Bob McCarty Writes

Responding to Attorney General Eric Holder’s comment yesterday that the Obama Administration will attempt to reinstate a ban against semi-automatic rifles, the National Shooting Sports Foundation reminded Congress and all Americans that such a ban would cause jobs to be lost in a difficult economy, have no effect on reducing crime and would deprive millions [...]

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I think it would be funny if, one day soon, the economy turned around and credit for the turn-around went to those folks then-candidate Barack Obama described as “bitter” folks who “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them.”  With President Obama in the White House, anything is possible, right?
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Homicide statistics for 2008 in Seattle do not justify a proposal by anti-gun Mayor Greg Nickels to ban legally-carried handguns from public property, nor his plan to lobby for a change in the state’s preemption law, according to Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Bellevue, Wash.-based Second Amendment Foundation.
“Less than half of Seattle’s homicides in 2008 [...]

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Barack Obama is the reason why “good citizens are flocking to firearms dealers in record numbers,” according to Richard Pearson, interim chair of the Illinois State Rifle Association’s Political Victory Fund.

In a statement released this morning in response to comments made by Obama during a weekend press conference, Pearson took issue with Obama’s reiteration of [...]

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Using a tone MSNBC described as “folksy,” Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden tried to convince rural Virginians the other day that he’s a devoted gun owner who will not allow presidential nominee Barack Obama to “fool with my Beretta.”  He failed.
“Senator Biden must think America’s gun owners are dumber than rocks,” said Alan Gottlieb, [...]

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