Last Holdout, St. Louis Now Accepts CCW Applications: The City of St. Louis becomes the final jurisdiction in Missouri to accept applications for concealed-carry endorsements. (In Missouri a concealed-carry endorsement is placed on the driver license.) http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=82305 --- Democrats Forced To Support Lawsuit-Protection Bill: Analyst sees power of RKBA vote in bipartisan Senate support for the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=8279 --- LaPierre To Support Fired Workers In Oklahoma: The NRA's Wayne LaPierre is traveling to Oklahoma for a rally to support 12 people fired by Weyerhaeuser for leaving hunting rifles in vehicles parked on a company parking lot. (The three-year-old case has sparked two bills passed in that state to prevent similar incidents.) http://www.ktok.com/cc-common/feeds/view.php?feed_id=135&feed=/local.html&instance=1&article_id=26392 --- Massachusetts Women Introduced To Firearms: The New Bedford Revolver & Rifle Club held a Women on Target event to attract more women to shooting. (I hope that the students learned more than the reporter, whose account contains several errors.) http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/07-05/07-25-05/a01lo337.htm --- From Teddy Jacobson: (This was included in a personal e-mail and is very sound advice. I would only add that where I live .40 S&W and .45 ACP are also very popular.) I suggest you start buying some boxes of 9mm in quantities of 20 each that you can barter with. It's not if we will be hit but when. You can barter a small box of 9mm bullets for food and water. Think about the "DAY AFTER" Our job will be to survive. --- From the Tucson Rod & Gun Club: Dear Fellow Gun Owner, I want to thank all of you who have recently made donations to the range construction fund. Thanks to your generosity our fundraising drive is off to a great start! Your contributions will go toward building a new shooting facility designed to serve all shooting disciplines and calibers and will include a rifle range, a pistol range, a shotgun range, a plinking range and facilities for practical shooting, cowboy action shooting, trap and skeet, sporting clays and archery. This facility will provide the citizens of Tucson with a long needed full service shooting range and gun safety and hunter education facility. We are now in the second stage of the permitting process for this new range. At this stage we must decide what shooting venues can be constructed in the first phase of construction and what venues will have to wait until additional funding becomes available. We are pursuing multiple avenues for funding the construction of this shooting range. We have received commitments from several Tucson businesses for heavy equipment and materials for construction and we are actively soliciting further such commitments. In addition, there are grants available for shooting range construction on a fund matching basis so that, for every dollar that we commit to construction, the grant will match that amount dollar for dollar. However, in order to obtain a fund matching grant we have to have the funds to match. This is why we still need contributions from gun owners like you. So, if you haven't yet decided to make a contribution, please keep in mind that, before we can plan the construction of a given section of the range we have to show that we have the financial capability to fund that construction. Now is the time to join us in this effort to finally give Tucson the shooting range we have all waited so long for. We ask for your commitment to help make this new range a success by making special gift of $250, $100, $75, $50, $25 or whatever contribution you can make. Please act today to help us build this shooting range. For your convenience you can now make your donation by credit card. Just click on the link below and you will be taken to a secure credit card processing site. https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=brandon%40trgc%2eorg&item_name=Donation%20to%20TR%26GC%20shooting%20range%20fund&no_shipping=1&return=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2etrgc2eorg&cancel_return=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2etrgc%2eorg&cn=For%20updates%20enter%20name%20%26%20email&tax=0¤cy_code=USD&lc=US&charset=UTF%2d8&charset=UTF%2d8 If you prefer to make your donation by check, you may send your contribution with the coupon below. Either way. we welcome your participation in this opportunity to secure a future for the shooting sports in Tucson for decades to come. Thank you very much! Sincerely, Dave Hardy Don Saba President TR&GC TR&GC Member, Board of Directors National Rifle Association --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR&GC Range Construction Donation YES, I want to support the construction of the new shooting range! Enclosed is my contribution of $_______. Name__________________________________________________ Phone #__________________________________________________ Address____________________________________________________ Email address_________________________ Please mail this coupon with your contribution to: Tucson Rod & Gun Club, PO Box 12921, Tucson, AZ 85732 -- Stephen P. Wenger Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info .