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Out sexual predators, not concealed carriers
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"It seems odd to me, even un-American, how citizens of this great nation can have such conflicting views on subjects that affect all of us. A gentleman earns a permit to carry a concealed firearm, part of his Second Amendment rights, while a lady in the same town expresses her low opinion of the practice openly and in public, her rights also guaranteed under the First Amendment to our Constitution � and one right comes to undermine the execution of the other?"
"Recently in Rochester, Minnesota, Mathew Halleck, a father of two, was seen walking his children to school. The issue was under his shirt � mostly � a concealed pistol a passersby could see barely protruding from his waistband." ... |
A Gun Ownership Primer, Part 2: Does Evil Exist?
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�Last week�s installment of this series asked a fundamental question: Do human beings have an unalienable right to self- defense? There is no question the founding fathers of our constitutional, representative republic believed they do, and they acknowledged that right in the Second Amendment. This was affirmed in the Supreme Court�s decisions recognizing, for the first time in American history, that right: the Heller decision, and the McDonald decision, which applied the right to the states.�
�It is now time to consider a second, related question: DOES EVIL EXIST?�
�The answer to this question represents a fundamental dividing line between conservatives and socialists ..." ... |
Bill Whittle: Your Second Amendment [Video with Transcript]
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"Tired of listening to Progressives tell you that the Second Amendment only allows people in militias to keep and bear arms? Or that the Founders would have never intended the Second Amendment to apply to modern weapons? In his latest FIREWALL Bill recounts a remarkable conversation about the precise wording of the Second Amendment, and sums up why the document says what it means and means what it says." |
Gun Review: BUL M-5 Commander 1911 (9mm)
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"There has been a recent surge in firearms-related gear coming out of Israel. Starting with our readers� choice as the best new rifle of 2013 (the Tavor) and continuing with some of Robert�s favorite people [insert Israeli supermodel of the day here], Israel has really been pumping out good looking and finely functioning exports lately. One of the latest Israeli products to hit the shores of the United States is the BUL series of handguns, and I was given a 9mm Commander version to test out . . ." ... |
Are our children safe?
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� �My current favorite [irony] is the on-going revelation that adults who pursue careers in government agencies such as the Congress and the IRS; in litigation in state and federal courts; and in crews on commercial airlines, for example, are safer than our children � in pre-schools; elementary schools; middle schools; high schools and universities. ...�
�Or consider the following ... over the 30,000 years of human history, the present era is safer than at any time in the past. But, looking at shorter, more recent periods of time, we are in a period of increasing violence. There are over 325 million guns in America ... Assault weapons with huge caches of bullets are readily available. With increasing frequency they are being used to commit violent acts.� � |
Paul Begala On God, Guns And The Government
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� �Begala�s invoking of George Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion is rich. Only someone like him could ignore the fact that the entire continental congress in effect turned their guns on their own government, and commissioned George Washington as general to lead the effort.�
�But Begala quickly turns his attention away from the founding fathers to examples of things that would cause a man to turn a weapon on his own government. Socialized medicine? Nope. Racism and Jim Crow laws? Nope. But how far does this go Paul? Where would you draw the line?� � |
Judge Napolitano: An armed citizenry is the best way to stop lone wolf terrorists (video available)
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"With President Obama and other U.S. officials expressing concern about so-called �lone wolf� terrorist attacks, and in light of the recent shooting in Ottawa along with a hatchet-wielding terrorist in New York City, Judge Andrew Napolitano has a rather simple solution."
"The best way to stop 'lone wolf' terror attacks is through 'an armed citizenry.'"
"Napolitano was discussing the heroism of Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers, who shot the gunman that had already killed reservist Cpl. Nathan Cirillo ... and had stormed the Canadian Parliament. Napolitano explained that had it not been for his status as a retired member of the [RCMP], Vickers would not have been allowed to carry a gun under Canadian law." ... |
School Shootings: The Patton Ethos
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"Look in the dictionary as of October 25, 2014 under 'courage,' and should find a photo of Megan Silberberger. I include no photo of Silberberger out of respect for her dedication to her students and her selflessness, and to spare her unnecessary harassment. Silberberger is a first-year social studies teacher at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Marysville, Washington. When a freshman student�who would like his name to be mentioned here�shot and killed one student and badly wounded four others, on Friday, October 24, 2014, he stopped to reload. A student witness described her actions:" ... |
NC: Concealed Carry Ban At NC State Fair Left Two Men Defenseless Against Armed Robbers
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"Two men leaving the North Carolina State Fair were robbed at gunpoint last night as they left the North Carolina State Fair in Raleigh, NC.""Police say the victims were walking to their vehicles after returning from the North Carolina State Fair around 11:30 p.m. when the armed men approached them and stole their wallets. No one was injured." ... "Because of the arbitrary actions of North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler these men had no other options than to hand over their wallets to the armed robbers."
"Troxler denied citizens the right to carry concealed weapons at the North Carolina State Fair despite lacking the legal authority to do so." ... |
WA: Another newspaper turns against law enforcement on gun initiative
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�The Kitsap Sun today joins a lineup of Washington State newspapers whose editorial boards have sided against a growing number of county sheriffs, thousands of law enforcement professionals and legions of law-abiding citizens by supporting Initiative 594, which another newspaper, the Longview Daily News, is recommending be rejected.�
�The Daily News is also recommending a �No� vote on Initiative 591, which is supported by law enforcement groups, but only because � perhaps to the shock of other newspaper editorial writers � �We�re also comfortable with Washington�s current level of gun controls and the idea that they were set and approved by Washingtonians. We wouldn�t want to see them loosened or tightened by a vote in Congress.�� � |
Gun restraining orders are ripe for abuse
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�Last May, [name redacted] stabbed three men to death in his apartment. [Redacted] then struck four victims with his BMW and fatally shot three more. Investigating [Redacted]�s attacks, detectives removed a knife, a hammer and two machetes from his home, and secured his BMW.�
�[Redacted]'s heinous crimes didn't stimulate a call for a knife violence restraining order, so relatives could get police to confiscate knives from mentally unstable family members. Or a BMW violence restraining order.�
�Why would they?�
�You can't �psycho-killer-proof� or �suicide-proof� a house, workplace or neighborhood. Common sense says removing dangerously mentally ill people from society is the best � and safest � course of action.� ... |
Who would fight disarming the mentally ill?
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�Family members know better than anyone when someone is dangerously mentally ill, but that hasn't helped them stop mass shootings by deranged gunmen in Santa Barbara and Tucson or at Virginia Tech.�
�The Santa Barbara incident last May was particularly galling. [Name redacted]'s parents urgently warned authorities that their son seemed seriously disturbed, but police who briefly questioned the homicidal 22-year-old didn't see enough evidence to lock him up or search his apartment.�
�Shortly afterward, [Redacted] stabbed three people to death and then shot several more, killing three and then himself.� � |
Gun Tweet of the Day: What�s The Second Amendment For, Exactly? Edition
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�I don�t share the general view that the above Tweet indicates that left-leaning political pundit Kirsten Powers� is an ignorant slut (term used as a humorous reference to the Saturday Night Live sketch). Powers knows that the founders didn�t enact the Second Amendment to protect hunters from starvation. Or target shooters from boredom. Or even law-abiding citizens from criminal predation. She knows that the 2A is Americans� bulwark against government tyranny. She just finds it, well, amazing! Amazing that . . .� � |
RI: Attorney General Kilmartin�s camp faults Republican opponent Hodgson on NRA survey
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"Democratic incumbent Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin�s camp on Monday called on his Republican opponent, state Sen. Dawson T. Hodgson, to release his responses to a National Rifle Association survey."
"The request came after Hodgson acknowledged he misspoke at a televised debate when he said he had not filled out the 2014 National Rifle Association-Political Victory Fund candidate questionnaire. The organization gave Hodgson an A rating for voting 'consistently against anti-gun legislation as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee'. Kilmartin, a retired Pawtucket police captain, received an F." ... |
CT: Gun Rights Advocates Push "Get Out the Vote" Efforts (video available)
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"Members of the Connecticut Citizens Defense League said on the steps of the Connecticut Capitol on Monday that voters can't stay home next week."
"'Our fight is to make sure that we as patriots at least get out to cast that vote,' said Sean Maloney, a pro-Second Amendment activist from Ohio. 'At least we do the right thing and exercise the rights that have been given to us.'"
"The CCDL also welcomed an activist who helped to organize the Colorado recall effort last year that led to several major ousters from the Colorado Legislature." ... |
CT: Second Amendment Activists Call On Gun Owners To �Recall� Malloy
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"Connecticut Second Amendment advocates are looking to replicate the success of a 2013 recall campaign in Colorado that ousted two state lawmakers. Its organizer appeared in Hartford Monday to rally gun owners against Gov. Dannel P. Malloy."
"Members of the Connecticut Citizens Defense League, a gun rights group that boasts nearly 16,000 members, gathered on the steps of the state Capitol Monday for a press conference calling on supporters to turn out to the polls during next week�s election." ... |
NY: NY-27 Candidate O�Donnell: S.C.O.P.E. is a Conservative Party Front
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�Budd Shroeder is the head of �Shooters Committee on Political Education�. SCOPE is chartered as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit issues advocacy organization. It states in its own �about� statement:��While SCOPE role is focused primarily on the political process, it is an issues oriented organization. It does not align itself with any political party nor does it endorse any candidates for elective office. Our function is to counter assaults on the right of firearms ownership. This entails providing legislators and executives with timely and accurate information to support sound decisions.� �The notion that SCOPE is not aligned with any political party is utter and unadulterated nonsense. ...� � |
NY: SAFE Act opponents keep the heat on
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"Supporters of the Second Amendment gathered in Batavia Saturday for a rally to get out the vote."
"'Repeal the SAFE Act. It made me a criminal,' Le Roy resident Mike Miggins said."
"Miggins was one of about 60 people who attended Saturday�s event, conducted in front of State Police Troop A on Saile Drive in Batavia. The demonstration was sponsored by the gun rights group, Shooters Committee on Political Education."
"Miggins, a retired village of Le Roy police officer, said he had to get rid of three 15-round ammunition clips[sic] that are now illegal to possess, under the SAFE Act." � |
It May Be Legal to Carry a Handgun in The Nation's Capitol By Christmas
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"Charles Nichols at California Right To Carry says Senior Federal District Court judge Frederick J. Scullin, Jr., denied a motion made by lawyers for the District of Columbia to reconsider his earlier decision striking down the city's ban on carrying handguns in public, yesterday, regardless of whether the handguns were carried openly or concealed."
"One would have thought that the Plaintiffs in that case would have been overjoyed at the result but they were not. One of the Plaintiffs in the case is the Second Amendment Foundation headed by Alan Gottlieb." ... |
Police Officers' Suing The DOJ For Violating Their 'Right' To Deploy Force Without Restrictions Shot Down By Federal Judge
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�The 125 members of the Seattle Police Department who sued the Dept. of Justice for violating their 'right' to deploy force on their own terms (in order to 'make it through work safely') have received their answer from a federal district court judge. In short, the response is, 'You're wrong,' along with the addendum, 'and please stop asking.'""A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit brought by more than 100 Seattle police officers who said new guidelines on using force jeopardized their safety."
"The officers' arguments were unsupported by the Constitution or case law, Chief U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman said in an opinion issued Monday." ... |
NY: Empire State�s Scope Sues for Safe Act Documents
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�New York gun rights enthusiasts file lawsuit against the state seeking answers to a whole list of questions about the passage, implementation, and enforcement of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo�s signature gun control law � the New York SAFE Act.�
��There is no rational basis for the governor and the state police to be withholding such basic information,� said Webster-based attorney and policy analyst, Paloma A. Capanna.�
�She is representing Shooters Committee On Political Education, Bill Robinson, and Gun Owners of America in their Article 78 petition to Albany County Supreme Court to compel the state to produce responses to a combined-59 freedom of information law requests.� � |
Attention Gun Owner: Your Government Considers You to Be a Potential Terrorist
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y the federal government and various state governments to cast suspicion on law-abiding gun owners."
"These efforts often include claims that gun owners should be viewed with suspicion, as potential criminals, and even as potential terrorists. Such claims have been included in government reports issued by the U.S. [DHS], by state police agencies, and by other government entities. Now, these efforts are being ramped up by a new initiative ... Because of this new development, we thought it timely to release this report to the American people, documenting governmental contempt for the Second Amendment, and the many instances where lawful gun owners are viewed as potential terrorists." ... |
Frank Serpico: The Police Are Still Out of Control
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... "... And the reason I�m speaking out now is that, tragically, too little has really changed since the Knapp Commission ... Led by Whitman Knapp, a tenacious federal judge, the commission for at least a brief moment in time supplied what has always been needed in policing: outside accountability. ..."
"And today the Blue Wall of Silence endures in towns and cities across America. Whistleblowers in police departments ... are still turned into permanent pariahs. The complaint I continue to hear is that when they try to bring injustice to light they are told by government officials: 'We can�t afford a scandal; it would undermine public confidence in our police.' That confidence, I dare say, is already seriously undermined." ... |
Yardarm: Real-Time Firearms Tracking and Alert System, Coming to a Police Station Near You
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"When I worked as an EMT in Fairfax, the radios we were issued had a big orange button on the top that we were never supposed to press. Unless we really needed it. That button was our lifeline � each radio was assigned to a specific person in a specific unit, and along with the GPS in the rig was the 'bat-signal' to send every available police officer and fire & rescue unit to our location ASAP. I only needed to press it once in my career there, and I was thankful that it not only worked as advertised but also that it didn�t require me to do any thinking on my part in the heat of the moment. A new device from a company named Yardarm is seeking to do the same thing, but with guns . . ." ... |
WV: Ex-W.Va. sheriff�s deputy charged with embezzling
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"A former Berkeley County sheriff�s deputy has been indicted on charges of embezzling guns."
"A Berkeley County grand jury charged Dennis E. Streets with felony embezzlement and felony fraudulent scheme Wednesday. According to media reports, the indictment accuses Streets of taking more than $5,000 worth of guns from the Berkeley County Sheriff�s Office and selling them to a Martinsburg gun shop." ... |
Massad Ayoob: Chicks Rule, Redux
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�I�m a father of daughters and have had the privilege of training multiple female shooting champions, including both of those daughters who each won national titles while still in their teens. I�ve also spoken in court for some forty female law enforcement officers who were fired for failure to qualify with handguns that weren�t the right size for them (and which they sometimes weren�t trained with correctly), when I was able to confirm that proper training and suitable police weapons that DID fit them allowed them to qualify just fine. So, it pleases this old testosterone creature when the estrogen tribe kicks butt with guns.� � |
If You Shoot It, They Will Come
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�At SHOT Show this year, I heard the craziest idea I�d ever heard in my life: someone was going to host a women�s only 3-gun match, and they fully expected to sell out the 200 slots to the match. I laughed because at the time, I could name literally less than 20 women who shoot 3-gun. The concept sounded nice to me, but I never believed they�d get 200 women to sign up. Well, match director Lisa Marie Judy and co-director Kay Miculek have gone and proved me wrong � and I�m thrilled about it! Next weekend is the Brownell�s Lady 3-Gun ProAm in Covington, GA, where a sold-out match will be the first-ever women�s only event in the history of 3-gun . . .� � |
VA: Residents plan to speak up about Botetourt Noise Ordinance at supervisors meeting
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"'Serenity, peace and tranquility are what people expect in neighborhoods,' said Barbara Humbert, whose property backs into the property that she says is rented by Jesse Breeden, a Botetourt resident who has called attention to what he perceives as a threat to gun rights and his Second Amendment rights."
"She continued, 'There comes a time that Botetourt County must decide what direction it is going and whether or not populated areas and subdivisions are subjected to hours of rifle and semiautomatic rifle fire around those areas. Will we respect the urban populated areas or return to rural?'"
"Humbert developed the family farm into a comely subdivision located in the western area of Troutville addresses. ..." ... |
AZ: Phoenix Puts �Buy-back� Guns On the Auction Block. Get Some!
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"Now that more cities and states are enacting laws preventing 'buy back' and other firearms that have found their way into the hands of public servants from being destroyed, gunophiles have the opportunity to pick up previously-loved heaters at potentially favorable prices. Reader LA from AZ forwarded a notice listing over 400 firearms being auctioned off in the Grand Canyon State starting next week. Make the jump to see the full list . . ." ... |
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