Geeks With Guns

Charles Babington of the Associated Press reported yesterday about the Senate Democratic leadership’s latest sleazy maneuver to pass the anti-gun health care bill.  And this is contemptible even by their admittedly low standards:
White House and Democratic officials are quietly talking with key senators, hoping to craft a thread-the-needle strategy on health care with little or [...]

In just a few days, pro gun bills that were signed by Arizona Governor Brewer back in July of 2009 will become law.
The following are a few key pro-rights bills, that you should be aware of, that will become effective after midnight on September 30, 2009.Restaurant Carry – CCW permit holders may carry concealed handguns [...]

One of the issues missing from the 2010 platform for conservatives, libertarians and independents is how our authority is backed as the sovereign under our system of self-rule. In the U.S., the government is not the sovereign, the people are the sovereign. As with all nations, the sovereign has a monopoly on all lethal force. [...]

Korea will sell outdated M1 and carbine rifles used during the Korean War and the Vietnam War to the U.S. gun enthusiasts. They have long lost their value as firearms, except that reserve forces sometime use them.

The Defense Ministry’s "green" logistics planning division said it decided to sell about 87,000 M1 and some 35,000 carbine [...]

Cabela’s recently circulated a letter stating that if Governor Schwarzenegger doesn’t veto pending legislation in California, Cabela’s will no longer sell ammunition to California customers.
Cabela’s has no retail outlets in California. California Assembly Bill 962, which Schwarzenegger must veto by October 11, states that ammunition can only be sold “in a face-to-face transaction.” Cabella’s has [...]

Remington Arms Company, Inc. is acknowledging a milestone of an American classic, the Model 870 pump-action, in the September 24, 2009, edition of USA Today® with a full-page ad thanking America and the millions of Model 870 owners for making it possible to reach the 10,000,000th production mark. In honor of this historic achievement, Remington [...]

Earlier today, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) offered an amendment to the 2010 Transportation-Housing & Urban Development Appropriations bill. 

Sen. Wicker’s amendment will allow law-abiding gun owners to safely and legally transport firearms when they travel on Amtrak.  A nearly identical amendment, also offered by Sen. Wicker, passed the Senate in April by a vote of [...]

Amtrak would lose its federal subsidies if it doesn’t put a system
in place by early next year to check and track firearms so that
passengers can legally put the weapons in their checked baggage, the
Senate voted Wednesday.

One senator says the measure "is going to put a severe burden" on Amtrak.

The measure, an amendment [...]

GunBroker.com®, which observed its 10th anniversary in March, reached anothermilestone when it hit $1 billion in *****ulative merchandise sales on September 3,2009.

Time for the Final Push to stop Customs Pocket Knife Grab. We need you to write NOW! BUT, not all of you…

We have a targeted list of leaders of the House committees that will be involved in the Conference Committee that will decide if AMENDMENT 1447 is included in the final bill. We need you [...]