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• Fun is the target at shooting event
The New York State Muzzleloaders Association is holding its annual spring shoot and campout this weekend at the Elbridge Rod and Gun Club. Shooters will begin setting up camp today at the club, located off Laird Road in Jordan. Competition is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. Muzzleloading enthusiasts from throughout the state are expected. Both primitive and modern guns are welcome.
• Writers' safari, New York style
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the New York State Outdoor Writers Association's Annual Safari, this year held in St. Lawrence County. The hub for the gathering was Basswood Lodge and Hunting Preserve near Rensselaer Falls. I've been friends with the Forsythe family, who own and run the operation, for many years. So the four-day visit was special in two ways: I was able to network with my fellow outdoor media members, while spending time with my friends, the Forsythe's.
• Anatomy of a home invasion
Merrily Ottomanelli stood yesterday by her kitchen door and pointed to a fist-sized dent from a shotgun blast that left her Coram home splattered with the blood of an armed teenager who police said broke into her home.
• DEC Re-Opens Application Period for Second Round of Habitat/Access Funding Grant
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Pete Grannis today announced that DEC is re-opening the application period for proposals for grants that will fund projects aimed at improving fish and wildlife habitat and public access for hunting, fishing, trapping and other fish and wildlife related-recreation and study. As a result of a procedural error with advertising the request for proposals in the New York State Register, DEC is required to extend the application period for the Habitat/Access Stamp Grants. Applications that were received by the Department in the first call for grants will also be considered in this application period.
• Group looking for champions of the outdoors
Do you know of someone who has been a champion of the outdoors? Don't be shy, or modest. Perhaps you are such a person. If so, the New York State Outdoor Writers Association would like to hear from you.
• State primary date in limbo
Imagine getting ready to run a road race. You really want to win, but no one has told you where the starting line is or when the gun will go off. For that matter, you don't know where the finish line is, either. A nightmare worthy of Freud? No, it's a bad dream that's been lived daily by potential office seekers, political parties and election boards across New York state since the state Legislature began talking about moving the date of this year's primary election from Sept. 11 to Sept. 18.
• Tenant shoots suspect during home invasion
Shots were fired during a daring broad daylight burglary attempt Tuesday. Police say the incident happened on Sharon Avenue, where a tenant opened fire at a burglary suspect.

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• Click Here for News Relating To McDonald v. Chicago
News stories and press releases on the oral arguments before the Supreme Court in the McDonald v. City of Chicago case.
• Illinois: Springfield area lawmakers support Right-to-Carry
Springfield area lawmakers share the same opinion about whether the public should be allowed to carry concealed handguns. They approve.
• Virginia: Lt. Gov. Bolling: 'kill bill' panel creation broke Senate rules
Yes, Democratic leaders in Virginia's Senate broke the rules when they killed a bunch of gun rights bills in a specially formed subcommittee. And, no, there's not a thing anybody can do about it. The controversy began when Senate Majority Leader Richard Saslaw (D Fairfax) and Courts of Justice Chairman Henry Marsh (D Richmond) created a special subcommittee to consider several gun bills passed by the Republican controlled House, including an attempt to repeal Virginia's ban on buying more than one handgun a month.
• Indiana: Governor signs Right-to-Carry privacy bill
Gov. Mitch Daniels has signed into law a bill that will keep gun permit information secret in Indiana. Under House Bill 1068, which Daniels signed into law today, the information submitted to obtain or renew a license to carry a handgun is confidential. General information, such as the overall numbers of permits issued in an area, can be released for academic and journalistic studies, under the bill.
• Illinois: Suburban gun store owners expect sales to surge if Chicago's ban falls
Gun retailers, who got a boost when President Barack Obama took office, are hoping to get another one from the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court is widely expected to strike down Chicago's 28 year old handgun ban this summer, following the court's 2008 decision to overturn a similar ordinance in Washington, D.C. Suburban gun store owners anticipate the court's next move will uncork pent up demand for firearms within Chicago city limits.
• South Dakota: Legislature rejects worker's rights bill
A measure that would have made it legal for people to bring a firearm in a locked vehicle onto their workplace parking lot will not move forward to the House floor for a vote.
• Illinois: Gun advocates push for concealed carry
Advocates may have a shot at seeing legislation pass allowing Illinois residents to carry concealed firearms. Almost 8,000 people marched to the State Capitol in Springfield on Wednesday, which was Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day.
• Maryland: Several gun control bills proposed
The House and Senate heard nearly two dozen gun related measures in Annapolis on Thursday. Supporters of the Second Amendment right to bear arms are crying conspiracy. They claim committee chairmen in both the House and Senate decided to hold hearings on gun legislation on the same day and at the same time to divide and conquer their opposition. They are particularly concerned with bills that tighten the rules for the sale and transfer of fire arms.
• The New York Times vs. Virginia gun rights
If you want to know how obsessed The New York Times is with gun control in Virginia, take a look at the Web version of its story on John Patrick Bedell, the ill fated Pentagon shooter. In one of its first stories on the subject, the writers shoe horned the gun control issue into it to no seeming purpose. Of course, the Times did have a purpose: slapping the backward yahoos down South.
• Canada: Long-gun registry must end
As many Canadians are aware, there has been a long debate over the registration of long guns, and strong opposition to the previous Liberal government's long gun registry. This opposition grew when the auditor general reported the costs of the Liberal program had reached at least $1 billion. That's why last May I introduced Bill C 391 to end the long gun registry. The bill passed second reading in the House of Commons.
• Germany: President calls for stricter gun control
German President Horst Koehler on Thursday said Germany's gun laws were still too lenient. "Both houses of parliament and the governments of all German states must bring the process of toughening our gun laws forward,"
• The NRA outshoots Obama
The National Rifle Association has a higher mean approval rating among likely voters than Barack Obama. This and other fascinating facts emerged from the Democracy Corps/Third Way national security survey released this week.
• Registering guns in Maryland
Maryland politicians should be focusing on the state's budget crisis. Instead, some lawmakers are wasting the remaining days of the legislative session to pass more gun control laws. These efforts to limit freedom should be shot down.
• Right-to-Carry in Starbucks
If you want to have a nice, relaxing cup of coffee in a safe environment, try Starbucks. The coffee shop chain, generally known for environmentalist chic, is probably one of the safest places to hang out these days for a reason that doesn't fit its image Starbucks is letting customers openly carry guns in its stores. Americans thus can enjoy their rights and wash them down with a Frappuccino.
• Tennessee: Right-to-Carry in restaurants passes first hurdle
A new attempt to let handgun permit holders take their weapons into establishments selling alcohol easily cleared its first legislative hurdle Wednesday over objections from a group representing restaurants. The bill (HB3125) is intended to remove objections to a law approved last year that was subsequently struck down by a Nashville judge as too vague. Sponsor Rep. Curry Todd, R Collierville, makes it clear that guns are allowed in all establishments serving alcohol unless every entrance is posted by the owner with a sign prohibiting them.

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