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Alaska May Facilitate CCW for Non-Violent Felons: … A felon convicted in state court may have their [sic] rights re-instated so they can hunt or carry a firearm in bear country, but state restrictions on their right to carry a concealed weapon turn into a straight-up ban under the federal law. Ross wants changes to Alaska criminal law. He says changing some state laws would help certain felons – the nonviolent kind, mind you – to avoid prosecution in federal court for illegally possessing firearms under a U.S. law. When Ross first shopped the idea to the Alaska legislators, he got little traction. In fact, at the time he hadn’t found an elected official to sponsor the bill. “They see the problem,” Ross said last fall, “but nothing’s happened so far.” …We returned to work this week and learned that restoring gun rights to felons – as provocative as that sounds at first blush – is trendy in Juneau. Four bills address the issue this year. Mat-Su Republican Senator Charlie Huggins has a bill specific to concealed-carry restrictions. A longer but similar concealed-carry bill was introduced in the senate by Anchorage Democrat Hollis French. On the house side, Scott Kawasaki, a Fairbanks Democrat, has his own concealed-carry bill. The most comprehensive bill, the one Ross and the NRA are pushing hardest, carries the name of the Alaska House Judiciary Committee as sponsor, and addresses restoration of rights for convicted felons…

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Wisconsin Open Carry – Seen from Britain: Other customers stare as Nik Clark and Kim Garny do their weekly shop at a large upscale supermarket. It’s hardy a surprise as a TV camera is trailing behind their trolley. But people would do a double-take even if the BBC weren’t in tow. In some ways Nick wants them to look. There’s a revolver amid the ravioli, an automatic among the avocados. Like cowboys out of Westerns, the couple carry handguns on holsters on their hips. She has a Smith and Wesson .38 special with a cute pink grip that makes it look almost like a toy. He has a rather more chunky Glock… The movement is slightly different in the state of Wisconsin where concealed guns are banned. Nick says wearing a gun in a visible holster is the only way he can carry a weapon legally and he wants others to be aware of their rights: he doesn’t want to confront but to convert… (Not a bad article, particularly when you consider the source.)

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Maintain Control of Your Firearm: Indiana State Police are reviewing the details of a weekend incident where a state trooper forgot his loaded Glock 17 9mm handgun inside a public restroom. It happened Saturday around 7 p.m. at the Lowe’s hardware store on Coliseum Blvd. According to police, the trooper was off-duty, and shopping with a concealed weapon. For unknown reasons, the trooper left the gun in the restroom. It was later recovered by a store employee, and turned over to Fort Wayne Police. “This was just a mistake, it was nothing more than that, plain and simple,” said Sergeant Ron Galaviz with the Indiana State Police. “He made a mistake. Is it possible he may pay for that? Sure.” Galaviz tells NewsChannel 15 the trooper remained in the store throughout the entire incident, which lasted about 15 minutes. Once the trooper realized the weapon was missing, he re-traced his steps and notified store managers. By then, the gun had already been confiscated by police…

Gun Owners of Nevada

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March 19th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Coming To a Town Near You? Pre-Crime Policing!

Pre-Crime Policing

Allegedly “disgruntled” man has his guns seized, and “voluntarily” surrenders to two SWAT teams and dozens of police officers for a crime that hadn’t been committed

Radley Balko | March 16, 2010

To hear them tell it, the five police agencies who apprehended 39-year-old Oregonian David Pyles early on the morning of March 8 thwarted another lone wolf mass murderer. The police “were able to successfully take a potentially volatile male subject into protective custody for a mental evaluation,” announced a press release put out by the Medford, Oregon, police department. The subject had recently been placed on administrative leave from his job, was “very disgruntled,” and had recently purchased several firearms. “Local Law Enforcement agencies were extremely concerned that the subject was planning retaliation against his employers,” the release said. Fortunately, Pyles “voluntarily” turned himself over to police custody, and the legally purchased firearms “were seized for safekeeping.”

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For those who don’t have time to read the article (you should make time—its important) see the quotes below:

“Instead of being reactive, we took a proactive approach.”
There’s just one problem: David Pyles hadn’t committed any crime, nor was he suspected of having committed one. The police never obtained a warrant for either search or arrest. They never consulted with a judge or mental health professional before sending out the military-style tactical teams to take Pyle in.

This did not happen in China or the Soviet Union.  Nope. It was Oregon.  Read the rest here:

http://reason.com/archives/2010/03/16/pre-crime-policing

March 19th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Uncategorized | One comment

Tea Party Leaders Do You Support the Second Amendment?

Sauce for the Goose, Sauce for the Gander: …The worry that a third party vote will result in the boot in our face having a “D” on the heel instead of an “R” is founded in recent history. Witness what happened when Ross Perot ran for president. But Perot also proves a point I’m trying to make about not letting untapped anger gravitate those who are fed up, but not firmly grounded in the Constitution, toward a demagogue. Over half of Perot’s supporters identified themselves as gun owners, apparently ignorant of his support for “the enactment of strict gun control laws.” We need to look through the anger and the rhetoric and make all of these people prove themselves, regardless of party or generalized platform statements. That’s why I designed the gun rights political questionnaire – to be one of the tools we can use to help determine an unequivocal position on the right to keep and bear arms. And that’s why I modified the questionnaire a bit to make it appropriate for a group, as opposed to a candidate, and sent it to Liberty Central. If these people are going to presume to issue scorecards, don’t we deserve to know what is being scored, and how? …

Has Your Favorite Candidate Filled Out Our Gun Rights Questionnaire?

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Vocabulary Correction: …On one hand, we preach that guns are mere machines, inanimate objects and tools. On the other, we appear to be attempting to give ‘rights’ to these inanimate machines. I submit to you a request; that we remove the phrase “gun rights” from our vocabulary and replace it with the more human, and more accurate, “gun-owner rights.” The First Amendment does not guarantee rights to printing presses as machines; it guarantees the rights of people to use printing presses, radios, televisions and the Internet without restriction. The Second Amendment guarantees no rights to guns themselves, as they are mere machines. However, it does guarantee the right of the people to keep and bear them. The psychology behind what may appear as a minor ‘grammatical nit’ should be clear. It is relatively easy for most people to hate an object. You can make up lies about an object, demonize an object and attempt to regulate and control objects. You can do so without fear of insulting the object, hurting its feelings, being sued by the object or facing any repercussions, it’s just a defenseless, soulless object. When we replace gun rights with gun-owner rights, however, the issue becomes personal. Where many people and politicians [as opposed to people] find it easy and guilt-free to demonize guns as objects, it is far more difficult to for them to demonize a large segment of the population, gun-owners, as people…

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A Matter of Perspective: It is a matter of record that too many members of professional law enforcement, especially administrators, simply do not trust citizens to be armed and enabled to defend themselves from criminal attack. Notwithstanding this too-common attitude among some law enforcement administrators, many street cops understand that they can rarely be present to stop a criminal attack – to interpose themselves between a criminal and his intended victim – no matter how they sincerely wish to protect people.     Why do some police administrators distrust armed citizens? …

March 18th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Lowden Hosts Gun Shoot, But She’s Become The Target

Congressional Quarterly on the Nevada Senate race–

Former Nevada state Sen. Sue Lowden’s (R) may not be generating the sort of photo-op she intended with her “Protect Your Freedom Gun Shoot” and fundraiser at the Clark County Shooting Park on Wednesday. . .

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/eyeon2010/2010/03/post-2.html

March 17th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

From Nevada and Beyond

Oops, Wrong House, Nevada Version: An off-duty Las Vegas police officer shot a home invasion suspect in the leg at the officer’s Henderson residence Sunday afternoon… Henderson police think the suspect, identified as 38-year-old Carlos Chacon, was fleeing an earlier home invasion in the same neighborhood, department spokesman Keith Paul said. Police said Chacon and another man, identified as 39-year-old Nelson Abreus-Diaz, broke into a home on the 1300 block of Sun Pillars Avenue, near Stephanie Street and Wigwam Parkway about 2:20 p.m. A man living at the house was home and talking to a friend on the phone when the break-in occurred. The man’s friend called police, Paul said. When officers arrived, the two suspects jumped out of a rear window and fled on foot, Paul said. Abreus-Diaz was caught by police about 20 minutes later on Stephanie Street. Chacon broke into a home on the 300 block of Warm Front Street, which was owned by a Las Vegas police officer who was off-duty, Paul said. The officer shot Chacon once in the leg. Chacon was taken to a hospital. Paul said the two men were armed with handguns…

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Object of Oregon SWAT Callout Reclaims Firearms: A phone call from a police negotiator that jolted David J. Pyles awake in the predawn hours of Monday continues to jangle the nerves of observers monitoring the way authorities took the Medford man into protective custody and seized his firearms. Pyles came forward Thursday to reclaim his legally purchased weapons, publicly identifying himself in an e-mail sent to Medford police and forwarded to state legislators and selected media outlets. He also said he has contacted the Oregon Firearms Federation for possible legal assistance. Pyles directed questions to that group and said he would make only limited statements until he had consulted with an attorney. Kevin Starrett, director of the Canby-based lobbying organization – which also has a foundation for protecting gun rights through court cases -  had been monitoring the incident that landed Pyles in the hospital for a mental health evaluation and resulted in five of his guns being held by police for “safekeeping.” …Police have maintained that Pyles’ surrender was voluntary, but Starrett noted that an intimidating presence of officers with rifles and SWAT gear can force people to agree to things they wouldn’t normally do…

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Self-Defense in the Golden State – It is NOT for Women!: The Associated Press reports that when a rapist attacked a female jogger in Malibu [CA] last week, her only defense was to jump off a cliff. She had just finished running when a man attacked her from behind. Police say she may have struggled for as long as 30 minutes, when she finally broke free and went over the cliff. Fortunately, it wasn’t completely vertical, and she was able to control her descent enough so that she only suffered “some bumps and bruises, but did not break any bones in the fall.” …She was fortunate that she was able to continue struggling for half an hour, probably due to superior aerobic capacity she developed by running. And her athleticism undoubtedly enabled her to negotiate the cliff better than an unconditioned person. Otherwise, she would have become another (completed) rape–and possibly murder–victim… Unfortunately, the state of California doesn’t want their women to defend themselves, since in most counties–especially along the coast–it is nearly impossible to obtain a concealed carry license. But the Brady Campaign likes that: They gave California their highest state rating in the 2009 Scorecard, 79 (out of 100). In Texas, where women have the right to defend themselves, Brady gave us a score of 9…

On the Other Hand…: An off-duty police officer shot and killed a man who attacked him at a Del Taco in Anaheim [CA] on Sunday afternoon, police said. The officer, a 10-year veteran of the Gardena Police Department, was with his young daughter at the Del Taco on Lincoln Avenue and Rio Vista Street, said Sgt. Rick Martinez of the Anaheim Police Department. The officer, whom Martinez declined to name, was in plainclothes. As the officer walked out of the restaurant about 3:45 p.m., a 39-year-old man began to attack the off-duty officer “for some unknown reason,” Martinez said. He said the suspect hit the officer with his hands and pummeled him into the corner of the restaurant. The officer tried to push the man off, but the man continued to assault the officer, Martinez said. The officer then pulled out a handgun and fired at least one round at close range on the suspect, he said. The suspect was hit in the abdomen. He later died.  The officer suffered at least one broken rib and possibly a broken jaw and nose, Martinez said…

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West Virginia to Outlaw Gun Stings: New York City has sent out undercover investigators to catch gun dealers violating background check laws. But West Virginia lawmakers want to make it a crime for investigators to conduct such sting operations in West Virginia. The Legislature passed a measure Saturday that targets anyone who tries to entice a firearms dealer or private seller under circumstances that the individual knows is unlawful. The bill addresses a tactic employed by New York during stings conducted last year at seven guns shows in Tennessee, Ohio and Nevada. The bill had also proposed allowing felons and others otherwise barred from having guns to possess antique firearms. But the House Judiciary Committee removed that provision, and the Senate agreed to the change Saturday.

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Tax-Holiday Bill Goes to Governor: West Virginia lawmakers want to give gun buyers an annual break from the state sales tax. The Legislature sent the governor the necessary bill Saturday after it passed the Senate 25-9. It earlier won House approval 96-2. The bill sets the sales tax holiday during the first weekend of each October. Supporters say it should help businesses that sell firearms, particularly in border counties. But Sen. Jesse Guills, R-Greenbrier, said it would make West Virginia the butt of jokes. Other critics include the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, which faulted Oklahoma lawmakers for a similar proposal earlier this year. It frowns on temporary tax measures. State officials estimate it would save consumers, and cost general revenue, around $25,000 a year. (“…federal excise tax on firearms and ammunition, another project proudly supported by the NRA.”)

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The Sky Is Falling!: Link is to a must-see photo of a Brady/Misguided Mom and her son leafleting the original Starbucks location in Seattle.

March 16th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Guns Unaccounted For

Department of Homeland Security officers don’t foster a secure feeling in the homeland when they lose their guns. Almost 300 firearms – handguns, M-4 rifles and shotguns – were lost by various DHS agencies during fiscal 2006-08, according to the department’s inspector general. In most cases, carelessness was the culprit. The inspector general’s office says “179 (74 percent) were lost because officers did not properly secure them.” …Unfortunately, DHS is not alone. Previous reports by the Government Accountability Office and the Justice Department found that losing weapons is a problem in various federal law enforcement agencies. In fact, DHS had fewer losses than some other agencies…Jon Adler, president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, was dismayed at the findings, which he called “unacceptable.” He said that officers must secure their firearms properly and that better training and supervision may be needed…

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Then There’s This: More than 20 guns seized by a state-run firearms task force in Prince George’s County are unaccounted for, and investigators believe that one of the weapons was used in the shooting of an off-duty police officer late last year, according to law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation. All the missing guns apparently had been seized by the Prince George’s narcotics detective who was assigned to the task force, the sources said. The detective, Juan Carter, was suspended late last year during the investigation but has not been charged with any crimes, sources said… The missing guns case is similar to one in which it was revealed that almost 300 firearms were lost by various Department of Homeland Security agencies during fiscal 2006-08, in many instances because they were not properly secured. But in the Prince George’s case, police are investigating whether the guns were stolen and sold back on the street, law enforcement sources said… Although the probe appears to be limited, it raises questions about supervision on the state police gun task force, which, according to state records, seized nearly 430 guns from its inception in 2007 to September 2009. The Prince George’s Firearms Interdiction Task Force, led by the Maryland State Police, specialized in taking guns from criminals and keeping them off the streets. The state police task force still operates in Prince George’s and has been expanded to include the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. It is also active in other jurisdictions…

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Katrina – The Plot Sickens: It became a national disgrace that prompted a landmark federal lawsuit, and led to the passage of legislation in several states to make sure nothing like this ever happened again on American soil: the unilateral disarmament of law-abiding citizens in the wake of a disaster. And now the story has taken an even darker turn than it did in the months following Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans, when police and National Guard units illegally and unconstitutionally seized, often at gunpoint, firearms held by private citizens who had done nothing wrong. No police or public official has ever been held accountable for that outrage, and that possibility will likely take a distant back seat to holding several police officers responsible for gunning down unarmed citizens on the Danziger Bridge on Sept. 4, 2005. “When another police investigator told Lieutenant Lohman that he was going to plant a gun under the bridge to bolster the story that the officers were being fired at, Lieutenant Lohman went along, and even asked if the gun was traceable, the authorities said.” …Perhaps now that the Danziger Bridge scandal is unravelling, the probe will expand well beyond this case, and ultimately find out who issued the illegal confiscation order. Would it be asking too much that the person or persons responsible, along with the officers who conducted those seizures at gunpoint, be held accountable?

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Admitting a cover-up of shocking breadth, a former New Orleans police supervisor pleaded guilty to a federal obstruction charge on Wednesday, confessing that he participated in a conspiracy to justify the shooting of six unarmed people after Hurricane Katrina that was hatched not long after police stopped firing their weapons. The guilty plea of Lt. Michael Lohman, who retired from the department earlier this month, contains explosive details of the alleged cover-up and ramps up the legal pressure on police officers involved in the shooting and subsequent investigation. It’s unclear when Lohman’s cooperation with federal authorities began, but he presumably is prepared to testify against the officers he says helped him lie about the circumstances of a shooting he immediately deemed a “bad shoot.” …

March 15th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Gordon Martines Candidate for Sheriff of Clark County Nevada

Below Is An Unsolicited Message From A Candidate For Clark County Sheriff.

TO: THE UNINFORMED TAXPAYER,

Lots of people have guns….registered guns unregistered guns, guns with the serial numbers taken off, rifles, or long guns as they are called, automatics, wheel guns and more…..

Guns are sold at gun shows, gun stores and by private parties. They are also sold at hock shops.  Antique stores and more.

The FBI estimates there are in excess of;
Two hundred million guns in American homes…..200,000,000.

Now comes the question of gun registration….
When a person purchases a gun from a private party there is no registration
When a person purchases a gun from a gun store here in the state of Nevada he must
Fill out the paper work and wait three days to be cleared to purchase the gun
However gun registration doesn’t change the facts……..and it doesn’t solve crimes….

Last year in America there were a reported 12 thousand people
Killed by handguns….
17 thousand used handguns to commit suicide
And approximately 743 were killed by accidental gunshots

Not one of the reported deaths by handgun were solved by using gun registration to solve the crime.

Guns have a signature…like a fingerprint… Every gun has its own special signature that allows law enforcement to identify a gun that was used in the commission of a crime….it’s called ballistics… Ballistics can identify a gun used in the commission of a crime….but gun registration cannot.

I am against gun registration….
The second amendment of our constitution was inacted in 1791 and its part of the united states bill of rights that protects the right to keep and bear arms….. But it doesn’t say the guns must be registered.

I am one who adheres to our constitution…. I am against gun registration.

Signed,

Gordon Martines
Candidate for Sheriff of Clark County Nevada

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Below is an email from a GONV supporter to several of his friends.  He copied us on this message and we are posting it here with his permission:

On Sunday at the gun show I was able to spend a few minutes with Detective
Gordon Martines, a candidate for sheriff.  The few minutes I spent with him
made me feel he could be a good replacement for Sheriff Gillespie.

One thing that may hinder him is he does not plan to take any outside
contributions for his campaign.  What I ask is that you visit his website:
www.GordonMartinesForSheriff.com and if you feel he is a worthwhile
candidate let’s help him by forwarding the information on to your friends.

Email address and name(s) removed

March 15th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | One comment

Gun Rights Beyond Nevada

The Airsoft Bust – The Plot Thickens: When we first met ATF Special Agent Kelven Crenshaw, he was telling KOINlocal6, Portland, that a shipment of toy guns the agency had seized could be “easily retro-fitted into dangerous weapons”:  “With minimal work it could be converted to a machine gun,” Crenshaw said. To prove his credentials as a professional firearms expert, Crenshaw proceeded to insert a magazine backwards – on video. Click here to watch and pay attention at the 1:17 mark. In my March 9 follow-up on this story, I mentioned a related three-part series at Pajamas Media by writer Bob Owens. Click the respective links for parts one, two and three. The whole thing is just excellent, but something he said in his last installment really caught my attention: “This is apparently the same Special Agent Kelven Crenshaw that ATF whistleblower site Cleanup ATF says is a former assistant director demoted and moved for incompetence, reprisals against his own employees, and regulation violations.” …

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Wyoming Firearms Freedom Act Would Penalize Feds: Wyoming has joined a growing list of states with self-declared exemptions from federal gun regulation of weapons made, bought and used inside state borders – but lawmakers in the Cowboy State have taken the issue one step further, adopting significant penalties for federal agents attempting to enforce Washington’s rules… WND reported just days ago when Utah became the third state, joining Montana and Tennessee, to adopt an exemption from federal regulations for weapons built, sold and kept within state borders. A lawsuit is pending over the Montana law, which was the first to go into effect. But Wyoming’s law goes further, stating, “Any official, agent or employee of the United States government who enforces or attempts to enforce any act, order, law, statute, rule or regulation of the United States government upon a personal firearm, a firearm accessory or ammunition that is manufactured commercially or privately in Wyoming and that remains exclusively within the borders of Wyoming shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be subject to imprisonment for not more than two (2) years, a fine of not more than two thousand dollars ($2,000.00), or both.” …

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New Mexico Gunner Praise Restaurant-Carry Law: Locals praised a new law that allows people with licenses to carry concealed handguns into restaurants that serve beer and wine. Meanwhile, Gov. Bill Richardson wants stricter regulations to accompany the law. Sponsored by Sen. George Munoz, D-Gallup, and signed by Richardson on Wednesday, the law takes effect in July. Under the new law, people could carry concealed weapons into restaurants that serve only beer and wine unless an owner or manager says it isn’t allowed or a sign prohibits it. The sign must be posted at each public entrance where it can be easily seen. Carrying a firearm while under the influence of drugs and alcohol remains illegal. Nor may people bring concealed weapons into a bar or restaurant with a full liquor license [emphasis added]. But there’s nothing specific in New Mexico law that prevents a person from drinking alcohol while carrying a concealed weapon in a restaurant that serves beer and wine, according to the governor’s office…

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Maryland Legislators Call JPFO Anti-Semitic: A Maryland senator and delegate are the targets of a flier that attacks them as “bagel brain Jews” for their support of pending firearms legislation in the General Assembly and accuses them of pursuing “racist policies to destroy your gun rights.” …The flier was produced by group called Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, whose executive director is Aaron Zelman of Hartford, Wis… The bill sponsored by Rosenberg, a Baltimore Democrat, and Frosh would set more stringent requirements for gun ownership and for licensing of gun dealers, and would increase penalties for violations of firearms laws. It would, among other things, include gun trafficking violations on the list of suspected crimes for which law enforcement officials can seek a judge’s permission to use wiretaps. It would also bar people with two or more drunken-driving convictions from owning firearms. Zelman, who said he is Jewish, said the group has about 6,500 members around the country. The group’s Web site includes reproductions of handbills attacking Jewish and black politicians who support various measures opposed by gun rights advocates…

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Downright Scary: …On the first day of November 2008 – and the first day of Washington state’s elk hunting season – Sjoberg headed into the Lone Butte area of Skamania County with his Remington 760 Gamemaster 30.06. Sjoberg, 57, has hunted in the woods since he was 14 and grew up in one of those rural Michigan towns where school is called off on the opening day of deer season. About 10:30 that morning, after five hours in his orange vest, Sjoberg took a shot at a bull elk 75 yards away and missed. Minutes later, as he tracked the elk, Sjoberg ran into two other hunters, Tim Michalek and Alison Schnelling, introduced himself and described the near-miss. Six hours later, the body of Juan Rojas Cortez was discovered almost a half-mile from where Sjoberg bumped into Michalek and Schnelling. Cortez, who had been gathering bear grass in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, was dead of a gunshot wound… Two weeks later, Sjoberg was arrested and charged with first-degree manslaughter, underlining the county’s contention that he “recklessly” caused Cortez’s death… Not only does the state present no evidence that Sjoberg was responsible for the shooting, Thayer adds, but there is no indication that Sjoberg acted recklessly…

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To Live and Die in Alaska: Hunters were combing the snowy brush around Chignik Lake, Alaska, on Friday in an attempt to hunt down up to four wolves that killed a 32-year-old special education teacher in the first known fatal wolf attack in the U.S. in modern times… Candice Berner, a special education teacher who traveled among several rural schools on the Alaska Peninsula, 475 miles southwest of Anchorage, was attacked while jogging and listening to her iPod Monday evening on the deserted, 3-mile-long road that leads out from the village to its small airstrip. A native of Slippery Rock, Pa., she had been working in Alaska only since August. Her body was found by snowmobilers a short time after the attack. It had been dragged off the road and partially eaten, and was surrounded by wolf prints… Wildlife attacks in Alaska are relatively common. “Certainly we have bear maulings, we have people bitten by wolves, we have people that are stomped by moose,” Peters said. “Having an incident where a human and animal cross paths and it doesn’t end well, that’s normal. But we don’t have any other case on hand that we’re aware of where someone was actually killed by a wolf.” Peters said state troopers had ruled out the possibility that Berner had died from any other cause and was later dragged away by wolves. (I don’t think many native Alaskans go into the woods unarmed and obstruct their hearing with iPods.)

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Gun Owners of Nevada

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March 14th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Gun Rights Politics is About Precinct Organizing, not YouTube Clips

If you have not read from our local gun columnist please go here <click here>.

Ben Robison’s most recent article is a great place to start for this next article.  Both are must reads.

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Gun Rights Politics is About Precinct Organizing, not YouTube Clips

Gun Rights Politics is About Precinct Organizing, not YouTube Clips
By Steve Bierfeldt courtesy of RMGO

Colorado – -(AmmoLand.com)- At a campaign rally on a cold winter evening, thousands of individuals crowd around a stage to hear a Presidential candidate speak on life, liberty, and the Constitution. Homemade signs litter the crowd as the fiery congressman from Texas speaks to a sea of activists, many whom had never before taken an interest in politics. As he concludes, cheers erupt from the mass of people as they celebrate the one man speaking what no other candidate dares to say. Ron Paul has ignited a crowd desperate for a leader and in doing so has energized the thousands in attendance, as he asks for their support in the upcoming Presidential primary. . .

Gun Owners of Nevada

http://www.gonv.org/index.htm

March 13th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Ben Robison on McDonald v. Chicago

A long way to go on Second Amendment rights
Even with favorable Supreme Court decisions, past mistakes put us in jeopardy

Ben Robison

Thursday, March 11, 2010

In 2008, the Supreme Court struck down the Washington, D.C., gun ban, ruling that the right to keep and bear arms was an individual one (Heller v. Washington D.C.). However, since Washington, D.C., is a federal district, the ruling did not apply to similar bans that exist on state or city levels.. . .

Gun Owners of Nevada

http://www.gonv.org/index.htm

March 12th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment
 
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