NRA Airs Ads in Three States: "Defend freedom," urges the National Rifle Association's new TV and radio ad campaign. "Defeat Obama." The powerful gun owners' lobby today announced it is firing away at the Democratic presidential candidate with a cache of TV and radio ads in New Mexico, Colorado, and Pennsylvania..."Hunter" claims Obama supports a "huge" new tax on guns and ammo, a claim based on a 1999 story in the Chicago Defender. It says Obama "voted to ban virtually all deer hunting ammunition" (a charge based on a 2005 Senate vote for a failed amendment from Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., which would have expanded the definition of "armor-piercing") and supports a "ban on the shotguns and rifles most of us use for hunting" (a reference to Obama saying in a 2004 Senate debate that President Bush should have renewed the Assault Weapons Ban.) http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/nra-firing-away.html http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/22/nra-ad-claims-obama-wants-to-ban-guns/ --- Mine Union to Protest NRA Filming: Union leaders say a National Rifle Association film crew tried to coerce West Virginia miners into bad-mouthing presidential hopeful Barack Obama on camera, and that the union plans a brief work stoppage in protest. The United Mine Workers will call for the stoppage at Consol's Blacksville No. 2 mine next week, union President Cecil Roberts said Monday at a news conference with representatives of Obama's West Virginia campaign in Charleston. Roberts said the union, which has endorsed Democrat Obama for president, is unhappy that Consol allowed the camera crew to ask miners leading questions about the candidate such as: "What do you think about losing your Second Amendment rights?" http://www.newsmax.com/politics/obama_mine_workers/2008/09/22/133295.html http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jMsnj1dSwcjNPJG3ngyGr7YEhhiAD93C0CB00 Related Article: http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/29438229.html --- CCRKBA to Biden: Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden was trying to convince rural Virginians the other day that he's a devoted gun owner who will not allow presidential nominee Barack Obama to "fool with my Beretta." "Senator Biden must think America's gun owners are dumber than rocks," said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. "Here is a man who has supported every restrictive gun control and gun ban law that ever landed on his desk, suddenly telling Virginia residents that he's a gun owner, and very pro-gun... http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ccrkba-biden-its-not-your/story.aspx?guid={257E3B1B-0757-4E7F-A8C4-8253C01FF7CB}&dist=hppr --- New DC Ordinance Still Infringes: Chris W. Cox [Executive Director, National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action]: "While a recent District proposal - passed only under the threat of congressional action - does make a few positive changes to its gun laws, it is still important for Congress to take strong action to restore the Second Amendment rights of District residents. The D.C. Council's second "emergency" bill makes clear that it still intends to impose new limits on D.C. residents. For example, while the new D.C. bill would allow possession of semi-automatic firearms, it also bans standard-capacity magazines commonly used by law-abiding citizens for self-protection throughout the country... http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/hotline/2008/09/dcs-proposed-gun-law-amendments-still.php --- Texas Students Press for Campus Carry: ...Texas passed legislation in 1995 to allow the right to carry with a concealed handgun license, but college campuses are an exception. Concealed carry is aimed to deter shootings and give people the ability to protect themselves from assault, rape, theft and other crimes. Eleven colleges permit students and faculty the right to carry across the United States, including every public university in Utah since fall 2006, a community college in Virginia for more than five years and Colorado State University for the past 13 years. No incidents involving gun violence, accidental discharge or gun theft have occurred on these campuses since legalizing concealed carry... http://media.www.utdmercury.com/media/storage/paper691/news/2008/09/22/Opinion/Aim-For.Concealed.Carry.Rights.On.Campus-3444019.shtml --- Oops, Wrong Passenger: A man who appeared to be from the Caucasus shot an alleged neo-Nazi while waiting for a metro train in St. Petersburg [Russia], according to a September 22, 2008 report by the Newsru.com web site. On September 21, paramedics brought a 22-year-old man to the hospital suffering from a gunshot wound to the stomach. He claimed that the shooter opened fire without provocation, but police sources say that metro video cameras clearly show five young people dressed like "members of informal groups" (a common euphemism for neo-Nazis) approach to the shooter and start to menace him. Not taking any chances in a city where neo-Nazis have murdered several minorities in recent years, the man fired into his assailants and then fled the scene. A report the same day from the local Fontaka,ru news web site reported that the young people may have already assaulted another man at the station when they approached the shooter. http://www.fsumonitor.com/stories/092208Russ3.shtml --- Gun Rights Policy Conference This Weekend in Phoenix: American gun rights leaders and hundreds of the nation's leading gun rights activists will gather in Phoenix, AZ Sept. 26-28 for the 2008 Gun Rights Policy Conference, at the Sheraton Crescent Hotel...This is the 23rd annual Gun Rights Policy Conference, sponsored jointly by the Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Other participating organizations include the National Rifle Association, Gun Owners of America and National Shooting Sports Foundation. Representatives from several grassroots groups, including the Arizona State Rifle Association, Firearms Coalition, Virginia Citizens Defense League, Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs, Illinois State Rifle Association, Canadian Institute for Legislative Action, Gun Owners Action League of Massachusetts, Buckeye Firearms Association and Students for Concealed Carry on Campus will also attend... (I'm under the impression that registration is still open.) http://www.evliving.com/2008/09/22/1320/gun-rights-policy-conference/ -- Stephen P. Wenger, KE7QBY Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info .