Navy to arm sailors at reserve centers after Chattanooga shootings
The Navy is preparing to arm sailors at its reserve centers across the country in the aftermath of the attack last month at a Navy Reserve Center in Chattanooga that resulted in the deaths of 4 Marines...
View ArticleOregon gun-sale background checks law gets off to rough start
The political fight over whether Oregon should have universal gun-sale background checks is over, for now. But a potentially nasty battle over implementing the new law is only just starting. Senate...
View ArticleSeattle City Council approves $25 gun tax, regulations
In a vote on Monday afternoon, the Seattle City Council unanimously approved a new gun tax and regulations within the city. The new tax places an extra $25 on each firearm sold within the city and 5...
View ArticleRepublicans Demand Halt of Obama Plan to Use Social Security to Restrict Gun...
This week, reports emerged that the Obama administration is advancing a plan to restrict gun rights by adding to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System Social Security beneficiaries who...
View ArticleGuns, Guns, Whose Got The Guns?
No one knows how many American households have guns. That’s the good news. The only way to know with any degree of accuracy would be through national registration, which hasn’t happened – at least not...
View ArticleExecutive Stupefaction
While recently misleading students in a speech at a South Carolina college, Barak Obama tossed a few gun control whoppers into the audience. “Our homicide rates,” Obama began, “are so much larger than...
View Article‘Green tip’ ammunition rallying cry for NRA
The gun lobby marshaled thousands of comments from gun owners and sparked an outcry in Congress last month to defeat a regulatory proposal that would have banned a certain type of ammunition, but the...
View ArticleJeb Bush Leans on His Gun-Rights Bona Fides
The day after Jeb Bush signed landmark “stand your ground” legislation, one Florida resident emailed the then-governor to thank him “for allowing us to defend ourselves.” “You are most welcome,” Mr....
View ArticleVeteran’s guns confiscated from Glendale home after neighbor dispute
A veteran in Glendale claims his Second Amendment rights were violated after his $25,000 gun collection was confiscated by the courts. “It was devastating, I couldn’t put it into words,” said retired...
View ArticleWhy the battle over guns is being fought at the state level
JUDY WOODRUFF: It was widely reported today that Hillary Clinton will formally announce her run for the Democratic presidential nomination on Sunday. The former secretary of state, senator and first...
View Article(CA) Gun carry suit ‘back to square one’
San Diego — The law concerning who can carry concealed weapons in California is once again in limbo. It’s been more than a year since a divided panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that...
View ArticleSelf-defense is cause enough for concealed weapon permit
Sheriff Sandra Hutchens has reversed her previous reversal on what constitutes “good cause” in Orange County to obtain a carry concealed weapons permit. She was responding, again, to the 9th U.S....
View ArticleRight to Bear Arms? Gun grabbing sweeping the nation
Cherished family heirlooms were among the 21 firearms Michael Roberts surrendered to the Torrance Police Department in 2010, after his doctor filed a restraining order against him. The court order was...
View ArticleProgress made in effort to disarm illegal gun owners
Attorney General Kamala Harris issued her report detailing how she is spending $24 million on an enforcement program aimed at taking guns from people who cannot legally possess them. Despite its...
View ArticleMassive NRA convention is business as usual for the convention center
Five years after it was first announced, the National Rifle Association is rolling into Nashville this weekend for its annual meeting, brining an estimated 70,000 attendees, 400 exhibitors, several...
View ArticleSuit: Gun control PAC failed to pay fundraising firm
A political fundraising firm is suing a gun control political action committee, alleging the group has failed to pay more than $26,000 it has owed for several months. Loop-based KJD Strategies filed...
View ArticleContentious debate over guns expected soon in Congress
WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitch McConnell assured the National Rifle Association a year ago that if Republicans took control of the Senate, the NRA’s gun-friendly agenda would be on a faster track on Capitol...
View ArticleLocal officials brace for loose open carry laws
SAN ANGELO, Texas – Local authorities, while supporting the Second Amendment and the state Legislature, have concerns about what two proposed bills to loosen open carry restrictions mean for San...
View ArticleSuit: Gun control PAC failed to pay fundraising firm
A political fundraising firm is suing a gun control political action committee, alleging the group has failed to pay more than $26,000 it has owed for several months. Loop-based KJD Strategies filed...
View ArticleGun store robbed once by thieves – then by ATF: Agents won’t return stolen...
An Indiana gun store was robbed last year and its owner is attempting to get his inventory back. No, not from the original thieves, but from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives...
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