National Politics

Congress Could Consider National Carry Bill Soon!

As we have been reporting, H.R. 822, the "National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011," is on the move in the U.S. House of Representatives. On September 13, House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security held a hearing on H.R. 822. The House could consider H.R. 822 in the next few weeks, so it is critically important that you contact your U.S...

Op-Ed: Come Clean and Cut Funding

by Mike Brownfield What did the President know and when did he know it, goes the old Washington adage. Thus did the American people learn [recently] in separate but equally startling revelations that the Obama Administration knew more about two scandals than it has been revealing. The first is regarding the Operation Fast and Furious gun running disaster and the second is the now-bankrupt, Obama-...

Op-Ed: Media Silence Is Deafening About Important Gun News

by John Lott Murder and violent crime rates were supposed to soar after the Supreme Court struck down gun control laws in Chicago and Washington, D.C. Politicians predicted disaster. "More handguns in the District of Columbia will only lead to more handgun violence," Washington's Mayor Adrian Fenty warned the day the court made its decision. Chicago's Mayor Daley predicted that we would "go back...

September sees 14% increase in firearms sales checks over same month last year; 16th straight month over month increase

The September 2011 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 878,345 is an increase of 14 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 770,310 in September 2010. For comparison, the unadjusted September 2011 NICS figure of 1,244,604 is an increase of 9.2 percent over the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,139,980 in September 2010. This marks the sixteenth...

The Terrifying and True Harold Fish Story

by Gerard Valentino The prosecution of Harold Fish reignited the debate over self-defense laws in America. For those not familiar with the story, Mr. Fish was convicted in Coconino County, Arizona of 2nd degree murder despite staying on site and rendering aid after being forced to shoot a violent attacker. Had Mr. Fish fled, the remote area where the shooting took place meant he was unlikely to...

Bill to provide consistent gun rules for federal lands introduced in Senate

Washington, DC — Senators Jim Webb (D-VA) and John Boozman (R-AR) today introduced legislation to make gun regulations consistent across all federal recreational lands by bringing Army Corps of Engineers rules in line with other federal agencies. Last Congress, legislation was signed into law allowing individuals to possess firearms in the National Park Service and National Wildlife Refuge System...

National Right-to-Carry Bill Under Attack

As we reported recently, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security recently held a hearing on H.R. 822, the "National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011." This critically important bill, introduced earlier this year by Congressmen Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) and Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) and cosponsored by more than 240 of their colleagues, would...

Op-Ed: Furiously unraveling - Gun scandal still growing

by Michael A. Walsh The joke goes that anything named "Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms" ought to be a convenience store instead of an arm of the federal government, but what's going on in Washington these days with the embattled agency is no laughing matter. Hardly a week passes now without some revelation about the Obama administration's complicity in what may yet turn out to be one of the worst...

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