Since 2001, all pistols and revolvers in New York state have been ballistically fingerprinted before sale, and this information has been recorded in a database.  The (faulty) idea was that this database, which costs $1 Million each year, would help the police to solve gun related crimes.  However there have been exactly 0 prosecutions that [...]...

By Ken Hanson The Second Amendment Foundation's (SAF) National Gun Rights Policy Conference was held at the beautiful Sheraton Crescent Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona this past weekend. I had the honor of attending on behalf of Buckeye Firearms Association and was one of the presenters during the state rights panel. This three-day conference served as...

By Larry Elder A prominent 20th-century Democrat made the following statement about the purpose of the Second Amendment: "Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. … The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arb...

I love you so much. It’s been a great 3 years, and I look forward to many more together. Happy Anniversary, With all my love, Peter.       ...

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Posting here. The defense challenged the government's NFA records, brought in a top-notch statistical expert who testified they were not something you could use as anything but an investigatory lead. The jury deadlocked 7-5 (no word on who had the seven and who the five). Odds are that it's effectively an acquittal. Even if it was 7-5 for the pros...

Only 25 Senators Stand Up For America Will the end of the principles that unite us signal the end of the society that binds us? Our hope for the preservation of the Republic now resides in the House of Representatives. I pray they choose wisely. ...

Get you attention?It's October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month. V and I support several cancer charitable organizations. We support The American Cancer Society and Komen for the Cure to name a couple. An organization that we also support, that raises money for for Komen and The KatScan Fund is Boobie-Thon.Controversial? Sure. But they raise one heck...

Here's amicus of Prof. Aynes, Curtis, Lawrence and Van Alstyne. Prof. Curtis is one of the biggest names in 14th Amendment scholarship, and Van Alstyne is one of the biggest names in constitutional law, period. Here's the amicus for NRA and CalGuns. Both are quite good, and filed a little early (deadline is tomorrow). I posted on the exceptiona...

This was the earliest one I could find ...

Many People have asked, How to fill out a form 4 when making class 3 purchases.  Because of this, we have added a page on this topic.  Please see How to Fill out an ATF FORM 4 For NFA Class 3 Purchases If you need help forming a trust, please Contact to find a Gun Trust Lawyer in Your State....

The Senate will be voting on the new version of the Bailout Bill this evening. The Senate has added a few good items to the bill (increasing FDIC insurance is one) and removed a couple of bad (ACORN ain't getting paid), but it is still a bailout. Our .gov has to stop bailing out poorly run companies and institutions. Bailouts are counter productive...

This looks pretty clearly to be a violation of preemption: On Thursday, October 2, at 10:00am, Peter Georgiades, a Second Amendment rights attorney, will be challenging the legality of a recently enacted provision in the Pittsburgh zoning code.  This provision restricts “gun-related businesses” from being established within city limits, even i...

Man catches bullet in teeth, spits it out, shooter flees A Croatian man has impersonated Superman by catching a bullet in his teeth and spitting out the hot lead. Just like in the comics his attacker fled. The drama occurred after Stipe and Mirna Cavlovic, both 37, got caught up in a row between two men. One of the men fired at the couple but the b...

The cabin is gone. I've spent a good part of my life near the water, in a small cabin right on the waters edge, a weekend and summer destination. It was small and clean and within its walls were my happiest memories. Getting up before dawn with my older brother to walk miles to look at the wonders the the night had exposed. Clouds caught on the mo...

This isn’t illegaly, but it’s pretty shady, and hypocritical.  Why? Lawmakers’ frequent use of campaign donations to pay relatives emerged as an issue in the 2006 election campaigns, when the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal gave Democrats fodder to criticize Republicans such as former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas and R...

The Meet the Press interview is here:MS. KENNEDY: Yeah, put my name on, yeah. No, "I know you're doing this to put your name on," that kind of thing. Yeah. No, there was a--you know, we reached out, obviously, I heard from my family, and I trust their judgment a lot. And then, you know, we went around and talked to a number of colleagues, grou...

Starting today, the USCIS (that's INS for you older folks) have introduced a new US citizenship test. This replaces the current citizenship test and actually, gasp, requires its takers to know stuff in abstract ways. In addition, it is no longer multiple choice! The questions will be asked to the prospective citizen in English and they must give...

See if this works: Moved below the fold, lest you just really want to see me playing with quotes. Thanks to Matt Matt emailed: My problem was that the wp_posts table and all the fields under it were set to latin1_swedish_ci (it’s the default the database likes to create). Wordpress operates on utf8. So Worpress expects it to be set to utf8...

Webpage is here. I talked with Doug Ritter, the chairman, at the Gun Rights Policy Conference. It was interesting to go into the restrictions on knifes -- bars to this or that type, States that bar unlicensed CCW and have licenses only for carrying a concealed firearm, but not any other form of weapon, etc.. A knifesmith friend told me that "butt...

By Chris Chumita There are more stories pertaining to our gun rights in Ohio then we can possibly draw attention to with individual daily commentary. But they are all worthy of mention. What follows is our review of headlines from around the state though a pro-gun rights lens. From the City of Cleveland arresting a law-abiding gun owner to a robber...

ACK: Host Senator Jim Kyle has just announced that Democratic Leadership Council Chair Harold Ford will join his ?Nashville Conversation? patterned on the DLC?s ?National Conversation?, the latest of which was held in Nashville. If any of you go, you can ask them about the DLC’s funding, financing and setting up the anti-gun American Hunters ...

There really is a blog for everything. ...

Michael Bane makes some great observations and offers suggestiosn on saving the shooting sports.  I noticed a very good comment that made a very frightening observation: The next generation is not oriented to shooting or hunting. They spend more time on their computers then outside. In my club of 250 members there are NO children. There is dam lit...

I already knew self defense & handguns were banned in the UK, but I had no idea walking sticks were as well. 78 year old retired teacher Philip Clarkson Webb was walking down the street with his......

So, there I was, up in Nashville's best beer store, Frugal MacDoogal's, checking out the offerings. I had already checked the big beer side (beers over 6% ABV), and was over at the "strictly beer" part.The Bud Guy was there, so I asked him when was the Bud American Ale going on t he market. He said "September 29th". Well, unlike some people, I usua...

I don’t wish to paint all Democrats as gun hating losers, because there are a lot of good ones out there.  Like Jason Altmire and Dan Boren, for example.  So I have decided on declaring an Axis of Evil to exist within the Democratic Party, composed of Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi.  Henceforth known as the Obama/Biden/Pelosi Dem...

With Obama looking like he’s getting a boost from the economic crisis, we have to work harder than ever.  I know people like me get on this bandwagon every election, but this one really is the most important election we’ve faced in my life time.  Obama makes Bill Clinton look like a saint on guns, and an unapologetic capitalist.  Mos...

The ATF is zeroing in on shipments of American-made firearms moving across the border through the southwestern United States.Increased enforcement of the gun trade could mean greater oversight of gun retailers and gun shows and more inspections for Americans traveling to Mexico. Sweet. The feds create the problem, the feds "solve" the problem--and ...

Bitter brings us a good dose of Crazy.Not funny crazy, crazy crazy.....

Dear gun banners. Please note the stick figure cartoon below. I'm sorry the words couldn't be one syllable each, but I'm sure you can muddle through....

Michael Bane on Shooter Retention: Getting Beyond Catch & Release The last few posts have got me thinkng about recruitment and retention strategies within the shooting sports, and issue that is guaranteed to come up in the first meeting of the NSSF 20/20 Shooting Sports Task Force in mid-October. Speaking strictly for sport shooting, we typical...

From Gay Patriot: Click here to view the embedded video. Go Sarah!  I think most Americans understand that politicians are eminently unqualified to stand in moral judgement of, well, anyone. ...

Dry firing practice is a great way to help with trigger control and preventing flinching. It's something everyone should do from time to time and in fact, when I find myself flinching during range time, I'll unload and do some dry firings until I feel I've overcome the flinch again. However, last night I realized that if I am to start shooting IDPA...

This from Fox News:"Like a lot of my Democratic colleagues I was too slow to appreciate the recklessness of Fannie and Freddie. I defended their efforts to encourage affordable homeownership when in retrospect I should have heeded the concerns raised by their regulator in 2004. Frankly, I wish my Democratic colleagues would admit when it comes to F...