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Burke E. Strunsky is Insane
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"'Laws that mandate a waiting period before buying a gun are well grounded in the fact that humans tend to act impulsively. These waiting periods are wise and necessary. They give people an opportunity to reflect and cool down, to use their heads first and not their handguns.' So sayeth the Senior deputy district attorney for Riverside County (CA) writing for huffingtonpost.com. Burke E. Strunsky fails to take into account a simple fact: when many law-abiding Americans decide to tool-up for the first time to defend themselves against a perceived threat, they don’t make that decision seven days in advance of the realization that they need a gun. How could they? Anyway, Strunsky’s all about the murderous impulse . . ." ... |
Donald Trump's guns
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"Donald Trump will admit that he has a concealed carry permit in New York City, but he doesn’t like to go into detail bout what guns he owns. Until now." ...
"I interviewed the real estate mogul in Florida during the Republican convention ... and asked him about his gun ownership. 'I have a carry permit - I’ve said that publicly,' he told me. 'I own a couple of different guns, but I don’t talk about it.'"
"I mentioned that I bought a Sig Sauer P229 in 9mm last February. The billionaire's director of security, Keith Schiller ... said that he also owned a Sig. We discussed the function and fit and styles. The gun owners’ friendly conversation seemed to give Mr .Trump the comfort to give out details on his gun collection." ... |
Wounded Warrior ‘gun snub’ flap draws in knife rights advocate
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"What is being defined as a 'snub' of Gun Talk – the popular syndicated national Sunday radio program – by the popular Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) has ignited a fury in the firearms community, and late Wednesday afternoon, this column learned that the Knife Rights organization has also entered the fray."
"Doug Ritter, chairman and executive director of the activist knife group, confirmed to Examiner via e-mail that he had sent a letter to WWP Public Affairs Director Leslie A. Coleman, questioning what he called the 'irrational basis' of what appears to be 'discrimination towards firearms and, by association, the industry and (gun) owners.'" ... |
Gun Review: Thompson 1927A1 (video available)
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"Contextualizing the Thompson isn't easy. It was developed at the end of World War One. There were no guns like it. While there were machine guns, most were huge, heavy, and they fired rifle ammunition. Soldiers on all sides carried bolt-action rifles into battle."
"But battle had changed. There was a distinct need for a weapon with higher capacity, a more rapid fire action, and more maneuverability. Rifle ammunition wasn't necessary either, as many conflicts were happening at shorter ranges. Trench warfare was the norm, and soldiers often found themselves turning corners and facing the unknown. Best to hose down the unknown with as much lead as possible. Thompson dubbed his new gun 'the trench broom.'" ... |
AK-12 sees last-minute changes, commercial versions being readied
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"The AK-12, the latest firearm platform to come from Izhmash, will be available with a commercial variant for sale sometime in 2013, according to reports from the Firearm Blog and their Russian contacts. The AK-12 represents the most fundamental shift in the AK design ever, complete with all the features you expect from a modern rifle but with the track record of the most successful small arm ever made."
"From these new photos, it is clear that the AK-12 is still undergoing revision, as they've updated the magazine well, magazine release, barrel profile, muzzle, muzzle devices and front and rear sights. Izhmash is currently testing the design with help from the Russian Ministry of Defense as well as competitive shooters." ... |
Course Review: Civilian Response To Terrorist Threats, Force-on-Force
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"Back in July, I reviewed a two day class that I had attended at the SIG Sauer Academy, 'Civilian Response to Terrorist Threats.' The class was designed and is taught by Todd Rassa of Tactical Defense Readiness Concepts. The curriculum focuses on the methods and motivations of Islamic Fundamentalists in the hopes of preparing the students to survive an encounter, should one happen here in the United States. The class I attended this past week is intended to put the lessons taught during that two day class into practice with nearly all the time spent in force-on-force scenario training . . ." ... |
The Girlie Gun
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"The women in my family don’t like shooting as a recreational sport or hobby. They all know how to operate various weapons and some are naturals with pistols, but they don’t go to the range for fun. As far as tactical weapons go, the loud crack from a semi-automatic carbine, the shoulder thump from a shotgun, or just the weight alone of a battle rifle definitely does not improve things for them."
"However, should a dismal future world ever warrant 'that every man –and woman– be armed', I wanted to have something to give them that was more than a pistol when it came to capacity and range, yet didn’t bruise their delicate shoulders. I really wanted to stay with a caliber which I kept in stock and might be easier to find. ..." ... |
A Gun Holster Story. Gone Bad.
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"Let me tell you a holster story. Gone bad."
"I started carrying a gun on a daily basis about 10 years ago. And when I decide to do something, I obsess. Big time. ..."
"Back to holsters. When I got the shooting bug, I subscribed to every gun magazine known to man. ... Shooting Times. American Rifleman. American Cop. Concealed Carry Magazine. Redbook. Ok, so Redbook was for that great holiday cookie recipe, but all the others were for legitimate 'gun learning' purposes. Anyway, I subscribed to ... tens of magazines per month. I bought books. And read them. Even ones with hardly any pictures."
"In short, I thought I was learning everything I needed to know about concealed carry methods and proper holster selection. ..." ... |
PMC XP-193 Muzzle flash FAIL! (photo story)
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... "In October, at the GSL Defense Training Urban Rifle 101 course, one of our students was using PMC X-Tac 5.56 XP-193 ammo in his Ruger SR-556 rifle."
"We noticed some muzzle-flash during the day, but during the night-time segment of the course, the flash was quite prominent – downright obnoxious in fact." ...
"The incident provided a valuable lesson to students on the importance of test-firing their personal defense ammunition in low-light conditions to make sure there is little or no muzzle flash so as not to mark one’s position for return fire from bad guys."
"In this particular case, the PMC X-TAC XP-193 ammo not only illuminated our shooter, but also those around him." ... |
James Madison Confesses: 'I Was Drunk When I Wrote the Second Amendment'
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"Seriously? Do you NRA dimwits really think this crazy shit was what I meant when I came up with the Second Amendment? Are you kidding me? Maybe we didn't have your technology in 1787, but clearly we Founders were a hell of a lot smarter than you are. (Well I was smart anyway. Washington wasn't really that bright. Hamilton was no genius. Adams? Don't get me started.)"
"But never mind that."
"Frankly, I wish I'd never even written that boneheaded amendment. What was I thinking? In retrospect, perhaps it wasn't such a good idea to drink all that wine right before the convention ..." ... |
A Gun Control Advocate Visits a Gun Show
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"Gun control advocates have a major switch across their ass about gun shows. The fact that Americans can buy and sell firearms without government oversight is a source of endless aggro. That they can do it in public is the ultimate affront to their sense of self-importance. It doesn’t matter that the vast majority of guns used in crimes are stolen property. Or that gun dealers at gun shows must run a background check on all firearms purchases. Close the 'gun show loophole'! Every now and then these advocates wander into what the rest of us call the real world and visit an actual gun show. Needless to say, they’re about as open-minded about the experience as a PETA member at a chicken processing plant . . ." ... |
Perhaps it’s time to repeal the Second Amendment
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"I’ll be starting trial this week in Norwich. My client is accused of murder. The victim was shot to death, point blank, with a hand gun. ..."
"I’ve seen far too many of these sorts of cases in recent years. They are far too common. Young men get in a beef about something, a girl, a slight, drugs, and then, someone returns with a gun. Shots are fired, and quick death is delivered courtesy of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. Dis’ me and die, sucker – that’s the new motto ..."
"This right to bear arms, to transform our streets into killing fields, is overrated."
"Why don’t we repeal the Second Amendment once and for all?" ... |
CeaseFire SCAM castigated in 2007 IL Auditor General report
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"The anti-civil rights group CeaseFire is facing criticism that the City of Chicago’s payment of $1 million for its criminal thug employees to 'prevent' crime is not preventing a thing." ...
"CeaseFire’s scam of securing grants from local, state and federal government here in Illinois was castigated five plus years ago in a scathing 2007 Illinois Auditor General report."
"His findings?"
"Not only are there a host of questionable activities by CeaseFire, but there is no metric to measure their 'success'. They’ve claimed large drops (70%+ in homicides) in two police beats they’ve worked in one year, but larger drops occurred in seven of the fifteen other beats in the district where CeaseFire thugs were absent." ... |
Psychiatrist displays his anti-gun insanity
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"Dr. Ronald W. Pies argues that 'psychiatrists must 'confront' gun-related violence' (free registration required to read the article, although BugMeNot.com sometimes works). The seriousness with which Pies' contention can be taken is severely undermined right from the beginning, when he thanks Dr. Garen Wintemute (more on him here and here) and Dr. David Hemenway for their 'helpful comments.'" ... |
Mexican Standoff
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"'In Mexico, where criminals are armed to the teeth…the country has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the world,' NPR reports. 'Law-abiding Mexicans who want a gun to defend themselves have no good options. Either they fight government red tape to get a legal permit, or they buy one on the black market.'"
"This is illustrated with deadly seriousness in the story of Colonia LeBaron, a community in Chihuahua founded by a sect of 'breakaway' Mormons. Following kidnappings and murders of their members by cartel thugs, the community armed itself in order to provide the protection their government can’t and won’t." ... |
Ignore rumors of gun ban in U.S.
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"Within hours after Mitt Romney had stopped calling my home phone on a daily basis came the news that the United Nations is ramping up its efforts to secure an Arms Trade Treaty that will be used to disarm America."
"Sure, we’d heard this one before. It is usually attributed to a Reuters news report, probably because so few news outlets use Reuters, making it easy to explain why you never see the story in a newspaper or on television news."
"And yes, it has been legitimately reported that the U.N. is rewriting its original proposal for an Arms Trade Treaty to make it amenable to those countries who refused to sign the original." ... |
Gun owners enter the fight of our lives
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"The NRA has been saying all along that Barack Obama would unleash an assault on our Second Amendment freedoms if he won a second term. It sure didn’t take long for him to prove us right."
"Just hours after Obama won re-election last Tuesday, his administration endorsed a new effort by the global gun grabbers at the United Nations to draft a gun ban treaty early next year. The official starting point for the new talks is last year’s failed draft, which contains provisions that threaten our sovereign right to keep and bear arms through an international gun registration scheme." ... |
Guns and Freedom — The UN and the Second Amendment
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"In the wake of President Barack Obama's re-election on November 6, 2012, and the virtual demoralization of Republicans, it is important to recognize that the political mastery of the left does not last forever. Moreover, three new conservative, pro-Second Amendment senators and several freshmen representatives were elected. A solid Republican majority was preserved in the House of Representatives. So, the election did not mean complete defeat for the GOP."
"The political battle continues, and conservatives and gun rights advocates must keep their eye on the ball regarding the constitutional right that ultimately preserves all others — namely the Second Amendment. ..." ... |
U.N. arms treaty won’t infringe on Second Amendment rights, Heritage scholar says
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"Don’t panic, gun owners. The United Nations isn’t trying to stage a 'gun grab' or limit your Second Amendment rights with their Arms Trade Treaty, according to an expert with The Heritage Foundation."
"'I don’t think that the ATT is a gun confiscation measure for a variety of reasons,' Ted Bromund, a Heritage senior research fellow in Anglo-American relations, said on Tuesday. 'First, because I don’t regard that as within the bounds of possibility in the United States and secondly, because that is not what the text says.'" ... |
Will the Arms Trade Treaty Suppress Second Amendment Rights?
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"The first round of UN Arms Trade Treaty talks may have fallen apart ... this past July, but as Ted Bromund over at Heritage noted at the time, 'Now that the concept of the ATT has been invented, it cannot be uninvented. There are too many countries and too many left-wing nongovernmental organizations that want a treaty.' He was right and as Katie reported last week, it didn’t take very long to initiate another attempt. One question she raised in her post deserves more attention: 'Is the argument from the U.N. that it won't suppress Second Amendment rights an honest one?' And what about the Obama administration’s argument that they'“will not accept any treaty that infringes on the constitutional rights of our citizens to bear arms'?" ... |
2nd Amendment rhetoric vs. reality
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"It was brought to my attention yesterday that literally the first piece of legislation that the White House offered an official position on after the election last week was S. 3525, the Sportsmen's Heritage Act. (If it sounds familiar to R-S readers, a local opponent criticized the bill in a letter last weekend.)"
"For the record, the Sportsmen's Heritage Act is also a high legislative priority for the National Rifle Association, which calls the bill 'an essential piece of legislation focused on the expansion and enhancement of hunting, recreational fishing and shooting on federal public land.'" ... |
Sportsmen’s Bill Set for Senate Vote
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"Hunting is big business here in Texas. A fact that Dan Zimmerman now understands, having spent upwards of $350 on the license alone for the Republic. Thankfully, a bill is set for a vote on Thursday to keep the EPA from regulating the crap out of hunting ammunition and fishing gear and therefore raising the price, specifically the lead within said projectiles and sinkers (much to the dismay of some wildlife activists, no doubt). The NSSF has been pushing pretty hard for this legislation, and I’m expecting they’re doing some gloating today…" ... |
Bean Bag Diplomacy
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"Another foreign policy disaster. Another attempt at cover up. It's just more of the lessons being learned from the September 11 Benghazi assassination of four Americans."
"The foreign policy of the Obama administration is as delusional as their views on self-defense."
"Generally, liberals are more afraid of possessing the means of self-defense than they are of being attacked by thugs. We not only see this in their foreign policy, but in the way they choose to govern here at home, as well." ... |
FL: Don’t Expect Much Change in Stand Your Ground Law as Scott Panel Completes Work
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"A group tasked by Gov. Rick Scott with reviewing the state’s “stand your ground” self defense law appears unlikely to recommend any major revamping of the statute, although it will make suggestions for additional study by lawmakers."
"The panel, meeting Tuesday in Pensacola, worked on a draft report that largely would urge lawmakers to look more carefully at couple of particular concerns about areas of the law that may be vague. The panel was created to review the law in the wake of the case in which neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin." ... |
KS: Overland Park wants more legal advice on gun rules
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"An Overland Park City Council committee considering new regulations for the open carry of firearms decided Wednesday night to seek a legal opinion from the Kansas attorney general before acting."
"Facing potential legal action from the Libertarian Party of Kansas, the public safety committee members deferred voting on a proposal that would have restricted open carry only to those with a concealed carry license." ... |
MI: Feds investigate Detroit cops' role in sex club
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"Federal authorities are investigating allegations on-duty Detroit Police officers provided limousine service for patrons of a sex club that operated in the shadow of the police department's Central District headquarters, police sources told The News."
"Federal investigators questioned Detroit police officials recently about a group of officers possibly providing limousine services at the former Forest Club, a swingers' club at 300 E. Milwaukee St. in New Center, about 1,000 feet from the Central District, said the sources familiar with the investigation." ... |
IL: Police cover-up found in bartender beating
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"Throughout the 2 1/2-week trial, Karolina Obrycka displayed the steely countenance of a woman who would stand up to a man about twice her size."
"But Tuesday evening, she couldn't contain a giddy, bubbly smile minutes after a federal jury awarded her $850,000 and found that a widespread code of silence had emboldened off-duty Chicago police Officer Anthony Abbate to beat her in a notorious attack captured by security cameras." ...
"The video of the beefy Abbate pummeling Obrycka inside a Northwest Side bar in 2007 marked one of the most embarrassing chapters in recent Chicago Police Department history and contributed to the resignation of then-Superintendent Philip Cline." ... |
VA: Former Halifax County Sheriff Noblin indicted on forgery, embezzlement charges
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"A Halifax County grand jury has returned 21 indictments of forgery and embezzlement against former Sheriff Stanley Noblin, marking the latest phase of an investigation into missing Sheriff’s Office funds that was launched more than a year ago."
"Noblin ... has been under investigation ever since the missing funds were brought to the attention of law enforcement officials in August 2011. The probe has been led by special prosecutor Eric Cooke ... with the assistance of Virginia State Police accountant William Talbert."
"Search warrants issued in the case indicated that up to $113,180.50 in funds intended for law enforcement activities — including drug interdiction — was missing from the Sheriff’s Office ..." ... |
NC: Former police chief indicted on charges of embezzling (video available)
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"A former police chief has been indicted by a grand jury on charges he stole tens of thousands of dollars in seized drug money."
"Robert Vorhees was chief of police in Rockingham until he resigned in February 2012, citing medical reasons."
"Vorhees worked for the department for 21 years and was even president of the Rockingham Rotary Club."
"But city officials said Tuesday after Vorhees resigned, they discovered 'significant irregularities' in financial records." ... |
CA: One Former, One Suspended Officers Convicted of Conspiracy, Perjury
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"A former Los Angeles police officer and a suspended officer were convicted by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury today of conspiracy to obstruct justice and perjury in connection with a 2008 drug possession case."
"The jury failed to reach unanimous verdicts on a third suspended officer and a mistrial was declared." ...
"During a preliminary hearing and later during the June 2008 trial for Gillermo Alarcon, the three defendants allegedly falsely testified about seeing Alarcon throw away a black object that turned out to be cocaine base near a trash bin. ..." ... |
CO: Right to firearms
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"The latest from Jack Van Ens is a column promoting gun control. He has some concepts wrong."
"He says that the Second Amendment allows local militias to bear arms. That's not what my copy of the Constitution says. It speaks of how well regulated militias are necessary for the security of a free state, but it concludes: 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.'" ... |
HI: Is the NRA Gaining Ground in Hawaii? National President Visits
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"The president of the National Rifle Association visited the islands this week to advocate for development of shooting ranges and expansion of hunting opportunities."
"David Keene also had another mission, which was to talk about the NRA itself, one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the country."
"The NRA's paramount interest is the preservation of Second Amendment rights."
"'The story to tell is the great success we've had,' he said. 'Attitude toward guns ownership and activities has improved.'" ... |
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