Feinstein wants more 'gun control' to make other countries like us better

As we discussed less than two weeks ago, such paragons of human rights as Iran and China have recently claimed that the right to keep and bear arms violates human rights. National Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea notes that Germany has just made its already draconian gun laws still more restrictive, quoting a Deutsche Welle ("German Wave") article that went to the unlikely stretch of conflating the new German law with outrage over the Sandy Hook Elementary School atrocity.

Germany, readers will remember, has a well-known history of the kind of "government monopoly on force" so beloved of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, and U.S. Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY). [More]

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Local police chief continues to reject 'gun control' for public safety

Completely absent from the preceding is any discussion of the Constitutional and moral problems inherent to restrictive gun laws, and Chief Fitch does not seem to have weighed in on those questions--not publicly, anyway. Still, he makes a good pragmatic case for rejecting "gun control" as an effective approach to "violence control." [More]

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Ex--'regulatory czar' uses slick sleight of hand to justify banning modern guns

Get that? He claims that the Heller decision recognizes Constitutional protection only for those arms "'in common use at the time' that the Second Amendment was ratified." That would mean that any firearm more advanced than flintlock pistols and muskets can be banned. It is also very clearly a badly flawed reading of Heller, which itself drew on the United States v. Miller decision (a decision reached, remember, without the benefit of any oral arguments--or even a written brief--for the defense) for the "common use" test. [More]

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Parents buying body armor for children, Sen. Durbin wants that outlawed

Sugarmann and his organization, by the way, also lament private citizens' ability to buy guns that can defeat body armor (by the way, the window for commenting on a BATFE proposal to ban more ammo as "armor piercing" closes in less than a week--here is how you can help). In other words, VPC supports the "government monopoly on force" so beloved of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (and Representative Jarrold Nadler), and also a "government monopoly on protection from violence."

Can anything reek more of evil tyranny than laws intended solely to require citizens to be more easily killed by the government? [More]

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'Insurrectionist' patches now available with Velcro backing

When I first offered the "CSGV-Designated 'Insurrectionist'" patches, I quickly came to realize that many would-be buyers would have been far more interested if the patches were Velcro-backed. Live and learn.

The good news is that I have sold enough of the "Treason Against Tyranny Is Fidelity To Liberty" patches to justify doing a second production run--this one with the Velcro backing. The "Constitutional Militia Ordnance Engineer" patch will probably never be offered with the Velcro backing--I just don't think the demand is there.

Anyway, the Velcro adds 20% to the price, so the per patch price for one or two is $6, $4.80 apiece for three or more (up to nine), and $3.60 for ten or more. You can still mix and match to get the volume discount. So one "Ordnance Engineer" patch, and two Velcro-backed "Treason Against Tyranny" patches would come $14.60 ($5 for the "Ordnance Engineer" plus 2x$4.80 for the two "Treason Against Tyranny").

Look good at your trial for "treason"!

Feinstein's 'assault weapon' ban would be tantamount to confiscation

Even without confiscation, Feinstein's bill is a new "Intolerable Act," and a direct violation of her oath of office. With it, it's an act of war against the American people. That is a war that she and her allies will lose. [More]

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Sarah Brady says 'time for debating is over'; she had better hope she is wrong

Every one of them had better hope they are wrong.

The reason for that is that there are two ways to end a debate about whether or not to trample a Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right. One is for the would-be violators to admit defeat--something the forcible citizen disarmament lobby is clearly not doing--seeming, in fact, to be much emboldened by their opportunity to exploit the murdered children of Newtown, Connecticut.

The only other way out of the debate is for talks to be abandoned as hopeless. When that happens, the only thing left is open conflict. Winston Churchill had something to say about that--something Brady and her friends should take to heart.

While Churchill's "war-war" would be devastating to everyone in America, it would likely be rather less devastating to those of us who, as Andrew Breitbart said, "have the guns." So tell us, Mrs. Brady, shall it be "war-war"? [More]

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Threat to private gun sales might be greater than threat to 'assault weapons'

Senator John McCain (R-AZ) has (in)famously pushed hard to close the "gun show loophole," (Rick Santorum is another supposedly "conservative Republican" who has advocated closing the mythical "loophole") and even as late as 2008, at the NRA convention, stated that he believed "an accurate, fair and instant background check at guns shows is a reasonable requirement." Even so, the NRA endorsed him for president mere months afterward.

As the Sipsey Street Irregulars' Mike Vanderboegh frequently states, "Not even King George the Third was so grasping" as to attempt to impose such intrusive control over private commerce between individuals. Even so, patriotic Americans--before the term "Americans" really had much meaning--fought and won a seemingly unwinnable war to get out from under his tyranny.

That kind of defiant spirit is desperately needed in America once again. [More]

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China, Iran join America's domestic enemies in calling for citizen disarmament

The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) is fond of accusing gun rights advocates of "treason" (and backing those accusations up with absolutely nothing). It is not gun rights advocates, though, who are vehemently opposed to that which is necessary to the security of a free state, nor is it we who are allied with oppressive governments that spit in the face of everything America stands for. So who are the "traitors," again? [More]

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St. Louis County police chief questions wisdom of schools as 'gun-free' zones

Fitch's proposal will certainly get no support from St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay (we have talked about him before), who has (utterly unsurprisingly) chosen to join the ranks of vultures exploiting the dead for political advantage, calling for a ban of so-called "assault weapons," and even urging President Obama to short out the Constitutionally mandated system of separation of powers, and do an end run around Congress with an executive order (something else we have recently discussed).

Chief Fitch's proposal is not particularly likely to go very far. There will be more school massacres--perhaps, someday, one in Missouri. Those who reject Fitch's measure will then need to come to grips with the fact that they helped make it possible. [More]

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Congressman wants murdered children 'exploited,' wants 'war' with NRA

Curiously, though, he seems not to have uttered a word of criticism of those now explicitly calling for the murder of NRA members and leadership. Or perhaps that is not so curious--he is the one calling for "war," after all, and war tends to involve killing.

It is somewhat puzzling that he seems to believe that he will be on the winning side. We do have the guns, after all--and the will to use them.

You want a "war," Nadler? Here's some free advice. [More]

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St. Louis paper suggests dropping 1 infringement of gun rights, pursuing another

Even so, the ban could not pass without all the "loopholes" that so upset the VPC, and the 10-year "sunset" provision that lifted the ban in 2004. Then, of course, there is the 1994 shellacking of Congressional Democrats, attributed by Bill Clinton himself largely to anger over the ban, according to his autobiography.

What Democrats (and Republicans, for that matter) who wish to ban effective militia-capable firearms need to remember is that getting voted out of office should be the least of their worries. When the people vote from the rooftops, the polls never close. [More]

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Chairman of Chicago City Council black caucus applauds demise of gun carry ban

Yep--the streets are too rife with gangs of brutal, predatory thugs for peaceable citizens to be permitted the means to effective self-defense.

Ethnic minorities tend to bear the brunt of forcible citizen disarmament laws, race-baiters' vile calumny that gun rights advocates are "the new KKK" notwithstanding. It is therefore gratifying to see the chairman of the black caucus supporting self-defense. If only his colleagues were as progressive as he. [More]

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Fight for concealed carry in Illinois just beginning

“If we need to change the law, let us at least craft a law that is very severely constrained and narrowly tailored so that we don’t invite guns out of control on each of our city’s streets,” Currie said. “I don’t want people out of control wandering the streets with guns that are out of control.”

It takes a special kind of control freak to say "out of control" three times over the course of two sentences.

Yesterday, the good guys landed a telling blow. We will need more of them. [More]

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'Plastic gun' ban would make even less sense now than in 1988

In other words, this ban would not make sense as an "airport security" measure even if "plastic gun" technology did exist. The only "sense" such a ban could make would be as a measure to ban every polymer-framed gun.

You do not have enough jackbooted thugs to enforce such a ban, Israel, or enough body bags to store them in after the attempt fails. [More]

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Been called an 'insurrectionist' by CSGV? A 'traitor'? Accused of 'treason'? Blocked on Twitter? Show your pride, with Insurrectionist Wear!

The Collectivists Supporting Government Violence (CSGV) accuse anyone who argues that the Second Amendment is intended to protect the people's means of resisting a tyrannical government, of being "insurrectionists" and "traitors," guilty of "treason."

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If ammo needs a 'sporting purpose,' slaying aspiring tyrants must be a 'sport'

The far more fundamental problem is the abomination of that agency being empowered to ban or permit guns and ammunition on the basis of "sporting purposes" in the first place--an idea borrowed from a particularly distasteful source. The Founding Fathers did not devote ten percent of the Bill of Rights to the protection of the right to keep and bear sporting goods.

If killing would-be tyrants and their hired muscle is a "sport," shouldn't we CSGV-designated "insurrectionists" have some hot cheerleaders prancing around us? [More]

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Printing guns isn't only way to bust 'gov. monopoly on force'

Liberty exists for only as long as the citizenry has the unstoppable power to enforce its will on the government. When the people can acquire the means of enforcing that will only through the relatively small number of manufacturers and the retail chain, the government can at any time it chooses choke off that supply.

Affordable, anonymous home manufacture of firearms is the only sure means of busting the "government monopoly on force." 3-D printing cam potentially play a large part in that. CNC technology can already.

As Mike Vanderboegh asks,"How many CNC machines do you think there are in the United States today?" That's a question any aspiring tyrants in government should probably ask themselves, as well. [More]

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Printed gun fails after 6 shots: 'Ma Deuce' wasn't built (or printed) in a day*

Mike Vanderboegh, perennial thorn in the sides of liberty-haters, observes that 3-D printing has yet to become anything approaching the most practical, effective means of arming oneself against the government's wishes. That is indisputably true, for the moment. 3-D printers' capabilities, though, will inevitably grow, while costs will inevitably fall. Meanwhile, creative innovators like those involved in the Wiki Weapon project will continue to find better ways to harness the technology that is available now.

Got monopoly (on force)? Not for long . . . [More]

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Whitlock's 'NRA is the new KKK' exhibits historical ignorance on epic scale

Yep--the NRA, with Congress of Racial Equality Chairman Roy Innis on the board of directors, is "the new KKK." UCLA Constitutional law professor Adam Winkler would presumably be very surprised to hear this, having noted that although the KKK has from its loathsome inception been involved in the gun rights/"gun control" debate, it did not take the side Whitlock claims it did. [More]

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CSGV again endorses government's 'nuclear option' against American citizens

In so passionately praising those who argue that the state must not be resisted by force of arms, because the state's "monopoly on force" (so beloved of the CSGV) includes nuclear force, CSGV is endorsing the government's nuclear deterrent--against American citizens, on American soil. Furthermore, since a deterrent that absolutely will not be used, no matter what, is obviously no deterrent at all--anyone condoning the deterrent is condoning its use, if the time is right.

The question thus becomes: under what circumstances does CSGV believe the time would be "right" for the U.S. government to unleash nuclear hell on the American people? [More]

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