CNN POLITICAL TICKER 9 Hours Ago Bloomberg: Biden no 'shrinking violet' on gun control by Ashley Killough (CNN) – New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a vocal proponent of tighter gun laws, confirmed Monday he was advising Vice President Joe Biden's task force to help curb gun violence. "What we've got to do first is try to do everything we can to help Joe Biden," Bloomberg said at a press conference in New York. "We sent some of the people down to Washington, and we had some people on the phone to give Joe Biden our ideas."Follow @politicalticker Bloomberg detailed his recommendations, saying he's pushing for criminal background checks on all gun sales, not just at gun dealers. He's also calling for better enforcement of current checks and criticized the system for being too simplistic. "The whole thing takes about 90 seconds. You type in the name, you hit the 'Go' button and bang, back it comes and says 'yes...

LEGALINSURRECTION.COM 8 Hours Ago Will a corporatist policy work on gun control? by William A. Jacobson In order to pass Obamacare, Obama bought off the drug industry, so much so that a consortium of drug companies ran ads in favor of the de facto nationalization of health care sector of the economy. The same approach may be used in connection with gun control: The White House is weighing a far broader and more comprehensive approach to curbing the nation’s gun violence than simply reinstating an expired ban on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition, according to multiple people involved in the administration’s discussions…. To sell such changes, the White House is developing strategies to work around the National Rifle Association that one source said could include rallying support from Wal-Mart and other gun retailers for measures that would benefit their businesses…. For instance, this person suggested, Wal-Mart and other major gun retailers may have an incentive t...

BREITBART.COM 1 Hour Ago The Gun Control Loophole by AWR Hawkins 7 Jan 2013, 3:15 PM PDT post a comment This so-called loophole has a become a boogeyman for pushing everything from bans on gun shows to bans on private firearm sales to every conceivable facet of gun control a shameless politician can use in a sentence with "gun show loophole." But here's the problem -- there is no such thing as a gun show loophole. Read that again -- there is no such thing as a gun show loophole. To talk of one is like talking about a progressive flat tax or a square circle: it's senseless. However, there is a loophole that needs to be addressed -- the gun control loophole. This is a hole in an already flawed system of gun controls that give criminals the upper hand by denying arms to law abiding citizens while doing nothing to affect the gun market criminals enjoy. It's really a frightening scheme if you think about it. Politicians who make hay by pointing fingers at ...

700WLW.COM 1 Hour Ago NRA releases massive list of companies, celebrities and journalists who support gun control (Mike Piccione) I was cruising the web reading gun articles and then I started wondering about writing an article on anti-gun organizations and people. Since anti-gunners are always saying “no one wants to take your guns away” or they want me to live under their take of “sensible gun laws” (neither of which I believe to be prudent, sensible or anything remotely truthful) I figured I would go to the NRA’s Institute of Legislative Action to find out who are the people that want to be sure that I can’t defend my home or go shooting my .22 in the woods (both heinous acts of human behavior to be sure). So, hats off the the NRA-ILA team for compiling this list. Here is what the NRA-ILA team had to say. The following organizations have lent monetary, grassroots or some other type of direct support to anti-gun organizations. In many instances, these organizations lent their...

THELIBERTARIANREPUBLIC.COM 9 Hours Ago Newark Mayor Cory Booker: $1000 to rat out your neighbors guns! Newark Mayor Cory Booker is asking his residents to report on their neighbors if they have an “illegal” gun. The video appears to be from 2009 but is just now really making the rounds online. In light of recent promises by legislators to enact tighter gun control measures, videos like this send a chill down the spine of innocent Americans who regularly practice their second amendment rights. Although the video is now several years old, it sheds light on the mindset of liberal gun grabbers who want citizens to turn into informers for the state. It reminds one of the techniques used by agencies like the Gestapo and the Soviet Secret Police (NKVD) who used tips from informants to rat out citizens who did not comply with their authoritarian governments edicts. Interestingly, the Gestapo had a power that the American government has only recently taken for itself called “Schutzhaft” mean...

BREITBART.COM 9 Hours Ago 'Gun Map' Newspaper in Circulation Free Fall by John Nolte by John Nolte 7 Jan 2013, 7:36 AM PDT post a comment What the paper did with respect to law-abiding gun owners might have been morally wrong, and it most certainly created a ripple of consequences no reasonable person would consider positive, but this fit of left-wing journalistic activism did win the Journal News some national infamy. And if we've learned nothing else during this 21 Century-era of reality TV, it's that immoral behavior can have its rewards -- especially when that immoral behavior is directed at something the Left despises, like law-abiding gun owners.

EAGNEWS.ORG 8 Hours Ago Crowd laughs as Chicago Teachers Union president talks about killing the rich by Kyle Olson By Kyle Olson EAGnews.org CHICAGO – The Chicago Teachers Union is not just about looking out for its members’ interests. The union wants to fundamentally change America, too.That shift occurred when the radical Karen Lewis was elected as its president two years ago. She’s best known for mocking U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s lisp and for taking on – and defeating – Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in the district’s first teachers’ strike in a generation. CTU leaders have been on a victory lap of sorts since the September strike, with union activists seeing themselves as protectors of union power during a time of membership decline and education reform at the state and local level. They’ve also taken on the role of social activities, fighting for causes like the Occupy movement and gay marriage, which have nothing to do with education. Some union leaders h...

GOPUSA 4 Hours Ago You think she's glad she kept her gun? by Bobby Eberle With the liberals freaking out over additional gun control measures, one of the most ridiculous statements came from Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee. The congresswoman from Texas said that people should just come forward and turn in their guns. I bet she would certainly get the vote of the home invader who was recently shot in the face by a woman protecting her home and children. Last month, Jackson Lee spoke out and said, "I would personally just say to those who are listening, maybe you want to turn in your guns." Just think of what might have happened if the 37-year-old mother of two had heeded Jackson Lee's advice. As reported by The Atlanta Journal Constitution, the mother and her two children were at home on Friday, when they heard a knock on the door. The person at the door was persistent, and the mother sensed something was wrong. She called her husband while she and her children hid...

WEASELZIPPERS.US 5 Hours Ago Mark Your Calendars: “Gun Appreciation Day” Scheduled Two Days Before Obama’s Inauguration… Via Politico: Calling for a “Gun Appreciation Day” two days before President Barack Obama’s Inauguration, gun rights activists are urging gun owners to turn “out en masse at gun stores, ranges and shows from coast to coast” on Jan. 19. The coalition — including the Second Amendment Foundation, Revolution PAC, Citizens and Country, Conservative Action Alerts, Women Warriors PAC, among others — wants supporters to organize against the president’s “post Sandy Hook assault on gun rights.” “We have never had a president who so callously disregards the Constitution, Congress, the courts and the will of the American people,” Gun Appreciation Day Chairman Larry Ward said. Keep reading…

EXAMINER.COM 3 Hours Ago Bank of America to gun maker: 'We believe you should not be selling' on Internet by Joe Newby Joe Sirochman, owner of American Spirit Arms, an Arizona-based company that describes itself as a "leading US manufacturer of precision firearms," including parts and accessories for weapons patterned after the AR-15, M-16 and M4, said in a Facebook post that Bank of America decided to freeze his deposits, telling him they believed he should not be selling weapons on the Internet, Jim Hoft reported at the Gateway Pundit on Sunday. In his post, Sirochman said that his company saw a 500 percent increase in web sales recently, throwing up what he called a huge red flag at Bank of America, a company he has done business with for over ten years. "So they decided to hold the deposits for further review," he wrote, "meaning that the orders/payments that were coming in through the web" were being held for review by the bank. The a...

DAILYCALLER.COM 4 Hours Ago Guns aren’t national news when they save lives by Jim Treacher Everybody knows that guns are bad and we’d all be safer without them. Just ask this lady. WSB-TV in Atlanta: A woman hiding in her attic with children shot an intruder multiple times before fleeing to safety Friday. The incident happened at a home on Henderson Ridge Lane in Loganville around 1 p.m. The woman was working in an upstairs office when she spotted a strange man outside a window, according to Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman. He said she took her 9-year-old twins to a crawlspace before the man broke in using a crowbar. But the man eventually found the family. “The perpetrator opens that door. Of course, at that time he’s staring at her, her two children and a .38 revolver,” Chapman told Channel 2’s Kerry Kavanaugh. The woman then shot him five times, but he survived, Chapman said. He said the woman ran out of bullets but threatened to shoot the intruder if he moved. H...

TOWNHALL.COM 2 Hours Ago Member of Biden's Gun Control Task Force Has a Son Convicted of Planning Columbine 2.0, Mass Murder by Katie Pavlich President of the National Assocation of Police Officers and Boston Police Officer Thomas Nee is a member of Vice President Joe Biden's gun control task force, which was created by President Obama in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Nee's son, Joseph Nee, was convicted in 2008 for planning to commit mass murder of students and teachers at Marshfield High School in Massachusetts, similar to that of Columbine in 1999. After spending nine months in prison, Nee's conviction was upheld by the Supreme Judicial Court. Nee told police the plan involved taking ammunition and explosive devices into the school, securing the school's exit doors with bicycle locks, and shooting students and staff. As the blog SipseyStreetIrregulars first pointed out, Nee may have planned to carry out murders of his classm...

- Infowars - http://www.infowars.com - Another Gun Story You Won’t Be Hearing About On TV News Gun owning mother protects kids from intruder Steve Watson Infowars.com Jan 7, 2013 Guns are only up for debate on corporate owned news shows when used by the 0.00001% of Americans that turn out to be deranged killers on cocktails of anti-depressants. That’s why you won’t be seeing any reports on an incident that occurred in Atlanta Friday when a mother of two fended off an intruder with a handgun, successfully protecting her kids and her home. Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman told wsbtv news that the woman spotted a man attempting to get into her property with a crowbar. The sheriff said that she ushered her 9-year-old twins to a crawlspace and prepared to defend herself with the weapon. When the intruder gained access to the property, he was in for an unpleasant surprise. “The perpetrator opens that door. Of course, at that time he’s staring at her, her two children and a...

- Infowars - http://www.infowars.com - Statistics Prove: More Guns, Less Crime Inconvenient facts the gun control lobby cannot answer Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com January 7, 2013 Despite the onslaught of media propaganda in support of the Obama administration’s anti-second amendment agenda in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school shooting, the statistics clearly illustrate that gun control does not reduce violent crime and in fact has the opposite effect. Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reports. As the graph above highlights, according to the latest figures obtained by the FBI, violent crime offenses in the United States have been falling since 2007. The five year trend clearly shows that, despite there being an ongoing national debate about gun violence in America, violent crime itself is actually becoming less of a problem. The graph below from the Department of Justice also highlights the fact that over the last 40 years, the amount of guns in America per 1000 people h...

LAPD caught engaging in gun-control propaganda Posted by: Phineas on January 6, 2013 at 1:01 pm    **Posted by Phineas Remember when Los Angeles’ latest gun buyback program made headlines last month because a couple of  “rocket launchers”  were turned in? Pretty scary right? A dramatic, powerful argument for more “smart” gun regulations, no? A perfect illustration of Senator Feinstein’s attempt to ban weapons with a “ military characteristic ,” don’t you think? Only problem is,  they weren’t real : It turns out both were one-use, AT-4 grenade launchers used by the U.S. Army in anti-tank operations. Yes they are grenade launchers (not really “rocket” launchers proper) but these tubes are pre-packaged weapons that can be fired only one time and cannot be reloaded. They are one-shot only weapons. So, yes, that means the tubes the police had were completely and permanently harmless. But even more absurdly, at least one of the tubes was a training piec...