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Fraternal Order of Police calls on NFL to lift concealed carry ban; cites threat of terrorism

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Wednesday, November 25, 2015

On November 20, the National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) sent a letter to Roger Goodell, Commissioner of the National Football Leage (NFL), asking him to reconsider the League's ban on concealed carry. The letter, written by National FOP president Chuck Canterbury, states, in part, as follows: Today, I am writing on behalf of the members of the Fraternal Order of Police to urge you to rescind...

Senate Judiciary Committee Considers Nomination of Operation Choke Point Overlord

3:00pm Tuesday, November 24, 2015

[Recently], the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the nomination of Stuart F. Delery for the position of associate attorney general of the United States. If confirmed, Delery would become the third-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), behind the attorney general and the deputy attorney general. Delery has been serving as “acting” associate attorney general since...

Headline: Obama says gun control to be top issue of final year

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Tuesday, November 24, 2015

The Washington Times is reporting that President Obama is now publicly admitting that he hopes to make gun control the top issue of his final year in office, saying Americans aren’t more violent than other people but they “have more deadly weapons to act out their rage.” From the article : In an interview published Tuesday in GQ magazine, Mr. Obama said easy access to guns is “the only variable”...

60 Minutes Showcases "Smart" Guns Technology

3:00pm Monday, November 23, 2015

You may be wondering why CBS 60 Minutes aired a segment on “smart” guns [recently]. After all, a gun that will never work in the hands of an unauthorized person, but that will always work in the hands of everyone else hasn’t been invented. Even the segment’s reporter, Lesley Stahl, conceded that there are concerns about whether “smart” guns “work in snow and rain? Will they work if you`re...

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Headline: Maryland scraps gun "fingerprint" database after 15 failed years

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Monday, November 23, 2015

The Baltimore Sun reported recently that, after millions of wasted tax-payer dollars, the State of Maryland has officially decided that its 15-year effort to store and catalog the "fingerprints" of thousands of handguns was a failure. From the article : Since 2000, the state required that gun manufacturers fire every handgun to be sold here and send the spent bullet casing to authorities. The...

Ohio's Traditional Deer-Gun Hunting Season Begins Nov. 30

by Chad D. Baus

3:00pm Friday, November 20, 2015

Youth only weekend to be held Nov. 21-22 COLUMBUS, OH – Deer hunting is an extremely popular activity for sportsmen and women statewide and Ohio’s white-tailed deer continue to provide hunters across the state with excellent opportunities for success as they head out into the field. Ohio’s deer-gun season opens Monday, Nov. 30 and not only provides opportunities for outdoor sports enthusiasts,...

AP fact-checks Hillary Clinton's debate comments on guns, and guess what?

by Chad D. Baus

7:00am Friday, November 20, 2015

The Associated Press - not known either for its conservative or pro-gun rights leanings - was recently forced to admit that Hillary Clinton wildly inflated statistics on so-called "gun violence" to support her extremist gun control stance. From the article : CLINTON: "Since we last debated in Las Vegas, nearly 3,000 people have been killed by guns. Two hundred children have been killed. This is...

Election Day: Guns Win - AGAIN

by Jeff Knox

3:00pm Thursday, November 19, 2015

GOP should spotlight issue or voters will go hunting next fall and skip polls As this column reported a few weeks ago, the Democrats are betting big on gun control for this election cycle. That’s good news for GunVoters, that minority of us who, while perhaps not being one-issue voters, don’t trust a politician who doesn’t trust us with a gun. Republicans, however, seem oblivious to the...