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History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister
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Legacy Sports has introduced the new Nikko Stirling Panamax 3-9x40mm rifle scope. Its wide angle field-of-view has a 20% larger viewing picture than most other 1" main tube scopes and is designed to transmit high levels of ambient light, all lenses are treated with our proprietary Micro Lux ETE Gen III coatings. The scope comes with the new Half Mil-Dot (HMD) reticle, making precise hold-over and wind correction quick and easy. It also includes a Fast Focus Eye Piece, 4 inches of eye relief and positive "¼inch click" finger adjustable turrets. MSRP: $129.
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Arsenal Inc. is releasing an extremely limited quantity of the SARPK 5S. The collector's rifle has not been available for several years, and will be a welcome addition to many enthusiasts' collection. This 5.56x45 RPK offers increased operational range and enhanced accuracy due to its hammer forged than milled receiver, RPK heavy barrel, 14mm threads, removable muzzle nut, folding bipod, cleaning rod, blonde wood furniture, paddle style butt-stock, and scope rail. The rifle ships with 1- 30 round magazine, sling, oil bottle, and cleaning kit. For more information go to www.arsenaline.com.
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House Bill Would Nix
Gun Control Executive Action
The NRA Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) lauded the passage of H.R. 2578, the Fiscal Year 2016 Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations Act (CJS), which contained strong pro-Second Amendment provisions aimed at stopping the Obama Administration from enacting its gun control agenda through executive action.
"On behalf of the NRA's five million members, I want to thank House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers and House CJS subcommittee Chairman John Culberson for their leadership in fighting against the Obama-Bloomberg gun control agenda," said Chris W. Cox, Executive Director of NRA-ILA. "Their hard work and unwavering commitment to protecting our freedoms resulted in a strong pro-Second Amendment piece of legislation. The NRA will continue to work with Congress to prevent President Obama from imposing his back door gun control agenda on the American people."
Among the key measures in the House CJS Appropriations bill are:
a prohibition on the use of funds for "Operation Choke Point," a program that chokes off banking services to legitimate businesses;
a prohibition on funds to prevent the Obama Administration from banning commonly used ammunition, such as M855;
a prohibition on the use of funds to prevent the Justice Department (or any government entity) from spending taxpayer dollars on "gun walking" programs such as the flawed and controversial "Operation Fast and Furious";
a prohibition on the use of funds to maintain any record or gun registry on multiple rifle or shotgun sales to law-abiding individuals;
a prohibition of funds for collecting data regarding a person's race or ethnicity on a Form 4473 when purchasing a firearm.
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Vets Told They Can 'Buy Back'
2nd Amendment Rights
A legal team investigating the Obama Administration's order that American military veterans who have been deemed "incompetent" must give up their weapons says the problem is worse than expected. People who live with veterans now are being ordered not to possess a gun, and some veterans are being told they can "buy back" their Second Amendment rights by giving up their veterans' benefits according to a WND.com article.
"This is simply unbelievable. On the one hand the [Veterans Administration] and the FBI have found veterans to be mentally ill and too dangerous to be allowed to own firearms, while on the other hand allowing these allegedly dangerous people to buy their firearms rights back," wrote Michael Connelly, Executive Director of the United States Justice Foundation, in a report. "This is illegal and is called extortion." The organization has been looking into claims by a number of veterans and their family members.
The veterans were sent letters telling them they were being classified as incompetent and the government was assigning someone to help them handle their benefits and payments. Consequently, they were told, they could no longer own weapons, under penalty of fines and jail time. The problem was that the veterans were being determined guilty without a hearing regarding the potential loss of their constitutional rights, USJF said at the time. [Source: WND.com]
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Court Lawsuit against Kansas
2nd Amendment Protection Act
Last week a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Kansas Second Amendment Protection Act, saying the suit from the Brady Campaign was "without merit," according to an article in ShallNot.org.
The law, signed by Gov. Sam Brownback in 2013, draws a line in the sand on federal gun control. It reads, in part: Any act, law, treaty, order, rule or regulation of the government of the United States which violates the second amendment to the constitution of the United States is null, void and unenforceable in the state of Kansas.
In conjunction with Section 6a (quoted above), the bill defines what is meant by "the second amendment to the constitution of the United States," and that it isn't based off a decision of the Supreme Court.
"The second amendment to the Constitution of the United States reserves to the people, individually, the right to keep and bear arms as that right was understood at the time that Kansas was admitted to statehood in 1861, and the guaranty of that right is a matter of contract between the state and people of Kansas and the United States as of the time that the compact with the United States was agreed upon and adopted by Kansas in 1859 and the United States in 1861."
State and local agents would be prevented from enforcing any acts or actions that are "null, void and unenforceable in the state of Kansas." Based off this text, the state of Kansas would not be allowed to participate in any federal gun control measures that restrict the individual right to keep and bear arms as understood in 1861.
A second part of the bill intends to encourage more gun manufacturing in the state by declaring null and void any federal restrictions, under the commerce clause, on firearms made and sold within the state.
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Supreme Court Deals Blow to Gun Rights
Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Antonin Scalia, issued a pointed dissent to the Supreme Court's order denying review in the Jackson v. San Francisco Second Amendment gun rights case. The original complaint alleges that the requirement to keep handguns unloaded or trigger locked or otherwise in a locked case is exactly the kind of unconstitutional interference with the right to self- defense struck down in Heller. The suit also challenges the fact that the "no discharge" ordinance has no exception for self-defense. Furthermore the suit challenges the ban on the sale of hollow point ammunition or any ammunition that is not suitable for "sporting purposes" in San Francisco.
In the amicus brief submitted to the Supreme Court by the Firearms Policy Coalition asking that they take up the Jackson case, the FPC argued, in part, that: "Notwithstanding this Court's explicit direction, the lower courts have adopted a test that requires them to engage in the very sort of interest balancing Heller and McDonald forbid. There is thus a clear divide between those courts that nod along to Heller as they perform the post-Heller two-step (but actually apply Justice Breyer's deferential interest-balancing inquiry), and those courts determined to review Second Amendment claims in a manner consistent with Heller and McDonald. In the meantime, as more lower courts apply more layers of scrutiny that defer to state and local government policy choices (the supposed process of reviewing Second Amendment claims under Heller and McDonald), those governments become all the more emboldened to push the envelope with regulations that become the functional equivalent of the outright bans on possession in the home (the substance of the "core" right recognized in Heller and McDonald)."
In an article published on firearmspolicy.org, the author notes in their dissent, Justices Thomas and Scalia agreed: the decision of the [Ninth Circuit] Court of Appeals is in serious tension with Heller....Since our decision in Heller, members of the Courts of Appeals have disagreed about whether and to what extent the tiers-of-scrutiny analysis should apply to burdens on Second Amendment rights. Compare Heller v. District of Columbia, 670 F. 3d 1244 (CADC 2011) ("We ask first whether a particular provision impinges upon a right protected by the Second Amendment; if it does, then we go on to determine whether the provision passes muster under the appropriate level of constitutional scrutiny"), with id., at 1271 (Kavanaugh, J., dissenting) ("In my view, Heller and McDonald leave little doubt that courts are to assess gun bans and regulations based on text, history, and tradition, not by a balancing test such as strict or intermediate scrutiny"). One need not resolve that dispute to know that something was seriously amiss in the decision. [Source: firearmspolicy.org] |
Gun Blogs, Videos, Web Forums
Threatened by New Obama Regulation
According to a Washington Examiner article written by Paul Bedard, commonly used and unregulated internet discussions and videos about guns and ammo could be closed down under rules proposed by the State Department, amounting to a "gag order on firearm-related speech," the National Rifle Association is warning.
In updating regulations governing international arms sales, State is demanding that anyone who puts technical details about arms and ammo on the web first get the OK from the federal government - or face a fine of up to $1 million and 20 years in jail. According to the NRA, that would include blogs and web forums discussing technical details of common guns and ammunition, the type of info gun owners and ammo reloaders trade all the time.
At issue is the internet. State is updating International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), which implement the federal Arms Export Control Act (AECA). The rules govern everything from guns to strategic bombers. The NRA said that the rules predate the internet, and now the federal government wants to regulate technical arms discussions on the internationally available web. State's proposal is highly technical. It took 14 pages in the Federal Register to explain. But the NRA boiled it down for gun owners with this warning:
"In their current form, the ITAR do not (as a rule) regulate technical data that are in what the regulations call the 'public domain.' Essentially, this means data 'which is published and which is generally accessible or available to the public' through a variety of specified means. These include 'at libraries open to the public or from which the public can obtain documents.' Many have read this provision to include material that is posted on publicly available websites, since most public libraries these days make Internet access available to their patrons. "The ITAR, however, were originally promulgated in the days before the Internet. Some State Department officials now insist that anything published online in a generally-accessible location has essentially been 'exported,' as it would be accessible to foreign nationals both in the U.S. and overseas. [Source: Washington Examiner]
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