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Here's an easy way to donate items to our Buckeye Bash

by Dean Rieck

7:00am Friday, November 27, 2015

The Buckeye Bash is coming up on April 16, 2016 at the Villa Milano banquet center in Columbus, Ohio. It's the biggest fundraising event of the year for our Foundation. It takes months to collect donations of guns and gear for all the auctions and raffles. And you can help us kick things off this week as you start your Christmas Shopping. It's easy! And you can do it online without ever setting...

Thanksgiving: George Washington's 1789 Proclamation

7:00am Thursday, November 26, 2015

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor -- and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me "to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful...

Report: City of Atlanta Illegally Stockpiling Seized Guns

3:00pm Wednesday, November 25, 2015

The job of America’s brave men and women of law enforcement is to defend the Constitution and uphold the laws of their jurisdictions. It’s a tough job, and those who do it faithfully are to be respected and commended. But as movie hero Billy Jack famously said, “When policemen break the law, then there isn’t any law ….” Now, a disturbing report from CBS46 in Atlanta is claiming that city...

Fraternal Order of Police calls on NFL to lift concealed carry ban; cites threat of terrorism

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Wednesday, November 25, 2015

On November 20, the National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) sent a letter to Roger Goodell, Commissioner of the National Football Leage (NFL), asking him to reconsider the League's ban on concealed carry. The letter, written by National FOP president Chuck Canterbury, states, in part, as follows: Today, I am writing on behalf of the members of the Fraternal Order of Police to urge you to rescind...

Senate Judiciary Committee Considers Nomination of Operation Choke Point Overlord

3:00pm Tuesday, November 24, 2015

[Recently], the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the nomination of Stuart F. Delery for the position of associate attorney general of the United States. If confirmed, Delery would become the third-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), behind the attorney general and the deputy attorney general. Delery has been serving as “acting” associate attorney general since...

Headline: Obama says gun control to be top issue of final year

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Tuesday, November 24, 2015

The Washington Times is reporting that President Obama is now publicly admitting that he hopes to make gun control the top issue of his final year in office, saying Americans aren’t more violent than other people but they “have more deadly weapons to act out their rage.” From the article : In an interview published Tuesday in GQ magazine, Mr. Obama said easy access to guns is “the only variable”...

60 Minutes Showcases "Smart" Guns Technology

3:00pm Monday, November 23, 2015

You may be wondering why CBS 60 Minutes aired a segment on “smart” guns [recently]. After all, a gun that will never work in the hands of an unauthorized person, but that will always work in the hands of everyone else hasn’t been invented. Even the segment’s reporter, Lesley Stahl, conceded that there are concerns about whether “smart” guns “work in snow and rain? Will they work if you`re...

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Headline: Maryland scraps gun "fingerprint" database after 15 failed years

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Monday, November 23, 2015

The Baltimore Sun reported recently that, after millions of wasted tax-payer dollars, the State of Maryland has officially decided that its 15-year effort to store and catalog the "fingerprints" of thousands of handguns was a failure. From the article : Since 2000, the state required that gun manufacturers fire every handgun to be sold here and send the spent bullet casing to authorities. The...