Gun sales hit the 17th consecutive monthly record in September according to Fbi data released on Monday, and overall sales are up 27 percent compared to the same period last year. A total of 1,992,219 background checks were processed through the bureau’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System for the month of September, higher than
Read MoreMelbourne, Australia “is in the grip of an unprecedented wave of gun violence,” according to Australia’s The Age. Despite extremely strict gun control, which the left claims will tamp down on gun crime, this major Australian metropolis is proving the opposite. The Age conducted an investigative report that delved into the rising gun crime situation
Read MoreConnecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis has struck down the lawsuit that Sandy Hook Elementary families had brought against Remington Arms. Remington is the parent company of Bushmaster, the brand of AR-15 that Adam Lanza stole then used to killed 26 innocents at the school. According to a Friday report from CBS New York, Bellis cited the
Read MoreBen Carson’s comments that armed Jews might have saved lives in the Holocaust by resisting Nazi terror have been met with condescending mockery from the left. The Jewish establishment, a network of wealthy non-profit organizations that claim to represent Jews without ever being chosen by them and while working against their interests, has reacted in
Read More“BUT KNOWING HOW TO SHOOT WILL GIVE US HOPE.” ‘In an article [Ze’ev Jabotinsky] wrote in 1936, entitled “On the Hearth” (Yiddish) [Jabotinsky] pointed out that each generation of Jews has its own alef-bet to learn, and the lessons are different for each generation. [Jabotinsky] wrote: “For this generation now growing before our own eyes,
Read More“Universal background checks…. Effectiveness depends on … gun registration….” So says the National Institute of Justice, part of the Obama Justice Department, in a 2013 study. Criminalizing the transfer of firearms between law-abiding citizens—the only ones who would undergo background checks—has nothing to do with preventing violence, but everything to do with registering gun owners.
Read MoreIn a quintuple victory for Second Amendment rights, a federal judge last week overturned a ban on carrying handguns in public, a ban on so-called assault weapons, caliber restrictions for long guns, a $1,000 tax on handguns, and a requirement that all guns be registered with the government. “The individual right to armed self-defense in
Read MoreThis feature appears in the November ‘13 issue of NRA America’s 1st Freedom, one of the official journals of the National Rifle Association. A recently discovered book of anti-gun talking points prepared for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his cronies is chock-full of lies about you and your guns. Preventing Gun Violence Through Effective
Read MoreSchools in southern Illinois were greeted with a terrifying sight in the sky Friday, as a cloud appearing to be in the form of a SIG 556 rifle loomed overhead about 8:30 in the morning. Upon noticing the cloud, teachers and other school personnel rushed to gather the children and move them inside the school
Read MoreYesterday, President Obama commuted the sentences of 214 people serving federal prison sentences. Obama has now granted a total of 562 commutations — a number that the White House says is more than the previous nine presidents combined. Many of those whose sentences Obama previously commuted were convicted of firearm-related offenses. Earlier this year, Sen.
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