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Sesame Street/NRA-ILA Contribution Tie-In
Something for the "Oh, for pity's sake!" file from the Philadelphia Daily News. What I love is the way the newsies twist it around to where Elmo's threatening someone…
NRA -Sesame Place tie draws gun-foes' fire
By GLORIA CAMPISI
campisg@phillynews.com 215-854-5935
Put the gun down, Elmo.
That's the war cry of gun-control advocates after learning that a National Rifle Association Web site is offering discounted tickets to Sesame Place and other kid-friendly theme parks – in return for donations to the NRA's political arm, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA).
"This is a very strange thing, the connection between guns, the NRA and Sesame Place," said Bryan Miller, executive director of Ceasefire NJ. "It looks to me like a PR nightmare."
"There is no conflict of interest by having the theme-park tickets available," said NRA spokeswoman Ashley Varner.
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OSHA Undoing the Ammo Industry?
The most important question concerning the recent up-scuttle over proposed Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations which would have made manufacturing, transporting, and sale of ammunition and components virtually impossible is: How did it get so far without anyone noticing?
National Exercise Your Rights Day
Buy a Gun on August 28! (August 18 Update Attached Below)
In honor of the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “March on Washington” for civil rights, The Firearms Coalition is joining with other gun rights groups to declare August 28 “National Exercise Your Rights Day.”
Publishing CCW Lists
Our friends at Buckeye Firearms Association, responding to the Sandusky Register publishing a list of Ohio CCW holders by publishing the personal information of the reporter under whose byline the story appeared. Read about it at http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/article3823.html. "What harm coul possibly come from publishing those lists?" "Doesn't the public have a right to know?" Well, there are examples of real harm. We have to wonder where exactly the public interest crosses the line into intrusion.
NSSF: OSHA Rules Threaten Firearms Industry
This is from the National Shooting Sports Foundation. This is only the latest attempt to attack firearms via the regulatory route. The poster child of this tactic is the various attempts (the most recent that I'm aware of was in 1999) to put the Consumer Product Safety Commission in charge of firearms.
Update: See also http://www.firearmscoalition.org/new/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=42&Itemid=37
Proposed OSHA Regulation Threatens
Firearm and Ammunition Industry
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the government agency charged with assuring the safety and health of America's workers, is proposing a regulatory rule affecting the manufacturing, transportation and storage of small arms ammunition, primers and smokeless propellants. Continue reading NSSF: OSHA Rules Threaten Firearms Industry