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From Philip Van Cleave

Here is an MSNBC article on the proposed repeal of the National Park gun ban.  VCDL Executive members Dave Yates and Mike Stollenwerk are quoted.

There is also a POLL.  Please be sure to participate in that poll by clicking on the link to the article!  The poll is toward the bottom under a red title, "Where do you stand on guns in parks?"

Thanks to David Ham for the link:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25630796/

Showdown over packing heat in national parks
Comments due on NRA-backed proposal to ease ban on concealed weapons
By Mike Stuckey
Senior news editor
MSNBC

In 40 years as a ranger, manager and superintendent of national parks from Alaska to North Carolina, Doug Morris says he never responded to a crime that would have been prevented had a visitor been carrying a concealed weapon. Nor did he hear complaints from gun owners about the rule requiring them to unload and lock away firearms while in national parks.

But Morris, who retired three years ago, says he did see cases where visitors shot wildlife or fired wildly into the night in crowded campgrounds. That’s why Morris and a majority of his fellow members of the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees adamantly oppose a National Rifle Association-led effort to lift the decades-old ban on concealed weapons in the parks. “Nothing is broken about the existing rule,” he said.

But David Yates, a gun-rights activist from Alexandria, Va., says he believes the current rule tramples the Second Amendment rights of all law-abiding Americans to bear arms. Yates, who usually carries a handgun for self-defense where legally allowed, has given up visiting national parks as “a point of honor and principle.”

“I won’t go there because they make a political issue out of preventing somebody from defending themselves,” Yates said.

NPS manages nearly 400 sites

Morris and Yates are on opposing sides in the latest showdown over U.S. gun rights, which would ease the ban on loaded weapons within some of the 58 national parks and 333 other sites managed by the U.S. National Park Service. The dispute involves a proposed rule change that would allow visitors with concealed weapons permits to carry their firearms in national parks, as long as doing so also would be legal under state law. Rifles and shotguns and “open carry” of loaded handguns would remain illegal in the parks.

The NRA’s long campaign to ease the ban appeared to be close to succeeding a month ago, but lost momentum when the Interior Department extended the period for public comments on the plan until Aug. 8.

The NRA sees the extension as yielding to “bullying” by anti-gun members of Congress who are “trying to run out the clock ... possibly until after the election, into a new administration.”

Interior spokesman Chris Paolino said the department wanted to be fair to parties who wanted to comment in light of a Supreme Court ruling in June. That decision affirmed the Second Amendment right of individuals to possess firearms along with the government’s right to regulate them.

Paolino could not say when a final decision would be made.

25-year-old rules
Under rules last updated 25 years ago, visitors to the parks must keep all firearms unloaded and inaccessible, generally locked in a trunk or elsewhere in a vehicle.

When those rules were written, just a handful of states allowed citizens to carry concealed weapons. Since then, with help from campaigns by the NRA and other groups, all but two states now allow citizens to obtain permits to carry loaded, concealed handguns. In many of those, known as “shall issue” states, any citizen who is entitled to own a handgun may obtain a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

Given changing state laws, the NRA for years has said rules for national parks should change so that gun laws are consistent on parklands within each state. But a bigger issue, an NRA spokesman told msnbc.com, is the right that all “law-abiding Americans” have to self-defense.

“Just because you’re in a national park or on federal land doesn’t mean you’re immune to crime,” said Andrew Arulanandam, the association’s director of public affairs.

Opponents counter that the crime rate in national parks is very low. “They’re extremely safe places,” said Bryan Faehner of the National Parks Conservation Association, which opposes the rule change. “You have a higher likelihood of being hit by lighting.”

In recent years, statistics from NPS’ nearly 400 sites, which receive about 275 million visits a year, show a rate of less than one violent crime per 100,000 visits. According to the FBI, in 2006 the average rate of violent crimes in cities across the United States was 474 per 100,000 people.

The low rate does not sway the NRA. “The fact that you can throw a statistic out there is not going to provide any consolation to the family of someone who lost their life in a park,” Arulanandam said, adding that “violent crime rates have decreased (as) … the number of states that have right-to-carry laws has increased.”

Foes of allowing guns in parks point out that the move is opposed by current NPS Director Mary Bomar, seven former directors and the Association of National Park Rangers, among others.

“The No. 1 best argument is that the resource managers are against it,” said Peter Hamm, spokesman for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

'Resistance to change'
But Yates, a member of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, said he believes the park service’s opposition is a matter of “institutional resistance to change.”

“They simply have a culture that is averse to the concept of self-defense,” he said.

He and the NRA’s Arulanandam said that rangers shouldn’t base their fears on past experiences with guns in parks, since those incidents involved people who were breaking the law to begin with.

Not necessarily, said former Ranger Morris, who served as superintendent of Shenandoah, Sequoia-Kings Canyon and Saguaro national parks during his career. He recounted cases in California where campers, legally transporting guns in vehicles, were frightened by black bears.

“They somehow found their gun, got it loaded and shot the bear,” he said. “In one case, they hit the bear and they did not kill it. The bear just danced around the campground kind of angry until a ranger came and had to kill it.”

Black bears and many other animals in parks hardly ever pose serious threats to humans, Morris said, but “people who visit these parks are really out of their comfort zone and … they perceive threats that just don’t exist.”

Rangers also worry that allowing concealed guns in campgrounds could lead to more human vs. human conflict.

A potential for irony?
Hamm of the Brady Campaign, who once worked at Interior himself, stressed that many sites administered by the NPS are urban and the rule change could have interesting consequences by overriding state laws that work in concert with state right-to-carry permits.

Under Georgia state law, for example, “You can’t bring a gun into the Georgia state Capitol but under this loosening of the laws, I don’t see how you could argue that you wouldn’t be allowed to carry a concealed weapon into the Martin Luther King historic site,” he said. “There’s some irony there.”

Both sides use consistency to make their case, with the NRA saying that one set of rules for all national parks would be easy to follow. But opponents argue that rules still would vary depending on the state the park is in; also, they say, some national parks extend across state borders, creating potential conflicts.

'Open carry' backers would go further
For that reason, some gun-rights activists would like to go even farther than the current proposal. Members of the “open carry” movement believe it should be changed to allow citizens to carry unconcealed guns in parks, a right they say is constitutionally protected. Calling the current proposal a “cruel hoax,” Mike Stollenwerk, a co-founder of OpenCarry.org, said, “You almost have to be a freaking international attorney to figure it out.”

The park service has successfully defended its policies on weapons in parks for years against NRA efforts to change them, shutting the door firmly with a November letter from Director Bomar to a member of Congress: “The existing regulations provide necessary and consistent parameters throughout the National Park System.”

So the NRA went to the top, appealing to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, a conservative Republican and former governor of Idaho.

In Idaho, where per-capita gun ownership is high and the NRA’s backing is crucial to a politician, Kempthorne had been a solid member of the pro-gun camp before joining President Bush’s Cabinet 18 months earlier.

As a U.S. senator, after receiving nearly $10,000 in campaign funds from the NRA, he voted against the 1993 Brady Bill, which requires a waiting period and background checks for handgun buyers. He also brought Michael Bogert, a onetime assistant general counsel at the NRA, to Interior to act as his counsel.

The NRA enlisted Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, Kempthorne’s successor as Idaho’s junior senator, to write a letter to the secretary seeking a revision of the gun regulation. The Dec. 14, 2007, letter was signed by 51 senators to whom the NRA has collectively given at least $618,033 in congressional campaign funds in the last 10 years, according to federal election records placed online by the Center for Public Integrity. Those who signed the letter included such pro-gun stalwarts as Republican Sen. Larry Craig, Idaho’s senior senator and a member of the NRA’s board for more than two decades, and Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, a former NRA board member.

In the hot seat
When Kempthorne didn’t respond, House Republicans put him on the hot seat at a Feb. 14 hearing before the Natural Resources Committee, speaking about Second Amendment rights and asking him about the status of congressional inquiries about the “bizarre” national park gun rule. Kempthorne promised he would reply “very soon.”

Eight days later, Kempthorne wrote to Crapo that the Interior Department would propose changes to national park gun policy as sought by the NRA and members of Congress. The proposal, published April 30 in the Federal Register, said the rules would be changed to “allow individuals to carry concealed weapons in park units and refuges to the extent that they could lawfully do so on analogous state-administered lands.”

Thousands of comments poured in. Interior spokesman Paolino declined to say whether the majority favored or opposed the rule change.

With the quick turn-around between Kempthorne’s February appearance before the House committee and issuance of the proposed new rule, the NRA had been expecting final approval by the end of the year and was dismayed when the comment period was extended.

In a statement on its Web site, the NRA said the anti-gun Democratic chairmen of congressional panels with oversight of the parks, Sen. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii and Rep. Raul Grijalva of Arizona, pressured for the extension in a “blatant and intentional stalling tactic.” Spokesmen for Akaka and Grijalva both denied that was the intent of the extension of the comment period.

But Hamm, the spokesman for the Brady Campaign, said the extension does improve the chances of opponents to keep the weapons ban intact. “The closer you get to a presidential election on an issue like this, the less likely the system is going to want to make a change,” he said.

'Very mainstream'
NRA spokesman Arulanandam, a former executive director of the Idaho Republican Party who once worked for Kempthorne, called the comment extension and threats by other lawmakers to block the rule change by other means disappointing. He also said the NRA, with 4 million members, is “very mainstream” although “there are a lot of people who try to portray us as otherwise.”

Likewise, Faehner, the spokesman for the parks conservation association and himself a former park service employee, said some in the pro-gun lobby depict his side unfairly.

“Our staff and our members, many of them are gun owners and hunters,” he said of the group’s 340,000 members. “We support the Second Amendment and we don’t oppose guns in any way. I was shooting shotguns when I was 10 years old. But there’s a time and place for everything.”

While Arulanandam would not estimate the NRA’s immediate chances of victory on the issue, he said that a defeat this time would not be the end of the organization’s effort. “If you look at our track record, we get what we want, even if it takes a few years,” he said. “We don’t go away.”

Comments on the proposed rule change may be sent by mail to: Public Comments Processing, Attn. 1024-AD70, Division of Policy and Directives Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 4401 N. Fairfax Drive, Suite 222, Arlington, Va., 22203. They may be submitted online by following instructions at www.regulations.gov.

From Philip Van Cleave

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1. Legalize carry in National Parks!
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The Department of the Interior has inappropriately extended the comment period on  allowing the lawful carry of firearms in National Parks.  It appears this
is being done to delay implementation of  what the Senate has asked the Department of the Interior (DOI) to do and  what VCDL asked DOI to do in our Petition for Rule Making.

The comment period was open for TWO months and everyone had their  opportunity to comment.  The problem may be they didn't get enough of the response they really wanted to hear.

ACTION ITEM:

We need to flood Senator Jim Webb's office with complaints about DOI's inappropriate extension of the comment period, AND ask the Senator to honor a campaign promise to  gun owners to sponsor a BILL to repeal the National Park gun ban and  get it to the Floor of the Senate for a vote!

Here is an excerpt from Senator Webb's pledge to gun owners in October, 2006:

"... I value and will defend your right of self-defense....I also will  sponsor a bill in the United States Senate that repeals the National Park Gun Ban that disarms only law-abiding citizens in Interior Department/National Park Service across Virginia. And I intend to get  it to the floor for a vote..."


Please contact Senator Webb's office NOW at (202) 224-4024.

LET'S ROLL, VCDL!


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2. Let's send another message on National Park carry during the remaining comment period
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Here is the site where you can leave a comment for the Department of the Interior on National Park carry:

http://tinyurl.com/5juwn3

Here is new suggested wording:

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I strongly support the carrying and transportation of loaded firearms by
law-abiding individuals in National Parks and Wildlife Refuges.

HOWEVER, DOI's proposed regulation regarding firearms in National Parks
is NOT responsive to either the December 2007 letter to DOI signed by 51
Senators or the Petition for Rule Making (PRM) submitted by the Virginia
Citizens Defense League (VCDL).

 -- The letter signed by 51 Senators stating that they support
allowing "law-abiding citizens to transport and carry firearms
consistent with state law where the National Park Service's sites and
the National Wildlife Refuges are located."

 -- The VCDL PRM requested the regulations be modified to "permit
citizens to carry operational handguns for personal protection in
National Parks, consistent with the laws of the state in which the park
is located."

MORE IMPORTANTLY, pursuant to the US Supreme Court decision in District
of Columbia vs. Heller, both the existing and proposed National Park
Service & National Wildlife Refuge weapons regulations are invalid,
unconstitutional, and void.

The VCDL and over 4 dozen co-petitioning organizations advised the
National Park Service of this as long ago as 2004.  Since the holding in
Heller is that the total ban on handguns infringes the 2nd Amendment,
DOI and NPS should accept the VCDL PRM language and implement the
regulation IMMEDIATELY after the comment period closing.

Under existing legal doctrine, once a law is held unconstitutional, it
is stricken.  In the case of the Park Service CFR 36, Regulation 2.4, it
is almost exactly the same as that of the District of Columbia, and
therefore void.  Further, the DOI proposed regulation with it's flawed
"analogous state lands" language is thereby also in violation since any
state level bans on bearing arms in analogous state lands would also be
implicated under Heller.

The Supreme Court held that the 2nd Amendment is an individual right
protecting the right to keep arms and bear arms and therefore supersedes
CFR 36 Regulation 2.4.

The Department of the Interior should IMMEDIATELY amend the current
National Park Service regulations pursuant to the VCDL PRM, pages 8 & 9.
(See:  http://www.vcdl.org/pdf/VCDLPRM_010408.pdf )

And for National Wildlife Refuges, the regulations should be modified to
include:

"A person may possess, carry, and transport loaded and operable firearms
or other weapons within a National Wildlife Refuge area in the same
manner, and to the same extent, that a person may lawfully possess,
carry, and transport loaded and operable firearms or other weapons in
the state in which the federal Wildlife Refuge, or that portion thereof,
is located, provided that such possession, carrying and transporting
otherwise complies with applicable federal and state law."

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From Philip Van Cleave

The Hanover Board of Supervisors is having a workshop on their proposed gun ordinances that would restrict where people can shoot in some parts of the County.

If you wish to attend (and Hanover gun owners should), the workshop is today, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 at the Board Room of the Hanover County Administrative Building.

The meeting is supposed to start at 3:30 PM, but you might want to get there at 3:00 PM, as it might start early.

Thanks to Pat Web for keeping me apprised of this situation.

We need to keep attendance up at these events to remind the Board of Supervisors that we have a great interested in what they are doing on this matter.

From Philip Van Cleave

Table of Contents

VCDL Update 7/21/08 - "Defending your right to defend yourself"

1.  VCDL President to speak at Rod and Gun in Quantico on 8/4
2.  Female VCDL member is first to register a handgun in DC in 32 years!
3.  Having toppled DC ban, Heller registers revolver
4.  LTE on new DC gun regs: Keep it simple, stupid
5.  Alas, DC Council opts for 'complicated'
6.  Wash Times: DC's gun law shenanigans
7.  Heller rally in Chicago!
8.  No precedent on 2A?
9.  Who needs a gun in a restaurant?
10. VA-Pilot Ed: With guns, no second chances
11. Belle Isle attacker released early, strikes again
12. Who needs a gun around insane murderers?
13. LTE: Who needs an 'assault rifle'?
14. How not to buy an AK-47
15. Campfire used as assault weapon -- in National Park
16. An emergency services mirage in Illinois
17. When seconds count, UK cops only HOURS away!
18. Greatest minds on gun control
19. Petition for non-resident CHPs in Colorado
20. Correction
21. Gun shows and events!

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From Philip Van Cleave

For those of you who couldn't make the last week's VCDL meeting, a 30 minute video of the talk by attorney Alan Gura, who argued the DC vs Heller case in front of the Supreme Court, is up!

Many thanks to Matt Gottshalk with McGee Digital Media, Inc. for the video and to VCDL webmaster John Pierce for putting it on the VCDL web site:

http://www.vcdl.org/Heller/VCDL_Gura.mov

[A day late on this, folks. I've been out of pocket I, too, was at the NoVA meeting and will have a report of my observations in the next couple days. - CK]

From Philip Van Cleave

We had 133 people who came to hear Alan Gura speak last night!

I opened the meeting by showing a US flag that VCDL member Chris Pugrud had flown on a combat mission over Bagdad on July 4.  Chris donated the flag to VCDL to thank all of you for your great work defending our freedoms here in Virginia!

Guys like Chris continue to amaze me and make me proud to be an American.  They are out there laying their lives on the line to protect freedom and they still find the time and make the effort to do something like this.

I gave the flag to my Delegate (Lee Ware) to see if he could now have it flown over the General Assembly.  Delegate Ware is checking into just that and hopefully I will have it back soon so it can be proudly displayed at future meetings.

Chris had a second flag flown over Bagdad for Alan Gura, which I presented to Alan as he came up to speak.

I was also given a t-shirt by Board member Bruce Jackson which reads, "If you don't like my gun rights, you can go straight to Heller"

Alan signed the shirt for me - talk about a great keepsake!

*** I plan on bringing that shirt to Senator Ken Cuccinelli's Heller Victory Party at Fuddruckers here in Richmond tomorrow (Saturday) at 4 PM.  The restaurant is at the intersection of Broad St. and Parham Road (8205 West Broad). ***

Alan gave a fantastic talk, which was professionally taped by VCDL member Matt Gottschalk and will be available on the VCDL site in the near future (I'll send out an alert).

Alan spent an hour with a question-and-answer session and he fielded questions until we we ran out of time.

Over 50 of us, including Alan, headed over to Fuddrucker's for fellowship.

A great time was had by all!

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DC refused to register Heller's semi-automatic handgun yesterday!  DC City Council should all be kicked out for malfeasance.

Here is the article:

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/07/dc-refuses-to-r.html

D.C. refuses to register litigant's semi-automatic handgun

USA TODAY's Kevin Johnson reports that the District of Columbia refused this morning to register a handgun on behalf of the security guard whose legal challenge resulted in last month's landmark Supreme Court ruling on the Second Amendment.

Dick Heller was one of two applicants who were waiting at police headquarters when the doors opened to prospective gun owners at 7 a.m. ET. Officers wouldn't let him register a semi-automatic handgun because local laws still ban such weapons.

"The city still does not yet understand the decision of the Supreme Court," Heller says on the steps of police headquarters. "We have been denied again," he adds.

Dane von Breichenruchardt, president of the Bill of Rights Foundation, said the city was attempting to make gun ownership as "difficult and restrictive as possible."

"We're going to be back in court. There is no doubt about that," he says.

Under the terms of an emergency law that was passed earlier this week, residents may store handguns in their homes for self-defense purposes. Every gun owner has to pass a written test and vision exam, submit the weapons for ballistic testing and prove they live in the city.

Short of the prior gun ban, the provisions still rank as some of the toughest in the nation.

Assistant Police Chief Peter Newsham said the regulations can be "interpreted" in various ways. "But this isn't a 'gotcha' program. We're trying to accommodate people," he says.

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Oh, and I'll leave you with this gem.  The Illinois Governor is considering bringing in National Guard helicopters for crime control in Chicago!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That, ladies and gentlemen, is OUR future if we don't protect our rights, and especially our gun rights, with veracity.

http://tinyurl.com/6kvoxy

Blagojevich Says Chicago Is 'Out Of Control'
Mayor Unaware Of Plan; Welcomes Partnership

CHICAGO -- As Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Wednesday signed a new law that will put in place tougher penalties for selling guns to minors, he also announced he's got a new idea to help combat the violence that Chicago is experiencing: he's talking to the Illinois State Police and the National Guard to see if they could help.

The Chicago Sun-Times depicted Blagojevich as the "new sheriff in town" Thursday morning in its coverage of the governor's plan to form an "elite tactical team" to help the city fight crime.

"Violent crime in the city of Chicago is out of control," Blagojevich said at the bill signing ceremony. "I'm offering resources of the state to the city to work in a constructive way with Mayor Daley to do everything we can possibly do to help stop this violence," said the governor.

The summer of 2008 will be remembered as especially violent. Blagojevich said there's been a child shot nearly every day since June 26, with 29 Chicago Public School students shot since last fall.

"Twenty-eight of those kids are African-American and Latino. Hard to imagine that that would be acceptable if that were, in fact, the case in other parts of the city or in a middle-class suburb somewhere," he said. "Something is wrong, and this violence has to stop."

Bringing in state troopers -- even National Guard helicopters to high-crime areas -- is still very much in the planning stages.

"It might be able to free up some resources that the Chicago police uses for capital needs, to be able, to maybe to, hire more police officers, or possibly ask some to come out of retirement, to put them into these violent zones, hot zones, where, clearly, I think, part of the challenge is that gangbangers outnumber police officers five to one," Blagojevich said.

The governor said Chicago Mayor Richard Daley hasn't asked for help, but Blagojevich said he'll call the mayor once he has some concrete suggestions about what help he can provide. He didn't have many specifics, but he said it's more likely that state police will be brought in than the National Guard.

In fact, Daley's office said the mayor did not know anything about Blagojevich's comments and did not know he was going to make them.

"The mayor welcomes partnerships, not just on this issue but on a variety of issues," said spokeswoman Jody Kawada. "Beyond that, it is difficult to comment because we don't have any facts."

And police department spokeswoman Monique Bond said they learned of the comments after Blagojevich made them as well, and said it was too soon to comment.

But Bond took issue with the governor's contention that crime is "out of control" in Chicago, pointing out that if the current murder rate holds in the city, 2008 may end with fewer than 500 homicides and that it is expected to be one of the least deadly years in the city in the last 40 years.

On Wednesday, Superintendent Jody Weis was grilled by members of a city council committee, who complained both about rising crime and statistics that suggested to them that the police department wasn't doing enough to stop it.

They also come as the governor tries to find support for a massive statewide construction program that would be funded by expanded casino gambling. So far, Daley has refused to go along because he objects to the amount Blagojevich wants to charge Chicago to run a downtown casino.

Blagojevich raised that issue as he discussed the possibility of state aid with Chicago's crime problem.

"We need help in that legislative process and the mayor could be a big help in this in getting the House Democratic leadership to pass that big capital program or versions of it," the governor said.

Blagojevich's offer, whether or not it comes to anything, also puts him in the position of trying to help on an issue dominating the news in Chicago.

Blagojevich said it is far more likely that state troopers would be used than guardsmen. In fact, his office moved quickly after the governor's comments to stress in a news release that Blagojevich was not considering bringing in National Guard troops to the city.

"The only way the National Guard would be involved, if they are involved, is with the use of tactical helicopters that are currently used in narcotics operations," spokesman Lucio Guerrero said in a prepared statement.

Blagojevich had few details, but suggested that one possibility would be to assign state troopers to areas of the city with lower crime rates, freeing Chicago police officers for areas where there is more crime.

"Maybe we can play a role in providing more manpower so that the mayor doesn't have to make that choice between taking a police from, let's say the North Side, and putting that police officer on the street on the South Side," he said.

He also suggested that retired Chicago police officers and state troopers could be hired on a temporary basis to help out during the summer months when the violent crime rate typically climbs.

[PVC:  Er, Governor Blagojevich - you could have 100,000 gun owners on the streets of Chicago with concealed handgun permits at no cost to the state.  Criminals would have to think twice before committing violent crimes on innocent people.]

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From our friend, Paul (the Loomer) Henick

From Philip Van Cleave

Table of Contents

VCDL UPDATE 7/15/08 "Defending your right to defend yourself"

1.  Reminder: Alan Gura at VCDL meeting on Thursday, July 17th in Annandale
2.  LTE Questioning Cuccinelli's Views on Gun Rights
3.  Reader responds: Avoid a Gun-Free Zone
4. The DEFENDER is in the mail!
5.  Why carry a gun on Belle Isle in Richmond?
6.  Potential victims turned tables on robbery suspects
7.  LTE: Gun deaths explained
8.  Lockdown At University Of Mary Washington
9.  National Geographic TV is looking for a first-time, woman gun buyer
10. LTE: Man With Gun Was Just A Citizen
11. LTE: Unfortunately, gun laws do not reduce crime
12. VA Pilot Editorial on gun violence
13. VCDL members opening new store
14. Good resource for concealed carry and reciprocity laws.
15. Fox News point/counter point on new Georgia carry law:  Brady lawyer accuses firearms license holders of "thousands"  of homicides
16. You may own a gun (in D.C.) you just can't buy one
17. National Park: Aggressive Bear Shot After Threatening Park Staff
18. Natural Resources Defense Council: Keep guns out of national parks!
19. The fallacy of gun registration
20. Letter Carrier to be tried for weapon on Post Office property
21. LTE: Court's gun ruling accomplished little
22. Doctors worried by Supreme Court gun ruling
23. Gun Shows and Events! (URGENT APPEAL)

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