Mission statement:

Armed and Safe is a gun rights advocacy blog, with the mission of debunking the "logic" of the enemies of the Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms.

I can be reached at 45superman@gmail.com.You can follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/45superman.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

GRE Round Up, Nov. 30

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Mike Stollenwerk/DC:


David Codrea/National:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

Major BATFE 'house cleaning' most pressing gun rights need

More importantly, though, we need stringent congressional oversight of the BATFE's activities. As it happens, former congressman Jim Lightfoot has recommended just that. Having once been chairman of the committee that approved the BATFE's budget, he has some knowledge of that agency, and what he knows about it ain't pretty. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.

Monday, November 29, 2010

GRE Round Up, Nov. 29

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:


David Codrea/National:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

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Living with 'prohibited person' no grounds for forcible citizen disarmament

As problematical as it is to designate a large segment of the population as undeserving of the exercise the right to keep and bear arms, the problem is brought into even sharper relief when one considers the fact that someone who has in no other respect been deemed unworthy of that right could be prosecuted for exercising it while living with (or being visited by?) a "prohibited person." [More]
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Friday, November 26, 2010

GRE Round Up, Nov. 26

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:


Dave Workman/Seattle:

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Armed St. Louisan gives would-be predator a pain in the rear

The young thug (thuglet?) was taken to the hospital, with non-life-threatening injuries. He also has a story that I suspect he would prefer not to share with his fellow residents in whatever facility he is sent to--such a story is unlikely to go far in burnishing one's tough-guy credentials. One would hope that in his trip to the store, he also picked up a bit of much needed (desperately needed, really) wisdom. That would suit him much better than the bag of potato chips he tried to steal. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

As American gun owners, we have much for which to give thanks

I have the privilege of calling some of today's heirs of that proud legacy friends, and all of them allies. I am secure in the knowledge that I will not be alone in refusing to ever surrender so much as a square inch of the moral and Constitutional high ground. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Happy Thanksgiving, folks.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Another blogroll addition

Last week, I added No Lawyers - Only Guns and Money to the blogroll.

Today, I'm adding An NC Gun Blog (No Lawyers is also a North Carolina blog--something about all those paratroopers must do something good for a state). Do yourself a favor, and check both of them out.

GRE Round Up, Nov. 24

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:


David Codrea/National:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

Brady Campaign and VPC not opposed to repealing Hughes Amendment?

Oddly, though, both those organizations also argue, when it suits them, that semi-automatic and fully-automatic firearms are essentially similar. In arguing for a ban of so-called "assault weapons," for example, the VPC claims that not only are semi-autos no less "deadly" than full-autos--they might be more so . . . [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Hope you give it a look, and tell a friend.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

GRE Round Up, Nov. 23

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:


David Codrea/National:

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St Louis #1 in violent crime--and 'authorities' disparage armed self-defense

There are some races in which it would be best to come in last. Unfortunately, in perhaps the best example of such a race, St. Louis leads the pack. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. By the way--this is something I just thought of, in reference to Slay's "warning" to Troupe about carry laws and City Hall:
I'm not saying that Mayor Slay's apparent hostility to the idea of Alderman Troupe being armed has anything to do with Troupe's race, but that wouldn't seem out of keeping with the attitudes of that group's founder.
Please give it a look, and tell a friend.

Monday, November 22, 2010

GRE Round Up, Nov. 22

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:


David Codrea/National:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

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College president lying about concealed carry, and media covering for him

This is, of course, utter hogwash (to be polite), as the Luby's Cafeteria massacre occurred in 1991--five years before the legalization of concealed carry in Texas, and the only guns present were in the hands of the deranged psychopath responsible for the slaughter. In fact, one of the prime movers in the effort that brought legal concealed carry to Texas in 1996 is Dr. Suzanna Gratia Hupp. She was at Luby's that horrible, fateful day, with her parents, and in compliance with Texas law at the time, had left her handgun behind, and was thus powerless to prevent the murder of both her parents. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Hope you stop by, and tell a friend.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Where there's a will, there's a way

Pretty amazing:



Makes me feel like a wuss, for giving up long guns when I became paraplegic (because they're awkward for someone confined to a wheelchair.

Friday, November 19, 2010

GRE Round Up, Nov. 19

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:


Dave Workman/Seattle:

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

National Ammo Day

Today is the day.

The "official" idea is to buy 100 rounds of centerfire ammo.

Me? I decided to multiply that by 25.

Why? Oh--I don't know . . .

In 1972, when the ATF separated from the Internal Revenue Service and became its own bureau within the Treasury Department, it had about 2,500 agents. At the time, the FBI had 8,700, the DEA 1,500 and the U.S. Marshals 1,900.

Thirty-eight years later, the FBI is up to 13,000, the DEA has more than tripled to 5,000, and there are 3,300 federal marshals.

The ATF, now a part of the Justice Department, remains at 2,500.
Just seemed like an appropriate observance of the nomination of Andrew Traver as head JBT.

These folks would be happy to help you in your observance, I'm sure.

Robert J. Spitzer's views on Second Amendment are far from 'distinguished'

Right from the beginning, he stakes out his opposition to the idea of a Constitutional guarantee of an individual right to keep and bear arms, with his "militia-based" qualifier--and then he declares the right "obsolete." And he's just getting started . . . [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please stop by, and tell a friend.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

GRE Round Up, Nov. 18

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:


Dave Workman/Seattle:

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Focus on the crime, not the gun

I understand the desire to silence any "soft on crime" accusations from the forcible citizen disarmament lobby, but doing that is simply not worth giving up an inch of ground on the "tough on Constitutional rights violation" front. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

GRE Round Up, Nov. 17

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Paul Valone/Charlotte:


Sean McClanahan/Des Moines:

David Codrea/National:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

Supreme Court agrees with the NRA--AGAINST gun rights

I realize, of course, that the NRA doesn't share my objection--executive vice president Wayne LaPierre has, in fact, criticized the federal justice system for not using such prosecutorial gambits more often . . . [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Blogroll addition

This deserves a post of its own. I have only recently become aware of the gun blog No Lawyers - Only Guns and Money.

Please consider making it a daily stop--I seriously doubt you'll regret it.

GRE Round Up, Nov. 16

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:


Dave Workman/Seattle:

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

Obama names anti-gun extremist as next BATFE head

The question now is whether or not the Senate will confirm him. The New York Times article says "he may face a confirmation fight" (and David Codrea points out that there had better be one). The recent Washington Post anti-gun series (discussed here) seems to imply that such a fight is inevitable: [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.

Monday, November 15, 2010

GRE Round Up, Nov. 15

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Mike Stollenwerk/DC:


David Codrea/National:

Sean Caranna/Seattle:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

And . . .

Join National Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea and the Sipsey Street Irregulars' Mike Vanderboegh tonight on the Watchmen Radio Network, discussing the BATFE's new threat to gun owners, the Airsoft fiasco, and more.

Listen live here at 8 PM EST.

'Gun control' gets a new poster boy

Virginia Tech shooting victim Colin Goddard has found that which innumerable medieval alchemists sought so desperately (and so unsuccessfully): a way to transmute lead to gold. The lead in the four bullets with which he was shot is now the gold of a paid position as "professional victim" for the Brady Campaign. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.

Friday, November 12, 2010

GRE Round Up, Nov. 12

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:


Dave Workman/Seattle:

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

Airsoft fiasco just latest example of why BATFE must be held accountable

While I agree with Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, in their contention that we need to "boot the ATF," I am realistic enough to realize it's not likely to happen any time soon. In the meantime, I urge gun owners to push Congress--now reinforced with many new Republicans who at least give lip service to "supporting the Second Amendment"--to pass H.R. 1923, the "Fairness in Firearms Testing Act." [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

GRE Round Up, Nov. 11

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:


David Codrea/National:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

Killing for 'gun control'?

Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but when, in a discussion about government violence, Horwitz brings up the "unbelievable amount of firepower on the streets" the officers are "faced with," it seems as if he's saying that law enforcement would kill fewer citizens, if gun laws were even more restrictive than they are now. In other words (while I'm going out on a limb here anyway), maybe if we banned so-called "assault weapons" (for example), fewer citizens would be gunned down by their supposed "protectors." [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

GRE Round Up, Nov. 10

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Anthony Bouchard/Cheyenne:


David Codrea/National:

Regular readers will know that I'm a big admirer of David's work, but the series that he has done this week is especially excellent. See parts 1 and 2.

Dave Workman/Seattle:

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

East St. Louisans taking responsibility for their own security

Well, Mayor--it seems some residents have a plan, too. Of course, one problem with the residents' plan is that they are attempting to implement it in Illinois, where armed self-defense in public is utterly prohibited. In fact, about a year ago, I wrote about Mayor Parks' response to the idea of lowly, non-"Only Ones" having the temerity to insist on having the means to defend themselves in public: [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Stop on by, and tell a friend.

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

GRE Round Up, Nov. 9

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Sean McClanahan/Des Moines:


John Longenecker/Los Angeles:

David Codrea/National:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

Liberty News/Safer Streets
  • Click here for the latest from Los Angeles GRE John Longenecker.

Brady Campaign's Dennis Henigan, and the ideology of 'gun control'

If gun rights advocacy is "ideological," it is no less so than "gun control" advocacy, and what's more, a pro-liberty ideology is hardly something to be ashamed of. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.

Friday, November 05, 2010

GRE Round Up, Nov. 5

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:


David Codrea/National:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

'Great election night' for Second Amendment?

All this is to say that if Mr. Kopel's optimism is warranted, then what I said Wednesday goes double--Tuesday's election results have put gun rights advocates in a stronger position, but we'll have to use that muscle, if we are to gain any benefit from it. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Take a look, tell a friend, make Sarah Brady cry?

Thursday, November 04, 2010

Wednesday, November 03, 2010

GRE Round Up, Nov. 3

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Paul Valone/Charlotte:


Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:

Sean Caranna/Orlando:

David Codrea/National:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

Liberty News/Safer Streets
  • Click here for the latest from Los Angeles GRE John Longenecker.

Time for Republicans to earn the support they got from gun owners

But we are not going to gratefully accept just fighting off more attacks on that which shall not be infringed--we will not be content with merely holding our ground. We want to see some gains--significant gains. There's nothing unrealistic about that. In the face of the Democrats' near hegemony in Congress, and the most anti-gun presidential administration in U.S. history, no new federal gun laws were inflicted on us, and gun rights even made some minor progress on the federal level (national park carry, Amtrak ban lifted). [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please check it out, and tell a friend.

Tuesday, November 02, 2010

GRE Round Up, Nov. 2

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:


Please welcome Sean Caranna/Orlando:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

The 'gun problem' is not in the Tea Party

Adam Winkler, who teaches Constitutional law at UCLA, claims in a Daily Beast article that Tea Party candidates' support of gun rights is "radical." [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Stop on by.

Monday, November 01, 2010

GRE Round Up, Nov. 1

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Paul Valone/Charlotte:


Anthony Bouchard/Cheyenne:

Mike Stollenwerk/DC:

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:

David Codrea/National:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

NYC's Bloomberg should call his group 'Mayors Against Armed Dark-Skinned People'

Herbert points out that in 575,000 "stops and frisks" last year, almost 505,000 of them turned up nothing illegal. Gun seizures are even more rare, with 99.85% of the searches not turning up an "illegal gun."

Even more damningly, Herbert cites respected Columbia University Law Professor Jeffrey Fagan, who describes the blatantly racist nature of this policy . . . [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.