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 The fear of crime has many seniors feeling the need to protect themselves. That means to some to buy guns. And two elderly gun owners say they are not afraid to use them. They say having a gun is the only way they feel safe anymore.
A 75-year-old widow in Hoover has a handgun in her car and she keeps a double barrel shotgun by her bed. Each one of her guns is loaded.
Sixty-five year old Willie Biggs of Birmingham keeps a shotgun in his home to protect himself and his wife.
Both are prepared if needed.
The widow says, “If someone tries to bother me I don’t expect to let them do it without a fight. If they are bothering me, if I am in fear of my life then I feel like I’ve got them the reason to shot somebody.”
Willie Biggs says, “As you listen to the media and read the papers, there’s so much happening around you. You never know.”
Both of them say now more than ever before, it’s extremely important to have a gun.
They say it’s scary knowing that they may have to shoot a robber or a burglar, but they will do it.-[source]
 U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) today led a bipartisan group of Senators including Senators Mike Enzi (R-WY), sildenafil Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), and others in sending a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, urging her to reverse the State Department’s reported decision to ban the sale of surplus antique rifles from South Korea to qualified buyers in the United States. The letter was also sent to Attorney General Eric Holder and Acting Director Kenneth Melson of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE).
Recent media reports indicate the Obama Administration inked a deal with the South Korean government to bring home nearly one million American-made WWII-era surplus military rifles. However, the State Department stepped in at the last minute and arbitrarily blocked the agreement. The rifles in question are the iconic M1 Garand and M1 Carbine rifles, which are popular among collectors and military historians. The letter to Secretary Clinton stresses that the sale poses no risk to Americans and the department’s decision violates law-abiding citizens’ constitutional right to purchase firearms for legitimate purposes. -[source]
 Kentucky state law doesn’t ban students from carrying concealed weapons on UK’s campus but the university does and after the recent crime wave, many are questioning whether that policy should be changed.
“To ban personal protection of arms, when they’re not here to protect us is a problem,” says David Burnett with the organization, Students for Concealed Carry on Campus.
Burnett says students at UK are extremely vulnerable to criminals.
“There’s no secure boundaries. There’s no checkpoints. There’s no guards. We have a police force but on their better days there’s 50 officers patrolling 700 acres of campus, so that’s one officer for every seven football fields. So its not hard if you’re a criminal to try to find a target thats isolated,” explains Burnett.-[source]
While the City of Chicago is currently in federal court stubbornly defending its new gun ordinance, data reveals that the city’s United Center Park is the most dangerous neighborhood in the country, a situation that reeks of hypocrisy, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.
“The city’s new gun ordinance is deliberately designed to discourage citizens from obtaining handguns for personal protection,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “yet today’s news reveals citizens in at least one Windy City neighborhood are in desperate need of the training and tools to defend themselves. It is time for Chicago residents to demand that the city amend or abolish its new gun ordinance, and stop defending it in federal court.”
Gottlieb was referring to the city’s defense against a lawsuit filed by the Second Amendment Foundation – CCRKBA’s sister organization – that seeks to undo the new ordinance, which requires training and time on a gun range, but prohibits the operation of gun ranges in the city.
The report broadcast by the city’s NBC affiliate said that “anyone walking down Lake Street between Damen and Western has a 1 in 4 chance of being a victim of a crime.”-[source]
Happy-hour beers were going for $5 at Past Perfect, search a cavernous bar just off this city’s strip of honky-tonks and tourist shops when Adam Ringenberg walked in with a loaded 9-millimeter pistol in the front pocket of his gray slacks.
Mr. Ringenberg, for sale a technology consultant, see is one of the state’s nearly 300,000 handgun permit holders who have recently seen their rights greatly expanded by a new law — one of the nation’s first — that allows them to carry loaded firearms into bars and restaurants that serve alcohol.
“If someone’s sticking a gun in my face, I’m not relying on their charity to keep me alive,” said Mr. Ringenberg, 30, who said he carries the gun for personal protection when he is not at work.-[source]
 While much of the mainstream media ignored the Korean M1 story, nurse there is still hope for collectors that the rifles, which were blocked for importation to the United States, could still return home.
Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Rep. Joe Donnelly (D-IN) have sponsored a bill “to amend the Arms Export Control Act to provide that certain firearms listed as curios or relics may be imported into the United States by a licensed importer without obtaining authorization from the Department of State or the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.”
In a statement Rep. Lummins said:
“The State Department does not have the authority to deny legal firearms to law-abiding citizens. These
firearms have historical value, are legal, and their importation is already highly regulated by the Justice
Department.
There is no basis for State Department involvement. This is not about diplomacy or foreign policy — this is a domestic issue and a Second Amendment issue.” In a statement Rep. Donnelly said:
“The right of law-abiding American citizens to import these historical firearms should not be complicated with unnecessary over-regulation. This common-sense change simply lets the Justice Department do its job and removes the State Department from the process.”
The bill was introduced on September 29, 2010, and referred to committee, which is the first step in the
legislative process. We’ll be sure to watch for updates on this bill.-[source]
Many Americans recently lamented the six-month anniversary of ObamaCare, a law that is guaranteed to result in tremendous violations of our gun rights.
How do we know that? We know because of what the feds have already been doing with legislation that George Bush signed two years ago.
With the passage of the Veterans Disarmament Act in 2008, Congress granted the Veterans Administration (VA) the authority to computerize the medical records of veterans and ship them to the FBI. Any diagnosis that could be interpreted as “might be a danger to self or others” results in the vet being denied his right to keep and bear arms. People with concealed carry permits are denied renewals. Customers at gun stores are turned down.
In one recent case, a GOA member visited a VA hospital for a couple of days and soon after returning home, state authorities knocked on the door and confiscated his guns.
There is a campaign at the VA to come in and get the “treatment you deserve.” TV ads to this effect have been run. Obama has announced new regulations to make it easier for war vets to get help.
Warning: With help like this, you don’t need enemies.
There are three questions that you should not answer yes to:
1. Have you felt stressed?
2. Have you felt threatened?
3. Do you feel like doing harm to someone?-[source]
Here’s the thing about gun control: it doesn’t work. The megalomaniac who robs a bank, the emotionally disturbed loner who walks into a school and attempts to murder his classmates, and the drug dealer who brings a gun with him in case his clients are unwilling to pay up- none of these individuals have any regard for human life. They have even less regard for the restrictions that ambitious, well-intentioned legislators put on guns. Coincidently, they could all be stopped dead in their tracks (sorry, bad pun) if those same legislators had allowed law-abiding citizens to carry a concealed weapon.
For reasons I don’t completely understand, there is a certain overwhelming antipathy for gun rights on the American Left. Liberalism (before it became synonymous with overzealous egalitarianism and anti-western nihilism) came to us from the Latin “liberalis” meaning “of freedom.” The main objective of gun rights, as found in the Second Amendment, is to protect the people and their “freedoms” from overeager governments. The Second Amendment is a tool to empower the people, though I suppose when these welfare state liberals say “power to the people,” what they really mean is food stamps and abortions for everyone.
One only need look to the Left’s favorite continent, Europe, to see where gun laws have failed miserably and where a lack of gun restrictions has worked rather well.-[source]
Texas already lets lawmakers bring guns into the Capitol. And the governor sometimes jogs with a loaded pistol. But should people be allowed to carry concealed weapons onto college campuses?
Gun advocates argue that doing so could help put a quick end to threats like the one posed by a University of Texas student who fired several rounds from an assault rifle Tuesday before killing himself.
Under current law, college buildings in Texas are gun-free zones. But that did not stop Colton Tooley from darting along a street near the university’s clock tower Tuesday, shooting off an AK-47. He then entered a library and shot himself. No one else was hurt.-[source]
Don’t like being taxed to pay for wasteful government programs? Want to ensure your Second Amendment rights aren’t infringed upon? Willing to attend rallies to peacefully and legally demonstrate how important these issues are to you?
Then you — yes, you! — just might be a “terrorist.”
According to bulletins issued to the Pennsylvania Office of Homeland Security in April and June by the Institute of Terrorism Research and Response, anti-tax and Second Amendment rallies staged in Harrisburg this year warranted “terrorism-alert” warnings.-[source]
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