Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea

USA --(Ammoland.com)- “’The problem with Internet quotations is that many are not genuine.’—Abraham Lincoln”

Humorous as that may be, it’s true, and for those of us striving to keep the argument in favor of an armed citizenry credible, it can be maddening seeing activist gun owners promulgating the spurious Washington “Liberty teeth” quote, or the supposed “1935 will go down in history!” crowing from Adolf Hitler.

As with spreading unfounded Internet rumors, all it takes is the antis catching you passing along debunked sayings as truth, and they’ll use it to attack your reliability on everything else.

That’s where “Proclaiming Liberty,” partially inspired by the above “Lincoln quote,” can really help. Written by Second Amendment scholar, writer and speaker Philip Mulivor, who also serves as director of media relations for the grassroots group Ohioans for Concealed Carry, this is a book that can quickly—and enjoyably—be devoured in an afternoon, yet returned to often as a handy and definitive resource.

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About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.DavidCodrea.com.

Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea

USA --(Ammoland.com)- “As one of the thirteen original colonies, North Carolina maintains the moral and legal concept that the right to keep and bear sporting arms is one of the fundamental privileges granted by our American Democracy,” North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford informed GUNS Magazine when asked for a public comment on his stance on the issue.

“This privilege should be infringed upon only when deemed necessary, through the will of the people in a democratic action, to insure public safety or to prescribe the manner of taking game,” he continued. “We do not anticipate any legislation abrogating these premises.”

No, but anticipate it or not, defining a fundamental right as a granted privilege subject to majority consensus on something as nebulous as “public safety” opens the door for literally anything those who want to abridge those rights can think up and manipulate public opinion on. Presumably, Gov. Sanford would also have no objection if enough voters could be bamboozled into backing a state-imposed religion or no religion at all, or prohibitions on free speech, or the lifting of them on warrantless searches or cruel and unusual punishment…

But wait a second: Terry Sanford? North Carolina’s governor is Bev Perdue. Sanford gave up that office back in ’65.

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About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.DavidCodrea.com.

Gun Rights - The Latest Civil Right To Come Under Fire

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Manasquan, NJ --(Ammoland.com)- While its certainly true that firearms rights and freedoms have seen an exponential increase over the last thirty years, its equally true that those rights have been hard won.

Gun owners having to constantly push back against a tsunami of deliberate misrepresentations and out right lies foisted on an uneducated public by various gun control groups, aided and abetted by their ideological puppet-masters in the mainstream media.

These anti freedom demagogues have NO moral or ethical constraints to restrain them from their malicious malfeasance, so it’s left to the true grassroots individuals and assorted groups on the side of freedom to take up the task of informing the public of the facts. The 2008 SCOTUS Case Heller v DC is just one recent example. The anti gun zealots insisted to anyone that would listen up to, during, after and even today, nearly three years after the ruling; that this case was the first time the Supreme Ct ruled in such a way.

This is bald faced LIE and is something that can easily be proven as such with a simple five minute Google or Amazon search for a book titled ” Supreme Court Gun Cases” which covers two centuries and ninety two separate cases where the Supreme Court addressed the issue of the Second Amendment and firearms ownership and use as an individual and protected right.

The more recent case of Chicago v McDonald, affirming that the Second Amendment was a protected individual right, binding against the States via the Fourteenth Amendment, should have been the final nail in the coffin for the gun banners, yet the various groups, anti gun politicians and their enablers in the media have obstinately persisted in their efforts to do everything within their power to actively work to deny this fundamental civil right to as many people as possible, in every way they can conceive, with some of the most twisted logic and absurd reasoning ever voiced or put to paper.

Sadly, this is not the first time in our Country’s history we have born witness to this type of despicable and despotic behavior before and should easily recognize it.

We saw it with the enactment of the Sullivan Law in NY, designed solely to deprive recent immigrants their American Civil Right to firearms, because they were viewed as a threat to the ” establishment ” and slandered in the most vicious manner imaginable.

We saw this repeated again with the Civil Rights movement and again with the anti gay rhetoric during the 80′s. Anti Firearms ownership, use, and carry is just the latest iteration of a decades old dogma, one that you would think the majority of the population would have learned by now to dismiss for what it is, a baseless, bigoted, immoral and ethically bankrupt mindset.

During the Civil Rights Era, many people, citizens and politicians alike excoriated Rosa Parks for daring to stand up for herself and the rights of all African Americans by challenging the status quo. She and many, many others endured vicious verbal attacks, physical attacks, threats and the worst of human behavior at the hands of her fellow citizens, as did homosexuals when they first gained the courage to “come out of the closet”.

Pro Freedom, Pro Firearms patriots of every color, creed, race, socioeconomic level, and sexual orientation now find themselves enduring the same despicable behavior. I find it disturbing that the people that claim the loudest to be the most open minded and inclusive are the same people that yell the loudest about how backward, unenlightened, uneducated and dangerous firearms owners are.  How they deserve to be shunned, shamed and viciously attacked for nothing more then daring to uphold the ideals of the Founding Fathers.  Or the desire to embrace their freedom and civil rights and have the ability to defend their lives and the lives of their loved ones from criminal predators that our justice system has shown time and again to be unable or unwilling to deal with in any meaningful manner.

More articles, commentary and information by Dan Robert available at That Every Man Be Armed.com

Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea

USA --(Ammoland.com)- “The concept of a ‘monopoly on force’ might sound foreign or even frightening to Americans that take great pride in our revolutionary beginnings,” Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Executive Director Josh Horwitz wrote in a Huffington Post citizen disarmament advocacy piece, “but it is the fundamental organizing principle of any political entity, including the United States.”

“To back up this assertion,” I explained in a GUNS Magazine Rights Watch column, “he cites, ‘German political economist and sociologist Max Weber.’”

“What he doesn’t cite,” I elaborated, “is Weber’s support for approving Article 48 into the Weimar constitution, establishing “emergency powers” to bypass Reichstag consent, and allowing Adolf Hitler’s rise to unchallenged power. Not to mention the attainment of a ‘monopoly of force,’ although Weber preferred the term ‘violence.’”

It’s no surprise someone representing an organization that changed its name from “The National Coalition to Ban Handguns” in order to mask its true intent would keep that bit of crucial information from his readers—after all, he must have boxes of books on the subject nobody’s buying or reading that he needs to unload.  But those who agree with Horwitz’s historically insupportable, and frankly, loopy conclusion, that the freest and safest citizens are those who cede their primal rights to an all-powerful state monopoly, might be interested to learn that one of the “founding fathers” of modern “progressivism” came to the exact opposite conclusion.

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About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.DavidCodrea.com.

Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea

USA --(Ammoland.com)- “Although San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi was a strong advocate of gun control while on the Board of Supervisors, he surrendered 3 handguns when police recently booked him on misdemeanor domestic violence charges,” KCBS reports.

“Mirkarimi apparently owned them while sponsoring legislation last summer to bolster San Francisco gun control laws against a lawsuit by the National Rifle Association.”

“Mirkarimi was elected sheriff in November after serving seven years as one of the city’s more liberal supervisors,” Fox News tells us.

Indeed, “As a longtime member of the progressive bloc on the Board of Supervisors, Mirkarimi was a vocal advocate of gun control,” The San Francisco Examiner informs us.

“But after being arrested on three misdemeanor charges including domestic violence battery, Mirkarimi was forced to turn over all his guns to authorities.”

“If Mirkarimi were convicted on the domestic violence charge, he would not be able to carry a gun as sheriff,” reporter Joshua Sabatini claims.

True, but it would entail more than that. If convicted, “thanks” to the infamous Lautenberg Amendment, he would be a prohibited person under federal law, forbidden not only to carry a gun, but to own or even touch one—forever.

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About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.DavidCodrea.com.

Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea

USA --(Ammoland.com)- Close call may reveal home invader-favoring ‘loophole’ in Garden State’s ‘castle doctrine’ law

I gave a partial recount of my speech to the Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots of Central Montgomery County as a supplement to my January 9 Gun Rights Examiner column. One of the pleasant experiences of the evening I mentioned:

“I’d also like to give a quick shout out to Sandy Berardi of Gun For Hire Radio. He had a table set up to cover the event and I spent a fun hour that went by all too quickly with him and with Kevin Fialkowski of RedEye Defensive Solutions.”

I’ve been corresponding with Berardi since the event, and he shared a story with me that deserves wider cognizance. He sent an email out on the 16th to Fialkowski and me announcing the archiving of our interview and relating a scary story:

“Sorry for the short notice guys. We had another show planned for tonight, but it never took place. I actually suffered a home invasion on Friday evening and could not leave my home on Saturday to do the remote broadcast we had planned. It’s a long story that, thank God, might have been much worse given a slight turn in events. My wife Diane actually walked into the house as scumbags were ripping my gun safe out of the wall and they fled– thank God, leaving her unharmed– but rattled. No guns were taken. Anyway, hence the short notice on the airing of the episode. We’ve been dealing with all the cleanup and re-securing… they kicked in the front door shattering the entire door frame and deadbolt locks. Chaos has hit the Jersey ‘countryside.’ Lord knows what this summer will be like. Likely a long hot summer. Please let your networks know to be extra safe. We’ll be talking about the incident on next week’s show. It’s a good teaching opportunity. Be safe.”

Intrigued, I expressed relief that Diane was physically unharmed, and then sent him some follow-up questions…

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About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at http://www.DavidCodrea.com.

Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea

USA --(Ammoland.com)- Gun owners must support Mitt Romney if he’s the Republican candidate, we are being told by some opinion makers, because the next president will be making all-important Supreme Court nominations. After all, we were just one vote away from losing Heller and McDonald.

It seems a compelling argument. But it’s also a desperate one, and one not based on anything besides wishful thinking if Romney’s actual record on judicial appointments is considered. And now we can consider it, thanks to a Washington Times analysis by rival GOP candidate Rick Santorum:

“Mr. Romney nominated 36 judges while governor, just nine of whom were Republicans. What he says of this record today is that the Massachusetts Governor’s Council had to confirm the nominees, and the members of the council were all Democrats. So his answer was to nominate persons palatable to Democrats…

“…There is no evidence that Mr. Romney ever fought for a conservative nominee…He passively accepted the reality that he needed to nominate four Democrats (or independents) for every Republican to the Massachusetts bench.”

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About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at http://www.DavidCodrea.com.

Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea

USA --(Ammoland.com)- “A document found online by BuzzFeed appears to be John McCain’s entire, 200-page opposition research file — or ‘book’ — on Mitt Romney from 2008, the year they were bitter rivals. Segments of the book have been posted on RedState.com, but this the first time the document has been shared for public consumption in its entirety,” Andrew Kaczynski of BuzzFeed reported earlier this week.

Of particular interest to Gun Rights Examiner readers—what they came up with on guns. Here’s a sample…

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About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/david-codrea

Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea

USA --(Ammoland.com)- “Wayne LaPierre Falsely Claims ‘All’ The NRA’s Money Comes From Small Donors,” Chris Brown of Media Matters sneers in triumph.

He’s focusing on an interview with Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre by Glenn Beck, where the association head was asked about how NRA could hope to match union political contributions. LaPierre’s response:

“We raise it all through 5, 10, 15, 20 dollar contributions that Americans are willing to preserve freedom. And they’re willing to support it. But, you know, that’s what NRA is about. I mean, I always say we’re about our membership and we’re about giving voice to our membership.”

GOTCHA, Brown would have us believe:

“LaPierre’s claim that the NRA’s fundraising is based exclusively on small dollar donations is false. The reality is that under LaPierre’s leadership, the NRA has built extensive financial ties to the gun industry and other corporations.”

The thing is, LaPierre wasn’t talking about “NRA fundraising” in general. He was clearly responding to a specific question about NRA political contributions.

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About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/david-codrea

Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea

USA --(Ammoland.com)- “Attorney General Eric Holder used Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy on the anniversary of the civil rights leader’s birthday Monday to emphasize the Obama administration’s dedication to protecting the American people from discriminatory voting practices,” Politico reports.

The remarks followed a December move by Holder’s agents at the Department of Justice to block “South Carolina’s new voter ID law from taking effect, claiming that the measure will put an unfair burden on minority voters,” according to an earlier Politico piece.

Naturally, the move is endorsed by Ben Jealous and the NAAPoC (I mean really, “CP” in this day and age?) because…well, maybe Mississippi can shed some light on motive. If only we could have NAACP-requested UN poll watchers…

Still, in fairness, let us examine the rationale Holder’s DoJ relies on in his decision to have the federal government block a law duly-enacted by a sovereign state.

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About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/david-codrea

Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea

USA --(Ammoland.com)- “California Lawmaker Pleads No Contest in Shoplift Case,” The Associated Press reports at Fox News.

“Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi, D-Castro Valley, entered the plea in San Francisco Superior Court after the judge reduced a theft charge against her from a felony to a misdemeanor at a prosecutor’s request.”

After she tried to lift $2,500 worth of clothes? How many of us mere mortals think we could get away with felony grand theft and have the prosecutor go to bat for us, and then walk away from it with no jail time, our jobs intact and a fine of less than the state sales tax on the items we lifted?

Oh, but there were mitigating circumstance, we are told: She has “a benign brain tumor.” But she’s getting treatment, her attorney assures us. And she’s all better now, back to the sound judgment we’ve come to expect from a California collectivist with the backing of a regressive electorate.

Except not so fast…

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About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/david-codrea

Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea

USA --(Ammoland.com)- “A leopard mauled at least three people in the northeastern Indian city of Guwahati on Saturday after the ferocious feline ran into a house and attacked the residents,” The New York Daily News reports.

The BBC tells us one of those persons has died.

We learn that “wildlife personnel” with a tranquilizer gun took care of the big cat—after the attacks. We also learn that this is not the first time in recent years such attacks have occurred, and that they are on the increase.

So why did Indian citizens have to wait for the authorities to show up after the maulings had occurred? Why must they instead engage in hand-to-hand combat and resort to “sticks and iron rods” or helpless, abject terror against savage, predatory beasts—including those who walk on two legs?

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About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/david-codrea

Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea

USA --(Ammoland.com)- “As he begged for the public to cough up information about the killing of a Chicago cop, police Supt. Garry McCarthy said the shooting demonstrates the need to stop the proliferation of illegal firearms,” the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

“The superintendent said Congress could close loopholes in gun laws without violating the public’s Second Amendment right to bear arms.”

Of course, “loopholes,” according to McCarthy include more than just ending private sales, and if he had his way, they’d all be illegal, except for those in the hands of his crack Chi-Town “Only Ones.” But despite the admission that the essentially “gun-free” Windy City (you didn’t think the McDonald ruling would keep them from resisting change every step of the way, did you?) “is awash in guns, demonstrated by the 131 guns officers seized on New Year’s Eve,” McCarthy makes it clear exactly who he intends to protect and serve…

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About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/david-codrea

Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea

USA --(Ammoland.com)- “The House showed its utter disregard for public safety in November when it approved the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act, which would take away the authority of states to decide who is allowed to carry a concealed and loaded handgun within their borders,” The New York Times shrieked in a Tuesday editorial.

Relying on a hit piece against concealed carriers by “reporter” Michael Luo that yielded the unintended consequence of instead proving “they are remarkably law-abiding,” The Times is once more in a frenzy to ensure that only the “Only Ones,” to include the well-connected elite, retain the ability to defend themselves and loved ones from personal attack in the Big Apple.

And to do so, they present the following bit of hysteria…

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About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/david-codrea

Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea

USA --(Ammoland.com)- “The Occupy movement has set its sights on the U.S. Constitution, calling the nation’s founding document ‘drastically’ outdated while seeking a rewrite that includes provisions for a new national currency, a requirement that troops refuse certain military orders and the abolishment of the Federal Reserve,” Aaron Klein of WND.com reports.

That hardly seems like the neo-Marxist agenda the movement has shown to date. Aside from the “drastically outdated” part, it actually sounds pretty good.

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About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/david-codrea

Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea

USA --(Ammoland.com)- “The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), wishes to re-new and initiate liaison contacts with the Federal Firearms License holders and firearms ranges in the San Antonio area,” Special Agent Karl A. Kehrberg of the San Antonio Field Division wrote in a Dec. 23 letter to FFLs and range operators (see sidebar photo).

Questions about the intrusion into ATF turf aside, the point of the letter was to provide them with an “informational flier” and instruct:

“If you encounter any suspicious activity, please give us a call.”

What qualifies as “suspicious activity”?

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About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/david-codrea

Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea

USA --(Ammoland.com)- It’s the time of year when people will once more be making resolutions involving their behavior and conduct for the coming year. That’s the easy part. The hard part is sticking to it.

I’m happy to report I have kept last year’s resolution:

I will do something every day to promote and/or defend the right to keep and bear arms.

Every day.

That’s it.

What to do?

It doesn’t matter. Something. Get in the habit. Get in the practice. Ideas will start to come naturally.

Every day.

If every gun owner made a commitment to doing this, we would have have a very different social and political climate.

It truly is not that difficult, and it’s also very personally satisfying. But to those who might not know where to begin, here are some ideas I’ve explored before on Gun Rights Examiner…

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About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/david-codrea

Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea

USA --(Ammoland.com)- “Why are you knuckle-draggers so afraid that the black helicopters are going to take away your toys?” a comment submitted to my The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance blog post about a Brady Campaign plea for attention began.

It didn’t make the cut for this reason:

“I just rejected a troll comment for posting–Here’s a tip for getting insulting ones accepted: You can call me a knuckledragger, a paranoid, a whimperer and someone who would wet himself–but you don’t get to do it here anonymously. If you want it badly enough, in your own words, “man the hell up” and come out of the shadows.”

I figure I put my name on what I say about others, so I’m not holding them to a standard I don’t observe myself.

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About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/david-codrea

Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea

USA --(Ammoland.com)- “Probe Finds Illegal Gun Web,” The Wall Street Journal reports. And behind the probe is a familiar anti-gun figure:

“Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who in 2006 launched a national campaign to combat illegal guns, authorized the city to hire licensed private investigators to go undercover and purchase guns via Internet listings.”

Naturally, the “Authorized Journalists” are behind him. From a consistent ally in citizen disarmament, the New York Daily News:

“Mayor Bloomberg rightly takes aim at online gun sales”

All you need know about their mindset and the chance for a fair analysis:

“Now, amid a presidential race, the gun crazies are in full, insane command.”

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About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/david-codrea

Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea

USA --(Ammoland.com)- “We predict that a global Arms Trade Treaty will come into force late this year,” a report in the Jan. 2012 issue of the Dillon Blue Press by researchers Paul Gallant, Alan Chwick and Joanne D. Eisen claims.

“Diplomats are currently preparing for a final negotiating conference, to be held at the UN between July 2 and July 27, 2012.”

“So, what might an ATT look like?” they ask.  Here are two highlights from the report…

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About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/david-codrea

Gungrabbers Equate Armed Self-Defenders With ‘Executioners’

Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea

USA --(Ammoland.com)- “Virginia Tech Learned From Massacre, but Not Lawmakers,” anti-self-defense advocate Lori Haas writes in a Dec. 9 opinion piece posted on FoxNews.com.

Haas is the mother of one of the students wounded in the 2007 massacre, and she’s referring to a campus shooting that happened earlier this week, one that university spokesman Larry Hincker claims proves their rampaging murderer response system (one that took 21 minutes from the first shot to send out a warning and left the murderer walking free on campus for over half an hour before he stopped himself) “worked very well.” That’s par for the course for Hincker, who before the 2007 atrocities had publicly disparaged an adult student with a concealed carry permit as “inane” while he imparted the following bit of soon-to-be-exposed incompetence and hubris…

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About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/david-codrea

Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea

USA --(Ammoland.com)- “Hollywood shootout: Gunman calmly targeted drivers, pedestrians,” LATimesblog reported yesterday.

“Video shows the gunman calmly pointing his handgun and opening fire on passing cars near Vine Street and Sunset Boulevard near the ArcLight Cinema.”

It was hardly a “shootout,” as there was no return fire—until nearby police fortunately arrived in minutes when seconds counted—but it is true the twisted monster was able to take his time until then—watch the video in the sidebar media player for yourself. He slowly walked down the middle of the street while shooting into passing cars. He did not feel the need to seek cover. And he had good reason to be confident, because the odds of encountering a peaceably armed citizen in any major metropolitan area in California favor those armed with criminal intent. That’s because California is a “may issue” state, where the urban police establishment is notorious for exercising the “may not” option—for the unconnected.

Continue reading on Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/hollywood-gunman-enabled-by-anti-defense-sentiments-and-laws

About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/david-codrea

Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea

USA --(Ammoland.com)- Licensing should not be part of exercising the right to keep and bear arms, the grassroots group Georgia Gun Owners asserts in a press release issued today.

Announcing the pre-filing of the Georgia “Constitutional Carry” Act of 2012 (HB679) by State Representative Jason Spencer, the bill promises to eliminate the requirement to have a Georgia Weapons Carry License to carry firearms openly or concealed, as is currently established lawful practice in Vermont, Alaska, Arizona and Wyoming.

Per Georgia Gun Owners, the legislation will…

Continue reading on Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/georgia-gun-owners-going-for-constitutional-carry

About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/david-codrea

Anti-Gun Judicial Nominee Caitlin Halligan

An appeal was made yesterday in Gun Rights Examiner for gun owners to contact their senators and oppose confirmation based on the nominee’s anti-gun track record. At the time the report was filed, Gun Owners of America had put out an alert requesting this action. Later in the day, the National Rifle Association released a letter it had sent to the Senate opposing Halligan.

Continue reading on Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/republicans-block-halligan-confirmation

About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/david-codrea

Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea

USA --(Ammoland.com)- “Kurdish civilians hold on to their guns,” a Dec. 3 report in The Kurdish Globe reveals.

“Firearms remain widely accepted by people in a region where possession of unlicensed firearms is considered illegal.”

There is a gun market, we are told, where “various types of firearms including pistols and Kalashnikovs are presented and sold to customers.”

But there’s a catch:

Continue reading on Examiner.com  http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/failure-of-kurdistan-gun-control-demonstrates-universal-truths

About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/david-codrea

Advanced Armament 300-SD Suppressor

Eric at the Gunmart Blog

United States --(Ammoland.com)- Answer: Suppressors.

Yes, suppressors – or silencers, cans, moderators, mufflers, or whatever your fancy. The next big wave to hit the gun industry will be those infamous “tools of assassins, cop killers, and mafia thugs“… or so Hollywood and those loony gun grabbers would like everyone to be manipulated into believing.

No, suppressors are not anything new to the gun industry… and many shooters are already entrenched in the splendor that is suppressor shooting, but they have yet to really go mainstream. They are legal to own in 39 states, but there has yet to be a “suppressor in every home” so to speak. In fact, the latest statistics tell us that suppressor sales are only in the twenty thousand per year range. When you look at the roughly estimated number of 80 million gun owners in the United States, there is a very large discrepancy between gun owners and suppressor owners.

All that being said, there seems to be a growing trend within the industry. Have you noticed that everybody and their momma are now making guns with threaded barrels? Have you noticed that even small gun companies are now getting into the mix?… some are even starting to produce their own suppressors. The NRA is now also speaking out in support of suppressors. It seems that they have finally come to the realization that suppressors are not the evil incarnation that they once felt they were, but instead are legitimate safety devises (group-think and yes-men be damned!).

Things within the industry seem to be all lined up for a big push, and I personally believe that consumers (and their money) are ready, willing, and waiting.

To truly get suppressors to go mainstream, we must get legislation passed to deregulate suppressors and remove the $200 tax stamp. We must end the ridiculously invasive acquisition process, and lift the complete bans in the eleven oppressive states that ignorantly think that they are keeping people safe. If we can get this to happen, then we might really see this market segment take off.

I know that for me personally the only thing that is really keeping me from buying several suppressors is that draconian $200 tax. I (and my hearing) would absolutely love to be able to put a suppressor on my “nightstand gun”, one on my carbine, one on my deer rifle, and one on my squirrel rifle. However, that $200 a pop tax stamp is a real deal breaker for me. Additionally, if we can get legislation passed to end the requirement for the tax stamp (or at least get the price tag down to non-disenfranchisement levels), you are really going to see a lot of new companies get into the suppressor game. Right now there are only a handful. Once the number of companies offering suppressors begins to significantly increase prices of suppressors themselves will plummet. Then they will be much more attainable for every gun owner who desires that extra level of hearing protection.

I really hope that this is the next legal battleground for us as gun owners. For one, I think this is a slam dunk win for our side. As the NRA recently pointed out, silencers are legally classified as firearms for regulatory purposes, but don’t meet the definition of a firearm. All of the tired old justifications for suppressor regulation just don’t hold water anymore. Each one has been thoroughly debunked in the numerous states that allow full suppressor ownership and use – including hunting. The opposition really does not have a debatable leg to stand on in this one.

Secondly, I think that the deregulation and mainstreaming of suppressors will be a great thing for the gun culture in this country. Simply put, suppressors make shooting much more enjoyable and safer. They are a great way to introduce children and new shooters to the sport of shooting and it is the neighborly way to take game animals. Deregulation would be a big win for everyone all the way around.

So are suppressors really going to be the next big craze to hit the gun industry? Will they be the next big legal battleground for us as gun owners? Are suppressors going to be 2012′s “must have item“?

I don’t really know for sure, but I do hope that they are. I wish more than anything right now that we could get rid of the ridiculous barriers to entry into the world of suppressor shooting and that we could start making them more attainable to the masses. Suppressor shooting is not what the far left has been characterizing it to be to the American public, and there is no time like the present to start changing minds and influencing our elected representatives to release suppressors from the stranglehold of government regulation.

About:
Eric at the Gunmart Blog – Eric is a gun blogger, firearms enthusiast, and sorry excuse for a hunter. He is also an AmmoLand Shoting Sports News Columnist. Leave him some comments on this article before you go. You can also follow Eric on Facebook, Twitter and at his blog, Gunmart. Visit: GunmartBlog.com

National Shooting Sports Foundation

NEWTOWN, Conn --(Ammoland.com)- A federal judge in Denver has allowed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Postal Service’s ban on guns in post offices to go forward, the Denver Post reports.

A Colorado couple filed the lawsuit last year, saying the ban violates their Second Amendment rights.

Avon residents Debbie and Tab Bonidy filed the lawsuit last year, saying the ban violates their Second Amendment rights.

The Bonidys say they carry handguns for self-defense and both hold concealed-carry permits, and they do not receive mail service at their remote home.

Lawsuit Filed Against Post Office Gun Ban

They say the ban, which prohibits carrying guns both in post offices and in their parking lots, makes it impossible for them to pick up their mail.James Manley, an attorney at the Mountain States Legal Foundation who represents both the Bonidys and the National Association for Gun Rights in the lawsuit, said the case could have a nationwide impact.

“This is a situation that hasn’t been challenged before, where you have members of the general public who want to exercise their right to carry,” Manley said.

About NSSF
The National Shooting Sports Foundation is the trade association for the firearms industry. Its mission is to promote, protect and preserve hunting and the shooting sports. Formed in 1961, NSSF has a membership of more than 6,000 manufacturers, distributors, firearms retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen’s organizations and publishers. For more information, log on to www.nssf.org.

Gun-Free Presidential Debates

Gunlaws.com

PHOENIX, AZ --(Ammoland.com)- The lamestream media told you:

Look — over here – look, it’s economic policy, and jobs, and not enough jobs, and economic policy, and the debt, and the deficit, and government waste, and jobs and economics, and, and, and…

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Not a single presidential candidate in any debate so far has mentioned guns. The Second Amendment — the number one issue for huge numbers of Americans, has been hidden from view, avoided, virtually censored, never raised.

Have you noticed, or has the clamor about economy blinded you so effectively?

None of the reporters ask where the candidates stand on gun rights. No one asks about Fast and Furious, or brings it up. What a great forum for confronting the Obama Administration on flat out malfeasance, and stonewalling, and felony gun smuggling for political ends. Won’t somebody raise the issue, just once, and get the nation talking.

By narrowing down the examination of the presidential contenders to a small handful of related issues, the public is being shortchanged, transparency is absent, and, and, and, we haven’t gotten a frickin clue where these people stand on the right to keep and bear arms.

Here’s betting that if and when the subject finally comes up, the wannabees mouth pablum, and the interviewers let them all slide without cutting deep. That’s an easy prediction – the lamestream perpetrators (accent on the last two syllables) don’t know enough about guns or gun policy to ask incisive questions.

OK, I’ll suggest one, “So, if you stand in such vigorous support of the Second Amendment, do you support marksmanship training in schools?”

About GunLaws.com:
Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Bloomfield Press, founded in 1988, is the largest publisher and distributor of gun-law books in the country. Our website, gunlaws.com, features a free national directory to gun laws and relevant contacts in all states and federally, along with our unique line of related books and DVDs. “After Your Shoot” for media review is available on request, call 800-707-4020. Our authors are available for interview, call to schedule. Call for cogent positions on gun issues, informed analysis on proposed laws, talk radio that lights up the switchboard, fact sheets and position papers. As we always say, “It doesn’t make sense to own a gun and not know the rules.” Visit: www.gunlaws.com

Wisconsin Gun Owners

Wisconsin --(Ammoland.com)- A single mom. Two kids in the backseat. Grocery shopping went fine, but the man approaching their car has a gun and is about to turn the parking lot into a scene straight from hell.

Thankfully mom has a gun.

Wait a minute, no she doesn’t.

She doesn’t have the gun … because according to State Rep. Garey Bies and a small group of self-righteous elitist do-gooders in the gun community she doesn’t have … “enough training.” Too late.

Many gun owners talk a good game about concealed carry training and boast endlessly about what they want to impose on others.

These self-appointed gun experts have unknowingly adopted the arguments of the gun control crowd. You know, if we don’t shackle ourselves with more regulations, bad things will happen if guns are involved.

Sound familiar? (Straight out of Sarah Brady’s playbook)?

Rep. Bies - The founding fathers: The right to bear arms shall not be infringed. Rep. Garey Bies: The right to bear arms shall be allowed when you complete the course we require.

But the number one rule of a gun fight is … bring a gun. And the Bies bill – aided and abetted by those who crow for more government-mandated training – will prevent many people from doing just that.

Let’s talk in practical terms. The harder it is to get a permit, the more good people who need to carry simply won’t (Prof. John Lott, Ph.D. proved this empirically in his book More Guns, Less Crime).

You and I fought for Constitutional Carry because it was the only way to ensure that our right to bear arms was not held to the whims of the politicians in Madison.

Those whims are coming to a head.

Remember back in May when I informed you that Representative Garey Bies tried to suppress the testimony of supporters of Constitutional Carry at the Madison concealed carry hearing?

Now Rep. Bies is trying to increase the regulation and requirements to get a concealed carry permit.

Rep. Bies is trying to move us further into government regulation of your Second Amendment rights.

He has said he will introduce a bill later this month that will require at least eight hours of training to get a concealed-weapons permit.

Let me be clear: This is not about training. That’s how the big-government neocons, cowering at the feet of leftist anti-gunners, have framed the issue.

This is about more gun regulation, more government-mandated hoops, designed to keep raising the bar needed to “earn” the right to bear arms: something the founding fathers believed was an inalienable right.

What these regulations really do, in practical terms, is disarm good people … leaving them defenseless.

Some people urgently need access to a firearm – there are many cases of single moms being stalked by abusive ex-husbands, for example – who don’t have 8 hours to spare.

They don’t have 8 minutes to spare. Eight seconds would be pushing it in some cases. They need a gun for self-defense and they need it right now.

Are you prepared to tell them they’re not “ready” to defend themselves because they don’t have “enough” training? I’m sure not.

ACTION:

1. E-mail Representative Garey Bies letting him know what you think of his plan to impose new regulatory burdens upon Badger State gun owners.
2. Contribute something to this lobbying campaign so we can effectively stop this thinly-disguised push for gun control. Please do what you can.

About:
WGO works for grassroots gun owners, not politicians. While many gun lobbies fight for “reasonable gun control,” WGO sets a higher standard: Defining the terrain of pro-gun political battle. Sure, many groups claim they’re “pro-gun” – all the while they provide cover for anti-gun deals cut by politicians – but only WGO truly informs gun owners, remaining committed to a 100% pro-gun position. We oppose all gun control – regardless of the political party – and work tirelessly to restore the Second Amendment. Visit www.wisconsingunowners.org

FirearmsCoalition.org

Manassas, VA --(Ammoland.com)- This important legislation has been languishing in both houses of Congress for the past several years in spite of bi-partisan efforts to get it moving.

The Senate version of the bill, sponsored by Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), was passed out of the Judiciary Committee in 2009 and placed on the Senate Calendar under General Orders where it remained awaiting action from self-avowed Second Amendment supporter, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).

Reid allowed the bill to die with the close of the 111th Congress and it was not reintroduced in the Senate in the 112th Congress.

Now that a version of the legislation has passed out of the House, the pressure needs to be on for Senators to sign off on it and send it to the President.

Representative Denny Rehberg (R-MT) successfully amended the language from his bill, H.R.1898, to a broader veterans benefits bill, H.R.2349, which then passed the House on Tuesday, October 11.

The broader bill now goes to the Senate for consideration where shenanigans could strip out or seriously undermine the impact of the Rehberg language.

Contact your Senator – especially Democrats who have gotten elected by claiming to support the Second Amendment - and urge them to vote for passage of H.R.2349 with the Veterans’ Second Amendment Protection language intact.

The Veterans’ Second Amendment Protection Act was introduced in response to a Veterans Administration policy of submitting names of veterans to the FBI for inclusion in the NICS firearms purchaser background check database. The VA has been submitting the names of veterans who have a fiduciary appointed to manage their financial affairs as “mental defectives” who are then permanently prohibited from possessing or having access to firearms and/or ammunition. It is not uncommon for a veteran with minor memory issues or problems such as compulsive buying or gambling to have themselves declared mentally incompetent to manage their own affairs and turn over control of their financial affairs to a spouse or relative to manage for them. Even if such an arrangement and diagnoses is temporary – such as in the case of a severely wounded veteran undergoing long-term rehabilitation or comatose patients – once the name is submitted to NICS, it is very difficult for them to ever regain right to arms.

The Veterans’ Second Amendment Protection Act specifies that only veterans who have been adjudicated to be a danger to themselves or others are to be submitted for inclusion in the NICS database. This simple adjustment could restore firearms rights to as many as 100,000 veterans who have had their names unreasonably submitted to NICS.
This important reform is long overdue and this is the closest we’ve ever come to getting it signed into law.

Your Immediate Action is Required!

Contact both of your senators AND Senate Majority Leader Reid.
Tell them that you want H.R.2349 passed with the Veterans’ Second Amendment Protection Act language retained intact. Do it Today and then do it again every few days until the bill is passed and signed by the President.

Also, please forward this Alert to every veteran and gun owner you know and re-post it on every veteran or firearms related forum, blog, and website you can find.

Our veterans deserve your support on this and the support of your senators.

For reference, here is a list of the 17 Republicans and 1 Democrat who cosponsored the Senate version of this bill in 2009:

Name [Party-ST] – Date Cosponsored

• Sen Burr, Richard [R-NC] – Prime Sponsor
• Sen Brownback, Sam [R-KS] – 9/29/2009
• Sen Coburn, Tom [R-OK] – 3/23/2009
• Sen Cochran, Thad [R-MS] – 3/23/2009
• Sen Crapo, Mike [R-ID] – 3/23/2009
• Sen DeMint, Jim [R-SC] – 3/23/2009
• Sen Ensign, John [R-NV] – 3/23/2009
• Sen Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY] – 3/23/2009
• Sen Graham, Lindsey [R-SC] – 3/23/2009
• Sen Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] – 3/23/2009
• Sen Inhofe, James M. [R-OK] – 3/23/2009
• Sen Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK] – 3/23/2009
• Sen Risch, James E. [R-ID] – 8/6/2009
• Sen Roberts, Pat [R-KS] – 3/23/2009
• Sen Sessions, Jeff [R-AL] – 5/10/2010
• Sen Thune, John [R-SD] – 3/23/2009
• Sen Vitter, David [R-LA] – 3/23/2009
• Sen Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS] – 3/23/2009
• Sen Webb, Jim [D-VA] – 3/23/2009

About:
The Firearms Coalition is a loose-knit coalition of individual Second Amendment activists, clubs and civil rights organizations. Founded by Neal Knox in 1984, the organization provides support to grassroots activists in the form of education, analysis of current issues, and with a historical perspective of the gun rights movement. The Firearms Coalition is a project of Neal Knox Associates, Manassas, VA. Visit: www.FirearmsCoalition.org

AmmoLand Gun News

Dallas, TX - -(Ammoland.com)-  It’s enough to make all tree-hugging, EPA-loving, spotted owl seekers weep.

In August, armed federal agents raided the offices and factories of the legendary Gibson Guitar Corp. in Nashville and Memphis. It was the second time the feds had ransacked the renowned Tennessee guitar-maker since President Barack Obama took office.

And what were they going after? Dirty laundering monies? Gun smugglers? Cocaine cargo that could make cartels quiver?

No. The federal search and seizure sought to capture … ready? Wood. To be exact, rosewood and ebony from India, which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had declared to be illegal to import.

Yes, your tax dollars were again hard at work as federal agents sought to bust another pillar of American business by rounding up alleged tree contraband based upon a century-old law. It is called the Lacey Act, which was signed by President William McKinley all the way back on May 25, 1900. Initially, the act was adopted to prevent big-game poachers from killing endangered birds in Africa, particularly to regulate trade in feathered hats. It was later expanded and amended to include endangered plants and illegalize the importing of all forms of fauna and flora, including wood, which was added to the act just three years ago.

So what was Gibson Guitar’s specific crime?
The feds say Gibson shipped rosewood and ebony that were in an “unfinished” state (i.e., not cut into thin strips or veneer, which is perfectly legal in India). However, Gibson Guitar CEO Henry Juszkiewicz says he possesses a letter from the government of India that declares the legality of the wood as a “finished” product for fretboards on the necks of the guitars.

Last week, Fox News further elaborated that Vinod Srivastava, India’s deputy director-general of foreign trade, stipulated in a letter dated Sept. 16, “Fingerboard is a finished product and not wood in primary form. The foreign trade policy of the government of India allows free export of such finished products of wood.”

Of course, there could be far more up the feds’ sleeves regarding these searches of Gibson Guitar, but we’ll never know. The Associated Press reported this past week, “Specifics of the investigation by the Environmental Crimes Section of the Justice Department have been filed under seal.” It probably is filed under the heading “Eric Holder’s Fast and Furious holdouts, etc.”!

But forget about the feds’ “Fast and Furious” gun smuggling crimes and Attorney General Eric Holder’s acts of perjury via denial of facts before Congress.

Forget about Washington’s $528 million debacle with Solyndra. Might as well let go of the billions of dollars that Washington has given to bail out Wall Street over the past few years. And never mind the feds’ onslaught of overzealous overreaches and over-regulations on Main Street businesses across the country, because this administration thinks it’s high time to further cripple American business by pulling the strings and picking on a staple of the music industry and entrepreneurial spirit.

Juszkiewicz recently tweeted the real question that needs to be addressed: “Why is big government spending our money to harm ordinary citizens and small businesses?”

And how pertinent should an ever-expanding and archaic Lacey Act be when it forces Americans to be obliged to follow every other nation’s trade laws? If we must bow to other countries’ legalities, where are American sovereignty and individual rights?

And how long will it be until Interpol oversteps all the boundaries to enforce a universalistic United Nations trade code? At the very least, such federal actions as those taken against Gibson Guitar are reminiscent of those of Lavrenti Beria, the head of Josef Stalin’s secret police, who boasted, “Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.”

According to The Heritage Foundation, the feds have used the Lacey Act to prosecute orchid growers and spiny lobster importers, too. Now it’s guitar manufacturers’ turn? And what about tomorrow?

• What about other companies and guitar-makers, such as Fender, Martin, Taylor, Paul Reed Smith, Ribbecke, Collings and Breedlove, to name a few?
• What about Gibson retailers and individuals who resell guitars on eBay?
• What about the purchasers of Gibson guitars — those who possess the wood contraband inlayed in their stringed instruments?

There go the likes of B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eddie Van Halen and millions of others. Buyer beware! Armed federal agents could be coming to a music store, sound studio or house near you.

Please email or call the White House today (at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact or 202-456-1111) and tell the feds to get their eyes off guitars and back on the guns they handed over to Mexican cartels. Then call Gibson Guitar and tell the people there you’re joining me in standing with them (http://www.gibson.com/en-us/support or 800-4GIBSON).

Rock on, Gibson Guitar! Or should I say, “Rosewood on, Gibson Guitar!”?

Chuck Norris

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About Chuck Norris:Action hero and Second Amendment activist, Chuck Norris is one of the most enduringly popular actors in the world. He has starred in more than 20 major motion pictures. His television series “Walker, Texas Ranger,” which completed its run in April 2001 after eight full seasons, is the most successful Saturday night series on CBS since “Gunsmoke.”In 2006, he added the title of columnist to his illustrious list of credits with the launch of his popular Internet column. Now Chuck is a regular contributor to AmmoLand, click the following link to See more of Chuck Norris on AmmoLand Shooting Sports News.

Eric at the Gunmart Blog

United States --(Ammoland.com)- No, sadly I was not the one who coined that phrase. I don’t know the exact origins, but Michael Bane was the person who I first heard use the phrase.

Its so awesome too. First off, its rock star cool and just has a fantastic sound to it.

Secondly, it perfectly encapsulates exactly where we are today as a nation. Concealed carry has without a doubt reached a whole new level in this great nation of ours. One that many of us never would have thought could be achieved. There are many contributing factors as to why that is, but I think that it is all of those pocket guns that flooded the marketplace over the last several years that is the major underlying contributor.

We have actually come full circle as a nation. It was not too many years ago that we were indeed a “pocket gun nation“. It was not uncommon for many men and women to carry small caliber (.22 lr and .25 ACP) pocket guns everywhere they went. It encompassed people from every demographic and nearly every walk of life. From finely dressed men and women who carried those ubiquitous little .25 ACP Colt and Browning “Vest” models in their suits and purses, to countless “good ol’ boys” who found a home for those little hideout guns in the front pocket of their overalls. Numerous people carried pocket guns everywhere they went and no one thought anything of it.

After the past three years of the most left leaning President in American history it would be a ridiculous understatement to say that firearm sales in this country are up.

Of course, sales of firearms in general are up (big time!), but so are concealed carry licenses as well as the handguns to go with them. The segment that’s up the sharpest is that of the .380 pocket pistols. The sales are soaring. The statistics tell us that there was an over 70 % increase in sales of .380 pistols from 2009 to 2010, and I think its pretty safe to say that they are still in high demand. We have seen many new models of pocket sized .380s come to the marketplace, and we also have very recently seen the rise of a completely new market segment… the mini 9mm. People once again are wanting pocket guns, and the industry has filled that need/want with some wonderful little guns.

So what is it about a pocket gun that appeals to so many Americans?
For one, they are incredibly easy to carry. I will admit it. I too have joined the masses and I carry a small pocket gun just about everywhere I go… and its an absolute joy to tote around. They are light weight, thin, and easy to conceal. In most cases you don’t really have to worry much about dressing around your firearm. You don’t have to buy a larger pants size, you don’t have to have a heftier belt, and you don’t have to go out and try to find baggy shirts. Just slip it in a pocket holster, slide it into your pocket and you’re out the door. They are a product that fits easily into people’s lives rather than forcing people to change their lives to fit around the product. You don’t have to be a marketing genius to figure that one out.

The other big attraction of these guns is that they are very affordable. You can literally get away with spending between $250- $350 and still get yourself a quality, reliable concealed carry gun. That is something that is very appealing to just about everyone who has a desire to provide for their own personal protection no matter what their socioeconomic background is. These guns lower the financial barriers to entry into the concealed carry world, and are allowing people even of modest means to defend themselves.

Yes, pocket guns have their limitations.
There is no question, with the exception of the new crop of 9mms, that these are “sub-caliber guns“. They require different tactics, higher levels of awareness, and a greater emphasis on shot placement. However, its my personal belief that a quality .380 round is well within the realistic needs of what an average law abiding citizen walking around town actually requires for personal protection. Bullet technology has come a very long way, and these smaller calibers are not what they used to be back in your grandfather’s day. Performance with regards to penetration and expansion are now well within the ranges of what is acceptable for concealed carry.

Finally, I think the greatest thing that has resulted in this push towards becoming a pocket gun nation once again is what we have been seeing happen day in and day out… nothing!

Thats right. As gun sales in this country have surged to record new heights and more and more Americans are carrying their guns on a daily basis… absolutely nothing has happened. Those gun grabbers on the far left who want to see a return to serfdom have endlessly harped about how there would be “blood in the streets“, how there would be “shootouts in restaurants“, and how “the cops would have no way of knowing who the bad guys were“. Yet, day in and day out nothing happens.

Gun sales continue to increase and gun crime continues to decrease. More and more people are demanding their rights to personal defense be restored, and as more and more “gun free zones” are abolished violent crime rates plummet. According to the FBI, in 2010 gun crimes in the U.S. decreased for the fourth straight year, and murders have been steadily decreasing since 2006.

Its estimated that there are currently between 80-90 million gun owners in the U.S. and many of them are now figuring out what their grandfathers and great grandfathers once knew…What it is like to be a “Pocket Gun Nation“.

About:
Eric at the Gunmart Blog – Eric is a gun blogger, firearms enthusiast, and sorry excuse for a hunter. He is also an AmmoLand Shoting Sports News Columnist. Leave him some comments on this article before you go. You can also follow Eric on Facebook, Twitter and at his blog, Gunmart. Visit: GunmartBlog.com

National Rifle Association

FAIRFAX, Va. --(Ammoland.com)- The 2011 “Firearms Law & The Second Amendment Symposium,” sponsored by The NRA Foundation, will be held on Saturday, October 15, 2011, at the University of San Diego Law School.

Focusing on recent developments in our nation’s courts regarding the Second Amendment, speakers will discuss and debate current Second Amendment scholarship and related issues.

The symposium will feature top Second Amendment scholars and attorneys discussing topics that range from the history of the Second Amendment to current Second Amendment litigation in California and across the nation, to the nuts and bolts of legal practice in defending gun owners’ civil rights.

This event promises to present a thought-provoking discussion of our fundamental, individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Each Symposium registrant will receive important information including panelists’ written materials on their respective subjects- an excellent source for future reference. For guests who are attorneys, this year’s event may once again meet state requirements for continuing legal education.

The event, including all materials, food and beverages, is free.

The Symposium will be held:

Saturday, October 15, 2011
University of San Diego Law School
Hahn University Center
Forums A-B
5998 Alcala Park
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Established in 1871, the National Rifle Association is America’s oldest civil rights and sportsmen’s group. Four million members strong, NRA continues its mission to uphold Second Amendment rights and to advocate enforcement of existing laws against violent offenders to reduce crime. The Association remains the nation’s leader in firearm education and training for law-abiding gun owners, law enforcement and the military. Visit: www.nra.org

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U.S. SENATE --(Ammoland.com)- U.S. Senator Jon Tester introduced a bipartisan bill to strengthen gun rights by allowing law-abiding Americans to possess loaded firearms on lands owned and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Tester supported similar legislation in 2009 that permitted law-abiding citizens to carry loaded guns in National Parks.

Tester’s bill, the Recreational Lands Self-Defense Act of 2011, would put an end to the patchwork of regulations that govern different lands managed by various federal agencies.

Tester, Chairman of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus, said gun owners need to be able to exercise their Second Amendment rights when they are legally camping, hunting, and fishing on land and water managed by the Army Corps.

“This is just one more way that I’m strengthening our Second Amendment rights,” Tester said. “This bill is pretty cut and dry: law-abiding folks shouldn’t have to give up their right to keep and bear arms in order to use the land and water we all own.”

Tester’s legislation is strongly endorsed by the National Rifle Association.

The Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for nearly 12 million acres of land and water in the U.S.

• Tester’s Army Corps bill is online HERE.
• His bill to allow combat veterans to register trophy firearms is online HERE.

When Heller Met McDonald

About: Tom McHale describes himself as a conservative gun-totin’ bible-clingin’ literary assault dude who enjoys finding humor in just about anything. His web blog My Gun Culture is an irreverent, twisted look at gun news bordering on the ridiculous. It covers shootin’ stuff, loud noises, defending your own, the occasional mall ninja, and about 200 years of the American way. These are the (partially) true stories of My Gun Culture says Tom. Visit: www.mygunculture.com

Modern Sporting Rifle

Eric at the Gunmart Blog

United States --(Ammoland.com)- There, I said it… I know that I’m going to catch heck for this, but somebody needs to say this.

I love the idea behind it all. I love the effort to change the dialogue and to control the debate. Words are powerful, and choosing to use certain words instead of others (i.e assault rifle) can have a powerful influence on public opinion. But come on… lets be real… “Modern Sporting Rifle” has not been an effective choice of words.

We threw it up against the wall, but it just didn’t stick.

The biggest problem is that it has just not caught on. I have never, ever heard anyone outside of the firearms industry use this phrase. Yes, Mossberg has chosen to use it as the designation for their newest firearm introduction and that will bring it more to the forefront, but really its gotten to the point where its simply a non-starter. Say it to anyone who is not a gunnie and they look at you like you just spoke to them in Latin. No one outside of our circle knows what it is unless you explain it to them, and once you do they get a look on their face like you told them you just bought a timeshare in Cuba.

Modern Capacity Magazines
I think a big problem with the ineffectiveness of the phrase is that it just sounds like we are trying too hard when we use it. Its like we are almost acknowledging the fact that we are trying to game the debate and I believe it comes across as an obvious ploy. Its kinda like if Volkswagen all of a sudden tried distancing themselves from their Nazi roots by using the term “Modern People Movers“. Or what if we all started running around saying “Modern Capacity Magazines“? It just sounds silly. Its also difficult to realistically attach the phrase to a very large number of guns which just happen to look like assault rifles. Firearms like AKs, bull-pups, pistol variants, SBRs, and countless other semi-automatic forms of firearms whose legality shouldn’t even be in question.

So, I think we should drop the term “Modern Sporting Rifle“. Please, don’t misconstrue what I am saying here. I don’t think that we should give up the effort to change the dialogue, but I think we need to find a better term to use.

I honestly don’t know what we should choose, but I think the time has come to move on to something different. Heck, perhaps we should just embrace the term “assault rifle” and normalize its usage so that there is not a stigma attached to it anymore. Or perhaps we should move in the direction of limiting the terms to just “rifles” or “handguns” or “firearms“.

Then we can easily call out the radical left out for what they really want to do, and show the entire country who the gun grabbers really are… people who want to ban guns.

About:
Eric at the Gunmart Blog – Eric is a gun blogger, firearms enthusiast, and sorry excuse for a hunter. He is also an AmmoLand Shoting Sports News Columnist. Leave him some comments on this article before you go. You can also follow Eric on Facebook, Twitter and at his blog, Gunmart. Visit: GunmartBlog.com

Gun Facts - Needs Computer Geeks

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Washington, DC --(Ammoland.com)- I need a few computer geeks (hope Skeff can pitch in again) with server-side experience (likely LAMP stacks, but I’m open to alternatives).

The goal is to implement a content management system to make Gun Facts easier to team-edit, translate and publish.

My brief investigations into content management technology shows that some systems allow for the creation of “books” (basically a collection of web pages), dumping them to a single file, tracking changes, syncing changes between mirrored pages in different languages, etc.

So I’m looking for several volunteers to be on a team to help:

1) Define and document requirements;
2) Search the open source market for alternatives;
3) Evaluate and select the tool;
4) Implement and test.

If you are ready to help take Gun Facts to the next phase (namely exporting gun rights around the world) then email me (guy@GunFacts.info) to volunteer. The preliminary requirements for the solution set are below.

About:
Gun Facts offers a free e-book that debunks common myths about gun control. It is intended as a reference guide for journalists, activists, politicians, and other people interested in restoring honesty to the debate about guns, crime, and the 2nd Amendment. Visit www.gunfacts.info

Will Hayden, founder of Red Jacket Firearms and “star” of the Discovery Channel’s newest hit reality show “Sons of Guns.”

National Rifle Association

FAIRFAX, Va. --(Ammoland.com)- NRA members are rightfully concerned about the protection of gun rights and the longevity of the shooting sports.

We know the successes we have enjoyed in the past are due in no small part to our strength in numbers.

Furthermore, the key to maintaining and building on our past victories is not only to sustain, but to also grow the size of our organization. To that end, NRA tries to provide and promote opportunities for people to get involved in the shooting sports.

The media, anti-gun groups and the entertainment industry, however, have long portrayed the shooting community as archaic, extremist, and dangerously outside the mainstream of society. Consequently, we have received recent inquiries from members and non-members alike, who have expressed skepticism at several recent attempts by cable channels to showcase the shooting community via new gun-related reality programming.

NRA has always sought to educate the public that the Second Amendment protects more than a hunter’s deer rifle and now the media, of all people, appear to be helping us do that.

The History Chanel’s Top Shot debuted last year and features teams of contestants who compete in various shooting challenges with the goal of winning a cash prize. The History Channel has additionally run the show Tales of the Gun and other firearm-related shows for years.

The Discovery Channel’s Sons of Guns showcases custom gun manufacturer Red Jacket Firearms and its owner Will Hayden. The show has drawn a degree of criticism from some quarters of the shooting community who think the show focuses too much attention on “black rifles” and thus perpetuates what they consider a negative stereotype that alienates the non-shooting public, rather than win them over.

While we can understand the thought process leading some to suggest these shows do more harm than good, at the end of the day the anti-gun crowd doesn’t care what type of gun it is or how it is used. If they see a .50 BMG Barrett rifle (Top Shot Season 2) they say it is too big and shoots too far. A semi-automatic AK-47 variant (frequently appearing on Sons of Guns) shoots too many rounds and frightens them.

Even the more traditional hunting-themed shows are seen by the anti-gun crowd as “glorifying a violent gun culture.”

These shows provide exposure to firearms and sporting activities that would otherwise be missed. Some gun owners are not necessarily interested in hunting or traditional target shooting. Instead, some are attracted to faster-paced competition shooting and tactical firearms. These programs allow those with little or no prior connection to the firearms community to see the variety of shooting sports and firearms that are available to them. They also provide a counter balance to shows like the National Geographic Channel’s Wild Justice program, which often portrays gun owners as drug-addicted poachers.

No TV program will please everyone, but in the end, shows like Top Shot and Sons of Guns are presenting gun owners to the public as the legitimate competitive shooters and law-abiding businessmen, that in reality, they are.

One way to further the fight to protect our gun rights is to add new shooting enthusiasts and showcase the shooting sports. These programs are another way to do so.

About:
Established in 1871, the National Rifle Association is America’s oldest civil rights and sportsmen’s group. Four million members strong, NRA continues its mission to uphold Second Amendment rights and to advocate enforcement of existing laws against violent offenders to reduce crime. The Association remains the nation’s leader in firearm education and training for law-abiding gun owners, law enforcement and the military. Visit: www.nra.org

Montana Shooting Sports Association

Missoula, MT --(Ammoland.com)- The Montana Shooting Sports Association has filed its final brief before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco in MSSA v. Holder, litigation designed to validate the principles of the Montana Firearms Freedom Act and to challenge federal power under the U.S. Constitution’s Interstate Commerce Clause to regulate any activity that occurs entirely within a state.

MSSA v. Holder is before the Ninth Circuit on appeal from the federal district court in Missoula, Montana, where the case was dismissed on grounds of standing, jurisdiction and merit. MSSA previously submitted its appellant’s brief and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder filed his response brief. The Ninth Circuit is expected assign the case to a three-judge panel and probably schedule oral argument in Seattle or Portland within a couple of months.

If the three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit upholds the district court dismissal, the case will then be ripe for appeal by MSSA to the United States Supreme Court, the ultimate destination for MSSA, which admits that only the USSC can provide the remedies MSSA seeks. MSSA wishes to reverse a half century of precedent decisions concerning federal authority under the Interstate Commerce Clause, decisions which MSSA believes give the national government far too much power to regulate essentially all human activity, even if that activity is wholly confined within the borders of a state.

This challenge to federal power is a states’ rights exercise that began with passage of the Montana Firearms Freedom Act by the Montana Legislature in 2009. The MFFA declares that any firearms made and retained in Montana are not subject to federal regulation. The MFFA was subsequently cloned and enacted by seven other states, and has been introduced in another 23 states. While firearms are the vehicle for the exercise, the subject is resuscitation of the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and challenge to unrestrained power of the national government.

Although much ignored by Congress and the courts in the past half century, the Tenth Amendment requires: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Because the Tenth Amendment, part of the Bill of Rights, was enacted more recently than the underlying Constitution, MSSA argues, the Tenth Amendment actually amends the underlying Constitution and must be given deference when in conflict with the Interstate Commerce Clause, and with other relevant clauses of the underlying Constitution.

MSSA President Gary Marbut commented, “We are making some fresh and compelling arguments that have never been made before in Interstate Commerce Clause jurisprudence. We hope that these arguments will persuade the Ninth Circuit, and ultimately the United States Supreme Court, to rethink their rationale for allowing unlimited regulation of the affairs of people within states, a rationale more often called into question in current legal philosophy. When the states created the national government, they simply did not intend to create a monster that could and would control everything.”

The lead attorney for MSSA is Quentin Rhoades of the law firm Sullivan, Tabaracci and Rhoades of Missoula. The Second Amendment Foundation is a plaintiff in the suit, as is Gary Marbut of Missoula as the sole individual plaintiff. Numerous other entities have joined the case to support MSSA, including Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock, Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff who also represents six other states’ attorney generals, the Goldwater Institute, the Pacific Legal Foundation, numerous Montana legislators, legislators from other states where MFFA clones have been passed or introduced, and the Weapons Collectors Society of Montana. All of these groups have also submitted supporting briefs to the Ninth Circuit in MSSA v. Holder.

MSSA v. Holder argues some points similar to Bond V. US and Florida v. DHHS. Florida is a challenge to the power of Congress to implement national health care – to require individuals to buy health insurance claiming that an individual’s failure to buy health insurance would affect interstate commerce and therefore falls under the power of Congress in the Interstate Commerce Clause to “regulate commerce … among the several states”. Bond is a recent, unanimous decision by the USSC that argues very favorably that respect must be given to the Tenth Amendment.

Contrary to some recent criticism contained in a front page story about the MFFA litigation in the Wall Street Journal, MSSA is advancing MSSA v. Holder with zero financial support from Montana taxpayers.

About Montana Shooting Sports Association:
MSSA is the primary political advocate for Montana gun owners. Visit: www.mtssa.org

Mouse Guns by Marshall St John

Signal Mountain, TN - -(Ammoland.com)-1. Your right to keep and bear arms is guaranteed in the Constitution and Bill of Rights of the United States of America. “Use it or lose it.”

2. George Washington said: “Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence…”

3. Bearing arms is the Christian thing to do. Jesus said: “If you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one…” (Luke 22:36 NIV)

4. Enjoying guns is not a strange weird thing, as some anti-gun people insist. People have been hunting with long guns for centuries. Shooting is an internationally recognized Olympic sport.

5. People without guns are assaulted or murdered daily by criminals who have guns. Having a gun makes you better able to defend your family.

6. If gun ownership is made illegal, criminals won’t turn in their guns. Gun control makes easy prey out of law-abiding citizens.

7. We are grateful for the police officers of our communities. However, the police can’t come to help you until AFTER a crime has been committed. Having a gun may enable you to stay alive long enough to call for help from the police.

8. American courts regularly return violent criminals to the streets to do their crimes again.

9. Guns in the home are safe, when gun owners keep guns responsibly. More children die every year in swimming pool accidents than in gun accidents.

10. It is a fact that armed American men and women prevent two million crimes every year with their guns.

11. Self-defense is more honorable and better for society than being a victim. It is up to YOU to act responsibly for your own safety, and the safety of your family.

12. It is a fact that cities which impose strict gun control create the highest assault and murder rates in America.

13. It is a fact that most gun crimes in America involve gangsters shooting other gangsters. The average gun owner never uses his or her gun to commit a crime.

14. Most states issue permits to carry concealed handguns. Men and women who get permits take gun safety classes, and have extensive criminal background checks. These people make everyone a little safer, wherever they may be.

15. The “War on Terror” is likely to be a long war. People who own guns, and who are trained to use guns responsibly, are better able to serve their country than people who are ignorant about guns.

Eleven Excuses for NOT Owning A Gun

1. I’m too busy to take the time to learn how to handle a gun safely.
2. I believe that all guns are evil, even in the hands of the police and soldiers.
3. I would rather let a criminal kill me or my family than try to stop him with a gun.
4. I believe it was wrong for America’s founding fathers to use guns to overthrow the rule of the British. We should have stayed a colony.
5. I believe it was wrong for American soldiers to use guns to rescue innocent men and women from the Nazi death camps.
6. I believe that I will never need a gun to defend myself or my family, because the police will be constantly watching over me to make sure that I will never be in danger.
7. I trust our courts to keep violent criminals off the streets. It’s not possible that I will ever be attacked by a criminal.
8. If our government decides to make all gun owners register every gun they have, and then decides to confiscate all privately owned guns, I still don’t think we have anything to worry about. I know other countries have become dictatorships, but that could never happen in America.
9. I don’t know much about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and I don’t have any desire to learn more. I’ve heard that the 2nd Amendment guarantees the right of Americans to keep and bear arms, but I really don’t care.
10. Quite a few criminals have used guns, therefore the government should take guns away from all the good people who don’t commit crimes.
11. I don’t care if my children will grow up in a free America. Things are pretty good for ME right now, and that’s all I care about.

The USA Wants You To Own A Gun!

THINK ABOUT THIS…
Owning a gun for self-defense is like having fire insurance or health insurance. You don’t really think your house will burn down, but it might. You don’t really think you will have a catastrophic car accident, and huge hospital bills, but you might. You hope you will never need your insurance, but you have it just in case. The same goes for having a gun for self-defense. It is better to have it and not need it, than to need it, and not have it.

It is also important to own a gun simply to preserve your rights as an American citizen. With the advent of international Islamic extremist terrorism, we are living in a new world, different from any we have experienced before.

It is not difficult to imagine that the President, or Congress, in a well-meaning attempt to prevent another “9-11,” would take steps that would nullify the Bill of Rights almost overnight.

In the interests of “national safety,” many Americans would unthinkingly accept the curtailment of their civil liberties. This might mark the end of the free America we have known for over 200 years. It has happened in other countries. It would be naive and short-sighted to believe that “it could never happen here.”

We have also seen the disturbing sight of well-meaning public officials actually confiscating the firearms of law-abiding citizens in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, with gangs roaming the streets…exactly the time when the citizens need their self-defense weapons the most! These officials are well-meaning, but foolish, dangerous, and in violation of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The only way to retain our Constitutional rights is to USE them. By owning guns, American men and women are taking concrete action in support of their rights and freedoms, and preserving those rights and freedoms for future generations.

It’s just a small step, but it’s very important. Don’t you think you owe it to yourself, to your family, to your community and to America’s future generations, to own a gun?

Download this Article as a handy brochure: Fifteen Reasons You Should Own A Gun

Responsible Gun Ownership: Your right, your responsibility, and your duty as an American citizen to keep and bear arms.

About Mouse Guns:
Marshall St John is an active gun blogger and second amendment supporter who has blogged for many years in supports of guns and gun rights Visit: www.mouseguns.com