AR-style Rifles in Short Supply

On of the hottest items in the increase in gun sales the last couple of months has been AR style semi-automatics.  Many dealers are reporting they are sold out and manufacturers are trying to fill orders as quickly as possible.
Jim Shepherd over at the Shooting Wire reports today that:
…the gorging on AR-style rifles and semiautomatic pistols [...]

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Prince William Gun Range, Gun Sales Increase and Gun Shows

The President of the Virginia Shooting Sports Association spoke with NRA News’ Cam Edwards on Wednesday night and they talked about several topics of interest to gun owners.

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Holder at Justice a Diasater for Gun Owners

Word is Barack Obama has chosen another Clintonista, former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder to serve as the next Attorney General.  Holder is no friend of the Second Amendment.  Dave Kopel writes in this month’s NRA magazine America’s First Freedom that Holder was one of the individuals that signed on to the Reno amicus brief [...]

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Gun Rights Activists React to Obama Questionnaire

Last week the blogosphere was all abuzz with talk about question number 59 on the Obama Employment Questionnaire.  That is the question asking prospective administration employees
“Do you or any members of your immediate family own a gun?  If so, provide complete ownership and registration information.  Has the registration ever lapsed?  Please also describe how and [...]

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HSUS and Lead Ammo

As Virginia’s hunters await the opening of general firearms deer season on November 15th, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the largest anti-hunting lobby in the country, is pushing for a nationwide ban on lead ammo.  Using a recent CDC study by the North Dakota Department of Health and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and [...]

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Obama “Scrubs” Transition Web Site

The Obama transition team was apparently taken aback by all of the Internet chatter on such things as his gun control proposals and his mandatory public service proposals because the change.gov web full of 20 some policy headings that included specifics in each category like “Urban Policy” etc., has been replaced with simply this paragraph:

The Agenda
President-Elect [...]

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The Story That Will Not Go Away

Another local Richmond television station (WRIC TV8) ran a segment last night on gun sales – this time the angle is the run is a by-product of the Obama election victory.  Before the stories were how people were preparing for a possible Obama win.  Gun owner fears were correct – yesterday the Official Transistion web [...]

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Election Post Mortem

There are still a few races that are undecided at this point but we do have a handle on what the impact of last night’s results will have on gun rights. Clearly, I believe it will be hard to get significant pro-gun legislation enacted such as reform of BATFE or the DC bill that passed [...]

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Jeff Knox Last Minute Analysis for Virginia

Last Minute Analysis for Virginia
By Jeff Knox
Some have been predicting that Virginia will be the key state in the race for the White House and that Prince William County could be the key region to determine how Virginia swings.
In the final hours before the election, the slight surge Barack Obama had seen in the state [...]

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It is All Over But the Voting

Gun Owners should be well aware what is at stake in this election.  I still can’t understand why anyone would be undecided at this point but polls showed as recently as yesterday that 8-9% of voters were either still undecided or could change for whom they would vote before election day.  If you know a [...]

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