NRA Supports Lawsuit Challenging the Obama Administration’s Multiple Sales Reporting Requirement

The National Rifle Association is fully funding and supporting a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s demand that Federal Firearms License holders report multiple sales of long guns in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas. The lawsuits filed assert that the ATF lacks statutory authority to demand these reports.

NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action Executive Director Chris W. Cox has long expressed skepticism for the motivation and the timing of this ATF effort. “This is a bait-and-switch scheme by an administration and a bureau frantically trying to distract lawmakers and the general public from the deadly 'Fast and Furious' debacle. This is a serious problem with deadly consequences, yet the Obama administration wants you to believe it can deter $40 billion transnational criminal enterprises by imposing paperwork requirements on honest American firearms dealers. This scheme will unjustly burden law-abiding retailers in these four border states. It will not affect drug cartels and it won't prevent violence along our borders. It will only divert scarce law enforcement resources from legitimate criminal investigations and squander them on policing law-abiding retailers.”

In a time when every federal agency is under intense budget pressure, the ATF estimates that this new reporting requirement will force it to review more than 18,000 additional documents annually. That's in addition to dealers' real-time reports of suspicious transactions-which the ATF, in the "Fast and Furious" operation, handled by telling dealers to proceed with the sales.

FFLs in these four border states began receiving tersely worded demand letters from the ATF that read:

You must submit to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) reports of multiple sales or other dispositions whenever, at one time or during any five consecutive business days, you sell or otherwise dispose of two or more semi-automatic rifles capable of accepting a detachable magazine and with a caliber greater that .22 (including .223/5.56 caliber) to an unlicensed person. You are required to report all such sales that occur on or after August 14, 2011. You must continue reporting multiple sales for the rifles subject to this demand letter until we provide written notice to stop.

The NRA filed separate complaints in the District of Columbia, New Mexico and Texas challenging the administration’s demands.

Spiderman is black, and hispanic?!

Marvel’s Ultimate Fallout #4 features the first appearance of the new Spider-Man, Miles Morales after good old Peter Parker was killed off.

 

“Spiderman (sic) now to be Half Black, Half Latino and Gay?” wonders the Christian Post. “Is The New Spiderman (sic) Gay?,” Instinct wants to know. “Marvel Comics reveals the new Spider Man is black – and he could be gay in the future,” declares the Daily Mail.

Marvel never said Miles is gay, nor did they hint at it, and in fact they've confirmed that he is NOT. It appears the rumor started due to a misreading of a quote from USA Today’s reveal “Maybe sooner or later a black or gay — or both — hero will be considered something absolutely normal,” so yeah, Spidey may be blacktino, but he isn't gay.

 

Earth's second moon

Earth may once have had a tiny second moon that was destroyed when it crashed into the other, larger moon, according to a new study.

Erik Ausphaug of UC Santa Cruz and Martin Jutzi at the University of Bern, Switzerland, say that the second moon was around 750 miles wide, and had only 4% of the primary moon’s mass.

The second moon may have sat in the Earth’s orbit at a Trojan point where the gravity of the Earth and the Moon balance out to keep objects relatively stable. (note One of the Earth’s two Trojan points is now occupied by a recently-discovered asteroid, read about it HERE)

Go read about it HERE

News Corp's 'The Daily' Has Its Own News-Gathering Aerial Drone, Which Is Drawing FAA Inquiries

Alright, news agencies spying on you, spy agencies spying on you, druglords spying on you... hrmm... not cool. The FAA raises an eyebrow at News Corp’s unmanned spy drone.


 

The U.S. military has drones, lots of them if the daily reports coming in from Afghanistan and Pakistan are any indication. And a handful of law enforcement groups--though less than would like--have a drone or two at their disposal. But on the domestic, non-security front, drones live a in a regulatory gray area. Hobbyists can use them, but commercial entities are not supposed to employ drones for any kind of monetary gain, says the FAA.

Nonetheless News Corp’s The Daily has a news gathering drone aircraft that it’s been flying around, and the FAA is investigating that use to ensure that it complies with all of the nebulous FAA regulations that kind of exist regarding private drone usage.

See the rest of the article HERE