http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nra/ en-us Sun, 5 Jul 2009 17:36:08 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286001/posts There is a current offer to join the NRA for FREE for one year. I would not have considered this to be important a year ago, but now, I wanted to stand with others for our constitional rights. http://www.thunderfap.com/miscellaneous-samples.htm web http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286001/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 17:36:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283966/posts If Arizona's state Legislature, now in session, fulfills its blood-oath bond with the National Rifle Association, the state will become the 41st to legalize carrying concealed handguns into restaurants that serve alcohol. Arizona restaurants oppose the legislation. However, restaurateurs discovered their rights have scant standing when the NRA yelps that gun owners deserve their "rights" and obliging politicians jump. Long ago when the NRA was founded as an educational rifle owners' and sportsmen's organization, handguns and militant overkill about the Second Amendment had no discernible roles. Then an ultra-conservative element took over and transformed the NRA into a political juggernaut... Idaho Mountain Express http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283966/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:29:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283419/posts -- All pro-gunners urged to join this critical fightMonday, June 29, 2009 Gun Owners of America applauds immediate past NRA President Sandy Froman, who stepped up to the plate last week with a call to arms for all NRA members to vigorously oppose the nomination of Judge Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. (See the article below). GOA has been calling on our members to oppose this nomination since it is clear that Sotomayor is anti-Second Amendment and wants to legislate from the bench. The official position from current NRA leadership is to take a "wait and see" approach to the... Gun Owners of America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283419/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:05:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2276453/posts The week of the Fourth of July has been established as National Training Week, when participating gun ranges will offer special discounts and activities and everyone is encouraged to bring a friend to the range. Firearms training is essential to gun safety. The National Rifle Association teaches in their Basic Pistol training program that the two main causes of accidents are ignorance and carelessness. By ignorance, they mean a lack of knowledge of the fundamental rules of gun safety (always keep guns pointed in a safe direction, keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot, keep guns unloaded... examiner.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2276453/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:22:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276263/posts Friday, June 19, 2009 NRA-ILA has recently received several calls from NRA members in border states who have been visited or called by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. In some cases, agents have asked to enter these people's homes, and requested serial numbers of all firearms the members possess. In each case, the agents were making inquiries based on the number of firearms these NRA members had recently bought, and in some cases the agents said they were asking because the members had bought types of guns that are frequently recovered in Mexico. This kind... NRA-ILA Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276263/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:00:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276750/posts Surprisingly the National Rifle Association (NRA) may be the cause of this problem. A new Government Accountability Office report provides us with the startling news that an FBI investigation proved 865 of 963 or 90% of those listed on the Homeland Security “Terrorist Watch List” had no trouble legally purchasing guns and even explosives! Felons, illegal aliens and drug addicts can’t buy guns or explosives presumably because they are a danger to our safety, yet those on the “Terrorist Watch List”, and thereby deemed extremely dangerous, are having little trouble legally buy weapons to kill us with. Currently there is... The Collins Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276750/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:07:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275849/posts NRA Grassroots update 6/19 YouTube-NRAVideos Channel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275849/posts#comment Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:01:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274771/posts The National Rifle Association of America is some 3 million strong, and 60,000 of those Second Amendment supporters were in Phoenix last month for their 138th annual meeting. It was billed as a Celebration of American Values Leadership Forum. Gov. Jan Brewer welcomed them, saying, “Make no mistake. Arizona is NRA country.”  The invitation for the meeting set the tone: “With anti-gun forces aligned against us, America’s gun owners can expect a barrage of anti-gun measures like we have not seen in decades. In order to meet these challenges head on, we must once again redouble our efforts to beat... Inside Tucson Business http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274771/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:12:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273443/posts The United Kingdom and Australia instituted gun bans in 1997. Between 1995 and 2006, women in the United Kingdom suffered a 76.5% increase in rape; by 2007 Australian women experienced a 29.9% increase. Meanwhile, rape decreased 31.7% in America.* Today, women are raped twice as often in the UK as America, and Australian women are raped three times as often. This is damning evidence that gun control places women at greater risk. American women are hearing this message, and more and more are arming themselves every day, not only to protect themselves and their families from harm, but to ensure... Examiner.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273443/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:38:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271572/posts Nine months ago, a group of Pennsylvania mayors gathered in Reading to announce a new strategy in the war against gun violence: They urged municipalities to enact their own gun-control ordinances. Frustrated by the General Assembly's failure to enact what they described as "commonsense gun laws," the mayors pledged to follow Philadelphia and push for local laws requiring owners to report lost or stolen guns. On Tuesday, Lancaster became the eighth municipality to pass such an ordinance, joining Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Reading, Easton, Pottsville, and Wilkinsburg. Philadelphia Inquirer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271572/posts#comment Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:06:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270784/posts Associated Press Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor told a senator Thursday that she would follow a historic ruling affirming Americans' right to own guns for self-defense, but pro-gun activists said they still believe she'd work to limit gun rights if confirmed for the high court... --snip-- If it were up to Sotomayor, DeMint said Thursday, Heller would only apply to federal jurisdictions. "(H)er opinion was that the hundreds of millions of Americans in the 50 states do not have a fundamental right to bear arms. She refused to back away from that opinion in my meeting with her," DeMint said... The State (SC) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270784/posts#comment Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:23:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270760/posts ·11250 Waples Mill Road ·   Fairfax, Virginia 22030    ·800-392-8683   23 State Attorneys General To Attorney General Holder: "No Semi-Auto Ban"   Friday, June 12, 2009   On June 11, the top law enforcement officials of nearly half the states signed a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, expressing their opposition to reinstatement of the federal ban on semi-automatic firearms. "We share the Obama Administration's commitment to reducing illegal drugs and violent crime within the United States. We also share your deep concern about drug cartel violence in Mexico. However, we do not believe that restricting law-abiding Americans' access to certain... NRA - ILA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270760/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:42:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2267388/posts Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The National Rifle Association is asking the Supreme Court to strike down strict gun control laws in the Chicago area, setting the stage for another high court battle over Second Amendment protections for gun owners. The NRA wants the court to rule that last year's gun rights decision invalidating a handgun ban in the District of Columbia applies as well to local and state laws. --snip-- Any decision about that probably won't come earlier than late September. The case is National Rifle Association v. Chicago, 08-1497. Belleville News-Democrat http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2267388/posts#comment Mon, 8 Jun 2009 19:09:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265744/posts This week a federal appeals court held that the Second Amendment does not apply to state or city gun laws. Supporters of Judge Sonia Sotomayor incorrectly argue that this affirms her recent gun-control case. Now the NRA is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case, and in doing so heats up the gun-rights issue to potentially become the dominant topic in Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings. On June 2, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit handed down its decision in NRA v. Chicago. The city of Chicago has a ban on handguns almost as severe as the... foxnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265744/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 19:37:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265375/posts (Corrected) Gun Control: In a case headed for the Supreme Court, a three-judge panel rules Chicago's gun ban constitutional since the 2nd Amendment doesn't apply to states and cities. High court nominee Sonia Sotomayor concurs.Those Pennsylvania townsfolk bitterly clinging to their guns may have been premature in celebrating the decision in D.C. v. Heller that the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does indeed guarantee an individual right to keep and bear arms. Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265375/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 12:14:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265145/posts President Obama thinks he has thrown the pro-life movement a curve ball by nominating a politically-correct relatively unknown minor judge as a candidate for the Supreme Court. Putting the name of Sonia Sotomayor forward for this office is really the equivalent of an affirmative action plan for the highest court of our land, and it is just not what we need for our judicial system. As a Hispanic female judge, she apparently has the credentials suited to Obama's highly politicized view of the Constitution, but Sotomayor is far from the most qualified person for the office. More importantly, she is... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265145/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 02:31:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265093/posts AT THE National Rifle Association’s 138th annual convention, held this year in Phoenix, Arizona, 47,000 people poured through the doors. They admired the fancy firearms, snacked on grilled buffalo and were happily recruited by shooting associations. Tom Power, of the Texas Gun Collectors Association, says membership has been soaring since Barack Obama took office. Bill Bachenberg, the owner of a shooting range near Allentown, Pennsylvania, has been registering 400 new members a month. “American gun-owners don’t trust this administration,” he says. economist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265093/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 01:14:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264550/posts On Wednesday, June 3, the National Rifle Association filed a petition for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of NRA v. Chicago. The NRA strongly disagrees with yesterday's decision issued by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, holding that the Second Amendment does not apply to state and local governments NRA-ILA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264550/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:59:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263937/posts Libertarians urge Supreme Court to toss Illinois gun bansSenators urged to question Sotomayor on her Second Amendment views WASHINGTON – America’s third largest party Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to hear an appeal challenging handgun bans in Chicago and the Illinois village of Oak Park, and to rule such gun bans violate the Second Amendment. A U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Tuesday that it could not hear challenges to the anti-gun ordinances filed by both the National Rifle Association and attorney Alan Gura after the Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that a handgun ban in the District of Columbia... The Libertarian Party http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263937/posts#comment Wed, 3 Jun 2009 18:08:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261004/posts The National Rifle Association (NRA) is staying on the sidelines in the battle over Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, to the dismay of conservative activists who hoped that the gun-rights group would pressure conservative Democratic senators to oppose her. Republicans have repeatedly tried to draw the NRA into court fights over the years but with little success. The Bush administration, for example, tried to persuade the group to support a number of its nominees, as did Senate Republicans. But the NRA has often stayed aloof because few nominees have taken clear stands in favor of or opposed to the Second... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261004/posts#comment Sat, 30 May 2009 02:41:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260373/posts ·11250 Waples Mill Road ·   Fairfax, Virginia 22030    ·800-392-8683 Statement From Chris W. Cox, Executive Director NRA - Institute for Legislative Action On Governor Bredesen’s Veto Of House Bill 962 Thursday, May 28, 2009 Along with more than 200,000 law-abiding Right-to-Carry permit holders in Tennessee, I am disappointed Governor Phil Bredesen vetoed House Bill 962. This bill would extend self-defense rights of permit holders to restaurants. This is a shock and a major disappointment to gun owners and supporters of the Second Amendment because Governor Bredesen had committed to supporting this legislation. 36 other states, including seven states that border Tennessee,... NRA - ILA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260373/posts#comment Fri, 29 May 2009 08:27:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2259483/posts There's one good thing about Obama's pick of ultra-left zealot Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court: it should enlighten those clueless enough not to realize that Chairman Zero is an extremely dangerous radical. At Jumping in Pools, we learn of Sotomayor's take on the crucial Second Amendment, which guarantees our right to bear arms: Sotomayor is a graduate from Princeton University, where her legal theses included Race in the American Classroom, and Undying Injustice: American "Exceptionalism" and Permanent Bigotry, and Deadly Obsession: American Gun Culture. In this text, the student Sotomayor explained that the Second Amendment to the Constitution did... moonbattery.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2259483/posts#comment Thu, 28 May 2009 01:58:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2259469/posts Should people be allowed to carry concealed, loaded guns in the national parks? The Tribune-Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2259469/posts#comment Thu, 28 May 2009 01:31:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258449/posts The nomination of Second Circuit Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace retiring Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court is a slap at gun rights and the Second Amendment, the Second Amendment Foundation said today. Judge Sotomayor, a New York native, ruled on a Second Circuit Appeals Court panel that the Second Amendment is not a fundamental right and does not apply to the states in the case of Maloney v. Cuomo. This ruling is in direct conflict with a Ninth Circuit Court ruling in the Nordyke v. King case in California that the Second Amendment is incorporated through... businesswire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258449/posts#comment Tue, 26 May 2009 17:18:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2258444/posts When Claude Raines declared in the film Casablanca that he was “Shocked” that gambling was going on at Humphrey Bogart’s nightclub, it became one of the most oft-repeated sarcasms in the American lexicon. Well, the whole world must be “shocked” that Barack Obama has nominated a (gasp!) liberal to replace retiring liberal Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court. Second District Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor, 54, born in the Bronx and a self-proclaimed “Newyorkrican,” according to the Associated Press, probably will not be a good news justice for gun owners, should the Senate confirm her nomination. She was... Examiner.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2258444/posts#comment Tue, 26 May 2009 17:11:13 GMT