SHOT Show: More gun sales, greater press interest with election in crosshairs

…Walk the aisles on both levels of the show, and one finds the same story repeated over and over again: Gun makers simply cannot keep up with demand.

http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-seattle/shot-show-more-gun-sales-g...

Article by Dave Workman

Media Matters for America is desperately trying to smear the NRA by taking comments from NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre out of context.

http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/media-matters-desperation...

Article by David Codrea

Firearms industry celebrates, solidifies with elections on horizon

…Gun rights could become a critical issue in this year’s elections, at several levels, from the White House down to key state legislative races…

http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-seattle/firearms-industry-celebrat...

Article by Dave Workman

Gun ban lobby’s worst nightmare: SHOT Show opens

LAS VEGAS — The annual Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show opens today in the Sands Convention Center, a two-level event that might just translate to the worst nightmare of the gun prohibition lobby.

http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-seattle/gun-ban-lobby-s-worst-nigh...

Article by Dave Workman

For the first time in the commercial silencer industry’s 103 year history, individual manufacturers, distributors, dealers, and members of the public are formally banding together to collectively advocate for the silencer industry. They are doing so under the banner of the American Silencer Association (ASA), a non-profit trade association whose mission is “to further the pursuit of education, public relations, legislation, hunting applications, and military applications for the silencer industry”.

Two pro-gun conservatives recently announced they were running against Utah Senator Orrin Hatch.

This is welcome news for gun owners. In a Senate career that has lasted more than thirty five years, Hatch has not been a particularly good friend of the Second Amendment.

During negotiations over the 1986 McClure-Volkmer Firearms Owners Protection Act -- designed to protect gun owners from abuses of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms -- Hatch sat at the negotiating table next to officials of the ATF and argued against the pro-gun positions of Sen. Jim McClure.

Groan..not again! Operation ‘White Gun’ another ATF foul-up?

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that yet another gun trafficking sting operation mounted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives called “White Gun” possibly allowed guns to “get away” into Mexico.

http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-seattle/groan-not-again-operation-...

Article by Dave Workman

Fatal shooting in alleged Everett burglary ignites debate

Monday’s fatal shooting of an alleged burglary suspect inside a South Everett home has elicited a tidal wave of emption about personal protection, frustration over property crime and, naturally, the disdain for self-defense with firearms.

http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-seattle/fatal-shooting-alleged-eve...

Article by Dave Workman

NRA-ILA GRASSROOTS ALERT Vol. 19, No. 01 01/06/12

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) announced this week that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will testify on Feb. 2 before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about his role in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ now-infamous “Operation Fast and Furious.”

Issa, who is chairman of the House committee, and Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have led an ongoing investigation into the role of Holder and the Department of Justice in the operation.