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Well that didn’t take long
Daily Pundit — As if anyone was in doubt about The Won’s stance on guns. Since Mr. Obama’s election, pilots have told us that the approval process for letting pilots carry guns on planes slowed significantly. Last week the problem went from bad to worse. Federal Flight Deck Officers - the pilots who have been approved to carry guns - indicate that the approval process has stalled out.

We Just Became Less Safe On Planes … Post 9-11
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — Wa Times: Guns on a plane Obama secretly ends program that let pilots carry guns After the September 11 attacks, commercial airline pilots were allowed to carry guns if they completed a federal-safety program. No longer would unarmed pilots be defenseless as remorseless hijackers seized control of aircraft and rammed them into buildings. Now President Obama is quietly ending the federal firearms program, risking public safety on airlines in the name of an anti-gun ideology. The Obama administration this ...

Brass Balls
Op For — This is all over the 'net: DoD surplus will no longer offer fired brass for sale in reloadable condition. Confederate Yankee and Michael Bane have more. Who does that hurt? Well, it cuts the price that purchasers would pay for the brass, thereby limiting revenue for the government. Also, it hurts those businesses who would take the reloadable casings and turn them (at reduced cost) back into loaded cartridges for the civilian and law enforcement markets, which are of course experiencing high demand and limited supply. Then again, it'll hurt the workers in the businesses that reload, in the companies that ship, and the retail outlets that sell. And it further ...

Obama Ends 9/11 Policy Allowing Pilots to Carry Guns
Ace of Spades HQ — Obama Ends 9/11 Policy Allowing Pilots to Carry Guns Genius. As was asked when this issue was debated -- and resolved, we thought -- "If you don't trust a pilot to carry a gun, what the fuck are you doing allowing him at the controls of a plane carrying 300 people?" Nah, he's not a hard-core ideologue or anything. He just wants practical, common-sense solutions. Posted by: ...

Barack Obama Ending Progam that Allows Pilots to Carry Guns
Wizbang — ... . The Washington Times' editorial has the details: After the September 11 attacks, commercial airline pilots were allowed to carry guns if they completed a federal-safety program. No longer would unarmed pilots be defenseless as remorseless hijackers seized control of aircraft and rammed them into buildings. Now President Obama is quietly ending the federal firearms program, risking public safety on airlines in the name of an anti-gun ideology. The Obama administration this past week diverted some $2 million from the pilot training program to hire more supervisory staff, ...

Is Obama starving federal firearms program for pilots?
Michelle Malkin — The Washington Times raises an alarm over the Obama administration’s siphoning off of federal funding for the post-9/11 program to allow pilots to carry arms on airplanes. (hat tip - ...

Obama Silently Ends 9/11 Policy Allowing Pilots to Carry Guns
Conservative Punk — ... [image] Obama Silently Ends 9/11 Policy Allowing Pilots to Carry Guns By Rizzuto Tue Mar 17, 2009 - Because you know... they just can't be trusted. h/t ...

Obama secretly ends program that let pilots carry guns on planes after 9/11
The Jawa Report — March 18, 2009 Obama secretly ends program that let pilots carry guns on planes after 9/11 Thats right he's ended the program allowing pilots to carry firearms on a plane. Washington Times After the September 11 attacks, commercial airline pilots were allowed to carry guns if they completed a federal-safety program. No longer would unarmed pilots be defenseless as remorseless hijackers seized control of aircraft and rammed them into buildings. Now President Obama is quietly ending the federal firearms program, risking public safety on airlines in the name of an anti-gun ...

Instapundit — ... TAKING GUNS OUT OF COCKPITS: A dumb initiative although to be fair the Bush Administration engaged in a lot of foot-dragging on this program too. ...

Sept. 10 Diaries: Obama Nixes Guns For Pilots Program
Pirate's Cove — ... After the September 11 attacks, commercial airline pilots were allowed to carry guns if they completed a federal-safety program. No longer would unarmed pilots be defenseless as remorseless hijackers seized control of aircraft and rammed them into buildings. ...

Sept. 10 Diaries: Obama Nixes Guns For Pilots Program
Stop The ACLU — ... you are a law-abiding gun owner you have nothing to fear from an Obama administration,” Obama said. “This has been peddled again and again. Here’s what I believe: The Second Amendment is an individual right. . . people have the right to bear arms. But I also believe there is nothing wrong with some common-sense gun safety measures.” Well, not if you are a law abiding pilot intent on being armed so that the plane is not hijacked and the terrorists do whatever they want with the plane After the September 11 attacks , commercial airline pilots were allowed to carry guns if they ...

Obama Quietly Ends The Armed Pilot Program
Say Anything — ... This isn’t incompetence. It’s a criminal disregard for the safety of the American people: ...

Are we disarming pilots?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... After 9/11, the US began a new program allowing airline pilots to arm themselves in order to defend the cockpit against terrorist incursion.  Along with air marshals, the armed pilots formed a last line of defense against hijackings and worse, such as the al-Qaeda actions that killed 3,000 Americans by using commercial jets as guided missiles.  The Washington Times reports that the Obama administration has decided to end the program without letting anyone know about it: After the September 11 attacks, commercial airline pilots were allowed to carry guns if they completed a ...

Dear Leader Dictates
Moonbattery — ... In one recent example, his hostility to the notion of individuals using firearms to defend themselves has led him to declare that airline pilots will no longer be trusted with the guns that could have been used to prevent the 9/11 attacks. As ...

Obama Takes Guns Out of Pilots’ Hands, Risks Public Safety
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Obama Disarms the Pilots?
The Corner on National Review Online — Wednesday, March 18, 2009 [image] Obama Disarms the Pilots? [ Andy McCarthy ] What's the good reason for this? And where is the outrage from members of Congress who voted overwhelmingly to arm the pilots after the suicide-hijacking attacks of September 11th? (Hey, Republicans, this would be what's known in the biz as a hanging curve-ball.) At 9/11 Families for America , Tim Sumner collects the details from the Washington Times and Michelle Malkin . 03/18 10:51 AM [image] Share

Happy Hour Links
Weekly Standard Blog — Noemie Emery skewers the Palinphobes. Napolitano calls terrorist attacks "'man-caused' disasters." Just like car crashes and obesity? Matthew Continetti on Bloggingheads. David Smick on the export addiction. Good news: bonuses for Fannie Mae! British study shows that Girls do better at single-sex schools. Obama disarms pilots.

Obama secretly ends program allowing pilots to carry guns
Jihad Watch — ... "EDITORIAL: Guns on a plane: Obama secretly ends program that let pilots carry guns," from the Washington Times, March 17 (thanks to ...

All The Known Gaffes Of The Obama World
Jules Crittenden — ... a White House window thinking it was a door . 54. Signing an order that doctors must perform abortions , in violation of the Hippocratic Oath. 55. Signing earmarks while denouncing them . 56. Adding signing statements while denouncing them . 57. Quadrupling the deficits, while denouncing them . 58. Considering having the VA charge veterans for service-related injuries . 59. Thanking himself in a Teleprompter malfunction . 60. Banning pilots from carrying guns on airplanes . 61. Trade war with Mexico over 97 ...