Newspapers shoot down gun classifieds By Jon Dougherty

[TheRealLobo]

Thursday, June 19, 2003
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Newspapers shoot down
gun classifieds
By Jon Dougherty
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Posted: June 19, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern

Thanks to pressure from a group claiming it is concerned about the safety and well-being of citizens, a number of newspapers have opted to stop carrying classified advertising involving guns, much to the dismay of gun-rights advocates.
The latest newspaper to cave to pressure from the National Campaign to Close the Newspaper Classified Ad Loophole, according to Editor & Publisher magazine, a newspaper industry publication, is the Houston Chronicle.

According to the campaign's website, such action is needed because "the unregulated sale of firearms through classified ads in newspapers poses a potential threat to all Americans. …"


More here. (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33146)

[Timberwolf]

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"If a nearly-total gun ban in England, an island, has only resulted in a huge increase in violent crime involving firearms, what will gun control – private or public – short of a ban be able to accomplish?"...

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Well, DUH!!

Then again, no one ever accused these lefties of being intelligent.

[ducktapehero]

I'm just glad that American gun owners are beginning to open their eyes and seeing what is happening. When Bill Klinton blamed the NRA for clearing out congress in 94 I'm sure that caused a great many anti-gun politicians who kept their jobs to back off on that issue or they might too face a similar fate. I'll tell you one thing, if they think the last civil war was bad just wait and see what happens when they try to disarm 80 million armed Americans.