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New Study Demolishes Almost Every Gun Control Myth
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"A study published in the latest issue of the academic journal Applied Economics Letters took on many of the claims made regularly by advocates of stricter gun laws. The study determined that nearly every claim made in support of stronger restrictions on gun ownership is not supported by an exhaustive analysis of crime statistics."
"The study, 'An examination of the effects of concealed weapons laws and assault weapons bans on state-level murder rates,' ... examined nearly 30 years of statistics and concluded that stricter gun laws do not result in a reduction in gun violence. In fact, Gius found the opposite – that a proliferation of concealed carry permits can actually reduce incidents of gun crime." ... |
New York’s Fact-Free Gun Ruling
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... "The decision relied heavily on testimony by George Mason University criminology professor Chris Koper, who argued 'that the criminal use of assault weapons declined after the federal assault-weapons ban was enacted in 1994, independently of trends in gun crime.” Judge Skretny wrote in his opinion: “Because New York’s regulations are tighter than those in the federal ban, [Koper] believes, quite reasonably, that the affect [sic] will be greater.'"
"But Koper’s two studies on the 1994 federal assault-weapons ban don’t support his claims. The first study, with Jeff Roth for the National Institute of Justice, found that 'the evidence is not strong enough for us to conclude that there was any meaningful effect [of the weapons ban].'" ... |
New York Times Champions Dick Metcalf – And Reveals The Truth About Gun Reviews
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"The New York Times’ article Banished for Questioning the Gospel of Guns 'exposes' gun journo 'extremism.' It’s based on an unsurprisingly sympathetic profile of Dick Metcalf. You may remember Mr. Metcalf as the Guns & Ammo writer given the old heave-ho after writing a column suggesting that government regulation of gun rights isn’t necessarily a bad thing. ..." ...
"... Now for the juicy bit. In its effort to diss gun journalism in general, the Old Gray Lady reveals that Guns & Ammo’s reviews are bought and paid for . . ." ... |
Gear Review: Leupold Mark 6 1-6x20mm M6C1
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"In 3-gun competitions, stage designers love to be evil. And the definition of 'evil' in this case is setting targets out at 3 yards, and then forcing you to quickly shift and engage some more at 300 yards. Doing that with the same rifle without switching optics is tough, since too much magnification on close range stuff will suck almost more than too little magnification at long range. Normally you’d need to find a balance between the two and settle for something in the middle, but Leupold’s Mark 6 1-6x20mm scope asks the question, 'why not have your cake and eat it too?'" ... |
New from Tannerite: 1/4 Pounder Target (video available)
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"That’s a whole lot of KA-BLAM! in one small package. One small convenient package. Tannerite hasn’t made an official product announcement on this one yet; we’ll add it here once the presser drops. For now, imagine the possibilities! And pity poor FPS Russia, hidden away in the Witness Protection Program, is denied a chance to blow stuff up with the latest and greatest binary explosives." |
New from Smith & Wesson Performance Center: M929 “Jerry Miculek Signature Model”, M686, M629, M460XVR, M986 Pro Series
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"Over the last 23 years, Smith & Wesson’s Performance Center has hand-crafted some of the world’s finest shooting firearms. While the division breathes on a wide range of S&W models, their revolvers are the Center’s crowning achievements. For 2014, S&W PC is introducing five new wheelguns: the M929 “Jerry Miculek Signature Model” (eight-shot 9mm competition revolver with a 6.5″ barrel), M686 (seven-shot .357 Magnum revolver with a 2.5″ barrel), M629 (six-shot .44 Magnum with an 8-3/8″ fluted barrel), M460XVR (five-shot 460 S&W Magnum revolver with a 3.5″ barrel) and the M986 Pro Series (seven-shot 9mm competition revolver with a 5″ barrel). ..." ... |
A history lesson for foes of N.Y. gun law
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"A s if to punctuate the end of a 12-month period that began with a heinous school shooting and ended in court, on the last day of 2013, a federal judge’s ruling largely upheld the constitutionality of the New York SAFE Act ..."
"New York’s law ... has sparked unrelenting outrage among gun-rights groups, who consider the law an infringement on Second Amendment rights."
"To hear some gun-rights advocates tell it, the historic right to bear arms applies nearly any time a hand comes in contact with a firearm. Many of these claims are obviously hyperbole, but the sheer repetitiveness of claimed gun rights in the face of modern gun regulations misses the actual, historic relationship between the two." ... |
Why I am pro-gun control
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"Gun control is necessary in order to have a peaceful city, country and world. Without gun control, many lives will be taken for unnecessary reasons. Not only should things be settled in a different way, but violence is never the answer. Those who do not support gun control show they are for violence and are not thinking in terms of safeness for all. This is why I am pro-gun control"
"... The questions at hand are as follows; what does a 'well-regulated militia' entail, should the background checks require more and what are the reasons for gun control? ..." ...
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Submitter's Note: In order: It means properly functioning, no they should go away and finally gun control is not about "reason" it is about control. |
How many gun deaths are too many?
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"In the wake of the Newtown school shooting, Slate.com tackled an ambitious project: cataloging every single gun death in the U.S. in the year that followed."
"By early December, a year later, Slate had tallied 11,400 people killed by firearms. These were murders and accidents; men, women and too many kids shot by a family member, shot by a stranger, or who killed themselves, intentionally or not."
"And yet, high as the figure may seem, Slate noted that its total, culled from media reports, was far less than the number reported by the [CDC], which uses death certificates and counts, on average, 32,000 gun deaths every year."
"Why the big difference?
"'Suicides, it turns out, are this project's enormous blind spot,'" ...
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This is What Happens to a Disarmed Populace: They Arm Themselves – Mexican Self-Defense Edition
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"When Uncle Sam bitched and moaned about the 'iron river' of illegal guns heading south from US gun stores to arm Mexico’s cartels, TTAG called bullsh*t. For one thing, the cartels have hundreds of thousands of guns from decades of 'legal' arms sales to South American governments ... For another, Fast and Furious, wherein the feds enabled the very thing that they were bitching and moaning about. And lastly, Mexicans need guns! To defend themselves against the cartels, corrupt cops and 'rogue' government troops. Mexicans don’t have an uninfringable right to keep and bear arms, so they can’t tool-up legally. So . . . they tool-up illegally. ... Make the jump for borderlandbeat.com info on the burgeoning 'self-defense' movement of . . . wait for it . . . citizen militias . . ." ... |
CA: Petaluma man stabbed in Denny's parking lot
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"A 33-year-old man was stabbed early Sunday in Petaluma after a younger man came up to his parked car and began yelling at him."
"The victim, a Petaluma resident whose name wasn’t released, told police the stabbing occurred about 4:30 a.m. in the parking lot behind the Denny’s restaurant at 4986 Petaluma Blvd. North." ...
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Banished for Questioning the Gospel of Guns
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... "Just days after the column appeared, Mr. Metcalf said, his editor called to tell him that two major gun manufacturers had said 'in no uncertain terms' that they could no longer do business with InterMedia Outdoors ... if he continued to work there. He was let go immediately."
"'I’ve been vanished, disappeared,' Mr. Metcalf, 67, said in an interview last month on his gun range here, about 100 miles north of St. Louis ... 'Now you see him. Now you don’t.'" ...
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'Gun control' collaborator Dick Metcalf compares self to victims of tyranny
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"The New York Times published a jeremiad Saturday about former Guns and Ammo writer Dick Metcalf, whose 'Let's Talk Limits' article published in December is the reason for the 'former' in his Guns and Ammo employment status. The NY Times article is titled 'Banished for Questioning the Gospel of Guns,' and portrays Metcalf as a victim of not just 'Second Amendment absolutism' (as if 'Second Amendment relativism' is appropriate in advocacy of that which shall not be infringed), but of gun industry money suppressing the expression of his views." ... |
FL: The week ahead in state and local government: Jan. 6-Jan. 11
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"Here’s a look at some of the events and major state and Southwest Florida government meetings that could generate news reports in the coming week:" ...
"Tuesday ...- Gun-rights supporters will hold a noon rally in the Capitol courtyard in Tallahassee to seek approval of legislation that would invalidate in Florida any federal laws, executive orders or U.N. treaties that infringe on the Second Amendment." ...
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CO: Colo. Democrats blamed for $80M hit to economy by pushing out gun firm Magpul
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"Democrats came under heavy criticism Friday for driving Magpul Industries out of Colorado by pushing an aggressive gun-control agenda, a move that could cost the state more than $80 million annually."
"Republican state Rep. Lori Saine said she was 'saddened to see this completely partisan law, widely considered unenforceable by sheriffs across Colorado, cause Magpul to leave our state.'"
"'The magazine ban did not garner one Republican vote in the House or Senate, and now as a result of this one-sided, Democrat-sponsored law, more than 200 people will lose their jobs and their ability to provide for their families,' said Ms. Saine in a statement. '[T]his move will cost the state of Colorado over $80 million a year in revenue.'" ... |
Hawley: Court ruling revealed SAFE Act flaws
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"Assemblyman Steve Hawley, R-Batavia, is advising his constituents to remain vigilant in defense of their Second Amendment rights in light of the recent federal court ruling that upheld most of New York’s SAFE Act."
"A small victory can be claimed after the provision restricting 10- round magazines from holding more than seven bullets was struck down, Hawley said." ...
"In addition to the seven-round limit being struck down, Hawley said, another encouraging sign from the ruling was Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny’s admission that so-called 'assault weapons' and 'large capacity magazines' may be considered in 'common use,' a legal benchmark set by the Supreme Court that curtails how government may regulate them." ... |
It’s time to shut down the Transportation Safety Administration
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"Any American who travels must deal with the [TSA]. The Bush administration made many mistakes in dealing with the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Creating a government monopoly to handle transportation safety was one of the worst."
"Government’s most important duty is protecting its citizens. Still, the state need not hold a monopoly. There are police, but the Second Amendment also ensures that Americans can protect themselves."
"Obviously, Uncle Sam has an interest in transportation safety. ..."
"Unfortunately, TSA is a costly behemoth better at bureaucracy than safety. In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 killings, the Bush administration and Congress felt they had to do something, so in 2001 they created the TSA." ... |
IL: Concealed Carry Applications Open For Certain People (video story)
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"Illinois State Police have begun processing some concealed carry applications."
"The early opening is only for those who have gotten electronic fingerprints. That means going to a licensed vendor to have their fingerprints electronically scanned and sent to ISP."
"'We have to verify with a driver's license if it's really them, then we put them into our system, then we fingerprint them,' said Sandy Graves of FIRM Systems. 'We send them with paperwork that has a TCN number, and that's what they enter for their conceal and carry.'"
"Since getting electronic fingerprints is the only way people can apply now, businesses like FIRM Systems in Springfield have been swamped since Thursday morning." ... |
PA: Woman Suing Over Amputation Following Arrest (video available)
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"A local woman had to have her arm amputated after a recent arrest and she is blaming law enforcement authorities."
"She has filed a lawsuit and it accuses deputies of using excessive force and the Allegheny County Jail of refusing to allow her to get treatment from a doctor."
"The woman’s attorney says those two factors are the major reasons why she lost her arm." ... |
MI: Detroit Police Chief: Yes, Armed Citizens Can Help Stop Crime
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"An admission of obvious truth, from an unlikely source, as most urban police chiefs are political creatures who serve at the pleasure of leftist bosses.""Detroit— If more citizens were armed, criminals would think twice about attacking them, Detroit Police Chief James Craig said Thursday."
"Urban police chiefs are typically in favor of gun control or reluctant to discuss the issue, but Craig on Thursday was candid about how he’s changed his mind." ... |
Colorado Magpul relocates to Texas over gun control laws
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"A leading manufacturer of firearms accessories has followed through on its vow to relocate from Colorado after the state passed some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the nation."
"Magpul Industries will be moving its business to Texas and Wyoming, which will cost the state over $85 million in lost revenue as well as the loss of up to 400 jobs."
"'Moving operations to states that support our culture of individual liberties and personal responsibility is important,' said Magpul CEO Richard Fitzpatrick, who started the privately held company in 1999 ... 'This relocation will also improve business operations and logistics as we utilize the strengths of Texas and Wyoming in our expansion.'" ... |
Fail On Plastic Guns
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"I wish C&EN would discuss chemistry and not push political views. The article “The Desktop Arms Plant” reports on an upcoming technology that has a lot of uses (C&EN, Sept. 30, 2013, page 11). Why not report on how it can be used to make experimental robotic parts or machine prototype parts? Instead, the article presents an alarmist slant about hobbyists attempting to make a weapon."
"Far better weapons are readily available in gun stores in all states. For those with criminal intent, they can readily purchase weapons on the black market, through the same channels that distribute illegal drugs. What criminal would trust his life to a plastic gun that might explode and would only shoot seven times at half power?" ... |
TX: Man Defends Right To Carry Rifle Into Video Game Store
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"A Beaumont, Texas mall storeowner brought a rifle in plain view into GameStop before going on to his own establishment, insisting that he was simply exercising his Second Amendment rights."
"Derek Poe stopped by the GameStop in Parkdale Mall before going to Golden Triangle Tactical, his own store, with an AR-15 slung over his back. The police seized the weapon, calling his open carry display 'calculated to alarm.'"
"Witnesses at the scene indeed seemed alarm[sic], telling police they were 'terrified' and 'thought they were going to die.'" ... |
CA: Soldiers over politicians
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"In rebuttal to Jim Minton ('Guns and ammo,' Letters, Thursday):"
"First, there are no 'former Marines.' Once a Marine, always a Marine."
"Second, the Marine in Wednesday's photo offered his life so that we may continue to exercise our constitutional rights. If he wants to “get the feel” of a gun in a gun shop, God bless him. It's his right, more so than most, to do so. It would be the beginning of the downfall of our form of government to deny him or anyone else their Second Amendment rights."
"Third, it is not inconceivable that the FBI could be ordered to go door-to-door confiscating guns. The first doors they'll knock on are those of registered gun owners." ... |
TX: 2nd Amendment debate continues in Harlingen (video story)
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"The debate around the 2nd Amendment has returned to the City of Harlingen."
"Police officers arrested a gun rights activist at a demonstration back in December."
"But on Saturday afternoon, dozens of them rallied outside the Harlingen Police Department."
"'I'm standing up for second amendment rights and for my Texas right to open carry,' said participant Angela L. Peña."
"The Rio Grande Valley woman-turned-gun rights activist guns are a constitutional right."
"'I've been using guns since i was a small child and it's not a matter of liking them, it's my right to own them,' she said. ..."
"Peña said Texas state law allows gun owners to carry rifles and shotguns out in the open." ... |
CO: Letter on guns way off target
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"... I would like to state that my rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment has no relationship to a love affair but rather my actions in preventing an attack on me, my family or other innocent individuals."
"One needs only to look at current news with regards to armed robberies, home invasions or most recently the game of knockout attacks to realize that this type of crime can happen to you. You indicate that the law preventing an uninvited individual committing a home invasion is too severe (ruthless and silly) - tell that to Dr. William Petit, Cheshire, Conn., who along with his wife and two daughters were subjected to a home invasion that resulted in his being incapacitated while his family was molested and subsequently murdered." ... |
SC: Faulty aim (third letter)
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"One couldn't help but notice the reference to Vincent Sheehen's position on the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in the article about Gov. Nikki Haley's proud display of a Christmas-gifted handgun via Facebook."
"Those of us who know and support Vincent Sheheen know that he is from South Carolina and owns guns for hunting. And agree that he should have every right to do so."
"But can the public posting of our governor's smiley pic with a 15 round, 9mm pistol - potentially viewed by any and all of the world's Facebook fans - old and young - rich and poor, law abiding or not, mentally healthy or not, be part of the debate?" ... |
UK Detectives: “We Are Unable to Eradicate Gun Crime Entirely”
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"'A SPECIALIST police anti-gun squad has claimed criminals in a Yorkshire city are dodging detection by forcing 'vulnerable' people to store their weapons – after revealing that last year saw a four-fold increase in firearms seizures.' ... 'The Operation Quartz team – set up in 2009 to combat gun and drug crime in Leeds – confiscated 27 weapons from criminals over the course of 2013, having seized seven the previous year. The figures are predominantly made up of shotguns and sawn-off shotguns, in many cases stolen from legitimate owners.' Twenty-seven? As in twenty more than seven? That is not, it must be said, an awful lot of firearms collected by how many full-time coppers? Not stated. But what it clear is that they’re operating within a police state. Check this . . ." ... |
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