Gun Control News

Young shooters who make a positive impact in their community, highlighting the skill and discipline it takes to be a responsible gun owner, are the gun industry’s best chance to get the message out that the shooting sports are an important part of American life.

In an effort to recognize exceptional young shooters and promote the positive image of shooting, the National Rifle Association recently chose one of its top Junior Members, Juliann Terry of Newcastle, Wyo., as the first-place winner of the 2007 Outstanding Achievement Youth Award.


From NRAILA

From Grassroots

An Albany County program to buy back handguns is in the works — but not without controversy and hurt feelings.

Sheriff Jim Campbell conceded these programs rarely pan out. “We’re hopeful that the program will be successful in that we will receive handguns from the streets,” he said. “However, I would be surprised if that turns out to be the case.”


From NRAILA

America’s largest gun-rights lobby expects up to 70,000 people to gather for its annual convention that opens this week in Louisville, an event that will include an address by Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

The Courier-Journal sat down yesterday with Wayne LaPierre, the National Rifle Association’s executive vice president, to discuss the presidential election, gun laws and other issues.


From NRAILA

A once-notorious southwest Virginia man died in jail Saturday night, a day after he was charged with shooting and wounding two campers on the Appalachian Trail, not far from the isolated area where he killed two hikers in 1981, authorities said.


From NRAILA

From Grassroots

Attorneys suing a gun dealer on behalf of the city of New York want any references to the Second Amendment barred from the trial. Has our judicial system fallen down a rabbit hole and landed in Wonderland?


From NRAILA

Hiding their anti-gun positions is a key strategy for politicians who want to take away our rights and Paul Helmke of the Brady Campaign knows it. That`s why he shows little concern that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are not talking about new gun laws.


From NRAILA

Georgia and more than 18 other states have similar versions of a “defense of habitation” law, sometimes known as the Castle Doctrine law.


From NRAILA

In a May 6 Times editorial, “Concealed-carry guns have no place on college campuses,” readers were told students (faculty, staff, etc.) should not be permitted to carry defensively on a college campus because they`re likely to “make things worse.” But this raises a serious question; given that the shootings at Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois, and even the smaller-scale shooting at a Louisiana technical college took place entirely at the discretion of mass murderers, how can wrenching control of the situation away from them possibly make things worse?


From NRAILA