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2009 Gun Rights Policy Conference This Weekend in St. Louis, MO
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"More than 700 gun rights activists from across the country will gather with the nation's leading Second Amendment advocates this weekend at the Airport Renaissance Hotel in St. Louis, MO for the 24(th) annual Gun Rights Policy Conference."
"Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, is scheduled to deliver a special address Saturday morning. In addition, former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr, the 2008 Libertarian Party presidential candidate, will keynote Saturday's awards luncheon."
"Hosted by the [SAF] and [CCRKBA], this annual conference provides an opportunity for firearms owners to meet and discuss important issues pending at the local and national levels |
WaPo writer unsuccessfully attempts to set the rules of debate with the wolverine. "How do you like YOUR balls, Mr. Cohen? Attached, or detached?"
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... "I read your editorial with great interest. I hope you understand that what I am about to say comes strictly from an avuncular, friendly uncle sort of perspective. You see, you really don't know what you don't know about this subject. I will try to keep you safe by explaining." ...
"... I told you all of the above to tell you this. When a black man, a citizen, shows up carrying an AR-15 at an Arizona town hall, the sound you're missing is the rattlesnake's buzz. When a grandma who's never been in a demonstration in her life, carries a sign to her nation's capitol that says, 'Don't make me come back here with my rifle,' the message you're ignoring is the quintessential American sentiment, 'Don't tread on me.' ..." ... |
Anti-gunners, anti-hunters now compare gun owners, hunters to terrorists
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"Having been called all kinds of names over the years by gun prohibitionists, one might think that the rhetoric had run out, but now gun owners and hunters are being compared to terrorists."
"New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg unloaded Monday at Penn Station, where he was having a hissy fit over a move by the U.S. Senate to force Amtrak to allow passengers to travel with firearms in their checked baggage, same as travelers do virtually every day while flying."
"Bloomberg, co-founder of Mayors Against Illegal Guns ... and an anti-gun extremist, declared during an appearance, 'This has nothing to do with the right to bear arms, and everything to do with keeping our country safe from terrorists.'" ... |
Safer Streets 101: answering grief and disinformation
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"Sometimes, we need to answer disinformation, even when it is based on grief and good intentions. I am responding to Jenny Price's commentary in the Los Angeles Times' Sunday Edition ..."
"We've heard from Jenny Price before. I have responded before, too: Another reporter gets it wrong in anger and grief, Mens News Daily, August 14, 2006."
"In 2006, Ms. Price angrily attacked gun owners after her brother and fiancé were shot to death. She filed an article about how gun owners responded to her aggression, as if theirs were an unreasonable response; she had no idea how she was the aggressor in that public altercation. She is still blaming the iron instead of the volition and the madness of the criminals. ..." ... |
Census count of illegal aliens will make Congress more pro-gun
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... "In sum, one impact of the illegal alien population in the United States is that the House of Representatives is likely to be even more pro-gun after the 2010 census. And that's great news for the gun rights movement, buoyed by Congress' recent legalization of gun carry in National Parks (to take effect in February, 2010) and now aiming to get Congress to pull the trigger on more pro-gun legislation, such as repealing the District of Columbia’s onerous gun registration scheme and encouraging the several states to accept each other’s handgun carry permits just like they already do for driver’s licenses." ... |
Armed Citizens for 2010 candidates and business
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"One of the issues missing from the 2010 platform for conservatives, libertarians and independents is how our authority is backed as the sovereign under our system of self-rule. In the U.S., the government is not the sovereign, the people are the sovereign. As with all nations, the sovereign has a monopoly on all lethal force. This includes civilian oversight of the military, supervision of law enforcement, the right to self-defense, defense of another, and powers of citizen arrest."
"More than a theory of interpretation, the second amendment’s words of art in well regulated militia meant every single adult be armed, since the concept of a national guard was not contemplated for another 130 years after the signing. ..." ... |
Mayors Against Illegal Guns: Not a gun ban organization?
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"New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, head of Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) isn't happy that the Senate recently told Amtrak to either let gun owners check guns onto their train or lose federal funding."
"'This has nothing to do with the right to bear arms, and everything to do with keeping our country safe from terrorists,' Bloomberg said at Penn Station."
"(So anybody who wants to bring their gun with them on a trip is now a terrorist?)" ... |
Support the Second Amendment and you're not a 'leader'
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"According to at least one gun control group, a politician who supports the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is not showing leadership by taking that stance." ...
"Juliet Leftwich, the legal director of Legal Communities Against Violence, a gun control advocacy group based in San Francisco, believes that any politician who supports incorporating the Second Amendment is not a leader." ... |
A runaway Amtrak of anti-gun hysteria
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"Last week, the U.S. Senate approved an amendment to a transportation and housing bill that would require Amtrak to once again permit passengers to transport unloaded firearms in their checked baggage, or lose its $1.6 billion annual federal funding. Before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and the subsequent Madrid train bombing, transporting locked, unloaded firearms in one's checked baggage on Amtrak was uncontroversial. It was only after guns were not used to kill thousands of people in those two atrocities that the current total ban of firearms was put in place." ... |
MAIG and Brady Campaign: their rhetoric
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"The Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) claims to support the Second Amendment right of individuals to keep and bear arms, but simply seeks to prevent 'criminals from illegally obtaining guns and using them.'"
"The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence claims it is not a 'gun ban' organization: 'Brady believes that a safer America can be achieved without banning guns.' They simply want to 'keep dangerous weapons out of the wrong hands, including criminals and children.'"
"Both organizations support similar goals, as noted in the table below." ... |
Praxis: "Nosler has hit a home run."
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... "Reloading for extreme long range accuracy in an extreme long range-accurate rifle has always been a hassle. Before you even begin to load rounds for your rifle you must size the brass for length, bore out the flash hole, ream the primer pocket, chamfer the mouth of the brass and then go through the laborious task of weighing each brass case into groups so that the powder you are loading fills the case exacly the same. ..."
"Nosler has done all the case prep, including case weight sorting, and is selling that brass for reloading. I recommend you start with 200 cases and keep them separate from any others of the same caliber that you may have in stock." ... |
Going after the real killers
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"GUNS DON'T kill people, it's true. Bullets do."
"'Without ammo, a handgun is only good for pistol-whipping someone,' notes Assemblyman Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles. 'Ammo is the lifeblood of a handgun.'"
"On the last day of the regular legislative session, de Leon narrowly won passage of a bill to regulate sales of handgun ammunition." ...
"De Leon's bill, AB 962, would make it illegal to knowingly sell handgun ammunition to criminals. Strangely, de Leon says, it's against the law for criminals to possess ammo but not for someone to sell it to them knowing they are criminals. The bill also would prohibit hard-core gang members — those under court restrictions — from possessing handgun bullets." ... |
AL: Wetumpka man shoots alleged burglar
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... "The homeowner was awakened when he heard noises coming from his outside utility shed, Amerson said. The 64-year-old man told deputies he went to investigate and saw Roberts coming out of the shed carrying a grass trimmer and a chain saw."
"'The two men got into a struggle, and then Roberts went to his car to try and get away, but the car wouldn't start,' Amerson said. 'He then got out of the car and told the homeowner he was going to shoot him.'"
"Amerson said the homeowner went inside the house, and Roberts yelled from the yard that he was going to shoot him."
"The homeowner then got a 20-gauge shotgun and shot Roberts in the chest, Amerson said." ... |
TN: Homeowner shoots teenager in his driveway
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"Investigators are trying to piece together the series of events that led to a teenager being shot by a homeowner in South Knox county." ...
"Jonathan and Kara Stevens told investigators they were at home when they heard their pit bulls barking."
"They armed themselves with a pistol and flashlight as they went outside to investigate."
"The couple told detectives a teenager jumped out from behind a car in their driveway and pointed gun a 12 gauge shotgun at them."
"Jonathan Stevens said he shot the 15 year old twice and believes the teenager shot at them twice before they ran back into their home." ...
"The homeowners were not hurt." ... |
TN: Burglary/assault suspect shot by victim's mother
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"A burglary suspect is recovering from a gunshot wound near his groin--a wound 75-year-old Ruth Robbins gave him after he fought with her son and then got in a scuffle with her." ...
"According to the Morgan County Sheriff's Office, Williams broke into David Brandenburg's Petros home Thursday night. Brandenburg, 43, and Williams fought, eventually making their way out into the yard."
"Ruth Robbins came over from her home next door and tried to intervene to help Brandenburg, who is her son. At that point, authorities say Williams turned his attack on her--so she shot him." ... |
OH: Man Turns Tables On Attempted Robber
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"Police said a man acted in self-defense on Saturday when he shot a 24-year-old who tried to rob him at gunpoint."
"'Little did this kid know that this 72-year-old man was a licensed CCW ... carrier and he produced his own firearm and defended himself because he was in fear of his life,' said Sgt. John Sullivan of the Dayton Police Department."
"Sullivan said the 24-year-old cut in front of the 72-year-old in the area of Brooklyn Avenue in Dayton. He said the 24-year-old got out of his vehicle with an assault rifle, pointed it at the 72-year-old and tried to rob him."
"That's when the 72-year-old pulled out his weapon and shot the robber twice, once in the abdomen and once in the arm. ..." ... |
AK: Alaska man's quick shot kills charging bear
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"While walking with his dogs near his house in Soldotna, a snap of a twig prompted Greg Brush to glance over his shoulder."
"When he turned, he saw a bear charging full speed at him from less than 20 yards away. Backpedaling, Brush was able to fire his gun once or twice. It was enough. The bear dropped dead."
"'Came with zero warning,' Brush told the Anchorage Daily News ... 'No woof, no popping of the teeth, no standing up, nothing like what you think.'"
"Brush said the brown bear, which he estimated at more than 900 pounds, looked starved and probably saw him and his dogs as dinner."
"The fishing guide said he carries a pistol on walks because bears have chased his dogs before. He barely had time to shoot." ... |
OH: Two elderly Ohio concealed handgun license-holders defend themselves in separate attacks
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"Two Ohio criminals got lessons in victim selection over the past several days, as two elderly persons, likely targeted because they appeared weak, turned out to have made plans for that very eventuality."
"The Dayton Daily News is reporting that a 24-year-old man who allegedly got out of his car and tried to rob an elderly man 'at the point of an AK-47' was shot by the would-be victim, who was licensed to carry a concealed handgun and fired to defend himself." ...
"Meanwhile, the Toledo Blade is reporting that a 68 year-old cancer survivor defended herself after she awoke to find a man entering her home through a window in broad daylight." ... |
IL: Sheriff: Ill. homeowner kills armed robbers
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"Police say an eastern Illinois man shot two people to death after they forced their way into his home and tried to rob him."
"Vermilion County Sheriff Pat Hartshorn says the two masked men held the homeowner on the floor at gunpoint Monday night and choked him while demanding money. The sheriff says the alleged robbers were 22 and 17 but didn't identify them or the homeowner."
"Hartshorn says the men let the homeowner go when his wife said she had expensive jewelry upstairs. While the men focused on a jewelry box, the homeowner grabbed a handgun and shot them." ... |
MI: Resident expels intruder with handgun
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"An allegedly drunken man who entered a Traverse City home in the middle of the night found himself at gunpoint."
"Aaron TwoCrow, 24, of Suttons Bay, allegedly entered a home ... at about 4:20 a.m. Saturday ... A female homeowner was up rocking her 15-month-old child in the living room when she heard her kitchen door open and saw a stranger in the home."
"'She's just sitting there in the dead of night ... and this guy comes in and scares the crap out of her,' Traverse City Police Capt. Steve Morgan said."
"The woman ran into her bedroom and told her sleeping husband, who retrieved a handgun and confronted TwoCrow. He ran from the house and was arrested without incident as he walked along nearby Hannah Avenue." ... |
PA: 3 Men Force Their Way Into McDonald Home, Homeowner Chases Them Out
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"Police said three men who forced their way into a Washington County home were greeted by a homeowner with a shotgun."
"'It's not a very nice thing to happen in McDonald, because McDonald is a very quiet town,' said neighbor, Don Feigley."
"Police said the homeowner, Joseph Tokarksi, who was one of several people in the house, came down the steps with the weapon in his hand."
"'I'm prepared to do what I have to do to protect my home and my family,' said Toarski."
"'I'm all for that. I think anybody should be allowed to defend themselves in their homes and defend their neighbors, if they want to,' said Feigley." ... |
It's never too early to prepare
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"2010 is coming. Specifically, November 4th, 2010 is coming. That is election day, and a day much may change. The Gun Rights Examiners have asked you to write your congressmen and women many times about various legislation, but now we have a very powerful tool for getting more done. The National Rifle Association has launched Trigger the Vote, a website to facilitate voter registration for those folks who are inclined to support the Second Amendment. Like Rock the Vote and the many similar sites instituted before other elections, Trigger the Vote seeks to increase voter registration among a specific interest group." ... |
MA: WMass mayors targeted by NRA
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"Holyoke Mayor Michael J. Sullivan has taken heat for some of his decisions, but he didn't know what is was like to draw fire until he crossed the sights of the [NRA]."
"'I've hired a police chief from the outside,' Sullivan said. 'I've closed schools. I've never gotten more calls than I've gotten about this.'"
"The powerful association of gun-rights advocates has targeted Sullivan and other local mayors who belong to the group Mayors Against Illegal Guns. Over the past few weeks, the association has sent mailings to its members denouncing the group and urging citizens to pressure their mayors to dissociate themselves from the organization." ...
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JFP Person of the Day: Roger Wicker
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"Passed by a 68-to-30 Senate vote, an amendment authored by Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker, mandates that Amtrak allow passengers to carry handguns in their checked baggage. ..." ...
"'As a result of these significant differences with the airline industry, Amtrak would need a significant amount of time and funding to properly address this congressional mandate,' Carper wrote in his letter."
"Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin , D-Ill., agreed with Carper."
"'Amtrak doesn't have the security infrastructure, the processes or the trained personnel in place to ensure that checked firearms would not be lost, damaged, stolen or misused,' Durbin told CQ Politics. ..." ...
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Another Anti-Gun Kook Joins The Obama Team
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"Just when you thought the news coming from Washington couldn’t get any worse, we learn that another radical voice will be joining the President’s inner circle."
"First, there was the Rev. Jeremiah Wright ... Now, there's an extreme animal rights activist who wants to take away our guns and get Bambi to sue us in court."
"That's right … this latest czar wants animals to sue people in court for the creatures' pain and suffering! No doubt, he holds some of the kookiest views you will ever hear."
"His name is Cass Sunstein, and he is a friend of Barack Obama. They go way back to their days in Chicago together." ... |
ID: "Contempt of Cop"
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... "Locke defines tyranny as power exercised beyond right. The deputy who demanded my ID was acting as a petty tyrant. Had he threatened me with arrest for refusing to produce it, he would have committed a crime specifically defined in the Idaho State Code: Title 18, section 703 provides that "Every public officer ... who, under the pretense or color of any process or other legal authority, arrests any person or detains him against his will ... without a regular process or other lawful authority therefor, is guilty of a misdemeanor."
"The presumptuous intrusiveness of the deputy who stopped us reflects a martial law mindset: Like most law enforcement officers, he sees himself as a caste apart from, and set above, the 'civilian' population ..." ... |
NC: Jury rules in favor of man shot by Clayton police officers
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"A federal jury has awarded $500,000 in damages to a man suing the town of Clayton and three police officers who shot him five years ago."
"Manuel Pena was inside his home on Feb. 2, 2004, when, court documents show, the officers fired 16 rounds of ammunition, striking Pena twice. Officers, at the time, had been looking for another man and thought he might have been inside Pena's home."
"Pena claimed that officers used excessive force against him, and a judge previously ruled that officers illegally searched his home." ... |
WV: Local ATF Agent Arrested Again
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"Officers from at least four police departments surrounded federal agent James Sirbaugh in Bridgeport Thursday after his presence in Belmont County forced the lockdown of the entire St. Clairsville-Richland City School District."
"Just weeks removed from a standoff with police at his Ohio County home, Sirbaugh was arrested Thursday on Ohio 7 for violating the bond conditions that resulted from his Aug. 21 arrest, according to Ohio County Prosecutor Scott Smith." ...
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NY: Ex-NY Giant Burress gets 2 years in gun case
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"Former Super Bowl hero Plaxico Burress apologized to his family and tearfully kissed his wife and young son goodbye Tuesday before he was led away to prison to begin serving a two-year sentence on a weapons charge."
"Burress, at the time a star receiver with the New York Giants, was at the Latin Quarter nightclub in Manhattan last November when a gun tucked into his waistband slipped down his leg and fired, wounding him in the thigh."
"The gun was not licensed in New York or in New Jersey, where Burress lived. His license to carry a concealed weapon in Florida had expired in May 2008." ...
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OH: Attorney General announces Second Quarter 2009 CHL statistics
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"The Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray (D) has released the concealed handgun license (CHL) statistics for the second quarter of 2009. There has been great demand for firearms and concealed carry licenses and the trend clearly continued through the last quarter. Concealed carry continues to be something both old and new gun owners are interested in. If you buy a gun for self defense, it makes sense to get the license needed to carry it with you."
"The second quarter in 2009 marks the third quarter in a row where demand more than doubled from the same period a year prior. ..." ... |
MS: Sheriff cites benefits of gun registry
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"Many gun owners spend a lot of time polishing their weapons, stocking ammunition - whether for hunting or home protection - and logging target practice hours."
"But if their guns were lost or stolen, many of those people would have a hard time getting them back for one minor reason: They have no record of the weapons' serial numbers."
"Lincoln County Sheriff Steve Rushing said registering a weapon with the county can be a good way to log the gun's identification for future reference." ...
"... the current political climate of the country has some gun owners a little nervous about records of their firearms. Some people worry that a government database of their weapons would lead to a situation where ... they might be taken away." ... |
NH: Yoga Ban Brings Guns to Town Common
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"When the Raymond, New Hampshire, selectmen refused permission to a local resident to hold a yoga class on the town green in honor of the United Nations International Day of Peace, they may not have anticipated the decision would draw gun-toting libertarians and others to the site to show support for First and Second Amendment rights."
"... two other gatherings were held on the town common that day. At noon about 20 members of the Free State Project ... showed up to demonstrate their support for freedom of speech and the right to peacefully assemble, as well as the Second Amendment right to bear arms. Several of them were wearing guns, in accordance with the state's 'open carry' law." ... |
CA: With 9th Circuit Set to Hear Firearms Case En Banc, Calif. AG Walks Line on Gun Control
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"A hard-fought firearms case is coming to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for en banc arguments Thursday, with the usual gun groups weighing in as amici on the usual sides."
"Though the case arose in Alameda County, Calif., home to California Attorney General Jerry Brown, he hasn't submitted briefs. But in another case across the country, involving the same issue, Brown filed an amicus that has gun control advocates shaking their heads."
"After the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided that the Second Amendment didn't apply to state or local governments -- and therefore upheld a local handgun ordinance -- Brown joined those asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the ruling." ... |
NY: Plaxico Burress sentenced to two years in prison
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"Former New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress was sentenced to two years in prison today on a weapons-related charge stemming from a incident at a New York nightclub last November. Under court orders, he will be supervised for two years following his release."
"He will begin serving his sentence immediately."
"Burress, 32, who hopes to play professional football again once his sentence is over, pleaded guilty to one count of reckless endangerment in a plea deal reached with prosecutors last month. He suffered a gunshot wound to his thigh when the gun he was carrying under his waistband slipped and fired."
"Burress hired a prison consultant to help prepare him for life behind bars." ... |
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