On Friday, gunmaker Smith & Wesson (AMEX: SWB) — a company with a sterling history but a questionable future — reported its second-quarter earnings. At first glance, the company hit every earnings bullseye in sight, but when shooting for an increase in revenues, the company couldn't hit the broad side of a proverbial barn. S&W's quarterly earnings more than tripled year on year, to $0.07 per diluted share — despite less than 1% increase in quarterly sales.... (GunPolicy.org)

The issues of gun control and free speech dominate a lawsuit filed by an Oklahoma University geology professor who used a blunt sexual comparison to criticize a pro-gun control newspaper column and later was demoted for that and other perceived transgressions. The letter that geology professor David Deming wrote to the editor of the Oklahoma Daily newspaper in February 2000 argued that the owner of an unregistered gun was no more likely to become a murderer than a... (GunPolicy.org)