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Today, the U.S. Senate commences hearings on Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who was nominated by President Obama to replace the retiring Judge David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court. Gun owners, beware.

Gun sales in Sacramento County have grown more than in any other populous county in California since November, according to the state attorney general's office.

Why is the current leadership of NRA unwilling to denounce what some are calling the most anti-gun Supreme Court nominee we've seen in a long time?

Another attack on our constitutional rights as gun owners is coming down the pike. Currently in committee there is legislation designed to close the so-called gun show loophole.

More than 100 agents of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) have been visiting the houses of gun purchasers in Houston, Texas. But the federal agency won't say if agents are using warrants to do so.

Several of the nation's leading gun rights activists, including the heads of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and Second Amendment Foundation, on July 7 joined to oppose the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

If Murfreesboro decides to allow guns in parks it could cost the city the annual Spring Fling event and the $3.5 million it brings in from tourism.

Kenny Barnes' son was shot in the face and killed during a 2001 robbery, and he's upset that some in Congress want to eliminate Washington's strict gun control laws.

In front of a run-down shack in north Houston, federal agents step from a government sedan into 102-degree heat and face a critical question: How can the woman living here buy four high-end handguns in one day?

Beginning June 29, 2009, the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) section is requiring that place of birth be provided for all FBI-initiated transactions.

A state appeals court on Tuesday ordered a new trial for a 62-year-old retired teacher convicted of murder in the shooting death of a hiker in northern Arizona five years ago.

The secret government Terrorist Watch List reportedly already swelled to more than 1.1 million names, will have an addendum, if gun control advocates in Congress have their way.

Too much work [was] left undone. After a few sleepless nights, I wrote for myself a list of issues on which I needed to do more in the years ahead. One of those issues was global regulation of small arms. -- Harold Hongju Koh (2001)

The Democratic lawmaker from New Jersey says it simply defies common sense to allow gun sales to people suspected of being terrorists. He's right - until he proposes that the government's terrorism watch list should be the deciding factor of whether someone can buy a gun.

After literally years of effort, the powerful anti-gun forces in New Jersey politics have finally succeeded in passing a one handgun per month bill, which now heads to Governor Corzine's desk for his inevitable signature.

Gun Owners of America applauds immediate past NRA President Sandy Froman, who stepped up to the plate last week with a call to arms for all NRA members to vigorously oppose the nomination of Judge Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.