Congress has now adjourned to start the Summer District Work Period and will return after Labor Day.  During this Summer District Work Period, your Senators and Representative will be back home in their states and districts. Many lawmakers use this time to hold town hall meetings, and take questions from their constituents.  These meetings offer a [...]

Friday, August 07, 2009

The United States Senate recently voted on an amendment that would have allowed Right-to-Carry permit holders to carry in all other states that also grant carry permits.  The amendment, sponsored by Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and David Vitter (R-La.), won a significant majority of votes, 58 to 39, but failed to reach [...]

I had the opportunity to go to the Winchester Gallery Shooting Range in Fort Worth, TX to shoot my AR 15. It was pretty accurate and with a little kick. I shot with the .223 round as well as a 5.56 round. It was my first time shooting this one since i got it so [...]

The silence from Dubuque County Attorney Ralph Potter’s office after the shooting death of a Dyersville, Iowa, man on Nov. 29 might have some justification, according to one university law professor.
But as the county attorney’s office sorts through a controversial death investigation to determine whether force was justified, a recent analysis shows self-defense laws present [...]

LAREDO, Texas, March 8 (Reuters) - Frustrated by tighter security on the U.S.-Mexico border, illegal immigrants and drug traffickers are taking it out on U.S. agents, increasingly attacking them with guns, rocks and petrol bombs. 
Assaults against Border Patrol officers rose 10 percent to 843 incidents in the year to September 2006 from [...]

Police in Memphis say a gunman firing a pistol beside a busy city street was subdued by two passers-by who were also armed.
No one was hurt during the incident that apparently began with a minor traffic accident, but one passing car was believed hit by a bullet.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 08, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — Packing a holstered pistol on his belt, Santa Claus opposes President-elect Barack Obama over gun rights on an original Christmas card sent to members of Congress and others by right to self-defense advocate John M. Snyder of Telum Associates, LL.C.
“Although Obama said last weekend that, ‘lawful gun [...]

The owner of a gun shop in the Washington suburb of Manassas, Virginia, Conatser said sales have doubled or tripled since this time last year.
On Saturday, he said, he did as much business as he would normally do in a week.
“I have been in business for 12 years, and I was here for Y2K, September [...]

Nearly two-thirds of U.S. voters (63%) say Barack Obama is more likely than John McCain to restrict an individual’s right to own a gun, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
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CHICAGO – Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Saturday he didn’t know that one of his relatives was living in the United States illegally and believes the appropriate laws should be followed.
The Associated Press found that Obama’s aunt had been instructed to leave the country four years ago by an immigration judge who rejected her [...]