Firearms Owners Against Crime
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Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
From the Dark Side: Gun Carry and Ownership Linked to Heavy Alcohol Use. Or Not. :: 06/17/2011
Another day, another biased Violence Policy Center (VPC) report/study . Yesterday, a supposedly desperate firearms industry was militarizing the "most impressionable and ill-equipped to function in a complex society ." Today, it's a UC Davis study, which appears online in the journal Injury Prevention . Methodologically speaking, gun control crusader Garen J. Wintemute "analyzed telephone survey results for more than 15,000 people in eight states" and concluded that "The highest levels of alcohol abuse were reported by gun owners who engaged in dangerous behavior with their weapons.
From the Dark Side: Violence Policy Center apparently blames 'gun violence' on free enterprise :: 06/17/2011
Violence Policy Center (VPC) executive director Josh Sugarmann would like to convince the public that "militarization" of the gun industry is responsible for gun violence, particularly in Mexico. As National Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea points out , Sugarmann goes so far as to dismiss "Project Gunwalker" as "alleged failures" on the part of the Justice Department. Sugarmann, in fact, claims that this "militarization" is "the major force driving criminal cross-border gun trafficking from the U.S. to Mexico." From the Huffington Post :
Issa asks THE question at 'gunwalker' hearing; anti-gunners scramble for excuses :: 06/17/2011
Recently, we discussed Congressman Darrell Issa's (R-CA) explanation of what this week's (and upcoming) "Project Gunwalker" hearings have been (and will be) about:
Tucson SWAT Team Cleared in Killing of Ex-Marine :: 06/17/2011
The Pima County Sheriff's Department SWAT team that gunned down a former Marine in his Tucson home during a raid in which no drugs were found was cleared Tuesday of any wrongdoing in the incident. The victim, Jose Guerena, 26, died in a hail of bullets in his underwear in a hallway of his home as he responded gun in hand to his wife's report of armed intruders.
Tucson SWAT Team Cleared in Killing of Ex-Marine #2 :: 06/17/2011
Here's a shocker (not): No charges will be filed against the Tucson SWAT team that gunned down an ex-Marine in a drug raid in his home.
U.S. agents slam gun sting effort on Mexico border :: 06/17/2011
(Reuters) - U.S. firearms agents told lawmakers on Wednesday they were instructed to only watch as hundreds of guns were bought, illegally resold and sent to Mexico where drug-related violence has raged for years.
Agents Resisted Weapons Tracking :: 06/16/2011
Federal agents battled their supervisors to stop a government program that kept illicit guns in circulation to trace them to weapons traffickers, a new congressional report shows.
A Request To All Current/Former NCOs And Other Small Unit Leaders :: 06/16/2011
If you are willing to share your responses to the following scenario, please send your responses to wrsa&hushmail.com .
Citizens Committee Weighs In On North Carolina Gun Owner Betrayal (S. 594 And Bateman) :: 06/16/2011
The open letter sent out this afternoon by Paul Valone has now been slightly rewritten and is joined in by Alan Gottlieb of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (and the head of the Second Amendment Foundation).
Committee Report -- "The Department of Justice's Operation Fast and Furious: Accounts of ATF Agents" with promises of future reports. :: 06/16/2011
Highlights of the report include:
Darrell Issa, Department of Justice feud heats up :: 06/16/2011
The Obama administration and Rep. Darrell Issa seem to be headed for their biggest showdown yet as the House oversight committee chief prepares for a Wednesday hearing into an undercover, federal gunrunning investigation that lost track of weapons later found at the scene of a Border Patrol agent's murder in Arizona.
Dems circle wagons on Gunrunner, float perennial gun ban agenda :: 06/16/2011
Before the dust settled on yesterday's opening hearing on the controversial Project Gunrunner and Operation Fast and Furious scandal now plaguing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Democrats were already busy with their defense strategy, which once again demonizes American gun owners and their constitutional rights.
Final Briefs Filed in Firearms Freedom Act Lawsuit :: 06/16/2011
Missoula, MT --(Ammoland.com )- The last briefs of those supporting our side of MSSA v. Holder have been filed with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Gun-Running Sting Blows Up: House Hearings on ATF's Fast and Furious :: 06/16/2011
For months, a mystery has engulfed the U.S. southern border and Mexico -what suddenly caused federal agents to abandon years of practice and knowingly let suspected straw buyers for Mexican drug gangs walk off with semiautomatic weapons from American gun shops?
Judiciary chairman: Al Qaeda threat no reason to change gun laws :: 06/16/2011
A top Republican has rejected the notion that Congress should re-examine the nation's gun laws after al Qaeda urged Muslims to attack America by exploiting loose firearm rules.
More than guns: 'Gunwalker' tests very legitimacy of administration's governance :: 06/16/2011
This afternoon, Congressman Darrel Issa (R-CA), as Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, holds the first Congressional hearing devoted specifically to the growing scandal of "Project Gunwalker." As National Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea explains , this hearing is merely the beginning, with a second already scheduled for Wednesday , and more in the works .
News From the Dark Side: Split Wide and Disarmed :: 06/16/2011
NFL wide receiver Plaxico Burress just finished twenty months in prison for carrying a firearm. New York prosecutors said that the gun was unlicensed. The Constitution begs to differ.
NH ranks on top of freest states -- It's truly the Live Free or Die state. :: 06/16/2011
A study by the Mercatus Institute, a libertarian think tank, found New Hampshire is the freest state in the nation. The study, which was released yesterday, determined the Granite State had the least number of government restrictions on economic and personal freedoms, including gun ownership.
NRA and its NH State Affiliate (GO-NH) kill Constitutional Carry :: 06/16/2011
[Posted Wednesday, June 15, 2011, at 11:30 p.m.] The Constitutional Carry movement is spreading across the country. It's the right to carry a concealed handgun without a government-issued license or permit - as in Wyoming (2011), Arizona (2010), Alaska (2003), and Vermont (1903)(!).
N.Y. State College Students Need Gun Rights, Too :: 06/16/2011
A University of Buffalo student makes the case for campus gun rights
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