Most Likely Voters Disagree with Obama on RKBA: A strong majority of likely voters disagree with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on firearms and self-defense related issues, according to a just-released ATI-News/Zogby poll. Brad O'Leary, president of ATI-News.com and author of the explosive new book, The Audacity of Deceit: Barack Obama's War on American Values, notes that opposition to Obama's stance on these issues is widespread across multiple demographics... http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/strong-majority-of-voters-disagree,524271.shtml --- McCain's Past Feuds: ...One of the biggest battles McCain has had was with the National Rifle Association. He sponsored legislation requiring background checks at guns shows and a bill to tighten campaign finance laws, including restrictions on issue ads by third-party groups in the waning days of an election... "We have had two disagreements with John McCain on gun shows and campaign finance. However, we like to examine everyone's record in its entirety," said Andrew Arulanandam, an NRA spokesman. "McCain has a solid pro-gun voting record. There are two disagreements. You contrast that with Barack Obama's record, which is a consistent record of voting against gun rights, hunting rights and even self defense," he said... http://www.nationaljournal.com/conventions/co_20080902_1482.php --- Brady Bunch Questions Sarah Palin: ... Most Americans, including President Bush, support banning military-style semiautomatic assault weapons. What is your position? Do you agree with Senator McCain that the "gun-show loophole"(allowing individuals to buy guns at a gun show with no background check from so-called "private sellers") should be closed? ... Do you agree with Senator McCain that background check approval records for gun purchases should be kept for 90 days instead of 24 hours, that ATF should be able to require gun stores to conduct inventory audits, and that crime gun trace information should be more widely available to law enforcement and the public? [See Senator McCain's statement on the Senate floor, 1-22-04...] http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/questions-sarah-palin/story.aspx?guid={FB32E159-6EBC-43C8-8A26-BE1AA4F7D00A}&dist=hppr --- Ohio Group Offers RKBA Scholarship: Ohioans For Concealed Carry is proud to announce a $1,000 scholarship to be awarded to a student enrolled in an Ohio college or university who is a current member in good standing of an active on-campus student organization devoted to gun rights! OFCC feels it is important to invest in the future of gun rights activism. Recently, we've seen many pro-gun student leaders posting in our forums, and they need our support. By helping them now, we help ourselves in the future... http://www.ohioccw.org/content/view/4052/67/ --- Good Point, Wayne: Residents of Vallejo, California, are facing a public safety crisis right now. The city's declared bankruptcy, and crime is rising. Police are leaving the force for better-paying jobs in other cities, and there's no real solution in sight. It wouldn't solve every problem facing the local leaders in Vallejo, but I think Solano County, where Vallejo is located, should treat concealed-carry as "Shall-Issue," rather than keeping the very restrictive policies that are currently in place. Residents of Vallejo have the same right to self-defense as every other American, and with the exodus of police officers, it's more important than ever that those citizens have the tools to defend themselves and their families. http://www.nranews.com/blogarticle.aspx?blogPostId=440 --- Oops, Wrong Car: Miami-Dade police said a woman opened fire on three men who were trying to break into a car in Miami Lakes early Thursday. The three men were trying to break into a car outside a home near Northwest 57th Avenue north of the Palmetto Expressway at about 1:30 a.m., police said. Miami-Dade police said they think the men were trying to steal the car's stereo... "These subjects came here to do a crime," said Bobby Williams of the Miami-Dade Police Department. "Once that crime was committed, the boyfriend came out to stop them or at least to talk to them. They attacked him, so she was in fear for her boyfriend's safety and herself." ... One of the three men had been shot in the chest and was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital. He was in critical condition, NBC 6's Steve Litz reported... http://www.nbc6.net/headlinesonly/17321118/detail.html --- Oops, Wrong Garage: Baltimore police say the owner of an auto repair shop fatally shot a man trying to rob his business. It happened around 6:30 p.m. Friday at Joe's Garage in northwest Baltimore. Police spokesman Sterling Clifford says this was the second time that owner Joseph Goldman has shot someone trying to rob his business, but he did not have further details about the first shooting. In Friday's incident, police say two men entered the business and displayed a handgun, but Goldman grabbed his own gun and fired at the men, hitting one. The injured man was taken to Sinai Hospital where police say he was pronounced dead. Police did not release that man's name. The second man fled and police are still looking for him. http://wjz.com/marylandwire/22.0.html?type=local&state=MD&category=n&filename=MD--Robbery-FatalShoo.xml --- Author Faces Decade in Prison: ... The main problem seems to be that Manso's Firearms Identification Card expired after the passage of new legislation in 1998 - previously, FIDs lasted a lifetime; now they expire every six years. The new law has caused endless problems in the Bay State, since authorities have not been very effective about informing gun owners of the change. As the Globe reports, "In July 2002, a State House committee found that thousands of Massachusetts residents were probably unaware that they needed to renew fire identification cards..." http://www.examiner.com/x-536-Civil-Liberties-Examiner~y2008m9d2-Author-faces-decade-in-prison-for-nonviolent-firearms-violation --- New York County Objects to Commemorative Rifle: Residents of Franklin County, New York are celebrating their bicentennial through the year 2008. But when an advertisement for a Franklin County bicentennial rifle showed up - some people were up in arms... "I think that it is exploiting our bicentennial celebration," Murtaugh said. "I feel that the replica they advertise in the newspaper could be anywhere-USA... to the blazing West to the Northeast..." http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=8931420 --- The Founders' Second Amendment: ... The book is a study of the period from 1768 to 1826, as it says on the book's flyleaf, "from the last years of British rule and the American Revolution through the adoption of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and the passing of the Founders' generation." It not only uses the words and actions of the "Founders' generation" to show why the Second Amendment came about, but to explain the meaning of the amendment and to make clear to whom the amendment applies and the level of importance the Founders attached to this "right..." http://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/books/268-the-founders-on-firearms --- Canadian Province Adds Restrictions: Quebec's new gun control legislation, Bill 9, comes into force today. The legislation is dubbed Anastasia's law in memory of 18-year-old Anastasia DeSousa, who was killed during the Sept. 2006 Dawson College shooting. The law bans the possession of firearms in schools and daycare centres and on public and school transportation...Under the new rules, teachers, gun club owners, and public transit and health care workers are also required to report suspicious behaviour relating to firearms, even if it contradicts doctor-patient or any other confidentiality. Further, there will be mandatory supervision of target practice where restricted and banned firearms are in use... http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gStTNj-Jtixj0K0qLVhU3Qaf8BzQ --- That Was Then, This Is Now: A photo from downtown Los Angeles, from 1952, shows us how much some things have changed. http://snipurl.com/3mipt -- Stephen P. Wenger, KE7QBY Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info .