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The Obama campaign has written radio stations in Pennsylvania and Ohio, pressing them to refuse to air an ad from the National Rifle Association."This advertisement knowingly misleads your viewing audience about Senator Obama's position on the Second Amendment," says the letter from Obama general counsel Bob Bauer. "For the sake of both FCC licensing requirements and the public interest, your station should refuse to continue to air this advertisement." The ad, "Hunter," conflates Obama's anti-gun stances of the 1990s with his current, more pro-gun, stand, and was chided for inaccuracy in The Washington Post, an item to which Bauer's letter refers.NRA spokesman...

More Guns, Less Crime by Mark Yannone It's a fact. But don't bother the phoney "tough-on-crime" Mayor Gordon with facts like that. He'll do his thinking from the seat of his pants and do whatever he thinks will get him more votes, like melting down guns. That was enough to gain the endorsement of the National Rifle Association's Political Victory Fund. NRA now stands for "no recycled arms." [From their Web site] "Envision a sculpture in the middle of Central Avenue, more than twenty-four feet tall, made from four tons of melted down weapons: hand guns, shotguns, Saturday night specials,...