An East Tennessee woman may have been trying to do the right thing when she asked to check her loaded handgun outside the Sept. 11 memorial in New York City and was arrested for illegal possession of a firearm.
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President Obama keeps pushing for gun control. “I just want you to know that we are working on [gun control]. We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar,” President Obama told Sarah Brady, the former president of the Brady Campaign, this past spring.
His push as been quiet but relentless.
Just this past week Obama signaled that he was going to just ignore two new parts of the 2012 Omnibus Spending bill. Although he signed the spending bill into law, he simultaneously issued a so called “signing statement,” a note that presidents have started attaching to legislation stating how they interpret the law they are signing or whether they believe part of it is unconstitutional.
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The Obama administration won’t be bound by a gun control ban in the $ 1 trillion spending bill for 2012, the president said Friday.
The funding provision for the federal health agency says that “none of the funds made available in this title may be used, in whole or in part, to advocate or promote gun control.” The language aims to ban taxpayer dollars from supporting gun safety research.
“I have advised the Congress that I will not construe these provisions as preventing me from fulfilling my constitutional responsibility to recommend to the Congress’s consideration such measures as I shall judge necessary and expedient,” Obama said in a statement as he signed the bill into law.
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H.R. 2055—the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2012—has been passed by the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and has been sent to the President for his expected signature. This bill contains three NRA-backed provisions that will strengthen our Second Amendment rights and prohibit your federal tax dollars from being used to advance an anti-gun agenda.
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On Tuesday, the Wichita City Council voted 4 to 3 to expand your Right-to-Carry in 111 city buildings, parks and recreation areas. State laws currently allow cities to dictate where concealed carry permit holders may carry in government buildings and this change represents a dramatic shift for a city which once banned permit holders from carrying all 392 city-owned facilities.
It was announced this week that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) will publish a final rule removing gray wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the list of endangered and threatened species. This policy change will take effect thirty days after the rule is published in the Federal Register and that is expected to occur next week. This issue marks one more wildlife conservation success story funded, at least in part, by America’s hunters.
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Yesterday, the Casper City Council once again voted 5 to 4 in support of an ordinance to ban open carrying of firearms during city council meetings. This vote on this ordinance took place on its third and final reading and will now be enacted into city law; despite its direct conflict with the state’s firearms preemption law. State Senator Kit Jennings (R-28) of Casper, who has fought to expand your Right-to-Carry across Wyoming, spoke against this ordinance and warned the city against potential consequences of enacting such a law.
In all of my years fighting on behalf of the National Rifle Association to defend the Second Amendment, I never thought I would see a White House so vehemently opposed to gun ownership that it would be willing to arm violent criminals and endanger American lives in pursuit of a gun control agenda. Readers will recall that a little over two months ago, in this same space, I wrote:
“I would like to believe that President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder — no matter how much they oppose our Second Amendment rights — would never break the law and endanger human lives in their mission to score political points against gun owners ….
“However, to believe all of this, I would have to ignore a lot of facts.”
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A year ago this week, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered. He died protecting his country from brutal Mexican gangsters. Two AK 47 assault rifles were found at his death site. We now know the horrifying truth: Agent Terry was killed by weapons that were part of an illegal Obama administration operation to smuggle arms to the dangerous drug cartels. He was a victim of his own government. This is not only a major scandal; it is a high crime that potentially reaches all the way to the White House, implicating senior officials. It is President Obama’s Watergate.
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Earlier today, Governor Tom Corbett signed legislation into law removing an antiquated law which required hunters and trappers to display their license on an outer garment. With the enactment of House Bill 735, hunters and trappers will no longer be required to display their license beginning on February 13. Since this legislation will not take effect for sixty days, it is important that hunters and trappers continue to respect the current law and continue to wear their license until then.