June 2009

With the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to fill the Supreme Court seat of retiring Associate Justice David Souter, President Obama has thrown down the gauntlet to gun owners all across America. Judge Sotomayor has a long history of hostility to gun owners, from...

May 2009

On April 10, 2009 ABC aired an episode of 20/20 entitled “If I had a gun,” hosted by Diane Sawyer. The program was a contemptible example of advocacy journalism. Despite unimpeachable research by academics such as Professors Gary Kleck and John Lott proving...

April 2009

 In Washington, D.C., CCRKBA announced its support for the proposed Veterans’ Heritage Firearms Act of 2009. Introduced by Rep. Dennis Rehberg of Montana, the bill, H.R. 442, would provide for a 90-day amnesty period during which veterans and their family members...

March 2009

 From Little Rock, Arkansas comes a report that Arkansans with permits to carry concealed handguns could bring their firearms to church under House Bill 1237 filed in late January by State Rep. Beverly Pyle of Cedarville. The bill would remove “any church or...

February 2009

 In Chicago, U.S. District Judge Milton Shadur rejected a pro-gun rights challenge to anti-gun ordinances there and in Oak Park, Illinois. The gun-rights challenge maintained that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller that the D.C....

January 2009

 “It hasn’t been this good for quite a while” wrote Sarah Brady following the election to public office of a number of anti-gun politicians last November. Brady, Chair of the anti-gun Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, wrote to supporters and...