Archive for the 'Second Amendment' Category

(MSNBC) – In the midst of an argument with Glenn Greenwald, MSNBC pundit Lawrence O’Donnell admits that he is a socialist who wants to “ban all guns in America�? while forcing Obamacare on everyone.

“I don’t pretend that my views, which would ban all guns in America, make medicare available to all in America, have any chance of happening in the federal government.�? Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – In New York, you may be denied your Second Amendment right to own a rifle if administrative officials decide you are not of good moral character. Read the rest of this entry »

(FoxNews) – New York City residents who want to own a gun may soon be denied permits if they are litterbugs, if they are bad drivers, or if they have fallen behind on a few bills.

Under proposed revisions to the police department’s handgun, rifle and shotgun permit procedures, the NYPD can reject gun license applicants for a number of reasons, including: Read the rest of this entry »

Update: UT Law has canceled John Lott’s talk.

Infowars.com has learned that an open carry event was scheduled on the UT campus today, the scene of a shooting earlier today. From the Students for Liberty website:

On Tuesday, September 28 at 6:00pm, a coalition of student organizations on the University of Texas Austin campus, including the Libertarian Longhorns, the UT Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, the UT Objectivism Society and the UT Federalist Society, will be hosting John Lott, famed defender of gun rights and author of the book “More Guns, Less Crime�?. Read the rest of this entry »

(PaulWatson) – A shooting at the University of Texas campus that was initially blamed on a lone nut took on a political aspect after it emerged that the incident coincided with a speech by second amendment expert John Lott about the right to concealed carry that was due to take place tonight but has since been cancelled. Read the rest of this entry »

JDL is characterized as “a right-wing terrorist group” by the FBI in 2001, and as a hate group involved in “anti-Arab terrorism” by the Southern Poverty Law Center. According to the FBI, the JDL has been involved in plotting terrorist attacks within the United States. Read the rest of this entry »

(C4L) – In Long Island, George Grier was arrested for firing an AK-47 into his lawn to deter approaching gang members who were threatening his life and that of his family.

“I went around and went into the house, ran upstairs and told my wife to call the police. I get the gun and I go outside and I come into the doorway and now, by this time, they are in the driveway, back here near the house. I tell them, you know, ‘Can you please leave?’ Grier said. Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – On September 1, North Carolina’s governor, Bev Perdue, declared a state of emergency by executive order as Hurricane Earl approaches.

“The declaration calls for all state and local governments to cooperate in the North Carolina Emergency Operations Plan,�? reports WECT News 6 in Wilmington. Perdue said the National Guard is standing by and ready to respond if the storm hits the state. Read the rest of this entry »

(KLBJ) – One of the gun dealers of Austin’s Gun Show is sentenced to 6-months at a federal work camp for selling a weapon to an undocumented immigrant.

Paul Copeland says for years he has commonly sold handguns and antique weapons at the Austin gun show and during his arrest the illegal immigrant he sold weapons to had showed him what appeared to be a valid Texas driver’s license.

Austin’s Federal Judge Sam Sparks sentenced Copeland to spend the next 6-months at a federal work camp followed by 2-years of probation. Full story here.

(OpposingViews) – According to The Korea Times, the Obama administration has blocked efforts by the South Korean government to sell over a  hundred thousand surplus M1 Garand and Carbine rifles into the United States market. These self-loading were rifles introduced in 1926 and 1941.

As rifles, they are especially well-suited to community defense in an emergency, as in the cases of community defense following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Along with AR-15 type rifles, the M1 rifles are the quintessential firearms of responsible citizenship, precisely the type of firearms which civic responsibility organizations such as the Appleseed Project teach people how to use.

According to a South Korean official, “The U.S. insisted that imports of the aging rifles could cause problems such as firearm accidents. It was also worried the weapons could be smuggled to terrorists, gangs or other people with bad intentions.�? Read the rest of this entry »

(CFNews13) – A huge effort to collect unwanted and dangerous guns kicks off Friday morning across Central Florida.

The Kicks 4 Guns event allows anyone to turn in any firearm, no questions asked, in exchange to shoes or a gift certificate. Read the rest of this entry »

“This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under that Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.�? – Article VI, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution

(TenthAmendmentCenter) – Recently I attended a gun show, where I handed out information material and answered questions on the Tenth Amendment Center.  Several people were concerned about the U.S. making a treaty that would gut the U.S. Constitution and potentially take away firearms from law abiding citizens here in the U.S.  They argued that the paragraph above from the Constitution places treaty law above the Constitution as the supreme law of the land.

Our Founders very clearly stated the conditions under which the U.S. Constitution could be amended, or changed, in Article 5.  It is quite illogical to conceive that our Founders would write such a brilliant document to be the foundation of our union, only to create a giant backdoor for foreign governments to come in and destroy the liberty we had worked so hard to achieve.   In fact, our Founders themselves said otherwise. Read the rest of this entry »

Alex talks with Larry Pratt, the executive director of Gun Owners of America, a U.S.-based firearms lobbying group, and a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates. Pratt has founded a variety of organizations, including English First, Gun Owners of America, U.S. Border Control, and Committee to Protect the Family. Read the rest of this entry »

(Infowars) – The climate of fear, created out of the well exaggerated Times Square incident last week has allowed Joe Lieberman and fellow establishment lawmakers to introduce a bill that would drive the final nail into the coffin of the Bill of Rights. Lieberman says the bill is design to “close loopholes�? that allow individuals on the FBI’s terror watch list purchase firearms, explosives and to have basic rights of due process if and when they are tried for a crime. Read the rest of this entry »

(Infowars) – Notorious gun-grabber Mayor Michael Bloomberg has exploited the fizzle non-bombing in New York’s Times Square to call for denying the Second Amendment to over a million Americans. Read the rest of this entry »

(AP) – April 19 – Dozens of Second Amendment rights activists holstered their handguns and slung unloaded rifles over their shoulders Monday at a gun rights rally in northern Virginia. Read the rest of this entry »

(WND) – A sixth state – Arizona – now has declared that guns made and kept inside its borders essentially are free from federal application, registration and ownership regulations in a surging movement among states that one supporter describes as a direct challenge to “a government monopoly on the supply of firearms.” Read the rest of this entry »

(ZeroHedge) – Video: ECU Group’s Philip Manduca “We Are At A Tipping Point” And The Only Thing That May Save The Euro Is A Collapse Of The US

For once, some actually good insight from a CNBC guest. Philip Manduca, Head of Investment of the ECU Group, discusses Greece and the very severe implications of what the final outcome will look like. “Trichet said the Greeks are crooks, and they’ve been lying about the numbers. There is a deeply embedded corruption within the Eurozone. Combined with the endemic European socialism and there is just no way you are going to get spending cuts and tax raises and maintain a GDP that makes any sense of the percentage aspect of debt to GDP. So the whole show is wrong. This is an intractable situation, this is going to continue on and on. The onle hope for the Eurozone, and the Euro as a currency, is that sameone takes the spotlight soon, and that may be the United States.” Watch the rest as Philip’s perspective is spot on…Not to mention that he sees gold as the only alternative to the fiat bonfire soon to engulf the western world. – Video Link Here

(MarketWatch) – Goldman Sachs’ Hu may join China central bank

Fred Hu, an investment banker with Goldman Sachs Group Inc.  is likely to take up a senior post at China’s central bank after formally stepping down from the Wall Street firm in April, the state-run China Daily said Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Read More Here

(SeattleTimes) – Columbia Center misses mortgage payment

The owner of the Northwest’s tallest building, the 76-story Columbia Center, missed a mortgage payment this month, providing fresh evidence of the troubles facing downtown Seattle office landlords. Read More Here

(WTNH) – Marlin Firearms closing, 265 laid off

Employees at Marlin Firearms in North Haven just got word late Thursday afternoon that they will be losing their jobs in the next 18 months. Read More Here

(MailOnline) – Economic power grab by EU: Plan to control Britain’s economy as Europe bails out Greece

European leaders have launched an audacious bid to create an ‘economic government of the EU’ – even as they were forced to go cap in hand to the International Monetary Fund for a £20 billion bailout of debt-stricken Greece. Read More Here

(SunSentinel) – Florida unemployment hit record 12.2 percent in February

Florida’s unemployment hit 12.2 percent in February, the highest rate on record, soaring past even the rates recorded in the 1973-1975 recession, the state work force agency said Friday Read More Here

(SJ-R) – State Police plan massive layoffs, HQ closures

The Illinois State Police will lay off more than 460 troopers and close five regional headquarters by this fall, acting State Police director Jonathon Monken said Tuesday. Read More Here

(SouthCoastToday) – The right to bear arms as defined in the Second Amendment does not apply to the states, so Massachusetts can regulate who can have firearms and how those weapons are to be stored, the state’s high court ruled Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »

(WND) – Utah has become the third state to adopt a law exempting guns and ammunition made, sold and used in the state from massive federal regulations under the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and supporters say about 30 more states have some sort of plan for their own exemptions in the works. Read More Here

(MSNBC) – The highest court in Massachusetts on Wednesday upheld the constitutionality of a state law that requires gun owners to lock weapons in their homes in a ruling applauded by gun-control advocates.

The case had been closely watched by both gun-control and gun-rights proponents.

Massachusetts prosecutors argued that the law saves lives because it requires guns to be kept in a locked container or equipped with a trigger lock when not under the owner’s control. The Second Amendment Foundation Inc., however, cited a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said people have a constitutional right to keep weapons for self-defense. Read More Here

Larry Pratt, the executive director of Gun Owners of America, a U.S.-based firearms lobbying group, and a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, talks with Alex about the Supreme Court and its impending ruling on the Second Amendment. Read the rest of this entry »

The major news media was replete with reports over the weekend that the coffee company, Starbucks, “has no problem with customers packing heat while placing their orders.�? Read the rest of this entry »

The 2005 movie “Lord of War�? opens with lead actor Nicholas Cage standing in a street littered with spent shell casings. He turns and speaks to us with droll sincerity:
“There are over 500 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That is one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other eleven?�? (written and directed by Andrew Niccol) Read the rest of this entry »

(LewRockwell) – “We feel our community is safer having this kind of weaponry off the street,�? intoned a spokesman for the Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts police department
Granted, the invocation of that cliche is part of the familiar gun-grabber liturgy, but it doesn’t apply here, since the “weaponry�? referred to was never on the “street�? to begin with. It consisted of several firearms legally purchased by 45-year-old Gregory D. Girard, a computer consultant whose wife — was her maiden name Morozov, perchance? — told the authorities about her husband’s supposedly alarming view that martial law is imminent. Read the rest of this entry »

(TenthAmendmentCenter) – Around the country, twenty-two states are currently considering a bill known as the “Firearms Freedom Act.” This bill declares that guns, accessories, and ammunition made within a state, sold within that state and kept in that state are not subject to federal laws or regulations under the “Interstate Commerce Clause” of the Constitution. Read the rest of this entry »

(SFChronicle) - Any new public policy measure undertaken to reduce, regulate or limit access to the guns and ammunition that have contributed to the loss of human life across the nation’s urban landscape is a step in the right direction. Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – Back during the days of the Bush neocon effort to create mass hysteria over manufactured terrorism, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives attempted to link illicit cigarette smuggling and sales to terrorism. Read the rest of this entry »

Alex talks with the founder of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, Aaron Zelman, about the closing down of a gun show by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Austin Police. Read the rest of this entry »

The New York Times has another silly editorial on gun control. The paper’s editorial board is calling for a renewal of the assault-weapons ban, which expired in 2004.
The paper’s justification? “A survey of more than 130 local police chiefs and officials found 37 percent reporting an increase in assault weapons in street crime,�? along with other evidence indicating an increased criminal use of assault weapons. Read the rest of this entry »

(KVUENews) – A gun show owner says the Austin Police Department violated his constitutional rights. Police are now setting the record straight.
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(SteveWatson) – BATF Notice Bans Private Gun Sales In Texas

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is actively issuing directions banning private sales of guns without licenses at gun shows in Texas, despite there being no law to justify such demands. Read More Here

(KurtNimmo) – Obama Administration Shuts Down Oldest Gun Show in Central Texas

In a disturbing update to a story covered in-depth today on the Alex Jones Show, Texas grocery retailer HEB has banned Texas Gun Shows from holding a monthly gun show. HEB is the lease holder on the property where the gun show was held. Read More Here

(KurtNimmo) – Texas Gun Shows Organizer Targeted by the ATF Makes His Case on the Alex Jones Show

Darwin Boedeker of Texas Gun Shows appeared on the Alex Jones Show today and provided details of the criminal conspiracy by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (abbreviated ATF) and the Austin police to shut down the show last week. Read More Here

(KurtNimmo) – Feds, Cops Attempt to Shut Down Legal Gun Sales in Austin, Texas

The police in Austin, at the behest of the federal Bureau of Alcohol and Firearms, has attempted to shut down legal gun sales. The Texas Gun Shows website has the following posted: “Vendor notice – Austin show only: At the direction of the Austin Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms, ONLY LICENSED FFL DEALERS will be allowed to set up and sell firearms at the N. Austin show location.�? Read More Here

“To avoid domestic tyranny, the people must be armed to stand upon [their] own Defense; which if [they] are enabled to do, [they] shall never be put upon it, but [their] Swords may grow rusty in [their] hands; for that Nation is surest to live in Peace, that is most capable of making War; and a Man that hath a Sword by his side, shall have least occasion to make use of it.”~ John Trenchard (1662–1723)
One of the most amazing scientific discoveries in my lifetime occurred at approximately 10,500 feet above sea level on the Tisenjoch pass, in the Ötzal Alps of Northern Italy. Sheltered for millennia from the moving ice of a glacier in a secluded crevice a 5000-year-old human body was preserved, finally to be discovered by a two German hikers in September 1991. Read the rest of this entry »

Members of all branches of the United States Military will soon be facing a most critical decision. The European Union Times is reporting here that Obama is using the deployment of additional troops to Afghanistan to cover for the movement of some 200,000 troops, presently on duty in countries other than Iraq and Afghanistan, to USNORTHCOM to prepare for the “expected outbreak of Civil War within the United States before the end of winter.” Read the rest of this entry »

On Wednesday the Obama administration took its first major step in a plan to ban all firearms in the United States. The Obama administration intends to force gun control and a complete ban on all weapons for US citizens through the signing of international treaties with foreign nations. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m sure my environment while growing up had a great deal to do with my attitude towards the rights of a free people to own firearms. To me it has always been a no-brainer. From the simple act of providing for the defense of one’s life and property and the defense of those with whom we have a responsibility, to preventing criminals from enslaving us, it all seems to be so fundamental. Read the rest of this entry »

(Telegraph) – Police officers armed with submachine guns are to be deployed on routine patrol of Britain’s streets for the first time. Read the rest of this entry »

Startling evidence suggests that the Gun Control Act of 1968 was lifted, almost in its entirety, from Nazi legislation. Read the rest of this entry »

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today signed into law a bill that requires buyers of handgun ammunition to leave thumbprints and detailed personal information with registered ammo sellers, as well as put restrictions on online bullet sales. Read the rest of this entry »

Owning gold or firearms, donating to charity, finding out information about things all constitute suspicious activity to be reported to the authorities Read the rest of this entry »

State Representative Sam Rohrer has introduced the “Firearms Freedom Act�? (HB1988) for consideration in the state legislature. The bill is “An Act prohibiting certain firearms, firearm accessories or ammunition from being subject to Federal law or Federal regulation.�?: Read the rest of this entry »

UPDATE: The American Police Force website page which clearly states that they run the Blackwater-controlled U.S. Training Center is back online here. Read the rest of this entry »

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Wednesday it will return to the controversy over individual gun rights by hearing an appeal from a group of firearms owners in Chicago. Read the rest of this entry »

Summary of the eRumor:
A forwarded email that says that Congress introduced HR-45, the Blair Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009. The bill will make it mandatory for gun owners to have firearms registered and provide their Social Security numbers, drivers licenses, thumb prints and submit to a physical and mental evaluation. Read the rest of this entry »

Supply can’t keep up with demand, a trend that began after election Read the rest of this entry »

(MSNBC) – More Propaganda Against the Second Amendment – August 19th, 2009 Read the rest of this entry »

Most Americans do not make the connection between American Gun Control and today’s scandals of bank bailouts, corporate takeovers, immense failures, government intrusion and indifference, massive disrespect for the electorate, and other harassment of the sovereign. There is a connection. Read the rest of this entry »

A proposed resolution set to go before the Belleview City Commission urges the head of every household in the city to have a gun in order to protect their families and to keep the peace in an emergency. Read the rest of this entry »

What is it with liberals and gun rights. Liberals simply cannot find an individual right to carry in the U.S. Constitution, even though it is explicitly cited in amendments that specifically address only individual rights, but can find a right to abortion which is somehow invisibly inserted somewhere in the same document. Just recently, a Macomb Township ordinance banning guns in public places came under scrutiny when a gun rights group, Michigan Open Carry, was to hold a picnic in a park – by definition a public location. Read the rest of this entry »

Introduced in the Michigan House on August 11, 2009, the “Firearms Freedom Act�? (HB-5232) seeks “to make certain findings regarding intrastate commerce; to prohibit federal regulation of firearms, firearms accessories, and ammunition involved purely in intrastate commerce in [the State of Michigan]; to provide for certain exceptions to federal regulation; and to establish certain manufacturing requirements.�? Read the rest of this entry »

This is an evaluation of overall firearms and ammunition purchases based on low end numbers per soviet socialist instacheck data base. The numbers presented are only PART of the overall numbers of arms and ammunition that have been sold. The actual numbers are much higher. Read the rest of this entry »

As questions about gun rights swirl around the nomination of a new Supreme Court Justice, and debate continues over attempts in Congress to make it easier to carry concealed weapons state-to-state, an increasing number of Long Islanders are applying for pistol permits. Read the rest of this entry »

The Obama administration’s offensive against the Second Amendment has begun. Read the rest of this entry »

When I attended the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s Shooting, Hunting Outdoor Trade Show in Orlando, Fla., last Jan­uary, there was a completely different atmosphere among the 1,700 firearms-related manufacturers and the thousands of dealers that attended. Read the rest of this entry »

The several states are lining up to reclaim their sovereignty and telling the federal government to butt out. This is being done in myriad ways but all are related in that most claim that the Tenth Amendment protects the states from federal tyranny. States are passing resolutions, memorials and two states have passed laws and they intend to apply those laws for their citizens. The two states are Montana and Tennessee. Read the rest of this entry »

During Patrick Henry’s famous “Give me liberty or give me death” speech, he said the following: Read the rest of this entry »

Obama’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives is claiming constitutional supremacy to kill the 10th Amendment-driven state statutes to exempt in-state firearms from federal regulations. Their mode? Reminding gun dealers of their federal obligations. Read the rest of this entry »

It is yet another example of the federal government running roughshod over the states. Read the rest of this entry »

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The third gun surrender event held in conjunction between Churches United for Service and the Lynchburg Police Department exceeded the expectations of organizers Saturday afternoon. Read the rest of this entry »

Step right up and help us confiscate guns! Make a phone call with an anonymous tip an well pay you tax free cash once we get the guns! Read the rest of this entry »

Big lies die slowly. After a claim by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that 90% of Mexican drug dealers’ military weapons (machine guns, hand grenades and missiles) come from American gun stores was exposed as a lie several months ago, it’s back — this time with the imprimatur of the Government Accountability Office. Read the rest of this entry »

Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, may soon have the power to classify millions of Americans as domestic terrorists. An amendment to H.R. 2647 (the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010), introduced by Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida, would grant Holder absolute authority to decide who is a terrorist. Read the rest of this entry »

Amendments to the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act, which has already been passed by the House, would empower the Attorney General Eric Holder to define gun owners, anti-abortion activists and tax protesters as domestic terrorists in light of recent federal reports that classify millions of Americans as “extremists�?. Read the rest of this entry »

(AP) – A New Orleans man is suing the city and its district attorney for refusing to give back a gun that police seized when he was arrested on drug and firearms charges that were later dropped. Read the rest of this entry »

The Most Powerful Military Force in the World is the American People. It is the Last Jeffersonian Militia on the Planet, and the New World Order is Powerless Against it Read the rest of this entry »

Success on the front lines of a government blitz on gunrunners supplying Mexican drug cartels with Houston weaponry hinges on logging heavy miles and knocking on countless doors. Read the rest of this entry »

A press release buried on the FEMA website, dated June 30, 2009, announces a meeting between FEMA administrator Craig Fugate and Maj. Gen. Yair Golan of the Israeli Defense Forces Home Front Command. Read the rest of this entry »

In January, without any recognizable corporate media coverage, Rep. Bob Filner, a California Democrat, introduced H.R. 675. The bill would amend title 10 of the United States Code and extend to civilian employees of the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. Read the rest of this entry »

(CNN) – The woman whose death has come to symbolize Iranian resistance to the government’s official election results did not die the way the opposition claims, government-backed Press TV said Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »

(Paul Craig Roberts) – Some years or decades ago I researched and reported on the Sullivan Act, one of America’s first gun control laws. Read the rest of this entry »

West Palm Beach police are rewarding residents for turning in people with guns:

Under a new program announced this morning, anyone who spots people packing heat in West Palm Beach can call Palm Beach County Crime Stoppers anonymously and could receive a $500 reward.

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“Most citizens,�? writes columnist Nat Hentoff, “are largely uneducated about their own constitutional rights and liberties.�? Read the rest of this entry »

Congress is now starting on the firearms confiscation bill. If it passes, gun owners will become criminals if you don’t fully comply. Read the rest of this entry »

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has scheduled a Wednesday vote on a State Department nominee who supports gun control on a global scale. Read the rest of this entry »