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...