Penny Dean and Your Rights

WASHINGTON – A federal judge has dismissed a firearms industry association's lawsuit seeking to block the Obama administration from requiring gun store owners in Southwest border states to report when customers buy multiple high-powered rifles.

U.S. District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives properly limited its requirement to purchasers of two or more semi-automatic rifles greater than .22 caliber within five days in the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico or Texas.

This CNN video article talks about some of the issues with police and their not wanting to be recorded doing their jobs.

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This story seems a little bizarre at first blush. It seems that an attorney in Seattle, a Mr. James Egan, wanted to view the dashcam video from some cruisers in Seattle, during the normal course of police business.

The response from the city, instead of saying "yes" or "no", was to file a lawsuit against the attorney.

This story, from KVUE-TV, examines the charges against a Mr. Antonio Buehler, in Austin.

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It would be easy to assume that the officers were just "doing their job"... until a video showed up, which seems to contradict what the police report says.

As the video suggests, you decide for yourself.

The Washington Times (http://www.washingtontimes.com) has an interesting take on the unemployment crisis that the current administration is trying to address. The subtitle of this article says "Stimulate the economy by repealing pointless firearms restrictions."

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Ken Shepherd, at newsbusters.org, discusses the Washington Post article about a recent murder of a Park Ranger. Instead of talking much about a person who would murder a Park Ranger, the Post seems to hold a "cartoonish view of gun-owners as ill-tempered hotheads who cannot resolve verbal arguments without force of arms."

From the Union Leader, we read a story about banning guns, or actually, NOT banning guns, on college campus.

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20111116/NEWS06/711169997

Be sure to voice your opinion. There is a poll that you can click to vote for your opinion about this topic. And also be sure to glance at some of the comments that others have left over at their site... you will probably notice many of the same, stale arguments by the anti-rights crowd, including:

"If it saves one child's life..."
"Shootout in the OK Corral..."
"Wild wild west..."

<img src="http://images.alternet.org/images/managed/storyimages_picture38_12737015... align="right">According to Anderson, who testified at trial Wednesday, New York City police regularly planted drugs on innocent people to meet quotas. Anderson should know. He was arrested in 2008 for planting cocaine on four men in a bar in Queens.

In response to Rep. Laura Pantelakos' repeated inquiries, atty. Dean comes through with specific instances of citizens wrongfully prosecuted for defending themselves.

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An editorial at The Washington Times ( http://www.washingtontimes.com/ ) tells us that "Obama scares women and liberals into the gun store." The article explains how "many of the firearms that have been flying off the shelves in the past two years were purchased by Democrats and women."