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Senator Dianne Feinstein's latest move: Attempt to ban imports of many semi-automatic rifles

7:00am Tuesday, March 25, 2014

She's back! Roundly defeated legislatively and procedurally on the Senate floor a year ago, Dianne Feinstein, the U.S. Senate's leading foe of Americans exercising their Second Amendment rights, is resuming her jihad against semi-automatic modern sporting rifles using a different tactic. This time, the California Democrat is asking her fellow U.S. Senators to sign on to a letter to President...

Op-Ed: Surgeon General nomination forces Senate Democrats to hide gun views

by John Lott

3:00pm Monday, March 24, 2014

When will Democrats who describe themselves as “pro-gun” realize that they aren't fooling anyone? Here's their latest deception. President Obama’s nomination of Dr. Vivek Murthy to be surgeon general is in trouble, because the National Rifle Association decided that it was going to “score” the vote – that is, let its members know which senators voted for someone they believe is a threat to people...

Confusion Reigns as Gun Control Law Takes Effect in Connecticut

7:00am Monday, March 24, 2014

On April 4, 2013, Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy (D) signed Senate Bill 1160 into law, unleashing one of the most draconian gun control laws in the nation on his constituents. Among other things, the 140-page law bans large classes of firearms and magazines that had been obtained lawfully by tens of thousands of Connecticut residents. Limited grandfather provisions apply to those who registered...

America’s Gun Culture

by Jeff Knox

3:00pm Friday, March 21, 2014

The media and gun control advocates often talk about the US “gun culture,” as if those of us who own and appreciate guns are some sort of deviant cult. The reality is, America’s gun culture is part of the dominant American culture; it’s the hoplophobes, with their irrational fear of firearms, who are out of sync with the social norms of most of the country. America’s gun culture is as normal and...

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Common Sense: Gun storage laws don't work; Firearm safety education does

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Friday, March 21, 2014

On March 11, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, a hypocrite who enjoys his own private armed security but insists that everyone else's right to bear arms be severely limited or abolished, coordinated groups of anti-gun extremists to join together in a publicity stunt in Columbus. As we have documented in the past, publicity is the one thing Bloomberg and his cronies do well. Of course it helps to...

"Cause" of Injury List to Exaggerate Risks of Firearms

3:00pm Thursday, March 20, 2014

Get ready for gun control supporters bogusly to start claiming that firearms "cause" more injuries than more than 150,000 other factors. The United Nations' World Health Organization is increasing its list of injury causes from 17,000 to 155,000, effective October 1, 2014. The U.N.'s injury list, which will be used by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is being expanded...

Bloomberg crony on H.B. 203: Horribly misinformed, or intentionally lying?

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Thursday, March 20, 2014

The Gongwer News Service reported last week on the latest round of attacks on H.B. 203 (Concealed Carry & Self-Defense Law Reform), coordinated by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, a hypocrite who enjoys his own private armed security but insists that everyone else's right to bear arms be severely limited or abolished. From the article : Opponents of wide-ranging legislation that has sparked...

Twenty Years of Brady Law Failure

by Jeff Knox

3:00pm Wednesday, March 19, 2014

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is touting the 20th anniversary of implementation of the Brady Law, requiring that buyers at gun shops pass a background check before every purchase. They’re marking the anniversary with a “report” extolling the program’s success and promoting their current target: criminalization of private firearm transfers. The catch phrase for that campaign is “...