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EXCLUSIVE: Full Court Press
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... "SCOTUS has been ducking that issue for a long time, along with that most inconvenient of clauses, 'shall not be infringed.' They bought some time with prior rulings that allowed for enough 'reasonable restrictions' and 'compelling state interests' to give a nod to individual rights while not overturning the status quo. But as for full-blown recognition for what Tench Coxe, a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress, advocated, that’s something they just won’t cede, because those who have power rarely voluntarily share it." ... |
Round One of the Fight over S. 2363
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"The Senate floor battle has now opened on the fake 'pro-gun' bill designed to reelect endangered anti-gun Democrats up in 2014 in pro-gun states."
"That bill is S. 2363, sponsored by anti-gun crazy Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC), with the chief cosponsors being endangered anti-gunners who are Mark Begich (D-AK), Mark Pryor (D-AR), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Mark Udall (D-CO), Mark Warner (D-VA) and Al Franken (D-MN)."
"By now, even the dumbest Senators realize that this bill is nothing but a political ploy to keep Harry Reid (D-NV) and Obama’s cronies in power in the Senate. An article in The Hill newspaper made this clear yesterday:" ... |
Winning!
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"As of Sunday morning (the time I captured this screen shot), an MSNBC poll of 90,000 respondents indicated that the vast majority of Americans support constitutional carry of firearms."
"I realize the survey is not scientific, and I understand the difficulty in making the claim that 88 percent of Americans believe people should be allowed to carry guns in public. It's downright impossible to get 88 percent of Americans to agree on anything let alone a controversial issue such as firearms. But this simple survey does show us that Americans do prefer to have their rights inviolate, and they prefer freedom to the anti-life, anti-rights, and anti-freedom agenda of Bloomberg's astroturf groups.:" ... |
Everytown for Gun Safety Wimps Out
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"Yesterday, we deconstructed Michael Bloomberg’s gun control questionnaire; the former New York City mayor’s political purity test for unlocking hizzoner’s $50m campaign war chest. Today, I noticed that newyorkmag.com noticed something about the survey that I hadn’t noticed. 'Everytown for Gun Safety says it’s ready to begin surveying federal candidates about their positions on gun issues as the first step in its plan to sway the midterm elections — however, candidates won’t receive a letter grade after completing the questionnaire.' Ha! I told you Bloomberg was playing the NRA’s game, only worse. Here’s the thing . . ." ... |
New Bullets Mean Certain Death! Or Not (video available)
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"'If one Georgia company is successful, accidental shootings that injure people may become a thing of the past,' Jesse Berney opines at bluenationreview.com. 'That’s because if people start using their bullets, pretty much every person who gets shot will die.' Wow! That’s pretty much incredible! No wait, it’s totally incredible (for a handgun caliber bullet). So what’s the wonder round in question? 'G2 Research’s 'Radically Invasive Projectile' ... is a copper bullet that explodes when it hits a target (i.e., a human being) sending pieces screaming through vital organs and clearing a path for the bullet’s core to travel deeper through a person.' Oh please. In fact (inconvenient things that they are) . . ." ... |
AZ Driver’s License Ruling Highlights Gun Control Hypocrisy
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"Gun control advocates talk about 'easy access to guns.' They don’t want to deny guns to law-abiding Americans. Just certain types of guns. And ammunition magazines. I mean, just 'bad guys.' And mentally ill people. How do you make the distinction? Background checks! If everyone who wanted to purchase a gun had to go through a background check, only the good guys would get the guns. Wrong. But anyway . . ."
"What document do you suppose Uncle Sam requires for these federal background checks? The same document the courts (via Uncle Sam) are forcing Arizona to make available to illegal immigrants shielded from deportation by Executive Order: a driver’s license." ... |
Functional printed semi-auto pistol shoots new nail into 'gun control's' coffin
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"All the rejuvenated talk of banning all semi-automatic firearms, 'high capacity' magazines ('progressive'-speak for 'standard capacity' magazines), and private sales (and a mandate for 'universal background checks' would be just that--a ban of private sales) ignores the fact that technology is on the verge of making such endeavors utterly irrelevant. When one can after all simply print these items at home, without asking the government's permission, 'gun control' will have suffered its long and richly deserved death without dignity." ... |
Random Thoughts About Gun Reviews
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"I may have kicked the hornet’s nest a little bit. The Remington R51 review I wrote and the subsequent calling out of Shooting Illustrated, caused something of an internet kerfuffle. Now that things seem to have calmed down I wanted to take a second and collect my thoughts about what makes gun reviews unique and why my personal standards are a little different from other reviewers . . ."
"With most things in life, buying the wrong product isn’t necessarily the end of the world. Buy an AMD processor instead of an Intel and your computer will still work. Buy a Chevy instead of a Honda and you’ll still have a functioning car. Well, mostly." ... |
How NOT to Buy an NFA Device
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"It seems like more and more of my day is filled with handling the administration of items regulated by the National Firearms Act of 1934. And with the influx of new silencer, SBR and machinegun buyers, there’s a flood of people who don’t know what they’re doing. Last week I had a fellow purchase a silencer on my webstore and he had his FFL send me over their license. There was no SOT attached, so I asked his dealer to send theirs over so I could get forms filed at ATF. What I expected was a scan, or in a pinch – a cameraphone photo of an SOT. What I got was a teachable moment . . ." ... |
Gun Review: Magnum Research Baby Eagle II .45
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"I once joked that my ideal handgun is a CZ-75 chambered in .45 ACP that costs $1. Well, no handgun costs a buck and CZ doesn’t make the CZ-75 in .45. ... The Magnum Research Jericho series, currently called the Baby Eagle II ... is based on the CZ-75 design and takes a lot of lessons from it. The .45 ACP chambering isn’t as much of a compromise as it is in most up-chambered weapons since the original Jericho was designed to fire the now defunct .41 Action Express cartridge. While I’ve always had a fascination with the Jericho series of pistols I still did a great deal of research before making their .45 ACP version my own. Everything looked positive so I took the plunge two years ago . . ." ... |
How To Shoot Great With A Snub-Nose .38
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"The 'snub-nose .38' revolver, dating back to the Colt Detective Special of 1926, is a standard prop in noir movies. Most see it as an urban gun, something to hide under the suit in the dangerous streets of the big cities. However, country folk like ‘em too. Where I live nowadays, I often spot one in the jeans pocket of a workin’ man, or even the front chest pouch of a farmer’s overalls ..."
"A general rule of little guns is that 'they’re easy to carry, but hard to shoot.' A Google or Amazon search should get you to some useful advice, such as the book 'The Snubby Revolver' by my old friend Ed Lovette, who has 'been there and done that.' Now we can add a small but meaty booklet by an old friend, Michael deBethencourt." ... |
Technology Meets Second Amendment, 3D Printer Threat: ‘If You Take My Gun, I Will Simply Print Another One’
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"A video uploaded to LiveLeaks on the Fourth of July claims the user successfully manufactured a gun using little more than a 3D printer and some spare parts obtained online. The video has over 90 thousand views as of Tuesday. Despite the Undetectable Firearms Act, a single use plastic gun has been printed using a 3-D printer before. In November, Inquisitr reported about the very first 3D-printed metal hand gun."
"The validity of the LiveLeaks user’s weapon is unknown and can not be verified, because the user uploaded the video with a pseudonym. Some users commented that the gun appears to be made of wood, not plastic. We also are not shown the weapon actually being created on a 3D printer in the video." ... |
John Walsh Wants to Be the New Piers Morgan
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"'’I am the guy that has seen both sides of the issue,' (new CNN host John) Walsh told reporters Monday. 'I own guns. I’m the father of a murdered child. ... We have a serious problem with guns in this country. And we refuse to address it. And the NRA solution to arm every grammar-school 80-year-old teacher with a gun is absolutely ludicrous.' So let’s see if we have this straight. Now that CNN’s viewership has fallen below that of even MSNBC, their strategy for clawing their way back toward tragedy TV ratings respectability is to resuscitate the long-defunct 'America’s Most Wanted' franchise under a new name…and let the show’s host pick up the fallen Piers Morgan’s anti-gun mantle . . ." ... |
Violence Policy Center Targets Hispanics in New Gun Control Push
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"I’m not sure what “Hispanic” means. An Argentinian wouldn’t place themselves in the same ethnic group as a Mexican, would they? Come to think of it, why does the ATF form 4473 now divide ethnicity into Hispanic or Latino, or Non-Hispanic or Non-Latino? Excuse this African-American’s ignorance, but what’s the difference between those ethnicities? According to the Violence Policy Center gun control group, a Hispanic is 'a person of any race having origins in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Central or South America, or other Spanish cultures.' That’s the definition from their new study . . ." ... |
Gov. Chris Christie refusing to meet with Sandy Hook victim's parents shows he has no guts
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"The best part of having Chris Christie run for President, at least before he got stuck in horrible traffic on the George Washington Bridge, was going to be the guy’s independence, in a Republican Party that too often looks like a flock of sheep."
"But now he shows no independence on guns, along with no courage, with his veto of a bill that would have reduced the size of ammunition magazines in his state from 15 rounds to 10. Christie also shows no governance that anyone could ever respect by refusing to meet with Sandy Hook parents who just wanted to talk to him about that, whether Christie’s mind was made up or not." ... |
The will of the people
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"When it comes to common-sense gun regulation, Washington and the American people are living on different planets."
"Fully 92% of the voters surveyed in a new poll — including 86% of registered Republicans — support mandating background checks before gun purchases."
"But Congress has stubbornly refused to extend this most basic precaution against gun violence to all firearms sales."
"So the federal law that requires instant background checks in licensed gun stores continues to exempt gun shows and private deals, which account for an estimated 40% of all weapons sales."
"The customers could be convicted felons or lunatics. No one checks, because that’s how the statute is written." ... |
Critics miss key elements of arguments
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"Ron Klein's Open Forum letter of July 3 argues that Colorado's recent gun control laws are unconstitutional. He quotes the words of the Second Amendment that '... the right ... to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.'"
"Recent opinions by better authorities disagree. Specifically, Justice Scalia wrote the majority opinion for the 2008 Supreme Court case identified as the District of Columbia v. Heller. He was joined by the Supreme Court's other four very conservative justices. Their opinion stated, 'Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. ...'" ... |
FL: Good Samaritan stops attempted murder, is protected by new 'warning shots' law
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"Last month, Florida governor Rick Scott signed into law an expansion of the state's Stand Your Ground law to include warning shots. The new expansion was in response to the case of Marissa Alexander, a woman who was sentenced to twenty years after firing a warning shot because of this gap in the Stand Your Ground protection."
"While anti-gun advocates spoke of 'gunfights in the streets' and used old west imagery, the reality is that it took just 12 days for an armed citizen to stop a murder by firing a warning shot protected under the new law."
"'Several witnesses stated that had Edwin Sullivan not intervened with a warning shot, they felt that Paul Royes would have killed Luke Sherrill,' according to the police report." ... |
Thompson: New poll shows 92% of gun owners support background checks
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"U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, chairman of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, released the following statement on the July 3 Quinnipiac University Poll that found 92 percent of American voters, including 92 percent of gun owners, support requiring background checks on all gun purchases. The poll also showed 86 percent of Republicans support background checks."
"'As a hunter, gun owner and supporter of the Second Amendment, I am proud to count myself among the 92 percent of American gun owners who support background checks for gun sales,' said Thompson. ..." ... |
Governor Christie's stance on gun bill a nod to the right
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"Governor Christie has spent the past four years portraying himself as a 'principled' conservative who isn’t afraid to compromise with Democrats and their allies."
"But the governor also wants it to be to known that he has the mettle to push them around."
"That was the point in his provocative veto last week of a measure that would have reduced the ammunition limit in gun magazines from 15 rounds, to 10. Democrats immediately accused Christie of pandering to the Republican Party’s right-wing base, especially gun owners and Second Amendment absolutists who are in a minority in New Jersey but hold sway in the Republican presidential primaries." ... |
The Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act, or Hunting for Cover on Guns
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"Despite objections from a handful of Democrats, the Senate voted on Monday to move forward with a pro-hunting bill that has delighted most gun rights groups, including the National Rifle Association."
"Introduced by embattled incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.), the Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act (S. 2363) would unlock funding to build shooting ranges on public land while easing hunting restrictions. But detractors say it is merely a political move designed to provide pro-gun cover for Democratic senators in tough re-election battles." ... |
Senate Approves Federal Welfare for Second Amendment Men
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"In a rare show of bipartisanship between Republicans, blue dogs, and embattled Democrats facing tight elections, the Senate overwhelmingly approved a bizarre plan to use federal funds to encourage shooting on public land and exempt lead bullets from pollution guidelines." ...
"The National Shooting Sports Foundation, a pro-gun group based in Newtown, Connecticut, spoke for its co-religionists in the NRA and other gun-industry lobbyists in hailing the act as 'simply the most important package of measures for the benefit of sportsmen in a generation.'"
"And those sportsmen will get government benefits galore! ..." ... |
Dems vote against sportsmen's bill over gun control objections
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"The Senate voted to move forward on Monday with legislation aimed at preserving federal lands for hunting and fishing, despite objections from Democrats who wanted the measure to include gun control language."
"Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said they voted against cloture on the motion to proceed because they don’t think the Senate should be considering a gun bill that doesn’t include reforms such as background checks on all gun sales." ... |
PA: Guns-at-work law protects constitutional rights
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"I'm writing today to address some issues raised in Matthew Major's recent editorial regarding the Parking Lot Protection Legislation, which was an amendment I was proud to offer during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting in June. I've spent my career, both as a judge and a state senator, protecting our constitutional rights. My amendment to House Bill 827, which easily passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on a bipartisan 10-4 vote, would prohibit an employer from creating or enforcing a policy that prohibits law abiding gun owners from keeping their legally owned firearm, locked safely in their vehicle, while their vehicle is parked in the employee parking lot of the business in which they are employed." ... |
CO: Candidates dance around guns, abortion
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"Purple Colorado’s divergent positions on two core social issues — gun rights and abortion — have put candidates up and down the ballot in tough spots as they seek to forge centrist paths independent of their national parties."
"The swing state’s more liberal support for abortion rights but more conservative opposition to gun control measures have both candidates and incumbents doing a delicate dance around their own parties on these hot-button issues." ... |
NJ: Poll: Do you agree with Gov. Christie's veto of a bill to reduce the permitted size of ammunition magazines in guns?
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"It was an action that infuriated parents of the children killed in the Sandy Hook massacre in Connecticut."
"Gov. Chris Christie last week vetoed a gun control bill that would have reduced the permitted size of ammunition magazines, saying it would do nothing to reduce gun violence."
"The Sandy Hook parents disagreed and were further infuriated when Christie refused to meet with them. The governor said he didn't meet with them because he had already vetoed the bill when the request came and he thought it was be hypocritical to see them under those circumstances." ...
The parents said fewer children might have been killed if the gunman had to take time to reload with a smaller ammunition magazine." |
Supplemental Briefs Filed In SAF’s California Pena Case
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"Responding to the court’s request for additional information in the Second Amendment Foundation’s long-running case of Pena v. Lindley, a lawsuit challenging the state handgun roster requirements that include microstamping and magazine disconnects, a supplemental brief filed yesterday by attorney Alan Gura that included an additional declaration by Lawrence G. Keane, secretary and general counsel to the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute (SAAMI)." ... |
Shocking: What IKEA Just Did Takes Gun Control Activist-ism To A Whole New Level Of Ridiculousness
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ng many retailers to ban – or at least discourage – firearms has been reported across the U.S. as gun control advocates attempt to curtail violence by scaling back the Second Amendment."
"What happened in a College Park, Md. store on Independence Day, however, has perplexed even some anti-gun activists. Takoma Park Police Chief Alan Goldberg entered an IKEA in that town, in uniform ...
"... a security officer at the store approached Goldberg to inform him of the chain’s policy against guns."
"'He says we have a no firearms policy,' the officer recalled; 'and you’re either going to have to leave or you can lock your gun in the car.'" ...
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MO: Chesterfield officer indicted
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"Chesterfield police officer accused of secretly recording victims in a men's restroom was indicted by a grand jury last week."
"David E. Cerna, 33, is charged with second-degree invasion of privacy. He's accused of setting up a camera in vent inside a Mobil on the Run restroom in the 1700 block of Clarkson Road." ... |
OK: Trooper On Paid Leave Pending Investigation Into DUI
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"An Oklahoma state trooper has been arrested in Sequoyah County for driving under the influence of alcohol while on duty after he crashed an Oklahoma Highway Patrol sport utility vehicle that was towing an OHP boat."
"Capt. George Brown said Monday that Trooper Joshua Davies was arrested Thursday following the accident on U.S. Highway 59 near Sallisaw after investigating troopers said he showed signs of intoxication — then registered above the legal limit of 0.08 for blood alcohol content on a breath test." ... |
ID: Students Comfortable with Guns on Idaho Campus
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"As I followed the story of the Idaho legislature making the carrying of guns on campus legal for a small subset of students that were highly trained, it was shocking to see how much silly disinformation was published in an attempt to railroad the legislators into voting against the measure. Everything was thrown at them, from the usual “blood in the streets” predictions to smears of adult students as irresponsible drunks, to a highly inventive notion that Idaho campuses would lose funding for their nuclear research reactors. One educator asked when he would be able to shoot students, in a lame attempt at sarcasm that was published by the New York Times . . ." ... |
Chicago slaughter: Tougher gun laws no solution, say Seattle Times readers
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"This morning’s Chicago Tribune said the Windy City’s weekend murder tally went up because two more of the 82 people shot died of their wounds yesterday, and in this morning’s Seattle Times, savvy Evergreen State readers – cognizant of the Times’ endorsement of a gun control initiative – remind people that the city has very tough gun laws, and still the slaughter continues."
"In the midst of this carnage, the anti-gun Chicago police superintendent unwittingly provided a learning opportunity about justice and punishment. His remarks came even as the body count went up yesterday." ... |
IL: FBI should step in to halt increasing wave of gun violence in Chicago
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"Did you hear about the tourist who walked into a Chicago bar, asked the barkeep for a shot and the guy pulled out a gun and killed him?"
"Not funny?"
"You’re right, but unfortunately it is indicative of what is going on in The Windy City on a daily basis – one might call it an epidemic of murders by gunshot. You don’t have to do anything to be shot, just be in the city."
"On the Fourth of July weekend, 82 people were shot, 14 of them fatally, and the Chicago Tribune did a good job of conveying the chaos in words." ... |
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