A well regulated militia being necessaary to the security of a free state,
the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
text of the Second Amendment
via CBS News Investigates:December 7, 2011 1:44 PM
Documents: ATF used "Fast and Furious" to make the case for gun regulations
(Credit: CBS)
Documents obtained by CBS News show that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) discussed using their covert operation "Fast and Furious" to argue for controversial new rules about gun sales.
PICTURES: ATF "Gunwalking" scandal timeline
In Fast and Furious, ATF secretly encouraged gun dealers to sell to suspected traffickers for Mexican drug cartels to go after the "big fish." But ATF whistleblowers told CBS News and Congress it was a dangerous practice called "gunwalking," and it put thousands of weapons on the street. Many were used in violent crimes in Mexico. Two were found at the murder scene of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
ATF officials didn't intend to publicly disclose their own role in letting Mexican cartels obtain the weapons, but emails show they discussed using the sales, including sales encouraged by ATF, to justify a new gun regulation called "Demand Letter 3". That would require some U.S. gun shops to report the sale of multiple rifles or "long guns." Demand Letter 3 was so named because it would be the third ATF program demanding gun dealers report tracing information.
On July 14, 2010 after ATF headquarters in Washington D.C. received an update on Fast and Furious, ATF Field Ops Assistant Director Mark Chait emailed Bill Newell, ATF's Phoenix Special Agent in Charge of Fast and Furious: read here
via the New York Post:
January 22, 2012 By LARRY CELONA
Arrested guy’s the real SEAL
His story about being a Navy SEAL wasn’t so fishy after all.
The Virginia man arrested for gun possession in Manhattan Thursday and thrown in a psych ward when he claimed to be a member of the elite military unit but couldn’t provide proof was telling the truth, The Post has learned.
Shaun Day, 29, was on a two-week leave when cops harpooned him for running a red light at 12:30 a.m. at Second Avenue and East 26th Street.
When cops searched his pickup truck, they discovered a 9mm semiautomatic and three ammunition clips.
During the arrest, Day was rambling incoherently and harped that he was a SEAL — but had no proof for cops.
He claimed he was an elite commando with “top- secret clearance,” cops said.
Sources told The Post the Navy sent staffers to talk to Day in Bellevue Hospital, where he was undergoing a psychiatric evaluation.
“He was released [Friday] in their care, and they were going to treat him for post-traumatic stress,” a source said.
The charges against Day of weapons possession and a traffic violation have been deferred.
SEALs, the Navy’s Sea, Air and Land teams, are credited with killing Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in May. read here
MARINES RALLYING AROUND FORMER PFC ARRESTED FOR TRYING TO CHECK GUN AT EMPIRE STATE BUILDING
Posted on January 16, 2012 by Buck Sexton
Ryan Jerome risked his life for his country and was honorably discharged for his service, but now New York City wants to throw him in jail for what seems to be an honest mistake.
Jerome carried his handgun — a.45 Ruger legally registered in Indiana — into notoriously 2nd-amendment-averse New York City. During a visit to the Empire State Building, Jerome tried to check his weapon with authorities on September 27th, and is now facing over three years in jail.
Before arriving in NYC, Jerome checked online with his phone to determine if his Indiana carry permit was reciprocal with New York, but had problems with his cell phone.
His Leatherneck brethren are outraged at what appears a heavy-handed miscarriage of justice, and they refuse to let one of their own go down without a fight.
According the the New York Post, Jerome said that “It is just overwhelming, the love and support I am receiving from my fellow Marines.” Jerome was a former private first class (PFC) who was a TOW gunner before his honorable discharge in 2005. He comes from a long line of marines — his father and grandfather both served in the Corps.
It has not been lost on the public that a man who is both highly trained with weapons, and highly trusted by Uncle Sam, would now face several years in prison for an honest mistake with absolutely no negative outcome. Nobody was injured, nothing was damaged — it does not appear that anyone at the site of the incident was even particularly alarmed.
Dave Bruce, a former Marine himself and Boston lawyer, is putting together an online campaign through leatherneck.com that, according to the NY Post, “will send its first 14 e-mails to Kelly, Mayor Bloomberg and DA Cyrus Vance today.” There is also a Facebook group that supports Ryan Jerome’s release.
There have been a number of tourists arrested in NYC for gun possession in recent months, spurring analysts and onlookers across the country to wonder how it is possible that a city government can, in their view, so blithely abrogate the 2nd Amendment and threaten citizens with years of imprisonment. read here
via NRA-ILA
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