Like a quarterback taking a knee in the fourth quarter, two of Congress's most ardent opponents of our Right to Keep and Bear Arms are trying to run out the clock on efforts to enhance your right to self-defense in our national parks and wildlife refuges. 

For years, anti-gunners have claimed that there's a gun-related epidemic in our country, and for once, they're right.  It's not gun-related crime though.  An epidemic is something that is common and spreading rapidly; gun-related crime has been diminishing for 15 years.

Leaders of the National Rifle Association (NRA) praised the Supreme Court's historic ruling overturning Washington, D.C.'s ban on handguns and on self-defense in the home, in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller.

SCI, the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation and the NRA successfully banded together this week to oppose H.R. 5534, the so called “Bear Protection Act.” SCI and other sportsmen’s groups have worked hard to educate Congressmen and staffers about the realities of this “Bear Protection Act.” 

As this unusual campaign season has unfolded, we’ve seen the candidates ratcheting up their politically expedient rhetoric in an attempt to distinguish themselves as the “candidate of choice” for every constituency, while testing the far reaches of credibility in the process.  We’ve heard blatantly anti-gun politicians claim to be supportive of the Second Amendment.  We’ve seen hypocrisy, and we’ve heard double-speak and insults to our intelligence. 

Once again, the Brady rankings clearly demonstrate that states that have the most gun control tend to have the most violent crime.