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CHALLENGE! We want 2,000 Facebook fans by New Year's Eve!

2:09pm Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Our new Facebook Fan Page is growing fast. We now have over 1,400 fans. But we want 2,000 by the end of the year. Will you help us? If you're on Facebook, become a fan now. If you're already a fan, use the "Suggest to Friends" link to invite all your friends to become fans too. The Suggest to Friends link is on our fan page, upper left, below the red BFA logo. Why is it important to get more fans...

The 25 most popular gun rights stories of 2009

11:29am Wednesday, December 16, 2009

We publish a lot of stories that are read by a lot of people. Over the past year, more than 410,000 separate individuals visited this site from the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Ireland, France, India, and 163 other countries looking for information about guns and gun rights. And our authors served up well over 550 original articles, an average of 11 new articles every...

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Deer-gun Hunting Continues December 19-20

12:05am Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Ohio's popular deer-gun season will run an additional weekend, Saturday and Sunday, December 19-20, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife. The extra weekend days were added beginning in 2006 in response to comments received from hunters for more weekend time to hunt. Deer can be hunted with a legal muzzleloader, handgun or shotgun from one half-hour...

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Ohio man hunting for deer bags a bull elk instead

12:05am Tuesday, December 15, 2009

The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that Todd Tomlin, a 45-year-old truck driver who's been hunting for more than 30 years, was hunting with permission on private property along Inskeep-Cratty Road in the southwestern corner of Union County about 8:30 on opening day of Ohio's deer gun season when he spotted something most Ohio hunters will never see. From the story : ...He saw three does in the...

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Two Against Two: Bloomberg And Lautenberg Pair Up To Violate The Second And Fourteenth Amendments

12:05am Monday, December 14, 2009

Is your name the same as, or similar to, that of someone on the FBI's "terrorist watchlist?" Or, have you been erroneously placed on the watchlist? You can't find out because the FBI won't say exactly why people get watchlisted, won't say who has been watchlisted, and therefore doesn't offer watchlisted people the chance to clear their names immediately. In fact, small children, federal air...

NSSF warns of threat to ammunition availability, calls for action

12:05am Friday, December 11, 2009

The National Shooting Sports Foundation has notified members that, as demand for ammunition continues to outpace supply, "it is critically important that an amendment authored by Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) to a seemingly obscure hazardous material bill (HR 4016) be attached to the legislation during consideration on the House floor." The NSSF notes that the amendment being pushed by Graves will help...

November ranks among top ten all time for background checks on firearms; 2009 up 12.9% over 2008

12:05am Thursday, December 10, 2009

Data released by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported 1,223,252 checks in November 2009, ranking the month in the top 10 for most NICS checks of all time.

Exposed: Virginia Tech officials took care of themselves after ensuring the kids in their care could not

12:05am Wednesday, December 09, 2009

By Jim Irvine New evidence about the 2007 Virginia Tech killings shed new light on the arrogance and hypritical stance of University leaders. The murder of 32 students was the worst mass shooting in U.S. history until the Ft. Hood massacre last month and remains the worst school shooting ever on U.S. soil. Virginia Tech is no stranger to violence. They had two shootings in the 2006-2007 school...