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Gun owners deceived by Obama, as Holder reveals Gun Attack Plan: Gun rights group The National Association of Chiefs of Police (NACOP) is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit, tax exempt, educational association of command law enforcement officers within the United States, its territories and military forces. As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama 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, officials from the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said in a statement released to the National Association of Chiefs of Police.. CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, reacting to ongoing remarks by Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder that the president will seek to reinstate the ban on semi-automatic firearms, said Obama “knew he was lying to the nation because his own website touted his plan to revive the gun ban and make it permanent.” “We warned America that Obama’s ‘support’ for the Second Amendment was empty rhetoric,” he stated, “and now Holder’s disclosure has confirmed it. Obama was lying, and now gun rights may be dying.” Several times on the campaign trail, Obama told voters “I’m not going to take your guns away.” He said it at rallies in Duryea, Pennsylvania and in Boise, Idaho. He also told a news conference that “Lawful gun owners have nothing to fear… I think people can take me at my word.” “Right now,” said Gottlieb, “I wouldn’t take Obama’s word if he said it rains a lot in Seattle. Apparently, law-abiding gun owners have nothing to fear unless they own sport-utility rifles, semiautomatic shotguns, handguns and any other firearm that Obama and his anti-gun attorney general don’t like. “Thanks to Eric Holder, who has been far more honest than his boss about his anti-gun philosophy, it is now clear that the new president doesn’t support the Second Amendment at all,” he observed. “American gun owners should remind Democrats in Congress that the Second Amendment means what it says, especially when the president doesn’t.” There are also plans to start encoding ammunition with serial numbers in order to maintain records of ammo purchases and track the ownership of ammunition by legal gun owners. Several states have proposed legislation on ammo-control as does the US Congress, claims former police detective Michael Schnipes of New York. “Right now all of the efforts of our political leaders are focused on health care and the economy, but rest assured they will return to one of their primary goals — disarming the American people,” said Schnipes. Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he’s a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). In addition, he’s the new editor for the House Conservatives Fund’s weblog. Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty. He’s former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed “Crack City” by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He’s also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He’s a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He’s also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he’s syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He’s appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. To subscribe to Kouri’s newsletter write to COPmagazine@aol.com and write “Subcription” on the subject line.

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Would-be appointees quizzed on guns By: Jonathan Martin November 20, 2008 06:51 PM EST
President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team is asking potential appointees detailed questions about gun ownership, and firearms advocates aren’t happy about it. The National Rifle Association has denounced the move, which has already led one Republican senator to consider legislation aimed at ensuring a president can’t use an applicant’s gun ownership status to deny employment. It’s just one question on a lengthy personnel form — No. 59 on a 63-question list — but the furor over the query is a vivid reminder of the intensity of support for Second Amendment rights and signals the scrutiny Obama is likely to receive from the ever-vigilant gun lobby. Obama’s transition team declined to go into detail on why they included the question, suggesting only that it was done to ensure potential appointees were in line with gun laws. “The intent of the gun question is to determine legal permitting,” said one transition aide. But even some Democrats and transition experts are baffled by the inclusion of the question. Tucked in at the end of the questionnaire and listed under “Miscellaneous,” it reads: “Do you or any members of your immediate family own a gun? If so, provide complete ownership and registration information. Has the registration ever lapsed? Please also describe how and by whom it is used and whether it has been the cause of any personal injuries or property damage.” Paul Light, professor of public service at New York University, said there was no such question for potential appointees when President George W. Bush took office in 2000. “It kind of sticks out there like a sore thumb,” Light said. He expressed uncertainty over why it was included but surmised it was out of an abundance of caution, a desire to avoid the spectacle of a Cabinet-level or other high-ranking appointee who is discovered to have an unregistered handgun at home. “It’s the kind of thing that, if dug out, could be an embarrassment to the president-elect,” Light said. Clay Johnson, deputy director of management at the Office of Management and Budget and the head of Bush’s 2000 transition, also didn’t quite understand the purpose of the question. “It could be their way to say to prospects that they will have to answer all these questions sooner or later, so be prepared,” Johnson observed. Matt Bennett, a veteran campaign operative who did a stint at Americans for Gun Safety and who now works for the moderate Democratic think tank Third Way, was equally befuddled. “It strikes me as overly lawyerly,” he said, noting that only a small percentage of guns owned by adults are ever used improperly. Only half-joking, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) alluded to the shooting accident involving Vice President Dick Cheney, suggesting the query could be a better-safe-than-sorry measure. “Given the behavior of the vice president under the last administration, you may want to know these things,” Ryan said. On a more serious note, Ryan suggested that the new president was being “very, very thorough” in his approach. An Obama ally and pro-gun Democrat from a blue-collar region of Ohio, Ryan dismissed the notion that the inclusion of such a question would do any political harm to the incoming president. But other gun rights supporters want Obama to know the question has raised their antennae. “It’s very odd and very concerning to put out a question like that,” said Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), adding that it may also be “unprecedented.” The freshman senator, who is up for reelection in 2010, had his campaign organization send an e-mail to supporters this week, pledging to enact legislation to bar federal hiring discrimination on the basis of gun ownership. “Barack Obama promised change, and this is proof positive that we are going to see some of the most liberal change in our nation’s history,” wrote DeMint’s campaign in the e-mail. DeMint conceded it was unrealistic to try to get a bill on the matter through during the lame duck session this week. Still, it’s the sort of symbolic issue that may provide a political opening for Republican members of Congress from conservative-leaning states to contrast themselves with the new Democratic administration. “I want him to know that we’re looking for areas we can work with him but also looking for areas of concern that we want to let him know we’re going to fight on,” DeMint said. The NRA, the gun-rights group that spent millions to defeat Obama, only to see him easily carry sportsmen-heavy states such as Michigan and Pennsylvania, is signaling that it intends to keep up the fight. “Barack Obama and his administration are showing their true colors and true philosophy with regard to the Second Amendment,” said Chris Cox, the NRA’s top political official. “It shows what we’ve been saying all along — this guy doesn’t view the Second Amendment as a fundamental constitutional right.” Cox said the group had put the word out to their members on the question. Bennett, though, argued that approach would have little resonance. “The real question is whether he’s doing harm to the broader image of Democrats on guns, and the answer is probably no,” he said. “It may gin up 350,000 hard-core NRA types, but it won’t really bother 65 million other gun owners.”
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NOBAMA AND GUN RIGHTS

On the Second Amendment,
Don’t Believe Obama!

On the campaign trail, Senator Obama hides behind carefully chosen words and vague statements of support for sportsmen and gun rights to sidestep and camouflage the truth. But even he can’t hide from the truth forever… his voting record, political associations, and long standing positions make it clear that, if elected, Barack Obama would be the most anti-gun president in American history. The facts speak for themselves. This election day, vote to defend freedom…because if Obama wins, you lose.

THE FACTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES:

• Obama voted to ban hundreds of rifles and shotguns commonly used for hunting and sport shooting
  Illinois Senate, SB 1195, 3/13/03

• Obama endorsed a ban on all handguns
  Independent Voters of Illinois/Independent Precinct Organization general candidate questionnaire, 9/9/96
  Politico, 03/31/08.

• Obama voted to allow the prosecution of people who use a firearm for self-defense in their homes
  Illinois Senate, S.B. 2165, vote 20, 3/25/04

• Obama supported increasing taxes on firearms and ammunition by 500 percent
  Chicago Defender, 12/13/99

• Obama voted to ban almost all rifle ammunition commonly used for hunting and sport shooting
  United States Senate, S. 397, vote 217, 7/29/05

• Obama opposes Right-to-Carry laws
  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 4/2/08, Chicago Tribune, 9/15/04

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On the Second Amendment,
Don’t Believe Obama!

On the campaign trail, Senator Obama hides behind carefully chosen words and vague statements of support for sportsmen and gun rights to sidestep and camouflage the truth. But even he can’t hide from the truth forever… his voting record, political associations, and long standing positions make it clear that, if elected, Barack Obama would be the most anti-gun president in American history. The facts speak for themselves. This election day, vote to defend freedom…because if Obama wins, you lose.

THE FACTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES:

• Obama voted to ban hundreds of rifles and shotguns commonly used for hunting and sport shooting
  Illinois Senate, SB 1195, 3/13/03

• Obama endorsed a ban on all handguns
  Independent Voters of Illinois/Independent Precinct Organization general candidate questionnaire, 9/9/96
  Politico, 03/31/08.

• Obama voted to allow the prosecution of people who use a firearm for self-defense in their homes
  Illinois Senate, S.B. 2165, vote 20, 3/25/04

• Obama supported increasing taxes on firearms and ammunition by 500 percent
  Chicago Defender, 12/13/99

• Obama voted to ban almost all rifle ammunition commonly used for hunting and sport shooting
  United States Senate, S. 397, vote 217, 7/29/05

• Obama opposes Right-to-Carry laws
  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 4/2/08, Chicago Tribune, 9/15/04

“…just because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can’t constrain the exercise of that right…”

Barack Obama, 2008
Philadelphia primary debate