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Obama and Guns: How We Win

12:10am Wednesday, November 12, 2008
By Gerard Valentino So, as believers in the civil right to bear arms, where do we go now that the most anti-gun president in history takes office in January? To be fair, for us, nothing changes. We simply attack this problem as aggressively as we attacked the Clinton administration and the Republicans who turned their back on us and voted for the Joe Biden-authored 1994 Assault Weapons Ban. We...

John Longenecker Is Good for The Country

12:05am Wednesday, November 12, 2008
By Chris Chumita John Longenecker is the author of the wildly popular column Good For The Country and the book Safe Streets In The Nationwide Concealed Carry Of Handguns . He is also the owner of Contrast Media Press , a Libertarian and pro-gun publishing company. So far, Contrast Media Press has published two outstanding books. They are Longenecker’s Safe Streets In The Nationwide Concealed...

Rising gun crime in gun control capitol of the world

12:10am Tuesday, November 11, 2008
By Gerard Valentino The Wall Street Journal is reporting that The People’s Republic of China is seeing an increase gun crime despite some of the strictest gun laws in the world. From the story : China's weapons laws are among the world's toughest. Its blanket ban on private ownership of rifles, pistols and even gun replicas is a core tenet of social policy. Still, a gun culture is taking hold...

Why Do We "Keep and Bear Arms"? Part 2

12:05am Tuesday, November 11, 2008
By Larry Elder Did it work -- the Washington, D.C., gun ban, that is? The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, struck down the ban, holding that a) the Second Amendment gives individuals the right to keep and bear arms, and b) while the government may regulate the boundaries of the Second Amendment, the DC ban goes too far.

"Yes We Can . . . Ban Guns" - Obama Announces Gun Ban Agenda

12:10am Monday, November 10, 2008
NRA-ILA -- Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign slogan, "the audacity of hope," should have instead been "the audacity of deceit." After months of telling the American people that he supports the Second Amendment, and only hours after being declared the president-elect, the Obama transition team website announced an agenda taken straight from the anti-gun lobby--four initiatives designed...

Seven violent attacks in seven days at The Ohio State University campus

12:05am Monday, November 10, 2008
By Mark Noble Often when the issue of safety on campus arises – typically due to news of a violent attack on or near campus like this one, the media and educators assert that they are shocked because “campus is supposed to be a safe haven” from violence. Organizations like The Brady Campaign capitalize on such nonsense with absurd campaigns like “The Pledge” . Over at “Of Arms and the Law” , they...

Obama's first decision as President-elect: Adding to his anti-gun "F-Troop"

12:10am Friday, November 07, 2008
By Chad D. Baus As a Chicago 'community organizer' and member of the Illinois and U.S. Senate, Barack Obama established a strong anti-Second Amendment record. But as a candidate for President, the former Joyce Foundation board member sought to convince voters that his administration would offer no threat to their gun rights, despite having selected NRA "F"-rated Joe Biden as his vice president...

Buckeye Firearms Assoc. files 2008 pre-general campaign finance report

12:05am Friday, November 07, 2008
By Jim Irvine State law requires all political action committees to file regular reports on where their money comes from and how it is spent. This information becomes public record and is available to you online. Buckeye Firearms Associations has a full disclosure policy on our finances. We want you to know how frugal and careful we are with your donations. In keeping with our commitment to keep...

Politico: It was guns, not race, that affected Bradley

12:10am Thursday, November 06, 2008
In the run-up to election day, mainstream media pundit and mainstream media fretted about various theories about how the election could be stolen from Barack Obama. One of the most common fears was a related to a lurking racism that was not showing up in the polls. But The Politico 's Joe Mathews did his homework, and posted his findings Tuesday morning. Turns out it wasn't racism that turned...

2008 Election Results: Second Amendment impact

5:46pm Tuesday, November 04, 2008
2008 has been a unique year in the history of this political action committee. Term limits are forcing many of our friends out of the state legislature. Many races had no incumbent and were in competitive districts where either candidate had a good chance to win. Following are links to election results in races involving our 2008 General Election Endorsements, along with analysis.

Election Day WARNING: U.N. members give go-ahead on proposal to curb arms

2:08pm Tuesday, November 04, 2008
The Associated Press is reporting that the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly endorsed the idea of an unprecedented treaty regulating the global arms trade Friday, despite opposition from the United States. The AP failed to mention that opposition could end if Barack Obama is elected.

Election Day 2008: A Message from our Chairman

12:10am Tuesday, November 04, 2008
By Jim Irvine Election Day 2008 is finally here. Today we learn if we worked hard enough over the past few months to enable our candidates to win. If our candidates win, we can work with them to improve our laws. If not, then we are we need to take a long hard look in the mirror to see where we failed. Then we'll need to work desperately hard to hold on to our recent gains. Don’t believe the...

Op-ed: Young Undecideds Who Love Guns - Vote Your Glock

12:05am Tuesday, November 04, 2008
By Doug Giles Young gun owners and hunters. Yeah, you. If you vote for Obama then you will have crapped on your future second amendment rights and the sport you supposedly love. Welcome to reality, young squab, may I take your coat? Yep, Dufus, if Barack becomes dictator—I mean president—and you begin to see your right to bear arms erode like Bill Clinton’s conscience at Hooters and you commence...

Barack Obama – Ideologically Anti-gun

12:15am Monday, November 03, 2008
By Gerard Valentino Of all the social issues facing America today, few expose a person’s political ideology more definitively than whether someone is anti-gun. That makes Barack Obama’s attempt to fool gun owners by painting himself as a defender of the 2nd Amendment easy to see for what it is – someone trying to lie their way to the presidency. His claim that he won’t work to destroy the right...

Conservation versus Guns: Faux gun group American Hunters and Shooters Assoc. says take conservation

12:10am Monday, November 03, 2008
By Larry S. Moore Much a-do has been made about the false prophets of the American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA) spreading the gospel of conservation according to the high holy Barack Obama. AHSA's mantra is that there is more to the sportsmen vote than just guns. AHSA was recently described by its founder as a gun rights organization for Democrats , and the backgrounds of the AHSA...

'ACORN Uses Public Funds to Steal Elections, Now Your Gun Rights,' Says SAF

12:05am Monday, November 03, 2008
BELLEVUE, Wash., Oct 28, 2008 -- ACORN, the publicly-funded national organization linked to voter fraud in several states is now actively interfering with the exercise of firearm civil rights in New Jersey, and the Second Amendment Foundation is calling for an immediate federal investigation. "ACORN has, since 1998, received an estimated $31 million in government funding," said SAF founder Alan...

In his own words: Tape of Obama calling for concealed carry ban uncovered

1:00pm Saturday, November 01, 2008
“Well I, I, I, I continue to, I continue to, uh, uh, support a ban on concealed carry laws.” -- Sen. Barack Obama, September 2004 And for those tempted to assume he has somehow changed his position since then, remember this: "I am not in favor of concealed weapons," Obama said. "I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations." - Sen...

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