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 AL.COM 5 Hours Ago Alabama Senate votes to ignore federal gun laws that are in 'violation' of Second Amendment by  Kim Chandler MONTGOMERY, Alabama  - The Alabama Senate this morning voted 24-6 for a bill that would declare federal gun control laws to be null and void in Alabama if they were in "violation of the Second Amendment." Sen. Paul Sanford, R-Huntsville, said the law would put the federal government on notice that the state would not enforce "unconstitutional" gun control laws.  "They are not going to use our law enforcement resources to enforce their law that we believe is unconstitutional," Sanford said during the debate. Sanford said he sponsored the bill after receiving hundreds of emails and calls from constituents concerned about proposed gun control measures in Congress. "They are not going to use our law enforcement resources to enforce their law that we believe is unconstitutional" The bill states that "all federal...

 COLORADOPEAKPOLITICS.COM 7 Hours Ago SWEATING BULLETS: Are Colorado Democrats Worried About Gun Control Recall Campaigns? With the frequency of flailing attacks left-wing  Colorado Pols  has been throwing out lately against the impending recall campaigns of Democratic Senators Hudak and Morse and Representative McLachlan, you might begin to wonder if they doth protest too much. (Note to Michele Bachmann — it's not " protestest too much ") It makes you wonder if some on the left have polled the issue and are beginning to worry that a low-turnout recall election is more than just a minor annoyance. Should any of the petition drives succeed, a recall election would likely be very low turnout, which would favor the highly motivated voter — something that gun rights supporters pretty much personify. Of all the targets worrying about the recall drives, we're betting Senate President John Morse is the one most concerned. There are a couple of reasons for this: The threshold...

 NEWS MAX 6 Hours Ago Colorado Losing Outdoor Industry Over Gun Control Law by  Sandy Fitzgerald Gun makers and other outdoor-related businesses are considering leaving Colorado after state officials passed legislation restricting the sales of high-capacity magazines and requiring background checks for private and online gun sales last month. Companies such as Magpul Industries, which makes weapons components and gun magazines and HiViz Shooting Systems, a weapons optics maker have already announced plans to leave Colorado, and others may follow,  reports ABC News . "Legislation-wise, the outdoor community has no voice in Washington, D.C., said Atkinson." Eric Brown, a spokesman for Gov. John Hickenlooper, said the administration expected some companies to relocate and "we respect their decision to do so." Colorado has joined several other states in passing tougher gun control laws following high-profile shooting sprees, including one in their state, when a gunman k...

 WEASELZIPPERS.US 2 Hours Ago Gunmaker Sturm Ruger Credits Dems Gun Control Efforts With Pushing Sales To Record High Well done, Democrats. (Reuters)  – Gunmaker Sturm Ruger & Co Inc reported record quarterly sales after fears of new gun controls spurred demand, and the company said it was scouting for a third factory to boost production. "Strong demand from consumers, coupled with the current political climate, resulted in unprecedented levels of orders from retailers to distributors …" Shares of the company rose about 8 percent in extended trade. Sales jumped about 39 percent to $155.9 million in the first quarter from a year earlier. It rose 10 percent from the fourth quarter. Gun demand has been boosted in part by attempts to ban the sale of certain high capacity rifles and ammunition in the wake of the shootings at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut in December. "Strong demand from consumers, coupled with the current political climate, resulted in unpr...

 WESTERN JOURNALISM 9 Hours Ago Obama Regime will ban owners, not guns by  Doug Book While gun owners have been fixated on threats to ban "assault weapons" and virtually every other sort of semi-automatic rifle and pistol, Barack Obama and Regime gun confiscationists have quietly advanced a far more insidious assault on 2 nd  Amendment rights. In New York State , the thoroughly unconstitutional SAFE Act is responsible for the confiscation of Pistol Owner ID Cards (one needs a state approved ID Card to own a pistol in the Empire State) along with pistols themselves. And the gun owners currently being honored with this violation of their right to keep and bear arms "…have been discovered to have been prescribed …different types of psychotropic drugs, such as those for Depression or Anxiety." In short , "…unknown sources have seen fit to take it upon themselves to share confidential medical records with NY State Officials without authorization, a massive HIPPA vio...

 WASHINGTON EXAMINER 6 Hours Ago California teachers sue NEA over forced $1,000 union dues by  Paul Bedard Ten California schoolteachers on Tuesday sued the National Education Association and California Teachers Association to escape mandatory union fees in a case that piggybacks on a 2012 Supreme Court ruling against forced union dues. The teachers, represented by the Los Angeles-based Center for Individual Rights, claim that California's so-called "agency shop" law violates their free speech and free assembly rights and forces them to cough up $1,000 to pay for the union's mostly Democratic political activities. The law, also known as the "fair share" rule to get nonunion members to pay for union expenses, has long been under fire. But a 2012 Supreme Court ruling in Knox v. Service Employees International Union, which restricts how public unions can get money from nonmembers for political uses, appears to open the door to striking down the agency shop rule...

 THEGATEWAYPUNDIT.COM 7 Hours Ago Breaking Report: Israel Jets Bomb Syrian Weapons Compound – Israeli Soldiers Hold Border Training Exercises by  Jim Hoft Israeli Defense Forces held surprise military drills today near the Lebanon border with over 2,000 soldiers. Israel Hatzolah  posted a photo from the control room. Israeli Jets reportedly entered Syrian airspace and bombed a chemical weapons compound near Damascus this morning. The  UPI  reported: The Free Syrian Army says Israeli air force jets flew over President Bashar Assad's palace and bombed a chemical weapons site near Damascus, Maariv reported. The report said Israeli jets entered Syrian airspace close to 6 a.m Saturday and flew over Assad's palace in Damascus and other security facilities before striking a chemical weapons compound near the city. The Hebrew language daily said a Syrian army air defense battery positioned in the city fired at the Israeli jets, but the aircraft left Syrian airspace...

 GUNSSAVELIVES.NET 10 Hours Ago BREAKING: New Law – Guns Bought in Arizona Buybacks CANNOT Be Destroyed, Will be Sold to Public Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law yesterday a bill that would make the destruction of guns bought through government organizaed buybacks illegal. The wording of the new law requires that whenever a government sponsored gun buyback takes place the guns acquired must be publicly auctioned off, just like every other piece of non-evidence property. "This action by the governor is not only outrageous, but it is insensitive for us now to be putting these guns back on the streets" Proponents of the NRA backed law say that the buybacks were costing taxpayers a large sum of money by using government funds to purchase and destroy weapons. According to the AZDailySun.com , the law is not meant to completely remove the ability to destroy a gun in the state, but only to limit the use of government resources to do so. Proponents of the legislation said n...

 NEWS BUSTERS 6 Hours Ago CNN Covers Gay NBA Player Nine Times More In a Day Than It Did Gosnell In One Week by  Matt Hadro In just 24 hours, CNN spent over 76 minutes of air time on NBA player Jason Collins's announcement that he was gay. That was over nine times more coverage the network gave the Gosnell trial in one week. CNN's media critic Howard Kurtz  admitted  on Sunday that the media champion some stories more than others that also merit attention, and this was painfully evident in the amount of time network gave the two stories. Once Collins announced he was gay, the network breathlessly touted the news as "historic," "a big moment for our country," and "courageous." CNN's jubilation over Collins is no surprise given its support for same-sex marriage, but it couldn't muster even half of that air time to report the alleged horrors of Kermit Gosnell's abortion clinic. "But the fact is that this is the moment where we are in ...

 REDSTATE 6 Hours Ago Food stamps for illegal aliens by  John Hayward By: John Hayward   | April 30th, 2013 at 04:14 PM |  "FNS understands that mixed status households may be particularly vulnerable.  Many of these households contain a non-citizen parent and a citizen child." RESIZE: AAA There has been much controversy over the government's efforts to advertise welfare programs, particularly the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as the "food stamp" program.  Only they're not "stamps" any more.  The dependent masses of Food Stamp Nation get a little credit card, called an EBT Card, which they can use in the checkout lines, just like people who pay for their own food. In theory, this electronic processing of food stamp benefits should have provided a data-processing defense against abuse.  In practice, tales of outrageous abuse have only grown more common, as EBT cards are used to purchase everything from unheal...