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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.

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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

'SAFE' in New York apparently means in prison

Benjamin Franklin is reported to have said something along the lines (the exact wording varies from source to source) of, "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

New Yorkers, though, are ordered to give up a great deal of "essential liberty," and for only the illusion of "a little temporary safety." The greatest outrage of all is that the vast majority of them will undoubtedly comply. [More]

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Monday, December 30, 2013

Sarah Brady's ire at Gov. Haley's gun gift prompts Ghost of Christmas Past visit

Oh, by the way, Brady did have something to say about the reminder that her outrage over Gov. Haley's gift reeks of hypocrisy--she told her Twitter followers not to listen to such blasphemy. Brady clearly did not enjoy this visit from the Ghost of Christmas Past. Our job is to make a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come even more traumatic for her. [More]

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Monday, December 23, 2013

'Assault weapon' bans punish the disabled--and everyone else

Sergeant Walker is presumably an able-bodied man, but he too is much more effectively armed with a so-called "assault weapon" (although some would have us call them "patrol rifles" when in cops' hands) than with a handgun.

In a very real sense, those advocating "assault weapon" bans--for either the disabled or the able-bodied--are trying to outlaw accurate shooting. Evidently, they care no more for innocent bystanders than for gun owners. [More]

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Friday, December 20, 2013

Gun owners increasingly expected to cater to irrational fears of hoplophobes

In other words, it's useful to be terrified of guns--at least those not carried by the government's hired muscle. That perhaps begs the question of "'useful' to whom?" In seeking that answer, one cannot help but observe that it serves the purposes of the "government monopoly on force" zealots rather well. That, of course, makes it "useful" to the enemies of our way of life.

That should be all we need to know about it. [More]

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Thursday, December 19, 2013

Noting link between forced disarmament, genocide does not 'trivialize Holocaust'

That's why those bent on genocidal tyranny insist on a "government monopoly on force." Is it not fair to ask, then, why the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and Congressman Jerrold Nadler demand the same thing?

If anyone is "trivializing the Holocaust," it is those who wish to silence any who raise the alarm about policies that will make the next Holocaust more difficult to thwart. [More]

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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Arapahoe shooter and Hudak: CO proves evil cowards fold in face of resistance

The lesson here is that the enemy--whether the sick sack of filth who can find validation only in the commission of mass murder during the waning moments of his own scrofulous life, or the self-righteous busybodies who empower said filth by denying the rest of us means of effective countermeasures--cannot win if we refuse to submit. That refusal, then, is the only honorable option. [More]

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Sunnyvale, CA 'high capacity' mag ban also affects cops, but not enough of them

Sunnyvale's Measure C is an intolerable assault on that which shall not be infringed, but the fact that it applies even to "Only Ones" mitigates the evil to some extent--or would, if it applied to them even when they are on the taxpayers' time. [More]

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Monday, December 16, 2013

'Activist investors' try to bully Amazon into dropping 'bump fire' stocks

The other side despises us, with a hatred that transcends life and death. They want us dead, but failing that, they will hurt us any way they can. If that reduces them to economic violence against the gun industry, and even anyone remotely connected to the industry, they will happily use that weapon. [More]

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Friday, December 13, 2013

MAIG director threatens America with Bloomberg's 'whole foot'

Glaze may be correct that Americans have not yet seen Bloomberg's "whole foot." We do have a pretty good idea of what it's wrapped in, though. [More]

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Thursday, December 12, 2013

When it comes to guns, Dr. Ben Carson still doesn't get it

If Carson does make a presidential run, and if he wants the gun rights advocate vote--and it's hard to imagine him getting far without it--he has a great deal to learn, and not much time in which to learn it. [More]

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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

NYC warning letters: Proof once again that gun registration equals confiscation

I hate to kick NYC gun owners when they're down, but this is the not-at-all unpredictable consequence of their compliance with the registration law in the first place. When bullies see that those whom they seek to dominate will submit to that dominance, they are emboldened to push the bullying still further. Now the gun owners' choices are to comply, again, or resist--probably not in the cards for the sort who would comply with the registration edict in the first place. There was an alternative, you know. [More]

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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

CSGV says it's anti-American to decry violent seizure of Native Americans' land

CSGV wants to be seen as "protector of minorities," no matter how much revision of history that requires, and no matter how clearly their favored policies disproportionately disarm the very people they claim to "protect." Now, Native Americans have a brand new reason to ask CSGV some pointed questions about just whose side they are really on. [More]

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Monday, December 09, 2013

Katie Couric leaps aboard 'undetectable gun' hysteria bandwagon

That, of course, is precisely what is so exciting about this technology--the fact that it promises to put the final nail in the coffin of the government's hopes of disarming those whom the regime has designated "unsuitable" to exercise the Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms.

To Couric and her guests, that's the "dark side" of 3-D printing technology--the fact that we the people can use it to help enforce shall not be infringed. [More]

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Friday, December 06, 2013

CSGV supports brutal, corrupt government thugs, demonizes the liberators

Then again, given CSGV's insistence that not even the government rounding up people based on race or religion, and packing them off to concentration camps justifies armed resistance, it is probably not so surprising that corrupt, brutal oppression also fails to meet their standards for justification of armed resistance. To CSGV, we the people have no legitimate line in the sand to guard with our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

But we won't be asking them, or anyone else, for permission. [More]

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Thursday, December 05, 2013

Oath-breaking Army officer wants to enforce citizen disarmament against America

You think you're "really good at" violence, Bateman? Try enforcing the laws you want to inflict on the American people, and we'll soon find out if you're as good at taking it as you are at dishing it out. [More]

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Wednesday, December 04, 2013

House passes 'Undetectable Firearms Act' renewal, with 1 'No' vote

And the best news of all is that no law Congress passes can do anything about that. Anyone who has any doubts about that statement is encouraged to check out the Terminal Cornucopia website, featuring weapons designs that can be quickly built from materials one can easily and legally obtain after passing through airport screening measures, with tools that one could legally have brought along. The sidebar video shows the "BlunderBusinessClass" shotgun, but that's only one of several impressive designs.. [More]

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Tuesday, December 03, 2013

CSGV outrage over pic doesn't extend to law enforcement target of pregnant woman

And actually, that's not so surprising, either. CSGV, after all, is not really opposed to "gun violence," at least not when committed by agents of the government. What offends CSGV is "gun violence" against would-be tyrants and their enforcers. That's to be expected from a group that not only advocates a "government monopoly on violence," but wants the government to make extensive use of it, as well. [More]

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Monday, December 02, 2013

'Nuclear option' will boost Congressional 'productivity' in trampling gun rights

And sure, that's hard to dispute, as far as it goes. On the other hand, of course, an executioner's duty is to kill people, but even those who have no objection to capital punishment would hardly want him going about that job willy-nilly. The Framers, after all, also knew that the purpose of government was to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.

That cannot happen if Congress is allowed to be "productive" enough to "finish the job" the gun ban jihadists want done. [More]

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Thursday, November 28, 2013

Give thanks for oath-breaking politicians' fear of an armed citizenry

Be thankful for their fears. Those fears, as the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence reminds us (although they are, of course, decidedly unthankful about it), are what stands between us and the "progressive" utopia they would otherwise inflict on us, if they had the security of a "government monopoly on force." If those fears become strong enough, perhaps some day we can give thanks for never having been forced to make them come true. [More]

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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Sen. Sessions prevents Schumer's sneak attack on printed guns

However this turns out, Senator Sessions might be all that stopped S. 1774 from passing unanimously in the Senate last week, where it may otherwise have picked up enough "bipartisan" momentum to just as easily clear the House this week. On that day, at least, Sen. Sessions kept his oath. [More]

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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Forcible citizen disarmament extremists go nuclear

Senate Democrats have employed the "nuclear option" against America's gun owners. The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence should be thrilled. What the forcible citizen disarmament jihadists and their pet legislators need to realize, though, is that America's armed citizenry has never depended on 41% of the Senate as the last bulwark protecting our rights--we only need three percent of America's gun owners. [More]

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Monday, November 25, 2013

Is NRA throwing printed guns under the bus?

The NRA's apparent dereliction here is no small matter. These bills, which had been languishing in apparent futility for months, are now showing signs of life, which can only be expected to accelerate now that ARS is throwing its resources into the debate. Both H.R. 1474 and S. 1149 have picked up new co-sponsors: Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) last Wednesday, and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) last Friday. So far, rabidly anti-gun Rep. Peter King, of New York, is the only "Republican" (RINO) to co-sponsor either bill, but more are expected to join, to save us from "undetectable" guns.

. . .

The NRA needs to explain why it evidently believes that the Second Amendment protects only the right to keep and bear commercially produced arms. [More]

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Friday, November 22, 2013

VPC goes to bizarre lengths to establish link between NRA, gun industry

So Sugarmann is both an NRA member and a licensed member of the gun retail industry (or at least was)? I know he has a great deal invested in this notional link between the NRA and the gun industry, but that's going a little far, don't you think? [More]

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Thursday, November 21, 2013

'Trayvon's Amendment' would be funnier if not for the people who like the idea

Whoever came up with "Trayvon's Amendment" did a nice job--funny stuff. It would be even funnier, though, if we didn't know that a not insignificant percentage of the population is reading those 12 provisions and thinking, "Say--that's a good idea." If that number grows large enough, we will have to kill many of them to keep at least part of this abomination from becoming reality. And that's not funny. [More]

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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Spread of 'knockout' game highlights people's need for 'high capacity' magazines

Granted, the sorts of young thugs whose cowardice tends to dictate that they choose lone victims, while themselves numbering sometimes in the dozens, would seem unlikely to continue to press an attack as their would-be victim fires 10 shots into their fellow predators, it would be a mistake to expect any rationality from the kind of creature who finds entertainment in brutalizing innocent people.

The only prudent course is to be equipped stop all of them. And at some point those public officials who have chosen to stand with the thugs, rather than their would-be victims, will need to be dealt with. [More]

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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

What actually scares Rep. Israel and the rest of the gun prohibitionists about printed lower receivers is that the lower receiver is the only component of such firearms that is subject to "prohibited person" restrictions, background checks, serial number requirements, etc. In short, the lower receiver is the gun, legally speaking, and a person who can build (or print) one can easily and legally buy all the other components needed to assemble a fully functional "assault weapon."

And that, a dire threat to the fantasy of a "government monopoly on force," is something that CSGV can be counted on to consistently fear. [More]

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Monday, November 18, 2013

If Congress 'finishes the job' as Brady Campaign demands, 2nd Amd. is finished

Banning private sales will not "finish the job" to the gun prohibitionists' satisfaction. Even total forcible citizen disarmament is only a step (albeit an enormous one) in the direction the "progressives" would take us--toward a destination an armed citizenry would never allow itself to be taken. And even that is unlikely to be the ultimate end point. [More]

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Friday, November 15, 2013

BATFE joins 3-D printed gun fearmongering

This column has long maintained that the supposed "undetectability" of plastic firearms is almost entirely a decoy issue--an excuse to ban the printing of firearms, which is actually frightening to people like Rep. Israel and Sen. Schumer because the easy production of firearms at home will render "gun control" irrelevant. Shall not be infringed by default--because effective infringement will be impossible.

That is what terrifies the forcible citizen disarmament zealots, and their terror is a beautiful thing. [More]

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Thursday, November 14, 2013

CSGV blames NRA for Americans rejecting 'government monopoly on junk-touching'

As for Horwitz's apparent contention that opposition to the long train of abuses perpetrated by the TSA on the American people is a creation of the gun rights movement, perhaps he would care to explain why polling found that 61% of the public objected to TSA's heavy-handedness, and that the more one flies (and thus the more one is subjected to the TSA's thuggery), the more likely one is to harbor "TSA animus," as Horwitz puts it. Perhaps he is admitting that the gun rights movement is far larger than he has previously been willing to acknowledge.

Anyone who works for the TSA needs to realize that as a part of such a loathsome agency, they have earned the hostility of those who are unwilling to allow the government to reach into our pants. [More]

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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

LA Times bemoans CA 'assault weapon' ban veto, knowing ban wouldn't have helped

According to Skelton, this boy's death was caused by an airsoft gun--one that was not even fired in the death it somehow "caused." For that to be the case, his death could obviously not have been caused by a trigger happy "Only One" blasting eight rounds within 10 seconds of seeing a boy with a toy gun.

Skelton has the audacity to dare gun rights advocates to make our arguments to the family of Andy Lopez. You first, Skelton. [More]

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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Gun prohibitionists blatantly and falsely libel Texas gun rights group

Some argue that TOC's approach is too "in your face" to be effective advocacy, and that is perhaps a debate worth having, if only for how interesting it would be to hear why one should be "polite" in demanding recognition of one's fundamental human rights. But Ungar went so far as to accuse the group of terrorism.

Anyone that easily "terrorized" deserves to live in terror, and those working to strip Americans of their Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms should be terrified of the backlash against their agenda. [More]

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Monday, November 11, 2013

Last US lead smelter closure highlights need to rescind bullet material limits

The other problem, of course, is that if oath-breaking cops pick the wrong side some dark day when the government's cold war on the people goes hot, the restoration of our Republic will require the people's ability stop them, no matter what they are wearing.

Oh--one more problem: "must not be made of tungsten (for example)" is an impossible fit with shall not be infringed. [More]

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Friday, November 08, 2013

First 3-D printed metal gun is new nail in 'gun control's' coffin

CSGV's beloved "Government Monopoly on Force" is in mortal danger, with its death warrant printed in 3-D. [More]

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Thursday, November 07, 2013

Statists as alarmed by Ronnie Barrett's high caliber principles as by his rifles

In other words, it really does appear that Barrett's very public high-minded, principled, uncompromising stance on the Second Amendment is what makes collectivists fear his rifles more than others that are essentially equally "dangerous." And that's one of the few things the statists get right--without the love of liberty, and the will and courage to defend it, the guns avail nothing. It's Barrett's ideas, even more than his rifles, that threaten their agenda. So far, though, they have not figured out a way to ban those. [More]

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Wednesday, November 06, 2013

Columnist obejcts to condemnation of cop who killed 13-year-old 'armed' with toy

But fear not--Hansen has a solution:

Rather than promoting victimization, how about encouraging people to actually cooperate with law enforcement directives? Would there have been a death in this case if this young man had simply complied? Chances are, there would not have even been an arrest!

That's all it takes--be a docile, compliant herbivore, and you'll probably not be killed ("chances are," not "even" arrested for being a boy with a toy gun!). [More]

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Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Sen. Feinstein apparently wants to ban 19th century revolvers

Feinstein, though, has now taken the insanity to a perhaps unprecedented level. Now it's not just ergonomic refinements and cosmetic features that render some guns "unsuitable" for private ownership. Now, the name of the gun is enough to justify a ban.

She would probably really object to this correspondent's idea for an AR-15 platform rifle marketed as the "Regime Changer" ("Recall Ballot From the Rooftops Launcher" is an awkwardly long name for a gun). That, of course, just adds to the idea's appeal. [More]

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Monday, November 04, 2013

LAX survivor: 'I just prayed'--the only option available in 'gun free' zones

Ironically, the USA Today article is titled: "Police: LAX shooting could have been far worse" (presumably because the shooter had a scary semi-automatic rifle and 150 rounds of ammunition). Perhaps that's true--perhaps it could have been. It could also, though, have been far better, had the shooter not had the luxury of waiting for police to finally arrive and shoot him four times--had the real "first responders" not been stripped of the option of a response somewhat more direct than prayer.

The intent here is not to mock the power of prayer to accomplish great things, but to illustrate the evil of those who would require us to seek divine intervention as our only chance of survival. [More]

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Friday, November 01, 2013

Another anti-gun group takes the Goldilocks approach to 'gun control'

These creatures will likely never come out and say that, "This gun is too useful for defending one's life," or, even worse, "This gun is too useful for killing a would-be tyrant's hired muscle," but have no doubt that their most strenuous objection to any gun is precisely that. [More]

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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Maher's excuse for Obama's Obamacare lie also applies to his 'gun control' lies

All these lies were told with an eye to advancing the forcible citizen disarmament agenda--an agenda that Maher clearly approves of (while simultaneously blustering that "I ain't giving up my gun"), and so are presumably far more forgivable in Maher's view than lies intended to bolster a less "progressive" agenda.

The fundamental truth that Maher and Obama both are clearly ignoring is that any agenda that cannot win through on its own merits--its true merits--is an agenda that deserves to go down in flames. Those pushing that agenda, and the lies, deserve a similar fate. [More]

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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

In Senate hearing, federal gov tries to weigh in on states' self-defense laws

In reality, of course, if the gun-haters in Congress find any leverage they think might be exploited to force the states to repeal SYG laws, Tenth Amendment be damned, they will jump on it without hesitation, Durbin's aide's assurances notwithstanding. And states must Stand Their Ground against such usurpations. [More]

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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Gun rights advocates must not 'negotiate' with anti-gun zealots

There are two possible approaches for gun rights advocates to take in dealing with the "gun control" pushers: unrelenting, uncompromising, all-out resistance, to the last man; or abject, traitorous collaboration--and only one suitable consequence for the latter.

What's it going to be, NRA? [More]

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Monday, October 28, 2013

Even British false alarm over printed gun proves game has changed

The game has changed--and it's no longer Monopoly. Good thing, too, because that's a tyrant's game. [More]

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Friday, October 25, 2013

Closing the 'Instagram loophole' would require violating 1st and 2nd Amendments

Instagram is not a marketing site. No money from the transaction goes through--or to--Instagram. People simply post photos, and sometimes that leads to interested buyers encountering interested sellers. To ban that would be to ban talking about gun sales.

If talking about selling guns can be banned on Instagram, or anywhere else on the internet, what logical distinction remains as an obstacle to banning such discussion everywhere? [More]

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Thursday, October 24, 2013

'40% of gun sales proceed without background check': Gun grabbers' favorite lie

Unlike the "90% of Mexican crime guns recovered come from the U.S." lie, though, the purveyors of this one show no sign of retreating from it. Until too many of us to ignore shout the truth, they won't have to. [More]

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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Anti-gun group claims to outline Constitutional justification for confiscation

Slippery slope? If the other side gets its way, it will be a Teflon precipice. [More]

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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Brady Campaign proves 'assault weapons' not defined by 'military features'

That a major anti-gun group is so transparently and unabashedly contradicting its own position is a point that cannot be made too loudly. That they are now arguing that the most expansive and restrictive "assault weapons" ban in the United States contains "dangerous loopholes" that must be closed with even more draconian gun laws is exactly the slippery slope argument in a nutshell.

Semi-automatic, detachable magazine-fed rifles are probably the best general purpose weapon for defending one's life and liberty. That's why the other side cannot abide our having them. [More]

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Monday, October 21, 2013

IL legislators to take another swing at gun owners; with Bloomberg's help?

ISRA urges Illinois residents to contact their legislators to express their vehement opposition to new infringements on that which shall not be infringed, and their support for the proposed relaxation on the infringements already inflicted on the people of Illinois. The other side has billionaires and a sycophantic mass media. Ours has a grassroots passion for liberty--and tens of millions of guns, and hundreds of millions (billions?) of rounds of ammo. Morality demands that we do our best to win with only the first.

But win we must. [More]

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Friday, October 18, 2013

Government shutdown delays UN meddling in domestic self-defense laws

It is well past time for the U.S. to "stand its ground" against the UN, something that we will never accomplish while the UN holds U.S. ground. [More]

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Thursday, October 17, 2013

Chicago Democrats want mandatory prison for non-violent 'gun crimes' in Illinois

So, "many believe" that although Chicago's draconian gun laws have done nothing to reduce the "sky high" rate of "gun violence," what will work is a statewide denial of judges' discretion in sentencing even those who are only in violation of the law because Illinois is dragging its feet in meeting its Constitutional obligation to permit defensive firearm carry? Who are these "many," and what can be done to get them the mental health care they so desperately need?

Zalewski, Rosenberg, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and every other supporter of HB 2265 want to force decent, peaceable Illinoisans to choose between risking years in prison--and risking their lives. That is what is criminal. [More]

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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

First 'smart gun' model nears market, brings threat to gun rights with it

Still, this is a threat that cannot be dismissed. If this gun does not impress the New Jersey attorney general enough to begin enforcement of the state's "smart gun" mandate, another soon will, and these handguns will become the only ones legally available to New Jersey residents. As California, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, etc., compete with New Jersey for the "honor" of being the state most hostile to gun owners, the contagion is likely to spread. Eventually, as more states implement such laws, that market will become lucrative enough to attract some major gun manufacturers, and there will be momentum behind this new abomination.

I'll hold a "smart gun" when it's forced into my cold, dead hands. [More]

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