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Gun Control: Again the GOP asks what to do, Part II
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"What happens when tens of millions of non-gun owners and 80-million gun owners suddenly find themselves with something in common? In 2009, the gun owners and the non-gun owners are no longer disparate groups of the same country. I'm speaking of voting age adults. More than 100 million of them. What happens when the non-gun owner millions begin to experience precisely what the liberty purists have been predicting? Now it is here with banking scandals, taking of trillions of dollars, taking ownership and control of major industries, and on top of it, slamming fellow Americans for their political opinions of recognizing it all. ..." ... |
Polls show pundits, politicians and press �out of touch� about gun rights
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"Recent national polls by CNN, NBC News and the Wall Street Journal have revealed that support for new gun control measures is declining in the United States, despite efforts by the Obama administration and its media cheerleaders to demonize guns by sensationalizing recent shooting incidents, and the bloody drug war in northern Mexico."
"In April, CNN polling found that 46 percent of Americans say existing gun laws are adequate, and another 15 percent believe they ought to be relaxed, while only 39 percent of those responding want stricter gun laws."
"Also last month, an NBC News/WSJ poll revealed that support for restrictions on so-called 'assault weapons' had dropped from 75 percent in 1991 to 53 percent today ..." ... |
Left-Wing Hate Crimes
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"Reading this left-wing, hate-filled rant on AlterNet, you'll come away having been told that if you believe in limited government, live the country life far away from the crowds and riffraff, and own guns, you are thereby said to be paranoid, racist, and full of right-wing hate."
"The author tries to weave two vastly different articles in one piece, here, as she (he?) tries to associate independent people who take the time to learn to defend themselves with fascist, white supremacist groups. ..." ... |
Gun Show Loophole? There's No Such Thing.
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"For those of us that hoped the Lesson of '94 was still on the minds of the Democrats, giving us some time before the next citizen disarmament attempt would be launched: we were wrong."
"Carolyn McCarthy just announced her campaign to close-the-(so-called)-gunshow-loophole."
"For those who have only heard the nightly news version, the real story on the gun show loophole is:"
"There is no 'gunshow loophole'"
"Currently ALL firearm transactions at ALL gun shows (and in gun stores) by federally licensed dealers MUST be first approved by the FBI via the NICS (National Instant Check System). Meaning ALL purchasers have to pass the background check before taking possession of a purchased firearm." ... |
Conservation efforts benefit from 31 percent jump in excise taxes
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"Firearm and ammunition manufacturers paid more than $98 million in excise taxes in the fourth quarter of 2008, up 31.2 percent over the same period in 2007, according to ... the U.S. Department of the Treasury."
"From Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, $27.6 million was collected for pistols and revolvers, $35 million for long guns and $35.5 million for ammunition. Compared to the same period in 2007, collections were up 70.1 percent for handguns, 11.4 percent for long guns and 31.1 percent for ammunition."
"Excise tax collections are a key economic indicator for the industry. The taxes are calculated as a percentage of wholesale receipts ... and earmarked for state wildlife conservation and habitat restoration programs." ... |
Blackhawk CQC
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"With this months Amazon gift certificate I bought several books and the BlackHawk CQC holster for my Springfield XD ..."
"I've had my eye on this holster for a long time, but never had the extra cash ... Anyway, so far I am very pleased with my purchase, the BlackHawk CQC holster appears to be a great product."
"The unique holster design does away with old fashioned thumb breaks and other such retaining devises, relying instead on an automatic trigger lock that engages the trigger guard when the pistol is holstered."
"This in itself is nothing new, companies like Fobus have been making holsters with devices that lock the around the trigger guard for years. What is unique about this holster is the release." ... |
Information for new gun owners
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"Monday, I continued the conversation about the increasing firearms sales (Necessity for protection creating new gun owners) and noted that there were a lot of new gun owners. This article is for them."
"While it has become cliche to note that with great power comes great responsibility, there is a lot of truth to that statement. For new gun owners, there is a responsibility to learn how to use that firearm safely and to know the laws covering its use. The latter responsibility is a daunting one, as there are over 20,000 gun laws on the books in this country. So, what is a new gun owner to do?" ... |
Employers, Guns and the Second Amendment
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"With more workers getting laid off or forced into furloughs -- to say nothing of the stress from home over unpaid bills and rising health care -- it's no wonder that workplace violence is a growing concern of employers. Many are offering more counseling and at a minimum, they want workers to leave their guns at home. Too bad that in several states, that rule is against the law."
"Businesses are increasingly alarmed at a growing trend: State lawmakers are prohibiting employers from banning guns in the workplace, putting concerns over the Second Amendment right to bear arms ahead of the fears of company executives. ..." ...
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Submitter's Note: And this is bad . . . how? |
Obama Administration Fails to Remove Gun Lobby Language from Budget
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"The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is profoundly disappointed that President Obama has failed to follow through with his promises for 'openness' by reaffirming much of the so-called Tiahrt Amendments."
"This means a continuation of the reckless Bush-era policies that endanger public safety and make it easier for criminals to obtain illegal firearms." ...
"The Tiahrt Amendments have always been about pleasing a special interest lobby at the expense of public safety. ..."
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Castle, McCarthy: It's Time to Close the Gun Show Loophole
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"Today, with the U.S. Capitol in the background, Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE) and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) kicked-off a campaign to pass The Gun Show Loophole Closing Act, legislation to require background checks on all firearm sales at gun shows. Every year there are thousands of gun shows across the country and [the ATF] has estimated that at least 25% of the gun-sellers at these events are unlicensed. Requiring background checks on all gun sales at gun shows, not just transactions with licensed dealers, will help ensure that firearms do not fall into the hands of criminals, terrorists or the mentally ill." ...
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KABA Note: If they really want to get rid of the 'loophole' (as opposed to shutting down gun shows), they should drop the price of a FFL to $5, remove criminal penalties for paperwork mistakes and let anyone who wants get one. Better yet, go back to the good old days, when you could plumk down your cash on the counter at the corner hardware store and walk out two minutes later with your new gun. No paperwork, no questions, no hassles. |
NV: Gun-related death rate ranks fifth
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"Nevada ranks fifth among states in gun-related deaths per capita, according to the Violence Policy Center, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C."
"The group said states at the top of the list have per capita gun death rates far exceeding the national rate of 10.3 per 100,000 population." ...
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KABA Note: That might have something to do with the fact that Nevada's suicide rate with a firearm exceeds 10.3. And numerous studies have shown that suicide rates are unchanged by changes in gun availability. |
FL: Gun Ownership, Killings
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"I am writing in response to Dan C. Frodge, P.E., and his claim that gun owners are not dangerous ... In view of the horror that occurred on Tuesday in South Lakeland, such a claim has an air of total irresponsibility about it, considering a man with a gun slaughtered his family in cold blood."
"[NRA] members come out with the same misguided quote from the Second Amendment, which does not state categorically that all Americans have the right to bear arms." ...
"Does Mr. Frodge intend to take on the whole of the United States military with his weaponry? ..." ...
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Submitter's Note: Probably not the whole army; no need to 'take on' those who keep their oaths, just those despicable liars who come for his weapons. |
WI: Biker scares away robbers with gun, legal question remains
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"Four teens knocked a 42-year-old Racine man from his bike Friday night. He thought they were going to rob him."
"The man pulled a Smith and Wesson revolver from his side holster, pointed it at the sky and yelled, 'Gun!'"
"The four suspects ran, and the man flagged down a Racine police officer."
The incident will perhaps mark the first time a new opinion allowing open carry of firearms is put to the test here, as it conflicts with another state statute that makes it illegal to possess a gun within 1,000 feet of a school ..."
"The Racine man ... was assaulted ... within 1,000 feet of Walden School ..."
"Police did not arrest the man. ... officers escorted the man home and returned his gun to him." ...
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LA: Schriever man fatally shoots armed burglar
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"An armed burglary that ended with a homeowner�s brother fatally shooting a suspect was preceded by a rash of similar crimes in the area, deputies said." ...
"Bryan Derocher called his sibling that evening when he saw two men walking around the property ..."
"When Chris Derocher, who was away from home, arrived, he noticed his garage window was damaged and a motion-sensor light inside the garage was turned on ..."
"Chris Derocher and his brother, who was armed with a handgun, opened the garage door and found the two men inside ..."
"One of the suspects, Terry Hayes, 34, brandished the BB gun at the men, and Bryan Derocher fired two shots, one of which struck Hayes in the torso."
"Hayes died at the scene ..." ... |
CT: Campus shooting victim alleged harassment
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"Officials at Wesleyan University ordered students, faculty and staff to stay home Thursday as police hunted a suspect wanted in connection with a fatal campus shooting."
"Police say a disguised gunman fatally shot Johanna Justin-Jinich ..."
"NBC News reported that the victim has filed an aggravated harassment complaint against the suspect ... with the New York Police Department on July 10, 2007." ...
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Submitter's Note: From the university's Code of Non-Academic Conduct Sec. II.A.9.e. "Lethal Weapons�Personal possession or use of operable firearms, air guns, or other lethal weapons is prohibited on the Wesleyan campus or while participating in University activities ..." |
Women, Stop Watching Oprah and Learn to Love Guns
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"Women never cease to amaze me. The majority of them are still 'afraid' of guns. Afraid, as in 'oohhhh, they are so scary.' They say things like 'I don't like them around' and 'they're dangerous.' I know of women who have defense-minded, pro-gun husbands and they will not let their guy talk about those nasty things in their presence. Shhh, the children will hear, or, they might actually see an evil gun! Keep them locked away. Don't tell the neighbors you have a gun in our house, or we'll be outcasts. And in the background you can almost hear another feeble Oprah sermon keeping women stupid, but oh, they feel good about themselves and their newfound self-esteem." ... |
H.R. 2202: bribing gun owners into defenselessness at home
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"As gun legislation (and proposed gun legislation) goes, H.R. 2202, the 'Child Safety and Home Security Act of 2009,' is pretty innocuous. It would impose no new restrictions--no types of guns banned ..."
"It could, in fact, be seen as rewarding gun owners for doing something many responsible gun owners already do as a matter of course. ..." ...
"Basically, it would mean that buying a gun safe (or more than one) would qualify the purchaser for a tax break worth half the cost ..." ...
"My concern is that measures such as this will perpetuate the flawed notion that safety--particularly child safety--is enhanced not by teaching responsibility, and respect for the power of firearms, but by keeping them inaccessible. ..." ... |
State exempts guns from federal regs
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"The state of Montana has drawn a line in the sand, challenging the federal government to decide whether to follow the U.S. Constitution with a new gun law that exempts from federal regulations any gun, gun accessory or ammunition made in the state and intended for use there."
"What this boils down to is:""Guns and ammo made, sold and used in Montana do not require any federal forms."
"Silencers made in Montana and sold in Montana would be fully legal and not registered."
"There would be no firearm registration, serial numbers, criminal records check, waiting periods or paperwork required." "'Moving to Montana soon,' wrote a blogger called Primevalpapa." ... |
Obama's assault on gun ownership
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"Though President Barack Obama has repeatedly told gun owners that they have no reason to fear his administration, I believe that it has been made more than clear that such statements should be taken as false. Not only does he have a history of supporting gun control, but his newly appointed attorney general recently made it known that he would be seeking to permanently reinstate the so-called 'assault' weapons ban that expired in 2004."
"I am sure that our president will mince words and say the bans are not intended to take guns out of the hands of ordinary citizens, but unfortunately, he must believe that most of us only carry shotguns or rifles and never any other weapon ..." ... |
WY: Delegation pushes to allow guns in parks
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"U.S. Sens. Mike Enzi and John Barrasso, R-Wyo., have added their names as co-sponsors of a bill that would allow individuals to carry concealed weapons into national parks."
"The legislation, called the Preservation of the Second Amendment in National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges Act, seeks to replace an administrative rule that has been mired in court proceedings since January that would also allow visitors to carry concealed weapons into national parks."
"A federal judge in April struck down that administrative rule, which was set in place last December by the outgoing Bush administration, after several conservation and other groups filed a lawsuit. " ... |
Stupak Fights for Criminal's Gun Rights
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"Depending on the crime, if you are convicted of a felony, chances are you loose[sic] your right to own a gun. But a Northern Michigan Congressman is hoping to change that by restoring the second amendment rights to some convicted criminals." ...
"Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) believes deeply that 'The 2nd amendment is a basic sacred right ...' Federal law prohibits individuals convicted of felonies from owning guns. ... The problem for the Congressman arises when all convicted criminals are lumped into one category when it comes to gun ownership. ..." ...
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GOP "Leaders" to Replace Specter With Anti-Gun Tom Ridge
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"Some Republicans still don't understand why mainstream America is so upset with their Party."
"Now that Sen. Arlen Specter has defected to the Democrat Party, many prominent Republicans are openly recruiting liberal Republicans to run against Specter."
"And at the top of their list is Tom Ridge."
"Ridge is the turncoat Republican whose vote was crucial in passing the semi-auto ban in 1994."
"After having opposed a similar ban in 1991, then-Rep. Tom Ridge flip-flopped ... The gun ban passed narrowly, 216 to 214, thanks to Tom Ridge."
"Later, as Governor of Pennsylvania, Ridge signed one of the most restrictive gun control laws in the State's history ..."
"As the head of the [DHS], Tom Ridge opposed arming pilots. ..." ... |
NY: Politicians seek gun control plan
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"I was born and raised in Essex County. I've been hunting and using guns since I was very young. I have a handgun permit and have never committed a crime or shot anyone."
"I believe in the Second Amendment. I also believe that it is ultimately my right and responsibility to protect myself and my family. Greatly respecting the work that our honest law enforcement professionals do for us, I am not stupid enough to believe that there will be one standing at my shoulder day and night if I should ever need him, nor would I expect him to be."
"The new rules that our politicians are trying to force on us are a roundabout way of pursuing their gun control agenda. ..." ... |
TN: Legally armed citizens can deter criminals
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"Citizens legally carrying weapons in parks have not been a threat to the public in other states, and neither will they be in Tennessee."
"In the May 3 Tennessean, Commissioner Jim Fyke, who wants Tennessee parks to remain 'gun free,' uses hand-wringing arguments by those who feel that guns are bad and lead to violence and prefer not to be confused by facts ('Guns are no asset in TN state parks')."
"Gun-free locations statistically do not occur. In these areas, only law-abiding citizens obey, while criminals observe no such duty, have no real coercion to conform and carry weapons at will." ... |
MA: Massachusetts Governor Seeks to Toughen Gun Laws
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"Backed by Mayor Thomas M. Menino and Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, the Patrick administration asked lawmakers yesterday to allow prosecutors to hold suspects in gun cases without bail and to bar gun owners from buying more than one firearm within 30 days or face 2 1/2 years in prison."
"Those proposals were offered as part of a broader attack on gun-related violence in the state and were made after the Supreme Judicial Court on Monday banned prosecutors from seeking dangerousness hearings in illegal gun possession cases."
"The court, in a 4-1 ruling, said that illegal gun possession is a 'passive and victimless crime.'" ... |
NY: Assembly passes a hodgepodge of new firearms laws
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"Last week the NYS Assembly passed a slew of new firearms bills that are destined to upset the many upstate residents if they're passed by the Senate and become law. All the bills passed were introduced and sponsored by downstate politicians, the majority of them living in either New York City or Long Island. In a nutshell, the bills primarily duplicate many current firearms laws already in force in the Big Apple and on Long Island."
"One bill requires the re-licensing and recertification of firearms permits after five years. Another would ban the sale, use or possession of 50-caliber or larger weapons ... Supposedly, muzzleloaders and shotguns larger than .410 gauges would be exempt. We�ll see if that holds up ..." ... |
Germany: Germany aims to ban paintball
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"The German government wants to tighten gun laws and ban paintball games in response to a school shooting in which 16 people were killed in March ..."
"Experts from Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and her ... coalition partners had agreed to ban paintball games ..."
"The governing parties say games like paintball trivialise violence and risk lowering the threshold for committing violent acts ..." ...
"Germany toughened its gun laws in 2002 after 19-year-old Robert Steinhauser shot dead 16 people ... and himself at a high school in the eastern German city of Erfurt." ...
"The new rules would also grant authorities more rights in conducting checks with people owning guns, the sources said." ...
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'Torture goes on' for North End man
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... "In July 2007, US District Judge Nancy Gertner found that the FBI was responsible for framing Salvati, Peter J. Limone, Louis Greco, and Henry Tameleo for [murder] ... and ordered the government to pay them a total of $101.7 million for the decades they had spent in prison."
"She concluded that the FBI deliberately withheld evidence of the four men's innocence and helped hide the injustice for decades as the men aged behind bars. ..." ...
"Yesterday, Justice Department lawyer Joshua Waldman urged the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to overturn Gertner's ruling, arguing the FBI could not be held liable for the malicious prosecution of the four men because they were prosecuted in state court by state authorities. ..." ... |
Homeland agency pulled back extremism dictionary
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"The same Homeland Security Department office that categorized veterans as potential terrorists issued an earlier report that defined dozens of 'extremists' ranging from black power activists to abortion foes. The report was nixed within hours and recalled from state and local law enforcement officials."
"Whites and blacks, Christians and Jews, Cubans and Mexicans, along with tax-hating Americans were among several political leanings listed in the 'Domestic Extremism Lexicon' ..."
"The lexicon lists definitions for key terms and phrases used by Homeland Security analysts 'that addresses the nature and scope of the threat that domestic, non-Islamic extremism poses to the United States,' the report said." ...
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TX: Texas police will return cash in case that prompted lawsuit
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"Authorities who seized $8,500 and assorted jewelry from a Tennessee man after a traffic stop in east Texas have agreed to return the property after his case drew attention from CNN."
"Roderick Daniels said police in Tenaha, Texas, took the money in October 2007 after they stopped him for doing 37 mph in a 35-mph zone. He said police threatened him with money-laundering charges and promised not to prosecute if he signed over the cash, which Daniels said was to buy a new car."
"Daniels and other motorists who have been stopped by Tenaha police are part of a lawsuit seeking to end what plaintiff's lawyer David Guillory calls a systematic fleecing of drivers passing through the town of about 1,000. ..." ... |
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