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ACLU opposes baseball bat control

12:10am Tuesday, August 25, 2009

By Dean Rieck According to the Boston Globe , the City Council in Lynn, MA have decided to allow police to arrest students who bring baseball bats and other "weapons" to school. However the ACLU, famous for their inconsistent stance on gun control, opposes this ordinance. Here are the facts: Lynn City Council wants to be "proactive" in making schools safer, authorizing police to arrest students...

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Op-Ed: The Media Gets It Wrong, Again, On Guns

12:05am Tuesday, August 25, 2009

By John R. Lott In Portsmouth, New Hampshire last week, a man carried a handgun a few blocks away from the site where President Obama was scheduled to hold a town hall a couple of hours later. Was it a danger or not? The man carrying the gun, William Kostric, even had permission to have the gun on private church property while he was protesting Obama's appearance. Everybody from the New York...

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Tea party movement: There is power in cooperation

12:10am Monday, August 24, 2009

By Jeff Knox The growing dissatisfaction of more and more citizens with the direction of our government and our nation presents a wonderful opportunity for rights activists to build and strengthen coalitions and grow the movement's base. The media, the administration, and Democrat leaders have broadly attempted to discredit and dismiss several large "right-wing" groups of dissatisfied and...

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Burglaries of gun store and trooper's car prove criminals not deterred by background checks or waiting periods

12:05am Monday, August 24, 2009

Bu Chad D. Baus The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that thieves stole nearly $30,000 worth of guns, knives and ammunition during a break-in Monday at the Black Wing Shooting Center in Delaware, and the county sheriff is asking for citizens' help to recover the stolen property.

Ohio mayor's resignation from Bloomberg gun control front group gains national attention

12:10am Friday, August 21, 2009

By Chad D. Baus On Tuesday, Buckeye Firearms Association broke the news that Village of Walton Hills, OH Mayor Marlene Anielski had submitted to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg her resignation from the gun control front group known as Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG). Since then, the news has been spread far and wide, and Anielski is doing some high-profile interviews to further explain...

MSNBC plays racial politics with deceptive editing, says SAF

12:05am Friday, August 21, 2009

BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation today accused MSNBC of using deceptively-edited video from a Phoenix, Arizona anti-tax rally on Monday to invent a racial stereotype in its on-going effort to demonize and marginalize American firearms owners as "racists." The MSNBC video, narrated by reporter Contessa Brewer, appearing with "Morning Meeting" host Dylan Ratigan, shows an AR-15 rifle...

Doomed to fail: Latest Chicago gun "buy-back" scheme focuses on "assault-type" weapons

12:10am Thursday, August 20, 2009

By Gerard Valentino CBS 2 in Chicago is reporting that Mayor Daley announced a continuation of his failed gun "buy-back" program. According to the story, if a resident turns in an "assault-type gun" they get a $100 gift card from the City.

Background checks on fiream sales up 8.4% in July

12:05am Thursday, August 20, 2009

Data released by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported 966,162 checks in July 2009, an 8.4 percent increase from the 891,224 reported in July 2008. This latest jump in background checks follows the release of the Firearms and Ammunition Excise Tax Collection Report by the Department of the Treasury just two weeks ago. The report noted that firearm and...