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President-elect Barack Obama's transition team is asking potential appointees detailed questions about gun ownership, and firearms advocates aren't happy about it.

The Board of Police Commissioners on Wednesday shot down Chief Daniel Isom's request to fund a repeat of last year's gun buyback that took more than 500 firearms off the street.

It's a sad day when a county sheriff shows as much disdain for individual liberties as Sheriff Sandra Hutchens has shown in her pursuit of ham-fisted policies regarding concealed-carry permits for firearms. On Tuesday, the board of supervisors voted unanimously to call on the sheriff to loosen up her policies and allow wider latitude in granting permits to residents who say they need the permits.

With two days to go before Wisconsin's deer hunt begins, license sales were on track to equal those sold a year ago, despite the sour economy, the state Department of Natural Resources said Thursday.

Describing the stark descent into heavy gun regulation that they say Barack Obama’s presidential administration will seek, National Rifle Association officials came to town Wednesday and backed U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss as a last line of defense for freedom and the Second Amendment.

The agency, which conducts about 11,000 inspections a year, says it has come up with a way to eliminate many of those violations before they happen. Instead of filling out the required ATF paperwork by hand, gun buyers and dealers will now be able to complete what officials say is a fail safe electronic version of the document, known as Form 4473.

County supervisors, Sheriff Sandra Hutchens and hundreds of gun activists engaged Tuesday in a Wild West style shootout over the more restrictive concealed gun policies that Hutchens has introduced during her first six months in office.

A lawyer who represents the National Rifle Association represented Oklahoma's governor and attorney general Wednesday in support of a controversial state gun rights law.

Meleanie Hain's attorney says the Lebanon woman has endured the ridicule of neighbors and lost baby sitting jobs since she achieved notoriety for openly, and legally, carrying a gun to her 5 year old daughter's soccer game.

Hunters can help food banks, pantries and soup kitchens feed Pennsylvania's hungry by donating extra deer meat to a statewide network that distributes it, said Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff and Game Commission Director Carl Roe today.

The times, they are a changing. Statistics from the National Shooting Sports Foundation reveal that females represent the fastest growing segment among all the shooting sports, a development that also projects to participation in the field.

The National Rifle Association on Wednesday threw its support behind incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss in Georgia’s Dec. 2 runoff. “We’re going to have some real battles in Washington,” Wayne LaPierre, executive vice-president of the NRA, said Wednesday morning in Atlanta before traveling to Perry for a Chambliss rally.

During his campaign for the Presidency, Obama said “I have no intention of taking away folks’ guns.” He was right. His pick for Attorney General tells us that he doesn’t intend to take away our guns. He just intends to make it so difficult for us to purchase and possess them that we won’t want them in the first place.

The council voted 6-0 to repeal the ban which would mean handguns in homes would now be permitted but firing guns and gun sales would stay illegal. The lawsuit was filed in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said residents of Washington, D.C., a city under federal juristiction, could keep handguns for self defense.

The city's Law Department and its Police Bureau are at odds over a gun control bill. A Ravenstahl administration lawyer testified yesterday that a proposed requirement that city gun owners notify police when their guns are stolen is unenforceable under state law.

A local legislator pre-filed a bill that would make it legal for gun enthusiasts to buy weapons in states that don’t share a border with Texas. State Rep. Dennis Bonnen, R-Angleton, filed House Bill 267 ahead of the 81st regular session of the Texas Legislature, which convenes Jan. 13. Bonnen said he authored the bill after a constituent told to him recently he couldn’t buy a rifle in Mississippi while on a trip.

For now, it appears they only want to take away gun shop owners' guns. You see, they can't take guns from you they didn't allow you to own in the first place, now can they? According to his website, our present-day Cedric is champing at the bit to reinstate the assault weapons ban.

Many malls and workplaces also place signs at their entrances prohibiting firearms on the premises. Now tacticians believe the signs themselves may be an invitation to the active killers.

In examining the first document created by President-elect Barack Obama, the "White House Personnel Data Questionnaire" – which is a model that can used by all agencies of the federal government – he has made it clear that discriminatory practices are to be a hallmark of his administration and that he particularly intends to discriminate against hunters and gun owners.