NRA Eastern Sports Outdoor Show; Assault weapons modern sporting rifles | WPMT FOX43
http://fox43.com/2013/01/23/nra-withdraws-from-eastern-sports-outdoors-show/
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Columbia's decision to ban former employee from its property may be 'unconstitutional' [Lancaster Watchdog]
Chris Vera [Columbia Spy file photo] The following information is excerpted from a December 6, 2025 LNP Watchdog article by LNP | LancasterOnline reporter Jade Campos. Still reeling from an abrupt firing from his role as head of the Columbia Market House in March, Chris Vera was surprised to get a letter in the mail from a Columbia Borough attorney two weeks later telling him he was banned indefinitely from borough property. The letter gave no reason for the ban. Nine months later, Vera, who has served as president of the Columbia Historic Preservation Society for more than a decade and has helped with the borough’s comprehensive plan, is still banned from borough property. He believes the ban includes borough parks, which is part of the reason he moved his annual Albatwitch Day festival, which celebrates the myth of a local cryptid, to Wrightsville. Vera said he’s not sure why the borough went to such lengths to keep him away from public spaces given his termination from the borough s...
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The Military Commissions Act and the National Defense Authorization Act, as well as other brazen perversions of justice and legality have shredded the Fourth Amendment. But how many people do you hear howling about that? They will, however, scream about the government taking their guns, as if it could, and as if a few yahoos with AR-15s could stand up against the United States military's superior training and weaponry. The yahoos would be taken out in about 15 seconds. True, the original intent of the Second Amendment was for the citizenry to be able to keep the government out of our faces, but the founders wanted us to maintain a well-regulated militia that's always at the ready, and where is that? I haven't seen any groups of people marching up and down Locust Street and drilling around town.
Also, if you strictly abide by the language of the Second Amendment, no one has a constitutional right to fire weapons. Sorry, but the Second Amendment says we have the right to KEEP and BEAR arms, but it doesn't say we may fire them. Those who think otherwise might be better served by citing the First Amendment and saying that shooting a gun is an expression of speech, and what tells someone you don't like them more than a bullet to the forehead? Now, that's a powerful message!
But again, the Second Amendment does give us the right to keep and bear arms. It also says that right shall not be infringed. Theoretically, then, that means we can have anything up to and including nuclear weapons. Therefore, I want a 20-megaton hydrogen bomb I can keep in my backyard, strictly as a deterrent. I want all my neighbors to have one, too. And if the feds try messing with us - BOOM! - there goes Columbia. That'll show' em who's boss!