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Marine police training response ignores civilian rights concerns
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"Inquiries about police personnel training with United States Marines have resulted in a boilerplate response that glosses over civil liberties concerns and fails to acknowledge and address specific questions about those operations, a September 5 letter from USMC Public Affairs shows. The letter, signed by N. G. Fahy, Camp LeJeune Director, Public Affairs, states 'The decision to hire civilian police officers into the armed forces was made in order to free up our trained military policemen to deploy without having to sacrifice security at home.'" ... |
OMG! They’re Selling Guns In Arizona! To Almost Anyone! OMG!
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"It’s hard for those of us stranded in flyover country to fully grok the anti-gun, pro-disarmament POV popular among citizens inhabiting the left and right coasts. But putting ourselves in a gun control advocate’s shoes is a useful endeavor—if only to plot better ways to counter the antis’ arguments. In her piece for GQ—Guns ‘R Us—writer Jeanne Marie Laskas [above] reverses the process. She embarked on an anthropological expedition into the wilds of Yuma, Arizona to see what this great American 'gun love' is all about . . ." ... |
The Truth About Philly Po-Po’s Gun Room
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"Yesterday’s philly.com published Eye-opening visit to city’s Gun Room reveals scope of problem. And what problem might that be? Wait. Don’t tell me. Gun control? Yup. Daily News Editor Page Editor Sandra Shea reckons there are too many guns. And Daily News Editor Page Editor Sandra Shea has the evidence to prove it: 'On any given day, the room holds 7,000 to 10,000 guns – all confiscated in crimes commited [sic] in the city. The volume is shocking. In a room with this many guns ... there’s just one thing to think about: death. No, that’s not exactly right: The volume is so overwhelming that I’m not really thinking at all.' Roger that. But wait! There’s more! Sandra really gets into it . . ." ... |
Are guns OK at Chick-fil-A?
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"Wednesday, August 1, was declared Chick-fil-A day by Mike Huckabee. There were an 'overwhelming' number of customers visiting Chick-fil-A's nationwide, which I reported on at Good Hill Press. The outpouring of support for Chick-fil-A was tremendous."
"Then I saw a report at Walls of the City of an Open Carry incident at the Turkey Creek Chick-fil-A in Knoxville. It was reported that someone was ejected from the store, and just a little later, as I understand it, Linoge, the Walls of the City blogger, Open Carried with no problem. Linoge reported (something he picked up from another site):" ... |
Even ATF Can't Get The Nomenclature Correct
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"I tend to scan the press releases from the [ATF] where they crow about their latest exploit as the 'Violent Crime Bureau'. They usually involve felons in possession or drug dealers getting sent to prison with the occasional straw purchase thrown in for good measure. The press releases are officially from the US Attorney's Office for the relevant local judicial district."
"Today I happened to read one concerning a felon in possession. The headline for the release read 'Austin Felon Sentenced for Possessing Assault Rifle.' I immediately wondered how some felon got a full-auto rifle which was an error on my part. Instead it was one of those ugly guns with the shoulder thing that goes up. ..." ... |
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"It is that time again! Our quarterly contest is still going strong. Being an active forum member means you could win a $25 e-gift card from Cheaper Than Dirt! Our goal is to reach one million visits to the Cheaper Than Dirt forums during 2012. To reach this goal we have started a quarterly contest by randomly drawing four names from our active forum members to receive a $25 gift card from Cheaper Than Dirt. Our next drawing will be on Monday, September 10, 2012. Good luck!" ... |
Aurora Colorado Shooting
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"It’s been over a month now since the murderous rampage that took place on that sad Friday night at the Century Movie Theater in Aurora Colorado. After sitting back and watching the news media hacks, pundits, and so called politicians debate the events of that fateful night and turn this tragedy into a self-serving political hotbed, I feel I must weigh in on the subject." ... |
Glock Fanboy Makes His Case
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"Lots of shooters think striker fired pistols are 'new' and 'next generation' when in reality it’s an old technology. Some of the earliest semi-automatic handguns used strikers vs. the traditional hammer for cartridge ignition. Take the FN Browning 1900 as an example. The FN 1900 was the first commercially successful auto-loading pistol and it featured a striker firing system. It was sleek, snag free and was well-suited for the task of concealed carry . . ."
"When the Glock 17 came onto the scene, some thought it was the most advanced handgun of the time and it may well have been. But nothing about the Glock was really new. ..." ... |
American Rifleman: New Data on Handgun Stopping Power
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"You can’t really expect American Rifleman to tell its readers what caliber to carry in their self-defense gun. For one thing, American Rifleman is an NRA publication; the gun rights org gets big bucks from ammunition suppliers. For another, it’s a Miller Lite-type dilemma: great penetration or more expansion? Blowing a hole through the bad guy’s vitals or causing maximum tissue damage ('pain'). Field Editor Richard Mann continues the caliber wars by gelatin-testing some 100 rounds for velocity, penetration and expansion (excluding my chosen .45 carry Hornady Critical Defense). Mr. Mann provides all the raw data in a few charts that studiously avoid ranking the rounds. [Click here to view.] He sums up the 'result' this way . . ." ... |
Gun Test: Nosler Model 48 Legacy Rifle
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"Since its initial offering, the NoslerCustom Rifle, the famed bullet company has introduced subsequent models—the 48 Custom Sporter, 48 Varmint, Trophy Grade Rifle (TGR) and 48 Professional Rifle—to fulfill customer requests. The Model 48 Legacy, however, was designed by company founder John A. Nosler shortly before his passing, and thus stands as a tribute to the industry legend." ... |
DRIVING ARMED – Facing The Law
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"Part of driving armed is preparing for the eventuality that you will have a run in with law enforcement. Even if you are driving the speed limit, and following all the traffic safety laws, there’s still a possibility you will get stopped. You never know when you and/or your vehicle might match the description of someone who just committed a violent crime. It happens to the best of us."
"First and foremost, it’s critical that you research, understand, and comply with all state and local laws regarding traveling with a firearm. Every state has different laws on this matter. ..." ... |
Apex Tactical M&P Trigger Components
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"If you’ve been around guns for very long, there’s a good chance you’ve come across a Smith & Wesson M&P. The Smith & Wesson M&P is, in my opinion, one of the best polymer handguns on the market. Like all things in life, however, it has a weakness: the trigger.
Much has been written and said about the stock trigger on the M&P, so I won’t reiterate in detail here. Personally, I don’t think the stock trigger is completely horrible, but it’s certainly not above average, and it doesn’t fit into what is otherwise an exceptional handgun ..." ... |
New M855A1 Enhanced Performance Round smashing expectations (video available)
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"The M855 'Green Tip' bullet has not been a popular projectile with just about everyone who's come to depend on it. As an all-purpose round it set out to do a little of everything, but never really succeeded at anything. Accuracy, stopping power and barrier penetration problem reports have been pouring in from all over."
"In 2010 the Army announced a replacement, the M855A1 "Brown Tip" Enhanced Performance Round (EPR), after delays to its development caused by poor ballistic performance when used in high-temperature environments. The round was also developed to be 'green' and lead-free. This immediately raised suspicions that the Army was giving in to health and environmental concerns at the cost of cartridge performance." ... |
Extremely rare Luger 'Night Pistol' featured early tactical light
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"While it looks like a prop for a steampunk costume, this is actually a very rare and early tactical handgun. A modified Luger pistol, this 'Night Pistol' was issued to officers of the Hitler Guard, the men who patrolled Adolf Hitler's bunker."
"What made the Night Pistol so unique was that it was retrofitted with a machined, barrel-mounted anodized brass flashlight. In the '40s. And even though the tactical gun-mounted flashlight is something that's downright mundane today, the Night Pistol still has a few tricks up its sleeve." ... |
The Gun Violence Must Stop
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"'Our Boys are Killing One Another.'"
"Profound words from the Pastor of New York's Allen AME Church the other day when during a television interview I asked the prominent African American Pastor, the Rev. Floyd Flake, why he is supporting the highly controversial and polarizing Police Practice of 'Stop and Frisk.'(Which consists of the New York Police Department stopping mostly African American and Latino young men. Statistics show overwhelmingly the stopped subjects have done nothing wrong.)" ... |
Are you a good witness?
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... "When I took the NC Handgun Permit class the instructor told a story about a time he drew his handgun in defense of a young lady that was being beaten by her boyfriend. ... Being a sheepdog, he drew his pistol, ordered the boyfriend off of her and dialed 9-1-1. He then held the boyfriend at gun point until the police arrived. During questioning the girl decided that she didn’t want her boyfriend to go to jail and accused my instructor of pulling the gun on them."
"... he didn’t face any charges, but it does paint a pretty clear picture about the risks of getting involved in a altercation you aren’t forced into. As my grandma used to say… 'You’ll get in more trouble minding someone else’s business than you will your own.'" ... |
UK: Update: Old Bill Releases UK Shotgun Defense Couple
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"TTAG reader NorthernBrit brings us up to speed on the recent armed self-defense case in Leicestershire [UK]:"
"Don’t know if you caught this but the couple involved have been released, without charge. The left-leaning Guardian newspaper reports that 'Andy Ferrie, 35, and his wife, Tracey, 43, were arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm after a legally-owned shotgun was fired during a break-in at their home in Welby, Leicestershire, in the early hours of Sunday. The Ferries were released on police bail as police announced that two men had been charged with burgling the property near Melton Mowbray . . ." ... |
Ban guns, boo God; is that the image Democrats want?
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"Wednesday saw an affirmation of sorts that the far left-tilting Democrat party has embraced Barack Obama’s 2008 sneer about Americans who cling to their guns or religion when, over the course of a single day, a powerful party leader announced a new move against gun rights, while convention delegates booed the notion of restoring a reference to God and language about Jerusalem in the party platform." ... |
These Are The 15 Politicians Who Made The Most Money From The NRA
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"There has been no shortage of shootings in the news this summer."
"From the Aurora, Colo., movie theater massacre, to the shooting in College Station, Texas, to the 15-year-old who brought a weapon to a Baltimore County high school — guns have been in the news."
"And while the debate about gun control rages on, we thought we'd take a look at which politicians are making the most money from the National Rifle Association, the Second Amendment's biggest supporter."
"The Center for Responsive Politics compiled a list of all the politicians who have received money from the NRA during the 2012 campaign cycle." ... |
NRA-ILA's Chris Cox goes one on one with Governor Romney
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"This year’s election is going to define the future of our freedom, perhaps more than any other in our history."
"For gun owners, there are a number of areas crucial to the survival of our Second Amendment rights. That’s why I took the time to visit with Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, to find out precisely where he stands on the issues of concern to gun owners." ... |
Kansas supports suit opposing concealed-carry permit restrictions
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"Kansas has joined 13 other states in supporting the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment by agreeing that people don’t need to show why they want a permit to carry a concealed firearm."
"Attorney General Derek Schmidt said Thursday he has added Kansas to a friend-of-the-court brief filed in the 4th U.S. Circuit of Appeals in Richmond, Va. The appellate court is reviewing a decision by a Maryland district court that struck down a Maryland requirement that a person must show a reason for needing a concealed permit before one is issued." ... |
GOA Fighting to Bolster the Supreme Court’s Heller Decision
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"Gun Owners of America and its foundation are in the middle of a seminal fight in the courts -– a fight which could determine whether the federal courts will be of any use in protecting our Second Amendment rights for the foreseeable future."
"That fight will determine whether the Founders -– or the liberal nut cases who govern the People’s Republic of Maryland -– will dictate the scope of the Second Amendment."
"First, a little background." ... |
NY: First Case to Decide if Federal Gun Industry Shield Law Immunizes Gun Companies Who Supply Traffickers
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"On Friday, September 7, 2012 at 10 a.m., a panel of judges in the New York Appellate Division (4th Department) in Rochester, New York will hear arguments in a first-in-the-nation case, deciding whether a controversial federal gun industry shield law protects gun sellers who negligently and illegally sell guns to traffickers. The court will decide whether to reinstate a lawsuit brought by Danny Williams, a former Buffalo high school basketball star who was shot with one of hundreds of guns sold in high-volume, all-cash sales at an Ohio gun show to a notorious gun trafficking ring. Williams was 16 when he was shot and severely wounded, in a case of mistaken identity, as he played basketball near his Buffalo home on August 16, 2003." ... |
TX: Undercover Austin police officers aided Houston Occupy protesters
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"The bushy-haired, bearded protester called 'Butch' didn't say much during the Occupy Austin planning sessions. Instead, he took members aside and pressed them to turn to more aggressive tactics, not a surprising strategy for a national grass-roots movement that has spawned hundreds of arrests."
"It turns out that Butch, however, wasn't some wild-eyed activist intent on bringing down the top '1 percent.' He was actually Austin police detective Shannon Dowell, working undercover with two other officers who had infiltrated the Austin branch of the protest movement." ... |
DC: D.C. officer illegally seized camera phone, ACLU suit alleges
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"A D.C. police officer illegally seized a camera phone from a citizen trying to photograph officers at the scene of an arrest, a civil liberties group alleged in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday."
"The ACLU filed the suit on behalf of the camera phone’s owner, Earl Staley Jr., a District resident, whose phone was taken by an officer just a day after the Police Department had issued a new directive prohibiting officers from seizing such devices or from interfering with citizens taking photos of police in public spaces." ... |
MN: Family: Hostage didn't have to die
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"Mark Eric Henderson Jr. saw his opportunity to escape from the Woodbury motel room where he and seven other people were being held hostage early Friday, and he took it."
"When the gunman who had been tormenting the group told Henderson to go to the window to see if any police were outside, Henderson took his chance and made a beeline for the door. The kidnapper opened fire at him in response but missed. As Henderson bolted out the door toward them, Woodbury police opened fire and cut him down."
"The 19-year-old St. Paul man died later that day at Regions Hospital in St. Paul." ... |
CO: The Kids Are Alright
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"With apologies to Who fans, there is another set of kids that are alright."
"The Scribe is the student-run newspaper at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Their editorial board published an unsigned editorial yesterday saying that the university went too far with their new regulations concerning concealed carry on campus." ... |
CO: Don’t let them take our 2nd Amendment rights
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"Gun-grabbers around the globe believe they have it made."
"And as much as some want you to think differently, the UN Gun Ban is proving harder to kill than a horror movie killer!"
"As you know, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama continue to work hand-in-glove with the UN to pass a new 'Small Arms Treaty.'"
"But the "Small Arms Treaty" is just one of the UN's countless blades poised to slash our Second Amendment rights." ... |
OH: University and Criminals Welcome Students
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"Each fall campus and the University District is awash with eager students, some new and some seasoned. Their arrival is a welcome event for everybody on campus and the University District. The University loves to see students come back. The businesses thrive in the presence of students. And the criminals see their victim pool restocked and react accordingly."
"Sunday afternoon, Ohio State University Police issued a public safety notice via email. In the notice OSUPD list three armed robberies in the past week, one attempted and one resulting in injuries both off campus and an armed robbery on campus. Officials were quick to downplay the incidents of crime." ... |
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