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Safer Streets 2012: There is no such thing as right wing extremism in this country, Part I.
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... "In America, there is hardly such an extreme on the right, since conservatives, independents and libertarians do not want anarchy, but law and order. Only those who can gain from civil disturbance even consider anarchy."
"Why do I mention this? Because this squeeze play is common around the world, and every single nation which fell had this same conversation. As Solzhenitzen once wrote, 'We waited too long.' How much longer are we going to wait before we demand the repeal of all gun control? The key is to get more non-gun owner citizens on board." ... |
Who Or What Is Project Gutpile? (reposted)
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"This post was originally written in November 2010 concerning a supposed hunting group called Project Gutpile. They were part of the suit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to force the EPA to ban lead ammunition and lead fishing sinkers. The EPA had concluded that they did not have that authority under the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. The District Court agreed and dismissed the suit."
"Now the Center for Biological Diversity is back again and so is the supposed hunting group Project Gutpile with a second petition to the Environmental Protection Agency asking that lead bullets and shot be banned. ..." ... |
Gun nation: Inside America's gun-carry culture -- Why Americans now carry handguns in so many public places, from parks to college campuses. Is it making the country safer or more dangerous?
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"Leaning against a scrub pine as preschoolers scurry about at his feet, Shane Gazda, father of 3-year-old twins, recalls a conundrum he faced earlier that morning: whether to take his Smith & Wesson .40 caliber handgun to a Groundhog Day celebration in this town's White Deer Park."
"After all, what was once against the law in North Carolina – carrying a concealed gun in a town park, square, or greenway – is now, as of Dec. 1, 2011, very much allowed. To Mr. Gazda, who likes to shoot targets in his backyard, an event as innocent as paying homage to a rodent could turn dangerous if the wrong person shows up." ... |
A Flaming Vigilante
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"WarOnGuns Correspondent Ned submitted this as a comment to today's 'Gratifying Colin' post. I think it is on target and witty as hell, and deserves standalone recognition:""In other news, two people trapped in a wrecked bus perished when the bus they were traveling in caught fire after a traffic accident. It is alleged that an untrained civilian was unable to contain the flames with the fire extinguisher on the bus. The vigilante was held for questioning, before being released when it was discovered that no laws were broken." ... |
What’s Next for Gun Rights? Respect for Settled Law, Maybe?
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... "Now, keeping in mind that I am not a lawyer nor even a law student (yet) I have a couple of thoughts to add. The first one that leaps to mind is: What the HELL do you MEAN the cases offer 'little guidance'?!? Heller and McDonald settled the questions of whether the Second Amendment protects an individual right (yes), and whether that is a fundamental right (yes). So what more smegging guidance do you need?!?!" ... |
PETA Clueless on Donald Trump's Sons & Hunting
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"In September 2009 leading biologists and economists from around the world met in Windhoek, Namibia, in southwestern Africa to conduct the World Symposium on the Ecologic and Economic Benefits of Hunting. The scholarly and well-substantiated conclusions they drew on the positive results of regulated sport hunting in Africa demonstrated that hunting was not only a valid and necessary wildlife management tool, but that it was also an economic catalyst for many African nations. The resulting publication of the collection of papers presented at this gathering ... certainly refutes any of the unfounded, emotional charges that have been hurled at the sons of Donald Trump following a safari they participated in last year." ... |
Gear Review: Coast Rapid Response 3.90 Knife
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"RF’s vacation starts today. He might post, but he’s sure as hell not checking the content as often as he usually is. Which means hopefully I can slip in a non-firearms (yet firearms related) review of a product I ran across at SHOT this year: the Coast Rapid Response 3.90 Knife."
"Knives generally aren’t my thing. I’m a gun guy, and they’re my tool of choice when it comes to self defense. But with my side job as an EMT there have been a number of times where having a knife handy makes all the difference. I can remember one incident shortly before I left Fairfax where we had to cut a drunk driver out of his clothes to assess a heavily bleeding wound and having my knife handy saved us a good 30 seconds ..." ... |
Chiappa Rhino Update: Now in 9x21mm
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"Not too long ago Chiappa took their exotic and unique Rhino revolver and re-chambered it in .40 S&W. This was an interesting move on their part, but considering how much less expensive it is than .357 Magnum while still bringing a lot of energy to the party, it stands to reason that Chiappa would re-chamber the Rhino in another snappy caliber."
"For the uninitiated, the Rhino is a completely different kind of handgun. Designed by Antonio Cudazzo and Emilio Ghisoni the Rhino is a double-action revolver turned upside down. The Rhino fires from the bottommost cylinder, which puts the barrel bore right above the trigger. This makes the Rhino a very soft shooter." ... |
Colt 1903 Pocket Hammerless Review: A John Browning Masterpiece (VIDEO)
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"John Moses Browning designed some amazing guns. But for most of us his career is defined by his work with Colt Manufacturing LLC. The Model 1911 .45 ACP. If he were alive today, I wonder if he’d feel the same way about the 1911 that The Eagles feel about 'Desperado'. Maybe, if he were alive today."
"Yet, Browning is more than the 1911. He is The Winchester 1894. The Browning Auto 5. The BAR. His influence, even when end users are unaware of it, shows no sign of diminishing." ... |
Inter Ordnance Introducing the Improved Hellcat .380
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"The market for .380 ACP pistols is booming. The cartridge and the handguns both have seen vast improvements in quality and popularity as more and more people take to carrying concealed handguns as a routine practice. The demand has been rewarded with good guns and ammunition; quick-and-dirty manufacturing is falling by the wayside as people are willing to pay for quality in the world of .380." ... |
Gun Review: SIG SAUER P226
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"Every firearms manufacturer has their signature handgun. For Ruger it’s the Mk. III. For H&K it’s the USP. For Glock it’s the 19. And for SIG SAUER it’s their P226. Whenever I think of these companies an image of these firearms pops into my mind. But for me, the P226 is the greatest of them all." ... |
Self-Defense Tip: Do Not Pursue an Attacker
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"... Ralph knows what it feels like to have bullets aimed in your direction. Surprisingly, our resident one-liner provider reports that the attempted murder made him angry. 'I just wanted to kill him,' Ralph said. And there you have it: the 'fight' part of the 'fight, flight or freeze' response to life-threatening danger. While fighting is a perfectly understandable and entirely useful strategic option, it’s important to realize its limits. ... you really need to stop fighting when your life is no longer in danger. To wit this, via chicagotribune.com: 'The incident began when an eyewitness called 911 to report three masked men entering the business, according to Pat Camden, a spokesman for the Fraternal Order of Police . . .'" ... |
Gear Review Safariland 6378 ALS Retention Holster
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"Sure, winter's almost over but depending where you live, there are still a few more weeks of cold weather to deal with. And, given the extra layers necessary, sometimes a young man's thoughts turn to outside the waistband carry. He knows that his IWB honey isn't giving him what he needs, what with two, three, or more layers of clothing between his sweaty palm and her. That's enough to strain any relationship between a man and his concealment holster. So the CHL holder’s eye may wander to duty holsters . . ." ... |
Gun lobbyists turn back on incidents
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"In Ohio, a man legally purchases a gun then stores it unsecured in his barn, where his 17-year-old grandson, a boy with no criminal record, finds it and recently uses it to shoot five classmates at his high school, killing three. ..."
"Similar tragedies occur routinely across this nation ... If the gun lobby is to be believed, they were all unavoidable because 'guns don’t kill people, people kill people,' ... It is not apparent to them guns make it much easier for ordinary people to commit the brutal act of murder more safely and cleanly from a distance ..." ...
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Submitter's Note: Of course it's "apparent" to us. But what is also "apparent" is the fact that more than twice as many lives are saved in DGUs than are taken in firearm homicides. |
IL: Nerf: The gateway gun?
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"Cam Edwards told me about this story when I made a guest appearance on his NRA News show, and I’m still laughing about it. Remember Michael Pfleger, the radical priest in Chicago last heard from in the 2008 campaign, defending his friend Rev. Jeremiah Wright? The one who hung out with Barack Obama for decades, thinks that 'America is the greatest sin against God,' and who wound up getting suspended by the Chicago diocese after making himself into a national spectacle? Well, Father Pfleger is back, baby, and he has a new eeeeeevil in his sights — guns. Or perhaps more accurately … gateway guns?" ... |
TN: Property rights trump gun rights
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... "Our state legislators are currently considering legislation that would order private employers, including hospitals, to allow their employees to have firearms in their vehicles on private company property."
"That is not welcome news among health care workers ... [who] are more than three times as likely as workers in other industries to be injured by acts of violence."
"Beyond those personal worries, the 'bring-your-guns-to-work' legislation pits two of our most sacred rights against one another: our Second Amendment right to protect our property and person, and our Fifth Amendment right to control what does and doesn't happen on private property." ...
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Rod Blagojevich begins 14-year jail term for corruption
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"Disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has reported to prison to begin his 14-year term for corruption."
"Blagojevich, 55, was convicted in June 2011 after he attempted to sell President Barack Obama's former Senate seat."
"The married father will serve his time at the Federal Correctional Institution Englewood outside Denver, Colorado."
"Blagojevich is the second consecutive Illinois governor to be convicted for corruption." ...
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SUBMITTER'S COMMENT: Once again we are reminded of the interconnection between political corruption and gun control. |
Int’l gun rights group wants Holder gone over F&F
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"An international gun rights organization founded with the support of the Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms went on the warpath Thursday, demanding that Attorney General Eric Holder resign…now because of Operation Fast and Furious."
"The International Association for the Protection of Civilian Arms Rights made it brutally clear in an e-mail alert that went to tens of thousands of gun owners and supporters:" ... |
USSA: Santorum Provides Views on Sportsmen’s Issues
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"Editor's Note: Although his campaign spending dwarfs Rick Santorum and other challengers, Mitt Romney, the only remaining Republican presidential candidate with an anti-gun record, is struggling to win the votes of more than a third of his party's primary voters in most states. The following interview wasn't released in time to influence voting in Ohio, but it is being offered here as a service to the many states who have yet to vote."
"Columbus, OH) –On the day before the pivotal 'Super Tuesday' primaries, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum sat down for an interview with the staff leadership of the U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance to discuss issues important to hunters, trappers and anglers." ... |
OK: Senate sends House open carry measure
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"The Oklahoma Senate on Wednesday passed a measure that would allow for the open carrying of guns."
"Senate Bill 1733, by Sen. Anthony Sykes, R-Moore, heads to the House after securing Senate approval by a vote of 34-9."
"Sykes said the measure would allow those who have a concealed-carry permit to openly carry a gun or carry concealed." ... |
WI: Historic Wolf-Hunting Bill Goes to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker
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"Wednesday, the Wisconsin Assembly voted 69 to 25 to concur with Senate Bill 411, sponsored by state Senator Terry Moulton (R-23), which passed in the state Senate by an overwhelming 24 to 9 vote. This bill is now with Governor Scott Walker’s desk awaiting his signature. If enacted, SB 411 will create the first wolf hunting season east of the Mississippi since the wolf’s delisting from the endangered species list." ... |
Right to Keep and Bear Arms is Not 'Property-Like'
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"Today’s DWS comes to us from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit via How Appealing and the Associated Press."
"Errol Houston Jr. sued the City of New Orleans after the district’s attorney’s office refused to return a registered gun that police had seized when he was arrested on drug and firearm charges in 2008. The charges were later dropped."
"Houston sued the city in July 2009, seeking the return of his gun and accusing law enforcement authorities of violating his due process and Second Amendment rights. A federal district judge dismissed the lawsuit the following year."
"A divided Fifth Circuit agreed with the lower court. ..." ... |
AZ: Officer Involved in Alleged Beating Has Prior Allegations of Abuse
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"A man injured after the Bullhead City Police claim he fell on his face during a police pursuit has been released from jail."
"... In two separate mugshots, Stout had to be held up by officers because he was unconscious." ...
"The report police wrote after Stout's arrest has been changed with multiple addendums. In one addition, Cpl. Holdway alleges that Stout was so combative with EMT's, he had to stay with him at the hospital -- a detail that was added to the original police report 20 days after it was first filed."
"Stout's mother questions the accuracy of this claim."
"'It would be impossible for him to be combative,' she said. 'An outside doctor said every bone in his face is fractured.'" ... |
MA: Boston to pay $1.4m to settle lawsuit against officer
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"The City of Boston has agreed to pay $1.4 million to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit by a Middlesex County corrections officer who contends a Boston police officer tackled him and placed him in a choke hold during a 2009 arrest in the North End, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to return to work."
"The payment to Michael P. O’Brien, the fifth-largest settlement of a civil rights lawsuit against the city since 2000, comes nearly three years to the day after the March 16, 2009, scuffle that sparked O’Brien’s suit." ... |
FL: Meet Maj. Joseph Floyd, Leading Candidate for Most Crooked Cop in America
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"A grand jury indictment unveiled last week accuses a Northwest Florida cop of sexually harassing his colleagues, forcing his subordinates to torture suspects, forge incident reports, and alter their testimony; soliciting sex from residents in his jurisdiction; beating handcuffed suspects and prisoners; intimidating members of the community; and causing a pregnant woman to miscarry when he intentionally rammed the vehicle in which she was traveling. If the allegations against Major Joseph Floyd of the Crestview Police Department are true, he may be the most crooked cop in the country." ... |
OR: City settles suit over excessive police force
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"Eugene city officials have agreed to pay $26,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed by a University of Oregon law student who claimed that a police officer used excessive force and illegally entered his home to arrest him without a warrant after police arrived at the west university neighborhood residence to silence a loud party."
"U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan last week entered a judgment in favor of Zachary Spier."
"The city agreed to pay Spier $15,000 as part of the settlement and to pay an additional $11,000 to cover his court costs and attorney fees." ... |
OR: Man shot by Washington County tactical officers had grabbed a gun because he thought there was an intruder on his property, family said
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"The man shot by Washington County tactical officers in New Columbia Tuesday night had grabbed a gun because he thought intruders were on his property after his wife had checked on their barking dog in their backyard and saw a stranger in dark clothing. " ...
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Submitter's note: Be sure to pay attention to the photo and caption, indicating that this homeowner was shot by police on his front porch. The police, however, were on his property en masse, staging a raid on a nearby residence.
This appears to be a case of shoot the carrier of a firearm first, and ask questions later... but in between, demand that the women and young children exit the house. |
FL: Sanford, Fla. airport wants to opt out of TSA
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"The Orlando Sanford International Airport is going to try to opt out of only using TSA agents for security screening."
"The president of the airport said Tuesday that he would apply again to use private operators to screen passengers, using federal standards and oversight." ... |
AK: Stevens trial report details misconduct by prosecution team
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"A court-appointed special prosecutor's report made public on Thursday details findings that U.S. Justice Department attorneys intentionally withheld information from the defense in the bungled prosecution of former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens." ...
"The 514-page report ... was released Thursday by order of U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, who presided over Stevens' 2008 trial and hired Schuelke to evaluate whether anyone on the Stevens prosecution team should be charged with criminal contempt of court."
"Schuelke did not recommend criminal charges. He said the problems he found did not rise to the legal level of criminal contempt because the judge never issued any direct order the attorneys disobeyed." ... |
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