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James Parson's gun interest blossomed when he was a 9 year old Boy Scout. It was the beginning of a hobby that would later push him to move out of Maryland and into York County, where Pennsylvania gun laws allow him to carry his weapon openly and might soon allow visitors from other states to carry concealed weapons if the Senate passes the national concealed carry bill.

There is a new push for concealed carry weapons to be allowed on OSU's campus following a string of crime alerts from OSU police in the last few weeks. OSU's student group supporting concealed weapons on campus has received hundreds of new requests for membership.

Here are the proposed ordinances on firearms on the agenda for Tuesday night's Hickory City Council meeting. The proposals are the subject of a public hearing at the 7 p.m. meeting at City Hall.

I have an email saying that The Freedom Group is buying up all the American gun and ammunition companies. The email says that The Freedom Group is owned by Cerberus Capital Management. And the owner of Cerberus is George Soros, a very liberal financier who wants to control America's guns. The email asks why the media hasn't reported this. Why hasn't it been reported? For good reason. It's not true. Cerberus is a private equity firm founded in 1992 by Stephen Feinberg and William Richter, listed as senior managing directors on the company's website.

It was all a lie. The angry denials, the high dudgeon, the how dare you accuse us bleating emanating from Eric Holder's Justice Department these last nine months. Operation Fast and Furious -- the "botched" gun tracking program run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives -- did, in fact, deliberately allow some 2,000 high powered weapons to be sold to Mexican drug cartel agents and then waltzed across the border and into the Mexican drug wars -- just as Sen. Chuck Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa, who are leading the congressional investigations, have charged all along.

The following is a comment from Beth Levine, spokesperson for Ranking Member Grassley, on the Justice Department's latest release of documents related to Senator Grassley and Congressman Issa's investigation into Operation Fast and Furious. "After a first glance at today's document dump from the Justice Department, there appears to be even more questions for Assistant Attorney General Breuer, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Weinstein and former U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke. The congressional investigators will continue to scour the documents over the upcoming days and will have further questions for department officials."

The Justice Department on Friday provided Congress with documents detailing how department officials gave inaccurate information to a U.S. senator in the controversy surrounding Operation Fast and Furious, the flawed law enforcement initiative aimed at dismantling major arms trafficking networks on the Southwest border.

While federal officials publicly denounced a lone whistleblower and told Congress the Obama administration had done everything it could to stop guns from going to Mexico, administration officials had signs that Fast and Furious investigators were losing track of weapons, a new memo obtained exclusively by Fox News suggests.

It is an issue with no eminent resolution, but one that has certainly garnered plenty of attention, especially as we hit the midway point of Pennsylvania's annual two week deer season. Presented to state legislators back in June, House Bill 1760 marked the most recent proposal for lifting the prohibition of hunting in Pennsylvania on Sundays one of only 11 states that still has some form of ban in place. The initiative introduced by the House Game and Fisheries Committee resurfaced a longstanding dilemma that roughly 1 million hunters across the state have dealt with since the late 1800s as part of the "blue laws" still being upheld more than a century later.

Sources out of Madison are reporting that Governor Scott Walker will sign Assembly Bill 69 on Wednesday, December 7. Commonly known as the “Castle Doctrine,” AB 69 would provide essential protections for law-abiding citizens who defend themselves and their families from a criminal looking to do them harm. Once signed, this legislation would go into immediate effect.

In an effort to educate the next generation of gun rights advocates on exercising and maintaining their constitutionally guaranteed Right to Keep and Bear Arms, NRA has developed a comprehensive program for college students called “NRA University”-- NRA U for short.

In the early 1970s, hunters were instrumental in preventing South Florida’s Big Cypress Swamp from being drained and transformed into the world’s largest jetport. The culmination of that successful effort was the creation of the Big Cypress National Preserve in 1974, a 582,000-acre area situated just north of Everglades National Park that stretches roughly from Miami in the east to Naples in the west.

Six months ago, several agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives stood before Congress to testify about the details of a U.S. government program that armed Mexico's largest drug cartel with thousands of assault rifles. The administration denied it at the time and questioned the agents' integrity. The men were nervous and scared. They said they feared for their careers, their reputation and their families.

A measure working its way through the Michigan Legislature would make the state the nation's 45th to allow residents to carry stun guns as a means of self defense. Wisconsin became the 44th on Nov. 1.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has introduced a bill to kill the mandatory registration of rifles and shotguns in Canada. The program is unpopular in rural Canada and the Tories successfully hammered the former Liberal government, which introduced the initiative in 1993 for its high cost now estimated at around $2 billion.

The Obama Administration has abruptly sealed court records containing alarming details of how Mexican drug smugglers murdered a U.S. Border patrol agent with a gun connected to a failed federal experiment that allowed firearms to be smuggled into Mexico.

Attorney General Eric Holder scolded The Daily Caller's reporting on the Fast and Furious gun running scandal shortly after government officials and reporters heard him admonish Americans for funding gun runners.

Changes to the state's Castle Doctrine Law that take effect Thursday do not require people to run before they fight back with a gun. The law expands the use of reasonable deadly force to include cars and workplaces if a person under attack fears imminent death or serious bodily harm.