Category Archives: Gun Rights

I hope not

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I’m nearly certan we are about to enter into an epic political battle for liberty, and gun rights in specific, starting next month. But just because we engage in battle does not mean we will lose. I hope this guy is wrong:

 

Our country is about to change many approaches as to how it thinks and does business and that includes its viewpoint towards guns. It is well-beyond time the canard about Second Amendment rights for citizens to bear arms be put to rest. This amendment was instituted centuries ago when militias were an important element in the defense of the U.S. The number of guns that exist in our country, governed by archaic laws and control, is absurd. No other western industrialized society allows for such a condition. When an organization such as the NRA lobbies for assault weapons to be owned by private citizens, what more does one need to know?

I would like to suggest that before spouting his bigoted beliefs about guns again he attempt to answer Just One Question.

Update: Check out the comments here. He made some clarifications.

Quote of the day–A. E. Newman

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Crime does not pay … as well as politics.


A. E. Newman
[Apparently Rod (Pocket Rocket) Blagojevich was trying to capitalize on this assertion.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Brian Doherty

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I also talked to a man named Joe Huffman about his use of guns. Huffman is more unusual in his dedication to the shooting arts. He runs a yearly event called Boomershoot in Idaho, at which people shoot hundreds of yards at four-inch square targets to set off high explosives.

It’s wild fun, of course–an intense experience most shooters don’t get to have. It attracts a lot of media attention for that reason. Like Hughes, when I pressed Huffman on the subject, he explained that more than just pleasure and amusement lies at the heart of his gun ownership. He thinks it’s important to cultivate arcane, high-skilled shooting arts in people he knows because a time may come, as the Founding Fathers knew, when such skills might be useful for more than just outré amusement.

Brian Doherty
Gun Control on Trial–Inside the Supreme Court Battle Over the Second Amendment
Copyright 2008
ISBN 978-1-933995-25-0
[I admire myself for my modesty.

See also Interview about the gun culture.

Numerous other gun bloggers should also be receiving a free copy of this book soon. You’re welcome.–Joe]

All sales final

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From the door on Wades Eastside Guns tonight:


HS Precision is watching

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They may be acting like they don’t care but they are watching the reaction. My blog entry showed up on page four at #45:




























































































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Sex toys

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In another gift to gun owners before leaving office the adminstration arrested Illinios Governor Rod (Pocket Rocket) Blagojevich today.


Now instead of restricting access to guns which he mixed up with a popular sex toy there is a chance he might well become a sex toy himself while visiting Club Fed. After working so hard for so many years to screw gun owners we can only hope he discovers what it’s like to be on the receiving end for a few years.

Their lies are catching up with them

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The company that owns the anti-gun Chicago Tribune, the anti-gun LA Times, 10 other newspapers, and 23 television stations is filing for bankruptcy. They have 13 billion in debt.


They will continue to operate but the future isn’t bright and I’m hoping they will at least fade away into obscurity.


There still remains the anti-gun New York Times and Washington Post but it’s a pretty good start.

Quote of the day–Bruce Schneier

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Of course the terrorists used Google Earth. They also used boats, and ate at restaurants. Don’t even get me started about the fact that they breathed air and drank water.


Bruce Schneier
December 8, 2008
Mumbai Terrorists Used Google Earth, Boats, Food
[Apparently some people are making sounds about how bad it is that Google Earth exists. Essentially, because something can be used for evil purposes the “government should do something”. It’s the same mindset that has lead them to restricting knives (for all the good it has done) and banning fire extinguishers in the UK. It’s not guns, knives, or Google Earth that are the problem yet some people continue to push forward with their brain set to “11” on the insanity scale. As near as I can tell there are few explanations:



  1. The people “in charge” are unwilling to use rational thought when addressing the situation.
  2. The people “in charge” are unable to use rational thought when addressing the situation.
  3. The people “in charge” have ulterior motives for increasing government control of society.
  4. Some combination of the above.

Regardless of the pathology these people have no business receiving a government paycheck let alone making decisions that adversely affect the lives of millions of people.-Joe]

Quote of the day–Joe Waldron

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Ah, yes, the three great lies:


The Mercedes is paid for;
the mortgage check is in the mail, and
“Lawful gun owners have nothing to fear.”

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1318968,obama-gun-sales-up-120808.article

Joe Waldron
8:44 AM, December 8, 2008
Washington state CCW email list

UK gets a lecture. Is anyone listening?

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Richard Mundy spells it out for them in the Times Online. I just wonder if anyone is listening:



The firearms massacres that have periodically caused shock and horror around the world have been dwarfed by the Mumbai shootings, in which a handful of gunmen left some 500 people killed or wounded.


For anybody who still believed in it, the Mumbai shootings exposed the myth of “gun control”. India had some of the strictest firearms laws in the world, going back to the Indian Arms Act of 1878, by which Britain had sought to prevent a recurrence of the Indian Mutiny.


The guns used in last week’s Bombay massacre were all “prohibited weapons” under Indian law, just as they are in Britain. In this country we have seen the irrelevance of such bans (handgun crime, for instance, doubled here within five years of the prohibition of legal pistol ownership), but the largely drug-related nature of most extreme violence here has left most of us with a sheltered awareness of the threat. We have not yet faced a determined and broad-based attack.


The Mumbai massacre also exposed the myth that arming the police force guarantees security. Sebastian D’Souza, a picture editor on the Mumbai Mirror who took some of the dramatic pictures of the assault on the Chhatrapati Shivaji railway station, was angered to find India’s armed police taking cover and apparently failing to engage the gunmen.


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In Britain we are not yet ready to recall the final liberty of the subject listed by William Blackstone in his Commentaries on the Laws of England as underpinning all others: “The right of having and using arms for self-preservation and defence.” We would still not be ready to do so were the Mumbai massacre to happen in London tomorrow.


“Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India,” Mahatma Gandhi said, “history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.” The Mumbai massacre is a bitter postscript to Gandhi’s comment. D’Souza now laments his own helplessness in the face of the killers: “I only wish I had had a gun rather than a camera.”



Quote of the day–William Earl Dungey

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So, since I know how to use machine guns, automatic weapons, submachine guns, rifles, pistols, explosives and other such – like I know how to find the proper place and time to defecate so as not to upset the public nor my friends and family – I don’t need the regulations, laws and infringement on my rights to be armed and dangerous. I also don’t advocate destruction of my community, government nor world to make it my way – but then I do think there are more good people in the world than bad – but the bad ones tell lies, cheat and dishonor their ancestors for personal gain and general stupidity. I remain, armed and dangerous, but then that is all in my mind and not in yours, you never think about me – just the old man in the back of the room.


William Earl Dungey
December 6, 2008
One issue people, arise and think…. it matters

Too little, too late

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Way too little:



To Our Valued Customers:


H-S Precision has received comments relating to individual testimonials in our 2008 catalog. All of the testimonials focused on the quality, accuracy and customer service provided by H-S Precision.


The management of H-S Precision did not intend to offend anyone or create any type of controversy. We are revising our 2009 catalog and removing all product testimonials.


Sincerely,

The Management of H-S Precision


As I said before McMillan makes excellent stocks and when I have another precision rifle built it will have anything but a H-S Precsion stock.


Via David.


Update: I agree with the Queen of Snark’s last line on the topic.

It’s about time

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We are still making progress even with the Obama adminstration gearing up for a take over. If we can only hold our ground for the next election or two we should be able to make progress again after the current set of bigots are thrown out of office.


Via the Triangle of Death:



Fairfax, Va. – The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), through the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, has announced the final amended version of its changes to rules on carrying of firearms in national parks and wildlife refuges. DOI’s move will restore the rights of law-abiding gun owners who wish to transport and carry firearms for lawful purposes on most DOI lands, and will make federal law consistent with the state law in which these public lands are located. The National Rifle Association (NRA) led the effort to amend the existing policy regarding the carrying and transportation of firearms on these federal lands.

Quote of the day–Cherry River Blog

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Can anyone here imagine a group of ten ordinary American police officers standing, cowed, behind building corners and simply watching such a slaughter? I doubt it. There may be tactical considerations, and some reasonable self-preservation making a degree of caution possible, but a two-man team with AKs and grenades would not last long even in a place like Los Angeles. Transplant that same situation into most of the rest of America, that beyond the deep-urban elites, and the conclusion of the attack would be swift, brutal, and total, and not in favor of the attackers.


Let those same terrorists figuratively come ashore in a place like Pennsylvania, Texas, or Wyoming, and the police would be arriving only in time to distribute body bags and take pictures.


Cherry River Blog
December 4, 2008
Mumbai
Via David Hardy.
[As pointed out in the comments to the post: one word, “Columbine”. But from both Columbine and 9/11 (flight 93) the police and private citizens learned valuable lessons. Sometimes fighting back NOW is the proper course of action. As long as people have the tools to fight I think the proper mindset will surface when the situation presents itself–even if it is somewhat repressed by modern society.–Joe]

Remington gets my approval

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David reports on what Remington says about HS Precision. Good on Remington. I hope things continue to go along the current path.


My only Remington gun is fitted to a HS Precision stock. Except for HS Precision thinking a government thug is a good endorsement I’m very pleased with the combination.

Quote of the day–Richard K. Willard

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Just as studies showing the dangers of prejudice and error in jury trials should not undermine a criminal defendant’s Sixth Amendment rights, neither should studies purporting to show the dangers of private gun ownership undermine law-abiding individuals’ Second Amendment rights.


Richard K. Willard
D.C. versus Heller–brief Amicus Curiae Of The Heartland Institute in support of respondent.

It makes perfect sense

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In formerly Great Britain they banned nearly all guns, they have essentially banned self defense, and they are talking about registering and banning knives. With that sort of mindset it follows perfectly well that they have banned fire extinguishers as well.


Via Ry.

Quote of the day–Ride Fast

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Why some choose to disarm in the face of a violent enemy is easily explained. Insanity. It’s really no different than fighting a fire by throwing away an extinguisher. Or treating an infection with a Chinese fire drill. It does look like they’re doing something, but I call it surrender.


There are times when negotiation is pointless and accommodation is only seen as weakness. Open carry of legally owned arms would go a long way toward throttling a criminal at the “thinking about it” stage of a violent crime.

Why the good people of Scotland and California continue to elect cowards that codify their fear into law is beyond me.


Ride Fast
December 2, 2008
Gun Control in Scotland
[My outrage is not easily translated into words and probably would be incriminating as well. I think I’m sexist because seeing injured females creates a visceral reaction unmatched by similar injuries to men. And you really don’t want to know what I’m thinking right now.–Joe]

Talking about HS Precision

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Tonight on Gun Nuts Radio will be a discussion about HS Precision and the “coveted Horiuchi endorsement“.


I was planning on being at the range at that time but I may delay my range session just to listen in and chat live.


I’ve been playing “catch up” with all the Gun Nut Radio shows. I listened to about eight hours of them on my Zune in the last few days. I have a few more hours to go before I’ve finished all of them but I”ve been impressed.


It’s interesting to see the development of the hosts over time. At the first things were a little “rough around the edges” but with Breda doing the research and Caleb being better prepared and more experienced it’s smoothed out a bunch. And even with the rough spots, except for a few times when they corrected themselves very quickly, I never caught any instances where they got their facts wrong.

Quote of the day–Edward Abbey

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Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Edward Abbey
[This is something the gun banners apparently cannot and/or will not understand. They refuse to answer Just One Question.–Joe]