Google wants you to know that it is thinking of your "safety" as it announced that anything to do with firearms on its Google Shopping service is forbidden. Further, firearms customers have recently found that Google Shopping won't give them any search results for firearm-related products anymore even though the change over isn't supposed to fully take effect until July 1.
The folks at HamLund Tactical posted the letter received from Google on a gun enthusiast's message board called 68forums. In that letter, Google informs dealers in firearm accessories and ammunition that they will no longer be allowed to sell their wares through the Google service.
HamLund was told that starting July 1 (today) Google has implemented the new policy. The letter says:
"We do not allow the promotion or sale of weapons and any related products such as ammunitions or accessory kits on Google Shopping. In order to comply with our new policies, please remove any weapon-related products from your data feed and then re-submit your feed in the Merchant Center."
This goes for knives as well as firearms and related products.
News of the Google decision ran through the firearms community and related Internet message boards and blogs like Obama going through campaign cash.
Speaking of campaign cash, Bill Vollono of Townhall thinks he might have an idea of just why Google has decided to ban sales of guns and accessories on Google Shopping. Google and its owners are huge Obama campaign donors not to mention recipients of Obama largesse.
Vollono notes that Google and its various employees and owners have donated over $608,000 to Obama's reelection campaign. Skeptics will point out that during his first four years in the Oval Office, Barack Obama has been absent on gun control issues.
But that doesn't mean he intends to stay mum on guns. Second Amendment supporters have had the upper hand over the last decade and Obama knows this. Every state but one, for instance, now has some sort of shall issue law on the books and gun supporters have succeeded in taking the issue away from Democrats almost entirely. Few Democrats mention gun control on the stump and only crime-ridden Chicago is still looking for sly, un-Constitutional ways to ban firearms.
Obama appears to be setting the stage for gun control in his second term. Fast & Furious was supposed to be, in part, a gun control scheme. The Fast & Furious operation intended to ship secretly thousands of American guns to Mexican narco-terrorists. When those guns were used to kill Mexicans and Americans, the "evidence" of gun violence would support an effort to crack down on guns sales in the US.
However, once Obama doesn't need to worry about re-election, he'll can be "more flexible" on the second amendment. Consequently, we could see a more aggressive effort to restrict the right to keep and bear arms.
And Google? They are just trying to anticipate their favorite President's second term campaign against the Second Amendment.
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Pontypridd's Taff Vale shopping centre 'progress' after delays - BBC News
A new shopping centre for Pontypridd, which has been delayed by funding difficulties may soon be back on track, the developer has told BBC Wales.
The Taff Vale shopping precinct in the Rhondda Cynon Taf town had been due to open this summer.
The old shops and tax office that had been on the site were demolished in November but the area has been surrounded by hoardings ever since.
Developer Taff Vale Limited said it is considering a new offer of investment.
The funding gap is the latest hitch in long-running plans to redevelop the site to create a number of retail units, bar and restaurant on what is widely regarded as a "1960's eyesore".
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The private-sector scheme is part of a wider regeneration of Pontypridd, including a rolling programme of refurbishing paving, street furniture and other infrastructure which has been underway for around two years.
A new Sainsbury's superstore is due to open on the outskirts of the town this week on the former Brown Lennox industrial site, and it's hoped this will also bring more people into the town centre - though some traders fear it will have the opposite effect.
The told BBC Radio Wales' Eye On Wales they are struggling in the current economic climate.
Sian John, who runs Pepworth's Delicatessen, moved into Pontypridd indoor market after high rates, and the impact of the roadworks, drove her from her town centre shop - which is now occupied by a charity.
"The roadworks went on for over 18 months… during this time, trade dropped dramatically. It caused a lot of problems for a lot of businesses," she told BBC Radio Wales' Eye on Wales programme.
"One of the main factors were our high rates. We had a rateable value of about £18,000, which meant we were paying between £800 and £900 per month. With our turnover dropping, we couldn't sustain it.
"Basically, in June last year we had to move the business up into the market, to save on our overheads."
A wide-ranging review of business rates in Wales, led by economist Prof Brian Morgan, has made a raft of recommendations which are currently being considered by business minister Edwina Hart. She has indicated she will respond after consulting with cabinet colleagues over the summer.
South Wales Central AM Eluned Parrott, shadow spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats on business and the economy, welcomed the publication of the report but called on the government to act promptly on it.
"This is urgent: people are going out of business today, they don't want to wait to see if they can survive the summer whilst the business minister thinks about the issues," she said.
"We do need to see some action actually happening."
Funding gapA spokesman for Taff Vale Limited said they had experienced difficulty securing full funding for the scheme in the current economic climate.
Although they had an offer of funding from the Regeneration Investment Fund for Wales, this wasn't as much as they had bid for and left a funding gap they were seeking to fill.
However he said that an offer of new investment money had come forward, which is now being considered.
Several national retailers have been linked to the new development, including Iceland, Wilkinson's and Poundland.
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