National Politics

Guitars, Guns, and Federal Excesses

3:00pm Wednesday, September 14, 2011
by Jeff Knox On August 24, 2011, federal agents of the Fish and Wildlife Service raided offices and production facilities of the Gibson Guitar company. They sent workers home and confiscated several pallets of wood along with computer files and numerous guitars (amounting to about $2 million in lost production and property). This was the second raid on Gibson in as many years over questions about...

Hearing Scheduled for H.R. 822,the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2012

3:00pm Monday, September 12, 2011
For months we have been reporting on a critically important bill: H.R. 822 the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011. This vital NRA-backed legislation, introduced earlier this year by Congressmen Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) and Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) will enable millions of permit holders to exercise their right to self-defense while traveling outside their home states. Thanks to much hard...

August sees 13.5% increase in firearms sales checks over same month last year; 15th straight month over month increase

7:00am Monday, September 12, 2011
The August 2011 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 815,858 is an increase of 13.5 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 718,971 in August 2010. For comparison, the unadjusted August 2011 NICS figure of 1,300,433 is an increase of 20.2 percent over the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,082,360 in August 2010. This marks the fifteenth straight month...

Governor Rick Perry an 'egotistical extremist?' I don’t think so!

3:00pm Tuesday, September 06, 2011
by Linda Walker Yes, I must confess, I am on the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence's email list. There, I said it! "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." Sun Tzu, Chinese general & military strategist (ca. 500 BC) To my horror, amazement, shock and a wealth of other instantaneous emotions, I read the following email from the Brady Campaign that popped into my email inbox...

A look at the GOP's 2012 Presidential field from a gun rights perspective

7:00am Tuesday, September 06, 2011
by Chad D. Baus In 2008, there was much discussion about gun rights during the Republican Presidential primaries. Although there were a number of Republican candidates who had a strong pro-Second Amendment record, the party eventually settled on a candidate with an extremely spotty record on the Second Amendment (as well as other issues important to the conservative base). The end result was that...

Report: ATF Director Reassigned; U.S. Attorney Out Amid 'Fast and Furious' Uproar

3:00pm Thursday, September 01, 2011
by Chad D. Baus Fox News is reporting that acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson has been reassigned to a lesser post in the Justice Department and the U.S. attorney for Arizona was also pushed out Tuesday as "fallout from Operation Fast and Furious reached new heights." On July 4, Melson decide to testify about Fast and Furious without having Justice Department counsel present to "advise him" on...

Where’s the media outrage over Fast and Furious?

3:00pm Wednesday, August 31, 2011
By Tim Inwood After discovering that a friend had no idea what I was talking about when mentioning "Operation Fast and Furious" and "Project Gunrunner," I find myself disgusted with the lousy job the press has done covering this major scandal. CNN is usually on in his workplace, yet he had no clue. In the past, minor issues like Valerie Plame became huge national scandals. However, what might...

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