This is what Commerical Appeal is claiming.  In Pennsylvania, LTC information is restricted by law, fortunately, but that is not the case in all states.  If this were done to me, my primary concern would be employers looking up to see how many of their employees have concealed weapons licenses, and then summarily dismissing all that do. Yes, peop...

NRA Magazines Announce 2009 Golden Award Winners 2009 Golden Bullseye Award And Golden Bullseye Pioneer Award Winners. Fairfax, Virginia - NRA Publications will present its annual Golden Bullseye Awards and Golden Bullseye Pioneer Award at an invitation-only reception during the 2009 NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits, May 15-17, in Phoenix, ...

The house passes a bill snubbing federal gun controls: Montana lawmakers fired another shot in battles for states? rights as they supported letting some Montana gun owners and dealers skip reporting their transactions to the federal government. Under House Bill 246, firearms made in Montana and used in Montana would be exempt from federal regulatio...

According to the Washington Post: In its reply, the Justice Department wrote that the new rule “does not alter the environmental status quo, and will not have any significant impacts on public health and safety.” But Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has asked for an internal assessment of whether the measure has any environmental impacts ...

Genesis Lamp Joins USA Outback Outdoor Television for 2009 Indianapolis, Indiana - -(OutDoorWire.com)- USA Outback Outdoor Television executive producer Denny Snyder has announced that the award winning popular outdoor television program ‘USA Outback’ has joined forces with Genesis Lamp to light up the world of sportsmen in 2009. Gene...

Evan Nappen makes some predictions about gun control, and he thinks Congressman Engel has provided the plan by which we will be attacked.  I agree with Evan that this is almost a no brainier for Obama if he’s looking to pick a fight with NRA. How it would work is Obama would direct the ATF to do something about it, then ATF would propose a r...

Another violent criminal disarmed for good? [More]...

Dow drops 200 points in first 30 minutes. Must be that hope and change in the air. ...

Before I begin let me define Upstate and Downstate: Upstate includes the entire state except the five boroughs and anyone who embraces the traditional values of firearms ownership, hunting, shooting and fishing. Downstate is everywhere/everyone else. There are a lot of you who will complain that statement is divisive and simply not true but let’s...

New York Newsday reports today that newly appointed U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has moved the firearms she stored under her bed for self-defense in her upstate New York home. She disclosed she had firearms under her bed in an interview with Newsday last Thursday. A Newsday story on the interview ran Monday, prompting reactions by advocates for...

I would have changed Yes, We Can to Unicorns. But it will do: From Gun Porn Received via email. ...

CBS News: The Obama administration is legally defending a last-minute rule enacted by President George W. Bush that allows concealed firearms in national parks, even as it is internally reviewing whether the measure meets environmental muster. In a response Friday to a lawsuit by gun-control and environmental groups, the Justice Department sought t...

You’ll recall during the Republican Primaries, a reporter asked the candidates if they owned guns and, if so, what kind. Fred Thompson answered with: I own a couple but I?m not gonna tell you what they are or where they are. A good answer because it tells pro-gunners that you understand the issue and it prevents dumb things like this from hap...

I've got stuff I want to write, and will this afternoon, but thanks to the reader who sent me a copy of Patriots: Surviving The Coming Collapse, I am nose deep in a book right now.I read it on the 'net as Triple Ought back in the day, and borrowed Oleg's copy and read it a few years back, but it must have been the abridged edition because there is ...

From the TBI, it looks like of 28,606 total January transactions, 1,293 were denied. Of those, 722 were appealed. Of those appeals, 592 were reversed. So, of that sample, 81% were false positives, I suppose. Doesn’t really foster much faith in the system. ...

Largo: Police this week removed an unruly 7-year-old from his classroom and forced him to be hospitalized under the state’s Baker Act ? against the wishes of his outraged parents. The boy spent the night alone at Morton Plant Hospital before he was seen by a child psychologist the next day and discharged. His crime: a tantrum. ...

Via MKS, comes this: Reyes grabbed the girl by the elbow and tried to leave with her, but the child’s grandmother caught up to them and pulled the girl away, he said. The man tried to run away but stopped when he was blocked by a crowd that quickly gathered around him. And this: ?They did not have to put hands on him,? Stahlke said. Pity, tha...

Law Enforcement Amicus Brief Law Professors/Constitutional Accountability Center Seventh Circuit Legislators Institute for Justice Congress of Racial Equality Brief ...

Pretty sweet. ...

ABC News: “Criminal gangs commit as much as 80 percent of the crime in many communities, according to law enforcement officials throughout the nation,” the report notes as part of its key findings. “Typical gang-related crimes include alien smuggling, armed robbery, assault, auto theft, drug trafficking, extortion, fraud, home in...

Sebastian looks at the suit they filed against the Park Service. I’m glad they’re wasting their limited resources so poorly. ...

According to the Paper of making up the Record, the NRA is extremist. I would say that if you went down all the gun issues, average folks would tend to agree more with NRA than with the editorial board of the NYT. ...

We can’t say that word. ...

The anti-gunners keep pusing a .50 caliber ban. The logical next step would be a .499 caliber ban. ...

Via Roberta, comes a book called No Fear: Growing up in a risk averse society. Turns out, nannying them is probably not a good idea. ...

Like Cali before it, Kansas is not remitting tax returns. ...

Via The Leaf Chronicle: The first is SB 1908, the “Second Amendment Protection Act” which prohibits the sale of micro-stamped ammunition or firearms within this state. The intent here is to prevent passage of the “Ammunition Accountability Act,” which requires said micro-stamping. The second, and more important of the two, i...

Baby’s first gun: Pink. ...

Rich writes a letter regarding the CA’s lame defense for publishing the names of handgun carry permit holders: Second, your defense failed to note that you removed addresses and birth dates only after you were deluged in complaints. And then there’s this: News events like the Feb. 6 shooting at Trinity Commons shopping center led many p...

Or why you don’t let someone who’s unfamiliar with firing a machine gun do so without some guidance. ...

Remember the drill team member that was suspended for having her non-gun in her car. The one she practiced drill with? Well, she’s back in school now. ...

Absher Join’s Shooting Illustrated’s GunsAndHunting.Com Staff GunsandHunting.com - -(OutDoorWire.com)- J.R. Absher, noted hunting, conservation and shooting sports writer, has joined the staff of Shooting Illustrated’s GunsandHunting.com. Absher’s writing career spans more than 30 years and includes stints as a newspaper r...

FAL Range Report. Pink P22s. ...

A peep sight for the AK. ...

Hunting rabbits with the Taurus Judge. ...