GRE Round Up, Dec. 31

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National

• Ohio gun ruling must be followed up with police training

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Closing out the year on a happy note

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• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Happy New Year, everyone.

New Year's resolution: Become a 'Militia of One'

Still, these difficulties do not have to mean that the only option is to throw up one's hands and abdicate responsibility for one's own and one's family's security and liberty, counting on the government's protection. An aspiring "Militia of One" who wishes to "well-regulate" himself can, in numerous ways, improve his ability survive a crisis. Just a few ideas . . . [More]

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GRE Round Up, Dec. 30

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:


David Codrea/National

• Media disinformation on guns continues in Texas open carry hit piece

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Does Ohio Supreme Court ruling send signal about Seattle parks gun ban case?

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• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Enemies of gun rights can't hide their hostility to Constitution

Or perhaps it's not so remarkable. After all, when the Bill of Rights states that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, those who want to do the infringing have little choice but to ignore or disparage the Constitution (or just edit it to one's advantage). [More]

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GRE Round Up, Dec. 29

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Richard Nascak/Ft. Myers:

• Anti-gun Florida Chamber of Commerce at it again!

David Codrea/National

• Propaganda ‘journalism’ blames U.S. gun laws for Mexican violence


• Aaron Zelman, rest in peace

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Biggest gun rights story of 2010 based in Bellevue, ignored by local press

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• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

CSGV renews push for 'microstamping'

Now one would think that if microstamping were as effective a crime fighting tool as some would lead us to believe, proponents would be thrilled to have their assertions borne out by the National Academy of Sciences. As it turns out, though, the bill was introduced by Congressman Dan Boren (NRA Board of Directors member), and all eight of the co-sponsors are at worst neutral on gun rights, with most being supportive, and some quite highly regarded by the not easily impressed Gun Owners of America. Why aren't Brady Campaign endorsees in droves supporting it? [More]

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GRE Round Up, Dec. 28

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Just what does someone have to do for ABC to consider him ‘anti-gun’?

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Do the math: Washington, with liberal gun laws, relatively safe

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• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Mayors bill taxpayers for security; would forbid them to defend themselves

I won't begrudge the mayors their protective details, or even the public being billed for that security. What is intolerable and unconscionable is that the mayors work to deny their benefactors the right to the means to provide their own security. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Dec. 27

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Have a Merry Christmas!


• Will Baucus-Tester opposition to ATF rule be used to forgive bad votes?


• WikiLeaks cables: Mexican military have ‘little faith’ in police

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Renton road rage shooting: How stupid is that?

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• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Attorney General Holder fans flames of 'homegrown terrorism' suspicion

Then again, the Holder Justice Department claims the authority to kill American citizens, preemptively, without a trial, so I suppose it makes a certain kind of sense that Holder would want the power to disarm them first. Stirring fears of "homegrown terrorists" helps to lay the groundwork for Americans' acquiescence to these usurpations, so Holder's public alarmism makes a certain (twisted) kind of sense, as well. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Dec. 24

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Mike Stollenwerk/DC:

• When Santa brings guns for kids

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:

• Murder at Knoxville credit union

David Codrea/National:

• El Paso Times on ‘automatic weapons’ purchases: Ignorance or deception?


• Senate ducks Traver ATF vote

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Local criminal cases not exactly typical of the ‘Christmas Spirit’


• ‘Twas the night before Christmas…

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• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Merry Christmas, everyone.

Ask your congressman to join Rep. Rehberg effort to block BATFE power grab

Congressman Rehberg's press release does not indicate who the 33 co-signers are, so the only safe assumption each of us can make is that our congressman did not sign it, and it's up to us to urge them to send another letter, along the lines of, "What they said--us too!" [More]

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GRE Round Up, Dec. 22

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Second Amendment attorney: ATF’s proposed long gun ‘emergency’ regs illegal

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Fish & Wildlife merger with Parks and this morning’s ‘public’ meeting

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• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

BATFE shows its contempt for will of the people

They already "expect" to go through with this--in two or three weeks time--regardless, apparently, of what the public says. Not "propose" to dramatically expand the already unconstitutional regulation of firearms commerce; not "hope" to do so; and certainly not "humbly request the public's permission" for this new regulatory power--they "expect" it. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Dec. 21

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Ed Stone/Atlanta:

• Georgia Tech Armed Robbery in Disarmed Victim Zone

David Codrea/National:

• Gov. Christie commutes Brian Aitken's sentence


• Attorney says Aitken to appeal for vindication on gun charges

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Violent crime stays down as more Washingtonians are packing

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• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Defenselessness in the name of 'child safety'

Presumably, she has some awareness of the fact that it's difficult to teach kids about "the difference between toy guns and real firearms," without ever exposing them to real firearms. After all, even the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has trouble figuring out the difference between real guns and toys. It's also interesting that the "four gun safety teaching points" promoted by the California Bureau of Firearms ("Stop! Don't Touch. Leave the area. Tell an adult.") are exactly the four taught in the NRA's "Eddie Eagle" program. Who'd have guessed that Brady Campaign highest-scoring California would use the same child gun safety education that has some anti-gun groups in such high dudgeon? [More]

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GRE Round Up, Dec. 20

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Mike Stollenwerk/DC:

• DC Metro concedes gun carry often legal on trains, buses

David Codrea/National:

• Anti-defense lobby seeks to nullify Second Amendment when it’s needed most


• ATF ‘emergency’ long gun reporting an agenda-driven power grab


• Reports on Traver nomination increase expectation tensions

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Hysteria erupts as Brady Campaign battles SAF lawsuit, plays Scrooge

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• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Attorney General's office: 'decades of scholarly literature' support RKBA

Kaplan, in fact, claims that winning the Supreme Court's acknowledgment, in Heller, that the Second Amendment disallows handgun bans, was not "complex." That kinda sounds as if he's saying that it's a simple matter to understand that the Second Amendment guarantees individual citizens' right to keep and bear arms. [More]

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A comment to the BATFE

Friday was the day that the BATFE finally went public with the proposal (pdf file), starting the 60-day comment period (for a proposal they hope to implement in 19 days). Some gun rights advocates in St. Louis and elsewhere may wish to comment, but are perhaps at a loss for words. The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) makes some good suggestions about points to make, but I personally decided to focus on the BATFE's authority (or, more accurately, their lack of it). This is what I sent to BarbaraTerrell@atf.gov . . . [More]

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GRE Round Up, Dec. 17

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Rob Reed/Detroit:

• Detroit Police harass legal gun owners at 'Gun buyback'

David Codrea/National:

• Police treat pro-gun bumper sticker as probable cause for pat down

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• No surprises here: Seattle suspect’s gun reported stolen


• EXTRA! ‘It takes a while for people to respond’

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• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms