Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Police: Man shot wife, 2 children before killing himself :: 06/16/2011
DEXTER, Maine - A Harmony man who was upset that he had not been allowed to attend his son's eighth-grade graduation later this week shot and killed his estranged wife and their two children Monday before committing suicide, Maine State Police said.
Rep. Issa: ATF Program Was a Mistake. "Internet conspiracy theories. . . not without some possibility." :: 06/16/2011
Report: 70% of arms seized in Mexico come from U.S. :: 06/16/2011
MEXICO CITY - About 70 percent of the guns seized in Mexico and submitted to a U.S. gun-tracing program came from the United States, according to a report released by three U.S. senators Monday.
SWAT Team Mania: The War Against the American Citizen :: 06/16/2011
The militarization of American police--no doubt a blowback effect of the military empire--has become an unfortunate part of American life. In fact, it says something about our reliance on the military that federal agencies having nothing whatsoever to do with national defense now see the need for their own paramilitary units. Among those federal agencies laying claim to their own law enforcement divisions are the State Department, Department of Education, Department of Energy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the National Park Service, to name just a few.
The New Powers the FBI Just Granted Itself :: 06/16/2011
The Federal Bureau of Investigations has rewritten its own operations manual , giving its agents more autonomy than ever to conduct low-level searches without a paper trail. As The New York Times reported today, there's no court decision or change in privacy laws governing the bureau's search techniques. Rather, the 2011 update to the 2008 Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide changes the bureau's own guidelines. But some of the new powers trouble privacy activists even though they're perfectly legal.
Would Founders be 'horrified' by today's firearms technology? :: 06/16/2011
"Triple-barrelled cannon found in Croatian fort is 'machine gun' forerunner designed by Leonardo Da Vinci," the UK's Mail Online reports .
Central Pa. man acquitted in teen's stabbing death :: 06/14/2011
YORK, Pa.-A central Pennsylvania man who said he acted in self-defense when he stabbed a teenager to death last year has been acquitted of all charges.
Chicago State's Attorney Lets Bad Cops Slide, Prosecutes Citizens Who Record Them :: 06/14/2011
When Chicago police answered a domestic disturbance call at the home of Tiawanda Moore and her boyfriend in July 2010, the officers separated the couple to question them individually. Moore was interviewed privately in her bedroom. According to Moore, the officer who questioned her then came on to her, groped her breast and slipped her his home phone number.
House Panel to Weigh Subpoena Authority in 'Fast and Furious' Gun Case :: 06/14/2011
Since Watergate, Congress has held just 12 senior U.S. government officials in contempt for failure to produce subpoenaed documents. On Monday, that process begins again.
News From the Dark Side: Annette Clifford: Columnist won't be silenced by gun law :: 06/14/2011
Waiting for takeout at a local eatery a few months back, I overheard a guy at the bar talking about how his EMT friend had just dealt with a terrible accident -- a 9-year-old Satellite Beach child had shot and injured a pal with a gun left unsecured in a bedroom.
News From the Dark Side: Barkley: Repeal 2nd Amendment :: 06/14/2011
Mike Barkley is a former member of the National Rifle Association.
NH lawmakers head to table to discuss expanding permissible use of deadly force, gun rights :: 06/14/2011
CONCORD, N.H. - The state Senate is giving the idea of eliminating the need for a permit to carry concealed, loaded guns anyplace not prohibited by law another chance for passage this year in New Hampshire.
OPD Gun Amnesty Day Keeps Streets Safe :: 06/14/2011
Omaha, NE - More than two dozen guns are off the streets thanks to a gun amnesty program.
STATE OF THE STATEHOUSE: Other remedies exist if officer enters home illegally :: 06/14/2011
INDIANAPOLIS - One of the more curious things going on in the Indiana Statehouse these days is the decision by some lawmakers to second-guess a controversial decision by the state's judicial branch of government. This past week, 71 members of the Indiana General Assembly filed a petition asking the Indiana Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling that citizens don't have the right to resist police officers who enter their homes illegally. Rallied by a Republican state Sen. Mike Young of Indianapolis, the petitioning lawmakers made the move after their legislative leaders created a summer study committee to determine if the Indiana General Assembly has the power to neutralize the court decision with a new state law.
STEWART: Second Amendment injustice :: 06/14/2011
In June 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment to the Constitution protects an individual's right to possess a firearm "and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home." Quoting the famous British jurist William Blackstone , the court held that "the right of self-preservation" permits a citizen to "repe[l] force by force" when "the intervention of society in his behalf, may be too late to prevent an injury." This grandiose language must ring awfully hollow to Orville Lee Wollard who, two years ago tomorrow was sentenced to two decades in a Florida prison for protecting his family with a firearm.
UN Small Arms Treaty Targets Second Amendment Rights :: 06/14/2011
The United Nations seemingly has it out for Americans' Second Amendment-guaranteed rights as it continues to promote its "Small Arms Treaty ." The pact has already riled many gun owners as well as lawmakers such as Kentucky's Republican Senator Rand Paul . The most recent attack against the treaty was launched by Larry Bell of Forbes magazine, who published an editorial about it yesterday.
YDR Opinion: Rep. Scott Perry's anti-government rhetoric alarming :: 06/14/2011
". . .We must be able not only to hunt but to protect ourselves from an overbearing government that does not do the will of the people. . . ." --State Rep. Scott Perry, R-Carroll Township, quoted in the Allentown Morning Call, referring to legislation he authored that would expand Pennsylvania's "castle doctrine."
Agencies stonewall 'gunrunner' inquiries :: 06/13/2011
What started out as an "innocent" program run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to allow guns purchased in the United States to be smuggled into Mexico for the purpose of tracking them to high-ranking members of Mexican drug cartels, has turned into a genuine cover-up, and involved many hundreds of weapons unaccounted for by the ATF.
Are Police Cutbacks Leading to Increased Gun Ownership? :: 06/13/2011
There are two political explanations for the country's economic malaise, and the resulting cutbacks in police officers: Government Gone Wild and It's All George Bush's fault. To help get your blood flowing, let's Bush bash first. "Ten years ago today, the first round of Bush tax cuts became law. But what if they hadn't?" asks the two Michaels at americanprogressive.com . "What . . . if we'd never implemented President George W. Bush's eponymous tax policies?
BREAKING: 2nd 'Fast and Furious' hearing set; Grassley, Dodson to testify! :: 06/13/2011
The second in what promises to be a series of hearings on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' controversial Operation Fast and Furious has been announced for next Wednesday, June 15, and Sen. Charles Grassley will testify.
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