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American Second Amendment rights could be directly threatened by the latest wording of a United Nations draft treaty seeking control over international trade in conventional weapons, FoxNews.com has learned.

An Atlanta federal appeals court has rejected a minister's argument that gun carriers have a constitutional right to bring sidearms to worship services. The ruling upholds Georgia's 2010 law that bans guns in churches, synagogues and mosques.

A new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office confirms that the number of Americans exercising the right to carry firearms for personal protection is skyrocketing, NRA-ILA reports.

WBNS-10TV in Columbus, Ohio, reports that a pizza-delivery driver in Columbus stopped two men armed with shotguns who attempted to rob him.

Another anti-gun media outlet has put law-abiding gun owners at risk. WRAL.com, the online media outlet for the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Triangle’s WRAL television station, recently published a “news” article about the number of Right-to-Carry permit holders in various counties of North Carolina.

Background checks for people wanting to purchase firearms in Colorado spiked more than 40 percent this past weekend, after a gunman opened fire in a suburban Denver movie theater, killing 12 people and wounding 58 more.

Twenty U.S. Olympic Team shooters have begun their journeys to the 2012 Olympic Games in London. With just days left until the Opening Ceremony, here's a brief look at the shotgun shooters.

The shooting sports are more popular than ever across the globe. With the lineups for the 2012 London Olympics set, there are a total of 390 shooters from 108 countries competing at the games. The number of competitors places shooting in the top four sports at the Olympics and the total countries represented is up from the two previous games, according to NRA-ILA.

BATFE's acting director distributed a videotaped message to employees this month warning there would be “consequences” for reporting wrongdoing outside their chain of command.

Swarovski Optik North America’s new ATX/STX scopes have a modular, ergonomic designs with the zoom and focusing rings next to each other.

Writing at the Heritage Foundation, Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D., offered, “For much of the past two weeks, I’ve been attending the U.N.’s Arms Trade Treaty conference in New York and blogging on the craziness. A number of comments on my blogs—and many external commentators—have raised the question of whether the ATT is, pure and simple, a “gun grab” treaty.”

UCLA Prof. Eugene Volokh, writing on the Volokh Conspiracy, recently posted a demographic study of which group was the fastest-growing cohort to become concealed carry licensees in Texas.