VPC Returns to the Racist Roots of "Gun Control": The Violence Policy Center (VPC) - the anti-gun rights group that Barack Obama repeatedly voted to fund while he was a director of the Joyce Foundation - believes that African-Americans are too violent to deserve the entire Constitution. Thus, it wants to reduce their access to firearms. From the Violence Policy Center's latest report... For blacks, like all victims of homicide, guns - usually handguns - are far and away the number one murder tool. Successful efforts to reduce America's black homicide toll must put a focus on reducing access to firearms. For an organization to make a public declaration that suggests an entire race be denied the same level of constitutional protections as others is both shocking and bewildering. The study received financing from left-wing groups dedicated to social engineering, including the David Bohnett Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, and the Public Welfare Foundation... The David Bohnett Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, and the Public Welfare Foundation were all contacted this week by Pajamas Media and asked whether or not they stood behind the Violence Policy Center's call to limit the rights and liberties of African-Americans. Not one of these organizations has responded with a condemnation of the VPC's conclusions. http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/violence-policy-center-reinstate-the-black-codes/ --- Feds Claim Authority to Regulate In-State Firearms: The federal government is claiming in court documents demanding the dismissal of a gun-law challenge in Montana the authority to regulate in-state commerce under the Constitution's Commerce clause. But the plaintiff in the case says the court needs to review that provision in its amended form - since the 10th Amendment, adopted after the Commerce Clause, can be viewed as modifying the Constitution's provisions regarding the regulation of commerce, specifically granting additional authority to states. The argument is arising in a lawsuit filed in Montana against U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and others. The complaint seeks a court order that the federal government stay out of the way of Montana's management of its own firearms within state boundaries... (I will be amazed if the Supreme Court upholds the concept of the Firearms Freedom Acts [in which state can you build a firearm entirely from components that originated in that state?] but I believe it is a very important battle - just look at the map in the article of how many states have either passed or are considering such bills.) http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=123419 --- Pennsylvania State Police Back Off Registration Scheme: In July of 2009, the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) mysteriously told federal gun dealers doing business in Pennsylvania that they were required to report to the PSP all purchasers' identity and item serial number information for transfers of certain long gun "frames" or "receivers" for guns such as the popular AR-15 rifle, just like Pennsylvania's Uniform Firearms Act (UFA) requires for handguns. Some gun dealers told the State Police "no way," noting that compliance with the State Police demarche constituted a criminal violation of the UFA... But while Banks and a loose network of gun sealer allies were in a tense standoff with the PSP, essentially yelling "molon labe" (Greek for the "come and get them," allegedly shouted in 280 BC at the Persian Army by Spartan King Leonidas at the Battle of Thermopylae when the Persians demanded that they put down their weapons), another source of pressure was being exerted on the PSP. Just as the Greek navy led by a politician names Themistocles pressured the Persians at sea while Leonidas held them back on land, the Potter Leader-Enterprise reports that Representative Martin Causer (R - Cameron, Mckean, and Potter Counties) fired volleys of "sharp letters" at the Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner, Colonel Frank E. Pawlowski, demanding to know why Pawlowski did an end- run around both the Legislature and Attorney General to enact a de facto long gun registration rule. And a few days ago, without fanfare, the PSP quietly rescinded their July 2009 rule by way of its January 2010 Pennsylvania Gun Dealer Newsletter. What's left to do now? According to Banks, the State Police must "destroy the records collected by the illegal edict." http://www.examiner.com/x-2782-DC-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2010m1d31-Pennsylvania-state-police-back-down-on-rifle-registration-scheme --- New Mexico Sheriff Talks the Talk: Sheriff John Blansett talked about the sheriff's office, its powers and function Saturday at the Second Amendment Task Force town hall-style meeting at the Veterans of Foreign Wars. "The sheriff's department isn't mine," Blansett said to begin. "I borrowed it from you folks for eight years to protect you folks from tyranny, domestic and foreign, and to enforce the laws of the state of New Mexico... Boy, there sure is a lot of firepower in this room," he remarked. The crowd, many of whom were open carrying holstered guns, laughed. Later, Blansett encouraged everyone at the meeting to carry their firearms responsibly. "Know where it is at all times," he said. Blansett said the Southwest Border Sheriff's Alliance, of which he is a member, is not in support of gun control... Blansett then showed a video of Richard Mack, former sheriff of Graham County, Ariz. According to Mack's Web site, sheriffmack.com, Mack now gives talks on "constitutional issues relating to gun control, law enforcement, states' rights, the farce, otherwise known as the drug war, and the oath of office." Blansett said the Second Amendment Task Force has booked Mack for a speaking engagement Feb. 13 at the Flickinger Center for Performing Arts. http://www.alamogordonews.com/ci_14304018 --- New Mexico CHL's Increase: It's a hidden change - that's the point.