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Protecting Gun Shows : It's Time for Some Self-Regulation

12:05am Monday, December 21, 2009

By Jeff Knox Anyone who does not hold an FFL and sells a firearm to someone he doesn't know well is incurring a certain amount of liability. And, a bit of bad judgment could cause trouble not just for the seller, but for the rest of the gun owning community as well. There is no question that individuals have the right to buy, sell, and trade firearms between themselves without government...

Terrorism and Gun Control: A Perfect Match

1:00am Thursday, December 17, 2009

This is an extended version of an article that appeared in USCCA's Armed American Report. Get your Pro CCW Sign at the end of this article. By Gerard Valentino The terrorist attack committed by Major Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood, Texas brought the lack of security at such a large military base directly into homes across America. Leaders of the pro-gun movement, and many soldiers, weren't quite...

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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...