Report: Joyce Fndn. anti-gunners wrote Intl. Assc. of Chiefs of Police ''report'

The mainstream media is running wild with the latest anti-gun "report", this time purported to have been completed by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP).

But as firearms law expert David Hardy reports on his website, Armsandthelaw.com, there is far more than meets the eye when it comes to measuring the report's objectivity.

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The IACP report was generated after a gun violence summit held in Chicago
this spring - a summit that Mr. Hardy reports was heavily financed by the anti-gun Joyce Foundation:

Surprise! It concludes we need lots and lots of gun control. Ban "assault weapons," repeal the Tihart Amendment, ban .50 BMG, outlaw possession by anyone with a violent misdemeanor record, ban armor piercing using a standard of actual ability to penetrate body armor (which would encompass virtually any rifle round), outlaw private gun transfers, increase ATF's budget, etc., etc.

Hardy's ArmsandtheLaw.com post goes on to reveal that not only did the IACP get bought and paid for by the anti-gunners, they also appear to have allowed Joyce staffers to write the report:

"We are grateful to several key staff at the Joyce Foundation; President Ellen Alberding for her leadership, passionate concern for quality of life in our communities, and particularly for her interest in partnering with the IACP to address gun violence, Program Officer Roseanna Ander for her dedication to reducing gun violence in the Great Lake States and the nation, and her relentless enthusiasm as she worked with IACP staff to make the summit a reality and Communications Director Mary O’Connell, who has aided in highlighting and supporting the vision of our summit participants through her editing, writing and consistent work to produce this report."

In a follow-up comment, one of Hardy's readers notes that "one of the two authors listed, Valerie Denney, is a PR flack whose firm does work for Joyce. So the 'report' of the IACP was written by a Chicago PR firm."

Although Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter Damian Guevara was informed of these insidious ties when he interviewed Buckeye Firearms Association chairman Jim Irvine about the IACP/Joyce report, he failed to mention it in his story:

Closing a controversial loophole that allows people to buy guns
without background checks is one of the recommendations about how to
curb firearm violence made by an international police organization.

The recommendations came in a report released Thursday by the
International Association of Chiefs of Police.

The report was generated after a gun violence summit held in Chicago
this spring.

One local gun-rights advocate called the report a political attack on
gun owners.

"It's vehemently anti-gun and has nothing to do with fighting crime,"
said Jim Irvine of the Buckeye Firearms Association.

The story notes that Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath was among those who participated in the Chicago summit, and says that one of the recommendations asks for laws that remove a loophole that
allows people to buy weapons without a federally mandated background
check. But as Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson recently wrote, the FBI has recently finished a five year study of cop killers and the shootouts that took the officer’s life, and found that offenders do not obtain any firearms from gun shows, and almost exclusively chose handguns over the infamous “assault rifles” the Joyce Foundation bought and paid for IACP mouthpiece wants to ban.

According to the Plain Dealer, the report also calls for expanding a nationwide police database for
ballistic evidence that matches a gun to its unique marking on fired
bullets and cartridge cases. Buckeye Firearms' Jim Irvine is quoted as saying that a pinpoint match of a gun to a crime is unrealistic
and that such a database would overwhelm investigators.

One last note before we close the book on this so-called law-enforcement report - another reader at David Hardy's Armsandthelaw.com has discovered that anti-gun GOP presidential wanna-be Rudy Giuliani is speaking at the IACP Foundation Dinner in New Orleans this October, and mockingly says "I'm not sure how well this will mesh with his recently discovered respect for the Second Amendment."

Case closed.

UPDATE: Speaking of anti-gun mayors, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is a member of IACP, the group Rudy Giuliani will address in a few weeks:

Mayor Daley ridiculed Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson on Thursday for strutting his stuff -- and showing off his "machoism" -- by campaigning at gun shows.

The mayor set his sights on Thompson after joining the International Association of Chiefs of Police in unveiling a new report on ways to prevent gun violence. Financed by the Joyce Foundation, the report includes 39 recommendations on ways to protect and better train police officers, control access to guns and improve public safety.

"It's like machoism: 'I'm gonna go to a gun show, walk around and show you how macho I am.'