Kansas Governor To Veto CCW Pre-Emption Bill: Lawmakers, trying to stop cities and counties from writing their own tougher concealed carry rules, are now facing a veto from the governor...Her problem with the bill was provisions cut out by the senate, including banning guns at youth athletic events that aren't related to firearms...The new concealed-carry changes still passed this year by more than the two-thirds majority that could override her veto. http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/7022027.html --- Pennsylvania Firearm-Registration Bill Given Poor Odds: Rep. Angel Cruz, D-Philadelphia, authored the bill that would apply to all guns in the state except antiques and duty weapons used by law-enforcement personnel. The bill would allow police to confiscate guns from owners who failed to pass the registration process, and make it a summary offense for failing to comply with the registration rules...As for the proposed $10 fee, Cruz has agreed to amend the bill to eliminate it after hearing from senior citizens who claimed it would be a burden, Evangelista said. Either way, many lawmakers say the bill stands little chance of becoming law. http://www.eveningsun.com/localnews/ci_5673901 --- Trial Lawyers Oppose Georgia Parking-Lot-Storage Bill: Representatives of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association say a proposal to salvage a Senate bill allowing employees to keep firearms in their vehicles parked on company property could have disastrous consequences for anyone hoping to hold corporations accountable for their negligent acts. ("Trial lawyer" is the term for those who make their money from lawsuits.) http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/legis07/stories/2007/04/14/0414metlegguns.html --- Texas Debates Parking-Lot-Storage Bill: ...This session, business owners - who are among the biggest advocates of private property rights - are up in arms (pun intended) over legislation that would override the restrictions of many employers and allow people who have concealed handgun licenses to bring their pistols onto company property, provided they leave them locked in their cars... http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/robison/4717185.html --- NRA Meeting Tops 60,000: The NRA was aiming for 60,000 participants, and organizers say the convention surpassed that, perhaps making it the most highly attended NRA convention ever. Final numbers won't be available until today, but restaurants, bars and say business boomed from the turnout. http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/270576E0C6D4A5D9862572BF0010B977?OpenDocument --- Bolton Cautions NRA Members On Foreign Threats To RKBA: John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told gun-rights advocates here Saturday to include foreign diplomats among the groups out to take guns away from U.S. citizens. Speaking at an evening banquet of the National Rifle Association's annual convention, Bolton said, "You need to keep your focus on the international realm" when sizing up efforts by the NRA's opponents to step up gun control. http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/678C97A81F2A2D6A862572BE000BF246?OpenDocument http://www.kansascity.com/116/story/70877.html --- Florida Women Take Precautions Against Crime: At ladies day at the Central Florida Rifle and Pistol Club, close to 200 hundred women showed up for a free lesson in how to handle and fire a gun. Before they could fire their weapons, event officials said each participant received a basic gun safety lesson. http://www.wesh.com/news/12061880/detail.html --- Alan Gura On Parker: The lead attorney in Parker v. District of Columbia offers some thoughts on the landmark case: "...Allow me to offer a more optimistic view: Parker not only marks the beginning of the end of gun prohibition, it might also reverse the erosion of our individual rights by re-enforcing the primacy of judicial review and preventing sophists from defining rights out of existence..." http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/hotline/2007/04/restoring-second-amendment-in-parker-v.php --- Chickens Coming Home To Roost?: Article from Idaho looks back on the Clinton-era drive against kitchen-table FFL's, supported by the National Association of Stocking Gun Dealers, and wonders whether the drive merely laid the groundwork for the current BATFE attacks on stocking dealers. ("Stocking dealer" is the term for those who maintain a regular inventory, as opposed to simply ordering a firearm when a customer requests it.) http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2007/04/16/news/top_story/110257.txt --- Penn & Teller Take on "Gun Control": It appears that this Penn & Teller episode is sufficiently grounded in the political basis of the RKBA that it has been posted by Washington Ceasefire, a prohibitionist group. (Note that Sandy Abrams' gun shop has been shut down by BATFE since this video was produced.) http://www.washingtonceasefire.com/content/view/47/45/ --- Repeal The Second Amendment: An editorialist for The Roanoke Times, the newspaper that posted a list of Virginia's CHP-holders, concludes that there is too much risk that the Second Amendment really does guarantee an individual RKBA and calls for its repeal. http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/denton/wb/wb/xp-113094 --- British Army Developing Super-Snipers: The Army is creating a new breed of super-sniper to take on insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan who use innocent women and children for cover...But now senior officers have decided to double the number of snipers - and to train them to a far higher standard on an intensive eight-week course at the Army's weapons training ground in Brecon, Mid Wales, where they will learn the kind of advanced skills previously limited to units such as the SAS. http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23392703-details/The+super+snipers+who+will+target+terrorists+...+from+three-quarters+of+a+mile/article.do --- A List Member Comments On Ported Barrels: Another disadvantage of ported barrels. While at (Texas) Thunder Ranch on a square range, we were doing grounded exercises. The guy on my right (a friend) let out a yell. I looked over and he was cut above the right eye. Something then hit me. Turns out that the guy on my left had a ported Glock. When he rolled to his right side, the port was pointed down. It put out enough of a blast to throw gravel with enough force to cut my friend and sting me pretty good. At first we thought it was splash back from the steel guards over the target activation system. The whole line was shut down for about 10 minutes until my friends cut was bandage and we figured out what was going on. Just a point of interest. -- Stephen P. Wenger Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info .