National Politics

Bill Introduced to "Get State Department Out of the Gun Control Business"

3:00pm Tuesday, June 18, 2013
As longtime readers--and especially gun collectors--know, the State Department has often stood in the way of importing historic military firearms from overseas. The issue was highlighted early in the Obama administration, when the department first approved, and then denied, the importation and sale of collectible, American-made M1 Garand rifles and M1 carbines originally furnished to South Korea...

Op-Ed: U.N. arms treaty a direct threat to American gun ownership

3:00pm Monday, June 17, 2013
by Chris W. Cox Oxfam America has long served as a reliable cheerleader for nearly all misguided United Nations policy. However, Oxfam America President Raymond Offenheiser's Friday op-ed ("President should ignore fear mongering and sign arms treaty") is an exceptional illustration of this blind allegiance. Offenheiser wants us to simultaneously believe the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty is both the...

The Santa Monica College Active Killer: What We Can Learn

7:00am Monday, June 17, 2013
Editor's Note: For the past six months, a national media drumbeat has been sounding: "Pass gun control laws like the ones they have in California and stop these mass killings." On Friday, June 7, the latest mass killing happened...in California. As Active Response Training's Greg Ellifritz points out below, there is a lot we can learn from this latest attack. Among the many lessons? California-...

CNN Photo Essay: Ohio teachers pose with their guns

7:00am Thursday, June 13, 2013
by Chad D. Baus CNN's Lauren Russell has written two articles on the move to arm teachers here in Ohio. Accompanying her article is a photo essay compiled by an Italian photographer. From the article accompanying the photo essay, entitled " Teachers pose with their guns ": December's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut jarred parents and teachers around Ohio. Thinking more had...

Buckeye Firearms Foundation commissions six more teacher classes

7:00am Tuesday, June 11, 2013
by Jim Irvine In the wake of the killings at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, Buckeye Firearms Foundation partnered with John Benner of Tactical Defense Institute (TDI) to give teachers and administrators training on the best ways to stop an active killer in a school. The idea garnered worldwide attention and the first class was a resounding success. Many Ohio schools...

Op-Ed: Why gun control just got even more difficult

3:00pm Friday, June 07, 2013
by John Lott Gun control, an already difficult task, just got even more difficult. The 3D printing revolution is well under way. This wonderful new technology will allow small companies and even individuals to manufacture a wide range of items, such as medical devices that fit each individual’s unique size and shape. However, it is increasingly obvious that guns and gun parts can be made, even...

Gun control laws target law-abiding gun owners, not criminals

3:00pm Monday, June 03, 2013
by Jeff Knox Dustin Reininger is serving a five-year sentence with a three-year minimum before he's eligible for parole. His crime? Pulling off the highway to get some rest during a long drive. Reininger, a veteran of both the Army and the Air Force, and a former police officer, was moving from Maine back to Texas, but only made it as far as New Jersey. He got tired and parked behind a building...

Op-Ed: President Obama: AR-15 Salesman of the Decade

3:00pm Thursday, May 30, 2013
by C. D. Michel Barack Obama may be the most effective firearm salesman since Samuel Colt. In the wake of recent tragedies, the Obama administration took gun control as its new mission, advocating everything from useless "universal" background checks to once again banning so-called "assault weapons." The unintended but completely predictable side effect of Obama's posturing has been to cause your...

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