The Uninvited Ombudsman Report, No. 58 - 2009 Gun Ban Introduced

Taken from the most recent “Page Nine” Alan Korwin’s “The Uninvited Ombudsman Report”

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Brady Gun Ban Plan: I have obtained the complete 16-page plan sent to Obama's transition team, with 26 specific "requests," posted here: http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/node/6383

So where's the pro-rights proposal? If the gun-rights community doesn't offer suggestions, all we can do is react defensively -- what a terrible strategy! He'll be our president (and its our Congress) too, for better or worse.

We need to issue "requests" for: tax breaks for marksmanship training and range time; jail time for people who infringe on Second Amendment rights or discriminate against gun owners (civil-rights denial is a felony); High School Marksmanship Programs http://www.gunlaws.com/HighSchoolMarksmanship.htm; repeal of discreet-carry bans; a special award for armed survivors of criminal assaults... and how about ammo stamps for the poor so they can practice too? See dozens of clever suggestions here http://www.gunlaws.com/sunshin.htm (OK, so maybe field-stripping battle rifles grades K thru 12 goes a bit far) and call on your gun-rights group to draft a formal proposal on letterhead for Mr. Obama now. Don't forget to announce it to your "news" outlets. Submit proposals: http://change.gov/open_government/yourseatatthetable

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1- First 2009 Gun-Ban Bill Introduced

The lamestream media told you:

Nothing.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

The excellent Firearms Coalition covered this before anyone: "Representative Bobby Rush (D-IL) filed a comprehensive anti-gun wish-list bill (HR 45) in the 111th Congress on its first day in session. No sooner were the new members of Congress sworn in than Mr. Rush, a former Black Panther leader, filed the bill. It has no cosponsors yet and was automatically referred to the House Judiciary Committee.

"If passed, it would require anyone wishing to purchase, own, or possess a 'qualifying firearm' -- that's any handgun, and any long gun that takes a detachable magazine -- would have to be licensed by the state or the federal government in a licensing program managed by the Attorney General.

"To get a license you would have to prove you're you, provide a passport-style photo, a thumbprint, and take a written exam which includes questions about firearms safety, safe storage, the risks of firearms ownership, and anything else the Attorney General deems appropriate. All transfers would be required to go through a licensed dealer with the exception of occasional gifts or bequests between parents, children over 18, and grandparents, or loans of not more than 30 days between 'persons who are personally known to one another.' All transfers would have to be recorded in a new 'Transfer Record' established and maintained by the Attorney General."

That would be a national gun registry. Read the rest here http://tinyurl.com/96whw8, and let me encourage you to support this fine group.

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2- Gun Registry Growing

The lamestream media told you:

Nothing.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

In what may be a violation of the Firearms Owners Protection Act, New Jersey authorities, working with the Bureaucracy of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, are compiling a national database of gun owners.

The New Jersey Democratic State Committee website boasts of its plan to centrally register all original gun purchasers in a database compiled by local police. The announcement, more than one year old, has just been brought to the attention of the Uninvited Ombudsman.
http://www.njdems.org/press_display.php?ID=169

"E-trace is a nationwide database maintained by the ATF that lists a firearm's first purchaser, date of purchase and the retailer from which it was purchased. The information is compiled from police records of gun purchases provided by local departments...

"The (state) Attorney General also announced today that she is issuing a directive to all police departments in the state that will require the departments to forward all gun tracing information to E-Trace to create a data-base that can be shared by all law enforcement in the state. Currently, only 30 percent of local departments across the nation provide firearm sourcing information to the e-Trace system..."

The Democrats have been calling loudly for an end to Tiahrt amendment, which supposedly prevents such activity. If they already have such activity underway, calling for repeal doesn't make sense, or covers some other base we can't see yet.

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3- FBI Fraud Revealed?

The lamestream media told you:

Self defense is so rare that it doesn't get much coverage because there isn't much of it.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

An "Inn of Court" meeting of lawyers and judges, held in Phoenix in November, revealed a startling statistical problem that has gone largely unnoticed. Face-to-face conversations with office holders in the judiciary confirmed the well known fact that nearly every shooting involving a citizen is referred by the police to the county attorney's office for possible prosecution. The police don't dismiss an event as a "clean shoot."

Most of the reports however, according to these officials, are "turndowns." In other words, the county decides against prosecution because the shooting appears to be justifiable (while a few cases are either unclear or do not appear strong enough to get convictions. Only a small percentage move forward towards the courts for homicide trials.

This helps explain why federal self-defense stats are so low (the FBI estimates justifiable homicides in the low three figures each year). They are only counting cases that go to trial and end in acquittal. The hundreds (in my home county of Maricopa) that aren't charged are simply left out of the stats. This also helps explain why we had so hard a time finding assault survivors for our "My gun saved my life" banquet several years ago -- we didn't know where to look.

A "no bill," which is more commonly thought of as a justifiable shooting, implies a grand jury finding, which is comparatively rare since few cases are referred there, instead of just being dismissed.

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6- Hotter Than Pistols

The lamestream media told you:

The economy is in the tank and there is no good business news.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Gun sales for December rose a startling 24% on fears that Obama will make it harder to buy firearms, and that some basic staples like magazines and ammo may be banned or restricted by illegal federal infringements. The increase comes on top of a whopping 42% rise in November.

"Sales of firearms, in particular handguns and semi-automatic hunting and target rifles, are fast outpacing inventory," said NSSF President and CEO Stephen L. Sanetti. "People have money to spend, if they have a reason or the price is right," said one observer.

NICS background checks provide a reliable estimate of actual sales, with 1,523,426 in Dec. this year (2008) compared to 1,230,525 in 2007. Sanetti will be at the SHOT Show, the largest Shooting Hunting and Outdoor Trade show in the world, in Orlando, Jan. 15 to 18, along with the Uninvited Ombudsman and an expected 60,000+ participants.

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8- Obama's Qualification Questioned

The lamestream media told you:

Nothing.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday (1/12) denied review for the third time of a case challenging Obama's eligibility to hold the office of president of the U.S., based on a claim that he is not a natural born citizen as required by the Constitution. This was the most prominent lawsuit (Berg v. Obama) but the Court did allow the case to remain alive, all the details well done here: http://www.americasright.com/. The lower court had said, in denying Berg's suit, "a candidate's ineligibility under the Natural Born Citizen Clause does not result in an injury in fact to voters." Unbelievable.

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CLOSERS:

Last issue pointed out that CCW permit holders are five times less likely than the general population to commit a crime. Several writers asked for backup. It's easy to derive yourself if your state publishes CCW info by taking the numbers of permits revoked for cause, drawing a ratio to all permit holders, and comparing that to crime rates. The National Center for Policy Analysis has stats posted for Texas (showing a 14-times reduction for non-violent crimes too). http://www.ncpa.org/pi/crime/pd101300a.html

This should not be surprising, they point out, since permit holders are a self-selected set of people seeking to avoid crime, who undergo training and police checks, setting them in a class you would expect to have lower crime stats than people selected at random. If you want to pursue this check this out -- the virulently anti-rights Violence Policy Center screamed about Texas permitees committing two violent crimes per month. Even assuming that's true (VPCs numbers are notoriously unreliable), with more than a quarter million permits issued, that's less than 10 per 100,000 per year. Most cities have rape rates that alone are two to five times greater than that. All in all, a permit holder sitting next to you is the least of your worries.

WHAT CAN I DO?

1. Begin talking about and demanding disarming criminals instead of infringing on rights of gun owners. Infringe us, meet stiff resistance, arrest and prosecute hardened murderers, we're your ally.

2. Seek "HR 218" for the general public (the national cop-carry law, that protects off-duty and retired police who choose to carry firearms anywhere they go). We were supposed to get it right after ex-cops did, but nothing happened. South Dakota, which attempted to ignore this law even for police, was just rebuked in court. http://www.leaa.org/leosasturgis.html

3. Demand "no arrest for possession of private property" law -- The American Historical Rights Protection Act (AHRPA). Possession of firearms, with no wrongdoing, is not a crime. http://www.gunlaws.com/lostcry.htm

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Contents:
(searchable by item number)
1- First 2009 Gun-Ban Bill Introduced
2- Gun Registry Growing
3- FBI Fraud Revealed?
4- $800 Billion Blind
5- Phony Government Jobs
6- Hotter Than Pistols
7- Budget Cuts Finally
8- Obama's Qualification Questioned
9- CNN Qualifies Caroline
10- Tax Reduction "Costs"?
11- Taxation Through Conspiracy

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Alan Korwin
The Uninvited Ombudsman