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CCRKBA Says S. Dakota Bill To Require Gun Ownership 'Like Obamacare'
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"The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today said a proposal before the South Dakota Legislature that would require all adults in the state to buy a gun 'should make perfect sense to anybody who supports Obamacare.'"
"CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb said legislation sponsored by five South Dakota lawmakers that would require anyone over age 21 to purchase a gun for ordinary self-defense seems reasonable." ... |
Hollow Arguments
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"In a matter of days after the Tucson atrocity, we saw all manner of BS gun control arguments raised yet again. A case of simple minds seeking unworkably simplistic answers to complicated issues, and pointedly avoiding the real problems that need to be addressed. The London-based Economist sniffed pompously that in no other civilized country would a private citizen be able to buy a Glock 19. This will come as a shock to my French, Italian, Belgian, and other friends overseas who legally own them. But when does truth ever get in the way of rhetoric? ..." ... |
What Liberals Don't Know About Guns, Chapter 217
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... "During the presidential campaign, Obama said: 'I don't know of any self-respecting hunter that needs 19 rounds of anything. You don't shoot 19 rounds at a deer, and if you do, you shouldn't be hunting.' It would have been more accurate for him to end that sentence after the word 'hunter.'"
"It's so adorable when people who wouldn't know a high-capacity magazine from Vanity Fair start telling gun owners what they should want and need." ... |
The Pro-Gun Rights Movement: The Tea Party before the Tea Party
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"Quite often when a pro-gun advocate brings up the gun issue, politically-astute friends roll their eyes and try to shut down debate. It could be because many gun owners are single-minded, or because some of the right, including many Republicans, realize they missed the boat on the issue."
"We can't forget, however, that the gun movement was the precursor to the Tea Party and to the anti-big government backlash in America today." ... |
Sikh Student Brings "Religious Dagger" to School
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... "How do we reconcile the banishment of tiny toy guns or WWJD bracelets from school with what the Detroit Free Press reports that authorities of Plymouth-Canton Community Schools have decided to do? Sikh students will be allowed, because it is a requirement of the Sikh faith, to carry a kirpan (photo, above), a three- to five-inch knife, into school. The weapon is euphemistically described as a 'religious dagger,' which is true, but it is also true that part of the Sikh religion is militant self-defense, so although the kirpan is not a weapon of aggression, it is a weapon which must have practical value in fighting. ..." ... |
You Might Be a Terrorist, Too
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"Cato's David Rittgers rounds up cases of terrorist 'fusion centers' erring on the side of labeling, well, pretty much everyone, a potential terrorist.""The North Texas Fusion System labeled Muslim lobbyists as a potential threat; a DHS analyst in Wisconsin thought both pro- and anti-abortion activists were worrisome; a Pennsylvania homeland security contractor watched environmental activists, Tea Party groups, and a Second Amendment rally ..." ... |
Silence in Seattle: Why is Brady Campaign defending ATF operation?
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"Seattle newspapers continued sleeping at the wheel today as major newspapers across the nation – including today’s Washington Post – are reporting the latest developments in Sen. Charles Grassley’s inquiry, reported by this column yesterday, into a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives operation that may be linked to the slaying of a Border Patrol agent in December.
"Why the Seattle Times and Seattle P-I.com remain oblivious to this story is a mystery." ... |
How many of our tax dollars would Bloomberg have Obama spend on anti-gun agenda?
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"After NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's gun show 'sting' operation in Arizona, the forcible citizen disarmament lobby has undoubtedly come to the conclusion that they have presented 'proof' of the need to close the mythical 'gun show loophole.' The Washington Post describes Bloomberg's 'investigation' this way:""The mayor's office hired private investigators to buy guns at a gun show in Phoenix, and Bloomberg then played video of the sting at a press conference on Monday in New York." ... |
Question of the Day: Do You Collect Guns?
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"... I want to know if you ever buy firearms for something other than utilitarian reasons, such as historical value or investment purposes. And if you do, have you ever contemplated purchasing one of these limited edition commemorative pieces? And if you did, did you ever shoot the thing? Go on, spill. Tell me about your safe queens." |
3 Gun Stocks: Buy, Sell or Hold?
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... "Investors in companies doing business in weaponry welcome the bump [in sales after the Tucson shooting]. Stocks of gun makers and those that sell them enjoyed appreciation in share value in the trading days after the shootings. The bull case for stocks in the group suggests that any calls for gun control will result in a groundswell of demand that will make these companies very profitable." ... |
Palm Pistol Update
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"We last heard from Constitution Arms re: their Palm Pistol in September. Since then, the Jersey gunmaker’s been at hard work making guns. The weapon’s launch date of 2010 has come and gone. But our experience with the Chiappa Rhino (and life in general) indicates that it’s better to get a product right before launch then launch and play defense. Here’s the latest . . ." ... |
Time for a civil debate over gun control
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"Most gun enthusiasts just want to claim their Second Amendment right and protect themselves and their families. Some have additional fears of despots and government control. For some, the gun issue is a surrogate for personal autonomy."
"Perhaps it is time for a civil debate with those that also want to claim their constitutional right to safety, but have less enthusiasm for guns. These rights are in conflict." ... |
Bite the bullet, change gun laws
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"I sometimes get grief from gun owners because I'm among the few outdoors writers who openly advocate sensible controls on gun ownership."
"For instance, I think the 30-shot pistol magazine reportedly used by that lunatic in Arizona to kill six people and wound 13 others should either be banned or its sale restricted."
"But the problem with most gun-control measures is that they won't work, and here's why: '1,950,000 results in .15 seconds.' That's what came up when I Googled 'guns for sale' on my laptop the other day." ... |
A gun on every hip
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"Maybe Pierre Allen Hill got it right when he wrote, 'if everybody were packing guns the tragedy in Arizona could have been a lot less deadly.' He makes a good point. Liberals are always trying to take away our guns. They think they are so smart just because they went to college. They are always muddying up the water by bringing science and so-called facts into the mix." ... |
Rand Paul Email Touts False Gun Conspiracy About U.N. Treaty That Doesn’t Exist
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... "In an email to supporters, Paul warned that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the 'global gun-grabbers' are out to 'strip you and me of ALL our freedoms' by signing a treaty designed by the 'petty dictators and one-world socialists who control the UN' to 'CONFISCATE and DESTROY' all civilian firearms across the world. With his trusty sidekick the National Association For Gun Rights and a financial contribution from his base, Paul can 'lead the fight to defeat this radical treaty':" ...
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All guns should be tracked by government
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"Our response to the Tucson massacre does not go far enough in our current technological age. People like you can breathe life into those empty epitaphs and turn memories into tangible protections under the law." ... |
UT: Take it to the desert
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... "Anyone, other than a law enforcement officer, who feels the need to carry a firearm onto a college campus (or any school) is in the wrong place, with the wrong tool and the wrong attitude. Period. ..." ...
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Senator Calls ATF on Allegations Agency Is Allowing Guns Into Mexico
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"The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms -- the agency tasked with keeping U.S. guns from being smuggled to Mexico -- has come under fire for allegedly allowing firearms to cross the border into Mexico."
"Last Friday, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a letter to the ATF stating that his office had 'received numerous allegations that the ATF sanctioned the sale of hundreds of assault weapons to suspected straw purchasers, who then allegedly transported these weapons throughout the Southwest border area and into Mexico.'"
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Will the ATF Gunwalker Scandal Take Down President Obama?
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"Wow. Its déjà vù all over again. The Gunwalker scandal – in which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) stands accused of smuggling guns into Mexico, arming the drug runners that murdered Border Patrol Agent Terry – is one of those seemingly innocent little land mines that blows up big. Contemplating the chain of command that must have authorized this profoundly illegal program, considering the administration’s response to the growing scandal, the hairs on the back of my neck stand at attention, and I’m taken back to the decade we called the 70s. Let’s take a closer look at this latter day potentially presidential scandal…" ... |
IN: Police: Homeowner Opens Fire, Shoots Burglar
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"A homeowner on Indianapolis' south side shot a man who broke into his house early Thursday, police said." ...
"The homeowner told police he grabbed his gun when he heard glass breaking and found a man in a back bedroom."
"The homeowner opened fire, hitting the man in the buttocks, police said." ... |
Arizona Contemptuous of Bloomberg's Gun Show Sting
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"Arizona officials are pretty miffed that those city slickers in Mayor Bloomberg's administration hired private investigators to illegally purchase guns at a Phoenix gun show last week. Undercover video showed investigators at the Crossroads of the West gun show easily buying Glocks like the kind used ... in the Tuscon massacre ..." ... |
Bloomberg Operating Outside NYC - Again
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"Seems New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg doesn't much care where he sends his officers outside their jurisdiction if it advances his anti-gun agenda. And it seems federal authorities have very little interest in slamming him for activities that would land a mere mortal in a federal penitentiary for being an accessory in a felonious act." ... |
Brewer, Horne to Mayor Bloomberg: Mind your own business
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"Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and Attorney General Tom Horne, both Republicans, are none too pleased with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's decision to send undercover officers to a gun show in Tucson."
"Brewer, in a Facebook posting last night, lashed out at Bloomberg, saying, 'From what I've read about New York City ... I think their taxpayers would appreciate Mayor Bloomberg more if he spent their money and used his time and energy focusing on his city and their immediate issues.'" ... |
Mayor Bloomberg's Arizona Gun Show P.R. Stunt
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"New York City's murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault rates rose last year according to preliminary FBI data, with murders alone increasing by more than 12 percent. But instead of concentrating on crime in New York City, Mayor Bloomberg just spent $100,000 of the NYPD's budget sending police to Arizona to buy guns at a gun show." ... |
NJ: Use common sense on gun sales
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... "We support a citizen’s right to legally purchase a firearm, but we also support common-sense legislation. This week, Bloomberg’s office released details of an undercover investigation it conducted at a gun show in Phoenix weeks after the Tucson shooting."
"In a chilling video, a seller proceeds with a gun sale to an individual who openly states he probably would not pass a background check. That this happened in the very state in which the recent rampage occurred and within weeks of the shootings is extremely disturbing." ...
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VA-ALERT: URGENT ALERT - Federal Magazine Gun Ban!
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"Taking a quick break between 'Project Gunwalker' posts to pass along an urgent alert from VCDL, passed on to me. Sorry, no time to purty it up:""Can you punch out to your groups? This is Schumer's way of stopping McConnell's vote against Obamacare, and I can see the Dead Elephants saying 'the symbolic win on Obamacare is worth the ire of the nut-job community.'" ...
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Senate Bill: "Permission Slip" from Feds to Own Gun
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"Not even a month has gone by and already Senator Boxer has announced that she plans to attack the freedoms of law abiding American citizens by introducing legislation that would make it illegal to bear arms without a special permission slip from the Feds. What part of 'shall not infringe' does she not understand? What part of 'Keep and BEAR arms' is unintelligible? The Second Amendment doesn't say anything about requiring a special piece of paper wrapped in plastic. The 2nd Amendment is my Permit. Period." ... |
Obama Reverses ATF Cuts. Gunrunner Spared? The Washington Post is Pleased
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"Color me confused. Two days ago, the Obama Administration signaled its intent to trim the budget of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive (and Really Big Fires) by $160 million. The first to go: the last to arrive. Project Gunrunner. For those of you who haven’t been following our coverage, that’s the ATF’s gun-running interdiction program mired in scandal, a travesty of justice that may have led to the murder of a U.S. Border and Customs agent ..." ... |
TX: Senate defense for guns on campus: to save lives
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"Almost three years ago, a gunman killed two people in a dormitory and then proceeded to a classroom at Virginia Tech where he killed 30 more. He also wounded at least 15 people."
"That attack was the deadliest college campus shooting in U.S. history, but there have been at least six others with multiple casualties."
"That is why on Jan. 13, I, along with 13 co-authors, filed Senate Bill 354 to allow those with concealed handgun licenses (CHL) to carry handguns into college and university buildings, dormitories and classrooms." ... |
The Constitutional Moment -- Judge Vinson introduces ObamaCare to Madison and Marshall.
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"'If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.'"
"Federal Judge Roger Vinson opens his decision declaring ObamaCare unconstitutional with that citation from Federalist No. 51, written by James Madison in 1788. ..." ...
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NJ: New Jersey Police Arrest Seven-Year-Old For Toy Gun
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"According to NBC10, New Jersey police have arrested—yes arrested—a seven-year-old for wielding a NERF-style toy dart gun in elementary school. Hammonton, NJ police began an investigation into 'suspicious activity' after being alerted by school officials. Police then arrested the urchin and charged him/her with possessing an imitation firearm in or on an education institution; a misdemeanor charge ..." ... |
CA: Constitutional sheriff coming to Humboldt County
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"One of the few sheriffs to successfully sue the federal government visits Humboldt to talk about his experiences. Some may say Sheriff Richard Mack is a second amendment zealot, others may say he is the kind of sheriff you’d want protecting your county against big government; you can decide for yourself after his lecture on Saturday, Feb. 5, at 7 p.m., at the Vet’s Hall in Fortuna." ... |
NY: California school shooting raises questions about gun access
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"An elementary school principal in California was shot and killed Wednesday morning by a custodian at the school. Police says the two were involved in a disagreement before the shooting."
"The shooting prompted a security lockdown at the school, but police say no students were hurt or targeted."
"The violence, happening less than a month after the Tucson, Arizona shootings certainly leaves some unsettling questions in people's minds about guns, and who has access to them." ... |
IL: Criminals don’t follow gun laws
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"I see that you conveniently left the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Heller decision out of your condescendingly sanctimonious diatribe against private gun ownership by law-abiding Americans (My View, Jan. 31). Contrary to what you wrote, the Heller decision shows that the U.S. Supreme Court does indeed recognize that the Second Amendment secures an individual right to gun ownership and is not simply a provision for organizing and equipping a state militia." ... |
OH: Deer proposals make upcoming Division Open Houses interesting
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"There are several proposals regarding deer hunting that should make the annual Division of Wildlife Open Houses on Saturday March 5 interesting. One proposal circulated by Whitetails Unlimited Field Director Tim Schlater calls for allowing deer gun hunting to continue for one-half hour past sunset to align with the archery season. Another proposal being circulated would allow the use of rifles chambered for the legal pistol cartridges to be used. It is quite possible that earlier requests to permit the use of single shot rifles in the black powder cartridge configuration, such as the .45-90 cartridge, will continue to surface." ... |
Egypt: Egyptian neighbors creating local militias
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"Until recently, Seif Awad worked a day job as an account manager for Cisco."
"But since Saturday he has begun volunteering at nights, protecting his neighborhood with a volunteer defense squad of young male neighbors armed with makeshift weapons. Last night he armed himself with a big stick. On Sunday, Awad bought gasoline canisters and started making Molotov cocktails."
"'If anyone comes on the street we're going to throw those at them,' Awad said. 'And I have a friend here who has a gun.'" ...
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