Second Amendment News Roundup for 4/15/08

Focusing on guns and politics, here is today's Second Amendment News Roundup:

Mike McCarville has the MUST-read of the day from 'The Hill,' and it seems Barack Messiah Obama has placed the gun issue at the forefront of the campaign:
http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/2008/04/thanks-to-obama-guns-now-top-issue.html

JR got him some 'long boolits' courtesy of the brown truck:
http://akeyboardanda45.blogspot.com/2008/04/brown-truck-of-happiness.html

Michelle Malkin reports that the fallout from Obama's 'Pennsylvanians are toothless ignorant yahoo gun-totin' Bible thumpin' hooligans' is spreading like wildfire:
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/04/15/cracker-quiddick-fallout-continues-to-haunt-snobama/

Roberta X takes apart, phrase by phrase, the Obama 'Pennsylvanians are hayseed, hillbilly, tobacco spittin', moonshine nippin', pew-jumpin', in-breedin' morons with guns' statement:
http://twowheeledmadwoman.blogspot.com/2008/04/no-obama.html

The Buckeye Firearms Association says that the Democrat candidates have essentially sent one clear message to gun owners--'you are bitter and stupid':
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/node/5587

John Lott blogs on the landmines Obama faces this fall if the Dems are dumb enough to give him the nomination:
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2008/04/land-mines-that-obama-faces-this-fall.html

Lott also writes about the political mess at the Federal Election Commission, created by none other than, you guessed it, Congressional Democrats:
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2008/04/political-mess-at-fec.html

I pine for the days when Sam Walton was alive and running the show at Walmart. The company today has betrayed nearly all of the values dear to Sam, including gun rights. When Walmart starts taking its marching orders from the likes of Mayor Bloomberg, something is terribly wrong. Sebastian has the story:
http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/04/15/time-to-zumbo-wal-mart/

FreedomSight reports this good news--25,000 students who support concealed carry on campus:
http://freedomsight.net/?p=2437

Now this is what we've been lacking in this campaign so far--details, details, details. Well, John McCain has them in his new economic proposal that is far-reaching and workable. The Volokh Conspiracy presents the McCain plan:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_04_13-2008_04_19.shtml#1208278051

The War on Guns reports that Nickelodeon has an opportunity for kids to appear on Nick News to talk about their support for gun rights:
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2008/04/nick-wants-your-kids.html

Breda has some good reading today entitled, 'A Grandmother's Gun':
http://thebredafallacy.blogspot.com/2008/04/grandmothers-gun.html

Squeaks says it like I like it on the fiasco of ethanol production and its effect on food prices:
http://www.squeakywheelseeksgrease.com/blog/2008/04/15/wake-up-people/

Robb Allen reminds us this is BAG--Buy A Gun Day:
http://blog.robballen.com/archive/2008/04/15/BAG-day.aspx

Golly gee-wa-wa!! Uncle has some hot chics with guns!:
http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2008/04/15/chicks_and_guns-37/

FYI...Alan at Blogonomicon will be missing in action for about a month. He and the family are moving, and they have to be out of the house by Friday:
http://blogonomicon.blogspot.com/2008/04/latest-word.html

Born Again Redneck has an interesting read on the 600 earthquakes in 10 days that have occurred off the Oregon coast. Thus, the Oregon coast is under a tsunami warning:
http://bornagainredneck.blogspot.com/2008/04/600-quakes-in-past-ten-days.html

David Hardy at Of Arms and the Law reports that the Philadephia District Attorney has advised that the city's new anti-gun ordinances are illegal:
http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2008/04/philadelpha_da.php

Gun Law News has info on a highly dangerous bill sitting in a subcommittee in the Senate (probably just waiting for Obama or Hillary to get elected):
http://www.gunlawnews.org/Analysis/hr2666041508-2.html