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DOJ and Media Matters coordinated Fast and Furious reports
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"The Department of Justice and Media Matters corresponded and coordinated on stories about Operation Fast and Furious 'gunwalking,' going so far as to disparage the citizen journalist who initially broke the story, Matthew Boyle of The Daily Caller reported today, citing emails obtained from a Freedom of Information Act request to determine the extent of cooperation between the government and the 'progressive' advocacy group." ... |
Revenge of the NJ Oxymorons: Smart Gun Control
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"When I read the first couple of paragraphs of North New Jersey’s The Record editorial Smart Gun Control, I thought to myself 'Holy smokes! They’re actually finally starting to get it!'""NEW JERSEY has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, but even they cannot prevent an unstable man from opening fire and killing people. The tragic shootings last month at the Pathmark in Old Bridge remind us of that. Not that we needed reminding, because we never had a chance to forget that gun violence can crop up anywhere, regardless of the severity of the laws." "Brilliant! They’ve finally figured out that gun control doesn’t work and are going to recommend repealing all those stupid mala prohibita gun laws that are supposed to prevent crime but don’t work, right? . . ."
"Well no, not quite." ... |
Texas Hunter Education, or “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Fudds”
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"To hunt in the state of Texas, if you were born within the last 30 years, you need to have passed an approved hunter education class and carry the proof with you. Unless you pay $10 for a one year deferral, like I did last year. Unfortunately that deferral is a once in a lifetime thing so this past weekend, in preparation for the coming hunting season, I spent 10 hours of my life in a conference room at a Bass Pro Shop listening to two TPW instructors indoctrinate the newest wave of Lone Star hunters. And it turns out they were the biggest Fudds in the world and made no bones about it . . ." ... |
Gun 'buy backs,' and using the enemies' own resources against them
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"When the forcible citizen disarmament lobby finds itself stymied in its efforts to pass more 'gun control' laws, they often try to console themselves with gun 'buy backs' (and what do they mean by 'buy back,' which implies that they're once again taking possession of guns that were once theirs?). While for the most part it would seem that such fuzzy, feel-good efforts are fairly harmless to gun rights (not to mention harmless to violent criminals' plans), and indeed represent a waste of the other side's funds that could otherwise finance more effective attacks on gun ownership, there could be more to such events than meets the eye." ... |
Why we need 'high capacity' magazines: Because there are more than 10 Democrats
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"In August, the Republican Party released what the Second Amendment Foundation calls 'the strongest ever' pro-Second Amendment platform by a major political party. SAF's assertion is difficult to dispute. The platform's treatment of gun rights begins by stating that the right to keep and bear arms pre-dates the Constitution, and thus exists independently of it. It also specifically condemns attempts to ban or otherwise restrict so-called 'assault weapons' and 'high capacity' magazines, and supports national concealed carry reciprocity. The platform even condemns 'Project Gunwalker.'" ... |
Olympic Profile: Sandra Uptagrafft
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"We are delighted to launch the first of our series of women Olympic athletes with
Petty Officer First Class Sandra Uptagrafft. A member of the Navy Reserves who hails from Alabama, Sandra competed in her first Olympics this past summer in Women’s 10 Meter Air Pistol and Women’s 25 Meter Sport Pistol." ... |
Compare and Contrast II: Guns Save Life vs. CSGV
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"Miguel over at GunFreeZone had a nice catch he found from checking out the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence’s Facebook page (no, we’re not going to link to CSGV)."
"We will show you their pathetic picture."
"How about that. A protest in front of the White House and they turn out a dozen people?"
"That blog entry made the rounds and Sebastian at Shall Not be Questioned ... tweaked that to a 'compare and contrast' blog entry, comparing a 80-some people at a Friends of NRA dinner (paying $45 each ...) to that farce that CGSV posted on their Facebook page."
"Well, we would like you to contrast that tiny group of individuals who oppose freedom and liberty with the turnout of freedom-loving people we had at the regular monthly general members meeting of Guns Save Life in tiny Rantoul, IL ..." ... |
Gun Review: HK USP Tactical .45
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"You don’t have to be a Navy SEAL to know that the H&K MK23 is one bad ass pistol. But it helps. It also helps when it comes to owning one. Navy SEALs pay for theirs in blood, sweat and tears. Uncle Sam gets a deal. Civilians need to shell-out some $2,300 or thereabouts for the privilege. Truth be told, I’m no more likely to buy a H&K MK23 than Kerry McGregor is to go swimming in an old gunny sack. So, the H&K USP Tactical then, a more affordable offshoot of the MK23 development program . . ." ... |
“Buntline Special” Colt Army Revolver Sells for $546k
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"The legend of Samuel Colt was alive and well as Colt firearms accounted for 8 of the top 10 items sold during the weekend for an astonishing sum of $2,012,500. The talk of the weekend was with out question the breathtaking original and ultra rare Colt 16 inch “Buntline Special” Single Action Army Revolver with its original Factory Stock which sold for a World Record $546,250.00 (lot 3228). Colt only manufactured ten of these iconic 16 inch “Buntline Specials” and this current result breaks the previous record set by Rock Island Auction in December of 2010 when they achieved a sales price of $368,000.00 for a 16 inch Buntline . . ." ... |
Self-Defense Tip: Buy an Ammo Safe (video available)
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"Hollywood would have you believe that fire 'sets-off' ammunition—to the point where good guys and bad guys alike run for cover. The media buys into this myth as well. To wit: 'The residence, owned and occupied by Butch Jones, was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived,' news-journal.com reports. 'Jones was trapped inside.' What’s worse, Jones had a shotgun, a rifle and several handguns in the home, along with approximately 8,000 rounds of ammunition, which were ignited by the blaze. Ammunition began exploding from the heat of the fire.' Exploding? Time to reach for my coffee cup . . ." ... |
Gear Review: Etymotic GunSport PRO Earplugs
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"Sure, silence is golden. But shooters would do well to spend a little gold now to keep from suffering in silence down the road. Do you give much thought to your ears? To anyone’s? Hell, most shooters don’t. They shove some squishy plugs in there and call it good. I was that way, too, until we finally got tired of shouting at my dad and made him get some hearing aids. That’s when I decided I really didn’t want to go that way. So if you think about it and look around, you quickly find you’ve got options ranging in cost from a couple of bucks for a set of foam stopples up to many hundreds of dollars for sophisticated electronic gizmos that muffle the gun blast and let you carry on a normal conversation. ..." ... |
10-8 Performance Sights
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"If you’ve been following Monderno very long, chances are you’ve seen my two custom Smith & Wesson M&Ps: one from V&C Industries, and the other Business End Customs. Both fantastic guns, and on both, I have 10-8 Performance sights installed."
"On one M&P, I have a 10-8 Performance rear and a 10-8 Performance brass bead front, and on the other, a 10-8 Performance rear with a Novak front." ... |
Nutnfancy Doesn’t Savage Savage Axis. Much. (video story)
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"It’s been a while since we’ve checked in with Nutnfancy. That said, I’ve been running one of his early videos in the background since the last time and it just finished. Luckily, this review of the Savage Axis isn’t War and Piece. Would I take this piece to war? Sure. Why not? Beats a club. Of course, I wouldn’t want to be beaten by any club that would have me for a member. Or something like that. ..." |
Beginner Gun Review: SIG Sauer P238
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"I may have mentioned before that my daily carry gun of choice is Ruger’s LC9 pistol. I like the gun’s size and the 9mm round it uses. Until now, I’d never really had the chance to shoot one of those .380 pocket pistols but I had heard many other’s opinions on them...whether I wanted to hear them or not. As far as I’m concerned, it’s a controversial round of sorts. There are just as many people saying that it’s perfectly fine for self defense as there are people saying it’s terrible. As I’ve mentioned before, ANY bullet size is better than no bullets at all. ... In the end, shot placement > bullet size in every case." ... |
Converting a Glock 21 to .460 Rowland
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"At the risk of seeming to be obsessed with the .460 Rowland cartridge, given that I have written about it three times this year, allow me to give a report on what it is actually like to convert a Generation 3 Glock 21 over to .460 Rowland using a conversion kit from 460Rowland.com."
"One of my Ballistics By The Inch buddies had a Glock 21 9/11 Commemorative model, and was anxious to try the conversion kit. He ordered it in, got it in good time, and we got together to give it a try." ... |
Gear Review: Winchester Razorback XT
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"Dick is a family friend who enjoys hunting ducks and deer as much as the next guy. But it’s difficult for me to describe just how badly this man desires to kill a wild pig. Constantly he plots to stalk them, take them over bait or any way he can. And the ranks of hunters just like him are growing like the feral pig populations that mangle our pastures." ... |
Home defense shotgun: Remington 870 customization
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"A home defense shotgun could have many iterations, but the most important thing is that is accomplishes its namesake purpose: defending your home."
"It’s important to remember that a home defense shotgun doesn’t take a specific shape for all who need one; it is a personal choice and has a ton of personal input from the gun owner. My home defense shotgun will be different from yours. Even if we choose the same basic model or type of home defense shotgun, there is a robust aftermarket for parts, customizing and ammunition, which allows each home defense shotgun to have its own fingerprint so to speak." ... |
CSGV’s Josh Horwitz: The Second Amendment is Unconstitutional
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"You gotta give Josh Horwitz [above] props. The Executive Director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence's anti-gun polemic in the Huffington Post is the worst case of exactly backwards misinformation I’ve ever read. And I bet he knows it. Oh Ye of Little Faith: The Pro-Gun Movement’s Total Disregard for Our Constitution is so absurd I can only conclude that he wrote it just to tweak gun rights advocates’ nipples. Start with this: 'Nugent’s remarks [about the whole world sucking and America sucking less] got me thinking about a seldom discussed but critical aspect of the modern pro-gun movement: Its total lack of faith in the system of government established by our Founders in the U.S. Constitution.' Total? Maybe, maybe not. Needless to say, it gets worse . . ." ... |
Are You Friends With John Boch?
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"That was the question asked by attendees of the a recent 'Gun Buyback' in Champaign/Urbana. By the intensity of the questioning, one would think that the police were looking for a dangerous terrorist, murderer or gun smuggler. Each attendee was asked whether they knew this person and then specific details about the firearms they were attempting to turn in at this 'no questions asked' event."
"So what crime did this person commit that the police were so interested in him?"
"He organized people to turn in guns at gun buy backs. It's just wasn't the right 'kind' of people who were turning them in ... In the words of a CPD mouthpiece, actually getting unsafe guns off the street 'is abusing a program intended to increase the safety of our communities'." ... |
Assault weapons in the cross hairs
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"Imagine a product that serves no purpose but to kill people and each year causes many deaths. Surely politicians would compete with each other to pass laws to control it. If nothing else, the manufacturer of such a product, which is foreseeably used to murder people, would be held liable. Not, though, if the product is an assault weapon. The federal law banning assault weapons expired in 2004, and another federal law precludes civil liability for gun manufacturers. It is time to re-enact the Federal Assault Weapons Ban and to repeal a federal law adopted in 2005 that protects gun manufacturers from civil liability." ... |
IN: Gun owner proves an embarrassment to his very cause
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"Evansville and Indiana are both gun-friendly places. Take a poll and more Hoosiers support gun ownership than do not. But we are also a common-sense lot, which make us troubled by the behavior of Benjamin A. Magenheimer of Evansville."
"Magenheimer is the guy who was removed from Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden after going there last year, openly wearing a gun. That's his thing, it seems." ...
"Look, we all get it. He is exercising his right to carry a firearm. But his exhibitionist approach is rude and inconsiderate of his fellow citizens who have no idea who he is or what he is up to." ...
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TX: Big Bad Wolf gets perforated while threatening Little Red Riding Hood
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"A road rage incident cost a Texas man his life as he failed to remember common courtesy and decency towards women. It probably wasn’t the first time he was less than gentlemanly towards the fairer sex, but will certainly be the last time. The woman in this case was on her way to work with her lawfully possessed and carried handgun."
"When a man began beating on her window, she pulled out her gun."
"He apparently didn’t get the message, or didn’t think she would follow through on using her safety rescue tool."
"In any event, she shot him dead." ... |
CA: Musician in CA Uses Gun to Stop Burglars For The Second Time In His Life
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"In 1995 Michael Allen had over $20,000 of musical instruments and equipment stolen from a van outside of his home. Determined not to be a victim again, Allen borrowed a friend’s handgun the next day and went to the range to learn to use it. The next night, when the thieves came back, Allen was ready and held a teenager at gunpoint until police arrived. The teen led authorities to where the rest of Allen’s equipment was, and it was almost all recovered."
"Again, last Tuesday morning, Allen heard someone breaking into a trailer containing his musical equipment. Allen grabbed his revolver and confronted the would be thieves who were loading his equipment into an SUV. The men fled after being confronted." ... |
OH: POW! Reported rapist takes gunshot to face.
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"Springfield, Ohio police were a little suspicious of the man who told them he couldn’t recall who shot him in the face or where the shooting took place."
"It didn’t take long to put two and two together when a report came in from a nearby hospital from a woman who have driven herself to the hospital for treatment from a sexual assault."
"She told officers that a man had held a gun to her head and raped her at a business and at some point in the encounter, she was able to wrest the gun away and POW! she shot the man in the face." ... |
Obama administration colludes with Media Matters to bury 'Gunwalker' scandal
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"The Daily Caller's Matthew Boyle revealed in an article today that under Attorney General Eric Holder, the Obama administration's Department of Justice has worked extensively with the far left Media Matters to spin the 'Project Gunwalker' atrocity and discredit those who have tried to draw attention to it. This, in itself, should come as no surprise, having been noted, again, and again, and again in the past. Boyle's article, though, is very specific, quoting numerous emails between DoJ spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler (a firm believer, apparently, in the bare knuckle brawler approach to representing the federal government's commitment to 'justice') and various Media Matters writers. For example:" ... |
IL: 10 Reasons Why Illinois Lawmakers Should Support Concealed Carry
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"Recently, Guns.com reported that Illinois is poised to approve concealed carry."
"News of this came by way of NRA chief lobbyist Todd Vandermyde, who said at a recent public gathering in Marion that the vote count in the state Senate is at 'the tipping point of having a super majority of 36 senators to vote for a carry bill, which would be enough votes to override a gubernatorial veto' from pro-gun control Governor Pat Quinn."
"Inspired by this latest update, I thought I’d help gun-rights advocates in Illinois close the gap by listing 10 reasons why state lawmakers should get off the fence and jump on the concealed carry bandwagon." ... |
Obama Gets Detention Authority Back - For Now
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"An appeals court judge has issued an order temporarily restoring to Barack Obama – whose administration previously has described individuals who hold a pro-life position or advocate for the Second Amendment or limited government as possible terrorists – authority to detain indefinitely those suspected of aiding or supporting America’s enemies." ... |
Emails reveal Justice Dept. regularly enlists Media Matters to spin press
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"Internal Department of Justice emails obtained by The Daily Caller show Attorney General Eric Holder’s communications staff has collaborated with the left-wing advocacy group Media Matters for America in an attempt to quell news stories about scandals plaguing Holder and America’s top law enforcement agency."
"Dozens of pages of emails between DOJ Office of Public Affairs Director Tracy Schmaler and Media Matters staffers show Schmaler, Holder’s top press defender, working with Media Matters to attack reporters covering DOJ scandals ..." ... |
TN: Memphis Police Officer Charged With Sex-Trafficking
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"Sean McWhirter, 30, of Memphis, Tennessee, was charged today in a complaint alleging transportation of individuals in interstate commerce for the purpose of prostitution, in violation of 18 USC § 2421, announced United States Attorney Edward L. Stanton III, and Aaron T. Ford, Special Agent in Charge of the Memphis Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. McWhirter is a five-year veteran of the Memphis Police Department, who was serving as a patrolman at the time of his arrest."
"On September 13, 2012, while on duty and in his patrol car, McWhirter agreed to transport three women to a location in Tunica, Mississippi for the purpose of prostitution. ..." ... |
PA: Former officer allegedly stole more than 800 packets of heroin
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"A former Berwick police officer was arrested Friday on charges he stole evidence from the department to support a drug habit, in which he allegedly stole more than 800 packets of heroin from police at one time."
"Christian Wilson, 30, of 919 Monroe St., Berwick, an officer until his resignation on July 16, was charged by agents from the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General, with four counts of theft and one count of possession of drug paraphernalia." ... |
WA: Seattle case underscores ‘hard time for armed crime’ strategy
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"A once-convicted murderer is on his way back to prison – this time a federal facility – not because he killed a second time, but because he ran afoul of a federal statute that comes down hard on felons with guns under Project Safe Neighborhoods."
"It’s a bizarre case, detailed by the on-line SeattleP-I.com’s Levi Pulkkinen, in which there are no good guys, and a whole lot of bad. It is also proof positive that the philosophy behind Hard Time for Armed Crime – an idea from the firearms community and championed years ago by KVI’s morning anchor John Carlson – can work effectively." ... |
VA: RU willing to render students defenseless?
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... "Despite the harsh lesson learned at Virginia Tech and the very real threat of future lawsuits, more and more of Virginia’s public colleges and universities have been passing regulations banning carry on campus after Attorney General Cuccinelli issued an opinion that university policies do not overrule state-issued concealed carry permits but properly promulgated regulations, which have the force and effect of law, do." ...
"At that brings us to today’s update. Sadly, last Friday, the Radford University Board of Visitors voted to join this trend. ..." ... |
CA: Details slowly emerge in hunting death; outdoors community questions incident
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"Saturday's hunting death of a man in the mountains southeast of Lake Isabella remained unexplained Monday, but members of Kern's hunting community said the incident raised a number of questions."
"Ker Her, 27, a Clovis resident, was killed while he and a hunting companion yet to be identified were hunting about 20 miles from Lake Isabella. The man slipped and fell while his finger was on the trigger of his rifle, according to the Kern County Sheriff's Office. When the man hit the ground, the rifle discharged and Her was shot." ...
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