Those in northern Illinois and the surrounding area may wish to attend the upcoming DuPage and Will counties Friends of NRA 16th Annual Fundraiser Dinner: DuPage-Will Friends of NRA 16th Annual Fundraiser Dinner Thursday, August 21st Diplomat West Banquet Hall - Elmhurst, IL Doors Open - 5:00 PM   Dinner - 7:00 PM $35 Per Person Dinner, S...

Story from WTOP News. One FFL dealing with the public (temporarily out of business while he changes address), $125 charge to transfer and paper a gun. Interesting that, while before Heller, the city government was predicting the fall of Republic if their ban wasn't sustained, and now the Chief of Police is simply encouraging people to get firearm...

Wasn't this the network that was haranguing everyone to cut back on their energy usage? Personally, if the benefits from them using energy exceed the costs, they should use the energy. Surely, one can understand that you don't want anchors drowning in their own perspiration while doing a show, but it would be nice if the news media understood thi...

A year ago today, my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. Today, she's still here. I didn't realize the date, but saw she had left me an instant message when I got home tonight from going out. Here's to the next several batches of 365, Mom. I love you....

It is one thing to change the penalties after someone has committed a crime, but it is quite another to say that certain penalties cannot exceed just the time that someone is in jail or on parole. The AP has this story:Eager to protect children from sexual predators, Nevada and other states across the nation are adopting laws that publicize the na...

…that the phony “gun rights” organization, American Hunters and Shooters Association, would endorse the false messiah, Barak Obama: Sen. Obama will be a strong voice an unabashed voice for America’s hunters and shooters and it is with great pleasure that we endorse his candidacy," President of the Association Ray Schoenke said, ci...

Minot, North DakotaFrom KFYR of August 15, 2008Minot Shooting Called Self-DefenseWho did it? That is cut and dry for Minot police, which is not typical in a shooting case.Minot Police were called to this RV park just after 10:00 last night, August 14, for reports of gun shots fired. When they arrived they found 42-year old Jonnie Guerrero with thre...

ABC News reported that Barack Obama has collected the endorsement of the American Hunters and Shooters Association. That sounds like a guns rights group to you, doesn't it? "Sen. Obama will be a strong voice an unabashed voice for America's hunters and shooters and it is with great pleasure that we endorse his candidacy," President ...

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Kansas City, MissouriFrom KCTV5 of August 15, 2008Family Fights Back In Home InvasionA family fought back against a group of armed intruders that broke into a Kansas City, Kan., home early Friday morning, police said.Police received a 911 call from a house near North 74th Court and Oakland Avenue just after midnight.A man who lives in the house sai...

It is unlikely that a decision will be made in the case on Monday, though it is certainly possible given that something could happen given that Chicago did not answer the initial questions in their response brief.I have also heard that the SF public housing ban case will likely be settled out with the California Public Housing authority is giving i...

Courtland, VirginiaFrom the Tidewater News of August 12, 2008Homeowner holds gun on man until police arriveAn Ivor resident who returned home early one day last week was able to help police apprehend a man who had broken into at least two homes along Holloman Drive.When he got home last Tuesday and found a man ransacking his house, the burglary vic...

Miami Gardens, FloridaFrom NBC6 of August 16, 20082 Dead In Miami Gardens Game Store Shooting A gun battle erupted in a store at a shopping mall in Miami Gardens that left two people dead and shoppers running for cover.The Miami-Dade Police Department said three men entered the MultiVest Xtreme Video Games store on 183rd Street and Northwest Sevent...

Hemet, CaliforniaFrom KNBC of August 15, 2008Police: Hemet Woman, 93, Misfires At BurglarA 93-year-old Hemet woman shot at an intruder who entered her home, but she missed and the bullet went through a window and over a neighbor's home, Hemet police said Friday.The woman shot at the intruder who entered her home in the 300 block of South Street sho...

Louisville, KentuckyFrom the Courier Journal of August 15, 2008Girl, 15, hospitalized after pit bull attackA 15-year-old girl was attacked by a friend's pit bull last weekend in Fairdale.The girl, whose name was not released, was hospitalized with multiple bite wounds. Her current condition was not available, said Officer Phil Russell, a spokesman ...

Vincent Hancock, of the USA Shooting Team, takes the gold in men’s skeet at the ripe old age of 19.  Halfway around the world, in India, Abhinav Bindra’s gold medal win in 10 meter air rifle has created a surge of interest in the shooting sports in that country.  Peter Hamm will no doubt be looking for native Hindi speakers so that Th...

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This satirical video clip has the solution for preventing murder, armed robbery, rape, home invasions, school shootings, racist attackers, and psychopathic killers.  Personally, I’ll stick with having a shotgun for home defense. Tags: bias, Crime, Criminal, Gun Ban, Gun Control, Home Defense, humor, Self Defense, Victim, Video Clips, Wh...

The 8th Circuit has so ruled. (pdf). The ruling essentially says that a well organized militia must be a State organized militia (and the State law recognized non-Guardsmen only as the "unorganized militia") hence his possession of the NFA firearms was not related to service in a well organized militia. I can't see how this analysis can be square...

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Story here. It's claiming that its license to store fireworks (explosives) puts it within an exemption to the statue allowing employees to leave firearms in their parked, locked, cars while working. That's not how I read the statute. Disney has now agreed that employees at sites other than the big one, which has the explosives license, are protect...

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Flint Field Office, executed federal search warrants Thursday, Aug. 14, at the Highland Gun Barn, located at 2525 M-59, Highland, Mich., and the Otisville Gun Barn, at 12163 M-15, in Otisville, and arrested Gabriel Kish III and Deborah J. Summers for dealing firearms without a license. ...

...my foresight back in April, 2005 wasn't totally off:SCOTUS, of course, has been ducking this issue for a long time. They'll probably take the path of least resistance again, and refuse to hear such cases. However, if they accept either Seegars or Parker, I believe the court will not dare say there is no individual rkba. But if they find there is...

Armed teachers in Texas, and now Disney is backing away from its total employee gun ban stance NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Walt Disney World is revising its employee gun ban policy. That's according to a company memo obtained Friday. With the change, some Disney employees will be allowed to keep a gun locked in a car as long as the employee has ...

A Sacramento man pleaded guilty Tuesday to possession of ammunition by a felon after buying bullets from a local sporting goods store...Clark's illegal activity came to light as a result of a pilot program requiring merchants to collect identifying information from people buying ammunition. There is no evidence he ever harmed another, yet he has no...

But then something unusual happened. The jury sent a note to the trial judge with the following query: Since the Constitution needed to be amended in 1919 to authorize federal criminal prosecutions for manufacturing and smuggling alcohol, a juror wanted to know from the judge where “is the constitutional grant of authority to ban mere possession ...

A police head constable showing off a service revolver to a bunch of schoolchildren and their teacher visiting a police station here, accidentally shot the teacher, who had to be rushed to the hospital.I see the message of The Patron Saint of The "Only Ones" is spreading across the globe...[Via DJK]...

You don't need to do a rain dance, you simply have to get dressed and try to mow your yard. Then it'll pour, every time....

The haul, found in a cellar in Spånga and an apartment in Sundbyberg, included grenades, antitank grenade launchers, automatic weapons, pistols and explosives...The weapons are both military and civilian, some of which have been stolen in Sweden, others from the former Yugoslavia...Speaking to the TT news agency, Göranzon said it was "worrying th...

The boys are 9, 12 and 13 years old. They got locked in the safe when a friend shut the door as a prank at Dick's Sporting Goods.Two things: People need to be responsible to watch their damn kids when they go shopping and not just let them run free in stores, at least until they've proven themselves responsible enough to be trusted with a looser re...

First . . . Breakfast: Irish Soda bread and homemade wild black raspberry jam, made a couple weekends ago. Then some early early morning range time - while most people are still asleep. I think I need to get more than one target per box of .45 acp. ...

Capt. Eleazer Lindsey of Col. Gerrishes Regt tried by a General Court Martial, for “absenting himself from his post, which was attacked and abandoned to the enemy.” The Court on consideration are of opinion that Capt. Lindsey be discharged the service, as a person improper to sustain a Commission....

Rasmussen Reports: Obama 46%, McCain 45%Gallup Daily: McCain, Obama Tied at 44%...