Obama Reveals Ban Plans: "As president, Barack Obama would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the illegal arms trade. Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals who shouldn't have them. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent, as such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets." (This plank is about three-fourths of the way down the page.) http://origin.barackobama.com/issues/urbanpolicy/ --- CCRKBA Calls for Senate Vote: The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is today calling on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to allow a House-approved bill on the District of Columbia's gun law to face an immediate Senate vote. "Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and 46 of her colleagues have asked Sen. Reid to do this before the end of the 110th Congress," noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, "but we think this vote needs to occur before the Nov. 4 election. It should be openly debated and subjected to a roll call vote. "Senator Reid has provided cover to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the past on a gun vote," he noted, "and that's got to stop right now. Particularly, Sen. Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, need to cast an on-the-record vote - and I don't mean 'present' - on a gun rights bill..." http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ccrkba-urges-sen-reid-allow/story.aspx?guid={3D878705-AF03-4EA8-8208-E1D38455FB66}&dist=hppr --- NRA Disputes FactChecks Impartiality: ...There's another possible explanation behind FactCheck's positions. Just last year, FactCheck's primary funding source, the Annenberg Foundation, also gave $50,000 to the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence for "efforts to reduce gun violence by educating the public and by enacting and enforcing regulations governing the gun industry." Annenberg made a similar grant for $100,000 in 2005. http://www.nraila.org/ Related Articles: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,427347,00.html http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MmQ4ZTRiZGNkMTIwNTczODI5NjZlZDE0MjMyNDcxNDA= --- That Familiar Refrain: "We make it too easy for dangerous people to get dangerous weapons," Helmke said. "There are only a few national gun control laws on the books, and even those have loopholes. This leads to senseless gun violence devastating the lives of tens of thousands. We know we will have a partner in Bob Roggio in fighting for sensible gun laws to protect you, your family and your community." http://www.bradycampaign.org/media/release.php?release=1021 --- NYC Pays for Security Camera for Virginian Gun Store: New York City will pay to install a better security camera system in a Virginia gun store that will make other changes to its sales practices, resolving a lawsuit the city filed two years ago. The city will pay for buy a computer log for The Bob Moates Sport Shop of Midlothian, Va., that will alert sales clerks when a person attempting to buy a gun has made previous purchases of weapons linked to crime. The store will buy its own equipment to help spot fake IDs. Both sides said they were happy with the resolution... http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=723265 --- Georgia Sheriff Testifies Weapon Ban Confusing: Oconee County sheriff's deputies are hard-pressed to decide whether they're dealing with a criminal when they get a call that someone is carrying a concealed weapon where they shouldn't be, Sheriff Scott Berry said Tuesday. The state's ban on firearms at public gatherings is too ambiguous, Berry told a panel of state senators conducting a wholesale review of the state's gun laws... http://onlineathens.com/stories/092408/new_336041973.shtml Related Article: http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2008/09/23/georgia_gun_laws.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13 --- Illinois County CCW Proposal Appears to Fizzle: The end work of a group charged with drafting a resolution to give county residents the concealed carry rights passed a proposal that probably won't do much to that effect. The Winnebago County Board's concealed carry subcommittee unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday night that essentially allows the sheriff to hire auxiliary deputies. But that's a power the sheriff already has according to state statute. The key difference, committee chairman Tom Owens said, is"encouraging him to utilize that to the fullest extent that he can." Still, the practical result won't give residents who want to carry firearms in the county what most probably believe they would get if a concealed carry resolution passed... http://www.rrstar.com/communities/x121728302/Winnebago-County-Sheriff-upset-over-gun-plan --- Pennsylvania Woman Seeks Return of Carry Permit: Officials in Pennsylvania have revoked a woman's concealed-weapons permit because other parents complained that she was carrying her loaded handgun at her daughter's soccer games. Meleanie Hain said she's fighting the revocation by the Lebanon County sheriff. Hain lost the permit and got a warning from local soccer officials after a game on Sept. 11. Sheriff Michael DeLeo said openly carrying a weapon to a youth soccer match shows a lack of judgment. Hain told the Lebanon Daily News she has always openly carried a firearm without any problems in the past. And her lawyer, Robert Magee, said that while Pennsylvania requires a permit for a concealed firearm, it doesn't require a license to carry one openly except in Philadelphia. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26872812/ --- Oops, Wrong Store: A clerk at a 7-Eleven stood up to a robber, police said, and shot him dead. An 18-year-old man was attempting to rob the convenience store near East 27th Street and Van Brunt Boulevard at gunpoint when one of the two clerks in the store pulled out his own gun and shot the man, police said. hen officers arrived at the store, which is across the street from a police station, they found the teen dead behind the counter, shot once in the neck... http://www.kctv5.com/news/17544862/detail.html#- --- Suspicions Confirmed: Regarding my comment that I doubted that the California sporting goods store that lost about a dozen handguns in a robbery allows its employees to be armed, a list member replies: "I am a former employee of Turners in Orange. Turners prohibits store employees from carrying firearms at work even if you have a valid CCW for the state. For being a gun store that advocates second amendment rights it did a good job of keeping that right from its employees." --- Finland Could Ban Privately Owned Handguns: Finland's prime minister has called for gun laws to be tightened after a school shooting that left 11 people dead. Matti Vanhanen said Finland should consider banning private handguns. On Tuesday Matti Juhani Saari shot nine students and a teacher at a college in the western town of Kauhajoki, before turning his gun on himself. He had been questioned by police a day earlier after posting on the internet a video clip of himself at a shooting range, but was not detained... http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/97654.php http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gGJMd71ugtSNgSqJF0u97Se2oNGAD93D08AG0 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/world/europe/25briefs-APLEDGETOTIG_BRF.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin -- Stephen P. Wenger, KE7QBY Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info .