M.WASHINGTONTIMES.COM 1 Hour Ago California Democrat: Don't call it 'gun control' Rep. Mike Thompson, picked by Nancy Pelosi to head House Democrats' new efforts to ban assault weapons, said Saturday that using the term "gun control" is unhelpful. "When you talk about 'gun control,' you turn off more than half of your audience," the California Democrat said in an interview on CNN. Mr. Thompson, a gun owner and a hunter himself, said it was time to do something about "assault weapons" in private hands. "I think assault weapons are a pox on the home of every gun owner," he said. "I think that's the thing that's going to cause the overwhelming majority of people in this country who aren't gun owners to have negative feelings about those of us who are gun owners." Mrs. Pelosi, the House minority leader, named Mr. Thompson to head the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, which is expected to work...

FOX NEWS 11 Hours Ago Gun shows face new scrutiny after Connecticut school shooting SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Four gun shows about an hour's drive from Newtown, Conn., have been canceled. Organizers say they weren't appropriate just weeks after a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown. But gun advocates aren't backing down from their insistence on the right to keep and bear arms. The City Council in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., has urged a group to not display military-style weapons and high-capacity magazines at its upcoming gun show. Organizer David Petronis says it's not fair that the shows and their organizers are seen as the brunt of the problem. But he says he understands the reaction. The group agreed to the city's request.

WND.COM 3 Hours Ago Obama’s secret plan to reclassify your guns by DJ Dolce President Obama, congressional Democrats and even some Republicans plan to push new gun-control legislation in the 113th Congress, but defenders of the Second Amendment fear Obama is poised to enact the restrictions through the Executive Branch if Congress is not cooperative. John M. Snyder heads GunRightsPolicies.org and has worked for organizations from the National Rifle Association to the Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. He said Obama and his allies have already chartered what regulatory course to pursue through the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF. “We have some confidential information that he may order the ATF to reclassify certain models of semi-automatic firearms as Title 2 guns under the Gun Control Act of 1968,” Snyder told WND. “What this would mean is that people could not obtain these without going throu...