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NSSF: Today's "new gun buyer" is not who you think

3:00pm Friday, July 05, 2013

by Jim Shepherd A news release...has the announcement of the National Shooting Sports Foundation's report on 2012's first-time gun buyers. The news release talks about insight, but having spent time in the internals of the report, it's a very interesting insight into the "new gun culture". It's also confirmation of something I've said before but have only had anecdotal evidence to backup: today's...

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VIDEO: Home invasion caught on nanny cam displays the tragic result of gun control

7:00am Friday, July 05, 2013

by Chad D. Baus New Jersey's News 12 reported recently on a vicious attack, perpetrated in broad daylight, which was caught on a nanny camera inside a woman's home. From the article : Police have released a physical description of the man they are searching for in a brutal home invasion case. Officials say the suspect is a black male, between 5 feet 11 inches and 6 feet 2 inches tall. He is...

Independence Day 2013

by Rick Jones

7:00am Thursday, July 04, 2013

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The Well Armed Woman: Shooting chapters begin - a place for women to learn and practice

3:00pm Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Gun ownership and the complex laws around the use of them is a significant topic around the nation. A 2011 Gallup Poll reported forty-seven percent of American adults currently have a gun in their home and twenty-three percent of women personally own a firearm. This reported gun ownership is the highest it has been in nearly two decades. With women being the largest growing segment the...

Criminals get guns by stealing them, not through ‘lax’ laws

by Ken Hanson

7:00am Wednesday, July 03, 2013

The following op-ed by Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson was originally published by The Columbus Dispatch . Republished with permission. In last Friday's story "A conduit for guns," The Dispatch fell victim to an all-too-common error: attempting to use Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) gun-trace data to demonstrate where criminals get their guns...

NSSF Announces S.A.F.E Summer To Promote Firearms Safety

3:00pm Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Group Expands Project ChildSafe with New Message; 500,000 Firearms Safety Kits NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) is kicking off a "S.A.F.E. Summer" effort to focus attention on the importance of safe firearm storage--particularly while children are home from school and more likely to be unattended--and has pledged an additional $1 million to provide half a million...

Support for "universal background check" gun control legislation continues to drop in Ohio

7:00am Tuesday, July 02, 2013

by Chad D. Baus Anyone who follows politics closely knows that, depending on how you ask the question, you can make a poll say almost anything. In the wake of the horrendous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary last December, the media and anti-gun politicians were hell-bent on passing new laws to limit the sale of firearms, even though not one of the suggestions they were proposing would have...

NSSF® Launches New Project ChildSafe® Website

3:00pm Monday, July 01, 2013

Expanded site offers new tools to encourage firearm safety in the home NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®) has launched a new Project ChildSafe® website as part of its "S.A.F.E. Summer" campaign. The new site, and the campaign, are designed to focus attention on the importance of safe and responsible firearm storage, to reinforce that anyone who is going to own a...