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Faking A Stand
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"'We cannot slip into a comfortable silence while horrific acts of gun violence become the new normal,' an e-mail from Organizing for Action (formerly Organizing for Obama) asserted. 'Add your name now to show your support for reform.'"
"The solicitation was part of a choreographed blood dance in the wake of an evil loser murdering unarmed Bible study participants at a black church in Charleston, S.C. Naturally, pointing out that the killings occurred in a place where guns were not 'allowed' resulted in angry condemnation. It’s not like those calling for 'a national conversation on guns' mean for you to do anything but listen—and then obey." ... |
Weekend revelations raise alarms about privacy, gun rights
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"Yesterday’s revelation by the Los Angeles Times that the Obama administration is 'pushing to ban Social Security beneficiaries from owning guns if they lack the mental capacity to manage their own affairs' is raising alarms among Second Amendment activists."
"Combined with another stunning Saturday report by the New York Post that, 'The government is prying into our most personal information at the most local levels, all for the purpose of 'racial and economic justice',' it sends a signal that some may see as worrisome and others may suggest is sinister. Whether either story gains traction remains to be seen as the week unfolds." ... |
Gun Ownership Is No Crime
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"Obama Just Had A Huge 'Accidental' Effect On Violent Crime & Murder the headline at madworldnews.com proclaims. There’s nothing much you don’t already know in the article: the President’s crusade against gun rights created a backlash that increased the number of gun sales and concealed carriers. The article includes stats and a Facebook post and caption that I shared on my personal timeline. (Yes, she asked my permission, and I gladly gave it. Anything to promote gun rights and concealed carry.) But did her pro-gun piece sway others? Well . . ." ... |
Roaring silence from gun prohibitionists after another ‘gun-free zone’ fail
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"While Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is getting lots of ink for statements made yesterday in the wake of the Chattanooga shooting that killed four Marines at a recruiting office clearly marked as a 'gun-free zone,' there seems to be a roaring silence from the gun prohibition movement about the failure of a sign to stop a barrage of bullets."
"Perhaps that’s because yesterday’s inability of a 'no guns' sign in a glass door to stop a killer is just the latest example of the 'zone of happy thoughts' stupidity. No matter where such signs are posted, they represent a monumental failure of the common sense that anti-gunners so often mention when they talk about eroding the right to keep and bear arms." ... |
New Yorker : Marine Massacre Should Lead to More Gun Control
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"I want to like the The New Yorker magazine. OK, sure, they fired Dan Baum. I have a real soft spot for the once and future Fudd, a TTAG contributor whose Gun Guys remains the seminal examination of modern American gun culture. Aside from ditching the Danster, the New Yorker still has some superb writers in their stable. Unfortunately, if you look past the elegant prose, the New Yorker is frequently revealed as a gussied-up purveyor of inelegantly-argued, ill-informed, left-leaning statist tripe. John Cassidy’s piece Lax Gun Laws Are Becoming a National-Security Issue is a perfect case in point . . ." ... |
Gun Review: STI Nitro 10 10mm 1911
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"After testing the GLOCK 20 I’m still auditioning candidates for my perfect truck pistol: a handgun I can use for concealed carry self-defense and hunting game. Before reviewing the latest contender – the STI Nitro 10 10mm 1911 – I want to address an issue raised by TTAG’s Armed Intelligentsia: why not a truck rifle and a handgun? As many readers pointed out, a rifle is almost always the better choice for taking game. But there are a lot of reasons to hunt with a pistol instead . . ." ... |
Gun Review: CMMG PDW Pistol in 300 BLK
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"Given the fact that the ATF has $200 of my hard-earned scratch and my foot is anxiously tapping as I refresh nfatracker.com, it’s a safe bet to say I can be counted in the short barreled rifle (SBR) fanboy club. My dedication to it isn’t cultish like our boy Leghorn, but the same deity that brought him to the table, 300 BLK, has snagged me as well. Forming a trust, paying $200 to the .gov, and sitting on your hands for 30-180 days isn’t for the weak of constitution. Buying or building a SBR has got to be worth it. Right? And after a year or so of shooting 300 BLK chambered pistols and SBRs, I think the cartridge is worth the hassle. And the CMMG PDW Pistol is a great place to get started . . ." ... |
9mm Ammo Quest: Lehigh Defense Maximum Expansion (video available)
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"Ever since I published my first test of Lehigh Defense’s absurdly impressive 'Maximum Expansion' ammunition, people have wanted to see it tested in other calibers. Which I understand, but frankly, I haven’t been in that big of a rush to do so because — well, the .45 Colt version that I tested above is a unique and special situation. It’s an exceptionally over-long bullet, made possible because of the exceptionally long chambers in the .45/.410 shotshell revolvers. I didn’t test Maximum Expansion during my .380 Ammo Quest, because the manufacturer’s own specifications showed that it would only penetrate about 7″. But the 9mm… now that’s a different story . . ." ... |
'Constitutional' assault rifles are an assault on human intelligence
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"Naturalized U.S. citizen, Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez (who had earlier sent out a Koranic war text) thought he was riding a Paradise-bound bullet"
"Sporting a 'load-bearing vest' crammed with multiple 30-round mags, he began his rampage at a Navy recruiting center in a Chattanooga strip mall—spraying it with a legally-obtained AK-47-style assault rifle." ...
"These supposedly 'civilian-friendly' firearms have undergone a military makeover, becoming assault rifles unsuited for general use. Gun nutters insist that only fully-autos are assault level, while semi-autos are 'tactical' or 'modern sporting rifles.'"
"Total birdshot." ... |
Gun Banning Group Proposes Gov’t Use its Gun Buying ‘Power’ To End Run the Constitution
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... "For the Metro Industrial Areas Foundation—a group that claims its goal is to 'build power for social change'— ... had a novel if insidious idea on how to beat the courts, the Constitution, and force their ideas about guns on the country in a totally unaccountable manner."
"They want their activist ideas implemented through the back door by having the US government force changes in the gun industry using its billions per year in guns and ammo purchases as a big stick to beat the industry into submission." ... |
If Guns Make Us Safer, Why Not Let Them Into the U.S. Capitol?
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... "But if these Second Amendment-purists really think that guns make places safer, if they really think that guns are an important check on government and safeguard of liberty, then why do so many of them keep their workplace—the U.S. Capitol—free of firearms?"
"For almost two centuries and until very recently, ordinary citizens had free run of the Capitol. Ironically, as Congress has become less hospitable to gun safety laws, and as ... legislators have grown more strident in their desire to see citizens carry open and concealed weapons everywhere—in churches and schools, on college campuses, at bars and restaurants—the one venue that has grown more gun-free, more secure and more restrictive is the building they work in." ... |
America chooses to lose the war against domestic terrorism
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... "... let's not kid ourselves: America is losing the war against domestic terrorism. When two high school students kill other students in Columbine, when mere babes are slaughtered in an elementary school in Connecticut and when [redacted] is able to obtain the firepower to shoot wildly into a crowded, darkened movie theater, we are in the middle of a war we choose not to win."
"I have been rereading the Second Amendment. ... The amendment states that citizens have the right to keep and bear arms. But the amendment is silent on what those arms are. I fail to see how so many spineless public officials can insist our Founding Fathers meant every citizen had the right to bear an assault-style weapon." ... |
IL: Group Of Anti-Gun Activists Suing Suburbs Over Chicago’s Gun Violence
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"An activist Chicago Catholic priest is trying a new tactic in his quest to stamp out the Second Amendment in Illinois. Now he is suing several nearby suburbs surrounding Chicago claiming that they are aiding and abetting the sale of illegal guns in Chicago."
"Activist priest Father Michael Pfleger and a handful of co-plaintiffs are suing the suburban cities of Riverdale, Lyons, and Lincolnwood claiming that the municipalities are somehow allowing neighborhood gun shops to break laws with sales. ..."
"One of Pfleger’s claims is that the cities are allowing 'straw purchases' to be carried out at gun shops in their jurisdictions." ... |
While Obama Looks the Other Way..Citizens and Governors Defend Military
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"Another of our military members has died. That makes five people who were murdered by [name redacted] in Chattanooga, Tennessee. By orders of their superiors, these sailors and marines were disarmed when they were attacked."
"Americans acted. I wrote about citizens defending military offices in Georgia. Today there are more citizens doing the same thing. Some are in Virginia. ... More citizens are protecting our military in Ohio where they are joined by off duty sheriffs officers and Ohio Carry."
"These state governors took steps for an armed defense at the recruiting offices and military bases in their state. ... Texas Governor Abbott, Louisiana Governor Jindal, Oklahoma Governor Fallin, and Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson."
"Meanwhile, President Obama has said that the military will remain disarmed." ... |
The Augusta Chronicle on no need for new gun control laws:
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..."Of course, the futility of gun control laws - including background check laws - is that they do not prevent criminal acts nor totally stop the criminally-minded from obtaining guns. Any reasonable person can understand someone as driven and depraved as Roof would acquire a weapon any way he could, legally or not."
"That's why President Obama was flat-out wrong when he said the Charleston shooting might not have happened 'if Congress had passed some commonsense gun safety reforms' after the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn." ... |
Chattanooga Murders Show Need for Firearms, says Gun Law Expert (video available)
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"'Americans need firearms,' says gun rights expert John M. Snyder. 'The Chattanooga murders of Marines show this.'"
"Snyder noted that, 'The Islamic State (ISIS) inspired the attack, according to Rep. Michael McCauley (R-TX), chairman of the Homeland Security Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.'"
"Snyder said, 'You don't know when, where or how Islamists will strike. You must be able to stop them anywhere, anytime, any place. That's common sense. Americans need firearms in order to protect themselves, their families and their communities.'" ... |
‘Gun-free’ zones ... until they’re not
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s the commonality? Evil young men armed to the teeth determined to commit mayhem, obviously, but something more; something both calculating and cowardly."
"Out of all the possible targets within their orbits, each chose places where they knew the victims would be unarmed, helpless, unable to respond. This wasn’t hard for either to sort out, either."
"Signs at the entrance of the theater, the recruiting office and the reservist center declared each a gun-free zone. Which, of course, they are, right up until the fateful moment when a bad guy on some delusional mission who has spiraled beyond the gravity of petty authority shows up to demonstrate his righteous contempt for your signs and your warnings and your prohibitions ..." ... |
Obama administration seeks to expand background checks for gun purchases to Social Security recipients
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"Seeking tighter controls over firearm purchases, the Obama administration is pushing to ban Social Security beneficiaries from owning guns if they lack the mental capacity to manage their own affairs, which could affect millions of people whose monthly disability payments are handled by others."
"The push is intended to bring the Social Security Administration in line with laws regulating who gets reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which is used to prevent gun sales to felons, drug addicts, immigrants in the country illegally and others." ... |
AR: Ark. Governor authorizes National Guard to "arm full-time military personnel"
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"As the investigation into the shooting deaths of 4 Marines continues, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson authorized Arkansas National Guard Adjutant General Mark Berry to arm full-time military personnel."
"The move comes in response to the shootings in Chattanooga, TN."
"In a release, Governor Hutchinson also ordered the flag to be lowered at half-staff in honor of Staff Sgt. David Wyatt."
"Wyatt, a Russellville native, was one of the Marines killed in the shooting." ...
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NY: A few bullet points
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"In comments offered last week on the recent 'memorandum of understanding' struck between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, one of the following statements from the governor is incontrovertible. See if you can spot it:"
"'The SAFE Act is a hot topic, so to speak.'"
"'There was concerns by people that the state would implement a database that would allow us to do a background check on individual (ammunition) purchasers ... prematurely. And if it was implemented prematurely, then people would be inconvenienced, shop owners would be inconvenienced — and they were afraid that if the state put into place this database before its time it would be a problem ...'"
"Hint: The incontrovertible one is shorter." ... |
VA: JCC Supes Tweak Concealed Carry Ordinance
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"The James City County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to delete a redundant part of the county code governing the possession of concealed weapons at parks and recreation sites."
"The vote was a housekeeping matter. Citizens with a concealed-carry permit — or who fell into several categories, such as police officers — were allowed to carry concealed weapons at county parks before the vote."
"The board’s vote simply deleted an old prohibition on the carrying of concealed weapons that was not enforced. No rules were changed." ... |
Feds Investigate Dystopia-Hastening Teen Who Posted Video Of Gun-Shooting Drone
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"Connecticut's Austin Haughwout, 18, is facing scrutiny from the feds after he reportedly rigged up a drone with a handgun and filmed it shooting off rounds in the woods. The teen hails from the town of Clinton, a half-hour east of New Haven, and his father told local news station WFSB that he made the contraption with a Central Connecticut State University professor, after researching to make sure he wasn't breaking any laws."
"Connecticut police told reporters Haughwout is in the clear at the state level, but the Federal Aviation Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are probing how the thing got built, according to WFSB." ... |
TX: FBI investigating Texas jail death of woman stopped for failing to signal lane change
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"Sandra Bland was taking a new job in Texas at Prairie View A&M University, the historically black college from which she graduated in 2009."
"The prospect of a becoming a student ambassador at her alma mater, however, began to unravel one week ago. Bland was arrested July 10, accused of assaulting an officer after a routine traffic stop ..."
"Bland, 28, was found dead Monday in a Waller County jail cell in Hempstead, Texas, after authorities said she hanged herself with a plastic trash bag. It is an act those close to her question." ...
"In a statement, the Texas Department of Public Safety said the officer involved in Bland’s arrest was assigned to administrative duties pending an investigation." ... |
AL: Despite Preemption Law, AL Dept of Transportation Bans Firearms From Rest Stops
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"Recently, my family drove along a large portion of the Interstate Highway System in Alabama, which in turn necessitated several stops at multiple rest areas. At each rest area, there was some form of sign that read, 'No Weapons Beyond This Point.' Being a responsible gun toter, I try to research the gun laws in each state through which I travel. Up until this point, I thought that I had a pretty good understanding of Alabama’s laws, and rest areas were not one of the prohibited places listed in the Alabama Code . . ." ... |
TX: Hill County: Ex-Deputy Pleads Guilty To 3 Felony Charges
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"A former Hill County sheriff’s deputy on Tuesday pleaded guilty to three felony charges and was sentenced to probation in district court."
"Judge Lee Harris, in 66th District Court, sentenced Alan Markwardt, 60, to 5 years on felony deferred probation, ordered him to pay a $1,000 fine and to surrender his Texas peace officer’s license after Markwardt pleaded guilty to theft, tampering with physical evidence and tampering with a governmental record." ... |
AL: Former Dothan police officer faces more ID theft charges
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"A former Dothan police officer faces more identity theft charges after his recent arrest by Dothan police investigators."
"Dothan Police Investigator Erik Broten confirmed police officers arrested Charles Thomas Simmer, 28, of Coffee Springs, over the weekend and charged him with two felony counts of identity theft."
"Dothan police investigators arrested Simmer earlier this year and charged him with 18 other identity theft-related charges. Simmer now faces a total of 20 felony charges, which include 15 counts of identity theft, four counts of fraudulent use of a credit card and a single count of trafficking in stolen identities." ... |
Open-carry push having counterproductive impact
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"WE have long supported robust Second Amendment rights, believing law-abiding Oklahomans with weapons are a threat only to criminals. Yet the recent push for open carry of firearms has, ironically, restricted the sphere where citizens may legally possess a gun. This suggests gun-rights supporters need to rethink their strategy."
"Texas-based Whataburger has announced that customers won’t be allowed to openly carry firearms in the chain’s 780 national locations. Preston Atkinson, Whataburger’s president and CEO, said the open display of firearms made many employees and customers 'uncomfortable.' Atkinson said patrons licensed to carry concealed handguns would still be allowed to do so." ... |
NC: Constitutional ‘militia’ means all Americans
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"In response to Robert Lenn’s July 5 letter ... I would offer the fact that our Founding Fathers absolutely rejected any notion of gun control — their experience in the Revolutionary War was the basis for insisting that the Second Amendment be included in the Bill of Rights."
"In February 1775, the British government declared Massachusetts to be in a state of rebellion. Roughly 700 British troops in Boston were secretly ordered to capture and destroy rebel military supplies (guns, cannon, powder and shot) stored by the Massachusetts militia at Concord. ..."
"The American Revolution was not started over taxation, as unpopular as it was. It started over the British attempt to disarm the colonists. It started over gun control!" ... |
IN: Columnist wrong about gun owners
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"Why does Indianapolis Star columnist Matthew Tully have such a hard time understanding not every law-abiding, hardworking, family man is a National Rifle Association member."
"Some of just believe we have a right to defend ourselves and our families in our own homes, which we bought with money honestly earned and paid taxes on." ... |
CA: Kings Gun Center holds grand opening
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"Several hundred patrons of firearms and fans of the second amendment turned out for the grand opening of the Kings Gun Center on Saturday morning."
"Owner Todd Cotta saw the need for the new store after opening the one across the railroad tracks in 2013."
"'We saw the need for this (new store) in the first six months of being open.'"
"Currently there are only 4 indoor ranges, including the Kings Gun Center, between Stockton and Bakersfield." ... |
WA: When Larson hits midday AM airwaves Monday, expect sparks
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"Nationally-syndicated talk radio host Lars Larson, already on Seattle’s KVI in the evenings, will take over the noon-to-3 p.m. slot at that station Monday, and considering the events of the past 24 hours in Seattle and Chattanooga, he’ll have plenty to talk about."
"Whatever else Larson is, he could easily be called a 'gun guy.' Not only does he occasionally talk gun rights, he is a shooter and accomplished hunter, a fact that hardly endears the veteran broadcaster to the animal rights crowd, and he's had four decades in the business to soften them up." ... |
MI: Early morning fire destroys clubhouse at Brooklyn Sportsmans Club
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"A fire reported early Sunday, July 19, destroyed the main clubhouse at the Brooklyn Sportsmans Club on Monroe Street."
"No members or other people were at the clubhouse at the time of the fire, according to a statement from Columbia Township Police Chief David Elwell. No one was hurt, Fire Chief Shawn Lutz said."
"A neighbor spotted the flames and called emergency personnel about 12:30 a.m."
"Responding firefighters found half the clubhouse, 475 Monroe St., 'fully involved,' Lutz said. Units were at the scene for about four hours extinguishing the fire and 'mopping up,' according to the statement."
"Lutz said the cause of the fire has not been determined, but the incident is not suspicious. ..." ... |
NC: Fort Bragg soldier's gun-related charge predates U.S. Constitution
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"The Fort Bragg soldier who forced a lockdown at Cross Creek Mall earlier this month was charged with a centuries-old misdemeanor known as going armed to the terror of the public."
"The charge dates to at least 1781, says Ronnie Mitchell, the lawyer for the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office."
"'It's a very ancient charge,' he said. 'It started even before the U.S. Constitution was adopted in 1787.'"
"Bryan Scott Wolfinger, 25, of the 2200 block of Ridge Manor Drive, was charged July 2 after he walked out of the mall with an AR-15 assault-type rifle."
"The misdemeanor is part of the state's constitution, Mitchell said." ... |
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