National Politics

BATFE Requests "Emergency" Authority To Track Semi-Automatic Rifle Sales

7:00am Monday, December 20, 2010
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has proposed that it be given emergency authority for six months, beginning January 5, to require about 8,500 firearms dealers along the border with Mexico "to alert authorities when they sell within five consecutive business days two or more semiautomatic rifles greater than .22 caliber with detachable magazines." A Washington Post story...

Columbus gun store tops nation in firearms tracings; Media exaggerates correlation of U.S. gun sales to Mexican crime yet again

3:00pm Friday, December 17, 2010
The Washington Post recently obtained information on the names of gun dealers that had the most traces for firearms recovered by police in the last four years, and in a collaborative story by The Columbus Dispatch , the newspapers are reporting that Vance Outdoors in Columbus led the country in the number of guns recovered by police that were traced back to a dealer. From the article : A high...

President Obama and Gun Rights: Beware the Cornered and Quiet Politician

7:00am Friday, December 17, 2010
by Gerard Valentino President Barack Obama has a long and undistinguished record of infringing on the rights of law-abiding gun owners. When he was elected that record made him the darling of the anti-gun movement which expected to ride his coattails back to prominence in the marketplace of ideas. The expected road back to relevance hasn't materialized as they expected, and the anti-gun crowd...

Op-Ed: Justice Breyer's remarks on guns revisionist thinking

3:00pm Thursday, December 16, 2010
by The (Bowling Green, KY) Daily News Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is an ideologue: a judicial activist who rules by his own political and personal philosophy, rather than the rule of law and what our Founding Fathers intended when they wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights more than 200 years ago. The left-leaning justice recently made remarks that further the suspicion that has been...

Latta Vice Chair of Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus

7:00am Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Congressman Bob Latta (R- Bowling Green) was named a Vice-Chairman for the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus for the upcoming 112th Congress. "I would like to thank Congressman Jeff Miller for this opportunity to serve the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus in the next Congress. Sportsmen and sportswomen issues are important for me as a public servant. I look forward to working with all members of...

NICS Black Friday outage

3:00pm Friday, December 10, 2010
An outage of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) adversely affected many retailers and consumers on Black Friday. NSSF has been in contact with FBI-NICS staff, who explained that the outage was attributable to a computer glitch that overloaded the system. A short-term fix has been applied to the system and once the holiday season is over, a long-term fix will be completed...

Gallup: Support for gun control remains at record low

7:00am Friday, December 03, 2010
For the second year in a row, a record-low 44 percent of Americans say laws governing the sale of firearms should be made more strict, while 54 percent say gun laws should be kept as they are now or made less strict, according to Gallup's annual Crime Poll , conducted Oct. 7-10 this year. Americans' support for stricter gun-control laws has gradually declined over the last two decades, from 78...

NRA strongly opposes the nomination of Andrew Traver to head BATFE, Calls on President Obama to withdraw nomination

3:00pm Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Statement from Chris W. Cox, executive director, NRA Institute for Legislative Action The National Rifle Association of America strongly opposes President Obama's nomination of Andrew Traver as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE). Traver has been deeply aligned with gun control advocates and anti-gun activities. This makes him the wrong choice to lead an...

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