On these days of celebration, we should also remember and give thanks for the soldier. For those who go in harm's way, Christmas has often been a day of sacrifice, and valor. Two hundred twenty-six Ch . . . .

The Metropolitan Police is putting more armed officers on London streets to combat the increasing use of handguns by criminals. Read About It: London Times POSTED: Tuesday, . . . .

I'm a .25 cal. pistol 'a so-called Saturday Night Special' made by defunct gun maker Raven Arms. Although I'm an inanimate object, I've been found legally culpable in the 2000 classroom shooting of a W . . . .

Isn't it wonderful how liberal Democrats, just trounced in an election, proceed immediately to tell the winners how to govern? Obsessed with governing-with running other people`s lives-they simply can . . . .

ON NOV. 6, AMERICANS became less free to speak out than at any time in our nation`s modern history, losing a large measure of their right to exercise collective paid political speech. On that date, John McCain`s dream of political thought control--the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA)--took effect. And when it did, American liberty entered the Twilight Zone.

Two years ago, Dan Rather made many stiff British upper lips quiver by reporting that England had a crime problem and that, apart from murder, "theirs is worse than ours." The Mirror, a London daily, . . . .

Dishonesty. Tendentiousness. Blubber. Michael Moore's "Bowling For Columbine" is even worse than what we`ve come to expect from him. Read About It: The Weekly Standard POSTED: . . .

The latest FOX News poll conducted by Opinion Dynamics Corporation found that most Americans are doubtful that tougher guns laws would help stop these kinds of acts, with 76% saying people like the se . . . .

Emory University has accepted the resignation of history professor Michael Bellesiles, the author of Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture. The book stirred up controversy because it a . . . .

In the annals of rank opportunism, Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) deserves a special place. All hail her efforts to exploit the Beltway-sniper killings by pushing a bad "ballistic fingerprinting" bill. He . . . .

In the San Francisco Bay Area, gun owners tend to be dismissed as gun nuts - in fact, many jokingly call themselves that when among friends. And when it comes to gun legislation, nobody thinks to ask q . . . .

From the viewpoint of the prohibition lobbies, however, the misnamed "ballistic-fingerprinting" scheme does have advantages. The scheme amounts to partial gun registration today (in any form that coul . . . .

As gun owners, you and I are now the targets of a massive, coast-to-coast deception campaign. Anti-gun politicians who have attacked us in the past are now trying to make us believe that our Second Amendment rights aren't in jeopardy in the 2002 elections.

Denise Rich, Malcolm S. Forbes, Nelson Mandela and other friends and supporters of the Clintons showered the couple with roughly $1 million in previously unreported gifts during the Clinton presidency . . . .

Anyone who looks at his record will see that former Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell is one of the most anti-gun candidates for governor in Pennsylvania history. In his campaign for governor, Rendell i . . . .

John Cornyn . . . .

Lindsey Graham . . . .

If you live in Minnesota or have family, friends, co-workers or acquaintances in that state, here is what`s at stake in this November`s elections. With control of the Senate up for . . . .

Six of the seven New Jersey supreme-court justices responsible for Wednesday's "interpretation" of the state`s election laws to permit the Democratic party to substitute a more credible candidate for . . . .

A letter from a federal firearms agent urging a gun manufacturer to help track the illegal use of its weapons has become crucial evidence in a lawsuit by 12 California cities and counties against the . . . .

In the past several elections, National Rifle Association members have become the most united, most freedom-loving, most effective vote-producing machine in history. With critical control of the S . . . .

Iowa voters are trying to catch up on new developments in the controversy surrounding the taping of a campaign meeting for candidate for U.S. Senate Greg Ganske. Attorneys said they need to find out h . . . .

It is harsh enough that the double-digit popularity poll leads of Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend`s campaign for governor of Maryland evaporated over the summer. No less biting to her is the cool . . . .

If there is one thing that parties can agree on, it is the fact that gun owners were responsible for Gore`s defeat in 2000. Now more than ever, gun owners must remain vigilent in their voting for favo . . . .

While parents have tried to articulate truth for their children, many in the high halls of academia and in learned societies have been sending out a muddled and dishonest response to the attacks. At . . . .

The idea that government could do a better job of protecting airports than private industry had little to do with the experience of security-conscious countries such as Israel, which set rigorous stan . . . .

The number of people who were victims of all violent crimes except homicide fell by 9 percent in 2001, sending the crime rate to its lowest level since it was first tracked in 1973, the government rep . . . .

A spate of government litigation against the nation`s gun companies has been stifled in 30 states, which have passed laws granting the industry immunity from civil lawsuits. See Also: "Courts Reject . . . .

Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss offers a tribute to Charlton Heston: "I am shy around movie stars. True, if odd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth and all I can think to say is I loved yo . . . .

Testosterone is in again. Witness the ascent of Dr. Richard Carmona, the true-to-life hero nominated by President Bush for the post of surgeon general and recently confirmed, unanimously, by the Senat . . . .

A year ago it would have been shocking news: a governor publicly telling women to get a concealed handgun permit so that they can defend themselves against a serial killer. Hardly politically correct . . . .

As the U.S. Senate Ethics Committee weighs charges that Senator Robert G. Torricelli improperly accepted gifts and cash from a political contributor, a government official involved in the inquiry said . . . .

Senate opposition to arming airline pilots waned further today as two more lawmakers unexpectedly endorsed the idea and positions against it were all but absent at a hearing on aviation security. The . . . .

The Supreme Court's usurpation of legislative power is, in a way, the lesser of our constitutional deformations. The flip side of the Court's usurpation of power is the other branches' abdication of r . . . .

Yesterday National Review Online reported continuing Republican frustration with Majority Leader Tom Daschle's decision to shut down the confirmation process in the Senate. In the last six weeks, no B . . . .

Toby Keith says the producer of an ABC 4th of July TV special rescinded an offer to have the country singer perform his current hit after the show's host, World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings, hea . . . .

No jurisdiction in the United States works as doggedly to disarm citizens as does the District of Columbia, our nation's capital and on-again, off-again murder capital. Sure, the city council grudging . . . .

To ensure the quality of what medical journals publish, their editors, beginning 200 years ago, have increasingly called on scientific peers to review new findings from research. Now, however, there i . . . .

In turning down two appeals by defendants charged with federal firearms violations without comment, the Supreme Court relieved the Bush administration of the need to further explain its statement to t . . . .

Anti-gun scholar Michael Bellesiles defends his shoddy work by calling critics names. Read About It: Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal POSTED: Tuesday, June 11, 2002

One of the fascinating subplots in the controversy over whether Michael Bellesiles committed scholarly fraud in his book, Arming America, is what he claims happened to some of his research notes. Bell . . . .

A new work of history is published. You review the book on the front page of the book section of the New York Times, saying the author "has dispelled the darkness" surrounding an issue of significant . . . .

"In a new safety initiative, the Department of Transportation has instituted an affirmative-action program for Arabs interested in pursuing careers in aviation," writes Ann Coulter. "Transportation Se . . . .

"Chutzpah isn`t a word often used in connection with typical admirers of Islamonazi terrorism," says Dave Kopel. "But John Walker Lindh is special. In federal court, Lindh`s attorney has claimed that . . . .

John W. Magaw, a career federal law enforcer and head of the Transportation Security Administration, told a senatorial committee Tuesday that his agency wouldn't allow commercial airline pilots to car . . . .

The NRA, seizing on Pennsylvania's rural, conservative sensibilities has run a series of ads criticizing Ed Rendell, who served as Philadelphia mayor for nine years before leaving to join the Democrat . . . .

After hearing the Second Amendment verbatim, 73% in an ABCNEWS.com poll said it guarantees the right to individual gun ownership. Twenty percent said, instead, that it only guarantees the right of sta . . . .

The assassination of a Dutch politician and a series of mass shootings-at a German school and at normally tranquil local legislatures in Switzerland and France-have shaken the European notion that suc . . . .

It is rare for a prestigious institution to nakedly compromise its research integrity to promote a political agenda. Yet this is what the Harvard School of Public Health did April 17 when it issued an . . . .

Some defenders of Michael Bellesiles's Arming America have insisted that his critics have yet to bring forth any evidence to suggest scholarly fraud. One apologist points to the "searching examination . . . .

Citing an analysis that shows stiffer prison sentences meted out in federal court for gun crimes, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly is seeking to expand a program under which people a . . . .

On April 10, an Ohio appellate court unanimously ruled that Ohio`s ban on carrying concealed weapons, in effect since 1974, violated the people's right to keep and bear arms. Since 1851, the Ohio Cons . . . .

Reporter Alfonso Chardy wrote an important article for the March 10 Miami Herald. It adds to the proofs that we never got the whole story behind the Clinton administration's case for deporting 6-year- . . . .

Florida's political fortunes can shift like sand, as Janet Reno is finding out. When she announced her candidacy last year, Reno was the putative lock for the Democratic nomination to run against Gov. . . . .

The nation's five largest pilots unions have asked President Bush to intercede personally to let pilots arm themselves aboard commercial jets. Read About It: USA Today POSTED: . . . .

Professor Michael Bellesiles' book Arming America purported to establish that the core historical argument behind the Second Amendment was a fraud. The brave minuteman armed with his trusty rifle, Bel . . . .

Organizers of the Tampa Bay gun buyback program have decided to cancel this year's trade-ins. Instead, the group will focus its efforts on gun safety education and awareness, which includes a billboar . . . .

It's been a whirlwind first year out of office for Bill Clinton, who certainly hasn't strained to avoid the limelight. He's been hanging with his Hollywood toadies; explaining why he spent his final d . . . .

Michael Bellesiles is taking heavy artillery fire for knavish scholarship in his Arming America, and, writes none other than Alexander Cockburn, "Bellesiles' phony scholarship is as devastating a blow . . . .

Recognizing the inherent dangers of covering the war in Afghanistan, news agencies are reviewing operating procedures for foreign correspondents, issuing flak jackets and providing "hostile environmen . . . .

Opponents of the campaign-finance bill are arguing that President Bush should veto it because it is unconstitutional. George Washington used the Constitution in just this way when he vetoed a bill he . . . .

At a speech to the 2002 World Congress on the Peaceful Reunification of China and World Peace in Sydney, Australia, Bill Clinton intoned that America's "pre-eminent military, economic and political po . . . .

Pearl Harbor day for the gun industry was the day that New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial filed his lawsuit, demonstrating to the industry that its scrupulous compliance with extensive statutes and regulat . . . .

When Michael Bellesiles's "Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture" appeared in 2000, its reviews were practically love letters. As the celebrations continued, however, a handful of scho . . . .

Columnist Vin Suprynowicz speaks out on "smart guns" and the real agenda behind them. Read About It: Las Vegas Review-Journal POSTED: Wednesday, February 06, 2002

"State of the Union addresses are usually reviewed in terms of 'eloquence,' or 'drama,' or how the overnight polls register the public's reaction. But for sheer seriousness, for the depth and scope of . . . .

The National Review's Melissa Seckora returns to her investigation of the questionable research that produced Michael Bellesiles` book, Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture. She finds . . . .

In pure logic, only four possible states of gun ownership in a society are possible: (1) Everybody has a gun. (2) Nobody has a gun. (3) Criminals have guns but law-abiding people don't. (4) Law-ab . . . .

These public nuisance suits against the firearms industry come at a time when demand for firearms has risen. From October 2000 to October 2001, background checks for guns rose 22%. The gun rush probab . . . .

A reviewer who praised Michael Bellesiles's book, Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture., now says, "I was badly wrong in my judgment, though it took me a while to grasp just how wrong . . . .

The FAA is asking for public comment about authorizing on-duty pilots to carry firearms in flight-a post-September 11 issue incorporated into the new federal air travel security law that passed in Nov . . . .

The Manhattan Institute's Heather Mac Donald has been calling the most strident anti-police activists of recent years, and asking: "Suppose that in the wake of September 11, the FBI decides to check o . . . .

Glenn Harland Reynolds, professor of law at the University of Tennessee, examines the tendency of media organizations to turn press releases and written-to-order opinion pieces into apparently objecti . . . .

It was only a matter of time before the gun-ban lobby took advantage of Americans' fears of terrorist attacks to scare them into giving up more of their rights. Gun banners are now rushing to demonize . . . .