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Deadline fast approaching for new Connecticut gun ban/registration edict
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... "Realizing the terrible choice gun owners face, CCDL, which 'is helping to lead the legal challenge of the new law along with other plaintiffs,' made the required forms available to those who 'wish to be in compliance.' That prompted recollections from this correspondent about when California gun owners were faced with a similar dilemma -- to obey or not -- 13 years ago, and how some chose compliance, others quiet defiance, and a very few made their refusal public."
"That raises a key question for gun owners opting for obedience: If an order is later given to surrender your registered firearms, will you also obey that? ..." ... |
NSSF poll results challenge anti-gunners on background checks
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"The National Shooting Sports Foundation today released the results of an early November scientific survey that revealed 'only four out of ten Americans support so-called 'universal background checks' at gun shows' after respondents were advised that the vast majority of those sales are transacted by licensed retailers who already conduct checks through the National Instant Check System (NICS)." ... |
Deconstructing the media response to the Duck Dynasty scandal
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... "But do not misunderstand me. I am not criticizing the media for covering this issue. I believe that this issue justifies the amount of coverage it is receiving. On the one hand, you have members of the LGBT community who feel that A&E is providing a forum for someone who holds their very existence in disdain. On the other hand, you have Christians who believe that their voice in American culture is being systematically stifled."
"Regardless of which side you are on, the media is doing what it should be doing … reporting on the concerns of those groups of Americans so that the rest of us can be informed."
"But that willingness to report is sorely lacking when the people being attacked are gun owners." ... |
Frankincense, Myrrh and Cognitive Dissonance
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"With today being Festivus, ’tis the season for the airing of grievances. So along those lines, a certain member of my family was thoroughly outraged when Dick Metcalf was fired for his article that was widely viewed by the people of the gun as taking a soft approach to the encroachment of gun control. Apparently MSNBC had singled out RF for his opinion on the matter and she concluded that it was all Robert’s fault that Metcalf was fired. 'He has free speech!' she cried, 'He should be able to voice his opinions, even if you disagree!' I calmly replied . . ."
"that Guns & Ammo is a commercial enterprise and if we (the buyers) weren’t happy with their product, then that might concern them. ..." ... |
Daily Digest: Sheltering In Place Edition
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"A pair of Florida state legislators introduced a bill (SB 544) last week to streamline the process of obtaining a Florida Concealed Weapon or Firearms License by letting county tax collectors handle gun permit applications. ..."
"Remember last year when several Chicago suburbs rushed assault weapons ban ordinances through under home rule before the state concealed carry law went into effect? Well, the first of those is being challenged in a lawsuit filed by a Highland Park pediatrician, Arie Friedman, with the support of the Illinois State Rifle Association. ..."
"Miami, Florida held a gun buy-up last Saturday in Liberty City, and hold onto your hats, folks. In four hours, they took in seventy-nine firearms. ..." ... |
Mine’s Bigger than Yours
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"I predicted it a couple of weeks ago, and sure enough it happened: Democrats used the one-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook Massacre to have another go at gun control. I don’t mean to suggest I’ve said anything remotely groundbreaking here; to predict something this patently, ridiculously, supernaturally inevitable would be arguably the least impressive declaration in history. Going a full week without predicting the winner of the 2038 Super Bowl would be a comparative jaw-dropper." ... |
Gun Review: AAC Remington Model Seven in 300 BLK
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"The 300 AAC Blackout cartridge was designed specifically for the AR-15 platform. The idea was to create something that will cycle the rifle’s action in both supersonic and subsonic flavors without changing any parts, and have a round that uses the same bolt and gas system as the original 5.56 version. It’s perfect for that platform, but when you start moving to other weapon systems the benefits of the round start to fade away. Which is why a bolt action rifle in 300 BLK had me scratching my head . . ." ... |
TTAG Exclusive: Kirsten Joy Weiss’ Mmmpop (video story)
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"You may not be familiar with Hanson’s pop classic Mmmbop. It’s one of those infectious tunes that worms its way into your subconscious through its sheer exuberance. Same goes for performance shooter Kirsten Weiss’ trick shots. Even if the demos don’t look spectacular – yet – Ms. Weiss’ love of shooting comes shining through. Kay Jay Dubs’ enthusiasm has earned her a strong female following, helping push subscriptions to her YouTube channel over the 10k mark. ..." |
Promoting Fear Through Distortion
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"Are we safer now as we head into the holidays than we were during revolutionary times?"
"Not according to New Hampshire state Rep. JR Hoell, who said this month, 'If things continue the way they are, there may be a day or a time where firearms and ammo are necessary. It happened in the Revolutionary War. I’d like to think we’re not there yet, but as things continue to unravel, that may be the next step.'"
"Comparing our own government to British occupiers and invoking the Second Amendment as justification for another revolution is a sad distortion of history. ..." ...
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17-year-old Arapahoe High School Gun Victim Dies - Some Blame 2nd Amendment
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"The 17-year-old Colorado student who loved horses, life and what was expected to be a promising future after graduation died Saturday from her gun injuries. Claire Davis who had been the only victim of the gunfire unleashed by shooter and fellow Arapahoe High School student Karl Pierson was shot point blank in the head on December 13, according to the Chicago Tribune."
"The unfortunate tragedy underscores the need for both law enforcement as well as mental health authorities to play closer attention to some of the possible triggers which set deadly shooters like 18-year-old Pierson onto their campaign pathway of evil." ... |
HuffPo: The Great American Gun Violence Lottery
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"It’s ironic. The writer who penned The Great American Gun Violence Lottery for huffingtonpost.com is a law professor at Lewis & Clark College. Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second Lieutenant William Clark left civilization to explore North America’s western-most reaches. They faced any number of lethal threats: disease, starvation, injury, exposure, animal attack and native Americans’ ire, to name a few. Professor Erin Ryan [above] seems to share the explorers’ perspective: shit happens. But she fails to embrace the second part of that equation: deal with it. Personally. Instead, she celebrates statism, starting with a story . . ." ... |
We Demand Numbers from Moms Demand Action
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"'I asked. She wouldn’t say. I didn’t press.' That’s reporter Lydia Nuzum’s reply to 'Why didn’t you ask the head of the West Virginia Chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America (MDA) how many members they have?' I made the enquiry after reading Nuzum’s W.Va. chapter of anti-gun moms’ group still going one year later. It’s based on an interview with MDA’s WV 'leader' Dee Price Childers [above]. While the West Virginia Gazette reporter didn’t have a grasp of (or interest in) the size of the State MDA chapter she was more than happy to accept MDA founder Shannon Watts’ claim of national membership . . ." ... |
Yes, We Can Prevent Gun Violence
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"The vast majority of Americans understand that we can respect the Second Amendment while also protecting lives. Republican pollster Frank Luntz found last year that 87 percent of National Rifle Association members think the 2nd Amendment goes hand-in-hand with keeping illegal guns out of the hands of criminals, and 74 percent support background checks for all gun sales. If only the group’s Washington leadership would listen." ...
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TTAG Reader’s Choice Awards 2013 [Make the Jump to Vote]
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"This is the time of year that firearms publications award their 'Best of 2013' prizes, recognizing the gun companies that gave them the most money made the best products. While TTAG shares our colleagues’ desire to reward product excellence, we wanted to do so in a way that took our bottom line biases out of the equation. So we’ve decided to put our very first annual awards in your hands. Make the jump to use our super awesome voting system to make your voices heard. Feel free to lobby for your choice below. We’ll tally up the results some time after Christmas and announce the winners in the New Year, just in time for SHOT Show schmoozing. [ED: I added that word.] See you on the other side . . ." ... |
Kalashnikov dies, let the demonization begin
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"Earlier today, the inventor of what many consider the most popular rifle in the world – Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov – died following a long illness, and his passing is being reported by news media all over the world, including the Seattle Times, and leave it to the Associated Press to demonize him, just a little."
"'Mikhail Kalashnikov,' says reporter Jim Heintz, 'started out wanting to make farm equipment, but the harvest he reaped was one of blood as the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, the world's most popular firearm.'" ... |
AK47 assault rifle designer Kalashnikov dies at 94
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"The inventor of the Kalashnikov assault rifle, Mikhail Kalashnikov, has died aged 94, Russian officials say."
"The automatic rifle he designed became one of the world's most familiar and widely used weapons."
"Its comparative simplicity made it cheap to manufacture, as well as reliable and easy to maintain." ...
"Kalashnikov was admitted to hospital with internal bleeding in November."
"He died on Monday in Izhevsk, the city where he lived 600 miles east of Moscow, an official there said." ... |
Obituary: Mikhail Kalashnikov
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"Mikhail Kalashnikov's automatic rifle became one of the most familiar weapons on the planet."
"It was employed by the armies of dozens of countries, and incorporated in several national flags."
"But the AK47 also became a symbol of revolution around the world. It saw action on battlefields as diverse as Angola, Vietnam, Algeria and Afghanistan." ...
"It's comparative simplicity made it cheap to manufacture as well as reliable and easy to maintain in the field. It became the most widely used assault rifle in the world."
"Yet Kalashnikov, although honoured in Russia, made very little money from his gun and once complained he would have been financially better off designing a lawnmower." ... |
Editorial is full of anti-gun prejudice
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"The editorial 'Remembering Newtown' (Dec. 15) and the subtitle referencing our culture's lust for violence was long on slobbering emotions and laughable anti-gun prejudice, but void of logic."
"The myth purported by the unsubstantiated editorial is that the prevalence of guns leads to a more violent culture. Or simply put, guns are evil. Therefore, ignoring the Second Amendment, our benevolent and all-knowing government should eradicate guns from the planet. All that oppose are simply baby killers and devil worshippers." ... |
Paper shows disdain for those who support Second Amendment
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"Regarding the headline 'Why is a nice guy like Dan being boss of a very pro-gun website' (Dec. 13):"
"What is the Post-Dispatch implying: Is Dan no longer a nice guy or that only not-nice guys would be the boss of a pro-gun website? ... [T]he Post-Dispatch should not stereotype or criticize those who support the Second Amendment or any other amendment in order to make a headline."
"You state that Dan Zimmerman does not look like a gun guy. What does a gun guy look like? Over 180,000 Missouri residents possess a conceal and carry permit issued by the state. ... Can you identify us? We are your neighbors, co-workers and friends, yet you seem to think you know what a 'gun guy' looks like and that he or she is 'not nice.' Wow!" ... |
Study to Resolve Mental Health Loophole and Gun Ownership Touted
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"The front page of Sunday’s New York Times led with a nearly 5,000-word essay by two journalists amping up the volume in the latest attack on the Second Amendment entitled with 'When the Right to Bear Arms Includes the Mentally Ill.' The motive was clear from the beginning: There’s a mental illness 'loophole' in the law that allows crazies to walk the streets and something must be done about it." ... |
Year-End Awards: The ‘Gunning for the Second Amendment Award’ (video available)
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"Last week, the Media Research Center announced our 'Best Notable Quotables of 2013,' reviewing the worst media bias of the year as selected by the 42 expert judges who reviewed dozens of quotes."
"During the first half of 2013, liberals hoped they could leverage the tragedy of last year’s horrible shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, to push through their long-sought wish list of new federal gun restrictions, and the media cheered them on. Here are the quotes our judges designated as the worst of the worst, as catalogued in the MRC’s 'Gunning for the Second Amendment Award.' (Winning quotes and video below the jump.)" ... |
FactCheck: No ‘Back Door’ Gun Control
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... "Is the shutting down of the last lead smelting operation in the US a back door plot by the EPA and Obama administration to impact gun control and second amendment rights by limiting ammunition imports of foreign nations as the only source of lead ammunition now that smelting operations have ceased in the US?"
"Here is a copy of the email that I received that prompted me to ask FactCheck.org for an answer to my question concerning the EPA and the Clean Air Act to cause the smelting factories to close down and end production of lead for ammunition." ... |
CO: Anti-Gun Colorado Governor Admits Gun Control Laws Did Nothing to Stop Recent High School Shooting
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... "During a December 15 appearance on Face the Nation, Gov. Hickenlooper, was forced to admit that the very gun control bills he signed into law–and which resulted in the historic recalls of two state senators and the resignation of a third to avoid the same fate–did not make 'a difference at all' in the [Arapahoe High School] shooting."
"'So things like universal background checks, I think they are going to make us safer, but in this specific case aren’t going to make a difference at all. And that’s the challenge,' Hickenlooper said."
"What does make a difference is an armed response ..." ... |
CT: Gun owners see choices in CT governor's race as bad or worse
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"When the Connecticut Citizens Defense League endorsed Republican Tom Foley in the 2010 race for governor, it went unnoticed. The gun owners’ group was just a year old ..."
"Now, it is in rapid-growth mode, with a membership that its leadership says has quadrupled to 10,300 in the year since the Sandy Hook shooting spurred passage of restrictions on purchasing guns, ammunition and large-capacity magazines."
"Members are getting tutored about the political process, learning how to become delegates to nominating conventions. With 201,038 pistol-permit holders and tens of thousands more owners of rifles and shotguns in Connecticut, they could be a potent voting bloc in 2014."
"If only they can find a candidate." ... |
GA: Early voting under way for HD 22 special election
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"The candidates vying for the late State Rep. Calvin Hill’s seat will continue campaigning throughout the holidays, with the special election set for Jan. 7."
"The four State House District 22 hopefuls include Ball Ground residents Meagan Biello and Jeff Duncan ..." ...
"Biello, a Creekview High School teacher and Cherokee native, said she feels she is the best candidate for the job because of her proven history of making a positive impact in others’ lives." ...
"Biello said her ... other focuses include decreasing government regulations, reducing taxes and putting a greater emphasis on individual liberties, including upholding the Second Amendment and Georgia’s 'stand-your-ground' law." ... |
Legal challenge questions reliability of police dogs
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"In 2010, a team of researchers at the University of California, Davis set out to test the reliability of drug- and bomb-sniffing dogs."
"The team assembled 18 police dogs and their handlers and gave them a routine task: go through a room and sniff out the drugs and explosives."
"But there was a twist. The room was clean. No drugs, no explosives."
"In order to pass the test, the handlers and their dogs had to go through the room and detect nothing."
"But of 144 runs, that happened only 21 times, for a failure rate of 85 percent." ...
"The reliability of drug dogs and their handlers is at the heart of a lawsuit filed in state district court by two Nevada Highway Patrol K-9 troopers and a consultant ..." ... |
CA: Salinas PD's giant military tank turning heads
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"A 37,000-pound armored truck that was once used by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan will now be used by the Salinas Police Department for SWAT team operations."
"Salinas' newest addition is certainly a head turner. Some residents felt alarmed by the truck's massive size, while others questioned how a police department with financial struggles could afford a truck worth more than $650,000."
"Police Chief Kelly McMillin defended the military tank-like truck."
"'It provides a high capability of protection for our officers and the community,' McMillin said." ... |
OH: Cleveland Pays Out Settlement to Concealed Carrier Whose Gun Was Wrongly Confiscated
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"Police in Cleveland, OH learned that they can’t just confiscate weapons and hold onto them forever last week."
"Derrick Washington was trying to be a good citizen when he called police to report a shooting in his neighborhood."
"Washington met with officers once they arrived. At some point during the conversation, Washington told officers he had a license to carry and he had a gun in his car, which was not in the immediate area where he was talking with officers."
"Police allege that Washington told them he had two drinks that evening, but Washington denies that."
"Police arrested Washington, who was ... not connected to the shooting in any way, confiscated his gun from his car, and held him in jail for three days." ... |
Gun rights versus sensible laws
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"Your article on gun rights blogger Dan Zimmerman ('Why is a nice guy like Dan being boss of a very pro-gun website?' Dec. 13) was an ominous warning about the power of misinformation spread by conservative gun advocates. Mr. Zimmerman repeats their mantra that gun-free zones are a major cause of mass shootings, and when talking about the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre, suggests that arming school personnel is a solution. But some safety experts disagree, fearing that inexperienced civilians will put students at risk. Trained police accidentally shot nine bystanders in an incident at the Empire State Building in August 2012. I doubt that school personnel would be more accurate marksmen." ... |
Brother disagrees with gun website editor
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"I read the article titled 'Why is a nice guy like Dan being boss of a very pro-gun website?' (Dec. 13) and I was disturbed by more ways than you can imagine."
"The first reason is that Dan Zimmerman is my brother, and I love him like all of my siblings. ... I knew Dan had an interest in guns and shoots for sport ... [but] I had no idea that his views were so extreme and that he was the CEO and managing editor of TheTruthAboutGuns.com. ..."
"The second reason I was disturbed about the article is that I am the chief of anesthesia and critical care at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego. In this role, I have had many children die under my care while trying to save their lives from senseless gun violence. ..." ... |
NRA Drama ‘Cold Dead Hands’ being developed by Sundance Channel (video available)
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"The Sundance Channel is developing the new series, “Cold Dead Hands,” a drama based on the famous speech by Second Amendment supporter, Charlton Heston."
"The project, spearheaded by renowned producer Scott Gold, focuses on Trip Thibodeaux, the fictional head of the National Rifle Association, Breitbart reports."
"'This is a divisive issue, no question about it,' said executive producer Scott Gold. 'We won’t be shy about that. It’s also an issue that speaks to what it means to be American – and there are a lot of different versions of that.'"
"While the make-believe Thibodeaux is modeled after the actual head of the NRA, Wayne La Pierre, it is uncertain just how closely fact will line up with fiction." ... |
NY: 'Deal Of Century' to Open 70,000 Adirondack Acres to Public Hunting
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"The 'deal of the century' has outdoorsmen throughout the Northeast eagerly planning forays into nearly 70,000 acres of Adirondack wilderness teeming with deer, moose, and bear that, in some areas, hasn't been hunted since the Civil War as New York State proceeds with its $50 million acquisition of former Finch, Pruyn & Co. timberlands by 2017."
"The Adirondack Park Agency voted 11-0 on Dec. 13 to classify 161,000 acres of former Pruyn lands in New York's vast Adirondack Park. More than 69,000 acres in more remote, interior areas suitable for backcountry activities will be classified as wilderness, while more than 89,000 acres in more accessible areas will be classified as wild forest, allowing snowmobiling and vehicular access." ... |
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