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Would-be handgun banner’s criminal family ties explain a lot
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... "What should also be a hurdle is the fact that Schakowsky is married to convicted felon Robert Creamer, who 'pleaded guilty to defrauding banks out of 2.3 million dollars in a check-kiting scheme along with violations of federal tax laws.' That would make him a person prohibited by law from owning a handgun, an 'assault weapon' or any kind of gun at all." ... |
Gun Grabber Gabby Giffords on New AR-15 Photos
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"In our last post on former astronaut and professional husband Mark Kelly, we remained unconvinced that the gun control advocate bought an AR-15 to show how easy it is to buy an AR-15 (as claimed). Since then, we published a cropped photo of Mr. Kelly’s wife Gabrielle Giffords cradling an AR-15. Yesterday, the former Congresswoman and spree killer survivor turned gun control advocate published a non-cropped version of the original image, a bonus image and an 'explanation' for the event on Facebook. ... Team Giffords is going with we never wanted to ban AR-15s only “more strongly regulate them.” So Ms. Giffords joins her husband in our estimation: she’s a hypocrite, coward and “secret” gun lover. If she wrote this . . ." ... |
For Reloaders
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"Once Fired 7.62 NATO brass"
"My favorite military surplus dealer, Old Grouch's Military Surplus, just got in some once fired 7.62 NATO and 5.56x45 brass. I picked up a box of 500 of the 7.62 brass today. Tim is selling it for $99.95 a box." ... |
Self-Defense Tip: Three Concealed Carry Training Basics
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"I love me some Tiger McKee. thetacticalwire.com‘s go-to gun guy forgot more about gun fighting than I can remember. I think. I’m sure Tiger’s got an excellent explanation for why a gun owner would want to hold a full ammunition magazine between their pinky and the next-over finger (I bet Tiger knows what that finger’s called). But I feel obliged to point out that neither you nor I are Tiger McKee. We are not high-speed, low-drag operators. We do not spend more time on the range than Jessica-Jane Clement spends on hair and makeup. So, for us, keeping it simple means keeping it real means staying alive. Maybe. Anyway, with apologies to Mr. McKee, here are my top three training basics . . ." ... |
The Battle Rifle: Origins and Theory, Part Two
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"Where were we? Oh, right: World War II was over and it was time for the world’s armies to adopt some self-loading rifles already. The Soviets had whole-heartedly subscribed to the theory of the assault rifle with the AK-47. For some reason, they were also churning out the SKS, an odd weapon that seemingly was meant to combine the disadvantages of assault rifles and full-power battle rifles in one ugly package. The SKS isn’t terribly relevant to our story, although forty-five years later the rifle would become available for $79 in the United States and cause all sorts of havoc, both real and perceived . . ." ... |
Comp-Tac Shooters Take Texas State Titles
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"Looks like Team Comp-Tac had a themselves a good weekend at the Texas State USPSA shoot over the weekend. Gordon Carrell (above left) grabbed the Master Class title and Randi Rogers (right) took down the High Lady title. Check out that funky, next-gen compensator on Gordon’s gun. Practicing Nick? Press release after the jump . . ." ... |
The importance of gun reform
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... "As a mother, wife and citizen, I urge our nation’s leaders to keep guns out of the hands of criminals."
"I hope Sens. Harry Reid and Dean Heller will recognize the importance of requiring a mandatory criminal background check for every gun purchase and vote to pass meaningful gun reform." |
OH: Keep firearms out of bars: Sun News editorial
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"South Euclid City Council has typically been at the forefront in approving groundbreaking legislation long before other city councils have these issues on their radar screens. ..."
"This time, council is tackling the controversial measure recently approved by the Ohio Legislature that allows people with firearms permits to carry concealed weapons inside bars if they do not consume any alcohol. The body unanimously approved legislation late last month asking bar owners to post signs at the entrances to their businesses stating firearms are prohibited inside." ... |
ACLU Launches Investigation Into Militarization of Police Depts.
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"Like visits from Haley’s Comet, the ACLU and I generally agree on something once every 75 years or so. Their latest campaign, though, looking at the increasing militarization of police departments is one of those rare events. What’s somewhat ironic about this is that the ACLU is usually considered a left-leaning organization and many members hail from the liberal side of the political spectrum. That said, it seems that the quiet Rambofication of our nation’s police departments can no longer continue under the radar . . ." ... |
OH: Buckeye Firearms Foundation Promotes Legal Defense for Gun Owners
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"Buckeye Firearms Foundation today announced that they have formed an affiliate relationship with Second Call Defense, an Ohio-based membership organization offering legal defense options for gun owners who defend themselves with a firearm."
"Jim Irvine, President of the Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization, said they will promote Second Call Defense membership to their supporters in Ohio and other states." ... |
‘Patriots’ among us
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"There are, in increasingly frightening numbers, cells of angry men in the United States preparing for combat with the U.S. government. They are usually heavily armed, blinded by an intractable hatred, often motivated by religious zeal."
"They’re not jihadists. They are white, right-wing Americans, nearly all with an obsessive attachment to guns, who may represent a greater danger to the lives of American civilians than international terrorists."
"The Southern Poverty Law Center, which has been tracking hate groups for 30 years, released its latest report on the growth of these organizations this week. Its findings were, to say the least, alarming." ... |
Only An Incipient "Terrorist" Denounces State Murder
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"'There are, in increasingly frightening numbers, cells of angry men in the United States preparing for combat,' warns an unusually strident house editorial by the Los Angeles Times. "They are usually heavily armed, blinded by an intractable hatred, often motivated by religious zeal.'"
That description was not applied to the masked, armor-clad Berserkers who kick down doors in the early morning or late at night and terrorize families over non-violent 'offenses.' ... The Times didn't direct that rhetorical salvo at the people who are openly discussing plans to fill America's skies with robot planes that can -- and will -- be used as weapons platforms." ... |
MI: Holly Area Schools to beef up security but wait on adding guns
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"Officials at Holly schools will implement some building security improvements but also heard calls for armed guards inside schools."
"Holly area resident David Cornelius is a retired police officer and has been a firearm instructor and shooting range master for the past 15 years. Cornelius offered his thoughts at the March 11 Holly Area Schools Board of Education meeting, noting that he favors having armed security guards and/or armed teachers in all of the Holly Area School buildings." ...
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein shows mettle in gun control debate
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"Sen. Dianne Feinstein is known for being courtly and polite. Last month, she became one of two senators to win Allegheny College’s award for civility in public life."
"Though Republicans have harshly criticized her assault-weapons bill, Feinstein has been calm and unflappable in defending the proposal she introduced Jan. 24."
"But not on Thursday."
"Before the Senate Judiciary Committee voted on a party-line vote of 10-8 to approve the bill, California’s senior senator lost her cool when the junior senator from Texas asked a question the Democratic lawmaker considered patronizing." ... |
TX: Testifying on Campus Concealed Carry in Texas House Committee
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"As I mentioned a couple days ago, the Texas Homeland Security and Public Safety committee held hearings yesterday on the proposed legislation that would allow permit holders to carry concealed firearms on Texas university campuses. There was a rather large showing from both sides of the issue, so much so that they had to open an 'overflow' room to give everyone a seat. Nevertheless, I stuck it out and added my voice to the conversation . . ." ... |
CT: CT Law Makers to Gun Rights Advocates: FOAD
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"We’ve been saying it since the Sandy Hook slaughter unleashed a tsunami of civilian disarmament: gun grabbing pols are paying lip service to the democratic process. More specifically, all the post-Newtown 'hearings' on gun control are little more than cover for politicians hell bent on wiping their feet on Americans' Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms. Occasionally, the gun grabbers' mask of fairness slips, as it did last night. 'As the [gun control legislation] hearing reached its ninth hour,' Connecticut’s courant.com reports, 'lawmakers started to grow weary. During a testimony from Matt Powell of Manchester, Rep. Minnie Gonzalez, D-Hartford, ... said she felt he was threatening her and other lawmakers . . ." ... |
MI: Mich. lawmaker: Ban openly carried guns in schools
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"Michigan could no longer let people openly carry guns into schools under a proposal pushed Thursday by a lawmaker and the state's largest teachers' union, which argued a loophole must be closed three months after the massacre at a Connecticut elementary school."
"'A gun-free zone is not truly gun-free,' Rep. Andy Schor, D-Lansing, said during a Capitol news conference. 'As a gun owner, I recognize the importance of the Second Amendment. But in this case, allowing openly armed civilians to roam the halls of our schools is a recipe for disaster.'" ... |
CT: Colt shuts plant, workers talk to Conn. lawmakers
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" The president of one of the nation's oldest gun manufacturers closed down his Connecticut factory Thursday morning and bused 400 of his workers to the state Capitol so they could personally urge lawmakers not to pass gun control legislation that they say could risk their livelihoods."
"Dennis Veilleux, president of the Hartford-based Colt's Manufacturing Co., said even though he has spoken with legislators and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's staff about his trepidations several times, he believes they don't truly understand the financial ramifications of the legislation being proposed in the wake of the deadly Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown." ...
"Colt has been operating in Connecticut for the past 175 years." ... |
BREAKING: First New Yorker Arrested Under SAFE Act
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"New York’s SAFE Act has claimed its first scalp. The AP reports that 'State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says 32-year-old Benjamin Wassell of Silver Creek was charged Thursday with felonies related to the sale of illegal weapons. Schneiderman says he [Wassell] twice sold weapons that are prohibited under the New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act, passed by the Legislature in mid-January.' buffalonews.com reports that “Wassell is an Iraq War veteran, according to a law enforcement source.” The Observer newspaper in Dunkirk New York has more details . . ." ... |
IA: Sheriff on North Liberty shootings: This is an example of Iowa's inflexible gun permit law
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"The apparent shootout that left one man dead and three North Liberty police officers injured illustrates the dangerous inflexibility of Iowa’s law granting gun permits, Johnson County Sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek said Tuesday." ...
"Salameh was issued his first permit to acquire a weapon on June 28, 2010. It was again renewed the next year."
"Sahmeh never applied for a permit to carry a weapon in public but, if he had, Pulkrabek said he would have had to have granted it under Iowa law, despite knowing about mental health issues and the altercation in the man’s past." ...
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CA: No New Truck for Women Shot During Dorner Manhunt
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"The two newspaper delivery women who were shot at during the manhunt for Christopher Dorner will not be getting a new replacement truck as promised by the LAPD, according to their attorney Glen Jonas."
"It has been more than a month since LAPD Chief Charlie Beck promised the truck to Emma Hernandez, 71, and her daughter, Margie Carranza, who had been working in Torrance, Calif. before dawn on Feb. 7." ... |
On Eisenhower and guns
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"Eisenhower said, 'Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.' We as a country now have an abundance of weapons and an abundance of hungry, cold, unsheltered homeless."
"Ike also said, 'There is no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.' Certainly Sandy Hook will never be the same."
"One of the privileges, afforded us by the U.S. Constitution, states 'A well regulated Militia [etc]' ...' How would we compare this: the privilege of owning a gun to the basic principle of happy children skipping rope without the fear of being shot dead? " ... |
NJ: Fight might with might
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... "I'll try to put it more simply. The type of 'arms' is not defined in the Second Amendment, but the purpose of the amendment is to ensure that the citizenry cannot be denied the use of weapons with which to defend freedom against any enemy of liberty, either foreign or domestic."
"You only have to do an Internet search to find references by the founding fathers that, yes, the citizens must have the power to defend against tyranny on the part of the government. ..." |
NY: Gun show set for this weekend in Saratoga Springs; more protests planned
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"Though the Saratoga Arms Fair had been held at the Saratoga Springs City Center 89 times before without opposition, the 90th show — which was the first after 20 schoolchildren and six adults were killed in a Newtown, Conn. shooting spree — drew heated debate."
"Large crowds of gun show protestors and Second Amendment supporters gathered in front of the City Center Jan. 13 and the show, and ensuing controversy, got attention from national media outlets. It was also the best-attended show in the 30-year history of the NEACA-sponsored event and the single best-attended day in City Center history." ... |
OH: Memorial Scholarship Honors Wildlife Officer Larry A. Hart
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"The Larry A. Hart Memorial Scholarship Committee is pleased to announce they are accepting applications for the Larry A. Hart Memorial Scholarship."
"This scholarship is funded by the Ohio Wildlife Officers' Lodge 143 of the Fraternal Order of Police and Twin Valley Rod and Gun Club of Preble County."
"Larry A. Hart was a thirty-year veteran of the Ohio Division of Wildlife. For most of his career, Larry served as a wildlife officer assigned to Preble County. Later, he worked as a Wildlife Officer/Field Supervisor in southwest Ohio. The legacy of integrity and commitment to Wildlife Management and Law Enforcement set by Officer Hart still serves as the gold standard today's young officers strive to attain." ... |
OH: Sportsmen's Activity Report: Ohio Benefits from Economic Impact of Hunting
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"The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has released a major new report documenting the importance of hunting activities to the Ohio economy. NSSF is the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry."
"The report, Hunting in America: An Economic Force for Conservation, provides detailed information about participation and expenditures by America's hunters. In Ohio alone, hunting added $1,404,942,870 to the state's economy and supported 20,471 jobs." ...
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