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Thursday, 29 October 2009 15:22 News Editor News - Site Updates

Try our new site!

The new site is up. I saw at least one member who may need to re-register. The old site is available here. Unfortunately, we've just broken all of our old links, so searches and especially bookmarks won't work. If you've linked to from your blog, they'll need to be updated. Hated to do it but there was no way around it. Old links will work by modifying the link from

http://www.firearmscoalition.org/ (link information)

http://www.firearmscoalition.org/tfc1/ (link information)

That /tfc1 after the .org will make a big difference.

Last Updated on Saturday, 14 November 2009 07:33 Read more...

Early Returns

Saturday, 14 November 2009 05:37 Chris Knox The Knox Update - The Knox Update

The Knox Update

From the Firearms Coalition

Early Returns

By Chris Knox

(Phoenix, AZ, November 4, 2009) It’s a Republican sweep in Virginia. Bob McDonnell has the election locked up along with fellow Republicans winning the Lt. Governor and Attorney General offices. The Republican victory in Virginia was overwhelming, with the GOP netting a combined 60 percent of the vote over Democrats in the three races.

In New Jersey, an unpopular (and Brady Bunch-endorsed) Democrat lost to what passes for a conservative Republican in that part of the world. Meanwhile in New York’s 23^rd District, the Republican leadership had an opportunity to learn something about party discipline when their anointed candidate Dede Scozzafava, a genuinely liberal Republican, was pushed out of the race by an upstart conservative candidate who claimed Glenn Beck as his mentor. Early returns show the Democrat with a solid lead, but with the upstart Hoffman making a splash. The chin-stroking started immediately that the results are the harbinger of a gathering storm within the Republican Party. Maybe.

Last Updated on Thursday, 19 November 2009 19:18 Read more...

The No-Guns Insult

Thursday, 29 October 2009 14:59 Jeff Knox The Knox Update - The Knox Update

The Knox Update

From the Firearms Coalition

The "No Guns" Insult

By Jeff Knox

(Manassas, VA, October 29, 2009) How does it make you feel when you start to walk into a business and see a "No Guns" sign prominently posted? Are you angry? Offended? Indifferent? How do you react? Do you just turn around and take your business elsewhere? Complain to the management? Just ignore it and go on with your business? The members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League take "No Guns" signs as personally offensive and they let their offense be known - to the business, to fellow VCDL members, and anyone else who'll listen - or read a web page. VCDL maintains a list of anti-rights Virginia businesses on their web site, www.VCDL.org, and encourages gun owners and rights supporters to avoid these businesses except to let them know that their policy is offensive. VCDL has actively pursued this position for several years while they have simultaneously grown to become the most politically active and effective rights organization in the state.