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AN AMERICAN WARNING
Because you should know!
October 2008 - Posts
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In just a few days, on November 4, gun owners will be presented with a
very clear choice of a pro-Second Amendment versus an anti-Second
Amendment Presidential ticket. John McCain and Sarah Palin versus
Barack Obama and Joe Biden represents a stark contrast for the future
of our freedom.
In that choice, one fact is foremost:
The next president, by filling inevitable vacancies on the U.S.
Supreme Court, will determine the continued existence of our Right To
Keep and Bear Arms.
Click here to read the entire article.
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The city of San Francisco is cutting a check to the attorneys who fought for your Second Amendment rights in the wake of court decisions striking down the city's gun ban. Victory is sweet, and it's even sweeter when the anti-gunners who tried to take away your rights have to pay for it.
The six-figure sum means that the NRA can continue to devote more resources towards other court fights, including our lawsuit against the San Francisco Housing Authority over its gun ban in public housing. And when you donate to the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund, you can help us take other anti-gun cities and towns to court as well.
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Eight months ago, on this blog, I said that I was still waiting for the mainstream media to ask Barack Obama about his positions on gun control.
I wrote:
Back in 1999, Obama called for a laundry list of gun control, including a 500 percent increase in taxes on firearms and ammunition. He called for bans of affordable handguns. He called for mandated "smart gun" technology. He demanded that FFLs not be allowed to maintain their business within five miles of a school or a park. In short, he wanted to regulate the Second Amendment out of existence.
To my knowledge, not one reporter has asked Obama about the positions he took back then. Nor have they asked him about the position he’s taking now, "supporting" the Second Amendment in speeches while refusing to sign on to the congressional amicus brief opposing the District of Columbia’s gun ban. Fifty-five of his fellow senators signed on to that brief, but Obama still pretends the issue is about "local control," not constitutional rights.
When the mainstream media refuses to ask a presidential frontrunner about his position on an issue, you can’t help but wonder why. When the issue is the Second Amendment, it can’t be because the press doesn’t like what Obama has to say. Maybe it’s just that they don’t want you to hear it.
Here it is, just days before Election Day, and the mainstream media is still covering for Barack Obama when it comes to your Second Amendment rights. Their actions are just as bad as Obama’s position.
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Is the city of Cleveland, Ohio, still trying to enforce local gun laws that have been negated by statewide firearms pre-emption? It certainly looks that way.
The Cleveland Plain-Dealer says if people want to "voluntarily" register their guns, they can... but aren't required to do so?
If that's the case, then why is the city of Cleveland trying to prosecute gun owner Damon Wells for "possession of an unregistered handgun"? The group Buckeye Firearms Association knows all about that case. It makes you wonder why the Cleveland Plain-Dealer seems to know nothing at all about it. If there is no longer a requirement to register your guns with the city, how can the city be prosecuting someone for failing to register their firearm?
I think the Plain-Dealer owes its readers the plain truth in another story.
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Do you realize we've gone through all three presidential debates, and not one moderator asked a question about the Second Amendment or the Heller case?
The biggest case the Supreme Court has handled in years doesn't merit a single question from the likes of Tom Brokaw and Jim Lehrer. The vice presidential debate was also devoid of questions about your gun rights, thanks to moderator Gwen Ifill.
The American people deserve tough questions and honest answers from the candidates. Here's the question we should have heard in at least one of the debates.
Members of Congress had the opportunity to sign on to a brief in support of the Second Amendment several months ago. Two hundred and fifty members of the House, 55 members of the Senate and the president of the Senate signed that brief. Now, both of you say you support the Second Amendment, but only one of you signed that brief. Senator McCain, why did you decide to sign the brief, and Senator Obama, why did you decide not to sign on to the brief?
Just a few months ago, Barack Obama had the opportunity to not just talk the talk, but walk the walk when it came to supporting your Right to Keep and Bear Arms. It's too bad the debate moderators didn't ask the question.
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With the presidential election just a month away, you should start paying attention to stories of voter fraud from around the country. Whenever anyone's orchestrating fraudulent votes, they're making sure your vote doesn't count.
In the battleground state of Nevada, for instance, the group ACORN has been accused of voter fraud after a voter registration drive turned up instances of new voters with fake names—including the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys.
Just two years ago in Washington state, ACORN submitted 1,800 voter registration forms. All but six of them were fraudulent. Washington's secretary of state called it the worst case of voter fraud in state history.
It's time to tell ACORN we're not going to stand for voter fraud. And it's up to all of us to keep our eyes out for possible voter fraud where we live.
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Barack Obama's still claiming to be a Second Amendment supporter, and gun owners around the country are continuing to tell their friends, neighbors, co-workers and even strangers the truth about Obama's anti-gun agenda.
Second Amendment scholar David Hardy is shedding light on Obama's time with the Joyce Foundation, the anti-gun organization that funneled tens of millions of dollars to gun control groups while Obama served on its board of directors.
It turns out Obama didn't have a problem with the Joyce Foundation buying issues of law reviews and turning them into gun-control propaganda pieces. Yet Obama, who taught a constitutional law seminar at the University of Chicago, keeps saying he'd never do anything to hurt the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. It's too late for rhetoric like that. He already has hurt the Second Amendment, and he'd do a lot more if given the chance.
Read David Hardy's article, and be sure to pass it around. We can't rely on the mainstream media to get the word out about Obama's hostility towards the Second Amendment. It's up to us this year.
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Watch your local or network news and you'll hear stories about the "latest studies" on a dozen topics. But I guarantee you the media won't be talking about one new study from researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of Maryland.
See, this new study found that there's no link between gun shows and suicides and homicides. In fact, the researchers found that in Texas, the homicide rate actually dropped after gun shows were held. So of course, the mainstream media isn't going to touch this story … not when they want to ban gun shows.
Bad guys get their guns illegally. Gun owners have always known this, but it's nice to see it backed up by academics -even if the media will ignore this story in favor of the latest study on the calories in "The Joy of Cooking."
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Did you hear that Barack Obama has bought his own television channel? No, it's not MSNBC, despite the way Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow swoon for the Illinois senator.
Obama has leased a television channel on the Dish Network. It's all Obama, all the time.
But while Obama's buying his own channel, he's still trying to stop television stations around the country from airing NRA ads that expose his radical anti-gun record.
Of course, Obama is free to spend his mountain of campaign cash on billboards or TV or radio ads, or even his own channel on the Dish Network. But his idea of freedom of speech doesn't extend to you or me.
While he's saturating the airwaves, he's trying to silence your voice.
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Have you heard about the attempts in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to zone away your Second Amendment rights? A new zoning ordinance in the city prohibits the opening of any "firearms-related business" in the city limits- a clear violation of Pennsylvania's pre-emption laws.
It's just one of the many new ways anti-gunners are trying to obstruct, delay, tax and deny your Right to Keep and Bear Arms in the wake of the Heller decision.
The good news is that the NRA found out about this attempt, and we're fighting the anti-freedom politicians in Pittsburgh. If you hear about any similar attempts to regulate the Second Amendment out of your town, don't hesitate to call the NRA so we can fight for you as well.
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The Obama campaign is now actively trying to silence your voice. They've sent a cease-and-desist letter to television stations in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Ohio, telling them to stop airing an NRA ad that truthfully points out some of Barack Obama's anti-gun positions.
Let me say that again. There is nothing false or inaccurate about the TV ad. The Obama campaign knows they can't win without deceiving gun owners, and the only way to do that is to stop NRA's voice from being heard.
We've sent our own letter to these television stations, defending the ad and fact-checking the Obama campaign. It's sad but not unexpected that Obama would try to shut us up.
He's already shown he's no friend of the Second Amendment. Now he's showing he's no friend of the First, either.
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