Brazilian Group Joins Growing IAPCAR Coalition Against Gun Control
By TheGunMag - May 10 2013 02:28 PM - 3 Comments - Breaking News
The International Association for the Protection of Civilian Arms Rights (IAPCAR) announced today that Brazilian gun rights group Movimento Viva Brasil has joined the international coalition of 25 groups in ...
Hacking Shows Why Gun Owners Oppose Registry, Record Keeping, Says CCRKBA
By TheGunMag - May 9 2013 07:16 PM - No Comments - Breaking News
Thursday’s revelation that the Washington State court system has been hacked and the records of hundreds of thousands of citizens may have been accessed clearly demonstrates why gun owners are ...
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, ...
CCRKBA Says Coburn Amendment Made Sense, Blasts Senate
By TheGunMag - May 9 2013 02:02 PM - No Comments - Breaking News
A proposal by Sen. Tom Coburn to expand gun rights made sense, and Senate anti-gunners who opposed the measure should be held accountable by voters, the Citizens Committee for the ...
New Data Proves Gun Control Rhetoric is Wrong
By TheGunMag - May 8 2013 02:58 PM - No Comments - Breaking News
Newly-released data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) proves that more guns in private hands do not lead to more murders, and a Pew Research study showing widespread ignorance ...
SAF Congratulates NRA for Record Houston Turnout
By TheGunMag - May 7 2013 06:19 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
The Second Amendment Foundation today congratulated the National Rifle Association for its record-breaking turnout over the weekend at the 142nd annual meetings in Houston, Tex.
“With a turnout of more than ...
MB Studio Productions High Capacity Magazine PSA (video)
By TheGunMag - May 6 2013 05:05 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
This is the first of several Public Service Announcements MB Studio Productions will be producing to demonstrate who gun laws really affect and why they don't work.
MB Studio Productions is ...
Obama Tells Mexicans Half Story on Guns, Ignores Operation “Fast And Furious”
By TheGunMag - May 6 2013 12:40 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
President Barack Obama was right when he told a Mexican audience Friday that many of the guns used in crime south of the border came from the United States, and ...
Second Amendment Foundation Wins Permanent Injunction v. Illinois Public Housing Gun Ban
By TheGunMag - May 2 2013 01:57 PM - 1 Comments - Breaking News
The Second Amendment Foundation has won a permanent injunction against the Warren County, Ill. Housing Authority’s ban on the possession of firearms by residents or guests.
The case was filed more ...
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 ...
SAF gets big contribution from American Legacy Firearms
By TheGunMag - April 26 2013 05:48 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
Steve Faler and Rosemary Silano with Alan Gottlieb
By Dave Workman | Senior Editor
The Second Amendment Foundation has received a contribution of more than $61,000 from American Legacy Firearms in Colorado, ...
Inhofe, Lucas bill would put brakes on gov’t. ammo buys
By Dave Workman - April 26 2013 12:10 PM - 2 Comments - Breaking News
By Dave Workman | Senior Editor
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 ...
Armed America Radio interview with Alan Gottlieb (Audio)
By TheGunMag - April 22 2013 02:31 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
Alan Gottlieb of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) interviewed on 4-21-2013 by Armed America Radio.
(Click here to listen)
http://armedamericanradio.org/2013/04/4-21-2013-hour-1/
CCRKBA pulls support from Manchin-Toomey background check measure
By Dave Workman - April 17 2013 12:38 PM - 2 Comments - Breaking News
By Dave Workman | Senior Editor
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 ...
Schumer Lies About Alternative Gun Bill, Reveals His Extremist Views Says CCRKBA
By TheGunMag - April 15 2013 05:03 PM - 14 Comments - Breaking News
New York Senator Charles Schumer’s remarks over the weekend about provisions that could be added to an alternative bill regarding background checks are “demonstrably false and delusional,” the Citizens Committee ...
Seattle mayor’s administration e-mails reveal contempt for gun owners
By Dave Workman - April 15 2013 09:55 AM - Comments Off - Breaking News
By Dave Workman | Senior Editor
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
By Dave Workman
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 ...
CCRKBA Calls for Universal Background Checks on all Elected Officials
By TheGunMag - April 10 2013 05:38 PM - 1 Comments - Breaking News
“If politicians want universal background checks, we should start with them,” said Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
He pointed to recent ...
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
By Dave Workman | Senior Editor
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 ...
SAF Alarmed at Absence of Civilian Arms Rights in UN Arms Trade Treaty
By TheGunMag - April 3 2013 02:28 PM - 1 Comments - Breaking News
The controversial Arms Trade Treaty passed by the United Nations General Assembly (GA) with the United States’ support represents an alarming policy shift, and a potential threat to American gun ...
IAPCAR comment on UN ATT approval
By TheGunMag - April 2 2013 04:07 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
The International Association for the Protection of Civilian Arms Rights (IAPCAR) expressed concern about the passage of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (UN ATT) after its approval on April ...
UN adopts Arms Treaty in hurried vote
By Dave Workman - April 2 2013 03:10 PM - 3 Comments - Breaking News
By Dave Workman | Senior Editor
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 ...
SAF WINS PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AGAINST NEW MEXICO CONCEALED CARRY BAN
By Ray Carter - April 2 2013 12:54 PM - 2 Comments - Breaking News
The Second Amendment Foundation has won a preliminary injunction against a part of the State of New Mexico’s concealed carry statute on the grounds that it violates the right of ...
SAF Sues Nebraska for Carry Ban on Legal Immigrants
By TheGunMag - April 1 2013 08:42 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
The Second Amendment Foundation today filed a motion for injunctive relief against Nebraska officials over a statutory prohibition that prevents non-citizens legally residing in the state from obtaining a concealed ...
NSSF Objects to U.S. Government Abandoning Position that U.N. Treaty Must be based on International “Consensus”
By TheGunMag - April 1 2013 01:31 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
The National Shooting Sports Foundation today strongly objected to the last-minute reversal of the U.S. government position regarding the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty. In the closing hours of negotiations ...
‘Shame on you Mr. President, not the country’ says CCRKBA
By TheGunMag - March 29 2013 01:16 PM - 5 Comments - Breaking News
President Barack Obama told White House reporters that the nation should be ashamed if it has forgotten the Newtown tragedy, but the real shame is that the president and other ...
