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2012 GRPC 025 Is Patient Privacy Dead after Florida Court Ruling
The 2012 Gun Rights Policy Conference was held in Orlando, Florida and jointly hosted by the Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org). We would like to thank our speakers and attendees for making the 2012 GRPC a resounding success, and we are heartily looking forward to the 2013 GRPC. The 28th Annual GRPC will be held in Houston, Texas. Registration for the next GRPC will be available in the Spring of 2013.From:SecondAmendmentFoundViews:0 0ratingsTime:12:21More inNews Politics

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Open Carry - Stopped by Police in Clifford, MI
My friend, who was carrying an M91/30 Mosin Nagant, and myself, who was carrying an M59/66 SKS, Glock 19, and Glock 78, were stopped by an officer of the Lapeer County Sheriff #39;s department in Clifford, MI on Halloween 2012 at approximately 17:35 EST. The weapons were part of my Halloween costume. I attempted to be polite to the officer, but he was dead set on maintaining his social superiority and restricting my second amendment rights. I got a little irritated. Regardless of how experienced he may or may not be in law enforcement, he had nothing on me. I was breaking no law. What I find most amazing is that he implied that he can and will arrest me for not doing whatever he wants, whether or not what he wants is lawful. He did not know he was being audio recorded. Under Michigan #39;s evesdropping laws, one party must be aware of the recording. I was aware I was recording him.From:HellsSaintsViews:0 4ratingsTime:02:09More inNonprofits Activism

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Obama Deceptoin
Get the DVD @ infowars-shop.stores.yahoo.net The Obama Deception is a hard-hitting film that completely destroys the myth that Barack Obama is working for the best interests of the American people. The Obama phenomenon is a hoax carefully crafted by the captains of the New World Order. He is being pushed as savior in an attempt to con the American people into accepting global slavery. We have reached a critical juncture in the New World Order #39;s plans. It #39;s not about Left or Right: it #39;s about a One World Government. The international banks plan to loot the people of the United States and turn them into slaves on a Global Plantation. Covered in this film: who Obama works for, what lies he has told, and his real agenda. If you want to know the facts and cut through all the hype, this is the film for you. Watch the Obama Deception and learn how: - Obama is continuing the process of transforming America into something that resembles Nazi Germany, with forced National Service, domestic civilian spies, warrantless wiretaps, the destruction of the Second Amendment, FEMA camps and Martial Law. - Obama #39;s handlers are openly announcing the creation of a new Bank of the World that will dominate every nation on earth through carbon taxes and military force. - International bankers purposefully engineered the worldwide financial meltdown to bankrupt the nations of the planet and bring in World Government. - Obama plans to loot the middle class, destroy pensions and federalize the ...From:mixfight11Views:3 2ratingsTime:01:53:40More inNews Politics

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Support the Second Amendment. Vote yes on Amendment No. 2.

The landmark Second Amendment cases Heller and McDonald were decided by a one vote majority. Four U.S. Supreme Court Justices disagreed that the Second Amendment protects our fundamental individual right to keep and bear arms dissents have already been written that create roadmaps for the future destruction of our rights.

With that in mind, the proposed improvements to Article 1, Section 11 of the Louisiana Constitution Right to Keep And Bear Arms-are needed now not just to stand up to rights infringing judges, but also to revise currently defective state law.

The Louisiana Supreme Court has said this right may be restricted if a majority in the Legislature thinks it reasonable to do so rendering the current provision in Article 1, Section 11 meaningless. Further, the current Louisiana Constitution allows the Legislature to completely ban the carrying of a concealed firearm, even in ones own home.

For these reasons, the NRA has worked with Gov. Bobby Jindal, state Sen. Neil Riser, state Rep. Chris Broadwater and others in the Legislature to overwhelmingly pass a Constitutional Amendment during the 2012 legislative session. This amendment will provide the strongest state protection for our right to keep and bear arms in the nation. The language reads:

The right of each citizen to keep and bear arms is fundamental and shall not be infringed. Any restriction on this right shall be subject to strict scrutiny.

Strict scrutiny is the most stringent standard of judicial review used by United States courts. It is part of the hierarchy of standards that courts use to weigh the governments interest against a constitutional right or principle.

The lesser standards are rational basis review and exacting or intermediate scrutiny. These standards are used to test statutes and government action at all levels of government within the United States.

The language is historic, and will send a message nationwide that Louisiana stands at the forefront of states that will not tolerate infringements on our fundamental right to keep and bear arms.

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President Obama may have been tossing a bone to his base, but one answer in the second presidential debate could come back to haunt him with a key voter group -- gun owners.

When asked what the administration has done or plans to do to limit assault weapons at the Oct. 16 debate, Obama said part of the solution to gun violence "is seeing if we can get an assault weapons ban reintroduced."

That comment caught fire with gun owners.

"If there are undecided voters who put the Second Amendment as their first issue, then certainly the president's remark about bringing back any type of gun ban is going to chase away those voters," said Joe Eaton, a regional coordinator with the Buckeye Firearms Association in Ohio.

One of those is independent voter Robert Brewer from Cincinnati.

When he heard the president's renewed support for an assault weapons ban, Brewer said, "I was thinking I was born in a country (where) I had a right to keep and bear arms and I don't know what he's talking about. It goes against the Constitution, which gives me the right to keep and bear arms and that right shall not be infringed."

Pro-gun activists never considered President Obama an ally, after he campaigned in favor of such a gun ban in 2008. Once in the White House, however, Obama did not pursue it. After the mass shooting in Colorado, Obama aides said that the president supports the ban that expired in 2004. But the president had not called for reinstating it until the recent debate.

In Colorado, another important battleground state, Rich Wyatt heard the president loud and clear.

"He wants to do something that is complete violation of our Second Amendment rights and that's going to hurt him when it comes to swing states like Colorado," said Wyatt, owner of the Gunsmoke gun store outside of Denver.

While gun owners may not consider Obama their friend on firearms issues, legislatively he hasn't done anything serious to hurt them. His comment, though, could wake a sleeping giant in a few key places.

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October 29, 2012

A new issue has emerged, which is the clash of fleet policy with an employees right to carry a concealed weapon for self-protection. There arecurrently 18states that provide a permit system for citizens to legally carry a concealed weapon in a personal vehicle while parked on company property. The statesare Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin.

For example, the Wisconsin law allows a permitted employee to keep a firearm in a personal vehicle, even if it is used for employment.

(NOTE: For our international readers, the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitutionprovides a U.S. citizen the constitutional right to lawfullypossess and bear a firearm; however, various court rulings over the past two centuries haveimposed certain restrictions.)

Employers have long banned guns from the workplace as part of a violence-prevention strategy, but those policies are being tested in states that have passed laws allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons. For instance, in the 2012 case Mitchell v. University of Kentucky, the Kentucky Supreme Court supported a wrongful termination claim by an employee of the universitys medical center who was fired for legally storing a weapon in his vehicle while on campus property.

This issue has already affected other fleet managers. One incident involved a major pizza chain. One of its drivers, who had a legal permit to carry a weapon, fired it in self-defense, killing an armed would-be robber. The driver faced no criminal charges because prosecutors determined he acted in self-defense. However, the company fired him for violating its no-weapon rule.

In another instance, a major document retrieval company fired an employee in Georgia for carrying a weapon in her car. The employee argued Georgia law does not prohibit an employee from carrying a firearm while on company business. The employee further argued she legally obtained a permit to carry the weapon for self-defense, the weapon was secured in her car in compliance with company policy, and she openly revealed she was carrying a weapon when going through a security gate while visiting a customer. The companys counter-argument was that another employee was present in her car and it had a zero-tolerance policy for any action that could endanger employees or customers.

These laws vary state by state, and a company would have to thoroughly examine the laws of a particular jurisdiction to determine the best policies for firearm regulations, said Richard Alaniz, senior partner at Alaniz and Schraeder, a national labor and employment firm based in Houston. In general, in states that have enacted firearms-in-the-workplace legislation, employers cannot prohibit an employee from lawfully storing a gun out of sight in a locked vehicle. Furthermore, employers generally cannot condition employment upon whether an individual has a concealed weapon permit.

Second Amendment advocates argue that a corporate zero-tolerance policy violates employees legal rights. They further question whether a company negates its responsibility to protect employees when asking them to disarm. If a state allows concealed weapons, advocates contend that firing an employee (licensed to carry a firearm) because a gun is kept in the car while parked at work is grounds for a wrongful termination lawsuit.

There are also several gray areas, such as employees who work out of a home office where legal firearms may be kept. Would this be considered a violation of company policy? If a company allows employees to keep guns in their car while on its premises, what are the implications if that employee is asked by a manager to run an errand on company business? Many of these issues do not have a clear legal answer, since firearm workplace laws are relatively new, said Alaniz. The Texas firearm-in-the-workplace statute did not take effect until Sept. 11, 2011, and the statutes in Wisconsin and Utah took effect November 2011.

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RICHMOND Attorneys for the state of Maryland argued Wednesday in federal court that a law requiring residents to provide a good and substantial reason for seeking handgun permits is a reasonable restriction that promotes safety without violating the Second Amendment.

The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Wednesday from the state and from gun-rights advocates on opposite sides of a U.S. District Court decision that struck down the law as unconstitutional.

State attorneys argued the requirement is no different from many common restrictions placed on permit applicants, while their opponents contended that the state is unlawfully forcing residents to explain why they want to exercise a fundamental right.

Were certainly not asking the court to tell Maryland how to regulate handguns, said Alan Gura, a prominent gun-rights attorney representing the plaintiff in the case. All were saying is that they proceed with the understanding that there is an issue of fundamental rights here.

The three-judge panel peppered the attorneys with questions during Wednesdays proceedings, which lasted about 45 minutes.

Many of their questions centered on how Marylands law compares to restrictions on handgun permits in other states, and whether previous court cases establish or deny a right to carry handguns outside ones home.

Maryland Assistant Attorney General Matthew Fader argued that the states restriction is no less legitimate than other widely accepted regulations on the Second Amendment, such as outlawing gun possession in certain public places or denying permits to people with histories of violence.

What the plaintiffs want is not the right to carry for self-defense, but to carry for no reason at all, said Mr. Fader, who criticized the lower courts decision as an activist ruling delivered in broad political consensus against gun control.

After court adjourned, State Police Secretary Col. Marcus L. Brown said that he considers the law to be a crucial safety measure that has helped to reduce gun violence.

Our number-one responsibility is fighting crime, he said. And if the state feels this is the way to do it, then Maryland State Police supports the law.

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(Reuters) - The United States may ban federally licensed firearms dealers from selling handguns to people under age 21, an appeals court ruled on Thursday, in a defeat for the National Rifle Association.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Houston rejected the NRA's argument that 18- to 20-year-olds had a right to buy the guns under the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as well as the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment.

A unanimous three-judge panel said Congress, in a law dating from 1968, adopted the sales ban to help curb violent crime. It also said that the nation's founders and 19th-century courts and commentators believed that disarming specific groups did not trample on the right to bear arms.

"Congress was focused on a particular problem: young persons under 21, who are immature and prone to violence, easily accessing handguns," mainly from licensed dealers, Judge Edward Prado wrote for the panel.

"The present ban appears consistent with a longstanding tradition of age- and safety-based restrictions on the ability to access arms," he added.

Thursday's decision upheld a September 2011 ruling by District Judge Sam Cummings in Lubbock, Texas.

The case had been brought a year earlier by the NRA, firearms dealers and individuals against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which is part of the Department of Justice.

NRA DISAPPOINTED

The 5th Circuit said it was the first federal appeals court to address the ban since the Supreme Court in 2008 announced a broad Second Amendment right for individuals to keep and bear arms, in the case District of Columbia v. Heller.

"We are disappointed," said David Thompson, managing partner at Cooper & Kirk in Washington, who represents the NRA. "The ruling is inconsistent with the Supreme Court's opinion in Heller, and we are considering all of our appellate options."

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Groups backing the charter schools constitutional amendment have again pulled in far more money than amendment opponents, the most recent campaign filing statements show.

Families for Better Public Schools, which supports the amendment, raised $1.28 million during the filing period that ends 15 days before the election. Families haul was 70 times more than the $18,164 the main opposition group, Vote Smart! No to State-Controlled Schools, raised during the same period.

A second amendment supporter, Georgia Public School Families for Amendment One, raised $55,000. Despite the groups name, all of its money came from a single donation made by PublicSchoolOptions.org of Arlington, Va.

Indeed, most of the money that has gone to amendment supporters came from outside Georgia. Families for Better Public Schools filing, for example, shows that 71 percent of the money raised during this filing period came from outside sources.

As she did earlier in the campaign, Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton of Arkansas contributed another $350,000. J.C. Huizenga of Grand Rapids, Mich., gave $250,000. Students First of Sacramento, Calif., also gave $250,000.

Wow, said Jane Langley, campaign manager for the Vote Smart opposition group. This gives new meaning to families. Those out-of-state corporations, more than two out of every three contributions, must badly want to change permanently our constitution.

Many traditional public school officials superintendents, board members and teachers have opposed the amendment, arguing that it would lead to the creation of more charter schools that would sap money from traditional public schools. Supporters argue that passing the amendment would protect from legal challenge the states ability to authorize charter schools, which are public schools that are granted flexibility as they pursue specific education goals spelled out in their charter.

Traditional education officials and those tied to school systems dotted the Vote Smart contribution list.

Jeanne Sis Henry, executive director of the Georgia School Boards Association, gave $3,000. Victoria Sweeney, an attorney who represents the Gwinnett County Public School District, donated $1,000.

Families for Better Public Schools collected $250,000 from Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus and $100,000 from Richard Gaby, chief executive officer of Peter Island Resort and Spa. Real estate developer Tom Cousins gave $20,000.

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