Knox e-Update

[AlertsList at FirearmsCoalition.org (Firearms Coalition)]

In this update:

  Progress and Possibilities
  1. A Call to Arms: National Training Week
  2. National Park Gun Ban Repealed - Eventually
  3. Neal Knox Book Scheduled for July 4 Release
  4. Olofson Appeal Rejected
  5. Relief for Veterans on the Way
  6. Hard Corps Report Celebrating 25 Years
  7. Sign Up Today and Receive $99.95 Firearms Inventory Software



  *Attention** **Ranges** and Clubs: A Call to Arms!*

**July 4 marks the inauguration of a new event, National Training Week. 
National Training Week is an opportunity for experienced shooters and
gunowners to share their knowledge with newcomers.  During the week
between July 4 and July 11, ranges and gun clubs all over the country
will host events and offer special deals geared to new shooters. 
            If your local range or club is not planning something
special for National Training Week, why not?  Participation can be as
elaborate or as simple as your resources allow.  Many commercial ranges
are offering free gun rentals and inviting local certified instructors
to make themselves available for some basic instruction.  Private clubs
are opening their gates to the public and asking members to bring a few
extra guns they don't mind sharing.  Some stores are offering ammo
specials and some are teaming up with local clubs to offer free ammo to
new shooters, and "demo" guns to let people try different ones.  If
you're a gun dealer and you haven't been approached by your local club
seeking your support and assistance for this national event, take the
initiative and reach out to them to encourage them to get involved. ..
_*Read more here*_
<http://www.firearmscoalition.org/new/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id
=383&Itemid=1>


 


  National Park Gun Ban Repeal Signed and Delayed

    Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) is pledging to attach his National Park
gun ban repeal amendment to every bill that comes through the Senate
until the repeal is enacted.  This after President Obama and the
Interior Department declared that the repeal passed and signed into law
this week will not go into effect for another 9 months.  The delay is
based on the fact that the underlying bill, a credit card reform
measure, has a delay built into it to allow credit card companies to
adapt to the new rules.  The National Park Service need no such
adjustment period, particularly since a similar regulation was adopted
last year and then set aside by a federal judge.  It is clear that the
Obama administration is forcing the delay out of spite toward gunowners
and the "gun lobby."
    The Coburn amendment is actually a substantial improvement over the
regulatory reform adopted by the Bush administration late last year. 
Under the Bush administration regulations only licensed concealed
weapons were permitted in the parks, but under the Coburn amendment
National Parks and Wildlife Refuges fall under the laws of the states in
which they are located just as Forest Service and Bureau of Land
Management lands have done for decades.
 


  Neal Knox Book Scheduled for July 4 Release

     The long awaited compilation of many of Neal Knox's best and most
useful writings is finally at the printer's and will soon be available
for delivery.  Chris has worked hard to put together a good selection of
Dad's works to provide readers with a sense of where the fight for our
rights has been and where it's going.  We should have an order form on
the web site soon.  See the *cover copy here*
<http://www.firearmscoalition.org/new/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id
=382&Itemid=1>.



  *The Ammo Drought**
  *

(May 6, 2009) Where has all the ammo gone?  That's a common refrain
these days and not just in a few places, but all across the country. 
The answer is simple and complicated, but it's not part of a nefarious
plot hatched up by Washington politicians.  Ammo supplies got thrown out
of kilter as a result of military action in Iraq and Afghanistan and
several former Warsaw Pact nations transitioning to NATO caliber arms. 
Some sources of military surplus ammo have been drying up under a UN
agreement to "de-militarize" (read destroy) surplus ammo rather than let
it into the open market.  During the same period the costs of metals for
components, particularly lead and copper, started climbing... _*Read
more here*
<http://www.firearmscoalition.org/new/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id
=381&Itemid=37>_


 


  Olofson Appeal Rejected by 7th Circuit

    David Olofson's appeal of his conviction for illegally transferring
a machinegun was rejected by the Federal Court of Appeals for the 7th
Circuit on May 1.  The court took Olofson's challenges one by one and
rejected each as not having been a clear factor in his conviction. 
Those arguments, when considered together should have been sufficient to
give Olfson a new trial at a minimum, but the court took the arguments
in a progression which, as each argument was dismissed, made the next
argument irrelevant.  The decision is a travesty which once again proves
that our court system is not about justice, but rather about
technicalities and traditions.

    So David Olofson remains in a federal facility while his baby
daughter and two other children know him more from pictures than
presence - just because he loaned out a rifle that malfunctioned.  This
decision by the 7th Circuit is just simply wrong.  

To read *the court's decision click here. *
<http://www.firearmscoalition.org/new/images/stories/appeallost.pdf>


  *Relief for Veterans on the Way*

        A veteran protection bill has bee favorably referred out of the Senate 
Veterans' Affairs Committee and is now pending action by the full Senate.  The 
bill, sponsored by Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), makes it clear that only vetera
ns who have been found to be a danger to themselves or others are subject to ha
ving their right to arms revoked.  The bill goes on to require that anyone who'
s rights were revoked without such a legal finding must have their rights immed
iately restored.  The NICS Reform Bill passed last year was supposed to accompl
ish many of the same goals of this new legislation, but these reforms have not 
been seen and veterans continue to be denied their rights without any semblance
 of due process.  Senator Burr is optomistic about the bills chances of navigat
ing through both houses and across the President's desk - especially in light o
f the Coburn Amendment repealing the National Parks gun ban.
        Write your Senators and ask them to cosponsor and support S-669 the Vet
erans Second Amendment Protection Act.



  *25th Anniversary of The Firearms Coalition Coming Up*

        If you didn't receive the March/April issue of /The Knox Hard Corps Rep
ort/, don't be left out; it's still available.  The next issue is being schedul
ed to hit on July 4, the 25th Anniversary of /The Knox Hard Corps Report/ and T
he Firearms Coalition and we're planning something special for that issue so if
 you aren't currently a subscriber, contact us right away to be sure you don't 
miss it.  Always stay up to date with the latest news and analysis by maintaini
ng your financial support to The Firearms Coalition.  We can set up an automati
c contribution to draft off of your credit card monthly, quarterly, bi-annually
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