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Grassroots Alert: Vol. 22, No. 35 9/4/2015

Foster Family Loses Children for Exercising Second Amendment Right
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Foster Family Loses Children for Exercising Second Amendment Right
According to a report by local NBC affiliate KSNV, back in April the couple awakened to the sound of screaming on their property. Rod reacted by retrieving a handgun, as Kristi called 9-1-1. Police quelled the situation. However, authorities were alerted to the fact that the Bebers own guns, and in July their foster license was revoked. According to DFS, “the incident did not describe an adult exercising sound judgment.”
Publicly-Subsidized Housing Complex Disarms Elderly Burglary Victim, Cites Lease Violation
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Publicly-Subsidized Housing Complex Disarms Elderly Burglary Victim, Cites Lease Violation
Publicly-Subsidized Housing Complex Disarms Elderly Burglary Victim, Cites Lease Violation Sixty-seven-year-old Harvey Lembo’s residence had been burglarized four times, he told the Bangor Daily News, so the wheelchair-bound senior finally obtained a handgun. He noted he had learned to shoot one in his youth while serving as a police officer.  The purchase came none too soon, according to local media accounts. Hours after obtaining the handgun, the Portland Press Herald reported, Mr. Lembo was awakened around midnight by a 45-year-old intruder apparently intent on stealing the retired lobsterman’s prescription painkillers.  “[P]etrified” and “scared he was going to come at me,” Mr. Lembo fired. The round struck the intruder in the shoulder. After police apprehended the suspect, they determined he was still serving a sentence for a felony domestic violence conviction. “It was horrifying,” Mr. Lembo told the Press Herald. “I don’t want to shoot anybody.”   
Women Too Weak to Defend Themselves With Guns?
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Women Too Weak to Defend Themselves With Guns?
Anti-gun activist Leah Gunn Barrett, the executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, must have never read Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People. Breitbart reports that on Al Jazeera TV, Barrett saidthat women shouldn’t be allowed to carry firearms for protection on college campuses, on the grounds that “Women are not physically powerful like men are. A gun could easily be turned on the woman, and it is frequently.”
Honolulu Gun Destruction Reveals Radical Gun Control Agenda
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Honolulu Gun Destruction Reveals Radical Gun Control Agenda
Several weeks ago we alerted NRAILA.org readers that the City of Honolulu and the police department were intent on destroying over 2,300 used firearms worth an estimated $575,000, rather than raise revenue by selling them to lawful purchasers. Since then, Hawaii has continued to move forward with the planned destruction.  
Unhinged: Antigun Group Seeking to Provoke Confrontations Between Police, Lawful Carriers?
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Unhinged: Antigun Group Seeking to Provoke Confrontations Between Police, Lawful Carriers?
The cracks are showing at the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.  Granted, it can’t be easy for them these days. Overall rates of violent crime are down. Americans are embracing the right to keep and bear arms and rejecting calls for gun control at historic rates. Gun control standard bearer Barack Obama has utterly failed to advance antigun legislation through Congress and occasionally sounds resigned to defeat. Gun sales have soared to record highs in recent years. Worst of all for them, the NRA’s approval rating tops those of prominent gun control politicians.
Study:  Criminals Don’t Get Guns From Legal Sources
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Study: Criminals Don’t Get Guns From Legal Sources
Numerous studies conducted by academic researchers and by the federal government have shown that criminals do not use legal markets to obtain guns. And now we have more evidence of this reality, this time looking at criminals in Chicago.  
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STATE GRASSROOTS ROUND-UP

Alabama Alabama
Alabama: Pro-Gun Reforms Take Effect September 1, 2015
California California
California: One Week left in the 2015 Legislative Session
Illinois Illinois
Illinois: State Police Will Not Remove Anti-Gun Rules, Your Comments Needed
Kansas Kansas
Kansas: Walk-in Hunting Access Program Receives Federal Grant
Mississippi Mississippi
Mississippi: Second Annual Sales Tax Holiday on Firearms, Ammunition & Hunting Supplies
New York New York
Sportsmen's Association for Firearms Education Presents the 2015 Firearm Civil Rights Conference
Virginia Virginia
All eyes will be on Virginia's elections this fall
 
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