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Gun owners draw line against extremist legislation
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Crowding capitol campuses across the country, including a major turnout in Olympia, America�s gun owners took the offensive Saturday against what they view as extremist gun control measures now proposed at the federal and state levels.
Although the Seattle Times estimated only �about 1,000� people at the Olympia turnout, other estimates varied, ranging to the more than 2,000 by KOMO. Examiner was there, and it appeared the KOMO estimate was far more accurate. |
NY: Gun lobby had its silencer on last week
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The powerful gun lobby apparently had its silencer on in its battle against Gov. Cuomo. Thousands of firearm owners turned out at �Gun Appreciation Day� rallies across the state on Saturday, denouncing Gov. Cuomo and decrying his new gun control law. It was a surprising spectacle, considering that in the weeks and days leading up to the Legislature�s passage of the sweeping reform bill last week, ardent Second Amendment supporters were nowhere to be seen. �It goes against past experience,� Assemblyman Micah Kellner, a Manhattan Democrat who voted for the bill, said of the pro-gun paradox in Albany. �There was plenty of time to be there and be heard.� |
NY: Vote on guns puts Grisanti back in forefront of activist ire
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Go to State Sen. Mark J. Grisanti�s campaign Facebook page and you�ll find the usual: photos of the Buffalo Republican, a link to donate money and various tidbits of information. And then there are these comments from his Facebook �friends�: �A disgrace to all Republicans in your district.� �You should be convicted of treason.� �Have fun ever trying to get re-elected.� �You should step down in shame.� �You sold out.� �Traitor.� And those are the ones that can be printed in this newspaper. |
NY: New York's anti-gun culture
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Governor Andrew Cuomo is no doubt a student of the Rahm Emanuel School of Better Government where the motto is �you never want a serious crisis to go to waste.� His gusto for over-preparedness and over-reaction � which really isn�t a very endearing leadership trait � seen throughout his term (perhaps as a means to market himself as presidential material) was realized yet again as he and his team, in an effort to beat Washington to the punch, forced legislation through the Albany Machine that, in response to the Newtown shootings, allegedly makes New York a much safer place by preventing criminals from possessing firearms and ammunition. |
NY: Hit us with your best shot, Andy!
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Assault-rifle owners statewide are organizing a mass boycott of Gov. Cuomo�s new law mandating they register their weapons, daring officials to �come and take it away,� The Post has learned. Gun-range owners and gun-rights advocates are encouraging hundreds of thousands of owners to defy the law, saying it�d be the largest act of civil disobedience in state history. |
OH: Dealer Accidentally Shoots Man at Ohio Gun Show
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Authorities say an accidental shooting at an Ohio gun show has left one man wounded.
Police in Medina (meh-DEYE'-nuh) say a gun dealer was checking out a semi-automatic handgun he'd bought Saturday when he accidentally pulled the trigger.
Police Chief Pat Berarducci (BEHR'-uh-doo-chee) says it appears the bullet struck the floor, then a longtime friend of the gun dealer. The man was wounded in the arm and leg.
Berarducci says the man was taken by helicopter to a Cleveland hospital. His condition isn't known.
Police say the gun's magazine had been removed from the firearm but one round remained in the chamber.
Medina is about 30 miles south of Cleveland. |
IN: Indy man injured after accidentally shooting himself at gun show
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[An] Indianapolis man [was] treated for injuries after state police say he accidentally shot himself in the hand at a gun show.
Saturday afternoon at around 4:15 p.m., Indiana State Police responded to the Indy 1500 Gun and Knife show being held at the South Pavilion of the State Fairgrounds to the report of an accidental shooting.
Troopers say that a patron of the event, 54-year-old Emory L. Cozee, of Indianapolis, had walked out the east entrance of the South Pavilion building and was loading his .45 caliber semi-automatic when he shot himself in the hand.
Cozee was transported to Wishard Hospital for treatment.
State police say the investigation determined the shooting to be accidental and no charges will be filed. |
Thousands rally against stricter gun control in US
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Thousands of gun advocates gathered peacefully Saturday at state capitals around the U.S. to rally against stricter limits on firearms, with demonstrators carrying rifles and pistols in some places while those elsewhere settled for waving hand-scrawled signs or screaming themselves hoarse.
Activists promoted the "Guns Across America" rallies primarily through social media. They were being held just after President Barack Obama unveiled a sweeping package of federal gun-control proposals.
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�Voice of the Pope� backs Obama gun edicts
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"A Church steeped in history, and one that recognizes beatified martyrs from the Cristero War is well aware that history is still unfolding, that tyranny still exists, that individuals are still persecuted and murdered by their own governments, and will continue to be, and that no nation or people, even ours, can forever count on remaining special and exempt." |
Rallies across U.S. assail Obama's proposed gun curbs
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Pro-gun activists held "high noon" rallies across the United States on Saturday to defend the right to own firearms that they say is being threatened by President Barack Obama's gun-control proposals. ...
"We are law-abiding citizens, business owners, military, and we are not going to be responsible for other people's criminal actions," former Marine Damon Locke said to applause at a Florida rally he had helped organize.
Some in the crowd of about 1,000 in Brooksville, about an hour north of Tampa, hoisted signs that said: "Stop the Gun Grabbers" and "Gun control isn't about guns, it's about control." |
Sen. Chuck Schumer Says the NRA Is an Extreme �Fringe Group�
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Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) sat down with HuffPost Live Friday, where he made a noteworthy statement about the rapidly-growing National Rifle Association.
Responding to interviewer Alicia Menendez�s question about whether Schumer�s colleagues are �willing to admit� that the NRA is a �fringe group,� the senator responded: �Well they sure are a fringe group, but whether enough of my colleagues are ready to admit that, I�m not sure.�
He continued: �They are a very extreme group. They don�t even represent average gun holders.�
The two proceeded to discuss certain gun control measures and Schumer�s intention to �push hard� to get them passed.
Submitter's comment: Maybe in Chuckie's district. But out in America? No way! |
NY: NY Democrat pleads with Republican not to share document proposing confiscation of guns
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The State of New York this week passed some of the strictest gun control laws in the United States, effectively outlawing 'assault weapons' and limiting the size of magazines.
Submitters note: And we gun owners are paranoid... the gun controllers are showing their true agenda... Our Full autos were banned in 1986 and now its the semi's then the rest will follow incrementally. Total disarment of the civilian population. Then self defense will be made illegal which is immoral because it exist in nature. As has been done in many nations that have banned sufficent arms which can be used for self defense. Look at history registration leads to confinscation which leads to democide and tyranny. |
Bill Clinton to Democrats: Don�t trivialize gun culture
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Former President Bill Clinton warned a group of top Democratic donors at a private Saturday meeting not to underestimate the passions that gun control stirs among many Americans.
�Do not patronize the passionate supporters of your opponents by looking down your nose at them,� Clinton said.
Clinton closed his remarks with a warning to big Democratic donors that ultimately many Democratic lawmakers will be defeated if they choose to stand with the president.
�Do not be self-congratulatory about how brave you for being for this� gun control push, he said. �The only brave people are the people who are going to lose their jobs if they vote with you.�
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4 Questions About 'Universal Background Checks' for Gun Purchases
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As J.D. Tuccille noted this morning, "universal background checks" are emerging as a leading contender for the something that must be done by Congress in response to last month's massacre at Sandy Hook Elemenetary School. "There's a natural gravity that happens toward the ['assault weapon'] ban in the wake of tragedies," Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, tells The New York Times. �But it's very important to point out that background checks could have an even bigger impact."
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NC: 2 hurt in accidental shooting at NC gun show
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Officials say two people were accidentally shot and wounded at a gun show at the North Carolina state fairgrounds.
It happened Saturday at the Dixie Gun and Knife Show, a quarterly event that usually draws thousands of people to the fairgrounds in Raleigh.
The fairground is operated by the state agriculture department. Agency spokesman Brian Long says a 12-gauge shotgun discharged while its owner unzipped its case for a law enforcement officer to check it at a security entrance.
Emergency crews responded to the scene and two people were loaded into ambulances. |
CA: Gun enthusiasts, families of victims of violence split on proposed restrictions
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The Los Angeles Gun Club, a popular indoor shooting range in downtown Los Angeles, was bustling Saturday afternoon, with a lobby full of customers waiting their turn to step into the range � couples on dates, a group of friends celebrating a birthday party, a father and son from Malaysia visiting on holiday.
Many patrons were unaware that Saturday was National Gun Appreciation Day, which gun activists intended to remind President Obama and Congress of the people�s right to keep and bear arms and to protest any proposed gun restrictions in the wake of the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., in December. |
Democrats optimistic on 'broad' support for universal gun background checks
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Hours before President Barack Obama's official swearing-in to a second term, top Democrats predicted a victory for the broadest component of the White House's push to change the nation's gun laws.
During an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," Sen. Chuck Schumer, N.Y., called legislation to institute universal background checks for gun buyers "the sweet spot."
"In terms of actually making us safer and having a good chance of passing, this is it," Schumer said on Sunday.
"I think you're going to see [the very likelihood] in the next week or two a proposal that has broad support for universal background checks," he added. |
NY: NYTimes Buries Own Poll Findings Showing Support for Armed Guards in School, Blaming Hollywood
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The latest New York Times/CBS News poll, focused on gun control, showed gains for stricter gun laws and (coincidentally?) made the front page of the national edition, in a report by Michael Cooper and Dalia Sussman, under a wishful headline: "Massacre Sways Public In Way Others Did Not."
But they buried findings in the same poll that show 74 percent of Americans support conservative ideas of stationing armed guards in public places like schools and blaming Hollywood's culture of violence. |
5 hurt in shootings at 3 U.S. gun shows
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Accidental gunfire at three gun shows around the United States on Saturday left five injured, authorities said.
Three people were injured in Raleigh, North Carolina, at the Dixie Gun and Knife Show at the state fairgrounds, a quarterly event that usually draws thousands of people. ...
Two bystanders were hit by shotgun pellets and taken to a hospital. A retired deputy sheriff suffered a slight hand injury. ...
In Indiana, police said a 54-year-old Indianapolis man was injured when he accidentally shot himself while leaving a gun show. ...
Meanwhile, authorities in Ohio said a gun dealer in Medina was checking out a semi-automatic handgun he had bought when he accidentally pulled the trigger, injuring his friend. |
NC: Three hurt in accidental shooting at Raleigh gun show, police say
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Three people were injured Saturday at a gun show in Raleigh, N.C., after a 12-gauge shotgun filled with birdshot accidentally discharged, authorities said.
Around 1:15 p.m., a 36-year-old man entered the Dixie Gun and Knife Show at the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh. The man, identified by authorities as Gary Lynn Wilson, took his encased shotgun to a security check. As he unfastened the case to be inspected, the gun accidentally went off, authorities said.
�I want to emphasize that this was an accident,� Joel Keith, chief of police for the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, said at a news conference. |
NY: Hudson Valley conservatives push back against Cuomo
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Even as New York's liberal tide rose when Gov. Andrew Cuomo furthered his progressive agenda with the passage of this week's gun control law, there were signs of a new and feisty, if small, conservative corps in Albany. They are often brash, many are new to Albany, and unlike most in New York politics today, they seem unafraid of and unimpressed by the Democratic governor, a popular figure with whom most Republicans have forged an alliance. Their voices rose last week against Cuomo's assault rifle ban in a gun control package that was the first in the nation after December's elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn. |
NC: Private sales at gun show on hold after three hurt in accidental shooting
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Officials said the Dixie Gun and Knife Show will continue Sunday without private gun sales after three people, including a retired sheriff's deputy, were injured Saturday when a gun brought in by a patron who planned to sell it accidentally discharged. ...
The show, which is held inside the Jim Graham Building, closed for the remainder of the day but will continue Sunday without private gun sales. Authorities said no personal guns will be allowed on the property. Only guns sold by licensed dealers and vendors will be allowed.
The ban is in place for Sunday, the last day of the show, but won't necessarily be permanent, Keith said. Officials said they will review procedures to determine whether any changes need to be made. |
OR: Gun rights advocates overflow the front steps of the state capitol in Salem
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With assault rifles slung over their shoulders and semi-automatic handguns strapped to their thighs, an overflow crowd of Second Amendment supporters converged Saturday on the front steps of the Oregon State Capitol to voice their opposition to gun control measures proposed in the wake of last month�s school shooting in Connecticut.
The rally was part of a nationwide series of pro-firearms events on Saturday dubbed as �Guns Across America.�
In addition to shotguns, bolt-action hunting rifles and revolvers, protesters also carried American flags and signs that said �Freedom� and �Impeach Obama.� They bobbed their heads to Neil Diamond�s �America� and stood rapt during a dramatic reading of the Second Amendment. |
PA: Pennsylvania girl, 5, suspended for threatening to shoot girl with pink toy gun that blows soapy bubbles
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A 5-year-old Pennsylvania girl who told another girl she was going to shoot her with a pink Hello Kitty toy gun that blows soapy bubbles has been suspended from kindergarten.
Her family has hired an attorney to fight the punishment, which initially was 10 days for issuing a 'terroristic threat.' But her punishment was reduced to two days after her mother met with school officials and had the incident dropped to 'threatening to harm another student,' which apparently carries a lesser punishment.
Submitter's comment: These "educators" are too stupid to know that what they are teaching is contempt for themselves and the legal system. |
Hundreds join pro-gun rallies in U.S. capitals
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Hundreds of gun owners and Second Amendment advocates rallied in state capitals nationwide Saturday, days after President Barack Obama unveiled a sweeping package of federal gun-control proposals.
Some 600 attendees in Austin, Texas, carried signs bearing messages such as "An Armed Society is a Polite Society" and "The Second Amendment Comes from God." About 2,000 people � many carrying American flags and "Don't Tread On Me" banners � turned out for the chilly outdoor rally at the New York state capitol in Albany.
The "Guns Across America" rallies, which activists promoted primarily via social media, also followed New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signing this week of the nation's toughest assault weapon and magazine restrictions. |
NY: Legal action against Cuomo gun law
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NYSRPA, in co-operation with the NRA, are having the Cuomo law reviewed by a highly qualified legal team. We ask that no other 3rd party legal action be taken without prior consultation. We realize that this law impacts a large number of people, but a proper legal review will take some time. NYSRPA/NRA will be filing a Notice of Claim prior to submitting a brief on the merits of the constitutionality of the new gun law. Involved in the lawsuit will be two of the nations best 2nd Amendment attorneys. This is a very important proceeding and must be handled properly with the best lawyers. |
TX: Texans Rally Against More Gun Control
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A self-proclaimed Paul Revere circled the Texas State Capitol grounds on a bicycle Saturday at noon, ushering people to the north side of the building to join in a national day of protest against a renewed push for gun-control regulations.
The rally, organized by Guns Across America, a gun rights organization, was one of 49 protests occurring across the nation. ...
Republicans have been critical of the president, calling gun-related executive orders an overreach of federal power and an infringement on the 2nd Amendment.
U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Friendswood, took to the airwaves ... to continue his push for the impeachment of Obama if executive orders were used as means for gun control.
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KY: McConnell vows to block gun control measures
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, bracing for a challenge in the 2014 elections, promised Saturday to try to block President Barack Obama's gun-violence initiatives in a taped telephone recording sent across Kentucky.
"President Obama and his team are doing everything in their power to restrict your Constitutional right to keep and bear arms," McConnell said in the recording. "Their efforts to restrict your rights, invading your personal privacy and overstepping their bounds with executive orders, is just plain wrong." |
NYT's Cooper Effusive Over Left-Wing Mayors' Group That Supports Obama's Gun Control
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The New York Times' Michael Cooper reported from the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Washington, capturing the effusive reaction to President Obama's gun-control proposals. In his report, "Recalling Pain Of Guns' Toll, Mayors Urge Bills' Passage � Heartened After Years Of Pushing for Laws," Cooper came off less a hard-bitten reporter than an emotionally over-involved storyteller, pushing for someone to do something about gun violence. (No matter that none of the mayoral anecdotes he relayed included mass shootings like the one in Newtown). |
TX: Variety of Gun-Related Bills on Table for Session
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While December's fatal shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school led the Obama administration to re-examine federal gun laws, Texas lawmakers have been hard at work on gun-related legislation since November, when they were first able to file bills for the 83rd legislative session. Most of those bills aim to widen rather than restrict access to guns. |
NY: Journal News Takes Down Controversial Map of Gun Owners
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Update (7:12 p.m.): Senator Greg Ball, who has waged a passionate crusade against the Journal News� map, released a statement entitled, �VICTORY AGAINST IDIOCY AT JOURNAL NEWS�:
�Thank God the Journal News has finally realized the error in their judgment and done the right thing. Whether they did this responding to the public�s outcry or because they were simply fearful of getting sued due to the rash of burglaries and threats against law enforcement and victims of domestic violence, we will never know. ... |
CA: Gun roundup saves lives
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Night after night, 33 state agents coax guns out of the hands and homes of people who have lost their right to possess them. The program goes by the bureaucratic name of Armed Prohibited Persons System.
Although such a program probably would not have stopped Adam Lanza from massacring 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School last month, the Bureau of Firearms agents undoubtedly have saved lives.
They have seized more than 10,000 owned firearms since 2007, including 2,000 guns last year, almost 120,000 rounds of ammunition and 11,000 illegal high-capacity magazines. Attorney General Kamala Harris said she is trying to figure out how to double the unit's size.
"It's a high priority," Harris said.
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NC: Three Durham police officers arrested in disturbance
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Durham, N.C. � Three Durham police officers were among six people arrested Friday following a disturbance call about a theft.
Durham police reported Lt. Ryan A. Freeman, Officer Stacy L. Armstrong and Officer Erin V. Espinola were each charged with one count of false imprisonment and one count of assault.
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