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Toomey ads push expanded background checks on gun sales :: 03/26/2016

Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey is returning to Pennsylvania's airwaves for the first time since last summer, advancing a pro-law enforcement and pro-gun control message as Democrats step up attacks on him.

Concealed Carry Law Fails In South Carolina :: 03/25/2016

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A state Senate subcommittee voted Thursday against approving a bill that would allow anyone who can legally own a gun to carry it concealed without a permit. Sen. Lee Bright, R-Spartanburg, was the only senator to vote for the bill.

Justice Thomas Asks: Why Are Second Amendment Rights So Easily Taken Away? :: 03/25/2016

Justice Thomas had not asked a question during oral arguments since 2006 when, during the arguments in Voisine v. United States on February 29, he posed a question to the government’s counsel, Assistant to the Solicitor General Ilana Eisenstein.

Lawmakers want answers why VA stripped 260K vets of gun rights :: 03/25/2016

Two Senate Republicans are seeking to understand the Veterans Affairs office practice of reporting veterans to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check system.

More Women Are Buying Guns Or "Who Are You Going To Believe . . ." :: 03/25/2016

Ordinarily, we do not respond to quasi-journalistic electronic emanations from The Trace, which, as we have previously noted, is the wholly owned propaganda megaphone of the Michael Bloomberg funded anti-gun politburo of organizations. Be assured, we do not plan to make this a regular practice.

Support For Open Carry at RNC in Cleveland Surges, Liberals Respond :: 03/25/2016

A petition circulating via Change.org to allow open carry of firearms at the Quicken Loans Arena during the RNC Convention in July is gaining steam. Filed by “Americans for Responsible Open Carry,” the petition is only 750 signatures shy of it’s goal.

Texas increases staffing for spike in handgun permits :: 03/25/2016

Due to an increased volume of applications for a license to carry a handgun, the Texas Department of Public Safety issued an advisement asking applicants to closely follow application guidelines so the process goes swimmingly.

TN Lawmakers vote to allow guns in private schools :: 03/25/2016

Nashville CBS affiliate WTVF reports that state lawmakers passed a bill giving private schools and colleges the choice to allow guns on campus.

Toomey agrees to meet with Obama SCOTUS nominee :: 03/25/2016

The battle over President Obama’s Supreme Court nomination continued this week with Sen. Pat Toomey reportedly agreeing to meet with Judge Merrick Garland, though it’s unclear when the sit-down will take place.

Anti-Gunners: Everytown guns for background checks in constitutional carry state of Maine :: 03/24/2016

One of the shooting victims of the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre was in Maine on Wednesday promoting a documentary on his experience during the incident and sharing his story in a call for tighter gun control laws.

CPRC: Much less than 0.039 percent of guns sold by Federally Licensed Dealers stolen last year - a rate less than 1/30th the rate of theft for retail industry :: 03/24/2016

A new report from the BATF points out that Federally Licensed Gun Dealers had 6,163 firearms stolen from them in 2015. With the Obama administration finalizing a new rule to enhance dealer reporting of stolen or lost firearms, this BATF report allows us to investigate the size of the current stolen or lost firearm problem for dealers and to compare those rates to other retail outlets.

Cruz Gun Adviser: Obama Nominated Garland To 'Ruin The Second Amendment And Destroy This Country' :: 03/24/2016

A top gun-rights adviser to Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign claimed this weekend that President Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court is “his last-ditch effort” to “ruin the Second Amendment and destroy this country.”

DRGO: How We're Taught About Guns - Part 1 :: 03/24/2016

It is a common sense belief that the pervasiveness of violence in media can desensitize us to violence in society and surely must influence impressionable youth. Perhaps because of that, our entertainment-industrial complex regularly reports studies telling us that “the evidence just isn’t there”—to “move on, nothing to see here”.

Gun Store Owner Averts Possible Mass Shooting, Shows Holes In NICS System :: 03/24/2016

An Ohio gun store owner averted a possible mass shooting Monday when he refused to sell a gun to a 25-year-old man who just seemed “off” to him. When the man grew angry and left the store, the gun store owner called police.

Societies That Choose to Disarm Will Die :: 03/24/2016

Brietbart London is reporting that a terrorist attack targeting London has been thwarted.

Texas: Few problems noted with 'open carry' so far :: 03/24/2016

Members of a guest panel at a Greenville Chamber of Commerce breakfast said Wednesday that after almost three complete months, the Texas “Open Carry” law has caused few, if any, problems.

Anti-Gunners: Anti-Gun Professor Looks Out Her Window and Is Paralyzed With 'Fear,' So She Calls the Police - Then, They Inform Her of the Truth :: 03/23/2016

An anti-gun professor at the University of North Dakota says she dialed 911 in absolute “fear” when she spotted “two figures in camo with guns outside” her classroom window.

England: British Gov't Compiles Database of Rifle Club Members to Monitor for "Terrorists" :: 03/23/2016

Here in the United States, the latest proposal in the gun control debate is to ban anyone on the “terrorist watchlist” from buying guns.

Gun Free Zones - Major Source of "Crime Guns"? :: 03/23/2016

Reading Where criminals get their guns at abqjournal.com doesn’t yield much in the way of new information. In the main, criminals get their guns from theft and straw purchases (someone with a clean record buys a gun on their behalf). Not gun shows. Not internet sales.

Hollywood Think Tank Offers "Firearm Depiction Suggestions," Critics Call Foul :: 03/23/2016

Hollywood and guns have a long and complicated relationship, but advocates say some groups are actively pursuing an anti-gun agenda.

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