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Canton OH 'Only Ones' put the lie to public pledge--not to mention their oaths
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"Several readers have sent me a dashcam video of the Canton, OH Polizei stopping a concealed carry permit holder. I was going to hold off on posting anything on Examiner until I finished my story-gathering for tomorrow's War on Guns radio show, but the video made me so angry I thought I'd best dash something off now or it would bug me until I did."
"See the sidebar video player. Be warned, the language on the part of the 'public servant' treating citizens like inferiors to be insulted and threatened is graphic and vulgar. It's also enraging and absolutely inexcusable." ... |
Pediatricians And Anti-Gun Bias
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"Some Pediatricians are saying that when I bring my children in for a routine medical visit they need to question me about my personal property - specifically whether I have any guns in my home."
"According to the doctors they don’t want my child to become a statistic and my handgun is at the top of their list of dangerous items that they insist must be removed from my home in order to accomplish that goal." ... |
Oliver North: The Empire Strikes Back
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"'Will your Boykin hunt?' asked the young man, admiring the little red spaniel at my side. 'Casey' wagged her tail and sat, patiently waiting for me to check out of the local farmers market ..."
"'She's not yet a year old, but she already works well into the wind, can kick up a bird and if I shoot right and retrieves to hand,' I replied ... The conversation abruptly shifted to international politics -- but not in the direction I expected."
"'What are you going to do with her once 'The Empire' bans your shotguns?' he asked."
"For a moment, I was lost. 'The Empire?'"
"'Yeah,' he said, 'the U.N. -- the global imperial government in New York. 'The Empire' wants to control who can buy or keep a shotgun.'" ... |
The U.N. Arms Trade Treaty: Still Seriously Flawed
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"On July 11–15, the United Nations held a third meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the Arms Trade Treaty. The committee discusses the content of the treaty in advance of a meeting of the conference in 2012 to finalize the treaty and open it for ratification. This treaty is purportedly intended to address the absence of commonly agreed international standards for the transfer of conventional arms, which, it is argued, contribute to war, crime, and terrorism." ... |
Springfield Armory, Cheaper Than Dirt! and Vang Comp Systems Sponsor 2011 Steel Challenge
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"Officials with the Steel Challenge Shooting Association (SCSA) announced that Springfield Armory, Cheaper Than Dirt! and Vang Comp Systems will be gold level sponsors of the 2011 Steel Challenge World Speed Shooting Championships which will take place August 18-21 in Piru, Calif."
"Organized by the Steel Challenge Shooting Association (SCSA), the national governing body for the sport of speed shooting, the Steel Challenge World Speed Shooting Championships celebrates its 30th anniversary and it’s final year in Golden State as the match moves to Florida in 2012." ... |
Self-Defense Tip: Make Your 911 Calls Short and Sweet
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... "OK, so, 911 calls during a home invasion (for example)."
"The 911 operator is trained to keep you on the line as long as possible. In general they tend to ask the right questions at the outset (location, threat, etc.). They soon go off the reservation, saying and asking anything to stop you from terminating the 'conversation.'"
"First, anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. ..." ...
"So tell the 911 operator the basics—name, nature of emergency, location and a description of yourself—and then put the phone down. Don't disconnect. Just put it down. The emergency services will keep recording the call. So they can trace you if needs be. You'll have audio evidence of whatever happens next." ... |
Modern Defensive Training Systems News, Updates & Events August 2011 (video available)
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"So far the summer is moving right along for us here at MDTS and fall will soon be upon us so get out and shoot while this good albeit extremely hot weather lasts."
"Many of you have now met in class or possibly seen Captain Luke Slatton in last month’s MDTS video tip. Luke is a welcome addition to the Modern Defensive Training Systems staff bringing a wealth of real world knowledge and fighting experience to our classes." ... |
More signs that Fast & Furious was fiasco; Dem defends Holder, deflects blame
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"Next Tuesday's hearing on new revelations about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' Operation Fast and Furious will not be the last, Congressional sources assured this column Thursday, though there are likely to be some political fireworks."
"Evidence is continuing to mount that the operation was a fiasco, with yesterday’s revelation that of the 20 people originally indicted in January by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Phoenix, only one remains behind bars; more reason that Evergreen State gun rights activists, already infuriated by the story, are watching events closely ..." ... |
When Ignorance Is the Best Excuse
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"When Rupert Murdoch went before the British Parliament yesterday to testify about the News of the World hacking scandal, he did not attempt to downplay the severity of his employees' crimes. Rather, he apologized for the damage done and then said, 'I didn’t know of it.' When asked who, then, was responsible for the culture of criminality that had developed at News of the World, Murdoch told Parliament, 'The people I trusted and the people they trusted.'" ...
"On the other side of the Atlantic, Attorney General Eric Holder and his protectors in the Justice Department are using the same defense to keep the DOJ chief from being implicated in the increasingly sordid ATF gunrunner scandal." ... |
Obama, Holder Busted in Gunwalker Cover-up
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"Kenneth Melson was supposed to be the fall guy, the sacrificial lamb, the guy thrown under the bus to protect President Obama. Melson was 'expected' to resign. He refused."
"Instead, Melson, acting director of the [ATF] has turned whistle-blower and all hell is about to explode over the operation dubbed by Obama's Justice Department 'Fast and Furious' but now known as the Gunwalker scandal." ...
"At first, Justice Department spokesmen said it was a 'sting gone wrong.' Then, when many pointed out that the ATF had no jurisdiction to follow the guns across the border to make arrests, the cover story fell apart." ... |
House to question ATF officials on guns to Mexico
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"Several top ATF officials will testify Tuesday before a House committee investigating the controversial “Fast and Furious” weapons program and likely will be asked whether they were ordered not to tell Mexican authorities that guns recovered at crime scenes in that country had been illegally purchased in the U.S."
"The ... hearing, called in the wake of acting ATF Director Kenneth E. Melson’s closed-door testimony that the Justice Department sought to shift blame for Fast and Furious away from its political appointees, also will get its first opportunity to question ATF supervisors who have defended the program and the Justice Department." ... |
‘Gunwalker’ Whistleblower: ATF Director ‘Horribly Irresponsible’
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... "Cefalu said the operation was never about actually arresting cartel members for arms trafficking, it was about headlines for the ATF and its upper echelons, more budget, more gun control, and more media attention for ATF:""There’s no Mister Big in Mexico, there’s no … Iron Pipeline. It doesn’t exist."
"... If there’s gunrunning on the border and thousands of guns flowing into Mexico it’s more headlines for ATF." ... "Cefalu said the operation was akin to the DEA deciding to track the flow of drugs in a major city by putting tons of high-quality heroin on the streets, then waiting for a rash of overdoses to see which part of the city had the most drug activity." ... |
Is 'Gunwalker' whistleblower John Dodson victim of retaliatory smear campaign?
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... Allegedly, according to Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), Department of 'Justice' officials 'leaked Privacy Act protected documents to the press in an effort to discredit Mr. Dodson with half-truths even though those documents had been withheld from Congress. ...'"
"This gambit is not unexpected. National Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea, in fact, warned about this possibility way back in January, quoting private correspondence:""Agencies are experienced in dealing with agents and others who criticize them ... A few leaks to the Washington Post about how this guy was unreliable ... make sure there are derogatory memos about him in his file that can be leaked, that sort of thing." ... |
MI: Snyder OKs bill allowing younger children to hunt
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"Children under 10 would be allowed to hunt some types of game in Michigan as long as they're with an adult mentor through legislation signed Wednesday by Gov. Rick Snyder."
"Current law requires a child to be at least 10 to get a license. The age requirement is 12 if it involves hunting deer with a firearm. The new legislation sets up a mentoring program that would allow children to get licenses earlier." ... |
AZ: New Arizona Firearms Laws Effective July 20th
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"The 2011 Legislative session started on January 10th and ended on April 20th. With pro-rights majorities in both chambers and a Governor that signed Constitutional Carry into law in 2010, the passage of pro-rights legislation looked encouraging."
"Four bills, three in the House and one in the Senate, were filed early that dealt positively with some form of Campus Carry."
"However, after an assassination attempt on Congresswoman Giffords at a political gathering in Tucson on January 8th, some alleged 'pro-rights' state legislators revealed that they were willing to take any position on any issue for the sake of appearances and political correctness." ... |
FL: Florida Cities and Counties Knowingly Continue to Break State Law
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"Since 1987 it has been illegal for local Florida governments to regulate firearms and ammunition."
"The preemption statute was passed then so that Florida gun owners would no longer face a patchwork of local laws that was impossible to keep up with. It was also passed to protect Floridians from local lawmakers who do not respect the citizens’ right to bear arms." ... |
PA: New Castle police officer suspended in death of canine
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"New Castle Council approved a 60-day suspension without pay Wednesday for a city police officer accused of negligence in the death of a police dog." ...
"Hoyland left Chico unattended on June 4 for nearly four hours in a patrol car outside the police station while moonlighting at a security job for the Lawrence County Housing Authority, police Chief Thomas Sansone said. The cruiser's air conditioner quit, and the dog suffered heat stroke. When Hoyland returned, he found Chico unresponsive and the dog died at a veterinary hospital." ... |
MO: Former sheriff’s sergeant accused of wrongly claiming overtime, writing false warning tickets
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"A former sergeant for the Jackson County sheriff’s office is facing charges that he claimed undeserved overtime pay and wrote dozens of fake traffic warnings to back it up."
"Jackson County prosecutors filed four forgery and three theft charges Wednesday against Lane T. Eitel, 54, of Lee’s Summit, who once served as the sheriff’s spokesman. The Missouri Highway Patrol investigated the case." |
CA: Upland California Police sued over Open Carry incident
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... "The Plaintiffs, Christopher Hacopian and Scott Gibb were peacefully handing out Second Amendment informational fliers while openly carrying firearms when confronted by police officers employed by the Upland Police Department who then forced them to their knees, handcuffed them, conducted a search of their persons absent a warrant, probable cause or even reasonable suspicion that the Plaintiffs had committed a crime."
"The police officers then proceeded to unlawfully remove the Plaintiff's wallets and remove their identification; over the verbal objection of the Plaintiff's who clearly stated that they did not consent to the search." ... |
Team SIG SAUER’s Max Michel, Jr., Finishes Second at Pro-Am Championship
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"SIG SAUER Team Captain Max Michel, Jr., once again showed his mastery of speed and steel with his second-place finish at the fourth-annual Pro-Am Championship over the weekend."
"Held in Frostproof, Fla., the Pro-Am Championship has become one of the more popular matches among competitors and spectators alike. Similar to a drag race, the scoring of the all-steel match is simple: Who ever knocks down the most targets within the par time wins." ... |
AZ: AK-47s fulfill old role of flintlocks
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"One letter to the editor in response to the 'Guns in Arizona' series begs for a rebuttal ('Nobody needs to have an AK-47,' Sunday)."
"A careful study of the ideas of the Founding Fathers reveals that the 'arms' of the Second Amendment are clearly military-style weapons suitable for defense of yourself, your family or your countrymen." ... |
DC: D.C. Zoning Change Allows Gun Sales at Police HQ
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"Gun owners and gun-rights advocates are fired up over a zoning change by the District of Columbia that paves the way for the only licensed gun dealer in the nation's capital ... to re-open inside police headquarters." ...
"Alan Gura, an attorney representing Welling and other residents who sued the district to make it easier for gun stores to open, says the city's anti-gun policies and zoning restrictions amount to a 'de-facto re-imposition of the D.C. handgun ban.' The case was dismissed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., last week, but will be appealed, Gura said."
"... 'The city council has made it virtually impossible to open a gun store with ridiculous zoning laws.' [Gura said]" ... |
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