What’s in a title? Evidently quite a bit when you happen to be a nationally-known television personality who is also a medical professional, but who also happens to be running as a Republican for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Pat Toomey. According to Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Philadelphia Inquirer has […]
PA High School Booster Gun Raffle Strikes a Nerve
When the Cedar Cliff High School football boosters group launched a fund-raising raffle recently, it set off feverish reaction in the Camp Hill region of Pennsylvania’s Cumberland County that is getting national attention. Why the hubbub? Because five of the ten prizes are firearms including three handguns, a shotgun and a rifle, according to Penn.live […]
‘Ghost Guns’ the New Bogey Man Distraction from Gun Control Failure?
News agencies in Pennsylvania are reporting on the arrest of four Philadelphia men in connection with the alleged “illegal carrying, buying and selling” of so-called “ghost guns, firearms produced from kits with no serial numbers or transfers involving background checks. Recently, according to Al Dia News, Congressmen Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) and Brad Schneider (D-IL) “unveiled […]
SAF, Partners Get Busy in Court; Are They ‘Extremist’ Groups?
Mother Jones just published an article about the troubles plaguing the National Rifle Association in which it suggested several other, far more “extreme” organizations might move in to fill any void, and among those radical outfits it listed the Second Amendment Foundation. That’s the group currently blazing a legal trail through a maze of offensive […]
Gun Sales Spike Continues; Anti-Gunners Lament Increased Ownership
Handguns, rifles and shotguns are “flying off the shelves” with the primary focus on self-defense, and “nearly 26 million background checks were run through the FBI’s national instant check system through August,” the Washington Times is reporting. That number will no doubt climb when the September NICS check data is released, possibly eclipsing the record […]
Bloomberg’s Gun Control Lobby to Spend $1M in Pennsylvania
The Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting that anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety political arm will spend “at least $1 million to help Democrats try to gain control of the Pennsylvania legislature in the November elections.” It’s part of a nationwide effort to flip state legislatures to Democrats in an effort to press the […]