Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 6:00 PM
Subject: Freedom Times, Issue no. 83
| | September 2012 | | GOP Adopts Strongly Pro-Gun Platform | | By NRA Institute for Legislative Action
As each party does every four years as part of their national conventions, this week, the Republican Party adopted its platform detailing the general beliefs and policy positions of the party...
Read this | | Democratic Party Platform: Reinstate Assault Weapons Ban | | By Charlie Spieringr, Washington Examine
Democrats are calling for a reinstatement of the assault weapons ban in the 2012 Party Platform, citing their belief that the right to own firearms "is subject to reasonable regulation."...
Read this | | Profiles in Cowardice: The 2012 Obama Platform | | By Chris W. Cox, NRA Institute for Legislative Action
President Obama is running from a crime scene. Rather than acknowledge the deadly truth about how the anti-gun policies he promoted as a state senator have utterly failed the good people of Chicago, Obama is hoping that a not-so-subtle change in the Democratic Party platform will sweep it all under the rug...
Read this | | Exclusive: Fast and Furious IG Report Slams ATF Phoenix Personnel | | By Sharyl Attkisson, CBS News
The Inspector General (IG) draft report on Fast and Furious heaps blame on the Phoenix-based staff of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) according to those familiar with the document...
Read this | | Attorney General Holder Agrees to Present Tucson Shooting Signatures to President Barack Obama | | By Associated Press
More than a dozen survivors and family members from the 2011 shootings in Tucson, Ariz., that wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords have outlined for Attorney General Eric Holder their campaign to stem gun violence...
Read this | | Gun Restriction Appealed | | By Sean O'Sullivan, Wilmington News Journal
A bill intended to ban features allowing the quick reloading of semiautomatic assault weapons has been blocked from proceeding to a vote in the Legislature...
Read this | | California Fish and Game Commission Rejects Proposed Expansion of Lead Ammo Ban | | By NRA Institute for Legislative Action
In a victory for hunters and sport shooters, on August 8, the California Fish and Game Commission rejected a proposal to expand the existing ban on the use of lead ammunition that applies to hunting in certain parts of California...
Read this | | Preparing Today for Success on Election Day | | By NRA Institute for Legislative Action
The engine that drives the NRA machine is you…and your tens of millions of fellow Second Amendment supporters. What should you be doing TODAY to ensure success on November 6? Here are some suggestions...
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