According to Jan Libourel, the editor of Gun World magazine, "Nobody but a madman would oppose some sort of gun control laws."

Libourel is no gun grabber in disguise. The statement, in a column titled "Panic Attack," comes after his personal observation, "It is true that the Democratic Party has...

President Obama's signing of a bill granting the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory authority over the tobacco industry now leaves the gun industry as the last American industry not regulated for health and safety.

Let me repeat. Guns are now the only consumer product manufactured in America not...

A new study released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that "Over 90 percent of the firearms seized in Mexico and traced over the last 3 years have come from the United States" and that "the firearms seized in Mexico have been increasingly more powerful and lethal...

James von Brunn is the most recent addition to the list, in the words of National Rifle Association head Wayne LaPierre, of "guys with the guns who make the rules."

Before him, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, arrested for shooting two soldiers, killing one, outside an Arkansas military recruitment center....

What do Scott Roeder, the alleged killer of abortion doctor George Tiller, Richard Poplawski, arrested in April for ambushing four police officers in Pittsburgh, killing three and injuring one, and Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association all have common?

They all believe that "

If the champagne being quaffed by consumer groups and others in the wake of House passage of a bill aimed at limiting deceptive and abusive credit card practices has a slightly bitter aftertaste, it's probably because they're sharing a magnum with the National Rifle Association. In its ongoing efforts to...

During the past 100 days, our nation has once again been shown the "price of freedom" as defined by the National Rifle Association.

Increasing violence on the U.S.-Mexico border -- much of it fueled by semiautomatic assault weapons purchased on the U.S. civilian market and trafficked into Mexico.

Washington Post, April 19, 2009

In a recent "commentary" posted on CNN.com, National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre dismissed statements from U.S. and Mexican government officials that, based on firearms tracing data from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Mexico's drug cartels obtain 90 percent or more of...

According to National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, gun owners are uniting in "political spontaneous combustion."

Ouch.

In the most recent edition of the NRA's America's 1st Freedom magazine, LaPierre cites a "tsunami of Second Amendment consumerism" in the wake of the election of Barack Obama and...

Sometimes context is everything.

Yesterday Connecticut gunmaker Sturm, Ruger & Co. announced an "Inaugural Special" for high-capacity ammunition magazines for its Mini-14 rifles, a weapon nicknamed the "poor man's assault rifle." According to Ruger:

From November 4, 2008 to January 20, 2009, fans of the Ruger Mini-14...

This month, across the nation domestic violence prevention advocates are marking Domestic Violence Awareness Month, undertaking public education efforts to help protect women, children, and families. As part of this effort, each year the Violence Policy Center releases a new edition of its annual study When Men...

Intermittently for the past 25 years, the NRA has run a series of ads under the headline "I'm the NRA." Included are celebrities (like Washington Redskins legend John Riggins, cowboy entertainer Roy Rogers, and actor Tom Selleck), politicians, and ordinary members. Each ad profiles the NRA member, quoting the reasons...

When last heard from, Smith & Wesson was gaining public attention from their marketing of a high-powered revolver that could penetrate the body armor most commonly worn by America's law enforcement personnel.

Now the company is working to wheedle its way back into the news cycle with...

Even though the U.S. Supreme Court found that Washington, DC's more than 30-year-old handgun ban violated the Second Amendment, that doesn't mean our nation's capital will soon turn into the handgun Valhalla envisioned by pro-gun advocates.

Is it bad for DC residents? Yes. Is it as bad as it could...

Fifteen months after receiving the "Sport Shooting Ambassador Award" from the World Forum on the Future of Sport Shooting Activities (WFSA), Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has done his part to make sure that, at least in the U.S., the future for his gun industry friends and their...

When talking to the news media and policymakers, the National Rifle Association never misses a chance to boast of its membership of four million. From news releases to statements by its leadership, this number, virtually by its very utterance, is offered as validation of the organization's mission.

The stunned response -- which through the repetition of cable news has now reached the standard of cliche -- of those in denial about the breadth and depth of gun violence in America is some variant of the statement, "I can't believe it happened here." This is often followed by...

One might think that a cardinal safety rule for gun manufacturers is, "Don't sell loaded guns."

Well, apparently one might be mistaken.

According to an "Urgent Notice" for gun dealers that until today was posted on the web site of firearms distributor Sports South, Inc., and which recently...

That's the conclusion of Second Amendment scholar and Roger Williams School of Law Professor Carl T. Bogus writing on the American Constitution Society's blog on this week's Supreme Court oral arguments on whether the District of Columbia's ban on handguns violates the Second Amendment. Observing the "individual rights" tenor...