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ATF issues new license to Miss. gun dealer to replace one improperly revoked
Submitted by: Bruce Krafft
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... "This is the second report of ATF essentially repudiating actions of its Industry Operations management personnel in a week. This column reported last Tuesday how ATF issued four new FFLs to security firm Brink’s Incorporated after improperly revoking its FFL. That report followed a series of columns Gun Rights Examiner has been documenting since August of 2012, when it was first reported how ATF revocation actions were in defiance of policy and law. ..." ...
 

Confession of a Former Gun Control Advocate
Submitted by: Bruce Krafft
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"I grew up in a liberal household in a liberal community that favored banning handguns. My parents were friends with Dr. Potter, a left-leaning physician gunned down by a drug addict in the parking lot of Providence’s Miriam Hospital. His widow formed Handgun Alert, which eventually evolved into The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Which my parents supported. Why wouldn’t they? Save my father’s brief foray into duck hunting and his failed attempt to exorcise Holocaust flashbacks by owning a shotgun, we were an anti-gun household. And by 'we' I also mean 'me.' I was a gun control advocate. Why not confess earlier? I forgot . . ." ...
 

Apply common sense to all rights
Submitted by: Bruce Krafft
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"Common sense: words used by liberals and Democrats when trying to push new guns laws ... Common sense, say the liberals and Democrats, demands that a gun purchaser ... show ID, have an instant background check through the FBI, be of good character and of sound mental health, and also demands that records of all transactions be maintained in perpetuity. ... They say these common-sense standards should apply to all gun purchasers, regardless of age, race or income."

"However, the same Democrats and liberals lose all of their self-defined common sense when it comes to voting. To place any of these standards for gun purchasers on voters, such as showing a picture ID, amounts to discrimination against race, elderly and the poor. ..." ...
 

The Single Man’s Guide to Dating and Guns
Submitted by: Bruce Krafft
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"In the movies, the female companion of the brave action hero never takes a moment to grill the hero about why he packs a pistol all the time. In real life, however, not everyone is so progressive of thought. As a 27-year-old young man with a CCW permit, vetting dates has become a secondary talent. Here are a few tips for finding firearm-friendly females . . ." ...
 

Report on Navy Yard shooting notes problems in Seattle
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"A report on the Washington, D.C. Navy Yard shooting in September, released this morning by the House Oversight and Government Reform committee, identifies several municipal police departments as being on a list of 'non-cooperating' agencies when it comes to providing information to federal authorities conducting background checks for security clearance." ...
 

Gun Control Won't Control
Submitted by: Bruce Krafft
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"Guns aren’t bad. When was the last time you heard of a gun pulling its own trigger and shooting something or someone by itself? The truth is, the guns aren’t the things that kill people, the person pulling the trigger does. Many gun control activists say that if stricter laws were in place, it would have prevented the Newtown, Connecticut shooting (Farago). My opinion is that removing guns from the home of the shooter would not have prevented this awful crime. The police in Newton reported that the shooter was mentally unstable, which heavily contributed to his motivation for the shooting. I strongly feel that more gun control laws in the future will not solve the problems we as a society are facing today." ...
 

5.56 Prices Start to Dip Below $300/K. Finally
Submitted by: Bruce Krafft
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"We’ve been waiting a loooong time for 5.56 ammo prices to fall back down to pre-Newtown levels, but it looks like we’re finally getting close. Case in point: steel-cased 5.56 plinking ammo can now be found at less than $300 per thousand before shipping. AIM Surplus currently has scads of steel-cased Wolf on hand for $.29 a round plus shipping. This isn’t the pre-Newtown cost of $.22 per round, but it will get you back practicing run-and-gun drills without breaking the bank . . ." ...
 

Ammo Review: American Eagle Suppressor.45 ACP
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"On my weekly trip to the gun shop, I happened to peruse the shelves and noticed a few boxes of American Eagle Suppressor ammo in .45. Intrigued, I picked the box up and noticed that it was proudly advertised as 'subsonic' and 'made for suppressor use.' I turned to the OFWG behind the sales counter with the box in my hand and said, 'But isn’t all .45 ACP subsonic?' He said, yes it is. 'Okay then,' I said, 'so what the heck is this stuff?' 'Well, that’s even better and quieter than regular .45 ACP.' Mmmmkay. Now, I may have been born at night . . ." ...
 

ShootingTheBull410 Tests the GLOCK 42′s Ballistic Performance (video available)
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"I got my hands on a new GLOCK 42, and two questions came immediately to mind. 1) How much bigger is it than my existing pocket pistol (Taurus TCP), and 2) How does the terminal performance of this gun compare to the little pocket pistol? It turns out that yes, the G42 is a little bigger than the micro-pistol. It’s in the ballpark of being the same thickness and the same basic height, but the 42 is definitely longer front-to-back than the TCP. The good news is . . ." ...
 

Gun Review: GLOCK 42
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"With their oh-so-sly teaser ad campaign and the fact that it seemed like GLOCK hadn’t introduced a new gun since late in the first Clinton administration, the company did a marvelous job of whipping up loads of interest and anticipation for their new gun. Firearms folk had been hankering for a slim, single-stack, Tenifer-coated, easily-concealable nine since, well, late in the first Clinton administration. But Smyrna and their Teutonic overlords had other plans. In their judgement, what America really needed was a slim, single-stack, Tenifer-coated, easily-concealable .380. So when word broke that Gaston’s new gun was chambered in something less than full-blown 9mm . . ." ...
 

MAIG membership down 15 percent in past year
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"The number of members in the Mayors Against Illegal Guns coalition has dropped nearly 15 percent over the past year, according to a report by the Washington Examiner"

"The overall number of mayors supporting the organization has declined from a peak of 1,046 at the end of 2012 to the current 885 today."

"The group was founded in April 2006 by then-Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg with just 15 original members."

"These numbers have seen a few dramatic defections in recent weeks including one from the mayor of Poughkeepsie, New York. In an op-ed published by Mayor John Tkazyik in the local paper, he claims that ... 'nearly 50 pro-Second Amendment mayors have left the organization'." ...
 

Keep guns out of post offices
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"I worked for the U.S. Postal Service back when the phrase 'going postal' became widespread."

"There was a reason it did — several well-publicized mass shootings in post offices."

"It took them a while to catch on, but eventually Congress prohibited guns in post offices. It seemed Congress was showing some common sense."

"Turns out, it was all part of the socialist plot to steal our Second Amendment rights." ...
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Submitter's Note: Actually Steve, "going postal" originated from incidents that began in 1983, eleven years after the ban was put in place.
 

Daily Digest: Ringing Steel Edition
Submitted by: Bruce Krafft
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"South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signed a bill into law today allowing concealed carry permit holders to carry their weapons into establishments that serve alcohol. The law still allows establishments to bar guns from their premises, if they so choose. ..."

"In the latest example of the rule that 'criminals don’t care about background checks,' police say a handgun used to shoot up a Hartford, Connecticut bar last Sunday night came from a shipment of guns hijacked by a Bridgeport man in 2012. ..." ...

"The Calguns Foundation is issuing a warning to gun owners throughout California in the wake of numerous reports of improper arrests and firearms seizures. ..." ...
 

My Fourth Open Letter to Mike Lawlor: Of anti-Catholic jihads and spitting on your heritage. (Hedgehogs, foxes and wolverines. Oh my!)
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... "Now, Mike, take the Clinton Rules of Engagement, the principles of 4th Generation Warfare, the actuarial mathematics of the One Hundred Heads Life & Casualty Company and your threat of naked tyrannical force to wreak your will on the people of Connecticut, think for a minute or two, and look in the mirror."

"What conclusion would you draw from that set of facts? ..."

"You, you silly sod, are extrapolating from your own cowardice. Just because you wouldn't risk death for your principles, doesn't mean there aren't folks who most certainly will. And, not to put too fine a point on it, but folks who are willing to die for their principles are most often willing to kill in righteous self-defense of them as well. ..." ...
 

30-second video reveals the real problem with the Second Amendment (video story)
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"Drafters of the Constitution never envisioned weapons like so called 'assault rifles' when writing the Second Amendment. Kira Davis posted this YouTube video Monday in which she reveals what the founders really didn’t envision." ...
 

Connecticut Gun Owners in Mexican Standoff With the State
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"'Everyone knew there would be some gun owners flouting the law that legislators hurriedly passed last April, requiring residents to register all military-style rifles with [Connecticut] state police by Dec. 31,' touch.courant.com muses, avoiding the official term for the firearms in question (i.e. 'assault rifles'). 'But few thought the figures would be this bad.' How bad? ..." ...

"... the vast majority of Connecticut’s semi-automatic rifle and standard capacity ammunition magazine owners are practicing 'Irish democracy': ignoring a law with which they do not agree. ... As we wondered even before the Constitution State reacted to the Newton massacre by disarming its citizens, what happens next?" ...
 

TIGER BY THE TAIL: Connecticut columnist is shocked that gun owners refuse to comply with unconstitutional gun law
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... "I suspect that what we’re witnessing is a government and media utterly flummoxed by what to do next."

"They rammed their 'assault weapons' ban into law using the Sandy Hook incident as an excuse, and expected Connecticut gun owners to cravenly line up to register their liberties with the state for later confiscation… and indeed, some did. The vast majority, however, reacted with the disdain of their forefathers."

"Regardless of their political beliefs or party affiliations, the supermajority of Connecticut gun owners are essentially daring the state to try enforce their new 'assault weapon' law." ...
 

National Guard Drill: What if 2nd Amendment Supporters Launched Terror Attack?
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"In January 2013, the Ohio Army National Guard 52nd Civil Support Unit conducted a 'training exercise' for a scenario in which 'two school employees…[became] disgruntled over the government’s interpretation of the Second Amendment' and launched a terror attack."

"Details of the training are just now beginning to emerge."

"Mediatrackers.org obtained documents outlining the training exercise, in which Second Amendment supporters launch a biological attack. The documents describe the exercise as '[centering] around the production of a chemical warfare agent and a biological warfare agent with the intent to cause harm to the community.'" ...
 

CA: More concerns raised about gun seizures by state agents (video available)
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"More reports have surfaced of weapons being seized from local gun owners under a special state program."

"A Bakersfield attorney said he's represented about six clients in the past couple years, and he had to prove they really could keep their guns."

"A state spokesman responded that the program has few errors and works to keep Californians safe."

"Attorney Loren Kleier said his clients had weapons seized by agents with the state Department of Justice. ... a special unit from the Bureau of Firearms has the job of cross-checking lists of gun owners against databases showing those who legally can't have weapons."

"'To me, they're becoming jack-booted thugs that are kicking in doors,' Kleier told Eyewitness News ..." ...
 

CA: State takes man's guns: 'He said we made a big mistake' (video available)
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"A Bakersfield man was stunned when state agents showed up at his home and took all his guns."

"Eighteen weapons were seized but then returned a couple weeks later. Eyewitness News discovered it was the work of a special state task force."

"The weapons were returned to Michael Merritt, but he's left with plenty of questions."

"'It's just the worst feeling,' Merritt told Eyewitness News. 'It's a loss of your liberty, of your rights. I almost passed out when they said they wanted all my guns.'" ...
 

Ohio law enforcers consider right-wingers as potential terrorist threat
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"Ohio National Guard conducted a mock disaster training exercise last January. According to the internal documents, limited-government and pro-Second Amendment opinions were depicted as domestic terrorists. The mock disaster training exercise of the ONG 52nd Civil Support Team was held in Scioto County. According to the scenario, two Portsmouth Junior High School employees used biological weapon to poison school lunches." ...
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Submitter's Note: Because nothing says "I object to the government" like poisoning schoolkids.
 

No wonder we're paranoid
Submitted by: Bruce Krafft
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"Media-Trackers have found documents from an Ohio National Guard training drill conducted last January."

"The documents reveal details of a mock disaster where Second Amendment supporters with 'anti-government' opinions were portrayed as domestic terrorists."

"The drill was done back in May of 2013."

"Portsmouth Chief of Police Bill Raisin told a TV reporter ... the drill accurately represented 'the reality of the world we live in.' Internal ONG documents provided to Media-Trackers after repeated delays provide further context to what one reporter reported last winter."

"The ONG team discovered ficticious biological weapons being produced in the school requiring activation of containment and decontamination procedures." ...
 

An Idea Whose Time Has Come
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"In the last entry, I promised to discuss some historical matters here, unless something more newsworthy came up. Something certainly did."

"I recently received the following from the office of Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire. A career prosecutor with a stellar record, and always fair to armed citizens and cops alike, this former state Attorney General probably has a better handle on real world crime and punishment and justice issues than anyone else in the United States Senate. She is sponsoring Senator Cornyn’s Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2014. Here’s what she has to say:" ...
 

Holder wants felons' voting rights restored, wants them to remain defenseless
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... "[Holder] actually went further than that, implying that lifetime voting bans for felons are racist ..."

"We have discussed this before, when in 2010, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Washington's felon voting ban ... The rationale then, as now, was that with blacks stopped by law enforcement, searched, arrested, convicted and imprisoned at significantly higher rates than equally criminal white offenders, such bans are racially discriminatory ..."

"In another parallel between the 9th Circuit Court ruling and Holder's remarks yesterday, conspicuously absent from the list of concerns is any mention of the felons' permanent loss of the right to effective self-defense. ..." ...
 

OR: More Snow Jobs From The Gun Grabbers
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"The snow may be melting away from the Capitol steps, but the snow jobs from the liberty haters are coming as fast and furious as the guns being run to Mexican cartels from Obama and Holder."

"Today we received this absurd piece from Senator Michael Dembrow."

"Here Dembrow, who has advocated for warrantless searches of gun owners’ homes,and a ban on all modern firearms, claims that SB 1551, (Floyd Prozanski’s gun registration bill) 'does not create a gun registry – it simply expands the current system…'"

"But of course, the current system is a gun registry. And this is expanding it. ..." ...
 

SD: Panel OKs Allowing Concealed Guns In SD Capitol
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"The South Dakota House Transportation Committee has voted 8-5 to support a bill allowing people with concealed carry permits to bring firearms in the state Capitol building."

"The same committee voted 10-3 to kill another bill that would have allowed those with permits to keep guns in their parked cars, regardless of parking lot policies."

"Supporters of the measure authorizing weapons in the Capitol say it would allow legislators and staff to protect themselves in an attack. Opponents say passions run too high in controversial legislative and Supreme Court proceedings to add guns to the mix." ...
 

NY: Lawmakers seek, again, to repeal SAFE Act
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"The proposal won’t be approved in the Democratic-led Assembly nor the coalition-controlled Senate, but Assemblyman Bill Nojay, R-Pittsford, Monroe County, said the law needs to be repealed."

"The bill is sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Mike Nozzolio, R-Fayette, Seneca County."

"Nojay is circulating a petition to support the legislation." ...
 

CA: Tim Donnelly in 'heaven' at Stockton gun store (video available)
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"Tim Donnelly found his paradise at a gun store Tuesday."

"'I feel like I've died and gone to heaven,' the Republican candidate for governor said as he walked in."

"At the counter, among the firearms and mounted animal heads at Outdoor Sportsman in Stockton, the Twin Peaks assemblyman handled a 12-gauge shotgun and admired an antique rifle."

"'Oh, my God,' he said."

"Donnelly lingered at the counter, and he shook his head when he saw a customer filling out paperwork required to buy a gun in California.

"'That's what you ought to be filming,' the Legislature's most outspoken gun rights advocate told his videographer. 'Look at all the paperwork you've got to do to exercise your Second Amendment rights.'" ...
 

CA: Proposed legislation looks to stem importation of illegal guns
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"Assemblyman Luis Alejo (D-Salinas) introduced legislation aiming to curb the flow of illegal guns in the state."

"Alejo said he wrote Assembly Bill 1609 to strengthen the state's ability to prosecute illegal gun imports into the state, which have largely been dealt with under federal law."

"Alejo said Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives data show that about 60 percent or more of guns seized in California are untraceable or registered outside of the state."

"Alejo's bill essentially gives California law enforcement the same ability to go after illegal imports of guns from out of state as existing federal laws requires." ...
 

WA: Gov. Inslee sides with killers, say death penalty supporters
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"Governor Jay Inslee today announced a moratorium on capital punishment while he is in office, a move that is infuriating many of his constituents and is particularly aggravating to gun rights activists who note that he is willing to spare killers while his voting record suggests he would make it more difficult for their intended victims to arm themselves." ...
 

SC: Gov. Haley signs guns in bars bill, expresses support for 'constitutional carry'
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"Gov. Nikki Haley expressed support for a bill Tuesday that would allow all South Carolinians to carry a weapon if they wanted to without having to go through training or a criminal background check."

"Known as 'constitutional carry,' the issue is being pushed by S.C. Sen. Lee Bright, R-Spartanburg, who is running for U.S. Senate. Under the law, gun owners would not have to pass the required training mandated by a Concealed Weapons Permit or be subject to a criminal background check. "We believe in those liberties and those rights," Haley said following a news conference on a new law that allows those with weapons permits to bring their firearms into a bar or restaurant that serves alcohol." ...
 

Senate majority key in filling next Supreme Court vacancy
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"A group pushing for a return to a constitutionalist judiciary is very concerned about the future of the Second Amendment if Barack Obama is allowed to replace one of the conservative members of the Supreme Court."

"The Washington Examiner reports that the [NRA] is planning a massive ground game this year to win Republican control of the Senate. The NRA wants to prevent President Obama from appointing a fifth Supreme Court Justice who is hostile to Second Amendment rights."

"... 'Unlike Republicans, who have at best a 50/50 record of putting constitutional conservatives on the court, the Democrats haven't failed to nominate an ideologue since at least President [John F.] Kennedy,' [Committee for Justice President Levey] notes." ...
 

Will the Supreme Court Once Again Take Up Arms?
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"The very valuable SCOTUSblog last week wrote up some of the gun cases up for possible consideration by the Supreme Court soon, a few of which will be considered in a conference by the Court later this month. The Court has notoriously avoided the many issues unresolved by 2008's Heller and 2010's McDonald cases so far:" ...
 

Another Federal Court Undermines the Second Amendment
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... "One might think that the end of America’s two-decade long decline in crime might serve to justify the need to strengthen – not weaken – the ability of law-abiding citizens to arm themselves defensively in order to fight back against armed criminals. Not so; and even learned federal judges are not immune from succumbing to the childish notion that the best way to protect citizens is to disarm them. Take Third Circuit federal appeals court Judge Ruggero Aldisert."

"Writing recently for the Third Circuit in Drake v. Jerejian, Judge Aldisert ruled that bureaucrats working for the Commonwealth of New Jersey may summarily deny citizens the right to protect themselves against armed criminals ..." ...
 

CT: Disabled rights group removed from lawsuit over state’s gun law
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"A New London judge has granted Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s motion to dismiss a disabled rights group from a lawsuit challenging Connecticut’s new gun control measures, but is allowing the New London man who founded the group to pursue his legal claim." ...

"In a memorandum of decision dated Feb. 6, Superior Court Judge James J. Devine ruled that DAFR, because of its mission to educate the public and elected officials, does not have standing to bring the lawsuit, but that Ennis does." ...

"Devine said the claim requires participation of individual members of DAFR who would need to provide evidence they require certain features prohibited by the public act to exercise their rights." ...
 

CA: Gun Owners Ask Judge To Block San Francisco’s Ammo Restrictions
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"A federal judge appeared inclined at a hearing in San Francisco Tuesday to turn down a request to block a city law banning possession of high-capacity ammunition magazines, but deferred making a ruling."

"U.S. District Judge William Alsup told lawyers for a group of gun owners that they did not appear to have proved that magazines automatically reloading 10 or more bullets were needed to support the constitutional Second Amendment right to own guns." ...
 

CA: Judge skeptical of bid to block new S.F. gun law
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"The National Rifle Association challenged San Francisco's ban on high-capacity gun magazines in federal court Tuesday, arguing that it violates a constitutional right of armed self-defense in the home - but had little apparent success in persuading the judge."

"In 15 years on the bench, U.S. District Judge William Alsup said at the outset of the hearing in San Francisco, 'I see precious few cases where a homeowner has warded off an intruder with 10 or more bullets,' but many cases in which criminals wielded large-capacity guns."

"'You have zero evidence ... that these oversize magazines are used for common self-defense,' Alsup told the NRA's attorney, Anna Barvir." ...
 

Ben Carson, family and friends target of IRS harassment for criticizing Obama
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"On Monday, Dr. Benjamin Carson, the former director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, said he and his family were targeted by the IRS in retribution for comments critical of Barack Obama, Newsmax reported."

"According to Carson, audits and other harassment began in May or June of 2013, just a few months after his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Gradually, he added, the harassment expanded to include family members, associates, and his charitable endeavors."

"'I’ve been quite -- I would say astonished at the level of hostility that I have encountered,' he told Newsmax TV's John Bachman." ...
 

DC: Washington DC Gun Laws: Jail time over dud shotshell
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"How far above and beyond the call of brains are gun haters willing to go in the name of 'reasonable' gun restrictions?"

"Well, as they are control freaks as much as they are zealots, one could safely say 'pretty far' above and beyond."

"Well into the range of ludicrous as is the case in Washington, D.C. The utopia where gun control advocates have tried all their tricks to leave the good guys utterly disarmed, with Draconian penalties that boggle the mind."

"How bad is it?"

"Bad enough that if you have a dud shotgun shell in your house, you’re looking at jail time. And the D.C. police will break your door down to come find it if they’ve got a hot tip that you’re in violation of the District’s gun laws." ...
 

NY: Citizen Video Proves Cops Lied on Arrest Report
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"It is no secret that many officers don’t like being video recorded because it prevents them from conjuring lies in their arrest reports."

"But here we have a couple of officers in New York who are so brazen about their lies, they proceed to write them anyway despite knowing they were being video recorded."

"Even then, the man they arrested on baseless charges still spent nine days in jail before he was released after the video was shown to the judge."

"Unfortunately, Nassau police officers Peter J. Ellison and Carl Arena won’t spend a day in jail for their lies but police assure us they are conducting an 'internal investigation.'" ...
 

PA: Downingtown police officer arrested at Philadelphia strip club
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"A seven year veteran of the Downingtown Police Department was arrested early Saturday morning following an incident at a Philadelphia gentleman’s club."

"According to a brief statement provided by Downingtown Mayor Josh Maxell, around 2:45 a.m. Saturday the Downingtown Police Department’s shift supervisor was notified that officer Scott Neuhaus, 40, was arrested at Delilah’s Gentlemen’s Club and Steakhouse ... The statement said Neuhaus was off duty and in civilian clothes."

"... Neuhaus was charged with one count of disorderly conduct with obscene language or gesture, a summary offense. A status hearing was tentatively scheduled for Feb. 24 in Philadelphia, according to court records." ...
 

IL: In Harvey, who polices the police?
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"On a patch of land near the Tri-State Tollway, trees were bulldozed so trucks could pile mounds of waste up to 22 feet high."

"Within months, the brush and meadow gave way to dirt piles mixed with oil, broken bricks, asphalt, plastic tubes and concrete ... all a block away from a strip of homes."

"The state deemed the dump illegal. The landowner who let it happen was a Harvey police officer."

"The same officer had already been found by a federal jury to have shot a teen in the back without cause and lied to cover it up."

"Neither case led the state to yank the officer's gun and badge."

"This is Illinois, where the state-imposed ethical standards for a cosmetologist are far higher than those for a cop." ...
 

MS: Former Hazlehurst officer arrested
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"A former Hazlehurst police officer has been arrested following indictment on one count of extortion."

"A Copiah County grand jury indicted 25-year-old LaGracha Amon Carter-Boyd, of Hazlehurst, on Friday and sheriff's deputies arrested Boyd, Attorney General Jim Hood confirmed Monday." ...
 

KY: 100-plus criminal cases in question after LMPD officer charged with collecting $10,000 in phony overtime
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"Prosecutors scrambled Tuesday to salvage more than 100 criminal cases investigated by a Louisville Metro Police officer who has beenindicted on charges of bilking taxpayers for more than $10,000 in phony overtime."

"Christopher Thurman, a 37-year-old officer who specialized in DUI enforcement, including cases that resulted in murder and manslaughter charges, is accused of official misconduct and theft by deception. He is facing up to a decade in prison on the felony theft charge and another year on the misdemeanor corruption count." ...
 

MA: Gun Owners’ Group Issues Loaded Response to State’s Firearms Control Proposal
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"In a harsh response to a new report suggesting the state could reduce gun violence by enacting stricter laws, which was written by a special task force commissioned by House Speaker Robert DeLeo, gun advocates crafted their own recommendations claiming the group’s ideas were based on 'flawed' information, and lacked knowledge about weapon ownership in Massachusetts." ...
 

CA: Major gunmakers' pullout will shake up California market, experts say
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"A decision by two major American gunmakers to stop selling new semi-automatic handguns in California will cause the market to dry up, gun industry officials say."

"The reaction comes in the wake of an announcement this week by Smith & Wesson that it will stop shipping new semi-automatic pistols to California rather than comply with Assembly Bill 1471. The law requires new or redesigned semi-automatics to have microstamping, which marks bullet casings with a unique code when a gun is fired."

"Another major gunmaker, Ruger, also refuses to adopt the technology for California sales." ...
 

NV: Friends of NRA to host March banquet
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"The Mason Valley Friends of the NRA Committee is preparing for its eighth annual fundraising banquet and auction at 4:30 p.m. March 22 ..."

"'We are planning for a fun and exciting evening for the whole family,' event chairman Jim Mikukik said. 'The guests will enjoy a great steak dinner and will have a chance to win a wide array of high-quality firearms and other prizes.'"

"Proceeds from the Friends of NRA fundraiser benefit the NRA Foundation, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, and will promote projects such as youth firearms safety and education, hunter training, shooting range development, marksmanship training, women’s programs, Second Amendment research and education and conservation throughout Nevada." ...
 

 QUOTES TO REMEMBER
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