The United States of America has turned into bizarro land. Think of this: Our very own Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), under the direct guidance of the attorney general of the United States America’s top cop, mind you not only allowed, but encouraged American gun dealers to sell about 2,000 guns to known punks involved in the drug trade in order to trace the guns to Mexican drug cartels. If you think that’s unbelievably nuts, get a load of this: The suspected goons who bought the guns were not even placed under law enforcement surveillance.

A federal judge in Lubbock on Thursday threw out the National Rifle Association’s move to overturn a Texas law prohibiting 18 to 20 year olds from carrying concealed handguns.

Colorado long ago adopted a “make my day” law, which allows homeowners to claim self defense when using deadly force against a burglar in their houses.
Republicans have tried several times to extend the bill to business owners, an idea dubbed “make my day better.” They are back again this year with House Bill 1088.

Indiana’s Supreme Court ruled last year that citizens have no right to resist illegal police entries into their homes.
Now, lawmakers are backing legislation that would allow residents some limited rights to resist such entries.

Pinole leaders imposed a 45 day moratorium on home based firearms businesses Tuesday in response to a resident’s recent application for a permit.

NRA will appeal yesterday’s decision by a federal court in Texas, which held that the Second Amendment doesn’t protect any right to keep or bear arms outside the home.

Yesterday in the General Assembly Building, the Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee considered four similar Sunday hunting bills. The committee rolled these four bills into Senate Bill 464 and then passed it by a vote of 11 to 4. This legislation will now be sent to the full state Senate for its consideration.

Long before Al Gore “created” the Internet, gun owners were busy perfecting grassroots networking.  Today, gun owners have an almost unlimited number of ways to spread information crucial to our community. And, while the Internet is certainly an indispensible tool for protecting our rights, an unfortunate side effect has been the fast and easy spread of rumors.The latest of these, appearing on Internet message boards and in emails, warns of a growing trend of gangsters marking the license plates or wheels of vehicles parked at shooting clubs, gun stores, ranges and gun shows. According to the rumor, the thieves later spot or follow the marked vehicles and break into them to steal guns while their owners are elsewhere.