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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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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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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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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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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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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CSGV spokesman Ladd Everitt thinks he's faster than a speeding bullet

Everitt has apparently seen too many movies, and thinks "silencers" reduce the sound of a gunshot to the volume level of a mouse sneeze (the WJS article notes that even a very advanced suppressor only lowers the report of an AR-15 to 129 decibels--louder than a jackhammer). Even more amusingly, if he thinks that the sound of a gunshot already fired "serves as a warning to stay away," he must think that the person just "warned" can outrun the bullet that was just fired. [More]

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CSGV claims not to have sought handgun ban for decades; facts say otherwise

CSGV wants a "government monopoly on force." That cannot be achieved while we the people have any firearms. It may suit their purposes to hide parts of their sick, pro-tyranny agenda, but they will always be ready to lobby for whatever gun prohibition they think has a chance of being imposed on the once-free American people. And always ready to lie through their teeth. [More]

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Well, Biden did say 'buy a shotgun'

Biden tells Americans concerned about self-defense to "buy a shotgun." Who am I to challenge the self-defense wisdom of our President of Vice?

So I bought one. Now, though, it occurs to me that he said something about a "double barrel" shotgun. That probably means he did not have in mind a semi-automatic, detachable magazine-fed model like the Vepr-12 I chose. He probably really didn't envision the shotgun being equipped with a Bumpski bump-firing stock that so frightens Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

Apparently, Feinstein doesn't like for the lowly masses to be able to put this much lead downrange this quickly (not a Vepr, but a very similar Saiga):

VP Joe probably wouldn't really appreciate the Paradigm SRP spreader choke I put on it, either, but if you're going to shoot the government's hired muscle when he comes on a gun confiscation raid, you'd might as well shoot his pals, too.

Don't really know if he'd object to the Crimson Trace vertical foregrip with tac-light and green laser, although given the fact that he's a big fan of banning so-called "assault weapons," and that vertical foregrips (even without lights and lasers) are "assault features," he probably doesn't like those, either.

Molon labe, Joe.

CSGV condemns NRA for not voicing conspiracy theory

The NRA has never been "anti-government," and indeed has a great many members who are in the military and law enforcement (and, for that matter, elected government officials). The NRA is also far from alone in not being particularly concerned about the government's sudden passion for ammunition. Some of us disagree with that lack of concern--does that mean CSGV agrees with us?

None of that, though, would fit in with CSGV's/Horwitz's fantasy of gun rights advocacy being motivated by "gun industry profit," rather than protection of the palladium of liberty. Poor CSGV--the truth continues to just not cooperate. [More]

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'Project Gunwalker' book would 'hurt morale' at ATF: So, is there a downside?

This concern about "morale" at the BATFE is certainly late in coming, having never posed any obstacle to retaliation against whistleblowers (too many examples to catalog). Leadership also appears blissfully unconcerned about the morale of the families of hundreds of "nameless, faceless dead" in Mexico (or, for that matter, the family of "Gunwalker"-slain Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry).

In the end, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that in an agency that exists to violate the rights of citizens, the lower the morale, the better. [More]

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Brady Campaign cites massacre in Nairobi, to advocate Nairobi-like gun laws here

So, to sum up, Gross advocates gun laws just like Kenya's, so we can avoid what happened in . . . Kenya. Wait--what? [More]

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Facts don't support 'universal background checks,' but advocates don't care

But that, of course, will never do, because holding the perpetrators of "gun violence" 100 percent responsible for their evil would leave no blame to be transferred to guns, and would thus defeat the argument that you and I should have less access to the palladium of liberty. Perish the thought. [More]

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New York Times again displays its hatred of American gun owners

To anti-gun groups and the mass media (the anti-gun groups' propaganda arm, who have been educated by such moral paragons as this, and this), armed, self-reliant Americans are the enemy. Not because we are violent (we aren't), but because we are independent, and thus resistant to the "progressive" agenda. [More]

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'Progressive' in China too lazy to explain 2nd Amendment, probably for the best

Ford's version of the Second Amendment, evidently, states that the people's right to keep and bear arms shall be only a little infringed (or would he prefer "modestly infringed"?).

Frankly, it's for the best that Ford cannot muster the energy to explain the Second Amendment to the Chinese, or to anyone else. For that to be useful, he would first have to summon the motivation to learn about it himself. [More]

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The myth of 'modest gun control'

Those who would impose these laws on a free people have convinced themselves that their personal dislike of an armed citizenry is more important than the lives and liberty of entire nations. That's not "modesty"--it's monstrous, evil arrogance, and it's beyond forgiveness. These people need to be reminded of what goeth before the fall--and someday, they will be. [More]

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Gun ban extremist offers very sensible proposal

Oh--one question, though, Mr. Gelman. What about "Only Ones," and other minions of the government? Shall it be "no guns" for them, too, or do you agree with the above-mentioned groups, that "the guys with the guns make the rules," and intend to keep it that way, with a government monopoly on force? [More]

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Chicago Sun-Times lobbies for 'Run and Hide' law

A society that prohibits decent people from standing their ground, a society in which they must retreat from predatory thugs, is a society in which the thugs rule, where bullying and intimidation are legally protected "rights," to be enforced by the government's own bullying thugs. Americans must not shrink from standing their ground against all such creatures, in government and out. [More]

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2014 could be big year for 'printed' guns

The article goes on to note that China appears poised to seize this market (as they have seized just about every other market), resulting in, as the article puts it, "a flood of Chinese printers."

Ah--the delicious irony of China, of all places, being the source of Americans' and others' means of throwing off the chains of forcible citizen disarmament tyranny. The "government monopoly on force," so beloved of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (and Democrat New York Congressman Jerrold Nadler) is dying, and "progressive" China is helping to pull the plug. [More]

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New 'study,' same old distortions about US gun market supplying Mexican cartels

Another entirely predictable omission is any mention of the good being done with "illegal guns" in Mexico--perhaps the authors would prefer that these courageous women face the drug cartels unarmed.

As for mentioning "Project Gunwalker," in which the Obama Department of "Justice," under Attorney General Eric Holder deliberately sent guns into the hands of Mexican cartel gunmen--fuhgeddaboudit.

Widespread support for restrictive gun laws in the U.S. depends on a misinformed public being fed a steady stream of lies. Unfortunately, the government, mass media, and agenda-driven academics are feeding them a river of them. [More]

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