Handguns

Gary Marbut isn't aiming to eliminate federal gun laws. He just wants to make them much less relevant.

On June 11, 23 state attorney generals signed and sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder advising him that they are opposed to renewal of the 1994 Clinton administration's ban on semiautomatic firearms, erroneously dubbed assault weapons by proponents of the ban.

For years, liberty purists and gun owners have asked why we don't have Knife bans and why all the hooplah is only about guns. Well, surprise, surprise, they're likely coming for the knives now.

Currently, information about who has a concealed carry permit in Oregon is considered a public record. A bill to make that information confidential was passed by the Oregon House in May. Recently, though, the same bill did not receive a vote by the Oregon Senate, effectively killing it for this legislative session.

Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel joined 21 other state attorneys general Thursday in writing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to oppose any proposed effort to reinstate the federal assault-weapons ban, which was passed in 1994 but expired in 2004.

Gun-control advocates seized on the Holocaust Museum shooting Wednesday to call on Congress to reverse its drift toward loosening firearms restriction.

Gun instructor John Matuska says a majority of his students are women. He estimates that 150,000 otherwise law-abiding Chicagoans are packing pistols illegally.

'If this were to pass and you cross the state line with one, it's a felony.'

Some have said the CZ-75 is the perfect tactical or concealed carry handgun. After you read this article from the 1997 Gun Digest annual book, you might just agree.

Assisted opening knives could be reclassified as illegal switchblades if a measure proposed by United States Customs and Border Protection becomes law.

The State Senate approved legislation today that seeks to combat the destruction of the 10th Amendment of the Constitution by the Federal government in their attempt to infringe upon states' rights.

Special Forces veteran Michael Gaddy traveled to Tennessee to train a group of fine folks some essential self-defense tactics. I received an invitation to attend this event, and my ten-hour drive to Tennessee, each way, was well worth the instruction I received. I've done a lot of different types of training, but I knew this was going to be different.

Last week, two gun bills had public hearings in Wisconsin - one considering castle doctrine or stand your ground legislation; the other a requirement for guns to possess new microstamping technology.

In California, an anti-ammunition piece of legislation, Assembly Bill 962, passed the state Assembly last week and moved to the state Senate for consideration. If passed, it will impose ammo restrictions and much, much more.

More than 30 people gathered in Bronson Park in Kalamazoo this weekend, packing pistols. It might have been the safest picnic in the state.

Another major U.S. military base is requiring soldiers who live off the premises to provide descriptions, serial numbers, calibers, makes and models of any of the guns they own privately, and do not take onto the premises of the installation.