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450 Mayors Petition Obama To Adopt Broad Gun Reform (Gun Grabbers Inc.)
washingtonpost ^ | 10/3/2009 | Staff

Posted on 10/05/2009 1:35:35 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA

A new report from a national coalition of mayors urges President Obama to adopt dozens of reforms to help curb gun violence, including steps to crack down on problems at gun shows and the creation of a federal interstate firearms trafficking unit.

The "Blueprint for Federal Action on Illegal Guns," a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post, presents 40 recommendations that "would dramatically improve law enforcement's ability to keep guns out of the hands of criminals -- and, in doing so, save innocent lives."

The strategies outlined by the Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a bipartisan group of about 450 mayors nationwide, focus on the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The agency, which has been sent a copy of the report, declined to comment.

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KEYWORDS: agenda; banglist; batf; bho44; bhobanglist; mayors
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To: Charles Martel
another list full of retards. you could substitue it for the UN Human Rights Council. Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

41 posted on 10/05/2009 2:12:26 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: Red in Blue PA

So we should expect that all these mayors will instruct their personal bodyguards to discard their guns toot sweet? Let me know when THAT happens.


42 posted on 10/05/2009 2:14:26 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Wonder Warthog

Comparison: The list of Texas mayors with the list of New Jersey mayors.


43 posted on 10/05/2009 2:15:06 PM PDT by Crazieman (Feb 7, 2008 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1966675/posts?page=28#28)
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To: a fool in paradise

a lot of these towns in Pennsylvania are so small I imagine an gun owning citizen could go knock on the Mayor’s front door and tell him exactly what he or she thinks of this letter...which, I suspect, many will do


44 posted on 10/05/2009 2:24:59 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Red in Blue PA

Ah yes, the old "450 whatevers" trick. I think this started with the "400 historians" who weighed in on Clinton's impeachment. Since then we've had 400 scientists, 400 paleoenterologists... today Obama had 150 doctors in for a Rose Garden event.

I guess the lefties think this stuff is persuasive, as if we're all too stupid to know they cherry-pick their historians and so on to say whatever they want.


45 posted on 10/05/2009 2:28:11 PM PDT by Nick Danger (Free cheese is found only in mousetraps)
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To: a fool in paradise
Mayor Pamela Torliatt

Petaluma, CA

Bitch. I'm proud to say I didn't vote for her.

46 posted on 10/05/2009 2:33:52 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead. Bonus tag line: FAIL 246, Obama 0)
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To: stevio

stevio,

Small Town PA...

Mayor Tina Hagenbuch
Weissport, PA

Weissport—population 450
strip out kids, illegals and felons, nothing left.
By the way, she would not have the nerve to make her stance public, this area is very gun friendly.


47 posted on 10/05/2009 2:36:19 PM PDT by fatboy
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To: Syntyr

“Texas:

Mayor Richard Ward
Hurst, TX

Only 1 Texas Mayor??? Well dang it thats 1 too many!!!”

‘bout time for a Hurst TEA PARTY!!!


48 posted on 10/05/2009 2:38:15 PM PDT by antisocial (Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
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To: Red in Blue PA

“...steps to crack down on problems at gun shows...”

Thank goodness! Here are the problems at gunshows I’d like to see addressed:

1. Distant parking
2. Not enough ammo
3. Too much flea market crap, beanie babies, jerky
4. Too few private sellers (making the transaction unreported to the government).
5. Unrealistically high prices.
6. Annoying security guards who make you take off the sticker on your back that says what you’re looking for (they expect me to buy a booth?)
7. The geezers in the good locations with the same crap they’ve been displaying for years without selling anything.
8. The fact that our highest denomination currency is only $100, which means a fat wad if you plan any serious shopping. (The Euros have a bill worth over $700, but then again they don’t have gun shows).
9. Rules against concealed carry.
10. ATF hassling the best sellers.


49 posted on 10/05/2009 2:38:17 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Why not "interpret" your tax returns like the Supreme Court "interprets" the Constitution?)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Mayor Greg Nickels
Seattle, WA

Hey Mayor Mc Cheese made the list, no surprises there... the guys a LOSER !

SAF.ORG is going to sue his fat arse off!

Washington State Attorney Rob McKenna has even stated that Mayor Fatty Mc Cheese Nickels can’t ban any guns anywhere in WA State.

BTW an illegal gun is like the one the Seattle Chief of Police LOST.. another 5-star dumb arse !


50 posted on 10/05/2009 2:47:30 PM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: Red in Blue PA

How about a petiton for Firing-Gun-Grabbing-Mayors Reform? I’m sure we can get more than 450 signatures on that one.


51 posted on 10/05/2009 2:55:41 PM PDT by kromike
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To: unixfox

GOD bless you and your attitude there unixfox

And go TEXAS.


52 posted on 10/05/2009 3:23:53 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (google; operation garden spot and REX84 (FUBO))
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To: Tarpon

A whole lot more than 450 mayors should be put put to pasture
and a few should be horse whipped.


53 posted on 10/05/2009 3:27:11 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (google; operation garden spot and REX84 (FUBO))
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To: WOBBLY BOB
I knew that Nagin was on the list (along with his obese counterpart from Shreveport, who has been in the news re: "conservative bumper stickers = domestic terrorists").

As a former resident of the New Orleans area, I'm kicking myself for having forgotten about that photo - I would've certainly posted it in last night's thread. Also, for some reason, I never before noticed the NOPD "RV" in the background.

54 posted on 10/05/2009 4:17:25 PM PDT by Charles Martel (NRA Lifetime Member since 1984; TSRA rookie)
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To: fatboy

Kutztown Pa., my wife and my honeymoon hometown. In the middle of Mennonite country, but also KU. The mayor Sandra Green is a member of the f’in “Center for Progressive Leadership”.


55 posted on 10/05/2009 4:48:53 PM PDT by stevio (Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
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To: Red in Blue PA; unixfox; All
The link to the list was posted in a similar FR thread a few days ago. Out of over 1,000 Texas towns/cities with mayors, only one (1) Texas mayor (Hurst, TX) was on the list.

There were far more pro-gun FReepers on that thread than there are Texas mayors in that worthless Bloomburg bunch...

56 posted on 10/05/2009 4:59:38 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: Red in Blue PA
I diverge from the commonly held belief that President Obama falls well to the right on the Bell Curve of smarts.

I think he is stupid enough to give it a go which will result in larger midterm election losses.

57 posted on 10/05/2009 5:02:25 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what you can do for Obama.)
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To: Beelzebubba
"3. Too much flea market crap, beanie babies, jerky"

Hey! I object! I like having a chunk of good, homemade jerky to chaw on whilst I cruise the really big shows...

(Still looking for a good deal on a couple more HK P7M8 mags...)

58 posted on 10/05/2009 5:10:36 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: Charles Martel
And it wasn't even the mayor of Austin!

Which is indeed, surprising...

the infowarrior

59 posted on 10/05/2009 5:46:48 PM PDT by infowarrior
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