One going after Obama for thuggish tactics against the NRA. The other is about Obama’s Bitter comment. Both are very well done ads. I hope they find their way into the Northeastern Pennsylvania media market, where they are urgently needed.
Author: Sebastian
Hearing Tomorrow
Meleanie Hain will have her hearing tomorrow to appeal her revocation of her License to Carry by the Lebanon County Sheriff. My previous comments on the matter a few weeks ago don’t affect my desire to see Ms. Hain prevail in her case. Whether or not it’s the best public relations strategy I think is debatable, but the law is not, and she should get her LTC reinstated.
What A Crowd
Looks like Ray Schoenke’s been roaming all over Ohio talking to crowds of adoring fans. Take a look at the accompanying picture on the right of that article. I’ve spoken to groups bigger than this, and I’m just an NRA Election Volunteer Coordinator, with no professional sports record on my background. Granted, I’ve had my failures with turnout too, but I’m not pretending to be a big deal. I’m definitely not pretending to be a group that’s going to save the Democrats from the mean, nasty NRA.
ABA Journal Prints Post-Heller Article
The American Bar Association has been pretty anti-gun in its past. It’s nice to see them eating some crow post-Heller. Even nicer seeing they are publishing articles about the legal battle that’s happening as a consequence of the ruling, and giving Steve Halbrook some well deserved coverage.
GBR III Round Up
SayUncle has the round up. I’m glad everyone had a great time, and I’m sorry I missed it. Next year might be easier, since it won’t be an election year.
Bradys Endorse Obama/Biden
I’m actually happy about this endorsement. I will make sure to print it out and display it at the gun show this weekend so the bitter clingers up North will believe us when we tell them Obama will be a disaster for gun rights. Obama is running like hell from his gun record when he or his surrogates are speaking in Pennsylvania. This will actually help me:
The Obama-Biden ticket understands that the rights of law-abiding gun owners can co-exist with the reasonable restrictions which the U.S. Supreme Court recognized as “presumptively lawful” in its recent Second Amendment decision finding a general gun ban unconstitutional. As Justice Scalia stated, there is “not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever for whatever purposes.” Senator McCain once understood this concept but that “straight talk” is now silent.
Yes Pennsylvanians, Obama gets an endorsement because he believes the Second Amendment allows for the federal government to ban whole classes of commonly owned firearms. Thanks Paul, you just made my job a lot easier!
Two Op-Eds on VCDL And Open Carry
One is a smear piece on the group and their activities, and the other is pretty good. Good on the Virginia-Pilot for blancing out the viewpoints. I do have to wonder whether their editorial board believe that a criminal or mass killer would choose to carry the instrument of his crime out in the open where everyone could see it, including law enforcement.
Careful
A church in Brooklyn is accepting guns and exchanging them for cash.
As part of the program, anyone can anonymously hand in a gun or rifle, legal or illegal, and get a $200 bank card — no questions asked. The cards may be used at stores or to withdraw money at ATM machines.
While gun owners can turn their weapons over at police precincts for $100 anytime, pastors say churches are seen as sanctuaries by those wary of authorities.
Except it’s a violation of the laws of the State and City of New York for the pastors at these churches to take possession of the firearms that are being turned in. If I were to go to New York to swap guns for cash, they’d throw me in prison. Why do these guys get a pass?
More Fighting with Allentown
But Pawlowski responded that the new state law would still leave police the difficult job of proving that a straw purchaser was lying about losing the gun. That’s no different from the current system, ”which obviously isn’t working,” he said.
The mayors have acknowledged that only the state may regulate legal guns, but ”this law is about illegal guns,” Easton Mayor Sal Panto Jr. said. The mayors’ argument is that the guns become illegal once they’re lost or stolen.
They are arguing over HB 1845, which was passed last week, and I believe signed by Ed Rendell. It makes penalties stiff for falsely claiming to police that a gun was lost or stolen, when it was really sold on the streets. The idea that this isn’t a law regulating the possession of firearms, which is preempted by state law, is absolutely abusrd. The gun might become an illegal gun, but the possession of it by the person that was victimized was not illegal, and regulation of that possession is strictly a matter of state, and not local law.
LA Times Not Liking Endorsement
The LA Times isn’t liking the NRA endorsement of McCain:
Even during the presidential campaign, he hasn’t ruled out “common-sense” efforts to lower the murder rate in big cities. That’s anathema to the NRA, which wants no one to abridge gang members’ right to slaughter one another.
Even if the NRA is right about Obama, he’s still not going to take Americans’ guns away. By striking down Washington’s handgun ban in June, the Supreme Court assured that it will be very difficult for the government to forbid gun ownership by law-abiding citizens in the future. It’s unclear whether the NRA cares; having won its 2nd Amendment battle, it’s now out to block any restriction on gun freedom, even the freedom of felons and the mentally ill to buy guns. There are dangers in such extremism, and they’ll become clearer as the body count rises.
Nothing to see here. Please move along. Pay no attention to what the gun loons think and get out there and vote for The Lightworker.