Second Amendment News Roundup for 8/6/07

Here is today's Second Amendment News Roundup:

The McCarville Report has a prediction of a major Republican pollster concerning the 2008 Presidential election:
http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/2007/08/mcferron-sees-prsident-hillary-clinton.html

A Keyboard and a .45 has a range report from the weekend. He met a fellow blogger (Traction Control) for some shooting:
http://akeyboardanda45.blogspot.com/2007/08/range-report.html

Alphecca has a report on a great concert by rocker and gun-rights activist Ted Nugent:
http://www.alphecca.com/?p=324

Trouble Ain't Over blogs on Sean Penn's latest anti-American antics with his good buddy Hugo Chavez of Venezuela:
http://pribek.net/2007/08/03/sean-penn-and-friend/

Red's Trading Post reports that the ATF has shut down the 2nd oldest gun shop in the state of Idaho:
http://redstradingpost.blogspot.com/2007/08/another-atf-casualty.html

Blogonomicon makes a very important point about guns and registration:
http://blogonomicon.eponym.com/blog/_archives/2007/8/5/3140483.html

The War on Guns reports three new developments at Red's Trading Post:
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2007/08/three-developments-from-reds.html

Of Arms and the Law points to a news story about a man in Florida who used his gun to defend himself against carjackers:
http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2007/08/selfdefense_in.php

Snow Flakes in Hell has an interesting news item on Canada's continuing debate on the issue of handguns:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=1216

The Bitch Girls have a post entitled, 'Never Enough Guns':
http://www.thebitchgirls.us/?p=7236

Nicki at The Liberty Zone has an interesting post on Rudy Giuliani's stance on guns--a stance which, in fact, is entirely inconsistent:
http://libertyzone.blogspot.com/2007/08/giuliani-for-president.html

Xavier Thoughts has the story on the police officer from Noble, OK, who shot a little boy while firing at a snake. If you or I had done this, we would be in jail. What about 'we're the only ones'?:
http://xavierthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/08/noble-oklahoma-first-shot-was-so-loud.html

Gun Law News is reporting that H.R. 2640 has made it out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Contact your Senators NOW about this bill. This is the McCarthy bill that was proposed in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings, which the NRA supports but the GOA opposes:
http://www.gunlawnews.org/Federal-Politics/hr2650080307-3.html

The Volokh Conspiracy alerts us to a great organization, the St Gabriel Possenti Society, which is a gun-rights advocacy group named after a heroic Catholic seminarian who rescued the town of Isola, Italy from bandits in 1860. The Society promotes St. Gabriel as the Patron Saint of Handgunners:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_07_29-2007_08_04.shtml#1186228784

John Lott gives some much-deserved recognition to a man who stopped a robbery of a bank in Bessemer, Alabama, but who died on his job this weekend:
http://johnrlott.tripod.com/2007/08/some-recognition-for-permit-holder-who.html