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Full senate to vote on her nomination soon. It was nearly a party-line vote. While every Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted in favor of Judge Sonia Sotomayor today, almost every Republican voted against her... all except for turncoat Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.

Last week, the U.S. Senate defeated an amendment to a larger bill that would have established a national concealed carry law.

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday voted to approve Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. The National Rifle Association switched its position on Sotomayor, from neutral to opposed. Even so, many Republicans are expected to vote in approval of Sotomayor despite her clear anti-gun views.

If today's headline surprised you, then you might be missing one salient fact: The armed citizen who shot three men who allegedly attacked him and his companion with a baseball bat and a pistol was a Markham police officer.

The gun lobby suffered a rare defeat on Capitol Hill as the Senate on Wednesday narrowly rejected a measure to allow gun owners to carry concealed firearms across state lines.

Laudable though Thune's goal of national concealed carry may be, understand that the entire exercise was nothing but a sham in which (surprise, surprise) the amendment failed by a vote of 58 - 39. So before gun rights supporters contact the 39 ever-so-brave US Senators (including 20 Democrats) to thank them for supporting the measure, all should understand that its failure was preordained by Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and quite probably sanctioned by the NRA.

A retired teacher whose murder conviction was overturned walked out of prison Tuesday to hugs from his family after serving three years of a 10-year sentence. Fish's case rippled through the Arizona legal and political arena and drew national attention from gun-rights and concealed carry advocates. After Fish was charged, legislators rewrote Arizona's self-defense laws.

The Obama administration is raising the stakes in a fight over states' rights and firearm ownership by arguing that new pro-gun laws in Montana and Tennessee are invalid.

The first rule of a gunfight is simple: Have a gun. What's the best gun? The best gun is the gun you have with you when the gunfight starts. Gun Digest Senior Editor Kevin Michalowski looks at the North American Arms Guardian and Micro Desert Eagle.

In all kinds of weather, pocket carry makes sense. For many, it's the ideal answer.

All indications are that the United States Senate will consider the National Defense Authorization Act (S. 1390) this week. As a part of that legislation, Senators John Thune (R-SD) and David Vitter (R-LA) will offer an amendment to provide for interstate recognition of Right-to-Carry permits.

This is another way of saying that the Tenth Amendment is not binding on the Federal Government. Of course, that amounts to saying that federal officials have decided to ignore the Constitution when it doesn't suit them.

This new defensive handgun ammunition, adopted by the FBI, is available for handgunners everywhere.

Sen. Tom Coburn, a strong advocate of individual gun ownership, found an intriguing way to question Sotomayor on that issue. First, he asked her how she could consider that the right to privacy (not mentioned in the Constitution) is settled law but the right to keep and bear arms (the Second Amendment) as unsettled.

Authorities say a Tampa man shot and killed another man that he claimed was trying to break into his apartment.

U.S. Supreme Court nominee won't answer whether she believes there's a right to self-defense.