From: Stephen P. Wenger http://www.spw-duf.info
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RKBA Stymies Democrats: …But there is one issue that retains the power to leave Democrats quivering: gun rights. Gun issues still persistently tie the party in knots and have been used by Republicans to stall two major bills this year, with more likely to come… It is a particularly hot-button topic with veteran Congressional Democrats who believe the party's strong support for a 1994 assault weapons ban was the real reason they lost control of the House that year - not the House bank scandal, the failed health care initiative, the Contract with America or Newt Gingrich. The power of that bad memory was unmistakable a few weeks ago in the immediacy with which Speaker Nancy Pelosi shot down the suggestion by new Attorney General Eric Holder that Congress might reinstitute the assault weapons ban…
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/us/politics/14web-hulse.html?_r=1&ref=us
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The Beat Goes On: The number of Oklahomans seeking a license to carry a concealed firearm has spiked in recent months, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation reported. The state reports an 87 percent increase in concealed carry permit applications for February 2009 over the same month last year, and the OSBI pulled in additional help last month so it could process concealed-carry permit applications, the agency reported. The state issued a total of 18,510 permits in 2008. The bureau's annual reports show the state issued 16,426 permits in 2007 and 9,529 in 2006. Meanwhile, gun dealers across the state have reported an increase in sales of firearms and ammunition…
http://www.kjrh.com/news/state/story/More-Oklahomans-seeking-gun-permits/LGNXr7tSGkqBa6eikiNb-g.cspx
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Utah Gun Owners Upset over Negligent Discharges: People were just tucking into their all-you-can-eat salad and breadsticks when they heard a pop. "My mom said, 'No way.' And I said, 'I think that was a gunshot,' " Talia Hudson told KSL-TV. An Olive Garden diner fiddling with his weapon shot his chair into submission last week. Two months ago, another carrier shattered a Carl's Jr. toilet when he dropped his pants. Turns out, concealed-weapon carriers are as mad as the rest of us about the doofuses plugging bullets into helpless furniture and commodes… Aposhian and others on the Bureau of Criminal Investigation's Concealed Weapon Review Board are talking about drafting an administrative rule to allow them to dig into cases like these - when a concealed carrier's gun goes off in public and the police are called. The board could order additional training or suspend a permit. "I don't think it's necessarily a big problem - unless I was sitting next to him," says Aposhian. "That would be a huge problem."
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_11914544
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NRA-ILA Alerts: List members are encouraged to check the alerts for the week on the NRA-ILA website.
http://www.nraila.org/GrassrootsAlerts/read.aspx
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/us/politics/14web-hulse.html?_r=1&ref=us
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The Beat Goes On: The number of Oklahomans seeking a license to carry a concealed firearm has spiked in recent months, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation reported. The state reports an 87 percent increase in concealed carry permit applications for February 2009 over the same month last year, and the OSBI pulled in additional help last month so it could process concealed-carry permit applications, the agency reported. The state issued a total of 18,510 permits in 2008. The bureau's annual reports show the state issued 16,426 permits in 2007 and 9,529 in 2006. Meanwhile, gun dealers across the state have reported an increase in sales of firearms and ammunition…
http://www.kjrh.com/news/state/story/More-Oklahomans-seeking-gun-permits/LGNXr7tSGkqBa6eikiNb-g.cspx
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Utah Gun Owners Upset over Negligent Discharges: People were just tucking into their all-you-can-eat salad and breadsticks when they heard a pop. "My mom said, 'No way.' And I said, 'I think that was a gunshot,' " Talia Hudson told KSL-TV. An Olive Garden diner fiddling with his weapon shot his chair into submission last week. Two months ago, another carrier shattered a Carl's Jr. toilet when he dropped his pants. Turns out, concealed-weapon carriers are as mad as the rest of us about the doofuses plugging bullets into helpless furniture and commodes… Aposhian and others on the Bureau of Criminal Investigation's Concealed Weapon Review Board are talking about drafting an administrative rule to allow them to dig into cases like these - when a concealed carrier's gun goes off in public and the police are called. The board could order additional training or suspend a permit. "I don't think it's necessarily a big problem - unless I was sitting next to him," says Aposhian. "That would be a huge problem."
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_11914544
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NRA-ILA Alerts: List members are encouraged to check the alerts for the week on the NRA-ILA website.
http://www.nraila.org/GrassrootsAlerts/read.aspx
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