(source: the Telegraph, UK)

What has this country come to?  A used car dealership, Nations Trucks,  in Florida has launched an unusual promotion to help it through the sluggish US economic recovery: a complimentary AK-47 with every purchase.   The only comforting news here is customers would have to pass a background check before using the $400 gun shop voucher.

What if you are not a communist who likes weapons with Russian roots? Or, even better what if you are an anti-assault weapon kind of guy who happens to like driving a big rig?  No worries.  The dealership still got you covered – totally.  The customers are also offered the option of using the money toward other firearms, or they can request a check in that amount instead.  So, no need to worry about carrying that big old assault to threaten the guy who cut you off on the highway.  You can still manage to make the dude pee in his pants with a Glock, right?

If anything, the wonderful campaign got the entire nation talking.  That’s what you want when you are a used car dealer – all the attention!

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(Source: New York Times)

The Senate voted on Wednesday to allow Amtrak passengers to carry unloaded and locked handguns in checked baggage, even though Amtrak officials had raised concerns that the proposal could present “numerous challenges.”

Amtrak used to allow passengers to check licensed guns, but ended the practice after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001.

The provision, which was introduced by Senator Roger Wicker, Republican, as an amendment to a housing and transportation spending bill, is the latest in a string of Senate votes aimed at expanding gun rights. It passed 68-30, with a group of 27 Democrats and one independent, mostly from states where gun rights are widely supported, joining all 40 Republicans in voting for the measure.

The Senate has already approved separate provisions this year that would allow properly permitted gun owners to carry in national parks and would loosen gun laws in Washington. Additionally, a July proposal that would have allowed permitted gun owners in one state to carry concealed weapons in another fell just two votes short in the Senate.

Under the Wicker amendment, Amtrak would lose the funds earmarked for it in the must-pass spending bill if it did not comply with the new regulations. In a statement released after the amendment passed, Mr. Wicker stressed that the guidelines laid out in the provision — which would also insist that a passenger notify Amtrak that he or she is transporting a handgun and that only that passenger could unlock the secure container holding the gun — are roughly the same ones used by airline passengers.

“Americans should not have their Second Amendment rights restricted for any reason, particularly if they choose to travel on America’s federally subsidized rail line,” Mr. Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, said in the statement.

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