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Idaho federal gun enforcement protection bill goes to committee tomorrow
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... "This legislation is to protect Idaho law enforcement officers from being directed, through federal orders, laws, rules, or regulations enacted or promulgated on or after January 1, 2013, to violate their oath of office and Idaho citizens' rights under the Idaho Constitution, Article 1, Section 11,' the bill’s Statement of Purpose explains. 'This Constitutional provision disallows confiscation of firearms except those actually used in commission of a felony, and disallows other restrictions on a lawful citizen's right to own firearms and ammunition.'" ... |
Overwhelming Majority of Gun Owners Oppose Universal Background Checks
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"In an ongoing poll conducted of its membership by Gun Owners of America, 96.2% of over 18,500 respondents have thus far opposed Obama's universal background check proposal."
"So many gun owners tried to register their opposition to banning private gun sales that GOA's server crashed, and many who were opposed this framework for a national gun registry were unable to cast their votes."
"In conducting the poll, GOA was careful to lay out both its arguments against the proposal, in addition to Obama's arguments in support of universal background checks. Yet, confronted with arguments for both sides, gun owners -- many in red states -- overwhelmingly rejected the universal background check provision." ... |
Employers, Property Rights and Guns
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"John P. Rodgers, writing at mondaq.com, has just noticed that ‘guns in cars’ laws are being considered by various legislatures around the country. Here’s a hot tip: he doesn’t appear to be in favor of them. Setting Rodgers’s opinion aside, however, let’s look at the businesses’ objections to the law. To wit . . ." ... |
‘Need’ defined
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... "The 'need' word has surfaced in other contexts. Gun owners are reminded that that no one needs a high capacity magazine. That may be news to the guy with a bear wandering about his campsite or to a woman dealing with a dangerous stalker. We are told the everyone needs health insurance, even those who are financially capable or those who are satisfied with the limited or carefully tailored coverage they already have." ...
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Submitter's Note: "I don't need an AR-15 any more than Rosa Parks needed to sit at the front of that bus." -- Unknown |
Letters to Obama
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"Last week, we talked about Obama soliciting 'gun violence' stories and I urged readers to instead send stories of violence prevented with guns, or alternately, 'gun violence' perpetrated by the 'Only Ones' the citizen disarmament control freaks think should have guns."
"Twitter liberty colleague Brenda Gale stepped up to the plate and knocked the ball out of the park. Here's what she sent in and is allowing me to share with you:" ... |
The Truth About Magazine Capacity
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"... if you want some piercing insight into this particular video, I’ll say this about that: the battle over magazine capacity goes to the heart of the 'debate' over civilian disarmament. A good guy can be trusted with a 30-round ammunition magazine or, for that matter, a flame thrower. A bad guy can’t be trusted with a pair of tweezers. Why should good guys’ self-defense be limited by bad guys? ..." |
Self-Defense Tip: Layer Your Home Defenses
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"Most people don’t want to think about bad things happening to them. It’s entirely possible that most people can’t think about bad things happening to them; their brains are wired for 'Condition White.' The thought of a violent assault freaks them out. Even so, most people will take some steps to secure their home. The question is: how much security is enough and how much is too much? Burglar bars. Fires. Need I say more? What about people who leave multiple guns around the house? Here are three basic layers of home security that could form the basis for any good—but not overly dangerous—self-defense system . . ." ... |
Ammo Recall: Winchester Stands Behind Their Product
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... "Now, for those who wear their tinfoil hats snug, this little incident does expose the double edged sword of Internet ammo sales. Looking back through my records, I bought this package way back in February 2012. A year later, Midway had no trouble finding me to let me know about the recall."
"On the one hand, it does show that should push ever come to shove, Uncle Sam could certainly use the records of the big online firearm supply houses to figure out exactly which houses in each town are more likely to be trouble spots. On the other hand, without Midway’s email, I’d have never have known about this recall ... On balance, I think the good outweighed the bad, but your mileage may vary." ... |
Ammo Shortage Solutions: One Box Workout™
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"Is there an ammo shortage or a customer surplus? If you consider the current situation rationally without the bias of emotion or paranoia, a shortage of any product historically takes place after some unforeseen event. ..."
"A Midwest drought can lead to less hay production or wheat or corn, take your pick. Less available product translates to higher prices. You either pay those prices or you buy less of that product. It’s simple economics."
"As these words are penned we are experiencing the largest customer surplus in the ammunition market in my lifetime. More people are buying more ammunition than at any time in recorded history. It’s not that the ammunition manufacturers slowed or stopped production ..." ... |
Right to bear arms is still unclear
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"Few sentences in the Constitution have been digested, dissected and discussed more than this one. But what does it really mean? The NRA and its ilk would have you believe that it confers an absolute right to possess a gun. Indeed, so extreme is the NRA, that it even opposes preventing those on the FBI’s terrorist watch list from buying guns." ... |
Ratchet down rhetoric
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"They're called bomb throwers for a reason."
"They're the folks who don't talk politics, they scream them. They don't agitate for their rights, they threaten. Very often their battle is worth fighting. Trouble is, their angry, sometimes frightening tirades, drown out what they have to contribute to the debate."
"We've seen that happen with the National Rifle Association's bomb-thrower-in-chief Wayne LaPierre, whose take-no-prisoners, over-the-top style does more to harm the case for gun-owner rights than advance it among many policymakers. Who, for example, holds a gun appreciation day in the wake of the Newtown tragedy?" ... |
NY: Upstate NY Dem: 2A Advocates Are “Gun-Toting Tea Party Psychotards”
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"As I type this, thousands of New York gun owners are gathering in Albany to protest the unconstitutional train wreck known as the SAFE Act. It’s proof positive that New York’s traditional bifurcation—upstate and downstate—has gone ballistic. Make no mistake, it’s a nasty split, with the civilian disarmament folks spreading fear and loathing throughout the Empire State. Make the jump to read an email from Hudson city Alderman Dave Marston [above] to gun rights advocate Johanna Johnson-Smith. Marston expresses his unhappiness about her presence at a Hudson Common Council meeting considering a complete ban to complement the SAFE Act. ... it’s a good indication of what lingers beneath what little civility exists in the civilian disarmament movement . . ." ... |
Magpul goes bad. Update: Magpul responds and our reply.
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... "[Magpul:]Right now, we are engaged in the fight of our lives for 2A rights here in CO."
"[GSL]: And we’re fighting alongside of you, not because of your company’s headquarters being located there, but because it’s the moral and ethical thing to do — supporting the fight for our civil rights, not for the rights of the cops to have a police state as you seem to be supporting."
"And while we’re right there fighting in Colorado for you and Colorado residents, I haven’t seen one whit about Magpul helping us in Illinois. Instead, you people are putting in a fast lane for Chicago Police officers to get their PMAGs when the law-abiding good guys in Cook County are banned from owning such devices even though they face violent crime rates many times the rest of Illinois." ... |
South Africa: Armed Home Invader Shot & Killed by 9 Yr Old Girl’s Father as She Was Held Hostage at Gunpoint
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"Three armed men burst into the home of a family in the evening on Wednesday."
"One of the men grabbed a young nine year old girl and held her hostage as the other two men ransacked the home."
"The girl’s father drew his own firearm from his holster and fired a shot at the man holding his daughter hostage, striking him once in the upper body."
"The man fell down and the other two men fled the scene."
"Paramedics declared the suspect dead at the scene." ...
"The girl’s father said, 'Many of us have guns but these are kept in safes. We must have these on us, to protect ourselves and to equip ourselves within the premise of the law in an effort to reduce crime.'" ...
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Why I’m Now a Gun Owner
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"On Friday September 18, something happened that changed my life forever. It was payday, so I decided to run to the ATM and get some cash. I work from home, so normally I don’t go out during the day unless I need something. I live about two minutes from the shopping center where the ATM is located, so I was expecting it to be a short trip . . ." ... |
Biden Advises Shooting Shotgun Through Door
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"Vice President Joe Biden told Field & Stream magazine in an interview published Monday, '[if] you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door.'"
"Coincidentally, a 22-year-old man in Virginia Beach, Va., was charged Monday with reckless handling of a firearm after doing just that a couple days earlier." ... |
Is Joe Biden living proof you ‘can’t fix stupid?’
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"Vice President Joe Biden is quickly becoming a punch line for his ill-advised suggestions about home defense with a shotgun, and now he’s demonstrated a new area of false expertise: Hunting."
"His shotgun-obsessive comments of late have people in and out of the firearms community wondering just how far Biden will be able to insert his foot into his mouth." ... |
Double Barrel Biden: Shotguns Easier to Aim, More of a Deterrent Than ARs
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"Joe 'Double Barrel' Biden has been shooting his mouth off again. After advising home owners to fire warning shots from a double barrel shotgun to ward off home invaders, the President’s point man on civilian disarmament told Field & Stream readers to unleash a scattergun blast through a door in an emergency. The Veep also defended his opinion that double-barreled shotguns are better than 'assault rifles' for the fairer sex. 'Most people can handle a shotgun a hell of a lot better than they can a semi-automatic weapon in terms of both their aim and in terms of their ability to deter people coming.' I guess Joe hasn’t seen the viral video of female shotgun fails racking-up the views on YouTube. Or asked anyone who actually owns an AR-style rifle ..." ... |
Biden says state troopers at Sandy Hook 'need some help'; perhaps disarmament?
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"While the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony Wednesday about Senator Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) bill to ban so-called 'assault weapons,' Vice President 'Double Barrel Joe' Biden was across town pushing the administration's forcible citizen disarmament agenda to the National Association of Attorneys General. As tends to be the case when Biden opens his mouth (a mouth that seems to spend little time closed), something he said yesterday should perhaps get a closer look. From ABC News:" ... |
Vice President Biden doubles down on his bad advice
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"What is it with vice presidents and shotguns? I mean, Dick Cheney may have accidentally shot someone in a display of poor firearms handling, but at least he never claimed that it was a good idea to do so."
"But despite being thoroughly lambasted for last week’s illegal advice to shoot wildly into the air from one’s balcony, good ol’ Joe is back with more advice for those who are tired of living outside of prison." ... |
NY: Monroe County residents wake up early for gun rally
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"At 4:30 a.m. -- an hour too early to even get a cup of coffee most places -- 250 people gathered at Marketplace Mall this morning to load five buses to Albany."
"They were headed to the NY2A rally in Albany, a rally against the recently passed gun laws and in favor of gun rights."
"Whatever their reason for owning guns, those going had one overarching motivation for waking up, getting on a bus and making the trip: They see the Bill of Rights as a house of cards. To them, one part has been threatened, and if one part falls, so does everything else." ... |
NY: Gun Rights Advocates Stick It To New New York State Weapons Regs -- And Gov. Cuomo
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"Thousands of gun rights advocates swarmed the muddy grounds of the state Capitol Thursday to protest New York’s tough new gun control law -- and Gov. Cuomo."
"Our Glenn Blain reports:"
"'Your governor is willing to sacrifice the Constitution, your rights as citizens and the prerogatives of his Legislature on the altar of his own ambition and on the ego of Michael Bloomberg of New York City,' National Rifle Association President David Keene told the crowd." ...
"An audience estimated at 5,000 -- some chanting 'Cuomo’s Got To Go' and 'Fight! Fight! Fight!' -- showed up to hear a parade of speakers trash the law and those who enacted it." ... |
NY: At Gun Protest, Cuomo Accused of Pandering
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"Thousands of gun-rights advocates rallied Thursday on a muddied lawn outside the capitol building here, protesting the new assault-weapons ban and giving voice to a strain of upstate unease with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo."
"As a crowd estimated by police at under 5,000 congregated in the light rain, Merle Haggard‘s 'Fightin’ Side of Me' played over loudspeakers. Participants expressed their viewpoints through camouflage attire, hunting caps and signs, including many depicting Mr. Cuomo as a dictator and a politician consumed by ambitions for higher office." ... |
NY: Pulse of The People: Repeal the gun law, restore our rights
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"The governor through backroom deals and deliberate non-disclosure, managed to get his personal agenda passed all in approximately 36 hours. It has taken him years and he still hasn't decided anything about hydraulic fracturing."
"The new gun bill is so flawed that most sheriff departments in the state oppose it. Even the major backers of the bill admit it will not do anything to prevent crime. The bill was pushed based on false information after the shootings in Connecticut that said the rifle was the weapon used." ... |
NY: Pro-gun voices converge
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"Gun rights supporters turned out by the thousands on the muddy West Lawn of the Capitol on Thursday to make their opposition heard to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s gun control legislation passed last month."
"Buses from across the state showed up for the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association’s fifth annual Lobby Day and Rally, which drew a record crowd of more than 5,000 people and was headlined by National Rifle Association President David Keene. The crowd was energetic, waving signs and flags, engaging in spirited conversations about the law they uniformly despise, chanting against Cuomo and roundly applauding a cavalcade of speakers who took turns preaching the rights of gun owners." ... |
Gun rights advocates swamp Capitol
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"We’re well over an hour before the scheduled start of today’s Second Amendment rally at the Capitol, but certainly more than a thousand people are already gathering in West Capitol Park and at the Capitol."
"'Cuomo’s gotta go!' The crowd chanted around 10:15 a.m."
"In addition to the people in the park, the line to enter the Capitol on the Empire State Plaza concourse stretches back to the Egg. People are holding signs denouncing Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who pushed for the gun control bill that is the subject of the protest." ... |
NY: They’re rally into guns
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"Thousands of angry opponents of New York’s new gun-control law rallied outside the Capitol yesterday to vent their anger at Gov. Cuomo and demand a repeal of the state’s strict new rules on guns."
"The rally featured National Rifle Association President David Keene, who ridiculed Cuomo as a 'a bad penny' from the Clinton administration whom he said didn’t understand the Constitution."
"'We know the Second Amendment doesn’t just apply to squirrel hunting,' Keene told the crowd as he vowed to help overturn the law in court and defeat the lawmakers who voted for it." ... |
SC: South Carolina Looks to Join the Constitutional Carry Movement
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"The first of four public hearings to take place across South Carolina convened in North Charleston City Hall Monday evening. It gave the public a chance to talk to legislators about SB115 that would make South Carolina the seventh state with Constitutional Carry. The Palmetto State currently requires applicants to attend an eight hour course, submit fingerprints, a photograph and pay a fee to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division for their permit to tote. But under the new bill, all that goes away . . ." ... |
NY: NY Gov. to Exempt Film and TV Industry from SAFE Act
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"As we reported when the New York’s SAFE Act was passed, the bill forgot to exempt police from magazine capacity limits. (That’s what happens when you rush a piece of legislation through the Assembly, give politicians twenty-minutes to read it before they vote and sign it into law under emergency provisions which circumvent the constitutionally-mandated three-day waiting period.) The Empire State’s seven-round mag cap limit goes into effect on April 15. And so Governor’s Cuomo’s mob must quickly fix the bill to allow law enforcement officers to carry more rounds than law-abiding taxpayers. And here’s another kicker, straight from the Joe Biden Diane Feinstein I Have No Idea WTF I’m Talking About School of Civilian Disarmament . . ." ... |
MD: Maryland Senate passes gun control bill
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"The Maryland Senate approved a comprehensive gun control bill on Thursday that includes a ban on assault weapons and fingerprinting for prospective handgun buyers."
"The Democratic-controlled Senate passed the bill 28-19 and sent it on to the House of Delegates, according to the chamber's website." ... |
PA: Susquehanna County votes to defy any gun restrictions
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"With gun rights coming under fire across the border in New York State, the Susquehanna County commissioners spoke out by resolution Wednesday in favor of the Second Amendment."
"Republican Commissioner Michael Giangrieco said the issues in New York prompted him to address the matter on a county level."
"He proposed a resolution stating that 'any federal act, bill, law, rule or executive order that in any way infringes on our Second Amendment rights by attempting to reduce the private ownership of any firearm, magazine or ammunition shall be unenforceable in Susquehanna County.'"
"New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently signed legislation that restricts residents to purchasing ammunition magazines that carry seven bullets." ... |
ME: Maine state trooper’s handgun discharges during staff meeting Wednesday
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... "McCausland confirmed that the gun was an H&K .45-caliber handgun. When asked if the safety was on, he said he didn’t have any further details about specifics other than the holster was securely attached to the lieutenant’s lap."
"'It’s far too early to tell if there was a mechanical problem,' McCausland said. 'Our firearms safety expert who oversees our firearms training will examine the weapon and determine what happened.'" ... |
TX: Eagle Pass police officer enters plea
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"An Eagle Pass police officer has pleaded guilty to possessing a stolen firearm, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday."
"Eriberto Leija, 40, faces up to 10 years in prison after admitting that in July 2012 he tried to sell an M1 carbine that he knew was stolen, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office." ... |
NY: Mental health professionals have concerns over new gun law
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"There's concern about the mental health reporting requirements in the new gun law and how much they could cost you, the taxpayer."
"The state group that represents all the county mental health directors says this added layer of bureaucracy will cost taxpayers millions. The money would be needed to hire hundreds of people across the state to review these reports and counties could be held liable for damages from lawsuits brought by people who are reported to the state." ... |
OH: 2012 Attorney General Summary on Concealed Carry: Another record year for Ohio concealed handgun licenses
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"Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) has released the concealed handgun license (CHL) statistics for the fourth quarter of 2012. Ohio sheriffs set another new record issuing almost 19,000 CHLs for the busiest fourth quarter in the program's nine year history. Demand was up 31% compared to the same period a year earlier. For the year, Ohio Sheriff’s issued 64,650 regular CHL’s and renewed another 12,160 licenses. This crushes the previous record set in 2009 when 56,691 CHL’s were issues and 16,443 were renewed. At the end of the year, we set another all-time record of approximately 323,375 Ohio residents licensed to carry concealed firearms. (See chart)" ... |
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