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ATF head, D.C. police chief challenged on selective magazine ban enforcement
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"B. Todd Jones, the Acting Director of the [ATF], and Cathy Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., are being challenged on selective enforcement of the District’s ban on so-called 'large capacity ammunition feeding devices' for semi-automatic firearms. This column will serve as a follow-up to an earlier request asking who authorized violation of the ban, after NBC’s David Gregory produced a magazine during his Dec. 23 'Meet the Press' interview with National Rifle Association head Wayne LaPierre."
"That request was documented by Gun Rights Examiner and sent to the respective agencies via email. Because the responses to very specific questions created more questions than answers, this column will now be used to transmit an open letter to the two law enforcement executives:" ... |
Dangers of Gannett’s ethics violation outing gun owners continue to emerge
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"A reformed professional burglar considers The Times Journal’s publishing of New York gun permit holders’ names and addresses a 'gold mine' of information as actual cases of individuals threatened by the action are starting to become known. Telling Greta Van Susteren of Fox News yesterday that burglars look for guns to sell to criminals, former thief and crime prevention consultant Bob Portenier explained how the interactive map published by the Gannett holding could be used to case and rob homes, resulting in guns being funneled to violent criminals who bypass the 'gun control' laws that their victims obey. Additionally, reports of threats to individual citizens, including the endangerment of current and retired law enforcement officers, illustrate how people who have life-preserving reasons to keep a low profile have now been put in harm’s way." ... |
It’s Time to Get Involved
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"Over the past few weeks, readers of TTAG and the rest of the gunosphere have been given a wealth of valuable information about the Second Amendment and the assault on their rights being waged by Democrats in Congress—as well as a few weak-kneed Republicans—who are working in concert with the Obama administration. It’s understandable that many if not most of us would rather just be left alone. We’re all busy with our lives. But increasingly, the left in this country . . ."
". . . does not want to leave you alone, and does not want to leave our freedoms intact. ..." ... |
That depends on the game being hunted, Senator Muñoz
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... "During debate in the Senate Public Health Committee (in which every Democrat voted for these bans) Wednesday, Muñoz apparently thought he had just the rejoinder to put NRA lobbyist Todd Vandermyde in his place. From the Chicago Sun-Times:""'You don't hunt with a 50-caliber weapon, my friend,' Munoz derisively told NRA lobbyist Todd Vandermyde before the panel voted for the weapons ban by a 6-4 vote." "First, Muñoz is dead wrong. Second, no serious Second Amendment scholarship argues that the Founding Fathers devoted 10% of the Bill of Rights to the sport of hunting (although with some creativity in defining 'sport,' there might be a case to be made)." ... |
Fewer Americans own more guns
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... "While the number of gun sales is steadily on the rise, according to several studies the amount of households with guns has actually been decreasing for several years - as are murders and crimes involving guns. An analysis by FactCheck.org of the Annenberg Public Policy Center shows that last month the homicide rate involving guns fell to an all-time low since 1981. The number of armed robberies and assaults has reached its lowest point since 2004, though the number of suicides involving guns has reached its highest point since 1998."
"It seems that Americans are buying more weapons, while fewer households own guns and crime involving guns is decreasing. What's behind this apparent contradiction?" ... |
GA: Woman hiding with kids shoots intruder
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"A woman hiding in her attic with children shot an intruder multiple times before fleeing to safety Friday."
"... The woman was working in an upstairs office when she spotted a strange man outside a window ... she took her 9-year-old twins to a crawlspace before the man broke in using a crowbar."
"But the man eventually found the family."
"'The perpetrator opens that door. Of course, at that time he's staring at her, her two children and a .38 revolver,' ..."
"The woman then shot him five times, but he survived, Chapman said. He said the woman ran out of bullets but threatened to shoot the intruder if he moved." ...
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GA: Cops: Mother of two surprises intruder with five gunshots (another view)
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... "'My wife’s a hero,' the woman’s husband, Donnie Herman, told Channel 2 Action News in a brief statement. He did not respond to a request for comment from the AJC. 'She protected her kids. She did what she was supposed to do.'"
"[Sheriff] Chapman remarked that one of his deputies, impressed with the woman’s resolve, told the sheriff she had handled her first shooting better than he had."
"'That mother’s instinct kicked in,' Chapman said. 'You go after a mother’s kids and she’ll find herself capable of doing things she never thought she was capable of.'" |
The Next American Civil War
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... "See, America is building a head of steam preparing to go to war with itself a second time at this very moment. This is not unusual—not in America. We have already had two revolutions. You may recall the American Revolution against Great Britain and the second—the War for Southern Independence ..."
"Tensions are running high all across the country as citizens are rushing to arm themselves with the closest thing resembling combat weaponry they can possibly find. Ammunition of all calibers is disappearing from the shelves of gun shops and back orders at the manufacturing plants are piled high."
"Americans are preparing to dig-in. In other words they are preparing for a fight. They are preparing for the day when the words run out, as they surely will. ..." ... |
2013: Resist or Disarm. Start deciding now what form your resistance will take.
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... "But the time has not come to begin shooting -- yet. ... However, the time HAS come for each of us to decide what form our resistance will take."
"Some of us, myself included, are already on the public stage so we might as well dance. ... Our job is to put them on notice so that they don't blunder uninformed into this civil war that the unintended consequences of their actions will spark. Our job will be to get in their faces and say plainly, 'If you try to take our firearms we will kill you.' This is the same moral requirement that we would be under if a convicted home invader and rapist out on parole met us in the street and announced that he was coming to our home that night to rob, rape and kill. Would we be justified in killing him on the spot? No. But we would be obligated to warn him that if he attempts it we will kill him. ..." ... |
Gun Control Tramples On The Certain Virtues Of A Heavily Armed Citizenry
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... "A people cannot simultaneously live free and be bound to any human master or man-made institution ... The Second Amendment along with the other nine amendments of the Bill of Rights was designed to prevent individuals’ enslavement to government, not just to guarantee people the right to hunt squirrels or sport shoot at targets, nor was it included in the Bill of Rights just to guarantee individuals the right to defend themselves against robbers, rapers and lunatics ..."
"The Second Amendment was designed to ensure that individuals retained the right and means to defend themselves against any illegitimate attempt to do them harm, be it an attempt by a private outlaw or government agents violating their trust under the color of law. ..." ... |
PA: Police Chief Proposes ’2nd Amendment Preservation’ Ordinance
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"The town is small, but the message is clear: do not infringe."
"A police chief in Gilberton, Pennsylvania, a small borough in Schuylkill County with a population of only 867 people, is proposing a '2nd Amendment Preservation' Ordinance that he plans to present to the city council during its January 24, 2013 meeting."
"The ordinance, if adopted, would formally require the city to 'enact any and all measures as may be necessary' to prevent the violation of the 2nd Amendment by any federal, state or local entity." ... |
MT: Montana legislator proposes constitutional amendments on gun rights
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"A state lawmaker in the Flathead Valley is proposing amendments to the U.S. Constitution to offset the effects of new firearms restrictions, which if passed, he says will erode civil liberties and infringe on state’s rights."
"Rep. Jerry O’Neil, R-Columbia Falls, says he will work with the Montana Legislature in an effort to adopt two new constitutional amendments to the U.S. Constitution to protect firearm ownership and national sovereignty. He said the issue is pressing due to the call for gun restrictions in the wake of last month’s school shootings in Newtown, Conn." ... |
Joe Manchin: Say… about that gun grabbing thing…
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... "... One of the things you might be taking into account is the fact that even an incident as horrible as the Newtown maniac’s rampage hasn’t shifted the national mood very much. We already know that American’s don’t want the government snacking on their hand guns, but let’s take a look at the most hot button buzz word in the gun grabbing dictionary. Pollsters – including some sponsors who seem to really want to push this, like USA Today – keep asking the following question about those really nasty 'assault rifles.'" ... |
Texas A.G. Abbott: I'll Go to Court to Block Any Congressional Gun Ban
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"Congress may be ramping up to consider gun restrictions in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting, but Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says the proposals being discussed now are unconstitutional, and he says he will ask the courts to throw them out if they are approved, 1200 WOAI news reports."
"'I've been to the Supreme Court twice,' Abbott said in an interview with 1200 WOAI's Joe Pags. I can tell you that these laws that try to restrict our gun rights violate the Second Amendment guarantee of the right to keep and bear arms. The U.S. Supreme Court has spoken on this issue twice.'" ... |
Kiss the guns goodbye
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"Confiscation of guns is in works. You will see confiscation of all or some gun types in the next two years. The president and his lefty friends want guns out of the hands of Americans. The other, Republicans have for years sold U.S. down the drain. No one will champion the Second Amendment. The others will fall soon after."
"Here is how the opposing teams stack up. Gun owners and Second Amendment on one side, Democrats, many Republicans, the media, the inside the beltway people, foreign money and the U.N. directives on the other side. Some secret treaties also. ..." ... |
Flawed contention on founder's intent
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"A recent letter claimed that the writer can’t understand 'why a reasonable person would think that military-style weapons of mass murder should be owned by private citizens,' and that he certainly doesn’t 'believe that the authors of the Second Amendment would have intended this any more than that private citizens should own cannons or bazookas.'"
"I beg to disagree. ..." ...
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The uses and abuses of AR-15s
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... "I generally consider myself a second amendment supporter, and I haven't yet decided where I stand on post-Newtown gun control. I would own a gun if New York City laws didn't make it extremely difficult to do so. But I nevertheless find Keene's arguments disingenuous. It's odd to cite hunting and home defense as reasons to keep selling a rifle that's not particularly well suited and definitely not necessary for either. Bolt-action rifles and shotguns can also be used for hunting and home defense. Unfortunately, those guns aren't particularly lucrative for gunmakers. ..." ... |
Protect the Second Amendment
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"The attack that we are seeing today on the Second Amendment elicits the same fears that our founding fathers had at the birth of our nation."
"From the very beginning of this great nation, representatives of the first 13 colonies mistrusted proposals to enlarge federal powers. They were concerned about the inherent risks of centralizing power. The Second Amendment was put into place to combat these fears and to ensure that the federal government could not raise a standing army powerful enough to overcome an armed populace." ... |
NY: Gov. Cuomo's Gun Control Push Already Hit A Wall In Albany
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... "Echoing sentiments from both President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg, we learned last week that Governor Andrew Cuomo planned on making gun control a top priority after the Newtown tragedy. His administration called for tougher background checks for registration, a wider scope for New York's already-existent assault weapons ban and, most significantly, a magazine ban that would limit gun owners to seven bullets a clip. The final measure mentioned would be the strictest of its kind in the nation." [emphasis added]
"However, as per usual, a push for gun control has been met with clear opposition from both inside and outside of Albany. ..." ...
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Kein: IDC and Cuomo say gun control top priority
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"The five-member Independent Democratic Conference just emerged from a private meeting with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and IDC leader Jeff Klein said they talked about gun control, which both parties agree will be Job One when lawmakers start their session later this month."
"'We need to do it in January,' said Jeff Klein. The Bronx Democrat, though, offered few specifics on the gun control legislation that Cuomo is drawing up, other than saying it aims to be the nation’s toughest law and it would likely include a ban on assault style rifles such as the AR-15/Bushmaster rifle that was used in last month’s Newtown, Conn. tragedy." ... |
NY: Squadron: Leaving out gun reg would be ‘mind-boggling’
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"Daniel Squadron, a co-sponsor of the state Senate’s bill requiring microstamping — a hotly debated new technology that advocates believe would help solve gun crimes and deter gun violence — said Thursday that it would be 'simply mind-boggling' if Senate Republicans force microstamping out of the gun control legislative package Governor Cuomo is expected to announce as part of his State of the State Address on Jan. 9."
"'A majority of the members of the state Senate all support this,' Squadron said in an e-mailed statement. 'It’s time to let it come to a vote.'" ... |
NY: Senator Vows to Pass Country’s ‘Strongest Assault-Weapons Ban’
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"Gov. Andrew Cuomo and a powerful faction of Senate Democrats met Friday to discuss gun control legislation that one leader said would be the strongest assault-weapons ban in the country."
"Sen. Jeffrey Klein, D-Bronx, who heads the now-five-member Independent Democratic Conference, said after an hour-and-a-half-long meeting with Cuomo in the governor’s Capitol office that the group supports the governor’s legislation 'wholeheartedly,' and that he hopes it will be passed as soon as possible—preferably this month." ... |
NY: New Jersey Man Arrested In NY Police Cannibalism Case
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"The arrest of a New Jersey man accused Friday of seeking to pay $5,000 to a New York City police officer to kidnap a Manhattan woman that he intended to rape and kill drew claims from a defense lawyer that the government was trying to prevent him from testifying about Internet sexual fantasies at the officer’s cannibalism-tinged trial." ...
"Besides being accused of agreeing to pay Valle for the abduction last year when Valle was an active police officer, Vanhise also admitted emailing others about kidnapping, raping and killing women and children ..." ...
"Authorities said Vanhise agreed to pay Valle $5,000 to kidnap the woman in New York and deliver her bound to Vanhise’s home in New Jersey, where she would be raped and killed. ..." ... |
UT: Man says police violated his privacy after his wife's death
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"A man says Vernal police disrupted an intimate moment of mourning with his deceased wife of 58 years when they searched his house for her prescription medication without a warrant within minutes of her death."...
"Mahaffe's attorney, Andrew Fackrell, said it's apparently common practice for Vernal police when someone dies, but that it's selectively applied. Some cities have voluntary take-back-prescription-drug programs, but Fackrell said this takes it to an 'absurd level.'" [emphasis added]
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Submitter's note: notice how the government's endless pet drug war has obliterated our 4th amendment rights, our property rights, and the sanctity of our homes. Think of this the next time some "pro gun" person defends the endless drug war waged against us. |
TX: Second Trooper Suspended Over Roadside Cavity Search
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"The second of two Texas State troopers at the center of a lawsuit involving a roadside cavity search has been suspended with pay."
"The two women from Irving are suing Trooper David Farrell, Trooper Kelley Helleson and the director of the Department of Public Safety for what they call an unconstitutional search without probable cause."
"On Thursday, the DPS said Farrell had been suspended with pay effective Dec. 21 pending the outcome of an investigation into the incident. Helleson had also been suspended with pay on Dec. 19." ...
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NJ: Berlin, NJ Police Chief Charged With Illegal Touches on Female Employee
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"A South Jersey police chief is in trouble with the law, for allegedly going a little too far with a female employee."
"Berlin Township police chief Joe Jackson is facing three misdemeanor counts of harassment and simple assault from incidents that stem back to April 2010 and came to a head last July." ... |
After Newtown, public access to US gun records is a flashpoint
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"The shootings of 20 young children and six adult workers last month at a Connecticut elementary school has revived debate not only over gun control, but also over whether the holders of handgun permits should be identified publicly."
"The fiercely contested question of confidentiality for handgun permit holders arose last month after the shooting in New York's Lower Hudson Valley published the names of local gun owners. The newspaper, the Journal News, based in Nyack, N.Y., reportedly had to hire armed guards because of the outpouring of anger that greeted publication of its map." ... |
Ex-Burglars Say Newspaper’s Gun Map Would’ve Made the Job Easier, Safer
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"Reformed crooks say the New York newspaper that published a map of names and addresses of gun owners did a great service – to their old cronies in the burglary trade."
"The information published online by the Journal-News, a daily paper serving the New York suburbs of Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties, could be highly useful to thieves in two ways, former burglars told FoxNews.com. Crooks looking to avoid getting shot now know which targets are soft and those who need weapons know where they can steal them." ...
"'They just created an opportunity for some crimes to be committed and I think it’s exceptionally stupid,' said Bob Portenier, 65, a former burglar and armed house robber turned crime prevention consultant." ... |
NY: Putnam County Won’t Give Names Of Gun Permit Holders To Journal News
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"The controversy over a New York newspaper’s publication of an interactive database of gun permit holders is turning into an open government standoff."
"A county clerk has refused to release names and addresses of residents with pistol permits."
"Putnam County Clerk Dennis Sant cited concerns about the safety of permit holders with protection orders as among the reasons for turning down a Freedom of Information request from the Journal News. The paper wants information on who holds handgun permits in his county." ...
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NY: Lawsuit Filed Against Journal News Sparked By Map of Gun Owners
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"A lawsuit has been filed against The Journal News by a business that claims its reputation suffered after the newspaper published an interactive map of licensed gun owners in the area, following the massacre in Newtown, Conn. First Impression LLC is a gift shop and interior design firm located in Katonah. They sued both The Journal News and its corporate parent Gannett Co. in Westchester County Court. In the Summons with Notice, the gift shop accuses the newspaper of 'falsely…publicly stating in the interactive website www.lohud.com that plaintiff First Impression LLC is a licensed handgun owner.' ..." ... |
NY: Ban assault weapons
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"Why does any hint of regulation make the National Rifle Association and the gun fanatics go ballistic? No one needs automatic weapons for hunting nor home defense." ...
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CT: Time to take a stand on assault weapons
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"At a candlelight vigil for the victims of the Newtown, Conn., shooting recently, I was struck by the resolve of the men, women and children standing beside me. There was sadness and there were tears shed, but there was also a renewed commitment for change, a steely demand that something be done to at least reduce the chances of another tragedy like this from happening again."
"Throughout my time in Congress, I have supported common-sense restrictions on gun control, and I have seen the media’s attention to and the public’s passion for the debate ebb and flow. What I see right now is a groundswell of support for reform — we must seize this opportunity to act now. ..." ... |
UT: Armed insurrections?
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... "So we are left with a choice: Either the Second Amendment is there to help the citizenry resist a tyrannical government and we need military heavy weapons stored in our basements or the Second Amendment does not apply to armed insurrections, and all military and assault-type weapons are unnecessary." |
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