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The News - Bought by Gun Ban Extremists
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... "Because the work paid for by the Joyce Foundation followed the establishment media rule that guns are a blight on society, however, nobody made a peep about the obvious conflict of interest. Of course, the establishment media never follows the same rules in how they treat both sides of the gun issue."
"The double standard in how the mainstream media treated Professor Lott compared to how they treated the work of Thomas Decker isn't the only way this situation exposes their hypocrisy." ... |
The Concealed Carry Lifestyle
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"I�ve always been a staunch conservative and firm supporter in our nation�s Constitution (note the capital 'C'), a document that continues to govern our people through Democrat and Republican administrations alike. I am and always will be a strong and vocal supporter of our Second Amendment rights; our Founding Fathers chose the words 'shall not be infringed' very carefully. I am also a firm believer that with every right comes a responsibility . . ." ... |
Obama To Unveil Gun Control Reforms In Near Future
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"Half a year after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), the Obama administration is set to release a series of reforms to the current gun law, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said on Thursday."
"The reforms, which are being crafted by the Department of Justice, come after a series of meetings with relevant stakeholders in the Second Amendment debate. But in a nod to the difficulties of getting legislation through a Republican-run House of Representatives, only executive orders or administrative actions -- and not an actual bill -- are expected to be handed to Congress." ...
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Submitter's Note: The Constitution limits on powers: "They're more like guidelines anyway." |
Six Months After Tucson Shooting, White House Readies Gun Control Stance
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"Friday marks six months since the Tucson shooting which severely injured Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the White House is now hinting it's prepared to add its own voice to the gun control dialogue that tragedy reignited.
"'As you know, the President directed the Attorney General to form working groups with key stakeholders to identify common-sense measures that would improve Americans' safety and security while fully respecting Second Amendment rights,' White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Thursday." ...
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Submitter's Note: Improve safety and security while respecting our rights? So that means they are going to roll out National Constitutional Carry, right? |
What�s America�s Fetish This Week? Guns
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... "Guns won the revolution. Guns won the West. Guns also assassinated four U.S. presidents. Just a gun rights advocates have data to back up their claim that armed Americans make the country safer, gun control advocates have data that they make the country more dangerous." ...
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Submitter's Note: The problem with the antis' "data" is, they lie! Click on the link in the article and the first "datum" you'll see is "5 children were killed every day in gun related accidents and suicides committed with a firearm, from 1994-1998". Yet to get that number you have to include "children" up to age nineteen!. And if you look at the data from, say this century (2001-2007), even with the same ludicrous age limit the average drops to 2.65 per day. |
Why you should ALWAYS carry
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... "... I find it interesting that while many of these same people wear seatbelts all the time, understanding that they can't know exactly when they might be involved in a collision, they aren't planning to apply this same strategy when it comes to carrying their concealed firearm. They'll just carry it, they reason, when think they might need it."
"This faulty logic has come to mind a lot over the past few weeks as I've came across two incidents in the Buckeye State involving persons being attacked while working outside in their yard." ... |
WY: Grizzly bear kills Yellowstone hiker
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"A female grizzly bear attacked and killed a man who encountered the bruin and her cubs while he was hiking with his wife on Wednesday in Yellowstone National Park, park officials said." ...
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Submitter's note: ABC = Always Be Carrying at least a .357 magnum in bear country. The left likes to worship nature as if bears will sing songs with them. |
WY: Man killed by grizzly at Yellowstone National Park
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"A killer grizzly is roaming Yellowstone National Park's backcountry after mauling a man who apparently surprised the female bear and its cubs while hiking with his wife."
"Officials closed remote campgrounds and trails near the scene of Wednesday's attack close to Canyon Village, which sits in the middle of the sprawling park. The identity of the 57-year-old victim was being withheld until his family could be notified, said Yellowstone spokesman Al Nash." ...
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SUBMITTER'S COMMENT: Who needs a gun in a park? |
Furious: The Obama Regime Gave 2,000 Guns to Mexican Drug Lords
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"RUSH: This Fast and Furious thing, folks, we're talking about a potential impeachable offense here with the selling of guns to Mexico." ...
"I'll put it that way: I am confident. This is a government-run program. It's out of the Justice Department, Eric Holder; and that means it's Obama. It will never get up to Obama, but don't doubt me on this. This was an attack on the Second Amendment. The purpose of this was to have it all go wrong, have American guns (sniveling liberal impression) 'because they're so widely available; you can go into any gun store in America and buy an assault rifle,' ..." ... |
Sources: Melson met secretly with investigators so DOJ �wouldn�t know about it�
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... "Congressional sources close to the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious confirmed that Melson attended the meeting on his own time, with his own attorney, rather than appear as scheduled in a few days with a Justice Department lawyer. Had Melson simply gone to Capitol Hill on July 13 as scheduled, he would have been accompanied by legal counsel representing the Justice Department, not Melson." ... |
Honduras? Why would ATF walk guns to Honduras? 1. The national scope of the Gunwalker Scandal & 2. Because that's where some of the action is.
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"'Why would ATF walk guns to Honduras?' asks a reader. That's easy."
"First, and this is important to understand: the Tampa operation proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that 'Project Gunwalker' was a national strategy, not a Phoenix aberration. The 'major media' has been slow to understand this. They have ignored the fact that the Houston Field Division had to have played a supervisory role in known straw buying incidents in Dallas and Columbus NM as they are in their area of operations, not Phoenix's. Original reporting on this subject from Texas has been pitiful."
"Second, Honduras is where the action is." ... |
Which Was Worse: Watergate or Operation �Fast and Furious�?
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... "Honestly folks, Watergate provided the Left with such a singularly sweet opportunity to bring down a Republican president that they�ve never gotten over it. As recently as 2004, MSNBC sent reporters to the streets to be sure up and coming generations had not forgotten what Nixon had done. (I don�t want to belabor the point, but Nixon had nothing to do with planning Watergate. Only with covering it up once he learned of it after the fact.)" ...
"No one died during the Watergate break-ins or as a result of Nixon�s cover-up."
"Switch gears and jump to 2009, and the ATF�s special operation 'Fast and Furious.' ..." ...
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'Fast & Furious' gets hotter for Holder
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"Don't look now, but the real action in Washington this week isn't the parti san wrangling over the debt ceiling but something -- literally -- even more incendiary: Operation Fast and Furious, which seems about to explode right in the face of Attorney General Eric Holder -- and maybe other administration officials, too."
"Also known as Project Gunrunner, the Arizona-based operation was supposed to be a sting, under which the [ATF] allowed 'straw purchasers' to transfer weapons from gun shops in Arizona to Mexican drug cartels to trace and halt crossborder arms-trafficking."
"That's the official version, anyway -- but it's crumbling, fast." ...
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House Judiciary Committee Exempts "Constitutional" Rights Lawsuits From Sanctions Bill
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"... The House Judiciary Committee acted on the [Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act] today, voting on party lines to send it to the floor for full consideration by the House. But an amendment offered by Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA) to exempt claims based 'on the Constitution' from the tougher sanctions won unanimous approval. The amendment would ensure that civil rights claims, such as those brought to protect religious liberty under the First Amendment, gun rights under the Second Amendment, or equal protection claims under the 14th Amendment, can pursued without fear of tougher sanctions. In my earlier posts, I expressed concern over LARA's impact on litigation brought by social conservatives, so the amendment should ameliorate those concerns." ... |
PA: Local Legislative Update: Mundy, Mullery, and Yudichak
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... "Mullery supports expansion of the Castle Doctrine"
"Legislation supported by state Rep. Gerald Mullery, D-Newport Township, that expands a person's right to use deadly force to protect themselves and their families was signed into law today."
"'Law-abiding citizens should have the absolute right to stand their ground and protect themselves and their families from a violent criminal,' Mullery said. 'This law ensures that right in Pennsylvania.'" ... |
Even Non-Gunnies Can See The Foolishness Of Chicago's New Range Law
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"Eric Zorn is a columnist and blogger for the Chicago Tribune who writes the 'Change of Subject' blog for the them. He readily acknowledges that he is not a shooter. He also recognizes that the Range Law passed by the Chicago City Council is an ugly monstrosity."
"In a post entitled City misfires in passing new gun-range law Zorn skewers the City Council and the hastily passed ordinance. He calls the law and its passage a 'legislative raspberry' that taunts the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals just after the city got slapped down in Ezell. It is a taunt because of all the inane burdensome rules contained within it." ... |
Court slaps Chicago�s gun grabbers
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"The federal judiciary is slowly coming to the realization that the Second Amendment actually means the public can have guns. That�s not sitting well with local politicians in Chicago and Washington who are determined to keep the public disarmed. On Wednesday, the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals made that harder by blowing away the claim that 'gun violence' concerns justified rules depriving citizens of the right not only to own but also to use firearms in a responsible manner." ... |
Ezell v. City of Chicago
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... "The plaintiffs here challenge the City Council's treatment of firing ranges. The Ordinance mandates one hour of range training as a prerequisite to lawful gun ownership ... yet at the same time prohibits all firing ranges in the city ... The plaintiffs contend that the Second Amendment protects the right to maintain proficiency in firearm use�including the right to practice marks-manship at a range�and the City's total ban on firing ranges is unconstitutional. They add that the Ordinance severely burdens the core Second Amendment right to possess firearms for self-defense because it conditions possession on range training but simultaneously forbids range training everywhere in the city. ..." ... |
Chicago Cannot Sustain Ban on Firing Ranges, 7th Circuit Rules
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... "U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall rejected a call for a preliminary injunction against the ordinance, finding that plaintiffs' lacked standing because their Second Amendment rights were not burdened by having to travel to one of 14 firing ranges located within 50 miles of the city limits for training. Any inconvenience or travel expense could be compensated through monetary damages and was thus not a constitutional question, Kendall found."
"In an exhaustive 51-page reversal, a unanimous panel of the 7th Circuit chastised Kendall for her ruling and explained its methodology for assessing Second Amendment claims." ... |
FL: AMA, NRA Enter Fray Over Florida 'Gag Law' on Gun Questions
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"The court battle over a new Florida law that forbids physicians from asking patients about gun ownership has pulled in 2 heavyweight organizations with opposing views on the issue."
"At its annual meeting in Chicago last month, the House of Delegates of the [AMA] instructed the organization to support litigation ... to overturn what they call a gag law. ..."
"A few days later, the National Rifle Association (NRA) asked the federal court's permission to intervene in the case to defend the law and the Second Amendment rights of its members against a 'spurious legal attack.' The organization views physician questions about gun ownership in a hostile light." ... |
UT: DA: Salt Lake police officer 'not justified' in shooting thief
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"The Salt Lake County district attorney reported that a Salt Lake City police officer was not justified in using deadly force to stop a teen aged suspect involved in a high speed chase."
"The teen was shot by Officer Matthew Giles after he led police on a high speed chase that ended in a mobile home park on Redwood Road in the early morning hours of May 8, 2011."
"According to District Attorney Sim Gill, Giles' use of a rifle to shoot at car driven by the teen was not justified, nor did the teen represent an immediate threat to Giles." ... |
FL: Boynton Beach 'Officer Of The Year' Suspected Of Drug Dealing
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"Considered a role model by his peers and named 'Officer of the Year'� in 2010, Boynton Beach police officer David Britto has been charged with conspiring to sell more than 500 grams of methamphetamines between June 2009 and March 2011." ... |
Fuzzy Math & 49 States With So Called Carry Rights
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... "... Sure we have carry permits for firearms and anyone can apply. No you can�t get one because you must be up to something just for asking. I�m being sarcastic but the underpinning of the law and administrative code leads me to believe this. After all, why would anyone need a gun but to shoot someone. And if you�re going to shoot someone then we will not allow you to carry that gun. In poetic terms it is the NJ equivalent to a Catch-22. New Jerseyians know it as the dreaded 'justifiable need' clause. You need one to be approved but no one has a need that a judge can see as justifiable.""Do you get it now? Legally NJ is a may issue, functionally NJ is a no issue." ... |
WA: WA hunters questioning origins of Teanaway wolves
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"This week�s announcement of a new wolf pack in the Teanaway region of Washington�s central Cascades has left the state�s hunting community suspicious, about the timing and especially about the origin of these predators, how they were discovered, and how they got there." ... |
Canada: Parks Canada to permit guns in polar bear territories
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"Canada may not have the second amendment, but the government will soon allow some people to bear arms in national parks with polar bears."
"Parks Canada announced it will be loosening restrictions in nine of its parks to allow specially licensed individuals to carry firearms for protection from polar bears. At the moment, there are significant restrictions on who may carry firearms in national parks." ... |
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