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I have been thinking about what makes Christmas such a great time in our lives. I am old enough to remember many Christmases. They have all been glorious. But I have learned that it isn't just the presents that make them great. The Happiest Christmas of My Childhood When I was a young boy, our family was terribly poor. Father had no job because he was going through law school at the University of Utah. He had a wife and three young sons. Grandfather and Grandmother knew that we would have no Christmas if we did not come down to ...

Sportsmen who head to America’s 155 national forests have more to worry about these days than rogue bears and getting lost. From the Appalachian Mountains to the Sierra Nevadas, illegal marijuana and methamphetamine production on public lands is soaring, and officials say it poses a growing threat to forest users, especially hunters who bushwhack into remote areas favored by armed and often violent drug traffickers. “About 50 percent of our domestic cannabis production is now grown on national forests, and meth production is going through the roof,” says Bill Wasley, director of law enforcement for the U.S. Forest Service (U.S.F.S.). ...

Do the men and women of the United States' military serve their fellow American citizens or do they serve the faceless bureaucrats of the United Nations? This question will be answered on Tuesday (12/11/2001) at 4:00 p.m. by the U.S. House Committee on International Relations in 2172 Rayburn House Office Building. The committee will markup (take action) on H.J. Res. 75. The fourth resolve clause of H.J. Res. 75 states: "the refusal by Iraq to admit United Nations weapons inspectors into any facility covered by the provisions of Security Council Resolution 687 should be considered an act of aggression against ...

What is the Militia? A writer in a prior issue of “The Firing Line” purported to know. He told the readers it refers to citizens eligible to vote. Well, not quite. It’s much more than that and has nothing to do with voting. However, he got one thing right. It’s not the National Guard, which didn’t even exist in any state for about 150 years after we became a nation. Look carefully at the U.S. Constitution, and the writing of the Founding Fathers, and you’ll see that every able-bodied male at least 17 years of age is automatically in the ...

We are setting ourselves up! When we look like slobs then the media and the ignorant public should rightly believe that we are. I was recently at a local outdoor shooting range that was located in a canyon. There was this other guy with his girlfriend and they were shooting on the same lines as where I was. This was an open area for the public for shooting. Prior to his departure he had asked me if I had seen a Park Ranger around the entrance of the canyon when I arrived? I asked him if something was wrong and ...

I know this article has been posted in here several weeks before, but I feel this is a way we might possibly get Second Amendment rights back for people in New Jersey, California and other states that have eroding away Americans rights with harsh gun control laws. The courts are ruling against us and Congress majority is now controlled by the Democrats, so that leaves the Presidency of the United States. We are slowly losing our right to keep and bear arms. This petition will be sent to John Ashcroft. The whole petition can be read at: http://www.AshcroftPetition@keepandbeararms.com. The bottom ...

[This is an old article published in 1990, but it offers some good information] Fans of 9 millimeter high capacity autos triumphantly cry "Firepower!" Old-line police chiefs who still cleave to revolvers make the sign of the cross when confronted with such service pistols and hiss, "Firepower!" There's only a slight difference in the inflection. "If you can't do it with six, you can't do it at all" is an old canard that has been heard less and less as the cocaine cowboys have upped the firepower stakes in the war on crime. As police nationwide rush to trade the ...

I wrote an e-mail to Coalition to Stop Gun Violence in late October 2001. My letter was as follows: Your organization should focus more on strengthening the family unit rather than more laws banning firearms. Statistics show that children who are raised in good loving families with a mother and father turn out to be good law abiding citizens. England's gun control provisions haven't made them a better society. Children with respect and morals will most likely become adults with respect and morals. Sadly there are many single parent families today which account for more instability in U.S.A. society. Temporary ...

SB 52, Scott. Firearms: handgun safety certificate. Existing law generally regulates the transfer of firearms. This bill would provide that, subject to various exceptions, no person may purchase, transfer, or receive a handgun, as defined, without a handgun safety certificate, as specified. This bill would provide that no handgun safety certificate may be issued to any person under 18 years of age. This bill would establish an application procedure for obtaining a handgun safety certificate, including the applicant's successful completion of a written test. The bill would require the successful completion of a safe handling demonstration before a dealer would ...

1. Eighty-four-year-old William Harris was in his Southampton, New Jersey, home one morning when a man intent on burglary ripped out a back porch door screen and broke a chain on the kitchen door, according to police. When Harris, recovering in bed from cataract surgery, heard roommate Benjamin Davis yell out a warning, he grabbed his 16-gauge shotgun from a closet. When he met the intruder in the darkened kitchen, the man thought the better of his plan and fled. Davis later said of Harris, "He's not a pushover. He'll stand up as long as he can to whatever he ...

This is an exerpt of a book I read off the internet. It had such a powerful message I decided wanted others to read it. God Bless the nation of America. "Your forefathers created one nation under God, with liberty and justice for all. These were men of high ideals, spiritually guided and inspired to create a nation and a civilization to be admired and respected, to set an example for the rest of the world. In exercising their free will under God's guidance and direction, they created a Consitituion and a Bill of Rights for every man, woman, and ...

In 1994, when the U.S. Congress debated whether to ban "assault weapons," a talk show host asked then-Senator Bill Bradley (New Jersey), a sponsor of the ban, whether guns cause crime. The host noted that, in Switzerland, all males are issued assault rifles for militia service and keep them at home, yet little crime exists there. Senator Bradley responded that the Swiss "are pretty dull." For those who think that target shooting is more fun than golf, however, Switzerland is anything but "dull." By car or train, you see shooting ranges everywhere, but few golf courses. If there is ...