Gun Rights

The national United Methodist Church didn't just call for prayer after the cinema shootings. Instead, the United Methodist Church's General Board of Church & Society stepped up on the bodies of the dead and wounded in Colorado to call for a ban on handguns and semi-auto defense rifles.

American Second Amendment rights could be directly threatened by the latest wording of a United Nations draft treaty seeking control over international trade in conventional weapons, FoxNews.com has learned.

An Atlanta federal appeals court has rejected a minister's argument that gun carriers have a constitutional right to bring sidearms to worship services. The ruling upholds Georgia's 2010 law that bans guns in churches, synagogues and mosques.

A new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office confirms that the number of Americans exercising the right to carry firearms for personal protection is skyrocketing, NRA-ILA reports.

WBNS-10TV in Columbus, Ohio, reports that a pizza-delivery driver in Columbus stopped two men armed with shotguns who attempted to rob him.

Another anti-gun media outlet has put law-abiding gun owners at risk. WRAL.com, the online media outlet for the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Triangle’s WRAL television station, recently published a “news” article about the number of Right-to-Carry permit holders in various counties of North Carolina.

Background checks for people wanting to purchase firearms in Colorado spiked more than 40 percent this past weekend, after a gunman opened fire in a suburban Denver movie theater, killing 12 people and wounding 58 more.

BATFE's acting director distributed a videotaped message to employees this month warning there would be “consequences” for reporting wrongdoing outside their chain of command.

Writing at the Heritage Foundation, Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D., offered, “For much of the past two weeks, I’ve been attending the U.N.’s Arms Trade Treaty conference in New York and blogging on the craziness. A number of comments on my blogs—and many external commentators—have raised the question of whether the ATT is, pure and simple, a “gun grab” treaty.”

UCLA Prof. Eugene Volokh, writing on the Volokh Conspiracy, recently posted a demographic study of which group was the fastest-growing cohort to become concealed carry licensees in Texas.

U.N. and global gun banners began their most recent attack on Second Amendment freedoms by including civilian arms in the proposed Arms Trade Treaty, which was called for in a resolution adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 2009. A conference began this week in New York City to draft the treaty's language. The conference will run through July 27.

(GunReports.com) The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee wants to know who at the Justice Department saw a memo from an ATF agent in Phoenix outlining questionable tactics in the Fast and Furious operation that was sent to Washington a day before the department denied any weapons had been “walked” to Mexico.