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Ranchemp.'s JournalThe Gun Lobby's Stealth Assault on Small-Town America
"Once in a blue moon we get these kinds of letters from activist organizations," says Ryan Spiegel, vice president of the Montgomery County chapter of the Maryland Municipal League and a member of the Gaithersburg city council. What felt different this time, he says, was the coordinationand the timing: Just a month earlier, the Maryland Senate had passed some of the country's toughest gun control measures in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
The letters came from the Second Amendment Foundation, a prominent pro-gun legal-defense organization, as part of a quiet but mounting campaign to strike down local gun laws across the country. So far, SAF has sent out about 425 letters to cities, towns, and counties in Maryland, Oregon, Virginia, and Washington and has announced plans to target hundreds more local laws.
Though they may be obscure and not always enforced, local gun laws have become low-hanging fruit for anti-gun-control activists since Sandy Hook. The strategy rests on the legal concept of "preemption," which restricts local lawmakers' authority to regulate firearms beyond what's in state law. For more than 30 years, the National Rifle Association and other pro-gun groups have successfully lobbied for preemption laws nationwide: In 1979, 7 states had them, but today, 45 do. Some states, such as Alabama, Idaho, and Maine, make exceptions for local restrictions on when and where people can shoot; some, like California, let localities control where and how guns are sold. All of them, however, set some limits to municipalities' ability to regulate guns, and that's where the Second Amendment Foundation comes in.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/gun-laws-second-amendment-foundation
xposted from the other group.
Military Details on NJ Woman.
The New Jersey waitress whose story has been questioned after she claimed she received an anti-gay note instead of a tip on a restaurant bill was dishonorably discharged from the Marines last spring after she stopped showing up, NBC 4 New York has learned.
Dayna Morales, a server at Gallop Asian Bistro in Bridgewater, had posted a photo on Facebook earlier this month showing the bill with a line through the tip area. The photo of the receipt showed someone had written, "I'm sorry but I cannot tip because I do not agree with your lifestyle."
A New Jersey couple came forward to NBC 4 New York and said this week that the receipt was theirs but that they had left a tip and did not write a note, suggesting it was used for a hoax. The handwriting, they said, was not theirs, and they also supplied what they said was a credit card statement showing they were charged for the total plus the $18 tip.
NBC 4 New York learned Wednesday from a Pentagon source that Morales was dismissed from the Marine Reserve Corps in May because she wasn't attending drills. It wasn't immediately clear how often those drills were held, and Morales did not respond to a request for comment
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/53683016#.UpeT7sKA3fu
Not looking too good for this waitress at this point.
Trayvon's Amendment
http://www.trayvonsamendment.com/X-posted from the other gun control site as I've been blocked from there.
Even gun control advocates are disagreeing with this.
I'm having a bad day.
My Gummy Bear died
My Unicorn ran away
My imaginary friend has been kidnapped
On top of everything else, the voices in my head won't even talk to me
Damn, I must be going sane.
Breaking: Douglass, Kansas: School Bus Drives Off Bridge with 11 People Inside
Source: Fox News.
Butler County, Kansas, a school bus has gone off of a bridge and several children and driver are in the water.
No link yet.
A school bus drove off a bridge near Douglass in Kansas on Thursday with 11 people inside.
The bus went off a bridge at 190th and Hopkins Switch, Butler County dispatchers said.
The students have escaped but the driver is trapped; water rescue teams are en route, reported KFDI.
There is at least one injury.
The bus is believed to be from the Douglass school district.
Story developing; check back for updates
Read more: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/338138-douglass-kansas-school-bus-drives-off-bridge-with-11-people-inside/
Ok all you 1/4 mile race fans,
who was your favorite quarter miler back in the day, and don't forget to add pictures.
My favorite Funny Car driver was Ed "The Ace" McCulloch.
and then my favorite Top Fuel Dragster was Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney.
and, of course, the old quarter miler wheel standers, non were better than "Wild" Bill Shrewsberry in his L.A. Dart.
Notice the engine was mounted behind the driver.
So, come on old time gearheads, let's see whatcha got.
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