"A source close to the Senate negotiations [says] that two senators who voted against the background check bill would vote for it after minor, superficial changes." — Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC, May 6, 2013

ACTION: Senators who voted pro-gun last month are under intense pressure by Senate Democrats and Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s hit ads to switch their votes. We need to keep applying the heat and let them know that gun owners are ready to help in any Senate campaign, no matter which state, to defeat ANY SENATOR who votes for gun control.

Gun-Grabber Introduces New Law
By Harold Hutchison

Reloaders and those who use antique firearms, mostly muzzle-loaders, could soon find themselves facing background checks to buy powder if one of the most anti-gun senators has his way. Senator Frank Lautenberg has introduced legislation that will place black powder substitutes and smokeless powder under 18 USC Chapter 40, which governs explosives.

ATF responds to growing interest in 3-D printer guns

Days after a Texas company released a video purporting to show the test firing of a gun created on a 3-D printer, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has released some information on how the agency will deal with this new technology.

http://www.examiner.com/article/atf-responds-to-growing-interest-3-d-pri...

Article by Dave Workman

Gun homicides down, gun ownership up = Gun banners lied!

Two days after the National Rifle Association’s record-breaking annual convention in Houston, during which NRA leaders were vilified and gun prohibitionists cranked up the volume of their gun ban rhetoric, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released data that effective blows Titanic-sized holes in the gun control agenda.

http://www.examiner.com/article/gun-homicides-down-gun-ownership-up-gun-...

Article by Dave Workman

Miller doing book on getting a gun in D.C.

Emily Miller, the award-winning senior editor for opinion at the Washington Times who exposed the deliberately complicated and discouraging-by-design handgun regulations in the District of Columbia, will soon publish a book based on her newspaper series, appropriately titled “Emily Gets Her Gun.”

http://www.examiner.com/article/miller-doing-book-on-getting-a-gun-d-c?c...

Article by Dave Workman

NRA’s LaPierre: ‘We will never surrender our guns!’

A defiant Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, told an enthusiastic audience today that gun owners will “never sacrifice our freedom upon the altar of elitist acceptance, and we will never surrender our guns, never!”

http://www.examiner.com/article/nra-s-lapierre-we-will-never-surrender-o...

Article by Dave Workman

As NRA meet opens, Holder tries to outdraw Kansas

As the National Rifle Association’s weekend convention in Houston opens today, anti-gun Attorney General Eric Holder has been quick on the draw to declare a new firearms statute in Kansas “unconstitutional” with a threat to fight it in court.

http://www.examiner.com/article/as-nra-meet-opens-holder-tries-to-outdra...

Article by Dave Workman

Concealed carry reciprocity with Fla. stopped by AG’s office?

An alert from the Unified Sportsmen of Florida (USF) to Evergreen State residents could have an immediate impact on the office of Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, a Democrat who did not fill out a National Rifle Association questionnaire, and who, during the campaign, was rather vague about his position on gun rights.

http://www.examiner.com/article/concealed-carry-reciprocity-with-fla-sto...

Article by Dave Workman

SOF received this e-mail about the gun bill that failed in the Senate. Please note that these flaws may exist if it comes back later in the year.