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 The National Rifle Association has targeted Indiana’s “parking lot” gun law, order saying employers are willfully violating the 6-month-old law that prohibits them from banning weapons on company-owned parking lots.
The NRA has asked its members to contact Indiana lawmakers to urge them to support new legislation that would allow employers to be sued if they require applicants to disclose information about gun ownership or require employees to reveal if they have weapons or ammunition in their cars.
It’s one of a handful of gun-related bills in the Indiana Legislature supported by the NRA. The organization also supports a bill that would remove all “grandfathered” protections that allowed Indiana cities and towns to have more stringent gun laws than the state.-[source]
 Just what America needs! … the basic plot involves Sarah Palin suggesting a switch to steam energy and then getting blown up and reconstructed as a partial cyborg powered by steam.
The second thing is steampunk, a literary genre that borrows the notions of cyberpunk and transplants them into an alternate history past or fantasy world, usually influenced by the works of H.G. Wells or Jules Verne.
It’s often characterized by the use of advanced technology substitutes reliant on non-electrical power, and a visual aesthetic heavy on intricately designed gearworks. Its popularity has reached a point where some enthusiasts enjoy dressing up in their own steampunk inspired costumes, and thus been fairly or unfairly labelled as “Goths who decided it might be fun to wear brown for a change.”
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This comic, however, includes Palin pin-ups; adult versions. (wink-wink)
Wyoming residents would be able to carry concealed guns without a state permit under a bill that received preliminary approval in the state Senate.The Wyoming Senate voted 21-to-8 on Thursday in favor of the bill, sponsored by Republican Sen. Kit Jennings of Casper. He says the state and federal constitutions guarantee citizens’ gun rights.Democratic Sen. Chris Rothfuss of Laramie voted against the bill. He says he’s concerned that incompetent people carrying guns will pose a danger to the public.Wyoming would retain its current concealed-carry permit system if the bill passes so people could continue to carry concealed guns in other states that have reciprocal agreements.The Senate must vote on the measure two more times before it heads to the House for debate.-[source]
 The state Senate has passed legislation requiring public schools to offer hunter safety courses and to have student restraint policies.
Senate File 71 requires that districts offer an elective course to fifth and sixth graders in hunter and gun safety. It passed on a 21-9 vote Thursday.
A couple of senators voiced concern about burdening schools with hunter safety courses, look but proponents noted the measure allows schools to offer such courses as an extracurricular activity.
Senators voted 24-6 to approve Senate File 36, no rx which would require school districts to have specific policies dealing with restraint and isolation of students.
The legislation passed despite concerns from some that such matters should be left up to individual school boards.
Both bills head to the House for debate.-[source]
 Improvised explosive devices are one of the biggest threats to soldiers in Afghanistan and across the world. They unleash a shock wave that can travel about 1, online 000 feet per second and hit with a pressure of 100 pounds per square inch. The U.S. Army’s standard-issue Kevlar combat helmet absorbs some of that force, pharm but it isn’t designed to protect the soldier’s face from shock waves, buy which studies suggest can pass through the eyes, nose and mouth to the brain. Nor does it prevent a soldier’s head from jerking around, which can cause brain damage. Fortunately, Army researchers are exploring new designs that could someday protect troops from these hazards.
Possible Features
Head-Up Display
An updated version of the Land Warrior system already in use would show maps, locations of fellow soldiers and enemies, computer-aided weapons sighting and alerts from commanding officers.
Communication
Earbuds would automatically reduce sounds louder than 85 decibels to safe levels. A microphone would relay outgoing radio transmissions.
Face Shield and Integrated Mandible Protection
These guards deflect energy from a blast wave away from the eyes, nose and mouth.
Shoulder-Mounted Exoskeleton
The harness could support the added weight from the mask and prevent the head from snapping forward or side to side. The Army is also investigating a retractable option that would give full maneuverability when the harness isn’t needed. – [source]
A trial court judge in central California has thrown out key sections of a state law restricting handgun ammunition sales, barring authorities from registering bullet buyers’ thumbprints on the grounds that it would be unconstitutional.
Gun rights advocates applauded Tuesday’s ruling in Fresno County Superior Court, saying the law would have created uncertainty by forcing local sheriffs and firearms shops to decide for themselves what caliber of bullets were covered under the regulations.
The statute also would have compelled customers to buy their handgun ammunition in face-to-face transactions, which they said would not have prevented a tragedy like the Jan. 8 shooting rampage in Arizona that killed six people and wounded 13 others, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.-[source]
If America remains a free nation, information pills the name of Aaron Zelman will be honored in the highest ranks. For Aaron, side effects a love of G-d and a love of freedom were inextricably blended. Aaron’s fervent embrace of liberty, pilule his deep and introspective nature, his remarkable intelligence, his unyielding conscience, and his compassionate wisdom, made him a man amongst men.
He was revered by many of us. Not just admired, he was revered. Those of us who were fortunate enough to work with him also felt unfeigned affection towards him. A very serious man, sometimes a strict task master, he was also blessed with a marvelously droll sense of humor.
Many people’s lives were changed for the better after contact with Aaron, even by a single phone call, or by reading something he had written. Aaron had a way of encouraging the best in us. He had a way of making us each feel that we had a vital and speci?c role in this mission we call freedom, this miraculous experiment called America.-[source]
A blog threatening members of Congress in the wake of the Tucson, Arizona shooting has prompted Arlington police to temporarily suspend the firearms license of an Arlington man.
It was the headline “1 down and 534 to go” that caught the attention. “One” refers to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head in the rampage, while 534 refers to the other members of the U.S. House and Senate.
Police are investigating the “suitability” of 39-year-old Travis Corcoran to have a firearms license. – [source]
Continue Reading ‘Gun Bloggers In Danger Of Losing Their Rights?’
Missing a plane connection cost Utah gun owner Greg Revell 10 days in jail after he was stranded in New Jersey with an unloaded firearm he had legally checked with his luggage in Salt Lake City.
Nevertheless, the Supreme Court without comment refused on Tuesday to let Revell sue Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police for arresting him on illegal possession of a firearm in New Jersey and for not returning his gun and ammunition to him for more than three years.
Prosecutors said it doesn’t matter whose fault it was: Revell was arrested in New Jersey with a readily accessible gun in his possession without a New Jersey license.
Lower courts have sympathized with Revell but refused to let him sue the police.-[source]
One issue on everyone’s mind this Martin Luther King Jr. day was gun control. King’s calls for resolving our differences through peaceful nonviolence are especially poignant after Jared Loughner gunned down six people and wounded several others in Tucson. Amid the clamor for new gun laws, its appropriate to remember King’s complicated history with guns.
Most people think King would be the last person to own a gun. Yet in the mid-1950s, as the civil rights movement heated up, King kept firearms for self-protection. In fact, he even applied for a permit to carry a concealed weapon.
A recipient of constant death threats, King had armed supporters take turns guarding his home and family. He had good reason to fear he was targeted for assassination.-[source]
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