Ohio Gun Owners to Protest Harassment: Ohioans For Concealed Carry plans to hold a demonstration walk Sept. 20 in Northwood in protest of what the organization says was poor treatment of one of its members by city police. The walk is scheduled for noon at Central Park. The group claims one of its members, Edwin Farbrother, was harassed by police officers July 5 while he was at a Woodville Road ice cream shop with his 18-year-old daughter. Police Chief Thomas Cairl was at the shop at the time with his family and called on-duty officers when he saw Mr. Farbrother wearing a holstered weapon the chief says was about "85 percent covered" by a vest. A press release issued by OFCC says police berated Mr. Farbrother for carrying a gun where children were present and told him he was "breaking the law by carrying his firearm openly..." http://presspublications.com/index.php/from-the-press/171-pages-of-the-press/612-gun-rights-group-plans-rally-in-northwood --- Utah Gun Owners Target Illegal Bans: A pro-gun rights group wants to stop what it says are "petty bureaucrats" from banning guns in their local jurisdictions - an act they say is against state law. The independent gun rights network Gun Owners of Utah is calling on its members to look for signs at places such as airports, buses and local parks banning guns. After a list of such signs is compiled, members from GOUtah! will ask local leaders to take the signs down and revise their rules and ordinances... http://www.sltrib.com/sports/ci_10460533 --- SDS vs. SCCC, Point, Counterpoint: ...The answer to gun violence is not more guns. The victims of Columbine and Virginia Tech were not killed because they were unarmed. They were killed because a few troubled young men slipped through the cracks of society and were driven to violence. Allowing students on campus to carry firearms would not make such troubled individuals less violent... ...SCCC advocates concealed carry on campus for personal protection by licensed adults over the age of 21. We have never stated that we do not intend to use our weapons, as the reason we carry them is in the extreme event that we would need to use them... http://www.thebreeze.org/2008/09-15/op1.html --- Texas Unsafe for Burglars: Last week there were two shootings, one in San Antonio and the other in Fort Worth, which resulted in the deaths of home intruders. In San Antonio, it was the second incident in less than five months. In April a homeowner killed an 18-year-old man breaking into his house. And in December, a Houston man shot to death a man who broke into his home in the middle of the night. However, although said shootings got lots of attention in those cities, the publicity was minimal compared to another Houston area case. Last November, Joe Horn, a 61-year-old Pasadena resident, shot to death two men who burglarized his neighbor's home -in broad daylight and even after a 911 dispatcher who had been called by Horn to report the burglary told him not to shoot the burglars because he was inside his home and not in any danger... http://lubbockonline.com/stories/091308/col_331726874.shtml --- Pre-Election Reading: ...The second was an important new book which recently came to my desk, "These Dogs Don't Hunt." Co-authored by Second Amendment Foundation founder Alan Gottlieb and noted gun writer Dave Workman, the book is a scathing and significant look at a number of prominent politicians and their anti-gun rights views. Well-written and carefully documented, it is particularly timely (and no doubt consciously timed for) a presidential election year. I will not attempt to delve into its contents in detail. Suffice it to say the book gives insightful coverage, as its subtitle suggests on "The Democrats' War on Guns." It should be must reading for any hunter, shooter or gun collector, because its pages contain some information which is as troubling as it is sobering...A good starting point for general understanding and perspective is Les Adams' "The Second Amendment Primer." Written by a lawyer with all of the meticulous research and background digging you would expect, it doesn't exactly merit "page turner" status but should be a "must read" for anyone seeking an in-depth understanding of how the Second Amendment fits into American history... http://www.goupstate.com/article/20080915/NEWS/809150304/1083/news01&title=Gun_ownership_a_hot_topic_as_election_nears --- Some Biden History: ... Biden's "Assault Weapons Ban" is one of the biggest frauds ever perpetrated on the American people. The bill bans the manufacture of guns with certain cosmetic features. But, because it doesn't ban the sale or possession of anything, it didn't take a single gun off the street. And, during the year before the ban, so many of the "dreaded AK-47" style semi-auto rifles were imported that the market was flooded, prices fell by over 50 percent, and hundreds of thousands of guns were sold. Ten years after the ban the guns were still readily available in any gun store in the country for less than they cost in 1993. And to pour salt in the wound Biden is currently sponsoring yet another ban on semi-auto firearms... http://newsbyus.com/index.php/article/1531 --- Sarah Palin - Hunter (and More): ...Sarah's dad Chuck Heath shot a grizzly bear three years ago and its skin adorns a sofa in Sarah's office. Now she is in the political bear pit after accepting the Republican Vice-Presidential nomination..."She started shooting a gun when she was eight and shot her first animal when she was ten. It was something small, possibly a rabbit. She is a really good shot. I taught her to shoot a moose and dress it, to fish and hunt for game. We raised our family to be able to support ourselves - 90 per cent of our meat and fish we get ourselves..." (Interesting article by a British reporter.) http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/the_real_american_idol/article1687959.ece --- Sarah Palin Revives Annie Oakley Movement: Interesting video clip about more women learning to hunt, inspired by the publicity about Sarah Palin. http://williamamos.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/sarah-palin-revives-annie-oakley-movement/ --- New York Club Offers Women-Only Course: ...The Genesee Conservation League held a basic pistol class for women only. The National Rifle Association sponsored the class. The goal was to teach women about gun safety and how to use a pistol the right way. Dave Jenkins, an NRA certified instructor says it's just as important for women to know how to handle a gun as it is men. "I've come up with the fact that women need to know self defense just as much as men do. Pistol safety in general is a good idea, because there are people out there that don't know how to handle a fire arm safely" Jenkins explains. This class has been taught before but the "women only" portion is new. http://www.13wham.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=7f40208b-24c6-4d9c-b809-e3718cbf02d9 --- How One Woman Became a Shooter: Last Saturday, I realized something: I have become a shooter. Not a very good shooter, but a shooter nonetheless... That was when I took the American Legion Shooting Sports class offered at the community building here in Siloam Springs. When Mom announced that I was to take the class, I balked. Yes, my father is a self-proclaimed "card-carrying member of the NRA. "Yes, I wholeheartedly support the protection of our Second Amendment rights. No I do not want to go and learn how to shoot guns. But go I did. I am deeply indebted to the Legionnaires who accepted the task of transforming several kids ignorant of firearms into capable, or at least competent, marksmen... http://www.nwanews.com/hl/Lifestyles/25534/ --- A LEOSA Success Story: An off-duty, out-of-town police officer may have saved the life of a Boise man in Orem this morning. After the man from Boise finished breakfast with his girlfriend at the IHOP on 850 W. University Parkway, he was attacked by a man with a scissors. Orem police say for no reason at all, a complete stranger approached the couple in the IHOP parking lot and started stabbing the man. He fell, and the attacker jumped on him and kept stabbing him in his face, neck and arm. It would've kept going, but a Chicago police officer in Utah for training was at the front door of the restaurant and saw it all happen. He tried to break it up, but the attacker went to stab the Boise man again. So, the Chicago officer shot him... http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=4253806 --- Canada Greens Play Catch-Up on Gun Bans: It's a rare day when journalists influence political platforms, all the more so when it's apparently by chance. That's what happened when a Star reporter this week asked Green Party Leader Elizabeth May about her gun control proposals. Why is the Green Party more tolerant of semi-automatic weapons than the Liberals? The Liberals, the reporter noted, want to ban them outright; the Greens want to ban them only in "urban centres," according to the Vision Green platform on their website. May was shocked. She insisted the Greens also want to ban them everywhere. And then she checked the website. "Oh, it does say in urban centres. I don't know why it says that," she said. "It's a mistake..." http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/498689 -- Stephen P. Wenger, KE7QBY Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info .