By Dean Rieck According to the Boston Globe, the City Council in Lynn, MA have decided to allow police to arrest students who bring baseball bats and other “weapons” to school. However…
Op-Ed: The Media Gets It Wrong, Again, On Guns
By John R. Lott In Portsmouth, New Hampshire last week, a man carried a handgun a few blocks away from the site where President Obama was scheduled to hold a town hall…
Tea party movement: There is power in cooperation
By Jeff Knox
The growing dissatisfaction of more and more citizens with the direction of our government and our nation presents a wonderful opportunity for rights activists to build and strengthen coalitions and grow the movement’s base. The media, the administration, and Democrat leaders have broadly attempted to discredit and dismiss several large “right-wing” groups of dissatisfied and concerned citizens by lumping them all together with racist, anti-Semitic, and seditious groups and individuals.
Doing this is an unfair and inaccurate distortion which does do some damage in the short run, but it also serves to drive these mainstream activists together into a more unified front. There are always “kooks” and “undesirables” inserting themselves into any populist movement, whether “right-wing,” “left-wing,” or “centrist,” but “lunatic fringe” aside, the core groups are discovering that they have much in common and they are beginning to coalesce into a broad-based, cooperative coalition which is becoming a powerful political force.
Burglaries of gun store and trooper’s car prove criminals not deterred by background checks or waiting periods
Bu Chad D. Baus
The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that thieves stole nearly $30,000 worth of guns, knives and ammunition during a break-in Monday at the Black Wing Shooting Center in Delaware, and the county sheriff is asking for citizens’ help to recover the stolen property.
Ohio mayor’s resignation from Bloomberg gun control front group gains national attention
By Chad D. Baus
On Tuesday, Buckeye Firearms Association broke the news that Village of Walton Hills, OH Mayor Marlene Anielski had submitted to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg her resignation from the gun control front group known as Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG).
Since then, the news has been spread far and wide, and Anielski is doing some high-profile interviews to further explain her motivations for the resignation.
MSNBC plays racial politics with deceptive editing, says SAF
BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation today accused MSNBC of using deceptively-edited video from a Phoenix, Arizona anti-tax rally on Monday to invent a racial stereotype in its on-going effort to demonize and marginalize American firearms owners as “racists.”
The MSNBC video, narrated by reporter Contessa Brewer, appearing with “Morning Meeting” host Dylan Ratigan, shows an AR-15 rifle being carried over a man’s shoulder. The man is part of a crowd protesting near the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, where President Barack Obama spoke. Brewer notes on camera, “Yes, there are Second Amendment rights, for sure, but also there are questions about whether this has a racial overtone. I mean, here you have a man of color in the presidency and white people showing up with guns strapped to their waist..”
“What MSNBC purposely did not reveal with the deliberately doctored video is that the man carrying that sport-utility rifle was an African-American,” said SAF founder Alan Gottlieb.
Doomed to fail: Latest Chicago gun “buy-back” scheme focuses on “assault-type” weapons
By Gerard Valentino
CBS 2 in Chicago is reporting that Mayor Daley announced a continuation of his failed gun “buy-back” program. According to the story, if a resident turns in an “assault-type gun” they get a $100 gift card from the City.
Background checks on fiream sales up 8.4% in July
Data released by the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported 966,162 checks in July 2009, an 8.4 percent increase from the 891,224 reported in July 2008.
This latest jump in background checks follows the release of the Firearms and Ammunition Excise Tax Collection Report by the Department of the Treasury just two weeks ago.
The report noted that firearm and ammunition manufacturers paid more than $109.8 million in the first calendar quarter of 2009, up 43 percent over the same period in 2008.
California micro-stamping law stalled just months before scheduled implementation
By Chad D. Baus
The San Diego Union-Tribune is reporting that, two years after California passed a gun control law requiring the next generation of semi-automatic handguns to leave a microscopic identifying code on spent casings, the controversial technology appears no closer to being introduced in that state, let alone anywhere else.
The story notes that California Attorney General Jerry Brown has not certified the law, which is required before it can take effect as scheduled on January 1, and his aides could not say when that may happen.
Other states that were considering a similar gun control measure instead have pulled back, and similar federal legislation has failed to move.
ODNR to Offer Youth Deer Gun Hunts at State Nature Preserves
Permits to participate in youth gun hunts will be awarded by lottery COLUMBUS, OHIO – An increasing deer population, resulting in extensive damage to plant communities, has led the Ohio Department of…