Tenth Circuit Rules Against Wyoming: A federal appeals court in Denver
has ruled against Wyoming in a lawsuit over a state law that seeks to
allow people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence to regain their
gun rights. A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals on Tuesday ruled that the procedure spelled out in Wyoming law
fails to expunge the criminal record of people convicted of domestic
violence. The ruling is a victory for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The agency had informed Wyoming that
if it persisted in using the state law, the federal government would no
longer accept Wyoming concealed weapons permits as a substitute for
instant background checks for gun purchases. Wyoming Attorney General
Bruce Salzburg said Wednesday that he's unlikely to suggest that the
state ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case...
http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/08/28/news/wyoming/27-wyomings.txt
Brady Bunch Applauds Decision: The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals
yesterday upheld a federal trial court ruling blocking a Wyoming law
that would allow convicted domestic violence abusers to possess
firearms. The court in Wyoming v. United States, as the Brady Center to
Prevent Gun Violence had urged in its amicus brief, prohibited Wyoming
from implementing its law to rearm domestic violence abusers. The 10th
Circuit ruling comes as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to consider a
case in its upcoming term concerning domestic violence abusers' gun
possession, United States v. Hayes. The Brady Center filed a brief in
Hayes urging the Supreme Court to overturn a circuit court ruling that
could require that the names of thousands of dangerous abusers be purged
from the federal Brady background check system...
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/brady-center-hails-court-ruling/story.aspx?guid={14B6796C-78BC-4CDF-9B40-FAB5F6495056}&dist=hppr
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New York Congressman Charged for Assault on NRA Member: Rep. Maurice
Hinchey, D-Hurley, is due in Rosendale town court Sept. 9 to face a
second-degree harassment charge after he allegedly swatted an NRA
representative on the head at the Rosendale Street Fair in July... On
July 19, Hinchey approached a rack of three guns that were locked and
chained down and picked up a lever action Winchester 94 rifle, Lendvay
said two days after the alleged incident. "My friend said to put the gun
down, and said the chief of police requested that during the street
festival, no one handle the guns," Lendvay said. "Mr. Hinchey kept
looking at the gun as if my friends said nothing to him." Lendvay said
his friend then asked Hinchey if he wanted to purchase raffle tickets
for the guns, and Hinchey said he already purchased some. Lendvay said
he told the congressman he knew he had not purchased any tickets...
(Where I live, the charge would be assault, not harassment. I guess rank
has its privileges.))
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008808270323
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Oops, Wrong House, Texas Version: Sheriff's deputies in Bastrop are
investigating a fatal shooting that happened Tuesday when a man fatally
shot another man he says was trying to break into his residence on John
Craft Road near the city of Bastrop. A dispatcher said that Dillian
Wilhelm shot James Nauer, of Bastrop, around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday when
Nauer reportedly entered his house with a club. Nauer was critically
injured and taken to the University Medical Center at Brackenridge where
he was pronounced dead, according to the sheriff's office. The Bastrop
County sheriff's office and the district attorney's office are
investigating the case to determine if charges will be filed,
investigators said.
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2008/08/27/red_rock_man_fatally_shoots_in.html
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Oops, Wrong House, Florida Version: As the intruder attempted to make
his way farther into the Ponce Inlet house, Kenneth Nunnelley - a senior
assistant attorney general - feared for the lives of his wife and
children and shot the stranger in the stomach, police said Wednesday.
Nunnelley, the lead prosecutor in the Florida Supreme Court for death
penalty appeal cases including local murderers Troy Victorino, Jerone
Hunter and Anthony Joseph Farina, was armed with a 9 mm Smith & Wesson
handgun when 43-year-old Roman Nowak pushed his way into the house. No
one in Nunnelley's family was hurt, police said, but Nowak was listed in
critical condition at Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach on
Wednesday...
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Local/newEAST01082808.htm
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Trojan-Horse Group Offers Hope to Democrats: Ask Democrats meeting in
Denver this week what interest group they fear most and the answer, more
often than not, is the National Rifle Association. The gun group's
grass-roots organizing might and the passion of its members are
legendary. To no one's surprise, the NRA is urging its members to help
elect Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona to the presidency. But NRA
officials are worried that Democratic nominee Barack Obama of Illinois
could make some headway among gun owners this year, and they're blaming
a little-known group run by Ray Schoenke, a former Dallas Cowboys and
Washington Redskins lineman who now runs a 300-acre hunting farm on
Maryland's Eastern Shore...
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=news-000002941681
An Example of AHSA Rhetoric:
http://www.buffalonews.com/149/story/425029.html
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Will West Virginia Miners Vote Against RKBA?: Eight years ago, actor
Charlton Heston fired up an overflow crowd of union coal miners in
Beckley with a grim warning about Al Gore over Second Amendment rights.
Much has changed since George W. Bush painted West Virginia red that
year with the help of coal miners and applied a second coat four years
later, says House Majority Whip Mike Caputo, D-Marion, an observer at
the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Caputo, an official of the
United Mine Workers of America in Fairmont, is painfully aware of how
union miners broke ranks and fled into the Bush camp in the 2000
presidential sweepstakes. Not only did miners hold suspicions that Gore
opposed gun rights but posed a threat to the coal industry over his
strident environmental beliefs...
http://www.register-herald.com/local/local_story_240215134.html
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Lest We Forget: David Freddoso of NRO and best selling author of the
book The Case Against Barack Obama has an article today that shows how
Obama's "ingenius lack of specificity" helps him in obscuring his true
positions on the issues. On gun rights, Freddoso points out that Obama
stated on national television that the recent Heller decision was "in
line with his own view" on gun rights. Nothing could be further from the
truth...Obama's flip flops on guns is especially dizzying, but simply
par for the course for Obama when it comes to projecting "misleading
moderation" as Freddoso calls it. And unless the voter takes the time to
dig into what Obama really thinks, they probably walk away with the
opinion that Obama is not really the far left liberal he truly is...
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/08/obamas_lies_about_supporting_g.html
Fredosso's NRO Commentary: In 2007, Senator Barack Obama stood up for a
gun owner. He endorsed Chicago Alderman Dorothy Tillman in her
Democratic primary. Not only was she a gun owner, but she had even
pulled a gun on her colleagues during a contentious 1991 ward
redistricting hearing, according to eyewitnesses. Tillman, best known
for demanding to be served by black (not white) waiters, and for
advocating reparations for slavery, narrowly lost her race despite
Obama's support. It would be only a slight exaggeration to say that this
was the strongest effort Obama has ever made to support gun rights...
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Mzk4ZjVkMGQ5ZjMzYTY4ZDIzMjMyZTYzMDJjMzlhZGQ=
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Gunvoter.org Needs You: What if there was a single web site where you
could go to learn about the gun rights position of every candidate in
every race in every state and federal election in the US? A site where
you could find voting records, editorials, and discussion groups of
knowledgeable, committed, gun rights activists? A site where local
grassroots organizations from all over the country come together to
share information and ideas for legislative and electoral success? That
web site doesn't exist, but it could exist. It could be GunVoter.org.
We're not there yet, but we're working on it. We have the structure in
place. The software is operating smoothly. The technical bugs have been
worked out and our user base is growing, but we need your help to turn
GunVoter.org into the valuable resource that it has the potential to be...
http://www.ohioccw.org/content/view/4049/67/
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From AzCDL:
Wonder how your elected State Representatives and/or Senators voted on
key pro-rights bills? Well, wonder no longer. AzCDL has posted their
voting records at:
http://www.azcdl.org/html/voting_records.html
2008 is an election year! AzCDL sent surveys to every State legislative
candidate on issues we believe are critical to our freedom. Many
candidates are still hiding under their desks, but a number of them have
responded. To see if your candidate responded, and their position on
these issues, go here:
http://www.azcdl.org/html/questionnaires.html .
If your candidate has not responded, we urge you to contact them, ask
them to show some integrity, and complete the AzCDL survey. Our
position is that "no response" equals "No" to every question on our survey.
These alerts are a project of the Arizona Citizens Defense League
(AzCDL), an all volunteer, non-profit, non-partisan grassroots
organization. Join today!
AzCDL - Protecting Your Freedom
http://www.azcdl.org/html/join_us_.html
Copyright � 2008 Arizona Citizens Defense League, Inc., all rights reserved.
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Stephen P. Wenger, KE7QBY
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
