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New Posts: May 17, 2013
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New Jersey: Gun Control Package Advancing in Trenton
The state Senate approved several gun control measures on Monday, May 13, and the New Jersey Assembly has placed them on their calendar for consideration this Monday, May 20 at 1:00 pm. The Assembly floor agenda is subject to change. The remaining bills passed in the Senate on May 13 may require action in Assembly committees before they can be taken up on the Assembly floor. As of today, the Assembly is currently scheduled to consider the following bills, among others:
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Maryland: Governor Signs Sweeping Gun Control Bill into Law
Yesterday, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley (D) signed into law sweeping gun control legislation, Senate Bill 281. Reported by NRA-ILA throughout the session here, S.B. 281 faced strong opposition by the people of Maryland throughout the legislative process. This sweeping anti-gun legislation will take effect on October 1, 2013.
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Vermont: 2013 Legislative Session Adjourns
State lawmakers wrapped up their 2013 legislative session earlier this week in Montpelier with good results for Vermont NRA members. Several anti-gun bills were introduced in Vermont this year, but none of them advanced beyond committee. NRA members did a tremendous job of contacting their state legislators to express concerns about legislation that would attack the Second Amendment, and your telephone calls and e-mails made the difference.
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Maine: Your Action is Needed to Halt Attacks on the Second Amendment
The Maine Joint Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee has been holding work sessions on numerous bills that, if passed and enacted into law, would severely restrict your Second Amendment rights. Three anti-gun bills are expected to be considered on the Senate floor as early as next week. We need you to contact your state Senator NOW in opposition to the following bills:
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Colorado: Attend an Important Forum on Colorado’s Assault on the Second Amendment this Tuesday
This Tuesday, May 28, the Independence Institute is hosting a forum at the Freedom Financial Expo Center to discuss the assault that took place during the 2013 legislative session on your Second Amendment rights.
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Five reasons the NRA won the recent gun control debate that have nothing to do with politics
As an NRA leader who's worked there for over two decades told me, "I think our volunteers' passion and intensity cannot be matched. You can't pull a switch; your grassroots has to have sustainability and you have to train people. We might be happy with a recent legislative victory, but we examine why we won, we evaluate what we need to do better, and get our volunteers geared up for the next battle." But how do they foster that culture, that fervor?
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The AP and the NRA
We have just gone through a period when scorn was heaped on the NRA for opposing new gun rules out of the very same logic that compels reporters to react so strongly against the AP subpoena. The NRA will not abide an infringement on anyone's legitimate right to bear arms, and it fears what could come of enhanced state power. Like the reporters, it casts a jaundiced eye on the reassurances of government. What they are to the First Amendment, it is to the Second.
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Toomey is open to reviving plan to criminalize private transfers
Sen. Pat Toomey (R., Pa.) hasn't given up on his bill to expand background checks for gun purchases, he said Thursday, signaling more willingness to return to the plan than he had publicly shown before."If we could find a way to bring some more folks on board, then of course it would be worth bringing it up again," Toomey said in an interview.
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Mike & Connecticut governor talk guns
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy stopped by City Hall Wednesday and held a closed door strategy session on gun control with Mayor Bloomberg.Following the meeting, Malloy said three objectives should be pursued to reverse last month's setback, when the Senate voted down a bill to significantly expand background checks for gun purchases.
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Concealed carry rules for Illinois emerge but face uncertain fate
A measure spelling out who can carry concealed handguns and where they can carry them emerged Thursday after months of contentious negotiations, a system with one set of rules for violence plagued Chicago and another for the rest of Illinois.Though the attempt at a compromise cleared its first hurdle in the Senate, it faces considerable opposition from gun rights advocates who derided it as an effort to greatly restrict where guns could be carried for self defense and argued that it gave too much leeway to law enforcement in denying permits."You put lipstick on a pig, and it's still a pig. That's what this is," said Todd Vandermyde, the National Rifle Association's Illinois lobbyist.
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Maryland: Governor signs gun control bill with fingerprint licensing
Gov. Martin O'Malley signed a gun control measure on Thursday to give Maryland some of the nation's tightest gun laws and the National Rifle Association plans to challenge it in court.
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California: Assembly advances bill to ban hunters using lead ammunition
Legislation that would make California the first state to ban the use of lead ammunition in hunting has cleared the state Assembly.The bill from Democratic Assemblyman Anthony Rendon of Lakewood would require hunters to use non lead ammunition.
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NRA Supports Lawsuit Against Gun Control in Colorado
Fairfax, Va. – The National Rifle Association is proud to support a lawsuit filed today in federal court by 54 Colorado county sheriffs, the firearms industry trade association, several firearms retailers, individuals with disabilities and other parties which challenges the State of Colorado’s recently enacted gun control laws.
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Obama Administration to Sign U.N. Arms Trade Treaty "In the Very Near Future"
As we reported last month, on April 2, the United Nations General Assembly voted 153-4 to pass the Arms Trade Treaty, with the United States voting in favor and several countries abstaining. The vote in the General Assembly pushed the treaty process forward after negotiations twice failed to deliver on the goal of developing the treaty by consensus. The Obama Administration is expected to sign the treaty soon after it is opened for signature on June 3.
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Confiscate! Confiscate! Confiscate!
Hell hath no fury like an anti-gunner who doesn't get her way on gun control.
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NRA Succeeds Because of its Human Resources
Far too many ignorant and politically motivated observers wrongly attribute NRA's recent victories in Congress, as well as our past successes, to NRA's perceived financial might (which is dwarfed by that of billionaire anti-gun zealots like New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg). Of course, financial resources, when spent wisely, are certainly crucial to any organization's success. However, what makes NRA successful is our extraordinary grassroots efforts--and more specifically, those of our members and volunteers who typically make the difference between legislative success or failure through their continued activism.
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Country Star Kevin Fowler is an NRA Supporter
Rising country music star Kevin Fowler was the opening act for the "NRA Country Jam" at this year's NRA Annual Meetings in Houston. Fowler is an unabashed supporter of NRA and the Second Amendment, and he'll gladly let you know that, graphically and in no uncertain terms. Fowler recently weighed in on the gun control debate during an exclusive interview with TheBlaze.
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MAGPUL INDUSTRIES ANNOUNCES LAWSUIT TO INVALIDATE COLORADO GUN CONTROL MEASURES

Denver, Colorado - May 17th, 2013 - Magpul Industries, an Erie, Colorado, based manufacturer of firearms accessories, announced today that it has joined 53 Colorado County Sheriffs and other plaintiffs in filing a lawsuit this morning to invalidate gun control measures recently passed by the Colorado legislature and enacted by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper.

The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court and establishes that Colorado House Bill 1224 (magazine restrictions) and House Bill 1229 (universal background checks) violate the constitutional rights of lawful gun owners located in Colorado.

Duane Liptak, Director of Product Management and Marketing for Magpul Industries, said that these gun control laws do nothing other than restrict the ability of law abiding citizens to defend themselves and Magpul is committed to invalidating these infringements:

"Colorado's recently passed gun control laws are a direct assault on the constitutional rights of the responsible people who live in and visit this great state. These laws will do nothing to enhance public safety and only place unreasonable limitations on the ability of law abiding citizens to defend themselves. While Magpul is currently in the process of moving its operations out of Colorado, we will not turn our back on our native state. Extreme gun control interests have forced the passage of these unconstitutional laws in Colorado, and as a company, we are resolved to restore those rights to the people."

Magpul's outside legal counsel, Jon Anderson, of Holland & Hart LLP, said that the Colorado gun control bills are unconstitutional and so poorly drafted that the new laws would be enforced in an inconsistent manner:

"Colorado's gun control laws are in direct conflict with the U.S. Constitution. In addition, these bills were so poorly drafted that no one agrees on the scope of the government regulation. If teams of lawyers cannot agree on what these bills prohibit, how can we expect citizens to abide by these laws and how can we rely on law enforcement to implement these laws in a consistent manner?"

Magpul will continue to support productive efforts to FREE COLORADO from government regulations that imperil the rights of law abiding firearm owners.

Leslie Dutchcot is well-known around these parts as the judge who original disarmed Hobson McKown without evidence or specific, articulable belief that he was a flight risk or a danger to any person or the community. We do not want her to get a second term. Does she really deserve $500,000 over 6 years for what she has done her past 6 years for which she has already received over $350,000?

Leslie has crossfiled on both the Democratic and Republican tickets. Another candidate has also cross-filed, Ronald Quinn, Jr., who is not of notoriety.

However, it's time for the law-abider's revenge. Expecting a successful exoneration from the Superior court in the upcoming month, Hobson McKown himself is announcing a 'swift and aggressive' write-in campaign for May 21!

Use the PM MDJschool link on my profile to be sent contact information: Hobson urgently needs recycled signs (so he can make his own prior to Monday/Tuesday), press, and persons to hand out write-in information handouts on election day. (However, as a judicial candidate without a committee, he cannot accept or solicit donations, or 'publicly stated support'.) Talk to your friends and family, and those you see on the street, and tell them about this important write-in option -- someone whom might follow the law! If you know youth who are registered, make sure to rally them to the polls. Tell the cynical not-gonna-vote-this-year folks too! It doesn't take too many hundreds of people to win this primary for either R or D or both! (Voters needed must be from College Township Voting Districts North and West, Ferguson Township, Halfmoon Township, and Patton Township to vote for this office, Magisterial District Judge 49-2-01.)

Here is the advance text of the press release, which you may see reported online as early as tonight and by print and/or other outlets by tomorrow:

Hobson announces district judge write-in campaign
- Hobson McKown seeks ouster of incumbent district judge

Having gone toe-to-toe with Leslie Dutchcot, Hobson McKown seeks the Magisterial District Judge 49-2-01 office by swift and aggressive write-in campaigning.

“Public office holders rarely deserve a second chance in their own position, if any office at all, and should return to private life or find another way to help do right by our law,” Hobson stated. “It is not good for society to prop up career judges with 85k/year salaries for a guaranteed term of 6 years ($510,000). 30 years over six terms makes 3 million dollars. By going above and beyond, that must be earned.”

Hobson, a constitutional and criminal law frontiersman, said he has since a young age been a student of law with a concentration on unlearned and unearned authority, noting that he has been fighting for the constitutional rights of Pennsylvanians long before seeking this office.

“I have the genuine courtroom experience that provides empathy to all whom will come before me upon the bench. I have been the victim sitting across from criminals. I have been the innocent defendant. I have been up and down the criminal courts so that I understand the plight of each party. I have never been the driven district attorney, the detached defense lawyer, the passionate police officer, or the gregarious judge. But I do not have those bad habits to unlearn, leaving me only neutral, detached, fair and impartial.”

Employed over the past seven years by nationally recognized Pennsylvanian employers AccuWeather, Blair, and McKissock, Hobson now acts a private real estate acquisition specialist and devotes time to legal study. McKown is a 2006 Computer Programming ASB graduate of Bradford School of Pittsburgh, Pa.

Hobson completed the Magisterial District Judge certification training course in Harrisburg on December 2009. McKown took Constitutional Law courses as early as 2003 at Warren Area High School. He has subscribed to WestLaw for Pennsylvania and Federal legal resources for over 4 years.

“Jon Grine once asked if I was a lawyer, or if I was in law school, and that I should be if I was not. T.K. Kistler has applauded my study of and adherence to the principles contained in the Constitution,” Hobson said. “A local attorney assessed my legal acumen as ‘3rd year of law school’ yet I have not had formal secondary training. My legal reasoning and writing has found its way into defense briefs to both our local and appellate courts. My friends remind me to ‘stop getting all legal’,” quipped McKown.

Born and raised in Warren, Pa., Hobson has since been a resident of Centre County for five of the last seven years.

“Many know or remember me as only Hobson, confusing the name as to whether it is my first name or last name. I believe that allows a voter to write in H-O-B-S-O-N, without having to remember my full birth name, on a Democratic or Republican ballot,” explained Hobson. “And when you’re in front of that ballot, just remember that I am a Law and Order judge – order applies to you as it does to me and my fellow politicians, and our highest state law is our Pennsylvania Constitution.”

James Kaleda explains that the proposed NJ Gun Bills will not save any lives but will endanger them. He is ejected by Committee Chair Senator Norcross. This took place at the NJ Senate gun control hearings in Trenton on April 30, 2013.



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