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Bellevue pro-gun chair explains his passion
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"On Wednesday the Bellevue-based Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) exploded the group's message, 'Guns Save Lives,' on the famous electronic billboard in Times Square."
"Alan Gottlieb, Bellevue resident, chairman of the CCRKBA and executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), also of Bellevue, said this has been a busy week for the two groups that claims 650,000 members, 'We filed a lawsuit in Virginia, started the billboard and we’re filing a lawsuit in Illinois.'" ... |
Alan Gura and Don Kilmer recognizes Nordyke as a win - Brady Campaign clueless
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"If one were to go to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence website one would find that they still "Applaud" the Nordyke v King decision. A decision which has dealt the biggest blow to California gun control laws in the state's history. Not only California, but every state within the jurisdiction of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals; including the anti-gun state of Hawaii." ... |
About those 30,000 gun deaths
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"This is in response to W. Smith's May 8 letter, which commented on my May 4th letter."
"This number of deaths by guns of about 30,000 per year touted by gun-controllers, like Smith, seems to be about right. However, a deeper look reveals the following:"
"1). Suicides account for about 48 percent of deaths by guns. They need to be taken off the figures, as suicide will take place with or without a gun. (Sweden has higher suicide rate than U.S., but guns hardly used there for that…) So now we are down to 16,300 deaths per year to deal with." ... |
MAG 80 Part II Advanced Handgun
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"Roy Rogers had his Trigger. So do you. The cowboy’s horse was probably a lot more controllable (and less temperamental) than the finger you use to fire your gun. As my instructors at the MAG 80 training program taught me, trigger control accounts for 90 percent of shooters’ accuracy problems. And so Massad Ayoob’s stand-in Marty Hayes started our week with some focus drills emphasizing the importance of trigger reset and follow through. First task: see who could take the most time to press, and then release, their trigger. You’d be amazed at how much concentration learning how not to concentrate on your finger requires. And then . . ." ... |
Gun Review: Ruger SR1911
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"My wife can’t stand bluegrass. Sam associates banjos and fiddles with inbreeding and sodomy. She’s from Africa; what does she know? Bluegrass is blues for white people. And God knows we white folks need our blues music, what with tornados making a beeline for our trailer parks and the after-effects of too many highballs. The 1911 is our gun. Sorry, but there it is. Gangbangers have their Hi-Points. Mexican drug lords have their FiveseveNs. The 1911 is caucasian badass: Elvis meets John Wayne with a hillbilly holler. While the design’s 100th anniversary has inspired an entire arsenal of new 1911s, Ruger’s first foray into the field is the only one that can justifiably claim to be all-American. How whitebread—I mean great is that?" ... |
Bracken: Just A Working Man With His Tools
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... "I was out for a routine morning run on trash day last week, and snagged this empty plastic tool box off a pile of rubbish set to be collected. At one time it carried a 'saws-all' type electric tool. It's very rugged yet light, with good hinges and clasps. This particular plastic case is 24 inches long, and it can contain a 31" overall carbine, broken into upper and lower and nested. Plus a few magazines." ... |
SIG SAUER’s New 1911s
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"SIG SAUER makes 1911s. Ruger makes 1911s. Well, now they do. As TTAG's review pointed out, the Ruger SR1911's Unique Selling Point is its all-American parts and stateside manufacture. Methinks someone at SIG is not happy ceding domesticity to the Arizona mob. The press release for SIG’s 1911 TACPAC and new options on the 1911-22 pistols claims that the guns 'combine the American ingenuity of the venerable 1911 platform with SIG SAUER® refinements that enhance the pistol’s accuracy while still maintaining superior reliability.' Ingenious? A hundred years ago, sure. Superior reliability? Compared to what? Besides . . ." ... |
WV: Ireland Ready To Be Governor
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"If you're running for political office these days, you don't have a chance without a good web site. Twitter, Facebook and YouTube help, too." ...
"Maloney's praiseworthy work in helping rescue 33 Chilean miners is cited on the website. ... His insistence Second Amendment rights be protected is mentioned. ..." ...
"In contrast, another candidate for the Republican nomination, former Secretary of State Betty Ireland, has a website absolutely packed with detail ..." ...
"And, oh, yes, Ireland's conservative values, including her pro-life and pro-gun philosophies, are cited." ... |
Gun sale ban to people on watch list nixed (fifth item)
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"U.S. House Judiciary Committee Republicans defeated a Democratic effort that would have barred weapon sales to suspected terrorists."
"In a party-line, 21-11 vote, the committee killed the amendment offered by Rep. Michael Quigley, D-Ill., that would have prevented firearm purchases by people included on the FBI's terror watch list, The Hill reported Friday." ... |
CA: BB-gun bill would divide threats, toys
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"A year and a half ago, a troubled young man from the San Francisco Bay area took a bus to Redding, bought a BB gun at a sporting-goods shop and robbed a Cypress Avenue bank. Fleeing from Redding police officers while brandishing the replica handgun, he was shot 14 times and killed in a barrage of gunfire that also damaged several surrounding buildings and vehicles." ... |
CA: CA is taking away your black airguns FOREVER
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"No more black airguns!"
"If you enjoy shooting your Walther PPK/S or a Crosman C11, you better get used to them being ALL red or ALL blue or ALL green -- or completely clear!"
"California State Senator Kevin de Leon thinks your black airguns are dangerous and has proposed CA Senate Bill 798 to stop you from having them. ..." ... |
Second Amendment Foundation files lawsuit against Illinois self-defense ban
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"With the failure last week (for now, anyway) of Illinios HB 148, to permit defensive handgun carry, the anti-self-defense lobby indulged in some predictable gloating. From the Brady Campaign's Paul Helmke:" ...
"Mr. Helmke might want to keep the cork in the champagne bottle for now, though, because the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is fighting back in the courtroom:" ... |
IN: Court: No right to resist illegal cop entry into home
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"Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes."
"In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner cannot do anything to block the officer's entry."
"'We believe ... a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence,' David said ..." ... |
IL: Former governor files in FOID suit
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"Attorneys for the Illinois State Police argue prisoners could have access to the names of 1.3 million Illinoisans who hold state firearm owner's identification cards if a ruling by the Attorney General's office is allowed to stand."
"In their response, filed Friday in Peoria County Circuit Court, former Gov. James R. Thompson and Matthew Carter responded point by point to a complaint filed in March by the Illinois State Rifle Association which seeks to block any release of names." ... |
IL: Illinoisans sue to allow concealed weapons
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"A pair of Illinois men and a gun rights group have sued the state to try to force it to allow concealed weapons. The lawsuit comes eight days after legislation to allow state residents to carry hidden guns failed."
"The lawsuit was filed Thursday in federal court by former corrections officer Michael Moore of Champaign, farmer Charles Hooks of Percy in southeastern Illinois and the Bellevue, Wash.-based Second Amendment Foundation." ... |
IL: Gun group, crime victim sue over Illinois gun laws
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"The Illinois State Rifle Association and the victim of a brutal beating filed a federal lawsuit in East St. Louis Friday, claiming that Illinois statutes that bar the carrying of firearms violate the Second and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution." ... |
TX: Motley County Attorney says ATF used poor judgment
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"You've probably heard of having a corner on the market?"
"The Motley County Attorney says agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms have the corner on something else." ...
"'"I will say this and you can quote me on it. That bunch had a real corner on stupid ...' [said Cty. Atty. Edwards]." ...
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OH: Guns in Ohio bars? Let's not drink to that
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"When Ohio's concealed-carry law was enacted in 2004, opponents warned it would lead to Wild West shootouts on the streets. They were wrong. The legislation licensing qualified Ohioans to carry concealed firearms, forged through years of tough debate, struck a sometimes awkward yet reasonable balance between liberty and safety."
"But now, Ohio lawmakers, with signals of support from Gov. John Kasich, are poised to upset that balance with a measure to allow concealed weapons in any establishment, whether a sports stadium, five-star restaurant or corner saloon, that serves alcohol - spiking an already volatile substance with added potential danger." ... |
Canada: Where A Pen Becomes A Lethal Firearm
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"My late brother in law used to talk about his career as a well-site geologist back in the 60s. His job involved life in some of Canada’s less traveled wilderness regions where his fear of a bear attack was alleviated by his 44 Magnum sidekick. He never had to prove whether the gun was mightier than the bear. These days he would not be legally allowed to carry a handgun in the Canadian wilderness . . ." ... |
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