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Gun Control Kills Jobs…

Cindy — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:00:09 +0000

Ever since Barack Obama was sworn in as president, the economy has misfired. Jobs remain scarce and the market has yet to recover the value it had prior to the 2007 crash. Though Mr. Obama’s policies have unintentionally given a major boost to an industry he hates – firearms – even this one bright spot [...]

Three More Wins for Gun Owners

Cindy — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 05:07:08 +0000

Thursday, December 22, 2011

H.R. 2055 – The Constitutional Appropriations Act of 2012 – has been passed by the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and has been sent to the President for his expected signature. This bill contains three NRA-backed provisions that will strenthen our Second Amendment rights and prohibit your federal tax [...]

Gun sales at record levels, according to FBI background checks

Cindy — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:05:50 +0000

WASHINGTON (CNN) — December holiday shoppers were not just interested in buying the hottest electronics and toys — they also were purchasing record numbers of guns, according to the latest FBI figures on background checks required to buy firearms.

With a few days left in December, the FBI reports the number of background checks has [...]

Mystery company buying up U.S. gun manufacturers

Cindy — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:06:18 +0000

In recent years, many top-selling brands – including the 195-year-old Remington Arms, as well as Bushmaster Firearms and DPMS, leading makers of military-style semiautomatics – have quietly passed into the hands of a single private company. It is called the Freedom Group – and it is the most powerful and mysterious force in the U.S. [...]

MSNBC’s Alex Wagner Wants To Ban The 2nd Amendment

Cindy — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:48:33 +0000

MSNBC analyst and soon-to-be host of a daytime television show on the network Alex Wagner is asked what she thinks needs to be removed in the Constitution. Wagner says the second Amendment since it doesn’t seem to fit in with the others.

Watch video included in this article. It is alarming how many [...]

Congress Could Consider National Carry Bill Soon!

Cindy — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:33:25 +0000

As we have been reporting, H.R. 822, the “National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011”, is on the move in the U.S. House of Representatives. On September 13, House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security held a hearing on H.R. 822. The House could consider H.R. 822 in the next few [...]

Opinion: Obama’s stealth gun control

Cindy — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:42:08 +0000
By: Chuck
Norris
August 24, 2011 04:34 AM EDT Not long ago, the gun control advocates Jim and Sarah Brady visited the White
House. President Barack Obama reportedly told them that he was working on new gun control
schemes “under the radar.”It’s been said that guns have two [...]

Hatch, Senators raise concerns over UN Treaty impact on Second Amendment

Cindy — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:58:12 +0000

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) joined his colleague Senator Jerry Moran (R-KS) and 43 other Senators in expressing grave concern about the dangers posed to Second Amendment rights by the United Nations’ Arms Trade Treaty. In a letter to President Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, the 45 senators said they would [...]

Democrats Oppose Obama-U.N. Gun Control Treaty

Cindy — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:29:29 +0000

Twelve Democratic senators have joined 45 Republicans in a fast growing movement to halt progress on an Obama-backed United Nations effort that could bring international gun control into the United States and slap America’s gun owners with severe restrictions. Read more…

NRA to UN: don’t regulate US arms ownership

Cindy — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 03:21:59 +0000

UNITED NATIONS—The National Rifle Association on Friday declared its opposition to any attempt by U.N. member states to prohibit or regulate U.S. civilian ownership of firearms as they draft a treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade.

The influential U.S. gun owners’ lobbying group said in a statement on its legislative action website that [...]