Handguns

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.

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.