The latest rounds fired in the Left’s assault on our Second Amendment rights include a back-door ploy by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to dry up ammo sales, and another newspaper’s decision to publish non-public records of concealed-carry permit holders.
A recently proposed rule from OSHA seeks to have ammunition, primers or black and smokeless powder indiscriminately treated as “explosives.” The regulations would prohibit firearms in commercial “facilities containing explosives” (gun stores, for example), require that all such facilities be evacuated in the event of an electrical storm (even Wal-Mart) and prohibit smoking within 50 feet of the facilities. This issue has gun-rights advocates up in arms, decrying the incredible absurdity of the proposed regulations. The NRA says, “[I]t’s important to remember this is only a proposed rule right now, so there’s still time for concerned citizens to speak out.”
Meanwhile, in Ohio, The Sandusky Register published the names, ages and home counties of 2,700 concealed carry permit holders in its circulation area as a “public service to readers” according to the newspaper’s Managing Editor, Matt Westerhold. A number of its readers, understandably, were incensed. In well-deserved retaliation, the Buckeye Firearms Association published Westerhold’s publicly available personal information, including phone numbers, automobile records, traffic-ticket records and the address and mortgage information about a home he owns.
The incident echoes a March episode in which The Roanoke (Virginia) Times published the names and addresses of 135,000 Virginians with concealed-carry permits.
SOURCE: The Patriot Post
Conservative Libertarian Outpost 
August 19, 2007 at 07:15
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