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HB 203 (Concealed Carry & Self-Defense Law Reform) scheduled for second hearing in House

4:00pm Friday, October 25, 2013

Chairman Mike Dovilla has announced that the Policy and Legislative Oversight Committee will be hearing proponent testimony on Representative Terry Johnson's (R-McDermott) HB 203 next Tuesday, October 29 at 10:00 a.m. in Statehouse Room 115. This will be the second hearing for this important bill. Chairman Dovilla has indicated that a substitute bill may be offered. Any persons who are interested...

Ammo shortages concentrated around areas where there are the largest numbers of gun owners/shooters and ranges

8:00am Friday, October 25, 2013

by Jim Shepherd After reading a lengthy email exchange between a group of friends that includes competition shooters, writers, law enforcement and instructors, on "what's causing the ammunition shortage" yesterday, it seemed high time to wander out and do some decidedly un-scientific research for myself. My first stop was the closest Walmart. I wandered into the sporting goods section and there...

Op-Ed: Watch Your Guns Around Obamacare

4:00pm Thursday, October 24, 2013

"There is nothing in Obamacare that prohibits another federal agency from compiling a database of gun owners." by Rachel Alexander What does gun control have to do with health care? As odd as it seems, Obamacare contains provisions that jeopardize gun ownership, especially for veterans. Anti-gun provisions were added to initial drafts of Obamacare legislation under the pretext of prohibiting...

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U.S. History Textbook Continues Tradition of Misinterpreting Second Amendment

8:00am Thursday, October 24, 2013

Recent news out of Texas has pro-rights parents reaching for their children's backpacks after it was revealed that a popular textbook used to teach high school advanced placement U.S. history courses includes a shocking misinterpretation of the Second Amendment. Published by AMSCO School Publications, Inc., and titled, United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Exam, the 2010...

Double-Standards in D.C.

4:00pm Wednesday, October 23, 2013

As most Americans know, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives--and perhaps others in the Obama administration--knowingly allowed guns to be smuggled from the United States to Mexican drug-smuggling cartels, on the hope that the guns would be recovered at Mexican crimes scenes and eventually traced to sales in the United States. The goal of the effort, dubbed Operation Fast and...

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Citizen Gun Owners – First Responders in Kenya

8:00am Wednesday, October 23, 2013

by Jeff Knox When two teams of cowardly, Muslim extremist terrorists stormed the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya last month, police and government forces were slow to respond, but local gun owners were not. Kenya has very strict gun laws, banning most semi-auto rifles, and tightly restricting possession of handguns, but, like New York City, those with the right connections, enough money...

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Op-Ed: California - Living Proof of the Slippery Slope of Rational Apathy

4:00pm Tuesday, October 22, 2013

by C. D. Michel "It started with a coffee date. Now I'm married with kids. How the heck did that happen?" How indeed? Life sneaks up on us. Change occurs in tiny increments. Before you know it, the order of life has been inverted. It's the same with the law. Aristotle knew what he was talking about when he wrote "Jealously maintain...the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small...

BATFE Solicits Comments on Poorly-Conceived NFA Transfer Proposal

8:00am Tuesday, October 22, 2013

As we previously reported, the Obama administration, via the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, has proposed a new rule governing applications by legal entities such as trusts and corporations to make and transfer National Firearms Act (NFA) firearms. To justify the proposed rule, the administration and BATFE have stated that over 39,000 applications for transfers of NFA...