SAF Calls For Investigation Of Straw Purchase: The Second Amendment Foundation is calling upon the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to open a criminal investigation into what may be a publicly admitted straw purchase of a handgun in New Hampshire involving the head of a Massachusetts anti-gun organization and a columnist for the Boston Globe. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-17-2007/0004627163&EDATE= --- More Flatulence From Jesse Jackson: ...BATF's data has been used by police and city officials, such as New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg, to identify the gun dealers who supply the bulk of guns used in crimes. This freaked out the gun lobby. In rode Rep. Tom Tiahrt (R-Kan.), happy to be of service. He attached a rider to the BATF appropriations bill that prohibited the agency from sharing gun data with police agencies or anyone else unless specifically related to an individual crime. The rider's only purpose was to protect gun dealers operating illegally... http://www.suntimes.com/news/jackson/471156,CST-EDT-jesse17.article --- Bloomberg Raises Profile, Not Votes: In his fight to repeal a federal gun law, Mayor Bloomberg has flown across the country, spent millions in televised campaign-style ads, raised his national profile, and sparked interest in a possible presidential run. But in Congress, he's hardly changed anyone's mind. http://www.nysun.com/article/58555 --- Gun-Offender Registry Proposed In Baltimore: In an effort to fight the city's spike in gun-related crime, Mayor Sheila Dixon yesterday introduced legislation that would let police - and possibly the public - know home addresses of people convicted of gun violations...The city's police union dismissed the legislation as "a waste of time" and as catering to election-year politics. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_city/bal-md.ci.guns17jul17,0,2555080.story?coll=bal-local-headlines --- DC's Assault On The Second Amendment: A useful illustration of how American freedom could fade away can be seen in a contrast between the city government of Newton, Mass., in 1775, and the city government of Washington, D.C, in 2007. On Jan. 2, 1775, as historian David Hackett Fischer recounts in Paul Revere's Ride, the good people of Newton held a town meeting. The issues they discussed were similar in a certain sort of way to the issues that might be discussed today by the D.C. council. They included a proposed gun law and entitlement program. In Newton, the gun law and entitlement program were one and the same. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=dcs_assault_on_the_second_amendment&ns=TerenceJeffrey&dt=07/18/2007&page=full&comments=true --- Washington Post Ignores Parker Plaintiffs: Reporting on Mayor Adrian Fenty (D-D.C.) and his decision to appeal a gun rights case to the Supreme Court, the Washington Post failed to consult any of the half-dozen citizens of the District of Columbia who won the lawsuit in federal Circuit Court four months earlier... http://www.newsbusters.org/node/14162 --- Bill O'Reilly Angers Pink Pistols: ...But it was a group of about 10,000 gay and lesbian gun-rights enthusiasts who might have had the most impact: called The Pink Pistols, the group is a GLBT advocacy organization supporting what they view as their Second Amendment rights to bear arms. The Pink Pistols are not happy at having the name of their organization dragged through the mud in what they see as a sensationalistic and gratuituous manner. http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=glbt&sc2=news&sc3=&id=21795 --- Decision Pending In New Hampshire Permit Case: A judge in Portsmouth NH says he will render his decision at a later time in the case of a resident who is appealing his denial of a concealed-weapon permit by the local police chief. http://seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070717/NEWS/70717011 -- Stephen P. Wenger Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info .