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Challenge to Pittsburgh’s Anti-Gun Zoning Law

This looks pretty clearly to be a violation of preemption:

On Thursday, October 2, at 10:00am, Peter Georgiades, a Second Amendment rights attorney, will be challenging the legality of a recently enacted provision in the Pittsburgh zoning code.Â This provision restricts â€œgun-related businessesâ€ from being established within city limits, even if the lot is zoned for commercial use.Â This provision only applies to businesses that are in any way involved with the â€œsaleâ€ of firearms.Â This is another blatant attack on the firearm industry and Pennsylvaniaâ€™s law-abiding citizens.

If you live in the Pittsburgh area, this will probably be pretty interesting to attend.

New Terminology

I don’t wish to paint all Democrats as gun hating losers, because there are a lot of good ones out there.Â Like Jason Altmire and Dan Boren, for example.Â So I have decided on declaring an Axis of Evil to exist within the Democratic Party, composed of Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi.Â Henceforth known as the Obama/Biden/Pelosi Democrats.Â These are the people who make nightmares for gun owners.Â We have to fight these Democrats, and in doing that, we’re really going to need our friends in the Democratic party.

US News Publishing AHSA Pressers

Look at this steaming pile of merda equi (I have to thank Xlrq for that one):

At the same time, the gun issue is losing its potency. Sure, the National Rifle Association is running television ads implying that Obama wants to take away hunting guns, but that attack is weakened by the recent success of the gun lobby at the Supreme Court. In June, the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment guarantees a private right to bear armsâ€”a decision Obama promptly embraced. Such a backdrop makes the scare tactics less likely to stick.

That’s good news for conservation because the emphasis on the gun issue creates lousy politics for hunters and anglers. In 2004, Field and Stream columnist George Reiger pointed out that the gun lobby’s almost exclusive focus on the Second Amendment meant that hunters could “end up with a closet full of guns with no place but a shooting range to use them.”

Did Andrew Rotherham write this, or did Ray Schoenke?Â If it’s losing its potency, why is the Obama campaign threatning to shut down broadcasters who run NRA ads opposing his candidacy, and exposing his horrible record on guns?Â If this is true, it shouldn’t be any problem.Â The gun issue has lost its potency right?

Obama can thank God for a lousy economy, because he was fast on his way to losing the election because of his stance on guns.Â He may yet still lose.

Going High-Tech for Gun Show Outreach

One thing I want to do for the Allentown show this weekend is make our table look attractive, to entice people to come over and talk with us.Â The typical literature isn’t very interesting or eye catching, especially when you’re in a room with wall-to-wall guns.

In the mail is a digital picture frame, which I will use on the table to play video.Â I’m planning on running the NRA Katrina video on that, with some literature placed near it.Â In the other corner of the table, I’m going to borrow a Shuttle PC from my friend Jason, along with an LCD touch screen.Â My idea was to put up NRA’s O-Match application up full screen and let people use it.Â I figured kids especially may be drawn in, giving us an opportunity to talk to the parents.Â Can you say “Barack Obama is a free speech stifling, gun banning weasel?Â I knew you could.”Â This should be something different, and we’ll see how this experiment goes.Â I might lose my faith in humanity if I discover that cats and humans have more in common than I once thought, but if I get some more people at my table, and on my e-mail list, I’ll be happy.

Resistance Against Local Gun Ordinance

The Lehigh County District Attorney is resisting attempts by Allentown to pass local gun ordinances similar to Phialdelphia’s.Â If people want to know why we defend preemption tooth and nail, this is why.Â Before long you have a patchwork of laws that no one can reasonably comply with:

Any officer who makes an arrest under the ordinance could face obstruction of justice charges, Martin said in an interview Monday.

”The issue is clear,” Martin said. ”When it comes to gun-control legislation, any city ordinance is preempted by state law and that makes any Allentown law unenforceable.”

James Martin deserves the support of gun owners for being willing to stand by the law and our state’s constitution.

New Jersey News

Jersey City lost its appeal in its efforts to uphold its one-gun-per-month gun rationing scheme.Â Good news, but it’s probably going to prompt the legislature to act on a state-wide bill to do the same thing.Â After all, all those cousin humping rednecks in the Northwest and Southern parts of New Jersey keep killing themselves, and someone has to take all those dangerous things away from them.

New Rules in Finland

In response to the school shooting:

First-time applicants for a handgun license must now prove that they have been members of a shooting club for at least a year. In addition, all applicants must provide a note from a doctor about their mentalÂ health.

So you have to spend a year in a club without having access to a firearm?Â And this is the kind of gun laws people want for this country.

Philadelphia Loses Another Lawsuit

The City of Philadelphia lost another gun lawsuit in Commonwealth Court yesterday.Â This was the lawsuit by the city against the Pennsylvania Legislature in Harrisburg for failing to pass sufficiently strict gun laws, and for disallowing the City fo pass its own gun laws:

The state Commonwealth Court struck down a lawsuit filed last year by City Council members Darrell Clarke and Donna Reed Miller against the state General Assembly for not passing enabling legislation to allow a package of gun-control laws to be enforced in the city.

The court rejected Council’s argument that the state’s Uniform Firearms Act does not preempt local control over guns.

“While we understand the terrible problems gun violence poses for the city and sympathize with its efforts to use police powers to create a safe environment for its citizens, these practical considerations do not alter the clear pre-emption imposed by the legislature, nor our Supreme Court’s validation of the legislature’s power to act,” the ruling said.

Nutter is not surrendering on this issue, however:

“People have to make a decision as to what side of this issue they’re going to be on. You’re either going to stand up for the citizens of Philadelphia or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or you’re going to stand up for criminals.”

How about standing up for the Constitution Mr. Mayor?Â You know, the one that you took an oath to uphold?Â No one is standing up for the criminals here, least of all me.Â But Let me tell you, Mayor Nutter has some stones here, to talk about supporting criminals when his City criminal justice system is letting people like this roam the streets.Â Until we can have an open honest conversation about how to deal with that problem, the City politicians are continuing to pretend to be addressing the problem.

UPDATE: Looks like Uncle beat me to it.Â Now he’ll start telling me I don’t read his blog again :)

DNC Now Attempting to Silence Gun Owners

URGENT: I got a response back already.Â Do not use their e-mailers, as they send attachments along that do contain Obama’s legal threat, along with all the material from FactCheck.org and various other sources.Â They do send your content, but you don’t want the baggage that goes along with it.

The Democratic National Committee is now taking up a petition to get NRA’s ads off the air.Â I have filled in my information so you don’t have to:

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please stop broadcasting the misleading and phony NRA attack ad against Barack Obama on your stations.

Time and again, Barack Obama has defended the right to bear arms created by the Constitution. However, this shameful ad misrepresents Barack’s position on illegal guns and tries to scare voters with incorrect information about his stance on the issue.

This NRA ad is a lie, and is not fit for public broadcast.

The public airwaves are no place for this kind of hateful and misleading trash. I hope you will stop broadcasting this deceptive ad on your station and prevent the level of discourse to be lowered by the lies it presents.

Please take this ad off the air at once.

Will the blue dogs in the party condemn this action?Â Or will they stand by and take it from Obama?Â If they want gun owner support, this isn’t how to go about it.Â I will say that at least the DNC didn’t threaten their broadcast licenses.Â Since they allow editing, I have taken their form and translated it to this:

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please do not give into intimidation and threats from the Democratic Party and the Obama campaign to cease running NRA’s ads.Â As an independent voter, a gun owner, sport shooter, and an NRA member, I find it offensive that the Democratic Party has chosen to attempt to silence my views.Â Please keep running the ads by the National Rifle Association.Â They speak for me, and many other gun owners who will not be voting for Barack Obama this coming November.

Thank You,

Sebastian
Langhorne, PA

That should be a nice middle finger extended to the Democratic National Committee.Â Unfortunately, they ask for a donation after you submit, and “Piss Off” is not among the options.

A Win for FOPA

Looks like the Firearms Owners Protection Act’s safe harbor provision for transporting a firearm through a hostile state is actually worth something.Â Excellent.