Gun homicides down, ownership up, antis spin story
By Dave Workman - May 9 2013 02:54 PM - 1 Comments - Breaking News
By Dave Workman | Senior Editor
A pair of blockbuster reports showing that firearm-related homicides have plummeted over the past 20 years, during the same period that gun ownership has climbed, ...
NRA sets record in Houston, names Porter as president
By Dave Workman - May 9 2013 01:38 PM - No Comments - Gun Mag Reports
By Dave Workman | Senior Editor
Capping off a record attendance at the 142nd annual National Rifle Association members’ meeting and exhibits in Houston, TX, the NRA Board of Directors named ...
Antis launch big $$ background check effort in WA
By Dave Workman - April 30 2013 01:42 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
By Dave Workman | Senior Editor
Evergreen State anti-gunners, including members of “interfaith and denominational faith leaders—under the banner of the Faith Action Network (FAN),” have launched a big money political ...
Inhofe, Lucas bill would put brakes on gov’t. ammo buys
By Dave Workman - April 26 2013 12:10 PM - 2 Comments - Breaking News
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Less than 24 hours after a joint House subcommittee hearing that probed Department of Homeland Security ammunition purchases, two Oklahoma lawmakers introduced legislation to put ...
Gun prohibitionists mount grisly anti-NRA effort
By Dave Workman - April 24 2013 04:09 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
By Dave Workman | Senior Editor
Protesters from Code Pink (pictured above) crashed the nationally televised NRA press conference last December.
A coalition of anti-gun groups is launching a protest against ...
House Oversight subcommittees to probe DHS ammo procurements
By Dave Workman - April 24 2013 11:34 AM - Comments Off - Breaking News
By Dave Workman | Senior Editor
A joint session involving two subcommittees of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will probe huge ammunition purchases by the Department of Homeland ...
CCRKBA pulls support from Manchin-Toomey background check measure
By Dave Workman - April 17 2013 12:38 PM - 2 Comments - Breaking News
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The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms announced this morning that it has withdrawn its support for the Manchin-Toomey alternative background ...
Seattle mayor’s administration e-mails reveal contempt for gun owners
By Dave Workman - April 15 2013 09:55 AM - Comments Off - Breaking News
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A Seattle police official quickly scotched a suggestion earlier this year that citizens with concealed pistol licenses be monitored; just one revelation about how Mayor ...
Rock River co-founder Larson passes
By Dave Workman - April 12 2013 05:42 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
Mark Larson, co-founder of Rock River Arms, passed away on Friday, April 5. He was 50.
Mr. Larson and his brother, Chuck, founded Rock River Arms in 1996 in Colona, IL, ...
MO Senate investigating leak of CCW permit holder names to feds
By Dave Workman - April 11 2013 01:43 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
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Senior Editor
Republican members of the Missouri State Senate are digging into revelations that the names of Missouri citizens who have concealed weapons permits have been twice turned over ...
Manchin, Toomey offer accord on background checks
By Dave Workman - April 10 2013 01:33 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
By Dave Workman | Senior Editor
A tentative bipartisan deal on expanded background checks has been announced by the two senators who hammered it out, but the fate of this agreement ...
Lone Star College student: ‘We wish we could carry guns’
By Dave Workman - April 9 2013 04:04 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
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Authorities are continuing to investigate a mass stabbing on the campus of Lone Star College near Houston, TX during which at least 14 people were ...
PoliceOne survey shows support for CCW, rejection of ‘buy backs’
By Dave Workman - April 8 2013 05:43 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
By Dave Workman | Senior Editor
PoliceOne.com, which has some 400,000 registered members, released the results of a nationwide survey of about 15,000 active duty and retired law enforcement officers showing ...
UN adopts Arms Treaty in hurried vote
By Dave Workman - April 2 2013 03:10 PM - 3 Comments - Breaking News
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By a 154-3 vote with 23 abstentions that included Russia and China, the United Nations General Assembly quickly pushed through an international Arms Trade Treaty ...
Reports: Three senators will block gun control as public support wanes
By Dave Workman - March 26 2013 12:25 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
Sen. Paul, Lee, and Cruz
By Dave Workman
Senior Editor
Republican Senators Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee are threatening a pitched battle against new gun control legislation in the Senate ...
Gresham encourages economic boycott of Colorado over gun laws
By Dave Workman - March 22 2013 01:02 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
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Senior Editor
Nationally-syndicated Gun Talk host Tom Gresham is striking back at Colorado’s newly-enacted gun laws the best way he knows how—economically—and he is encouraging other gun owners and ...
NYSRPA files federal complaint v. Gov. Cuomo over New York gun law
By Dave Workman - March 21 2013 05:06 PM - 1 Comments - Breaking News
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Senior Editor
The New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, an affiliate of the National Rifle Association, has filed a federal complaint against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Attorney ...
CO Gov. Hickenlooper signs anti-gun bills, Magpul pulling out
By Dave Workman - March 20 2013 05:39 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
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Senior Editor
With the signature of Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on anti-gun legislation that includes a ban on so-called “high capacity magazines,” Magpul Industries is pulling out of the ...
Feinstein’s ban dropped from gun bill; but she gets amendment vote
By Dave Workman - March 19 2013 05:33 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
By Dave Workman
Senior Editor
Anti-gun US Senator Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) effort to ban so-called “assault weapons” will not be part of the Democrats’ gun control legislative package in April, but she ...
Senate Judiciary okays Feinstein ‘assault weapon’ ban; CCRKBA vows fight
By Dave Workman - March 14 2013 03:09 PM - 1 Comments - Breaking News
Alan Gottlieb
By Dave Workman
Senior Editor
Anti-gun California Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s measure to permanently ban so-called “assault weapons” was passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee on a strict party-line vote, re-kindling ...
Poll shows broad support for background checks, less for Obama gun agenda
By Dave Workman - March 8 2013 02:13 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
By Dave Workman
Senior Editor
More Americans trust Congressional Republicans on national gun policy than they do President Barack Obama, according to a new poll by Quinnipiac University.
The survey results also reinforce ...
Background check surge continues 4th straight month
By Dave Workman - March 5 2013 01:28 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
By Dave Workman
Senior Editor
The surge in background checks, suggesting continued strong sales of firearms at retail gun shops, continued in February as more than 2 million check requests were submitted ...
Startling video demolishes ‘hi-cap’ magazine myth
By Dave Workman - February 27 2013 04:19 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
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Senior Editor
A new video financed by ArmaLite and featuring an Indiana sheriff demolishes the hysteria about so-called “high-capacity” ammunition magazines and refutes the argument that banning such devices ...
SAF launches ‘Equal Gun Rights’ campaign
By Dave Workman - February 25 2013 02:56 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
By Dave Workman
Senior Editor
The Second Amendment Foundation has launched an ambitious campaign to promote personal protection and point to the racial inequalities inherent in gun control laws, calling it Equal ...
WA state senators tried twice before to include police searches in gun ban bills
By Dave Workman - February 19 2013 01:54 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
By Dave Workman
Senior Editor
Two anti-gun Washington State senators from Seattle, who are now under fire for having included a provision for the annual warrantless search by police officers of homes ...
King County, WA sheriff protects names of CPL holders
By Dave Workman - February 15 2013 02:34 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
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Senior Editor
King County Sheriff John Urquhart has denied a request for the names and addresses of concealed pistol license holders in his jurisdiction, sought by a New York-based ...
CCRKBA testifies in support of WA measure to crack down on armed juveniles
By Dave Workman - February 8 2013 01:57 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
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Prosecutor Dan Satterberg with Don Pierce of the Sheriffs and Police Chiefs Association. CCRKBA's Gottlieb looks on.
Senior Editor
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear ...
SAF scores victory in Oak Harbor, WA; parks gun ban repealed
By Dave Workman - February 6 2013 12:35 PM - 1 Comments - Breaking News
By Dave Workman
Senior Editor
The Second Amendment Foundation has scored a high-publicity victory over a city parks gun ban that became the focus of national attention thanks to a YouTube video ...
Semi-autos important for self-defense, bans only hurt law-abiding, say 2A advocates
By Dave Workman - January 30 2013 04:09 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
by Dave Workman
Senior Editor
Banning semiautomatic rifles and limiting handgun magazines to ten rounds will only penalize and even endanger law-abiding citizens, especially women.
That was the message delivered to the Senate ...
Big gun rights battle in small WA city
By Dave Workman - January 29 2013 02:12 PM - 1 Comments - Breaking News
By Dave Workman
Senior Editor
A display of anti-gun jitters by a member of the Oak Harbor, Wash. city council ignited a gun rights furor in the Pacific Northwest recently that found ...
Feinstein measure will permanently ban semi-autos
By Dave Workman - January 24 2013 03:19 PM - 3 Comments - Breaking News
By Dave Workman
Senior Editor
California Senator Dianne Feinstein’s newly-introduced measure to ban so-called “assault weapons” permanently so that over time, the supply of such firearms would “dry up” also contains safe ...
