Happy New Year Patriot Newsletter January 5, 2014

Patriot Newsletter
January 5, 2014
Upcoming events – details
inside:
January 16
next general meeting
Are your 2nd Amendment
Rights endangered?
Topics inside this edition:
Needy Veteran Project Update
Obamacare and Guns
New Year, New Laws
Watch your guns around
Obamacare
Congressional Study: Murder Rate
Plummets as Gun
Ownership Soars
Magpul leaving Colorado
Membership information
Happy New Year
Berks County
Patriots
JANUARY meeting
Thursday 1/16/14
6:30 – 8:30PM
Leesport Auction Hall, Leesport PA
Are your 2nd Amendment rights
endangered?
What does Obamacare have to do with
gun control?
Join gun club members, dealers,sportsmen and
others to hear Larry Pratt (Exec. Director, Gun
Owners of America) speak about your 2nd
amendment rights!
Food contributions for our snack table are gratefully accepted .
Www.berkscountypatriots.org
Our meetings are free, freedom isn't.
The Needy Veteran Project was a huge success!
There were many gifts
for the children and an abundance of canned goods, etc. A fellow
Patriot donated 12 big hams and a huge box of sweet potatoes.
If that wasn't enough, BCP collected cash amounting to
$850.00!
On behalf of the Berks County Patriot Members, Linda Brancadora presented a
check to Doug Graybill at the Stand Down Event on Saturday, December 21
You truly have the Christmas Spirit of Giving. This spirit lives throughout the
whole year.
Thank you, Thank you.
Obamacare and Guns
The Obamacare debacle is more than just government overreach.
Beyond the obvious intrusions into what should be private transaction
between a provider of a service (whether doctor or insurance
company) and their client, the threat to privacy is staggering.
The numerous scandals surrounding the abuse of power by various
government agencies should send chills down the spines of every
American, but especially those who own guns.
Read more: http://www.redstate.com/cmndr45/2013/11/06/1841/
New Year --- New Laws
Obamacare, pot, guns and drones
Washington (CNN) -- Not everyone subscribes to a New Year's
resolution, but Americans will be required to follow new laws in 2014.
Some 40,000 measures taking effect range from sweeping, national
mandates under Obamacare to marijuana legalization in Colorado, drone
prohibition in Illinois and transgender protections in California.
Although many new laws are controversial, they made it through
legislatures, public referendum or city councils and represent the shifting
composition of American beliefs.
Read more:
New Year, new laws: Obamacare, pot, guns and drones - CNN.com*
Watch Your Guns Around Obamacare
In January (2013), Obama issued 23 executive actions and orders
regarding firearms. Order 16 stressed that Obamacare does not prohibit
doctors from asking patients about their firearms, and the fact sheet
includes, "Clarify that no federal law prevents health care providers from
warning law enforcement authorities about threats of violence."
Here is the entire article: http://www.christianpost.com/news/watch-yourguns-around-obamacare-107103/
Magpul Leaving Colorado
as, all becf th these increased gun regulations hurt the U.S. economy.
Magpul announced earlier today that it is moving its
production, distribution and shipping operations to
Cheyenne and its headquarters in Texas. This decision is
just them staying true to their word promising to leave the
state if new gun control measures were passed.
The new headquarters will be in in north-central Texas, but
no exact location has been chosen. Of course this move
will greatly help Texas’ economy. And of course, Colorado
will be losing a major production center and those tax
dollars will be gone.
Here’s just another reason why gun control laws are not in
our favor. They not only take away our constitutional rights,
but they also hurt the economy, which clearly we don’t
need!
Heather Ginsberg, Townhall, 1/2/2014
A Congressional Research Service (CRS) report shows that while gun ownership climbed
from 192 million firearms in 1994 to 310 million firearms in 2009, crime fell—and
fell sharply.
According to the report, the "firearm-related murder and non-negligent homicide" rate was
6.6 per 100,000 Americans in 1993. Following the exponential growth in the number of
guns, that rate fell to 3.6 per 100,000 in 2000.
This rate rose from 2004 to 2005 and got as high as 3.9 in 2006 and 2007, but it then
resumed falling in 2008, the year the Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller
that individual firearm possession is Constitutionally protected—particularly for selfdefense. This figure fell to 3.2 per 100,000 by 2011.
In other words, as the number of firearms almost doubled over a nearly 20-year period, the
"firearm-related murder and non-negligent homicide" rate was more than halved.
Additionally, the overall murder rate dropped from 9.0 per 100,000 in 1994 to 4.7 in 2011.
The overall number of estimated murder victims fell from 23,326 in 1994 to 14,612 in 2011.
For estimated firearms-related murder victims, those numbers are 16,333 in 1994 and 9,903
in 2011.
The firearm category that led the way from 1994 through 2009 was handguns. And these
were "mostly pistols, revolvers, and derringers," the most concealable types of guns.
So after after all the pro-gun control grandstanding and the relentless focus on how the socalled easy availability of guns drives up crime, the CRS report shows that more guns—
especially more concealable guns—has actually correlated with less crime.
AWR Hawkins/Breitbart
Consider joining the Berks County Patriots!
We are a non-profit, non-partisan political action group committed to restoring and promoting the
conservative values and ideals espoused in America's founding documents; that “we are endowed by
our Creator with certain inalienable rights” including:
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Life
Liberty
Property
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Free speech
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a free market
the pursuit of happiness
We believe a limited government is necessary to ensure these rights for the people.
If you are not yet a member of the BCP please consider becoming a member thru our website
www.berkscountypatriots.org
There are no membership dues. We do hope that you periodically help us cover our costs thru
personal donations.
If not us, who? If not now, when?
Thank you!
Really show you're a BCP Member!
We offer the following items printed with the BCP logo:
T-shirts $15
sizes sm to 3X
Colors: Red, Black, Yellow, Blue
Adjustable hats $10
colors Black and Navy
We also offer the following items:
Yard signs with metal stands $8
window signs $5
assorted buttons $ .50 to $2
car decals $5
They can be ordered/bought at the back of the room at every General Meeting.
Please see Jake Bender or contact him at jbender@berkscountypatriots.org