Gun Rights

There has been some good news related to guns lately, reports NRA-ILA. Pro-Second Amendment Gov. Scott Walker's 7-point victory in the recent recall elections in Wisconsin--a great victory for gun owners in its own right--calls into question Mr. Obama's ability to win that state, which he carried by 13 percentage points in 2008.

Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed into law a bill to allow those who frequent the outdoors to show they have the necessary permits for hunting and fishing on their drivers' licenses.

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE: RGR) just completed the fourth and final quarter of its '1.2 Million Gun Challenge to Benefit the NRA,” selling 382,500 firearms. During this year-long challenge, Ruger donated a total of $1,254,000 to the NRA.

Adam Cohen writes on Time.com that “We may all be getting a new Facebook friend soon: the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI wants to shift its wiretapping from old-school telephone lines to person-to-person platforms like email and instant messaging and even social media like Facebook. To help it make the switch, the FBI is asking Congress to require tech companies to rewrite their software so it has a ‘back door’ that the FBI can use to listen in.”

Due to the Privacy Act of 1974, the NICS Section of the FBI cannot provide a reason for a customer’s delay or denial of a gun purchase over the telephone.

(GunReports.com) -- Emily Miller continues to do excellent gun reporting at the Washington Times. Her latest: 'While Army Sgt. Matthew Corrigan was sound asleep inside his Northwest D.C. home, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) was preparing to launch a full-scale invasion of his home. SWAT and explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) teams spent four hours readying the assault on the English basement apartment in the middle of the snowstorm of the century.

Federal courts could soon decide a fight between Congress and Attorney General Eric Holder on the Operation Fast and Furious gun-running scandal, writes Breitbart.com legal contributor Ken Klukowski, a member of the faculty at Liberty University School of Law.

On May 11, the Bureau of Land Management announced that it was abandoning the effort to ban recreational shooting on the Sonoran Desert National Monument in Arizona.

Jeff Knox at www.FirearmsCoalition.org wrote recently, '[Less than] 200 days away from what will undoubtedly be one of the most important elections in US history, and most of the country still isn't even paying attention yet. Of course, those of you reading this have been paying attention for years, even decades, but that's because you're all freaks and oddballs like me. At least that's what the majority thinks of us.'

Gun Rights Examiner reporter David Codrea wrote recently, 'An early May robbery at the Washington, D.C. home of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was the second time the jurist has been victimized since February, The Washington Post reported Thursday. While no one was home in this latest incident, the earlier one involved the jurist and his wife being confronted by a machete-wielding home invader at their Caribbean vacation house.'

Sean Caranna, Executive Director of Florida Carry, Inc. has tracked down how anti-gun staffers associated with the Mayors Against Illegal Guns group are paid with public money. He details the scam on his blog, All Nine Yards:

California State Senator Leland Yee is moving to outlaw the “bullet button,” an AR-15 accessory that enables “fixed” magazines to be removed quickly with the tip of a bullet or other pointed object.