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Two more invitation requests for Obama�s �common ground� gun summit
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... "There is another interest group not acknowledged by Justice that will nonetheless play a role in the administration of any 'common ground' agreements that are reached, and two self-identified members of that group happen to be the same�what did James V. Grimaldi of The Washington Post call us?� 'Anti-ATF bloggers sympathetic to the militia movement [who] picked up the allegations late last year, dubbing the scandal 'Project Gunwalker' and alleging ATF agents let guns 'walk' to boost the numbers of U.S. weapons recovered in Mexico.'" ... |
Forcible citizen disarmament by fiat: When separation of powers gets in the way
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"It's good to be king, particularly if you are a president who wants to impose more infringements on that which shall not be infringed, and Congress is disinclined to play along. As President of the United States, that would be (or should be) a problem, because the separation of powers built into the structure of our government splits power among the three branches of government ... but for a king who rules by decree, it's as easy as, 'Stroke of the pen. Law of the Land. Kinda cool.'" ... |
Is onslaught of 'gun show loophole' legislation--and worse--about to begin?
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"In the wake of President Obama's guest editorial in the Arizona Daily Star Sunday (discussed here yesterday), calling for a 'new discussion' about 'gun control,' some forcible citizen disarmament advocates are incensed that Obama didn't go far enough for their tastes. Washington Post blogger Greg Sargent, for example, comes just short of wailing and tearing his hair over Obama's disinterest in talking about magazine bans:" ... |
A Serious Rebuttal To Colin Goddard (podcast)
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"By now most people have heard the name Colin Goddard. Many people also know that he was one of the students shot by the deranged student at Virginia Tech. Many also know that he is now a paid staff member of the Brady Campaign with the title of Assistant Director of Federal Legislation." ...
"Goddard has said when the gunman came to his classroom that he and his fellow students 'didn't know what to do'. As Michael rightly points out, 'Which sensible gun law protects you when you are cowering under your desk?'" ... |
NPR President and VP "Resign" After VP Calls Gun Owners "Seriously Racist"
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"Speaking of people who believe they are smarter than the masses, Fox News reports that National Public Radio president Vivian Schiller, already in trouble for other matters relating to political bias within the media organization, was forced to resign [last] week. Her resignation came after NPR Senior Vice-President Ron Schiller (no relation) was caught on videotape telling people posing as prospective NPR donors that the Tea Party movement is made up of 'weird, evangelical . . . . white, middle-America, gun toting' people who are 'seriously racist.' ..." ... |
Gun Sales Surge. Why?
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"The National Shooting Sports Federation reports that February 2011 sales have surged 13.6 percent over last Feb�s stats. That�s a leap in National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) enquiries from 848,036 to 963,746. OK, stat-heads, what gives?"
"All across the industry we�re hearing that sales are booming ..." ... |
Remington Recalls .223 62 Gr Hollow Point Premier Match Ammo
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"Remington has been having some problems with ammo quality as of late. You may recall (so to speak) that TTAG and several others fell afoul of Remington UMC 115 gr. 9mm ammo that had been telescoped at the factory. The defect caused double feeds. The company also had some explosive problems with .22 Hornet ammo. This recall is equally serious, although it�s mostly just an inconvenience. Apparently. Here�s the presser . . ." ... |
Kel-Tec Struts Its PMR-30 (video story)
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"Oh dear. Did he just release slide stop with his thumb? Tsk tsk. And can't Kel-Tec afford a little Shoot 'N C action? And if he's aiming for the X�rather than his existing holes�maybe a little sight adjustment is in order ..." |
Gun Review: Ruger LC9
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"I like small guns. I find that that whole James Bond deep concealment thing strangely attractive. 'I may be wearing a form-fitting black tux, but I still have this tiny pistol with which to kill you.' The idea of a highly deadly mouse gun may not be pure fantasy, but it�s close. The chances of fending off a bevy of bad guys with a pocket pistol are about the same as the odds of crossing the Atlantic in a Sunfish. It�s doable, but you�d have to be extremely talented and incredibly lucky. ..." ... |
Gun-safety talk is cheap
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"It will take more than the talk therapy proposed by President Obama if gun-safety reforms are ever going to result from the Arizona shooting that left six people dead and 13 wounded, including Tucson-area Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords." ... |
Baby steps toward stronger gun laws
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... "What Obama endorsed were, well, baby steps toward strengthening background checks to keep guns out of the hands of 'dangerous criminals and fugitives' and those who are 'unbalanced.' That's a fine idea, though his specific proposals -- 'enforcing laws that are already on the books,' 'reward the states that provide the best data,' 'make the system faster and nimbler' -- were hardly the stuff of political courage." ... |
Brady Campaign: DOJ Meeting Shows Obama Is 'Serious' About Combatting Gun Violence
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"A coalition of pro gun-control groups met with Obama administration officials at the Justice Department Tuesday to discuss ways to prevent gun violence."
"The meeting at DOJ headquarters, the first in a series of meetings the administration is trying to schedule to address the issue, was led by Christopher H. Schroeder, Assistant Attorney General for DOJ's Office of Legal Policy. Representatives of the White House, the Vice President's office, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) were also in attendance." ... |
Could you survive �The Big One� without a gun?
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"While Japan continues to shake from aftershocks, questions are being asked right here in western Washington about the preparedness of Evergreen State residents when (notice we didn�t say 'if') the much-anticipated �Big One� hits the Pacific Northwest." ... |
A Practical Look At The Reality Of Defensive Gun Use (video available)
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"In the raging gun control debate in this country, the subject of defensive gun use is one that the gun control lobby would like to keep away from the ears of the general public. After all, if there were more lawful defensive gun uses by common, law-abiding citizens than there were violent crimes committed with firearms by criminals, then the whole premise of their argument would simply fall apart. The whole idea of the anti-gun argument is that more guns leads to more violent crime."
"Unfortunately, for gun control advocates, the reality is that defensive gun use is a very common occurrence. ..." ... |
NRA to Obama: �Stop Fast and Furious immediately�
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"In a blistering letter to President Obama yesterday, the National Rifle Association � which has about 90,000 members in Washington state � not only declined to participate in a 'new discussion' about guns proposed by the president�s Sunday Op-Ed piece in a Tucson newspaper, but instead suggested that he 'bring an immediate stop' to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' 'Fast and Furious' gunrunning sting operation." ... |
Smuggled NM guns tied to cartel murders
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"Federal documents state a gun smuggling operation allegedly run by three public officials from a tiny New Mexico border town had ties to Mexican drug cartels and some of the weapons were used in several murders." ...
"Agents with the [ATF] have connected some of the guns to at least eight recent murders in [C�udad Juarez and Palomas]." ...
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Why the NRA won't talk gun control with Obama
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"The chief spokesman for the National Rifle Association is expected to get an invitation any day now to sit down at the Justice Department for talks aimed at reaching a consensus on new gun control legislation."
"But don't put down NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre as a 'yes.'" ... |
NRA to Obama: Pursue criminals not law-abiding citizens
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"United States Justice Department officials met with gun control advocates on Tuesday, two days after U.S. President Barack Obama's letter appeared in the Arizona Daily Star calling for stronger gun laws."
"Gun ownership support organization National Rifle Association (NRA) declined to attend the meeting. ..." ... |
So Who IS Invited to the President�s Gun Control Pow-Wow?
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"Anyone remember when President Obama invited Republicans to a sit-down on health care? The Prez proceeded to dominate the 'discussions,' completely ignored Republican suggestions and rammed through one of the largest and most unpopular pieces of legislation in United States history. That�s just one example of the President�s bogus bi-partisanship: the Commander-in-Chief�s desire to appear centrist without actually being centrist. Is it any wonder that National Rifle Association jefe Wayne LaPierre greeted Obama�s invitation to meet with the Prez and gun control groups to discuss current gun laws with his own invitation to the President to fuck off and die (paraphrasing)? ..." ... |
Obama's Gun Control Op-Ed Evades Real Issues
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... "Now President Obama has joined the ranks of the pundits, and although his rhetoric demonstrates a greater degree of refinement than Dupnik�s absurd rant, it shares a common theme with that of the sheriff: The 'solution' to the problems posed by the [spree killers] of this world is to eliminate the constitutional liberties which Dupnik and Obama think make them possible in the first place." ... |
President Obama signals quiet surrender on gun control
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... "In a laughably ineffectual gesture towards his gun control base, President Obama this week published an op-ed in the Arizona Daily Star, some two months after the shooting of a congresswoman in Arizona. In this op-ed, our President, the supposed, hoped-for new leader on gun control, took the radical positions that we should 1.) enforce current laws, 2.) encourage states to report their own data to the NICS system (i.e. criminal convictions and mental disability adjudications) and 3.) make our current 'instant check' system somehow more, um, instant." ... |
The Perfect Purchaser
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... "So, with every gun control 'panacea' proven to be a lie, now comes Barack Obama, from the crime-free mecca of Chicago, proposing to negotiate with us about what further Second Amendment rights he can take away for no apparent use."
"And he appears shocked that no one in the gun community, from the most hard-core to the most malleable, seems to want to have a beer with him." ... |
On Gun Control, Obama Notices The Speck In Our Eye But Misses The Log In His Own
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"In Sunday's Arizona Daily Star, President Obama sounded off on this country's hotly contested gun control debate with an Op-Ed calling for a re-examination of our nation's gun control laws. ... Obama is interested in getting 'beyond wedge issues and stale political debates to find a sensible, intelligent way to make the United States of America a safer, stronger place', which is political-speak for adding more gun control measures than are already in place. What the President doesn't seem to understand is that the country is already a much 'safer and stronger place' since he took office. ..." ... |
New proposed background check mandate: de facto gun registration?
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... "Translation: If this measure becomes law, you would no longer be allowed to sell, or perhaps even give, a shotgun to your brother, son, daughter, cousin, uncle, niece, nephew or lifelong best friend without trotting down to a local gun shop and paying a dealer to run a background check. One result of this is that somewhere a document will exist with the name of the gun buyer/recipient, and according to some critics, that amounts to de facto federal gun registration." ... |
TX: Senate OKs letting Texans keep guns in car at work
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... "The bill would ban employers from setting policies that prohibit guns from their parking lots. It is the third time since 2007 the Senate has passed the bill, only to see it fail in the House twice. The latest bill now heads to the House for consideration, and the author of the measure is optimistic it will pass." ... |
TX: Texans allowed to keep guns in car at work
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"The ... Senate approved a bill yesterday that will allow Texans to store their guns in their parked cars at work."
"Business groups objected to letting employees keep firearms and ammunition in office parking lots, but it flew through the Senate with a resounding 30-1 vote, according to Business Week." ... |
NE: Nebraska Firearms Owners Association Legislative Alert
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... "LB 298 the Victim Protection Act, is still tied up in the Judiciary Committee. Senator Mark Christensen was going to make this his priority bill but since the committee failed to take action on it he was forced to choose another bill (LB 648). There has been allot of work put into trying to get the committee to accept an amended version, but so far they have not been accommodating so far. But we did have 4 Senators that have signed on as Co-Sponsors of LB 298. So please send a note thanking the following Senators for signing on as Co-Sponsors of LB298, be sure to include Senator Mark Christensen for initially introducing and sponsoring LB298." ... |
OK: New open carry bill passes Oklahoma Senate
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"One Oklahoma Lawmaker has proposed a new gun bill that has many residents up in arms. An Oklahoma City Senator who fought in the War in Iraq says Americans should be able to exercise their Second Amendment right to bear arms without any training or certification." ... |
MD: New Firearm Bill May Cause Little Change for Law Abiding Gun Owners
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"When the House Judiciary Committee met last week, just days after it finished wrestling with a contentious same-sex marriage proposal, lawmakers were greeted by another lightning rod issue: Guns."
"However, unlike previous efforts and initiatives, the new angle taken by legislators will widely affect those who break the law with firearms, not those who simply choose to bear arms." ... |
TX: Guns-on-campus bill gets first OK
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... "As the controversial issue of guns on college campuses got its first public hearing at the state Capitol on Wednesday, a standing-room-only crowd staked their positions on five House bills that would allow licensed handguns to be carried on public university and college campuses, at public junior colleges and at public technical schools." ... |
NC: Bill To Repeal Pistol and Crossbow Permits Introduced In NC
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"A bill was introduced in the North Carolina General Assembly today that would repeal the requirement to get a permit from your local sheriff's department in order to purchase a pistol or a crossbow. The bill, HB 390, is sponsored by Rep. Michael Wray (D-Northampton) and Rep. Mark Hilton (R-Catawba)." ... |
AR: Proposed Bill To Allow Guns In The Lord's House
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"Rep. Bryan King, 91st District, and Sen. Jason Rapert, Senate District 18, have proposed ordinances that would allow individual churches to decide whether they want to allow concealed carry weapons inside their buildings."
"As the law stands now, even with a license for concealed carry, it is prohibited to bring a firearm of any kind into a church or place or worship." ... |
Guns on Campus; A Bullet to the Head of Free Expression
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... "What I�d like to know is, if one student shooting on a college campus is bad, what happens when you add, let�s say, another twenty students who are also carrying guns to the situation?"
"It seems to me that an increase of firearms in such a situation would result, at the very least, in more bullets fired." ... |
TX: The Trouble With Texas
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"It's obvious Texas is gun friendly, but passing a bill allowing faculty and students to carry concealed guns at universities is straight out ridiculous. Student shootings are bad enough, but endorsing guns on campus as self defense is irrational, especially in Texas." ... |
KS: KCK police officer arrested for allegedly shooting 6902 Club bouncer
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"An off-duty Kansas City, Kansas, police officer was arrested across the state line Friday night for allegedly shooting a 6902 Club bouncer in the abdomen twice."
"Witnesses told police that the unnamed police officer was getting kicked out of the club on Prospect Avenue for being drunk and belligerent toward customers and bar staff. ..." ...
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NJ: Seaside Heights police department hit with new excessive force lawsuit
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"Three new lawsuits from Ocean County residents have been filed against Seaside Heights police, claiming in part that officers used excessive force against them when they were arrested, said Thomas J. Mallon, a Freehold-based lawyer representing the plaintiffs."
"'Police officers in that town continue to use outrageously excessive and totally unnecessary force on people in circumstances where force is unwarranted,' Mallon said." ... |
MI: Midland police officer charged in sex assault case
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... "The court entered a not guilty plea for Doyle on charges of extortion, third-degree criminal sexual conduct, obstruction of justice by misconduct in office and fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct. The first three charges are felonies ..." ...
"Court documents state Doyle maliciously threatened the victim with the intent to compel her to do or refrain from doing an act against her will; that he had reason to know she was physically helpless, mentally incapacitated, or mentally incapable; and that the offense occurred while he was in uniform 'acting under the color of his office.'" ... |
NY: City Settles Stop And Frisk Lawsuits (video available)
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"The city will pay out more than $170,000 to settle with nine people who claimed they were illegally stopped and frisked by police at city housing projects."
"The settlements are part of a federal class-action lawsuit filed by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and the Legal Aid Society." ... |
CA: Deputy sheriff arrested on suspicion of selling drugs
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"A deputy sheriff with the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office was arrested Friday on suspicion of possessing and selling controlled substances, a spokesman said." ...
"Tanabe faces charges of conspiracy to possess and sell controlled substances, and possession and transfer of an assault rifle ..." ... |
PA: City cop fired, charged with assault, terroristic threats
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... "The 54-year-old officer was charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, terroristic threats and related offenses for his alleged role in a confrontation inside Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital."
"King was off duty and not in uniform when he walked into the hospital, on Cedar Avenue near 53rd Street, on Oct. 14, 2009." ... |
UT: Parowan police chief accused of shooting dog
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"Amber Burton said she and her young daughters were near hysterical with grief after the city�s police chief admitted to them that he had shot their dog Tootsie last summer." ...
"Parowan Police Chief Preston Griffiths was charged last week with obstruction of justice, a Class A misdemeanor, and a Class B misdemeanor of official misconduct in the alleged incident that occurred on July 19." ...
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CA: San Francisco Police Begin Enforcing Sit/Lie Law
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"San Francisco police officers have started enforcing the city's new ban on sitting and lying on the sidewalk."
"In November, voters approved the sit/lie law, which makes it illegal to hang out on San Francisco sidewalks between 7 am and 11 pm." ... |
CO: Man Paid $15K After Police Challenged Gun In Park
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"The city of Loveland will pay a $15,000 settlement to a man who said his civil rights rights were violated when police briefly seized a handgun he was openly carrying at a park."
"However, a Loveland Police Department statement on Wednesday said, 'Police Chief Luke Hecker has supported the actions of the involved officers and expressed that, given the public location of the contact, in conjunction with the presence of other people in the park, the officers acted professionally and reasonably.'" ... |
NY: Nassau Police Said to Interview Man at Scene of Officer's Killing
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"Nassau County police investigators have interviewed a retired New York City police sergeant who witnesses said may have shouted 'Gun!' when he saw a plainclothes officer carrying a rifle on Saturday, a shout that possibly prompted another police officer to fatally shoot the officer with the rifle, the president of the Nassau police union said on Tuesday." |
IL: Releasing gun owners� names bad idea
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"It seems as if Illinois likes being the exception when it comes to gun laws."
"The Land of Lincoln is currently one of two states without any kind of concealed carry policy, and if Attorney General Lisa Madigan has her way, the state will be an exception in another category." ... |
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