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Firearm sales continue upward in January

12:05am Thursday, February 05, 2009

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Despite a weak economy and slumping retail sales, firearm sales continued to increase in January, continuing an upswing that began after November's election. Data from the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) show background checks on the sale of firearms jumped 28.8 percent in January when compared to January 2008. The increase follows a 24 percent...

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Help Buckeye Firearms stop Cleveland's abuse of law-abiding gun owners

12:10am Wednesday, February 04, 2009

The Law Applies to the Little People in Cleveland, but Not Mayor Jackson? Fresh on the heels of a poll naming Cleveland the second least-desirable U.S. city to live in, Mayor Jackson appears determined to make a run at the top spot as Cleveland continues to be the only municipality in Ohio illegally enforcing local firearm laws. The victims? Cleveland's own taxpayers. Local firearm laws were...

Ten Threats To Our Ohio Gun Rights In 2009

12:10am Tuesday, February 03, 2009

By Alex Payton What follows is the third annual list of the ten greatest threats to our gun rights. To some degree, all of the threats that were previously listed are still threats to our Ohio gun rights. Some of those threats have become even more powerful and there are new threats that we are facing. In order to defend our rights, we have to know who or what threatens them. There are actually...

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An Ohioan survives post-Heller Chicago

12:05am Tuesday, February 03, 2009

By Gerard Valentino As a victim of the recession and massive lay-offs that followed, I lost my job and was forced to fly to Chicago for a job fair this past weekend. It was my first trip to Chicago (my hometown) in quite some time, making me wonder how Chicagoland had prepared for the expected mayhem after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Second Amendment is an individual right. The reaction of...

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Deja Vu: More muscle should have been flexed in the fight against Eric Holder

12:05am Monday, February 02, 2009

By Jeff Knox When Barack Obama announced that he intended to nominate Eric Holder to be his Attorney General, we at The Firearms Coalition launched an aggressive campaign to block the appointment and urged all other Second Amendment organizations to do likewise. Holder was Janet Reno's top deputy in the Clinton administration and has proven himself to be a radical opponent to the rights of...

Listen to David Kopel on Firearms Forum this Sunday at 10pm on 1420AM!

12:10am Friday, January 30, 2009

David Kopel is one of the leading voices in the pro-gun movement. And he'll be talking to Jim Irvine on the Firearms Forum radio show this coming Sunday. David is a research director at the Independence Institute and the author of No More Wacos: What's Wrong with Federal Law Enforcement and The Cowboy: Should America Adopt the Gun Controls of Other Democracies? He is an expert on firearms policy...

Op-Ed: The Brady Campaign to Prevent Civil Rights

12:05am Friday, January 30, 2009

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence hailed the 2008 presidential election as "a decisive victory for common sense gun laws." Sarah Brady said: "There is no indication that any candidate, at any level, lost their election because of their support for reasonable gun measures."[1] But what exactly qualifies as "common sense gun laws" or "reasonable gun measures?" A recent paper answered this...

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Op-Ed: Stop This Man

12:10am Thursday, January 29, 2009

By Ted Nugent One sector of the American economy that is booming is the absolute orgy of guns and ammunition sales. I am pretty certain President Obama will not say anything positive about this economic news. I have read more than one report that shows how the surge of civilian firepower sales began back when it appeared that Obama was likely to be elected. The already-brisk guns and ammo market...