National Politics

Ohio Sen. Kris Jordan (R) introduces bill that would bar new local/federal/ international gun bans from being enforced in Ohio

3:00pm Thursday, February 14, 2013
by Chad D. Baus WTVG (ABC Toledo) is reporting that State Senator Kris Jordan (R-19th District) has introduced Senate Bill 36, legislation that he says would keep Washington from running wild over the constitutional right to own a gun. From the article : The president's 23-point gun control plan includes items such as how to do a background check, how states can share information if a gun is lost...

Local sheriffs refuse to enforce Obama gun control proposal

7:00am Wednesday, February 13, 2013
The following article was originally published by The Lima News . Republished with permission. by Sarah Stemen LIMA - For Mercer County Sheriff Jeff Grey, it's a no-brainer. If the United States Congress passes new gun control laws, including a ban on assault weapons for law abiding residents, he won't enforce it. "Let me make it crystal clear, the Mercer County Sheriff's Office will not be...

Op-Ed: Why I Just Joined the NRA

3:00pm Friday, February 08, 2013
by Wayne Root I'm not your typical NRA member. I'm Jewish, Ivy League educated (Columbia University, Class of '83, President Obama's classmate), and have been a member of the mainstream media (I started my career as an anchorman and host for CNBC, then called Financial News Network). Also unusual, I joined the NRA in the days after the Sandy Hook, Connecticut tragedy. Here are the reasons why...

Fight now with your voice or fight later with guns

7:00am Thursday, February 07, 2013
by Jeff Thomas The country is arguably at the most crucial point in our history when it comes to the Second Amendment and the outcome will affect your liberty and possibly your life. A powerful statement? I challenge anyone to prove me wrong. The country has been crippled by more than seven years of economic hardship, more than a decade of citizens losing liberties, and now the president and his...

Op-Ed: Guns in schools can save lives

3:00pm Tuesday, February 05, 2013
Editor's Note: This op-ed was originally posted at USAToday.com before an armed guard disarmed a teen school shooter in Atlanta. by John Lott Has anyone noticed that these mass shootings at public schools increased after the 1995 Gun-Free School Zone Act? Passed with good intentions, banning guns would supposedly make schools safer. But law abiding citizens, not criminals, obey these bans...

Skeet-Gate: Some Constructive Advice for the President

7:00am Tuesday, February 05, 2013
We here at NSSF were somewhat bemused over the controversy that sprang from President Obama's assertion that he shot skeet on a regular basis, and the second wave of commentary that attended the White House release of a photo to prove it. There's a reason we're citing the New York Times coverage in the link above — we’ll get to that later. The assertion came as no surprise to us, because NSSF...

Senate holds first hearings of 2013 on gun rights

3:00pm Monday, February 04, 2013
On January 30, the U.S. Senate Judiciary committee held a hearing entitled, "What Should America Do About Gun Violence?" It should have been called, "How Do We Attack Second Amendment Rights?" The hearing ( which can be viewed here ) consisted of a single panel that included NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, Second Amendment scholar David Kopel, attorney Gayle Trotter, Baltimore County...

If armed school security won't work, where are all the mass shootings at armed schools?

7:00am Thursday, January 31, 2013
by Jeff Riley Buried in a recent article in The New York Times dismissing armed security at schools is a bit of pro-gun truth, proving if you go looking hard enough, you can eventually find the truth in the most unlikely places. From the article : Nationwide, at least 23,000 schools — about one-third of all public schools — already had armed security on staff as of the most recent data, for the...

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