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Hunter Numbers Up 9% Between 2006 and 2011, Preliminary National Report Shows

3:00pm Thursday, August 23, 2012

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The number of hunters age 16 and older in the United States increased 9 percent between 2006 and 2011, reversing a previous downward trend, a preliminary report from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and Department of the Interior shows. Preliminary figures show an increase from 12.5 million hunters in 2006 to 13.7 million in 2011. Final data will be included in the...

Crybabies Favor Gun Control

7:00am Thursday, August 23, 2012

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared at Students for Concealed Carry Ohio's website . Republished with permission. by Michael Newbern I frequently openly hypothesize that gun control advocates are really just projecting their own lack of self-control when they say the average citizen can’t be trusted with carrying a firearm for self-defense. They’ll say they don’t need a gun because...

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Caretaker at Dayton church shoots burglar

3:00pm Wednesday, August 22, 2012

WHIO (CBS Dayton) reported recently that a burglar who broke into a church on Friday night, Aug. 17, was shot by an armed caretaker who was staying there because of prior break-ins. From the article : According to the preliminary investigation, the suspect broke in through the back side of the building, off an alley. There was a gentleman staying inside the building because of prior problems...

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2012 Southwest Ohio Gun Skills Challenge

3:00pm Tuesday, August 21, 2012

by Joe Eaton This bi-annual event held in Oxford, Ohio is certainly hitting its stride. The Southwest Gun Skills Challenge was started in 2008 to provide local shooters a smaller and more family-focused version of our premier shooting event, the Buckeye Blast, which is held at Tactical Defense Institute every other year in April. This year's shoot was exactly what we hoped it would be. The...

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Reports: Colorado U. to segregate dorms for students with gun permits

7:00am Tuesday, August 21, 2012

by Chad D. Baus In the wake of a Colorado Supreme Court decision in March upholding an appeals-court ruling that struck down Colorado University's gun ban, CU has announced that it will segregate dorms for students who have valid permits to carry concealed weapons, The Denver Post reports . From the article: The University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs...

Anti-gun and Anti-Hunting Radicals Attack U.S. Trap Shooter

3:00pm Monday, August 20, 2012

Corey Cogdell is a two time U.S. Olympian. She shoots trap--and she is one of the best in the world. She is also a big game hunter. And she has been pretty successful at that as well. But when it was publicized as a part of her Olympic bio that she is a hunter, hunting opponents showed their true nature in a series of vile and violent tweets. Here are just a few: "I hope that someone someday...

Mexican Drug Cartel Used "Fast and Furious" Gun in Failed Assassination Plot

7:00am Monday, August 20, 2012

Just when you think the news about the disastrous "Fast and Furious" gun-walking operation can't possibly get any worse, a U.S. government report has disclosed that Mexican drug cartel operatives used a firearm from the infamous scheme in a failed attempt to assassinate a high-ranking Mexican law enforcement official. According to a recent Daily Caller article, the gun "was seized in Tijuana in...

Op-ed: The benefits of arming 14-year-olds

8:29pm Friday, August 17, 2012

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared at WorldNetDaily.com . Republished with permission of the author. by Gerard Valentino For the second time this year, the 24-hour news outlets are reporting that a 14-year-old boy used a gun to thwart a violent home invasion. The most recent case took place in Phoenix, Ariz., and the boy not only saved his own life, but also saved two younger...