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How Are Gun Rights God-Given And Inalienable?
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"Last week, in pointing out the problems with Jill Lepore’s attempt to undermine the Second Amendment and justify more gun control, I focused on the fact that our right to keep and bear arms is a God-given right."
"As such, it preceded not only the Second Amendment but also the founding of the United States."
"In other words: We don’t have the right to keep and bear arms because the Bill of Rights says so; rather, the Bill of Rights says so because the right to keep and bear arms is intrinsic to our very being: it is a right with which we were endowed by our Creator." ... |
I Reject Your Reality And Substitute My Own: No. 5
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"Tom Gabor, guest columnist for The Palm Beach Post is a former professor of Criminology and a criminal justice consultant. He has served as an expert witness on and written extensively about guns and violence. And he is, apparently, an idiot. Either that or he is a liar. He writes in Thursday's TPBP that 'Guns for self-defense mean more costs, not more benefits'. Mr. Gabor bases this claim almost entirely on two very questionable sets of government statistics. First, he uses the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program to count 'justifiable homicides':" ... |
John Foster Way’s Way: Ignorance, Red Herrings And Straw Men
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“'On another issue, Republicans claim Democrats want to confiscate your guns. That's not true. It's a scare tactic used for decades with the help of the National Rifle Association and American Legislative Exchange Council, a Federalist think tank pushing their radical agenda.' That’s John Foster Way regurgitating the oft-heard whopper in soothing tones of reasonableness. Not that there isn’t a kernel of truth to it when it comes to the whole NRA fundraising thing. But slap a polygraph on any 'common sense' gun controller and deep down, under all those layers of fear, distrust and loathing lies the gun grabber within . . ." ... |
OMG! It’s A Rifle! Pointed at the President’s Head! OMG!
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"The Huffington Post is in a huff about Senator Rand Paul 'lending his name and political clout to a gun group's email campaign that features an image of a rifle pointed at the head of President Barack Obama.' The group: the real NRA. Whoops! Make that the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR). The cause: the Obama administration’s blockade of Army surplus M1 Garands itching to make the trip from South Korea to your gun safe. [Note: Obama's Boyz were against it before they were for it before they were against it.] Did Rand Paul’s peeps design this ad? No. Hey, did anyone notice . . ." ... |
eBay Reversed its Gun Policy: Selling gun parts and accessories again
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"Gun enthusiasts who also enjoy the pleasures of online shopping may have noticed that gun parts and accessories are once again being sold on shopping website eBay. Although Guns.com just got wind of this, eBay had actually quietly removed its four-year-ban on firearms to permit gun part and accessory transactions last December."
"eBay spokeswoman Amanda Miller said via email the company wanted to 'give sellers opportunities to offer more products in the hunting category,' so the company lifted the restriction on gun parts and accessories that are legal to sell in the U.S. to, more or less, compete with other online and offline stores." ...
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Controversial Photos in New Gun Book - God, Guns & Guts - Stir Debate
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"The folks over at 'The Firearm Blog' caused a stir this past weekend with their review of a new gun book called, God, Guns & Guts: The Greatest Book Ever Made About Contemporary American Gun Culture."
"Calling the book a 'big joke' being played on gun owners, Steve Johnson of the 'The Firearm Blog' wrote, 'I have just been metaphorically punched in the guts. Ben Philippi (a pseudonym) has published the book which gun-haters been craving. Gun owners are portrayed as being scary, crazy and hostile.'" ... |
Olympic Athletes And Open Carry This Week on Gun Talk Radio
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"It’s an aspiring Olympic athlete and open carry in Virginia state parks, this week on Tom Gresham’s Gun Talk Radio, the original nationally-syndicated radio talk show about guns and the shooting sports."
"With little more than two months to go until the Summer Olympics in London, there are athletes still battling it out for a spot in many sports. One such athlete is Kelsey Zauhar, currently in a three-way tie for second place in Women’s Trap in which only one position will qualify to represent the U.S. at the 2012 Olympic Games." ... |
Makin’ Bacon: LMT’s “Pig Packgage” MWS .308
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"If hogs run wild where you are and filling the freezer with baby backs and Boston butts sounds tempting, Lewis Machine and Tool has just the gun for you. LMT has co-branded a modular .308 with their paid spokesdude, Brian 'Pig Man' Quaca. Bri, if you're unaware, has a show on the Sportsman Channel, Pig Man: The Series. 'Willing to take a hog by any legal means necessary, Pig Man scours the globe in search of huge pigs and various wild game ...' OK then. Anyway, besides some cool tacticalia, the Pig Package rifle includes an engraved Leupold VX-R HIG 1.25 – 4 x 20 mm FireDot Pig Plex scope. All for an MSRP of $3,488.96. Press release after the jump . . ." ... |
The Pistola Con Caricato: 18-Shot Revolver, 3 Shots at a Time
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"The early 20th century saw a lot of experimentation in the firearms department after the adoption of smokeless powder completely redefined the cartridge and the guns that fired them. In a time when armories raced to develop reliable and dependable automatic weapons one Italian manufacturer held out with a tried-and-true design. The revolver. But this revolver isn't like anything else you've probably seen." ... |
A Warning From All The Cold-Dead-Hands Still Proudly Gripping Our Guns
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"Something terrible is happening to our America. The land of the free, home of the brave, headquarters of John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, and pride of the NRA. We're suddenly being sissified! You heard me. The mothers and schoolmarms of America have risen up to tear down our national right to bone-crushing sports, men-only clubs, guns galore, and poking fun at ballet, gays and fat people. This isn't a good sign. Why at this rate, great all-American traditions like take-no-enemies in business, free-for-all-bleacher-brawls, and a new-war-every-10-years could eventually disappear!" ... |
On Fox, Mark Sanford Repeats Paranoid ATF Gun-Control Conspiracy
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"Appearing on the May 10 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom, former South Carolina Governor and current Fox News Contributor Mark Sanford became the latest media figure to push the bogus conspiracy theory that the botched Fast and Furious operation was actually a nefarious plot against the Second Amendment." ...
"Or put more simply, Sanford is saying that 'a lot of people' want to know if "Fast and Furious" was a plot hatched by Attorney General Eric Holder to curb gun rights in the United States. The answer to this question is a resounding no." ... |
OR: Hard to believe, but guns are legalv[sic] in schools Guest viewpoint
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"People I’ve talked to are shocked to find out there's no law against people bringing concealed, loaded handguns onto school campuses if they have a concealed handgun license in Oregon."
"Most schools have policies prohibiting guns on school property, but a recent Oregon Court of Appeals ruling has raised questions about their enforceability — and because most laws relating to guns must be approved by the Oregon Legislature and not by municipalities or other units of local government, those school policies prohibiting guns might not be binding. It is time for the state Legislature to address the issue." ... |
TX: Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Man of the Cloth Edition (video available)
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"While it may be a virtue, Pastor Anthony Jobe isn’t a patient man when it comes to protecting himself, his family and his property. He woke up Monday morning to the sounds of someone trying to kick in a door to his Ft. Worth home. As wfaa.com tells it, 'a confrontation ensued.' That’s one way to put it . . .""Upon seeing the alleged intruder, a confrontation ensued, ending with Jobe shooting the man with his handgun."
"'That’s unfortunate, shooting pastor, I know,' Jobe said. '… I shoot more as a hobby and I like to go to the gun range, but this is unfortunate that this happened like this, but you have to do what you have to do to protect your family.'" ... |
Darrell Issa Calls Democrats to Action over Fast and Furious
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"Darrell Issa (R-Cali.), Chairman of the House Oversight Committee on Government Reform, sent a letter to Jason Altmire (D-Pa.) and 31 other House Democrats reminding them step up and cooperate in the Fast and Furious scandal."
"The letter focuses on the Department of Justice's failure to provide all necessary documentation and testimony to quickly answer the myriad of questions surrounding Fast and Furious. Issa reminds the Democrats that they expressed their 'serious concerns about the Administration's response,' and now more than ever the Oversight Committee will need their full cooperation." ... |
Congressman Darrell Issa: Second Amendment Hero
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"Last week, Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent a 44-page memorandum to members of his committee outlining the instances in which Attorney General Eric Holder perjured himself before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which Rep. Issa chairs."
"In the eyes of GOA’s membership nationwide, this signals that Darrell Issa is a Constitutional and American hero."
"Eric Holder and his subordinates in the [ATF] have lied under oath. In fact, they even sent a letter to the congressional committee investigating Fast and Furious (the gun running scandal between the U.S. and Mexico) essentially admitting that they lied." ... |
Obama back to town for more cash, no questions
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"Thursday’s fund-raising visit to Seattle for more campaign cash and no questions was wearing thin before Air Force One went wheels up in “the other Washington” and even self-professed Seattle liberals were sneering, which puts them in company with Pacific Northwest gun rights activists."
"The Seattle Times, reporting on Barack Obama’s visit, opened up the reader comment forum and some of the remarks are bristling." ... |
NM: Catch-19?
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... "But others speculate that the tightening of the laws could have something to do with another hot-button issue: immigration. Just one week before the DPS updates, the Washington state-based Second Amendment Foundation filed a lawsuit against New Mexico over its law banning 'legal resident aliens' from receiving concealed-carry permits."
"SAF filed the lawsuit on behalf of John Jackson, an Australian citizen who immigrated to New Mexico in 2007. Although he’s in the country legally, Jackson is barred from obtaining a New Mexico concealed-carry permit. SAF Vice President Alan Gottlieb says the suit follows successful precedents from both state courts and the US Supreme Court." ... |
OK: Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Osage County (OK) Sheriff
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"Part of militarizing police departments ought to mean training the newly tacticool black rifle carriers in the safe use of their new weapons. Or so you’d hope. At least one place where they skipped that particular lesson appears to be the Osage County Sheriff’s Department. We hear from kjrh.com that a couple of Osage County’s finest were backing up the boys from Barnsdall as they executed a search warrant. And since pretty much every police action these days seems to require an overwhelming show force, the guys from the OC were fully kitted up with their ARs . . ."
"The report doesn’t detail whether or not any dogs needed shooting, but ... the bullets didn’t really start to fly until the engagement was over." ... |
CA: Chief Charlie Beck Walks KCAL9 News Through LAPD Gun Locker
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"Venture into the LAPD’s gun locker and you’ll find hand guns, assault rifles and machine guns."
"Chief Charlie Beck gave KCAL9 News a rare look inside the gun locker ..." ...
"Typically, the firearms used in crimes are smaller handguns, like thrills or subcompacts. They’re usually sold for $100-150 on the street."
"Officers said those handguns are then passed from hand to hand, committing crimes, until officers arrest people and seize the firearm." ...
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NJ: Sheriff to hold gun buyback in Paterson
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"Residents can turn in firearms this week during a gun 'buyback' event sponsored by the Passaic County Sheriff's Office." ...
"'Every weapon that is taken off our streets will potentially save a life,' said Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik. 'The only way to stop gun violence is by undertaking a unity-oriented approach, such as the buyback program.'" ...
"Anyone surrendering firearms will not be asked for identification or how they acquired the firearms, Berdnik said."
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Submitter's Note: Get the cops to dispose of your evidence for you and get paid to boot! Got a pistol with a couple of bodies on it? Sell it to the cops! Knock over a pawn shop and get a dozen cheap handguns? The cops will buy them! Best of all? No questions asked! |
FL: Baby, 18 months old, ordered off plane at Fort Lauderdale airport
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"Eighteen-month-old Riyanna has been called a lot of things: cute, adorable and now ... a suspected terrorist."
"She was called that on Tuesday night at the Ft Lauderdale Airport. She and her parents had just boarded a JetBlue flight when an airline employee approached them and asked them to get off the plane, saying representatives from the Transportation Security Agency wanted to speak to them."
"'And I said, 'For what?' Riyanna's mother told only WPBF 25 News on Wednesday. 'And he said, 'Well, it's not you or your husband. Your daughter was flagged as no fly.' I said, 'Excuse me?'"
"Riyanna's father was flabbergasted."
"'It's absurd,' he said. 'It made no sense. Why would an 18-month-old child be on a no-fly list?'" ...
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CA: Tattoo in sheriff's deputy clique may have celebrated shootings, sources say
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"The investigation into a secret clique within the Los Angeles County sheriff's elite gang unit has uncovered allegations that members had matching tattoos of a gun-toting skeleton, which deputies would modify to celebrate their involvement in a shooting, according to sources close to the internal probe." ... |
CA: 'Bait Car' sting turns tables on detective (video available)
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"The reality TV show 'Bait Car' is supposed to catch car thieves in the act."
"Undercover cops park a rigged car on the side of the road, conspicuously leaving the keys inside, while a television crew waits nearby for an unsuspecting passerby to take the bait and steal the car."
"But in one recent sting filmed in cooperation with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the lead detective on the case ended up getting busted instead." ... |
UT: DNA testing leads to arrest in rape case
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... "Police believe Dwaine Stacey Shaw was the knife-wielding man in a clown mask who broke into the woman's apartment at 3 a.m. on Jan. 13 and raped her." ...
"But it took nearly four months for the Utah State Crime Lab to provide Wellington police with the test results that finally gave them the evidence they needed to arrest Shaw on Tuesday." ... [emphasis added]
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US self-defence expert banned from entering UK
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"An American expert in violent self-defence has been excluded from entering the UK by the Home Office."
"Tim Larkin tried to board a plane from his home in Las Vegas on Tuesday, but was given a UK Border Agency letter saying 'his presence here was not conducive to the public good'."
"Mr Larkin, who was due to host seminars, told the BBC the move was a 'gross over-reaction'."
"The Home Office said he was subject to an exclusion order."
"A spokeswoman said: 'The home secretary will seek to exclude an individual if she considers that his or her presence in the UK is not conducive to the public good.'" ... |
Self-Defense Trainer Tim Larkin Responds to UK Travel Ban
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"UK residents are not allowed to keep or bear firearms for self-defense. So what can they do when facing violence? William Shakespeare had some general ideas on that subject: 'When the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage.' Tim Larkin's down with that, with some helpful tips how to channel that rage in the most efficient, gun-free way possible. The American personal defense trainer has journeyed to The Land of Hope and Glory to teach supplicants—sorry citizens—I mean subjects the fine art of not getting killed by 'scrotes. Only not so much, now . . ." ... |
Gun owners’ guide to the 4th Amendment: Seizures
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"One of the most common interactions between law-abiding gun owners and law enforcement occurs when a citizen, unfamiliar with the practice, sees someone openly carrying a firearm in a store, or a park, or just walking down the street. In many cases, they call the police to report what the media has lead them to believe must be a crime."
"This usually results in a law enforcement officer approaching the person who is openly carrying their firearm to 'ask them a few questions.' This is what we call a law enforcement 'stop'. But not all stops rise to the level of a seizure subject to 4th Amendment protection." ... |
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