Another Hint from Obama's Camp: Tonight, Barack Obama is attending a
fundraiser in Newark, New Jersey. I truly hope he uses this opportunity
to speak about Bukhari Washington and the tragic lunacy of allowing
civilians to possess assault weapons legally...In 2004, George W. Bush
and the NRA-influenced Republican congress allowed the federal ban on
assault weapons to expire. While the RNC proved that the Republican are
looking to identity politics to determine the election, Barack Obama
appears admirably set on winning on the issues, and legally restricting
assault rifles is an issue on which Democrats have the high ground...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-brown/bring-the-assault-weapons_b_124365.html
From His Own Mealy Mouth: "I believe in the Second Amendment, and if
you are a law-abiding gun owner you have nothing to fear from an Obama
administration," Obama said. "This has been peddled again and again.
Here's what I believe: The Second Amendment is an indvidual right. . .
people have the right to bear arms. But I also believe there is nothing
wrong with some common-sense gun safety measures." ...At the campaign
event Friday, Obama said that there are "two realities about guns" in
the United States, one including lawful gun owners, hunters, and
sportsmen and a second that involves the flow of illegal handguns and
automatic weapons into cities such as Philadelphia, where they are used
by "teenage gang-bangers."
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/09/obama_and_guns_not_going_to_me.html
"If you've got a gun in your house, I'm not taking it,'' Obama said. But
the Illinois senator could still see skeptics in the crowd, particularly
on the faces of several men at the back of the room. So he tried again.
"Even if I want to take them away, I don't have the votes in Congress,''
he said. "This can't be the reason not to vote for me. Can everyone hear
me in the back? I see a couple of sportsmen back there. I'm not going to
take away your guns." (Note the term "sportsmen.")
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/09/05/obama-im-not-going-to-take-your-guns-away/
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The Market Speaks: Gun sales are going boom around the country as gun
owners and gun advocates brace for a potential Democrat in the White
House for the first time in almost 10 years. Democrats, meanwhile, say
there's no reason to worry that presidential hopeful Barack Obama would
attempt to curtail access to most guns, though that hasn't stopped the
buying spree..."We call it the Obama factor. People are very concerned
that if a Democrat is elected they will see more restrictions on
handguns and assault rifles." Godell said. "I think as a result of that
we have seen steady handgun sales, and there's been an increase in the
sale of assault rifles like AK-47s, as well..."
http://www.marshallnewsmessenger.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/08/090608_web_guns.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=7
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"Gun Control" in Perspective, Part 1: ...However, there is also the flip
side, the gun-owners' side, which does not seem to get a very clear
airing of its own arguments. Historically, while many each year may
perish from the use of guns, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, die
as a result of having lived under totalitarian regimes across the world
where guns among the civilian populations are expressly forbidden.
Though we rarely hear of them, dozens of wars are fought globally at any
given time where people are targeted as a result of their race,
religious or political persuasion. During the 20th Century approximately
200 million people died under totalitarian regimes: Nazi Germany, Soviet
Russia and Red China are only the most glaring examples but there are
hundreds more. In almost all cases, the people were first disarmed of
any weapon, including hunting rifles, and later systematically
rounded-up and slaughtered...
http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulWeyrich/2008/09/06/gun_control_is_it_to_be_trusted?page=full
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"Gun Control" in Perspective, Part 2: An estimated 125 people were shot
and killed [in Chicago] over the summer. That's nearly double the number
of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq over the same time period...According to
the Defense Department, 65 U.S. soldiers were killed in combat in Iraq.
About the same number were killed in Afghanistan over that same period.
In the same time period, an estimated 247 people were shot and wounded
in the city... (Recall that Chicago has one of the strictest
restrictions on the legal ownership of firearms in the US.)
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/chicago.summer.shootings.2.810166.html
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Craiglist Sued Over Handgun Sale: A Manhattan boutique owner is suing
craigslist.com for $10 million, claiming he was shot with a gun
purchased on the popular Web site. Calvin Gibson, 50, who was shot six
times by his schizophrenic neighbor in the East Village on July 24,
believes the classified site is partially responsible. "But for
defendant's negligence in failing to supervise and monitor the content
of the ads placed on its Internet service, [the shooter] could never
have legally obtained the handgun," according to the lawsuit filed
yesterday in Manhattan federal court... (Are we to believe that someone
sold a handgun over the internet without requiring that the transaction
go through an FFL? Or did the shooter illegally travel out of state, to
make a face-to-face purchase?)
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09052008/news/regionalnews/man_shot_by_craigslist_gun_takes_aim_at__127576.htm
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Bringing a Mother to a Gunfight: When two gunmen smashed through the
glass front door of her suburban Fort Worth home, Kellie Hoehn didn't
think twice. The 34-year-old mother of two grabbed a shotgun that had
been pointed at her face early Wednesday, starting a struggle that ended
with one intruder killed with his own weapon and another in the
hospital. "I wasn't going to let them get to my babies," she said,
recalling the moment when she pushed up the muzzle of the shotgun,
pointing it away from her children's rooms... (Someone in a forum made a
comment about this incident, stating that the first rule in a gunfight
is to bring a gun. Consider that if this woman had been drawing her own
handgun in the time it took for her to deflect the muzzle of the
shotgun, the outcome could have been different. If the only tool you
have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.)
http://www.azstarnet.com/news/256108
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Speaking of Shotguns...: Common wisdom has it that a shotgun is the best
gun to use for home defense. This advice is often supplemented with such
encouraging comments as, "You don't need to aim, just point it in the
general direction." Usually added to this, with a knowing look, is
another supposed statement of fact that, "Just the sound of racking a
shell into it is enough to get him running..."
http://www.handgunsmag.com/tactics_training/hg_mattechoice_200809/index.html
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Talk About CCW: A Salinas police officer shot and killed a man Sunday
after he refused the officer's order to sit and not move and then
reached for something in his waistband which turned out to be an
AK-47-style rifle, police said...When the officer arrived at the
shopping center the man was on the sidewalk on Arcadia Way on the south
side of the road, police said. After the officer got out of the patrol
car and ordered the man to sit on sidewalk, the suspect began to pull
the rifle out of his waistband, police said...McMillin said he did not
know whether the officer had emptied his gun clip and reloaded when he
fired at the suspect, but he said the suspect had managed to pull the
loaded rifle out of his pants as the officer was shooting...
http://thecalifornian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080901/NEWS01/809010301/1002
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Rule Five Follow-Up: About two weeks ago I shared a report of the theft
of firearms and ballistic vests from the trunk of a cruiser of a Pigeon
Forge TN tactical officer. Here is a communication about the aftermath:
We caught the suspect and recovered the officer's weapons and
armor. The suspect was released from prison a month ago and had
been on a multi county burglary spree. In addition to the Pigeon
Forge officer, he hit a TVA vehicle getting sets of their class B
uniforms. He got into the Pigeon Forge car by breaking the driver's
window and hitting the trunk release. All their cars have been
modified to keep this from happening. We are considering disabling
the trunk release button on our cars also.
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NRA-ILA Alerts: Alerts for the week are posted on the NRA-ILA website.
http://www.nraila.org/GrassrootsAlerts/read.aspx
--
Stephen P. Wenger, KE7QBY
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
