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Subsistence Firearms
Submitted by: Anonymous

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... "According to Charles Hanson's book, 'The Northwest Gun' the Plains Indians preferred a smoothbore flintlock 'Tradegun' over rifles. ... According to the book the preferred calibers for their smoothbores were in the 28-gauge and 20-gauge range. And they hunted buffalo and grizzlies on a regular basis."

"Every survivalist should have a shotgun. Nothing is more useful or versatile to bring home meat for the pot. A good used single shot can often be found for under $100 and anyone selling any type of ammunition will carry at least a few sizes and weights of shot shells. For barter purposes in a post collapse economy, a few extra boxes of 12-guage shotgun shells would be a smart investment." ...
 

Brady Campaign's Paul Helmke Praises Congresswoman Carson For A Life Of Leadership
Submitted by: New York State Rifle & Pistol Association
Website: http://www.nysrpa.org

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"Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, issued the following statement:"

"'Representative Julia Carson was an amazing woman, a fearless advocate who opened doors her entire life. I was privileged to be able to know her and work with her over many years. She cared about the poor, she cared about the disenfranchised, and she worked hard to combat the gun violence and crime that so unfairly impacts the most vulnerable people in our communities.'" ...
 

Just bring your wallet
Submitted by: Bruce W. Krafft

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"You shouldn't need a weapon to go hunting for Christmas presents. But anxious shoppers, trying to ensure their own safety could wind up more sorry than safe if they're locked-and-loaded when they head for the shopping mall. The fear some have after the shooting rampage at an Omaha mall is certainly understandable. The potential for an accidental shooting putting them or a fellow shopper in a hospital or early grave seems much more likely than dropping a deranged maniac or mugger." ...
 

NRA lead gun owners to slaughter with HR 2640
Submitted by: Idaho Ordnance
Website: http://www.id-ord.com/

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"An email from Gun Owners of America (GOA) regarding the passage of HR 2640 in the Senate is shown below. IMHO, we, the gun owners of America, were sold down the river by the NRA (National Rifle Association), AGAIN! When are we going to learn that NRA is NOT adequately looking out after us legislatively! Otherwise HR 2640 wouldn’t have gotten passed and the NRA would be speaking out against Michael J. Sullivan (’Chappaquiddick’ Kennedy’s best bud) as Director of the ATF."

"The NRA doesn’t speak out (when the GOA, JPFA, and CCRKBA have) because the SOB (Son Of a Bush) appointed (via erstwhile AG, Gonzales) Sullivan as acting Director. The NRA is in the neo-con’s (neo-Jacobins) coat pocket (and I will leave that there.) ..." ...
 

JPFO: Sleeping With The Enemy
Submitted by: Idaho Ordnance
Website: http://www.id-ord.com/

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"The National Rifle Association has done it."

"Again."

"Having advertised itself for more than a century as the nation's foremost defender of the Second Amendment, the NRA has once again given aid and comfort to politicians -- all of the 'usual suspects': Carolyn McCarthy, Charles Schumer, Patrick Leahy, Harry Reid, and that perennial Judas goat John Dingell -- as well as to pressure groups like the Brady Campaign, who are determined to destroy that right, by assisting passage of a law with the potential to strip hundreds of thousands of military veterans of their basic right to own and carry weapons."

"This latest slap in the gun owner's face by the overstuffed suits at the NRA ... establishes the 'principle' that individuals with the slightest of mental health 'problem' (anyone, for instance, who ever sought professional help for mild depression or difficulty sleeping) have no inalienable right to self-defense." ...
 

The Supreme Court should uphold the District of Columbia gun ban
Submitted by: Bruce W. Krafft

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... "The court should uphold the district's law banning handgun possession by its residents for constitutional and public safety reasons."

"The overwhelming historical evidence and weight of judicial precedent support the position that the Second Amendment was intended and designed to protect a militia-based right." ...

"There is also strong scholarship to support the argument that James Madison wrote the amendment primarily to allay Southern fears that Congress would undermine the slave system by disarming the militia — thereby denying the Southern states an effective means of slave control. Under this longstanding interpretation of the amendment, the District's handgun ban would survive."
 

The Supreme Court should reject the District of Columbia gun ban
Submitted by: Bruce W. Krafft

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"The Supreme Court recently agreed to rule on the specific meaning of the Second Amendment ..."

"Many gun-control advocates claim that this grants a 'collective' right ... and does not grant an 'individual' right to gun ownership. The position that the Second Amendment only guarantees a collective right is wholly incorrect, especially when one examines the rest of the Bill of Rights."

"The Founders chose the words 'the people'; the same as in the First, Fourth, Ninth and Tenth amendments."

"Had the drafters wanted to acknowledge the right to keep and bear arms for anyone other than individuals, they would have undoubtedly written that it is the right of 'the militia' to keep and bear arms."
 

Pimp My Ride
Submitted by: Bruce W. Krafft

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"The first thing I learned from driving around Nevada with Ron Paul for a couple of days: People really hate the Federal Reserve. ..." ...

"Ron Paul is deeply square, and every bit as deeply committed to your right not to be. 'I don't gamble, but I'm the gambler's best friend,' he says, boasting of his support for online casinos. He is a Second Amendment absolutist who doesn't own a gun. 'I've only fired one a couple of times in my life. I've never gotten around to killing anything.' It's an impressively, charmingly principled world view, though sometimes you've got to wonder how much Paul has in common with many of the people who support him." ...
 

Romney does not believe we should have Weapons of Unusual Lethality
Submitted by: Idaho Ordnance
Website: http://www.id-ord.com/

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"Mitt Romney who just recently claimed that he had received a NRA endorsement, is now recanting his story on his father marching with Martin Luther King. His father now only figuratively walked with Dr. King."

"Now understanding that Governor Romney is delusional, it now explains his glowing endorsement of Acting ATF Director Michael J. Sullivan:" ...

"Here is the interview on Meet the Press, he now calls Extreme Weapons, 'Weapons of Unusual Lethality' (he has stated before that he would regulate Weapons of Unusual Lethality and Power):"

"It is telling that his Town Hall Events are titled Ask Mitt Anything, instead of Ask Mitt the Truth. ..." ...
 

JPFO: An Easy Way to Get the Truth
Submitted by: Idaho Ordnance
Website: http://www.id-ord.com/

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"One of our supporters shared a system he uses to find out if a politician is being honest with him. We share the letter with you...... Let us know your results!"

"This is my method of flushing out the two-way rhetoric of elected officials; I send a response immediately complimenting them on the decision to follow my wishes, even though they have not so stated. In the past, about 50/50, they come back emphasizing their neutral position with more pandering, patronizing rhetoric or, hopefully, a stated position. A reversal of the game they like to play with us. ..." ...
 

Space Works To Preserve Gunowners' Rights and Eliminate Gun Tax
Submitted by: Idaho Ordnance
Website: http://www.id-ord.com/

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"Standing up for the rights of gun owners, Congressman Zack Space (OH-18) today announced the introduction of the Comprehensive Firearms Reform Act of 2007. Space’s legislation would strike a blow against the excessive infringement of Second Amendment rights at the hands of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE)." ...

"This legislation would:"

"Create a system to provide more flexibility in punishing those who violate gun sales laws."

"Establish a solid legal requirement for determining the willful violation of the law."

"Creates specific sentencing guidelines for dangerous felons convicted of a gun offense." ...
 

I'd prefer to see them dumped, rather than 'reformed,' but . . .
Submitted by: Idaho Ordnance
Website: http://www.id-ord.com/

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"I frankly have serious doubts about whether any amount of 'reforming' the BATFE can go far enough--there's certainly no way to 'reform' away the fact that the very reason for the agency's existence is to infringe on that which . . . shall not be infringed. Still, I suppose that any effort to rein in our noble and courageous stompers of kitties is worthy of support."

"Such an effort is apparently being made now, in the form of H.R. 4900, the 'Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Reform and Firearms Modernization Act of 2007' (text not yet available) [Update: according to this, the actual title of H.R. 4900 is the 'Comprehensive Firearms Reform Act of 2007'] ..." ...
 

New ATF Reform act introduced
Submitted by: Idaho Ordnance
Website: http://www.id-ord.com/

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FULL TEXT BELOW:

NRA has announced that Representatives Steve King and Zach Space, have introduced HR 4900 which is the BATFE Reform and Firearms Modernization Act of 2007.

This is similar to the HR 5092 BATFE Modernization and Reform Act of 2006, our Attorney had spoken before the House Judiciary Committee to report on the abuses of the ATF. HR 5092 received Bi-partisan support and passed, then Anti-gun Senator Dianne Feinstein held it up indefinitely in the Senate, effectively killing it.

Congress and the Department of Justice have rebuked the ATF for failing to establish fines and suspensions for dealers and just revoking dealers licenses. This will also finally establish the meaning of WILLFUL, rather than the ATF using its own definition.
 

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison on ATF Confirmation
Submitted by: Idaho Ordnance
Website: http://www.id-ord.com/

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"Here is the response from Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison in regards to Acting ATF Director Michael J. Sullivan confirmation. Hutchison has a B rating from GOA and has been at the forefront of important Second Amendment issues."

"Senator Hutchison, may not be aware that from 1994-2005 the number of Licensed dealers in Texas dropped 76%. From a whopping 18,041 to a measly 4,261 and the number of license revocations is up nearly 6 times from 2001-06."

"Although I myself voted for Bush twice, I have to seriously question his judgment on choices to run the ATF. First there was Carl Truscott, who continued the Clinton agenda of eliminating gun dealers and manufacturers, violated ethics rules and overspent millions to create an empire."

"Now we have Sullivan who has refused to curb ATF abuse ..." ...
 

American State Papers, "All have been compelled to forego every other consideration, and take up arms for the defense of their own and the lives that are dear to them...", Feb. 2, 1836
Submitted by: GunShowOnTheNet.com
Website: http://GunShowOnTheNet.com/

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"...Those of them that resided in the country have been obliged to flee for safety to fortified posts, in most instances saving and taking with them their clothes only. All have been compelled to forego every other consideration, and take up arms for the defense of their own and the lives that are dear to them. The very aged and crippled have been obliged to forget their years and their infirmities, and shoulder their muskets for the general safety..."
 

Texas Senator John Cornyn's response to opposition to Sullivan as head of the ATF
Submitted by: Idaho Ordnance
Website: http://www.id-ord.com/

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"Senator John Cornyn sends a letter similar to fellow Texas Senator Hutchison, Cornyn who has an A rating from GOA and an A rating from the NRA. Yet the number of Gun dealers in Texas has dropped 76% from 1994-2005 and the number of license revocations are up nearly 6 times."

"Cornyn does hit on an important point in the letter, there are 2 different areas that the ATF enforce. One area is criminal (violent crime, gangs, etc.) and the other area is regulation (ensuring dealers and manufacturers are in compliance)."

"The issue is that Maximum Mike and the ATF seem to be unable to distinguish between the two areas. ..." ...
 

WI: Owner of seized guns charged
Submitted by: Bruce W. Krafft

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"A man who had 21 guns seized from his Hudson, Wis., home has been charged with lying to gun dealers and selling firearms without a license."

"Steven Jay Novick, 52, was named in a 28-count indictment returned Tuesday by a federal grand jury. ..."

"A day before he was indicted, Novick filed a claim in federal court to get the guns back." ...

"Said his attorney, Minneapolis lawyer Jon Hopeman: 'He's an honorably discharged armed services veteran, and he intends to fight this with all the resources at his command. He wasn't in the firearms business. He's in the auto sales business. The law doesn't say you can't buy and sell guns as a hobby.'" ...
 

FL: Officer Uses Taser To Tame Best Buy Shopper (VIDEO!)
Submitted by: Anonymous

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"A surveillance camera catches a police officer using a Taser to bring a customer under control in a Daytona Beach Best Buy Thursday." ...

"Police Chief Mike Chitwood said that Wright told the woman to calm down or she would be arrested, but Beeland didn't listen and disrupted the store's business."

"'Even if you look at the video, when the officer stepped toward her after announcing she's under arrest, she's flailing her arms and retreating from the officer,' Chitwood said. ..."

"But Crosley [with Cop Watch] said he sees it differently."

"'When the officer starts toward her, you don't see her threatening the officer, you see her backing off with her hands up,' he said. ..."
 

IL: Cop fired for unregistered gun in locker
Submitted by: Bruce W. Krafft

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"A Chicago Police officer has been cleared of charges he operated a gambling parlor but was fired for keeping an unregistered gun in his police locker."

"Richard S. Teresi, 38, was arrested in January 2006 after police searched his building in ... Police said they found three video poker machines, records of wagers and $1,700 in cash. Police said they were tipped by a patron who claimed he was cheated."

"But Thomas Needham, a lawyer who represented Teresi before the Chicago Police Board, said his client leased space to a licensed social club. ..." ...

"But the board fired Teresi on Oct. 18 for having an unregistered .44-caliber Taurus handgun in his locker at the Jefferson Park police district ..." ...
 

NY: Gun Shop Owners Raising Money For Marines
Submitted by: New York State Rifle & Pistol Association
Website: http://www.nysrpa.org

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"As a local marine is about to be redeployed to Iraq, some area residents are trying to raise money to provide his unit with some necessary equipment."

"Sgt. Andrew Smith and his 2nd Marine Headquarter Group, Team 22, will ship out to Anbar province Jan. 6 for a planned seven-month deployment assisting the Iraqi Highway Patrol."

"The 13 marines in the group have decided they need a special sight on their sidearms that the government doesn’t provide."

"The sights are too expensive for the marines to buy themselves."

"So Smith's grandmother, Lucile Frost, decided to organize a fund-raiser to try to provide the sights to the men. Mrs. Frost and her husband, Bill, own Bill’s Gun and Saddle Shop." ...
 

AR: AGFC will allow concealed guns
Submitted by: New York State Rifle & Pistol Association
Website: http://www.nysrpa.org

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"The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission voted Thursday to allow hunters with concealed carry licenses to possess concealed handguns in situations when possessing firearms is otherwise prohibited."

"Specifically, the new regulation will allow concealed handguns on wildlife management areas and AGFC-owned lakes, said Doyle Shook, chief of the AGFC’s wildlife management division. It also will allow concealed handguns to be carried by licensees during archery deer season, muzzleloader deer season and archery turkey season. Currently, hunters cannot possess centerfire weapons of any kind during those seasons." ...
 

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