National Politics

Mayors Against Illegal Guns TV ads pose question for DeWine & Kasich

7:00am Thursday, April 29, 2010
By Chad D. Baus In 2009, Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), the gun control front group run by billionaire New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, made news for apparently having added the names of mayors to his group without permission . In 2010, Bloomberg hopes to make news for a different reason. According to a recent MAIG press release , the gun ban group is spending more than a quarter of a...

Progress Made On Military Once-Fired Brass Issue—ATK Stops Scrapping Cartridge Cases

3:00pm Wednesday, April 21, 2010
On Friday, April 16, Montana's U.S. Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester announced that ATK—the defense conglomerate that operates the Army's Lake City ammunition plant, and that owns the Federal ammunition, RCBS reloading equipment, and Alliant smokeless gunpowder companies—is voluntarily withdrawing from contracts it made with military bases to collect and scrap once-fired small arms cartridge...

Practicing Politics: Ignoring it will make things a lot worse for gun owners

7:00am Monday, April 19, 2010
By Chris & Jeff Knox Conditions have lined up for 2010 to be the year of the perfect electoral storm. But in order to create the kind of storm the Republic needs, one that cleans out an insubordinate and defiant Congress, GunVoters and pro-rights activists need to get organized. The time to start is now. Just as my friend, noted author and radio host Dave Ramsey says about saving money, it's...

March second highest all-time for background checks on firearm sales

3:00pm Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Data released by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported 1,300,100 checks in March 2010, ranking the month the second highest March (fifth highest month overall) for most NICS checks. This figure, while being a 3.3 percent decrease from the 1,345,096 checks conducted in March 2009 -- the early stage of an ongoing surge in firearms and ammunition sales -- is an...

Has The Gun Purchase Bubble Burst?

7:00am Friday, April 09, 2010
By Jim Shepherd For the past few days we've been asking our industry contacts, insiders and observers a simple question: has the Obama gun-bubble burst? Since President Obama's election, certain segments of the firearms industry have been running at full -and beyond- capacity. Some, myself included, were quick to attribute the early surge in firearms and ammunition purchases to a fear that the...

Firearms Industry Concerned Over United Nations Request for Firearms Trace Data

7:00am Tuesday, April 06, 2010
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) – the trade association for the firearms industry – has learned that the United Nations has filed its first firearms trace request . The move by the United Nations, which has long advocated for civilian disarmament, raised concerns from the NSSF. "Firearms trace data is a law enforcement tool to help aid in specific criminal investigations," said...

NSSF/Harris Survey: Support Grows for Applying 2nd Amendment to States

3:00pm Monday, April 05, 2010
With the U.S. Supreme Court set to issue its decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago in a few months, a new NSSF poll conducted by Harris Interactive finds 8 in 10 Americans agree with this statement: "State and local governments are bound by law to comply with the Second Amendment." The 80 percent who indicated their support in the March 15 online survey of general population adults 18 and over...

A Fool For All Seasons

3:00pm Thursday, April 01, 2010
By Jim Shepherd When I first started in journalism, most of the reporters and editors in the business enjoyed April 1. It was the day we might actually get to write the silly headlines, fabricated stories and outrageous quotes we joked about the other days of the year. Not so much anymore. It would be difficult to make up stories any more bizarre and outrageous than the ones that seem to consume...

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