April 1st, 2011 Kurt Hofmann St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner Wednesday, the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police voted to support ending Illinois’ shameful status as the only state in the nation to outright ban any form of self-defense with a firearm in public for citizens. FOX Chicago News reports: Leaders of the Illinois Assn. […]
Kurt Hofmann Mary Shepard had the training to carry a firearm for her personal security, having already successfully completed five firearms training courses, including the NRA’s Personal Protection Outside the Home course. She had qualified for defensive firearm carry permits in two different states, and those permits were, between them, recognized in 31 states. Unfortunately, […]
Arming Criminals To Disarm Americans by Bob Livingston If any remain under the delusion that the government doesn’t work covertly and break its own laws to achieve its own nefarious ends, that delusion should be dispelled once and for all with revelation by a Federal agent that the United States Justice Department ordered agents to […]
By Lee Williams Illinoispolicy.org Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s recent edict, which orders the state police to release the names of every gun owner to the media, is bad policy that could put guns into the hands of criminals, and give them a handy database of unarmed victims. Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s recent edict is bad […]
Dave Workman Seattle Gun Rights Examiner A Washington newspaper yesterday morning published an editorial that created quite a stir by announcing that “The left has permanently lost the argument on gun control,” which ought to be required reading for Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, the staff at Washington CeaseFire, and the Seattle Times editorial board. Political […]
Rabbi Dovid Bendory, Rabbinic Director Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership Here in the United States, we Jews have the wonderful and unique freedom to own and use firearms in righteous self-defense. Many American Jews don’t know it, but America actually provides freer access to firearms ownership than Israel provides to its citizenry. By […]
Kurt Hofmann St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner “It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good” is a proverb with particular applicability to the gun rights/”gun control” debate. A mass shooting–an event that any decent person would certainly classify as “ill”–is, to the forcible citizen disarmament lobby, an opportunity to exploit. Long before Rahm Emanuel famously […]
David Codrea “Firearms in the hands of civilians should be strictly limited and eventually completely eliminated,” is the position of the Catholic Church, Carol Glatz of Catholic News Service reports. Citing a November 2000 statement from the U.S. bishops on crime and criminal justice, Glatz calls our attention to a significant footnote: [W]e believe that […]
Source: KTRH Citing the need to curb border violence, under the pilot program that could start as soon as next month, dealers in Texas, California, Arizona and New Mexico would have to inform the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives of any sales of two or more rifles, including assault weapons. The Feds say […]
Kurt Hoffmam Adam Winkler, who teaches Constitutional law at UCLA, claims in a Daily Beast article that Tea Party candidates’ support of gun rights is “radical.” A traditionally hot topic in election season, gun control has been conspicuously absent from the recent candidate debates. This would not be of note if the candidates themselves had […]
Aaron Zelman Founder and Director of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership Copyright 2010 JPFO (This is my personal opinion and does not necessarily represent every member of JPFO. I personally will not bow to, or take the poison of, political correctness.) The leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People […]
Posted by Judson Phillips on September 6, 2010 at 8:49am in Discussions If anyone doubts the priorities of the Obama regime, the story of Paul Copeland is a cautionary tale and one that should strike fear into every law abiding American. Copeland, a 56 year old Texan and Vietnam vet, bought and sold firearms as […]