That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Starbucks, to the chagrin of the anti-self-defense groups, even now continues to honor customers' choice to carry the means to effectively defend themselves and their families. That should be enough to earn them the right to make their own choice to stay out of a debate that makes no sense for them to join. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.As this column has pointed out before, those advocating disarmament of veterans who seek mental health treatment seem to be unaware of a probable consequence of such a move:
With the growing efforts to revoke gun rights of people who are suffering from mental health issues, anyone who deeply values the right to an effective means to defend his life, family, and liberty is being given a strong disincentive from seeking the help he needs. This would seem an excellent recipe for causing exactly the kinds of tragedies we seek to avert.Then again, when one considers the fact that the other side depends on high-profile shootings with high body counts, in order to fuel their agenda, perhaps they are perfectly aware of where this will lead. Perhaps that's not a bug, but a feature. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.In the end, though, the anti-Second Amendment jihadists are unlikely to be too embarrassed by their AR-15 misfire. As we discussed yesterday, after all, they are not at all above deliberately lying for their agenda, so they're hardly likely to be very troubled about having pushed a false narrative before they'd realized it was false. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.None of this, by the way, should be interpreted as an argument that a gun ban that did only target "military style" firearms, while exempting guns on which the government has bestowed the privileged status of "suitable for sporting purposes," would be any less heinous than this abomination. This column has long argued that the right to keep and bear arms does not constitute ten percent of the Bill of Rights because the Founding Fathers were terribly concerned about protecting the right to own sporting goods-- not, at least, unless a new and very different sport become popular.
The idea instead is to illustrate how blatantly the other side lies about its eventual intentions, and in their denial of a slippery slope. The only guns they do not think are "too dangerous" are those in the hands of the government's hired muscle. That's a truly epic level of historical illiteracy. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Don't be surprised if soon, a new federal bill to ban bump fire stocks, and perhaps belt-fed semi-automatic rifles (which often fall outside regulation under many magazine bans, depending on how the ban is worded) is introduced, citing this very rifle. It would hardly be surprising if CNN ran this story at the request of Sen. Feinstein or a like-minded anti-gun jihadist, to "prep the battle field"--setting up public support for a ban. Or perhaps Feinstein is ambitious enough to hope that this development is sufficient to revive S. 150, which would ban bump fire stocks, belt-fed semi-automatics, and so-called "assault weapons."
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In the meantime, if any reader has any suggestions as to how one might set up a Bumpski-equipped Vepr-12 shotgun for belt-feeding (without losing the magazine-feeding capability, and without costing thousands of dollars), St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner would love to hear from you. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.In other words, these "leaders" decided to lead the state into continued docile servility to the federal government and its unconstitutional infringements on that which shall not be infringed. Both Richard and Dempsey claimed to be concerned about the Constitutionality of the bill, and how it could affect police and prosecutors (wasn't that kinda the point?). That begs the question, though, of why they both voted for the bill back in May.
Or perhaps not. Perhaps it's far less important to know why they turned Quisling than it is to simply remove them from the position of being able to betray the rights of Missourians. You don't, after all, ask a rattlesnake why it's trying to bite you--you simply kill it, so its biting days are done. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.National Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea correctly notes that gun rights advocates now know the power they can wield in the form of old-fashioned grassroots activism. A perhaps just as important lesson has been sent to, and hopefully received by, every politician who might be tempted to vote against the people's Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms: we will come for you, and even Bloomberg may not have enough millions to save you.
And remember, if you go far enough, there are fates far worse than ignominious electoral defeat. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Chicago has an even longer, harder slog out from under the thumb of forcible citizen disarmament tyranny than the rest of the state does. Good to see that the process has started. It's vital--for the children. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Even more fundamentally than that, of course, as National Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea so succinctly explains, "But you go right ahead, Sparky, rewrite things to your heart's content. Now all you've got you do is enforce it." Again, good luck with that. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.It should shock no one that the UN is now asserting authority over self-defense laws in the United States. The UN, after all, has long maintained that there is no fundamental human right to self-defense. That's right--according to the UN, defending your life against a would-be killer might itself be a violation of his human rights. This, remember, is the agency behind the arms treaty that Obama will be signing within days. Just whose side is he on? [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.This, remember, from the executive director of a group that only changed its name from the "Coalition to Ban Handguns" when its leadership decided that they also wanted to ban so-called "assault weapons," too. CSGV rarely talks anymore about banning handguns, but they never renounced that position, either. If Virginia's booming gun sales (pun only slightly intended) are anywhere in line with those in the rest of the country--and no one has presented evidence that they are not--it is precisely handguns and so-called "assault weapons" that are leading the way in the heavy sales volume. But now, suddenly, none of that matters--only background checks.
Once more, "gun control" is exposed as an agenda that depends on lies and twisted (il)logic for its very survival. It's well past time to take it off life support. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Of course the Illinois legislature could do the ISP (not to mention the apocalyptically ruinous state budget) an enormous favor, and treat the right to keep and bear arms as if it were a right Constitutionally mandated to not be infringed, and thus not subject to the byzantine system of legal hoops current law inflicts on it. And of course they will not.
Not, at least, until the people of Illinois give them no choice. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.These guns belong to the American people. Obama's import ban by fiat had might as well be a confiscation, not just of guns, but of our history--and of skills that we will some dark day need to preserve our nation and our lives. He must be stopped, one way or another. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Besides, is anyone seriously trying to argue that the right to effective fighting arms is less fundamental than the right to vote? What would you rather say to the government hired gun coming to haul you off to the gulag--"Stop, or I won't vote for your boss," or "Stop, or I'll shoot your testicles off'?" Is Clinton also unaware that, "When democracy turns to tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote"? That's a dangerous lapse. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Gun rights advocates and marijuana reform activists are not commonly regarded as natural allies, but in this case, they are fighting the same battle--the battle against a federal government that has usurped power to regulate things over which it has no legitimate authority. Hang together . . . [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.The U.S. gun culture "is corrupting the world?" Perhaps in the viewpoint of one who speaks for the predators, including those who are "wolves in gangbangers' clothing." [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.In the final analysis, though, how much more reprehensible can murderers and rapists be, than those who seek to provide them with a pool of helpless victims? [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.This is just the latest example of this administration's evident intent to use the U.S. military against its political enemies among the U.S. citizenry, but perhaps the first time it has acknowledged seeing the Framers of the Constitution as the ideological forebears of today's "extremists" whom they intend to be prepared to kill. The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence must be thrilled.
Has the case for the vital importance of the Oath Keepers ever been stronger? [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Jackson and Sharpton are, of course, in addition to being professional race hustlers, also long-time, vocal advocates for every forcible citizen disarmament law ever proposed. As such, they often meet with the gun rights advocates' reply of "Molon labe." Perhaps Jackson will benefit from a bit of clarification, to better match his intellectual capacity: "Molon labe :-(." [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.So, in summary, a bill that would have required that sex offender registration fees be used for programs intended to combat sex crimes, has instead morphed into a law that A) makes potential criminals of theft victims; B) sort of "requires" someone selling a gun to check with the state police on the validity of the prospective buyer's FOID card, but imposes no penalties for not doing so--making the "law" more akin to a suggestion; and C) makes it easier for cops with a mental illness history to have their gun rights restored than is the case for the rest of us.
The Chicago Tribune tells us that according to Illinois State Police Director Hiram Grau, this "makes perfect sense." Alrighty, then. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.In the final analysis, as bad as eviction--and possible homelessness--would be, it's far from the worst possible consequence of relying on 911 for one's personal security. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.If, in other words, New Jersey's anti-gun legislators had been content to "merely" ban future sales of the rifles, and impose draconian regulation and registration of "grandfathered" .50 calibers, Christie would have cheerfully signed it.
Christie is hardly any less an anti-gun extremist than those who are excoriating him over the veto. He simply finds it politically expedient to hide it marginally better, and their condemnation of him helps him in that effort. One cannot help but wonder if that is the idea. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.This is one of the greatest differences between those of us who defend the Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms, and those who would rob us of it if they could. We see the slaughter of innocents as unmitigated evil, without a single redeeming quality.
They, on the other hand, see it as opportunity--they need the dead children, the puddles of blood, in order to win support for forcible citizen disarmament. That disarmament, of course, renders still more people defenseless. From among them will come the next "opportunity."
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.He concludes with the claim that the ruling denies New Yorkers the "freedom from fear." He remains oddly silent about the fear of armed government goons empowered to grope you, on the basis of your skin color, send you to prison if they catch you with the means to defend your life, and to kill you if you "lift a finger" against their thuggery.
A decent person cannot help but cling to the fervent hope that there will one day be a reckoning for all the evils in the world. Let us further hope that this reckoning will extend to the cheerleaders for those evils. Ready for the reckoning, Podhoretz? [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Perhaps most egregiously, one defense of the policy is that the objective is not really to catch criminals in the act (of carrying contraband--specifically guns). The idea behind stopping hundreds of thousands of blacks and Hispanics per year--the vast majority of them innocent--is to instill fear in every member of these ethnic groups--fear that they will be stopped-and-frisked, so they had better obey New York's mandated defenselessness edicts.
Some might call that terrorism. It's probably too much to ask that Bloomberg and Kelly be charged for it, and even more excessively optimistic to hope that they resist arrest, and face the same consequences for such resistance as the NYPD likes to impose. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Perhaps the most alarming aspect of this is that the anti-gun bills Christie has not signed (yet) are being described as the "controversial" ones--meaning, presumably, that the 10 he has signed, including the "suspected terrorist" gun ban, are apparently perceived to be unquestionably appropriate infringements upon that which shall not be infringed.
Then again, the Persians probably didn't expect the capture of Thermopylae to be as "controversial" as it turned out to be, either. Molon labe. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.If Christie does veto A 3659, he will still be a forcible citizen disarmament zealot; an anti-gun jihadist. It would illustrate, though, that he is at least politically savvy enough to make some effort to hide his extremist hatred of an armed citizenry. Let us hope that voters have learned about the folly of empowering candidates who try to disguise their ideology until after the election.
The next step is for him to learn that electoral defeat is far from the worst thing that can happen to an oath-breaking public official. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.The Colorado Springs Police Department seems to have concluded that the ability to shoot accurately in a crisis (and any gun fight is certainly a crisis) is more conducive to safety than a "feature" designed to enable consequence-free careless gun handling (and, incidentally, render the gun useless during a magazine change, or when the magazine is released during a struggle for the gun).
Will "gun safety" groups forgive them? [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Newman's Huffington Post biography states that he challenged Missouri's concealed carry law (with a notable lack of success, obviously, but was still "named one of the top 10 lawyers in the state that year for that effort"), and that "[f]or the past 15 years he has lectured throughout Missouri about the Second Amendment." Between that and his law school position, that's a whole lot of lying in service to the forcible citizen disarmament agenda. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Then again, since Waxman apparently wants to ban any chunk of metal (or plastic) from which a firearm receiver could be fashioned, an expansion of what constitutes a banned "assault weapon" is arguably small potatoes. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.This is a punitive tax on gun ownership--a transparent attempt to thin the ranks of legal gun owners by rendering legal gun ownership too expensive for many. As such, it is directly analogous to the odious poll taxes of the Reconstruction Era, in that it puts legal exercise of this fundamental human right out of reach of the poor--who are not only disproportionately comprised of ethnic minorities, but also disproportionately likely to live in neighborhoods where armed self-defense is likely to be necessary.
Harvey's proposal does have one thing going for it. During the reign of an administration that has shown both its rabid hostility to an armed citizenry, and an enthusiastic willingness to use the power of taxation as a weapon against political enemies, such legislation is likely to have powerful patrons within the government. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Ms. Shepard, through her incredible strength and courage, has won the state's recognition of her fundamental human right of self-defense, in church and out. Kotowski is trying to take that away from her. He stands with the future Willis Bates and Terry Sedlaceks of Illinois, and against their intended victims.
Some might say Kotowski has earned himself a particularly toasty spot in Hell for that. Any Twitter users care to tell him? [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend."[T]he greatest beneficiary of national concealed carry stands to be the gun industry"? The people who, because they can defend themselves, will not be raped and/or murdered, might beg to differ. Then again, perhaps gun rights advocates are finally reaching the point where we're through begging.
It is also worth noting that, as always, opposition to an armed, independent citizenry, and opposition to a free market economy are naturally allied ideologies. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.This column has no interest in wading into the debate over the efficacy of cannabis as medicine. The intent here is to note that in Illinois, one can choose legal armed self-defense, or (probably, eventually) legal cannabis. If you decide you need both, though, at least one of the two had better be "off the books." [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.This column has observed in the past that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once noted that "a right delayed is a right denied." In no context can that statement be more true than that of the right to effective self-defense.
A "delay" of that right, after all, if it happens to extend past the unpredictable time when it is most urgently needed, is forever.. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.The legislation referred to above, that would repeal the "disarm every veteran who can't balance a checkbook without help" law has still not passed, more than four years after that article was written, and "gun control" zealots still brand anyone who tries to overturn that law as monsters in favor of veterans killing themselves and/or others.
But wait a second--if any entity can be described as "unable to manage its financial affairs," the Detroit government would have to be high on the list, would it not? And yet not only has that very same government taken it upon itself to comment on self-defense in Florida, it also commands a large police force, with thousands of guns, most of them fed from dreaded "high capacity" magazines. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.The problem--the contemptible, lower-than-snake-excrement shamelessness that this column hopes to illustrate--is the fact that these officials are openly, publicly admitting that in the interests of political self-preservation, they are willing to take action that they evidently believe violates their oath to uphold the Constitution--the most solemn, sacred obligation of any public servant.
Does the fact that they're utterly wrong about the supposed unconstitutionality of HB 436 mitigate their crime? That depends on one's point of view. Is "attempted oath-breaking" less heinous than success at that crime? [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.If the group were truly against "illegal guns," this column would have some good news for them--there is a simple way to reduce the number of such guns to zero. All that would be necessary is to repeal every gun law. No gun laws, no "illegal guns."
The even better news is that this approach aligns perfectly with the Second Amendment's shall not be infringed. If, in fact, countering "illegal guns" were their real intent, they would be hard pressed to choose a better rallying cry. "Shall not be infringed"--now those sound like the words of a "Mayors Against Illegal Guns" that Americans could get behind. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.More fundamentally, though, if Rep. Lowey chooses to advocate empowering the government to designate political "enemies" as "suspected terrorists," to be disarmed and thus rendered defenseless, she had better expect some push-back. The entire purpose of the Second Amendment is to protect the right to arms of even people the government dislikes--especially those people, because they are the ones most likely to need arms. If she attempts to defeat that purpose, she will be resisted--by whatever means necessary.
Mr. Dennis, Rep. Lowey, you have your explanation. That is all you will be getting from this column. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.The termination of Defense Distributed's account sounds less and less like a banking decision, and more and more like a political one (but a political one, nonetheless, with plenty of cash incentive involved), all the time. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Granted, much of the harassment of Defense Distributed, including this latest interference, cannot be provably laid directly at the feet of the government. Then again, a government official who has wielded great power in both the Clinton and Obama administrations has urged banks to attack more traditional gun manufacturers in exactly this fashion.
In the end, perhaps it matters little whether or not the corporate attacks on Defense Distributed were directly orchestrated by the government. This administration is a corporatist government, and both the administration and the corporations in bed with it benefit from a meek and servile citizenry--something Defense Distributed threatens to deny them. Ironically, they'll pass their suppression off as "social responsibility," and will do so without challenge. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Going back a little further in history, "gun control" was in the killing fields of Cambodia. It helped fill the mass graves of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. It played a starring role in every genocide of the 20th century.
"Where is 'gun control,'" Sanghoee? Now you know. Pack your bags, and don't forget to write. On second thought, just pack your bags. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.We are often told that the terrorists "hate us for our freedoms." One might argue, though, that if that is what defines a terrorist, perhaps it is people like Rep. Lowey who should be taken down by Seal Team Six. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Perhaps this should not be so surprising. We know, after all, that the history of American "gun control" is rooted in oppression of certain demographic groups, with Constitutional scholar (and no avid gun rights supporter) Adam Winkler observing that the "KKK began as a 'gun-control' organization."
So, no--in the end, de León's advocacy of bigotry-based discriminatory gun policies is not in itself particularly surprising. The surprise is his cheerful willingness to admit it. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.3-d printed guns (oddly, Waxman has not yet signed onto the bill to try to ban those), "build parties," and "80% complete" receivers, widespread access to sophisticated CNC equipment--the government cannot block all of those avenues by which we the people can break any "government monopoly on force," and is indeed unlikely to succeed in blocking any of them.
That terrifies the likes of Rep. Waxman, Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)--and that alone makes it a good thing for America. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.That's what this is about--a war of annihilation against an entire generation of the gun culture, which is being conveniently conflated with the "culture of violence." If, over the span of a generation or two, the kind of American who takes upon himself the responsibility for his security and liberty is driven to extinction, that plays perfectly into the hands of those for whom total forcible citizen disarmament of the entire citizenry is not the endgame, but only the beginning.
The beginning of what? Something that cannot be defeated by adults trained from birth to meekly accept abject servility to the government, and to never resist. Again, When toy guns are outlawed, only outlaws' kids will be worth a damn in a fight against tyranny. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Stand Your Ground did not kill Trayvon Martin, and neither did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, that bearing arms is an individual right protected by the Second Amendment, just as keeping them is. On the other hand, concealed carry might have saved George Zimmerman's life.
And "gun control" pushers can't stand that. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Martin Luther King, Jr. once said that "a right delayed is a right denied." When the right under discussion is the right of self-defense, that delay--that denial--can be a death sentence. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Illinois gun policies took an enormous step forward yesterday--but it's not nearly enough. Never stop fighting, never stop advancing. Leave. Them. Nothing. [More]
That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.Besides, none of the forcible citizen disarmament advocates object to the police being armed with so-called "assault weapons" (although in that context, they might call them "patrol rifles," or "personal defense weapons"), which we are told are "weapons of war, that belong on the battlefield, not on our streets," and are thus not suitable for civilian ownership. Does that not make the police who are issued them soldiers?
In the end, whether the courts buy the Third Amendment argument or not, it is past time for all 50 states to follow Indiana's example, and make that kind of unforgivable thuggery lethally dangerous to the perpetrators (as it is to the victims). [More]
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