Now think about that. What is being argued here is that we need more and stricter gun laws, so we'll no longer continue to have "too many victims." How many is "too many"? One. Therefore, until the number of people shot in the U.S. becomes zero, we need more oppressive gun regulation. [More]That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
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David Codrea/National:
Get that? An "absolute need" for private citizens to be perforated by any bullets Beck's minions send their way (ironically, the famous police motto "To Protect and Serve" originated with the LA Police Academy, and then the LAPD).That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
Again, we may never be able to adequately understand what combination of factors led Jaime Gonzalez to his tragic, untimely death. We do know that to realize Charlie Beck's dream of making realistic looking fake firearms unavailable, we would have to ban soap and shoe polish/ink/etc. [More]
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David Codrea/National:
Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:
David Codrea/National:
Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:
David Codrea/National:
Sales of firearms and ammunition dramatically spiked in late 2008 and early 2009, as fears of a rabidly anti-gun Obama administration spurred Americans to buy what they could, while they could. If the general election comes down to a choice between an Obama second term, in which he need not even keep his anti-gun agenda "under the radar," and Romney, Santorum or Gingrich, 2012 and beyond will be a good time to keep buying guns.That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
Don't forget the ammo, and lots of training, either. Got militia?. [More]
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David Codrea/National:
Cocaine in her pocket? Umm . . . no. What the police found on her person was "white powder in two glassine envelopes." Graves explained that the white powder was powdered aspirin, and indeed the toxicology tests the police ran discovered no illegal substances.That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
Bloomberg's press conference was one full week after the arrest. Even if the lab results were still pending (that's not entirely clear), Bloomberg had changed the arrest report's "alleged cocaine" to simply "cocaine in her pocket"--a rather enormous difference. [More]
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David Codrea/National:
Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:
David Codrea/National:
This is too funny to wait for the GRE Round Up later today. Go read about David Codrea's late Christmas present, in "Brady troll stalking WarOnGuns blog a welcome holiday gift to share."
It gets even better, here.
Interestingly, as a presidential candidate, Obama eloquently described the blatant unconstitutionality of these signing statements (see sidebar video, about a minute and a half long, and thanks John Richardson, for finding the video). First, he straight up promises not to use presidential signing statements. Then he (quite justifiably) chastised then-President Bush for his profligate use of them. He closed with this:That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.We're not going to use signing statements as a way of doing an end-run around Congress. Alright?President Obama is now indisputably an oath breaker and liar. Kinda makes one wonder about his veracity here, doesn't it? [More]
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Sean McClanahan/Des Moines:
With governments historically being by far the most prolific mass-murderers in the world, (and with the victims often chosen along ethnic lines), how can protection of the legitimacy of the process by which the government is chosen be considered "racist," while far more onerous requirements for possessing the tools to resist such murderous tyranny is not? [More]That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
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Sean McClanahan/Des Moines:
Why retired "Only Ones" would need the ability to wreak such mayhem is left even more murky. Representative Carolyn "What's a Barrel Shroud?" McCarthy (D-NY) and Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) might be able to explain--their respective bills to ban full capacity magazines are justified by the same kind of rhetoric ("The only reason to have 33 bullets loaded in a handgun is to kill a lot of people very quickly"), but both bills exempt current and retired officers from the ban.That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
If California lawmakers introduce legislation either to ban private ownership of "assault weapons" by cops, or to allow it, even for retired officers--or both types of legislation--"gun control" groups will have to pick a side. So will cops. [More]
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David Codrea/National:
Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:
David Codrea/National:
Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:
David Codrea/National:
This, of course, would serve Holder well--the vast majority of Americans quite rightly try hard to avoid such an odious designation. If much of the public can be conned into believing that it's "racist" to demand the heads of the people responsible for the "Gunwalker" atrocity, only those with the courage to face that charge and refute it will be willing to make such a demand. In a "nation of cowards" with regard to racial issues, few will have that courage, which is why the "race card" has become such a favored trump in the so-called "progressives'" hand. [More]That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
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David Codrea/National:
It's "just common sense" to get some more infringements on that which shall not be infringed, out of a program whereby the U.S. government helped murder hundreds of Mexican citizens and at least two federal agents. Once upon a time, it was argued that it was "just common sense" to suspend civil liberties in the wake of the Reichstag fire.That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
Daniel Vice sounds like the kind of guy who would not only have agreed, but would not have wanted to talk about who lit the match. [More]
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David Codrea/National:
Going back to Meckler's case, no one seems to dispute the notion that he had attempted in good faith to comply with all relevant laws, and simply failed to adequately familiarize himself with New York's insanely draconian gun laws. Seems tailor-made for a DoJ-style free pass to "withdraw" his attempt to transport the gun.That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
Guess it doesn't work that way for the rest of us, though. [More]
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David Codrea/National:
Ironically (and unforgivably), the extent to which the "fighting would probably be futile" statement is true is of course a function of Illinois law, which absolutely forbids carrying the most effective means of self-defense in public. Illinois Governor Pat Quinn announced this summer that he was proud of his support for the continued mandated defenselessness of women in Illinois, and groups like the Brady Campaign consider the failure of legalized concealed carry in Illinois this year a "victory."That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
"Anti-gun"? It's more like "pro-rape." [More]
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David Codrea/National:
Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:
Dave Workman/Seattle:
Those congressmen had every right to be incredulous, but one must admit that the idea of being able to "withdraw" falsehoods . . . oops, I mean "inaccuracies" has some appeal. Get caught by the IRS claiming much less taxable income than you had actually earned? No problem--just "withdraw" the "inaccurate" tax forms, and no tax evasion charges for you. Get caught "inaccurately" claiming on your ATF Form 4473 that you are buying the gun for yourself, rather than acting as a "straw purchaser" for a felon? Don't worry about it--just "withdraw" that form, and all is forgiven . . . right? [More]That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
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David Codrea/National:
No effort was made to explain how "more firearms on the streets and in the wrong hands" could lead to more law enforcement officers' deaths, without causing violent crime overall to rise (and indeed it has fallen). The editorial certainly didn't try to explain which specific aspects of the "ascendancy" of gun owners' rights are allowing more firearms to end up "in the wrong hands." More states with concealed carry? That doesn't affect who can legally own a gun at all. More "castle doctrine" laws, whereby law-abiding citizens are not required to retreat before utilizing lethal force in self-defense? Again--that changes nothing about who can legally own a gun. [More]That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
There's something else the Guardian article never once mentions. There was not a single word in the article about the fact that Carter's Country had been recruited by the BATFE, in what those who have been following the "Project Gunwalker" scandal will recognize as an operation very similar to "Operation Fast and Furious." That operation, which was run out of the Phoenix office of the BATFE, was only one component of "Project Gunwalker" (CBS News has found "gunwalking" allegations in ten cities, spread throughout five states). [More]That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
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Richard Nascak/Ft. Myers:
Once again, Holder found the "Bush did it, too" excuse to stretch credibility too far to be useful as a defense. Holder argued yesterday argued that there is a fundamental difference between "false" and "inaccurate," and that "lying is a state of mind," but even he lacks the audacity to claim that "Wide Receiver" was much like the gunwalking committed under his watch. [More]That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
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David Codrea/National:
Well, add CBS News to the ranks of paranoid, right-wing conspiracy theorists, because their investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson yesterday reported that "ATF used 'Fast and Furious' to make the case for gun regulations." [More]That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
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David Codrea/National:
CSGV incessantly accuses Second Amendment activsts who arm themselves with an eye toward the potential nightmare necessity of defense against an out of control government, of preparing to "kill our democratically elected officials." They could just as easily--and rather more honestly--have said that citizens "don't need the right to keep and bear arms, unless they intend to wage civil war." [More]That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
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David Codrea/National:
But now, it must be understood that whatever the correct figure for the number of U.S.-sourced guns in cartel hands is, it includes thousands of DoJ-"gunwalked" guns, and perhaps tens of thousands of State Department-transferred guns.That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
A suspicious type might suspect that in both cases ("Gunwalker" and the State Department transfers), the intent is to lay the groundwork for more "gun control" in the U.S. And hey--perhaps we just figured out why the State Department has made the numbers secret. [More]
Sorry about having missed the roundups for the last couple weeks, but here's the latest from my fellow GREs:
David Codrea/National:
Bob Pope (no--not that Bob Hope), who operated gun shows for 25 years, calls himself "a Newt Gingrich-supporting[?] Second Amendment advocate," and wants to close the mythical "gun show loophole."
But he said his buddies in the Tennessee Firearms Association are irritated by his one-man campaign to close the so-called “gun show loophole,” which he claims allows murderers and thieves to buy stolen guns.Well, a gun show might be Bob's first choice of places to illegally arm himself, but that would seem to put him among the tiny minority of the illegally armed:
“If I was going to buy an illegal gun, I’d go to a gun show and buy it,” said Pope, a towering man perched on an old-fashioned wing chair in the formal living room of his Hermitage home near the Wilson County line.
Purchased from a retail store 8.3 percentBack to the article about Bob. Here's the unintentional honesty:
Purchased at a pawn shop 3.8
Purchased at a flea market 1.0
Purchased in a gun show 0.7
Obtained from friends or family 39.6
Got on the street/illegal source 39.2
“I started doing gun shows in 1983, sold out in 2008,” Pope said.Whether or not the actual date was in 2008, he "sold out," alright.
The NRA tends to get some rather rough treatment in this column, but a serious effort to lift the draconian federal suppressor laws would be a laudable endeavor on NRA's part, and would perhaps be a far less quixotic quest than "conventional wisdom" holds it to be. [More]That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
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