“If someone has a gun in their home around children, it is not necessarily a case of endangerment,” Marlowe said. “It all involves weighing risk factors that a child might be injured. So it is speculation on the part of the person doing the reporting.”
Seems the ATF can bankrupt a gun maker by issuing an approval letter for a product and then revoking. That’s what they think over at subguns.
Whether Bush versus Kerry or Corker versus Ford these two cartoons sum up nicely our current political system. Does it ever seem that you only have a choice between the two worst choices?
We interrupt this Christmas Break for the following:
I have a couple of requests for media contacts that I still need to send out. Because I’m going to submit several searches at once, consider this a call for more volunteers. I’m really looking at those of you in states where Bloomberg has targeted shops. That would be Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Georgia and Virginia.
I’m likely out of here for a while. So, Merry Christmas to you and yours. And some holiday cheer for those of you with a sense of humor. And for those of you without one: God is gonna kick your ass, you infidelic, pagan scum.
Remember how the powers that be in Australia credited their near total ban on gun ownership with a reduction in mass shootings? They never noted that it also correlated with an increase in violent crime but that’s beside the point. Turns out, those charged with enforcing the law weren’t complying with the law:
A review of gun laws a decade after the Port Arthur massacre has found all states and territories have breached the national firearms agreement.
Oops.
Any reader here registered over at the Huffington Post?
Paul Helmke of The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Ownership is pushing his ‘assault weapons and fewer cops’ are responsible for violent crime nonsense. He’s pushing it at the WaPo, The Hill and the HuffPo:
Over the past few years, however, the federal response seems to have reversed its efforts – COPS funding has been cut, the Assault Weapons Ban was allowed to expire, and the Brady background checks have been weakened. In effect, our national approach to fighting crime has gone from “more police and less guns” to “more guns and less police.” Is there any wonder violent crime is on the upswing?
I’ll repeat: Brady has issued grades for states. These grades are gun control rankings from A to F, with an A indicating more gun control and more in line with Brady’s goals. Strangely, most of the increase in violent crime occurred in states that earned higher Brady rankings. That’s unpossible!
Somebody go post that at the HuffPo.
Update: Federal background checks have been weakened? How is that? News to me.
Meet the JIC (Just In Case). It’s a PVC tube with a survivial kit in it, with matches, medicine, fish hooks, rope. Oh, and a 12 gauge pump. You know, the important stuff.
It’s like it comes ready to be buried in the ground, or something.
Via The Geek.
Speaking of being prepared, Les looks at Inexpensive Alternatives to Emergency Generators.
From someone:
anyone know where I can get my semi auto NEW auto ordinance machine gun fixed so it will fire faster.
My response:
If it’s semi-auto, it’s not a machine gun. If you try to turn it into one, that’s illegal.
So, wayward boyscout? ATF? Bloomberg cronie? Brady staffer?
metulj, who I rarely agree with and who I largely think is a dick, has called it quits:
My brother, with whom I am estranged to a degree, called me tonight to complain that someone had called him asking questions about me. Judiciously, my brother told him he had no idea who I was. This person promptly called my sister-in-law” threatening to expose details of “her relationship with me and identified himself as associated with the University of Tennessee where he said I am a student and, weirdly, as part of a Trade Commission investigating me. She hung up and got my brother to call me.
There’s a few crazy people out there and, thanks to Al Gore’s Internets, you’re more likely to run into them. Careful out there. It sucks that it happens and I wish metulj the best,
Phil, on the TN bill i mentioned yesterday, says:
My rational, though utterly non-legal, opinion tells me that if I harm an atacker in self-defense that I cannot be sued by family of said attacker after the legal system decides: 1. Not to try me, or 2. I am found not guilty.
Via The Ninth Stage comes Justice For Sal. Sal was shot and killed during a SWAT raid for sports gambling with his friends:
Dr. Salvatore J. Culosi. Sal was unjustly shot and killed by a member of the Fairfax County, VA police SWAT team on January 24, 2006. Sal was under investigation by Fairfax County police for supposedly taking sports bets. Police sent a fully-armed, paramilitary SWAT team to his home to serve a documents search warrant and killed him with a .45 Heckler & Koch handgun – a powerful weapon typically used by U.S. military forces in combat. Sal was alone, unarmed and cooperative outside his home – in plain view when he was shot and killed. He had no criminal history and did not own a weapon.
Ninth Stage has more here. Looks like two things killed Sal:
1 – A SWAT raid for a non-violent, non-imminent danger situation.
2 – Incompetent policeman who should have kept his finger off the trigger.
Cowboy attitude and incompetence don’t mix.
I appreciate LaPierre’s post tyring to get people to call the ATF to report the fact that Michael Bloomberg’s people broke the law. And I do hope the NRA makes that a campaign.
But dealing the The Gun Guys is a waste of time. They are paid liars. And that is, generally, all they do. It’s one of the many non-grassroots, shill organizations funded by the Joyce Foundation. It’s ran by Mark Karlin & Associates, who also does Buzzflash. And this guy is affiliated with them, per THR. Here’s a big list of Joyce Funded, Karlin run sites. And there’s some sites the Brady Bunch runs there too.
But Wayne catches them in a couple of big lies.
In his first study, 33 male and 13 female officers of different ranks and years of service, were sent into a room to arrest a “suspect” and to “act in a way they thought appropriate” while doing so. The officers were armed with a SIG-Sauer P226 that was rigged with force sensors on the trigger and grip. All the officers were instructed that if they drew the gun during the exercise, they were to keep their finger off the trigger unless they had made the decision to shoot, per their training and department regs.
There’s more. Go, read.
Some Bests about my home county. But stop telling everybody. We already have quite the influx. My former subdivision had like 6 people from Chicago and two from Boston. Of course, being in Blount County, it did make for an interesting cross section of American accents.
BC Local: Howdy, neighbor. Whatcha doin’?
Bostonian: Wuhkin on mah cah.
BC Local: huh?
Chicagoan trying to translate Bostonian into Redneck: He’s working on his car, dere. Eh, fuck it. Let’s go have a couple two-tree beers.
BC Local: Beer, cool.
Bostonian: Beeh, cool.
Tam:
Square up towards the opponent, lean in, toe of the stock high on the shoulder (bring the weapon up to your eyes, don’t duck your eyes down to the weapon), elbows in, weak side foot slightly forward.
Uncle concurs:
Next, we’ll be banning them:
One of the males suddenly tackled the man, threw him to the ground, and threatened him. The other male, holding his dog back, then threatened to have the dog attack if the man didn’t hand over his cash.
Over at the moderate voice, Paul Silver asks:
I came across these reasonable comments from Paul Helmke, a former Republican mayor of Fort Wayne, Ind., and the new president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence:
…Concerns for gun violence prevention and public safety should not be categorized as pro-gun versus anti-gun.
What’s “anti-gun” about wanting background checks to make sure that those with criminal records aren’t buying guns legally?
What’s “anti-gun” about restricting bulk sales of handguns, a sure sign that someone wants to sell those guns illegally on the secondary market?
Why isn’t it “pro-gun” to want to crack down on the 1 percent of gun dealers who sell 57 percent of the guns that end up being used illegally; or to support more financing for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives?
Everyone else is having the second amendment fight but I answered questions about reasonableness here.
Ben emails a link to this TN bill:
Criminal Procedure – Extends circumstances under which there is a legal presumption that a person using deadly force in self defense had a reasonable belief of death and confers civil immunity upon person properly using self defense. – Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 11, Part 6.
Does that mean what I think it means? Anyone heard?
Phil talks about his SHTF equipment review due to recent events. Good lessons to learn for you survivalist nuts err responsible and prepared individuals.
Read it.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership:
Violent crime is up in America for a number of reasons, but one very likely cause is that it has become easier for criminals to arm themselves, and with ever more deadly weapons.
It was never hard for criminals to arm themselves. They don’t obey the law, remember?
For almost six years, many have systematically made it easier for criminals to have access to firearms by weakening enforcement of laws that cut illegal gun trafficking, supporting policies that encourage more firearms on the streets of American cities, putting AK-47s and other military-style semiautomatic weapons back onto our streets and even placing huge restraints on the ability of governments and individuals to hold the gun pushers accountable through the civil court system.
The military uses automatic weapons. Again, the Brady Bunch is trying to obfuscate machine guns and weapons that look like assault weapons. Meanwhile, Brady has issued grades for states. These grades are gun control rankings from A to F, with an A indicating more gun control and more in line with Brady’s goals. Strangely, most of the increase in violent crime occurred in states that earned higher Brady rankings. That’s unpossible!
Update: David Hardy says funny how crime rates declined for years, as Americans bought more guns.
Mr. Completely is putting together the Gun Blogger Rendezvous II for October 2007. Also, there’s a blog for it here.
While in Reno, I thought that we all agreed that Rendezvous sounded gay and we’d work on a name change. Guess not.
A post at the gun blogs is asking for info:
I need some help
I recieved my grandfathers rifle after he passed away and i had it reblued and had a new butt and stock made.
I have been trying to research the Data sheet. I have gone to the winchester site and from there i got lost. Here is the data on the weaponNew Haven Co
Winchester repeating rifle arms Co
Model 64
30 W.C.F.
Serial # 1091961
I know nothing of them, being more an Evil Black Rifle guy.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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