David Codrea

Obama Memorials Bury Fast And Furious Law Enforcement Deaths

by DavidCodrea May 16, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- President Obama, as keynote speaker in yesterday’s 31st Annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service held by the Fraternal Order of Police on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol, elected not to address law enforcement lives lost in the Fast and Furious “gunwalking” scandal.While the name of Border Patrol [...]

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Issa Invites Questions While Staffers Ignore Them

by DavidCodrea May 15, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., addressed apparent stonewalling by the Republican leadership in pursuing a contempt of Congress citation against Attorney General Eric Holder on last night’s “On the Record” with Greta Van Susteren. Although Holder has not produced subpoenaed documents and information demanded [...]

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Gun Rights LettersTo Editor Contest Winner Selected

by DavidCodrea May 11, 2012 AmmoLand

AmmoLand Gun NewsUSA –(Ammoland.com)- Judges turned out to be secondary to chance in selecting today’s winner of the Gun Rights Examiner letters to the editor contest, first announced one month ago in this column. In the end, three finalists split one vote from this correspondent and one each from fellow judges, Seattle Gun Rights Examiner [...]

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Big Hollywood Interviews Fast And Furious Documentary Producer McNulty

by DavidCodrea May 10, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- An accomplished filmmaker trying to raise funds to produce a documentary on the Fast and Furious “gunwalking” scandal got a big boost Tuesday when the project was featured on the Breitbart.com “Big Hollywood” website.“Colo.-based Michael McNulty has been watching the media give scant attention to the scandal, one which [...]

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Brian A. Terry Memorial Act Creates Political Dilemma For Obama

by DavidCodrea May 9, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “Legislation to honor fallen Border Patrol agent Brian A. Terry unanimously passes U.S. Senate,” a May 9 press release from the Office of Congressman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., announces.“The Brian A. Terry Memorial Act, sponsored by Issa with nearly seventy bipartisan cosponsors, will rename the United States Border Patrol Station [...]

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Issa Sends Justice Dept. Contempt Draft To Supportive Democrats

by DavidCodrea May 8, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- House Oversight Committee on Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., sent a letter today to Jason Altmire, D-Pa., and 31 House Democrats who wrote to President Obama in June, 2011 “to express serious concerns” about the administration’s response to the Fast and Furious “gunwalking” scandal. Copied on the letter [...]

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Republican ‘Young Guns’ Solicited Democrats To Support Anti-Gun Lugar

by DavidCodrea May 7, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “Senate’s Most Anti-gun Republican in Trouble in Indiana,” a May 5 Gun Owners of America email alert advised.“The most anti-gun Republican in the U.S. Senate, Dick Lugar, recently fell ten points behind in the polls to 100% gun rights supporter Richard Mourdock,” GOA reported in anticipation of tomorrow’s primary.While [...]

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Does Obama Really Plan To Ease Weapons Export Rules?

by DavidCodrea May 4, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “The Obama administration is crafting a proposal that could make it easier to export firearms and other weapons to certain countries in an effort to boost sales for U.S. companies, increase trade and improve national security, according to senior government officials,” Sari Horwitz of The Washington Post reported Wednesday.“The [...]

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Origins Of Fast And Furious Story Important For Media To Get Right

by DavidCodrea May 3, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) has distributed a staff briefing paper and draft of the contempt of Congress resolution against Attorney General Eric Holder to Members of the Oversight Committee,” a May 3 press release from Frederick R. Hill Director of Communications for the [...]

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CBS Intentionally Violated Posted Gun Show Rules In Phony Undercover Stunt

by DavidCodrea May 3, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “‘Bullet Button’ Used To Get Around California Gun Laws,” CBS 5 San Francisco reported Tuesday.“CBS 5 went undercover to a recent gun show at the Cow Palace in Daly City and found ‘California legal’ assault rifles throughout,” they claim.It’s a non-story, really, as their undercover team found nothing illegal—they [...]

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Gunwalker Documentary Producer Introduces Project To National Radio Audience

by DavidCodrea May 2, 2012 AmmoLand

AmmoLand Gun NewsUSA –(Ammoland.com)- Emmy-winning producer Mike McNulty joined Armed American Radio host Mark Walters and this correspondent Sunday evening to bring the nationally-syndicated program’s audience news of his proposed “Blood on their Hands” documentary about the government’s “Fast and Furious” gunwalking cover-up. Introduced to Gun Rights Examiner readers in an April 25 report, McNulty [...]

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EXCLUSIVE: The End Game

by DavidCodrea May 1, 2012 AmmoLand

AmmoLand Gun NewsFor some time now, particularly after changing their name from Handgun Control, Inc., the Brady Campaign has been assuring Americans they don’t want to ban guns.The idea of a “slippery slope” is something they ridicule as “gun lobby” paranoia. They acknowledge since the Heller decision this will be an unlikely goal (for now), [...]

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Bill O’Reilly Perpetuates Fast And Furious ‘Screw Up’ Meme

by DavidCodrea May 1, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “There are threats that Attorney General Eric Holder may be cited for contempt in this case,” Fox News host Bill O’Reilly said last night in reference to the Fast and Furious “gunwalking” scandal. Citing a CBS News Freedom of Information Act request for Department of Justice documents from Holder [...]

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Schimel’s Anti-Gun Rant Shows Desperation For Relevance

by DavidCodrea April 30, 2012 AmmoLand

AmmoLand Gun NewsUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “Assemblyman Karim Camara and I were joined Friday by state lawmakers, family members who lost loved ones to gun violence, and community leaders in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to shed light on the gun lobby’s undue influence in New York State and called on it to help stop the shooting that is [...]

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Feinstein Continues To Misrepresent Mexican Gun Tracing Numbers

by DavidCodrea April 27, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- New ATF Data Proves Overwhelming Majority of Guns Recovered in Mexico Come from U.S.,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., claimed yesterday in a press release. “Between 2007-2011, 68.5 percent of recovered weapons were of U.S. origin; more must be done to stop firearms trafficking to Mexico,” she declared.The senator is [...]

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‘Blood On Their Hands’ Seeks To Document Truth About Fast And Furious

by DavidCodrea April 25, 2012 AmmoLand

AmmoLand Gun NewsUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “We have launched our new film project ‘Blood on their Hands,” COPS (Citizen’s Organization for Public Safety) Productions CEO Mike McNulty writes in an email to friends and supporters introducing an effort to fund and produce a documentary on government misdeeds resulting in Operation Fast and Furious “gunwalking” crimes.McNulty is a [...]

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Trucker Accidentally Transporting Ammo To Mexico Highlights Inequity In Laws

by DavidCodrea April 24, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “Mexican federal prosecutors will press charges against the U.S. trucker who may have accidentally crossed into Juárez with 268,000 rounds of ammunition last week, a source familiar with the investigation said Monday,” the El Paso Times reports today.The driver, who took a wrong turn and ended up on the [...]

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Democrats Acting As Democrats Despite Herald Democrat Hype

by DavidCodrea April 23, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “Close to 50 Democrats gathered Saturday at the Grayson County Courthouse for the party’s county convention. Part of the message seemed to be a focus on not on acting as Democrats, but as Americans,” Jonathan Cannon of the Herald Democrat would have us believe in a Sunday report filed [...]

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Katie Pavlich ‘Fast And Furious’ Book Acknowledges Efforts By Others

by DavidCodrea April 22, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “In Interviews, Author Doesn’t Credit Reporters Who Broke Fast and Furious,” M. Catherine Evans of American Thinker posted today.She’s referring to Katie Pavlich’s media tour promoting her new book, “Fast and Furious,” and specifically to work by this correspondent, Mike Vanderboegh of Sipsey Street Irregulars, and Seattle Gun Rights [...]

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‘Authorized Journalist’ Mindset Misses Core Principle Behind Right To Arms

by DavidCodrea April 20, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says the United Nations should adopt a treaty giving everyone on the planet the right to bear firearms,” the Associated Press reported today, citing the GOP presidential candidate’s address last week at the National Rifle Association annual meeting in St. Louis.The left-leaning The Daily [...]

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‘Gunwalker’ Suspect Gave ATF And Border Authorities Plenty Of Clues Amidst Lies

by DavidCodrea April 19, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- From his hospital bed in Birmingham, Ala., Mike Vanderboegh of Sipsey Street Irregulars has obtained a copy of the Department of Justice Report of Investigation of the incident where an ATF agent let a surveilled suspect with prior arrests go, after giving him a $10 bill with her phone [...]

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Gunwalker Johnny-Come-Latelies Helping To Give Holder An Escape Route

by DavidCodrea April 18, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash added his name to the chorus of legislators demanding Attorney General Eric Holder resign over Operation Fast and Furious,” The Daily Caller reported Sunday.“On Monday, Texas Republican Rep. Randy Neugebauer joined the surge in demands for Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation over Operation Fast [...]

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Bloomberg Reeks Of Hypocrisy On ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws

by DavidCodrea April 12, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called for the nationwide reform or repeal of Stand Your Ground laws today at an event in Washington D.C. to announce the Second Chance on Shoot First campaign,” ABC News reported yesterday.“Let’s call that by its real name, vigilantism,” the mayor told the [...]

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Holder Continues Tradition Of Selective Prosecution

by DavidCodrea April 11, 2012 AmmoLand

AmmoLand Gun NewsUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “These acts were almost certainly criminal,” an April 10 editorial in The Washington Times says, citing Florida law regarding threats by the New Black Panthers against George Zimmerman.This follows publication of a letter in The Daily Caller on Monday by a Zimmerman family member asking Holder why he is not prosecuting [...]

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Is Uncertified ‘Top Philly Cop’ Breaking Gun Laws He’d Break Us For?

by DavidCodrea April 5, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “He carries a gun, he displays a badge, he wears a uniform, but Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey is not a certified police officer, technically speaking, and shouldn’t be armed, badged and uniformed,” Stu Bykofsky reported last month on Philly.com.Dismissing a violation of Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes as “a loveably Philly [...]

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Sloppy Mainstream Reporting On Basic Gun Facts Points To Pervasive Failure

by DavidCodrea April 4, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- Police seized some guns in Nashua, NH, writer Carl Bussjaeger noted over the weekend on Bear’s Blog.“At least two papers and a TV station are carrying the story on their web sites,” he explained. “Notice that I used the singular form of ‘story’ despite multiple venues. All three ‘reports’ [...]

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Why Did Prosecutors Drop Gun Charge Against Defiant Prohibited Person?

by DavidCodrea April 3, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “Homer ‘Tank’ Wright says he’s happy prosecutors dropped charges filed against him after he shot a suspected burglar last week,” The Chicago Tribune reported Monday.A burglar had broken into the 80-year-old tavern owner’s property through a bathroom window at 4 a.m. Awakened by the noise, he confronted and shot [...]

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Hutaree Case Illustrates Justice Department Double Standard

by DavidCodrea March 28, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “A federal judge acquitted seven members of the Hutaree militia Tuesday of the most serious charges following six weeks of testimony in a high-profile terror case,” The Detroit News reported yesterday.On the second anniversary of the Hutaree arrests, U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts granted a defense motion to acquit [...]

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Is Call To Investigate New Black Panthers Doomed From The Start?

by DavidCodrea March 27, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “As a concerned citizen, I call on you to direct the FBI or other appropriate elements within the Department of Justice to obtain necessary subpoenas and search warrants to begin an investigation immediately,” I wrote yesterday in an open letter to Attorney General Eric Holder regarding a bounty offered [...]

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Should People Rush To Judgment On Mississippi State Shooting Death?

by DavidCodrea March 26, 2012 AmmoLand

AmmoLand Gun NewsUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “Mississippi State officials reassure public campus is safe after fatal shooting,” DJournal.com reports.“John Sanderson, 21, of Madison…a first-semester transfer, Sanderson was shot multiple times outside a dorm room,” the report tells us.Additionally, we learn “‘a person of interest’ had been identified and that a gun was recovered on campus after the [...]

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Will Indiana Gun Owners Let GOP Establishment Foist Lugar On Us All Again?

by DavidCodrea March 21, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- Six-term senator Richard Lugar, R- Ind., is facing a challenger in the May primary. As the longest-serving senator in Indiana history, the third most senior senator, and the most senior Republican (albeit Orrin Hatch disputes that), Lugar may become president pro tempore of the Senate should he secure the [...]

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Mask Coming Off Coordinated Administration Deception On Guns

by DavidCodrea March 19, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- “We need to do this every day of the week and just really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way,” then-U.S. Attorney Eric Holder advocated in a 1995 C-SPAN video that surfaced over the weekend on Breitbart.com and has since gone viral in the gun [...]

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Veteran Agent: Feinstein Did Not Act On ATF Abuse, Corruption Evidence

by DavidCodrea March 15, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., was informed of management corruption and abuse issues at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) before allegations of “gunwalking” surfaced, but opted to do nothing about it. That allegation comes from veteran Special Agent Vince Cefalu, who recently informed Gun Rights Examiner [...]

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Blogger Vanderboegh Recovering From Surgery

by DavidCodrea March 14, 2012 AmmoLand

Gun Rights Examiner David CodreaUSA –(Ammoland.com)- BIRMINGHAM, Ala. —“Doctors managed to do what the government could not—temporarily silence me,” Sipsey Street Irregulars blogger Mike Vanderboegh told Gun Rights Examiner by phone this morning from the intensive care unit at Trinity Medical Center.The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance blog reported yesterday that Vanderboegh, the [...]

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Researchers Say Don’t Count On Constitution To Stop Arms Trade Treaty

by DavidCodrea March 13, 2012 AmmoLand

AmmoLand Gun NewsUSA –(Ammoland.com)- MANASQUAN, N.J. — “There is a widespread misunderstanding on the part of American gun-owners, evidenced in gun blogs and in commentaries on articles dealing with the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT),” researchers Paul Gallant, Sherry Gallant, Alan Chwick and Joanne D. Eisen report in an AmmoLand paper filed yesterday.“The crux of this [...]

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