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SAF Leads Coalition in Amicus Filing for Colorado Carry Case
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"The Second Amendment Foundation has been joined by 17 other firearms rights groups in an amicus brief filed in a case now before the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, challenging laws that prohibit the carrying of firearms by law-abiding non-resident U.S. citizens in Denver, Colorado." ... |
Split Wide and Disarmed
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"NFL wide receiver Plaxico Burress just finished twenty months in prison for carrying a firearm. New York prosecutors said that the gun was unlicensed. The Constitution begs to differ."
"One might think that this injustice would spark the former Steeler and Giant to lay down $1,000 for a National Rifle Association lifetime membership. Instead, after losing the bulk of a $35 million contract, endorsement deals, and nearly two years of his life behind bars, Burress, perversely, has joined forces with the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence." ... |
Guns and Manhood
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"A member of our Armed Intelligentsia sent me a link to this Sunday’s Doonesbury comic. ... This technicolor interchange is wrong on so many levels. Well, at least three . . ." ...
"3. Open Carry advocates are not bullies
Following on from the above, it’s important to note that open carry (OC) advocates want to have the choice whether or not to carry in public. Trudeau’s mischaracterization—that OC’s proponents believe that everyone should carry—mistakes their belief in individual gun rights for a desire for liberal-like social engineering." ...
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Second Amendment injustice
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"In June 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment to the Constitution protects an individual’s right to possess a firearm 'and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.' Quoting the famous British jurist William Blackstone, the court held that 'the right of self-preservation' permits a citizen to 'repe[l] force by force' when 'the intervention of society in his behalf, may be too late to prevent an injury.' This grandiose language must ring awfully hollow to Orville Lee Wollard who, two years ago tomorrow was sentenced to two decades in a Florida prison for protecting his family with a firearm." ... |
Self Defense Tip: If You’ve Got It, Don’t Flaunt It
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"Some people just have to tell the world about everything they do. It’s made Jeff Zuckerberg a billionaire. I’ve never really understood the whole social media thing (beyond the occasional snide tweet). But as an Alton, IL couple found out, it can be dangerous to show the world what you have…" ... |
A Request Of All Current/Former NCOs and Small Unit Leaders
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"Any current or former NCO or other small-unit leader is asked the following scenario:" ...
"The bad thing has happened, and you find yourself as senior person in a very mixed group of 15 men, women, and young people aged 10 through 72. ..."
"Arms, ammo, and gear are mixed , and skill levels are unknown."
"You expect pressure from remnant government forces, local predators, ... and international relief forces (who will disarm any 'refugees' they find and send them to 'relief camps'). ..."
"What do you do, in detail, over the next:
- Three minutes
- Three hours
- Three days
- Three weeks
- Three months"
"Explain 'why' as well as 'what' you are doing, and when you would do other things." ... |
VPC: Forget Gunwalker. De-Militarize Gun Sales!
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"Widespread Sale of Military-Style Weapons Drives Illicit Traffic to Mexico, Increases Armed Attacks on U.S. Law Enforcement Officers, and Facilitates Mass Shootings. Or so the Violence Policy Center would have you believe. Click here to read their report The Militarization of the U.S. Firearms Market. The basic premise: the U.S. gun industry is desperate for new customers. To counteract declining sales, the firearms manufacturers are 'appealing to the soldier within.' It’s the usual tissue of lies, recycled and [barely] repackaged, blending fact with conjecture, without anything remotely resembling a proper definition of terms ..." ... |
Senators see gun control as anti-terrorism strategy
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"Several top Democrat lawmakers this week revised their gun control argument by claiming tighter gun laws will help prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons in the United States."
"For example, Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) advised lawmakers to include the threat of armed terrorists acquiring more weapons and ammunition in the United States due to the nation's lax gun regulations in any legislation to control firearms. ..." ...
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NY: The war against guns is Plaxico Burress' new game, and the former Giant seems sincere (video available)
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"Our state prisons are called correctional facilities, and Plaxico Burress seemed one person who was actually corrected by his time in one."
"'I'm saying to myself over and over again all those days and nights, 'How did something like this happen to me?' Burress recalled Monday at a press conference at the National Urban League." ...
"He says he will use his celebrity status to dissuade young people from seeking street stardom with the power of a gun. ..." ...
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More Passages
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"Those of us who write about guns generally stay on top of what others in the field are doing, and appreciate the best in that field. Of late, we’ve lost three of those best. ..." ... |
ME: Police: Man shot wife, 2 children before killing himself
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"A Harmony man who was upset that he had not been allowed to attend his son’s eighth-grade graduation later this week shot and killed his estranged wife and their two children Monday before committing suicide, Maine State Police said." ...
"On Nov. 11, 2010, Lake was charged with violation of bail and violation of a protection order for allegedly having contact with his wife. She appeared to have obtained a protection from abuse order, which is in effect for a year, after the June incident." [emphasis added] ... |
Darrell Issa, Department of Justice feud heats up
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"The Obama administration and Rep. Darrell Issa seem to be headed for their biggest showdown yet as the House oversight committee chief prepares for a Wednesday hearing into an undercover, federal gunrunning investigation that lost track of weapons later found at the scene of a Border Patrol agent’s murder in Arizona."
"Issa, a California Republican, contends the administration has stonewalled his requests for records about a deeply flawed investigation, known as 'Operation Fast and Furious,' that may have allowed hundreds of weapons from U.S. gun dealers to flow across the border to Mexican drug gangs. ..." ...
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Agents Resisted Weapons Tracking
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"Federal agents battled their supervisors to stop a government program that kept illicit guns in circulation to trace them to weapons traffickers, a new congressional report shows."
"Some agents even worried that a gun tracked, then lost, in the program might have been used in the January shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. That didn't turn out to be the case, but other guns tracked by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives did end up at other crime scenes in the U.S. and Mexico." ...
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Holy jumping Sulzbergers, Batman! NYT actually writes a Gunwalker story for the first time. DOJ tries to get Terry murder suspect off the hook.
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"Justice Department Accused of 'Reckless Technique'""Some of those agents blew the whistle to Congress this year after two such guns were found at the scene of the murder of the Border Patrol agent, Brian A. Terry. An official with knowledge of the investigation said that neither the bullet that killed Mr. Terry in December nor the casings found at the scene had been linked to the weapons that were recovered there."
"The official emphasized that 'the murder weapon has not been discovered.'" "Whoa up, hoss! Isn't that what Elijah Cummings has been accusing Issa of doing, risking letting the murderer of Brian 'Kelly', er, ah, Terry, off the hook? ..." ... |
More than guns: 'Gunwalker' tests very legitimacy of administration's governance
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... "What must not be allowed to be lost in the shuffle here--and the smart money is on 'the shuffle' being, much of mass media's wishes notwithstanding, quite significant--is that what is at stake here is vastly larger than 'merely' whether or not our own government deliberately facilitated the trafficking of firearms to known criminals who would use them to kill innocent citizens and loyal agents of law and order both in Mexico and the U.S. The enormity of even such an atrocity as that pales in comparison to the question of what would prompt the government to engage in such evil." ... |
Explosive ‘Fast and Furious’ report quotes ATF whistleblowers
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"Wednesday morning’s second hearing on Operation Fast and Furious before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform could be devastating for Justice Department officials because of a report released Tuesday evening quoting four ATF whistleblowers who say that 'preventing loss of life was not a primary concern' of their supervisors." ... |
Report: 70% of arms seized in Mexico come from U.S.
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"About 70 percent of the guns seized in Mexico and submitted to a U.S. gun-tracing program came from the United States, according to a report released by three U.S. senators Monday." ...
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The Push to Expose ATF’s Gunrunner Cover-up Continues
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"Leaders from Gun Owners of America attended a congressional hearing yesterday where Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) laid the groundwork for what could, ultimately, send several federal agents to jail."
"Rep. Issa, who has been investigating the scandal known as Project Gunrunner, questioned a panel of witnesses with experience in investigating corruption in the Executive Branch." ... |
Dems circle wagons on Gunrunner, float perennial gun ban agenda
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"Before the dust settled on yesterday’s opening hearing on the controversial Project Gunrunner and Operation Fast and Furious scandal now plaguing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Democrats were already busy with their defense strategy, which once again demonizes American gun owners and their constitutional rights." ... |
CA: SB 610: CA Senators Grant Themselves a Free Pass for Concealed Carry
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"TTAG commentator John Fritz and I recently read a news report on California bill SB 610. Apparently, California senators had exempted themselves from the normal concealed carry approval process. SB 610 granted state and federal elected officials 'shall-issue' status; just being a politician was deemed 'good cause' for a concealed carry permit. John finally found the text in a link to the NRA [full text after the jump]. ..." ... |
NC: Citizens Committee Weighs In On S. 594 And Bateman
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"The open letter sent out this afternoon by Paul Valone has now been slightly rewritten and is joined in by Alan Gottlieb of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (and the head of the Second Amendment Foundation)."
"The CalGuns Foundation sent out a tweet to it followers this evening stating that Bateman v. Perdue is of national importance." ... |
CA: AB 144--A Paradigm Of California's Disgraced Political Culture
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... "And it is with that same spirit of public service that politicians approach the controversial gun control bills that have been introduced this legislative session. Despite not being able to find the $204,000 required to enforce a bill that would deny State lawmakers to ability to accept gifts for themselves, State legislators somehow scoured the People's coffers and scrimped together the estimated initial $400,000 required to fund a doomed-to-fail and completely ineffective bill aimed at registering long guns for the purpose of solving violent crimes. ..." ... |
WI: Wisconsin Senate passes concealed-carry bill
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"The state Senate passed a measure Tuesday allowing people to carry concealed weapons by a 25-8 margin, getting votes from all 19 Republicans and six Democrats, including Sen. Lena Taylor (D-Milwaukee)."
"Taylor, who said she 'understands the challenges of urban Wisconsin,' claimed the bill wasn't perfect but it 'creates a balance' with the right of people to bear arms."
"'It's a constitutional right,' Taylor said. 'I respect the fact that people have that right.'" ... |
CO: School board disallows guns anywhere, usurps state law
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"Members of the District 6 school board passed a rule forbidding citizens legally allowed to carry a firearm from being in any location the school holds an activity, including museums, parks and other locations."
"Under the new policy, anyone who would normally be permitted from carrying a gun will be forbidden from 'carrying, bringing, using, or possessing any dangerous weapon on school district property, in any school district vehicle or at any school district sponsored activity, regardless of location." [emphasis in original] ... |
The Constitutional Rights of Illegal Aliens, Under the First, Second, and Fourth Amendments
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"In today’s United States v. Portillo-Munoz, a divided Fifth Circuit panel holds that illegal aliens don’t have Second Amendment rights because they’re not part of 'the people,' and suggests that they may lack Fourth Amendment rights as well. (The same logic might apply to the First Amendment’s Petition Clause, which also mentions a right of 'the people' to peaceably assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances.) " ...
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IL: Chicago won't shield Oak Park from NRA's legal costs
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"The city of Chicago will not shield Oak Park from paying a portion of the cost for the National Rifle Association's lawyers, despite the village board passing a resolution two years ago that said otherwise." ...
"Part of the reason that Oak Park chose to fight was because the law firm of Mayer Brown agreed to represent the village free of charge. And in March 2009, the village board passed a resolution, accepting Chicago's offer of 'limited indemnification' against paying legal fees in the event that the NRA won in court."
"But [Village Attorney Ray] Heise told Wednesday Journal on Monday that Chicago's corporation counsel ultimately did not agree to indemnification. ..." ... |
"You Can No Longer Think of Yourselves as Peace Officers": Militarizing "Lockdown High"
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"It was Friday the 13th, and Skylar Walters thought he was going to die."
"The 16-year-old ... was in gym class when a deranged-looking man barged into the school and began firing what appeared to be a handgun at several of the other students." ...
"... although the disguised deputy playing the role of assailant was firing blanks, the schoolkids were, quite literally, being held hostage."
"If a bank robber bluffs his way through a heist with a toy gun, he's committed a real crime. ... School District Superintendent Randy Otto has submitted his resignation, and some parents have discussed the possibility of a lawsuit -- but the appropriate criminal charges against those responsible aren't forthcoming." ... |
UT: Bountiful City settles taser lawsuit
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"ABC 4 News has learned that Bountiful City has now settled its part of a controversial lawsuit."
"ABC 4 News first brought you the story of Bruce Harper who was tasered an estimated six to ten times in the spring of 2009. Harper was pulled over in May of that year for reportedly having a crooked license plate.Things quickly escalated and Harper was repeatedly tasered. More than sixty times, Harper was told by police to turn around."
"More than a dozen times Harper asked, 'What did I do?'" ... |
CA: FBI investigates alleged beating of inmate by L.A. County deputies
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"The FBI is investigating allegations that two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies knocked an inmate unconscious, beat him for two minutes and then tried to cover up their conduct, authorities confirmed Monday."
"The federal civil rights probe was prompted by the allegations of an American Civil Liberties Union representative who said she witnessed the assault while meeting with another inmate in the Twin Towers jail in January. ..." ... |
CT: Mom of boy Tasered in high school cafeteria files lawsuit (documents)
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... "Zahrod Jackson, who was 17 at the time, allegedly tried to take a Jamaican beef patty from the high school cafeteria on September 3 last year. After taking the patty, he and a cafeteria worker began arguing, attracting attention from the two school resource officers." ...
"Miller alleges that one of the school’s resource officers, Kurt Scrivo, threw Jackson onto the cafeteria floor, and the other resource officer, Alex Rodriguez, used his Taser against him five times." ...
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NE: Nebraska Tea Party leader claims state Banking Department harassed him
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"A financial adviser who has become the face of the tea party in Nebraska says his politics led to harassment by the state Banking Department."
"And it has cost his business ... more than $1 million." ...
"It started in February 2010, Bennie said, after an article in the Journal Star about the tea party movement in Nebraska, in which he was quoted extensively." ...
"He hadn't had much contact with the Banking Department during his 16 years in business, he said.... But shortly after the article appeared, he received an inquiry from the department."
"The department called to ask about a television commercial that had been running for about five months in which he talked about Second Amendment rights ..." ... |
OH: Bartenders' irrational fear of Ohio's law-abiding gun owners is sickening
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... "An article in The Columbus Dispatch quotes dissenting bartenders, who wonder how they will tell which patrons are carrying guns. Which is interesting, in my opinion, considering it is common knowledge that bad guys currently carry guns into bars. I wonder how bartenders make that determination now? And how it will change?"
"Oh, but the difference here is that they have an irrational fear of law-abiding people, but no fear (or head in the sand?) about criminals who currently carry into their bars? That is sick and twisted and NOT in a good way!" ... |
WI: Many executives are not embracing conceal and carry
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"The Wisconsin State Legislature is on the verge of enacting a law that will allow Wisconsin residents to conceal and carry weapons."
"The Senate approved a law Tuesday night that will give an incentive to employers who permit their employees to carry concealed weapons at work. An employer who does not prohibit its employees from carrying concealed weapons will be given immunity from any lawsuits for any liability arising from that decision."
"BizTimes sent an e-mail to a wide variety of southeastern Wisconsin business executives, asking them to share their thoughts about the new law ..." ... |
DE: Delaware Police chiefs question why gun show loop hole bill hasn't passed
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"The Delaware Police Chiefs Council is calling for the passage of the gun bill, which closes the so-called "gun show loop-hole". And they'd like it done now."
"Senate Bill 39 calls for background checks for those who buy guns at gun-shows. Currently under Delaware law that's not required." ...
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NH: NH ranks on top of freest states
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"It's truly the Live Free or Die state."
"A study by the Mercatus Institute, a libertarian think tank, found New Hampshire is the freest state in the nation. The study, which was released yesterday, determined the Granite State had the least number of government restrictions on economic and personal freedoms, including gun ownership." ... |
NC: Concealed carriers are the good guys
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"I am a member of the most law-abiding group of U.S. citizens in the history of our country. I have a concealed carry permit. This means I have never behaved badly enough to get convicted of a felony. I have never acted bizarre enough to be diagnosed with a dangerous mental illness."
"The United States government could find no reason why I should not have the choice to carry a gun. I am one of the good guys. And the record proves it." ... |
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