ATF Requiring Multiple Sales Reporting of Long Guns; Firearms Industry to File Suit

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by Larry Keane

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) – the trade association for America’s firearms industry – announced this week that it will file a lawsuit challenging the legal authority of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) under the Gun Control Act to compel 8,500 federally licensed firearms retailers in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas to report the sale of two or more semi-automatic rifles larger than .22 caliber and capable of accepting a detachable magazine that are purchased following an FBI background check by the same individual within five consecutive business days.

At the time Congress authorized the reporting of multiple sales of handguns it could have required it for the sale of long guns, but it did not. ATF is clearly exceeding its lawful authority under the Gun Control Act. Current ATF Acting Director Ken Melson himself has previously questioned ATF’s legal authority to impose this new requirement.

“While we encourage all retailers, not just those along the southwest border, to continue to cooperate with ATF and report any suspicious activity, this is the proverbial ‘slippery slope,’ ” said Lawrence G. Keane, NSSF Senior Vice President and General Counsel. “If ATF can require this record keeping and reporting requirement of law-abiding retailers in these four states simply by sending a letter demanding the information, than there is no record or report ATF can not require of any licensee, anywhere in the country for as long as ATF wants. They simply need to send a letter demanding it,” said Keane.

Demand Gunwalker Accountability

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by Jeff Knox

Most of the larger national media outlets are doing their best to ignore the Gunwalker scandal, but the word is dribbling out despite the best efforts of the Obama Administration and their lackeys in the mainstream press. Those who know about the outrageous project should be demanding answers and accountability.

The recent hearings in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. Darrel Issa (R-CA), showed clearly that agents of the ATF and other agencies, working with the approval from the highest levels of the Department of Justice – no more than one desk below Attorney General Eric Holder, if not Holder himself – actively conspired and facilitated the sale of some 2000 or more rifles to suspected illegal firearms traffickers and then intentionally allowed those guns to continue in illicit channels with no attempt to track, interdict, or disable them. ATF field agents who objected to the program were threatened and even fired. On one occasion an agent pointed out that people were being killed with guns supplied by the ATF and his manager responded with the callous cliché that if you want to make an omelet, you have to break a few eggs.

Mexican authorities report that some 300 Mexican nationals have been killed with these guns along with at least one and possibly two US law enforcement officers. Those are some pretty costly eggs.

Marine awarded for heroic actions taken as a CCW-licensed college student

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by Chad D. Baus

Military.com is reporting that Ensign Sean Barner, from Stone Mountain, Ga., was recently awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his actions on May 3, 2009.

Barner protected at least ten lives when he intervened and stopped two armed assailants during an attempted robbery and then provided immediate medical assistance by applying tourniquets to one of the gun shot wounded victims.

The incident made national headlines, and sparked calls for legalizing concealed carry on college campuses. A BuckeyeFirearms.org article about Barner’s actions, and lamenting the fact that Ohio’s college students are not allowed to exercise their Second Amendment rights, became one of the most-read articles in BFA history.

An Open Letter to Republican Presidential Primary Voters

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by Jeff Knox

Dear Republicans:

Could we please have a serious, pro-rights, pro-Constitution candidate for the office of President this time? For the past several elections you have passed over good, pro-rights, pro-Constitution candidates – or never come up with any – in favor of wishy-washy “moderates” with poll-based values and elastic principles. Make no mistake: the rights movement, and the wide array of activists concerned about constitutional liberty and restoration of the Republic, will not endorse, support, or actively work for any candidate who does not have a proven record of personal commitment to the Constitution and individual liberty.

Please do not be suckered into nominating another bland “moderate” based on the lie of “electability.” The question of a person’s electability can only be definitively answered in a flat-out run for office. Anything short of that is just speculation. Granted, some would-be candidates are clearly unelectable from the start. Others are obviously long shots. But the only way to get a candidate’s true measure is to give your support to the candidate – or candidates – who best represent your values and vision for the nation and do your best to push that – or those – candidate(s) to the top of the list in the primaries, straw polls, and other preliminary popularity contests. Don’t let the pundits, the experts, pragmatists, “moderates,” or the mainstream media convince you that you should throw your support behind a candidate who doesn’t reflect your values and vision based on a wholly manufactured concept of electability.

To understand the Electability Hoax you need to understand the arguments about electability.

Gun banners’ “Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence” fails to provide education on crime avoidance or gun safety

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by Gerard Valentino

The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence is still trying to convince people the Second Amendment has no value in today’s America. To that end, they are using a group called the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence as a cover to market anti-gun myths.

Oddly enough, the education spoken about by the CSGV does not help teach people, or specifically children, how to avoid becoming the victim of gun violence, or gun accidents.

The truth is the anti-gun leaders have always refused to support teaching gun safety education in schools because dead children are a key part of the emotional blackmail they use to push their agenda. That might sound harsh, but it is the only explanation for opposing a plan that has an excellent chance of working.

In the end, however, the anti-gun leader’s claim that they will support any program “that only saves one life,” is a lie, since they only support programs that infringe on the right to bear arms. Otherwise, they would jump on board with plans to educate children on gun safety.

Local NWTF chapter donates robotic deer to Division of Wildlife

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The Ironton Tribune is reporting that Ohio Division of Wildlife officials will be able to use new device to catch poachers for years to come, thanks to a recent donation from the Southern Hills Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation. The club donated about $2,000 to pay for a new “robo deer.”

From the article:

It looks like a deer and moves its head and tail like a deer, but appearances can be deceiving.

Just ask anyone who’s ever illegally fired a shot from an Ohio roadway at what seemed to be a live deer.

Wildlife authorities in Lawrence County are using a robotic deer as bait to catch illegal hunters in the act.

Remote-controlled motors move the head and tail of the device. Real deer hide and sometimes antlers make the device look authentic.

“We’re looking for the people who are predisposed to shooting from the roadway,” said Darin Abbott, Lawrence County’s wildlife officer for the Division of Wildlife. “We typically have someone in the woods operating it, sometimes filming the whole thing and then we’ll have officers hid somewhere in the area to make traffic stops.”

“It was needed,” Larry Kingrey, president of the local NWTF chapter, told The Tribune. “We firmly believe that everybody should follow the rules and everything and there are certainly folks that don’t.

“This helps Darin do his job. We had a few extra funds that were not entitled to anything so we said we’ll help with that.”

Obama Executive Order Cannot Legally Enact Rifle-Reporting Law

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Effort to Bypass Congress Is Illegitimate, Experts Say

Similar Laws Have Required Bills, Open Debate, Recorded Votes

News Media Asleep at the Wheel, Reporting Without Questioning

Firearm Owners Protection Act Bans Such Proposals Altogether

Congress Already Rejected Reporting for Long Guns

If this stands up, limits on power fall apart — Is that the true goal of Project Gunrunner?

The effort by the Obama administration to establish new gun law by executive order is not a legal method for enacting law in the United States, according to Alan Korwin, a national expert on gun law and author of nine books on the subject. Other experts agree that such a measure requires an act of Congress, and cannot legitimately be implemented by executive order, as Mr. Obama is attempting to do.

“We already have rapid-reporting requirements for multiple firearm sales, for handguns,” Mr. Korwin notes, “and this required Congress to draft and enact a statute, which became federal law 18 U.S.C. §923(g). It’s not legal to create another similar law for long guns without Congress,” Korwin says.

When that law was changed to allow reporting of multiple handgun sales to local authorities, in addition to federal officials, that also required federal law, which was passed as part of the Brady bill. Congress had an opportunity to include long guns in those reporting requirements, and rejected it. Congress is the only entity with legitimate power to change that, Korwin and other experts say.

According to knowledgeable observers, a firearms bill like this would not make it through Congress, since the House is firmly in pro-gun-rights Republican hands. This may explain Obama’s effort to sidestep Congress and attempt to enact a gun law by decree instead of due process and open transparent deliberation.

“Mr. Obama knows such a bill would have no chance of passage in the current Congress. His attempt to avoid Congress is an affront to all Americans, regardless of where they stand on the gun-rights issue,” said Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America. “Apparently the president is a fan of former Clinton advisor Paul Begala’s approach to government: “Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kinda cool!”

A president who attempts to pass laws on his own is dangerous to the nation.

SAF Wins Injunction V. Chicago Gun Range Ban

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In a 3-0 ruling issued last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has reversed a lower court ruling and ordered that court to issue a preliminary injunction against the City of Chicago on behalf of the Second Amendment Foundation that prevents the city from banning gun ranges inside city limits.

Joining SAF in the original lawsuit were Action Target, Inc., the Illinois State Rifle Association and three Chicago residents, Rhonda Ezell, William Hespen and Joseph Brown. Their attempts to obtain a temporary restraining order against the gun range ban were twice rejected by the district court. The Appeals Court ruling is severely critical of the lower court’s ruling.

“This is a significant victory that could have strong implications well beyond the Chicago city limits,” said SAF Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “The court is making it clear that cities cannot adopt firearms ordinances that are so deliberately restrictive that they make it impossible for citizens to exercise their rights under the Second Amendment.”

Col. Grossman Returns! Bulletproof your mind! Prepare yourself to survive!

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WARNING: This intense, all-day class deals bluntly and graphically with real-world violence and lethal self-defense. We recommend this workshop for adults and mature teens ONLY. It will do for your mind and spirit what body armor does for your torso.

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