Firearms Training in South Carolina

SCACA Gun Shows www.scaca.net :
Jan. 16 & 17, 2010 Jamil Shrine Center, Columbia
Feb. 6 & 7, 2010 Carolina First Center, Greenville
Mar. 6 & 7, 2010 Jamil Shrine Center, Columbia
Apr. 24 & 25, 2010 Carolina First Center, Greenville
Jul. 24 &25, 2010 Jamil Shrine Center, Columbia
Sept. 18 & 19, 2010 Carolina First Center, Greenville
Nov. 13 &14, 2010 Jamil Shrine Center, Columbia
Dec. 18 & 19, 2010 Carolina First Center, Greenville

NRA-ILA Alerts: List members are encouraged to check the alerts for the week, posted on the NRA-ILA website.

http://www.nraila.org/GrassrootsAlerts/read.aspx

Why “Liberals” Balk at the RKBA: …The problem is that I don’t trust myself walking around with a handgun strapped to my waist. Many people nowadays are so arrogant, ignorant and inconsiderate I think that if I could just reach down to my belt and pull out a gun when faced with such people, I might someday use it. Just standing in line at a cash register sometimes is enough to make you just want to reach out and knock some sense into the ignorant and inconsiderate people who often hold up the line. I can’t imagine having a semi-automatic pistol handy to help speed things up. Or how about when you’re driving? If I had had a gun handy, I might have already killed a few people who’ve cut me off because they are so engrossed with talking nonsense on their cell phones… (Isn’t it amazing how those of us who do carry are able to resist such impulses?)

http://www.examiner.com/x-24111-Liberal-Issues...


McDonald v. City of Chicago

On November 16, the NRA filed its brief with the U.S. Supreme Court as Respondent in Support of Petitioner in McDonald v. City of Chicago. The NRA brief asks the U.S. Supreme Court to hold that the Second Amendment applies to state and local governments through the Fourteenth Amendment.

The McDonald case is one of several that were filed immediately after last year's decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, in which the Court upheld the Second Amendment as an individual right and struck down Washington, D.C.'s ban on handgun possession, as well as the capital city's ban on keeping loaded, operable firearms for self-defense in the home.

The follow-up cases were filed by NRA and other organizations against Chicago and several of its suburbs.  Each of these suits was aimed at the same goal: establishing that the Second Amendment applies to state and local governments as well as the federal government.

http://www.nraila.org/GrassrootsAlerts/Read.aspx?ID=527


Addressing the Hysteria: HR 45 has not even gained one co-sponsor in committee and S 2099 died nine years ago.

Friday, January 23, 2009

U.S. Representative Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) recently sponsored H.R. 45, also known as "Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act."  The bill is, at its core and as its name implies, a licensing and registration scheme. The measure calls for all handgun owners to submit to the federal government an application that shall include, among many other things:  a photo; an address; a thumbprint; a completed, written firearm safety test; private mental health records; and a fee.  And those are only some of the requirements to be licensed!

The bill would further require the attorney general to establish a database of every handgun sale, transfer, and owner's address in America.  Moreover, the bill would make it illegal to own or possess a "qualifying firearm" -- defined as "any handgun; or any semiautomatic firearm that can accept any detachable ammunition feeding device…" without one of the proposed licenses.

Additionally, the bill would make it illegal to transfer ownership of a "qualifying firearm" to anyone who is not a licensed gun dealer or collector (with very few exceptions), and would require "qualifying firearm" owners to report all transfers to the attorney general's database. It would also be illegal for a licensed gun owner to fail to record a gun loss or theft within 72 hours, or fail to report a change of address within 60 days.  Further, if a minor obtains a firearm and injures someone with it, the owner of the firearm may face a multiple-year jail sentence.

H.R. 45 is essentially a reintroduction of H.R. 2666, which Rush introduced in 2007.  H.R. 2666 contained much of the same language as H.R. 45, and was co-sponsored by several well-known anti-gun legislators--including Barack Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.  H.R. 45 currently has no co-sponsors.

Rest assured that NRA-ILA will continue to monitor this bill closely, and will keep you informed of any developments if they materialize.

http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=4329

Friday, May 29, 2009

In the last few weeks, NRA-ILA has received hundreds of e-mails warning us about “SB-2099,” a bill that would supposedly require you to report all your guns on your income tax return every April 15.

Like many rumors, there’s just a grain of truth to this one.  Someone’s recycling an old alert, which wasn’t even very accurate when it was new.

There actually was a U.S. Senate bill with that number that would have taxed handguns - nine years ago.  It was introduced by anti-gun Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), and it would have included handguns under the National Firearms Act’s tax and registration scheme.  This has nothing to do with anyone’s Form 1040, of course.

Fortunately, S. 2099 disappeared without any action by the Senate, back when Bill Clinton was still in the White House.  We reported about it back then, just as we report about new anti-gun bills every week.  Now, it’s time for gun owners to drop this old distraction and focus on the real threats at hand.

http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=4925