Tuesday, March 15, 2011

CCRKBA asks Obama for invitation to gun summit that NRA rejected

Demonstrating that the “gun lobby” is not the monolith the media often portrays it to be, Alan Gottlieb of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms announced his organization “would be eager to talk with the White House, especially about the ‘Project Gunrunner’ and ‘Fast and Furious’ scandals, where federal agents helped facilitate gun sales to suspected gunrunners.” [More]
Today's second Gun Rights Examiner report includes an opportunity for you to participate in giving a gun group the chance to publicly confront the administration on "Project Gunwalker".

Surely regulars here would like to see that happen?  Why not share the link so that others can do so too?

GRE Round Up for March 15

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow GREs:

Yih-Chau Chang/Oakland:
Dave Workman/Seattle:
Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:
Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

Safer Streets/Liberty News

Longenecker looks at elitists. That plus I look at a loophole, Bob Parks looks at a slacker and Gerald Valentino looks at a launch. [Read]

Massacring the Norm

Paul Gallant, Alan Chwick and Joanne D. Eisen show how it's up to us to keep that from happening. [Read]

I'm an Untrustworthy Head Case

So you must be one too!

Nothing like letting the self-admitted crazies decide what restraints to put on the sane--which, when you think about it, is a core tenet of "progressivism."

Can you imagine having such a negative self-awareness that you don't even trust yourself with a tool? And then expecting anyone who's not similarly defective to give serious credence to your ravings?

PR Gun Busts

Yes. Exactly. [Read]

Scot Thomasson loves it when a plan comes together.

Is Charlie Sheen a menace to society?

So based on the say-so of someone with strong emotional, legal and financial interests, the state can remove not just property, but a basic liberty? Without having to prove anything? And registration enables them to do that, at least to people who have shown an inclination to obey the law? And they require, according to a Sheen Tweet “50 cops” to do it? [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner commentary notes a high-profile act of citizen disarmament and asks if what is being done in the name of the people truly serves their interests.

This Day in History: March 15

On March 15, 1779, he was given command of a new militia regiment, a position he neither accepted nor declined. [More]