1- Oral argument set for censorship case on Dec. 3
2- New MUST PASS federal gun law also coming on Dec. 3
3- Guns Save Lives Day adopts the red-heart logo
4- Gun Rights Policy Conference
8- Think you don't scare easy?
Illegal aliens cannot own guns: 18 USC §922(g)
Once amnesty makes them legal they can receive guns: 18 USC §922(d)
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--Mandatory carry-license training has been reduced from 10-15 hours to 4-6 hours.
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--Renewals are now a paperwork and taxing process that can be concluded online, with no new testing required.
--Instructors no longer go to the DPS range for testing, they now test each other at a range of their own choosing.
--The risk CHLs used to face for having a gun momentarily show through concealment has been reduced, not eliminated.
--The protections of the Motorist Protection Act have been extended somewhat to colleges and universities.
--The preemption law got some teeth, and BB and air guns are now defined and included.
--Hotels that want to ban your civil right to arms must give you notice or face (minor) criminal penalties.
--A program to provide armed guards in schools ("School Marshals") is underway, though it will be a while before it is robust.
--The abusive policy of destroying firearms in police custody has ended.
Those guns must now be sold, the money used to fight crime.
--The artificial "SA" and "NSA" distinction between semi-autos and non-semi-autos has been discarded.
--Using your social security number for identification in the CHL program is now banned -- but the forms still have it included.
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PHOENIX BUS SHELTERS ARE BACK!
It took some doing, but we have a bus-stop gun-safety-training ad campaign back!
The TrainMeAZ coalition has succeeded in getting approval for a new ad, now posted at 30 locations around the Phoenix metro area. The original red "Guns Save Lives" ads are still in court -- it's been three years we've been censored! The new "Guns Stop Crime" commercial ads went up this week. We're reaching 1.8 million viewers every day until Christmas. Thanks to our sponsors, more on this as things develop.
Bell Road heading east toward Tatum Blvd., in front of Walmart shopping center,
Phoenix, Ariz.
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1- Oral argument scheduled in the "Guns Save Lives" censorship case !! 1- Oral argument scheduled in the "Guns Save Lives" censorship case !!
Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013, 9:30 a.m., KORWIN v. CITY OF PHOENIX; 1 CA-CV 12-0878
Arizona Court of Appeals, Courtroom Two, 2nd floor, 1501 W. Washington, Phoenix.
[Backgrounder: We put up "Guns Save Lives" billboards on 50 public bus stops under contract, city of Phoenix tore them down, Goldwater Institute is suing on our behalf, ACLU joined as amicus, it's now three years later.]
It's a big courtroom, you're invited, dress nicely, behave appropriately.
This is history in the making.
The case will be decided on the merits, but a big audience won't hurt us. Come on down and see the system at work. Can we say, "Guns Save Lives -- Educate Your Kids" in Phoenix or not? NOTE: Please forward this memo.
The ACLU has joined our case because the free speech, due process and equal protection elements are important and have major national implications.
Should the city be able to destroy our message because they don't like what we have to say? (They deny that's what's behind it all, but it's obvious from the evidence, written all over the case. This is the same city government that arranged to buy guns so they could destroy them, before the law stopped them.)
Can government really get away with arguing that a public bus stop is a non-public venue, so they have power to control our content? (That's at the heart of the "forum analysis" issue the ACLU chimed in on, from a 9th Circuit Court decision, that could take this all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.)
Should Phoenix be able to muzzle us but let others do essentially the same thing? (That's the equal protection part, with public-service ads and non-commercial ads all over town, but ours got singled out for special treatment -- like censorship and destruction.)
With Mr. Obama and his allies attacking the right to keep and bear arms from a dozen angles at once, the anti-rights forces in America have overlooked the Undetectable Handgun Law of 1988, set to expire on Dec. 3, less than six weeks away. (Google 18 USC §922(p) for the letter of the law.)
If the law expires as it is scheduled to do, airports and all secure areas could be exposed to guns that metal detectors cannot identify.
Although no such guns exist (in the commercial world) and have never been available to the public, the "news" media created a furor over the non-existent firearms when the polymer-framed Glock pistol was introduced, spreading fear that such weapons could be smuggled into airports past all known screening devices. The Glock and all similar polymer-framed firearms contain large amounts of steel and are easily spotted by metal detectors.
The chances that Congress will let the statute expire are near zero, a quick survey of industry experts indicates. But the subject hasn't hit the public radar yet, and simple reenactment of a federal gun law is a risky bet, given the present administration's penchant for introducing gun mandates at any opportunity.
Any bill that must get through both houses of Congress becomes a magnet for amendments and agenda-driven add-ons. A gun bill will be particularly susceptible to that pressure. Only one tiny change will be needed, the same one made last time this expiration came up. The number of years in the sunset clause on this 1988 law, now "25," will have to increase to whatever new date Congress chooses. They went from 15 to 25 last time.
However -- no plans for renewal of the expiring "invisible" gun ban have been announced by either major political party. The expiration date, however, is set in stone by the existing law. If the law does expire, someone somewhere is likely to try to develop and introduce an undetectable gun (outside the world of superspies).
Two bills were introduced, one back in April, HR1474, which extended the ban for another 10 years and added undetectable ammo magazines, and S1149 in June, which also extends the ban for 10 years with similar conditions. Neither bill has gone anywhere. Undetectable guns and magazines doesn't say much about undetectable ammo, but no one expects Congress to be very logical about any of this.
Sensitive Date
The expiration date is just 11 days prior to nationwide events planned to recognize the calamity surrounding the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Both pro-rights and anti-rights groups have announced intentions to use that date to press for action on gun rights in America. Efforts to restrict Americans' right to arms, using the actions of the psychopath on that day as a motivation, have thus far failed.
Second Event Also on Dec. 3
By coincidence, Dec. 3 has been set by the Arizona Court of Appeals to hear oral arguments in the Guns Save Lives censorship case, with the Goldwater Institute’s Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation representing plaintiff Alan Korwin and TrainMeAZ, LLC. TrainMeAZ is a coalition of firearm industry firms working together to promote gun safety. http://www.trainmeaz.com
The red-heart Guns Save Lives logo at the center of the case has been adopted as a theme for Gun Save Lives Day, a response to the events planned for restricting gun rights timed around the Newtown demonstrations. When this counter protest was announced, the lamestream media went apoplectic, spewing bile and vitriol at the pro-rights people.
Politico reported Monday Oct. 28 that weekly sessions on gun control have been held between the White House Office of Public Engagement and representatives from Michael Bloomberg's Mayors Against Guns, the Brady Campaign to Promote Gun Violence, Moms Demand Action, the Center for American Progress, Organizing for Action and Americans for Responsible Solutions. It is understood that demonstrations and calls for new restrictions on gun rights tied to the Newtown date are part of those planning sessions.
To the extent government operatives are at work compromising the Second Amendment instead of supporting it, they violate their oath and should be removed from office or brought up on charges. This may seem quaint but it matters. No one in government is taking any action against this fifth column-type of activity.
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Bizarre Gun Factoid
The Undetectable Handgun Law is responsible for the "Security Exemplar." This is a piece of 17-4 PH stainless steel, shaped roughly like a handgun. It contains 3.7 ounces of metal and it is the minimum a metal detector must be able to identify. I would love to have one, but I have never been able to even see a copy.
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The same people saying you don't need guns
to be free in a place like America
are the same people who want to take your guns away.
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Gun and Knife Law Book Going Out of Print Gun and Knife Law Book Going Out of Print
The knife-collecting lawyer responsible for this fine book has decided to go into the seminary to study for the priesthood -- talk about a career change! We have a limited supply of these books left, when they're gone, that's it. This is the only guide to the knife laws of the nation -- and these don't change rapidly. It also provides about six pages of detail per state, so if your state doesn't have a state guide, you need to get one of these while you can. Only $14.95, first come, first served. Read more: https://www.gunlaws.com/TravelersGunAndKnifeLawBook.htm
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The lamestream media told you:
The lamestream media told you:
Tacos and Burritos aren't Mexican food anymore. It's complicated. See below.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
In a story virtually without precedent, the venerable Associated Press has begun to tell the American public to stop believing what they can plainly see, and adopt a new way of seeing, thinking and believing despite the evidence in front of their own eyes.
This story is so revisionist mind-control Orwellian it defies sanity. You may have seen it yourself in the A section of your local rag and it blew right by mindlessly. That's the way these things are supposed to work -- without conscious thought. That's how they penetrate best. If you stop to think about it it doesn't work so well, or at all. You start to see what the man behind the curtain is doing. Look:
"...tacos and burritos have become so ubiquitously 'American,' most people don't even consider them ethnic."
There isn't a person alive with two brain cells who doesn't know that a taco or burrito is Mexican food. Whoever wrote that line at AP should be fired. Unless they are hiring propagandists. Which they obviously are.
It's an insult to the ethnic group those foods belong to -- Mexicans.
And there isn't an American who doesn't know that.
It is way out of character for the AP to so badly denigrate a poor downtrodden underprivileged oppressed minority class, but maybe there's a method to the madness, if the ends justify the means.
Just believe what you are being told, don't think for yourself, the AP seems to be saying.
The AP is trying to tell you to think a different way... irrationally. They make this stuff up, and ask you to believe. They are attempting to change how America thinks, they are not reporting. They have become not just incompetent and embarrassing. They have become dangerous.
The AP told you: "Salsa overtaking ketchup as America's favorite condiment was just the start," as their opening line.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: They don't attribute that factoid. Anywhere in the tale. Whatever publicity-seeking-survey-source they think they have, look at the food drive-ups you pass today -- how many even have salsa let alone put it on their burgers or chicken? How many of all the restaurants you see are salsa-dispensing outfits? Hmmm. How does the evidence of your eyes compare to the shoot being shoveled by the "news" media? What does "favorite" mean?
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, whose wife owns Heinz Ketchup, was not reached for comment on this opening line from the story. I can't go on. You get the point.
The overall purpose of the story, I think, is to suggest that Hispanic and especially Mexican immigration has made such inroads into American culture that it's as American as anything else, and so citizenship for tens of millions of illegals can't be far behind. But that's just idle conjecture. Read the whole thing if you wish:
4- Gun Rights Policy Conference 4- Gun Rights Policy Conference
The lamestream media told you:
The lamestream media told you:
Nothing.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
Nothing shows the blatant prejudice of the dominant media more than the coverage it gave to one of the most significant firearms events of the year, the Gun Rights Policy Conference in Houston -- which is basically -- none. The American public essentially doesn't even know it was held, let alone know anything about what went on there. Dozens of scholars and leaders of the firearms-rights movement attended.
When compared with the saturation coverage even minor poorly attended amateurishly staged insignificant protests in backwater hovels receive, the bias of so-called reporters and their outlets is plainly evident. I plan to do a report on the conference -- I took copious notes -- but hey, I'm busy, and if it was important, it would have made the news, right?
Media Matters did a lengthy report, with a tone sometimes approximating the end of the world, and introducing a new word to watch. Apparently the anti-rights left will be dropping the phrase "gun control," now recognized as an abject loser, because it is recognized as synonymous with "disarming the public." The new term permeating the Media Matters report is "GUN REFORM." The left-wing online service singled me out (inaccurately) saying:
"Alan Korwin, author of 13 books on guns (I write books on gun laws, not guns, big difference, and it's 10 books, so far), said reformers (there's that word) 'want to treat gun owners like the Negroes at the lunch counter.' It's worth noting that Korwin is considered the Frank Luntz of the pro-gun movement. Lauded by multiple speakers, he is the author of a 'politically corrected' gun glossary designed to focus the gun debate around a language of rights."
The idea of "Negroes at the lunch counter" is an important metaphor, because modern-day anti-rights bigots would prevent people from exercising their specific enumerated right to bear arms by simply putting up signs, like they used to do to "coloreds" and other "undesirables." This is not only offensive and an affront to humanity, it creates known-to-be dangerous make-believe gun-free zones, which have been shown to be reckless and negligent. "Specific enumerated right" is what the U.S. Supreme Court called the right to keep and bear arms.
Responding to the significant threat of defenseless zones, the preferred targets for psychopathic murderers, states are responding by introducing gun-free-zone liability acts. These proposals respect private property rights by leaving property owners free to create pretend gun-free zones by posting signs if they wish (with no other form of security provided), but holds the people posting the signs liable for any harm they cause.
You can ask your local representatives to introduce a gun-free-zone liability bill yourself, model language is here, with talking points: https://www.gunlaws.com/ModelLegislation.htm
Media Matters continues: "The notion that gun rights are basic civil and human rights is today at the very center of the movement's political and legal strategies. The idea literally hung over last weekend's GRPC proceedings in the form of a stage banner reading, 'EQUAL GUN RIGHTS.' Under it, speakers compared gun-policy reformers to segregationists and Nazis. Massad Ayoob, a Second Amendment Foundation board member, ended a defense of Stand Your Ground laws with Blackstone's statement that 'self-defense is the highest of all human rights.' John Lott, the pro-gun academic, spoke of gun taxes as modern day poll taxes. 'We need a document on how high fees and licensing taxes reduce gun ownership and are discriminatory,' he said."
Media Matters and I agree, this is about rights. Firearms are the litmus test of freedom. The degree to which a politician or a citizen can fully embrace the idea of firearm ownership, possession and use is the ultimate gauge of a person's comfort level with ultimate freedom. That then gets us into the role and rule of law, justice and the righteous use of force, the non-aggression principle, the proper role of force in self defense, preemptive law... This is a discussion far to involved to get into here. Maybe I'll get it into a book one day.
In the meanwhile, I do intend to pull a report together summarizing the best parts of the conference. But then, I intend to do a lot of things, far more than I can ever possibly do. Such is my fate. Now, it's time to chill, and get ready for the gun show tomorrow. If I don't cut this off right here, instead of larding it up with all the other amazing stuff I thought I would put into this Page Nine, you'll never see it.
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Commenting on the recent Phoenix gun buy-up and meltdown:
"So one man anonymously buys $200,000 worth of guns with the help of the city of Phoenix and its police department so he can destroy them, and another man privately buys the same because he wants to have them. Each calls the other paranoid. Both should be free to act. Which one cleaves to the principles upon which this nation was founded?"
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In these times with all the political corruption, UN treaties, anti gun, anti hunting & Muslims wanting to kill us or have world domination, your e-mails come through with common sense and the truth about what Americans need and want. We met at the Phoenix Varmint Callers meeting some years back and I got two of your books. Thanks for your continuing efforts to bring out the truth and knowledge about firearms and the media who portrays the gun owner as a terrorist. I will continue to spread the word about your newsletter. -Richard S. [Thanks for your efforts Richard and I will continue mine. Alan.]
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I do not agree with your analysis or spin you put on the Trayvon Martin case I don't care as to wether he was 8 feet tall ad covered in tattoos he should have been free to visit a sore make some purchases and walk home without some guy following you in car whom you do not know the fact that Trayvon confronted Zimmerman a I would wanting to know why I was being stalked and have the guy pull a gun and shoot all against the police instructions makes Zimmerman if not a murderer at least manslaughter there again if he had not had a gun at all then possibly only a few bruises and scratches would have ensued. Andrew E. [There's nothing I can add to this. The story he refers to is in Page Nine No. 128. Alan.]
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Alan, Your piece on MAG is wonderful, so much so I had to laugh at the absurdity of the whole process. Every point you raise surrounding these buy-back schemes should have been asked by journalists everywhere. However, besides the agendas and biases, most journalists operate from positions of abject ignorance about most matters beyond the things that are important to liberals. Thanks to your knowledge and perspective, I would at least hope that some of the less lazy among the press would use the information you provide to possibly pause and consider their position. But, then again, most of them have never allowed themselves to become confused by the facts. What a way to go through life; governed by cognitive templates provided by others with no critical thinking skills whatsoever. Pretty sad. Thanks again, and I hope you don't mind my featuring your Page 9 columns as part of the Kansas State Rifle Association newsletter. I know people enjoy reading them. Larry Richardson.
[Thanks for your intelligent comments Larry. Would that even a single person in the lamestream media made even a single comment to equal yours. They are deafeningly quiet. Alan.]
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