Grassroots Gun Owners Mobilize In Blogosphere: A massive and seemingly mobilized online community has sprung among gun rights advocates readying for any possible action by the Democratic-led Congress to limit an individual's right to bear arms..."I think bloggers have diluted the power of the NRA," said Miller. "If I find an atrocity done by my elected official in my state, I don't have to contact the NRA and tell them to get on it. It can be passed along where it does not have to go through the bottleneck, where the NRA puts its own spin on it." http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,260492,00.html --- Who Organized The Response To Jim Zumbo? "...As the first, and for a great while the only, journalist to talk on the record with Jim Zumbo following his disastrous blog entry about semiautomatic rifles in mid-February, I was disappointed, but hardly surprised that Ray Schoenke would use the opportunity to attack the National Rifle Association and blame it for Zumbo's troubles...The NRA did not, as Schoenke asserted, start the Internet frenzy against Zumbo. The NRA had very little to do with Zumbo's troubles, and Schoenke knows it..." http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2003629456_thulets22.html --- "Assault Rifle" Controversy Divides, May Conquer: A student majoring in journalism presents a refreshing view from that quarter as he looks at l'affaire Zumbo. "Hunters are not by definition shooters, nor are shooters always hunters. The fact that there seems to be a rift between the two at times will surely divide the rights of the people in time." http://media.www.keeneequinox.com/media/storage/paper537/news/2007/03/22/Opinions/Assault.Rifle.Stereotype.Stirs.Up.Controversy.Among.Hunters-2787986.shtml --- Guns, Lies And Democrats: An "outdoor writer" in Montana. who believes that Republicans are anti-environment, wanders around for a while and finally gets around to advising Democrats to take aside Rep. Carolyn McCarthy and urge her to pull her attempt (HR 1022) to renew the federal ban on cosmetically impaired firearms before it costs them their Congressional majority. http://www.newwest.net/index.php/topic/article/guns_sex_lies_democrats_and_the_nra/C41/L41/ --- From GOA: ...Truth be told, HR 1022 is the old ban on steroids. Fourteen more guns are listed by name than in the '94 ban, and only one "dangerous" feature, such as a pistol grip, is needed to make a "nice" gun into a "bad" gun. The old ban required two "dangerous" features, such as a pistol grip and a folding stock. This distinction effectively expands the scope of the bill to ban a far broader variety of firearms... http://www.gunowners.org/a032207.htm --- Sugarmann Slams Forthcoming NRA Convention: "...Today's annual meeting is nothing more than a bellicose puppet show, sparsely attended by a small number of the NRA faithful. The attendees lack any real power, with malcontents limited to offering impotent resolutions that have no effect on the day-to-day workings or political agenda of the organization...." (While prohibitionist Josh Sugarmann may be right about members having little say in the operation of the NRA, attendance at the annual meetings runs around 60,000.) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-sugarmann/nra-says-boo-members-_b_44016.html --- California Shall-Issue Bill Was Killed By Sheriffs Association: A man who manages Democratic Party campaigns in California recounts a failed attempt to pass a shall-issue CCW bill in California in the 1980's. "But it was killed as a result of a lobbying effort by the State Sheriffs Association. The Sheriffs did not want to give up their power to decide who could carry concealed...Republicans supported their local sheriff. Democrats supported the Second Amendment right of individuals - subject to a tough regulatory scheme that had successfully kept concealed firearms out of the hands of those who would threaten public safety." http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/03/the_right_to_ca.html --- Parker Attorneys Caution Friends In Congress: Attempts by "well-meaning members of Congress" to repeal the 1976 Washington, D.C., gun ban could backfire by keeping the case out of the U.S. Supreme Court, said attorneys representing six D.C. residents in a high-profile Second Amendment case. http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200703/NAT20070323b.html Related Article: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0323DCVote03223.html --- Repeal The Second Amendment?: In reviewing the hysterical liberal reaction to the Parker ruling, including one to repeal the Second Amendment, Tim Inwood points out, "In fact, Judge Lawrence Silberman even wrote into the decision 'That right existed prior to the formation of the new government under the Constitution...'" (He also takes on the old chestnut that the Founders could not have conceived of firearms more advanced than single-shot muskets.) http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/article3616.html --- New Jersey Court Recognizes Second Amendment: An attorney cites a February ruling (under appeal by the county prosecutor) regarding a firearm seizure, in which the court clearly cites the citizen's rights, as guaranteed by the second amendment of the federal constitution. http://www.evannappen.com/lawupdate1gunbook/ --- No-Surprise Ruling By Judge In New York: Of all the gun shops being sued by Mayor Bloomberg, only one dealer is demanding to see evidence that New York City has suffered financially because of mayhem inflicted with illegal firearms. The demand by an attorney for Bob Moates Sports Shop in Virginia was promptly rejected yesterday by a federal judge, who advised the lawyer to buy a newspaper. (Judge Weinstein has a well known bias against the RKBA.) http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/03/22/2007-03-22_gun_shop_aims_at_city_but_misfires.html --- Ohio Mall Removes "No Guns" Signs: A member of Ohioans for Concealed Carry describes his successful mission to convince a shopping mall to remove their recently posted "no guns" signs. (I have to wonder about the wisdom of emphasizing the licensing process and its background checks as a requirement to exercise what is supposed to be a right.) http://www.ohioccw.org/content/view/3844/83/ --- Sting Shuts Compton Gun Store: On Thursday, federal authorities who were working with state and local law enforcement officials shut down the operation, arresting the son of the longtime owners and an employee, and seizing thousands of weapons and rounds of ammunition at the Compton store and a sister operation near Ojai in Ventura. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-guns23mar23,0,1830483,full.story?coll=la-home-local http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=ind_focus.story&STORY=/www/story/03-22-2007/0004551619&EDATE=THU+Mar+22+2007,+02:40+PM --- British Kids Turn To Knife-Resistant Vests: Ashgar Jilow used to sell stab-proof vests to nightclub bouncers and security guards at his London military surplus store. Now his clients are kids as young as 10 who fear they're going to be knifed at school or on the street... A child is stabbed to death in Britain every two weeks and knife killings outnumber gun homicides three to one, said Norman Brennan, a police officer and director of the Victims of Crime Trust. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=email_en&refer=home&sid=a_gP7Pj2387g -- Stephen P. Wenger Firearm safety - It's a matter for education, not legislation. http://www.spw-duf.info