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SAF, NRA Sue Washington State for Discriminating Against Alien Residents
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"The Second Amendment Foundation, joined by the National Rifle Association, today filed a lawsuit in federal court against the State of Washington, seeking to overturn a state law that discriminates against legal resident aliens who own firearms by violating their Second Amendment rights under the equal protections affirmed by the 14th Amendment."
"The SAF/NRA suit is joined by three legal resident aliens who face loss of jobs and firearms collections, and possible prosecution for owning a gun for self-defense when their current Alien Firearms Licenses (AFL) expire. Under a statute unique to Washington State, aliens must possess an AFL to legally possess firearms." ... |
A 'Well Crafted Ordinance'
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... "If the principles and law resulting in the Haynes decision are applicable (and why wouldn't they be?), there is one group of people who would be legally immune to the ordinance-- criminals."
"If they're prohibited persons, legally barred from even touching a gun, by definition they're not the legal owners. And requiring them to report that a gun-- which they're not allowed to own-- was lost or taken from them would also require them to admit they had possessed a firearm in violation of the law. In other words, would it not be forcing them to self-incriminate?" ... |
Why I intend to carry a handgun
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"The weapon was light in my hands, not at all how I imagined a 9mm Glock would feel."
"I had never fired a gun in my life. My instructor put both my hands around the frame and then signaled for me to squeeze the trigger."
"Blam."
"The bullet pierced my target, an 8.5-by-11-inch sheet of copy paper, near the center."
"Then it hit me. This is how it is done. This is how you take a life. My target was fictional, but in my mind he was still a threat. I felt no sadness."
"That's why soon I'll be the first person in my immediate family and circle of friends to get a concealed weapons permit." ... |
Ruger Mini-14 Magazine Promotion
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"Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc announces an 'Inaugural Special' for Mini-14 20-round magazines that runs from Election Day to Inauguration Day.
"From November 4, 2008 to January 20, 2009, fans of the Ruger Mini-14 Target Rifles and Mini-14 Ranch Rifles, both chambered for .223 Remington, can purchase Ruger manufactured 20-round magazines (regularly priced at $39.95) for only $29.95. This special offer is only available through the Ruger On-line Store. Please note that these magazines are not available where state or local regulations limit magazine capacity to less than 20 rounds." ... |
Gun Lobby Attack Dogs Strike Again
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"Something extremely scary happened last Friday on Halloween. Dan Cooper, President and Founder of Cooper Firearms of Stevensville, Montana, resigned."
"Not so scary, you say. Well, wait until you hear why. If you believe in freedom and that there’s a reason why the right to free speech is the First Amendment, prepare to be terrified."
"... In the story, [Cooper] said ... this year, he's voting for (and making campaign contributions to) Barrack Obama. ..." ...
"... immediately after the article appeared, the blogsphere went nuclear, starting with 2,713 comments on the original story ... the most vocal and vicious segment of the gun lobby decided to make another example out of Dan Cooper." ... |
OK: Homeowner opens fire on intruder
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"A 19-year-old man was shot several times by a homeowner Saturday night after he reportedly broke into the home ..."
"The victim, Stephen Richardson, was taken to an area hospital, where his condition was not immediately available."
"Authorities said officers were dispatched at 9:40 p.m. to the home ..."
"Officers said Richardson reportedly was drunk when he entered the house, where the homeowner shot him."
"Maj. Mark Irwin said Richardson 'thought he was breaking into his (own) house.'"
"He said he wasn't sure whether Richardson lived in the vicinity. Officers attempted to interview Richardson, but he was too drunk to be coherent, Irwin said."
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AL: Granny Shoots Intruder
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An investigation is underway in Pennsylvania after police say a 75-year-old granny shot a man who allegedly broke into her home.
The woman was sleeping upstairs, when an intoxicated man entered her home. She first asked him politely to leave, but when he proceeded up the stairs she grabbed her 38 caliber revolver and shot the man in the groin.
Turns out the man lives nearby and accidentally walked into the wrong house.
Police are investigating the case, but so far no charges have been filed. |
WI: Shooting victim faces charges
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"A man shot by his neighbor while he allegedly was vandalizing her home is charged with criminal damage to property -- and the neighbor isn't expected to face any charges."
"The criminal complaint filed in Crawford County Circuit Court said 53-year-old Harvey Townsend used a metal fence post to smash 16 windows and a storm door of the neighbor's house in Steuben Oct. 20."
"According to Sheriff Jerry Moran, the neighbor, a 54-year-old woman, said she fired warning rounds from a pistol but didn't intend to hit Townsend, who fled and was located by a police dog in a nearby woods with a wound to the abdomen." ... |
FL: Dog bites man; man shoots at dog
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A Labrador mix had its tail nicked by a bullet after the dog attacked a man in a Plantation neighborhood on Wednesday, according to Plantation police.
The man had a concealed weapons permit, said police spokesman Detective Robert Rettig.
The confrontation happened shortly after 3 p.m. in the 10100 block of Southwest Third Street.
The man was walking down a driveway to the street when the dog attacked him, Rettig said.
So the man fired a shot at the dog, nicking its tail.
The man suffered a minor dog bite. The dog had an injured tail. Both are expected to recover. |
IL: Gun control keeps violence down
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"According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, firearm-related crimes have risen since 2004. Use of guns in such violent crimes as rape and sexual assault, robbery, aggravated and simple assault experienced the most dramatic increase ..."
"Considering the Second Amendment was created when prominent politicians Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr found it appropriate to duel to the death[sic], reassessing the rights to gun ownership seems plausible."
"Law-abiding citizens who own guns should have no apprehension toward such reassessment because the true problem lies with the illegal ownership of guns." ...
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Submitter's Note: The Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791, the Burr-Hamilton duel was in 1804. |
Young Undecideds Who Love Guns - Vote Your Glock
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"Young gun owners and hunters. Yeah, you. If you vote for Obama then you will have crapped on your future second amendment rights and the sport you supposedly love."
"Welcome to reality, young squab, may I take your coat?"
"Yep, Dufus, if Barack becomes dictator—I mean president—and you begin to see your right to bear arms erode like Bill Clinton's conscience at Hooters and you commence to spot the sport of hunting disappearing like a massive bag of Cheetos in front of a rather peckish Rosie O'Donnell, I sure as heck don't want to hear any of you Obama backing wussies whine about it. Why? Well, you asked for it, and now you got it. ..." ... |
Conservation versus Guns: Faux gun group American Hunters and Shooters Assoc. says take conservation
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"Much a-do has been made about the false prophets of the American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA) spreading the gospel of conservation according to the high holy Barack Obama. AHSA's mantra is that there is more to the sportsmen vote than just guns."
"AHSA was recently described by its founder as a gun rights organization for Democrats, and the backgrounds of the AHSA founders and leadership are well documented ..."
"AHSA President Ray Schoenke has been touring Ohio promoting Obama, their endorsed candidate."
"... [Schoenke's] wife is a former member of the Brady Campaign Board of Directors. She left the Brady Campaign because the gun control issue was not moving forward quickly enough ..." ... |
Barack Obama – Ideologically Anti-gun
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"Of all the social issues facing America today, few expose a person's political ideology more definitively than whether someone is anti-gun. That makes Barack Obama's attempt to fool gun owners by painting himself as a defender of the 2nd Amendment easy to see for what it is – someone trying to lie their way to the presidency."
"His claim that he won't work to destroy the right to bear arms also falls flat, not only because of his past record, but on ideological grounds as well. Obama will work to destroy gun rights because his leftist socialist agenda compels him to destroy anything that gives an individual power at the expense of the government." ... |
In his own words: Tape of Obama calling for concealed carry ban uncovered
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"'Well I, I, I, I continue to, I continue to, uh, uh, support a ban on concealed carry laws.' -- Sen. Barack Obama, September 2004" ...
"And for those tempted to assume he has somehow changed his position since then, remember this:"
"'I am not in favor of concealed weapons,' Obama said. 'I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.' - Sen. Barack Obama, April 2008 (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)" ...
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A last-minute primer: Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama on the issues
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"The plans of presidential candidates are never set in stone, if only because circumstances and the makeup of Congress change after the election. ..."
"Obama acknowledges what is true for both: 'The next president will have to scale back his agenda and some of his proposals.' ..."
"With that caution, here's a look at where McCain and Obama stand on a selection of issues:" ...
"Gun control"
"McCain: Voted against ban on assault-type weapons but in favor of requiring background checks at gun shows. Voted to shield gun-makers and dealers from civil suits. ..."
"Obama: Voted to leave gun-makers and dealers open to suit. Also, as Illinois state lawmaker, supported ban on all forms of semiautomatic weapons and tighter state restrictions generally on firearms." ... |
OH: Election Day 2008: A Message from our Chairman
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"Election Day 2008 is finally here. Today we learn if we worked hard enough over the past few months to enable our candidates to win."
"If our candidates win, we can work with them to improve our laws. If not, then we are we need to take a long hard look in the mirror to see where we failed. Then we'll need to work desperately hard to hold on to our recent gains."
"Don't believe the media and the polls. Get out and vote. There will be several elections so close that a recount will be required. Some elections will turn on less that 1% of the vote. In past years we have seen many elections decided by a few hundred votes, some by a couple dozen ... so it's important that all gun owners get out and vote ..." ... |
UN members give go-ahead on proposal to curb arms
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"The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly endorsed the idea of an unprecedented treaty regulating the global arms trade Friday, despite opposition from the United States."
"Of the U.N.'s 192 member nations, 147 voted in favor of drafting the treaty. Only the U.S. and Zimbabwe voted against it, with the other nations absent or abstaining."
"Proponents say they hope to adopt a treaty within five years imposing controls on an international arms trade that contributes to the death of over a 1,000 people every day. It would apply only to arms sales among nations, not commercial sales to individuals." ... |
Pointing the US Surveillance Apparatus at the American People
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"Do you 'pal around with terrorists'? Are you a 'radical' or express views that the government considers 'extremist'?
"On October 28, the whistleblowing website Cryptome published the FBI Directorate of Intelligence: Counterterrorism Division's Counterterrorism Analytical Lexicon[.pdf]. This eye-opening 'Unclassified/For Official Use Only' (U/FOUO) document purports 'to standardize terms used in the FBI analytical products dealing with counterterrorism.'"
"But what it does instead, in keeping with the FBI's insatiable appetite for 'actionable intelligence product,' is create new categories of individuals who might fall under the purview of state 'counterterrorism' investigations." ... |
ACLU on the Army's Domestic Employment
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... "Last week, the ACLU ... filed a FOIA request 'demand[ing] information from the government about reports that an active military unit has been deployed inside the U.S. to help with 'civil unrest' and 'crowd control.' As long-time FBI agent and current ACLU national security policy counsel Mike German put it:""This is a radical departure from separation of civilian law enforcement and military authority, and could, quite possibly, represent a violation of law. Our Founding Fathers understood the threat that a standing army could pose to American liberty. ..." ...
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The Pentagon is the President's Private Army
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... "In practical terms, the checks and balances in the Constitution no longer restrain the Commander-in-Chief, and thus not the soldiery. (The Supreme Court has become a mausoleum. It might be replaced by a wax museum without anyone’s noticing.) The Pentagon is now the private army of any president who chooses so to use it."
"Our foreign policy has been militarized. This is not just a matter of countless alliances and bases abroad. A few days ago, the military attacked Syria. This, an act of war, was a result not of national but of military policy. So far as I know, the attack was neither ordered nor authorized by Congress. The soldiers do as they please, and we find out about it later. This is not civilian control." ... |
FL: Cop Punches Man in Road-Rage Fight - Off-duty officer beats driver, but will not face criminal charges
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"A Florida sheriff who trespassed and punched a driver in the face during a road-rage fight will not face criminal charges or lose his job – despite 13 citizen complaints filed against him in 12 years."
"Jacksonville sheriff Sgt. Roderic Feacher, a 12-year veteran, was given a 10-day suspension without pay Oct. 29 after he assaulted another driver ... Feacher claims a man attempted to run him off the road ..."
"The off-duty officer put his car in reverse and pursued the driver, Charles Rowe, until the two reached Rowe's home. Feacher then left his son in his car, saying he was going to 'educate' Rowe. He said he was a law enforcement officer, but he refused to provide his name and failed to show a badge." ... |
DE: Gun purchase glitch examined
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"Delaware State Police stopped Alvina Vansickle from purchasing a .22-caliber pistol for self-defense because she was too old and a woman, said Superintendent Col. Thomas MacLeish."
"The outrage that followed led to the revelation that Delaware State Police had been keeping lists of gun buyers for years; state law requires them to destroy these records after 60 days." ...
"In an interview with The News Journal, MacLeish claimed all paper firearms records are destroyed every 60 days."
"The electronic records, however, are another story."
"'Our review of our electronic records indicated we had a glitch in the system, back to August 2005,' he said. 'They have since been purged.'" ...
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Philippines: Cop hunted for poking gun at US Embassy employee
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"A Pasay City policeman is now being tracked down for allegedly poking his firearm at an employee of the United States embassy Monday evening." ...
"Sedeko was accused of flagging down the car of US embassy employee Renato Vega ..."
"Initial investigation showed Sedeko accosted Vega for picking up passengers in his car, but Vega said his passengers were his friends."
"Sedeko allegedly took Vega's license, but when Vega tried to identify himself and brought out his US Embassy ID, Sedeko got angry and poked his firearm at Vega's chest and badmouthed him."
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India: Drunk Haryana cops kill innocent youth
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"A group of drunk Haryana policemen in a shocking show of brute force shot dead from point-blank range a 22-year-old college
student returning home from a party ..."
"Apparently, they were so enraged with Kuldeep Kumar, a BA final year student ... when he did not stop that they intercepted his bike ... and shot him in the temple with a service revolver."
"As wails of protest against the killing went across the state, coming as it does barely five months after another 'fake encounter', the police on Monday acted swiftly and arrested constable Karamvir, who fired the bullet. ..." ...
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NM: Presidential race has some New Mexican gun owners up in arms
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"The prospect of a Barack Obama presidency may be fueling gun sales in Las Cruces, gun shop owners say."
"'We have seen an increase in sales of certain types of firearms," said Emerson Gates, a gunsmith ... 'Specifically the AR-15-type firearms ...'"
"'A lot of people are concerned because of Obama's standing in the polls, that should he get in, those are essentially the most vulnerable firearms ...'"
"The Associated Press has reported that Obama and his Republican rival, John McCain, have proclaimed 'their respect for gun rights', but Obama says it is possible to support the Second Amendment along with 'common-sense gun laws so that we don't have kids being shot on the streets of cities like Chicago.'" ... |
MI: Gun Sales Booming
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Believe it or not, the elections are having a big impact on gun sales. A local gun shop owner says their hand gun and home self defense sales surged recently due to concern over who will end up running the country. She says if the president and congress don't support gun ownership, people could lose their right to own fire arms.
Yvonne Joseph, Classic Arms Company: "If we get a congress that is predominantly liberal, anti-gun, then there are going to be additional restrictions that invariably would be put into effect."
Currently[sic] the second amendment to the constitution gives[sic] people to right to own and carry weapons.
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SC: Obama factor cited as gun permits increase
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"New concealed-weapon permit applications in South Carolina increased nearly 55 percent through the end of August, compared with the same period last year."
"New requests totaled 11,777, a sizable jump from the eight-month period last year, when 7,618 applications were made ..."
"To Gerald Stoudemire, the reason is clear."
"The president of Gun Owners of South Carolina says many people are concerned Barack Obama will erode Second Amendment rights if he wins the presidency."
"'This is the information we are hearing from our customers and students,' said Mr. Stoudemire, who owns a gun shop. ... Jay Parmley, the executive director of the South Carolina Democratic Party, dismisses the gun issue as 'election-year hype.'" ... |
NY: Mayor calls for summit on gunplay
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"While Poughkeepsie police continue to search for suspects in the latest city homicide, Mayor John Tkazyik is calling for a special summit to try to reduce the gun violence." ...
"Reacting to the recent spate of shootings, Tkazyik announced during Monday night's Common Council meeting he planned to convene a summit of local leaders to develop methods to curtail gun violence."
"Tkazyik said he wants to discuss creating an amnesty program in which illegal guns can be turned in to authorities ... Though details must be finalized, Tkazyik said he hopes to bring together community leaders, clergy members, law enforcement personnel and others 'to discuss the gun violence that is going on in the City of Poughkeepsie.'" ...
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