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New Jersey Second Amendment Society

Manahawkin, New Jersey --(Ammoland.com)- The New Jersey Second Amendment Society announced it will be joining many national freedom and rights groups in supporting Starbucks on February 14th.

“While some organizations have chosen to boycott Starbucks for their policies,” says Frank Jack Fiamingo, President of the NJ2AS, “we choose to support those businesses that support freedom and individual choice rather than yielding to the desires of the few who would strip law abiding citizens of rights under the guise of safety.”

Fiamingo continues, “Unlike a number of large restaurant entities Starbucks has chosen to defer to local laws regarding the right to keep and bear arms on their premises. This support of the rights of the law abiding people patronizing Starbucks is to be commended.

We are pleased to see Starbucks take this common sense approach rather than cowering to the whims of the many anti freedom groups that choose to focus on the Second Amendment as their avenue for more intrusive and nanny state government and corporate policies.”

Frank Jack Fiamingo can be reached for comment via email at President@nj2as.com or by phone at (732) 233-6506.

The New Jersey Second Amendment Society (http://www.NJ2AS.com) is a no compromise defender of the right to keep and bear arms formed to promote those rights protected under the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States within the legislature and the community.

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About:
New Jersey Second Amendment Society – Our mission is to promote the free exercise of Second Amendment rights within the community and Legislature of New Jersey, to educate the community regarding the enjoyable, safe, and responsible use of firearms, and to engender a sense of camaraderie and fellowship among the members and their families. Visit: www.nj2as.com

Virginia Citizens Defense League

Covington VA --(Ammoland.com)- The James Madison University protest was the next day, Thursday.

The skies were clear, but it was colder, though not extremely so. We had around twenty people at the peak, the occupiers had three.

(As usual the occupiers had no table and no student group to sponsor them.)

We handed out around 800 brochures and even more stickers. The event started slow, but picked up considerably as the day wore on. Chris Kichnko, the Vice-President of the JMU Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, VCDL EM Patricia Webb, and I spoke around noon.

Hats off to JMU Chief of Police, Lee Shifflett. He was very professional and truly couldn’t have been nicer or easier to work with.

Thanks also go to the JMU Students for Concealed Carry on Campus for sponsoring us!

MEDIA COVERAGE

From WSVA.com: http://tinyurl.com/7atdqut

At the same time news was swirling about the shooting at Virginia Tech, students were out on the campus of JMU lobbying for gun rights.

The Virginia Citizens Defense League and JMU’s Students for Concealed Carry on Campus rallied, saying that bans in place on college campuses preventing students from carrying guns is a violation of the second amendment.

JMU’s policy does not allow students, faculty or staff to carry a gun on campus. The VCDL is urging pro-gun alumni to withhold any financial gifts until the policy is changed.

About:
Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. (VCDL). VCDL is an all-volunteer, non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to defending the human rights of all Virginians. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a fundamental human right. Visit: www.vcdl.org

Virginia Citizens Defense League Radford University Protest

Virginia Citizens Defense League

Covington VA --(Ammoland.com)- The Radford University protest on Wednesday was a success, even if the weather didn’t really cooperate.

Despite the rain and the fact that we could not hand out our brochures and stickers unsolicited, we still handed out 500 brochures and even more stickers.

Eryn Bartholomew (Vice-President of the Radford College Republicans), VCDL EM Dave Knight, and I spoke at the event.

We met with the police and student event staff early so they could go over the rules with us for our protest. We also paid for our tables, which we were required to stay near during the protest so as not to block students passing by.

The “occupiers” showed up – all two of them (vs 18 of us). They, of course, did not follow any of the rules that we had to follow. They were standing right in front of the doors to the student center, in the way of those coming and going. They also had not rented a table and were soliciting people to take their stickers and handouts.

While I don’t mind them exercising their First Amendment rights, I am sick and tired of them breaking the rules while we are expected to follow them. I called the Radford University Chief of Police (we had swapped phone numbers before the event) and advised her of what was happening. A little while later the anti-freedom crowd, which had swelled to four for about twenty minutes, was told to stop handing out materials and to move away from the doors.

We were told that a debate class had a topic of “campus carry” and that our side was well represented by a young lady. Other classes also had considerable discussion of the issue, including one where a woman wearing a “No guns on campus” sticker, took it off and accepted a “Guns Save Lives” sticker after hearing a few minutes of a discussion on campus carry!

The occupiers could not find any student groups to sponsor them (just like the rest of the venues except one). The Young Democrats at Radford University refused, understanding that gun control is a losing proposition.

Thanks, again, to the Radford College Republicans for sponsoring us!

Great stuff!

MEDIA COVERAGE

From WSLS.com: http://tinyurl.com/79ozglh

Pro-gun rally held at Radford University

The Virginia Citizen’s Defense League held a rally near the student center Wednesday at Radford University.

They’ve recently held a rally at Virginia Tech, to share their message about why they think guns should be allowed on campus.

Meanwhile, Collin Goddard, who was shot in the 2007 tragedy at Virginia Tech was at Radford, along with the brother of another victim. They protested in opposition to the rally.

From WDBJ7.com: http://tinyurl.com/84pjfbu

Pro-Gun protest held at Radford University

About a dozen people showed up for the protest

RADFORD; Va. —

Another pro-gun protest; this time at Radford University. This is the fifth protest on a state college campus by the Virginia Citizen’s Defense League in the past month.
The grassroots, pro-gun organization is pushing for a change in policy to allow those with a concealed weapons permit to carry guns inside campus buildings.

Organizers say now is the time for university’s to change their view on guns and safety.

“The push now is because we’ve gotten impatient,” said VCDL President Philip Van Cleave. “We feel the universities and colleges aren’t getting the message. In fact, some are getting the opposite message from what happened. They’re trying to increase no-gun policies, which do nothing but endanger everybody. So the time came where we finally said ‘enough is enough’!”

The VCDL will protest at James Madison University Thursday.

The group is also gearing up for a legislative battle. VCDL organizers say they’re working with state senators on generating legislation that would require state universities to allow guns inside campus buildings.

About:
Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. (VCDL). VCDL is an all-volunteer, non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to defending the human rights of all Virginians. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a fundamental human right. Visit: www.vcdl.org

Virginia Citizens Defense League

Covington VA --(Ammoland.com)- VCDL Successful GMU Protest: We had a turnout similar to our ODU protest last week.

Over 20 VCDL members participated in the protest at GMU and we handed out 800 brochures to students. We were busy the entire time. Many made a point of thanking us for holding the protest and said they appreciated our efforts.

As things wound down, you could still see students going to their classes holding our brochures and wearing our “Guns Save Lives” and “No guns? NO FUNDS!” stickers. Very gratifying, indeed! We educated a lot of students today.

Some antis showed up and rudely “occupied” our protest, standing right in the middle of the area reserved for us, holding up their “No guns on campus” signs.

Oh, can you imagine the squealing if WE did that at one of THEIR events?

I don’t care that they were there – they have a right to their ideas and, besides that, they always make us look good.

Just as at ODU, we had the lion’s share of the activity and interest.

Again, I want to thank the GMU Students for Concealed Carry on Campus and Mason Liberty for sponsoring the event. The antis had no sponsors.

I was interviewed by 6 different reporters. Here is video coverage by two of the local TV stations:

• From WJLA: http://tinyurl.com/7ep5nnv
• From NBCWashington.com: http://tinyurl.com/7q92686

Virginia Election Wrap Up
If the election results hold up, the Democrats and Republicans will share power equally in the Senate. That will pretty much defang the Democratic anti-gun leadership. They won’t be able to pull the same shenanigans, like creating a special anti-gun subcommittee just to kill pro-gun bills. For that to happen, the Republicans would have to agree – not likely to happen.

Every committee will be chaired by BOTH a Republican and a Democrat, keeping Senators Marsh and Saslaw at bay. We had a situation just like this some years ago.

I had warned everyone that elections have been razor thin and, indeed, there were two races determined by less than 90 votes and one of them determines if we get 4 more years of anti-gun Democratic leadership in the Senate or not. Turnout can make all the difference in the world, hopefully all of you made it to the polls.

I believe we have approximately a 5-vote pro-gun edge in the Senate now and a huge pro-gun edge in the House!

About:
Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. (VCDL). VCDL is an all-volunteer, non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to defending the human rights of all Virginians. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a fundamental human right. Visit: www.vcdl.org

Virginia Citizens Defense League

Covington VA --(Ammoland.com)- Finally – we have a date and time for Operation Campus Safety at Virginia Tech!

**Mark your calendars, this is going to be big and you’re going to want to be part of it!**

We have approval for the protest from 8 AM to 4 PM on Thursday, November 17th. While some of us will be there early, the main protest will start at 11:30 AM and run until 4 PM. Speakers will start at 12 Noon and continue until 1:30 PM. We will need lots of people to carry signs, pass out literature, and answer questions.

This should be an excellent day to be on campus as it is a game day (UNC vs VT), allowing us maximum visibility. We are also looking at having a presence in nearby Blacksburg.

The protest will be held in front of the Squires Student Center (College Ave./Otey Street side), not far from the town of Blacksburg or the VT Drillfield.

More details will follow, including parking information and possible carpooling from area localities.

A very special thanks to Eric Smith, President of the Libertarians at Virginia Tech. The Libertarians are hosting the protest and Eric is working hard to make the protest a success, patiently working his way through the VT bureaucracy to get the event approved.

Another powerful force in bringing everything together is John Wilburn, a VT alumni. He has been doing all kinds of coordination behind the scenes and he, too, has made it a personal mission to make the protest a huge success.

This is a mission to save lives and that drives both Eric and John, just like it drives all of VCDL’s membership.

There is no way this would have come together so well without Eric and John!

Oh, and as if John isn’t doing enough already, besides running his own business (Hokie Real Estate, Inc.), he is a firearms instructor and will be giving away free CHP classes to two lucky attendees!

Thanks also to EMs Dave Hicks and Dave Knight, who are helping with both the VT and the Radford protests.

Radford and JMU students – come to Virginia Tech on November 17th and stand with Virginia Tech students in support of freedom and liberty. VCDL will ask the VT students to do the same when we announce the Radford and JMU protests in the near future.

Wild horses couldn’t keep me away – see you there!

No guns? NO FUNDS! (Remember: Donations for Virginia Tech can be sent to Blue Ridge Community College instead. )

About:
Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. (VCDL). VCDL is an all-volunteer, non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to defending the human rights of all Virginians. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a fundamental human right. Visit: www.vcdl.org

If Pro-Gun Folks Had An ‘Occupy’ Event…

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

Virginia Citizens Defense League

Covington VA --(Ammoland.com)- The Board of Directors of Virginia Citizens Defense League has decided that enough is enough when it comes to the safety of the students, faculty, staff, and guests at Virginia public universities and colleges.

Higher-education “no gun” policies do not make the innocent any safer. Instead such policies enable people like Cho to wantonly massacre, rape, and rob.

Those policies disarm students, faculty and staff not only on campus, but going to and from campus. ODU, for example, is not situated in the best part of town and unarmed students pay the price.

What’s even more egregious is that concealed handgun permit holders, who are at least 21 years old, have clean records, have had training, are not illegal drug users or habitual drunkards, and carry virtually everywhere else they go, are purposely left helpless.

There simply is no excuse for that. Just one armed permit holder in one of those classrooms under attack at Virginia Tech on that fateful day in 2007 could have stopped Cho.

Just who exactly do those who live in the Ivory Towers think they are to dictate what your life or mine is worth? Where do they get the authority to do so? Gun laws are strictly controlled by the General Assembly and there is NO enabling legislation giving higher-ed the authority to have gun-control on campus.

Too many of those in the Ivory Towers are so lost in the alternate world of academia, they become isolated from reality.

The thought of being expelled from Virginia Tech, something that I’m sure the University considers right up there with the death penalty, didn’t even slow Cho down from his dark mission. And after the massacre, the University completely missed the real-world lesson that was so painfully taught them. Instead they decided to double-down on a failed and dangerous policy that only works on a blackboard.

The universities know that the Virginia Attorney General Cuccinelli has stated that they are not responsible for ensuring the safety of students, yet those same universities demand that students nonetheless delegate their safety to the university and its police officers (who by the way have a Supreme Court ruling that says that THEY are not responsible for the safety of any one individual, only the public generally)!

Nothing against campus police, but the same unfortunate reality applies to them as it does all other police officers – when seconds count between life and death, the police are only minutes away.

Speaking of that, when Virginia Tech was under attack by Cho, guess where a contingency of police went immediately? You guessed it – to protect those in the Ivory Towers! Those in the Ivory Towers should not get any more protection than anyone else – after all, it is their dangerous policies of making people FEEL safe that only end up aiding someone like Cho in his mission of murder.

A SOLUTION – VCDL WILL BE PROTESTING AT A SCHOOL NEAR YOU!
If higher-education won’t do the right thing on their own, then VCDL and gun owners statewide need to “nudge” them onto the right path.

How do we do that?

Simple. We hit them where it hurts – right in the wallet. With the economy in the dumps, higher-ed is probably not getting the level of donations they are used to and we plan on squeezing them even more.

To that effect, VCDL is preparing a series of campus protests over the next few months. We are having signs, brochures, and stickers made as I write this. We will be on campus educating students and we will be reaching out to alumni to stop donations to the school until they change their policies, however long that takes.

Those protests will be starting in a few weeks.

ALUMNI AND PROSPECTIVE PARENTS – WE NEED SOME QUOTES FROM YOU!
If you are an alumni of the following schools, or are considering sending your son or daughter to one of them, and don’t mind your name being published in the pamphlets, email me (president@vcdl.org) a one or two sentence quote that we can use in the brochures that we will be handing out on campus:

• College of William & Mary
• Virginia Commonwealth University
• George Mason University
• Virginia Tech
• James Madison University
• Radford University

Include in the quote, which university or college you attended. Something like, “As an alumni of XYZ University, I cannot and will not support a school that mindlessly disarms students, faculty, staff, and guests with concealed handgun permits.” Please use your own wording.

I will be announcing each protest a week or so before it is held here on VA-ALERT so that we can get a good turnout at each one. We will need people holding signs, handing out brochures, and talking to those with questions. Someone from VCDL leadership will be interfacing with the press.

In the meantime, spread the word far and near. When a university or college asks for money, tell them: NO GUNS? NO FUNDS!

About:
Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. (VCDL). VCDL is an all-volunteer, non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to defending the human rights of all Virginians. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a fundamental human right. Visit: www.vcdl.org

Vist, support and shop Realco Guns at www.realcoguns.com

Maryland Shall Issue

Maryland -–(Ammoland.com)- As you’ll recall, Heeding God’s Call, the anti-gun organization of “faith leaders” based in Philadelphia, attempted to organize several protests of Clyde’s Sports Shop back during the winter.

They finally were able to put together a half-hearted event on December 11th that turned into one of the biggest business days for Clyde’s when gun owners and other long-time customers came out to support the shop on their “customer appreciation day.”

Since Heeding God’s Call got no traction from their failed attempt to attack Clyde’s, they’ve taken their show to Prince George’s County to protest retailer Realco Guns.

Long time readers will recall that way back in 2007, Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow PUSH staged a high profile protest at Realco that was amply countered by MSI and other pro-gun groups from both Maryland and Virginia.

Now, Heeding God’s Call is picking up where Jackson’s group left off by promising to protest at Realco every Monday as they did this past Monday, June 6th.

Misplaced Angst?
We wonder if the angst from protest-group Heeding God’s Call over lawful gun sales in Prince George’s County would be better aimed at the headquarters of BATFE. This tiny gun control group – best known for tugging at the tired coat-tails of Jesse Jackson’s failed gun control movement - is upset that a lawful Maryland dealer…legally sells guns.

Despite any evidence - at all – that Realco Arms is performing illegal transfer of firearms to prohibited persons, the group intends to protest this dealer weekly. The group claims that Realco allows highly illegal so-called “straw sales” of arms to criminals, yet provides no evidence to back their claims.

We here at MSI think straw sales are a serious matter. If Heeding God’s Call - or anyone - has evidence that any group is knowingly allowing straw sales, we encourage them to immediately report it to law enforcement.

Forget color coordinated protest signs – make a difference and call the Maryland State Police Straw Buyers Hotline at 1-888-637-7274. Today.

Of course, we do not expect that phone to ring anytime soon. It’s much easier to make up numbers, shout out accusations and make noise than it is to go after the criminals and true purveyors of crime in our society.

Which leads us to a suggestion for the good people of Heeding God’s Call: start asking tough questions of the Department of Justice and the ATF, who we now learn have knowingly allowed and assisted in the illegal sales of pistols and rifles to Mexican Drug Cartels. Recent congressional testimony, ATF agent admissions and whistleblowers have all provided evidence of an operation managed from the ATF and DoJ to give guns to drug cartels – all “to see where they end up.”

So where did the ATF guns end up?

Some of those guns have been found at the scene of a dead us Law Enforcement Officer in the United States, and just this week we hear claims others were used in a battle that disabled a military helicopter in Mexico. ATF insiders claim thoudsands of guns were transferred to the cartels and that hundreds of people may have been killed by them.

We understand that Heeding God’s Call may not have heard this news, because with the exception of CBS News, the Mexican press and a few other US news outlets, few dare question the Department of Justice on this matter. But we will, Congress will, and so too will millions of Americans when they hear the details of the international and national laws broken by our government all to “see where the guns end up.”

As if there was any question of how the cartels would use thousands of illegal guns…

If Heeding God’s Call wishes to take on a source of mass illegal straw sales of dangerous arms to dangerous people, they need look no further than the ATF. If they want to make a real difference, then they should shine light on the darkness of “Project GunRunner” and it’s “Fast and Furious” operation that knowingly deilvered arms to the cartels. If Heeding God’s Call wishes to take on the DoJ, they will also have a partner in MSI.

Until then, though…it’s just a lot of shouting into the wind.”

Vist, support and shop Realco Guns at www.realcoguns.com

Mission Statement: Maryland Shall Issue is an all volunteer, non-partisan effort dedicated to the preservation and advancement of all gunowners’ rights in Maryland, with a primary goal of CCW reform to allow all law-abiding citizens the right to carry a concealed weapon; and to the education of the community to the awareness that ‘shall issue’ laws have, in all cases, resulted in decreased rates of violent crime.

Virginia Citizens Defense League

Covington VA --(Ammoland.com)- On super-short notice, and in the middle of a weekday, over 30 VCDL members, some with children in tow (and one with a child in the works ) showed up at the Bloomberg horse-and-pony-show this afternoon!

All were wearing VCDL’s orange “Guns Save Lives” and the “Freedom is NOT a Loophole” stickers.

The message from the antis was that if only we could force all gun purchases to go through a government background check then criminals wouldn’t be able to get guns.

My message to the press during my interviews was that background checks do not stop criminals from getting guns, as laws cannot stop criminals from using straw purchases to buy any gun they want or to keep criminals from stealing guns that are lawfully owned. I also pointed out that over 2,000 lives are saved every day by lawful gun owners, as opposed to the 34 that Bloomberg claims are killed daily by someone using a gun (most of which are drug or suicide related).

Since this was Bloomberg’s event, I was not allowed to address the crowd, BUT a reporter from the Times-Dispatch, Will Jones, who had interviewed me earlier, asked Omar Samaha some great questions: “What do you say to the opponents who claim that these background checks won’t reduce crime as criminals will simply steal guns or use straw purchases to get them?” (paraphrased)

That caught Omar completely off balance and he proceeded to stumble through a non-answer, basically saying that “if it only saves one life…” and “this is only the ‘first step.’”

Only the first step? Too bad Will didn’t followed up on that one!

Of course you and I don’t need to know the steps, as we already know the final goal of the anti-freedom crowd.

About:
Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. (VCDL). VCDL is an all-volunteer, non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to defending the human rights of all Virginians. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a fundamental human right. Visit: www.vcdl.org

Delias Gun Shop Protesters

AmmoLand Gun News

Philadelphia, PA --(Ammoland.com)- It appears from the attached email that PBS, (we have not yet been able to verify this) has agreed in advance to film the anti gun protesters that have been targeting the small firearms retailer, Delia’s Gun Shop in Philadelipiha, PA.

The fact that the Public Broadcast Service “PBS”  had agreed in advance (coordinated) to film an anti-gun protest, says almost all that needs to be said. Ceasefire NJ And Heeding God’s Call are planning a protest in PA for this Tuesday March 15th.

Heeding God’s Call has a  list of demands that they want all firearms retailers to sign before they will stop protesting what is already perfectly legal to do:

The List of Demands Includes

1. Videotaping the Point of Sale for All Firearms Transactions. Participating retailers will videotape the point-of-sale of all firearms transactions and maintain videos for 6 months to deter illegal purchases and monitor employees.
2. Computerized Prime Gun Trace Log and Alert System. Maors Against Illegal Guns will develop a computerized system that participating retailers will implement over time to log crime gun traces relating to the retailer. Once the program is in place, if a customer who has a prior trace at that retailer attempts to purchase a firearm, the sale will be electronically flagged. The retailer would have discretion to proceed with the sale or stop the sale.
3. Purchaser Declaration. For sales flagged by the trace alert system, participating retailers will ask purchasers to fill out a declaration indicating that they meet the legal requirement to purchase the firearm.
4. Deterring Fake IDs. Participating retailers will only accept valid federal- or state-issued picture IDs as primary identification. Retailers will utilize additional ID checking mechanisms.
5. Consistent Visible Signage. Participating retailers will post signage created by the Responsible Firearms Retailer Partnership to alert customers of their legal responsibilities at the point-of-sale.
6. Employee Background Checks. Participating retailers will conduct criminal background checks for all employees selling or handling firearms.
7. Employee Responsibility Training. Participating retailers will participate in an employee responsibility training program focused on deterring illegal purchasers. The Responsible Firearms Retailer Partnership will create an online training system based on Wal-Mart´s training program.
8. Inventory Checking. Participating retailers will conduct daily and quarterly audits. Guidelines will be based on Wal-Mart´s existing audit procedures.
9. No Sales Without Background Check Results. Participating retailers would prohibit sales based on “default proceeds,” which are permitted by law when background check has not returned a result within 3 days.
10. Securing Firearms. Participating retailers will maintain firearms kept in customer accessible areas in locked cases or locked racks.

If you are in the South Jersey or Philadelphia area today please stop by and support Delia’s Gun Shop.

Heeding God’s Call EMAIL:

Urgent: Protest at NE Philly Gun Shop 4:30 PM TODAY

From: The Rev. Bob Moore [mailto:cfpa@peacecoalition.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 7:43 AM
Subject: Urgent: Protest at NE Philly Gun Shop 4:30 PM TODAY

Dear Ceasefire NJ Project Contact,

PBS has decided to film a Protest co-sponsored by Ceasefire NJ and Heeding God’s Call from 4:30-5:30 PM Today, Tuesday, March 15 at Delia’s Gun Shop, 6104 Torresdale Avenue, Philadelphia 19135. The goal is to pressure them to sign a Code of Conduct to inhibit sales to illegal purchasers.

We were unable to publicize this before now, to try and avoid a large counter-protest by the NRA and its allies. If at all possible, I urge you to attend the Protest!

Sincerely,

The Rev. Robert Moore
Executive Director
Coalition for Peace Action &
Peace Action Education Fund
40 Witherspoon St.
Princeton, NJ 08542
(609) 924-5022 phone
cfpa@peacecoalition.org
www.peacecoalition.org

Students for Concealed Carry on Campus

America --(Ammoland.com)- College students across America will once again strap on empty holsters in an act of silent protest against laws and policies banning licensed concealed carry on campus.

The protest, sponsored by Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (SCCC), will take place April 5-9, 2010 and comes on the heels of college administrators discriminating against concealed carry permit holders, and censoring students who disagree.

According to the group, colleges have repeatedly ignored or attempted to keep students from discussing the issue. In Pennsylvania, one college banned SCCC member Christine Brashier from handing out fliers about the group, stating, “You may want to discuss this topic but the college does not, and you cannot make us.” Another college in Texas tried to block students from wearing the symbolic empty holsters on campus until a federal judge ruled that their ban violated the First Amendment. And a recent decision at Colorado State University overturned a long-standing policy that allowed concealed carry, despite the fact that crime on campus decreased rapidly since allowing concealed carry on campus, and no problems were reported among permit holders. The ban was opposed by students, Student Government, and local law enforcement.

“Colleges aren’t content to ban the right to self-defense anymore,” said David Burnett, a spokesman for SCCC. “Now they’re trying to suspend the right to freedom of speech. They want to silence us and hope we’ll go away. It’s outrageous and our membership cares too much about self defense to remain silent.”

The group was formed shortly after the Virginia Tech shooting, and advocates that persons with state-issued permits be allowed to carry concealed handguns on college grounds.

“Compulsory defenselessness doesn’t make students safer, it makes them less safe,” said Burnett. “A piece of paper taped to the door saying guns are against the rules has yet to stop a criminal, whether a mass shooter or an armed rapist. It merely assures the criminal that victims are incapable of effective resistance. There are no security checkpoints or metal detectors to pass through in order to enter a college campus and absolutely no way for colleges to control what a criminal brings on campus. Until they can take responsibility for our safety and guarantee our protection, colleges can’t be allowed to deny us the right to self-defense.”

Students for Concealed Carry on Campus is a national grassroots organization consisting of over 44,000 college students, faculty members, parents, and concerned citizens who support the right to self-defense on campus. SCCC is non-partisan and not affiliated with any political party or organization.

Open Carry Solidarity Event In WI. One small section of us in front of the police headquarters. Myself and Chris Morley front and center.

ICarry.org

Wisconsin --(AmmoLand.com)-The unbelievably-successful open carry event in Wisconsin over the weekend didn’t make it out in our email broadcast. We’re not going to make that mistake twice!

“State Police Interaction” under favorites in our youtube channel is what sparked this event. An ordinary open carry advocate was harassed and troubled while he finished his lunch at a Chinese restaurant by state troopers. They instigated and created a problem where none existed. They treated this man differently only because he was openly carrying a pistol on his side, as the law fully allows in Wisconsin.

Check out the following to see the video from the event.

How did the community respond? Politely, proudly, perfectly! At least 50 people gathered in three locations: Starbucks, the State Police headquarters in Waukesha (where we stood on the steps to the front door, fully armed in plain sight!), and the Chinese restaurant where the harassment occurred. The restaurant owners were so happy to have us on a Sunday. They even gave us all free ice cream!!

Thank you to everyone who went, and especially to Wisconsin Carry, Inc. who helped volunteers organize and promote the event. Wisconsin Carry, Inc. has shown that they are serious about Right to Carry and serious about supporting gun owners who exercise their rights. They have also reached out to ICarry.org in friendship and camaraderie to work together and keep pushing open carry in order to remove restrictions on concealed carry in Wisconsin!!!

As a matter of fact, even though I live in Illinois, I just joined Wisconsin Carry! You see, many of us who live in northern Illinois will be traveling frequently to open carry events in Wisconsin to give our brothers and sisters to the north our support. I’m sure we will see that support reciprocated. This has already begun, and it will turn into something that’s not been seen anywhere else in the nation. Why? We’re the last two states without concealed carry, so we’re in this together and ICarry.org is leading this tag-team effort!!! If you live in Wisconsin, you should really check Wisconsin Carry, Inc. out at: www.wisconsincarry.org

ICarry.org, 1817 18th Avenue, Rockford, IL 61104, USA

About:
ICarry.org, an organization devoted to to bringing concealed carry to Illinois and Wisconsin. The only two states without it. Visit: www.icarry.org

Falls Township Rifle & Pistol Association

Bucks County, PA --(AmmoLand.com)- Pennsylvania’s Falls Township Rifle & Pistol Association has begun a letter writing campaign to Dick’s Sporting Good’s stores protesting what it describes as their enforcement of draconian New Jersey anti-gun laws in Pennsylvania.

According to Andy Barniskis, Legislative Committee Chairman for Falls Township Rifle and Pistol Association in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a number of club members reported Dick’s Sporting Goods stores in Pennsylvania demanding proof of state residency from customers purchasing handgun ammunition, and refusing ammunition sales to New Jersey residents.

Bucks County is located right across the Delaware River from New Jersey, and a number of club members are New Jersey residents who legally purchase handgun ammunition in Pennsylvania for use at the club’s Pennsylvania ranges.

In New Jersey, purchasers of handgun ammunition must show their state Firearms Owners Identification cards. In Pennsylvania, handgun ammunition buyers must only prove they are adults.

According to Barniskis, “We consider it an insult to gun owners for a retailer to enforce a foreign state’s anti-freedom legislation, when neither our state’s nor federal law requires any such thing.”

The following sample letter has been provided to club members and other regional gun owners, and club hopes the initiative to protest what appears to be Dick’s Sporting Goods corporate policy will spread.

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Edward W. Stack
Chairman & CEO
Dick’s Sporting Goods
300 Industry Drive RIDC
Park West Pittsburgh, PA 15275

Dear Mr. Stack:

It has come to my attention that Dick’s Sporting Goods stores in Eastern Pennsylvania have been enforcing New Jersey’s anti-gun laws on customers seeking to purchase handgun ammunition. Purchasers of handgun ammunition have been asked to prove their state of residence, and sales of handgun ammunition have reportedly been refused to New Jersey residents.

I regard such practices as an insult to both Pennsylvania and New Jersey residents.

Pennsylvania gun owners have fought too hard resisting draconian anti-gun laws like New Jersey’s to accept having them imposed by a retailer in Pennsylvania.

What’s more, New Jersey residents purchasing handgun ammunition in Pennsylvania, for use at gun clubs or other venues in Pennsylvania, are violating no law, and refusing to sell ammunition to them because of New Jersey’s anti-freedom laws implies suspicion of criminal intent on their part. It is insulting, and it is not the appropriate role for a retailer.

It has further been alleged that local management of Dick’s Sporting Goods stores in Pennsylvania have told ammunition customers inquiring about the policy that “It’s the law.” Dick’s management or staff members who make such statements are either deliberately lying, to shift the blame for a shameful corporate policy, or are unacceptably ignorant of Pennsylvania and federal law. It also has been alleged that enforcement of the policy has been tinged by allegations of racial profiling, which would imply civil rights violations.

Please advise me as to the corporate policy of Dick’s Sporting Goods regarding the enforcement of extra-legal anti- gun policies in its stores, and whether such practices will cease in the immediate future; or whether I, my family, and friends should seek other, more respectful retailers in Pennsylvania for our shooting and outdoor needs.

Sincerely,

Your Name & Address

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About:
Falls Township Rifle and Pistols Association. Founded in 1958, Falls Township Rifle and Pistol Association has been welcoming shooting enthusiasts in Lower Bucks County for more than 50 years. Originally located on the Falls Water Works, we now reside at 354 Newbold Road in Fairless Hills, PA just south of Morrisville. Visit: www.ftrpa.org

Open Holster Protesters

Maryland Shall Issue.org

Maryland --(AmmoLand.com)- Purpose :
To have a large, completely peaceful and unarmed gathering of supporters of “Shall Issue” laws in Maryland.

We will be wearing empty holsters in protest of the current “Discretionary Issue” system that sees Handgun Carry Permits issued only to those politically connected or dealing in extraordinarily large amounts of physical cash, or the occasional person who can meet the high burden of proof needed to receive one for self defense.

Parking: As most of you know, parking in downtown Annapolis is at a premium during the General Assembly session.

As such, we strongly recommend that you take advantage of the free shuttle service provided from the Navy/Marine Corps Stadium on Rowe Blvd, at Exit 24 off of Route 50.

Parking fees are very reasonable and the shuttle will drop you off in close proximity to Lawyer’s Mall. Just tell the driver where you want to go.

Speakers:
Delegates Michael Smigiel and Don Dwyer as well as Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America are confirmed as of this writing and more are expected to confirm within the next couple of days.

Basic Safety Rules :
All holsters must remain empty at all times. Do not put toy guns, training guns or the like in your holster. We want to emphasize the emptiness of the holsters and our lack of protection. The holster will simply be a fashion accessory, symbolizing our vulnerability to criminals.

Plan To Join Us And Bring Your Family!

About:
Maryland Shall Issue is an all volunteer, non-partisan effort dedicated to the preservation and advancement of all gunowners’ rights in Maryland, with a primary goal of CCW reform to allow all law-abiding citizens the right to carry a concealed weapon; and to the education of the community to the awareness that ’shall issue’ laws have, in all cases, resulted in decreased rates of violent crime.”

No Guns Allowed

FirearmsCoalition.org

Manassas, VA --(AmmoLand.com)- How does it make you feel when you start to walk into a business and see a “No Guns” sign prominently posted? Are you angry? Offended? Indifferent?

How do you react? Do you just turn around and take your business elsewhere? Complain to the management? Just ignore it and go on with your business?

Virginia Citizens Defense League

The members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League take “No Guns” signs as personally offensive and they let their offense be known – to the business, to fellow VCDL members, and anyone else who’ll listen – or read a web page.

VCDL maintains a list of anti-rights Virginia businesses on their web site, www.VCDL.org, and encourages gun owners and rights supporters to avoid these businesses except to let them know that their policy is offensive. VCDL has actively pursued this position for several years while they have simultaneously grown to become the most politically active and effective rights organization in the state.

So when the 7th District Republican Committee decided to hold a major fundraising rally in a location which is prominently posted “No Guns,” VCDL let the Republicans know they weren’t happy. When the Republicans held the annual event in the same anti-rights location every year for the next several years, disregarding VCDL’s repeated objections, many at VCDL began taking the Republicans’ choice as an insult. When the Republicans refused to change venues – even though VCDL offered to help sponsor the event at a different location – VCDL got mad.

On October 17th about 250 VCDL protesters gathered in a shopping mall near the Innsbrook Pavilion, the private, anti-rights event center where the annual Republican Roundup was being staged. The well organized protest included a moon-bounce and other distractions set up for the kids, an airplane towing a “Guns Save Lives” banner, and even a hot air balloon proclaiming the same message. Local shops, restaurants, and hotels welcomed the protesters – who were mostly openly carrying sidearms – and even offered special discounts. A good and safe time was had by all.

The Chairman of the 7th District Republican Committee has previously told people who complained to him about his choice to use the anti-rights facilities that while he and the Republican Party strongly support the Second Amendment, price and convenience trumps principles. And he’s sticking to his No Guns. Even as there were almost as many people outside protesting as there were inside rallying, the chairman announced that the event would again be held in the same location next year. The level of base callousness and simple stupidity is just staggering.

This up-scuttle echoes a larger issue of misunderstanding between the activist, rights community and the general public – sadly often including many gun owners. When a business posts a “No Guns” policy they are making a political statement whether that is their intent or not. They are also denigrating and insulting lawful gun owners – particularly those who choose to carry. A “No Guns” sign serves no useful purpose beyond these insults and political posturing because the only people to whom such signs apply are the most conscientious and responsible gun owners. Criminals and the irresponsible simply ignore the signs and do exactly what they would have done without the signs, except with perhaps a greater sense of security knowing that conscientious, law-abiding gun owners have disarmed or gone somewhere else.

Gun owners and rights supporters who are not angered and offended by these “We Don’t Want Your Kind” signs posted on businesses they frequent are being as thoughtless and insensitive as the businesses themselves. These “No Guns” signs should elicit the same reaction from gun owners and our friends that “Whites Only” signs did among blacks and civil rights supporters in the 1960’s. They are a personal insult and an assault on our liberty and anyone who can’t see that is simply choosing not to. That appears to be the case with the leadership of Virginia’s 7th District Republicans. One must wonder whether they would continue using the same facilities if the sign on the door read “No Jews” rather than “No Guns.”

Posting a “No Guns” sign is not a business decision about patron safety nor is disarming just a minor inconvenience. Such signs are a political statement and an insult and they should never go unanswered. The Firearms Coalition offers Merchant Education Cards which make it easy to let businesses know why they’re losing our business. They are available at www.FirearmsCoalition.org.

Neal Knox Associates – The most trusted name in the rights movement.

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.

Virginia Citizens Defense League

Virginia - The antis have “learned” about VCDL protesting the Falls Church Mayor, tomorrow, Monday, October 26 and the Norfolk Mayor, Tuesday, October 27 and are, er, up in arms.

They are trying to get their members to turn out at the city council meetings to counter our protest.

As EM Matt Gottshalk said when he saw this, “I’ve never seen so much slander in so few words.”

Here is what the Virginia Center for Public Safety (how’s that for a misnomer?) sent to their members (my comments imbedded in brackets)

CRITICAL ALERT!

Please forward this to anyone who can help!

The most extreme representatives of the pro-gun movement are planning to show up at local city council meetings across the Commonwealth for the purpose of harassing and intimidating the seven Virginia Mayors who have courageously stood up in support of the safety and well- being of their citizens over the fear-mongering and cowardice of the gun carriers. [PVC: Where do I begin? Since when is redressing grievances with the government considered harassing or intimidating the government? And I have to laugh when I hear the antis calling US cowards. "Harassing," intimidating," and "cowardice" are THEIR qualities which they are "projecting" on us.]

PLEASE DON”T ALLOW THEM TO SUCCEED!

On a Web site called “Ammoland”, the President of the so-called “Virginia Citizens Defense League” has pledged to show up at each Mayor’s next City Council Meeting in order to try to browbeat and intimidate these public servants into capitulating to the VCDL’s irrational and dangerous positions. [PVC: Protecting the Second Amendment civil right of Americans is "irrational and dangerous?"]

Believing that no democracy can tolerate political action through armed intimidation, The Virginia Center for Public Safety hopes all Virginians, liberal, moderate, and conservative, will help us stand up to these extremists, who while cloaking themselves in the veil of law and order, are perfectly satisfied with felons, terrorists, and the mentally disturbed having easy, unscrutinized access to guns, including military-grade weapons, as long as they do too. [PVC: Great example of the temper that the antis have. Look at the viciousness of those words against all of you. VCDL members carry guns for self-defense and will attend these city council meetings as we always have - as an orderly law-abiding group of citizens. Only the antis have ever accused us of being anything else. The antis, on the other hand, are the ones you have to watch out for. VCDL does not want terrorists and violent criminals to have guns, but we are smart enough to know that you can't stop them from getting guns, even if every law-abiding citizen turned in every gun they owned.]

WE NEED YOUR PRESENCE, PARTICULARLY THAT OF RESIDENTS OF THESE CITIES, AT THE FOLLOWING CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS:

In support of Falls Church Mayor Robin Gardner:

Monday, October 26th, at 7:30 PM

In support of Norfolk Mayor Paul D. Fraim:

Tuesday, October 27th, at 7:00 PM

As we learn about any other attempts by the VCDL to engage in this type of intimidation of public servants, we’ll pass it on. We anticipate they will try to harass the other five mayors, also. [PVC: Heck, pass it on now. The other mayors are from Petersburg, Richmond, Hopewell, Portsmouth, and Alexandria. We just don't have dates/times yet for their protests.]

About:
Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. (VCDL). VCDL is an all-volunteer, non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to defending the human rights of all Virginians. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a fundamental human right.

OpenCarry.org

OpenCarry.org - -(AmmoLand.com)- The Virginia Republican Party did the right thing by forcing Richmond Coliseum to allow gun carry at the state convention this year.

But Congressman Cantor knew that there was no room at Innsbrook for gun owners and held it there anyway.

About:
OpenCarry.org was founded in 2004 by Virginia gun-rights activists John Pierce and Mike Stollenwerk and has served to ignite the “Open Carry Movement” that is sweeping the country. In addition to being an invaluable legal resource for gun owners, the site has quickly grown to be a social networking portal for thousands of American gun owners

Right To Keep and Bear Arms Forum

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- On July 4 2009 we want gun owners across the country to email their US Senators and State Representatives in support of the Second Amendment. It will only take a few minutes of their time.

We will provide them with a letter to send if they do not feel like writing their own. They can take ours and personalize it to their standards. Imagine thousands or tens of thousands or even a million emails being emailed to all the US Senators and State Representatives all on the same day.

If that does not make a statement then I do not know what will.

This would be a peaceful email in support of the Second Amendment and the right to carry. I am not talking about overwhelming email servers or anything like that. We want our Senators and State Representatives to get these emails.

Check out our Second Amendment Forum for more information and updates.

http://rtkba.com/forums/index.php?showforum=207

Thank you for your time
Charlie Marracco
www.rtkba.com
charlie@rtkba.com