A contractor at the air traffic control center serving Chicago started a fire there and then attempted suicide, shutting down air traffic at both O\u2019Hare and Midway.\u00a0 Thousands of incoming\/outgoing flights were disrupted, with the effects rippling outward from this key airline hub.<\/p>\n
Thus, as you might imagine, actual turnout at the Gun Rights Policy Conference was well down from the 731 who were pre-registered, but the \u201cshow did go on.\u201d\u00a0 Today, Sunday, Tom Gresham will be broadcasting his GunTalk radio show live from the conference and continuing thereafter with interviews with participants.\u00a0 The regular GRPC speech schedule will run 9 AM to 1:00 PM, after which they\u2019ll hold an ad hoc grassroots workshop through the rest of the afternoon.<\/p>\n
This was a big focus of Saturday\u2019s presentation, with several of the state-level gun owners\u2019 civil rights organization leaders sharing the advances and setbacks \u201con the ground.\u201d\u00a0 Any such effort can be \u201ctwo steps forward, one step back,\u201d but we are winning here: it seems to this observer that the state-level activists are getting way more than two steps forward for every one step back, with significant victories being scored even in battleground states such as California, Connecticut, New York, and Maryland.<\/p>\n
Julianne Versnel and others involved at the International level briefed us on the dangers of certain treaties currently ongoing. On the national front, we were briefed by superstar Second Amendment lawyer Alan Gura on several cases both won and ongoing which can ultimately impact all law-abiding gun owners.\u00a0 Professor John Lott detailed the misinformation coming out of the Bloomberg organization, fifty million dollars worth of twisted propaganda disguised as fact, which goes far beyond their notoriously listing a dead terrorist shot by police as \u201ca victim of gun violence.\u201d\u00a0 Microstamping, smart guns, universal background checks that would lead to de facto registration, and other Trojan Horses were dissected.\u00a0 The dangers of \u201cgun-free zones\u201d were delineated.<\/p>\n
Stephen Halbrook ran out of copies of his new book (though I ordered a copy). His talk focused on the research for that book, \u201cGun Control in the Third Reich.\u201d This authoritative resource will make a great companion text to the work of the late Aaron Zelman at Jews for Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO).<\/p>\n
Speaking of which, the taking over of JPFO by Second Amendment Foundation, which along with Citizens\u2019 Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms hosts the GRPC, was announced to strong applause.\u00a0 A new board for JPFO has been constituted, and plans are in place to make that organization stronger than ever. More on this shortly in a future blog entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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