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Prosecutors Seek Appeal in Dismissal of Gun Case
HOUSTON — Prosecutors in Arizona scrambled on Thursday to figure out how to appeal a state judge’s decision to dismiss charges against a gun dealer who had been accused of arming a Mexican drug cartel.
“We believe it was an error, and we are going to do everything we can in the system to correct that error,” the state’s attorney general, Terry Goddard, said in an interview Thursday. “It’s not over by any means.”
The judge’s decision underscores how difficult it is in the United States to convict a gun dealer of wrongdoing in connection with the illegal flow of weapons to Mexico.
With its lenient gun laws and large number of dealers, Arizona is one of the biggest sources of weapons for the drug cartels, which killed 6,000 people in Mexico last year. More than 500 guns recovered by the police in Mexico in 2008 were traced to sellers in the state.
Because automatic weapons, grenades and RPG’s are so widely available at US gun shows. Idiots. Regardless of what they’re saying now, this is going to be a key excuse for the “need” for the new AWB.
U.S., Mexican security chiefs to meet on gun trade
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. and Mexican security officials will strategize next month on fighting the arms trade fueling Mexico’s bloody drug war, but a U.S. ban on assault rifles favored by the traffickers will not be on the agenda.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced plans this week to meet their Mexican counterparts — Attorney General Eduardo Medina and Interior Minister Fernando Francisco Gomez Mont — at an arms trafficking conference in Cuernavaca, Mexico in early April.
Napolitano told reporters on Thursday the officials will discuss ways of fighting the huge flow of weapons from the United States into Mexico, where they are used by drug gangs in turf battles that killed 6,000 people last year.
To Mexico’s great unease, the widely available U.S. guns are often the merchandise carried back along smuggling routes for illegal drugs coming into the United States.
Well, that didn’t take long…
Court blocks rule allowing guns in national parks
By MATTHEW DALY – 15 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has blocked a federal rule allowing people to carry concealed, loaded guns in national parks and wildlife refuges.
A decision issued Thursday by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly overturns a rule issued in the waning days of the Bush administration.
The rule took effect Jan. 11 and allowed visitors to carry a loaded gun into a park or wildlife refuge as long as the person has a permit for a concealed weapon and the state where the park or refuge is located allows concealed firearms. Previously, guns in parks had been severely restricted.
The Obama administration had said it was reviewing the Bush rule but had defended it in court.
…and here…
Judge Blocks Rule Permitting Concealed Guns In U.S. Parks
A federal judge yesterday blocked a last-minute rule enacted by President George W. Bush allowing visitors to national parks to carry concealed weapons.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit brought by gun-control advocates and environmental groups. The Justice Department had sought to block the injunction against the controversial rule.
The three groups that brought the suit — the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the National Parks Conservation Association and the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees — argued that the Bush action violated several laws.
In her ruling, Kollar-Kotelly agreed that the government’s process had been “astoundingly flawed.”
…and agony on me. Seems the gun angle was merely to draw in readers, althought the issue is in full force in the comments section, with predictible results.
In American crisis, anger and guns
In the first two months of this year, around 2.5 million Americans bought guns, a 26 percent increase over the same period in 2008. It was great news for gun makers and a sign of a dark mood in the country.
Gun sales shot up almost immediately after Barack Obama won the U.S. presidential elections on November 4 and firearm enthusiasts rushed to stores, fearing he would tighten gun controls despite campaign pledges to the contrary.
After the November spike, gun dealers say, a second motive has helped drive sales: fear of social unrest as the ailing economy pushes the newly destitute deeper into misery. Many of the newly poor come from the relentlessly rising ranks of the unemployed. In February alone, an average of 23,000 people a day lost their jobs.
Tent cities for the homeless have expanded outside a string of American cities, from Sacramento and Phoenix to Atlanta and Seattle, for people who are living the American dream in reverse. First they lose their jobs, then their health insurance, then their homes, then their hopes. The encampments are reminiscent of Third World refugee camps.
Often former members of the middle class, tent dwellers’ accounts of their plight to television cameras have a common theme: “I never thought this could happen to me.” Unlike the victims of Katrina, the 2005 hurricane that destroyed much of New Orleans, many of the newly-poor are white.
So the FBI is praising a man for creating an effective way for criminals to dispose of guns they’ve commited crimes with? And don’t you have to have actually sold a gun to begin with to “buy it back”? From what I’ve see, most of the guns taken in at the so called “Buy Backs” are out dated, and non working, or classic, valuable weapons of historic and/or monetary value, which are taken in and scrapped. I’m not even getting into the legal aspects of “Buy Backs” either.
Oh, and check out who is praising this pastor for what he’s been doing…
FBI honors Albany pastor for anti-gun program
March 19, 2009 at 6:06 pm by Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Hearst Washington bureauAlbany Pastor Charlie Muller was honored in Washington, D.C. today for his commitment to the community and his creation of a gun buy-back program to get firearms off the streets.
The FBI presented Muller, pastor of the Victory Christian Church in Albany, with its Director’s Leadership Award. Community leaders from across the nation were honored with the recognition Thursday.The award is reserved for people and groups who have helped combat crime, drugs and violence.
Muller was praised for his creation of a gun buy-back program that offers people $150 gift cards for Crossgates Mall and Colonie Center to relinquish their hand guns. Muller created the program after the 2007 shooting death of 10-year-old Kathina Thomas.
The initiative is funded by the Albany County Legislature and runs in conjunction with Albany County law enforcement.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., who met with Muller today, praised the paster with playing “an active role in keeping Albany safe.”
“All New York children should have the opportunity to grow up in safe neighborhoods,” Gillibrand said. “Pastor Muller’s work helps many Capital Region families sleep a little easier at night.”
The FBI’s Albany field office chose Muller for the award in January.
Finally found some ammo at the local Bi-mart. They had five boxes of the Blazer Brass .45 ACP for about $18 + tax a piece. I got their last five boxes. For the curious, that works out to about $ .40 a cartridge. Incidentally, the entire shelf of .22lr was empty, along with most of their handgun calibers.
Sportsman’s Warehouse the other day had some .32ACP, .25 ACP and .45 GAP, but nothing else. Their handgun wall was almost completely empty too. I spoke with a guy behind the counter and he informed me that starting this week sometime, the situation was expected to change. He indicated they’d been sold to another company and that the new company had ordered them to buy more or everything that goes bang. Good news I’d say, although what this will do to the prices remains to be seen.
According to The Firearm Blog, the brass mutilation will not take place. Thank you to everyone who wrote and called your legislators!
Read more at The Firearm Blog.
Who has more to fear from armed pilots, terrorists or the Obama administration?
Here’s an editorial from The Washington Times:
EDITORIAL: Guns on a plane
Obama secretly ends program that let pilots carry guns
After the September 11 attacks, commercial airline pilots were allowed to carry guns if they completed a federal-safety program. No longer would unarmed pilots be defenseless as remorseless hijackers seized control of aircraft and rammed them into buildings.
Now President Obama is quietly ending the federal firearms program, risking public safety on airlines in the name of an anti-gun ideology.
The Obama administration this past week diverted some $2 million from the pilot training program to hire more supervisory staff, who will engage in field inspections of pilots.
This looks like completely unnecessary harassment of the pilots. The 12,000 Federal Flight Deck Officers, the pilots who have been approved to carry guns, are reported to have the best behavior of any federal law enforcement agency. There are no cases where any of them has improperly brandished or used a gun. There are just a few cases where officers have improperly used their IDs.
Fewer than one percent of the officers have any administrative actions brought against them and, we are told, virtually all of those cases “are trumped up.”
The fact that the original gun control laws in the US were put in place to keep Blacks defenseless against the Klan is apparently lost on these kids.
And Pfleger is such an upstanding pillar of the community too, calling for the “snuffing out” of legislators and honest, hard working US citizens who have commited no crime. What a role model!
Funny how this gets coverage, but the 5,000+ member IGOLD event held just days earlier gets no mention except as an afterthought at the end of this story.
From Chicagoland:
College kids help fight city’s gun violence
By John Garcia
March 16, 2009 (CHICAGO) (WLS) — Dozens of college students from the East Coast are taking a stand to try to stop the violence in Chicago.
Students from Howard and Princeton Universities are spending their spring break in Illinois.
It was nearly three years ago when Willie Williams III was shot and killed outside the Ford City Mall movie theater. But the pain is still fresh for his father. He is now dedicated to make it more difficult for kids to get hold of guns.
“We as families and parents, we think that it can slow up the flow of guns getting to the streets,” said Willie Williams Jr., victim’s father.
Williams is one of several parents of children killed by gun violence who spoke at St. Sabina Church on Monday night. In the audience were dozens of college students on spring break from Howard and Princeton. They have skipped the typical spring break parties and instead are in Chicago for the week to work for gun control legislation.
“I got upset all over again. I think it’s important for things that make you uncomfortable, things like that. I started wondering why more people aren’t uncomfortable,” said LaShondra Booker, Howard University senior.
The event was organized by St. Sabina pastor, Fr. Michael Pfleger, one of the city’s leading voices for gun control. Some of the students spend part of the day calling state lawmakers to lobby them in favor of a bill putting new restrictions on some private sales of guns.
“I want to commend the students because it shows their compassion and commitment and I believe that they are the best representatives of what an educated democratic society is,” said State Sen. Jacqueline Collins, (D) Chicago.
The bill has the support of a number of House members but there is plenty of opposition as well. A group of gun owners went to Springfield last week to lobby.
The Illinois National Rifle Association says there are already laws to track legal gun sales.
