NRA Airs Ads in Three States: "Defend freedom," urges the National Rifle
Association's new TV and radio ad campaign. "Defeat Obama." The powerful
gun owners' lobby today announced it is firing away at the Democratic
presidential candidate with a cache of TV and radio ads in New Mexico,
Colorado, and Pennsylvania..."Hunter" claims Obama supports a "huge" new
tax on guns and ammo, a claim based on a 1999 story in the Chicago
Defender. It says Obama "voted to ban virtually all deer hunting
ammunition" (a charge based on a 2005 Senate vote for a failed amendment
from Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., which would have expanded the definition
of "armor-piercing") and supports a "ban on the shotguns and rifles most
of us use for hunting" (a reference to Obama saying in a 2004 Senate
debate that President Bush should have renewed the Assault Weapons Ban.)
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/nra-firing-away.html
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/22/nra-ad-claims-obama-wants-to-ban-guns/
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Mine Union to Protest NRA Filming: Union leaders say a National Rifle
Association film crew tried to coerce West Virginia miners into
bad-mouthing presidential hopeful Barack Obama on camera, and that the
union plans a brief work stoppage in protest. The United Mine Workers
will call for the stoppage at Consol's Blacksville No. 2 mine next week,
union President Cecil Roberts said Monday at a news conference with
representatives of Obama's West Virginia campaign in Charleston. Roberts
said the union, which has endorsed Democrat Obama for president, is
unhappy that Consol allowed the camera crew to ask miners leading
questions about the candidate such as: "What do you think about losing
your Second Amendment rights?"
http://www.newsmax.com/politics/obama_mine_workers/2008/09/22/133295.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jMsnj1dSwcjNPJG3ngyGr7YEhhiAD93C0CB00
Related Article:
http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/29438229.html
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CCRKBA to Biden: Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden was
trying to convince rural Virginians the other day that he's a devoted
gun owner who will not allow presidential nominee Barack Obama to "fool
with my Beretta." "Senator Biden must think America's gun owners are
dumber than rocks," said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. "Here is a man
who has supported every restrictive gun control and gun ban law that
ever landed on his desk, suddenly telling Virginia residents that he's a
gun owner, and very pro-gun...
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ccrkba-biden-its-not-your/story.aspx?guid={257E3B1B-0757-4E7F-A8C4-8253C01FF7CB}&dist=hppr
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New DC Ordinance Still Infringes: Chris W. Cox [Executive Director,
National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action]: "While a
recent District proposal - passed only under the threat of congressional
action - does make a few positive changes to its gun laws, it is still
important for Congress to take strong action to restore the Second
Amendment rights of District residents. The D.C. Council's second
"emergency" bill makes clear that it still intends to impose new limits
on D.C. residents. For example, while the new D.C. bill would allow
possession of semi-automatic firearms, it also bans standard-capacity
magazines commonly used by law-abiding citizens for self-protection
throughout the country...
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/hotline/2008/09/dcs-proposed-gun-law-amendments-still.php
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Texas Students Press for Campus Carry: ...Texas passed legislation in
1995 to allow the right to carry with a concealed handgun license, but
college campuses are an exception. Concealed carry is aimed to deter
shootings and give people the ability to protect themselves from
assault, rape, theft and other crimes. Eleven colleges permit students
and faculty the right to carry across the United States, including every
public university in Utah since fall 2006, a community college in
Virginia for more than five years and Colorado State University for the
past 13 years. No incidents involving gun violence, accidental discharge
or gun theft have occurred on these campuses since legalizing concealed
carry...
http://media.www.utdmercury.com/media/storage/paper691/news/2008/09/22/Opinion/Aim-For.Concealed.Carry.Rights.On.Campus-3444019.shtml
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Oops, Wrong Passenger: A man who appeared to be from the Caucasus shot
an alleged neo-Nazi while waiting for a metro train in St. Petersburg
[Russia], according to a September 22, 2008 report by the Newsru.com web
site. On September 21, paramedics brought a 22-year-old man to the
hospital suffering from a gunshot wound to the stomach. He claimed that
the shooter opened fire without provocation, but police sources say that
metro video cameras clearly show five young people dressed like "members
of informal groups" (a common euphemism for neo-Nazis) approach to the
shooter and start to menace him. Not taking any chances in a city where
neo-Nazis have murdered several minorities in recent years, the man
fired into his assailants and then fled the scene. A report the same day
from the local Fontaka,ru news web site reported that the young people
may have already assaulted another man at the station when they
approached the shooter.
http://www.fsumonitor.com/stories/092208Russ3.shtml
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Gun Rights Policy Conference This Weekend in Phoenix: American gun
rights leaders and hundreds of the nation's leading gun rights activists
will gather in Phoenix, AZ Sept. 26-28 for the 2008 Gun Rights Policy
Conference, at the Sheraton Crescent Hotel...This is the 23rd annual Gun
Rights Policy Conference, sponsored jointly by the Second Amendment
Foundation and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear
Arms. Other participating organizations include the National Rifle
Association, Gun Owners of America and National Shooting Sports
Foundation. Representatives from several grassroots groups, including
the Arizona State Rifle Association, Firearms Coalition, Virginia
Citizens Defense League, Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs,
Illinois State Rifle Association, Canadian Institute for Legislative
Action, Gun Owners Action League of Massachusetts, Buckeye Firearms
Association and Students for Concealed Carry on Campus will also
attend... (I'm under the impression that registration is still open.)
http://www.evliving.com/2008/09/22/1320/gun-rights-policy-conference/
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Stephen P. Wenger, KE7QBY
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
