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This sends a strong message to the Federal Government that Pennsylvania will not put up with increasing federal powers.
State Representative Sam Rohrer has introduced the “Firearms Freedom Act” (HB1988) for consideration in the state legislature. The bill is “An Act prohibiting certain firearms, hospital firearm accessories or ammunition from being subject to Federal law or Federal regulation.”:
“create the Pennsylvania firearms freedom act; to make certain findings regarding intrastate commerce; to prohibit federal regulation of firearms, ailment firearms accessories, symptoms and ammunition involved purely in intrastate commerce in this state; to provide for certain exceptions to federal regulation; and to establish certain manufacturing requirements.”
HB1988 currently has 48 additional co-sponsors, and according to FirearmsFreedomAct.com, is similar to bills recently enacted into law in both Montana and Tennessee.
While the bill seems to focus solely on federal gun regulations, it has far more to do with the 10th Amendment’s limit on the power of the federal government. It specifically states:
The regulation of intrastate commerce is vested in the states under the 9th and 10th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, particularly if not expressly preempted by federal law. Congress has not expressly preempted state regulation of intrastate commerce pertaining to the manufacture on an intrastate basis of firearms, firearms accessories, and ammunition.
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Karen hadn’t needed a handgun in 30 years.
That was back when the Fruita bookkeeper, rx now 66, pill worked alongside prisoners, buy riding back and forth daily from various hospitals in California as a deputy of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.
“I think everybody is a little more respectful when there’s a gun around, you know what I mean?” said Karen, who did not want her last name published.
Spurred earlier this year by what she called rumors of new restrictions looming from Washington, D.C., she bought a new .22-caliber handgun and surfed the Internet for local firearms safety classes.
Her new concealed weapons permit recently arrived in the mail.
“It’s not just a right, but a responsibility to train and know how to use it,” said Karen, who lives alone and keeps her gun in her purse. “You don’t just get a (CWP) because you can.”
While surveys suggest Mesa County residents feel safe in their neighborhoods, they’ve also armed themselves with concealed guns at a rate that has increased fourfold over five years.
In line with state and nationwide trends, yearly 2009 totals through Sept. 23 for concealed weapon permit applications to the Mesa County Sheriff’s Department stood at a record 1,033, according to department figures.
Of those, 873 permits had been approved or were awaiting a decision.
Colorado is on a pace to shatter last year’s record of 20,998 applications, the highest since the Legislature in 2004 set statewide standards for concealed handguns and put county sheriffs in charge of issuing permits.
Through June, the state’s sheriffs reported 16,000 applications filed.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if we had another 20,000 in the last six months,” said Don Christensen, executive director of the County Sheriffs of Colorado.
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– Don’t let your two U.S. Senators go along with his arrogance
It didn’t seem like such an unreasonable request. Before the Senate Finance Committee passes one of the most important pieces of legislation in our lifetime, page we (the American people) wanted to see two things:
* First, the actual language of the latest anti-gun ObamaCare bill.
* Second, a definitive Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reading of the cost of the legislation, based on its specific language.
But, incredibly, this simple request is too much for Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, who intends to force the committee to vote on the bill with nothing but a “quickie guesstimate” of the cost — a “guesstimate” which CBO will have to reach WITHOUT EVEN HAVING ACCESS TO THE ACTUAL LEGISLATION.
That’s right. The committee has virtually finished consideration of the health care bill — the most important in our lifetime — AND THERE IS STILL NO LEGISLATIVE LANGUAGE.
Shouldn’t we at least have a cost estimate that is based on what is actually in the bill? Yes, but a full CBO cost estimate would take two weeks — and this is inconsistent with efforts by liberal Democrats to cram this bill quickly down the throats of the American people.
Moreover, don’t you realize that “legislative language is very complex” and the American people are just too stupid to understand it.
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WASHINGTON, this web D.C. – The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will hear the case of McDonald v. City of Chicago, buy information pills and decide whether the right to keep and bear arms secured by the Second Amendment protects Americans from overreaching state and local governments. At issue is a 27-year-old Chicago law banning handguns, requiring the annual taxation of firearms, and otherwise interfering with the right of law-abiding individuals to keep guns at home for self-defense. The case was brought on behalf of four Chicago residents, the Second Amendment Foundation, and the Illinois State Rifle Association.
Last year, in the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms. However, as that case concerned the actions of the District of Columbia government, a federal entity, the high court was not called upon to decide whether the right bound states and local governments. Over the years, almost the entire Bill of Rights has been held to apply to state and local governments by operation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
“The freedoms we enjoy as Americans are secured to us against violation by all levels of government,” noted Alan Gura, of Gura & Possessky, PLLC, lead counsel for the McDonald plaintiffs. “State and local politicians should be on notice: the Second Amendment is a normal part of the Bill of Rights, and it is coming to your town.”
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Charles Babington of the Associated Press reported yesterday about the Senate Democratic leadership’s latest sleazy maneuver to pass the anti-gun health care bill. And this is contemptible even by their admittedly low standards:
White House and Democratic officials are quietly talking with key senators, hoping to craft a thread-the-needle strategy on health care with little or no help from Republicans. The officials are asking a handful of moderate Democrats to do something that might be hard to explain to voters: Cast a Senate vote that could be interpreted as favoring a bill that the lawmakers ultimately plan to oppose on final passage.
In other words, they are trying to convince the swing votes — Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor of Arkansas, perhaps Joe Lieberman of Connecticut — to “throw” their vote on a pivotal filibuster vote. Bottom line: they are being asked to side with the ObamaCare supporters when it comes to the all important “cloture” vote — which is the real hurdle that ObamaCare supporters must overcome if they are to pass the bill in the Senate.
The cloture vote determines whether a filibuster will continue or not, and it requires the support of 60 Senators. Siding with the ObamaCare supporters on the cloture vote would allow the “swing voters” to oppose the bill on final passage, where only 50 votes (plus the Vice-President) are needed.
Under this scenario, the moderate Democrats would then go back to their constituents and claim to have opposed the anti-gun health care bill because they voted against it on “final passage.” But the critical vote which will have determined the real outcome of ObamaCare will have been the cloture vote. They will claim that the cloture vote was only a “procedural vote.”
It is hard to imagine that anyone with an IQ over 50 would think anyone would swallow this scumbag trick.
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In just a few days, ambulance pro gun bills that were signed by Arizona Governor Brewer back in July of 2009 will become law.
The following are a few key pro-rights bills, click that you should be aware of, that will become effective after midnight on September 30, 2009. Restaurant Carry – CCW permit holders may carry concealed handguns in establishments that serve alcohol providing there is no signage prohibiting firearms and the person carrying the firearm does not consume alcohol. About:
AzCDL believes that the emphasis of gun laws should be on criminal misuse and that law-abiding citizens should be able to own and carry firearms unaffected by unnecessary laws or regulations. AzCDL was founded by a group of local activists who recognized that a sustained, coordinated, statewide effort was critical to protecting and expanding the rights of law-abiding gun owners. As a like-minded coalition of activists, the AzCDL founders were instrumental in the successful passage of the first major improvement to Arizona’s CCW (concealed carry) laws since they were instituted in 1994. Continue Reading ‘New Arizona Gun Laws Effective September 30, 2009′
One of the issues missing from the 2010 platform for conservatives, visit web libertarians and independents is how our authority is backed as the sovereign under our system of self-rule. In the U.S., search the government is not the sovereign, approved the people are the sovereign. As with all nations, the sovereign has a monopoly on all lethal force. This includes civilian oversight of the military, supervision of law enforcement, the right to self-defense, defense of another, and powers of citizen arrest.
More than a theory of interpretation, the second amendment’s words of art in well regulated militia meant every single adult be armed, since the concept of a national guard was not contemplated for another 130 years after the signing. In that new nation of self-rule, well regulated meant self-regulated. Today, United States Code recognizes the armed citizen as the unorganized militia, duly recognized and affirmed as not answering to the Commander-in-chief. U.S.C. Title 10, section 311.
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Korea will sell outdated M1 and carbine rifles used during the Korean War and the Vietnam War to the U.S. gun enthusiasts. They have long lost their value as firearms, except that reserve forces sometime use them.
The Defense Ministry’s "green" logistics planning division said it decided to sell about 87,000 M1 and some 35,000 carbine rifles to the U.S. by the end of the year. "Importers are very interested in them as many Americans want to buy them as curios for their collections."
The ministry estimated their expected sale prices at US$220 per M1 and more than $140 per carbine. Korea could earn more than $20 million from the first shipment of those rifles. In fact, the old M1 or carbine rifle is traded at more than $1,000 in some cases in the U.S., a military officer said.
The Army and the Navy will get rid of all their stockpiles of M1s, but the ministry expects to keep earning dollars as it still keeps about 640,000 carbines for the reserve forces, which could also be disposed of as the reserve forces’ equipment will be modernized by 2020.
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Cabela’s recently circulated a letter stating that if Governor Schwarzenegger doesn’t veto pending legislation in California, capsule Cabela’s will no longer sell ammunition to California customers. Cabela’s has no retail outlets in California. California Assembly Bill 962, which Schwarzenegger must veto by October 11, states that ammunition can only be sold “in a face-to-face transaction.” Cabella’s has been shipping to California customers via remote transactions (internet, phone, etc.)
A source at Cabela’s declined to say how much ammunition normally ships to California, but said they have “many good customers” there.
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Remington Arms Company, Inc. is acknowledging a milestone of an American classic, what is ed the Model 870 pump-action, in the September 24, 2009, edition of USA Today® with a full-page ad thanking America and the millions of Model 870 owners for making it possible to reach the 10,000,000th production mark. In honor of this historic achievement, Remington is also sponsoring the "10 Millionth Model 870 Shotgun" Sweepstakes.
With its beginnings 193 years ago, Remington is America’s oldest gunmaker and has proudly manufactured the Model 870 since its introduction in 1950 and every year since then. Although Remington introduced many variations of the Model 870 throughout the years to suit the specific needs of a wide variety of users including hunters, trap shooters, left-handers and youth as well as platforms designed for use by law enforcement agencies and military worldwide; the Model 870 has remained true to its original design. Gun owners everywhere appreciate the value and quality of the Model 870, making it the shotgun of choice in gun cabinets across the country.
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