Concealed Carry

Imagine, if you will, that there are a number of people in a neighborhood that could not find the addresses they are tasked with finding. They are not locals, maybe are unable to read a map, or perhaps do not have the time to pull out a map, and they need to find you with specific GPS coordinates. Their devices would lead them to your front door with these coordinates. Imagine a crisis is afoot, and martial law is put into place. U.S. troops need to round up particular folks.

There have been two markedly different tales of violence and bloodshed from two different college towns that ended two different ways, reflecting the vast differences in culture and the gaping chasm that exists between the political correctness of the gun-free zone mentality and the common sense of being prepared.

The firearms industry appears to be riding out the recession in fine form, with sales across the country flourishing. And the enthusiasm for purchasing such weaponry has spread to communities south of Boston, according to area gun dealers.

Lou Dobbs CNN - Video of President Obama supporting an international treaty creating sweeping gun control efforts. Bill Tucker reports.

Despite Obama's claims that he respects the Second Amendment, new information shows his alarming links to gun control groups.

For the second time in two years, an area legislator is attempting to change the concealed and carry law via a new bill, which will remove the permit-to-carry provision and replace it with an Alaskan-type carry in which no permit would be required to carry.

A woman whose house was being burglarized is believed to have shot one of the three men caught in her home early Thursday.

Senators Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) introduced S. 941 -- the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Reform and Firearms Modernization Act -- on April 30. Senator Leahy is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to which S. 941 has been referred.

A Texas state representative has set his sights on having Texas-made firearms exempt from some federal laws.

Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer this week signed into law a new self-defense statute that will steal the thunder from gun prohibitionists who invariably whine that armed citizens might take the law into their own hands.

The Second Amendment Foundation, The Calguns Foundation and four California residents today filed a lawsuit challenging a California state law and regulatory scheme that arbitrarily bans handguns based on a roster of certified handguns approved by the State.

The National Parks Service has announced it will not challenge a court order that temporarily stops the late-term Bush administration policy of allowing CCW-permit holders to carry in National Parks. That's the news media's backwards way of saying the bureaucrats running the National Parks are delighted they don't have to allow CCW-permit holders to exercise their civil rights in the parks, at least for now.

I believe that every person should have the right to carry a gun for self-defense and no one should tell us there is no need to carry a gun," said Kevin Michalowski, the senior editor of Gun Digest magazine. If you're not committing a crime with that gun, what is the problem?

Los Angeles assemblyman Kevin De Leon's Assembly Bill 962, a bill that would drastically restrict ammunition sales, require thumb-printing when purchasing ammunition and ban all mail-order sales, is still moving through the California legislature.

Senator Arlen Specter provided the instrumental Republican support to get anti-gun Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed by the Senate. So it comes as no surprise that liberal anti-gun Specter, who has no loyalty to the Constitution, also has no loyalty to the political party that elected him. Specter announced this week that he will leave the Republican Party and run as a Democrat in 2010.

It was standing room only at the Soldotna Sports Center last night as many from the Kenai Peninsula attended the rally of the Second Amendment Task Force of the Kenai Peninsula. Even the presenters discussed the turnout.