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Mexico wants to sue U.S. gun makers

7:00am Friday, April 29, 2011

In another chapter in the ongoing attempt to blame the American gun community for Mexico's internal strife, CBS News reports that the Mexican government has retained the New York City-based law firm of Reid Collins & Tsai to examine its options for suing U.S. gun manufacturers and distributors. This report describes Mexico's actions as a "novel approach," in reality, such lawsuits have been...

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Legislation to protect traditional ammunition introduced in U.S. House and Senate

3:00pm Thursday, April 28, 2011

Following continued attacks by anti-hunting groups to ban traditional ammunition (ammunition containing lead-core components) under the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) and Reps. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.) and Mike Ross (D-Ark.), all co-chairmen of the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus, introduced bipartisan legislation (S. 838 and H.R. 1558) to...

Latest on Lundy: Democrat still claims he trusts CHL-holders, despite proposing amendments and casting votes against them

7:00am Thursday, April 28, 2011

by Chad D. Baus On Monday, April 25, Buckeye Firearms Association exposed Rep. Matt Lundy (D) for having lied on his 2010 candidate survey by publishing an article at BuckeyeFirearms.org, issuing a press release to hundreds of news outlets in Ohio, emailing thousands of pro-gun voters, and sharing these facts in a newspaper advertisement published this week in newspapers that cover his district,...

New Brady Push to Ban "Assault Clips"

3:00pm Wednesday, April 27, 2011

by Jim Shepherd The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence has renewed its attack on firearms parts, releasing a new TV commercial as part of their efforts to "encourage" President Obama to take stronger action to ban "assault clips". You know assault clips, right? "Like those used in the shooting rampage in Tucson that left six dead and 13 injured in just 16 seconds". In breathless prose, a...

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NRA says Brady ad is off-target

7:00am Wednesday, April 27, 2011

We have reported many times on the Brady Campaign's rush to exploit tragedy for political gain. Since its inception as the National Council to Control Handguns over 30 years ago, the group has premised its entire agenda on this kind of exploitation for political gain, and on the notion that having more gun control laws and, therefore, fewer guns, means that crime must necessarily decrease. Since...

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Democrat Rep. Matt Lundy's idea of "support" for the Second Amendment mirrors Obama's: Say one thing, Do another.

3:00pm Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Despite anti-gun actions, Rep. Lundy still claims support for Second Amendment By Chad D. Baus The news media have begun to cover Buckeye Firearms Association's decision to expose Rep. Matt Lundy (D) for having lied on his 2010 candidate survey , and apparently at least one news outlet got something BFA never did - a telephone conversation with former the BFA endorsee.

Plain Dealer editorial on restaurant carry offers proof of the power of grassroots gun groups

7:00am Tuesday, April 26, 2011

by Ken Hanson, Esq. Saturday April 23, 2011 marked a personal milestone for me. On this day, I personally became enough of a pain-in-the-ass to The Cleveland Plain Dealer that my name earned search meta-tag status on Cleveland.com. In a hysterical (in both the "funny" sense and "foaming at the mouth, chewing the carpet" sense) editorial column, Plain Dealer columnist Brent Larkin lamented the...

Letter-writers provide facts on restaurant carry legislation to Columbus Dispatch readers

3:00pm Monday, April 25, 2011

by Chad D. Baus Newspapers across the state have responded to the Ohio Senate's overwhelming, bi-partisan passage of SB17 (Restaurant & Car Carry Rules Fix legislation) with the typical 'Chicken Little' cries that we have come to expect from the biased media. In an editorial entitled " Cold beer, hot lead go together...how? " The Cleveland Plain Dealer 's Connie Schultz, wife of anti-gun U.S...