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 For the third year in a row, look violent crime has declined in the United States while increasing numbers of American citizens own firearms and are licensed to carry, order a trend that belies predictions of anti-gunners that more guns will result in more crime, more about the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.
Preliminary data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report shows that the violent crime rate went down 5.5 percent in 2009, compared to statistics from 2008. This covers all four categories of violent crime: murder, robbery, aggravated assault and forcible rape. Violent crime went down 4 percent in metropolitan counties and 3 percent elsewhere, according to the FBI.
At the same time, the agency’s National Instant Check System reports continued increases in the number of background check requests and the Nation Shooting Sports Foundation has reported increased federal firearms excise tax allocations to state wildlife agencies, an indication that more guns and ammunition are being purchased.
“This translates to one irrefutable fact,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “There are more guns in private hands than ever before, yet crime rates have declined. In plain English, this means that gun prohibitionists have been consistently wrong. Higher rates of gun ownership have not resulted in more bloodshed, as the gun ban lobby has repeatedly forecast with its ‘sky-is-falling’ rhetoric.-[source]
 “The Coyote Special.” It’s not a new Animal Planet documentary. It’s also not tonight’s chef’s choice at Hudson’s on the Bend.
Rather, it’s a handgun. But not just any handgun. It’s Sturm, Ruger & Co. Inc.’s newest .380 — the same model of the semi-automatic pistol that Gov. Rick Perry said he used to kill a coyote that threatened his daughter’s Labrador during an early morning jog in February.
The Connecticut-based gun maker seemed to celebrate Perry’s slaying of the varmint by creating the distinctive weapon, which is emblazoned with the words “Coyote Special” on one side of the slide and “A True Texan” on the other side.
On the top of the pistol resides an etching of a coyote howling at the moon and a Texas Star.
Even the packaging displays a stamp that says it is for sale to Texans only. (Likely not enforceable.)-[source]
 Starting next school year, more about a new law allows local school boards to offer gun safety education in elementary schools, based on a program from the National Rifle Association.
The law requires that the program use guidelines based on “the rules of the National Rifle Association’s Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program.”
That program tells children to “STOP! Don’t Touch. Leave the Area. Tell an Adult,” if they come across a gun. The program was developed for students between kindergarten and third grade.-[source]
 Ownership and carrying of guns by people living and working on U.S. military bases could end up part of next week’s debate in a Senate committee on the $760 billion defense policy bill.
Sen. James Inhofe, no rx R-Okla., a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, introduced a bill Thursday that addresses one of the issues raised after the November 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, the possibility of stricter rules about gun ownership on military bases.
Inhofe’s bill, which he calls the Servicemember Second Amendment Protection Act, would prevent the Defense Department from imposing any firearm registration restrictions unless a weapon is being stored on military property. It also would roll back any changes that took effect since the Nov. 5 shooting at Fort Hood.
His bill would not prevent the military from prohibiting people from carrying personal weapons or ammunition on installations, but it would not allow the military to set rules for Defense Department personnel who own or carry firearms when off base.-[source]
By John Lott - FOXNews.com
Felipe Calderon’s understanding of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban is no more accurate than it is about Arizona’s new immigration law.
During his trip to the United States Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón received a lot of attention for falsely claiming that Arizona’s new immigration law uses “racial profiling.” Calderon’s attacks on U.S. policies continued during his address to Congress on Thursday. Immigration wasn’t his only topic. He spent over four minutes of his address lecturing Americans and calling them on to renew the Federal Assault Weapons Ban that sunset in September 2004.
Calderon’s message was simple: the reason that Mexicans are losing the drug war is because the U.S. assault weapons ban expired. Yet, Calderon’s understanding of what the Federal Assault Weapons Ban is no more accurate than it is about Arizona’s new immigration law. Let’s review the assertions he made to Congress:
– Calderon claimed that these were “powerful weapons.” It is a common misunderstanding as the “assault weapons” ban conjures up images of machine guns used by militaries. Yet the 1994 federal assault weapons ban had nothing to do with machine guns, only semiautomatics, which fire one bullet per pull of the trigger. The AK-47s banned by the assaults weapons ban were civilian, semiautomatic versions of the gun. The banned guns fired the same type of bullets, with the same rapidity, and doing the same damage as deer hunting rifles. Their inside guts are essentially the same as deer hunting rifles — some people just like to own these “military-style” weapons because of the way they look on the outside. The firing mechanisms in semiautomatics and machine guns are completely different. The entire firing mechanism of a semi-automatic gun has to be gutted and replaced to turn it into a military AK-47.
Just as Mexican drug cartels are able to bring drugs into their country, they are also able to bring in really powerful weapons from around the world to defend both their valuable drugs as well their turf against competing drug dealers. Reports indicate that grenades and rocket launchers are not even available for sale in the United States and come from countries such as South Korea, Israel, and Spain. Two thousand two hundred thirty nine grenades were seized by the Mexican government from 2007 to 2009. Similarly, machine guns in Mexico originate from China, Israel, and South Africa.
It is hard to believe that Mexican drug cartels would want to get look-alike “military-style” weapons from the U.S., when they can get the real military weapons elsewhere.-[source]
Adhering to a pattern of behavior that has developed over the years, page a tiny contingent of gun prohibitionists paraded outside of the Charlotte Convention Center while the National Rifle Association was hosting its record-breaking members’ meeting, but they remained only long enough to get some camera time with local news crews.
Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, came to that North Carolina city in order to grab some face time and get his name in the local newspapers. Where the NRA can pull more than 70,000 members, the Brady bunch could barely muster two dozen protesters to parade around for perhaps an hour, probably less, and then leave satisfied that the 5 o’clock news would carry their images.
For several years, right up to the devastating 1994 mid-term elections that turned dozens of Congressional anti-gunners out of office, the Brady Campaign and other gun control groups enjoyed media and public support. But when gun rights organizations began fighting back with facts, and developed a strategy of education through legal journals, their influence began to wane. That influence continued to erode as time tested their rhetoric and found it not simply wanting, but totally preposterous.-[source]
The federal government is arguing in a gun-rights case pending in federal court in Montana that state plans to exempt in-state guns from various federal requirements themselves make the laws void, pharmacy because the growing movement certainly would impact “interstate commerce.”
The government continues to argue to the court that the Commerce Clause in the U.S. Constitution should be the guiding rule for the coming decision. The argument plays down the significance of both the Second Amendment right to bear arms and the 10th Amendment provision that reserves to states all prerogatives not specifically granted the federal government in the Constitution.-[source]
Who are we to criticize a politician’s choice of words? It’s a tough job. You have to be expressive to get your message out.
Is the best way to demonstrate the benefits of gun control by picking up a rifle and offering to shoot a reporter?
Leave that to the PR experts. What do we know?
But that apparently was Chicago Mayor Richard Daley’s strategy.-[source]
With budget cuts depleting local police and sheriffs departments, concealed weapons permit applications have bumped up slightly.
“We are seeing an increase in students asking for concealed weapons classes,” said Terry Wingert, firearms instructor with Advanced Security Institute in Rancho Cordova. ”It hasn’t been a huge increase, but the concern over personal safety is driving a bump in business.”-[source]
Emeryville’s Chief of Police, Ken James – outspoken proponent of a measure that would criminalize the open carrying of firearms in all public areas of the state – will be attending a public forumdebate on May 26th entitled, “Exploring California’s Open Carry Policy.”
James has argued that AB 1934, which the California Assembly Appropriations Committee recently passed, would eliminate the imminent risk to police officers that he feels open carrying promotes. However, the police chief isn’t for criminalizing open carry for all private citizens, as he seems to favor protection for specific groups such as theNorthern California Militia.
In an audiointerview with KALW News, James said these illuminating words in response to a question about the rise in militia groups throughout the nation:
“In my opinion the Second Ammendment was written to provide the ability of normal citizens to band together and form an army just like these militias are doing. So I believe the militias are totally supported by the Second Ammendment.”-[source]
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