FBI Reports Huge Decrease in Murders as Firearms Sales Soar

NRA-ILA GRASSROOTS ALERT, Vol. 16, No. 51, 12/30/09 (Via email) - FBI Reports Huge Decrease In Murders As Firearm, Ammunition And "Large" Magazine Sales Soar ∴ Last week, the FBI issued its preliminary 2009 crime report, showing that the number of murders in the first half of 2009 decreased 10 percent compared to the first half of 2008. If the trend holds for the remainder of 2009, it will be the single greatest one-year decrease in the number of murders since at least 1960, the earliest year for which national data are available through the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Also, the per capita murder rate for 2009 will be 51 percent lower than the all-time high recorded in 1991, and it will be the lowest rate since 1963 - a 46-year low. Final figures for 2009 will be released by the FBI next year. Read more at NRA-ILA...

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NEWSMAX: Obama Wants to Disarm U.S. Pilots

The Obama administration is taking steps quietly to shut down the program that qualifies commercial airline pilots to carry firearms in jetliner cockpits in order to ward off another 9/11-type attack. ∴ The administration recently diverted $2 million from a program to train and certify pilots to carry firearms safely while on duty. Instead, it is using the money to hire additional field inspectors to help discipline pilots who step out of line, according to a report in Tuesday’s Washington Times.

A Times editorial condemned the Obama administration's action, calling it “completely unnecessary harassment of the pilots.” ∴ “Only anti-gun extremists and terrorist recruits are worried about armed pilots,” the newspaper editorial says. Read full article at Newsmax... Read More......