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 In an attempt to combat failing ratings, try NBC’s Rock Center on Wednesday night aired another biased and sensationalized piece on Remington Arms, pilule and America’s firearms industry. The Rock Center reporter, approved Scott Cohn, has a well established anti-gun bias — as evidenced by his 2010 “story” on the Remington 700. Cohn and NBC alluded to an unwarranted government regulation of the firearms industry by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). There should be no doubt, last night’s segment was just another piece of agenda-driven “journalism” clearly designed to promote a CPSC takeover of the firearms industry.
Moreover, the firearms NBC chose to demonize were the Remington Model 870 and 1100 shotguns — firearms that have been in production for almost 60 years and are among the most popular models of shotguns in America. They are used by millions of sportsmen, target shooters and for home defense, as well as the U.S. military and thousands of law enforcement agencies all across the country. There are more than 20 million of these firearms in circulation through which billions upon billions of rounds have been fired without incident.-[source]
 A bill that would allow people to carry guns into public buildings where they’re currently banned has met final approval by the Arizona Senate.
Lawmakers Thursday passed a bill that would permit firearms in government buildings unless certain security measures are already in place.
Those measures include law enforcement officers or armed security guards with metal detectors or X-ray machines. Signs and storage lockers would also be required.
Supporters say the bill would protect gun owners’ rights and allow them to defend themselves. Critics say the bill is an unfunded mandate on local governments.
With the Senate’s 19-11 vote, the legislation will now go to Gov. Jan Brewer’s desk. Brewer vetoed a similar bill last year.-[source]
A judge has set a new trial date for 15 people accused of participating in a gun smuggling ring that was investigated by the federal government in Operation Fast and Furious.
U.S. District Judge James Teilborg set a Jan. 3 trial date.
Ring members are accused of buying guns and smuggling them into Mexico for use by a drug cartel.
Two rifles bought by an admitted ring member were found in the aftermath of a 2010 shootout that mortally wounded a Border Patrol agent in southern Arizona, just north of the Mexican border.
Federal authorities have faced harsh criticism since the agent’s death for allowing suspected straw gun buyers to walk away from weapons shops with weapons, rather than arrest the suspects and seize the guns there.-[source]
We’ve all heard that amusingly hypocritical line, web “Lay in a big supply before the hoarders get it all!” Indeed, we shooters all lived through that in 2008 and for a good time after. People who feared the Obama administration would make good on the new President’s previously declared wishes to ban assault rifles bought up every AR15 and AK47 clone in sight, and ammo was so scarce people were waiting in line to buy the six measly boxes that Wal-Mart allowed per customer. Some of those folks in line were gun dealers, who took the six boxes back to their own shops to sell for inflated prices.-[source]
 An American hacker, cheapest who calls himself “The Raptor” and claims to be a grandfather waging his own war on terror, look is taking credit for a series of takedowns of online forums used by Al Qaeda sympathizers, treatment FoxNews.com has learned.
Calling himself a patriot acting on behalf of U.S. troops serving overseas, The Raptor claims to be behind last month’s attack on Al Qaeda’s main online forum, Shamukh Islamic Network, and a handful of other sites and forums, including Ansar al-Mujahideen, where jihadists gather online to issue threats and exhort one another to acts of terror. The sites went down on March 22, and most remained dark for nearly two weeks. As the websites stayed offline, The Raptor taunted his targets on Twitter, daring them to “bring it.”-[source]
During his recent visit to the White House, approved Mexico President Felipe Calderon renewed his call for a U.S. assault weapons ban as a solution to the drug cartel-caused violence that plagues his country. He also claimed, visit web according to columnist Bill Press, that violence levels are directly related to the number of guns in circulation. Both of these assertions are demonstrably false.
Calderon’s pleading for an assault weapons ban (AWB) ignores what multiple studies have shown: that the AWB, which existed from 1994 to 2004, was not an effective crime-fighting tool, largely because they were never used in crime in the first place. Also, since the ban expired, Americans have purchased millions of modern sporting rifles — rifles based on the AR platform whose ownership was restricted by the AWB — yet at the same time violent crime has continued to decline in the United States to its lowest level in decades, demonstrating there is no correlation between the number of guns in circulation and the level of violence.-[source]
 A Korean Airlines flight out of Vancouver, healing Canada, abortion requested U.S. assistance in reaction to a “credible bomb threat” on board, pills a U.S. official told Fox News.
The U.S. military scrambled two F-15 fighter jets, and the aircraft landed safely with the US military escort at a Canadian military base on Vancouver Island.
Officials are checking now for explosives.
The Canadian Forces says in a news release the flight was traveling from Vancouver International Airport and was diverted at about 5:30 p.m. The military says emergency personnel are securing the aircraft in accordance with normal procedures.-[source]
 Yesterday, health Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law Senate Bill 1241, an important gun bill relating to forfeited and seized weapons.
Introduced by state Senator Rick Murphy (R-9), SB 1241 passed in the state Senate by a 21 to 9 on February 16 and passed the House by a 43 to 12 vote on March 27.
SB 1241 will allow law enforcement departments to sell or auction any firearms forfeited or seized from criminals to licensed gun dealers. Currently, law enforcement departments have been destroying these seized firearms.
Thank you to Governor Brewer for signing SB 1241 into law and to the state legislators who voted for it.-[source]
A Toledo resident took aim after someone broke into his home. It happened just before 1:00 a.m. Saturday morning on Hoops Street. The man insists he was protecting his family.
The burglary suspect is in serious condition at Mercy St. V’s. The homeowner, who didn’t want to be identified, says he feared for his family.
The suspect is 49-year-old Victor Stubblefield Jr. Detectives say he broke into the home through the side door with a crowbar.
The homeowner says he grabbed his gun after his wife woke him up when she noticed someone turn the light on and off inside their bedroom where they were sleeping.
Their 7-year-old son was asleep in the next room at the time.
The homeowner says he found the suspect in the hallway, and that’s when he made the split second decision to shoot.
Stubblefield was hit twice, once in the chest and once in the arm.
“He was literally three to five feet away from me, and I was concerned with my family, that he was going to harm my family or even myself,” the man says. “Once someone’s in your house, that far into it, there was no question in my mind. I had to do what I had to do.”
The family is very proud of their son, who stayed inside his bedroom during the commotion. They say that’s part of an emergency plan they prepared for him, and they hope parents talk to their kids about what to do in emergency situations.-[source]
 A federal judge sentenced five former police officers to years in prison for the deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge in the chaotic days following Hurricane Katrina but not before lashing out at prosecutors for allowing others involved to serve lighter penalties for their crimes. The case that wrapped up Wednesday was the centerpiece of a Justice Department push to clean up New Orleans’ police department that has long been tainted with corruption.
U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt expressed frustration that he was bound by mandatory minimum sentencing laws to imprison former Sgts. Kenneth Bowen and Robert Gisevius and former officers Anthony Villavaso and Robert Faulcon for decades when other officers who engaged in similar conduct on the Danziger Bridge — but cut deals with prosecutors — are serving no more than eight years behind bars.
“These through-the-looking-glass plea deals that tied the hands of this court … are an affront to the court and a disservice to the community,” he said.
Police gunned down 17-year-old James Brissette and 40-year-old Ronald Madison, who were both unarmed, and wounded four others on Sept. 4, 2005, less than a week after the storm devastated New Orleans. To cover it up, the officers planted a gun, fabricated witnesses and falsified reports. Defense attorneys have indicated they will appeal.-[source]
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