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Current Congressional environment provides window of opportunity for Second Amendment

12:05am Wednesday, July 01, 2009

By Jeff Knox The surprise introduction and passage of a pro-rights amendment attached to a credit card bill this spring could be a hopeful sign of things to come.

Early GOP primary discussion of 2A issues continues with Kasich statement

12:10am Tuesday, June 30, 2009

By Chad D. Baus Earlier this month, Republican State Senator Kevin Coughlin, who declared his candidacy for the 2010 governor's race in January, began circulating an email designed to bring the Second Amendment to the front and center of early GOP primary discussions. This week, former Congressman John Kasich, who declared his own candidacy for the Republican nomination at the beginning of June,...

Headline: "Concealed carry five years later - Why it works"

12:05am Tuesday, June 30, 2009

When the decade-long battle for concealed carry reform was raging in Ohio, pro-Second Amendment advocates recognized the Lima News as one of the few newspapers whose editorial page featured opinions as firm in support of the Second Amendment as they were on the First. Five years after Ohio's concealed carry law took effect, the newspaper's news room has proved that they too continue to be one of...

COMBO: From My Cold Dead Fingers & America's Last Hope

6:53pm Monday, June 29, 2009

In From My Cold Dead Fingers, Sheriff Mack outlines why the right of the people "to keep and bear arms" is essential to the preservation of liberty and domestic tranquility. Mack reminds us of facts that were self-evident to earlier generations of Americans, but which are all but forgotten today. In America's Last Hope , Sheriff Mack covers decades of research to prove that the sheriffs in this...

The Second Amendment and the Slow Erosion of Time

12:10am Monday, June 29, 2009

By Dave Yost A year ago, the United State Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment's right to bear arms belongs to individuals, not to state militias. The decision started more legal arguments than it settled, and the battle is still raging in the lower courts. The Supreme Court decision, District of Columbia v. Heller *, has already produced plenty of litigation. Since it's a Supreme Court...

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Second Amendment supporters must oppose Sotomayor

12:05am Monday, June 29, 2009

By Sandy Froman Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's first nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, has a narrow view of the Second Amendment that contradicts the Court's landmark decision in District of Columbia v. Heller . A heated debate has started in the U.S. Senate over her opposition to the right to keep and bear arms. This issue, which has decided the fate of presidential elections,...

Chief Investigator for Madison Co., IL Sheriff's Office reveals details about March church shooting

12:10am Friday, June 26, 2009

Xenia, OH's Glen Evans, of the Church Security Alliance , recently conducted a phone interview with Captain Brad Wells, Chief Investigator for Madison County, Illinois Sheriff's Office. Wells responded to the tragic church security incident on March 8, 2009, when Pastor Fred Winters was shot and killed while preaching. Among other things, Wells reveals that there was an armed, retired officer in...

Southern California churches advocate arming congregants

12:05am Friday, June 26, 2009

By John Longenecker The genius of concealed carry of handguns is that would-be murderers remain uncertain as to who is armed and who isn't. You never know if the target is armed with lethal force, and more to the point, how alert and prepared they are to resist. This is true for everyone interested in being as safe as they can be from future violence, because it comes to the realization of...