CBS Failed Gun Show Sting
Our friends at Guns.com reported this past weekend:
CBS 5 went undercover in a California gun show to look for guns that violated the state’s strict gun laws, but the only people breaking any rules were the CBS investigators.
And:
As it turns out, there are “No Camera” signs all throughout the gun show, and gun show representatives announced “No picture taking during the show” frequently throughout the day. “Hypocrisy” is the word that we’re looking for, here.
What makes things worse is that California has a two-party consent law, which means that it is a crime to record private conversations unless everybody involved is aware that you are recording.
Guns.com: CBS Seek to Uncover Illegal Guns, Expose Themselves Instead
Does Obama Really Plan To Ease Weapons Export Rules?
From our friend David Codrea:
“The Obama administration is crafting a proposal that could make it easier to export firearms and other weapons to certain countries in an effort to boost sales for U.S. companies, increase trade and improve national security, according to senior government officials,” Sari Horwitz of The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
“The plan, which is part of President Obama’s overhaul of U.S. export rules, is being debated by several agencies and it could be months before a final rule is proposed, according to officials,” Horwitz writes, adding “At least two federal agencies — the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department — have expressed concerns that the changes in the export rules could make it easier for drug cartels and terrorists to obtain weapons and make it harder to stop firearms trafficking.”
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Those are key caveats by players who should know. What we can take from them is that in those development months, and in the comment period that would follow, concerns about Obama’s anti-gun record could be defused with phony “pro-gun” spin that would cost him nothing in terms of actual policy change. Attempts to soothe gun owner fears are already being promulgated by media allies, who point to Obama allowing guns in national parks, disregarding that his administration first tried to let the issue die on the legal vine and only signed on because it was a rider to a credit card bill they wanted. Also, we are told, Obama ended the gun ban on Amtrak—similarly, this was part of a larger funding bill, did not allow for permit holders to carry them, and humorously (?), was initially worded in a way that required gun owners to be locked up in boxes for the duration of the trip!
Continue reading on Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/article/does-obama-really-plan-to-ease-weapons-export-rules
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is a long-time gun rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He is a field editor for GUNS Magazine, and a blogger at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. Read more at www.DavidCodrea.com.
Pincole Bans Private Sales
Last week The Chicago Tribune noted a story that missed much mainstream attention is just the latest example of strict Illinois gun laws:
The Pinole City Council this week formally adopted an ordinance banning the sale of firearms and ammunition from home businesses and restricting them to commercial areas, bringing to a close an often-heated debate centering on Second Amendment rights that dragged on for months.
The council also extended an existing moratorium on home-occupation use permits for firearm and ammunition sales to cover the 30-day waiting period before the ordinance adopted Tuesday becomes effective and give the city clerk time to publish the ordinance in the newspaper.
This essentially bans private sales in Pinole, but here is the bigger issue – it will only deter the law-abiding and not do anything about criminals!
NY Times Offers “Slight” Exaggeration on NRA
The folks at The New York Times have never really been fair on firearm ownership, even in editorials. But last week was just the latest example, in a piece titled, “What’s Good for Gun Manufactuers…”
If President Obama wins re-election, the 2nd Amendment is dead! Gun owners will be rounded up and herded into Marxist re-education camps! If guns are outlawed, only deer, elk, geese and quail will own guns!
That’s only a slight exaggeration of the sort of doomsday propaganda spun out by the National Rifle Association and its supporters in Congress, as part of the campaign to paint Mr. Obama as a bleeding-heart liberal on guns.
This obnoxious take on the issue doesn’t deserve to grace even an editorial. The truth is that Obama may call for a reinstatement of the assault weapons ban, or he may block the importation of firearms (something that has happened under his watch). The question is whether gun owners and supporters of the Second Amendment should allow that to happen?
NRA News: Ohio State Rep. Margaret Conditt Responds to Attacks on Shooting Fundraiser
Cam Edwards talks to State Representative Margaret Conditt (R-OH)
NRA ILA Grassroots News 5-4-2012
NRA ILA Grassroots News
Huff and Puff: NRA Wants Martin Case to Go Away
We have wondered if anti-gun types get giddy when there is a tragic shooting? We are wondering again as it Denis A. Henigan, Brady Campaign VP offered some thoughts this week for The Huffington Post. He noted:
When the National Rifle Association’s Wayne LaPierre finally spoke out about the Trayvon Martin shooting, it was to decry the media’s coverage of the tragedy as “sensational reporting from Florida.” It’s understandable that the NRA would be uncomfortable with the intense media attention to this particular shooting tragedy.
The media certainly sensationalized the case, and in many ways found George Zimmerman guilty in the court of public opinion. We say so much for due process. But then Henigan noted:
In the NRA’s world, people are neatly divided into two readily identifiable groups: good guys and bad guys. In this imaginary world, we know that legal carriers of guns must be good guys and that good guys use their guns only in legitimate self-defense — that’s what makes them good guys in the first place.
We respond to say that in the mythic world of the anti-gun zealots criminals will heed gun bans. Bad guys won’t buy guns because the “laws” will stop them.
NRA News: Firearms Instructor Responds to: ‘Bullet Button’ Used To Get Around California Gun Laws
Cam Edwards talks to Brian Normandy, a firearms instructor at Jackson Arms in South San Francisco, California
NRA News: Bay Buchanan – Author of “Bay and Her Boys”
Cam Edwards talks to Bay Buchanan – Author of “Bay and Her Boys”
CCRKBA RIPS TAMPA MAYOR, LAUDS FL GOVERNOR OVER CCW FLAP
From the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms:
In a letter to Gov. Scott, Mayor Buckhorn asserted, “Normally, licensed firearms carried in accordance with the Florida statute requirements do not pose a significant threat to the public. However, in the potentially contentious environment surrounding the RNC, a firearm unnecessarily increases the threat of imminent harm and injury to the residents and visitors of the city.”
The governor quickly fired b Read more
