THE HUFFINGTON POST 2 Hours Ago Do You Really Need A Gun At A Race? by  Frederick News-Post Frederick's law banning guns and other dangerous devices within 500 feet of a parade, race or walkathon has come under fire. A Washington state gun rights group, the same group that challenged a law in Walkersville last month, is taking issue with a city ordinance, according to a March letter obtained Friday by The Frederick News-Post. "The city of Frederick has no legal authority to adopt or enforce this section of the Frederick City code and should, out of respect for the supremacy of the Maryland legislature, and out of respect for the rule of the law, repeal it," Second Amendment Foundation Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb wrote in the letter. Reached by telephone Friday while attending the annual National Rifle Association meeting in Texas, Gottlieb said his organization would sue Frederick if the city did not change the law to allow guns to be carried. The city ordinan...

 THE BOSTON GLOBE 2 Hours Ago Gun rights backer sues Lexington over rally permit LEXINGTON, Mass. (AP) — A gun-rights activist has sued Lexington after selectmen withdrew his permit for a rally planned for the Battle Green last month. The Boston Globe reports ( http://b.globe.com/13VqTFS ) that Billerica resident Stephen Redfern sued in Middlesex Superior Court. He says the town's selectmen violated his right to free speech and peaceful assembly when they voted to pull his permit for the rally. Selectmen granted the permit to Redfern in March. But at an emergency meeting the day after the April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon the board pulled the permit. It imposed a moratorium on gatherings on the Battle Green until May 1, citing public safety.

 GUNSSAVELIVES.NET 4 Hours Ago NRA Membership Surges to Over 5 Million Members in Last Four Months According to NRA Vice President Wayne LaPierre the NRA's membership has surged to over five million people in the last 4 months. That means that approximately 10% of the NRA's members have joined the organization in that time. It would seem that if 90% of the population truly does support expanding background check laws then the NRA, who has pledged to fight such efforts, would not have had its largest membership surge in decades. Joining the NRA doesn't simply mean you sign up to be a member. Membership costs money and it is very telling that almost 1 million people over the last 4 months have felt the need to spend $20-35 in a bad economy. Some gun owners have had issues with the NRA's handling of issues in the past, but be sure, this is not your father's NRA. This is newer, better organized, technologically advanced and hardline NRA. Read the full article here: http...

 SFGATE.COM 4 Hours Ago Texas House passes 12 firearms bills on 'gun day' AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The  Texas House  approved a batch of bills Saturday to further soften gun laws that were already among the country's most firearms-friendly, allowing college students to carry handguns in class, putting potentially armed marshals in public schools and exempting the state from any future federal bans on assault rifles, high-capacity magazines or universal background checks. Dubbed "gun day" by supporters and opponents alike, the parade of votes came as tens of thousands of members of the  National Rifle Association  attended the group's annual convention in Houston. Gov.  Rick Perry  welcomed convention attendees Friday with a video of him taking target practice using a semi-automatic rifle. The 12 approved gun bills must all clear final, procedural votes before heading to the state Senate. Still, they advanced with only minimal delay, cruising past Democrat-...

 WEASELZIPPERS.US 2 Hours Ago Bill Ayers Defends Weather Underground Bombings, "Can't Compare Them To Boston Bombing" Unbelievable.. Via  Beacon Journal: KENT: Bill Ayers says people can't equate the bombings that he and others in the Weather Underground did 40 or so years ago with the April 15 twin bombings in Boston that killed three people. "Six thousand a week being killed and I destroyed some property. Show me the equivalence. You should ask John McCain that question … I'm against violence." Ayers, a keynote speaker at Saturday's annual May 4 commemoration of the National Guard shootings at Kent State in 1970 that left four students dead, spoke briefly after giving his talk before an estimated 350 people on the university's Commons. There is no relationship at all between what Weather Underground members did and the bombings that two brothers allegedly committed on April 15 in Massachusetts, Ayers said in response to a reporter's questio...

 THE WEEKLY STANDARD 4 Hours Ago Dem Rep. on Benghazi Talking Points: 'It Was Scrubbed ... It Was False Information. There's No Excuse For That.' by  Daniel Halper Democratic congressman Stephen Lynch said this morning on TV that Susan Rice used "scrubbed" talking points on Benghazi to deliver "false information" to the American people:  "Absolutely, they were false, they were wrong," said Lynch, after being asked about Steve Hayes's report on " The Benghazi Talking Points ." "There were no protests outside the Benghazi compound there. This was a deliberate and strategic attack on the consulate there" "There were no protests outside the Benghazi compound there. This was a deliberate and strategic attack on the consulate there," said the Democratic congressman. "It was false information. There's no excuse for that."

 LEGALINSURRECTION.COM 2 Hours Ago Judge Jeanine Piro on Boston lockdown: "You want me to believe I'm safer without a gun?" by  William A. Jacobson At the time of the lockdown of Boston after the bombing, I noted that the  Boston lock-down exposes gun culture divide  over the issue of whether citizens hold up in their homes would be safer if armed. That suggestion caused a  vehement reaction  from liberals on Twitter, including the now infamous suggestion from one Bostonian that they didn't need to own guns because they were " educated, wealthy, and pay taxes " to have police protect them (ending with a rather colorful suggestion). "You want me to believe I'm safer without a gun?" At the NRA convention, Judge Jeanine Piro gave a rousing speech on the very subject of owning a gun at home in time of crisis: Here's the full speech: Judge Jeanine Piro on Boston lockdown: "You want me to believe I'm safer without a gun?"