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In Oklahoma, anyone with a handgun permit can soon openly carry a firearm. Senate Bill 1733, signed by Gov. Mary Fallin on May 15, amends the Oklahoma Self-Defense Act to allow the open carrying of a firearm with a license and a few restrictions. After the bill goes into effect on Nov. 1, the more than 140,000 Oklahomans with a handgun license will no longer be required to have their weapon concealed in public.

Larry Keane, general counsel for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, recently wrote about an article appeared in the Journal of Urban Health, “Characteristics of Federally Licensed Firearms Retailers and Retail Establishments in the United States: Initial Findings from the Firearms Licensee Survey” by Dr. Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Program, University of California, Davis.

The NRA has created a specialized website called GunBanObama.com that asks gunowners to take a look at President Obama’s anti-gun history. And then the site says, “Now imagine our future if he is re-elected.

The Civilian Marksmanship Program is taking applications for its $1,000 annual college scholarship program, available to all graduating high school seniors who participate in rifle or pistol marksmanship competitions.

Monday's high-profile prodding by retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens for Congress to do something, and for presidential candidates to say something, about gun control proves the importance of who is in the White House and the U.S. Senate to make and confirm high court nominations, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

A Univision television report blames the Obama administration for helping fuel violence and a war between Mexican drug cartels because of Fast and Furious, which began in 2009. At that time, the report said, “the ATF and Arizona prosecutors told gun-store owners to sell weapons without restrictions to suspicious buyers.”

The chairman of a House committee investigating the Fast and Furious gunrunning operation praised a report by the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General on what went wrong in the bungled investigation but said more people involved need to lose their jobs.

The latest rumor making its way through the darker corners of the internet is an inaccurate spin on the U.N.'s never-ending mission to disarm the American people. The rumors vary, but some have wrongly claimed that the U.S. has secretly adopted a U.N. Arms Trade Treaty, subjecting Americans to the schemes of U.N. gun controllers, according to the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action.

A recent article at HumanEvents.com by Richard Johnson describes how the demographics of the gun community has changed, and why. Johnson writes:

Released Wednesday, the Justice Department’s Inspector General report on the Obama administration’s “Fast and Furious” gun-walking scheme blamed more than a dozen senior officials within the department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) for a variety of professional mistakes in administering the program, according to a story in the Cheaper Than Dirt! Shooter’s Log.

Readers can legitimately question the wisdom of buying a $650 AR and spending $700 more on it. Such is the case with the Modern Sporting Rifle. It is a hole into which you can just keep pouring money.

What is President Obama hiding? That's the question at the center of a Judicial Watch lawsuit filed against the Department of Justice last week, says the group’s president Tom Fitton.