While the dismal economic picture in America hasn’t caused “bank runs” wherein customers demand to withdraw their savings from banks across the country — a frequent occurrence during the Great Depression — gun owners are causing a run of their own: a national “gun shop run” for ammunition. Ammunition manufacturers report their factories are...
(The following report was obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police Firearms Committee.) A ruling on a case from South Dakota — where off-duty law enforcement officers were criminally charged for carrying guns despite the authority to do so under the federal ‘Law Enforcement Officer’s Safety Act of 2004′ (LEOSA) — has...
Last week President-elect Obama’s Web site had posted his administration’s agenda for curtailing the Second Amendment rights of law abiding Americans, thereby validating the concerns of gun owners, sportsmen and firearms enthusiasts all across the country. Curiously, the Obama-Biden gun control agenda was taken down from the Web site after just two days, according...
With the election of Barack Obama has come, for many people, a renewed realisation that the world is a very dangerous place; that we are still in the middle of a war against fanatical killers who deliberately target civilians. We must rely on an inexperienced, naive, UN-appeasing “world citizen” type to keep the enemy...
Will Anti-Gun Group’s Endorsement Help Or Hurt? Anti-Gun-Rights Candidate Could Gut “Heller” Decision Now that Barack Obama has received the endorsement of the Brady Campaign gun-control group, will the Supreme Court’s findings in the D.C. gun-ban “Heller” case matter? That’s the question experts are asking in the wake of Obama’s 11th-hour support from America’s...
Recently, the Supreme Court ruled that a resident of Washington D.C. has a Constitutional right to own a firearm for self-defense in the home.1 Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, declared: “Our fight to enact sensible gun laws will be undiminished by the Supreme Court’s decision in the Heller...
5 to 4 Decision Saves Gun Rights In America D.C. Gun Ban Is Unconstitutional and Overturned Second Amendment Protects an Individual Right Unconnected with Militia Service, and is preserved by a single vote Use of firearms for traditional lawful purposes such as self defense at home is a protected right The history, precedents, scholarship...
The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a 5-4 decision that a Washington, D.C. ban of personal firearms possession is unconstitutional. In a majority opinion written by Antonin Scalia, the court found that “he Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that...
There is a song currently being heard on the country stations called Cleaning This Gun and sung by Rodney Atkins. He begins by telling us that he doesn’t recall much of what he heard as a teenager in the classroom but says, “there is one speech from high school/I’ll never forget.†That one stuck...
Peter Hamm, spokesman for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, contended in a Fox News report that self-defense advocates have no business on college campuses. Quite an education our kids are getting. ____________________________________________________ The entire anti-violence movement should know by now that disarming citizens cannot prevent violence. The anti-violence movement is a boondoggle. October...
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