Gun Rights

Calguns Foundation Establishes “DOJ Watch” Incident Reporting System

by AmmoLand May 16, 2012 AmmoLand

Calguns FoundationSan Carlos, CA –(Ammoland.com)- As a response to an increasing number of reports of apparently improper conduct on the part of the California Department of Justice towards those seeking to acquire firearms for self-defense – a protected activity under the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.The Calguns Foundation has established an incident and [...]

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[Video] Michigan Concealed Pistol License (CPL) – Testimonial #236

by Rick Ector May 14, 2012 Legally Armed in Detroit

View this video clip to hear what a student has to say about the CCW/CPL class training we provide in the greater Detroit Michigan area.Visit our Detroit MI CCW Class page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MichiganCCWIf you do not see an embedded video above, visit our Michigan CCW Class channel on Youtube.Rick Ector is a National Rifle [...]

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Gun Rights LettersTo Editor Contest Winner Selected

by DavidCodrea May 11, 2012 AmmoLand

AmmoLand Gun NewsUSA –(Ammoland.com)- Judges turned out to be secondary to chance in selecting today’s winner of the Gun Rights Examiner letters to the editor contest, first announced one month ago in this column. In the end, three finalists split one vote from this correspondent and one each from fellow judges, Seattle Gun Rights Examiner [...]

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Republican ‘Young Guns’ Solicited Democrats To Support Anti-Gun Lugar

by DavidCodrea May 7, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “Senate’s Most Anti-gun Republican in Trouble in Indiana,” a May 5 Gun Owners of America email alert advised.“The most anti-gun Republican in the U.S. Senate, Dick Lugar, recently fell ten points behind in the polls to 100% gun rights supporter Richard Mourdock,” GOA reported in anticipation of tomorrow’s primary.While [...]

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Does Obama Really Plan To Ease Weapons Export Rules?

by DavidCodrea May 4, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “The Obama administration is crafting a proposal that could make it easier to export firearms and other weapons to certain countries in an effort to boost sales for U.S. companies, increase trade and improve national security, according to senior government officials,” Sari Horwitz of The Washington Post reported Wednesday.“The [...]

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EXCLUSIVE: The End Game

by DavidCodrea May 1, 2012 AmmoLand

AmmoLand Gun NewsFor some time now, particularly after changing their name from Handgun Control, Inc., the Brady Campaign has been assuring Americans they don’t want to ban guns.The idea of a “slippery slope” is something they ridicule as “gun lobby” paranoia. They acknowledge since the Heller decision this will be an unlikely goal (for now), [...]

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ATF Answers the Top 10 Frequently Asked Firearms Questions

by AmmoLand May 1, 2012 AmmoLand

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and ExplosivesWashington, DC –(Ammoland.com)- ATF receives numerous telephone and electronic inquiries on a daily basis.In an effort to provide individuals with the most up-to-date information, ATF has compiled a list of the top 10 most frequently asked questions.Provided below are answers to those questions: Top 10 Frequently Asked Firearms Questions [...]

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Schimel’s Anti-Gun Rant Shows Desperation For Relevance

by DavidCodrea April 30, 2012 AmmoLand

AmmoLand Gun NewsUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “Assemblyman Karim Camara and I were joined Friday by state lawmakers, family members who lost loved ones to gun violence, and community leaders in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to shed light on the gun lobby’s undue influence in New York State and called on it to help stop the shooting that is [...]

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Michigan Concealed Pistol License Tip: Michigan CPL-Holders Will Be Able To Carry TASERs Soon

by Rick Ector April 30, 2012 Legally Armed in Detroit

Michigan Concealed Pistol License Tip:Michigan is expected soon to join the ranks of several other states that allow civilians to carry TASERs. Under pending legislation awaiting the signature of Governor Snyder, persons who possess a valid CPL and have been trained in the usage, risks, and effects of TASERs will be allowed to own, possess, [...]

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Rick Ector To Debate TASERs on the "Charlie Langton Show" – Monday, April 30th, 2012

by Rick Ector April 29, 2012 Legally Armed in Detroit

Tomorrow morning at 8a.m. – April 30th, 2012 – I will make another appearance on the “Charlie Langton Show” on station WXYT at radio frequency 1270 AM. We’ll probably do two live segments live in the studio. It is expected that Mr. Ron “Buzz Words” Scott (Coalition Against Police Brutality) will also be joining the [...]

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Rick Ector Appears on the Gun Rights Radio Network – April 18th, 2012

by Rick Ector April 27, 2012 Legally Armed in Detroit

On April 18th Rick Ector, a National Rifle Association (NRA) Credentialed Firearms Trainer based in Detroit Michigan, made his first appearance on the “Bar Stool Discussion” on the Gun Rights Radio Network (GRRN).The show hosts, Doc Wesson and Mark Vanderberg, interviewed him on the NRA’s Annual Meeting and gun rights. You can now hear the [...]

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Gun Rights Are Fundamental

by AmmoLand April 26, 2012 AmmoLand

By Chris W. CoxNRA-ILA's Chris W. CoxFAIRFAX, Va. –(Ammoland.com)-  As a seventh generation Tennessean, Tennessee property owner and graduate of Rhodes College in Memphis, the legislative battle over keeping locked firearms in vehicles on company property hits home with me.So I was particularly disappointed to read journalism professor Otis L. Sanford’s anti-Second Amendment rant on [...]

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Trucker Accidentally Transporting Ammo To Mexico Highlights Inequity In Laws

by DavidCodrea April 24, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “Mexican federal prosecutors will press charges against the U.S. trucker who may have accidentally crossed into Juárez with 268,000 rounds of ammunition last week, a source familiar with the investigation said Monday,” the El Paso Times reports today.The driver, who took a wrong turn and ended up on the [...]

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Is The National Rifle Association (NRA) An Organization For Black People?

by Rick Ector April 23, 2012 Legally Armed in Detroit

Last weekend, I spent a few days in St. Louis to attend the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) 2012 Annual Meeting. While I was there, both as a member and as a gun rights blogger, it had been brought to my attention by fellow convention attendees that some people in the blogosphere were decrying the organization’s [...]

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Next Media Appearance: Rick Ector On The Charlie Langton Show – Monday, April 23, 2012

by Rick Ector April 20, 2012 Legally Armed in Detroit

On next Monday morning – April 23rd, 2012 – I will make an appearance on the “Charlie Langton Show” on station WXYT at radio frequency 1270 AM. My appearance starts at 8:00am. During my appearance, Charlie Langton and I will be joined by Michigan State Senator Rick Jones to discuss soon-to-be enacted legislation that will [...]

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Last Media Appearance: Rick Ector Discusses Trayvon Martin Case On "The Charlie Langton Show" – April 13th

by Rick Ector April 17, 2012 Legally Armed in Detroit

This past Friday morning – April 13th, 2012 – I made another appearance on the “Charlie Langton Show” on station WXYT at radio frequency 1270 AM. I did two live segments. I was interviewed remotely, as I was in attendance at the NRA’s Annual Meeting is St. Louis.During the two segments over the air we [...]

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@NYDailyNews Sets Up Ambush for NRA at #NRAAM

by VSSA April 15, 2012 Virginia Shooting Sports Assoc.

The New York Daily News extended an invitation to Jackie Rowe-Adams, a New York mother whose two sons were slain by criminals using firearms and the founder of Harlem Mothers S.A.V.E, to attend the NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits. One can only gather from this that the intent was to put her face to face with one [...]

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Why Most Of The World Hates Our Second Amendment

by cocked and loaded April 13, 2012 Cocked and Loaded

Thug dictators and tyrants cannot seizepower with an armed opposition…more

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Bloomberg Reeks Of Hypocrisy On ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws

by DavidCodrea April 12, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called for the nationwide reform or repeal of Stand Your Ground laws today at an event in Washington D.C. to announce the Second Chance on Shoot First campaign,” ABC News reported yesterday.“Let’s call that by its real name, vigilantism,” the mayor told the [...]

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Enforcing Georgia’s “Shall Issue” GWL for Concealed Carry

by JClapp April 9, 2012 Best Defense LLC

A local Atlanta attorney that I think highly of has been out and about making sure Georgia’s probate judges aren’t exercising opinion over the law in their duties to issue Georgia Weapon Licenses (GWL). In case you weren’t aware, we in Georgia enjoy living in a “shall issue” state where provided you’re not a prohibited [...]

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Is Uncertified ‘Top Philly Cop’ Breaking Gun Laws He’d Break Us For?

by DavidCodrea April 5, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “He carries a gun, he displays a badge, he wears a uniform, but Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey is not a certified police officer, technically speaking, and shouldn’t be armed, badged and uniformed,” Stu Bykofsky reported last month on Philly.com.Dismissing a violation of Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes as “a loveably Philly [...]

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Sloppy Mainstream Reporting On Basic Gun Facts Points To Pervasive Failure

by DavidCodrea April 4, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- Police seized some guns in Nashua, NH, writer Carl Bussjaeger noted over the weekend on Bear’s Blog.“At least two papers and a TV station are carrying the story on their web sites,” he explained. “Notice that I used the singular form of ‘story’ despite multiple venues. All three ‘reports’ [...]

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Kopel On Stand Your Ground

by VSSA April 4, 2012 Virginia Shooting Sports Assoc.

Great Op/Ed by Dave Kopel addressing the “stand your ground” myth. Hat tip to Cam Edwards and NRANews.

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Why Did Prosecutors Drop Gun Charge Against Defiant Prohibited Person?

by DavidCodrea April 3, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “Homer ‘Tank’ Wright says he’s happy prosecutors dropped charges filed against him after he shot a suspected burglar last week,” The Chicago Tribune reported Monday.A burglar had broken into the 80-year-old tavern owner’s property through a bathroom window at 4 a.m. Awakened by the noise, he confronted and shot [...]

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The Spin in Senator Howell’s Op/Ed Qualifies it as a Thrill Ride

by VSSA April 3, 2012 Virginia Shooting Sports Assoc.

Senator Janet Howell (D-Fairfax) recently wrote this Op/Ed in the Washington Post that says there is “hope” for “reasonable gun laws” in Virginia.  We are used to such pronouncements from the gun ban lobby.  But Senator Howell’s spin on the results of the just completed 2012 Session of the General Assembly truely qualifies the article [...]

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NC’s "State Of Emergency" Gun Ban Struck Down

by cocked and loaded March 30, 2012 Cocked and Loaded

Another bad gun law struck down onSecond Amendment grounds…more

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Top 13 Reasons NOT to Join the NRA

by Tom March 28, 2012 My Gun Culture

People who play with guns have all sorts of reasons for not joining the NRA. I forgot. My dog ate my computer. My dog peed on my computer. I am a member – I sent them $10 27 years ago. I bought a used gun, so I’m automatically a member. Isn’t it part of my [...]

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“Glock” Author = Anti-gun?

by GunNutmegger March 27, 2012 Yankee Gun Nuts

Most people who read this blog have probably heard of the book “Glock: the Rise of America’s Gun” by Paul Barrett.  Gun people who have read the book have given it generally positive reviews. However, that view of the book (and its author) might need to be tempered with the knowledge that Mr. Barrett seems [...]

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Will Indiana Gun Owners Let GOP Establishment Foist Lugar On Us All Again?

by DavidCodrea March 21, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- Six-term senator Richard Lugar, R- Ind., is facing a challenger in the May primary. As the longest-serving senator in Indiana history, the third most senior senator, and the most senior Republican (albeit Orrin Hatch disputes that), Lugar may become president pro tempore of the Senate should he secure the [...]

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Last Media Appearance: Rick Ector On The Charlie Langton Show – March 20, 2012

by Rick "9mm" Ector March 20, 2012 Legally Armed in Detroit

Earlier today, Tuesday – March 20th, 2012 – I made my second appearance on the “Charlie Langton Show” on station WXYT at radio frequency 1270 AM. I did three live segments starting at the 7:00am hour. During the three segments over the air we discussed an upcoming decision expected from the Jackson, MI County Board [...]

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Next Media Appearance: Rick Ector On The Charlie Langton Show Tomorrow

by Rick "9mm" Ector March 19, 2012 Legally Armed in Detroit

Tomorrow morning – Tuesday – March 20th 16th, 2012 – I will make my second appearance on the “Charlie Langton Show” on station WXYT at radio frequency 1270 AM. My appearance starts at 7:00am. During my appearance, Charlie Langton and I will discuss an upcoming vote by Jackson County (MI) to decide whether it’s employees [...]

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Iowa: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Holds Up Two NRA-Priority Gun Bills

by The LearnAboutGuns.com Author March 18, 2012 Learn About Guns

Below is an NRA announcement concerning two important pro-gun bills for Iowa.  I would encourage everyone who lives, works, or is otherwise involved with Iowa to take action: (more…)< Read More…. LearnAboutGuns.com Premium * Join the NRA * Buy Guns & Accessories Online

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Blogger Vanderboegh Recovering From Surgery

by DavidCodrea March 14, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- BIRMINGHAM, Ala. —“Doctors managed to do what the government could not—temporarily silence me,” Sipsey Street Irregulars blogger Mike Vanderboegh told Gun Rights Examiner by phone this morning from the intensive care unit at Trinity Medical Center.The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance blog reported yesterday that Vanderboegh, the [...]

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Researchers Say Don’t Count On Constitution To Stop Arms Trade Treaty

by DavidCodrea March 13, 2012 AmmoLand

AmmoLand Gun NewsUSA –(Ammoland.com)- MANASQUAN, N.J. — “There is a widespread misunderstanding on the part of American gun-owners, evidenced in gun blogs and in commentaries on articles dealing with the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT),” researchers Paul Gallant, Sherry Gallant, Alan Chwick and Joanne D. Eisen report in an AmmoLand paper filed yesterday.“The crux of this [...]

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Justice Department Voter ID Opposition Glaringly Inconsistent With Its Gun Stance

by DavidCodrea March 12, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “The Justice Department’s civil rights division on Monday objected to a new photo ID requirement for voters in Texas because many Hispanic voters lack state-issued identification,” Pete Yost of Associated Press reported today.DOJ Civil Rights Division head Thomas E. Perez, in a letter to the Texas Secretary of State, [...]

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