Just as it looked like the growing, recovered population of Western Great Lakes (WGL) gray wolves was going to be taken off the federally endangered species list and returned to state management, a new roadblock threatens long delayed delisting.  This time the hurdle is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) latest proposed Endangered Species Act (ESA) delisting rule inexplicably finding that there are now two separate wolf species roaming Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.  U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance Director of Federal Affairs Bill Horn, who is a former Assistant Secretary of the Interior in charge of the FWS and ESA,  joined Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources’ Secretary Cathy Stepp at a press conference last week to challenge the FWS’s two species proposal. Read more

A man legally carrying a concealed handgun thwarted an apparent assault early Saturday morning in Jackson by a woman armed with a tire iron.

The woman, 19, called 911 to report that a man pulled a gun on her, but she ended up going to jail instead, said Jackson police Sgt. Robert Jenks. Read more…

J&G Sales, Ltd. of Prescott, Arizona filed suit in Washington, DC federal court yesterday challenging the “demand letter” requirement placed on firearms dealers in Arizona, New Mexico, California and Texas by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE). The letter requires the names and addresses and serial numbers of all purchases of more than one semi-automatic rifle, with a detachable magazine, over .22 caliber, within a five-day business period.

Set to go into effect on effective with any purchase made on August 14, 2011 and “going forward” the regulation requires new ATF form (3310.12) be completed and returned to the ATF. The lawsuit challenges the regulation on the grounds that the ATF and the Justice Department have no authority to institute regulations without Congressional authorization. J&G Sales has been joined in the suit by the National Rifle Association.

By Glen Wunderlich

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that the Constitution protects an individual’s right to keep and bear arms in the historic District of Columbia v. Heller case, President Obama was on the wrong side of history, when he supported the self-serving “collective-rights” argument. Even though he had stacked the court with left-leaning likenesses in his image, the 5-4 decision came in favor of an individual who only wanted the right to defend himself. And, last year Obama and his Supreme Court puppets lost another battle against the common man, when the Supreme Court ruled that the federal right to keep and bear arms applies to states and local levels of government. But, these conclusive results are not about to stop the Obama administration from its quest to subvert the Constitution via a United Nations Arms Trade Treaty designed to trump our rights. Read more