Federal Firearm Laws

There is little to salvage from last week’s mass murder at Fort Hood, Texas, but there are some stark realizations this heartbreaking horror exposes. One is the wishful but mistaken notion that such incidents can be prevented by laws prohibiting or strictly restricting access to firearms. Source: nra-ila-updates

Strong nationwide gun and ammunition sales are helping El Paso gun dealers buck the recession that is hurting other businesses. At the El Paso Gun Exchange, which also sells firearms to law enforcement, the surge in demand that began several months ago has started to slow a bit for some products but not others. Source: [...]

By Thanksgiving, five members of the of the newly elected Detroit City Council will be exercising their Right-to-Carry. Detroit Free Press columnist Rochelle Riley says Tuesday that Charles Pugh, Kwame Kenyatta, James Tate and Gary Brown have said they are usually armed. And Rev. Andre Spivey, pastor of St. Paul AME, said he soon plans [...]

It comes down to a simple question…how would you react if someone was trying to enter your home uninvited…and possibly not with the best of intentions? It all goes back to a saying which came about centuries ago. “The Castle Doctrine came from English law, based on the saying, ‘a man’s home is his castle’,” [...]