PJMEDIA.COM 9 Hours Ago First Republican-Sponsored Gun-Control Bill of New Congress Introduced Today by Bridget Johnson While most eyes are turned to the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun control this morning, the first bipartisan gun-control bill of the new Congress will be introduced in the upper chamber. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) will unveil their Gun Trafficking Prevention Act of 2013 that would for the first time make gun trafficking a federal crime. Over the past three fiscal years, more than 330,000 guns used in violent gun crimes showed telltale signs of black market trafficking, 420,000 firearms were stolen, and thousands of guns with obliterated serial numbers were recovered by law enforcement, the lawmakers said. The bill would make it illegal to sell or otherwise transfer 2 or more firearms to someone whom the seller knows, or has reasonable cause to know, is prohibited by law from owning a firearm (e.g. felon, convicted dom...

THEHILL.COM 5 Hours Ago GOP lawmaker warns of executive overstep on gun control by Ben Goad By Ben Goad - 01/30/13 11:46 AM ET Tweet Sen. Chuck Grassley, top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, warned Wednesday that President Obama would lean too hard on his executive authority to further plans to stem gun violence. During opening remarks at the panel’s highly anticipated hearing on gun control, Grassley (R-Iowa) said the rekindled national debate over the issue could jeopardize individual freedom. Grassley was criticalof remarks Obama made earlier this month, when he urged Congress to impose new limits on gun ownership. In those remarks, Obama said unchecked gun violence denied Sikhs in Wisconsin the right to worship. Shoppers in Oregon and moviegoers in Colorado, he said, were denied the right to assemble peaceably. “The president cited constitutional protections of individual rights as the basis for expanding federal power over the lives of private individuals,”...

BREITBART.COM 5 Hours Ago Teen Performer at Obama Inaugural Shot Dead In Chicago by John Nolte by John Nolte30 Jan 2013, 10:29 AM PDTpost a comment Hadiya wasn't a drug dealer or gang member or any kind of troublemaker, as far as we know. She was a lovely, young honor student who enjoyed the privilege of performing with her school band at President Obama's inauguration earlier this month. Yesterday, after an exam, she was gunned down in a Chicago park known to be frequented by gang members. As I write this, all three cable networks are broadcasting wall-to-wall coverage of congressional gun control hearings. Obama and the Democrats and the media are currently on a crusade to pass laws that would've done nothing to stop the Sandy Hook massacre that supposedly inspired this crusade. And if the slaying of Hadiya Pendleton ends up being what it looks like, those laws would've done nothing to save her young life. You see, Democrats and their media aren't all th...

KWKT.COM 2 Hours Ago Cornyn Calls for Hearings on DoJ’s Failure to Enforce Gun Laws by John Cornyn John Cornyn, United States Senator Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 3:05pm WASHINGTON (KWKT) — In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) called on the Committee to hold hearings on the recent drop in gun crime prosecutions by federal law enforcement agencies. Senator Cornyn’s said, “I have a hard time telling my constituents in Texas that Congress is looking at passing a whole raft of new laws, when the laws that we currently have on the books are so woefully unenforced. Gun crime prosecutions are down across the board, including enforcement of laws against lying on background checks. I hope we’ll have a hearing where we’ll ask Administration witnesses to come before the panel and to testify why the Department of Justice and other law enforcement agencies of the federal government are not enforcing the laws that Congress has already passed. Th...

http://youtu.be/fiMYIQXQUZE PJMEDIA.COM 2 Hours Ago [VIDEO] Sen. Ted Cruz Smashes Arguments for Ban on ‘Scary Looking Weapons’ by Bryan Preston During today’s Senate hearing on gun control, freshman Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) spent a few minutes shredding the effectiveness and purpose of the so-called “assault weapons” ban that Sen. Dianne Feinstein has proposed. If Sen. Cruz keeps on dominating and out-thinking the Democrats as he has over the past few weeks, we’ll have to come up with a list of Ted Cruz Facts. Bryan Preston has been a leading conservative blogger and opinionator since founding his first blog in 2001. Bryan is a military veteran, worked for NASA, was a founding blogger and producer at Hot Air, was producer of the Laura Ingraham Show and, most recently before joining PJM, was Communications Director of the Republican Party of Texas.

WND.COM 2 Hours Ago Feinstein’s plan bans any gun with a ‘grip’? by Bob Unruh A key gun law analyst who has published books on the issue of the Second Amendment and its rights and responsibilities for decades says the Feinstein gun ban bill is just exactly that, a gun ban bill. Not, essentially, a plan to limit certain guns. Not a limit on the size of magazines. Not a plan for restrictions on those with certifiable mental instabilities, a ban on criminals’ access or a plan to encourage gun safety. Alan Korwin is a nationally recognized expert resource on the issue of gun laws, and runs Bloomfield Press, which is the largest publisher and distributor of gun-law books in the country. He said if the plan by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is made law, “any semiautomatic firearm with uses a magazine – handgun, rifle or shotgun – equipped with a ‘pistol grip,’ would be banned.” He explained, “That sounds like a limitation, but it is not. A pistol grip (on page 2) is defined (o...

DANALOESCHRADIO.COM 2 Hours Ago Media Cites Convicted Rapist As Anti-Gun Source by Dana Radio WHIO-TV hasn’t amended their report wherein they cite a convicted rapist as their gun control source, neither has the Dayton Daily News, and now local ABC22: When you need an AK-47 or an M-16 to protect yourself, then I need to know whose coming” said Rev. Jerome McCorry, Gun Show Protester. [Via @metalchick007] Is there any particular reason why media is propping up a rapist as the voice for Ohio’s anti-Second Amendment advocates? Not one of these entities have noted this in their reports.

THERIGHTSCOOP.COM 1 Hour Ago Dishonest Dick Durbin smears NRA at hearing, uses dishonest tactics with panelists Posted by The Right Scoop on January 30th, 2013 in Politics | Leave a Comment Smear-merchant Sen. Dick Durbin smeared the membership base of the NRA, including Wayne LaPierre who was present, in today’s gun violence hearing. After an unfair tussle over background checks with LaPierre, Durbin then asked LaPierre if he agreed to the sentiment of other NRA members that they needed ‘assault weapons’ to protect themselves from the government and the police. LaPierre responded that indeed the 2nd amendment was added to the Constitution by men who had lived under the tyrannical rule of King George and wanted to ensure that free people never lived under tyranny again. Durbin then looked directly at the very liberal Baltimore County Police Chief and said: “Well Chief Johnson, you’ve heard it. The belief of the NRA is the 2nd amendment has to American citizens the fire power ...