Northern Arapaho Man Sentenced for Arson and Burglary (U.S. Attorney for the District of Wyoming)
U.S. Attorney Christopher A. Crofts announced that on February 29, 2012, Lamar Duran, a twenty-four year old Northern Arapaho Tribal member from the Wind River Indian Reservation, was sentenced for his role in the September 2011, arson and burglary of the Arapahoe Baptist Church. More »
10 Sentenced for Involvement in Straw Purchase and Export Ring
McALLEN, Texas – Ten people have been sentenced today for their roles in making false statement on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) forms 4473 in the acquisition of firearms from federal firearms licensees (FFL) and exporting those firearms to Mexico, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.More »
STATE’S HIGH COURT REVERSES LAWSUIT DISMISSAL . . . The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a trial court’s dismissal of a lawsuit challenging Cook County’s so-called “assault weapons” ordinance banning certain commonly owned and widely used semi-automatic firearms, including modern sporting rifles — a decision NSSF calls a victory for the Second Amendment. Read NSSF’s complete news release, the court’s decision and the NSSF amicus brief and modern sporting rifle owners survey cited in the brief.
Ranges
APPLY FOR $400,000 IN GRANTS . . . NSSF invites public and private shooting facilities to apply for up to $400,000 in grants that can assist in developing strategies to put more target shooters on their firing lines. By providing this funding to qualifying ranges, NSSF’s Range Partnership Grant Program will continue to help these local businesses remind firearms owners, particularly the millions who have purchased new firearms in recent years, to take advantage of the training and safety services they provide. This marks the fifth year for the NSSF range grant program. Full Story | How to Apply
NSSF INDOOR RANGE AND DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP . . . Anyone who has ever thought of opening an indoor shooting range/retail business should take advantage of the Indoor Range and Retail Development Workshop being presented by NSSF June 18-21 in St. Louis, Mo. Learn more and register today at nssf.org/ranges/workshop.
Government Relations
NSSF CONGRESSIONAL FLY-IN NEXT WEEK . . . NSSF’s 2012 Congressional Fly-In is just over a week away. Join your fellow firearms industry executives in Washington, D.C., April 18-19. The Fly-In is a chance for NSSF-member companies to meet with key lawmakers and help advance the industry’s federal legislative priorities. NSSF has opened up registration to include all NSSF supporting manufacturer and distributor members. For more information on why you should attend the Fly In, watch this short video. If you’re interested in attending, register here.
SECOND AMENDMENT NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR MEXICO’S GUN VIOLENCE . . . During his recent visit to the White House, Mexico President Felipe Calderon renewed his call for a U.S. “assault weapons” ban as a solution to the drug cartel-caused violence that plagues his country. He also claimed, according to columnist Bill Press, that violence levels are directly related to the number of guns in circulation. Both of these assertions are demonstrably false. NSSF sets the record straight in a blog post today.
CANADIAN LONG-GUN REGISTRY ‘FINALLY DESTINED FOR SCRAP HEAP’ . . . “Good riddance to the long-gun registry — possibly the most unfair and useless legislation ever to have been passed by Parliament of Canada,” reads a press release sent Thursday by the Canadian Shooting Sports Association. California could learn from Canada’s mistake. Despite Canada’s example of such legislation being not only ineffective and costly, but also an erosion of personal freedom, California passed its own long-gun registration law in the fall of 2011.
TV NEWS REPORT ON MULTIPLE SALES REPORTING REQUIREMENT . . . East Texas’ NBC-affiliate KETK last week featured a TV news report on ATF’s controversial reporting requirement for multiple sales of long guns in Southwest border states. NSSF filed a lawsuit in August challenging the requirement.
National Hunting & Fishing Day
NSSF SET TO SPONSOR NATIONAL HUNTING AND FISHING DAY . . . NSSF will once again renew its major sponsorship of National Hunting and Fishing Day, the official federal commemoration of hunters, anglers and conservation. NSSF has been involved with National Hunting and Fishing Day for 41 years. NHF Day continues to grow and reach new outdoorsmen and outdoorswomen each year with the continued support of its sponsors. Through licenses, permits and special taxes, hunters and anglers generate $100,000 every 30 minutes — totaling more than $1.75 billion per year — for fish, wildlife and habitat. No one contributes more for conservation. NHF Day is set to take place Sept. 22, 2012. Read more.
News of Note
CNBC VIDEO: FIREARMS COULD BE ‘AMMO FOR YOUR PORTFOLIO’ . . . In response to the current strength of firearm sales, CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo held an on-air discussion last week on publicly traded industry companies Smith & Wesson, Ruger and Cabela’s as potential investments. Watch the video.
FREEDOM GROUP NAMES MOORE SVP OF SUPPLY CHAIN . . . Freedom Group, Inc. (FGI) has named Tony Moore senior vice president of supply chain, where he will oversee purchasing, service operations and worldwide transportation. Moore comes to FGI from Cooper Industries Inc., $1B Bussman Division, where he was global vice president of supply chain, strategic sourcing, logistics and trade compliance.
U.S. SPORTSMEN’S ALLIANCE LAUNCHES NEW BLOG . . . The U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance has launched a new blog that will focus on the politics of hunting. The Protect What’s Right Blog will feature commentary from USSA’s political experts on topics facing the sportsmen’s community. It will also have frequent guest columns by other recognized writers and political pros.
OLYMPIC QUOTA SPOT REALLOCATED TO USA SHOOTING . . . The International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) has notified USA Shooting that it is reallocating an Olympic Quota Spot to USA Shooting after Jamie Gray’s (Lebanon, Pa.) double qualification in both Olympic air and smallbore (.22 caliber) rifle events. USA Shooting’s double trap competitors are the beneficiaries of the reallocation. Read more from USA Shooting.
LINDENWOOD CONTINUES TO DOMINATE COLLEGE SHOTGUN SPORTS . . . For the ninth consecutive year, Lindenwood University won high overall team at the ACUI Intercollegiate Clay Target Championships. Coached by Shawn Dulohery, the small school in Missouri has become a powerhouse in the shotgun sports, attracting top talent from around the country to its campus in St. Charles, Mo. The NRA Blog provides a look at the team’s performance at this year’s recent championships.
Jobs
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With virtually no public notice or legislative debate, a centerpiece of ex-Gov. George Pataki’s controversial multimillion-dollar anti-gun-crime program was shot dead Friday by Gov. Cuomo’s new state budget.
The budget killed off the so-called CoBis, or Combined Ballistics Identification System, which was rolled out with much fanfare by Pataki in 2000 in what was widely seen as an attempt by the politically ambitious Republican “moderate’’ to appeal to anti-gun Democrats nationally, possibly for a future presidential run.
Pataki claimed CoBis would use state-of-the-art technology to establish a “DNA database for handguns’’ by requiring manufacturers of new semiautomatic pistols to file spent cartridge shells with the State Police, so that their markings could be kept in a traceable registry and compared to any found at crime scenes.
Many Democrats praised the program, and even then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, running for the US Senate in New York, praised Pataki for showing “real leadership in proposing a state-based ballistics program . . . something that needs to be done on a national level.’’
Trouble is, the Pataki program NEVER worked. Despite the hundreds of thousands of spent shells submitted, not one criminal was ever captured using the extensive and costly-to-maintain database, state officials concede.
“We are ending a program that doesn’t solve crimes or make our streets safe,’’ said Cuomo spokesman Josh Vlasto.
“That’s what we said would happen from the start,’’ crowed Tom King, president of the New York Rifle and Pistol Association and a National Rifle Association board member. “I think Andrew Cuomo is a very intelligent guy who didn’t want to waste money, and this wasn’t working.”
Vlasto said CoBis cost about $1.2 million a year, but King said it was more like $40 million because of equipment, staff and related expenditures to get the system up and running.
Vlasto said the state would shift at least some of its CoBis spending to the federal National Integrated Ballistic Information Network, which tracks spent shells from guns used in crimes and not simply from those that were legally sold.
Ending CoBis is expected to strengthen the argument against another controversial anti-gun- crime technology, microstamping, which requires gun makers to install a device to put ID marks on spent cartridge shells.
Cuomo backs microstamping, but didn’t fight to put it in the budget. It was backed by the Democratic-controlled Assembly but blocked by the GOP-led Senate.
King and other foes contend that, like CoBis, it won’t work because the technology targets legal gun owners, who are rarely involved in crimes, and is unproven, easily circumvented and worthless for revolvers (which don’t eject spent shells).
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Bitter state Senate Democrats, split for years by racial, regional and personal divisions, engaged in a new round of political fratricide Friday over whether to vote for Cuomo’s new budget.
“The opponents were saying it’s a bad budget because it doesn’t include enough spending, a New York Dream Act [aid for illegal aliens], microstamping or a [gas-drilling] hydrofracking health study, and they said Democrats shouldn’t vote for it along with the Senate’s majority Republicans,’’ said a Senate source.
While the Democrats eventually decided overwhelmingly to back the spending plan, there was a bigger issue involved — continuing fury over Cuomo’s decision to sign the controversial legislative-redistricting plan that gerrymandered Senate lines heavily in the GOP’s favor.
“Our leadership doesn’t see the governor as part of the team. They don’t trust him, and they don’t have good feelings about him,’’ said a prominent Democratic senator who demanded anonymity.
In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control.. From 1929 to 1953,
about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded
up and exterminated.
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In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1..5 million
Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.
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Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total
of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were
rounded up and exterminated.
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China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million
political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated
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Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000
Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.
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Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000
Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated
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Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million
educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.
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Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century
because of gun control: 56 million.
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You won’t see this data on the US evening news, or hear politicians
disseminating this information.
Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes,
gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens
Take note my fellow Americans, before it’s too late!
The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please remind them
of this history lesson.
With guns, we are ‘citizens.’
Without them, we are ‘subjects’.
During WWII the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew
most Americans were ARMED!
If you value your freedom, please spread this anti-gun control message
to all of your friends.
The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in
defense.. The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more
important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is
supplemental.
SWITZERLAND ISSUES EVERY HOUSEHOLD A GUN!
SWITZERLAND ‘S GOVERNMENT TRAINS EVERY ADULT THEY ISSUE A RIFLE.
SWITZERLAND HAS THE LOWEST GUN RELATED CRIME RATE OF ANY
CIVILIZED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!!!
IT’S A NO BRAINER!
DON’T LET OUR GOVERNMENT WASTE MILLIONS OF OUR TAX DOLLARS
IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE ALL LAW ABIDING CITIZENS AN EASY TARGET.
In his last official act of business in 2011, President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act from his vacation rental in Kailua, Hawaii. In a statement, the president said he did so with reservations about key provisions in the law — including a controversial component that would allow the military to indefinitely detain terror suspects, including American citizens arrested in the United States, without charge.
The legislation has drawn severe criticism from civil liberties groups, many Democrats, along with Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, who called it “a slip into tyranny.” Recently two retired four-star Marine generals called on the president to veto the bill in a New York Times op-ed, deeming it “misguided and unnecessary.”
“Due process would be a thing of the past,” wrote Gens Charles C. Krulak and Joseph P. Hoar. “Current law empowers the military to detain people caught on the battlefield, but this provision would expand the battlefield to include the United States – and hand Osama bin Laden an unearned victory long after his well-earned demise.”
The president defended his action, writing that he signed the act, “chiefly because it authorizes funding for the defense of the United States and its interests abroad, crucial services for service members and their families, and vital national security programs that must be renewed.”
Senior administration officials, who asked not to be named, told ABC News, “The president strongly believes that to detain American citizens in military custody infinitely without trial, would be a break with our traditions and values as a nation, and wants to make sure that any type of authorization coming from congress, complies with our Constitution, our rules of war and any applicable laws.”
One official explained that President Obama does believe, however, that American citizens can be temporarily detained, and that the military has the right to capture and hold any citizen who is engaged in conflict against the United States. If various provisions in the law prove unworkable, the president could go back to Congress to ask for changes.
“The president is going to adhere to the policies that he has held over the last three years, making sure that none of these congressional provisions impede the ability of the counterterrorism and military professional from keeping the country safe,” the official said.
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A FAMILIAR PATTERN: AS SALES OF FIREARMS GO UP … CRIME GOES DOWN
December 22, 2011 By Larry Keane
This week the FBI released data showing that violent crime in the United States fell 6.4 percent in the first half of this year compared to the same time period in 2010. The data also indicated a 3.7 percent drop in property crime.
The FBI statistics undermine a favorite argument of anti-gun groups and some mainstream media that “more guns equal more crime,” especially when you consider that the continuing decrease in violent crime parallels record firearm sales.
According to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), a primary source for how industry and analysts gauge firearm sales, this past November marked the eighteenth-straight month that NICS figures increased when compared to the same period of the previous year. Furthermore, this past “Black Friday” (November 25, 2011) set a record for the most background checks for firearm purchases in a single day (129,166), with a 32 percent increase over the previous single day high. This milestone was followed by the release of the NSSF-adjusted NICS figures for November 2011 that showed an increase of 16.5 percent over the same month last year.
Of course, there remain two additional statistics that likewise enjoy a symbiotic relationship to America’s decreasing crime rate and growing firearms population, our continuing decline in firearm-related accidentsand the record lack of public support for gun control. Clearly more and more law-abiding citizens are choosing to exercise their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, and they’re doing so in a safe and responsible manner. This fact, coupled with the empirical data demonstrating a correlation between increased firearms ownership and decreased crime levels, is something we can all be thankful for this holiday season.
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