After 35 years in the U.S. Senate Dick Lugar has been defeated by the good freedom loving citizens of Indiana.  On May 8, 2012 the anti-gun movement in the Senate has been sent a major blow by having one of their long time RINO Republican senators losing his primary against an “A” rated and NRA backed candidate.

Toppling over such a long time  politician doesn’t happen very often.  After working for the last 20 years to do what happened on May 8 I always wondered whether it would ever happen.  I’d always thought that he’d probably leave office either by choice or by death.  Never thought he’d stick around so long that he’d finally be defeated.

This means now we have a much better chance of passing good legislation and keeping out the unwanted compromise that a RINO  like Dick Lugar would always do.  I’d much rather see legislation not passed then have to compromise our freedoms and values.

Hope you enjoy this episode but please also take a look at all the links below you will find some very good articles and discussions about the loss of Dick Lugar in the United States Senate

Links:

My new / old LOG at BLOG.GunRights.US

Here is a link to my Personal Audio Blog at Vanderberg.org

NRA-PVF Defeat Lugar

Good Riddance to Anti-gun Richard Lugar

Statement from Chris W. Cox on Richard Mourdock’s Significant Win in the Indiana U.S. Senate Primary Election

Tea Party and Guns Take Down Sen. Dick Lugar

NRA endorses Lugar opponent, blasts senator’s ‘contempt’ for gun owners

NRA Drops $200K Against Republican Dick Lugar After Lugar Supports Sotomayor and Kagan

The NRA Aims at Lugar, Hits Supreme Court

Why Even The NRA Is Blitzing Sen. Richard Lugar

NRA Has Been Holding a Grudge Against Dick Lugar for 10 Years

Richard Lugar Voices Support For Assault Weapons Ban (VIDEO)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3M7cTb68_I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Mr1Sz11HQ

Mark Vanderberg in this episode talks about attending the NRA annual meeting in St. Louis. Mark has been an NRA member for more than 20 years but this is the first annual meeting he has attended.

If you have never attended an annual meeting and are considering attending a future one Mark will let you know what you should expect.

April Friday the 13th Mark attended the NRA Celebration of American Values – Leadership Forum and was able to hear a couple candidates for president and other elected officials from around the country speak.

Wow, it’s been since September 2011 since I released an episode of this podcast. Well I’ve been very busy with GRRN and normally talk about a lot of gun rights advocacy topics on the LIVE Bar Stool Discussion on a biweekly basis. So sometimes it gives me very little talk about here.

Not this week because the Valentine’s Day buycott of Starbucks has given me reason to do a new episode. So listen to the show and please send in your audio feedback. I’d like to use your feedback in the next episode so that we can have a debate.

Links:

Free GRRN Newsletter Sign-up

Starbucks in the crosshairs

Buy latte, pack gun: Starbucks hit with boycott — and ‘buycott’

Anti-Gun Group Begins “Brew Not Bullets” Starbucks Boycott

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjN8fybAxzw

This episode again is mostly about Gun Rights Policy Conference and a conversation that we recorded with Eric Shelton & Larry Piekarski in room 662 of the Hyatt Regency O’Hare hotel the night before GRPC started. The conversation was recorded with the Edirol R-09HR High-Resolution WAVE/MP3 Recorder.

GRPC 2011 Video

Second Amendment Patriots North
Kodiak Firing Range and Training Facility
Sig Sauer SP2022 9mm – Giveaway

Equipment used to stream from GRPC 2011:
JVC GR-D850 MiniDV Camcorder with 35x Optical Zoom
Manfrotto 190XPROB 3 Section Aluminum Pro Tripod
Apple MacBook Pro MC700LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop
Tripp Lite F019-006 IEEE 1394b Firewire 800 Gold Hi-speed Cable, 9pin/4pin – 6ft
Electro-Voice EV Cobalt 7 Premium Vocal Mic
Cakewalk UA-25EX USB Audio and MIDI Interface
HTC EVO 4G Android Phone (Sprint)
bambusetor.com  to stream and archive the video

This episode of the Gun Rights Advocates Podcast we have two interviews. The first is with John Richardson from the blog “NO LAWYERS – ONLY GUNS AND MONEY”. We talk about the upcoming Gun Rights Policy Conference which starts September 23, 2011.

Second interview is with Guy Relford an Indiana attorney, we talk about the changes made to Indiana’s preemption law and about the lawsuit that he has filed in Hammond Indiana and a lawsuit that he has filed against the city of Evansville on behalf of a client.

If it wasn’t for the Gun Rights Policy Conference on September 24 I would instead be going to Guy Relford’s Comprehensive Indiana Gun Law class (NWI) taking place at Cabela’s Hammond, Indiana 9:00 am – 5:00 pm. Listen to the interview and you’ll find out that he will be teaching you everything you need to know about Indiana firearm laws. There still time to register at Tactical Firearms Training, LLC.

Hammond cops ordered not to enforce city gun carry law

GRRN is giving away a Sig Sauer SP2022 9mm and you can get a free entry into the drawing if you are attending the Gun Rights Policy Conference in Chicago next weekend and you find me and ask for the entry.

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Take this opportunity if you’ve never attended a Gun Rights Policy Conference in the past and you are in or around the Chicagoland area I would suggest signing up today.

This is going to be the biggest and best GRPC that the Second Amendment Foundation has ever had and you can be there for free. Just click on the following link and sign up today

Gun Rights Policy Conference Registration

The audio attached to this post is just over 3 1/2 hours that was recorded from the NRA news.com live stream of the NRA Celebration of America Values Leadership Forum 2011 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The bandwidth to provide you this file is provided by Gun Rights Radio Network and the listeners who provide donations to make this all possible.

Also make sure you check out GRRN Gun Giveaway. GRRN is giving away a S&W M&P9c in June 2011

Transcripts of the NRA Workshop (Word doc) (PDF) Coming Soon

I Join NRA-ILA staff on Saturday, February 5th, 2011, for a day of important grassroots education. We meet at the Cabela’s  Dundee, Michigan for a full day of grassroots education. As always I had permission to record the event and that’s what this episode will entail.

Would like to thank the NRA-ILA staff for putting on such a informative and professional program. And thanks to Cabela’s for hosting the event and giving everyone who participated that day a 10% discount of anything available in the store.

The Speakers:

Suzanne Anglewicz, Manager, Political & Legislative Activities,  NRA-ILA

Krista Cupp, Grassroots Coordinator, NRA-ILA

Darin Goens, NRA-ILA Michigan Liaison

This is the final part of the symposium at Cooley Law School entitled “To Bear or Not to Bear: Guns in Educational Institutions.” It was recorded February 4, 2011 and I am happy to announce that we are having professional transcriptions done of the entire symposium.

You will find a link to the transcript of this part in the show notes below.

Also the Second Amendment Foundation has announced that they are now taking pre-registrations for the Gun Rights Policy Conference that will be held September 23, 24th, 25th 2011 at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare Airport conference center.

Links:

Transcript of Part 3 (Word doc) (pdf)

Thank you to everyone who e-mailed me about how much they enjoyed the first part of the symposium at Cooley Law School entitled “To Bear or Not to Bear: Guns in Educational Institutions.”. This is now the second part and I will be posting the final part as part of episode #138 in a week from this release date. The final part is actually the debate and I believe you will find It quite enjoyable no matter whether you’re for or against.

Remember to mark your calendars for September 23, 24th, and 25th 2011 for the 26th annual Gun Rights Policy Conference which will be held this year at the Hyatt Regency Chicago O’Hare Airport conference center.

Second Amendment Foundation has not yet posted registration on their website but please keep checking saf.org for one it is available.

In the last episode #136 the speakers were:

John Lott, visiting Senior Research Scientist at the University of Maryland College Park and author of More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws, Third Edition

James Manley, staff attorney with Mountain States Legal Foundation (argued on behalf of the state to challenge the University of Colorado’s ban on licensed concealed carry on campus).

John Johnson, Co-Director of the Campaign to Keep Guns off Campus and former Director of Iowans for the Prevention of Gun Violence (2000-2006).

In this episode the speakers were:

Josh Horwitz, Executive Director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.

Steven Dulan, Attorney and Gun Law Professor at Thomas M. Cooley Law School.

Dennis Henigan, Vice President for Law & Policy at the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence and Director and Co-founder of its Legal Action Project.

Links:

Photos from the law school debate

Transcript of Part 2 (Word doc) (pdf)

Friday, February 4, 2011 I attended a symposium at the Thomas M Cooley Law school in Lansing Michigan. It was entitled” To Bear or Not to Bear: Guns In Educational Institutions” and I had permission to record the entire conference which included gun-control advocates and gun rights advocates.

This is the first of three podcasts that you will get that will have audio from that day. In this episode you’ll get to hear from Prof. John Lott, James Manley, & John Johnson. The event moderator is Prof. Williams Wagner, Professor of Constitutional Law and Ethics.

Links:

Transcript of Part 1 (Word doc) (pdf)

As many of you long-time listeners to this podcast know this has been at one time a biweekly podcast, but due to my responsibilities at the Gun Rights Radio Network it is turned into less than reliable. So this being the first episode of 2011 and if you are taking a look at the website you will notice that we have changed the theme and that has more to do with updating some database problems on the back and than it does with the front end. So I just thought why not give the front and a facelift also.

Things I will discuss in the show:

• Arizona Shooting -letters to the editor
• Shot Show running this week in Las Vegas
• Gun Rights Policy Conference 2011 in September
• My reconsideration of the value of gun buybacks

Please visit the Gun Rights Radio Network and we would also like you to join us on our discussion forum.

You have until January 31, 2011 to get entered into the drawing to win a Winchester 94 30-30 from 1971 with its original box.

You can find my new personal audio journal/blog account http://vanderberg.org

Everyday life and GRRN has been keeping me busy so this happens to be the first podcast I have done since October 1. I talked about the upgrades that were done to GRRN forum and why I did them. Also discussed discussion forums in general and why I would prefer no anti-NRA rhetoric posted.

Now because it’s been a while since I’ve done a podcast you’ll probably notice that I am just rambling all over the place. To do a podcast properly you really need to prepare your thoughts I had a time and it helps if you take some notes. Staying in practice is also a really good thing. So all things I just said I had done none of them. Hopefully you still get something interesting out of the podcast even with all my bouncing around.

Links:

Gun Review Podcast is back

GRRN Forum

AR15.com

INGunOwners

OpenCarry.org

SigForum

Still Time to Volunteer – Episode #133

• What you can still do to help the upcoming elections
• Story about being handcuffed
• Selling firearms after being unemployed for two years
• Thanks to Mas for helping raise $1200 for the network
• iPod nano giveaway October 1 Winner is…….
• Update on bar stool discussion
• Gun Review Podcast Update
• 2011 Gun Rights Policy Conference
• Gun Rights News Podcast – looking for hosts
• Amazon Kindle encouraging authors of gun rights books to publish in the format
• Handgun Podcast – budget, I realized I can’t afford to shoot anymore

Auctions:

Remington 541-S Sporter .22 Rimfire Bolt Action

Anschutz Exemplar Bolt Action Repeating Pistol

Leupold M8-4x 28mm EER Handgun Scope

Leupold Vari-X III 1.5 – 5x 20mm w/B-Square Mount

Leupold VX-L 4.5-14 x 56mm LR, B&C, 60370, NIB

NOTE: Only place you can find the complete audio of 2010 Chicago Second Amendment Freedom Rally

The Second Amendment Freedom Rally 2010 was again in downtown Chicago right across from Mayor Daley’s office. Again this year Mayor Daley chose not to be in his office the day of the rally, but we are sure that his staff heard us loud and clear.

I spent quite a bit of time to bring you the audio from the rally and some money and I would appreciate your comments about the coverage. So please leave me comments here or send me a direct e-mail from the contact page. I would very much appreciate it.

Thank you to my friend Bill Stanczyk for again driving all away to Chicago with me to attend the rally. It definitely helped me from being bored on the two-hour drive each way.

Special thanks to the sponsors of the rally Illinois State Rifle Association and IllinoisCarry.com

Speaker list:

Mike Weisman

Richard Pearson

Gerald Vernon

Dr, Paula Bratich

Charles Butler

Patricia L. Hill

Shawn Gowder

Rep. Deborah Halvorson

Four Plaintiffs and Attorney: David Lawson, Colleen Lawson, Adam Orlov, Otis McDonald & Attorney David Sigale

Frederick Collins

Valinda Rowe

Links:

Frederick Collins for Cook County Sheriff

Debbie Halvorson for Congress

William J. Lee for US Senate 2014

Photographer: Bill Stanczyk

Photographer: Bill Stanczyk

Photographer: Bill Stanczyk

Photographer: Bill Stanczyk

Photographer: Bill Stanczyk

Click HERE to learn more about the United States Concealed Carry Association

In this episode of the gun rights advocates podcast you will hear my thoughts on the Disclose Act and why I feel the NRA did nothing wrong.

Also we will discuss the new law that takes effect July 1 in Indiana allowing employees to bring their firearms work and keep them in their locked vehicle.

And of course we will discuss the ruling by the Supreme Court on McDonald v. the city of Chicago.

Links:

Setting The Record Straight On The DISCLOSE Act

NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox’s Message on H.R. 5175

STATEMENT ON DISCLOSE ACT PASSING THE U.S. HOUSE

NRA didn’t sell out

Statement by Wayne LaPierre Executive Vice President, NRA and Chris W. Cox Executive Director, NRA-ILA Regarding U.S. Supreme Court Decision McDonald v. City of Chicago

National Rifle Association Hails Historic Victory on Second Amendment Freedom in McDonald v. City of Chicago

Read the U.S. Supreme Court Opinion (PDF File)

NRA to endorse Harry Reid? – War Room

Links:

John Hostettler official campaign website

NRA likes Democrat over Coats?

Airport firearm possession

John Hostettler on Gun Control

11/00 GOA Ratings And The Hostettler Law

Dan Coats, Gun Control and the Indiana Senate Primary

John Hostettler on youtube

Hostettler talks to GOP about health care, deficit

Links:

New Network Podcast: The Libleral GunCast

About David G. Coy

Bass Pro Shop – Portage, Indiana

Cabela’s – Hammond, Indiana

Second Amendment March

Jeff Williams – commonsensejeff.com

You can purchase a copy of Steve Lee album “I like Guns”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TC2xTCb_GU

New Network Podcasts:

Citizen Armed – Spencer Bennett

Links:

Firearm Sales Charted by Region Southeastern and Mountain States Lead Rifle Purchases

Steve Dulan

Indiana: The Herald-Times Online Thinks Gun Owners are Stupid, Paranoid, and Easily Manipulated!

Indiana Gun Permits

Indianapolis Star Jumps on the Concealed Carry Permit Database Bandwagon

Given an NRA Life Membership $300

Tennessee Handgun Carry Permits

U.S. Concealed Carry – The Ultimate Resource for the Armed Citizen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8HJsAa79rk

New Network Podcasts:

Reloading Radio – Jayson Thomas

Truth about Guns Podcast – Christopher Burg

New Non-network Podcasts:

Citizens Armed or “How I Stopped Worrying And Learned to Love My Gun” – Spencer Bennett

Links:

Freedom of Information Act Letter Generator

FOIA Sample Requests

How to File a FOIA Request

Mayors against Illegal Guns

“RISE OF THE ANTI-MEDIA: IN-FORMING AMERICA’S CONCEALED WEAPON CARRY MOVEMENT” By Brian Anse Patrick

This is the second in the series from the Cabela’s Second Amendment workshop. Skip Coryell was one of the speakers at the workshop and is the organizer of the Second Amendment March on DC.

Links:

Second Amendment March on DC

Skip Coryell Books

Facebook – Skip Coryell

Twitter

Second Amendment March Printable Flyers – pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F68EXHK0FB4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIPNxUyEKJU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwqbWWEAPho

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVd3D9vO3No

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xWk61U8nh4

This is going to be a multi-part series of audio I recorded at the Cabela’s Second Amendment workshop that was organized by Wayne Blank on August 29, 2009.

Jim Irvin, Director of the Buckeye Firearms Association is the first speaker featured in the series of podcasts from the workshop.

Other speakers will be featured in the following weeks.

Links:

Buckeye Firearms Association

The Firearms Forum – Jim Irvin Radio show on WHK 1420 AM Sunday 8-9 PM ET

Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners – Every Michigan Gun Owner Needs to Be a Member

H.R. 45 is officially dead in my book so please stop sending all the scary e-mails out to everyone about the end is coming to your gun rights. We need to start focusing on things that are real right now instead of a proposed bill that has not been acted on since February and has absolutely no cosigners. It’s Dead!

Links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7syx26QtQIM

Editorial:
Packing Iron Before the Cameras

Opinion:
NRA member mortified by gun toter

H.R. 45 Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009

We are giving away a Dell laptop to help encourage listeners to become subscribers to Gun Rights Radio Network. We need your support.

GRRN Dell Laptop Giveaway

The interview I did with Chris Knox was very enjoyable for me to do and I hope you enjoy listening to it. Make sure you get yourself a copy of “Neal Knox – The Gun Rights War”.

Links:

Auction: Gun Talk Radio Show Advertising Package

Neal Knox – The Gun Rights War

The Firearms Coalition

Gun Review Podcast

Gun Rights Radio Network

GRRN Fourms

Please accept my apologies for such a long delay for this episode to come out. I have been having some technical problems with the computer I use to record and edit my podcast and just before I went back to work after being laid off I had some plumbing problems around the house that kept me from getting the episode helped.

This is though the second attempt at recording this episode. The first I felt I was a little too angry in the episode to release it. Some of things I was reading about the woman who left her gun in her purse and then tried to enter the courthouse just really irritated me and I decided not to release the angry episode.

Links:

Forgotten gun leads to Beecher woman’s arrest

ARMED CITIZENS OF CHICAGO – Miguel web site, he is A.C.O.CHICAGO on the forums

Second Amendment Freedom Rally is this Friday June 26, 2009 and I am looking forward to it very much. As most of you know Chicago is my birthplace and every chance I can get to return and help the citizens of Chicago bring awareness to their loss of freedoms, I’ll be there.

TO: Mark

From: Valinda Rowe

Thank you so much for the interview! It really was a pleasure to talk with you.

I didn’t get around to mentioning all of our speakers but if you need to know who they are:

Featured speakerRalph W. Conner – CORE-Chicago
Richard Pearson – Ex. Dir. Illinois State Rifle Association
Mike Weisman – 1st Vice President Illinois State Rifle Association
Valinda Rowe – IllinoisCarry.com spokesperson and SAFR coordinator
Sean Horton – Militant Markman Podcaster fame
Laura Anderson – Allied Illinois Markswomen
Paula Bratich – Second Amendment Sisters
Mick Paskiewicz – IL chapter of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus
Olivia Snow/Christos Dimoulis (duh-moo-lis) High School students
Father Thomas Janikowski – Knox County Rifleman, Priests and Patriots

Links:

Second Amendment Freedom Rally

Small Talk: Second Amendment Freedom Rally by Don Bekeleski

2009 Gun Rights Policy Conference St. Louis Missouri September 25 26th and 27th

June 13 2009 St. Joseph County, Indiana conducted 3 gun buybacks and I was there at one of the locations to protest the gun amnesty program being conducted. Listen to the podcast for all the reasons why I was there and the media interviews that were done with me prior to the buyback.

Clay, Harry & Larry Thanks for all you help at the Buyback. Standing in the rain stick it out until the gun buyback closed.

Thanks to Gail from the Pro-Arms podcast for the content she gave me for this episode. I also have some clips from Girl600s show about liberals liking guns.

Links:

MIDWEST TRAINING GROUP

GRRN Bumper Sticker

Gun Review Podcast

Looking forward to getting out and doing some activism in June. South Bend’s Gun Buy Back is June 13, and then I get to attend the first annual Second Amendment Rally in downtown Chicago, June 26, 2009. Hopefully I will have a chance to meet some of my listeners at both of these locations.

Links:

Opencarry.org

Open carry Wisconsin picnic

GRRN , bumper stickers

GRRN Poster

Ruger Mark II Giveaway

Second Amendment Rally, Chicago, June 26, 2009

The National Rifle Association has finally decided to podcast Cam Edwards NRA News. This is something that I have been asking them to do for many years and I know a lot of you also have been requesting it.

I still have the website domain http://nrapodcast.com that I will probably use to help explain to new listeners how to subscribe to their podcast.

Over last couple of days I have listened to about 9 hours of the NRA podcast and I’m enjoying it quite a bit, because now I do not have to stay up till midnight to hear the entire show. Hopefully all of you will find enough value in listening to the Gun Rights Radio Network and NRA’s new podcast and keep contributing to both.

Links:

ARMED AMERICAN RADIO!

Black Rifle Radio

NRA Podcast

Help me in protesting 3 local gun buybacks in St. Joseph County Indiana. Use the contact form at the top of the page to get in contact with me.

STOP: Gun Buy Back Program

Saturday, June 13, 2009

2009 Program – June 13, from 10 am 3pm at three locations:

* Mishawaka St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 616 Lincoln Way East
* South Bend No. 2 Fire Station, corner of Lincoln Way West and Martin Luther King Blvd.
* St. Joseph County Penn Twp Fire Station #2, 13750 McKinley Highway, Mishawaka

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Send a self-addressed stamped 4″ x 9″ #10 envelope

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Links:

Thumbs Up For 60 Minutes, Thumbs Down for 20/20 by Massad Ayoob

20/20 If I Only Had a Gun – Unabashed Anti Gun Propaganda

“If I only had a gun” by Joe Plumber

GRRN Bumper Stickers

Second Amendment Freedom Rally – Dowtown Chicago, June 26, 2009

Official website for the rally

2009 National 4th Annual New Hampshire State Live Free Or Die Rally

This episode is a little shorter than most due to the severe cold that hit me on Friday. Hopefully it’s bearable enough to listen to with all the throat clearing and sniffling. I just didn’t have the time or the patience to do a proper job editing this week. Sorry

Links:

Second Amendment March

Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC) 2009

My Twitter

GRRN Twitter

Write a review for me over on the Zune marketplace

Ted, White, and Blue: The Nugent Manifesto By Ted Nugent Narrated by Ted Nugent

Gun BuyBacks Part 1- Episode #006

Gun BuyBacks Part 2- Episode #007

65 Pro-Gun Democrats Oppose Obama’s Proposed Assault

Gun Review Podcast

NRA FREE one-year trial membership

Joe Donnelly my Congressman

Thank you to all of you who have signed up to become a NRA life members, we have now sent out over $13,000 to the National Rifle Association for the special NRA life memberships that will end March 31, 2009

Links:

Pistol Packing Preacher Blog

$300 NRA Life Membership -if you need a sponsor

Already a life member and would like to sign someone else for the special deal that ends March 31, 2009. Use the following link to do that.

NRA Validate

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David Goldman is an attorney from Florida who has the website NFA Gun Trust Lawyers Blog. I interview David in this episode about the national firearms act, in which we discussed the history, firearms covered by NFA & NFA Gun Trusts.

Links:

NFA Gun Trust Lawyers Blog

National Firearms Act – Wikipedia

Ruger online video

Glenn Beck – Ted Nugent Is Patriot

Stephen Halbrook with CNN’s Lou Dobbs on Gun Control

Clark Custom Knives

Forum Members Only: NRA Life Memberships still available for $300

Not enough time in the podcast to mention the following link but maybe some of you should go over to these forums and reply to some of the outrageous comments being posted.

The Obama Forum – Gun Control & Consfication

In this episode I interview Charles Heller from Liberty Watch Radio and Jason Clark from Clark custom Knives.
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Congratulations to the host of “The Urban Shooter Podcast“, Kenn Blanchard for being named Director of Urban Affairs of Gun Owners of America. GOA could not have picked a better person for the job. Kenn we wish you great success in your position.

Links:

ARIZONA CITIZENS DEFENSE LEAGUE

Liberty Watch Radio

Liberty Watch Radio Archives

Charles Heller, Eric, Tony, and the GRPC

Clark Custom Knives; Handmade knives by: Jason Clark

2009 NRA Director candidate questionnaire

Forum Members Only: NRA Life Memberships still available for $300

NEW PODCAST: GunFighter Cast

Interview with Greg Block about Orange County, California sheriff revoking CCW permits. You would think this would be a story about right to carry. It is not, its about a grassroots activism from the local gun owners with only support from the national groups.

Links:

Ordinary California Citizens Concerned With Safety

The California Firearms Enthusiast’s Home On The Internet

Orange County is a county in Southern California

Second Amendment Activists Centers

How to Talk to People About the Upcoming “Assault Weapons” Ban

Million Gun Owner March on Washington DC – Spring 2010

Gun Rights Alert – New Podcast

Links:

NRA Letter about the nomination of Eric Holder as Attorney General (PDF)

H.R. 45 Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009

Gun Law Update Jan. 21, 2009. Gun Rights Licensing Planned (HR 45)

Obama Administration Halts Pending Bush Regulations

VCDL Lobby Day 2009 from Matt Gottshalk on Vimeo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkw3X8RIsno

To Whom It May Concern:

CAN SOMEONE, PLEASE HELP ME?

This is a big issue to me and I need help fixing it ASAP, it has been way too long already. I have been trying to get it fixed for about a dozen years, to no avail. I have written & called numerous people & agencies. I have contacted several of you before & I am continuously given NO ANSWERS, given steps to resolves this, that leads to dead ends. I have spent many hours & several dollars doing every step that I have been advised to follow. Nothing! I have gotten nowhere.

I am being denied my 2nd Amendment rights! I have always been an avid shooter since childhood. At the age of 18, I joined the U.S. Army and was in charge of many weapons including various assault rifles, light machineguns, grenade launchers, anti-tank weapons & several other weapons during my almost 6-year tenure. I even achieved an expert marksmanship badge. I had a security clearance while I was in the military.

I currently receive jury notices & I have voted in major elections over the years. I am a fully disabled person of average stature that lives by myself in a neighborhood that is becoming increasingly worse (about  a mile from the county jail). I would be a fairly easy target for criminals. I would like to purchase a firearm for personal defense in my home, but I am denied by NICS.

When I was 16 years old; I was arrested in possession of what I called a firework, but it was deemed by the authorities; a destructive device. I was held in the juvenile hall for around 10 days. I went to court and was released to my uncles care and given probation until the age of 18. I NEVER violated the terms of my probations and was released from probation when I became 18. During the process of enlisting in the Army back in 1995/1996, I had to go down to the L.A. County Juvenile facility with the recruiter to have my record expunged, I was told that I would not be able to obtain a security clearance without first doing that. That was the last I had heard of the issue for several years.

In 1999, I was had a NICS check performed while attempting to purchase a firearm in Fayetteville, NC. I went through the appeal process that I was given by the vendor in a pamphlet; I had to submit a fingerprint card that I had to get completed at the military police station. I had to send in a processing fee to the FBI. After several letters and phone calls to the FBI; I was given a response that had told me that I needed to contact the originating department (L.A. County Juvenile Court). I did so immediately and NOTHING came of it, I did not even receive a response after sending 2 letters (checking the address after the first one to make sure I had sent the first letter to the correct address).

I had gotten caught up with other things in my life and did not further pursue it. On August 29, 2004 I suffered a brain aneurysm that resulted in me spending a few months in the hospital, fighting for my life. After my aneurysm, I was left disabled & living with my father. I knew that before long, I would be living on my own; so, again I tried to resolve the whole not being allowed to buy a gun issue. I contacted the L.A. Juvenile Court again (multiple times). I was sent paper work to fill out that was just about identical to the paperwork I had to fill out when joining the Army. Talking with them on the phone led to several very heated conversations, as they are absolutely clueless and do not respect the right guaranteed to U.S. Citizens at all! I once again filled out the paperwork as best as I could and sent it in. NOTHING! I have been busy the last few years with school (which I got on the Deans List & won a scholarship for my good grades) & physical rehabilitation.

The area in which I reside has been getting worse and once again I began trying to resolve this. NICS finally reluctantly admitted that the hold up was with L.A. County Juvenile Court. Once again, I called them. At first I was given the run around & then spoke with a lady that told me that I was given a court date in 2006 and since I did not show up, it was denied. It told her that I had never received notice of the court date- she basically called me a liar by saying that I was incorrect; one WAS sent. I knew that the conversation would soon go sour, this is a VERY important issue and I would NOT overlook a letter with news of a chance at FINALLY clearing this up so I just asked what I needed to do to fix this? She said she would mail me the paperwork to have my records sealed.

I received the paperwork from L.A. County Juvenile court today. It is the same form I have filled out twice before. It has a place to list the charges, dates & disposition. The charges were given to me almost 15 years ago; I do not have that information any longer! How was I even in the military & given a security clearance if this was not cleared up already? Also, I noticed that the court hearing was to be held at the Eastlake courthouse in downtown L.A. I AM FULLY DISABLED; THE STATE TOOK MY DRIVERS LICENSE, MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS WORK- HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GET THERE? So, I asked if my case could be heard out here in Ventura County.

That was months ago and I have not heard any response. It seems like I keep hitting brick walls. As anti-gun as most people in California are becoming; it seems as though this issue is not important to anyone but me. The media will have a hay-day with this if my house gets robbed & I am injured or killed and it comes into light that the very government that I gave up so much to defend is denying me the right to protect myself from such an event.

I am corresponding with Congressman Elton Galleglys staff, but I have been doing so for several months and keep getting no results, they cannot even tell me WHY I am being denied!

Please help me with this issue! I do not know where to go from here to have this corrected! Thank you in advance for your efforts!

Respectfully,

Larry Charles. Carlin

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ICarry.org

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Eric Holder Was a Gun Control Nightmare

STATEMENT BY DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC H. HOLDER, JR.

Letter to NRA from Bush AG John Ashcroft (PDF File)

NRA Life Membership for $300

We can afford to have any gun rights activist sitting on the sidelines. In the coming months and years we need to make sure that every gun rights activists is in the game and playing hard. Hopefully I was able to help motivate and inspire some if not all of you to get off the bench and get in the game. It’s not a game that we can afford to lose to hope to come back and win another day. This games for keeps, and you need to do everything you can do every single day until victory.

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Links:

Untold Story of Election 2008: The Death of the NRA

Free Plaxico Burress: New York City’s gun law is unconstitutional.

TACTICS THAT WORK: Clever and simple ideas for defending the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

“On Election Day, we helped deliver a strong victory for President-Elect Barack Obama and Vice-President-Elect Joe Biden. They will be two of the most powerful allies we have ever had.”

Sarah Brady – 2008 Brady Campaign

In this episode we look into is it true whether the President-elect Obama has helped increase gun sales and we also do a book review of The Gun Digest Book of Concealed Carry by Massad Ayoob.

Links:

Assault Weapons Ban Reauthorization Act of 2008 HR 6257

Obama’s agenda for change to your Second Amendment rights (PDF File)

Gun Dudes Podcast

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The outcome of this election was not a mandate to take away your second amendment rights. There were a lot of issues other than gun rights that moved the country towards Obama.

We have the opportunity now to increase our memberships in gun rights organizations that will work on our behalf to protect our second amendment rights under this new administration. Please don’t be discouraged all is not lost.

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Not for anyone to give up hope yet. What happens if Obama wins the presidency? It is a real possibility in this political climate that someone so extremely left of center could win by a large margin.

I think it’s time to start discussing the reality of this and to make plans to combat the anti-rights movement before they get started.

I personally believe that Obama could be much worse than President Clinton ever was. He will have control over two branches of government with majorities that could easily push through far left leaning judges that would allow them control of the third branch quite easily. This is something that President Clinton did not have.

Do you think that the Obama administration would start right off trying to restrict rights? Or do you believe that they will lay low for a while and strike when it’s more convenient for them?

What do you think the first anti-gun law will be passed under a Obama administration?

• Scary gun ban
• One gun a month
• Magazine Ban
• Limiting license to carry
• Restricting manufacturing
• Eliminating black rifles

or am I missing something, maybe something else we haven’t thought of yet.

Let me know what you think.

Links:

A Liberal Supermajority

Knob Creek Fall 2008 Machinegun Shoot (Aaron Woodin)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s14zmsDDG8g

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Due to technical problems (meaning I did not push record) the video I mentioned in the podcast is unavailable. Hopefully I will do some here in the future, so if you click on the link below and save it as a bookmark you can come back to it later.

Gun Rights Advocates Podcast Episode 100 (VIDEO)

Gun Control from Michigan

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqrpjLZJVu4

Response to CNN Democratic Debate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlK7zl6jfXg

Joe Biden…VP? Good Times Ahead!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsOF7LcjrpQ

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Gun Control – Are our “babies” safe?

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PubPundits – GUN!

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Stand Your Ground Audio from Tyler Juhnke

C-Span Audio – Paul Helmke, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Pres. & Stephen Halbrook, NRA
March 19 2008

Episode #100 his coming up so please call (574) 203-0802 or Skype me and let me know what you thought of the last 100 episodes. I will play all messages in episode 100.

New Book:

The Founders’ Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms By Stephen P. Halbrook