Tenth Circuit Rules Against Wyoming: A federal appeals court in Denver has ruled against Wyoming in a lawsuit over a state law that seeks to allow people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence to regain their gun rights. A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled that the procedure spelled out in Wyoming law fails to expunge the criminal record of people convicted of domestic violence. The ruling is a victory for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The agency had informed Wyoming that if it persisted in using the state law, the federal government would no longer accept Wyoming concealed weapons permits as a substitute for instant background checks for gun purchases. Wyoming Attorney General Bruce Salzburg said Wednesday that he's unlikely to suggest that the state ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case... http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/08/28/news/wyoming/27-wyomings.txt Brady Bunch Applauds Decision: The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday upheld a federal trial court ruling blocking a Wyoming law that would allow convicted domestic violence abusers to possess firearms. The court in Wyoming v. United States, as the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence had urged in its amicus brief, prohibited Wyoming from implementing its law to rearm domestic violence abusers. The 10th Circuit ruling comes as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to consider a case in its upcoming term concerning domestic violence abusers' gun possession, United States v. Hayes. The Brady Center filed a brief in Hayes urging the Supreme Court to overturn a circuit court ruling that could require that the names of thousands of dangerous abusers be purged from the federal Brady background check system... http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/brady-center-hails-court-ruling/story.aspx?guid={14B6796C-78BC-4CDF-9B40-FAB5F6495056}&dist=hppr --- New York Congressman Charged for Assault on NRA Member: Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-Hurley, is due in Rosendale town court Sept. 9 to face a second-degree harassment charge after he allegedly swatted an NRA representative on the head at the Rosendale Street Fair in July... On July 19, Hinchey approached a rack of three guns that were locked and chained down and picked up a lever action Winchester 94 rifle, Lendvay said two days after the alleged incident. "My friend said to put the gun down, and said the chief of police requested that during the street festival, no one handle the guns," Lendvay said. "Mr. Hinchey kept looking at the gun as if my friends said nothing to him." Lendvay said his friend then asked Hinchey if he wanted to purchase raffle tickets for the guns, and Hinchey said he already purchased some. Lendvay said he told the congressman he knew he had not purchased any tickets... (Where I live, the charge would be assault, not harassment. I guess rank has its privileges.)) http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008808270323 --- Oops, Wrong House, Texas Version: Sheriff's deputies in Bastrop are investigating a fatal shooting that happened Tuesday when a man fatally shot another man he says was trying to break into his residence on John Craft Road near the city of Bastrop. A dispatcher said that Dillian Wilhelm shot James Nauer, of Bastrop, around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday when Nauer reportedly entered his house with a club. Nauer was critically injured and taken to the University Medical Center at Brackenridge where he was pronounced dead, according to the sheriff's office. The Bastrop County sheriff's office and the district attorney's office are investigating the case to determine if charges will be filed, investigators said. http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2008/08/27/red_rock_man_fatally_shoots_in.html --- Oops, Wrong House, Florida Version: As the intruder attempted to make his way farther into the Ponce Inlet house, Kenneth Nunnelley - a senior assistant attorney general - feared for the lives of his wife and children and shot the stranger in the stomach, police said Wednesday. Nunnelley, the lead prosecutor in the Florida Supreme Court for death penalty appeal cases including local murderers Troy Victorino, Jerone Hunter and Anthony Joseph Farina, was armed with a 9 mm Smith & Wesson handgun when 43-year-old Roman Nowak pushed his way into the house. No one in Nunnelley's family was hurt, police said, but Nowak was listed in critical condition at Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach on Wednesday... http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Local/newEAST01082808.htm --- Trojan-Horse Group Offers Hope to Democrats: Ask Democrats meeting in Denver this week what interest group they fear most and the answer, more often than not, is the National Rifle Association. The gun group's grass-roots organizing might and the passion of its members are legendary. To no one's surprise, the NRA is urging its members to help elect Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona to the presidency. But NRA officials are worried that Democratic nominee Barack Obama of Illinois could make some headway among gun owners this year, and they're blaming a little-known group run by Ray Schoenke, a former Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins lineman who now runs a 300-acre hunting farm on Maryland's Eastern Shore... http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=news-000002941681 An Example of AHSA Rhetoric: http://www.buffalonews.com/149/story/425029.html --- Will West Virginia Miners Vote Against RKBA?: Eight years ago, actor Charlton Heston fired up an overflow crowd of union coal miners in Beckley with a grim warning about Al Gore over Second Amendment rights. Much has changed since George W. Bush painted West Virginia red that year with the help of coal miners and applied a second coat four years later, says House Majority Whip Mike Caputo, D-Marion, an observer at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Caputo, an official of the United Mine Workers of America in Fairmont, is painfully aware of how union miners broke ranks and fled into the Bush camp in the 2000 presidential sweepstakes. Not only did miners hold suspicions that Gore opposed gun rights but posed a threat to the coal industry over his strident environmental beliefs... http://www.register-herald.com/local/local_story_240215134.html --- Lest We Forget: David Freddoso of NRO and best selling author of the book The Case Against Barack Obama has an article today that shows how Obama's "ingenius lack of specificity" helps him in obscuring his true positions on the issues. On gun rights, Freddoso points out that Obama stated on national television that the recent Heller decision was "in line with his own view" on gun rights. Nothing could be further from the truth...Obama's flip flops on guns is especially dizzying, but simply par for the course for Obama when it comes to projecting "misleading moderation" as Freddoso calls it. And unless the voter takes the time to dig into what Obama really thinks, they probably walk away with the opinion that Obama is not really the far left liberal he truly is... http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/08/obamas_lies_about_supporting_g.html Fredosso's NRO Commentary: In 2007, Senator Barack Obama stood up for a gun owner. He endorsed Chicago Alderman Dorothy Tillman in her Democratic primary. Not only was she a gun owner, but she had even pulled a gun on her colleagues during a contentious 1991 ward redistricting hearing, according to eyewitnesses. Tillman, best known for demanding to be served by black (not white) waiters, and for advocating reparations for slavery, narrowly lost her race despite Obama's support. It would be only a slight exaggeration to say that this was the strongest effort Obama has ever made to support gun rights... http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Mzk4ZjVkMGQ5ZjMzYTY4ZDIzMjMyZTYzMDJjMzlhZGQ= --- Gunvoter.org Needs You: What if there was a single web site where you could go to learn about the gun rights position of every candidate in every race in every state and federal election in the US? A site where you could find voting records, editorials, and discussion groups of knowledgeable, committed, gun rights activists? A site where local grassroots organizations from all over the country come together to share information and ideas for legislative and electoral success? That web site doesn't exist, but it could exist. It could be GunVoter.org. We're not there yet, but we're working on it. We have the structure in place. The software is operating smoothly. The technical bugs have been worked out and our user base is growing, but we need your help to turn GunVoter.org into the valuable resource that it has the potential to be... http://www.ohioccw.org/content/view/4049/67/ --- From AzCDL: Wonder how your elected State Representatives and/or Senators voted on key pro-rights bills? Well, wonder no longer. AzCDL has posted their voting records at: http://www.azcdl.org/html/voting_records.html 2008 is an election year! AzCDL sent surveys to every State legislative candidate on issues we believe are critical to our freedom. Many candidates are still hiding under their desks, but a number of them have responded. To see if your candidate responded, and their position on these issues, go here: http://www.azcdl.org/html/questionnaires.html . If your candidate has not responded, we urge you to contact them, ask them to show some integrity, and complete the AzCDL survey. Our position is that "no response" equals "No" to every question on our survey. These alerts are a project of the Arizona Citizens Defense League (AzCDL), an all volunteer, non-profit, non-partisan grassroots organization. Join today! AzCDL - Protecting Your Freedom http://www.azcdl.org/html/join_us_.html Copyright © 2008 Arizona Citizens Defense League, Inc., all rights reserved. -- Stephen P. Wenger, KE7QBY Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info .