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Disarming Elderly Next ‘Gun Control’ Push

With the 85-and-older population growing faster than any group in the country, thumb gun ownership among the very old is increasingly a concern of adult children, visit web who worry that elderly parents will commit suicide or shoot someone they mistake for an intruder.-[source]

Homeowner Shoots, Kills Bear

Cordillera homeowner shot and killed an “aggressive” bear Saturday after it had repeatedly broken into the person’s home, wildlife officials said.

The bear entered the home twice Saturday and was chased off by the homeowner both times, said Randy Hampton, of the Colorado Division of Wildlife. When it returned a third time, the homeowner shot and killed it, Hampton said.

“We’ve determined it was a justified situation,” Hampton said. “If a homeowner is defending themselves and they feel threatened, they have every right to shoot and aggressive animal, bear or otherwise.”-[source]

Irish Gun Owners Can Now Shoot Intruders

Irish homeowners can now legally use guns to defend themselves if their homes are attacked under new legislation.

The new home defense bill has moved the balance of rights back to the house owner if his home is broken into “where it should always have been”, link say top Irish police.

The police association of superintendents and inspectors, treatment the AGSI, sildenafil stated that “the current situation, which legally demands a house owner retreat from an intruder, was intolerable”.

The new bill was published by Justice Minister Dermot Ahern yesterday. Under the bill homeowners will be allowed to use “reasonable” force against intruders to defend themselves, others or their property. This includes lethal force, depending on the circumstances.-[source]

Fewer Cops, Citizens Should Arm Themselves

Plunging government revenues may have the unintended consequence – so far as tax-and-spend (and spend some more) public officials are concerned – of reminding people that we are ultimately responsible for our own safety.

The pie plate is empty and inevitable cutbacks in important public services, physician including law enforcement, are on the horizon. It is already happening in Oakland, CA where the police chief has announced that officers will no longer respond to a broad list of crimes, if department layoffs go as planned.

What’s a citizen to do? Perhaps they will follow the advice of Ashtabula County, OH Judge Alfred Mackey and Hudspeth County, TX Sheriff Arvin West. In the past few months, both have advised their neighbors to arm themselves.

Said the judge, according to a report on WKYC back in April, “Be very careful, be vigilant, get in touch with your neighbors, because we’re going to have to look after each other.”-[source]

Federal Suit Over Nevada’s State Parks Gun Ban

A Colorado legal foundation has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Nevada’s law that generally bans the possession of loaded guns in state parks.

Attorneys for the Mountain States Legal Foundation in Denver, along with Elko attorney Robert Salyer, filed suit in U.S. District Court for Nevada this week in behalf of Al Baker, an Idaho outdoorsman who said he was threatened with six months’ jail time if he fired his gun in Nevada state parks — even in self defense.

“The Supreme Court’s ruling that the Second Amendment applies to the states via the 14th Amendment makes it clear that the Nevada law is unconstitutional and must be stricken,” William Perry Pendley, president of the Mountain States Legal Foundation, said in a statement announcing the lawsuit.

A spokesman for the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, parent agency of the Nevada Division of State Parks, said the agency hadn’t seen the suit and had no immediate comment on it. State parks in the Las Vegas area are the Valley of Fire, Spring Mountain Ranch and Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort.

The Mountain States Legal Foundations says it is a nonprofit, public interest law firm dedicated to individual liberty, the right to own and use property, limited and ethical government and economic freedom.

In announcing the Idaho lawsuit, Pendley cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 28 ruling striking down a Chicago ordinance banning handgun ownership and finding “the right to keep and bear arms [is] among those fundamental rights necessary to our system of ordered liberty.”-[source]

Washington Post to publish info of national security nature.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released a warning seemingly aimed at a Washington Post article (to be released July 19th) which would provide an interactive map of government facilities, buy more about contractors and other entities involved in Top Secret operations, this site as well as their relationships to each other, cure pushing the bounds of intelligence reporting. The intelligence agency seems concerned. – [source]

Second Amendment Infringed On By Gov’t.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago upheld an individual’s right to privately own a handgun in Chicago. This decision reflected a similar ruling two years ago when the court struck down a handgun ban in the District of Columbia.

However, the McDonald decision effectively guaranteed the constitutional right to own a firearm to everyone in the United States (most already have that right even though they may not know it). As a result, the court has opened the door to additional constitutional challenges to gun control.

Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito said, “We have made it clear that bans on handguns for felons and the mentally ill are permissible; so, too, are laws barring the carrying of handguns near schools, in government buildings and laws that impose conditions on the commercial sale of arms.”

Even more striking was Justice Alito’s comment that the Second Amendment was just as valid as all the rest of the Constitution’s provisions. That single remark alone was worth the wait of the lengthy court case.

Perhaps the one point that could be argued differently was his comment on “the commercial sale of arms.”

If Justice Alito is sincere in his opinion of the Second Amendment, then maybe it’s time the NRA or some other pro-gun organization brought suit to repeal the mandatory requirements of ATF Form 4473, the federal form an individual must complete prior to the purchasing of a firearm. This form is primarily an interstate commerce requirement between those involved in the manufacture, transport and sale of firearms. It has been surreptitiously extended to include the purchase of firearms by private individuals.

I cannot think of another constitutional provision within the Bill of Rights that first requires a private citizen to submit to the federal government some kind of required form prior to exercising a constitutionally guaranteed right.-[source]

Is Harry Reid Pro-Gun Or Anti-Gun?

You Decide!
Nevada Senator Harry Reid claims to be a defender of the Second Amendment. Is that really the case? You decide. Here is a list of votes he has cast over the past twenty years in the U.S. Senate:

1. June 28, 1991—Voted for a 5 day waiting period for handgun purchases

2. November 19, 1993—Voted to eliminate the five-year sunset in the Brady Bill’s five day waiting period, which would have made the waiting period permanent
3. November 19, 1993—Voted to end a filibuster led by pro-gun Senators against the Brady Bill

4. November 20, 1993—Voted for the Brady Bill, which imposed a 5-day waiting period before purchasing a handgun
5. August 25, 1994—Voted to end a filibuster led by pro-gun Senators against the Clinton Crime Bill, which contained the ban on many semi-automatic firearms (the so-called “assualt weapons ban….

42. HARRY REID WILL CONTINUE TO VOTE AGAINST GUNS UNTIL HE IS DEFEATED!-[source]

SAF SUES NEW YORK’S CCW REG’S.

The Second Amendment Foundation has filed a federal lawsuit against Westchester County, visit web New York and its handgun permit licensing officers, seeking a permanent injunction against enforcement of a state law that allows carry licenses to be denied because applicants cannot show “good cause.”

SAF is joined in the lawsuit by Alan Kachalsky and Christina Nikolov, both Westchester County residents whose permit applications were denied. Kachalsky’s denial was because he could not “demonstrate a need for self protection distinguishable from that of the general public.” Nikolov’s was denied because she could not demonstrate that there was “any type of threat to her own safety anywhere.” In addition to Westchester County, Susan Cacace and Jeffrey Cohen, both serving at times as handgun permit licensing officers, are named as defendants. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, White Plains Division.

Attorney Alan Gura is representing the plaintiffs, along with attorney Vincent Gelardi with Gelardi & Randazzo of Rye Brook, NY. Gura recently represented SAF and the Illinois State Rifle Association in their landmark Second Amendment Supreme Court victory over the City of Chicago.-[source]

100 Years Later:.45 Pistol Still Popular

One of the most significant developments in firearms occurred about a hundred years ago and next year, gun owners and manufacturers will mark a century in the life of the .45 caliber semiautomatic pistol.
The Model 1911, named for the year it was adopted by the Army as the official sidearm for U.S. forces, has come full circle, back to where it is among the most popular handguns of the day.
The M1911 also has become a collector’s favorite.
“I just like them. They are a beautiful gun,” said Doug Wigger, a Carter area retired farmer who collects the M1911. “They are not target guns. They are made to be able to lay in the mud in the bottom of a trench and then still function and kill a man.”
At almost every Great Falls Gun and Antique Show — spring and fall — Wigger displays eight or 10 weapons out of his collection. His booth usually is near the front of the Four Seasons Arena.
From the early 1900s firearms designers were taking the first steps toward producing semiautomatic handguns — pistols that would fire every time you pulled the trigger.
At the same time, the U.S. Army was fighting against an armed rebellion in the Philippines by the Moro, a group of Muslim rebels.
The Moro warriors appeared hardly phased by the Army’s .30 and .38 caliber weapons and Army commanders wanted a more powerful sidearm.
So the gun, which began life as a .38 caliber, was redesigned as a .45 because the Army wanted more stopping power.
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