The March 2007 issue of America’s 1st Freedom contains a fabulous article about Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a women considered to be the best female sniper ever. Lyudmila had 309 confirmed kills during WW II including 36 Nazi snipers. She was wounded in battle four times. In addition she was the first Soviet citizen granted a reception in the White House, being received by Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. What a woman! This would make an award winning movie.

• Armed America, by Clayton Cramer–Tells the story of guns in early America
• Supreme Court Gun Cases, by David B. Kopel, Stephen P. Halbrook and Alan Korwin–Reprints of everything the U.S. Supreme Court has every written on the right to arms, gun control and the right of self-defense, with commentary.
• Target Switzerland, by Stephen P. Halbrook–Shows how the Swiss militia deterred the recurrent threat of Nazi invasion.
• Origins and Development of the Second Amendment, by David T. Hardy–Presents the 75 most important documents about the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
• Gun Control and the Constitution, by Robert Cottrol–The most important state and federal cases and law review articles dealing with gun control.
• The Origin of the Second Amendment, edited by David E. Young–Reprints every single original documentary source about the origin of the Second Amendment from 1787 until the early 1790s.
• Targeting Guns, by Gary Kleck–Almost everything that can be quantified about guns in America is in here.
• To Keep and Bear Arms, by Joyce Lee Malcolm–Tells the story of the English right to arms in the 17th century England, and how it was central to the century-long struggle between the despotic Stuart Kings and advocates of republicanism and limited government.
• Death by “Gun Control”, by Aaron S. Zelman–Examines the 20th century genocides in Turkey, the Soviet Union, China, Guatemala, Cambodia, Uganda and Rwanda, and details how each of them was preceded and facilitated by gun control.
• The Global War on Your Guns, by Wayne LaPierre–What the gun prohibition lobbies did to England, they want to do to the rest of the world–especially the United States.

This list was taken directly from an article by David Kopel
in the March 2007 issue of America’s 1st Freedom.

From the “I can’t believe this is happening” file, the city of Buffalo, N.Y., is participating in a toy gun “buy-back.”A program initiated by the FATHERS grassroots community and anti-violence organization has swapped basketballs, footballs, books and board games for the toy guns of the city’s youth.

At press time, more than 100 toy guns already have been turned in, ranging from water pistols to soft pellet guns that look real.

Excerpt and post title taken from the March 2007 issue of America’s 1st Freedom. I could not locate a link for the FATHERS organization in question. I did notice that if you do a search you find that this is not a new idea, and many people are doing the same sort of things across the nation. Thank goodness for that.