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FEATURE Remember New Orleans Monday, in a small police trailer in downtown New Orleans, police began returning firearms seized in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Weapons, city residents like Frederick Thomas say were taken at the time they were most needed. "You got to imagine you're in a neighborhood with no lights," said Thomas. "It's really dark. We're like the only ones in our block that came back first. What are you going to do pick up a stick and fight somebody with a gun." Fredrick Thomas is one of the lucky ones. He got his gun back. According to...

www.gunowners.orgNov 2005 Senate Now Planning To Extend FBI Fishing Expeditions Into Gun Sales Records -- Even as opposition has begun to coalesce! Gun Owners of America 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102 Springfield, VA 22151 (703)321-8585 ACTION: Things are happening in the Senate! If you have not contacted your Representative yet (as a result of yesterday's alert), here's your chance to contact your senators. There are six senators who have said they may be willing to filibuster this legislation -- and one of them has even committed to do so through the Thanksgiving recess. That's why it's imperative that you contact...

http://www.gunowners.org/a111705.htm URGENT!!! URGENT!!! -- House to Vote Soon On Granting FBI Unlimited Access To Gun Sales Records Gun Owners of America 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102 Springfield, VA 22151 (703)321-8585 Thursday, November 17, 2005 Registration leads to confiscation. We all know that, and that is why GOA has vehemently opposed all attempts by government forces to compile or retain information pertaining to lawful firearms purchases. But in the name of fighting terrorism, the United States Congress is getting ready to trample on the rights of law-abiding Americans, no matter what the Constitution (and current law) happens to say. The House...

BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) today expressed shock and disbelief that authorities are continuing to target firearms held by private citizens who are now seeking refuge at a relief center outside Baker, Louisiana, a bedroom community near Baton Rouge. According to a report that aired on the Lehrer News Hour on Thursday, displaced New Orleans residents are being allowed to move into a compound called “FEMA City,” where trailers and RVs have been assembled to provide temporary housing. Among the conditions for being allowed to move in – and the only one detailed by Baker Mayor Harold...

Homosexual activists are fuming over President Bush's refusal to declare June "Gay Pride Month." Nevertheless, without official support, several groups of federal workers are still planning activities. Leonard Hirsch, president of Federal GLOBE — the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Federal Employee’s organization — told the Washington Blade, a homosexual weekly, that events are scheduled at the departments of Transportation, State, Interior and the USDA, while other agencies have said they will not sanction events without White House approval. "We have continued to be boxed in a Catch-22 because agencies are saying that they can't provide support or statements unless the...