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BTL Update 2012 January 10
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012- Monsanto spends whopping $2 million in third quarter 2011 lobbying federal government
- US “Withdrawal” In Iraq Paves Way for US-Israeli Strike on Iran
- Statistics show conservatives have always been right: more guns in honest hands equals less crime
- Cost of war at least $3.7 trillion and counting
- Gun control kills jobs
- Beware of governments improving software
- Why not real health-care reform?
- Exactly What Is Crony Capitalism, Anyway?
- US Sends Aircraft Carrier Through Strait Of Hormuz During Iran Wargames
- From Israel: Vote Ron Paul and Let My People Go!
- Why Many Vitamin Studies are Absolutely Worthless
- Ignore This Deficiency… And Become 3 Times More Likely to Die?
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NAGR Republican Presidential Candidates Gun Rights Survey
Saturday, January 7th, 2012The National Association for Gun Rights has mailed every candidate for President an official NAGR Gun Rights Survey.
Ron Paul is the only remaining Republican candidate who has returned his survey 100% in favor of gun rights.
Mitt Romney:
So far Mitt Romney has refused to respond to his NAGR gun rights survey, perhaps because when Mitt Romney was Governor of ultra-liberal Massachusetts he signed a bill to ban an entire class of firearms.
Would he do the same thing — or even worse — as President of the United States? His record indicates that he would.
Mitt Romney supports the Brady Registration Act, mandatory 5-day waiting periods, mandatory firearms ID cards, the Federal Feinstein Gun Ban (so-called “assault weapons ban”) and he signed the Massachusetts Semi-Auto Ban in 2004.
He even went as far as to say that he supported Massachusetts’ tough anti-gun laws: “We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts; I support them… I won’t chip away at them; I believe they protect us and provide for our safety.”
And to throw fuel on top of Mitt Romney’s anti-gun fire, he received the endorsement of John McCain this week, who himself has recorded promotional commercials for anti-gun groups hell-bent on restricting our Second Amendment rights.
Rick Santorum:
If you’ve watched any of the Presidential debates, you’ve noticed that Rick Santorum claims time and again to be a “fighter” who has “led on conservative issues.”
Rick Santorum’s record on the Second Amendment, however, tells a different story.
In the 90s, he voted to support the Lautenberg Gun Ban, which stripped law-abiding gun owners of their Second Amendment rights for life, simply because they spanked their children or did nothing more than grab a spouses wrist.
He voted for a bill in 1999 disguised as an attempt to increase penalties on drug traffickers with guns… but it also included a provision to require federal background checks at gun shows.
In 2000, Santorum voted to force pawn shops to require a background check on anyone coming into the store to sell a firearm.
And then he voted with gun-controlling Democrats Dianne Fienstein and Frank Lautenberg to mandate locks on handguns in 2005.
But worst of all, Rick Santorum has a storied history of bailing out anti-gun Republicans facing reelection.
Rick Santorum came to anti-gun Arlen Specter’s defense in 2004 when he was down in the polls against pro-gun Republican Pat Toomey. Specter won and continued to push for gun control during his years in the Senate.
He also supported and openly campaigned for anti-gun New Jersey governor, Christine Todd Whitman.
It certainly appears that Rick Santorum has no regrets about his past anti-gun record. Worse, it appears he’d be happy to continue along this path as President.
Newt Gingrich:
For those who have followed Newt Gingrich’s career, the revelation that he talks out of both sides of his mouth won’t be a surprise.
Despite claiming to be pro-gun, Newt Gingrich’s reign as Speaker was downright hostile to our Second Amendment rights.
Newt supports the Brady National Gun Registry, a national biometric thumbprint database for gun purchasers, the Lautenberg Gun Ban and the “Criminal Safezones Act.”
Newt doesn’t think the Brady Instant Gun Registry goes far enough — he wants thumbprints:
“I think we prefer to go to instant check on an immediate basis and try to accelerate implementing instant checks so that you could literally check by thumbprint… Instant check is a much better system than the Brady process.” — June 27, 1997
Gingrich may claim to be pro-gun . . .
But his record indicates otherwise, and his refusal to answer his NAGR survey should give any Second Amendment supporter cause for concern.
Rick Perry:
Texas Governor Rick Perry has received an earful from NAGR members over the past several months for refusing to return his Candidate Survey.
His strategy seems to be to tell gun owners “trust me” while keeping completely silent on what he would do about our gun rights if elected President.
Over the years, gun owners have learned that this is a failed strategy.
George H.W. Bush ran as a pro-gun candidate for President in 1988, but when elected, things changed.
First, he signed an Executive Order banning the importation of so-called “assault weapons.”
Not only that, but it was under President Bush that “Operation Triggerlock,” which dramatically increased funding and power for the BATFE, was implemented.
Of course, as Governor of Texas, Rick Perry did make some minor improvements in state law for gun owners.
It is, however, one thing to act pro-gun as Governor of a state like Texas and quite another to be a pro-gun President of the United States.
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BTL Update 2012 January 5
Thursday, January 5th, 2012- Did Holder Create OKC Bombing to Steal Americans’ Liberty?
- FDA is Violating Federal Law
- Billions of federal dollars ‘wasted’ as U.S. debt explodes
- Genetically Modified Mosquitoes to be Released in the US for the First Time
- Merry Christmas America, Now Give Us Your Money – Love, EPA
- Future Riot Shields Will Suffocate Protestors with Low Frequency Speakers
- Obama’s Corruption, Secrecy and Contempt Exposed
- The coming war inside America
- What is Sustainable Development?
- U.S. Supreme Court Has Ruled on Obama’s Eligibility!!
- Myth busted: Yes, the NDAA does apply to Americans, and here’s the text that says so
- New York City Denies Second Amendment Rights
- Obama Signs National Defense Authorization Act into Law
- Rep. Landry Offers Amendment to NDAA to Protect Civil Liberties
- NDAA: Open Season for the Police State
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BTL Update 2011 November 9
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011Homeland Security Orders a Reduction in Border Inspections
U.S. challenges South Carolina immigration law
‘Bloated’ Federal Workforce Rises 12% as Rest of US Goes Jobless
Corporations Don’t Pay Taxes – Ever!
Bill Gates Urges Obama to Embrace Global Tax
Republican run North Dakota: an economic success ignored by the Leftist media – it doesn’t “fit”
CFP’s Call to Champions of Conservative Media
New Evidence Fast and Furious was a Gun Control Plot
Homeland Security Advisor Accused of Leaking Docs
PULLING THE IAEA INTO THE “ATTACK IRAN” DEBATE WILL BACKFIRE
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BTL Update 2011 August 29
Monday, August 29th, 2011ATF Rewards Agents Who Ran “Fast and Furious” and Then Helped Cover It Up
14 Conspiracy Theories That The Media Now Admits Are Conspiracy Facts
The Five Most Catastrophic Hidden Costs of the Obama Presidency
Judiciary Failure: Upholding Medicaid Expansion
David Horowitz: Obama ‘Systematically Destroying Our Liberties’
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Gun Control News
Sunday, May 30th, 2010CCRKBA URGES INQUIRY INTO ATF’S ‘PROJECT GUNRUNNER’
BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is urging its members to contact the Senate and demand a full and open inquiry into a controversial gun trafficking sting operation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that may be linked to the December slaying of a federal peace officer. Read more…
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms 2011 February 11
Gun Control Emotions vs. Gun Control Facts
Just 24 hours after the shooting in Tucson, politicians were calling for more gun control. And the drumbeat has continued.
On Sunday, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called for using the information supplied on people’s applications to join the military to determine whether they will be banned from buying guns. Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Richard Lugar, R-Ind., promised a new push for renewing at least part of the federal assault weapons ban. The previous week had been filled with calls for everything from gun show regulations to a thousand-foot gun-free zone around politicians.
AolNews 2011 January 20
FBI Data Again Shows More Guns = Less Crime
Anyone needing proof that fanaticism for gun control hasn’t waned on Capitol Hill, that anti-gunners are — as Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) put it last year — only waiting to “pick the time,” should watch the video of Mexican president Felipe Calderon’s speech to Congress last week, versions of which have been posted on youtube.com. When Calderon asked that the federal “assault weapon” ban be re-imposed, a very large number of U.S. Representatives and Senators present gave him a standing ovation.
However, on Monday the FBI released crime statistics that should cause the applauding anti-gunners to sit on their hands. The statistics indicate that between 2008 and 2009, as gun sales soared, the number of murders in our country decreased 7.2 percent. That amounts to about an 8.2 percent decrease in the per capita murder rate, after the increase in our nation’s legal and illegal population is taken into account. And it translates into about a 10.5 percent decrease in the murder rate between 2004, when the ban expired, and the end of 2009. And finally, it means that in 2009 our nation’s murder rate fell to a 45-year low.
NRA-ILA 2010 May 28
Sen. Inhofe Introduces Legislation To Protect Second Amendment Rights Of Military And Dept. Of Defense Civilian Personnel
Over a period of some months, NRA members in the Armed Forces have called NRA’s attention to the fact that certain military base commanders, exercising arbitrary authority given them under military law and regulations, have issued orders violating military personnel’s Second Amendment rights. In a particularly egregious example, Fort Riley, Kansas, has imposed a preposterous regulation that, among other things, (1) requires the registration, with Fort Riley, of its soldiers’ privately-owned firearms kept off-base, and those of the soldiers’ family members residing anywhere in Kansas, (2) prohibits soldiers who have firearm-carrying permits from carrying firearms for protection off-base, and (3) authorizes unit commanders to set arbitrary limits on the caliber of firearms and ammunition their troops may privately own.
NRA-ILA 2010 May 28
