Goodman is no friend to private gun ownership in the U.S., and clearly isn't trying to be (he enthusiastically supports mandating--without even a law being passed--reporting of multiple rifle sales), but he might find himself no longer so gleefully quoted by the "gun control" groups, now that he's no longer toeing the "80%" line, and has dared to implicate "Project Gunwalker" as part of the problem. [More]That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
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Perhaps, though, this kind of thinking explains CSGV's insistence on referring to "our Democracy" with such regularity, rather than acknowledging that our nation is a republic. Promoting the notion that we live in a society where the majority rules, meaning that 51% can legitimately vote away the fundamental human rights of the other 49%, fits right into CSGV's agenda, especially when coupled with the VPC's latest theme, of gun owners as a minority.That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
Here's a hint, though: there are still enough of us to defend our rights, and forgetting that would be bad news for everyone involved--but worse news for those who forget than for those who are forced to remind them. [More]
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The NRA's annual convention kicks off in Pittsburgh today, and is expected to draw 65,000 to 70,000 members, and pump $23.7 million (by "conservative estimates") into the local economy. That makes it big news, even for many who have no interest in the gun rights/"gun control" debate.That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
This is fortunate, because some real good can come from the media scrutiny of the event. Seattle Gun Rights Examiner Dave Workman is in Pittsburgh already, and he expects "Project Gunwalker" to be a topic of much convention conversation . . . [More]
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Hmm . . . Secretary Napolitiano is not a very "hands-on" Secretary of Homeland Security, if she actually was that "unaware." Sipsey Street Irregular Mike Vanderboegh and Seattle Gun Rights Examiner Dave Workman have much more about this latest development, which actually has more to do with the fact that CBS has learned that Congressional investigators are in Arizona, so unhappy are they with the administration's refusal (illegal refusal) to cooperate with the investigation. [More]That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
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As charted by Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership (JPFO), governments murdered 170,000,000 of their own citizens over the course of the 20th century, after first passing citizen disarmament laws. Genocide is, after all, a good deal easier when the intended victims cannot effectively resist.That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
The purpose of the Second Amendment . . . is to protect the people's means to resist, and ultimately abolish, a government that seeks to usurp the ultimate authority of the people--a government that has, in other words, become tyrannical. There can be no greater tyranny than the wholesale slaughter of the people by their own government. The Second Amendment exists to prevent the cherished goal of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV)--their oft-touted "government monopoly on force," and genocide is the ultimate expression of such a monopoly.
We'll see your 32, Goddard, and raise you 169,999,968 [More]
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That Illinois, of all states, might finally join the vast majority of states in recognizing citizens' right to an effective means of self-defense, even when not at home, has "gun control" groups in something of a panic. "Losing" the stronghold of draconian gun laws that Illinois has long been recognized as would demonstrate just how impotent the "gun control" movement has become. [More]That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
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Last fall, Colby Goodman and Michel Marizco, of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the University of San Diego Trans-Border Institute, released a study, "U.S. Firearms Trafficking to Mexico: New Data and Insights Illuminate Key Trends and Challenges." Ever since, advocates of "gun control" have been pointing to it as the "scholarly evidence" supporting their assertion that the Mexican drug syndicates are arming themselves at U.S. gun shops and gun shows, and that, therefore, the U.S. needs yet more draconian gun laws--the Constitution be damned.
This study must have been a welcome sight to the gun prohibitionists, who by then had received enough criticism over their wildly inflated claims of "90%," or even "95 to 100%," gradually slipping to "80% of guns recovered at Mexican crime scenes came from the U.S., that they for a while stopped even talking about percentages. The VPC's Tom Diaz went so far in retreating from the talk of high percentages that he called the entire issue of percentage "a red herring"--never mind percentages, just ban "assault weapons" anyway. Rabidly anti-gun Attorney General Eric Holder said much the same thing, as did the Brady Campaign's Paul Helmke.
Suddenly, though, this "scholarly report" comes out and says "80%":
In May 2010, for example, the Mexican government, which has received training from ATF to better identify firearms, said that of the 75,000 firearms it seized in the last three years about 80 percent, or 60,000 firearms, came from the United States.And everyone in forcible citizen disarmament land was happy, because now they could talk percentages and numbers again. Helmke cited it:
Violence in Mexico has increased since Congress allowed the federal assault weapons ban to expire in 2004. And a study just released by the Woodrow Wilson Center and the University of San Diego matches Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence reports, which confirm that a significant number of the guns used in Mexican drug crimes come from America.Dennis "What People?" Henigan cited it:
According to a new report, U.S. Firearms Trafficking to Mexico, by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the University of San Diego Trans-Border Institute, of 75,000 firearms seized by the Mexican government in the last three years, about 80%, or 60,000 firearms, came from the United States.Another Brady Campaign "study" cites it here.
@bergerjd Here's an excellent compilation of data on firearms being trafficked from U.S to #Mexico. http://tinyurl.com/5whyjqu #p2 #TexasThe only problem is, the "scholarly report's" figures are just as fanciful as all the others, as I explained here (with an account of my comment war with one of the "study's" authors, Colby Goodman) and here.
At the time, claims were made in the U.S. that 90 percent of guns used in crimes in Mexico came from the U.S. The statistic originated with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and was picked up by the media and members of Congress. The ATF later massaged it to say 90 percent of the seized weapons they had been able to check came from the U.S. But the analyst who wrote the leaked memo said there was no way of verifying that.Well, Brady Campaign and CSGV, care to show as much integrity as Goodman, and admit your earlier arguments were based on bullshit?
“Claims by Mexican and U.S. officials that upwards of 90 percent of illegal recovered weapons can be traced back to the U.S. is based on an incomplete survey of confiscated weapons,” the analyst wrote.
Colby Goodman is an arms trafficking expert and security consultant in Washington. He says the information on seized guns was inconsistent.
“Duplicates, multiple duplicates or it was lacking a lot of basic information that ATF would need to trace it back to the purchaser in the United States,” Goodman said.
Evidence continues to mount that contrary to claims on the part of those who would use Mexican drug war violence to justify heavier gun regulation in the U.S., the civilian gun market in this country is at most a very minor player as a source of the criminals' firepower--at least when the U.S. government isn't abetting the process. When the narco-thugs go shopping for firepower, they go south. The latest confirmation of that comes from McClatchy, in "Drug gangs help themselves to Central American military arsenals" . . . [More]That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
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When the Justice Department commits crimes (and is protected in those crimes by a member of the House committee charged with government oversight), and the State Department is complicit with and defends what has been described in some circles as an act of war against a neighboring nation and important trade partner, the legitimacy of the entire government must come into question. [More]That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
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The USA Today article quotes a federal government estimate of $5 billion per year in tax revenue lost to smuggling, with that figure only likely to grow. This black maket is, in other words, big business, and becoming a bigger and bigger priority for the BATFE.That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
That will, no doubt, greatly displease the Brady Campaign's Paul Helmke, who as far back as last August, was very offended that the BATFE wasn't acting like the BFFFF (Bureau of Firearms, Firearms, Firearms, and Firearms). [More]
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Rep. Wasserman Schultz is at least a bit more honest than many of her fellows in the forcible citizen disarmament lobby, in that she does not refer to the liberty she proposes to eradicate as "the gun show loophole." She at least acknowledges that it's all private sales she wants banned, rather than "only" those at gun shows.That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.
And, yes--when I say she wants to ban private sales, that's exactly what I mean. To describe any sale in which the prospective buyer is first subjected to a government search of his legal history (and increasingly, his health history) as "private" is to utterly destroy the meaning of that word. [More]
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