GRE Round Up, Mar. 31

There's some good stuff being turned out. I hope you're availing yourself of it, and importantly, sharing these links via emails, on blogs and forums, with your local newspaper editor, etc.

A common complaint is media bias and absence of representation for "our side."

These people work hard to change that and ask for nothing from those of us their labors serve other than to help spread the word. I hope no one thinks that's too much to ask.

Here are their latest offerings:

Anthony Bouchard/Cheyenne:
Anti-Gun Bill Ayers UW engagement cancelled, not so fast

Don Gwinn/Chicago:
For anti-gun Northwestern professor, Constitutional ignorance is no excuse

David Codrea/National:
Was key evidence left out of DC gun case?

Dave Workman/Seattle:
D.C. court ruling reveals what anti-gunners call ‘common-sense gun laws’


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ICHV exploits 'Hutaree' hysteria to gin up support for 'assault weapon' ban

I have remarked before on the forcible citizen disarmament lobby's contemptible habit of exploiting tragedy--"dancing in the blood" of the victims, as it were. Now, though, with tragedies becoming inconveniently more difficult to come by, the ICHV has been reduced to attempting to exploit alleged atrocities that never happened [More]

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GRE Round Up, Mar. 30

There's some good stuff being turned out. I hope you're availing yourself of it, and importantly, sharing these links via emails, on blogs and forums, with your local newspaper editor, etc.

A common complaint is media bias and absence of representation for "our side."

These people work hard to change that and ask for nothing from those of us their labors serve other than to help spread the word. I hope no one thinks that's too much to ask.

Here are their latest offerings:

Howard Nemerov/Austin:
U.S. Concealed Carry Association has supporters, detractors

Anthony Bouchard/Cheyenne:
NRA gives Senator Reid more praise - enough already!

Dan Bidstrup/Denver:
Who are we protected from with a gun free zone?

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: American Militias.

David Codrea/National:
Why is government blocking access to ATF whistlebower website?

Chris Woodard/Tucson:
Arizona gun law is on the move.

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Even MSNBC forced to admit numbers don't support 'gun control'

I have said over and over again, that I'm not much of one for justifying rights via statistics. I firmly believe that rights remain rights, despite the existence of people who will abuse them--and no matter the number of such people. Still, if the Violence Policy Center and Brady Campaign want this to be an argument about numbers, we can beat them on that, too. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Mar. 29

There's some good stuff being turned out. I hope you're availing yourself of it, and importantly, sharing these links via emails, on blogs and forums, with your local newspaper editor, etc.

A common complaint is media bias and absence of representation for "our side."

These people work hard to change that and ask for nothing from those of us their labors serve other than to help spread the word. I hope no one thinks that's too much to ask.

Here are their latest offerings:

Howard Nemerov/Austin:
United States Concealed Carry Association: Web marketing experiment?

Don Gwinn/Chicago:
There's only one way to "make the Constitution relevant to modern society," Professor!

Daniel White/Cleveland:
Ohio Fraternal Order of Police opposes gun law changes in new bill

Dan Bidstrup/Denver:
Nearly done with the the Tanner Gun Show shooting

David Codrea/National:
Home defense illustrates injustice of Chicago gun ban

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Don’t confuse MI suspects with law-abiding gun owners

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Mexican President Calderón--and Reuters--still blame U.S. 'gun lobby' for violence

On a more fundamental level, who cares about the numbers? If it really were true that "90%"--or even 100%--of the guns used by Mexican drug trafficking gangs started out on the U.S. civilian market, a free people cannot legitimately be punished for the criminality of others. That foreign officials are demanding just such a usurpation of American citizens' rights is a grave insult to our sovereignty. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Mar. 28

There's some good stuff being turned out. I hope you're availing yourself of it, and importantly, sharing these links via emails, on blogs and forums, with your local newspaper editor, etc.

A common complaint is media bias and absence of representation for "our side."

These people work hard to change that and ask for nothing from those of us their labors serve other than to help spread the word. I hope no one thinks that's too much to ask.

Here are their latest offerings:

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:
Liability protection for Arkansas's crime victims

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: The health of the second amendment is the health of the nation.

David Codrea/National:
Military brass destruction update

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Illinois legislature apparently plans to punt on gun issues

On Friday, March 26th, just before breaking for their spring recess, the Illinois legislature seems to have sent every gun bill back to committee, which basically indicates that the bills won't be acted on. Illinois being Illinois, this is mostly good news, because most of these bills are so-called "gun control" bills. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Mar. 27

There's some good stuff being turned out. I hope you're availing yourself of it, and importantly, sharing these links via emails, on blogs and forums, with your local newspaper editor, etc.

A common complaint is media bias and absence of representation for "our side."

These people work hard to change that and ask for nothing from those of us their labors serve other than to help spread the word. I hope no one thinks that's too much to ask.

Here are their latest offerings:

Ed Stone/Atlanta:
Federal judge rules pistols holding more than ten rounds dangerous and unusual

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:
The Arkansas Senate "whisper campaign"

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
TN candidates respond to gun rights quiz -Knox County Mayor - Tim Hutchison
TN candidates respond to gun rights quiz - Governor - Ron Ramsey
TN candidates respond to gun rights quiz - Governor - Joe Kirkpatrick

David Codrea/National:
Federal judge rules against 2nd Amendment, for DC 'gun control'

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Marlin Firearms closure announcement was not funeral announcement

Chris Woodard/Tucson:
Is Obamacare unstoppable?

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Federal judge edits 'not' out of 'shall not be infringed'

Judge Urbina ruled that every one of those restrictions was permissible under the Second Amendment. The tragedy here is that a reading of the majority decision in the Heller case, written by Justice Scalia, gives little reason for optimism that the Supreme Court will disagree (if the expected appeal ever gets that far). The further tragedy is that, as I discussed here, even the expected "favorable" ruling in McDonald v. City of Chicago would mean that the Supreme Court's tepid endorsement of the right to keep and bear arms, as codified in the Heller decision, would become the only hurdle--nationwide--a prospective gun law would have to clear in order to be "presumptively lawful." [More]

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GRE Round Up, Mar. 26

There's some good stuff being turned out. I hope you're availing yourself of it, and importantly, sharing these links via emails, on blogs and forums, with your local newspaper editor, etc.

A common complaint is media bias and absence of representation for "our side."

These people work hard to change that and ask for nothing from those of us their labors serve other than to help spread the word. I hope no one thinks that's too much to ask.

Here are their latest offerings:

Anthony Bouchard/Cheyenne:
Wyoming’s - NRA little brother the WSSA exposes its true colors

Daniel White/Cleveland:
Demonizing gun owners

David Codrea/National:
Tom Gresham's Gun Talk Radio celebrates 15th anniversary

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Gun prohibitionists are disingenuous, hypocritical


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Used military cartridge brass once again being destroyed--robbing shooters, taxpayers

Basically, ATK/Alliant Techsystems, a private company with huge government munitions contracts, offers military installation commanders the option of selling the used cartridge cases directly to ATK, allowing ATK to destroy the brass right on-site, using portable shredders. The shredded brass is, as mentioned earlier, worth only about a quarter the value of intact, once-fired cartridge cases. The reason installation commanders accept the deal anyway, despite it being such a ripoff to taxpayers, is that the proceeds go directly to that military installation's discretionary fund, rather than into the DoD budget.

Particularly offensive is the fact that in brochures making the sales pitch to base commanders (here's an overview of the program, and here's one specifically for Ft. Irwin, CA--both pdf files), one of the selling points used in advocating this approach is the very fact that the used cartridge cases will never be available on the civilian market. [More]

That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Worth a read, I hope.

GRE Round Up, Mar. 25

There's some good stuff being turned out. I hope you're availing yourself of it, and importantly, sharing these links via emails, on blogs and forums, with your local newspaper editor, etc.

A common complaint is media bias and absence of representation for "our side."

These people work hard to change that and ask for nothing from those of us their labors serve other than to help spread the word. I hope no one thinks that's too much to ask.

Here are their latest offerings:

Ed Stone/Atlanta:
SB 308 passes Georgia Senate by veto proof majority

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:
Concealed carry in Louisiana (and Arkansas) state parks

David Codrea/National:
Was there a political motive in Phoenix gun dealer prosecution?

Dave Workman/Seattle:
MSNBC.com report hammers myth that more guns lead to more homicides


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Will St. Clair County Sheriff's Department destroy piece of history?

The problem, of course, is that the gun's nature as a machine gun transforms it--from a fascinating and proud piece of history, to a blighted, morally corrupt piece of contraband, subjecting the possessor to a quarter million dollar fine and ten years in the federal slammer.

Years ago, I wrote about something similar, although that machine gun had even vastly more historical significance, having been captured from the Germans by Alvin York, in the kind of magnificent feat of arms for which patriotic Americans still take justifiable pride, nearly a century later. That story ended well, with the gun going to a museum, but at one time, it seemed as if this magnificent piece of history would be destroyed, as directed by the ATF. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Mar. 24

There's some good stuff being turned out. I hope you're availing yourself of it, and importantly, sharing these links via emails, on blogs and forums, with your local newspaper editor, etc.

A common complaint is media bias and absence of representation for "our side."

These people work hard to change that and ask for nothing from those of us their labors serve other than to help spread the word. I hope no one thinks that's too much to ask.

Here are their latest offerings:

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
Restaurant carry bill - urgent
Exercise your gun rights and make a little cash

David Codrea/National:
Tea Partying gun owners must make Republican candidates prove Second Amendment support

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Some WA cops not doing too well on constitutional issues lately

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Missouri bill would explicitly recognize right to keep and bear arms as 'fundamental'

The fact that HB 2150 would also formally recognize the right to keep and bear arms as "fundamental"--something that, as Mr. Cassidy points out in his St. Louis State House Examienr article, has never been formally recognized by the Missouri Supreme Court, is also what Vice President BIden might describe as "a big f***ing deal." [More]

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GRE Round Up, Mar. 23

There's some good stuff being turned out. I hope you're availing yourself of it, and importantly, sharing these links via emails, on blogs and forums, with your local newspaper editor, etc.

A common complaint is media bias and absence of representation for "our side."

These people work hard to change that and ask for nothing from those of us their labors serve other than to help spread the word. I hope no one thinks that's too much to ask.

Here are their latest offerings:

Howard Nemerov/Austin:
Think before sending: Some emails damage gun rights

Paul Valone/Charlotte:
8th District Republican Tim D'Annunzio speaks on guns, Constitution

Daniel White/Cleveland:
One Ohio newspaper says 'it's not broke don't fix it' of Ohio's gun laws

Dan Bidstrup/Denver:
56 hours and still no news about shooting at the Tanner Gun Show in Denver.....

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:

Oklahoma bill will extend "Make My Day Law" to businesses

David Codrea/National:
Don't let the 'teajackers' take over

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Does having health care reform 'out of the way' move 'gun control' up on administration's agenda?

Those who support more and more restrictive gun laws, although disappointed with the Obama administration's apparent disinterest--so far--in aggressively pursuing such restrictions, have generally been willing to cut the president some slack, because he has had such a "full plate."

With a health care reform bill now signed into law, though, one of the biggest items on that plate is now gone. Does that mean the anti-gun heat comes on now? [More]

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GRE Round Up, Mar. 22

There's some good stuff being turned out. I hope you're availing yourself of it, and importantly, sharing these links via emails, on blogs and forums, with your local newspaper editor, etc.

A common complaint is media bias and absence of representation for "our side."

These people work hard to change that and ask for nothing from those of us their labors serve other than to help spread the word. I hope no one thinks that's too much to ask.

Here are their latest offerings:

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:

Arkansas gun politics; make your legislator work for you

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
UT Knoxville reverses student-athlete gun ban

TN candidates respond to gun rights quiz - Knox County Commission, Seat 11 At-Large - Armstrong

TN candidates respond to gun rights quiz - Knox County Commission District 4 - Jeff Ownby

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: Beck and Palin, Part IV.

David Codrea/National:
Louisiana bill provides for guns in state parks

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Health care out of way, now let’s see what is ‘reasonable gun control?’ Start the debate here

Chris Woodard/Tucson:

Is health care now out of the way?

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Is 'gun crime' inherently worse than other crime?

If we want to hit criminals with longer sentences for their crimes, let's make those crimes eligible for longer sentences. Let's not make up brand new "crimes," based on the perpetrator's possession of something that will do no harm unless he uses it, in commission of what is already a crime. [More]

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