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29 July 2010 Gun News Headlines
Thursday, 29 July 2010 03:46 | Author: GND Staff |
California open-carry event risks arrest. One month after McDonald. 4th Republican throws support to Kagan. Arizona concealed gun law starts today. India gun laws trigger debate. Guns in parks not a bad thing. House votes to protect guns from creditors. And more...
- California: Redondo Beach open-carry event risks arrest - Story
- One month after McDonald: The state of the Second Amendment - Story
- Oregon: Sheriff appeals ruling on CCW denial for medical marijuana user - Story
- Kagan's Snowe job on gun rights. 4th Republican announces support - Story
- Arizona's concealed firearms law starts today - Story
- Yellowstone bear attack underscores guns-in-parks effort - Story
- Alaska: No charges for killing grizzly in self-defense at Denali National Park - Story
- India: Gun ownership laws trigger debate - Story
- Loveland Colorado gun owner sues city for violating Second Amendment rights - Story
- House passes bill to keep creditors from taking guns - Story
28 July 2010 Gun News Headlines
Wednesday, 28 July 2010 03:37 | Author: GND Staff |
Debtors could keep guns under bankruptcy bill. Daley opposes our Second Amendment. Challenge to California ammunition law. Papers prepared to disbar Elena Kagan. Arizona: Sparklers Dec 1, make your own guns Oct 1. Coonan's .357 Magnum Automatic. And more...
- Pennsylvania: Chester should start arming its citizens - Story
- Debtors could keep guns under bankruptcy bill - Story
- New Product News: Coonan .357 Magnum Automatic - Story
27 July 2010 Gun News Headlines
Tuesday, 27 July 2010 03:32 | Author: GND Staff |
A California Sheriff leads gun rights fight. L.A. county to destroy 8300 firearms. Mexico: Prison inmates used in massacre. Meanwhile, Washington Post writer says we aren't helping Mexico enough with guns and money. Otis McDonald applies for a gun permit. And more...
- California: Tehama County Sheriff leads gun rights fight - Story
- L.A. County Sheriff to destroy 8300 firearms - Story
John Lott on how gun control advocates make up facts about concealed handgun laws. Parsing the Second Amendment. NRA-ILA report on the UN Gun Treaty conference. Another interview with Ted Nugent. Servicing the Ruger Mini-14. And more...
- Gun control advocates make up facts about concealed handgun laws - John Lott - Story
Gun News Daily Shutting Down Certain Links due to Litigation
Sunday, 25 July 2010 04:28 | Author: GND Staff |
The Armed Citizen, run by David Burnett and Clayton Cramer, has shut down its website activities as a result of a lawsuit filed by Righthaven LLC on behalf of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The Review-Journal, for the most part a conservative newspaper, hired Righthaven LLC to scour the web looking for websites where copyrighted material originally published by Las Vegas Review-Journal may have been printed in part or in-whole.
No pre-litigation or cease and desist notices were sent to The Armed Citizen or, as we understand it, to most of the websites they are suing for copyright infringements, which is becoming a lengthy list. They simply file the lawsuit.
The Review-Journal, with the economy in Las Vegas being as about as bad as it is if not worse than any other part of the country, is no doubt feeling the financial pinch as subscriber levels drop. And, we certainly understand why they would want to protect their original work from copyright infringement. We respect copyright laws and fully support news organizations' right to pursue legal remedy when violated.
However, we do not condone step 1 of the process of filing a lawsuit without notification to the offending party or issuance of a cease and desist notice. Going directly to a lawsuit is extraordinary, over-the-top, and highly reactionary. It is no doubt a legal action with the end result being to shut down smaller websites, both on the left and right side of political viewpoints.
Due to the rather aggressive approach taken by the Righthaven LLC and its client, Las Vegas Review-Journal, we will no longer post links to LVRJ articles. There are those within the industry who fully believe that the mere act of posting a headline and a link to a copyrighted story should be illegal and enough cause for copyright infringement lawsuit.
Our action is multi-fold, blatantly partisan and an act of self-preservation for this site. We make no apologies for that.
It is a statement that their aggressive legal actions are inappropriate.
It's our way of reducing their readership further as punishment for their actions.
We are not sure how far Righthaven LLC and LVRJ will pursue copyright violations. Will they pursue sites such as Gun News Daily where the mere act of posting a LVJR headline with a link is enough cause to file a lawsuit? We're not interested in testing the law on that matter. We'll leave that to other organizations with much deeper pockets than ours.
Despite our belief in the right to protect original material, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, as so many of the traditional media outlets have been doing, can simply die on the vine. This is our small way of helping with the cause, and it is fully within our right to do so. We urge other websites to do the same. Simply ignore LVRJ stories. They rely on website advertising to augment their traditional print newspaper income.
If a message can be sent, this is the most powerful way to send it. Simply stop sending The Las Vegas Review-Journal traffic and hit them on the bottom line. Nothing is more powerful than a bunch of citizens ganging up on the big boys. Let the battle begin and watch where the chips fall as they say in Vegas.
Let them know what you think:
Las Vegas Review-Journal 1111 W. Bonanza Road P.O. Box 70 Las Vegas, NV 89125
Las Vegas Review-Journal main phone number: 702-383-0211 Newspaper office number: 702-383-0264
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