Coburn Takes Out the Guns: GOP Plans Series of Gun Amendments

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[neverdem]

Philadelphia Daily News Feb 5, 2010
Can't Get a Gun Here? No problem: Florida Will Issue Permit, and Local Police Must Honor It. Phila. Authorities Are Irate
Imagine having your driver's license revoked in Pennsylvania but then being able to get one in Florida - through the mail - that must then be honored here. Now imagine it happens with guns. Because it does. Pennsylvania residents who are denied a license to carry a concealed weapon, or have theirs revoked, have found a loophole that allows them to get a license from another state that must be honored here. ...read the full article

Bangor Daily News Feb 4, 2010
State House Proposal Targets Gun Ban for Parks:
Lawmakers Seek Return to Earlier 'Status Quo' Robert Proudman, representing the Appalachian Trail Conservancy in Harpers Ferry, W.Va., said between 1 and 2 million people hike the trail every year. Yet during the past 40 years, there have only been eight murders — two of which involved guns — along the 2,200-mile-long trail stretching from Georgia to Maine.... “I believe allowing firearms on the Appalachian Trail is unnecessary, possibly dangerous and, simply put, a bad idea,” Proudman said. “Perhaps most important, we don’t want the culture to change.” ...read the full article

Roll Call Feb 4, 2010
Coburn Takes Out the Guns: GOP Plans Series of Gun Amendments
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has quietly been preparing a series of gun rights amendments that he intends to offer to must-pass Senate bills this year, hoping to force Democrats to take tough votes and draw clear distinctions between the two parties heading into the midterms. Coburn's effort, part of a broader GOP 2010 strategy, is still coming together, but the Oklahoma Republican said this week that at least one forum for the gun fight will be this year's appropriations measures. "We'll see gun amendments if we see appropriations bills," Coburn said. Since Democrats took control of the Senate in January ...read the full article

Mother Jones Feb 4, 2010
Coburn Embraces Gun-Clinging Tea Partiers
At "question time" last week, President Obama called for an end to reckless and bitter partisanship. Rejecting this idea, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) will attach a set of gun rights amendments to must-pass appropriations bills to make Democrats who oppose such measures appear out of step with the public, Roll Call reports. But it's unclear whether these amendments will achieve their desired effect. An October Gallup poll, for example, found that only 12 percent of respondents favor making gun laws less strict, compared with 44 percent who support stricter regulations. And even Republican propaganda guru Frank Luntz says that the gun-rights ...read the full article

Georgia Tech Technique Feb 4, 2010
Editorial: Consensus Opinion: Guns Not Welcome
The recent violent on-campus sword attack underscores the fact that the legislation currently going through the Georgia General Assembly to repeal the ban of firearms on campus endangers the Tech community. Allowing guns on campus will not fix the crime problems that plague the surrounding areas of Tech, rather it will only exacerbate the current problems, and potentially create new dangerous situations on campus. This recipe for disaster could lead to a heightened level of severity in the crimes occurring. While the muggings are deplorable, they would seem trivial in comparison of a student being killed as result of the people ...read the full article

Arizona Republic Feb 3, 2010
Push On to Ease Arizona's Gun Laws
Arizona has always held tightly to its legacy as part of the gun-toting Wild West and a protector of individual rights. This year, the state's Republican governor and a conservative Legislature may continue that tradition by giving Arizonans some of the least-restrictive weapons laws in the nation. This session, state lawmakers have proposed more than a dozen bills on expanding rights to carry and use guns and knives. The proposed laws would allow people to carry concealed weapons without a permit, end requirements that guns manufactured and kept in Arizona be registered, and allow university professors to carry guns on school grounds. Although ...read the full article

Baltimore Sun Feb 3, 2010
Rawlings-Blake Seeks Tougher Gun Laws
Baltimore's incoming mayor, Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake, pressed Annapolis lawmakers to toughen state gun laws at a packed hearing Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee, saying "we have to do more" to build on successes in reducing crime. Rawlings-Blake, who will take the city's helm Thursday when Mayor Sheila Dixon steps down, spoke briefly to the committee. The delegates welcomed her warmly, at times calling her "mayor-elect" and "mayor." The legislation she supports would broaden an offense known as "use of a handgun in commission of a crime." Police now frequently add it to other charges in violent gun crimes. However, the statute ...read the full article

UA Daily Wildcat Feb 3, 2010
Campus Gun Laws Concern ASUA: State Senate Bill May Allow Teachers to Carry Firearms
The Associated Students of the University of Arizona will host their weekly meeting tonight to discuss firearms on campus. Tonight's meeting will take place at 5 in the Ventana Room of the Student Union Memorial Center. Arizona State Senate Bill 1011, which, if passed, would allow teachers with valid permits to carry firearms on school grounds, has caught the attention of ASUA Sen. Tyler Quillin. "It's extremely disappointing and disheartening that the state legislature would propose such a (bill)," Quillin said. Quillin has drafted a resolution in opposition to SB 1011 stating, "firearms, in no way, belong in, near or around a classroom or ...read the full article

ESPN.com Feb 3, 2010
Guns and the Gilbert Arenas Case: Arenas, Plaxico Burress and Others Give Us a Chance to Make a Difference About Guns
Gilbert Arenas has joined Plaxico Burress as the latest high-profile athletes to be suspended from their sports for tapping into their inner Doc Holliday, providing yet another opportunity to develop something beyond the superficial conversations about race and guns and culture. If the Burress precedent serves as an example of what is to come, however, the Arenas situation surely will devolve along familiar lines. In fact, it's happening already. Arenas attempted to get ahead of the issue by writing an op-ed column in The Washington Post that read like the athlete's 12-step image-laundering program, crafted apparently with the knowledge ...read the full article

Newswise Feb 3, 2010
Guns in the Home Increase Costs as Well as Dangers
Newswise -- Having a gun at home not only increases the risk of harm to one's self and family, but also carries high costs to society, concludes an article in the February Southern Medical Journal, official journal of the Southern Medical Association. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, and pharmacy. "Firearm-related violence vastly increases expenditures for health care, services for the disabled, insurance, and our criminal justice system," writes Dr. Steven Lippmann of University ...read the full article

[neverdem]

Coburn Takes Out the Guns - GOP Plans Series of Gun Amendments

You need a subscription. The gun grabbers had more text than Roll Call. Scanning Media Brady in the News is good for a few laughs.

[Maelstorm]

This is exactly what we need. I love Coburn.

[o_zarkman44]

The progressive populists know the one thing that stands in the way of their totalitarian utopia is the private ownership of firearms.

Coburn is using this platform to retaliate against progressive DemoRats (ProgRats).

[KokoMadeOide]

Not more gun control laws, the constitution clearly states that any free man is allowed to bear arms! I always wanted to own an assault riffle, not one of those civilian versions either. I want fire power!

[Gilbo_3]

Imagine having your driver's license revoked in Pennsylvania but then being able to get one in Florida

better yet, imagine a God Given Right being honored wherever a citizen is standing...

or better still, imagine not needing a 'liscense' to physically BEAR ARMS or drive a car...

[Fiddlstix]

Ping

[MrB]

The progressive populists know the one thing that stands in the way of their totalitarian utopia is the private ownership of firearms.

There is a combination of things that stand in the way, and they plan to address both - an armed population of 300 million.

Look at all the "crises" and most of their solutions involve direct or indirect population control. The latest thing has been this "food safety" bill which could be used to limit your ability to grow your own food.

[Reagan Man]

RKBA bump.

Go Senator Coburn!

[stevio]

bump.

[conservativeharleyguy]

"...Rejecting this idea, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) will attach a set of gun rights amendments to must-pass appropriations bills to make Democrats who oppose such measures appear out of step with the public, Roll Call reports..."

"Rejecting this idea, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) will attach a set of gun rights amendments to must-pass appropriations bills to make expose Democrats who oppose such measures appear for being out of step with the public...."

There - all better now.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

I love it. First up, national recriprocity for concealed carry licenses. One of the articles in there asked imagine if you were denied a drivers license in Pa but got one in Florida and it had to be honored in Pa. I have one for you, imagine getting a drivers license in Pa and it is not honored in Ohio? That is exactly what is happening with conceal carry licenses. My Pa conceal carry license is not honored in Ohio.

[Joe Brower]

God bless Tom Coburn.

Here in town I have as a friend a retired AF LtCol. who went back to his old home state of OK to assist Coburn with his campaign back in 2004; says it's one of the most productive things he ever did.

[matthew fuller]

"Pennsylvania residents who are denied a license to carry a concealed weapon, or have theirs revoked, have found a loophole that allows them to get a license from another state that must be honored here. ...read the full article "

This is highly ironic- The Texas State Rifle Association published a few months ago an article describing the ease and convenience of QUALIFIED (inside their respective states) residents of states outside of PA in getting a PA CHL license which is reciprocal here in TX (or other states). The reason that they published this was that at the time, TX was way behind on renewals.

[BCR #226]

If he puts in a repeal of the 1986 Hughes Amendment which was passed ILLEGALlY, I’ll be thrilled!

[edcoil]

The 2nd amendment does just fine. We don’t need more government laws.

[HighlyOpinionated]

The Bill o’ Rights is not subject to States Rights. It’s easy to see this in the First Amendment. In the Second, not so.

Why does the Second Amendment raise so many emotional conflicts in certain people?

[edcoil]

The 2nd amendment does just fine. We don’t need more government laws.

[Noumenon]

Tyrant weather report:

Tyrants and their enablers will experience occasional showers of hot brass, brief but intense hails of lead followed by widely scattered explosions.

[ZULU]

They have been watching too many Disney movies, or maybe too many old Tarzan movies.

“UhhhhAHH!!Ban the Thunder-sticks!!!!!!!” - Tarzan of the Apes

[skimbell]

"...Not more gun control laws..."

Not gun control. They're gun amendments.

You might want to glance over the article before reacting to the headline.