Gonzales Resigns As Attorney General: Commentary focuses on Gonzales's view of the Constitution as a "living document," to be continually reshaped by the justices of the Supreme Court and makes no specific mention of his poor position on the RKBA. (Under Gonzales's stewardship of the Department of Justice, the FBI ruled that Arizona residents who have had a restoration of the right to own firearms after a felony conviction are still prohibited possessors. Gonzales himself has spoken out against the private ownership of cosmetically impaired firearms.) http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57336 SAF Urges Careful Search For Replacement: "We're hoping that the next attorney general will be like the president's first attorney general, John Ashcroft, someone who understands the Second Amendment affirms and protects an individual civil right," said SAF founder Alan Gottlieb. "The next attorney general must also understand that people do not leave their Second Amendment right, or their right of self-defense, at the boundary of a college campus, the doorway of any public building, the gateway of a national park, the border of any state or any city limit." http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-27-2007/0004652048&EDATE= The Interim Successor: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/08/the_new_acting_ag.html --- CCRKBA Urges Celebration of National Exercise Your Rights Day: "We encourage gun owners to visit gun ranges, gun stores and sporting goods shops, especially if these facilities are singled out for protest activities," he continued. "What better way to show our appreciation for the First Amendment than by exercising it to defend the Second Amendment? Mr. Jackson has been searching the landscape to find an issue that will restore his relevance," Gottlieb observed. "How ironic that a man whose reputation was built as a civil rights activist would promote a nationwide campaign of social bigotry against firearms owners." http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-27-2007/0004652051&EDATE= The View From The Left: http://www.gunguys.com/?p=2415 --- Anti-Gun Media Culture: Today, Jesse Jackson, the Brady bunch - not the TV folks but the anti-gun lobby - and other liberal activists will rally against "the national scourge of illegal guns" in cities around the nation. The real target is the legal sale of guns. Mr. Jackson has made that quite clear by going after gun shops and accusing them of abetting crime... http://washingtontimes.com/article/20070828/EDITORIAL/108280022/1013 --- Jackson Targets DS Arms: Despite no evidence of legal wrongdoing, the Rev. Jesse Jackson wants a Lake Barrington gun plant shut down. Jackson, founder and CEO of the Chicago-based Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, will at noon today lead a protest in front of D.S. Arms, a gun manufacturer that's been registered in Lake Barrington since 1998. More than 30 protests to ban assault weapons are planned today around the country. Stopping gun manufacturing would halt illegal distribution of firearms, which feeds into the illegal drug trade, Jackson argues. http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=26722 --- Ask Me About "Shall Not Be Infringed": ... Reasonable people don't dislike guns, they dislike crime, and that includes the hundreds of thousands of the non-gun incidents of knifings, beatings, carjackings, rape, abductions of adults and abductions of children. Use of citizen authority can stop many, many of these. Why is it obfuscated and punished when non-gun violent crimes vastly outnumber gun violence? Because armed citizens can impeach the very concept of such go-nowhere anti-crime policies. http://www.goodforthecountry.com/ --- CCW Works For Ohio Citizens: It was a law that had the support of politicians and law-enforcement personnel, alike, three years ago when it was enacted. The so-called "concealed carry" law gave honest citizens the right to apply for a permit to carry a concealed weapon - legally. The sheriff's office has issued hundreds of these permits, and we have yet to see a problem as a result of it. The right to bear arms is guaranteed by the United States Constitution, and it's not the law-abiding citizens we worry about, anyway. It's the criminals: They're going to be armed whether there's a law or not! http://www.chillicothegazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070828/OPINION/708280321/1014 --- Oops, Wrong Pharmacy, Part 2: When the man pulled out a handgun in Salyer Pharmacy and demanded drugs Saturday, pharmacist Tom Lundberg bolted for a back room. He didn't go there to hide. He went to grab his shotgun. "I didn't know what was going to happen," Lundberg said Monday. When the intruder pointed his gun at Lundberg and his pharmacy co-owner, Lundberg didn't hesitate. He fired the shotgun once, hitting the man in the head and killing him. Police identified the man Monday as Alexander R. Mies, 27. (I'm glad he had time to access the shotgun; a holstered handgun is a more accessible weapon.) http://www.kansas.com/213/story/159523.html --- Georgia Group Appeals County Gun Ban: Georgia Carry is a gun rights organization that is on a mission to do away with conflicting and confusing local gun regulations. To that end, the organization asked Coweta County to repeal its ordinance banning guns in county parks. Coweta County refused and the organization sued. A Superior Court judge ruled in Coweta's favor, but Georgia Carry has appealed. The case is now in the hands of the Georgia Court of Appeals. A decision is expected in early 2008. (The Texas law signed by George W. Bush did not make it easier for Texans to obtain CHL's, it made it possible. There was no such thing as a CHL in Texas before that bill became law.) http://content.times-herald.com/300274720872797.bsp --- Few Guns Found On Utah College Campuses: ...But crime data obtained under the Clery Act, which requires all campuses to report crime statistics to the federal government, shows few incidents between 2001 and 2005 when weapons were found or used on campuses, and in those few incidents, rarely were students involved. No incident reported during the five-year period involved a student brandishing a gun in a threatening manner, and of the 23 incidents on Utah college campuses involving guns, seven involved loaded handguns while the rest involved BB guns or paint-ball guns. The other incidents involved weapons that ranged from butterfly knives to brass knuckles to nunchakus. No incidents involved a legally concealed weapon. http://www.sltrib.com/ci_6728404 --- The Hypocrisy Of Sylvester Stallone: The rumor that Sylvester Stallone was issued a CCW permit struck my interest as I had recently been made aware that he had attended a Los Angeles event sponsored by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The "Brady Bunch", as they are commonly referred to by gun-rights advocates, are one of the most well known organizations that are lobbying to take away our rights as lawful gun owners. I was also learning that Stallone had been quoted in the past saying some very anti-gun statements, even advocating door to door gun confiscations! I found all of this terribly hypocritical. http://blog.riflegear.com/articles/the-hypocrisy-of-sylvester-stallone.aspx --- IS BATFE Seeking A National Registration Database?: ...If Red's is permanently closed by ATF, they will have to turn over the last 20 years of Form 4473s - or about 40,000 gun purchase records. Red's is concerned about the possibility that ATF is using the combination of requiring a computerized system and putting stores like Red's out of business to create a de facto gun registration system. http://www.claytoncramer.com/weblog/2007_08_26_archive.html#8927161511740167830 Related Comments: http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2007/08/dealer_records.php --- OSHA Renews Alliance With NSSF, SAAMI: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has renewed its alliance with the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) and the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute (SAAMI). Through the alliance, OSHA, the NSSF and SAAMI are focused on providing member and non-member shooting ranges with free training resources to help enhance their employee safety programs including methods and procedures to minimize airborne pollutants and noise exposure. (Interesting timing, in light of OSHA's recent failed attempt that would have treated ammunition as explosives.) http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=NEWS_RELEASES&p_id=14417 --- Police Feel Wartime Pinch On Ammunition: The U.S. military's soaring demand for small-arms ammunition, fueled by two wars abroad, has left domestic police agencies less able to quickly replenish their supplies, leading some to conserve rounds by cutting back on weapons training, police officials said...The scarcity of ammunition has also driven up the cost, presenting police agencies and gun owners with another challenge. That problem has been compounded by a sharp increase in the price of copper and other metals, a surge that is a result of demand from booming economies in such nations as China and India. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/27/AR2007082701793.html?hpid=artslot --- Scotland Seeks Ban On Airguns: Ministers insisted last night they would pursue plans for a Scotland-wide ban on all air weapons despite condemnation from airgun enthusiasts and a warning from a senior police officer a ban would not prevent future tragedies. The SNP administration wants to ban all air weapons in Scotland and has started negotiations with the UK government to find ways of bringing this about. http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=1364272007 -- Stephen P. Wenger Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info .