IVRPA Amateur ATA Shoot: Sa.7Apr12

The Imperial Valley Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. (IVRPA) is hosting an Amateur Trap Association (ATA) registered target shoot on next Saturday, April 7, 2012.  Practice rounds at 08:30 A.M.  First squad at 10:00 A.M.

visit:  http://ivrpa.net

For additional information, contact:  Larry Ternes (760) 996-4449

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o'mam - Jihad Joe: Adam Gadahn encourages American jihadists to buy guns (video 1m1s)

Buy Guns and Start Shooting People: American Al-Qaeda Spokesman Calls on Americans to Carry out Random, Lone-Wolf Attacks

In a chilling new video, U.S. born Al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn calls on American Muslims to buy weapons from gun shows and carry out random, lone-wolf attacks.  The video, called ‘Do Not Rely on Others, Take the Task Upon Yourself’, was produced by al Qaeda’s as Sahab media team and shows 32-year-old Gadahn speaking alongside old clips of Ayman al-Zawahiri and Osama Bin laden.

video source: http://youtu.be/EpRQzTP8H1o

Uploaded on to Youtube by JMBerger on Jun 3, 2011
"A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a column for the New York Daily News on Al Qaeda's increasing shift in emphasis from bomb-based attacks to guns.  American terrorist Adam Gadahn -- one of AQ's most prominent public faces -- recently put an exclamation point on the trend in a new video released online and excerpted here.  For more on Gadahn read the new book, "Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam", http://amzn.to/ahwBqH

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firearms - "Biting the Bullet" (2009) British look at 5.56mm ammunition system, a case for replacing it

reposted on Harrold's blog at http://harrolds.blogspot.com

From: baja Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009  Subject: British look at 5.56mm ammunition system - courtesy of JJG

20 • 11 November 2009 • JDW • jdw.janes.com
by Anthony G Williams & Nicholas Drummond

Biting the Bullet 5pt56mm

reference source: http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/btb.pdf

     short version:  http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/btbjdw.pdf

      links source:  http://www.snipershide.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1434837

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2nd Amendment - Sportsmen's and gun groups up in arms over passage of California's AB 962 (Will it infect other states?)

related:   http://ivrpa.net/IVRPA_Firearms_News_Sources.html

                  http://harrold.org/rfhextra/blogspot/news.html

                  http://harrold.org/rfhextra/newsone.html#firearms

From California Assemblyman Perez's staff member Amy Wilson:

Regarding AB 962, now chaptered into law, here are a number of links that I hope are helpful for you:

Bill text:  http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0951-1000/ab_962_bill_20091011_chaptered.pdf

Most current analysis:  http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0951-1000/ab_962_cfa_20090912_004641_asm_floor.html

Assembly Floor vote:  http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0951-1000/ab_962_vote_20090911_0553PM_asm_floor.html

Senate Floor vote: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0951-1000/ab_962_vote_20090910_0500PM_sen_floor.html

link below referred from http://www.nraila.org/News/Read/InTheNews.aspx?ID=13001

article below source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/outposts/2009/10/ab-962-sportsmen.html - October 13, 2009

L.A. Times "Outposts" blog: "Outdoors, action, adventure"

Sportsmen's and gun groups up in arms over passage of AB 962

*Updated to reflect that this law goes into effect on Feb 1, 2011 and not July, 2010

Sportsmen's and pro-gun groups are up in arms over a recent bill signed by Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that puts restrictions on the purchase of certain ammunition beginning Feb. 1, 2011.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation and the California Assn. of Firearms Retailers are highly critical of the decision to sign into law AB 962, which will require firearms dealers and ammunition vendors to keep a registry of all buyers of handgun ammo. The bill also bans all mail order and Internet sales of such ammunition and reloading components.

"The governor vetoed a piece of firearms legislation, SB 41, far less burdensome to retailers than AB 962, stating it was too cumbersome," Lawrence Keane, NSSF senior vice president and general council, said in a news release. (SB 41 would have required additional paperwork and documentation on the date of delivery of all firearms to a buyer.)

NSSF has estimated that AB 962 will cost the state almost $3 million in lost sales tax, $629,000 in increased operating costs for state agencies and more than $35 million in lost retail sales annually.

"This legislation will drive many small, independent retailers already struggling in a poor economy out of business or force them to flee California," said CAFR President Marc Halcon.

"Those retailers who can afford to stay will be forced to substantially raise prices to law-abiding consumers who, under AB 692, will now be fingerprinted like common criminals simply for exercising their Second Amendment rights," continued Halcon. "It is silly, at best, to think criminals will stand in line to be fingerprinted to buy ammunition from licensed retailers."

"Gov. Schwarzenegger has just created an underground black market for ammunition," Halcon added.

Ammo sales, already at an increased level from gun enthusiasts, including hunters and target shooters fearing stricter gun laws, will likely now become more robust in the coming months.

-- Kelly Burgess

Photo: A Smith & Weston .357 is shown with various caliber handgun ammunition. Credit: Judi Bottoni / Associated Press

More in the L.A. Times: Guns, Hunting, Politics, Shooting sports, Target shooting, Weapons

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technology - Airborne Laser System

Boeing ABL Update: April 2009

Boeing promotional video for the YAL-1 Airborne Laser, a modified 747-400 that is being developed to shoot down ballistic missiles during the first few minutes of flight.

2009 Executive Progress Report Choose your speed: High Download (14MB)

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2nd Amendment - Lautenberg Bill To Ban One Million People From Gun Sales

From: ConservativeActionAlerts at http://news.dienerconsultants.com/ct/3302972:4574895688:m:1:159320228:6556A08D569A494B9A26E8AC1BA10404 Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009
A special message from Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA):

Alert: Lautenberg Bill To Ban One Million People From Gun Sales

Gun Hater Lautenberg Proposes "Extraordinary Powers" Be Given To the U.S. Attorney General To Limit Gun Sales.

Obama and the White House are looking the other way as Lautenberg seeks to ban guns from 1,000,000 US citizens on a secret FBI terrorist watch list. Obama has deliberately and repeatedly lied to America's 90 million gun owners across the country when he insisted that he would not try to take away anyone's firearms. Now Obama's silence endorses Lautenberg's latest attempt at banning guns.

Lautenberg has now introduced bill S. 1317 that would give the attorney general the discretion to block gun sales to people on terror watch lists. We must defeat this bill from giving extraordinary powers to limit gun sales to the Attorney General.

Lautenberg To Reveal Names on Secret List

The names of the people on the watch list are secret, and Lautenberg said he was frustrated by the F.B.I.'s refusal to disclose to investigators details and specific cases of gun purchases beyond the aggregate data.

Gun hater Lautenberg requested the gun grab study from the Government Accountability Office. He is using statistics, compiled in the report that is scheduled for public release next week to invade US citizen's privacy and put more restrictions on the Second Amendment.

Lautenberg said he wanted a better understanding of who is being allowed to buy guns.

How you ask? Trial by innuendo and misinformation that has put 1,000,000 Americans and maybe even you on a terrorist watch list without your knowledge by saying: people placed on this government's terrorist watch list can be stopped from getting on a plane or getting a visa, and will also be stopped from buying a gun.

Lautenberg wants gun purchases stopped for just being on the list. Current law states federal officials must find some other disqualification of a would-be gun buyer, like being a felon, an illegal alien or a drug addict.

Is your name on the list and can you get it removed?

The government's consolidated watch list, used to identify people suspected of links to terrorists, has grown to more than one million names since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. It also has drawn widespread criticism over the prevalence of mistaken identities and unclear links to terrorism.

A CNN story raises questions about mistaken identities on the list - James Robinson is a retired Air National Guard brigadier general and a commercial pilot for a major airline who flies passenger planes around the country.

James Robinson is a retired brigadier general and a commercial pilot. His name is on the terrorist "watch list."

He has even been certified by the Transportation Security Administration to carry a weapon into the cockpit as part of the government's defense program should a terrorist try to commandeer a plane.

But there's one problem: James Robinson, the pilot, has difficulty even getting to his plane because his name is on the government's terrorist "watch list."

That means he can't use an airport kiosk to check in; he can't do it online; he can't do it curbside. Instead, like thousands of Americans whose names match a name or alias used by a suspected terrorist on the list, he must go to the ticket counter and have an agent verify that he is James Robinson, the pilot, and not James Robinson, the terrorist.

"Shocking's a good word; frustrating," Robinson -- the pilot -- said. "I'm carrying a weapon, flying a multimillion-dollar jet with passengers, but I'm still screened as, you know, on the terrorist watch list."

History Repeating Itself?

The 1938 German Weapons Act, the precursor of the current weapons law, superseded the 1928 law. As under the 1928 law, citizens were required to have a permit to carry a firearm and a separate permit to acquire a firearm. Furthermore, the law restricted ownership of firearms to "...persons whose trustworthiness is not in question and who can show a need for a (gun) permit."

Lautenberg Must be Stopped

Recently Sens. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), Jack Reed (D-RI) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) have joined Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and victims and family members of the Virginia Tech tragedy, to introduce legislation to eliminate the private transfers of firearms and close the nation's "gun show loophole."

This Senate bill is in the Judiciary Committee, chaired by anti-gun liberal Democrat Leahy. Lautenberg's gun hate is well documented and he says you are irrational if you support private gun sales.

"There is no rational reason to oppose closing the loophole. The reason it's still not closed is simple: the continuing power of the special interest gun lobby in Washington" Sen. Lautenberg said ignoring the Constitution.

Lautenberg and the Gun Grabbers in the Senate are now tying to use the GAO to justify putting Americans on a secret gun ban list.

LAUTENBERG'S MOTIVES

Motives for his latest gun ban to are twofold:

• First, he is taking small steps to enact gun control legislation this is just one step.
• Second, eradicate the gun culture altogether.

All that seems to be on the minds of the Anti-Gun Senators and at the offices of gun control extremists is figuring out how to invade your privacy to erode and eventually destroy the right, and the means, of self-defense.

Now the Anti-Gun Coalitions are trying to use a self supporting GAO study to destroy the right of all Americans to keep and bear arms to protect themselves under the law. They are attacking and hiding behind an Anti-Terrorist Agenda while getting political and financial support from:

George Soros a Hungarian-born billionaire bank rolling efforts with his check book and spending more that $100 million to destroy the Constitution.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (CA) admitted that "guns would be banned and confiscated" if she could have her way.

The United Nations actively pushes globalism seeking to disarm all Americans.

We must Stop the Anti-Gun Coalition and get ready for the biggest gun control fight of the year from coast to coast. We can not do that without your support.

Stand up against this attack! Stand up for the right to not only defend yourself, but to defend your family, your children, your friends, and your classmates!

Like all other threats against our freedoms, we must rise and defeat this bill from giving extraordinary powers to limit gun sales to the Attorney General.

In order to stop Lautenberg and his fellow gun-grabbers-we need to let the Congress know with thousands of faxes telling them to leave guns alone.

Americans like you who understand what our Founding Fathers envisioned for our nation�and who are willing to fight to defend our Constitution and for what it stands.

So please, help the Citizens Committee and me defeat those who wish to gut and trash the United States Constitution.

Help me flood the U.S. Senate with a sea of FAXES big enough to drown each and every Senator willing to vote away the Second Amendment.

Please, send your Donation and FAX TODAY!

Keep calling your Senators today, toll free numbers include 1-877-851-6437 and 1-866-220-0044, or call toll 1-202-225-3121 AND REGISTER YOU'RE OUTRAGE at ongoing efforts to take guns away!

CALL PRESIDENT Obama, 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414 expressing your disdain and ABSOLUTE REJECTION of all GUN BANS.

DO NOT BE SILENCED - MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!
NOTE: We need TENS OF THOUSANDS of faxes and PHONE CALLS and EMAILS delivered to ALL Senators right away!

Together, we can preserve the Constitutional rights our Founding Fathers intended our people to have forever.

For more information about CCRKBA go http://www.ccrkba.org/

Please let me know your decision right away. Thank you.
Sincerely,

Alan Gottlieb, Chairman, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

If you prefer to donate by check, please mail to:
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 12500 NE Tenth Place, Dept Code 2856, Bellevue, Washington 98005

P.S. Take the Emergency Gun Survey let us know where you stand. Did you know that since Barack Obama was elected President 3 people make a donation to an anti-gun group every minute?

EMERGENCY GUN RIGHTS SURVEY

We at the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms have launched this new nationwide campaign to rally gun owners and freedom loving Americans behind an effort to protect our constitutional rights.

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With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States. The Citizens Committee can be reached by phone at (425) 454-4911, on the Internet at http://www.ccrkba.org/ or by email to InformationRequest@ccrkba.org

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