http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/goa/ en-us Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:41:57 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103302/posts www.gunowners.org/a100808.htmOct 2008 Gun Owners of America Releases Congressional Voter Guide -- Elections will produce tremendous impact on gun owners' rights Gun Owners of America 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102 Springfield, VA 22151 (703)321-8585 Wednesday, October 8, 2008 With the election less than one month away, Gun Owners of America is doing its best to keep gun owners informed about who is protecting your rights in the Congress. Many gun owners are familiar with the differences between the candidates at the presidential level, but how well do they know the views and actions of those who are running at the congressional... Gun Owners of America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103302/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:41:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101157/posts PANAJI: An Australian tourist had to pay with his life in Goa on Wednesday after he picked up an argument with a restaurant waiter over how a beer should be served. John Kelly, 65, had gone to Calangute's Club City Restaurant around 8 am and ordered a beer. However, he was not happy with the waiter's service and scolded him. "This resulted in an argument between the two. A group of waiters then beat up the Australian and tore up his clothes," said a police official. Pushed around, the tourist fell to the floor, he said. Kelly was immediately rushed... Times of India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101157/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 07:44:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083026/posts www.gunowners.org/a091508.htmSep 2008 As the House Gets Ready to Vote on Repealing the DC Gun Ban -- Your Representative now needs to hear from you Gun Owners of America 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102 Springfield, VA 22151 (703)321-8585 Monday, September 15, 2008 How quickly things can change. Last week, the early reports indicated that the Childers bill to repeal the DC gun ban, HR 6691, was going to be a "cake walk" in the House of Representatives. But now, DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) has managed to get an alternative, anti-gun bill onto the floor of the House. Her bill... Gun Owners of America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083026/posts#comment Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:02:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061558/posts Wednesday, August 13, 2008 You may not have been watching the battle that is brewing over concealed carry in the Hartsfield-Jackson airport in Atlanta, Georgia, but it may end up affecting you where you live. Because of what's happening in Atlanta, the Transportation Security Agency could decide to allow airports across the country to ban firearms in areas that currently allow for self-defense. It all began when Georgia passed a new law allowing permit holders to carry guns onto state parks, into restaurants that serve alcohol, and onto mass transit (such as the non-surveillance areas in airports). The Hartsfield-Jackson airport... Gun Owners of America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061558/posts#comment Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:15:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057221/posts www.gunowners.org/a073008.htmJul 2008 Senate Vote Is Good News For Gun Rights -- GOA thanks activists for sending thousands of e-mails to the Senate prior to vote Gun Owners of America 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102 Springfield, VA 22151 (703)321-8585 Wednesday, July 30, 2008 Gun owners won an important vote in the U.S. Senate this week, when more than three dozen senators stood with Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma in his battle against Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada. Reid fell eight votes short on Monday of stopping Coburn, who has been using parliamentary maneuvers to keep anti-gun legislation (and pork)... Gun Owners of America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057221/posts#comment Wed, 6 Aug 2008 04:30:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052881/posts A pro-Second Amendment group is taking the unusual step of asking for financial help for the family of a gun owner caught up in a bizarre prosecution for a malfunctioning firearm. David Olofson is a U.S. Army veteran, Army Reservist and a gun enthusiast who loaned his personal 20-year-old AR-15 semi-automatic rifle to a neighbor who had expressed an interest in learning to shoot. A semi-automatic weapon fires one bullet each time the trigger is pulled. But – as Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, explains – when the neighbor took the gun to a range, it... One News Now http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052881/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:22:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049959/posts The Gun Owners of America have launched a campaign to help support the family of a man sentenced to 30 months in jail for a rifle that misfired. Officials with GOA today announced they will be working to generate support for the wife and three children of David Olofson, on whom WND has reported in the past, while a GOA-orchestrated appeal of his conviction proceeds. "Not only is Gun Owners of American representing Olofson during his appeal, we have set up an Olofson relief fund so that his wife and mother of their three young children will be able to... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049959/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:00:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049464/posts BATFE: Any Semi-Auto Can Be A Machine Gun by Larry Pratt On July 2 I went to jail. Happily for me, I left right away. Sadly for David Olofson and his family, he had to stay, and will have to stay for 30 months in the Federal Correctional Institute in Sandstone, Minnesota. Why is the federal government incarcerating an Army reservist from Berlin, Wisconsin who has 16 years of service, a mortgage, a wife and three kids? They convicted him for knowingly transferring an unregistered machine gun. Since the case was brought by the rogue agency -- the Bureau of... Gun Owners of America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049464/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:32:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043036/posts Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced Wednesday that Northrop Grumman and Boeing will have to submit revised proposals for the Air Force’s highly contested aerial refueling tanker program. The Pentagon chief's decision comes after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) upheld Boeing's protest of the Air Force's decision to award the contract to Northrop Grumman and EADS North America, the parent company of Boeing rival Airbus. “I have concluded that the contract cannot be awarded,” Gates said at a Pentagon news conference. Northrop Grumman won the heated competition on Feb. 29, but is currently under a stop-work order. The decision means... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043036/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 19:15:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042550/posts Walt Disney World fired a security guard on Monday after he protested the company's decision not to allow people with concealed weapons permits to keep guns in their cars on Disney property. Disney terminated Edwin Sotomayor, 36, of Orlando for violating three Disney employee policies, essentially for failing to cooperate with an internal investigation, said spokeswoman Zoraya Suarez. Sotomayor vowed to continue his fight. At issue is Florida's new law that allows people with concealed weapons permits to keep firearms in their vehicles in employee parking lots. Disney advised its employees late last month that the theme-park resort is exempt... Orlando Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042550/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 20:21:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037549/posts Friday, June 27, 2008 Yesterday was a historic day for the gun rights movement. For starters, Gun Owners of America is pleased that the U.S. Supreme Court, in the DC v. Heller opinion, struck down the handgun ban and trigger lock requirement in the nation's capital. As a result, GOA experts have spent the last two days using radio, TV and print media to explain the Court's decision and its impact upon the future of the gun debate in America. GOA's amicus brief urged the Court not to use the Heller case as a springboard to resolve the constitutionality of... Gun Owners of America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037549/posts#comment Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:02:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022323/posts Lawmakers who favor gun control are not optimistic about next year even though Democrats may be running Congress and the White House. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), the sponsor of legislation that would reinstate the expired federal assault weapons ban, dismissed the idea that her bill might pass in the 111th Congress. “It’s a pro-gun House, a pro-gun Senate and [Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) or Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.)] won’t want to deal with it,” McCarthy said. McCarthy stressed that she is not giving up on reauthorizing the weapons ban that sunsetted in 2004, but also made clear she is... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022323/posts#comment Wed, 28 May 2008 06:18:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988839/posts Gun owners had their day in court on Tuesday, when the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the DC v. Heller case, which involves a challenge to the DC gun ban. Absent some world-shaking surprise, it is pretty clear that there are five votes on the Supreme Court to declare that the Second Amendment is an individual right. That fact alone should be enough to settle the argument over gun control and protect gun owners' rights. But as we all know, that's where the battle over the meaning of the Second Amendment begins. More to the point, Justice John... GunOwners.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988839/posts#comment Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:16:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983619/posts A government official in Goa has accused Indian police of trying to cover up the murder of a British girl. Scarlett Keeling, 15, of Bideford, Devon, was found dead on a beach last month. Police initially said she had died after drinking too much. Local man Samson D'Souza, 29, has been charged with rape but not with murder. Goa's Tourism Minister Francisco X Pacheco has stated that Indian police deliberately covered up Miss Keeling's murder. He told the Reuters news agency: "This is a clear case of murder and it has gone out of proportion because police tried to cover... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983619/posts#comment Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:20:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1974897/posts If the Presidency of George W. Bush proved anything, it proved the hazard of electing phony Republican conservatives. At least one is able to clearly see a liberal for what he or she is when they have a "D" behind their name. But put an "R" behind the name and suddenly their liberal, Big-Government, anti-freedom agenda is barely recognized, which makes a liberal Republican much more dangerous than a liberal Democrat. Let me say it straight out: a John McCain Presidency would be far worse than a Barack Obama Presidency. With a Democrat in the White House, conservatives and Christians... Via email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1974897/posts#comment Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:44:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974821/posts www.gunowners.org/a022108.htmFeb 2008 GOA Blasts Michael Sullivan As "Unfit for Office" -- Acting BATFE Chief shows himself to be as anti-gun as Ted Kennedy Gun Owners of America 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102 Springfield, VA 22151 (703)321-8585 Tuesday, February 21, 2008 Gun Owners of America today hammered BATFE nominee Michael Sullivan as "unfit for office"' -- characterizing him as a Massachusetts liberal who is cut from the same cloth as Ted Kennedy. In its press release today, GOA called for Sullivan's defeat and praised Senator David Vitter (R-LA) for holding Sullivan's feet to the fire. GOA members should have recently received... Gun Owners of America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974821/posts#comment Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:30:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971878/posts www.gunowners.org/op0808.htmMcCain? No Way! by Sen. HL "Bill" Richardson (ret.) Chairman of the Board, GOA Americans are being told by the mainstream media that conservatives have no other choice than to back the hypocrite from Arizona. All that is required is to pretend he is "really" a conservative. "So, crawl under the big Republican tent and vote for McCain," we are told. "Besides, what other choice do you have?" We have plenty of choices, none of which calls for casting our vote for the lesser of two presidential evils. First, the Republican race isn't over. Huckabee is still around and as... Gun Owners of America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971878/posts#comment Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:20:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956196/posts A Second Amendment advocacy organization is asking the Bush administration to withdraw a legal brief that leaders fear could be used to support "any gun ban – no matter how sweeping," as long as some court somewhere determines it is "reasonable." The concern comes from Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, whose group is pleading with the Bush administration to withdraw an anti-gun brief filed by the U.S. Solicitor General in a Supreme Court case regarding a District of Columbia ban on handguns. The document from U.S. Solicitor General Paul D. Clement noted since "unrestricted" private ownership... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956196/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:37:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954733/posts Gun rights advocates were understandably dismayed when the Bush Administration Justice Department submitted a brief in District of Columbia v. Heller, the big Second Amendent case to be argued later this term, calling for a remand of the case for reconsideration of D.C.'s gun laws under a less demanding constitutional standard. Given the Bush Administration's support for an "individual rights" view of the Second Amendment, many find it incomprehensible that the Administration would not support the D.C. Circuit decision holding D.C.'s draconian gun restrictions unconstitutional. The DoJ's brief is also a potentially unwelcome development in the Presidential race, as it... The Corner at the National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954733/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:24:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1950828/posts www.gunowners.org/a010808.htmJan 2008 Q&A On The Veterans Disarmament Act -- How the new law will affect you and where we go from here Gun Owners of America 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102 Springfield, VA 22151 (703)321-8585 Tuesday, January 8, 2008 As most Americans were preparing for the Christmas holidays last month, the U.S. Congress pulled another fast one when only few people were watching. It was December 19. Most Congressmen had left town and were either at the airport or in the air returning home. They weren't in Washington, DC, because their party leadership had told them that all the major... Gun Owners of America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1950828/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jan 2008 15:50:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945213/posts WND WEAPONS OF CHOICE Gun owners 'get stabbed in back' 'Veterans Disarmament Act on way to president' Posted: December 23, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com Congress has given gun owners in America a Christmas gift: a blade in the back, according to officials with Gun Owners of America. The organization said the plan supported by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and others, and known as the Veterans Disarmament Act by opponents, is being forwarded now to President Bush. Worldnetdaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945213/posts#comment Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:48:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943570/posts Congress has given gun owners in America a Christmas gift: a blade in the back, according to officials with Gun Owners of America. The organization said the plan supported by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and others, and known as the Veterans Disarmament Act by opponents, is being forwarded now to President Bush. While other gun groups have endorsed H.R. 2640, a comprehensive plan to expand the powers of the Brady Bill gun restriction plan, Gun Owners of America has opposed it vigorously, and described its provisions for banning individuals, especially veterans, from owning guns as unreasonable. "The core of the... worldnetdaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943570/posts#comment Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:28:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939013/posts www.gunowners.org/a121307.htmDec 2007 GOA Activists Make Big Splash On Capitol Hill -- Gun rights report for 2007 Gun Owners of America 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102 Springfield, VA 22151 (703)321-8585 "Gun Owners of America has remained a steadfast ally. Their unwavering defense of our rights as Americans is commendable." -- Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), November 2007 Thursday, December 13, 2007 When people look back on 2007, they may remember the several, notable shootings that took place: the massacre at Virginia Tech in April, the slayings at the Nebraska and Utah malls, and the most recent killings in Colorado -- a shooting... Gun Owners of America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939013/posts#comment Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:36:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914603/posts www.gunowners.org/a101807.htmOct 2007 Senator Coburn Goes On The Offensive -- Asks Veteran Affairs to explain why they continue banning vets from owning guns Gun Owners of America 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102 Springfield, VA 22151 (703)321-8585 Thursday, October 18, 2007 Senator Tom Coburn isn't going to go away quietly. As you know from previous GOA alerts, the Republican Senator from Oklahoma has placed a hold on the noxious legislation that is being pushed by Senator Chuck Schumer of New York. Because of his actions, the Veterans Disarmament Act (HR 2640 and S 2084) has been stalled in the Senate for a... Gun Owners of America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914603/posts#comment Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:27:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912813/posts U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) is now publicly telling constituents he is opposed to HR2640, which means steam is gathering against this gun control scheme. This is terrible news for the anti-gun forces in Congress -- including House Sponsor Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) -- and good news for the NRA, as they are now starting to realize that this gun control bill will be seen largely as their creation. One of the problems with trying to understand what H.R. 2640 really means is that the whole truth is not always being told. So, here are some important points to consider. The... National Association for Gun Rights http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912813/posts#comment Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:01:18 GMT