Gun Policy News
New Hampshire Gun Threat Farmer Now Folk Hero to US Pro-gun Lobby
8 January 2011
Washington Post / AP
MOULTONBOROUGH, New Hampshire - Property and gun rights advocates have made a folk hero of Ward Bird, convicted and imprisoned for brandishing a handgun at a woman who trespassed on his remote hilltop land.
Their "Free Ward Bird" campaign has ignited support among townsfolk and strangers. Libertarian and tea party websites decry his fate: at least three years in prison. Protests and vigils are tweeted on Twitter and trumpeted on Facebook pages devoted to his case.... (GunPolicy.org)