No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.8/161 - Release Date: 11/3/2005 House Panel Approves Split of Ninth Circuit: Buried deep in the massive House spending-cut proposal is a provision to do what many conservatives have been wanting to do for years: split up the liberal 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and allow President Bush to appoint some new judges to it. http://www.washtimes.com/national/20051103-111734-8240r.htm --- What Did Alito Say On Machine Guns?: Even though the Supreme Court nominee only wrote a dissent in the case, it may be misunderstood by both sides. He appears not to have said that the federal government has no business regulating machine guns but that it needs to show a better relationship to the Commerce Clause in order to do so. http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_86_4204714,00.html --- Marion Hammer On Florida's Castle Law: Interview with Marion Hammer, the person given the most credit for the enactment of Florida's CCW reform in 1987, clarifies what Florida's new castle-doctrine or stand-your-ground law does and does not do. http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/freedomline/current/in_our_opinion/marion-hammer-nra-interview.htm --- Gun-Friendly Florida: Article includes an interesting response by Marion Hammer to the charge that the NRA is attacking the property rights of business owners when it seeks to defend the rights of employees to secure firearms in vehicles parked on company lots - a vehicle is an extension of one's home. http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Politics/Leg/03PoliticsHEAD03LEG110305.htm --- Libertarian vs. NRA: Manuel Lora blast the NRA for seeking to limit the rights of business owners to dictate whether employees can store firearms in vehicles on company parking lots. http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/m.lora4.html --- One More Shot: A transcript of the JPFO interview with Len Savage, about the capricious operation of BATFE's Firearms Technology Branch is also available at this site: http://www.freemarketnews.com/Analysis/105/2815/2005-11-04.asp?wid=105&nid=2815 --- Illinois Gun Owners Lose To Governor: The Illinois House failed to override the governor's veto of the bill to set statewide standards for the transport of firearms in vehicles and two other bills to restore pieces of the RKBA also seem doomed. http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-leg04.html --- Who's Who In Illinois?: In a move that may be cutting off its nose to spite its face, the NRA-affiliated Illinois State Rifle and Pistol Association is complaining that state police should have disarmed one of their own employees after his Firearm Owner's Identification card was revoked.. http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/local/13074383.htm --- Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Cannot Escape History: Democratic candidate Kaine claims to support the RKBA yet, when he was blocked from using taxpayer funds to send eight busloads of people to the 2000 "Million" Moms March, he found the time to raise $6,000 privately, in a move that he now blames on his heart working too fast. http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1128767939585 --- Is The Fog Lifting In San Francisco? The San Francisco supervisors appear to be losing support for Proposition H, the measure that would virtually ban handgun ownership in that city anc county. (Scroll down to the entry with this title for November 3.) http://www.claremont.org/localliberty/ San Francisco LGBT's Split on Prop H: The Pink Pistols oppose Prop H while the LGBT affiliates of the Democratic Party support it. http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=323 --- Will Connecticut Honor Colt?: A marketing consultant is counting on Democratic Senators Chris Dodd and Joe Lieberman to get the ball rolling in securing recognition for the original Colt empire as a national park. http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/op_ed/hc-colt1104.artnov04,0,7137917.story?coll=hc-headlines-oped --- Suzanna Gratia-Hupp Testifies On Wisconsin CCW: The Texas legislator who watched her parents get slaughtered in a restaurant prior to licensed CCW in Texas testified before a joint legislative committee considering licensed CCW for Wisconsin. She urged legislators there not to carve out defenseless-victim zones. http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/index.php?ntid=60150&ntpid=1 --- Big Surprise From Ohio: The statistics are in for Ohio's first 18 months of concealed carry. Only 0.14% of CHL's have been revoked and that includes those of holders who have died. While a slightly higher percentage of CHL's have been suspended for any reason, most of those appear to have been reinstated, based on the revocation rate. http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/article2795.html --- Tulsa Crime Spree Spurs Gun Purchases: Article points out that in Oklahoma, 40% of people who purchase a firearm go on to obtain a Concealed Handgun License. (I suspect that that sentence should have been phrased in terms of the percentage of handgun purchasers how go on to obtain a CHL.) http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/1105/274543.html --- Not The Brightest Move: A burglar in Shreveport LA returned to the same house for more loot and left a blood trail after he discovered that the residents had returned following his earlier visit. http://www.ktbs.com/news-detail.html?cityid=1&hid=27269 http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051104/NEWS03/511040311/1062 --- Oops, Wrong Store: A store owner in a crime-ridden section of Dallas fatally shot a robber who is believed to have been trying for his second score of the night. Note that the store owner was relatively prepared because he had spotted the robber backing his vehicle into a parking slot and that he was able to disable the robber's revolver by grabbing the cylinder. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-suspectshot_03met.ART0.West.Edition2.225e0728.html --- Oops, Wrong Bystander: A would-be robber in North Carolina was shot by an apparent bystander when the first man attempted to take a woman's purse. http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/stories/wcnc-110305-jmn-robber_shot.23718511.html --- Another Gun Missing In England: This time a Glock pistol and 30 rounds are missing from a nuclear fuel plant. http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005510150,00.html --- Sanity Down Under?: police say that it is unlikely that a homeowner will face charges for killing a home-invader with the intruder's samurai sword. A second intruder, armed with a firearm, is in custody. http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,17133474-5001028,00.html --- From The Firearms Coalition: Please reply to feedback at FirearmsCoalition.org (using appropriate email format). The Firearms Coalition is looking for web help. Our site (http://www.nealknox.com | http://www.firearmscoalition.org) is overdue for a re-work. Qualifications are as follows: o Familiar with operating in a Unix/Linux environment running Apache web server and without root. o Familiar with Content Management Systems (CMS) such as Mambo, PHPWebsite, or Slashcode. o Ability to implement a design using CSS to be made into a CMS template o Familiarity with scripting languages such as PHP, Python, or Perl. VBasic does not count. o Familiar with MySQL. o Security awareness is a must. We may eventually advertise out on the larger Internet, but want to start with our friends and supporters. If you're interested, please send a note to the webmaster address. Replies to this address go straight to the spam filter. Chris Knox --- From CCRKBA: NEWS RELEASE BRADY CAMPAIGN AGAIN SHOWING HYPOCRISY, SAYS CCRKBA BELLEVUE, WA - The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence has once again "inserted foot firmly in mouth" in its reaction to proposed legislation in Florida that would allow citizens to keep firearms in their cars at their places of employment, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said today. Brady Campaign spokesman Zach Ragbourn told the Daytona Beach News Journal that his organization opposes passage of such a law because, "What's dangerous is having people in the state capital make that decision in advance about every kind of worker in every kind of situation." "For years," said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb in response, "the Brady Campaign has been working feverishly on one-size-fits-all gun control schemes at the state and national level. Now all of a sudden, they don't think it's a good idea for Florida lawmakers to pass a reform measure that protects the rights of gun owners." The proposed statute, supported by various gun rights groups, would prevent citizens from being fired from their jobs for having a firearm in their vehicle in a company parking lot. Proponents say this is a sensible proposal that assures legally-licensed citizens their right of self-protection while driving to and from work, or from one job to another. "The Brady Campaign never thought it was wrong to support nationwide bans on certain firearms, or 'dangerous' to promote concealed carry prohibitions, which leave citizens defenseless against attacks in public," Gottlieb said. "The gun control lobby has never opposed blanket restrictions on gun ownership, but now they're in hysterics about a blanket proposal that strengthens the privacy rights of law-abiding citizens. "Of course," Gottlieb added, "hypocrisy and doublespeak are the cornerstones of the gun control lobby. When they can't push their agenda at the national level, they shift gears and claim that 'local control' is best. When their demagoguery fails in the legislative arena, they ask the courts to legislate from the bench. They have tried to disguise their gun control and gun ban packages as 'gun safety' measures. Ultimately, the only thing they're selling is victim vulnerability and the surrender of civil rights, and the public isn't buying." --- From KABA: Cast Your Vote In New Poll On Supreme Court Nominee Confirmation If you have not already done so, go to KeepAndBearArms.com and cast your vote in the poll on Senate confirmation of Judge Alito to the US Supreme Court. The poll appears in the left hand column of the web page. A number of national radio talk show hosts are monitoring this poll closely. Sincerely yours, Alan M. Gottlieb President, KeepAndBearArms.com -- Stephen P. Wenger Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info .