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CO gun control law backfires; Gun "buyback" cancelled due to "universal" background checks

3:00pm Monday, August 26, 2013

by Chad D. Baus KOAA (NBC Colorado Springs) reported recently that anti-gun rights organizers have had to cancel a so-called gun "buyback" at the request of Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle, who says Colorado's new gun laws would make it nearly impossible to comply. From the article : Pelle says a strict law that went into effect July 1 requires buyers to go to a licensed firearms dealer and...

911 calls detail last moments of woman’s life in Kenton murder

8:00am Monday, August 26, 2013

Editor's Note: I have listened to the audio tapes. They are absolutely heart-wrenching. If ever there was a reason to abandon the "dial 911 and wait" mindset, this is it. (Note too that no one in the news media have jumped on this terrible event as a reason to ban knives.) by Greg Sowinski The call to 911 made by a woman who would be stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend minutes later began in a...

Gun Crimes Plummet Even As Gun Sales Rise

4:00pm Friday, August 23, 2013

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has released a new infographic designed to counter the false impression many Americans have that gun-related crime has increased over the past 20 years, even though it has actually fallen dramatically. Fifty-six percent of Americans think crime with firearms has increased, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. However, data show that...

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Using the .22 for Self Defense

8:00am Friday, August 23, 2013

by Greg Ellifritz Since my handgun stopping power study was published last month in American Handgunner Magazine, I've received several questions from readers about my data. I expected to be castigated by all the big bullet aficionados for reporting honest data about the "mouse gun" calibers. That wasn't what I received. All the email that I got was from .22 advocates telling me that I...

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Op-Ed: Illegal Mayors

4:00pm Thursday, August 22, 2013

by C. D. Michel Incarcerating Michael Bloomberg may be the next news ironic item. If only! New York Mayor Bloomberg, America's self-appointed gun control financier and front man, established the group Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG). The group's typically innocuous and benign sound bites actually conceal an aggressive and extreme agenda, some rather disastrous shenanigans (such as a Keystone...

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Nanny Bloomberg’s War on the Constitution

8:00am Thursday, August 22, 2013

by Jeff Knox About a month after the US Senate voted down a series of gun control amendments back in April, an article in the New Republic magazine boldly declared "This is How the NRA Ends: A Bigger, Richer, Meaner Gun Control Movement has Arrived." The article was a long diatribe regurgitating much of the stale tripe and distortion we've been hearing from the anti-rights movement for decades,...

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Op-Ed: Gun toting teachers' names must remain private

4:00pm Wednesday, August 21, 2013

by John Lott Are people safer if criminals know who is carrying concealed handguns? Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel seems to think so. With school starting soon, he claims that if the Clarksville, Arkansas School District lets employees carry concealed handguns at school, their names must be made public. This is his second attempt to derail the school district's proposal. McDaniel's...

AG DeWine declares some school safety plans "useless"

8:00am Wednesday, August 21, 2013

by Chad D. Baus The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that, while all Ohio schools meet the legal requirement of having a school safety plan, many are outdated, incomplete or useless to law enforcement. State law requires schools to file reports on how they would handle an active killer incident or other emergency, the article observes, but there are no penalties for failing to file, and the...