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Earlier today, adiposity Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) offered an amendment to the 2010 Transportation-Housing & Urban Development Appropriations bill.
Sen. Wicker’s amendment will allow law-abiding gun owners to safely and legally transport firearms when they travel on Amtrak. A nearly identical amendment, also offered by Sen. Wicker, passed the Senate in April by a vote of 63-35.
Current Amtrak regulations prohibit firearms in both checked and carry-on baggage. Sportsmen who wish to use an Amtrak train for a hunting trip, therefore, cannot include a shotgun even in their checked luggage.
Likewise, travelers who have a permit to carry a concealed firearm cannot include a self-defense firearm in their checked luggage, even if they are allowed to carry in both the states of origin and destination.
But if such travelers were to take the trip by air, they could check a gun onto the aircraft by simply declaring the firearm and transporting it in a prescribed manner.
Of course, very few people use Amtrak — and many question why that entity receives any tax payer money.
Regardless, a transportation entity that receives billions of federal taxpayer dollars should not be allowed to prevent law-abiding citizens from hunting or defending themselves when they travel on vacation or personal business.
Sen. Wicker’s amendment prohibits any federal taxpayer funding of Amtrak if it does not allow gun owners to transport firearms on trains in a manner similar to that of airlines.
Continue Reading ‘Sen. Wicker Amendment Will Protect Gun Rights of Amtrak Travelers’
Amtrak would lose its federal subsidies if it doesn’t put a system
in place by early next year to check and track firearms so that
passengers can legally put the weapons in their checked baggage, the
Senate voted Wednesday.
One senator says the measure "is going to put a severe burden" on Amtrak.
The measure, an amendment to the transportation and housing appropriations bill, passed 68-30.
The House version of the bill, passed in July, does not include the
provision, so further steps would be needed for it to reach President
Obama’s desk.
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Continue Reading ‘Senate passes measure to allow gun transport on Amtrak’
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2009. Continue Reading ‘Firearms sales prove to be boon for GunBroker.com’
Time for the Final Push to stop Customs Pocket Knife Grab. We need you to write NOW! BUT, website not all of you…
We have a targeted list of leaders of the House committees that will be involved in the Conference Committee that will decide if AMENDMENT 1447 is included in the final bill. We need you to write ONLY if you are from their state, OR if you travel to their states for work or recreation (hunting, fishing, camping, etc.). In other words, to get their attention, you either need to be a constituent, or someone who supports their constituents with your money spent there.
The states are:
California
Illinois
Kentucky
New YorkNorth Carolina
Michigan
Texas
Wisconsin Continue Reading ‘Pocket Knife Grab’
Every major health care bill being considered in Congress would require many (if not most) Americans to be covered by insurance policies written by the Obama administration — so-called ObamaCare.
Among other things, ObamaCare will almost certainly require, by regulation, that all gun-related medical data be fed into a federal health database — pursuant to a $20 billion program Obama insisted be included in the $787 billion stimulus bill.
So, as a gun owner who doesn’t want this data to be trolled by the BATFE from a federal database, you might say:
* "I’m not going to buy an ObamaCare policy."
or
* "I’m going to buy the type of insurance that I want to buy."
Well, anti-gun Democrat Max Baucus (D-MT) has a question for you: "How would you like to pay a $3,800 a year fine?"
Continue Reading ‘Baucus Health Care Draft to Fine Reluctant Gun Owners up to $3,800′
Four years after Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on the City of New Orleans, decease leaving anarchy in its wake, ambulance the Department of Justice is reportedly putting on a full court press investigation of the police in that city, story with the main focus being on two shooting incidents that left three people dead. Continue Reading ‘Feds investigate NOPD four years after Katrina’
Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. shares rose sharply Thursday as the
pistol maker’s quarterly earnings beat analysts’ estimates that were
based on expectations that an "Obama-led frenzy" of demand for firearms
would start dissolving.
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Continue Reading ‘"Obama-led frenzy" of demand for firearms not dissolving’
Is this only the beginning? Let’s hope not!
Borrowing from President Barack Obama’s "Cash
for Clunkers" program, local gun maker Sig Sauer is offering cash
rebates to shooters who trade in their old guns and buy new Sigs.Calling
the rebate program, "Cash for Your KLUNKER Handgun," Sig Sauer is
offering the $200 rebates "to help stimulate the economy," said Bud
Fini, Sig Sauer’s vice president of marketing. "It’s a spin-off of the
government program," he said. "The idea is to get some of the old,
tired guns off the marketplace."To be
eligible, participants must purchase a new Sig Sauer P220, P226, P229,
1911, or a Sig 556 pistol or rifle, through Nov. 30. A copy of the gun
dealer’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Form 4473
and sales receipt must be mailed with the customer’s "klunker" gun to
Sig’s Exeter headquarters and the $200 checks will be mailed in return,
Fini said. Old pistols and revolvers qualify, can be from any
manufacturer and must be operational and "free from cracks in the frame
or other key components." The trade-ins must be semi-automatics larger
than 9mm, or revolvers larger than .38 caliber. -[source]
Continue Reading ‘Sig Sauer offers 'Cash Your KLUNKER Handgun'’
A Pennsylvania
history buff who recreates firearms from old wars accidentally fired a
2-pound cannonball through the wall of his neighbor’s home in Uniontown, Pa.
William Maser,
54, fired a cannonball Wednesday evening outside his home in Georges
Township that ricocheted and hit a house 400 yards away. The
cannonball, about two inches in diameter, smashed through a window and
a wall before landing in a closet. Authorities said nobody was hurt.
Continue Reading ‘Man fires cannon into neighbors home’
At Herb Bauer Sporting Goods in Fresno, Barry Bauer is preparing for a gun buy-back program of his own.
"This is the commercial version of the city’s version," Barry Bauer, owner, said.
It was a version that touted the idea of getting a handle on crime by giving criminals gift cards.
"In terms of, is it going to stop any crimes, are the bad guys gonna have guns? Of course the bad guys are still gonna have guns. It’s only the honest citizens that are probably turning them in," Bauer said.
Bauer says taking in used guns is something he’s done for years.
Continue Reading ‘Herb Bauer Announces Gun Buy-Back Program, Fresno Police Not Happy’
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