STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU BLOOMBERG WILL USE CAN DO TO PRESERVE YOUR RIGHT TO KEEP AND MONEY AGAINST GUNS BEAR ARMS The anti-gun multi-billionaire Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloom- berg, said on NBC’s Meet the Press that he would raise money for a national campaign to counter the political influence of pro-gun rights interests. Bloomberg stated that in order to defeat a pro-gun rights group, “you have to go out and get your message out and it costs money to do that.” September Bloomberg already has contributed about 2.9 million dollars to an anti-gun organization he founded in 2006, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, reported The 2009 New York Times. The group of 450 city chief executives Bloomberg started Volume XXXIV No. 9 along with Mayor Thomas M. Menino of Boston worked recently to defeat a measure by Sen. John R. Thune of South Dakota, a CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Month, that would have allowed individuals with state- issued permits to carry concealed handguns to carry the firearms in other IN THIS ISSUE states that issue such permits. Although the Thune amendment garnered 58 votes out of the 100-member More Anti-Gun RIghts Actions 1 Senate, a substantial majority, it fell two votes short of the 60 votes needed CCW Reciprocity 2 Sotomayor: A Blow to RKA 3 to prevent a filibuster and thus was not added as a proposed amendment Sotomayor Vote 3 to pending legislation. Self-Defense Bill 4 Bloomberg referred to the Thune amendment as “another obstacle in the CCW on the Upswing 5 way of sanity.” Citizen Action Project 5 In a costly full-page ad his anti-gun group ran in USA Today and other Defender of the Month 6 newspapers, Bloomberg and the other mayors referred to the reciprocity Quick Shots 7 amendment as “dangerous legislation that would usurp the right of states to set their own minimum standards for distributing permits to those who wish to carry a concealed gun,” even though the amendment would have CITIZENS required carriers to comply with the laws of the states in which they carried. “The Thune Concealed Carry Amendment would require states to recog- COMMITTEE nize permits issued in other states, even if those other states have far weaker FOR THE RIGHT laws,” declared the ad. TO KEEP AND Sen. Thune’s spokesman Kyle Downey said of Bloomberg’s anti-gun ac- tivity: “The fact that a guy who rides the New York subways with armed BEAR ARMS guards can tell the rest of America that they cannot defend themselves is (a non-profit corporation) absurd.” National Headquarters: “America must oppose this,” Snyder said. “We need all the help CCRKBA 12500 N.E. Tenth Place Members and indeed all Americans who believe in the individual Second Bellevue, Washington 98005 Amendment civil right to keep and bear arms can give us. We need the Capitol Hill Office: support of all who oppose the attempt by the New York City Mayor to use 1250 Connecticut Ave, N.W. ,#200 his wealth to subvert our freedom and to dictate national policy regarding Washington, D.C. 20036 our traditional right to acquire and use the means necessary to protect our lives and the lives of our loved ones from violent predatory criminals.” Page 2 September 2009 September 2009 Page 3 DOMESTIC TERRORIST ACTIVITY SOTOMAYOR CONFIRMATION DEMANDS CARRY RECIPROCITY A BLOW AGAINST GUN RIGHTS “Recent reports of domestic terror- Pro-gun Senators and others an- Jihad. Following this training, he al- When the United States Senate Members and Supporters who realize Amendment to support us.” ist activity underscore the necessity nounced immediately they would legedly fought in Afghanistan. confirmed the appointment of Judge this will give us their full support as While the anti-gun Brady Cam- for the individual Second Amend- continue to push for legislation that “This case is unfolding before the Sonia Sotomayor as an Associate we continue to battle for the civil right paign to Prevent Gun Violence hailed ment civil right of law-abiding Ameri- would authorize an individual with eyes of Americans and reminds Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court of law-abiding American citizens to the confirmation vote and crowed can citizens to keep and bear arms a state-issued CCW permit to carry in citizens of one simple fact: most last month by a vote of 68 to 31, it keep and bear arms.” that it could signal a new era for and for the right to carry concealed any state which issued such permits, U.S. elected officials appear to be approved a candidate who stated Stephen Dinan wrote in The Wash- control in America, an editorial in firearms,” John M. Snyder, CCRKBA in much the same way as state-issued oblivious to the continuing terrorist in confirmation hearings that she ington Times that, “After years of los- The Washington Times noted “a new Public Affairs Director, stated. drivers’ licenses are recognized threat, many of them showing more does not know whether or not an ing, gun control advocates say this Zogby poll suggests that things are “Qualified law-abiding citizens throughout the country. concern with the safety and security individual has a right to self-defense. week’s vote on confirming Judge a little more complicated. Zogby need to be able to carry concealed Based on reports regarding the of terrorists than that of the American Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, a Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme found that 52 percent of American firearms to protect themselves and activities of terrorists and their po- people.” CCRKBA Gun Rights Defender of the Court will be their long-awaited win voters would be against the reelec- their loved ones and the public in tential to murder or injure American Month, asked Sotomayor: “Do you that shatters conventional wisdom tion of any Senator simply because general if the need should arise,” citizens, it is important that pro-gun have a personal opinion, or can you and proves that the Second Amend- he supports confirming a Supreme he added. “The possibility that the Senators, Representatives and oth- give me your opinion, of whether ment is no longer the unstoppable Court nominee ‘who does not believe need may arise is a very real one. ers continue to promote national or not I personally, as an individual force of Washington politics.” in the right to keep and bear arms.’ It’s time for legislation to allow such concealed carry legislation as a self- citizen, have a right to self-defense?” Snyder said, “The right to self- Just 26 percent support that Senator.” carry across state borders.These protection measure. Sotomayor responded: “I --- as I preservation is basic to our nation. The editorial goes on to state that days, many people travel from state Jim Kouri, a CCRKBA Gun Rights said, I don’t know.” What is the purpose of government Brady President Paul Helmke “is to state and even across the country Defender of the Month, wrote for the John M. Snyder, CCRKBA Public if not the preservation of the rights of right to believe that Judge Sotomayor on a regular basis. Citizens’ ability to Law Enforcement Examiner about ter- Affairs Director, said, “The fact that individuals, especially the most basic is against gun ownership, and the carry should be commensurate with rorists in the U.S.. He’s a former chief a person of such ambivalence on so of rights, the right of self-preserva- Supreme Court is closely divided on this reality of modern life. People at a New York City housing project. fundamental an issue has been nomi- tion? We’ve got a long, hard struggle the issue. What the poll tells us is that should be able to protect themselves Now an official of the National Asso- “Straight talk about what you can do to ahead of us. We need help, and we’re Senators who voted for her should preserve your right to keep and bear arms.” nated and confirmed to the highest and their loved ones from violent ciation of Chiefs of Police (NACOP), court in the land shows what we’re relying on CCRKBA Members and all worry when their constituents find criminals of all types – including ter- Kouri noted that, “seven suspects up against. Hopefully, CCRKBA Americans who believe in the Second out about it.” “ rorists - wherever they are, and not have been charged with conspiring to Editor John M. Snyder Publisher Alan M. Gottlieb only in their state of residence.” provide material support to terrorists Managing Editors J. H. Versnel When the U.S. Senate this summer and conspiring to murder, maim and Dave Workman voted 58-39 for national concealed injure Americans overseas, accord- Associate Editors Tom Gresham HERE’S HOW SENATORS VOTED ON SOTOMAYOR Merrill Jacobs carry reciprocity, the vote showed ing to law enforcement officials in a Herb Stupp majority support for the concept. report to police organizations such Peggy Tartaro FOR: Collins (ME) Kohl (WI) Reid (NV) AGAINST Hutchison (TX) The vote came on an amendment as NACOP.” Joe Waldron Conrad (ND) Landrieu (LA) Rockefeller (WV) Inhofe (OK) offered by Sens. John Thune and Da- He reported the indictment in Akaka (HI) Dodd (CT) Lautenberg (NJ)] Sanders (VT) Barrasso (WY) Isakson (GA) Alexander (TN) Dorgan (ND) Leahy (VT) Schumer (NY) Bennett (UT) Johanns (NE) vid Vitter of Louisiana, both CCRKBA North Carolina alleged that one of the Baucus (MT) Durbin (IL) Levin (MI) Shaheen (NH) Brownback (KS) Kyl (AZ) Gun Rights Defenders of the Month. defendants “is a veteran of training POINT BLANK is published monthly Bayh (IN) Feingold (WI) Lieberman (CT) Snowe (ME) Bunning (KY) McCain (AZ) Senators had agreed ahead of time camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan by Citizens Committee for the Right Feinstein (CA) Lincoln (AR) Specter (PA) Burr (NC) McConnell (KY) to Keep and Bear Arms, Liberty Park, Begich (AK) that the proposal would be added to who, over the past three years, has 12500 N.E.