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Things to consider when triggering a lockdown

by Greg Ellifritz

3:00pm Thursday, June 23, 2016

Many of you who have been reading my work for a long time recognize that I have been vocally critical of the “lockdown” process in the past, especially in the case of school shootings. While I have been critical, I don’t have any problem with the idea of lockdown itself….I just think that poorly implemented lockdowns will cause more student deaths than other available response strategies in an...

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May 2016 firearms sales jump 1.1% over prior year

by Chad D. Baus

3:00pm Wednesday, June 22, 2016

After several months of increased sales of firearms following the December 2 terrorist attack in San Bernadino, CA and President Obama's ongoing attempts to intimidate peaceable gun owners through executive actions, May saw a more modest increase from the previous year. The May 2016 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 928,532 is an increase of 1.1...

Reacting to The Threat of/from Orlando

by Jim Shepherd

7:00am Wednesday, June 22, 2016

[In the short time] after the Orlando murders, the battle lines have been drawn. And the coming fight over even more legislation to regulate the law-abiding citizen (criminals are never bothered by laws) has apparently driven some legislators mad as hatters. In California, Senator Isadore Hall called gun owners "crazy, vicious and heartless." He doubled down and said if you were a gun owner you...

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Hey New York Times...What “Strong Case” for Gun Registration?

3:00pm Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Most guns aren’t registered, most gun owners aren’t licensed, and firearm-related violent crime is at nearly an all-time low, but in the New York Times [recently], gun control supporter Alan Berlow claimed that “the case for registration and licensing is stronger now than ever.” The rest of Berlow’s theory is just as illogical. Berlow says that because the federal government hasn’t confiscated...

“Journalists” Renew Attack Upon “Assault Weapons”

7:00am Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Katie Couric may be the journalist – we use the term loosely – that for the last few days has been taking the most heat for dishonest coverage of guns. But some in the TV “news” business have been just as dishonest in the past, and others are just as dishonest today. In the early days of the “assault weapon” issue, network news programs ran footage of machine guns being fired during stories about...

No Surprise, Gun Control Initiatives Are Funded by a Few Anti-Gun Billionaires

3:00pm Monday, June 20, 2016

Contrary to the grassroots image that anti-gun groups try to portray, their funding continues to come from large donations by billionaires who are driving an anti-gun agenda. Perhaps the worst examples of this trend can be found in Nevada and Maine where voters will consider gun control ballot initiatives this November. In each state, nearly identical ballot language seeks to require every...

NRA Op-Ed: Gun laws don't deter terrorists

by Chris Cox

7:00am Monday, June 20, 2016

Destroy radical Islam, not the right of law-abiding Americans to protect themselves. Americans were shocked and disgusted to learn of another act of terrorism on our soil, this time in Orlando. In the aftermath of this terrorist attack, President Obama and Hillary Clinton renewed calls for more gun control, including a ban on whole categories of semi-automatic firearms. They are desperate to...

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The Orlando Pulse terror attack: Learning from what we know now

by Greg Ellifritz

3:00pm Friday, June 17, 2016

Early Sunday morning on June 12, a murder (who won’t be named here) pledging fealty to the Islamic terrorist group ISIS, entered an Orlando gay nightclub and shot more than 100 people. Preliminary accounts indicate that 49 innocent victims were killed and an additional 54 victims were hospitalized with injuries. It is likely that countless more were injured but did not seek immediate medical...