PA:AR15 used in home defense

An Elkins Park man was killed late Friday after he forced his way into a stranger’s apartment in Cheltenham Township.

Jasper Brisbon, 32, wandered up to a couple late Friday at the Lynnewood Apartments as the pair spoke outside their unit. Brisbon, they told police, appeared to be on drugs. He stared at the pair for several minutes before the couple decided to go into their apartment, police said.

But as they entered their home Brisbon jumped between them, forcing his way in.

The male of the couple ran to get a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle and insisted Brisbon leave. Brisbon refused. Instead, as the man yelled “Stop! Stop Stop!” Brisbon moved menacingly toward the man, police said.

The man fired a shot striking Brisbon in the torso and immediately called 911, police said.

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Newtown father tells rally anti-gunners don’t speak for all residents

Holding a sign proclaiming “Newtown Dad -- Pro 2nd Amendment -- Why Am I the Bad Guy Now?” Bill Stevens, the Newtown father who earlier this year told Connecticut legislators “You will take my ability to protect my [daughter] Victoria from my cold dead hands,” addressed an approving crowd at Saturday’s Second Amendment Rally at the State Capitol in Hartford.

The event, sponsored by the Connecticut Citizens Defense League, was the same one citizen journalist Mike Vanderboegh drew approval from attendees (and condemnation from monopoly of violence zealots) at when he informed them of his defiance through smuggling and encouraged them to “Be the best lawbreaker you can be.” "Only one side of the Newtown story has been told....actually exploited for political gain." **Bill Stevens - The Other Newtown Families** (5) CCDL Gun Rights Rally 4/20/2013

Taking the stage with his daughter Victoria, whose school had been locked down as the Sandy Hook killings were happening, Stevens asked her if she felt safer in lockdown or at home with him and his guns.

“Obviously with my Dad,” she replied to cheers. “The teachers don’t know how to protect us, really.”

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PA:East Rockhill amends gun laws

East Rockhill Township has removed a rule barring firearms from parks and other township-owned property and replaced it with language acknowledging the Pennsylvania Uniform Firearms Act, not the municipality, sets the rules.

“It ties the carrying and use of firearms to the state law,” Patrick Armstrong, East Rockhill’s solicitor, said.

The change comes after a resident raised the issue, the East Rockhill Township Board of Supervisors said at the April 16 township meeting.

Many other towns have made a similar change, board member David Nyman said.

“The NRA has asked their members to check with the municipalities to make sure they’re in compliance,” Nyman said.

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Group threatens to sue Md. town over gun law

The left often thinks it can violate the law with impunity

A small Maryland town has unwillingly found itself in the middle of the gun control debate.

Since 1975, it's been illegal to carry or fire a loaded gun inside the town limits of Walkersville, Md. Recently, the Second Amendment Foundation, a national gun rights group from Washington state, threatened to sue the town, claiming the town's gun law violates Maryland state law.

In a letter, the group demands that Walkersville repeal the law, adding "Failure to do so...puts the town at risk for a lawsuit."

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The Media Lobbyists Lose on Guns

President Obama suffered a large, embarrassing loss in the Senate on a slew of gun-control bills. If this were a Republican president, they’d be sounding the lame-duck alarms on the nightly newscasts. But most media outlets can’t do this. They were fully invested in this campaign alongside Obama, and to underscore his weakness is to acknowledge their own.

Since mid-December, the broadcast networks and cable news hosts like Piers Morgan and Joe Scarborough have relentlessly lobbied for gun control. On how many occasions did they completely shred the notion of objectivity -- of journalism itself -- and boldly engage in lobbying for gun control, using their networks as megaphones? Let’s consider a few recent moments.

1. On April 11, “Morning Joe” hosted Vice President Biden for a about an hour-long interview -- yes, most people get 5-6-7 minutes, but if you're the Veep and want to promote gun control, you get an hour. It was an embarrasing hour of kissy-face that ended like this: Biden: “Joe, thank you.” Scarborough laughs. Biden: “ No, no, no, no, no. You have changed the debate in America. You.” Scarborough replies, “Thank you so much.” Biden insists, “The two guys that deserve -- if anything gets done -- an award here are you and Michael Bloomberg.” Awwww, shucks.

“We are the 90%,” Joe Scarborough tweeted after the defeat. “And 90% will not be ignored.” (I just love macho chest-thumping declarations of war in tweets.)

It’s unsurprising that 90 percent have no objections to background checks in a vague polling question. But a new AP poll shows how “passionate” the public is on this issue. They asked: "What do you think the President and Congress should do about gun control? Do you think they should keep working to pass the changes to the nation's gun laws that are currently being negotiated, scrap the current negotiations and start over from scratch, or leave the nation's gun laws as they are now?"

It was very split: 39 percent said leave the laws as they are, 38 percent said keep working to pass changes, and 20 percent said start over from scratch. Scarborough can't brag "We are the 38 percent."

2. On that same morning, in an interview on CNN, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.), a co-author of the background-checks crackdown, said to anchor John Berman: “We appreciate your support, too. This is very, very important.” Berman didn’t take exception when his objectivity was presumed to be lacking. He just replied, “Thank you, sir.”

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Progressives Supporting ‘Mayors For Illegal Guns’ is a Great Joke

Montana --(Ammoland.com)-On Sunday, April 21st 2013, “progressives” (euphemism for statist liberals) ran large display ads apparently in all major Montana newspapers claiming that 79% of Montanans want more federal gun control. This humorous number becomes even funnier when it is attributed IN THE AD to “Mayors for Illegal Guns” (Yes, “FOR.” Check your copy). A curious person might ask, why would any mayors be FOR illegal guns in the first place? And, which specific Montana mayors are FOR illegal guns? Another curious person might ask why a group pushing more gun control would cite a “poll” from another group that is FOR illegal guns? Right. None of it makes any sense at all.

However, it is stunningly consistent that those advocating gun control never make sense.

A poll run by the Helena Independent Record, shows that fully three-quarters of Montanans oppose more federal gun control. That is accurate Montana sentiment.

The display ads run throughout Montana provides the names of a bunch of people who claim to live in Montana and be gun owners. Researching these people suggests they are mostly a bunch of liberal operatives, or just dingbats, and are very unlikely to actually be gun owners. None of them have been seen at competitive shooting matches in Montana. It’s a safe bet that hardly any of them regularly purchase hunting licenses.

They’re so clueless they selected a photo for the ad of a man carrying a tripod, thinking it’s a rifle.

The real howler is that anyone associated with this significant advertising expenditure (probably out-of-state “dark money”) expects any Montanans to believe the theme of the ad – the joke, that most Montanans want more federal gun control, again according to “Mayors for Illegal Guns.”

Good joke progressives. What’s next, “Mothers for Drunk Drivers?”

Gary Marbut, President

Montana Shooting Sports Association

Author,

Gun Laws of Montana

P.O. Box 4924 Missoula, Montana 59806 406-549-1252

(Gary is a real Montana gun owner who shoots competitively in two different shooting disciplines, teaches firearms safety and self defense, and regularly buys a hunting license and hunts.)

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Enraged 'gun control' advocates unleash their hate, prepare next attack

Gun rights advocates understandably celebrated Wednesday after the Senate failed to approve any gun control legislation. It's hard to say what is more gratifying--the defeat of even the "universal background checks" legislation (once thought to be unstoppable, especially with ostensibly "pro-gun" Republican Senator Pat Toomey on board), or the fact that Senator Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) bill to ban so-called "assault weapons" went down by a bipartisan supermajority.

It was indeed a victory worth celebrating, but there is no more time for partying. Now it's time to get back to work fending off the next wave. And there will be a "next wave." Rabidly anti-gun billionaire and New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has already telegraphed his intention to pump additional millions into both pressuring perceived "swing votes" in the Senate, and unseating any senators who do not succumb to that pressure.

Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), no longer bothering to try to maintain the "pro-gun" facade he has hidden behind all these years, vows to take another shot at passing S. 649, with the apparent strategy of again amending the bill to soften the details of the background check language just enough to change the minds of five of the senators perceived to be susceptible to the pressure the anti-gun groups, the Obama administration and the mass media have never stopped putting on them since well before last week's vote.

Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) is already the target of a new ad campaign, although not a particularly competent one, claiming to quote a poll commissioned by "Mayors For Illegal Guns."

Of course, what the gun prohibitionist lobby cannot buy with all the money they pour into "gun control" (while, simultaneously, whining, and whining and whining about all the money the "gun lobby" spends) is real grassroots activism--something they're aware of, and hope desperately to change. The good news for them is that they have succeeded in recruiting a few enraged "activists." The bad news is that some of these recruits cannot rein in their hatred, and even desire for violence. Meet David Stachelski, who left this charming message on U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp's (D-ND) Facebook page:

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Is gun control Orwellian? Let’s ask Orwell

For those who believe, like the administration that Second Amendment enthusiasms are expressed solely by the black-helicopter-fearing Right, I offer a decided socialist.

George Orwell, who Christopher Hitchens once wrote, was “conservative about many things but not politics,” nevertheless would be more in tune today with the anti-gun control crowd than any fellow socialists.

The easy riposte to this claim from the Left would be that it is only natural that a former coolie-crushing colonial policeman such as Orwell would be a gun enthusiast.

But Orwell viewed gun control through a socialist and not any law-and-order lens:

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer’s cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

These sentiments were not based on any theory, but hard worn experience. As a soldier on the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War, Orwell was aware that it was only the citizenry breaking into the armory that initially repelled Franco’s fascist rebellion. When Stalin sought to import his murderous purge trials into Spain, and thus kill off any leftist opposition, his first order of business was confiscating their weapons. Having the misfortune of belonging to a Trotskyite militia, Orwell engaged in street fighting with these gun confiscators.

Aware of how Stalin crushed his weaponless opposition, Orwell was determined for this never to happen again. In 1940, when a Nazi invasion seemed all but imminent, Orwell joined a citizen’s militia, the Home Guard, which was deliberately modeled on the “people’s army” of Spain (many of the volunteers had fought for the Loyalists). This group was tasked with protecting bridges and railroads and if necessary, fighting from house to house, but Orwell saw a bigger role: that of ensuring that a home-grown fascist coup and/or separate peace would never happen. Predictably, Colonel Blimps worried about any sophisticated weaponry getting to these “reds” and sought to halt it (a better example of gun control cannot be imagined). But Orwell believed that the Home Guard should remain weaponized beyond the war so as to protect individual liberty.

For those government officials such as Joe Biden who assert that the populace doesn’t need sophisticated weaponry (i.e assault rifles) to protect themselves Orwell can again be consulted. In a post-war essay, “You and The Atom Bomb,” Orwell noted that when there is “no answer to it,” “rifles” are “inherently democratic weapons” and “gives claws to the weak;” complex weapons, however, when owned solely by the government “make the strong stronger.”

Today Orwell would be written off as a gun freak by the Democrat’s war room. Dianne Feinstein would lump him in with the NRA for his belief that citizens armed with assault weapons were necessary also in peacetime to ensure the government remained democratic. His extrapolation that the enslaved popularce of Nineteen Eighty-Four occurred because Big Brother had disarmed them would land him on the Democrat’s list of paranoids.

Ron Capshaw has appeared in National Review, The Weekly Standard and the Washington Times. He lives in Midlothian, VA.

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Support wanes for stricter gun laws

Four months ago, gun owners believed their world was about to close in around them, but today, polling by both Rasmussen and USA Today suggests that support for stronger gun control laws has waned considerably.

Last week’s vote on background checks and other anti-gun legislation that proved to be an embarrassment for President Barack Obama was not the final nail in the gun prohibition lobby’s coffin, but it did demonstrate that reason is returning where emotion had been busy.

USA Today even quoted Stuart Rothenberg, editor and publisher of the non-partisan Rothenberg Political Report, who stated, "So much of the support for gun control is emotional, following the Newtown tragedy.”

This is not likely to blunt plans for the recently-formed Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility (WAGR) to run an anti-gun initiative in 2014. This column participated in a discussion last week which will air sometime later on guns and gun rights. One of the other participants was Tina Podlodowski, one of the WAGR leaders.

The new polling results were not available then, having only been released Monday morning, but it probably will not discourage the gun control crowd. Both polls said that less than half of those surveyed – 49 percent in both surveys, coincidentally – now support tougher gun laws.

Still, the USA Today poll found only 45 percent opposition to tougher federal gun laws, so the antis still hold a statistical edge. But as the newspaper noted, in early April, NBC and the Wall Street Journal sponsored a survey that revealed 55 percent of the people favored a stricter gun law, but that was down from 61 percent in February.

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FL:Number of women with concealed-weapon permits jumps

Shirley Hedge spent more than 40 years saving lives as a nurse.

Now retired, "Shotgun Shirley" represents the biggest increase among Florida's more than 1 million people who have concealed-weapon permits: women 66 and older.

Hedge, 66, is one of 34,937 women in her age bracket licensed to carry a gun almost anywhere they want in Florida and 35 other states. Their numbers have jumped 619 percent since 2004 — the earliest year with available data — when there were 4,856 women licensed in the same age group, according to state records.

The number of women in the youngest age bracket, 21 to 35, jumped 463 percent to 40,386 -- four times more than men in the same age group.

After the death of her husband three years ago, Hedge began worrying about her safety.

"I didn't realize how vulnerable I was until I started thinking about it. … I was in denial," said Hedge, who five months ago bought her first guns — a .22-caliber target pistol and .380-caliber semi-automatic for self-defense — and received her permit two weeks ago.

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Sage Advice on the Second Amendment

Sometimes it's important to pay attention to what the people on MSNBC say, because it can actually give us insight on just what we should do for liberty. That's the case with "Pointless Nullification in Kansas," a blog post by Rachel Maddow Show producer Steve Benen. Surprising as it may sound, conservatives interested in preserving the Second Amendment can look to Benen for all the advice they need.

Backstory

Earlier this week, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed into law the "Second Amendment Protection Act," a bill that reasserts the state's role in protecting the right to keep and bear arms of those living there. The bill reads, in part:

Any act, law, treaty, order, rule or regulation of the government of the United States which violates the second amendment to the constitution of the United States is null, void and unenforceable in the state of Kansas.

In conjunction with the above clause, the bill defines what is meant by "the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States" and contends that it isn't based off a decision by the Supreme Court.

The second amendment to the constitution of the United States reserves to the people, individually, the right to keep and bear arms as that right was understood at the time that Kansas was admitted to statehood in 1861, and the guaranty of that right is a matter of contract between the state and people of Kansas and the United States as of the time that the compact with the United States was agreed upon and adopted by Kansas in 1859 and the United States in 1861.

By definition, state and local agents cannot enforce any acts or actions that are "null, void and unenforceable in the state of Kansas." Based off this text, the state of Kansas now cannot participate in any federal gun control measures that restrict the individual right to keep and bear arms as understood when Kansas became a state in 1861.

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The left’s misfire on gun control legislation

"Apparently Barack Obama threw a bit of a hissy fit when the gun control legislation went down in the Senate. And, as James Taranto points out, Gabby Giffords managed, in a 900 word screed, to employ about every logical fallacy one can employ in here denunciation of the failure of the legislation to pass. Finally, the NY Time’s Jennifer Steinhauer weighs in claiming that the vote went against the will of the people and that it was the gun lobby’s fault. Gun lobby? Oh, we all know about the NRA. However here’s something I don’t think the left fully comprehends. The real 'gun lobby' is the majority of the American people."

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AZ:Woman shoots at suspects breaking into Tempe home

TEMPE, AZ - Police say a resident fired shots at two suspects who broke into a Tempe home on Thursday.

Tempe police spokesman Mike Pooley said a woman heard a knock at the door of her home near McClintock Drive and Guadalupe Road and thought it sounded odd.

Pooley said she went to the garage for a gun and by the time she got back two people were in her home.

She shot at both of them, but it's unclear if either one was struck, Pooley said.

Pooley said two suspects are in custody and two more got away.

The suspects are described as black males and Pooley said police are looking for a black Chrysler 300 with Alberta license plates.

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Oath Keepers holds Lexington oath ceremony in spite of rally ban

Oath Keepers and rally permit holder Gun Rights Across America-Massachusetts were unsuccessful in a motion filed yesterday to overturn the permit revocation for their planned event today on Lexington Green, but went ahead and conducted a brief oath ceremony anyway, the group’s founder Stewart Rhodes informed Gun Rights Examiner this afternoon.

“Due to the emergency nature of the moratorium in light of recent events, significantly the Boston bombing on April 15, 2013, the Plaintiff has failed to convince the court of its likelihood of success on the merits and any potential irreparable harm it may suffer therefore the motion is denied,” a handwritten margin notation explains on the Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and Emergency Interlocutory Injunction in the Middlesex Superior Court Department of the Trial Court in Woburn.

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OH:Heath Resident Fires Shot, Chases Off Would-Be Burglar

HEATH, Ohio - Police say a man in Heath fired a weapon at a would-be burglar on Thursday morning.

The break-in occurred after 4 a.m. Thursday on the 900 block of Northbrook Court.

The resident said he was awoken by his dog and spotted a person with a flashlight in his home.

The homeowner said the suspect tried to leave. The homeowner shot once at the suspect, but the bullet hit a door jamb.

Police are continuing with their investigation.

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CO:Suspect held at gun point accused of burglary

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) -- A man accused of stealing a Jeep last week may have taken much more than that.

Anthony Loveridge, 19, was arrested after theft victim Joseph Bateman found Loveridge sleeping in his stolen Jeep Grand Cherokee on Friday. When Bateman stumbled upon his vehicle, he held Loveridge at gun point until police arrived.

Bateman first reported a break-in on April 3 when he returned home from North Dakota, according to a Mesa County Sheriff's Office arrest affidavit.

Dozens of items were stolen, including TVs, gaming systems, phones, five guns, thousands of ammunition rounds and his 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Even Bateman's safe--which contained an external hard drive and the title to his Jeep-- had been broken into, he said.

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NC:Police: Home intruder shot, killed at Charlotte apartment

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Police said they are investigating after a home intruder was shot and killed while trying to force his way into a Charlotte apartment.

WBTV reported that the shooting happened around 3 a.m. Sunday at the Alta Grove apartments on Season Grove Lane in northwest Charlotte.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg homicide investigators said the intruder was shot after struggling over a weapon with the man who lived there.

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LA:Robber Shot, Victim Wounded

The store's owner, who was closing up, heard the commotion, looked around the corner, and saw what was happening. As McClure allegedly turned to approach him, the worker grabbed his gun. A struggle ensued, and the worker was shot in the arms, authorities said.

The store's owner then armed himself with a semi-automatic handgun and fired at the suspect, who dropped his shotgun and ran out the backdoor of the shop, authorities said.

Investigators responding to the scene found the shop worker, who was brought to West Jefferson Medical Center, treated and later released.

Soon after, the sheriff's office received a report about a shooting near the intersection of Ehret Road and Champagne Street, which is behind the shop. There, deputies found McClure, who had been shot several times. He was brought to LSU Interim Public Hospital, where he was being treated for possible life-threatening injuries, the sheriff's office said.

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CA:Two pit bulls shot after attacking cat, homeowners

Paradise Police say that two pit bulls were shot and killed Sunday morning after the two dogs allegedly tried attacking a cat and the homeowners. Police say that the dogs were killed in the 5100 block of Edgewood Lane at around 11:32 a,m.

Police say their investigation revealed the two dogs were running loose in the neighborhood and came onto the resident's property, attempting to attack the homeowner's cat.

The two dogs reportedly became aggressive and attempted to attack the homeowners who were forced to shoot and kill both dogs. Police say that, "The area and manner in which the dogs were shot was determined to be remote with a safe backdrop, away from neighborhood homes."

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TN:Report: Homeowner shoots, hits tire; burglary suspects flee, found later

Foster pulled into the driveway and got out of his vehicle, the release said. The suspects allegedly rammed his vehicle with the Taurus and then turned their vehicle, driving toward him. Fearing for his life, Foster drew a firearm and fired several shots at the vehicle, the release said.

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NRA President David Keene on WMAL 4-18-13 – Response to Obama calling him a liar.

Hitler Finds out Gun Control Failed in the Senate

Yes, it is overdone. But it is still funny!

NORKS have Answer to Boston Bombing Motive

North Korea has emphatically denied that they are responsible for the Marathon City of Boston Bombing. They have offered help using their advanced intelligence services.

From Young Moon Son, of an unafilliated Nork Public Affairs office:

Unsubstantiated accusations of The Peoples Glorious Republic of North Korea's involvement in the pusillanimous bombing attack on the Marathon City of Boston in the Capitalist Dictatorship of the USA are completely false. Any person can easily see that this is misdirection for another purpose. A PGRNK attack would be much more effective. We would kill many thousands, not just three and wound hundreds. This is the mark of total amateurs.

In addition to the above facts, the PGRNK did not threaten the Marathon City of Boston. The Marathon City of Boston is not Austin City of Texas. Look on a map. The Marathon City of Boston is hundreds, if not thousands of kilometers removed from Austin City of Texas.

Now for the PGRNK help from our glorious intelligence service. We know who did the extremely amateur attack on the Marathon City of Boston. We have analysed the available data, carefully sifted from websites. The type of attack and its extreme amateur type show that only one group was responsible.

To help confused Capitalist USA president.

Muslims did it.

P.S.

We demand more aid for our extremely valuable intelligence report. Send videos and ultra super high speed web links. We must feed our people. If they starve, it is your fault, Capitalist USA.

Update:

In breaking news the Czech Republic has also claimed that they did not attack the Marathon City of Boston. The Czech Republic did not offer free intelligence analysis.

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Ammunition Report, Yuma, AZ WalMart, April 20, 2013

Walmart ammunition shelves - left side

Walmart ammunition shelves - right side

"Of what use is a gun unfed?" Mahbub Ali, in Kim, by Rudyard Kipling.

I stopped at the Foothills WalMart in Yuma today, to see what was happening with their ammuniton supply.

As you can see, there wasn't much. some 20,16, and 12 gauge bird shot, mostly 7 1/2. I was surprised to see that they had a few boxes of 12 gauge 00 buckshot, at $4.67 for five cartridges.

They also had a couple of boxes each of 7mm Remington Magnum, Winchester 270, and 300 Winchester Magnum. The only rimfire that I saw was some .17 magnum.

Raymundo, at the counter, was helpful. He said that they do get ammunition in, but it is unpredictable, and when it comes in, it goes out very quickly. He admitted to holding back a couple of boxes for customers that buy guns. He did not want a customer to leave the store with a gun, and not be able to get some ammunition for it.

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Who "needs" 30 round Magazines?

Looking at the pics coming in from the Boston bomber manhunt I see all these LEOs bristling with high-capacity-mag, “assault weapon” looking rifles (wonder how many are full-auto?), bad-ass shotguns, scary black pistols. For two guys … well, one now. (None now. Good show LEOs.)

Thing is, I don’t begrudge the city of Boston a single round. The LEOs, God bless ‘em, aren’t taking any chances. But then why should you? Why should you be held to 7 rounds? Or 10. Or any arbitrary number. Who needs 30-round mags?

“…legions of heavily armed police” felt like they needed them … for two guys. Then one — one guy.

If precaution advises that many trained officers with all that firepower to prepare to take out two baddies — because who knows how heavily armed they are or what they might do — how can we expect a lone homeowner to defend herself against similar unknown threats with seven rounds? Mayor Bloomberg, Governor O’Malley, et al., please, your thoughts? TTAGers, here’s hoping you never need even one and always have access to a whole lot more.

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THE PRESIDENT IS A SORE LOSER

The idea that a majority of police support citizen disarmament has always been a lie.

When I heard the news that the Senate had failed to pass a Universal Background Check, I was at a police seminar on the topic of active shooters. The panelists had agreed that “active shooter” was a poor descriptor, one noting that some attackers use other weapons, such as the blade-wielder in the recent Texas case. (And, of course, the Boston Marathon bombing was fresh in everyone’s mind.) Another panelist, a retired SWAT lieutenant who has responded to such things for real, pointed out that an active SHOOTER is what it takes to stop an active MURDERER.

When a retired police chief on the panel announced that he’d just received a text that the UBC had failed to make it through the Senate, the police audience erupted into applause. So much for the idea that cops all want to restrict your gun ownership. The real cops know where the problems are, and that they ain’t coming from people like you.

Alas, the White House is out of tune with that reality.

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Tennesee Knife Rights Knife Law Preemption Bill Passed – 3rd This Year Published on Friday, April 19, 2013

Gilbert, AZ --(Ammoland.com)- The Tennessee Senate, on a vote of 27-4, concurred on the House amended Knife Rights Knife Law Preemption bill, sending it to Governor Haslam.

Please call AND email Governor Bill Haslam and ask him to sign SB1015/HB0581: 615-741-2001 – bill.haslam@tn.gov

Knife Rights would like to thank the bill sponsors, Sen. Mike Bell and Rep. Vance Dennis, for their efforts to get this bill passed .

SB1015/HB0581 originally included language to repeal the Tennessee ban on switchblade knives and knives over 4-inches long, as well as enact Knife Law Preemption. It passed the Senate overwhelmingly, but was amended in the House after a last minute hyperbolic misinformation campaign in opposition to those repeal portions of the bill by the Tennessee Sheriff’s Association.

Testimony by their executive director included such outlandish remarks about switchblades as being intimidating because, “it even sounds like a shotgun rack, if you want to get right down to it.”

What that has to do with whether a knife should be legal or not, we are not at all sure. Moreover, an automatic sounds no different than most any other one-hand opening knife when opened aggressively. Perhaps the Sheriffs would like to outlaw Harleys because they sound more intimidating that a Vespa scooter?

As sometimes occurs in the legislative process, we were faced with the choice of moving what is arguably the most important part of the bill, preemption, and coming back next year on the rest, or seeing the bill die altogether. Knife Rights is pleased to “take the win” on Knife Law Preemption, our state legislative priority.

Tennessee is the seventh state to pass Knife Law Preemption since Knife Rights passed the first-in-the-nation Knife Law Preemption bill in Arizona in 2010, and the third state this year, following Kansas and Alaska.

Sponsors Bell and Dennis have assured us that they will be back next session with a bill to repeal the ban on switchblades and knives over 4-inches long and with time to counter the Tennessee Sherriff’s Association’s irrational misinformation, and your help, we are confident we will get it done.

Meanwhile, please help us finish off this effort. Call AND email Governor Bill Haslam and ask him to sign SB1015/HB0581: 615-741-2001 bill.haslam@tn.gov

When you call and email, keep it polite, short and to the point. Simply ask the Governor to please sign SB1015/HB0581 as soon as possible.

About: Knife Rights (www.KnifeRights.org) is America’s Grassroots Knife Owners Organization, working towards a Sharper Future for all knife owners. Knife Rights is dedicated to providing knife owners an effective voice in public policy. Become a Knife Rights member and make a contribution to support the fight for your knife rights. Visit www.kniferights.org

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Texas Legislature Moving On School Security Measures

Charlotte, NC --(Ammoland.com)- This week, the state Senate passed Senate Bill 1857 by state Senator Craig Estes (R-Wichita Falls), legislation directing the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to establish a process by which qualified concealed handgun instructors may obtain additional certification in school safety.

Successful completion of the advanced training course would allow the instructor to teach these security techniques to employees of school districts or open-enrollment charter schools who hold concealed handgun licenses (CHLs).

The Senate also approved Senate Bill 17 by state Senator Dan Patrick (R-Houston). This legislation would allow for two employees of a school district or an open-enrollment charter school without security personnel, who are CHLs and authorized by their school board to carry on campus, to participate in a school safety training program developed by the DPS and the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center (ALERRT).

House Bill 1009 by state Representative Jason Villalba (R-Dallas) has been reported by the House Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee and sent to the House Calendars Committee. This measure creates a new category of law enforcement called a “school marshal.” In order to become a school marshal, applicants would have to complete an intensive training program developed by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education (TCLEOSE). However, the program would also be open to any employee of a school district or open-enrollment charter school who has a CHL. The governing bodies of the institutions would decide whether to appoint marshals to certain schools.

Please contact your state Representative and urge him or her to support HB 1009, SB 17 and SB 1857. Contact information can be found by clicking here.

About: Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the “lobbying” arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is responsible for preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in the legislative, political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Visit: www.nra.org

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FL:Cheap Gun Opportunity Coconut Grove Tomorrow, 20 April

People who have guns they do not want anymore will be allowed to drop them off at the Coconut Grove NET office, at St. Stephens Episcopal Church, 2750 McFarland Road.

The program will operate from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, so you will want to get there early enough to pick out a good spot.

Many broken and junk firearms are turned in at these events, but a fair number of people who inherited decent guns, but do not want to have anything to do with them, show up. There are often some pretty good deals.

Across the country, freedom fighters are showing up at these events, and offering cash for the better specimens. This should be welcomed by event organizers, if their purpose is to "get guns off the streets". This is because such activity stretches the turn in dollars, prevents poor widows from being defrauded of their valuable property for a pittance, and places guns that are not wanted in responsible hands.

Private sales are perfectly legal in Florida, as they are in most states.

Local information would be appreciated, as these events are often held in poor neighborhoods.

Here are numerous links showing private individuals purchasing guns at numerous events across the country:

NM:More than 300 guns sold at sheriff buy back event(and private sales!)

PA:Gun Buyback Met With Competition In Bensalem.

Outside, a group of gun advocates set up a table offering a better price to people carrying high-quality weapons.

Second Gun Buyback Nets 42 Weapons

Also in front of the church were people offering to buy the guns off of people before they reached the buyback event.

ANGRY WHITE DUDE ATTENDS GUN BUYBACK COUNTER EVENT IN DALLAS

NM: City’s gun buy-back program nets hundreds of weapons

Outside the police station, a group of four or five men gathered to offer cash to people who were bringing guns in.

Gun buyback in Cincinnati collects 135 weapons

The Cincinnati Enquirer (http://cin.ci/W41mWY ) reports that a federally licensed gun dealer showed up to provide some competition. He bought a dozen weapons for $40 to $100 by standing outside the church with a sign that read “Cash 4 Guns.”

Several good deals made at Lansing Gun Turn in

MI:100+ Guns Turned in for Gun Buyback

Just outside where the buyback program was being held pro gun activists were offering cash for guns.

NM:Police harass legal buyers at Santa Fe Gun Turn In

Seattle has gun Turn in, Private buyers save guns

Tucson Gun Turn in - First Hand Account

AZ:Former Senator Offers Better Alternative to Gun Turn In

A Reader Reports from the Hartford CT Gun Buyback

Cleveland Gun Buyback Program Attracts Buyers Offering Cash for Guns (VIDEO) (OH)

The Detroit PD Doesn’t Like Competition(MI)

Gun-buying enthusiasts crash firearms ‘turn-in’ event at Memorial Coliseum(OR)

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Gun rights bills head to La. House floor

I agree that we need to preserve the First Amendment. The penalties for releasing the information should be sufficient.

BATON ROUGE — A House committee has ruled that gun owners’ rights top First Amendment rights.

The House Committee of the Administration of Criminal Justice Wednesday approved two bills by Rep. Steve Thompson, R-Bossier City, which would make it a felony for anyone to publish names and addresses of people who hold permits to carry concealed weapons. The bills, HB8 and HB98, apply to statewide permits and those issued by sheriffs that are valid in parishes where they are issued.

“There’s a danger of making people subject to robbery,” Thompson told the committee.

HB8 expands prior legislation that removed lists of handgun permit holders from the public records law to include a misdemeanor penalty — up to $500 fine and up to six months in jail — for releasing that information to anyone. It also adds a felony penalty — up to $5,000 fine and up to two years in prison — for publicizing that information in any manner.

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Polish Resistance made Sten Submachine Gun

Submachine guns are some of the easiest repeating guns to make in garage or other small shops.

To wrap up our week of semi-mystery guns, we have today a Sten gun copy made by the Polish Resistance. The gun’s owner didn’t have any details about its origin, and I have been unable to find any reference to it either. The gun is marked on the trigger housing and receiver endcap “BATHAU 19412 TDM”, and has no other visible markings.

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Missouri House Approves Sweeping Pro-Gun Proposals

Missouri legislators following their constituent wishes and the Constitution instead of the Old Media

There are actually 24 pieces of gun legislation in the Missouri House right now. The proposals in this bill would ban the enforcement of federal gun laws, allow certain school officials to be armed, some people with small firearms to carry them openly, and it would reduce the CCW age to 19.

"We're a concealed carry, second amendment-friendly state," explains A.G. Paul, owner of Sound of Freedom. And he is totally on board with that.

"Kind of makes you breathe a little easier that you're not in Massachusetts, Connecticut or California where they're stripping away everything they can."

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Illinois House fails to get supermajority to pass concealed handgun law

"May Issue" law receives only 31 votes compared to the "right to carry" law that received 64 votes. Unfortunately, a supermajority was required of 71 votes to pass.

Presumably this means that the State Attorney General will try appealing the Circuit Court decision that struck down Illinois' ban on concealed carry.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Gun rights advocates fell silent in the Illinois House on Thursday night after falling seven votes short of approving the public possession of firearms statewide despite a federal court order that gives legislators just weeks to put such a law on the books.

The proposal creating a method to permit qualified gun owners to carry concealed weapons failed 64-45. The measure needed a supermajority of 71 votes because the legislation would trump the right of the state's larger cities to set up their own laws.

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IL Dems Revolt Against Gun Control Law

If Illinois legislators do not come up with a concealed carry permit law by June 10th, the Illinois laws against the carry of firearms become void by judicial decree. Time is on the side of the freedom fighters in Illinois.

Democrats enjoy a supermajority in the Illinois House of Representatives, holding 71 seats to the GOP's 47. On Wednesday, the same day the US Senate voted down gun control legislation, powerful Democrat Speaker Michael Madigan tried to push a restrictive gun control measure through his chamber. The result was an open revolt by downstate Democrats, with almost half the Democrat caucus joining the GOP to kill the measure. The bill went down 31-76, a rare defeat for the legendary Madigan.

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Who is really lying in the gun debate?

After failing to get his gun control bill passed by the Senate Wednesday, President Obama lashed out at his usual favorite targets, "the gun lobby" and Republicans.

He claimed "the gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill." He scolded "senators [who] could not offer any good reason" to oppose the legislation. And sharing the stage with some of the heartbroken families from Newtown, Connecticut, he attacked Republicans as being unwilling to "protect the lives of all our children."

But who is really lying in the gun debate? Mr. Obama's case in favor of background checks rests on two false claims that he keeps repeating: “as many as 40 percent of all gun purchases take place without a background check” and that "background checks have kept more than 2 million dangerous people from buying a gun.”

Yet his claims only make sense if you ignore that the vast majority of these "purchases" are within family gifts and inheritances and that these "dangerous" people are actually law-abiding citizens who were accidentally stopped from buying a gun simply because they have a name that is similar to a criminal's.

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Abuse and assertion substitute for a rational look at the issues.

The tripe excerpted below is written by Paul McGeough, "Chief foreign correspondent" of a Left-leaning Australian newspaper.  From the opening sentence he abandons all pretence at believability.  He is clearly motivated by hate and rage rather than by any attempt to discover the truth.  He does a good job of showing what a poisonous lot Leftists are

So the US is cool with killing kids.

Like the 26 victims of December's massacre at a Connecticut primary school, all the reform clauses in the latest challenge to America's culture of guns and violence have gone down, shot down by a gutless Senate.  [It's gutless to rein in more and more government  intrusion into people's lives?  The word I would use is "heroic".  But our rage-filled Leftist would appear not to have thought of that.  He certainly shows no sign of considering it]

He didn't utter the words, but "scumbags" and "cowards" were the obvious subtext to a furious President Barack Obama's words in the Rose Garden, minutes after the legislative defeat – the first for the National Rifle Association and the second for all who cower in the face of its crude threats.

In a week in which the Boston bombing has the country reeling at the ease by which it can be visited by atrocity, the Senate failed to muster the necessary 60 votes to expand background checks for would-be gun buyers, to ban military-style assault weapons and to outlaw high-capacity gun magazines.  [And how would gun bans have prevented the Boston massacre?   The Boston bombers did not use guns]

He accused the “gun lobby and its allies of wilfully ly[ing]” about the compromise bill negotiated by a senator from each side of politics. He charges that Republicans and some of his own Democrat colleagues had "caved to pressure" from a vocal minority that supported gun rights.  “There were no coherent arguments as to why we wouldn't do this – it came down to politics,” Obama said.  [No coherent arguments?   Funny that the arguments went on and on about the issue.  Were all those arguments  incoherent?  But any argument that arrives at a conservative conclusion CANNOT be "coherent", of course, not in Obama's world]

Excuse me, next time the US struts the world stage, claiming American exceptionalism, setting itself out as leader of the so-called free world, it risks being dismissed as a nation of idiots. It's too easy to defer to strong polling support for gun control and to just vent about the Senate and the House – after all, who elects them?

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Holder feels 'frustration and anger' over gun bill defeat

Anger is the normal state of leftists

Attorney General Eric Holder expressed frustration and anger Thursday over the Senate's defeat of gun control legislation this week, but vowed he will continue to fight for measures to prevent gun violence.

“Despite my disappointment and, quite frankly, my frustration and anger at the filibuster in the Senate yesterday that led to the failure to adopt some of those changes, despite the fact that a majority voted for them, I and my colleagues throughout the administration remain committed to standing with the families of Newtown,” said Holder in testimony before the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday

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Who Killed Gun Control?

The new media is gradually spreading the truth. The decades of old "progressive" media propaganda is gradually being overcome on this issue. From the article:

I was struck by this poll graphic in the Washington Post on Wednesday. Despite the virtually unanimous support for stricter gun control in the national media, along with other opinion shapers such as Hollywood and the universities, and despite the mass shootings that have received so much attention in our modern world of 24-hour news channels, Americans are becoming more convinced that guns make your family safer.

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EXCLUSIVE: A Right Delayed

Floodwaters from Hurricane Sandy “damaged tens of thousands of [New Jersey] mental health records used as part of background checks for gun purchases … meaning some prospective gun owners have not been able to buy pistols or rifles for several months,” The Wall Street Journal reported.

“The months-long backlog coincides with a surge in gun ownership,” the story continued, spotlighting one resident who decided to protect himself following a rash of burglaries and has since been waiting almost half a year for the ID card the Garden State requires to purchase a firearm.

“A right delayed is a right denied,” the would-be gun owner complained, echoing the famous quote by Martin Luther King. In this case, it’s not hard to see how such a delay could prove fatal.

Such delays don’t just happen due to natural disasters. And a new law being demanded under the guise of saving lives could actually end up endangering some.

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NM:Judge relaxes release conditions for Reese father and son

In an order granting a motion "supported by good cause" to amend conditions of release filed yesterday, Judge Robert C. Brack of the District Court of the United States for the District of New Mexico in Las Cruces ordered that “ankle monitoring devices worn by Rick Reese and Ryin Reese are to be removed.”

“It is further ordered,” the judge mandated, “that the Defendants … shall be allowed to travel freely within the boundaries of the State of New Mexico [and] that the curfew imposed upon the Defendants … shall be modified to be from 10 p.m. until 6 a.m.

“[A]ll other conditions remain in force,” the order declared.

Father Rick and son Ryin are part of a family of gun dealers jailed for allegedly knowingly selling guns to cartel members, but who were found not guilty on the most serious charges of conspiracy and had money laundering charges against them dismissed. They were convicted on a handful of lesser charges of making false statements on forms, basically under the presumption that they should have know federal agents were lying. Wife Terri was released on bond last year, son Remington was cleared of all charges, and a new trial for the outstanding convictions has been ordered following the judge’s ruling that the prosecutor withheld evidence from the jury.

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Ban all high-capacity bombs!

That's the logic of the anti-gun brigade after the Boston outrage

Obama the sore loser; McCain the traitor

President Barack Obama says ‘‘the gun lobby and its allies’’ used lies and distortion to thwart legislation in the US Senate that would have expanded background checks for firearms purchases.

Senators voted 54-46, with 60 needed to adopt the measure, as a handful of Democrats joined most Republicans in opposition. The vote was the most significant on gun control in 20 years

Mr Obama placed the blame on Republicans and lobbyists for gun manufacturers for rejecting the measure in defiance of the will of a majority of the public. He vowed to press on to get gun legislation passed.

‘‘I see this as just Round 1,’’ Obama said in remarks from the White House Rose Garden. He told voters to ‘‘sustain some passion about this.’’

Obama spoke about 90 minutes after backers fell short of 60 votes needed to adopt the measure, an amendment crafted by Senator Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, and Pat Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican.

The proposal was intended to be a bipartisan compromise and its failure marks a defeat for the president, who made heightened restrictions on guns and ammunition a priority following the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting last December.

‘‘The gun lobby and its allies wilfully lied about the bill,’’ Obama said. Today ‘‘was a pretty shameful day for Washington.’’

Mr Obama’s push to expand background checks, renew a federal assault weapons ban and limit ammunition magazines faced opposition from the National Rifle Association, the nation’s biggest lobby for gun owners and manufacturers.

Five Democrats voted against the background-check measure: Max Baucus of Montana, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Mark Begich of Alaska and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota. Baucus, Pryor and Begich face re-election in 2014 in states carried last year by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Majority Leader Harry Reid also voted no, allowing himself under Senate rules to seek reconsideration of the vote.

Republicans Mark Kirk of Illinois, John McCain of Arizona, Susan Collins of Maine and Toomey voted for the amendment.

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WA:Suspect from Home Invasion Arrested

In the incident Monday a man who returned home and found two intruders shot and killed one with a shotgun. The homeowner also fired at the second suspect as he fled in the stolen SUV, shooting out a window.

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Statement from Chris W. Cox on U.S. Senate Defeat of Manchin-Toomey-Schumer Amendment

Today, the misguided Manchin-Toomey-Schumer proposal failed in the U.S. Senate. This amendment would have criminalized certain private transfers of firearms between honest citizens, requiring lifelong friends, neighbors and some family members to get federal government permission to exercise a fundamental right or face prosecution. As we have noted previously, expanding background checks, at gun shows or elsewhere, will not reduce violent crime or keep our kids safe in their schools.

The NRA will continue to work with Republicans and Democrats who are committed to protecting our children in schools, prosecuting violent criminals to the fullest extent of the law, and fixing our broken mental health system. We are grateful for the hard work and leadership of those Senators who chose to pursue meaningful solutions to our nation’s most pressing problems.

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AL:Gun sale nets a total of $98,700 for 3 agencies Read more: The Daily Home - Gun sale nets a total of 98 700 for 3 agencies

Leftists would rather have these valuable resources detroyed in deodand ceremonies

TALLADEGA — Nearly 1,000 guns seized by Talladega police, Talladega County Sheriff’s Office and the Talladega County Drug and Violent Crime Task Force were auctioned off to federally licensed gun dealers Tuesday afternoon. According to Talladega Police Chief Alan Watson, the sale netted a total of $98,700, which will be divided between the three agencies based on who had seized the weapons in question.

According to auctioneer Johnny Vetra, 30 to 40 dealers from Alabama, Georgia and Kentucky came to look at the weapons, which ranged from a flint-lock pistol to .50 caliber Desert Eagle pistol that frequently retails for over $2,000.

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AZ:Avondale Mayor and Councilman Prevented from Return to Medieval Deodand Ritual

Pipe, club and finally gun needed to stop savage pit bull attack on woman in Detroit

DETROIT —Numerous people attempted to stop the relentlessly violent mauling of a woman by two pit bulls on Charles in Detroit late Tuesday afternoon.

They used a pipe, vehicle steering-column auto-theft device, and finally, a gun.

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Grassley upholds oath, opposes gun registrations

(Washington) -- A bipartisan proposal to mandate an expanded use of background checks on gun buys is considered in jeopardy in the U-S Senate due to dwindling Republican support. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, says he won’t back the measure.

Grassley says, “Since we had testimony before our committee from the Institute of Justice that (for) background checks to be effective you’re going to have to have registration with them, and since I don’t want gun registration because I don’t want the government to know where all the guns are, I’m going to vote against this provision.”

The legislation would require background checks be done on all gun sales at venues like gun shows and online. Background checks are only required now on sales through federally-licensed gun dealers. Some opponents of the proposal say it would violate the right to bear arms that’s guaranteed in the Constitution.

Grassley says, “I expect the main reason this provision will lose is because compromising any of our Bill of Rights, whether it’s the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment and you know how important all those are, people consider it a slippery slope and don’t want to go down that slippery slope.”

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TX:Robber shot dead by would-be victim outside Ft. Worth store

A would-be robber was shot dead by a person with a concealed handgun license outside a Metro PCS store in Ft. Worth on Tuesday afternoon.

The suspect reportedly tried to rob a man in the parking lot outside the store.

The man with the CHL was shot in the arm and the hand by the robber, but the robber was shot multiple times in the chest.

The robber was dead at the scene.

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MT:Billings woman uses Gun to stop Domestic Violence Attack

Prosecutors say a Billings woman used a gun to fend off an intruder who forced his way inside her home through a back door.

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The woman, identified only by her initials in court records, told an officer that Soderberg is her ex-boyfriend and she has a valid order of protection issued in December that prohibits him from making contact with her.

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WA:Intruder shot dead by homeowner in Enumclaw

ENUMCLAW, Wash. -- An intruder was shot to death by a homeowner Monday afternoon in Enumclaw, and deputies are looking for a second person who got away.

King County sheriff's spokeswoman Cindi West said the shooting happened just after 1 p.m. at a home in the 48100 block of 323rd Ave SE.

The homeowner told deputies he and his wife returned home Monday afternoon and found two intruders in their house. He grabbed a shotgun and shot one of the intruders. The 50-year-old later died at the scene.

The homeowner may have hit the second intruder as well, but that man was able to get away in the homeowner's gray 2002 Ford Explorer with Washington license 249-ZCL, West said.

She said the SUV's passenger window was shot out by the homeowner.

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Louisiana Restaurant offers Free Food with Concealed Carry Permit

Louisiana Restaurant offers Free Food with Concealed Carry Permit 4/15/13 | by Jennifer Cruz

Over the weekend, the Louisiana restaurant, Chicken Express, stood up for Second Amendment rights in a way that’s gaining popularity with both businesses and consumers around the country: free food and service for concealed carry permit holders.

Chicken Express of Bossier City, just outside of Shreveport, gave away a #1 combo meal on Saturday, April 13 for customers who could produce a legal concealed handgun permit. Restaurant owner Randal Neel stated that it wasn’t just about business, it was about having the opportunity to take a stand for Constitutional rights.

Neel told KLTV 7, “It feels really good to be able to stand up for what you believe in.” Apparently, consumers in the Bossier City area felt that same, as Neel also stated that it was their busiest Saturday ever.

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Response to a Bloomberg anti-freedom Campaign

An Internet friend relayed this experience to me:

A Moment Of Glee

I got a phone call today from a true believer, paid for by Mayor Bloomberg. Supposedly from the “Gabby Giffords Campaign Against Gun Violence”, asking me to contact my congressman and senators to demand gun control.

I about hurt myself trying to keep cool and reel him in. Such opportunities are very rare. So many ways to mess with their heads.

Probably the best zinger was when I asked how Gabby Giffords *husband*, Mark Kelly was doing.

What do you mean?

Well, he confessed to committing a serious federal gun crime on the radio, and he is going to be arrested. Does he have a legal defense fund yet?

!!!

I told him about Kelly acting as a straw buyer for a “fully automatic”(sic) AR-15 “military assault rifle”, and how “any day now” federal Marshals were going to arrest him and that Gabby Giffords will probably have to go to a nursing home because Mark could be in jail for years.

The poor young man was so frazzled that he apologized and had to hang up.

My friend said that with the money that Mayor Bloomberg is throwing around, more calls are likely.

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NE:Homeowner uses Shotgun to stop Burglars

An Omaha resident who found an intruder in his garage early Saturday offered some words of wisdom to the young man as they waited for police to arrive.

Rob Wegman, who lives near 212th Street and West Maple Road, said he told the man that if he wanted nice things, he should get a job.

Police arrested the intruder, Bruce Linson, 22, and an alleged accomplice, Tyler Robart, 20, both of Fremont. They were booked into the Douglas County Jail on suspicion of burglary.

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MI:80-year-old Flint man fires shots at five robbery suspects

An 80 year old man against five teenagers with guns. He produces his own gun, and they run off. Guns, the great equalizer.

FLINT, MI -- An 80-year-old Flint man fired two shots at five male teenagers attempting to rob him Thursday, April 11 in the driveway of his Helber Street home.

The homeowner called police around 9:45 p.m. to the home and told officers he'd fired two shots at the suspects, who had guns, in self defense, according to a police report.

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IN:Terre Haute Gun Turn In (buyback) Misfires

On February 19th, WTHITV reported that "Terre Haute Police and Retired Teachers of Vigo County will hold a gun buy back in April." The turn in event was to be held Saturday, April 13th.

The next day, a correction was posted. It seems some retired teachers were alarmed that their organization would be involved in such a partisan event. It became apparent that the Vigo County Retired Teachers Association was *not* sponsoring the event. The new partner with the THPD was the Vigo County's League of Women Voters.

On 10 April, members of a local forum wondered what was happening with the scheduled event. No one had heard any advertising for it. People wanted to know so that they could turn up to buy guns inexpensively, or to turn in junkers for gift cards.

On Saturday, 13 April, a member of Indiana Gun Owners observed the announced location for the turn in several times during the day, but could not detect any activity indicating that it was taking place.

A phone call to the THPD has not yet resulted in a call back to indicate what happened.

Perhaps the funding for the event never materialized. Perhaps the local activists organizing to take advantage of the event were noticed, and it was decided that the event was not worth the effort. Perhaps the organizer got sick or had a family emergency. It is worth noting that a gun show was scheduled and did take place in Terre Haute on 13 April.

A gun show is, in a sense, a free market version of a gun turn in or "buyback" event, only it makes a profit, does not waste police resources, gives market value for valuable items, and puts guns into responsible hands from those who do not want them.

Link to turn in announcement by WTHITV

Link to correction about retired tearchers association

Link to local forum discussing lack of advertising

Link showing gun show in Terre Haute 13 April

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Sheila Jackson-Lee: “Don’t Condemn the Gangbangers. Blame the Guns.”

One of the more flamboyant and interesting members of Congress is none other than Shelia Jackson Lee who seems to have quite a problem with basic facts and has been know to say some of the most outlandish things for an elected official (she still thinks there is a North and South Vietnam even though there hasn't been since 1976). And just last week while pushing for more gun control legislation on the House floor, Ms. Jackson-Lee said this doosey of a line,

“Don’t condemn the gangbangers, they’ve got guns that are trafficked - that are not enforced, that are straw purchased and they come into places even that have strong gun laws." and the clincher, “Why? Because we don’t have sensible gun legislation.”

So we are supposed to go easy on the gangbanger thugs because they somehow were what, forced to use trafficked guns, and if we only had sensible gun legislation apparently these criminal elements would no longer seek out weapons to assist them in their law breaking? Did Ms Jackdon-Lee ever stop to think that maybe it is the gangbangers themselves who are the ones trafficking the guns?

You have to ask yourself, how did this woman ever get elected to Congress?

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A Missouri School Trains Its Teachers to Carry Guns, and Most Parents Approve

WEST PLAINS, Mo. — At 8:30 on a cloudy, frigid morning late last month in this folksy Ozark town, the superintendent of an area school strolled through the glass doors of the local newspaper office to deliver a news release.

Hours later, the content of that release produced a front-page headline in The West Plains Daily Quill that caught residents off guard: “At Fairview School Some Employees Now Carry Concealed Weapons.”

That was how most parents of Fairview students learned that the school had trained some of its staff members to carry weapons, and the reaction was loud — and mostly gleeful.

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Charles Schumer: Gun-control deal means NY could be 'swamped' by out-of-staters with concealed arms

New York would be forced to honor concealed-weapons permits from the other 49 states under proposals advanced in the Senate by allies of the National Rifle Association as part of a broader gun control deal, Sen. Charles Schumer warned Sunday.

In a release issued Sunday, Schumer (D-N.Y.) said New York, which requires stringent screenings of concealed-carry applicants, could be "swamped by armed individuals from out of state carrying hidden and loaded firearms."

But Rockland County Legis. Frank Sparaco (R-Valley Cottage), a critic of parts of New York's SAFE Act gun control law, applauded the reciprocal carry proposal as a "wonderful idea" akin to the agreement under which licenses let motorists drive in any state. He maintained that the right to bear arms is protected absolutely under the Second Amendment.

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Photo of Man With Gun in Diner Gains Approval

A facebook photo of a man sitting at a diner, with a holstered pistol that appears to be a Glock in a Serpa holster, is getting quite a bit of attention.

The question is asked "If you were in a public place, would you feel comfortable with this sitting 10 feet away from your children?"

The comments are overwhelmingly positive, ranging from

"My children and grandchildren are very knowledgeable about weapons. They would be discussing velocity, and range with the man."

to

"I bet that place won't get rob while he's there. Yea I would feel safe."

There are a very few slightly negative comments.

There are nearly 95,000 comments.

This says quite a bit about the normalization of open carry.

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Link to facebook page with picture of open carry

Jogger Shoots Two Dogs to Defend Himself, His Own Pet

RENO, Nev. -- Shots rang out in a Stead neighborhood early Sunday afternoon after two pit bulls attacked a jogger and his dog.

It happened on Rising Sun Drive. Police say the man lives in the area and was jogging in a residential area when the pit bulls attacked.

"Two loose, unrestrained pit bulls attacked his dog and when he tried to separate the pit bulls and his dog, the pit bulls attacked him," said Sgt. Joe Lever of the Reno Police Department. "He was jogging with a concealed firearm which he has a permit for. He discharged the firearm twice, striking one dog who died instantly. We followed a blood trail and found the other in a backyard with a through-and-through wound."

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Coburn Amendment:Sane Universal Background Checks

The anti-freedom fascists will never approve of this, because it does not advance their agenda. In fact, it reverses it, because the next logical step is to allow the self-check to be used for FFL approved transfers.

It is a poison pill for fascists.

We suspected from media rumors that there was going to be an, “In the event of gun control, break glass,” strategy from the stronger Republicans. Unfortunately, the Toomey-Manchin deal has given real legs to this issue once again, and given murmurs from the House, including my own Congressman (not surprised), I don’t feel particularly good about the House. Getting a “true conservative” like Toomey on board with the deal, unfortunately, makes a lot of critters think “Well, if Toomey is on board, it must be OK!”

And so Senator Tom Coburn floats an alternative that I think would be far preferable, if I’m going to be required to pick my poison:

Dr. Coburn’s amendment would require a NICS check or validation permit to be presented for non-FFL transfers, exempting family transfers, estate/will transfers, and all temporary transfers.

The requirement can be satisfied in one of four ways:

1) An FFL takes custody ofthe firearm in order to perform a background check on the transferee as mandated in Schumer original and Manchin-Toomey

2) Presentation oftemporary 30 day permit created by running a self-NICS check through a new consumer portal(details below)

3) Usage of a concealed carry permit or any other state issued permit that requires a NICS check to be conducted to obtain

4) Any other alternative that a state comes up with to satisfy the validation requirements for secondary and private market transfers. The amendment also includes a provision that places penalties on ATF agents that abuse records during audits, an IG report on the FBI’s 24 hour destruction rule compliance, a prohibition on records, a prohibition on centralizing records pertaining to gun ownership and a provision that allows states to assume primacy of enforcement of the background check law.

Consumer Portal

• FBI shall provide a consumer portal through its website, mobile application, or other applicable medium to allow a potential transferee to run a NICS check on his/herself
• A successful background check will provide potential transferee with a temporary 30 day permit that validates he/she is not prohibited from legally purchasing or possessing a firearm
• The temporary permit can be used by the transferee for any private transfers in compliance with state or federal law during the 30 day time window
• The permit will be made available to the transferee as an electronic printable document, via a mobile application or other appropriate means
• The 30 day permit will provide the name, date of expiration of permit, and a unique pin number that can be used to verify activation by transferor
• The consumer portal will be designed with privacy protections so that only a prospective transferee can run his/her own NICS check
• The documentation provided by consumer portal will utilize necessary fraud protections
• A valid 30 day permit provided by the consumer portal that is verified with a valid governmentissued photo identification would suit the law’s requirements
• Information provided by prospective transferee to conduct background check through the consumer portal must be destroyed within 24-hours as occurs for FFL conducted background checks

The new law will not go into effect until the consumer portal is up and running, and the law will be nullified if the consumer portal is permanently shut down or defunded.

Screw going through an FFL being an alternative though. The alternative should be that FFLs can issue a validation to a prospective buyer, to facilitate a private sale for someone who doesn’t want to use the portal. Also, this all has to be with the FBI. ATF can’t have anything to do with this portal. In fact, I’d be happier with an independent agency, separate from the DOJ, running NICS.

The concern here is that the requirement that records not be kept by the FBI from the check are worth about as much as Cypriot deposit insurance. There needs to be independent, and regular auditing. While in this scheme, the seller presumably would keep the buyer’s certificate, there can’t be any requirement to do so. The enforcement mechanism for this is that if you sell to someone prohibited, obviously you didn’t run the check, and also the fact that most gun owners, to the utter shock of anti-gun folks everywhere, really don’t want to sell guns to criminals. Also, do we still get some things in return for the Coburn proposal? That would be a necessary component.

Again folks, what our options are depends on how people are communicating with lawmakers. If everyone who was lining up at gun shows at the start of all this were calling lawmakers, we would not be here. We worked a gun show to get people to contact, and the number of people who wouldn’t, because they just didn’t think it mattered, was very discouraging. Don’t be those people. Also, just be emphatic that you expect them to vote against all gun control measures, and that yes, background checks are gun control, no matter what Senator Toomey says. You wouldn’t accept background checks for Internet access (to make sure you’re not, say, a child porn convict). Firearms rights should not be any different.

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OH: Man Attempting Home Invasion Shot and Killed

TOLEDO -- An attempted burglary early Saturday ends with one man dead.

It happened around one this morning at this home on the 4500 block of Douglas Road. police say the homes owner, 45-year old Bryan Loyer woke up to an intruder attempting to kick in his side door.

Loyer announced several times he had a gun, but the suspect, 24-year old Lucas Hassen continued to kick the door. That's when Loyer fired, causing Hassen to flee.

When police arrived they located Hassen lying in a neighbors back-yard- dead of an apparent gun-shot wound. an investigation continues.

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NC:Home invasion suspects killed in gunfight with NC homeowner

Two men suspected of attempting to invade a home in North Carolina Friday died after a gunfight with the homeowner.

Fayetteville Police tell WTVD both robbery suspects fled the home after the exchange of gunfire. One of the suspects, 25-year-old Dominik Council, was found dead on the side of the road nearly two hours after the incident.

The other suspect, 20-year-old Xavier White, was found wounded and transported to an area hospital, where he later died, according to the station.

Police said the homeowner, who was not identified, was injured during the gunfight. Details on the individual's condition were not immediately available.

Police on Saturday identified 24-year-old Lamyer Campbell and 24-year-old Derek Hair as suspects in the attempted home invasion.

More here at foxnews.com

More liberal "logic"

A germane comparison

AL:Woman Shoots Husband in Self Defense

Birmingham, AL (WBRC) - Birmingham police officers say a Friday night homicide was an act of self-defense. Investigators say 45 year old Percy Coleman was found shot to death at a home on 1408 30th Street Ensley around 10:15.More Here

FL:Deputies: Polk County man killed in self-defense

LAKE WALES, Fla. —Deputies in Polk County have determined a man was killed in self-defense early Saturday morning, but two have been arrested on unrelated charges.

Authorities were called to Dr. J.A. Wiltshire Avenue in Lake Wales about 4:15 a.m. for a body lying face down in a yard.

After investigation, deputies determined Ben Furman shot and killed Joseph Coney in self-defense as Coney threatened him with gardening shears.

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Sargent Arrested for Carrying Slung Rifle in Texas

The conflict between law enforcement and armed military personnel in the community around Fort Hood, one of America’s largest military bases, has recently and repeatedly involved the issue of gun control — and the tension has been exacerbated in part by an Obama-supporting prosecutor described as a “bandleader” of anti-gun efforts in the heavily conservative community.

The conflict reached a fever pitch last month, when Texas police arrested an active-duty Army sergeant for “rudely displaying” a hunting rifle. The sergeant, C.J. Grisham, established an online legal defense fund after he was, in his words, “illegally arrested and disarmed” for carrying the firearm.

“While out hiking with my son through backcountry roads to help him earn his Eagle Scout rank, I was illegally arrested and disarmed without cause. I was thrown in jail and my lawfully owned weapons were confiscated without receipt or notice,” Grisham wrote on the website for the defense fund.

Video of the incident obtained by The Daily Caller shows officers defending their behavior to Grisham while restraining him.

“In this day and age, [people] are alarmed when they see someone with what you have,” one of the officers tells Grisham in the video. “They don’t care what the law is.”

Grisham, who is stationed at Fort Hood, was arrested in his hometown of Temple, Texas, east of the base, after police stopped him for carrying an unconcealed rifle slung over his shoulder. Texas is a right-to-carry state, and law-abiding gun permit owners can carry rifles and hunting weapons openly, so long as the weapons are not being carried in a threatening way.

But one of the Temple police officers told Grisham that anyone holding a gun is considered dangerous, according to the video.

“When you alarm people, and they call us,” one of the officers in the video begins to say, after Grisham asks why the officiers failed to ask for his concealed-carry permit.

“And did you explain to them what the law is, sir?” Grisham asks.

“They don’t care what the law is,” the officer replies. Graham then shoots back, “Do you care what the law is?”

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A funny one

This time it was the intruder who called 911.  A man who broke into a house in Portland, Oregon, called police -- afraid the homeowner may have a gun.

The suspect, Timothy James Chapek, was in the bathroom taking a shower when the homeowner returned to the house Monday night, Portland police said in a statement.

Accompanied by two German shepherds, the homeowner asked Chapek what he was doing in the house.

Chapek locked himself in the bathroom and made an emergency call, police said. He said he had broken into the house, the owner had come home, and that he was concerned the owner might have a gun.

The homeowner also called the police to report that he had found a man in the house.

Police with dogs took Chapek, 24, into custody "without incident," they said. He was booked for criminal trespass.  They did not say if the homeowner did in fact have a gun.

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Alaska Passes Comprehensive Knife Rights Bill, Call & Write Governor

Gilbert, AZ --(Ammoland.com)- After two years of effort, Knife Rights is very pleased to announce that the Alaska Legislature passed HB33, the comprehensive Knife Rights Bill, and it is now on its way to Governor Sean Parnell.

HB33 repeals the ban on the possession of switchblade (automatic) knives and enacts Knife Law Preemption. repealing all existing local restrictions on knives and preventing any new local knife laws from being enacted in Alaska.

Knife Rights would like to thank Representative Mark Neumann and Senator Fred Dyson for sponsoring this important legislation and for their determination that resulted in unanimous passage in both the Senate and House.

If you live work or travel to Alaska, PLEASE Call AND Email Governor Parnell and ask him to please sign HB33 as soon as possible.

CALL the Governor at: 907-465-3500 Email the Governor at: governor@alaska.gov

When you call and email, keep it polite, short and to the point. Just ask him to please sign HB33 as soon as possible.

About: Knife Rights (www.KnifeRights.org) is America’s Grassroots Knife Owners Organization, working towards a Sharper Future for all knife owners. Knife Rights is dedicated to providing knife owners an effective voice in public policy. Become a Knife Rights member and make a contribution to support the fight for your knife rights. Visit www.kniferights.orgMore at Ammoland

FL: Lauderhill Gun turn in "buyback" Cheap Guns Opportunity 18 May, 2013

The Florida city of Lauderhill, in Broward County, will be hosting a gun turn in event on 18 May, 2013. While these events are commonly labled with the propaganda term "buyback" the guns were never owned by the people attempting to buy them.

I have been unable to find what the value of the gift cards offered will be, but the event will be held at Lauderhill Sprts Park, 7500 West Oakland Park Blvd., from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM.

Lauderhill has the highest percentage of Jamaican immigrants in the country, about 18 percent. It was primarily a retirement community in the 1980's and 1990's, so there might be some decent guns turned in by widows who do not understand their value.

Across the country, communities, police departments and churches are sponsoring gun turn-ins to get "guns off the street". At many of these events, private buyers are showing up, offering cash for the more valuable guns. These private additions to the public turn-in are effective, no doubt, in getting more guns off the street, because they add to the resources that are available to those who want to get rid of guns for something of value, be it a grocery card or a number of twenty dollar bills.

You can help make the turn-in in your area more effective by standing on the curve with your "Cash for Guns" sign, or at a folding table, willing to offer more than the gift card for firearms that are more valuable. It would be best if numerous private parties were available, as more good guns could then be transferred into responsible hands.

This action serves many useful purposes. It stretches the turn-in budget so that more guns can be taken off the street. It helps keep fearful widows from being defrauded of most of the market value of the gun they are turning in. It prevents valuable assets from being destroyed by bureaucratic inflexibility. It is a win-win-win situation.

It also dispels the pernicious message that guns are bad and should be destroyed.

Local information about Lauderhill would be much appreciated by everyone.

Link to article with numerous exampls of private sales at gun turn in events

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Publicity Encourages "Swatting" Why not apply that logic to Mass public shootings?

If the Police understand that giving media attention to Celeb "Swatting" encourages more of it, why can't we do the same for multiple victim public shootings?

If publicity is encouraging these Celeb "Swattings" and if the police are going to stop releasing information to discourage those attacks, why can't this policy be employed elsewhere? The most obvious case involves multiple victim public shootings where it is now becoming clear that even the latest Newtown attack was just another case where the killer planned his attack for over two years to get media attention. From CBS News in LA:

The Los Angeles Police Department said Thursday that they will no longer offer immediate information to the media on bogus 911 calls that target celebrity homes. “We think that whoever is doing this is motivated by watching the police on TV and watching the helicopters come in, and we don’t want to allow that opportunity,” said Cmdr. Andrew Smith. Smith said the department will also stop broadcasting the “swatting” calls so news organizations can’t hear the location of the star’s home. The media will now have to file a public records request, which can take 10 days. When asked if residents have the right to know about a potential safety concern, Smith said, “Our officers will always talk to the families and the people who live in the neighborhoods about what’s going on and reassure them that it’s not an actual emergency there. What we won’t do is broadcast the street to the media, we won’t broadcast whose house it was.” . . .

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Guns want to be free: what happens when 3D printing and crypto-anarchy collide?

Cyberculture icon Stewart Brand’s famous notion that “information wants to be free” has been an almost ubiquitous refrain ever since utopian-minded hackers began populating computer networks in the 1980s. Today, 3D printing has given the phrase a whole new meaning, allowing raw data to become real world weapons with the click of a button. Cody R. Wilson, the antagonistic founder of Defense Distributed, is taking that idea to its logical — and hugely controversial — extreme.

Having recently obtained his federal manufacturing license, Wilson hopes to release files for the world’s first fully 3D-printable firearm by the end of this month. His past progress has already thrown a major wrench into America’s resurgent gun control debate, feeding doubts about the efficacy of renewed bans on undetectable firearms. But his reasoning, he claims, isn't really about the Second Amendment at all — it's about technological progress rendering the very concept of gun control meaningless.

"It's more radical for us,” he told Motherboard in “Click Print Gun,” a recent mini-doc about the dark side of the 3D printing revolution. “There are people all over the world downloading our files and we say 'good.' We say you should have access to this. You simply should."

If this all sounds very similar to the good gospel spread by Brand and advanced by progressives and activists like the late Aaron Swartz, you’re hearing it right. But even without the context of Wilson’s operation, firearms and freedom of information share a strangely similar history, an oft-overlooked ideological confluence between hackers and gun advocates that seems to be gaining momentum.

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What about national CCW reciprocity, cross-state sales?

With expanded background check legislation on the table, would now be the proper time for gun owners to demand national concealed carry reciprocity and restoration of the right to buy guns anywhere on the map?

Pro-gun control politicians, including Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, should have the courage of their convictions to appear at gun owner gatherings and explain what’s wrong with recognizing that the right of self-defense crosses state lines.

The Washington Post raised the thorny issue of national concealed carry reciprocity Friday, suggesting that if it is added as an amendment to the background check bill, it might kill the measure. The newspaper said it was offered as an amendment but Democrats “flatly rejected” the idea.

Well, specifically, one (1) Democrat — vehemently anti-gun New York Sen. Charles Schumer — rejected it, according to the Washington Post. What’s his problem? (Perhaps it is the same problem freshman anti-gun Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut has with NASCAR's big Spring Cup race in Texas this weekend, sponsored by the National Rifle Association. Even Seattle's KING5 reported the flap Saturday morning during its 7 o'clock hour.)

If a citizen undergoes a background check in his/her state of residence and qualifies for a concealed pistol license, as more than 411,000 Washingtonians have, why should that citizen not be able to: a) carry his/her concealed handgun in any other state for personal protection, and b) be able to walk into any gun store in the country, plunk down hard cash, and buy a handgun, shotgun or rifle and take it home?

More here at Seattle Gun Rights Examiner

Texas House panel approves guns on campus bill

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Two days after a knife-wielding attacker wounded more than a dozen people on a Texas college campus, a state House panel voted to allow concealed handgun license holders to carry weapons into college buildings and classrooms.

The House Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee pushed the bill up to the full House with a 7-1 vote without debate. Lawmakers had taken public testimony on the measure several weeks ago.

More here at Chron.com

Every mass shooting over last 20 years has one thing in common … and it’s not guns:  "Nearly every mass shooting incident in the last twenty years, and multiple other instances of suicide and isolated shootings all share one thing in common, and its not the weapons used. The overwhelming evidence points to the signal largest common factor in all of these incidents is the fact that all of the perpetrators were either actively taking powerful psychotropic drugs or had been at some point in the immediate past before they committed their crimes." [Ban psychiatric drugs?]

OR:Woman Who Pulls Gun On Attacker Speaks to Lars

A 22-year-old Oregon City woman pulled out her gun to defend herself against a stranger who was assaulting her. She'd just parked her car when she says a man grabbed her from behind by the pony tail and dragged her.

She pulled out a handgun, pointed it at him and he got scared. The woman has a concealed carry permit.

The man took off on foot near the intersection of 8th and John Adams Street after 10:00 on Sunday night. He's said to be white, in his 20's, about 5'8" with a slender build and medium length hair down to his chin.

Police have just released a sketch of the attacker and tipsters are asked to call Oregon City Police at (503) 496-1616.

She chose KXL's Lars Larson as her first interview since the incident. We gave posted the entire interview from Friday, April 12th below.

Audio of the interview here 7.5 minutes

Washington Post admits: Stopping Criminals not Goal of Gun Bill

An interesting admission in the Washington Post:

Moments after clearing the first procedural hurdle, Democrats and gun control groups began readying themselves for a potentially more difficult fight: Weeks of Senate debate defending their carefully crafted legislation against possible amendments — particularly a plan to allow gun owners to carry concealed weapons from one state to another — that would kill the bill’s underlying goal.

If the underlying goal of the "universal background check" bill is not to "keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentaly ill", both of which are prevented from obtaining concealed carry permits, one must ask what the underlying goal is.

Could the underlying goal be an attack against the gun culture, to obtain registration, then gradual reduction of the number of people allowed to have guns, and eventually gun confiscation?

If not, why not allow universal reciprocity for those who have shown themselves to be at least as responsible as police officers?

Link to Washington Post article here:

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Oathkeepers to sponsor Earnhardt NASCAR

Funds are being raised by Oathkeepers for Jeffrey Earnhadt's NASCAR car. This makes quite a bit of sense, as it reaches out to the overlapping demographics of NASCAR fans and people who take their obligations to their oath of office seriously.

”Oath Keepers are those who stepped forward, raised their hand and are willing to die to protect and defend our Constitution; that means everything to me and I’m honored to be a part this.” – Jeffrey Earnhardt

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