Archive for May, 2008
May 4, 2008
This is an important issue that all Americans should chime in on. It has to do with your ability to adequately defend yourself and others in areas where dangerous animals do in fact exist. Not to mention the possibility of human criminal acts.
On April 30, the U.S. Department of Interior, through the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, issued a proposed rule to amend the current strict regulations on firearms in national parks and wildlife refuges. NRA-ILA led the effort to amend the existing policy regarding the carrying and transportation of firearms on these federal lands. The public has until June 30 to comment on the proposal, and NRA-ILA strongly urges members to file comments in support.
Tags:Law, National Parks
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May 4, 2008
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Lautenberg is back at it again with yet another assault on the American people. When will he ever be sated? I doubt that will ever happen. He is such an egotistical authoritarian maniac that he will probably be bossing around the people that embalm him. Now he is attempting to link firearms buyers to terrorism. Well Senator, you are the terrorist, and enemy of the American people.
Renewed Attack on Privacy of Gun Buyers |
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| Friday, May 02, 2008 |
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| This week, anti-gun U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) registration legislation that would invade the privacy rights of law-abiding gun owners.
Cosponsored by like-minded Sens. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Carl Levin (D-MI), Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Jack Reed (D-RI), and Charles Schumer (D-NY), S. 2935 would, among other things, require the FBI to retain records of cleared firearm transactions for at least 180 days. Current law requires federally-licensed firearm dealers to conduct a background check on a prospective buyer using NICS prior to selling a firearm. NICS creates an audit log of the purchase during the course of the search. Under current Justice Department regulations, those records must be destroyed within 24 hours to preserve the lawful purchaser’s privacy. The Clinton Administration originally proposed keeping these records for as long as 180 days. NRA successfully fought to reduce this time period to 24 hours. Lautenberg’s legislation would undo this regulation.
Once again trying to create a link where none exists, Lautenberg opined, “We must overturn the ill-conceived law mandating destruction of this data so we can successfully combat gun violence and terrorism in America.”
This latest anti-gun scheme should further remind gun owners of the importance of this year’s elections. S. 2935 demonstrates that threats to our Second Amendment rights remain very much alive. Sen. Lautenberg has a long and well-documented anti-gun record, and in sponsoring legislation that is a gross invasion of law-abiding gun owners’ privacy, his intentions are clearly aimed at further restriction of those rights. |
source: http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=3897
Tags:Civil Rights, Constitution, Law, Terrorism
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May 4, 2008
Some politicians just never learn do they? Well Bloomberg, you lost, and the American people won a victory.
| New York City Lawsuit Against America’s Firearm Industry Blocked |
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| Friday, May 02, 2008 |
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| The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has delivered a major blow to New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s lawsuit aimed at bankrupting the firearms industry, by ruling on April 30 that the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) of 2005 blocks the city’s lawsuit against a host of gun makers and distributors.
“The blocking of this bogus lawsuit against America’s firearm industry is an important victory,” declared NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox. “New York City’s lawsuit was a politically motivated attack by an anti-gun mayor to bankrupt a lawful industry.”
The Second Circuit, like other courts around the country, found that the law is constitutional and that District Judge Jack B. Weinstein had wrongly interpreted its exceptions. Weinstein, one of the most frequently overruled federal judges in the country, had said that the suit, under a “public nuisance” law, was still allowed under the PLCAA.
After reviewing the history of the PLCAA, Judge Robert J. Miner wrote, “We think Congress clearly intended to protect from vicarious liability members of the firearms industry who engage in the ‘lawful design, manufacture, marketing, distribution, importation, or sale’ of firearms.”
This decision is just the latest setback for Mayor Bloomberg, who has also been publicly rebuked by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for his unlawful “sting” operations against firearm retailers in several states. |
source: http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=3898&issue=
Tags:Civil Rights, Constitution, Gun Control, Law
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May 4, 2008
Pasture rat hunting survives the ban!
| Colorado: Prairie Dog Hunting Ban Defeated! |
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| Friday, May 02, 2008 |
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Please Call the Commission Members and Thank Them Today!
Thanks to your calls and attendance at last week’s meeting of the Colorado Wildlife Commission in Junction City, a proposed ban on prairie dog hunting was defeated by a 9 to 0 vote ensuring that the necessary hunting of these animals can continue. While radical anti-hunting/animal rights groups targeted prairie dog hunting as cruel, it is a traditional sporting activity and necessary management tool, especially for ranching interests in the state.
Please call Commission members and thank them for protecting your right to hunt. You can reach the members of the Commission at (303) 297-1192. |
SOURCE: http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3887
Tags:Division of Wildlife, Hunting, rodent control
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May 2, 2008
Mission Accomplished? « Thoughts Quotes and Internet Fun
This is just one of the really good things about WordPress, you can expose idiots via the “Press This” feature. They moderate all comments, so as not to have to deal with such esoteric things as logic, reason, or actual knowledge. I am no “Bush Bot,” as anyone that reads this blog, or numerous forums over the years well know. But, sometimes things just go beyond the pale. Like this particular statement being taken out of any sort of meaningful context to the point that it is a dead horse. Figure it out dingbat. That Aircraft Carrier, and those aboard Her, did in fact, accomplish their assigned mission.
Bush, as much as I despise his politics, never, to the best of my knowledge, has declared “victory.” Go crawl into a hole, and light a candle, open a book, and learn. Then, perhaps you can write a new version of “The Allegory of the Cave.”
Tags:Ethics, Idiocy, Military Decorum, Philosophy, political science, Stupid is as Stupid Does
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May 2, 2008
A Marine sergeant who became a symbol of resilience as he strove to recover from a roadside bomb blast in Iraq that blanketed 97 percent of his body with burns has died, the Defense Department said. He was 22.
‘Miracle’ Marine dies
Sgt. Merlin German died April 11 at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, where he was continuing treatment for the injuries he suffered in combat on Feb. 22, 2005, the Pentagon said Thursday.
The former turret gunner was dubbed the “Miracle Man” for his determination in facing his wounds, which cost the former saxophone player his fingers and rippled his face with scars. He endured more than 40 surgeries, spent 17 months in a hospital and had to learn to walk again.
Meanwhile, he started a charity, Merlin’s Miracles, to aid child burn victims and considered college and a career.
“Sometimes I do think I can’t do it,” he told The Associated Press last year. “Then I think: Why not? I can do whatever I want. … Nobody has ever been 97 percent dead and survived, and lived to walk.”
Born in New York City, German moved to its suburbs as a teenager. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in September 2003, according to his charity’s Web site. He was medically retired four years later, the Defense Department said.
German had been stationed at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that the state Capitol’s flags would be flown at half-staff in German’s honor, saying the sergeant’s “courage and unfailing loyalty serve as an inspiration to Americans everywhere.”
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Tags:Profiles in Valor, USMC
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May 1, 2008
Stop Apologizing for Being an American « Don’t Get Me Started…
At the risk of sounding like I love myself, this has all the components of several postings, debates even, found on this blog. It sums up my own research having to do with moral relativism, and a whole lot of other things as well.
I may be an “ugly American.” So damned what? I came by it naturally. I have never found that any evil, real or perceived, that put these United States of America in a position playing second fiddle to any other nation on earth, or that has ever been on earth.
Tags:America, Hate America First, Love America
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