Missouri voters declare right to keep and bear arms 'unalienable' . . . sort of

Amendment 5, although a large positive step for Missouri gun owners, lends a veneer of legitimacy to the practice of allowing voters to decide whether or not government is to be forced to recognize our fundamental human rights as "unalienable," and Bloomberg is spending scores of millions to convince low information voters to give the government a free hand. Might we have given up more than we gained? [More]

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JPFO Alert: Anti-gun Writer Fears New Army Sidearm Will Cause More "Gun Violence"

Today's JPFO Alert explores the ridiculous "reasoning" behind fears that a new military sidearm will cause more civilian "gun violence."

If the military stumbles upon new technology to make firearms more effective, we the people are owed access to that technology, and we must take it, by whatever means necessary.

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Don't read if blood pressure is a concern . . .

Mississippi Rebel notes that although the Border Patrol (oops--my mistake) the federal government is apparently disinclined to do anything about the endless waves of criminal invaders washing over our southern border, at least they're willing to use deadly force to defend our Alaskan border against Iowa Boy Scouts with cameras. How courageous and valiant of them.

Dems* want gun bans for 'suspected terrorists,' no standard of evidence for list

A Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual, and these people demand the power to take it away without a conviction, without an indictment, without an arrest or formal charges, and now without "concrete facts" or "irrefutable evidence." They seem more than a little confused as to who the "terrorists" here are--perhaps a mirror would help. [More]

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JPFO Alert: Media Matters Twists Reality to Monger Fear of .50 Caliber Rifles

Today's JPFO Alert notes more large-caliber lies from Media Matters.

Johnson should probably be more careful about whom he chooses to accuse of lying, but I have no real objection to him describing .50 caliber rifles as "weapons of war." My preferred term, though, would be "every other terrible implement of the soldier," which is no argument against the fundamental truth that they should "ever remain, in the hands of the people."

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Missouri legislature a bit unclear on meaning of 'unalienable'

Even so, that the right to keep and bear arms is "unalienable" has nothing to do with any vote on the matter, particularly when the measure being voted on also ensures that the state retains the power to make that right "alienable" for certain people. [More]

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Missourians will vote on whether right to keep and bear arms is 'unalieanable'

All of this, of course, comes to naught if Missourians vote the measure down, which would provide a reminder of the dangers of holding fundamental human rights hostage to the popularity contest of an election. Still, a similar measure won voters' approval by overwhelming margins in Louisiana last fall. Hopefully, Missouri voters will choose as wisely. [More]

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Pratt's position on 2nd Amd and politicians' fear is only morally defensible one

Gun rights advocates, in our abhorrence for unnecessary violence, fervently hope power hungry officials' fear of the armed citizenry makes that violence unnecessary. Why do those who claim to be motivated by a desire to end "gun violence" wish for deterrence to fail, and for violence to thus become the only alternative to abject submission to tyranny? [More]

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JPFO Alert: Bloomberg's Self-Defense Catch-22 is an Old Trick in "Gun Control" Playbook

Today's JPFO Alert notes that Bloomberg's latest anti-self-defense ranting might be a new low, but it's also an old gambit.

Not a bad strategy, really--push laws to try to make guns as useless as possible, then justify further infringements by arguing that guns are already so useless that the new restrictions don't really affect us much. Just one more reason we must fight them at every step.

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ATF's notional resource shortfall raises new questions about 'Project Gunwalker'

Well, in fairness, the only "investigation" they had in mind for the "gunwalked" guns was not particularly resource intensive--noting where the crime scenes and dead bodies were. Still, for those of us who cannot be quite convinced that senior Justice Department officials were really stupid enough to apply the "Underpants Gnomes'" business strategy to their own efforts to curb international gun trafficking, and must therefore have had some other motive, the fact that they supposedly lacked the resources to investigate problematic gun sales that were already happening makes the official explanation of Operation Fast and Furious just that much less convincing. [More]

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Are gun owners so naïve as to buy Christie's recent 'pro-gun' conversion?

Christie is clearly banking on the hope that gun owners are dumb enough to be fooled by his nominally "pro-gun" actions of late, and it appears, inexplicably, that his bet might actually pay off. If gun owners allow him to win the Republican presidential primary, they will get what they deserve. Unforgivably, though, the rest of us will get what they deserve, as well. [More]

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Ikea's 'weapon free' backtracking for 'Only Ones' makes things worse, not better

This correspondent would argue, on the other hand, that Ikea's willingness to be consistent, and apply its "disarmed victim zone" rules to everyone, even those bedecked in the trappings of government authority, is the one thing they got right. Well, except for the fact that it didn't last [More]

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JPFO Alert: Self-defense, or Defense Against Tyranny--Does it Really Matter?

Today's JPFO Alert argues that in some ways, it hardly matters whether the Second Amendment was intended solely a the final bulwark against government tyranny, rather than also protecting the people's means to self-defense against common criminals. The difference, after all, between a rights-violating government, and freelance dirtbags, is merely one of scale.

We are the militia, necessary to the security of a free state. Any violence against us, even individually, rather than against the people in general, and by freelance criminals, rather than agents of the government, is therefore nonetheless an attack on that which is necessary to secure our free state. We thus have not only the right, but the patriotic duty to defend ourselves against such violence. Anyone who attempts to undermine that right and duty has allied himself with brutal thugs, in and out of government, and has declared himself an enemy of the American people.

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Functional printed semi-auto pistol shoots new nail into 'gun control's' coffin

3-D printing of firearms is still in its infancy, but it's a precocious infant, and growing fast. And the gun ban zealots are increasingly coming to believe that "It's Alive." [More]

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JPFO Alert: Trampling 2nd Amendment Not Enough for Gun Ban Zealots

Today's JPFO Alert notes that the First Amendment is becoming almost as much a target for the gun ban zealots as the Second has always been.

And then remember that the Obama administration has asserted (and indeed exercised) the "right" to use armed drones to assassinate suspected "terrorists," without regard to their American citizenship. And people like Franchi accuse us of using "violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes"?

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Rabidly anti-gun 'Mike the Gun Guy' wants to empower doctors to disarm patients

Weisser is hopeful, though. Now that the Obama administration has unilaterally authorized the federal government to once again engage in anti-gun junk "science," maybe more doctors will be emboldened to do their part for forcible citizen disarmament.

Doctors are supposedly guided by the fundamental principle, "First, do no harm." How would they reconcile that noble principle with the practice of stripping the most vulnerable people of their ability to defend themselves in a dangerous world? [More]

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JPFO Alert: Author Claims Democrat "Gun Control" Timidity Undermines Constitution

Today's JPFO Alert notes that one "gun control" zealot advocates measures that would start a civil war, apparently without realizing it. Meanwhile, another one does realize that, but doesn't have a problem with it.

Perlstein exhibits a fundamental misunderstanding of the situation. "Gun nuts" (that's you, me, and everyone else who will fight to keep the palladium of liberty) will not be pacified by more aggressive forcible citizen disarmament efforts.

Such efforts will indeed be the most efficient way of forcing today's cultural cold war to go hot. Presumably, that's not what he wants.

Interestingly, Susie Madrak, writing for "Crooks and Liars" (which sounds like a good place for her), does seem to see the civil war implications of Perlstein's position--and seems to think he's onto something anyway . . .

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Al Jazeera tells hunters not to fight for gun rights

From the above mentioned attempts to define "armor-piercing" ammunition in such a way as to net all centerfire rifle ammunition, to the Violence Policy Center's efforts to have accurate bolt-action rifles banned as "sniper rifles," to the International Action Network on Small Arms' (IANSA) call for a ban of all rifles that can kill at 100 meters (all rifles, in other words), hunting guns may be toward the end of the list of gun ban zealots' ambitions, but they are on it, and if we gun rights advocates have been taken out of the picture, who will speak for you, hunters?. [More]

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Judge acknowledges Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting

The intent here is not to antagonize hunters, or to be anything less than welcoming to their participation in the fight for gun rights. The point is that we are continually told that banning so-called "assault weapons," or .50 caliber rifles, or "high capacity" (gun ban jihadist-speak for "standard capacity") magazines is perfectly legitimate, because "no one needs those for hunting."

Any restriction on guns, ammunition and accessories justified by their failure to meet the government's idea of "sporting purposes" is very clearly a violation of the rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment, as the court ruling in Pennsylvania helps illustrate. [More]

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St. Louis police chief, others sue to make Missourians' gun rights 'alieanable'

The right to keep and bear arms is fundamental, under the constitutions of both Missouri and the United States, and laws that restrict it must be required to withstand the very strictest of scrutiny. When Chief Dotson and the rest claim that voters lack the wit to realize that "unalienable" implies just that, they inexcusably insult Missourians' intellect. And if Judge Beetem decides to invalidate votes cast by voters to whom the state did not first spoon-feed a state-written "SJR 36 for Dummies" explanation of the amendment, he will have committed an unforgivable atrocity against those voters, and indeed against the entire state. [More]

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Glaze's confession will not slow anti-gunners' exploitation of mass shootings

The "gun control" movement requires mass shootings--horrifying, indescribably evil slaughter of innocents, just to gain any public support. When those shootings occur, there is a "playbook" instructing the gun ban lobby on how to exploit them. When asked about the chances of new infringements on that which shall not be infringed, the gun ban jihadists say it depends on how effectively they exploit--their word--the blood of the innocent victims.

Glaze--no longer on the payroll of an organization hoping to make the most of such exploitation--could afford his brief moment of honesty. The anti-gun groups, though, cannot. The lie is all they have. [More]

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Clinton perpetuates full-auto/semi-auto conflation, endorses thought control

And now we know what she means by "more thoughtful conversation" about guns. For the conversation to be "more thoughtful," the public needs to be kept unaware that semi-automatic "assault weapons" are not machine guns. In fact, "more thoughtful" means that viewpoints that "the majority" find terrifying are not permitted--only "approved" thoughts are authorized.

Orwell might have been an optimist. [More]

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JPFO Alert: Supreme Court Ruling is About Registration, not Crime Control

Today's JPFO Alert notes that Justice Kagan admits that the most important aspect of any gun sale is that the federal government knows who has the gun.

In 2012, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives added a new question to ATF Form 4473--the form that must be filled out when purchasing a firearm, and the form on which Abramski admittedly lied. Now, every gun purchaser must answer whether or not he or she is of "Hispanic or Latino" ethnicity. As attorney and firearms law expert Evan Nappen notes, there is no real difference between that question, and a demand--backed up by federal law, and enforced with the full power of the U.S. government--that the purchaser answer whether he or she is a "Jew or Not a Jew."

And now, the Supreme Court has ruled that this is just fine.

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VPC no longer trying to hide yearning for ban of all semi-automatics

The campaign to outlaw all semi-automatic firearms is gaining new adherents every day. When those are banned, count on bolt-action rifles to be demonized as "sniper rifles, with no place in civilized society." They want us disarmed. Every gun in private hands is "too deadly," for us mere citizens to own, and if they have their way, the government's hired muscle, armed with just the kinds of guns we cannot be trusted with, will come to take them from us, and kill us if we resist.

Well, they can try. [More]

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Oregon teacher proposes to end school shootings by disarming self-employed

Perhaps the most disturbing facet of this is that Needler, a "gun control" cultist, is paid as a science teacher for our youth. This does not bode well for the future of our nation's scientific capability. [More]

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'Progressive' gun rights foe announces plan to foment 'gun violence'

At least we now have a pretty good idea as to why Malloy is so insistent on restrictive gun laws. Being so consumed himself by hate and rage, it's hardly surprising that he projects those qualities even onto the vast majority of gun owners who are not inclined to kill those with whom they disagree, and to therefore believe they should not be armed.

If he wants to purchase any more guns, though, he might be well advised to not push so hard for mental health checks of prospective gun buyers. [More]

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Another Chicago blogging mom wants to 'intimidate' Congress into gun bans

So she claims to have formed an unarmed "militia," and Congress should fear it, and not those of us who will fight and die for our freedom. Good luck with that.

And Congress, when deciding which "militia" should "intimidate" you more, remember the words of the late Andrew Breitbart: "we have the guns." [More]

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Blogger demands justification for NOT banning so-called 'assault weapons'

But it's not that easy, J.A. You can't just dismiss the Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms because you're tired of hearing about it, any more than someone who demands you justify the societal benefits of your blog, or he'll ban it, can dismiss your First Amendment rights, because he "so got that there's a right to" free speech, and doesn't want to hear about it.

J.A. repeatedly asks, "What am I missing?" Well, rather a lot of things, J.A., chief among them being that no one owes you any justification of our right to own militia-appropriate "regime change rifles." [More]

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JPFO Alert: "Gun Control" Advocates Respond to Las Vegas Killings by Advocating Tyranny

Today's JPFO Alert notes that those attacking the Second Amendment are just the ones who make it necessary.

All these "progressives" argue that the United States government is not tyrannical, and that armed resistance to against it is treason. Fair enough. Why, though, do they seem in such a hurry to make it tyrannical?

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Obama's greatest 'frustration' is his failure to trample 2nd Amendment enough

The problem is that Americans "can stack up a bunch of ammunition in their houses"? Is that what he has in mind--an executive order capping ammunition purchases?

Maybe, maybe not. We'll presumably know soon. Whatever he has in mind, remember that our freedom is his "biggest frustration." [More]

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Miss USA recommends self-defense against campus rape; enrages 'feminists'

Of course the best "solution" to sexual violence is that those who perpetrate it stop. Unfortunately, that will not happen until someone stops them, and that will not happen without force. Universities and politicians refuse to allow women to defend themselves with firearms, and others are offended by the idea of them defending themselves with fists and feet. If there is a "war on women," these people would appear to be on the wrong side of it. [More]

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Columnist compares open carry activists to child rapist/murderers

The far-left Daily Kos, astonishingly (or perhaps not), has taken the silly meme of "firearms as substitute for inadequate sexual anatomy" even further than Marcotte did, to the bizarre extreme of repeatedly referring to semi-automatic rifles as "giant metal death penises," indicating an astounding--and rather alarming--level of ignorance of the purpose of both firearms and penises.

Again, the wisdom of the approach to activism taken by Open Carry Texas is open to very legitimate question, but if anyone in this discussion can be fairly described as dangerously consumed by hatred, it ain't OCT.. [More]

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JPFO Alert: SWAT Team Baby Burning -- More Police Militarization?

Today's JPFO Alert notes that the government's "War on Babies" puts it on the wrong side of a great many armed parents.

There cannot fail to be consequences from the discovery on the part of every parent in America that the government's hired muscle can kick down their doors, set their children on fire, and the official response will be a shrug, and maybe an "oops."

Inevitably, some parents will refuse to tolerate the intolerable. Some, even knowing the vanishingly small likelihood of their own survival, will fight back with every weapon they possess. Private citizens defending their homes and families will doubtless do the bulk of the dying, but they will not do all of it.

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New book will confound purveyors of 'gun rights advocacy is racist' myth

Oppressors don't change their evil, tyrannical ways because they are persuaded by the eloquence and righteousness of the oppressed. They change because they harbor a very personal fear of the consequences of continuing their old course. [More]

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Sen. Boxer displays serial hypocrisy on state sovereignty and guns

The point is that Boxer is generally an enthusiastic backer of federal government über alles, particularly when draconian federal gun laws are proposed. When federal law would interfere with states' oppressive gun laws, however, she suddenly turns into an Anti-Federalist for a day. Let's hope that the cognitive dissonance is physically painful. [More]

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Sen. Boxer threatens Americans with 'Pause for Safety Act'

Wow. A need-based "may issue" system, for gun purchases, rather than for carrying a firearm in public, which even the notoriously "progressive" 9th Circuit Court of Appeals--whose jurisdiction includes California--has deemed unconstitutional. And Boxer calls such a system a "commonsense step."

Boxer wants us to prove we "need" a gun? The fact that people like her presume to write the laws by which the rest of us would be required to live is all the proof necessary. [More]

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ATF's purchase reporting requirement gives lie to 'military features' test

The only "military feature" that gun ban groups really care about is that military arms are expected to fire when the trigger is pulled. That's what they want banned, and the BATFE stands ready to enforce that ban. [More]

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St. Louis PD selling machine guns, but don't worry--only to rich people

Ah, yes--with prices of fully-automatic firearms vastly and artificially inflated by the Hughes Amendment's prohibition of private ownership of post-1986 machine guns, only the wealthy will be buying the department's Tommy guns. So don't worry--with the feds' gun equivalent of the poll taxes of post-Civil War infamy, we can rest assured that the riffraff will be kept out of the Tommy gun club. [More]

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From bad to worse: Dr. Ben Carson cannot be trusted on gun rights

You want a "conversation," Carson? Then listen closely: keep your filthy claws off our guns--or face the consequences. Conversation over. [More]

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JPFO Alert: "Gun Control" Agenda Requires Heinous "Gun Violence"

The gun prohibitionist lobby calls us "violent," but it's not our agenda that requires the slaughter of innocents.

Speaking of their desire to disarm people, that of course serves their purpose in more than one way. Not only is citizen disarmament their desired end, it's also a means to that end, because the more "gun free" zones, there are, the fewer people permitted the means to effective self-defense, and the more they can be limited in whatever firepower they are permitted to have, the less likely it is that the next killer will be stopped before he racks up a big, exploitable body count.

Just the kinds of "horrific crimes" forcible citizen disarmament advocates are taught to "seize opportunistically on." Just what they're waiting for. Just what they need.

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CNN analyst says 'countless restrictions' on 2nd Amendment acceptable

Ah, so that's his standard--as long as the government's recognition of the right to keep and bear arms does not "vanish altogether," we're golden. In an instant, shall not be infringed has become "shall not vanish altogether," and that's supposed to be good enough for us.

It's not, O'Mara, and it's not good enough for the brave men and women we celebrate today who died upholding their oath to defend the rights you are so casually willing to toss away, as long as it's done in small enough pieces. [More]

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ATF's rifle sales reporting requirement shenanigans look stranger all the time

But alert reader Chris Meissen noticed another qualifier that was in the original proposal, and missing in the current one. In this proposal, there is no mention that the multiple sales have to be to the same purchaser, as is explicitly stated in the original proposal. In other words, if the BATFE gets its way, it can demand sales details from every gun store that sells two or more so-called "assault weapons" in a five-day period--no matter if each is sold to separate purchasers. [More]

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Gander Mountain 'straw purchaser' lawsuit newest anti-gun Catch-22

But perhaps the most interesting aspect of the supposedly "suspicious" nature of cash purchases is related to the recent development of the Obama administration's Department of "Justice" attempting to squeeze gun dealers by scaring banks and credit card companies away from doing business with them.

So gun dealers risk lawsuits if they accept cash for gun purchases (despite cash being defined by law as legal tender)--and they are systematically being "choked" off from banking and credit. What are they supposed to take as payment--gold bullion? [More]

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JPFO Alert: Brady Campaign "Smart Gun" Lawsuit Illustrates Their Yearning to Mandate Them

Today's JPFO Alert looks at just how ineffably eager the Brady Campaign is to outlaw self-defense.

But never mind that. Consider instead that the Brady Campaign wants for the only handgun available to New Jersey residents to be chambered in the woefully inadequate for self-defense .22 caliber. They want to force them to spend $1400 on the gun, and another $400 on the required "magic wristwatch"-- a poll tax on self-defense. They want New Jersey residents' lives to depend on keeping fresh batteries in the watch and gun, be certain to keep the watch within 10 inches of the gun (tricky, if one has to switch hands, while using the off-hand to fend off an attacker) -- and to enter a PIN number before the gun can be fired. And with all that, the gun can still be expected to fail once over the course of firing a ten-round magazine.

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Anti-veteran police state apologist (inadvertently?) gets one thing right

But Downing is right about one thing. If we the people do find ourselves with no recourse against tyranny short of "voting from the rooftops," we will certainly have the expertise of a great many combat veterans, whether formal members of the Oath Keepers or not, and some of that expertise will be in the form of hands-on experience with Army Technical Manual 31-201, the Improvised Munitions Handbook, although he should know that those techniques are not the exclusive province of military veterans.

And the government's hired muscle is going to need a bigger MRAP. [More]

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A lesson for gun prohibitionists: Prohibition empowers criminals

That's a thought that should give pause to those who advocate ever more oppressive regulation of firearms. And again, the Mexican drug cartels provide a prime example. Mexico's gun laws, far more restrictive than even the most optimistic anti-gun group in the U.S. would dare advocate publicly, have done nothing to stem the massive carnage in that unhappy country. Instead, they have made gun trafficking into Mexico a nice, lucrative adjunct to drug trafficking out of Mexico, while at the same time ensuring a paucity of legal guns with which the law-abiding in that country can defend themselves from the narco-terrorists. [More]

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'Anti-gun violence' writer thinks guns are useless unless being used to kill

What she is not getting is that a person carrying a gun in a holster is using the gun, and deriving benefit from its use, with every minute of peace of mind that comes with knowing that one is equipped to defend oneself. A firearm near the bed is being used to good effect with every moment of restful sleep made possible by the knowledge that a home invader will not find a house full of defenseless victims. An AR-15 in the gun safe is being used by its owner, as he knows that a government bent on tyranny will have to somehow deal with him and millions of others equipped with life and liberty preserving firepower. [More]

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ATF may have accidentally defanged Hughes Amendment

But here's the thing: the language of the Hughes Amendment bans transfers of post-1986 machine guns to a person, which we have just been told that an unincorporated trust is not. Therefore, the Bureau seems to have painted itself into something of an awkward corner when someone applies for a new machine gun on behalf of a trust. [More]

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New blog exposes unholy union of the NRA and RINOs

I can't argue with a single word in the Mississippi Rebel's assessment.

And what do McConnell, Simpson, Cochran, and Tillis have in common, besides being phonies?

All four of them were endorsed by the NRA.

A blog to keep an eye on.

Gun ban zealots increasingly panicked over '80% complete' firearm receivers

The Washington Post and other, similarly anti-gun newspapers can squawk all they want, the BATFE can invent all kinds of new "rules," without even the benefit of unconstitutional laws to justify those rules, and legislators can come up with new, creative[ly stupid] laws to try to impose some kind of government control over home-manufactured guns, but Americans are still going to be well armed, by whatever means necessary. [More]

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JPFO Alert: "Assault Weapons," "Cosmetic Features," and "Gun Control"

Today's JPFO Alert looks at some truly bizarre logic behind the justifications for banning so-called "assault weapons."

Unfortunately, she seems to have avoided one logical inconsistency, only to blunder into another, arguably more troubling one. She is arguing that accuracy, and control, are dangers that must be regulated out of firearms.

If that's the case, why not outlaw gun sights, or at least modern, highly visible ones? Maybe rifling should be outlawed. "Gun safety" advocates complain about what they argue are inadequate training standards for concealed carry permits (and some even want mandatory training for mere gun ownership)--but since a more highly trained shooter tends to be a more accurate shooter, isn't training a danger? They also rail against guns in bars (even when the armed patron is not permitted to drink), but since a sober shooter is likely to be a more accurate shooter, might "gun safety" not be better served by requiring that armed citizens be drunk?

And as always, if you haven't seen all the great JPFO Alerts written by David, Nicki, and Claire, you owe it to yourself to fix that.

North Korea criticizes U.S. for insufficiently oppressive gun laws

North Korea is one of the most brutally oppressive dictatorships in human history, so it's certainly not surprising that the government is critical of the idea of allowing the people access to firearms. When you are condemned by North Korea, you know you have earned the honor of being despised by the despicable. And the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence has found another ally to add to the list in advocacy of a "government monopoly on force"--everybody wins. [More]

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House DoJ funding bill debate highlights Democrats' anti-gun fanaticism

The justification we have always been given for the reporting requirement, dubious as it is, is that it will (somehow) curtail the rampant violence associated with the illegal drug trade in Mexico. How that squares with the Department of "Justice" deliberately "gunwalking" so-called "assault weapons" across the border, without even telling the BATFE's own own attaché to Mexico, has never been explained. As little sense as that makes, though, it's at least far less ridiculous than justifying the sales reporting requirement with breathless fantasies of it somehow stopping someone from "mow[ing] down an innocent crowd." [More]

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Washington Post editorial board advocates risking NJ gun dealers' lives

But the Washington Post clearly is taking the "threat" seriously, or has at least chosen to appear to do so. That would seem to be rather cold-blooded and callous of the--to advocate forcing every New Jersey handgun dealer to choose between going out of business, and engaging in the same behavior that supposedly provokes homicidal rage among people who are presumably armed. Then again, if one believes that the fewer guns in society, the better, as would appear to be the editors' position, perhaps a few dead gun dealers seems an acceptable price. [More]

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And why wouldn't Second Amendment protect right to own bazookas?

Even if Lane is elected, she is unlikely to succeed in making anti-armor rocket launchers more easily available to private citizens (and apparently Leland Yee has now left the business of distributing them illegally), so we'll most likely have to learn how to make our own.

The U.S. is not magically immune to its very own Tiananmen Square Massacre, and those who would deny the people the right to the means of stopping one have already chosen the wrong side. [More]

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Hillary Clinton wants to 'rein in' gun culture that is 'way out of balance'

Come to think of it, if we are to blame "gun violence" on a culture, perhaps the most logical target would be the culture of overarching nanny-state government futilely attempting to impose responsibility, instead of staying out of the way of the people's exercise of it. [More]

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JPFO Alert: Another Proposal to "Improve" the Second Amendment, by Rendering it Toothless

In today's JPFO Alert, another "progressive" gun-hater proposes "editing" the Second Amendment, even more cluelessly than Justice Stevens (ret.) did.

Yep--he is kindly offering to "strengthen the spirit" of the Second Amendment, by limiting it to the point of irrelevance. Thanks, but no thanks, Sanjay.

I once wrote some commentary responding to Sanghoee's piteous inquiry, "Where is Gun Control?" As it happens, JPFO can provide him with a comprehensive history of precisely where it has been for most of the last century. That's probably far more truth than he wants to hear, though.

And as always, if you haven't seen all the great JPFO Alerts written by David, Nicki, and Claire, you owe it to yourself to fix that.

ATF's proposed reporting requirement expansion illustrates 'slippery slope'

And now, the BATFE evidently believes it no longer needs even that dubious justification. If not, is there any reason to believe they will feel the need to limit themselves to "certain rifles," as Judge Collyer describes detachable magazine-fed, semi-automatic rifles of greater than .22 caliber? Maybe the existence of the .204 Ruger cartridge means that "greater than .22 caliber" will be seen as too limiting. Maybe "bullet buttons" and ARMagLocks mean that the BATFE will decide it should not limit itself to requiring the reporting of only detachable-magazine fed firearms. [More]

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Oklahoma State Senate not planning to override gun rights veto

For a self-proclaimed "staunch defender of our Second Amendment freedoms," Fallin certainly finds some strange reasons to not only decline to defend them, but to undermine the efforts of others to do so. And now the Oklahoma State Senate is enabling her. They need to hear from voters, and quickly. [More]

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Punishing 'smart gun' Quislings already yielding potential policy rewards

Absent the threat of a legal requirement that guns be "smart," gun rights advocates have no reason to fear further development of the technology (although removing that threat would presumably not neutralize some anti-gunners' rather odd objections to it). If some slow-learning gun shop owners have to be forced out of business to remove that threat, that's an acceptable price. [More]

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JPFO Alert: After Numerous Attempts, Dr. Ben Carson Still Can't Figure out "Shall Not Be Infringed"

In today's JPFO Alert, I note that despite several tries to get it right, Dr. Ben Carson still needs remedial training regarding the Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms.

Perhaps he is advocating his own Justice Stevensesque edit to the Second Amendment: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed, except by a federal government that maintains a sound fiscal policy."

Carson's stance on that which shall not be infringed has "improved" over the course of about a year from utterly unacceptable, to . . . well, very slightly less utterly unacceptable. He might want to consider picking up the pace. Dramatically.

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OK Governor Fallin vetoes bill because gun rights are 'minor issue'

Instead, the legislature is now taking the time to override her veto of legislation so uncontroversial as to have received votes from over 85% of the House, and almost 96% of the Senate. And indeed, the veto override process is well underway, with the House voting 86-3 on Wednesday in favor of the override. The bill now goes to the Senate, which originally passed it by an even more overwhelming margin.

Fallin can take comfort in the fact that the presumably easy override vote there should at least not take much time, but hopefully she has learned that vetoing the people's fundamental human rights--however "minor" she deems that issue to be--is not a good way to save time. [More]

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JPFO Alert: Gun Ban Zealots' Big Money Can't Buy Grassroots, But is Still a Threat

Bloomberg and his billions can't buy the true grassroots passion and determination of good people fighting for a just cause, but they can buy a lot of the whores who think of themselves as our "leaders." Today's JPFO Alert is a reminder that we cannot afford to not take the threat seriously.

In the final extremity, we can, and will if we must, defend our right to keep and bear arms by exercising that right. How much better for everyone, though, if it never comes to that, because we successfully defend it by exercising our First Amendment rights?

That will take work. Let's get to it.

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JPFO Alert: Marijuana Legalization and Armed Self-Defense Pose Legal Paradox

I certainly have no argument with a de-escalation of the "War on Drugs," but the confluence of that shift and the still aggressively waged "War on Guns" is going to make for some uncomfortable paradoxes, as I note in today's JPFO alert:

In the final analysis, anyone who wishes to avail himself of both the right to keep and bear arms and "legal" marijuana might be best advised to keep at least one of the two "off the books."

That will take work. Let's get to it.

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JFPO Alert: ATF, Obama Administration Keep Tightening the Screws, by Executive Fiat

For the short term, at least, new federal gun laws are probably the smallest threat to private gun ownership in the U.S. As today's JPFO Alert reports, the Enemy is advancing their agenda as far as they can by fiat, rather than by legislation.

At risk of belaboring the point, let's note one more time that none of this draconian new restriction of the Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual involves any new legislation. That's particularly odd, when one reads what the BATFE says on its "ATF for Kids" page (yep--there actually is such an animal):

ATF cannot enact a law, nor can it amend the law.

Perhaps BATFE's policymakers should put themselves back in grade school, and read their own "Kids' page," because they seem to have forgotten that basic point.

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JPFO Alert: Bundy Ranch Showdown Proves Militias Can Stop Government Excesses

For the doubters out there, an armed militia can face down the greatest military superpower in the world, as today's JPFO Alert notes.

The issue here is that even if Bundy is wrong, enforcement of grazing fee requirements is not legitimately the work of heavily armed paramilitary forces. And the further issue is that for now, at least, when those paramilitary forces stared through their rifle scopes at armed private citizens staring through their rifle scopes, it was the government's eyes that blinked, with no injuries except to the feds' pride.

That injury itself is enough to prompt outrage in some circles. Sen. Reid is not alone in denouncing Bundy and his supporters as "terrorists." On the "progressive" discussion group site Democratic Underground, many participants are evidently angry that the showdown was not resolved with Bundy, his family, and his allies dying in a hail of gunfire.

JPFO Alert: Justice Stevens (Inadvertently?) Admits RKBA Unconnected to Militia Service

Today's JPFO Alert catches retired anti-gun Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens making some rather surprising admissions about the meaning of the Second Amendment.

If this "fix" is to change anything, must that not mean that the Second Amendment as actually written is unencumbered by any such limit on its application? To borrow an old analogy used by the forcible citizen disarmament zealots (as irreparably flawed as that analogy is), no one seems to have suggested that the First Amendment should be edited to say, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, except with regard to yelling "fire" in a crowded movie theater . . . " (unless that's one of Stevens' other five proposed amendments).

Catching up on JPFO alerts

Somehow, I failed to post links to the last three JPFO alerts I've written. We have:

• School's "Duty" to Treat Student as Terrorist for Holding a Pencil Wrong?
• Gun Rights Advocates Bid Farewell to Civil Rights Icon Otis McDonald
• "Smart" Guns, Their Surprising Critics, and Powerful Allies

And David Codrea, Nicki Kenyon, and Claire Wolf all have been putting out their superb work. Find it all here.

ATF war on EP Armory illustrates arbitrary inanity of gun regulation

But on a more fundamental level, why should it matter? Whether the frame is made first, and then filled in with plastic of another color, that will then have to be removed; or the to-be-removed portion is made first, and the frame formed around it--the aspiring builder gets the same thing, and has to do the same amount of work, either way. Selling a receiver made as outlined in the first example, though, without observing all the legal niceties required for gun commerce, would be a federal felony, while selling receivers manufactured by the second described technique, without any controls at all, is completely legal. How is the first scenario any more "harmful" than the second? [More]

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Anti-gun congresswoman wants to make Yee's alleged crimes 'more illegal'

So the Leland Yee Gun Crime Reduction Act (maybe "Yee Law," for short) would nullify every federal, state, and local law that in any way regulates commerce in any weapon up to and including 155mm howitzers. This would reduce "gun crime," because the number of gun laws people could potentially break would be so greatly reduced. It would work in exactly opposite the way the Brady Campaign to Create Gun Crime does.

Now that's a gun law freedom loving Americans could get behind. [More]

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JPFO Alert: Ft. Hood Soldiers Turned by Policy into Targets

In today's JPFO alert, I share some memories brought to the fore by Wednesday's Ft. Hood shooting.

Just as we began the run, a mentally disturbed sergeant opened fire on us from the treeline, killing Major Mark Stephen Badger with his first shot, and then continuing to fire, apparently without regard to specific soldiers as his targets.

That ended up being 18 additional targets, all of whom survived, although one was paralyzed.

And we, the supposedly elite paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division, ran like frightened rabbits, because in a "gun-free" zone, the armed predator is king.

JPFO Alert: In Kentucky, Any 'War on Women' Will Face Armed Resistance

With iron-clad veto-proof majorities in both chambers, the Kentucky legislature has passed an important reform in favor of self-defense for victims of domestic violence:

The way the bill would work for domestic violence victims is that anyone who has an emergency protective order or a domestic violence order will be able to apply for an emergency temporary (good for 45 days) concealed carry permit, for which the training requirement would be waived (the applicant would still have to pass a criminal background check). If the permit holder does receive the required training at some time during those 45 days, the permit becomes like any other Kentucky concealed carry permit.

JPFO Alert: No Room for 'Politeness' in 2A Advocacy

Today we discuss the "pragmatic" view of gun rights advocacy, as articulated by NRA board member and New York State Rifle and Pistol Association president Tom King:

The idea that we must be more "polite," lest we frighten "the very people we want to attract to our side," ignores the nature of the right we are fighting for. The Second Amendment exists to guarantee the people's right to the means of killing aspiring tyrants and their hired muscle. There is no polite way to say that, as insurgencies tend to be more than a little "rude."

We must be "frightening," because the people who would trample our rights will only lose interest in doing so if they perceive a very personal risk to themselves in continuing on that course. They will have no reason to perceive such a risk if they see that our strategy is to cross our fingers and let judges tell us what our rights are, and when those judges tell us that those rights are effectively nothing, we then reduce ourselves to hoping that our liberties can win a popularity contest.

'Guns everywhere' in Georgia--why is that a problem?

There's a reason that the anti-self-defense zealots refuse to make a distinction between the concepts of "guns everywhere," and "guns everywhere except where there is no potential need for them." It's because even they lack the audacity to try to dispute the fact that no such distinction exists. [More]

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