CCRKBA Supports Bolton Nomination: In the face of Democrat opposition to 
the confirmation of John Bolton as ambassador to the UN, the CCRKBA 
reminds us that the UN tends to oppose private ownership of firearms and 
Bolton is a supporter of individual rights.

http://press.arrivenet.com/pol/article.php/649826.html
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Another Statistical Argument: The Second Amendment Foundation argues 
that recently released FBI statistics on violent crime contradict the 
claim that the expiration of the federal ban on cosmetically impaired 
firearms would result in a surge of violence.

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=48495
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Weapons Of Choice: David Codrea points out that the prohibitionists have 
a lot of trouble keeping straight which firearms are the "weapons of 
choice" for criminals. (Perhaps because their true philosophy is, "Ban 
them all. Let God sort them out.")

http://gunsmagazine.com/Rights06.html
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Brazilian Churches Accept Firearms: Christian churches in Brazil are 
participating in in a firearm-surrender program.

http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj0507&article=050742c
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Poor Ruling By The Supremes: The Wall Street Journal comments on the 
recent ruling that federal law trumps state law on medical marijuana:

... But by the 1990s federal law making had grown so unhinged from any 
plausible Commerce Clause justification that it provoked a minor Supreme 
Court backlash. In 1995 in United States v. Lopez, the Court struck down 
the Gun-Free School Zones Act on the grounds that gun possession near a 
school was not an economic activity... Raich would appear to end the 
Lopez line of reasoning, since the two decisions don't seem 
reconcilable. If, as Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in his majority 
concurrence, non-economic activities can be regulated so long as they 
are part of a "comprehensive scheme of regulation," there would appear 
to be no federal power the Commerce Clause couldn't theoretically justify.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006792
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Interesting Bear Attack: Most people have given some thought to dealing 
with housebreakers. Some, who hike in bear country, have given some 
thought to dealing with bear attacks. Few have likely given much thought 
to the prospect of a housebreaking bear. As usual, the best approach is 
prevention. (White Mountain Apache women used to dangle bunches of tin 
cones from their burden baskets to avoid surprising bears as the women 
gathered food in the woods.)

http://www.dnronline.com/story1.asp

-- 
Stephen P. Wenger

Firearm safety - It's a matter 
for education, not legislation.

http://www.spw-duf.info



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