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Shall-Issue Bill Likely To Pass In Delaware: Despite organized
opposition, including attendance by uniformed but disarmed police
officers, both houses of the legislature appear to have ample votes to
pass the bill.
http://www.capegazette.com/storiescurrent/0306/weapons032406.html
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Florida Parking-Lot Bill Re-Emerges: The bill to block employers from
banning firearms in vehicles parked on company lots will be debated
again this week in the Florida legislature.
http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060327/CAPITOLNEWS02/60327002/1075
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Alabama To Reconsider Deadly-Force Bill: The hotly debated bill to
remove the duty to retreat before resorting to deadly force will be
considered again this week in the Alabama legislature.
http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-20/1143496176281310.xml&storylist=alabamanews
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Stand-Your-Ground Bill Clears Alaska Senate: Alaska is a step closer to
allowing citizens to use deadly force against muggers, carjackers,
sexual assailants and others.
http://www.ktva.com/topstory/ci_3644806
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More Wisconsin Women Take Up Shooting: Article discusses in creased
participation in shooting sports and training at Northeast Wisconsin
Technical College, which sounds like it's oriented toward self-defense.
Perhaps this will influence voting patterns and eventually result in
licensed CCW in that state.
http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=4685254
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DeLay Appeals Suspension Of CHL: Rep. Tom DeLay is fighting to regain
his concealed handgun permit after it was suspended because of his
indictment on felony charges.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/mar/28/032807006.html
Related Commentary:
http://www.fortbendnow.com/opinion/904/tom-deserves-to-get-his-gun-back-at-least-until-the-trial
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Ladies And Guns: In the wake of the shooting of an armed robber by a
legally armed customer at a Tulsa OK store, a local TV station takes a
look at women undergoing training to be licensed to carry. (I had to
turn the volume all the way up on my computer in order to hear the audio
portion of the video clip.)
http://www.kotv.com/main/home/eclips.asp?clipid=2288
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Use The Right Gun: An armed man broke into a Colorado home after
threatening to hurt its occupants. He was undeterred by a blast from a
410 shotgun but ultimately succumbed to a round from a .30-06 rifle.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/8287436/detail.html
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Pulling The Trigger On A 5,000-Pound Deadly Weapon: Articles about a
road-rage death in Tucson emphasize a point I make in my CWP course - if
you're in your vehicle and it's still capable of moving, it's probably a
better weapon than a firearm, so long as you know how to use it as such.
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/news/local/032706a1_trafficmurder
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/news/local/032706a4_trafficmurder_inside
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Bringing A Hammer To A Gunfight: A 14-year-old Ohio girl who was
abducted at gunpoint escaped after striking the man in the groin with a
hammer she found under the seat of his vehicle.
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060322/NEWS08/603220345
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Book Recommendation: While John Farnam and I teach some different
techniques when it comes to handling and firing handguns, his book The
Farnam Method of Defensive Handgunning, Second Edition contains a lot of
valuable material.
http://www.spw-duf.info/emperor.html#title
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Tara Drummond Memorial Park: Fundraising efforts are ongoing to build a
memorial park, in the form of a pet stop along a highway, in memory of
the Georgia police recruit who was killed in a training accident at the
North Central Georgia Law Enforcement Academy. (Tara died as the result
of negligence on the part of her firearms instructor.)
http://www.taradrummond.com/
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South African Gun Owners Ignore Re-Licensing Deadline: The anticipated
rush by firearm owners ahead of Friday's deadline to renew their
licences has not materialised.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=139&art_id=vn20060327054424629C618911
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From GOA:
Will Congress Ditch John McCain's Internet Regulations?
-- Vote coming soon to preserve online political speech
Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
Monday, March 27, 2006
Gun Owners of America alerted you a couple of weeks ago to legislation
-- introduced by Texas Congressmen Jeb Hensarling and Ron Paul -- that
will exempt the Internet from regulation under federal "electioneering"
laws.
The bill, H.R. 1606, was supposed to come to a vote on March 16, but it
was inexplicably pulled from the House calendar. The good news is that
bill is now back on the calendar, and it is scheduled for a vote as
early as Wednesday.
Unless the Hensarling-Paul bill is enacted, many major blogs and web
sites could be shut down for 60 days before any general election -- and
for 30 days prior to any primary -- making it much more difficult for
groups like Gun Owners of America to criticize anti-gun candidates.
These regulations have resulted from two court opinions that followed
the passage of the Incumbent Protection Act -- a law sponsored by
Senators John McCain and Russ Feingold. One opinion upheld the
McCain-Feingold law almost in its entirely [McConnell v. FEC]. In the
other -- Shays v. Federal Election Commission -- judges ordered the
Federal Election Commission to regulate the Internet.
The FEC is still mightily fighting the court to minimize the regulation
of the Internet. But who knows if they will prevail, or if a future
administration will take a much different view. This is why H.R. 1606 is
so important.
The danger, as it stands now, is that if Hensarling and Paul are
unsuccessful in exempting the Internet from FEC regulation, many major
blogs and web sites could one day be construed to be engaged in
"electioneering communications" because they praise or criticize
candidates. And, if this happens, they could be shut down for 60
days prior to an election -- or, at least, subject to a "gag rule" on
what they are allowed to say.
ACTION:
1. Contact your congressman. Ask him to vote for H.R. 1606, a bill to
exempt the Internet from McCain-Feingold.
You can visit the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at
http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send your Representative a
pre-written e-mail message such as the one below.
2. Take action and then please forward this alert to your pro-gun
friends and family!
----- Pre-written letter -----
Dear Representative:
The U.S. House of Representatives will soon vote on H.R. 1606, a bill by
introduced by Texas Congressmen Jeb Hensarling and Ron Paul to exempt
the Internet from regulation under federal "electioneering" laws.
Unless the Hensarling-Paul bill is enacted, many major blogs and web
sites could be shut down for 60 days before any general election -- and
for 30 days prior to any primary.
Please support H.R. 1606. Thank you.
Sincerely,
*****************************
"Live Fire" radio with Larry Pratt is broadcast by the Information Radio
Network on Saturdays at 12:00 Noon Eastern. "Live Fire" is simulcast on
the web at
http://inforadionet.com and previous episodes are archived at
http://www.soundwaves2000.com/livefire/ in RealAudio. Recent guests and
topics have included:
* Jim Jacobson: Christian Burmese refugees defined as terrorists for
resisting genocide -- by the US government
* Dr. William Watkins: How much power for Washington - same disagreement
in the 1790's as the 21st century
* Joseph Klein: The UN's stealth assault on US freedoms and guns
* Anna Zetchus Raetz of Liberty Belles: Beating back the Million Mom
March
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(The FEC has adopted a rule that exempts websites from regulation of
political activity other than paid advertisements
[
http://www.townhall.com/news/ap/online/high-tech/D8GIE3S80.html].
However, it seems that it would be safest to have Congress establish
that principle in law.)
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From The Firearms Coalition:
Decades-Old Chickens Come Home To Roost
The Violence Policy Committee is reporting what they term a "little
noticed victory" for gun prohibitionists in a 78% drop in the number gun
dealers over the past decade. According to a VPC press release, which
has been picked up by several mainstream news outlets
(ttp://tinyurl.com/jlg2a), the number of Type 1 Federal Firearms License
holders dropped from 245,628 in 1994 to 54,902 in 2005.
The drop in the number of licensees is a direct result of Clinton-era
policies that included raising the fee for a Type 1 license from $30 to
$200 coupled with concentrated "enforcement" (read "auditing") of
provisions of the '60 Gun Control Act.
Neal Knox wrote of a deeper root cause of the reduction in the number of
dealers more than two decades ago. At that time a group of storefront
dealers and distributors, banded together to call themselves the
"National Alliance of Stocking Gun Dealers." Their stated purpose was
to drive what they termed "basement bandits" (home and hobbyist dealers)
out of business.
Those "basement bandits" included kitchen table dealers, but also
gunsmiths and hobbyists who wanted to avoid running afoul of the /still/
vaguely defined GCA '68 prohibition on "engaging in the business" of gun
trade, and local clubs that maintained an FFL in order to buy from
distributors.
Today, we see the results of those dealers' protectionism.
When gun owners fail to defend all other gun owners -- and that includes
gun dealers -- the result is fratricide.
======================================================================
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Dec. 26, 1984)
A major gun distributor who is one of the main supporters of the
"National Alliance of Stocking Gun Dealers" is attempting to get on
national television programs to condemn the /lack/ of Federal gun
regulations.
Publisher Andy Molchan has written in "American Firearms Industry
Magazine" that the "National Alliance is a protest group ... saying 'We
are NOT going to die easily. And if we do die, we are going to take a
lot of people with us.'"
By that attitude, the "National Alliance" isn't just threatening the
smaller or non-stocking dealer, what they're doing may amount to
murder-suicide of the interests of themselves and their customers. If
they succeed in changing the Gun Control Act, it's unlikely to have any
significant positive effects upon their businesses, but it will almost
certainly result in even-tighter controls upon firearms users.
The distributors and dealers in the NASGD, like most of those in the
gun business, are barely surviving financially. The industry's troubles
are due to both the general economic downturn and the lessened numbers
of firearms buyers. However, the NASGD is blaming "unfair competition"
from small dealers operating out of their homes (whom they call
"basement bandits") as well as individuals who obtain Federal
dealer licenses to conduct their hobby, and are able to buy wholesale
instead of buying from a local dealer.
But as most in the industry will admit, the real problem is the
over-supply of guns and ammunition, which has caused manufacturers and
importers to "dump" their excess products at below-normal prices in
order to survive themselves.
While dealers have undoubtedly lost some sales to low-overhead or
no-overhead licensees, I would wager they've lost many times as much to
the big discount chains that handle guns as a loss-leader, in order to
get hunters into their stores. Those discount chains often sell the
most-popular models at prices below what the dealer's supplier can buy them.
But since the dealers and distributors can't successfully fight the
outfits that are bigger that themselves, a few are picking a fight with
the guys that are smaller -- and we're all getting sprayed with the wild
shots.
I'm beginning to run into the effects of their campaign on Capitol
Hill. A Senator's aide recently asked me "What can we do about basement
bandits?" Another told me: "I thought you gun people wanted fewer
Federal gun laws, but I just talked with a gun distributor who wants more."
The immediate object of the NASGD is to reduce the number of FFL's
issued, which is the same thing Handgun Control Inc. attempted in a
court case a few years ago. Any time my friends want the same thing
that my enemies want, it's time to re-evaluate that friendship.
_______________________________________________
---
From JPFO:
ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP
America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization
March 27, 2006
JPFO Alert: "What Can I Do?"
We've mentioned in the past that our "Boot the BATFE" campaign (
www.jpfo.org/bootbatfe.htm ) has been making progress. We're getting
BATFE reports almost daily, and have even had media inquiries as a
result of our campaign. "But what can _I_ do?" we're often asked. We'd
like to show you.
Firearms dealers and their lawyer -- Americans with the true grit and
guts _all_ Americans used to possess -- are taking on the federal
government by filing lawsuits against the BATFE. You can read the text
of one such suit here: www.jpfo.org/batfecomplaint.pdf , along with a
request for a restraining order here: www.jpfo.org/batferestrain.pdf .
Finally, you can read a related letter to the Oregon State Police:
www.jpfo.org/batfeosp.pdf.
Why are we publishing these documents? To give you just one example of
what can be done -- what IS being done!
"But I haven't had a run-in with the BATFE. Now what?"
Glad you asked. Download and print these documents, along with the
Congressional Research Service memo
( www.jpfo.org/ATFguntests.pdf ), which proves that the BATFE has no
standardized procedures. Show them to every gunowner you know. The
federal government _fears_ this more than anything else, because they
may be liable for millions of dollars in restitution to firearms owners
falsely accused, imprisoned, or fined.
While you're at it, show _BATFE Fails the Test_ (
www.jpfo.org/batfevideo.htm ) to those same gunowners. Wear your "Boot
the BATFE" t-shirt (
http://www.jpfo.org/jpfowear.htm#boot -- and don't
forget to read the back!) or lapel pin
(
http://www.jpfo.org/pin.htm#boot ), and tell anyone who asks why
you're wearing it. BOOT THE BATFE OUT OF YOUR LIFE, AS WELL AS ANYONE
WHO SUPPORTS THIS ROGUE AGENCY!
It is up to us all to pursue justice for those who have been wronged by
the arbitrary and capricious nature of the BATFE. It's up to us to give
the BATFE the boot!
- The Liberty Crew
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Firearm safety - It's a matter
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