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• Fun is the target at shooting event
The New York State Muzzleloaders Association is holding its annual spring shoot and campout this weekend at the Elbridge Rod and Gun Club. Shooters will begin setting up camp today at the club, located off Laird Road in Jordan. Competition is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. Muzzleloading enthusiasts from throughout the state are expected. Both primitive and modern guns are welcome.
• Writers' safari, New York style
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the New York State Outdoor Writers Association's Annual Safari, this year held in St. Lawrence County. The hub for the gathering was Basswood Lodge and Hunting Preserve near Rensselaer Falls. I've been friends with the Forsythe family, who own and run the operation, for many years. So the four-day visit was special in two ways: I was able to network with my fellow outdoor media members, while spending time with my friends, the Forsythe's.
• Anatomy of a home invasion
Merrily Ottomanelli stood yesterday by her kitchen door and pointed to a fist-sized dent from a shotgun blast that left her Coram home splattered with the blood of an armed teenager who police said broke into her home.
• DEC Re-Opens Application Period for Second Round of Habitat/Access Funding Grant
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Pete Grannis today announced that DEC is re-opening the application period for proposals for grants that will fund projects aimed at improving fish and wildlife habitat and public access for hunting, fishing, trapping and other fish and wildlife related-recreation and study. As a result of a procedural error with advertising the request for proposals in the New York State Register, DEC is required to extend the application period for the Habitat/Access Stamp Grants. Applications that were received by the Department in the first call for grants will also be considered in this application period.
• Group looking for champions of the outdoors
Do you know of someone who has been a champion of the outdoors? Don't be shy, or modest. Perhaps you are such a person. If so, the New York State Outdoor Writers Association would like to hear from you.
• State primary date in limbo
Imagine getting ready to run a road race. You really want to win, but no one has told you where the starting line is or when the gun will go off. For that matter, you don't know where the finish line is, either. A nightmare worthy of Freud? No, it's a bad dream that's been lived daily by potential office seekers, political parties and election boards across New York state since the state Legislature began talking about moving the date of this year's primary election from Sept. 11 to Sept. 18.
• Tenant shoots suspect during home invasion
Shots were fired during a daring broad daylight burglary attempt Tuesday. Police say the incident happened on Sharon Avenue, where a tenant opened fire at a burglary suspect.

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• Firearm sales slower, But more Utahns seeking concealed weapons permits
At the current pace, Utahns will purchase fewer firearms, but obtain more concealed weapons permits than they have in the last five years, according to statistics recently released by the Bureau of Criminal Identification. Nearly 20 percent of the 28,855 firearm purchases this year were made in the Top of Utah. Residents in the area also take up 19 percent of the state's concealed weapons licenses. Consistently increasing year after year, more than 55,000 Utahns own licenses currently -- 4,103 of those were issued in 2003. Based on 2003's firearm transfers, which is what BCI calls a purchase, officials don't think people have a sudden distaste for guns, but rather this year is normal.
• Quick. Handgun or BB gun?
It's a life-and-death decision, made in the tenth of a second the time it takes for one flutter of a butterfly's wing. A police officer stares down the barrel of a gun. Is it real? Or is it one of the many perfect replica BB guns that Lowell police officers have been seizing from juvenile gang members with increasing frequency? 'In that one-tenth of a second that someone lifts it up to point it at me, I don't have time to look at the side for a brand name,' Lowell Police Officer David Peaslee says. He holds a Crosman brand airgun in his hand. It was a gun he'd confiscated when a group of juveniles scattered; he found it on the ground. 'It looks almost exactly like a Glock,' he says. 'Same size, same shape. If someone pointed this at me I'd draw down on them.'
• Anti-gun group seeks to challenge rules on filing Utah initiatives
A coalition that wants to keep guns out of schools and churches also wants to challenge changes to the state initiative laws made during the 2003 Legislature. The 49-page brief filed by the law firm of Jones, Waldo, Holbrook and McDonough for the Utah Safe to Learn-Safe to Worship Coalition seeks to strike down several new provisions governing the state's direct democracy laws. The coalition has been trying to get an initiative on the ballot to ban guns from schools and churches. Last August, the Utah Supreme Court threw out lawmakers' requirement adopted in 1998 that initiative supporters had to gather signatures from 10 percent of registered voters in 20 of 29 counties.
• 3 held in Phoenix in gun sale fraud scheme
Three people were being held at the Madison Street Jail in Phoenix on suspicion of fraud in connection with an Internet scam, authorities said. Gilbert police and members of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the U.S. Postal Service executed three search warrants in Phoenix and Mesa on Thursday, said Gilbert police Sgt. Jeff Esslinger. Esslinger said that police arrested Robert K. Floyd, Tina D. Cabezut and Gregory Kelliher on charges that they defrauded at least 20 people out of more than $40,000. The investigation began a month ago after Gilbert police received complaints from people who tried to buy guns from an Internet site, Esslinger said.
• CA: ATF prepares for Dublin move
Dublin, long associated with law enforcement, will soon be seeing even more people with guns. The city, known for being the home of Alameda County's Santa Rita Jail, will soon welcome the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' Northern California division. The field division, now based on Main Street in San Francisco, will relocate to 5600 Arnold Drive in Dublin later this year, after some work is completed on its new headquarters building and offices. The move will affect more than 50 workers.
• Anti-Gun Bigotry Alive and Well In Glenview, Ill., Says Citizens Committee
Bigotry is alive and well in Glenview, Ill., but in this case, it is the politically-correct type: prejudice against firearms and those who would buy them, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said today. 'Glenview Trustee Mike Guinane's suggestion that firearm sales be permanently banned from the village, in order to 'make a statement about Glenview's disdain for guns,' reflects an incredibly sneering attitude toward millions of American citizens who own firearms,' said CCRKBA Executive Director Joe Waldron. 'Some of those citizens live and work in Glenview, and they no doubt take grave exception to Mr. Guinane's narrow social views.' Likewise, Waldron said, statements attributed to Village President Larry Carlson by the St. Paul Pioneer Press suggest that the level of anti-gun social bigotry under his leadership has reached the point where a business has suffered by not being able to sell a perfectly legal and highly regulated line of products.
• GA: Columbus to get gun plant
A firearms manufacturing plant that eventually could employ as many as 500 will be built in Columbus by German gun manufacturer Heckler & Koch. Mike Gaymon, president of the Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce, said Friday that the plant initially will employ about 200 people. 'This has been an eight-year project,' Gaymon said of the state's efforts to lure the plant. 'Gov. [Sonny] Perdue has been very supportive.' Heckler & Koch makes firearms -- including submachine guns, assault rifles and handguns -- for both the civilian and military markets. Among its customers are the German and Spanish armed forces.
• Rookie Shooters Right on Target for Tennessee
The Volunteer State's Big Springs Rookie trap team traveled to the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) Trap Nationals not knowing what to expect, but together the five teammates managed to take second place with a combined 888 broken targets. Coached by Steve Picklesimer and Troy and Janice Cooper, pre-teen shooters Cory Cooper and Brandon Colbert of Henderson, David Keefe of Tiptonville, Sean Picklesimer of Murfreesboro and Tanner Morgan of Christiana found themselves in the evening shoot-off after breaking 777 of their 1,000 targets in the qualifying round.
• IN: Local trapshooters place 2nd in nation
They were trap shooting novices among Novices. Now they not only are state champions, they are America's runnerup team in the Junior Novice Division of the Scholastic Clay Target Program administered by the National Shooting Sports Association. Captain Zach Adams, fellow Princeton resident Brian Collins, Patoka's Kyle Schafer, Owensville's Andrew Koch and Newburgh's Alex Arwood, a first-year team representing the Evansville Gun Club where they practice, combined to place second among 35 teams in last weekend's national championships near Vandalia, Ohio. They qualified for the national tournament by winning the July 12 state tourney on the Indiana Gun Club range in Indianapolis.
• NRA files brief in high-court gun case
The National Rifle Association has filed a brief in support of what backers are calling a potential landmark gun-rights case now before the U.S. Supreme Court. Sponsored primarily by KeepAndBearArms.com, or KABA, a pro-gun rights website and organization, the case challenges 'the California semi-auto rifle ban on the basis of Second Amendment protection of our individual right to keep and bear arms,' according to the group's website. California lawmakers banned a number of rifles under the Assault Weapons Control Act in 1989, but a decade later, the state also restricted the sale, manufacture, or importation into the state of all semi-automatic rifles having combinations of arbitrarily selected features – such as detachable magazines, folding stocks, flash suppressors and pistol grips.
• Women, Jews, Others Join Pro-Gun Effort
The National Rifle Association has plenty of company in a major gun rights case that the Supreme Court is considering hearing. Among the organizations that have joined the case are the Pink Pistols, a group of gay and lesbian gun owners; the Second Amendment Sisters; and Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. They are asking the court to consider if the Constitution's Second Amendment guarantees the right to own a gun. At issue is an appeal filed this summer by some rugby teammates and friends who challenged California's assault weapons ban. They lost at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, which ruled the Constitution protects gun rights of militias but not individuals.
• The True Aim Of Gun Grabbers
The debate over the right of the American people to own and carry guns has been, fought, and re-fought over and again. The emotionally charged arguments of those against guns have been heard and re-heard. And they have been proven dead wrong time after time by gun rights arguments. Yet those who despise your gun will never cease their insidious campaign until they have stripped away your most essential personal liberty, the right to self-defense. In the end the sacred right to protect each other and ourselves is the target of the gun-grabbers like Sarah Brady and Senator Charles Schummer. Yes we all know they claim to be defending children when they talk gun control. We know they claim to be interested in reducing crime when they rant about sensible gun laws. We have heard all of these lies over and over and over again.

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• Will gun-control case prompt a Constitutional reawakening?
The case is McDonald v. City of Chicago, for which the court granted cert on Sept. 30. The petitioners in the case, a group challenging a gun control ordinance in Chicago, filed their brief with the court earlier this week. Were the court to adopt their position -- something well within the realm of possibility -- we could be looking at a significant shift in the way the justices view the Constitution and individual rights.
• An anti-pirate policy that works
Merchant ships need guns to fight pirates. Seven months ago, Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama and held its captain hostage. Pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama again this week but were repulsed because the Maersk Shipping Line put armed guards on its ships.
• Pennsylvania: Lawmakers hear arguments on self-defense bill
The piece of legislation eliminates the "duty to retreat" if you are confronted by an attacker. It also expands the so called "castle doctrine." That's a piece of common law that states your home is your castle and can be defended with deadly force. "The bill restores the human right to self defense, which has been eroded away by our criminal judicial system," John Hohenwarter with the National Rifle Association said.
• Florida: More exercising Right-to-Carry
Whether it's a fear of increased gun control or a perceived rise in crime, the numbers show more people than ever are buying guns and getting permits to carry them. Florida approved more than 90,000 permits to carry a weapon last year and already sent out 75,000 applications this year.
• Canada: Polls show gun registry viewed as ineffective
Although 80 per cent of Canadians consider gun violence a serious problem, only 11 per cent think the $1 billion gun registry has been effective at preventing crime, according to a new poll. The Angus Reid survey also found that just over half of Canadians are in favour of scrapping the registry.
• Senate committee approves Obama's anti-gun OSHA nominee
David Michaels, a left-wing ideologue who supports junk science and seeks to restrict gun possession, has been approved by the Senate Health Committee to head the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
• South Carolina will offer tax free holiday on guns
South Carolina shoppers will get a second chance to buy tax free guns. The state Revenue Department sent out a reminder yesterday of the "Second Amendment Weekend." The 48 hour tax break begins just after midnight the Friday after Thanksgiving.
• Washington: Richland men may sue city over gun ban in parks as violation of s...
Two Richland men say the city is breaking state law by banning weapons in parks. The two men, David Campbell and Bob Marguilies, told Tuesday's city council meeting they may file a lawsuit to force the city to change signs posted at parks.
• Pennsylvania: Highspire Mayor supports illegal gun control measure
Mayor John Hoerner is urging Highspire Borough Council to pass an ordinance to require gun owners to report a lost or stolen gun to police within 72 hours. But borough councilman Charles Dengler questioned the idea, saying state laws prohibited the borough from creating gun laws. "Right now the NRA [National Rifle Association] is suing Pittsburgh and other towns, because it was found to be illegal in the Pennsylvania Crimes Code," Dengler said.
• Now armed, Maersk Alabama repels pirate attack
Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months and were thwarted by private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship who fired off guns and a high-decibel noise device.
• Time to revisit firearms policies on military posts
This month's tragic -- and probably preventable -- mass shooting at Ft. Hood, Texas, certainly raises questions about why a lone shooter was able to unload not one but several magazines of ammunition over a several minute period -- shooting and wounding more than 30 soldiers and killing 13, at a heavily restricted US Army base. Just as legitimate questions were raised following the mass killings on the Virginia Tech campus in 2007, both military personnel and civilian citizens alike ought now to be asking of themselves and our elected and appointed leaders, not only whether the perpetrators of such carnage could reasonably and appropriately have been identified in advance and prevented from carrying out their obviously well planned mass murders; but also, whether it makes sense to disarm a captive group of citizens (at Virginia Tech, the student body; at Ft. Hood, the military personnel assigned to the base).
• Ex-customs chief urges ban on popular semi-autos
The former head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection called Monday for the U.S. to reinstitute the ban on popular semi-autos and take other measures to rein in the war between Mexico and its drug cartels.
• Armed pilots and dead terrorists
The FFDO (Federal Flight Deck Officer) program was implemented by the Bush Administration working with law enforcement, airline management and pilot unions. Pilots with guns were a way to augment the Federal Air Marshall Service which was already in place and quickly expanded. Recent rumors indicate that the Obama administration will attempt to de fund the FFDO program. I think it would be a huge loss to security and a big mistake.
• Florida: Adoptive parents fuming over gun question
Get set for a mountain of paperwork if you want to adopt a child. Florida's gun rights advocates say it's gotten way too personal. One of the questions many parents have to answer: Do you own a gun?
• Experts square off on right to bear arms
The man who successfully challenged a prohibition against handguns in the District of Columbia before the Supreme Court said last night during a local debate about the Second Amendment that some states have gone too far. That's what happened in the District of Columbia, which required that firearms either be equipped with trigger locks or kept disassembled, said Alan Gura, a lawyer from Alexandria, Va., who argued the Supreme Court case.

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