KDKA -- Pittsburgh -- August 28, 2009      City Council considers "assault weapons" ban for G-20    As the G-20 Summit nears, Pittsburgh City Council is considering the possibility of instituting an assault weapons ban during the high-profile event. -- According to our news partners at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, city officials are talking about reviving an old law that would ban those types of weapons...

Paul Valone -- The Examiner -- August 4, 2009      Left-wing tries to suppress another pro-gun voice    I operate under the premise that any day you can tick off a liberal can’t be entirely bad. Under that premise, CNN’s Lou Dobbs must be having some very good days indeed. -- Apparently fretting that left-wing media are not left wing enough, MediaMatters.org (“Help us fight conservative misinformation”) [the same clowns responsible for this ridiculous attack] recently went after Dobbs...

Dave Kopel -- Infowars.com -- Austin, Texas -- August 3, 2009      The OAS Treaty: Blueprint for dismantling the Second Amendment    The Obama administration’s offensive against the Second Amendment has begun. -- As was predicted, the strategy uses international law to create a foundation for repressive and extreme gun control. The mechanism is an international treaty...

CBS News -- July 21, 2009      Obama administration takes aim at gun-rights revolt    The Obama administration is raising the stakes in a fight over states' rights and firearm ownership by arguing that new pro-gun laws in Montana and Tennessee are invalid. -- In the last few months, a grass-roots, federalist revolt against Washington, D.C. has begun to spread through states that are home to politically active gun owners...

Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas-- July 19, 2009     Feds declare Tennessee gun law invalid     It is yet another example of the federal government running roughshod over the states. -- Last month, the state of Tennessee's General Assembly passed House Bill 1796, the "Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act," which states that any firearms or ammunition manufactured within the state and legally owned and kept within the state by citizens are "not subject to federal law or federal regulation... "

AmmoLand.com -- Manasquan, NJ -- July 17, 2009      Sotomayor takes axe to Second Amendment     In defending her decision that the states could enact any form of gun control they wished -- with absolutely no regard to the Second Amendment -- Judge Sonya Sotomayor has developed a new love for Nineteenth Century court opinions...

Sacramento Bee -- July 13, 2009      Rise in county gun sales tied to fewer cops, what Obama might do    Gun sales in Sacramento County have grown more than in any other populous county in California since November, according to the state attorney general's office. -- From November 2008 to May 2009, gun dealers in Sacramento County sold nearly 5,000 more guns than they did in the same period last year... [See Obama Watch and AG Watch]

London Telegraph -- July 11, 2009        Gun sales soar amid fears of Barack Obama weapons ban    "I've sold probably four times as much in the last six months as I have in 20 years combined," said Cliff Hunter, owner of Tommy Bronson Sporting Goods in Memphis. "Hand guns and the tactical weapons, they're absolutely off the charts."

Daily Republic -- Mitchell, SD -- July 11, 2009      Firearms permits soaring in state    Don’t ask Davison County Sheriff Dave Miles how many concealed-carry weapons permits his office has issued this year. State law doesn’t allow him to keep track. --- Miles believes some are worried the Obama administration will try to attack their Second Amendment rights and he also believes gun owners will never allow that to happen...

D. Christian Moore -- The Examiner -- July 7, 2009       Should the terror watch list be used to constrain gun rights?    Senator Frank Lautenberg, D-NJ, has introduced legislation to prevent individuals on the so called “terror watch list” from purchasing firearms. According to his press release announcing the initiative, Sen. Lautenberg commissioned a report from the GAO which found...

Small Gov Times -- Alexandria, Va. -- July 6, 2009      Americans continue to arm themselves    Fifty-seven percent (57%) of Americans say gun sales are up in the United States because of a fear of increased government restriction on gun ownership. -- A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 23% say gun sales have risen because of a fear of increased crime. Twenty-one percent (21%) are not sure... [Related item]

Dave Workman -- The Examiner -- July 2, 2009     Rasmussen poll confirms: People fear government that fears guns    A new Rasmussen poll released earlier this week reveals that 57 percent of Americans believe gun sales have skyrocketed in this country over the past several months because of fears that the government – now under control of the Obama administration and a Democrat Congress – will move to restrict gun rights... [See Obama Watch]

Houston Chronicle -- July 1, 2009     Feds hunt for guns, one house at a time    ...All told, Mexican officials in 2008 asked federal agents to trace the origins of more than 7,500 firearms recovered at crime scenes in Mexico. Most of them were traced back to Texas, California and Arizona. -- Among other things, the agents are combing neighborhoods... [See Big Brother Watch]

Paul Craig Roberts -- VDare.com -- June 26, 2009      Gun Control: What is the agenda?    Some years or decades ago I researched and reported on the Sullivan Act, one of America’s first gun control laws. -- New York state senator Timothy Sullivan, a corrupt Tammany Hall politician, represented New York’s Red Hook district. Commercial travelers passing through the district would be relieved of their valuables by armed robbers...

Sandy Froman -- Townhall.com -- June 26, 2009      NRA members must oppose Sotomayor    Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama’s first nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, has a narrow view of the Second Amendment that contradicts the Court’s landmark decision in District of Columbia v. Heller. A heated debate has started in the U.S. Senate over her opposition to the right to keep and bear arms...

Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas -- June 21, 2009      Proposed law allows AG to block gun sales to millions of Americans    New Jersey Democrat senator Frank R. Lautenberg plans to introduce legislation designed to cancel the Second Amend rights of well over a million U.S. citizens this coming week, according to the New York Times. "Mr. Lautenberg plans to introduce legislation on Monday that would give the attorney general the discretion to block gun sales to people on terror watch lists," the newspaper reports...

Jim Kouri, CPP -- NewsWithViews.com -- June 21, 2009      Government report faults US gun owners for Mexico's violence   "[This report may be] used in a phony attempt to show that the ban is needed. It even may be used as part of an outrageous attempt to argue that Americans have to give up some of their Second Amendment rights to an international authority so that international trafficking in firearms..."

Lancaster (Pa.) Newspapers -- June 14, 2009      Running low on ammo    ...The start of the shortage can be traced back a few years, when military demand for ammunition was very high because of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. -- But the election of President Barack Obama has apparently worsened the situation, with fear spreading among firearms owners that his administration will pursue gun control measures...

Bill Dupray -- The Examiner -- June 12, 2009      Sotomayor to Senators: 2nd Amendment does not apply to states    When the lefties are replacing a lefty on the Supreme Court with another lefty, the balance is preserved and the downside to the country is somewhat minimized. Sometimes you need to pick your battles. If Obama were filling Scalia's seat for example, this would be a Battle Royale...

WorldNetDaily.com -- June 10, 2009      Obama move would eliminate 8 of 10 pocketknives    The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency is proposing a new definition that could be used to eliminate 8 of 10 legal pocketknives in the United States right now, according to activists who are gearing up to fight the plan. -- The federal bureaucracy is accepting comments – written only – that must be received by June 21... [See Obama Watch]

Gather.com -- June 9, 2009     HR 46: They are after the Second Amendment again    ...HR 46, Obama's National Gun Registry and Citizen Department Act is just a forced registration of all firearms in America. -- This is more than a regestry of guns it is about control of people. The very people who represent a danger to a facist or socalist agenda...

Personal Liberty Digest --Hueytown, Alabama  -- June 9, 2009    Gun rights activist blasts Obama     A newly promoted senior gun rights activist has said the administration’s actions conflict with traditional American attitudes on life and the right to possess arms. -- John M. Snyder who was recently named senior rights activist in Washington by Shotgun News, has pointed to Obama’s poor public record on personal gun rights...

SCOTUS Blog -- June 8, 2009       Gun rights lobby prepares to weigh in on Sotomayor     With congressional Democrats divided on gun issues and the Obama administration steering clear of the topic, gun rights advocates have bagged new legislative trophies this year and are taking aim at additional targets. -- The National Rifle Association (NRA) and Gun Owners of America have an ambitious to-do list. They are preparing to...

Jim Kouri, CPP -- Canada Free Press -- Toronto -- June 7, 2009      Obama and ACORN officials set sights on gunowners    ACORN, the publicly funded national organization linked to voter fraud in several states, is now actively interfering with the exercise of firearm civil rights in New Jersey, and the Second Amendment Foundation is calling for an immediate federal investigation...

Gun Owners of America -- May 30, 2009    Gun owners have good reason to fret about Obama's SCOTUS nominee    Unless you've taken a very long Memorial Day vacation, you've no doubt heard the big news. -- President Obama has picked an anti-gun radical to replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court. -- Obama's pick is Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who is currently on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second District.

CNSNews.com -- May 28, 2009    Sotomayor ruled that states do not have to obey Second Amendment    Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor ruled in January 2009 that states do not have to obey the Second Amendment's commandment that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. -- In Maloney v. Cuomo, Sotomayor signed an opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that said...

Second Amendment Foundation -- May 26, 2009    SAF calls Sotomayor nomination an Obama slap at Second Amendment    Bellevue, Wash. -- The nomination of Second Circuit Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace retiring Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court is a slap at gun rights and the Second Amendment, the Second Amendment Foundation said today. -- Judge Sotomayor... ruled on a Second Circuit Appeals Court panel that the Second Amendment is not a fundamental right...

John M. Snyder -- Human Events -- May 26, 2009    Gun-grabbers undermine U.S. sovereignty     American gun owners face a double-whammy: A political establishment that seeks to undermine both 2nd Amendment rights and United States national sovereignty. -- For decades, gun-grabbers in politics, academe and media have promoted various gun-control schemes to weaken if not ultimately eliminate the individual 2nd Amendment right...

Jillian Bandes -- Townhall.com -- May 20, 2009              Obama may grab for guns    President Obama voiced his support for an anti-gun treaty with such wide ranging implications that it could ban everything from assembling guns in kits to repackaging spent shells. -- The treaty was signed by former President Clinton, but never approved by Congress. It has gained approval in 29 other countries...

NRA / ILA -- Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Georgia -- May 16, 2009    Anti-gun blacklist bill introduced in U.S. House     Rumor was enough to get you burned as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. It was enough to get you shot in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. It's enough to get your head chopped off in parts of Iraq infested with madmen claiming to carry out Allah's will...

Yuma Sun -- May 15, 2009     RNC boss: Democrats want to take away gun rights    APhoenix -- Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says Democrats in Washington want to take away the rights of law-abiding Americans to buy and own guns and are ready to mount an assault on that freedom. -- Steele told thousands of people at the National Rifle Association's convention in Phoenix that the Obama administration has a theory...

Yuma Sun -- May 15, 2009    NRA speakers: Mexico violence not excuse for U.S. gun control    Phoenix -- Two top Arizona Republicans argued Friday that the escalating violence along the Mexican border should not be used as an excuse for new regulation of firearms. -- "The gun control advocates keep coming up with new arguments to restrict our Second Amendment rights," Gov. Jan Brewer said...

Dan Bidstrup -- The Examiner -- May 15, 2009   Why people buy 'assault weapons'    The term "assault weapon" was manufactured to define scary-looking legal civilian weapons. They have big clips, flash suppressors and bi-pods and folding stocks like military weapons, but the critical feature missing is full-automatic firing. At heart they are no different from the plain looking guns that employ gas pressure...

Scott Bach -- NJ.com -- May 15, 2009    Support plummets for restrictions on gun rights    This weekend, more than 50,000 peaceable gun owners are expected to descend upon Phoenix, Arizona to celebrate a unique freedom guaranteed by our Constitution: the right to keep and bear arms. The event is the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association, and among the throngs will be several thousand New Jerseyans...

OneNewsNow.com -- May 15, 2009    U.N. treaty could jeopardize 2nd Amendment rights    There is a new angle in the fight against the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. -- The treaty was signed by the U.S. during the Clinton administration. However the treaty was never ratified and, therefore, holds no legal clout. But opponents of the treaty fear that liberals will try to have the treaty ratified during Obama's presidency...

OneNewsNow.com -- May 14, 2009    U.N. treaty could jeopardize 2nd Amendment rights    There is a new angle in the fight against the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. -- The treaty was signed by the U.S. during the Clinton administration. However the treaty was never ratified and, therefore, holds no legal clout. But opponents of the treaty fear that liberals will try to have the treaty ratified during Obama's presidency...

Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News Editorial -- May 14, 2009    Cartels won't blink at US gun ban    Attorney General Eric Holder recently suggested that passing a gun ban on semiautomatics would, somehow, put an end to Mexico's escalating drug violence. The ban could include any semiautomatic pistol, rifle or shotgun. -- Are we supposed to believe drug cartels that own entire fleets of aircraft and are building submarines to traffic drugs ... [See Shifty AG Watch]

Vin Suprynowicz -- LewRockwell.com -- May 14, 2009    Obama 'bitterly clinging' to his fake gun numbers    American gun-owners, en masse, are "casting their ballots" on how much they believe Barack Obama's campaign-trail promise to "not take away your guns." -- They're driving the price of ammo through the roof, swarming gun shows and leaving the pallets and floors of the ammo suppliers' booths as naked as a wheat field after the locusts pass through...

Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms -- May 12, 2009       Washington activists warns Americans about gun-grabber Obama    "At a time when research data indicate Americans are more pro-gun than in many years, the Obama administration is trying to do an end run around the American public by committing the United States to an international arms treaty enabling Washington to undercut the individual Second Amendment civil right to keep and bear arms..."

Chuck Baldwin -- NewsWithViews.com -- May 12, 2009    It's getting very serious now    First, it was a Missouri Analysis and Information Center (MIAC) report; then it was a DHS report; now it is a New York congressman's bill. Each of these items, taken on their own, is problematic enough; taken together they portend "a clear and present danger" to the liberties of the American people. It is getting very serious now...

Alex Newsman -- The New American -- May 11, 2009    Montana defies feds on guns     The state of Montana approved what commentators are dubbing a “revolutionary” new law earlier this month. The “Montana Firearms Freedom Act” is set to trigger a legal showdown between the federal government and the state, which is exactly what some lawmakers are hoping for...

InfoWars.com -- Austin, Texas -- -- May 11, 2009    Former top rated NRA Senator to introduce gun ban this week     Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat and member of the so-called Blue Dog Coalition, plans to introduce an assault weapons ban this week. Gillibrand, the junior senator from New York, was at one time highly rated by the NRA for her advocacy of the Second Amendment...

The Citizen -- Fayetteville, Georgia -- May 10, 2009    Bill aims to strip Americans of all Second Amendment rights    A sinister bill working its way through the House may eventually serve as a companion piece to the DHS's "Rightwing Extremist" report that labels veterans and advocates of the Second Amendment as dangerous terrorists — H.R. 2159, The Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009...

WorldNetDaily.com -- May 9, 2009    Next step? No guns allowed for right-wing 'extremists'    A new gun law being considered in Congress, if aligned with DHS memos labeling everyday Americans as potential "threats," could potentially deny firearms to pro-lifers, gun-rights advocates, tax protesters, animal rights activists, and a host of others – any already on the expansive DHS watch list for potential "extremism."

Col. George W. -- Gather.com -- May 6, 2009    Montana governor signs new gun law    The USA state of Montana has signed into power a revolutionary gun law. I mean REVOLUTIONARY. The State of Montana has defied the federal government and their gun laws. This will prompt a showdown between the federal government and the State of Montana . The federal government fears citizens owning guns...

CNN -- May 4, 2009    Ammo hard to find as gun owners stock up    Aurora, Colo. -- Gun shops across the country are reporting a run on ammunition, a phenomenon apparently driven by fear that the Obama administration will increase taxes on bullets or enact new gun-control measures. -- "In the last two months it's gotten very, very difficult to find ammunition," says Richard Taylor... [See Eye on Eric Holder]

Alex Newman -- The New American -- May 4, 2009   Obama pushes anti-gun treaty    After a meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon last month, Barack Obama announced his support for the 'Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing and Trafficking in Firearms' treaty, also known by its Spanish acronym CIFTA. The gun-control treaty was signed in 1997... [See Obama Watch]

InfoWars.com -- Austin, Texas -- May 3, 2009        NWO puppet Obama supports treaty outlawing gun possession     As Lou Dobbs notes here, Obama is in favor of the ratifying CIFTA, the Inter-American Convention Against Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms. On its face, the treaty sounds reasonable because it would "prevent, combat, and eradicate the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms..." [See Gun Grabber Watch] [See AG Watch]

Gun Owners of America -- May 2, 2009    Gun owners slam Orrin Hatch for protecting Arlen Specter    Gun Owners of America today slammed Senator Orrin Hatch for meddling in a Pennsylvania election. -- Senator Hatch this week assailed the candidacy of pro-gun former Representative Pat Toomey, claiming that Toomey could not get elected in Pennsylvania in a race against liberal [RINO]-turned-Democrat Arlen Specter...

Cincinnati Enquirer -- May 1, 2009    Obama 'stimulus' has sale of guns booming    The little shop off Main Street in Newtown has friendly banter like a barbershop and a family of regulars like a neighborhood bar. But they don't sell haircuts or the hair of the dog. They sell guns, and business is booming like a 12-gauge....

Wayne LaPierre -- Human Events -- May 1, 2009     The gathering storm over guns     Barely 100 days into the new Obama-Biden administration, ominous storm clouds are already gathering over your most fundamental right as a free citizen: Your right to own a gun to protect yourself, your family and your freedom...

Opposing Views -- April 30, 2009    Gun owners say Arlen Specter must go    First, Senator Arlen Specter provided the instrumental Republican support to get anti-gun Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed by the Senate. -- Then, he singlehandedly pushed through the massive economic bailout, the so-called stimulus bill, which contained several provisions of concern to gun owners...

Gun Owners of America -- April 29, 2009          Gun-grabber Obama pushing treaty to ban reloading     Remember CANDIDATE Barack Obama? The guy who "wasn't going to take away our guns?" -- Well, guess what? -- Less than 100 days into his administration, he's never met a gun he didn't hate. -- A week ago, Obama went to Mexico, whined about the United States, and bemoaned...

John Birch Society -- Appleton, Wisconsin -- April 28, 2009    Sneaky Obama: Inter-American arms-banning treaty    When President Obama was in Mexico in mid-April, he falsely admitted to a "shared responsibility" for the Mexican drug wars and all the horrible violence which he said, but which we now know to be untrue, is committed with American-manufactured weapons...

Newark (NJ) Star-Ledger -- April 27, 2009    Gun buffs are buying lock, stock and barrel    ..."I'm fed up with the new administration," says [Manny] Cerca, 64, and especially concerned about his Second Amendment right to own a gun. "Obama is a European socialist." -- Despite the economic downturn -- and because of it to some degree -- consumers are opening their wallets and stepping up to the firing line...

Sean O'Donnel -- The Examiner -- April 27, 2009   Jimmy Carter editorializes on assault weapons    In today's New York Times, former President Jimmy Carter wrote an op-ed piece calling for Congress to reenact the assault weapons ban. Sadly, his editorial supports many of the erroneous opinions and misconceptions held by many Americans concerning assault weapons...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -- April 27, 2009    Gun sales at record levels    On the gun counter at Ace Sporting Goods in Washington County, customers are greeted with a picture of President Barack Obama next to the caption, "Salesman of the Year." -- The "Salesman of the Month" honor goes to Gov. Ed Rendell, whose picture is next to the president's...

Brad O'Leary -- American Daily Review -- Austin, Texas -- April 27, 2009    Disarming America    U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has stated that the Obama Administration would like to resurrect the Clinton ban on semi-automatic firearms, as well as other gun control laws. -- One of the reasons for bringing back these unpopular laws, according to Holder, is that Mexican drug cartels are becoming increasingly violent and warring with Mexican government troops...