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November 7, 2009 by Time.com's Christopher Ketcham catches a glimpse of enduring American spirit in a small Maine town in this Oct. 24 story.
"In early October, the Second Maine Militia opened its meeting with the traditional shooting of the televisions. The 50 or so 'members' (there are no rolls and no one pays dues) chatted quietly as the blasts rang out. A small cannon was fired into the woods, parting the trees and shaking the windows of the house nearb," he writes. "But no real televisions were harmed. The sets were just cardboard boxes painted with inane smiley faces and decorated with slogans like 'Feel good!' 'Proud to be USA!' 'Safe in the homeland!' The aluminum-foil antennas, however, did collapse miserably from the real gunfire.
"The purpose of the annual meeting," Ketchm continues, "the same as it has been since the militia started in 1995, was to bring together the politics of left and right over speeches, food, live music, and, of course, live ammo. The attendees were a wildly diverse group: young activists and anarchists in black, old beat-up Maine woodsmen with beards to their bellies, retired white-haired college professors, Second Amendment zealots, conservatives, libertarians, Marxists. But they all shared the belief that the U.S. government has lost its moral authority, that both political parties had 'degenerated,' as one attendee put it, 'into whores for wealth and arbiters of empire ...'"
For more, go to: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1932076,00.html
[ Read Full Post ]November 6, 2009 by The NRA and its supporters are promising to fight California Assemblyman Kevin DeLeon’s (D-L.A.) AB 962, a state bill recently signed by Gov. Schwarzenegger that requires stricter control over the purchase of handgun ammunition and bans all Internet ammunition sales. Because Schwarzenegger vetoed the same bill one year ago, gun groups were surprised by the action, reported Katie Browning on Sandiegonewsroom.com on Oct. 27.
"We think it was a devastating mistake,'' Sam Paredes, executive director of Gun Owners of California, told the Los Angeles Times. The group represents roughly 30,000 gun owners throughout the state. "Ammunition buyers are going to be treated like registered sex offenders now.''
The bill, which will go into effect on Feb. 11, 2011, requires that purchasers of handgun ammunition be fingerprinted and registered at the time of purchase. Retailers must then maintain these records and make them available for inspection by the Department of Justice.
Backed by the NRA and the California Rifle and Pistol Association (CRPA), Assemblyman Curt Hagman (R-Chino Hills) has revised his AB 373 to repeal AB 962. In a press release, Hagman claimed that AB 962 was an attack on the second amendment.
`"The laundry list of new requirements in Assembly Bill 962 treats law abiding citizens like criminals," Hagman said. "The only people this bill will affect are those already following the law. My bill will ensure that California's responsible gun owners are not punished by this excessive regulation from Sacramento."
The NRA and CRPA are distributing a letter in support of the repeal, which is set to be introduced to the California Legislature in January.
For more, go to: http://sandiegonewsroom.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=36257:nra-firing-back-at-gun-bill-&catid=49:california&Itemid=50
Also:
-- Governor Signs De Leon’s Ammo Fingerprinting Law; http://egpnews.com/?p=13373
-- Hagman Bill Designed to Take Back Gun Owner Rights; http://www.chinohills.com/news-articles details/Hagman_Bill_Designed_to_Take_Back_Gun_Owner_Rights_-1038
News from other states:
-- TENNESSEE: Drip Drop Goes the Gun Guidance; http://blogs.metropulse.com/the_daily_pulse/2009/10/drip-drop-goes-the-gun-guidanc.html
-- TENNESSEE: Attorney General's opinion could cast doubt on gun ban in city parks; http://www.thedailytimes.com/article/20091021/BREAKING/910219994
-- NEVADA: Senate Leader Harry Reid faces tough re-election; http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jqfe1Eop9gdiz8X90dVvazbW3JcQD9BJ10OG0
-- NEW JERSEY: Gun Owners Ask Why Chris Christie for Governor? http://www.ammoland.com/2009/10/26/gun-owners-ask-why-chris-christie-for-governor/
-- NEW JERSEY: Anti-Christie ad wrong about guns; http://www.nj.com/gloucester/voices/index.ssf/2009/10/anti-christie_ad_wrong_about_g.html
-- NEW JERSEY: In New Jersey, It's an 'F' vs. a Question Mark on Guns; http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZmRkZDhiMmU3NDY0ZTQ3ZjlkMmMyMGZiOTcyZGZmYzg=
-- WASHINGTON, D.C.: Guns Issues Stopping More Than D.C. Voting Rights; http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/politics/Guns-Issues-Stopping-More-than-DC-Voting-Rights-65993282.html
-- OHIO: 2nd Amendment defended; http://www.wapakdailynews.com/content/view/130414/1/
-- MICHIGAN: Campuses center stage in weapons debate; http://www.record-eagle.com/local/local_story_298083040.html
-- CONNECTICUT: Jammed: Reforms stall on gun use, expos; http://www.gazettenet.com/2009/10/26/jammed
-- IDAHO: More arms to bear -- Various causes cited for gun-sales surge; http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/oct/25/more-arms-to-bear/
-- VIRGINIA: Ammunition shortage hurts gun enthusiasts; http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/20091023999911786/local/news/ammunition-shortage-hurts-gun-enthusiasts.html
-- VIRGINIA: Va. gun rights group endorses GOP top three; http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2009/10/va_gun_rights_group_endorses_g.html
-- NEW YORK: Ammo Needs Focus On Baseless Fears; http://post-journal.com/page/content.detail/id/543332.html?nav=5006
-- SOUTH CAROLINA: Permit or not, no concealed guns allowed on Georgetown County school property; http://www.thesunnews.com/news/local/story/1126193.html
-- ALASKA: Super Turnout For Anchorage Second Amendment Task Force Dinner; http://www.ammoland.com/2009/10/23/super-turnout-for-anchorage-second-amendment-task-force-dinner/
-- FLORIDA: Public housing ban on guns challenged; http://www.fbnewsleader.com/articles/2009/10/22/news/00newsbanchallenged.txt
-- FLORIDA: Armed son saves himself and his father from violent home invaders; http://www.examiner.com/x-18149-SelfDefense-Examiner~y2009m10d26-Armed-son-saves-himself-and-his-father-from-violent-home-invaders
[ Read Full Post ]November 5, 2009 by Dave Workman illustrates vividly the intellectual bankruptcy of gun control in his Oct. 21 blog on examiner.com
" Meet James Chung Hwang, a 24-year-old model citizen who has managed to rack up a dozen convictions for driving with a suspended license, one guilty plea for third-degree assault, several domestic violence convictions according to the on-line Seattle Post-Intelligencer, plus drug possession and malicious mischief beefs," he writes. "Mr. Hwang is a walking testament to the failure of gun control because he is back in jail again for an incident that occurred a week ago. He allegedly was involved in a road rage incident in south Seattle that involved (gasp!) a stolen handgun, according to court documents.
"How the .45-caliber Springfield Armory semi-auto got into Hwang’s apparent posession (the gun was recovered 'within lunging distance' from his stopped vehicle, according to a police report) is open to conjecture, but it’s a pretty safe bet that this handgun, which was reported stolen in Tacoma four years ago, was not obtained at a gun show, nor did the suspect stroll into a gun shop and buy it after passing a background check, nor did he get it through a straw purchase from any retailer now being sued by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ..."
For more, go to:
-- http://www.examiner.com/x-4525-Seattle-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m10d21-Why-gun-control-does-not-work-Two-prime-examples-in-Seattle
Also:
-- Many gun control schemes don't pass scrutiny; http://www.ohioccw.org/200910224651/many-gun-control-schemes-dont-pass-scrutiny.html
[ Read Full Post ]November 4, 2009 by
I’m heading off to Canada next week for a Saskatchewan whitetail hunt and pretty quickly settled on bringing a lever gun with me. Took my Marlin 336C in .35 Remington out yesterday to get my new scope dialed in (and an interesting little scope it is too…more on that later) and after I got it on paper I cranked off this 5-shot group.
Not too shabby: 0.631 inches. I did it with 200-gr. Hornaday Leverevolution ammo. I turned it down a quarter inch to put it 3.5 inches high at a 100. That will put it dead on at 200 and 15 inches low at 300, which works fine for me.
Having confidence in your rifle before starting off on a hunt—there’s no better feeling.
As a side note, if you have an old lever gun and haven’t tried any of the Leverevolution ammo in it, buy a box and give it a try. I’ve shot a bunch of it in .30-30, .45-70, .35 Rem., .450 Marlin and it has always been as accurate as other factory loads and sometimes a whole bunch better.
[ Read Full Post ] November 4, 2009 by Virginia launches boycott of 'unconstitutional' federal laws, urges 49 others to join in combating government's 'abuse of authority'
Tennessee is urging 49 other states to come together and create a "joint working group between the states" to combat unconstitutional federal legislation and assert state rights, reported Chelsea Schilling on WorldNetDaily on Oct. 21.
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen signed HJR 108, the State Sovereignty Resolution on June 23. According to the Tenth Amendment Center, the resolution created a committee to form a joint working group between the states to enumerate the abuses of authority by the federal government and seek repeal of imposed mandates, she writes.
Virginia State Rep. Susan Lynn recently wrote a letter to the other 49 state legislatures, inviting them to join the group and warning that the role of the federal government has been "blurred, bent and breached," Schilling reports.
"The national government has become a complex system of programs whose purposes lie outside of the responsibilities of the enumerated powers and of securing our natural rights; programs that benefit some while others must pay," Lynn wrote. "Today, the federal government seeks to control the salaries of those employed by private business, to change the provisions of private of contracts, to nationalize banks, insurers and auto manufacturers, and to dictate to every person in the land what his or her medical choices will be."
For more, go to: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=113606
[ Read Full Post ]November 3, 2009 by Nationally syndicated radio host, "McLaughlin Group" panelist and Fox News contributor Monica Crowley rips the Obama regime in refreshingly accurate, gloves-off terms in her Oct. 21 column in the Washington Times.
"During the eight years of the George W. Bush presidency, the left constantly told us that 'issent is the highest form of patriotism.' During the Obama presidency, dissent is routinely considered the lowest form of treachery," she writes.
Crowley goes on to cite the Obama administration's "Orwellian coldness and efficiency" in "waging waged war on those who have had the gall to disagree with it." That includes:
-- The war on Fox News.
-- The war on tea partiers and town-hall attendees.
-- The war on those who oppose government takeovers.
"Speaking of the average citizen ..." Crowley notes, the administration "also flagged veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and those who vigorously support the Second Amendment. In other words, if you go to church, legally own a gun, or served in the military, this administration considers you a potential enemy of the state."
For more, go to: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/21/white-house-offensive/
And sadly, in addition to a compliant, adoring general media, the Obama administration has plenty of other spokesmen, such as Rob Waters of the Southern Poverty Law Center, who issued this hysterical communique to his comrades on Oct. 26:
-- Right-Wing Extremist Group on Active Military Duty? http://www.alternet.org/story/143500/right-wing_extremist_group_on_active_military_duty/
[ Read Full Post ]November 1, 2009 by David Codrea notes in his Oct. 24 examiner.com blog that both candidates for New York's 23rd Congressional District -- including one endorsed by the NRA -- have declined top answer his Gun Rights Political Questionnaire, which he filed with their campaigns "to see if it could be useful in further defining the level of understanding and commitment the candidates have for the right to keep and bear arms. I did, and let the campaigns know I would make their responses available to readers here."
But, no response.
The NRA has endorsed Dede Scozzafava for Congress because, it claims, she has "been a strong and consistent supporter of the Second Amendment." Scozzafava did answer the NRA's federal candidate questionnaire and earned an "A" rating.
"This set off no small amount of criticism from gun owners who view Scozzafava as a 'liberal' on a host of other issues," Cpdrea writes. "And that has been used by her Conservative Party opponent, Doug Hoffman, who makes sure we know he's an NRA member in his campaign ads (which begin with the Gadsden flag held high)."
The NRA defends its Scozzafava endorsement: "She has always voted in favor of gun rights and she is the only candidate with a proven pro-gun voting record, therefore she received our endorsement. We are a single issue organization that only endorses based on Second Amendment voting records.
For more, go to: http://www.examiner.com/x-1417-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m10d24-Scozzafava-and-Hoffman-campaigns-pass-on-gun-rights-questionnaire
[ Read Full Post ]October 31, 2009 by Philip Van Cleave of the Virginia Citizens Defense League is leading a statewide effort to "out" local mayors who have become New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s lackeys in a big bucks bulldozing of their constitutional rights.
"Disgracefully, we have seven mayors in Virginia that are part of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun coalition," he writes. "These mayors claim they are members because the coalition’s goal is to keep criminals from getting guns, but, we know better. In fact many mayors have left that coalition as soon as they realized that the Coalition wasn’t about keeping guns out of the hands of criminals, but keeping guns out of everyone else’s hands, too.
"The coalition wants to close the non-existent 'gun show loophole,'" Van Cleave continues. "What the coalition really wants is ALL gun sales, including private sales, to be registered with the government. That way the government will know exactly what guns you have, making confiscation easier ..."
For more, go to: http://www.ammoland.com/2009/10/23/protesting-the-anti-gun-bloomberg-7-mayors-in-virginia/
Also, in the "we can dish it out but we can't take it" department, go to:
-- Antis Are Upset About VCDL Protesting Anti-Gun Mayors; http://www.ammoland.com/2009/10/27/antis-are-upset-about-vcdl-protesting-anti-gun-mayors/
[ Read Full Post ]October 30, 2009 by Former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr in an Oct. 26 blog-column in the Atlanta Journal Constitution warns that global anti-gun zealots are "on ethe brink of success."
"The folks at United Nations headquarters in New York City, and our 'allies' at Number 10 Downing Street in London, must be rubbing their hands with glee. Gun control groups here and abroad likewise are at last quietly cheering. Why?" he writes. "After a decade and a half of pushing unsuccessfully to secure America’s support for a legally-binding, international instrument to regulate the marketing, transfer and brokering in firearms, they are now on the brink of success. The process of formally negotiating an Arms Trade Treaty ("ATT") now has Washington’s seal of approval; announced October 14th by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton."
What would this for American gun owners, Barr asks?
" ... for Second Amendment purposes, a legally-binding instrument purporting to regulate illicit international transfers of firearms, would necessarily touch domestic activities. For example, in order to know and regulate international transfers, the UN folks would have to know what firearms were being manufactured, stocked, and purported to be transferred within each country," he writes.
For more, go to: http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/2009/10/26/%E2%80%9Cperfect-storm%E2%80%9D-for-un-gun-control-agenda/?cxntfid=blogs_bob_barr_blog
Also:
-- Barr-calls-UN-gun-treaty-perfect-storm?; http://www.examiner.com/x-1417-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m10d26-Barr-calls-UN-gun-treaty-perfect-storm?cid=exrss-Gun-Rights-Examiner
-- Gunfights then and now on significant anniversary; http://www.examiner.com/x-4525-Seattle-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m10d26-Gunfights-then-and-now-on-significant-anniversary
[ Read Full Post ]October 28, 2009 by Not surprisingly, the San Francisco Chronicle is all for legislation that requires firearms retailers to check a purchaser's identification and take a thumbprint when selling handgun ammunition. In an Oct. 5 editorial, it said the new law "would close this gaping loophole in efforts to keep our streets safe from gun violence.
"Assemblyman Kevin de Leon, the Los Angeles Democrat who authored the bill, noted that a gun without ammunition 'is like a syringe without the drug.' 'It would not stop the sale,' he emphasized, but it would provide a record that law enforcement could later check. Similar rules are on the books in Los Angeles and Sacramento, but such patchwork laws are meaningless when a criminal can readily go to a neighboring town where no questions are asked and no records are kept. In the Los Angeles area, for example, no such laws prevail in Compton's abundance of gun shops."
"AB962 also would require vendors to keep their handgun ammunition out of immediate reach of customers, similar to the requirements on the stocking of spray paints, cigarettes or cold medicine. And it would require that purchases via mail order or the Internet would have to be picked up at a dealer who would check ID and take the thumbprint.
"This bill represents a sensible attempt to control the flow of ammunition to the criminals without constraining the rights of law-abiding citizens. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger should sign it into law."
For more, go to: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/04/EDUP1A0DE9.DTL#ixzz0TelKTP9Y
Also:
-- Ammo controls violate our rights; http://www.andersonvalleypost.com/news/2009/oct/06/ammo-controls-violate-our-rights/
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