American Hunters and Shooters Association is telling gun owners not to worry, that Obama and Biden don’t want to impinge their right to own and use firearms. Unfortunately, AHSA is a Trojan Horse, a false front of gun-banners masquerading as supporters of firearms owners civil rights. The truth is out there…and here’s where to find it.

Rich Pearson is head of ISRA, the Illinois State Rifle Association. I’ve known him for years and he’s a good, honest man. He and his people have been fighting for years against Obama and his ilk on their home ground. Obama voted for all sorts of gun bans, and against a state resolution that would have offered some protection to good citizens who used their firearms in self-defense. You can read about it all HERE.

The NRA and its Institute for Legislative Action have finally brought out their hard-hitting TV ads exposing the truth about Obama and Biden and where they stand on (read, against) firearms owners’ civil rights. The Obama campaign is trying desperately to ban these ad spots. (Silencing your political opponents…now there’s some meaningful “political change.”) You can read about what’s going on, and see the ads, HERE

Meanwhile, the Missouri state administration has come down hard on the Obama campaign for its unethical attempts to silence criticism in other ways. See it HERE

The disingenuous campaign of disinformation by the Obama campaign has been frighteningly effective. The outdoors people seem to be much less behind McCain over Obama this year than they were behind Bush over Kerry four years ago.

Feel free to send these links to your friends and relatives who believe in freedom and civil rights.

Time is short.

It isn’t just that Obama and Biden are inimical to our rights as gun owners.

It’s also that they’ve lied to every single American citizen about their position on these issues.

Tom Gresham, who does the great GunTalk call-in radio show and Personal Defense TV (which will be on the Sportsman Channel and assorted other cable venues, instead of its old home on the Outdoor Channel, when its third season airs beginning next month) was doing an interview with Alan Gura, the masterful attorney who orchestrated the free people’s victory in the Heller decision.

It occurred to Tom that this was an occasion suitable for a fine commemorative firearm. He approached Paul Pluff, the public relations guru at Smith & Wesson, and Paul was as excited about the idea as Tom. The Second Amendment Foundation got into the act, and voila: the commemorative is here.

It’s a Smith & Wesson Model 442, the “hammerless” Centennial Airweight, a short barreled five-shot .38 Special revolver. It’s an excellent choice for concealed carry, and particularly apropos since Washington, DC is fighting the Supreme Court’s decision tooth and nail. The city’s initial response was that it would register only revolvers instead of semiautomatic pistols.

This neat little pocket-size gun would fit even DC’s registration standards. I can think of no better way to thumb one’s nose at anti-rights Washington mayor Adrian Fenty…and, God knows, some well-deserved nose-thumbing is certainly due in that direction.

I’ve been in New York since yesterday. It inspires awe to see the memory of the Pearl Harbor of my generation observed with dignity by the community that lived through it. Even McCain and Obama were here, setting aside their differences for the solemn occasion.

It was a time to remember the countless ordinary citizens who helped to save the lives of others that terrible day, and to reflect upon the sacrifices of the legion of public safety personnel who did not survive the disaster. I had dinner last night with Bill Allard, a plank holder on the famous NYPD Stakeout Squad. He and his famed partner Jim Cirillo were shot at many times, and sent many violent criminals to the morgue with deadly accurate return fire. When Stakeout was disbanded by a generation of city leaders who deemed shooting violent armed criminals to be politically incorrect, Bill transferred to the legendary Emergency Services Unit. Unique in American policing, the ESU is a high-risk unit that combined rescue work – digging victims out of subway crashes, getting jumpers off bridges and skyscraper ledges – with the function other cities called SWAT. Bill had been retired by the time 23 fellow ESU officers were killed in the collapse of the Twin Towers. He had spent yesterday at a unit memorial service for the ESU’s honored dead.

The firefighters, paramedics, and cops were the ones that charged into the danger as a sea of humanity fled from it. They and the many private citizens who saved lives on 9/11/01 wrote a chapter of courage and commitment into the pages of American history. One hopes that the magnitude of that single, cataclysmic incident will not obscure the fact that such sacrifices are made every day by the same kind of good people, in crises that are smaller in scope yet every bit as life-threatening.

May they always be remembered, and appreciated.