From GOA: Based on his voting record in the Illinois state senate and
in the U.S. Senate, President-elect Barack Obama will be the most
anti-Second Amendment president in the history of America. In January,
the new President will govern alongside congressional leadership, House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who are also
extremely hostile to gun rights and who now enjoy greatly expanded
majorities. There can be little doubt about the direction in which gun
rights are headed. The questions are how far will the anti-gunners go
and how fast will they move? Many comparisons have been made to the
first two years of the first Clinton Administration, in which one party
controlled both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. Almost all experts agree
that it was Clinton's overreaching on issues like gun control that cost
his party control of Congress. Barack Obama will start out governing
with even larger majorities than did Clinton...

http://www.gunowners.org/a110508.htm
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Brady Bunch Gloats Over Obama Victory: The strong Election Day showing
for Democrats signals stronger support for "sensible gun laws" in this
country and a "significant setback" for the National Rifle Association,
a gun control group said Tuesday night. The Brady Campaign issued a
statement even before Sen. Barack Obama was declared the winner, saying
the political environment is better than it's been in years for
"progress on gun violence prevention." ...Brady Campaign officials said
it appears that the June Supreme Court decision in D.C. v. Heller may be
starting to have an impact on political races  - "with the gun lobby
failing to convince law-abiding gun owners that an Obama-Biden
Administration would infringe on anyone's basic Constitutional rights..."

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=38807
http://www.ohioccw.org/content/view/4106/53/
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More on Washington Catch-22 Suit: A local gun rights organization and
the National Rifle Association filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against
the state Department of Licensing accusing it of perpetrating a Catch-22
by requiring resident aliens to obtain a specific license to buy a
firearm, then refusing to issue it...The problem, Gottlieb says, is that
the Department of Licensing has changed how it implements the law by
seeking to use the national instant background check program before
issuing the state alien firearms license. But the FBI - which runs the
instant check program on those seeking to buy firearms - refuses to
release information to Washington for its alien-licensing program,
Gottlieb said. Washington is the only state in the country with an alien
firearms licensing law, he said...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/386392_guns05.html
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Two Illinois Counties Reject CCW Referendum: ...With all precincts
reporting, 54.8 percent of McDonough County voters rejected the
referendum - 6,468 opposed the measure, while 5,334, or 45.2 percent,
were in favor. In Woodford County, the referendum passed with 54.4
percent of the vote - 9,655 in favor and 8,088, or 45.6 percent,
opposed. Voters in LaSalle County, meanwhile, also rejected the
referendum, with 24,755 or 52.6 percent opposed and 22,299 or 47.4
percent in favor. The referendum was advisory only, and was intended to
send a message to legislators in Springfield.
The measure made it on to regional ballots at the behest of members of
the Winnebago County Board, the first in the state to add the referendum
to its ballot and sent letters to all other county boards asking they do
the same. Only 13 of Illinois' 101 other counties obliged. (No results
are furnished for the other ten counties that placed the referendum on
their ballots.)

http://www.pjstar.com/news_elections/x1588605699/Votes-vary-on-concealed-weapons-referendums
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Utah Sees Surge in Firearm Sales: As polls and pundits in recent weeks
increasingly pointed to the election of Barack Obama as the next
president, scores of Utahns flocked to gun stores. Obama has supported
renewing the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban, which stops the
manufacture of several semiautomatic guns with large magazines. "Such
weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets," Obama's
Web site states.     Local gun dealers quickly are running out of stock
of magazines for Colt AR-15s and AK models and many have seen a sharp
increase in the sales of those guns..."I've seen a wider demographic of
customers. There are more and more professionals. I see doctors getting
assault weapons instead of just their hunting rifles," Bunten said...

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_10912220
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Sportsman's Warehouse Hit with Cooper Spillover: ...After the story
broke on October 28 in USA TODAY and became the subject of my column on
NewWest.Net five days later, gun owners angry with Cooper besieged
Sportsman's Warehouse's 66 superstores and corporate headquarters with
threats of a boycott if the company didn't stop selling Cooper's
products. Then, gun owners angry with gun rights activists calling for
the boycott went into those same stores threatening their own boycott if
America's Premier Outfitter didn't continue selling Cooper products...
(Maybe the Cooper rifles have not been selling because of the rush to
buy the rifles than could be banned under Big Brother.)

http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/sportsmans_warehouse_ceo_speaks_out_on_cooper_firearms_controversy/C37/L37/
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Are They or Aren't They?: ...Sig Sauer representatives were scheduled to
appear before Exeter Planning Board members on Oct. 23 for an
application for a small addition to the Industrial Drive facility but
later withdrew those plans. Although Sig Sauer employees say the firm is
growing, the company underwent a staff reduction last month, reducing
its overall workforce by "less than 10 percent..." (Overall, this is a
very confusing article. SIG has made rifles for quite a while; perhaps
the 556 will be the first to be manufactured in the US. Beretta's
production of M9 pistols [92F] is mostly at a US plant, located in
Maryland.]

http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20081104-NEWS-811040329
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Lead-Bullet Scare Comes to Montana: Local golden eagle migration
research may indicate dangers associated with the use of lead bullets,
especially health risks to human consumers of big game meat, researchers
say. The high levels of lead found in the eagles is a result of the
birds feeding on the carcasses of animals that were shot by hunters
using lead bullets, meaning the meat could be unfit for people to
eat...Veto said that when a bullet penetrates the body of an animal, the
lead could fragment up to two feet from the entry wound, spreading
poison throughout. "A lot of people think they're doing themselves a
favor by avoiding beef and going out and shooting their own venison,
when some may be bringing home lead to their wives and children," Veto
said...

http://www.montanakaimin.com/index.php/outdoors/outdoors_article/lead_bullets_may_harm_humans_and_golden_eagles/3152
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Meanwhile, in North Dakota...: A North Dakota program that distributes
venison to the needy will accept only deer killed with arrows, fearing
that firearm-shot meat may contain lead fragments. "We're calling out to
bow hunters to spend a little more time in the tree stand," said Ann
Pollert, executive director of the North Dakota Community Action
Partnership, which administers the Sportsmen Against Hunger Program.
Officials in North Dakota and other states have warned about eating
venison killed with lead ammunition since the spring, when a physician
conducting tests using a CT scanner found lead in samples of donated
deer meat...

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081104/D948DB684.html
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Tangentially Related: It appears that Barak Obama has offered the job of
White House Chief of Staff to Rahm Emanuel.  How interesting that the
first name offered by our President elect who ran on the platform of
hope and change is a veteran of the Clinton administration who has long
been known to be Chicago mayor Richard Daley's eyes and ears in
Washington, DC. Emanuel is said to aspire to the position of Speaker of
the House, so it is uncertain if he will be interested in a serving in
the White House again.   If he accepts, it may be good news for House
Republicans who will have to form alliances with so called Blue Dog
Democrats.  Emanuel is arguably more competent that the other Democrats
in House leadership positions.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/11/change_wears_some_familar_face.html


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Stephen P. Wenger, KE7QBY

Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.

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