Interesting news from California. A guy had some incinderary bullets (not cartridges, just the bullets). He was arrested. Each bullet is a seperate felony.

Read the comments to the post.

The Canadian kook Cukier is blabbering away again:

REGINA (CP) – The shooting deaths of two RCMP officers in northern Saskatchewan and other crimes like it in recent years show the need to maintain the federal registry for long-barrelled firearms, gun control advocates say.

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The deaths of constables Robin Cameron, 29, and Marc Bourdages, 26, have tugged at the heartstrings of people across the country and plunged the tiny farming community of Spiritwood, Sask., into a state of grief.

Police say the two young officers died after being shot by a man who fled the scene armed with either a hunting rifle or a shotgun on the night of July 7.

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Wendy Cukier, a professor of justice studies at Ryerson University and president of the Toronto-based Coalition for Gun Control, says it doesn’t make any sense to dismantle the long-gun registry.

Just how does the registry prevent or help solve this crime? Was the criminal so stupid he left the gun, registered in his name or someone that could connect to him, at the crime scene? Nope. The kooks thinking is that of a simpleton.

But Cukier says registration is a tool that allows police to trace a firearm back to its original owner.

It’s a good way to prevent someone who shouldn’t have a gun from buying one legally and it forces legal gun owners to be accountable by making sure their weapons don’t fall into the wrong hands, she argued.

It can also serve as an early warning tool for officers, letting them know that a routine situation could turn dangerous because guns may be involved.

“No system is perfect, but it reduces the chances that people will be killed,” Cukier said. “The system, however imperfect it might be, is better than nothing at all.”

How does a gun registry prevent stolen guns or smuggled guns (think recreational drug smuggling) from ending up in the hands of anyone that wants one? And no it is not “better than nothing at all”. It took between one and two billion dollars (Canadian) to implement the registry which could have been spent on police personnel and equipment.

I have Just One Question for Ms. Cukier.

Update: I realize I should have explained things just a bit better. Cukier claims this crime shows the need to maintain the registry but the registry wasn’t a factor in solving this crime. And furthermore the last time I had an update on the topic since Canada started registering handguns decades ago there has only been one crime that the registry did help solve.

An anti-gun bigot targeted the SKS again. Pretty much every thing I said before when the SKS was singled out for “being evil” is true this time as well. The new stuff is taken care of by Kevin.

I just love it when they say things like this:

..no matter how much training is involved, or who’s holding it, a gun is always dangerous. This guy, it seems, thought that because he was a police officer (and weapons instructor– which probably means NRA member), that he could be above the law. After all, he’s a cop, right? He would never do anything wrong, right?

Wrong. These fully automatic weapons are illegal for a reason, and it’s because they’re not safe in anyone’s hands, police officer, NRA member, weapons instructor, “law-abiding gun owner,” or otherwise.

These “guys” have no clue. They don’t realize just how far out of touch with the rest of the world, and reality, they are. Or else they really are our friends and are trying to further discredit the anti-gun movement.

I wish it were true–that it were legal to actually carry your personal protection tools with you when you visited the Washington D.C. area. But this US News and World Report article does have a point, we are making some progress. We still have a lot of work ahead of us and we can’t back of. We need to drive them into political extinction.

Packing heat on the hill

The NRA is riding high; gun control is a political loser

Oklahoma Rep. Dan Boren’s Washington office features his hunting trophies, including a stuffed wild turkey and a mounted deer head. The freshman congressman’s enthusiasm for firearms might always have stood out in the Democratic Party, but Boren now finds himself among an even more endangered species: Democrats willing to discuss guns at all.

“When we as Democrats are trying to reach out and speak to voters in the center of the country, I don’t think that we can support gun control,” he explains. After seeing Democrats hammered at the polls for voting to regulate guns, many of his colleagues seem to agree. As a result, a number of pro-gun measures moving through Congress will most likely face little opposition, as advocates of gun control increasingly find themselves marginalized and ignored.

Not long ago, it was the gun lobby on the defensive from the passage of the Brady bill in 1993 and the 1994 ban on “assault” weapons. But some say support for gun control cost Democrats the House in 1994, and former President Clinton credited it with Al Gore’s 2000 presidential defeat. “It’s different than it was in the early ’90s. Those were, in retrospect, the glory years,” says Paul Helmke, former GOP mayor of Fort Wayne, Ind., who recently took the reins of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

Meanwhile, with little fanfare, National Rifle Association backers in Congress allowed the assault weapons ban to expire in 2004 and last year shielded gun makers from being sued over crimes committed using their products. Since 1999, nine states have eased restrictions on concealed weapons, and NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre says the freedom of gun owners is in “the best shape it’s been in decades.”

I’m the webmaster for the Lewis Clark Wildlife Club. I finally got around to updating their website after months of essentially ignoring it. Probably the most interesting thing I updated is the training page. They have a carbine class coming up July 21 through the 23.

This “Gun Guy” must have been inspired not only by Orwell’s writing but by Gobel. From his daily email:

The gun lobby wants everything to be the fault of the trigger-pullers.  If someone shoots someone else, they only want one person to go to jail: the person who pulled the trigger.  They don’t want any blame placed on any of the other parts of the network of people who delivered the gun used in the murder to the trigger-puller.  They don’t want the illegal gun dealer who sold them that gun to have any responsibility.  They don’t want the legal gun dealer who sold that gun (likely through a straw purchase) to have any responsibility.  And they definitely don’t want the industry that made that gun to have any responsibility at all, even though they likely knew that gun would be used by a criminal (because the legal gun market is already flooded with firearms).

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And it’s a very important first step in realizing the truth about gun violence in America:  It’s not just the fault of the trigger-puller.  We all are involved in a gun culture that allows children to shoot up schools, and criminals to own handguns by the case.  If we really want to stop the violence, we’re all going to have to take responsibility.

The manufacture should “take responsibility”? Why not the provider of the steel for the gun? Or the miner of the iron ore?

Mental problems, that’s the only way I can make sense of these type of bigots.

I suspect it was a troll trying to fly just under the radar that brought it up but still it was entertaining to see the DU people squirm. It appears the best they could come up with to Just One Question was this:

The author goes on to say:

There are three possible answers to this question.

1. “I don’t know.” In which case my response is, “Come back to the debate when you can answer ‘Yes’ or ‘No’.”

2. “No.” In which case my response is, “Then you should be advocating the repeal of ALL gun control laws and I don’t want to hear a single anti-freedom word from you on this topic again.”

3. “Yes and here is my demonstration.”

Well, he’s wrong. There is another answer — my answer, the only good answer. And it is:

What colour is orange:
True or False?

If he really claims not to get it, then he can be given a clue: ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.

It’s better than what I expected. As Ry said in another situation, “Ah, the voice of reason.”

This is one of those web pages you bookmark for later use: Gun Control: AP Blames NRA for Violent Crime

Yesterday I bumped into a friend in the parking lot.  We chatted for a few minutes and brought each other up to speed and discussed getting together with our wifes for lunch sometime. But the most interesting then he had to tell me was the almost mind boggling bigotry he ran into in a recent job interview.

My friend used to own a gun range and after ending up on the losing end of a lease dispute decided to go back into software development rather than reopen his gun range some place else. Of course the eight or ten years running the gun range shows up either on his resume or in any discussion about that gap in his employment history. He had been through several one-on-one interviews and was being recommended as a hire by them. Then he was interviewed by one last person.

For 40 minutes he was peppered with questions like:

• Do you have a problem anger managment?
• What would you do if you didn’t get the promotion you expected?

He didn’t get the job.

We, gun owners, are being treated like the gays of 20 years ago and the blacks of 60 years ago.