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FW: I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy.

—– Original Message —–

Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 2:47 PM
Subject: I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy.

Clint Smith, Director of Thunder Ranch, is part drill instructor, and part stand up comic. Here are a few of his observations on tactics, firearms, self defense and life as we know it in the civilized world.

“The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight…I’d choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.”

“The two most important rules in a gunfight are: always cheat and always win.”

“Every time I teach a class, I discover I don’t know something.”

“Don’t forget, incoming fire has the right of way.”

“Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but he’s gonna have to beat me to death with it, cause it’s going to be empty.”

“If you’re not shootin’, you should be loadin’. If you’re not loadin, you should be movin’, if you’re not movin’, someone’s gonna cut your head off and put it on a stick.”

“When you reload in low light encounters, don’t put your flashlight in your back pocket. If you light yourself up, you’ll look like an angel or the tooth fairy…and you’re gonna be one of ’em pretty soon.”

“Do something. It may be wrong, but do something.”

“Nothing adds a little class to a sniper course like a babe in a Ghilliesuit.”

“Shoot what’s available, as long as it’s available, until something else becomes available.”

“If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That’s ridiculous…if I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid for?”

“Don’t shoot fast, shoot good.”

“You can say ‘stop’ or ‘alto’ or use any other word you think will work but I’ve found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone’s head is pretty much the universal language.”

“You have the rest of your life to solve your problems. How long you live depends on how well you do it.”

“You cannot save the planet. You may be able to save yourself and your family.”

“Thunder Ranch will be here as long as you’ll have us or until someone makes us go away and either way it will be exciting.”

More Excellent Gun Wisdom… The purpose of fighting is to win.
There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.

1. Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he’ll just kill you.

2. If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.

3. I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.

4. When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away.

5. A reporter did a human-interest piece on the Texas Rangers. The reporter recognized the Colt Model 1911 the Ranger was carrying and asked him ‘Why do you carry a 45?’ The Ranger responded, ‘Because they don’t make a 46.’

6. An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.

7. The old sheriff was attending an awards dinner when a lady commented on his wearing his sidearm. ‘Sheriff, I see you have your pistol. Are you expecting trouble?’ ‘No ma’am. If I were expecting trouble, I would have brought my rifle.’

8. Beware the man who only has one gun. He probably knows how to use it!

If you believe in the 2nd Amendment, please forward.

‘The true Soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.’ -G. K. Chesterton

A people that values its privileges above its principles will soon lose both.

‘Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.’

‘I was once asked by a lady visiting if I had a gun in the house.
To which I said I did. She said, “Well, I certainly hope it isn’t loaded!”
To which I said, “of course it is loaded, can’t work without bullets…”
She then asked, “Are you that afraid of someone evil coming into your house?”
My reply was, “No, not at all. I am not afraid of the house catching afire either, but I have fire extinguishers around and THEY ARE ALL LOADED.” ‘

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[Fcalerts-list] Weekly Knox Update

Three items for this weeks update:

  1. Rights Activists Shooting Themselves in the Foot
  2. No More Land for Gun Banning NPS
  3. You Are a Radical Extremist and a Potential Terrorist (because you’re a good citizen)

The Myth of Mandatory Training

(March 12, 2009) Rights activists are shooting themselves in the foot whenever they advocate for mandatory training for concealed carry, and they’re shooting themselves in the foot a lot lately. There is absolutely no question that all gunowners, especially those who choose to carry in public, need to take their responsibilities seriously and seeking out quality training is just the beginning of the responsibility.
  But legislating training is a seriously bad idea.  If it is reasonable and prudent to mandate training for concealed carry, why would it not be reasonable and prudent to mandate training for open carry?  If that is reasonable, what about mandating training for anyone wishing to even own a firearm, and mandatory training for anyone who lives in a home with a firearm?  If mandatory training makes sense, then what is the argument against mandatory storage requirements?  The bottom line is that firearm safety is a matter of personal responsibility and that responsibility can not and should not be legislated by government. Personal responsibility is, by definition, personal.
 The idea of mandatory training stems from the huge and disturbing assumption that the people have no common sense of their own and must be led to sensible behavior by the government.
  To read the entire article, go to the following link:
http://www.firearmscoalition.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=360&Itemid=37
or just go to our home page at: http://www.FirearmsCoalition.org

No More Land to National Park Service
There is a major lands bill pending in the US House which would add a bunch of land to the National Park Service.  The bill has already passed the Senate and has come up a couple of times in the House only to be beaten back by gunowner’s objections. 
As long a the National Park Service maintains its anti-gun policies and regulations they should not be given authority over one more square inch of US soil.
Contact your Representative and tell them to oppose S.22 – No more land to the NPS until they adopt gun regulations similar to those of the National Forest Service and BLM.
Gun Owners of America has taken the lead on fighting this legislation.  More information can be found at their web site:
http://www.GunOwners.org

You Are a Dangerous Extremist!


A state-sponsored law enforcement “intelligence” organization in Missouri has apparently produced a document vilifying virtually anyone who disagrees with the government about taxation, gun rights, the Federal Reserve, or any other Constitutional issue. The report leaps from assumption to assumption with the ease of the most adept conspiracy theorist and concludes that since neo-Nazis, skin-heads, and the KKK tend to oppose taxes, support the Second Amendment, and question government authority, everyone who does any of those things is automatically suspect as a racist extremist and a potential terrorist.
Read more here:
http://www.firearmscoalition.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=359&Itemid=1
or just look for the story on our home page at: http://www.firearmscoalition.org

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End of the Year Report

GOA Members Win Key Battles in 2008
— While gun rights advanced this year, the prospects for next year
look very tough

Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org/ordergoamem.htm

“The best Second Amendment defense organization in the country is Gun
Owners of America.” — Joseph Farrah, founder and CEO of

WorldNetDaily.com, September 2008

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Change.

That’s what the next four years are going to bring. More government
regulations… more government spending… and more battles over gun
control.

Once Barack Obama takes his oath of office in January, he will
become, without a doubt, the most anti-gun President this nation has
ever seen.

How are gun owners responding to the oncoming Obama presidency? By
the tens of thousands, they are pouring into gun stores all across
the country and stocking up on guns and ammo, fearing the worst.
Many buyers include first-time gun owners.

And while that is not a bad idea, it’s a short term solution to a
long-term problem that does nothing to defend our Second Amendment
rights from being eliminated by a Congress controlled by people like
Ted Kennedy, Chuck Schumer, Carolyn McCarthy and other notorious gun
grabbers.

That’s why we need you to stand with Gun Owners of America next year.
If you have never become a GOA member — or you’ve let your
membership lapse — we need you on board so that we have the
ammunition necessary to fight every gun control bill that comes our
way.

It takes less than five minutes to go to
http://www.gunowners.org/ordergoamem.htm and sign up. By doing so,
you will be joining — in the words of WorldNetDaily’s founder — the
“best Second Amendment defense organization in the country.”

We need you now more than ever, as we are surely in for the fight of
our lives!

Even so, despite all the hurdles that we see ahead, one should not
forget that 2008 was a real improvement for gun rights in many
respects. Gun Owners of America experienced victories in the
courts… in the Congress… over federal bureaucracies… and in the
states.

The following victories are just a few of the accomplishments that
GOA was able to achieve this year with YOUR HELP. So let’s take a
look at our work together, month by month.

January – February

  • As the new year dawns, President Bush signs the Veterans
    Disarmament Act (a.k.a. the NICS Improvement Amendments Act). This
    legislation codifies illegitimate procedures that, over the past
    decade, had already resulted in almost 150,000 veterans being denied
    the right to buy guns because battle-related stress has supposedly
    rendered them unable to manage their own financial affairs.

GOA was able to win some significant concession in the bill, even as
we were trying to kill it outright. Unfortunately, the bill passed
both houses of Congress last year without a vote. Republican Senator
Jim DeMint of South Carolina later complained that the Democrat
controlled Senate had passed 94 percent of its bills this year
without a recorded vote.

  • An Associate Director in the U.S. Interior Department defends the
    National Park Service ban claiming that “parks are safe places” and
    that right to carry laws “do not reduce crime” or protect people
    against dangerous wildlife. GOA responds by generating thousands
    upon thousands of postcards into the Oval Office, asking President
    Bush to put the squeeze on Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to get
    the NPS ban reversed — a reversal that will come about in May.
  • The U.S. Solicitor General files a brief with the U.S. Supreme
    Court in the D.C. v. Heller case arguing that categorical gun bans of
    virtually all self-defense firearms are constitutional if a court
    determines they are “reasonable” — the lowest standard of
    constitutional review. This view could justify a national ban on all
    firearms, including a ban on all hunting rifles.

GOA works with Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) and helps him to quickly get
57 additional congressmen to oppose the Solicitor General’s opinion.

  • Because of generous contributions from its members, GOA is able to
    submit a very unique amicus brief before the U.S. Supreme Court in
    defense of Dick Anthony Heller, who was denied the right to own a gun
    in the nation�s capital as a result of the draconian gun ban which
    exists there.

In this hard-hitting brief, GOA takes aim at the weak arguments put
forth by both the DC government and the Bush Administration. But
more than that, GOA examines the favorable text and context of the
Second Amendment in great detail, while also documenting the pro-gun
history that formed the backdrop of its inclusion into the Bill of
Rights.

March – May

  • After looking at all the briefs which have been submitted in the
    Heller case, the editors at USA Today decide to use GOA for the
    opposing voice on March 19. The paper’s editors tell our attorneys
    that GOA had an argument that was clearly distinctive, as we were the
    only ones to argue that the words “shall not be infringed”
    invalidated all federal gun control laws.
  • In the states, GOA helped Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming to pass
    Emergency Protection bills throughout the country. These bills
    repeal laws that allow police to confiscate firearms during a
    declared emergency, such as what occurred in New Orleans after
    Hurricane Katrina decimated the city in 2005.

    • The sponsor of the Utah legislation, Senator Mark Madsen (R), thanked
    GOA in March for the help we offered in helping pass the legislation
    in his state.

    “GOA supplied me with video that documented the plight of decent gun
    owners in New Orleans who had their guns stolen by police after
    Hurricane Katrina,” Madsen said. “The DVD was very helpful in
    educating other members of the Utah legislature, and my bill to
    protect Utah gun owners from gun confiscation, SB 157, passed by
    overwhelming margins.”

    Sen. Madsen’s new law is one of the best in the country. If someone
    were to have his gun illegitimately confiscated, that person could
    not only sue for damages, but could hold the offending officer and
    his superior personally liable.

    • GOA’s attorneys uncover a proposal in April to keep gun owners from
      shipping replica or inert munitions through the mail. GOA
      immediately submitted a blistering critique to the U.S. Post Office
      and contacted thousands of grassroots activists so they could submit
      their own comments as well. To date, the agency has backed off of
      its original gun control proposal.
  • The Bush administration, after more than seven years, has finally
    issued regulations permitting the carrying of firearms in national
    parks! Beginning in 2009, gun owners will be able to carry firearms
    according to the laws of the state in which the park is located.

  • GOA learns about Pastor Phillip Miles of South Carolina, who was
    sentenced to three years in a Russian prison for carrying a single
    box of hunting ammo in his luggage, intended as a gift. GOA urges
    President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice to intervene on
    Miles’ behalf, as the sentence definitely did not fit the “crime.”
    Russian authorities succumb to the outcry shortly thereafter… Miles
    is released in June and returns to the United States.

    • June – August

    • The Supreme Court strikes down the DC gun ban! While not perfect,
      the Court’s decision recognizes that the Second Amendment protects an
      “individual right” and states that the decades-old ban in the
      nation’s capital is unconstitutional.

    GOA’s brief had countered both the DC government and the Bush
    Administration — as the latter had asked the Court to use the DC
    case as a justification for all sorts of gun control. GOA is pleased
    that the Justices heeded our admonition to limit the Court’s holding
    to the case before it, thus shooting down both the DC government and
    the Bush Administration in their quest to validate other firearms
    restrictions.

    • GOA Executive Director Larry Pratt escorts David Olofson to a
      federal prison in Minnesota. Olofson was convicted in federal court
      of transferring a malfunctioning semi-automatic firearm which the ATF
      claimed was machine gun — a determination that should concern every
      gun owner who owns a semi-auto.

    Gun Owners of America becomes the lead gun organization fighting
    against the ATF’s persecution of Olofson. In taking on this case,
    GOA is also defending the rights of gun owners who could be
    prosecuted for owning a malfunctioning firearm. For the ATF, a gun
    that misfires is an excellent opportunity to rack up an easy
    conviction on an illegal machine gun charge.

    In Olofson’s defense, GOA submits an appeal challenging his
    conviction at the district court level, and sets up a relief fund to
    help pay for his family’s mortgage and car payments.

    September – November

    • David Olofson’s wife, Candy, thanks GOA and its members for helping
      their family. Candy tells GOA Executive Director Larry Pratt that
      because of the financial help that GOA members have given, she has
      not had to get a second job, so she is able to spend time being a
      Mom.
  • GOA’s Larry Pratt travels to the Big Easy to award a brand new
    handgun to Patricia Konie — the New Orleans resident who was tackled
    and disarmed by police in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Konie was
    forced to evacuate her home in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005,
    and until recently, had remained disarmed. To this day, she has
    never gotten back her stolen gun.

  • GOA tells its email activists how the ATF was trying to prevent the
    distribution of an electronic 4473 Form. This software has been
    developed by a private firm, Coloseum Software Corporation, and is
    intended to protect dealers against the “mistakes” that have allowed
    the ATF to prosecute or harass them into giving up their licenses.

    • GOA issued a grassroots alert in mid-October explaining how the ATF
    had been dragging its collective feet for months — keeping Coloseum
    from distributing its software, even while the ATF was developing its
    own competing software (and possibly, violating the copyright which
    belonged to Coloseum).

    After GOA asked gun owners to contact the Bush Administration, the
    owner of Coloseum contacted us shortly thereafter to tell us that our
    alert had been a tremendous success: “After the GOA alert put the
    spotlight on criminal activity by the BATFE, they quickly provided us
    [Coloseum Software Corp] with the required documentation for the new
    Form 4473 which we had been asking for months.”

    Sign up with GOA… the battle lines are now drawn!

    GOA is on the front lines, fighting to defend your rights. Even if
    you have already renewed your membership in GOA, we hope you will
    consider making an additional contribution.

    With your extra support in 2009, we will fight off every new attack
    on our gun rights. And we will remind the Democratic Congress what
    happened to their majority the last time they followed an anti-gun
    President down this path.

    This next year is going to be our most difficult year in a long, long
    time. Already, President-elect Obama is surrounding himself with
    virulent anti-gunners:

    • His pick for Attorney General went to a committed gun grabber in
      Eric Holder. Holder signed on to an amicus brief in the Heller case
      which SUPPORTED the DC ban on handguns and the ban on using any
      firearm for self-defense in a person�s home. Holder’s brief also
      argued that the Second Amendment protects a “collective” right, not
      an individual right (as the Supreme Court eventually ruled).
  • And based on his pick for Chief of Staff, you can be sure that the
    Obama administration will use any “crisis” it can to push its gun
    control agenda. Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, told the Wall
    Street Journal recently that, “You never want a serious crisis to go
    to waste…. [A] crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things
    that you could not do before.”

    • Get it? Every time a crackpot goes on a shooting spree, the Obama
    administration is going to use that “crisis” to come after your guns!

    So please make the decision to stay with us in the upcoming year, as
    it will be critical for America’s gun rights. Whether you can help
    us out with your gift of $35 or $3500, your contribution will be put
    immediately into the fight to preserve and restore all of our gun
    rights.

    Please go to http://www.gunowners.org/ordergoamem.htm and stay with
    us in 2009!

    Please do not reply directly to this message, as your reply will
    bounce back as undeliverable.

    To subscribe to free, low-volume GOA alerts, go to
    http://www.gunowners.org/ean.htm on the web. Change of e-mail
    address may also be made at that location.

    Problems, questions or comments? The main GOA e-mail address
    goamail@gunowners.org is at your disposal. Please do not add that
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    FW: AUSTRALIAN GUN LAW UPDATE

    The only way you can take a citizen’s rights is to steal them like a thief in the night.

    Australian Gun Law Update

    Here’s a thought to warm some of your hearts . . ..

    From:   Ed Chenel, A police officer in Australia

    Hi Yanks, I thought you all would like to see the now available data from Down Under.

    It has now been one year (12 months) since gun owners in Australia were forced by a new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by our own government, a program costing Australia  taxpayers more than $500 million dollars.

    The first year results are now available:

    Australia-wide, homicides are up 6.2 percent;

    Australia-wide, assaults are up 9.6 percent;

    Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent);

    In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent as compared with the last one year period when private ownership of a firearm was legal.

    (NB: the law-abiding citizens did turn in their personal firearms, the criminal element did not and thus criminals in Australia still possess their guns.)

    While data for the 25 years preceding the confiscation of privately owned guns showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months as criminals now are assured their victims will be unarmed.

    There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the elderly, while the resident is at home.

    Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in ‘successfully ridding Australian society of guns.’

    This story of well intentioned government intervention in the rights of lawful individuals to own and possess firearms won’t be seen in the mainstream US media or on the American evening news.     Senator Obama who advocates a similar confiscation in the US will not be reporting any of this to you.

    But, the Australian experience speaks for itself.     Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws affect only the law-abiding citizens.

    Americans may want to take note before it’s too late!

    FORWARD TO EVERYONE ON YOUR EMAIL LIST.

    DON’T BE A MEMBER OF THE SILENT MAJORITY.

    BE A PARTICIPANT IN THE VOCAL MINORITY WHO DOESN’T WANT TO SEE WHAT HAPPENED IN AUSTRALIA HAPPEN IN THE US !

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    Post election gun ban alert

    **** Alert *** Alert *** Alert ****

    Dear Fellow NRA Member,

     Barack Obama’s campaign promise
    not to take away our guns is a lie.

    He’s not even in office, yet he’s fired the opening salvos in a war against the future of the Second Amendment, our hunting and shooting traditions, and YOU.

    Obama’s FIRST attack on YOU: Appointing Illinois Congressman Rahm Emanuel to be White House Chief of Staff. In Congress, Emanuel earned an “F” rating from NRA, and while working in the Clinton Administration, he was known as the “point man on gun control.” He is an avowed enemy of the Second Amendment and will wield enormous power in the battle for the future of our firearm freedoms.

    Obama’s SECOND attack on YOU: If Hillary Clinton is confirmed as Secretary of State, she’ll rip the Second Amendment right out of the Bill of Rights. She’ll be our nation’s top diplomat with the power to determine whether the United Nations will pass, and Obama will sign, a global gun ban treaty that will surrender our Second Amendment rights and our national sovereignty.

    Obama’s THIRD attack on YOU: Nominating ex-Senator and former Majority Leader Tom Daschle-an avowed enemy of NRA-to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. NRA was responsible for defeating Daschle when he ran in South Dakota for re-election to the Senate. If Daschle is confirmed, he could hold the ultimate power to declare guns a “public health menace” and regulate away our essential liberties.

    Obama’s FOURTH attack on YOU: Nominating Eric Holder to be Attorney General. As former Assistant Attorney General, Holder was a key architect and vocal advocate for the Clinton era’s sweeping gun ban agenda. He supported national handgun licensing, mandatory trigger locks, and ending gun shows as we know them.

    Just recently, Holder opposed the District of Columbia’s Heller decision that declared the Second Amendment an individual right. Holder also called for reviving the Clinton gun bans and, as Attorney General, would fight in court to prevent the landmark Heller decision from being made applicable to state and local governments.

    Worst of all, if Holder is confirmed as the nation’s top law-enforcement officer, he would control BATFE and wield enormous power to harass gun owners and sue America’s arms makers out of existence.

    Obama’s FIFTH attack on YOU: In the job application for the Obama Administration, he made it clear that gun owners are second-class citizens and told 80 million gun owners not to even bother applying for a job. In the “White House Personnel Data Questionnaire” he asked:

    “Do you or any members of your immediate family own a gun? If so, provide complete ownership and registration information. Has the registration ever lapsed? Please also describe how and by whom it is used and whether it has been the cause of any personal injuries or property damage.”

             This chilling notice to gun owners-that they are not welcome to serve in his Administration-shows the deep hostility for Americans’ Second Amendment Freedoms that Obama and his Administration have in their hearts.

    On its face, that question endorses gun registration-a mandate in only five states in our nation-and buys into the anti-gun premise that firearms are inherently dangerous and gun owners are prone to misusing them.

    That’s an outrageous mindset, especially for the President-elect whose sworn duty will be to uphold the U.S. Constitution, including our right to keep and bear arms.

    Obama CLEARLY wants to make gun registration the law of the land.

             First for employees under his control…AND THEN FOR YOU.

    Working with a Congress dominated by gun haters like Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, John Conyers, Henry Waxman, and Charles Schumer!!!

    Rubbing salt in gun owner wounds is the Brady Campaign, which just issued a completely bogus poll claiming that two-thirds of the Americans-including 60% of all gun owners-favor gun registration, licensing of firearm owners, and other sweeping restrictions on our firearm freedoms!

    Add it all up and you have the potential
    for a Second Amendment disaster that’s unlike
    any other NRA members have ever battled.

    That’s why we need the strongest possible commitment from EVERY NRA member, starting today. That’s why I’m hoping you’ll validate your new NRA membership card the moment you receive it.

    Because our greatest strength is you.

    Only by working with you can NRA hold the line against these threats from every quarter. We are the one force that has the strength to keep Americans free and our rights intact for future generations. With you at our side, we will fight and we will prevail against all odds.

    Thank you for your loyalty to NRA and the cause of Freedom.

    Forward this E-Mail to Friends
    and Urge Them to Join NRA Today!

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    Concealed Carry Reciprocity In Congress!

    Senator Vitter To Offer Concealed Carry Reciprocity Amendment
    — Action needed right away!

    Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
    8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
    Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
    http://www.gunowners.org

    Tuesday, May 13, 2008

    Senator David Vitter (R-LA) has filed a pro-gun amendment to HR 980, and it
    could be voted on as early as tomorrow!

    This amendment would protect the right of citizens to carry concealed
    weapons (outside of their home state) in states that allow concealed carry.

    Sen. Vitter explains that his amendment does not violate the rights of
    states as it “does NOT establish national standards for concealed carry, nor
    does it provide for a national carry permit.”

    In other words, the Vitter amendment specifically says that state laws
    concerning specific types of locations in which firearms may not be carried
    shall be followed. “My amendment will not federalize concealed carry
    permits but simply requires concealed carry permits to be recognized in
    other states that allow concealed carry permits,” Vitter said.

    This is a real reciprocity provision which grants citizens the “full faith
    and credit” protection that is guaranteed in Article IV of the Constitution.
    Section 1 of this article says:

    Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts,
    Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress
    may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records, and
    Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.

    Vitter says that this constitutional provision authorizes the Congress to
    pass legislation forcing each state to recognize the “public Acts” of other
    states. So if states are not willing to recognize another state’s laws,
    Congress has the authority to pass laws to require recognition of those
    measures.

    It’s just like with driver’s licenses. If certain states refused to honor
    the driver’s licenses of citizens in other states, Congress could pass
    legislation (under Article IV) to require every state to honor all licenses.

    ACTION: Please urge your Senators to vote for the Vitter amendment to HR
    980 to protect the right to carry concealed firearms outside of your home
    state.

    You can visit the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at
    http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to send your Senators the pre-written
    e-mail message below. And, you can call your Senators at 202-224-3121 or
    toll-free at 1-877-762-8762.

    —– Pre-written letter —–

    Dear Senator:

    Please support the Vitter amendment to HR 980. This amendment will protect
    the right of citizens to carry firearms outside of their home state without
    violating the rights of other states. Thus, the Vitter language masterfully
    protects the principle of federalism while also promoting Second Amendment
    rights.

    A person’s right to defend himself and his family should not end at the
    border of his state.

    I urge you to vote for the Vitter concealed carry amendment.

    Sincerely,

    Defend The 2nd Amendment Through Creative Giving…

    As we confront the challenges of the future, we know that the generosity of
    those who assist us will make all the difference in our success. That’s why
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    Gun Rights Week Coverage on Glenn Beck – Tune In

    Dear Fellow NRA Member,

    In honor of NRA’s upcoming annual meeting and his keynote address to our annual banquet on Saturday May 17, Glenn Beck is holding “Gun Rights Week” on both his radio and T.V. shows.

    These shows will be broadcast on the Premiere Radio Network’s 280 stations from 9 a.m. to noon, Eastern, and on CNN Headline News Network every night at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.

    Each day, Glenn will feature a new gun rights segment on his shows. I’ll be his guest on Tuesday, and NRA-ILA’s Chris Cox will be the featured guest on Wednesday. And each day for the rest of the week, there will be another firearm freedom expert talking to Glenn and millions of his listeners.

    The toll free call-in number for Glenn’s radio show is 1-888-727-BECK. So if you have a question or comment about the elections, Right-to-Carry, crime, the Supreme Court Heller case, Castle Doctrine, or any Second Amendment issue, CALL!

    For more information on broadcast times, stations and special guests, visit www.GlennBeck.com and click the “radio” or “T.V.” banners. Glenn will also be providing transcripts and video links to all the interviews and segments in his free daily email newsletter, which you can sign up for on his site.

    As one more favor to me, be sure to tell every gun owner you know about these important broadcasts. Please take a moment today, while you’re sitting at your computer, to forward this e-mail to your contact list.

    Also, be sure to keep your eyes on the national news this Friday between 12:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern, when NRA kicks off our weekend-long event with our Celebration of American Values Leadership Forum.

    Confirmed speakers include Kentucky Lt. Governor Daniel Mongiardo, T.V. personality Ollie North, political strategist Karl Rove, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Senator Mitch McConnell, Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell, Governor Mike Huckabee, Governor Mitt Romney, and John McCain.

    Over 10,000 NRA members will attend, making this the largest political event in NRA’s history.

    All the major national news outlets will have cameras and reporters on hand to cover this event. Live, for over four hours on Friday afternoon-and in thousands of broadcast hours, and electronic and print pages to follow-NRA and our election-year defense of Second Amendment will dominate the news.

    Thanks again for your support of NRA and thanks for helping spread the word about these important broadcast events!

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    NRA board member Nugent nukes gun control deal; Veteran’s group’s oppose H.R. 2640, too

    At least there is one NRA board member that has it right. Thank you Ted!

    NRA board member Nugent nukes gun control deal


     

    NRA board member Ted Nugent has come out in opposition to H.R. 2640, calling it Janet Reno’s dream.  Here’s what rocker Nugent said about H.R. 2640:

    In its open letter of May 9, 2007, BATFE makes it clear that this “danger” doesn’t have to be “imminent” or “substantial,” but can include “any danger” at all. How many shrinks — using the Pennsylvania standard — are going to say that a pro-gun American like you, who believes the Second Amendment is the last defense against tyranny, DOESN’T POSE AT LEAST AN INFINITESIMAL RISK of hurting someone else?


     As easy as that, your gun rights would be gone forever.

    (Go here to read Nugent’s full comments: http://www.tednugent.com/hunting/huntingnews/2007/default.aspx?PostID=179060)

    Veteran’s group’s oppose H.R. 2640


     

    The American Legion and the Military Order of the Purple Heart have joined National Association for Gun Rights, Gun Owners of America and dozens and dozens of state and local gun rights groups in opposition to Rep. Carolyn McCarthy and Sen. Patrick Leahy’s massive expansion of the Brady Registration Act, H.R. 2640.

    Opposition to H.R. 2640 continues to grow, thanks exclusively to the grassroots activism of gun owners — like you and me– across the country.   All of the establishment, and notably the institutional gun lobby that s the NRA and their Gucci-loafered lobbyists are supporting H.R. 2640, the McCarthy/Leahy Gun Control Bill.

    The NRA continues to make excuses; using legislative and legal doublespeak to mislead their members about this bill. 

    Make no mistake; H.R. 2640 is a massive expansion of the unconstitutional Brady Registration Act.   This gun control legislation gives unprecedented new powers to the federal government s NICS system to open up supposedly private mental health records to government scrutiny.   This bill aims to criminalize our nation’s combat veterans and anyone who s sought help for depression or other mental concerns normally associated with combat.  They are working hard to give the Federal Government and their uncontrollable beast, the BATFE– the tools they need to persecute and prosecute gun owners.

    In a Capitol Hill publication yesterday, even the President of the Brady Campaign was singing the praises of the NRA for supporting this gun control measure: (Go here to read the full article: Article)

    The president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Paul Helmke, said he remains optimistic that the Senate impasse can be cleared, ascribing it to the everyday difficulty of moving a complex bill through Congress.

    While the NRA has not tapped its extensive grassroots membership to help the background-check measure pass, Helmke said the premier gun group s support was enough.

    Their concern is that some of their grassroots feels the same as the GOA on this, and they don t want to risk alienating some of their members, Helmke said. They re taking the right position here, which is that not everybody should get a gun. [Emphasis added]

    That’s right: the Brady Campaign and the NRA are giving the federal government even more power to decide who should not have firearms.

    But the Washington insider publication betrays the achilles heel of this battle: the NRA hasn’t gone to their members to sell this, largely because so very few gun owners — except those who believe the NRA can do no wrong, ever — can buy into their cut-and-run strategy.  “Let’s do it to ourselves (pass gun control in the wake of Virginia Tech) before they do it to us” is a song that has been sung a hundred times by NRA leadership on a state and federal level, and it’s become obvious where that strategy leads America.

    Just how far has the NRA betrayed gun owners?

    The NRA is cutting back room deals with the Brady Campaign and notorious anti-gun legislators like Sen. Chuck Schummer and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy; all in the name of political access.  They keep saying they are improving current gun controls laws.  Gun owners don t want these laws improved , we want them repealed.  The NRA is simply trying to guild the chains that bind us.

    The NRA s betrayal of gun owners on H.R. 2640 has been well documented. (For further evidence go here: http://www.nationalgunrights.org/othershr2640.shtml)

    • Don’t faint, but the National Rifle Association and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence have joined forces behind a bill regulating the sale of firearms

      • . — Gun reform with NRA blessing, The Denver Post, June 17, 2007

    • The difference is that the NRA endorsed the background check improvements, boosting its chances of becoming the first major national gun control law in more than a decade.

      • –Andrew Taylor of Associated Press, NRA Challenges Gun-Control Democrats, www.ABCNews.com, June 27, 2007

    • ‘ When the NRA and I agree on legislation, you know that it’s going to get through, become law and do some good,’ says Schumer. — NRA, Democrats Team Up To Pass Gun Bill , www.cbsnews.com/, June 13, 2007

    There is some good news for gun owners:  Second Amendment hero Senator Tom Coburn continues to fight against H.R. 2640.  Opposition is building, but we still have a long way to go.

    We need Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) and Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) to join Senator Tom Coburn in opposition to this outrageous infringement upon on constitutional rights.

    Here s what you can do:

    1)              Call Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Bunning and tell them to join Senator Coburn in opposition to H.R. 2640, the McCarthy/Leahy Gun Control Bill. 

       Call Senator Mike Crapo’s office at (202) 224-6142.   To e-mail senator Crapo go here: http://crapo.senate.gov

       Call Senator Bunning s office at (202) 224-4343.  To e-mail Senator Bunning go here: http://bunning.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm”

    2)              Call or e-mail the NRA and tell them to stop schmoozing with Sarah Brady and Chuck Schummer and oppose H.R. 2640. 

             Call (800) 392-8683 or e-mail the NRA s federal lobbyist, Chuck Cunningham at chuckc@visi.net and Federal-Affairs@nrahq.org.  

    For NAGR s extensive analysis of H.R. 2640, go here: http://www.nationalgunrights.org/hr2640.shtml   

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    Citizens Decree to the President of the United States George W. Bush

      Citizens Decree to the President of the United States George W. Bush

      Representative Henry A. Waxman (D-CA)

      These self righteous zealots no longer even attempt to mask their TRUE INTENT: the elimination of the right guaranteed by the second amendment to keep and bear arms. Their own words describe how the Senate and House anti-gun Democrats in leadership positions plan to take away guns from law abiding Americans, just like you and me – thereby eliminating our ability to keep firearms for self-defense and other lawful use.

      Yet these same “servants of the people” have taken NO ACTION to stop illegally armed barbarians from running wild in murderous rampages! What’s more, their words belie how these elitist politicians view YOU as being dangerous to their legislative plans.

      My name is Alan Gottlieb. I am Chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. We are one of America’s most effective grassroots organizations dedicated to preserving your Second Amendment rights.

      Today as I send you this email, we are in a fight-to-the-death battle with Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, the national media, simple minded Hollywood activists and a host of other left leaning elitists who are united in their mission to take away our right to keep and bear arms.

      Chances are you have helped to in the fight against some of these same gun grabbers before. But now we have to fight them all at the same time, as the gun grabbers now control Congress!

      THIS IS WHAT WE FACE TODAY: LIBERAL ELITSTS WITH AN AGENDA TO TAKE AWAY THE CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARANTEED RIGHT OF LAW ABIDING CITIZENS TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS..

      The Citizen’s Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has two opportunities for you to join us in the effort to make certain that our liberties are not restricted, or eliminated all together:

      1) Sign the CITIZEN’S DECREE, which urges President George W. Bush to…

      …VETO every anti-gun or gun banning bill that the gun grabbers who control Congress pass to limit your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms against crime, terrorism and anarchy.

      PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE CITIZEN’S DECREE

      2) Join or contribute to the Citizen’s Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Only through the contributions of fellow Americans like you can we continue to fight for the preservation of our Constitutional rights.

      PLEASE CLICK HERE TO JOIN OR DONATE

      As these gun grabber quotes make perfectly clear, the threat we face from the gun control extremists is stronger than ever before. It is simple: the liberal gun grabbers in Congress don’t care about you or your rights. They are DETERMINED to assuage their power and exercise their control, by taking away your second amendment rights to keep and bear arms.

      That’s why they are working night-and-day to win Congressional passage of any and all laws that will force all law abiding Americans to be disarmed. And the only thing that may stand in their way is a veto by the President of the United States.

      Please do not delay – not for a single minute. The anti-gun crowd claims that no law-abiding citizen would ever be harmed by strict new gun laws or bans and that somehow we would be “safer” because of new restrictions on our rights.

      Well, let the gun grabber leftists tell that to…

    • the unarmed motorists who are pulled from their vehicles, savagely beaten and shot;
    • the unarmed homeowners who hide in terror while the police can’t get there in time to protect them from intruders.
    • and the unarmed businessmen who watch their stores and shops looted and lives destroyed by those who have no regard for ANY laws.

    My friend, in the wake of all the statistical evidence, can anyone still believe that “banning guns” make us safer? There are currently over twenty thousand gun control laws on the books around the nation. Is our nation any safer because of them? The answer is an emphatic NO!

    Ask yourself this simple question: If gun control works – why is Washington D.C., which has outlawed all guns, known as the “murder capital of the world?” The answer is that gun control simply does not and cannot work. And it never will.

    PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE CITIZEN’S DECREE

    Yet, more and more politicians think the way to take guns away from murderers, rapist, and drug dealers is by taking them away from law-abiding citizens like you and me. This would have shocked our Founding Fathers who realized more than 200 hundred years ago that government could never guarantee the safety of all its citizens all of the time – and that self-defense is a God-given right.

    That’s why they were very specific in writing the Second Amendment which states,

    “…the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”.

    Yours. Your children’s. And your grandchildren’s.

    Not the government’s…not the liberal media’s…and not Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, Chuck Schumer, Hilary Clinton, Dianne Feinstein, Henry Waxman or scores of other gun grabbers.

    PLEASE CLICK HERE TO JOIN OR DONATE

    That’s why I hope you will immediately sign and return your CITIZEN’S DECREE and join us with your financial support. We MUST make certain that the right of gun ownership is never stolen away.

    The gun grabbers are united in the singular goal of denying all honest, law abiding Americans their Second Amendment rights. What’s worse, President Bush has hinted he may actually sign some gun control bills if he wins concessions of other crime and terror related issues! And like the concessions the President made on other issues – that would be a TERRIBLE mistake and would likely have catastrophic results!

    For that reason, the Citizen’s Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms intends to flood the White House with a sea of CITIZEN’S DECREES, urging President Bush to veto every anti-gun or gun ban bill passed by the House and Senate. A vote on a dangerous, anti-gun or gun ban bill could come at any time in this explosive political year. That’s why I am pleading with you to sign your CITIZEN’S DECREE today…

    PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE CITIZEN’S DECREE

    Please also consider joining the Citizen’s Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and make your most generous contribution to help us with the financial means to keep up the fight. Together, we can preserve our God-given right to own firearms for self-defense and other lawful purposes.

    PLEASE CLICK HERE TO JOIN OR DONATE

    Thank you. I know I can count on you.

    Sincerely yours,

    Alan M. Gottlieb Chairman, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

    P.S. It’s time we stood up and said enough is enough! Please, sign you CITIZEN’S DECREE and join us with your donation of $20, $25, $50, $100 or more to the Citizen’s Committee to Keep and Bear Arms. Thank you.

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    Disarmed Victims in Virginia

    I was going to write something similar but Jeff Knox says it more eloquently than I would have. If just one person had a Weapon they could have stopped this person. Laws preventing law abiding citizens from carrying weapons for self defense and defending themselves just turn them into victims. Such stupid laws do NOTHING to stop someone like the person who shot up Virginia Tech. A teacher or guard, even a student could have stopped this person if they weren’t prohibited from carrying weapons on campus even if they do have a CCW. Weapons free zones are nothing more than disarmed victims waiting zone. If you think the police are there to protect you this incident should be a lesson to you, they only take reports after the fact..

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    Thirty three dead after shooting rampage at Virginia Tech. All of the
    victims were unarmed. The murderer killed himself.
    Virginia Tech forbids students and faculty from possessing firearms on
    campus, even when they have valid concealed weapons permits.
    News is still sketchy but it appears that a lunatic went on a rampage
    at Virginia Tech University this morning killing some 32 people before
    killing himself. Early reports indicate that the shooting started shortly
    after 7:00 this morning in a co-ed dormitory housing some 800
    students. The gunman avoided apprehension after that incident and it is
    speculated that the same gunman then walked into a classroom building two
    hours later and began shooting students in classrooms.
    Reports indicate that the gunman first chained the doors to the building
    from the inside and was wearing a vest with numerous magazines attached to
    it. The only firearms mentioned in any of the reports were two 9mm
    handguns supposedly carried by the gunman, but those reports are so far
    unsubstantiated.
    The campus Police Chief says that officers entered the buildings
    immediately upon arrival but that there was never any exchange of gunfire
    between the gunman and police.

    The Virginia Citizens Defense League has sponsored legislation in the
    last two sessions of the Virginia legislature aimed at forcing state
    schools like Virginia Tech to abandon their policy of forbidding students
    and faculty from possessing guns on campus. Representatives of the
    colleges argued that their campuses were safe and have little crime…
    As always happens in incidents like this, the media is casting about
    for someone or something to blame for this tragedy other than the
    criminal. Most of the criticism so far has been pointed toward the schools
    response to the first shootings. They are asking questions like, “Why
    wasn’t the campus locked down at that time?” and “Why weren’t students
    notified not to go to classes?”. So far no one in the mainstream media has
    asked the question we want answered: “Why do you force law-abiding students
    to disarm when on campus?”
    When asked what could be done to avert a tragedy like this, the
    president of the University responded that, “We obviously can’t have an
    armed guard in front of every classroom every day.” To which the Firearms
    Coalition responds: If you admit that you can’t protect people, why do you
    insist on taking away people’s ability to protect themselves?
    Eyewitness accounts of the shooting suggest that the shooter was firing
    very rapidly, precluding any opportunity for students to overwhelm him with
    force and numbers. The only thing that could have mitigated this tragedy
    would have been one or more persons armed with firearms within close
    proximity when the shooting started.
    Instead of pointing out this simple, practical truth, it won’t be long
    until the media takes up the cries that have already begun from the
    anti-gun forces and start blaming the tools and using this tragedy as an
    excuse to pursue more restrictions on firearms. It is up to the pro-gun
    majority to bring this back to the facts of personal protection – that an
    individual’s security is that individual’s responsibility and it is
    inexcusable for anyone to ever take away anyone else’s right to their
    chosen means of affecting that protection.

    We will keep you posted as this story develops.

    Yours for the Second Amendment,

    Jeff Knox
    Director of Operations
    The Firearms Coalition

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