A note to my fellow G&G members: I may have to drop out for a while, because I've changed jobs (we contracted out and my old job was given to some low-paid civilian), my family structure at home has changed (my daughter and her daughter moved back in), and I'm looking down the barrel of an Air Force Unit Compliance Inspection - the dreaded ORI, as it used to be known - early next year. So, if I can't hang around and bullshit like I used to, at least you'll know why.. Now, gotta get back to...

Attorney General Holder Reveals Aggressive Gun Control In Response to Ft. Hood Terror Attack

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Before the Senate Judiciary Committee November 18th, 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder revealed a stunningly broad and aggressive anti-gun agenda.

"The President of the United States asked that politicians not use the Ft. Hood attack to engage in 'political theater.' It appears those committed to attacking gun owners and the...

The people.

Straight up, it's the people. I love going through random threads looking for keywords, and all I find is a real community. I've seen some posts where a "newbie" will ask a question and an "senior" member will give the answer. It's awesome to see people help each other, but it goes beyond that. Later in the thread you can see the "newbie" starting to interact and joke with the other users. It's like being the new kid on the playground,...

From: NRA-ILA Daily Site Update and Reason.com (Part II)
The Supreme Court Takes on Guns, Again
As libertarian-leaning constitutional scholars Kimberly C. Shankman and Roger Pilon argued in a 1998 paper for the Cato Institute that examined, and attacked, the courts' long history of suppressing and ignoring the Privileges or Immunities Clause, the clause's purpose was to "mak[e] explicit the implicit connection between natural rights and constitutional government." And as Damon...

From: NRA-ILA Daily Site Update and Reason.com
The Supreme Court Takes on Guns, Again
Brian Doherty | Thursday, October 01, 2009 3:30 PM
"It has been only a year and a season since the Supreme Court shook the world of Second Amendment jurisprudence with the historical D.C. v. Heller decision. In that case, the court declared for the first time that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms against infringement by the federal government—at least commonly...