I spent the second weekend in December with some of my favorite Americans-friends who serve heroically in our country's most elite special operations unit. Louis and Jim Maxwell of Maxwell Foods, Inc. graciously invited us out to their pristine property in North Carolina so my military buddies could pursue their dream of hunting the Tar Heel State's famed bruins.

The continuing saga of South Africa's dwindling gun owners provides a case study of what gun-banners want to do in the United States.

The latest anti-gun efforts in the Golden State give all Americans a glimpse at the coming gun-ban agenda in their states-and an organization which should be observed with a wary eye.