed with prejudice. Marcum had been charged with obstructing an officer following an incident stemming from a Logan Middle School faculty member's reaction to...

Op-Ed: Polls give a skewed picture of gun issues

3:00pm Monday, July 08, 2013
by John Lott The onslaught against Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio continues. In April, Portman, unlike his U.S. Senate colleague from Ohio, Sherrod Brown, dared to vote against the Senate gun-control bill, and since then he has endured inaccurate attacks from out-of-state opponents such as New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, condemning his vote. Former Arizona Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords...

Criminals get guns by stealing them, not through ‘lax’ laws

by Ken Hanson
7:00am Wednesday, July 03, 2013
The following op-ed by Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson was originally published by The Columbus Dispatch . Republished with permission. In last Friday's story "A conduit for guns," The Dispatch fell victim to an all-too-common error: attempting to use Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) gun-trace data to demonstrate where criminals get their guns...

SAF asks for all Bloomberg-MAIG records from NYC after revelations

3:00pm Friday, June 28, 2013
Editor's Note: As the battle between New York Second Amendment advocates and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has escalated, it has appeared that Mr. Bloomberg, with his wealth and position pretty much had carte blanche to do what he pleased as he campaigned against guns in the hands of private citizens. But has Mr. Bloomberg used public funds or resources to augment his private efforts?...

Outrage of the Week: Bloomberg Gun Control Group Claims Terrorist was "Victim of Gun Violence"

7:00am Thursday, June 27, 2013
This week's outrage comes to us from New Hampshire, where New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun group--Mayors Against Illegal Guns--labeled a terrorist as a "victim of gun violence." As part of a gun control rally this week in Concord, a MAIG-sponsored "No More Names" tour bus arrived and anti-gun organizers read the names of those "killed with guns" since the shooting at Sandy Hook...

What can gun owners do in the face of attempts to destroy the Second Amendment?

7:00am Tuesday, June 25, 2013
by Frank Miniter [The Outdoor Wire's] Jim Shepherd challenged me by saying, "As the author of The Ultimate Man's Survival Guide - my favorite book on how to be a man - I'd like you to write an essay on what America's gun owners should be doing now to defend freedom." Then he told me about www.MyTime2Stand.com and his road trip for freedom. I thought on all this a while and wondered when a person...

Headline: ATF study - Criminals use stolen guns

7:00am Thursday, June 20, 2013
by Chad D. Baus You won't hear this mentioned in all the anti-gun media discussions about enforcing "universal" background checks, but research by the ATF demonstrates why these checks will never stop criminals, no matter how many checks are enforced on law-abiding citizens. From the Chattanooga Times Free Press : The majority of guns used by inner-city gang members in Chattanooga come from...

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