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(GunReports.com) -- President Obama's well-intentioned Sunday essay on gun rights in a Tucson newspaper demonstrates that he — and probably his entire administration — remains confused about firearms safety and gun control, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said Monday.

(GunReports.com) - President Obama, congressional Democrats and the nation's mayors appear to be working in tandem to 'fix the nation's broken background check system.' They also want to 'close the loophole' that allows private sales of guns between individuals, according to CNSNews.com.

(GunReports.com) -- President Barack Obama had a bylined op-ed in the Arizona Daily Star on Sunday. In it, he creates a fictional number of additional deaths attributable to guns since the Tucson shooting, suggests that gunowners ignore gun violence (we see it and want to protect ourselves from it!), blames states for shortfalls in the FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) system rather than the federal government's implementation. But the real laugher is this: 'Third, we should make the system faster and nimbler. We should provide an instant, accurate, comprehensive and consistent system for background checks to sellers who want to do the right thing, and make sure that criminals can't escape it.'

(GunTests.com) -- Rabbi Dovid Bendory, the Rabbinic Director for the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, has written an open letter to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg questioning his 'blatant disregard [for] the Second Amendment.

(GunReports.com) -- From the GOA: Within the next 90 days, Congress will vote on whether to reauthorize legislation to specifically allow the government potential access to millions of gun records (4473s).

(GunReports.com) -- New GunReports.com Videos: 1: Kevin Winkle of GunReports.com reports from SHOT Show 2011 in Las Vegas on the S&W MP22 handgun. This pistol is a joint project between Smith & Wesson and Walther, and is made in Germany. 2: Small arms instructor and AMU reserve shooting team member SFC Chris Hansen discusses trigger control and how to improve it. He says that shooters tend to ‘get hard’ on the trigger, or jerk it. The drill he discusses will improve trigger control without having to shoot the rifle. 3: The National Shooting Sports Foundation's 'Introduction to Range Safety and Etiquette' is an 8 minute video that rules of gun safety, eye and ear protection, range rules, and more.

(GunReports.com) -- The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms will hold a special event featuring the rolling 'Guns Save Lives' billboard on Wednesday between 10 and 11 a.m. at the Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel, 7707 NW 103rd Street in Hialeah Gardens.

(GunReports.com) -- The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today that Attorney General Eric Holder's call for the Justice Department's inspector general to examine the 'Project Gunrunner' scandal is 'exactly what we called on him to do more than a week ago.'

(GunReports.com) -- An on-going attempt by the Associated Press to obtain the names of 1.3 million Illinois gun owners is nothing more than an effort to violate their privacy and expose them to possible harassment, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

(GunReports.com) – U.S. Congressmen Dan Boren of Oklahoma and Denny Rehberg of Montana have successfully amended H.R. 1, the Fiscal Year Continuing Appropriations Act for FY2011, to prohibit the use of federal funds for a new and unauthorized regulation currently being proposed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). The Boren-Rehberg amendment prevents the ATF from circumventing the will of Congress by centralizing records of thousands of Americans’ rifle purchases without any legal authority.

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