The reauthorization of the assault weapons ban has 59 co-sponsors.

I noted the language criticizing ATF in the apprporations bill. I got an email from Glen Caroline at NRA noting:

Based on our discussion at the GBR, I thought this would be of interest to you; an area detailing where NRA’s efforts, and the efforts of the bloggers, have produced some movement in the area of BATFE reform. Please cross post this to your lists so all are aware of our efforts on this front.

Thank you,
Glen
Glen Caroline, Director
NRA-ILA Grassroots Division
www.NRAILA.org

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Based on concerns raised by NRA, the House Appropriations Committee report on the Commerce/Justice/Science appropriations bill (H.R. 3093) includes the following language:

“The committee has heard reports that [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives] has pursued license revocations and denials against firearms dealers based on violations that consist largely of recordkeeping errors of various types that are unlikely to impede tracing investigations or prosecution of individuals who use firearms in crime. The Committee encourages ATF to consider lesser gradation of sanctions for recordkeeping errors.”

This is a continuation of NRA’s longstanding efforts to reform the BATFE, and to ensure that any penalties administered by BATFE against FFLs appropriately fit the transgression and that BATFE does not abuse its authority. Last spring, NRA-ILA secured passage in the U.S. House of H.R. 5092, a bill that included many reforms to the process by which BATFE punishes violations of federal law and regulations (more information on bill here). These reforms would have provided a fairer process for FFLs accused of violations. Passage of the bill followed on the heels of House hearings (also prompted by NRA’s efforts) on BATFE abuses with respect to FFL enforcement and gun show operations. Unfortunately, the Senate failed to consider the bill before adjourning for the year.

Others in the pro-gun grassroots community have reported on this issue, including Ryan Horsley of Red’s Trading Post, and numerous other bloggers. Working together, it is our hope that we can continue our mutual efforts to reform BATFE once and for all to reduce and eliminate unjust harassment of legitimate gun dealers.

Seems my throw away post linking to a video scantily clad women firing machine guns generated a bit of a stink. Well, I didn’t take it seriously either but some folks took issue with it. In comments, Rob said:

Don’t get me wrong. There’s nothing wrong with women in bikinis. There’s even something hot about chicks and guns. But these types of videos are exactly what the Bradys look for when stereotyping us gunnies.

The lack of safety here is appalling. No eye protection. No hearing protection. Spraying from side to side and from the hip.

No thanks.

And Joe finds it annoying and notes women might find it offensive. Well, I thought it was funny. And that was really it. I didn’t much thought into it.

James thinks they just need more range instruction and volunteered to help.

#41. Via Ninth Stage.

Breda took a new shooter to the range.

But seriously?

Greg has a little competition for you gun bloggers:

A Competition for Gunbloggers: Taking Newbies to the Range

In the spirit of AC’s offer, I’m sponsoring an informal competition to see how many people we can (safely) introduce to guns. My main concern is education. I’m not trying to turn card-carrying members of the Brady Campaign into NRA advocates (although, I wouldn’t complain.) We have to take it upon ourselves to teach people, one at a time if need be, that guns are not what movies, politicians, and anti-rights lobbyists portray them to be.

Details here.

Luring gun makers. Say, Knoxville was trying that a bit back. I never heard more after their pitch, though.

Via Rustmeister.

Seems Rudy thinks the blind should be able to own guns. Well, not really. He says that people have a right to arms. And some people are blind. But the blind seem to be doing OK.

Reader Shane emails:

I took the NRA handgun course today, had a lot of fun too! Last time I fired a handgun was in 1993 (a 1911 back when I was in the Navy). After I left school at Madison, WI and moved to the Seattle area, I decided to get a handgun for personal and home defense, as well as to carry when I go mountain hiking and backpacking. So today I fired a 1911, a Sig Sauer 226, a .38 revolver, and a Glock 19, did pretty good too (nice tight groupings for the most part). I did the best with the 1911 and the Sig, both fit my hand real well and I did not have any trouble keeping my aim. I eventually wound up purchasing a S&W M&P .45. It also fit my hand real well and the range gun was a nice shooter. I know a .45 is considered by some to be a bit much, but I want something that can take hollow point (to minimize wall penetration should I miss) and drop a bear if I find myself facing one someday in the wilderness.

I have to wait a week before I can pick it up, but that is OK as my wife wants to gun safe to arrive first (I got a gunvault, www.gunvault.com). I’ll also be stopping by the Sheriff this week to put in my application for my Concealed Carry Permit.

The instructor for my NRA course also teaches an advanced course in pistol shooting (shooting offhand, kneeling, prone, from cover, etc) and home defense (how to deter a home invader by making your home unattractive, and how to stop an intruder should they choose to come in). Gonna have to ask him when he plans on offering that again.

Anyway, maybe I’m not part of the “Triangle of Death”, but certainly one of the People of the Gun.

Excellent.

Background here and here. Seems she’s getting tons of hate mail. Her email address disappeared from here last night so it’s not you guys. I suspect it’s from the NRA news alert. Some of the hate mail, which she insists on forwarding to me, is appalling. She says she’s received death threats though none of the ones she sent to me were threats but were vile nonetheless. Anyway, I think she gets it.

At the Atlantic, the grotesque image has disappeared and been replaced with an homage to the first amendment. Seems they think we’re advocating congress making it a law that you can’t say stupid shit. As opposed to what we did which was, you know, exercise our first amendment rights to say you said some stupid shit. Equating 4M NRA members with a murderer would upset them? Who knew?

And they state that the image was not from Stahl:

Furthermore, the image was not chosen and created by Stahl but rather the editorial team. Our publication is not USA-based and we reserve the right to print what we want (our laws protect Freedom of Speech as well) whether or not we fully agree with what has been published.

And there’s a screed on guns and hunting that’s not even worth reading because it devolves into hysteria about gulags and kleptocracy. And don’t bother commenting there. I’m told they’re deleting them.

Is they’re living in the 90s:

After all, polls in the early 90s consistently showed that crime was an important issue and 60% support for tighter gun control laws. Yet Dems are essentially done trying to push gun control laws because of the perceived efficacy of the NRA in both 1994 and 2000. This is because while lots of people will march to the polls to vote against their Congressman for voting to take away their guns and give them to the U.N., the voters who favor these laws won’t use it as a reason to vote for anyone.

Or because, being smart politicians, they look at new polls.

heh.

In an update to Poster Child For The NRA, it seems Jayne Lyn Stahl was in no way responsible for that disgusting image. She stated to me that:

I had nothing to do with the photo/logo, nor wouold I ever do anything that gross and reprehensible.

and I asked her to clarify:

Yep; I had nothing to do with that nor would I ever have anything to do with something as repugnant and disgusting as that. I totally agree with you and your readers that using the NRA logo in a way like that (or the logo of any organization) would be vile and repulsive. Thanks for asking. I respect your right to your opinion, and I respect the NRA as I do any law-abiding organization

I think the Atlantic Free Press is the culprit here.

I believe her.

Update: And you can stop bugging her now. She’s not responsible for the image and, I think, realizes her title of Poster Child For The NRA may have been over the top. And that’s a good thing.

Go Team Uncle!

Wow. A truly horrid abuse of the law.

From NRA’s Freedom’s Voice by Glen A. Caroline, Director of NRA-ILA Grassroots Division

Those who know even a little something about NRA would read this headline and immediately conjure up images of a renowned competitive shooter, an accomplished sportswoman, someone who bravely and legally used a gun for self-defense, or maybe a patriot who stands up for freedom when it is attacked.

Well, if you’re Jayne Lyn Stahl, your image is that of a murderer.

In an October 9 Atlantic Free Press article by that title, Stahl equates the off-duty deputy sheriff in Wisconsin who shot and killed six innocent people in cold blood with the typical NRA Member. Specifically, Ms. Stahl writes, “While one often thinks of Charleton (sic) Heston when thinking about the NRA, in this age of the cowboy, any gun-toting madman will do just as well.” Need more? Stahl also opined, “This officer who fired his gun, and took the lives of six isn’t the only poster child for the NRA; each of his victims is, too.”

“Misguided” is the most benign adjective I can use to describe her assessment. More appropriate descriptions include “ignorant,” “insulting,” “outrageous.”

Imagine equating an organization of nearly 4,000,000 members, that dedicates itself to preserving the rights of law-abiding citizens to choose to legally own guns, while also calling for the strict enforcement and punishment of those who break the law, with a cold-blooded killer. Stahl’s offensive comparison shrieks of ignorance, disregarding NRA’s actions and deeds.

Comparing a group whose 62,000-plus certified instructors train 1,000,000 Americans annually in firearms safety and responsibility, to someone who would undertake such a heinous act? I’d call that insulting. If not, perhaps I don’t understand the meaning of the word.

An organization that counts among its staff, national officers, and members current and retired law enforcement professionals, representative of a murderer? That’s not just
outrageous, it’s damn outrageous!

We haven’t even discussed perhaps the most disturbing part of Stahl’s slanderous piece. Along with her viciously misguided words was a photo of the shooter, along with the NRA logo (used without permission), and the following caption: “Proudly enabling sick nuts to carry out violent revenge for fantasies for 136 years.”

NRA reserves its support for the Second Amendment to lawful and responsible citizens. It appears when it comes to the First Amendment, Ms. Stahl and the Atlantic Free Press fail to qualify in this latter category.

It is troubling to say the least when a professional writer, with either absolutely no factual information about NRA or who we are, is able to pen a piece equating our four million members with a murderer.

Ms. Stahl, shame on you for your outrageous, insulting display of ignorance.

To contact the Atlantic Free Press : Click here

Update: See update here. you can stop bugging her now. She’s not responsible for the image and, I think, realizes her title of Poster Child For The NRA may have been over the top. And that’s a good thing.

Go Team Uncle!

Such sticklers for paperwork. Seems they lost 500 records, and can’t account for some machine guns. More here.

First, Peter Hamm of The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership tells kids who want to carry guns to drop out of school. Now, he’s threatening to shoot me in comments at Sebastian’s. And we gun owners are the violent ones.

Tipping point. We getting close to the point of no return. We’re all going to die.

The UN has just released a “major report”. The fourth Global Environmental Outlook since 1997. It contains dire warnings. It seems there are too many people on Planet Earth. We are actually killing the Planet.

Now before you consider the source and scoff, know this, 388 experts and scientists describe this as “the final wake-up call to the international community.”

“Life would be easier if we didn’t have the kind of population growth rates that we have at the moment,” Steiner said. “But to force people to stop having children would be a simplistic answer. The more realistic, ethical and practical issue is to accelerate human well-being and make more rational use of the resources we have on this planet.”

What does that mean? It means that the 388 scientists theorize that you eat too much, require too much land, too much energy, and too many resources. So stop having children, eating meat, and driving your fat ass around in that SUV, you damn Planet killer.

All kidding aside, is there a purpose to this continual fear mongering from the United Nations? An endgame so to speak.

Could it be a World Wide tax administered by the United Nations?

Obviously, Glenn hasn’t been to Kroger. They’ve had Christmas stuff out since about Labor Day.

Well, after the first couple of times, you get used to the label.

Update: Oh dear:

“H.R.1955, ‘Sec. 899B. Findings.

The Congress finds the following:

`(3) The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens.”

Recall my fight with Google Ad Sense (note: even though I pointed them to my other sites, they haven’t pulled the ads yet, which I find odd). Any way, here’s another. Seems if you don’t like Barack Hussein Obama ads, they’ll drop you. Meanwhile, moveon ads are always peachy.

Google Ad Sense posts from the past:

No guns but go ahead and advertise hookers.

More email.

Google will advertise gun stuff at their site.

And at mine (look left).

How dare someone put two lawful and licensed businesses next to each other? And I will teach my kids about gun control and how it is a failure.

VZ58

Joe Biden doesn’t like babies:

Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, praised U.S. Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware for today introducing comprehensive anti-crime legislation including a federal assault weapons ban and an end to the loophole allowing gun sales at gun shows without a Brady background check.

Seems DC is a bit spooked and is asking the SCOTUS for only a limited ruling:

The District of Columbia government on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to address only a single issue, if it agrees to hear the city’s appeal seeking to reinstate its flat ban on private possession of handguns.  In a reply brief, found here, city officials contended that the only issue the Court need decide is the meaning of the Second Amendment as it applies directly to the city’s specific ban on pistols.  This would involve an inquiry aimed at what the Amendment’s words mean, “construed in light of their history, purpose, and place in this Nation’s tradition.”

Seems they’re a bit scared because their other gun laws being challenged (i.e., a shotgun/rifle must be disassembled thereby rendering it useless if you need it) would easily be defeated.

Meanwhile, The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership bleats about how everyone is wrong but them. Recall, The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership tried to talk DC out of pressing the appeal likely because they knew they’d lose.

Err, moderately safe for work and lots of unsafe gun handling. But, you know, who can’t watch chicks in bikinis firing belt fed machine guns?

So, if I understand this correctly, here’s the reasoning: Police want to raid alleged drug dealer. Police get no knock warrant. Police conduct raid late at night so that they can catch them off guard. The plan worked and they were off guard. So, being off guard, person at the house opens fire. Now, the police say that she should have known they were police.

It makes no sense to me.

A reader at Jay’s wants to defend himself. Jay offers advice. Offer your own, if you like.