Treat gun violators like DUI and punish the perpetrator

Today’s Seattle Times reports that the National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) wants to ratchet down on the legal limit for blood alcohol to reduce the number of fatal traffic accidents involving drunk drivers, leading some gun rights advocates to wonder why gun crime is treated differently.

http://www.examiner.com/article/treat-gun-violators-like-dui-and-punish-...

Article by Dave Workman

CPL figure skyrockets 15K in a single month

More than 426,000 active Washington concealed pistol licenses are now in circulation, up a staggering 15,289 in the month since Examiner last checked with the state Department of Licensing (DOL), confirming what various sources in law enforcement say about the volume of applications and renewals, and the work overload to process them.

http://www.examiner.com/article/cpl-figure-skyrockets-15k-a-single-month

Article by Dave Workman

Could Benghazi, ‘IRS-gate’ derail Obama gun control agenda?

Could the twin eruption of the Benghazi and IRS scandals over the past few days derail the Obama administration’s gun control agenda, despite the insistence of Vice President Joe Biden that at least four U.S. Senators are willing to revive gun regulation proposals on Capitol Hill?

http://www.examiner.com/article/could-benghazi-irs-gate-derail-obama-gun...

Article by Dave Workman

In an op-ed published in the Houston Chronicle during the NRA convention, gun-control proponent Mark Kelly critiqued the NRA in advance of its annual convention in Houston. Kelly appears to be working to become the most prominent national spokesman for gun control, and his rhetoric ramped up considerably in the wake of the Senate votes to defeat the wide-ranging gun control agenda. In this particular op-ed Kelly went so far as to suggest it was time for new leadership at NRA.

Gov’t smackdown on 3-D gun plan distributor

Defense Distributed, the Texas-based company that has been causing a stir over 3-D printer guns has complied with a State Department ban on the online posting of details about how to make a plastic gun, just days after the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives revealed it was looking at the technology.

http://www.examiner.com/article/gov-t-smackdown-on-3-d-gun-plan-distributor

Article by Dave Workman

State court hack shows why gun owners want pistol registry scrapped

Almost immediately after yesterday’s revelation that the Washington State administrative office of the courts had been hacked, the Bellevue-based Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said the case underscores why Washington gun owners “are adamantly opposed to background check records keeping, and want the state’s pistol registry destroyed.”

http://www.examiner.com/article/state-court-hack-shows-why-gun-owners-wa...

Article by Dave Workman

Defense Distributed Site Forced To Take Down Designs
By Harold Hutchison

Defense Distributed, which had made a mark by producing a single-shot pistol known as the Liberator in the wake of successfully producing an AR-15 lower receiver and magazine, has been forced to pull a number of its designs off the internet by the State Department.

According to the London Daily Mail, over 100,000 people downloaded the blueprints for the Liberator. The development of the pistol prompted hysterics from anti-gun members of Congress, including Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY).

Liberal media spin on gun crime studies cranks up

Liberal anti-gun media spinmeisters wasted no time yesterday spinning the results of two reports on gun-related homicides – released Tuesday by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Pew Research Center – in an attempt to perpetuate the establishment argument that guns are bad and must be controlled.

http://www.examiner.com/article/liberal-media-spin-on-gun-crime-studies-...

Article by Dave Workman

"A source close to the Senate negotiations [says] that two senators who voted against the background check bill would vote for it after minor, superficial changes." — Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC, May 6, 2013

ACTION: Senators who voted pro-gun last month are under intense pressure by Senate Democrats and Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s hit ads to switch their votes. We need to keep applying the heat and let them know that gun owners are ready to help in any Senate campaign, no matter which state, to defeat ANY SENATOR who votes for gun control.