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Moments after news broke that the Senate rejected Toomey-Manchin, Governor Palin sent out a congratulatory tweet to free and law abiding Americans. @SarahPalinUSA - "Politicians' expanded gun control effort fails in the Senate today. Count this a victory for the 2nd Amendment and law-abiding citizens. about 3 hours ago. In response, the ever so petulant Piers Morgan sent out the following: "NAUSEATING > @SarahPalinUSA now jubilantly boasting of anti gun control 'victory' on her Twitter feed. No heart, no shame" "Imagine crying 'VICTORY!' as those poor Sandy Hook families weep inside the Senate. Just revolting. @SarahPalinUSA #NewtownBetrayed

A Colorado Democrat who wanted to prevent individuals suspected of posing a threat from possessing a gun quickly backed off that plan after details of the proposal became public late Thursday. Rep. Beth McCann said she's still working on a bill dealing with firearm restrictions for people believed to be a danger, but it's unclear when it could be introduced or what it would look like. She said she made a mistake by releasing a draft of the bill. "It was totally my responsibility for getting it out there," she said just hours after circulating the proposal that was scrapped....

BRUNSWICK, Ga. -- A homeowner has fatally shot a masked burglar only to learn the burglar was a longtime friend. Ezekiel Wiley says he fired all six bullets at a man who crawled through a busted kitchen window, armed with a screwdriver Wednesday. Wiley said he couldn't see the burglar's face....frpa

A Clark County judge says Wisconsin’s ban on carrying concealed weapons is unconstitutional. In the case, authorities charged a Sauk City man with carrying a concealed weapon, after he admitted he had a knife in his waistband. He never threatened anyone. In light of the landmark Supreme Court ruling in McDonald v. City of Chicago, attorney William Poss filed a motion to dismiss the case on constitutional grounds. Judge Jon Counsell obliged Wednesday, ruling the law is overly broad and violates both the Second and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution.

When the lefties are replacing a lefty on the Supreme Court with another lefty, the balance is preserved and the downside to the country is somewhat minimized. Sometimes you need to pick your battles. If Obama were filling Scalia's seat for example, this would be a Battle Royale. I figured that the Republicans can't stop this nominee anyway, unless something big and nasty was unearthed. Methinks this is it. Though she says she supports Heller's holding that the 2nd Amendment prevents the Federal Government from banning guns, still undecided is the issue of whether that holding also applies to state...

“Barack Obama has never fired a gun. He has never so much as held a gun as far as anyone knows. Now he is Commander-In-Chief of the armed forces.”

Must read. It is unbelievable, nothing more to say.

1. Repeal of the Tiahrt Amendment, 2. Ban scary looking guns, 3. Ban private gun sales, 4. And of course make guns childproof. How about make government idiot proof?

On November 20, 2007, the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear an appeal of DC vs. Heller, a decision that made good liberals run for the airsickness bag. In Heller, the DC Court of Appeals had ruled that the District of Columbia’s prohibition on handgun ownership and its requirement that long guns be disassembled was a violation of the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” The court ruled that the 2nd...

BOUNTIFUL - When Gregg Revell packed his bags for a trip to Pennsylvania last April, he had no idea how far he'd be traveling. Before the week was out, the 57-year-old suburban real estate agent and grandfather would be arrested, thrown into one of the country's most notorious jails, strip searched and inoculated against his will. The soft-spoken Utah native would be on his way to becoming a poster child for the National Rifle Association in a $3 million lawsuit. During a nearly five-day stay in a Newark, N.J., jail, he would meet a terrifying side of America that most...

NEWS POLL Do you plan to take advantage of Missouri's new concealed weapon law and buy a gun? [vote] [results]

Question of the day: The concealed weapon debate is back in Missouri. Who do you think should be able to carry them? No one Anyone with the proper training and no criminal background Anyone with the proper training, regardless of background Everyone over 21, regardless of training or background

<p>Gun enthusiasts with a permit to carry a concealed weapon want to be allowed to carry their firearms into family restaurants, bars and other places that sell alcoholic beverages as long as they aren't drinking.</p> <p>They also want the legislature to remove the prohibition that keeps them from carrying a handgun on school grounds and in public parks.</p>

Fire set at Frayser home-intruder site By Bill Dries dries@gomemphis.com September 1, 2002 Someone set a small fire Thursday evening to a recently vacated Frayser house whose owner shot and killed an intruder there one week ago today, police said. The incident at 2814 Northmeade was being investigated by authorities Saturday morning, hours before the intruder, Otis Lee Yarbrough, 19, was buried. Homicide Lt. Joe Scott said the fire appeared to have been set Thursday evening and that the Memphis Fire Department arson squad was investigating. Arson squad investigators could not be reached by The Commercial Appeal Saturday for comment....