Wednesday - March 27, 2013
Gun Lust
Whoever owns Winchester these days is doing a good thing. A brave and bold thing. They are making a number of the old classic Winchester rifles, models long gone. And they are making them right, with good wood, proper polishing, machined steel, and the kind of quality bluing that has been nearly unavailable on most rifles built in my lifetime. That costs money, but it’s worth it.
And one of these “back from the dead” guns is the original niche rifle, the Model 71. The last of the best, the Model 71 was a modernized and downsized version of the older Model 1886, a gigantic lever action that could handle the biggest of the old black powder Express cartridges. Buffalo killing behemoths like the .50-110 and the .50-120. Cartridges that wouldn’t look too out of place in a Bofors gun.
The Model 71 was only chambered in one cartridge, the unique .348 Winchester. It’s the only smokeless 34 caliber rifle cartridge ever made. And it’s a short range cannon. There is nothing in the woods that the .348 can not hunt with authority. It’s a bear cartridge for the biggest bruins. It’s an elk cartridge for the most whacking great Wapiti that ever walked. Deer? Oh please. The softest loads in the .348 are more than sufficient. Soft cast lead wrapped in lubricated paper patches will do just fine, meandering down range at a meager 1700fps if you want. It’s a woods gun, like the .45-70, but the big 71 can handle a “standard short” 2.8” cartridge, whereas a Marlin 336 can only deal with the “medium length” .45-70’s 2.55” overall length (OAL). And the .348’s smaller caliber means a somewhat better BC, BC being “ballistic coefficient”, the poor concept of aerodynamic ranking that the shooting world is stuck with. So the .348 generally shoots a bit flatter, which makes 250 yard shots a bit easier on the hunter. Aim and shoot; you don’t have to figure bullet drop or wind drift quite so much. And even at those ranges, the .348 Winchester still packs far more punch than a smaller, more modern (but still effective) mid-power cartridge ... oh, say, like the JJ’s Brit (trademark asserted) that I covered the other day. The .348 Winchester is at the lower edge of what real high powered rifles are all about.
And now Winchester is selling them again. Ammo is expensive, so make your own. That’s pretty much a given, when commercial ammo is north of $80/box, if you can even find any at the big mail order stores. It’s another given that you will never find .348 ammo at any shooting store south of Alaska. It’s that rare. But in Alaska, .348s are still in demand. In that big land, full of big critters, some with big teeth and claws, a big gun like this makes big sense.
MSRP for the plain rifle is $1459, and the deluxe version with prettier wood and fancier checkering is $1659, so there isn’t really any reason to buy the plain version if you can afford a rifle in this price range. Real world price is probably several hundred bucks less. Yes, that sounds quite expensive, but original rifles, made from 1935-1957 and well used since then, sell for more than this, sometimes double that amount or more. So this one is sort of a bargain. Mostly.
Joe at RealGuns.com has two nice posts on the new Model 71, one on the gun itself , and another on load development for this 3000 lb/ft class thumper.
The Model 71, as compared to my other hunting compadre the Marlin Model 1895 Guide Gun, has a higher comb and more shallow drop at the heel. The game plan, as it was when the Model 71 first went into production, was to provide good support while moving the stock away from the shooter’s face under recoil. Remember, the 348 WCF is a pretty hefty cartridge. The Marlin mostly is content to beat the shooter profusely about the head and ears, which most of us come to enjoy after a time.
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I’ve missed these rifles. They connect me to the events and experiences of my life, something good firearms should accomplish. There is a place for rifles with synthetic stocks and modern autoloaders, however, I have a preference for wood and steel and some sign of presence of skilled craftsmanship. I also like early and earlier cartridges because I don’t think anything introduced in the past fifty years has advanced ballistic performance.
I couldn’t agree more Joe. 
Jim Taylor over at leverguns.com has more on the .348 Winchester.
And there’s a very nice article on the old thundergun over at Practically Shooting too (use the page’s search for “.348” if it doesn’t come up as the lead post).
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Permalink • Saturday - March 23, 2013
On The Cusp Of Greatness
I’ve posted a couple times over the past year or so on my digital pal John Jay’s work on his little wildcat cartridge, the JJ’s Brit (trademark asserted). He brought the early 1950’s .30/.280 British cartridge back to life, modified it a bit for more modern specifications, and built a test rifle for it on a shoestring budget. I helped him work out some of the specs and with load development. Finding himself quite satisfied with the performance of the little round, he then went parts shopping, and with the help of a gunsmith or two, has made the cartridge fit and function in the AR rifle platform. This is quite an accomplishment, because that rifle was not built for a cartridge with the “standard” head diameter of 0.473”. It’s too fat to fit the original boltface. Good thing that the AR rifle has thousands of aftermarket parts to fit it, and one of them was a larger diameter bolt that he made work. The result is that he has created a perfectly useful deer hunting cartridge for this modern sporting rifle, one that also just happens to give better long range performance than the 6.8SPC, the 6.5 Grendel, the .30 Remington AR, and scads better long range whack than the original 5.56 NATO. In other words, he has found a viable solution to the old “poodle shooter” problem. Outstanding.
In a fairly short 18.5” barrel, the JJ’s Brit (trademark asserted) with either the 120gr or the 130gr bullet outperforms the 123gr 7.62x39 Soviet cartridge, pushing both at least 200fps faster than the Russian round, and since this is a 7mm bore, both bullets have better sectional density (SD) and better aerodynamics (BC or Ballistic Coefficient). The 130gr bullet rivals the SD of the 7.62 NATO’s 168gr bullet, which means it will penetrate targets nearly as well at equal velocities. But with far less cartridge weight, and only about half the recoil. This means he has found a solution to the MBR (Modern Battle Rifle or Medium Battle Rifle) challenge, creating an accurate little round that should be combat effective to 500 meters or a bit further. Nice. Darn shame no one in authority wants to hear such things.
Ballistics calculations show that the 130gr bullet retains 1000 lb/ft of energy to 355 yards, and keeps 750 lb/ft out to 490 yards. Put plainly, it’s a 400 yard deer hunting cartridge and a 500 yard military cartridge. The 120gr bullet is similar. The 63gr SS109 military load for the 5.56 NATO round carries 1000 lb/ft to only 142 yards, and 750 lb/ft to 270 yards. The current issue M885a1 “Enhanced Performance” load might give another 30 yards advantage over the SS109 but that’s about it. The JJ’s Brit (trademark asserted) [hey, that’s what he calls the damn thing, parenthesis and all! I suggested just calling it the .280 JJ, but he likes his naming better] is far superior to that.
And this is the short, low pressure version of the cartridge. Seating the bullets further out and using a 2.55” OAL gives lots more room for powder, and when mated to a 22” or longer barrel and loaded to the same pressure point can give another 150fps, which translates into another 50 yards at equal retained energy levels. Taken up to magnum pressure levels (63K psi) you can glean another 100fps. Either of these approaches makes it a bit much for a military MBR round, but gives you a very nice 450-500 yard deer rifle cartridge, which is quite a bit further than most hunters can accurately shoot. So the power is there if wanted, but it isn’t really needed. And if you don’t want it, the 2.55” version makes the same velocity as the 2.25” version at considerably lower pressure, which means less wear on the rifle barrel. Not that that matters in this spendy day and age.
We always knew the cartridge had power to spare. The real challenge of this project was making it fit in an AR, and now he’s done that part too.
Nice work John. Now if we can just convince Keltec to build a downsized version of
ooh, I want one of these!
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Permalink • Friday - March 22, 2013
Little Big Gun Joins The Fray?
May Take 700 Jobs And Split
Colt Firearms has been in Hartford Connecticut since the very beginning. These days Colt sells almost all it’s production to the government. Anti-gun hysteria in their state is making them yearn for some Red State local. Colt is one of the smallest of the Big Name gun brands, but their joining the Screw This We’re Moving movement is pretty ground shaking. If Colt goes, Remington (over in Ilion NY) might just follow. All the big firearms companies started out in the northeast. They pretty much were the Industrial Revolution at first. Many of the companies have been in place for well over 100 years.
Colt’s Manufacturing, the company that has made the iconic gun dubbed “The Peacemaker” for more than a century, could pull up its Connecticut stakes after coming under fire in the national debate over the Second Amendment.
President and CEO Dennis Veilleux said the pro-gun control climate that has taken hold in the wake of the Sandy Hook school massacre and other firearm attacks has left him feeling unwelcome in the state his company has called home for 175 years. Proposed laws being debated by the Legislature and pushed by Gov. Dannel Malloy include a new gun offender registry, an expanded assault weapons ban, ammunition restrictions and a ban on bulk purchases of handguns. Veilleux said those measures have put Colt and its nearly 700 employees in the crosshairs.
“At some point, if you can’t sell your products … then you can’t run your business,” Veilleux told FoxNews.com. “You need customers to buy your products to stay in business.”
Veilleux, who wrote an op-ed that appeared in The Hartford Courant this week in which he raised the prospect of leaving the state, said the company doesn’t have any such “definite plans.” But if Malloy follows through on his promise to ban the purchase and sale of AR-15 rifles, the centerpiece of the company’s business, he said leaving could become an option.
Veilleux, 47, said Colt is “constantly approached” by other states to relocate. Several red state governors have made no secret of the fact they covet firearms makers, an industry that by some measures contributes $1.7 billion annually to Connecticut’s economy.
While dozens of small firearms and related companies have come out saying that they will no longer sell their products to a government that they feel is repressive, only one other firearms maker has threatened to move ( Baretta ). One accessory company, Magpul, is actually in the process of moving.
Among other products, Colt makes the M16/AR15/M4 rifle, primarily for sales to the government. The company has a long history of bending to government pressure, which lead to civilian boycotts in the mid 90s, which in turn lead to Colt splitting the company into a civilian market division and Colt Defense, a government market division. Colt Defense is by far the larger of the two.
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Permalink • Wednesday - March 13, 2013
Time To Larn Anudder Thang
Over the weekend Mark Kelly, wife of brain-damaged shooting victim former Congresswoman Kathy Giffords (D-AZ) went into a local gun shop to pick up a .45 pistol he had ordered. While he was there, he saw an AR-15 rifle for sale, and he bought that too. This guy has been quite vocal about his views that Evil Assault Weapons Should Be Banned, so it was interesting that he did so. There was some kind of Media Moment™ and the former astronaut said he’d only purchased the rifle to show how easy it was, and it was his intent to donate the gun to a local police department.
End of story? Oh hella no.
Mark Kelly, Firearms Felon! screamed the right-wing news and blogosphere. Straw Purchase! Why won’t Obama prosecute? was the hue and cry.
From Townhall.com:
Mark Kelly Breaks the Law as a StrawpurchaserOver the weekend, husband of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and anti-gun advocate Mark Kelly purchased as AR-15 at Diamondback Police Supply in Tucson, Arizona. The reason? According to Kelly, he was proving a point about the amount of time background checks take to conduct and won’t keep the AR-15. In fact, his plan all along was to give it away to the police.
When you purchase a firearm at a federally licensed dealer, you must fill out an ATF 4473 form. It is a felony to lie on the form and say you are purchasing a firearm for yourself when it’s really for someone else, but Kelly did it anyway. The Obama File has more:
If Mr. Kelly did not intend to keep the AR-15, but to give it to another, he is committing a felony by being a “straw purchaser” under current law, and he must have stated on the ATF Form 4473 that he was buying it for himself, so he committed perjury on the BATF form, also a felony.
Conservatives, haven’t you figured out yet that the Progressives just love to yank your chain? And are you going to scream in reaction every darn time without ever bothering to stop and think for one whole entire minute? Crivens, I hate the Evil Party, but man oh man, the Stupid Party gives me fits.
Let’s all sit down at our little school desks and put on our Larnin’ Hatz™. PLEASE?
1) It is perfectly legal to give, trade, or sell a firearm that you own, to a person or an organization that is legally allowed to possess a firearm. That means you can give guns as gifts to those old enough to own them, who don’t have significant felonies in their criminal record.
2) Once you own a firearm, by purchase, there is no law that says you have to hold onto the thing for any time limit before disposing of it by sale or gift.
3) Arizona, like most states, does not have a waiting period for purchasing rifles or shotguns. If you are legally qualified, you take your money to a gun shop, select which one you want, pay for it, and leave the shop with your new gun.
4) Arizona, like ALL states, requires gun shops to run a NICS check on prospective purchasers. NICS. National INSTANT Criminal Background Check System. Get it? Instant. Ok, in the real world this NICS thingy takes a few minutes, sometimes as much a half an hour if the phone lines are busy. And sometimes, almost always because some of the databases are flagged, waiting for a status update, the check goes to a wait list for a couple of days. 86% of those waits resolve without even a phone call, and most of the rest of them can be sorted out with just a couple of calls. So generally, “instant” is a fairly accurate descriptor. If you aren’t a loony, if you aren’t a convicted felon, if you didn’t get the boot from the military, and if you don’t beat up your lady friends, then you will pass a NICS pretty much on the spot. It’s called freedom. So Mark Kelly, what part of “instant” does your astronaut-caliber intellect not understand?
5) A straw purchase of a firearm happens when a legally qualified buyer buys a gun from a retailer, and then at some future point sells or gives it to a person who is not legally qualified to own one. It also happens when an individual sells a gun to a person he knows is going to use it to commit a crime.
6) It is neither perjury nor a straw purchase to change your mind about who will be the ultimate owner of a firearm after you buy it. Even if it’s only one second after. That’s still after. You can fill out the federal forms, fully believing you are buying the gun for yourself, but halfway across the parking lot realize that you need a birthday gift for cousin Dwayne, and decide THEN to give him the gun. It is also no perjury nor straw purchase to buy an Evil Assault Rifle for own hypocritical self, and then lie your ears off about it to the media 5 minutes later in the parking lot. This also falls under the changing your mind thing. The only way to prove “straw” would be a pocket full of money traceable to an illegal buyer, and a witness willing to testify that you made an agreement to buy a gun for them. Or a copy of a letter sent to the cops last month that says you’re going to buy them a gun ... and as far as I know, no letter like that exists anywhere in Kelly’s situation.
So this story is complete nonsense. No straw purchase (two words, not one). No perjury. No crime. No story, other than a lefty being a lying hypocrite. Yeah, like that’s news.
The only fishy part of the story is that Kelly said he just happened to see an AR for sale in a gun shop. Really? What fortuitous circumstances, that Mr. AWB goes into the only gun shop in the country that has an AR just sitting there waiting for a buyer. Ever other rifle like it has been sold, and every single company that builds the things, or even the parts for them, is back ordered for at least 2 solid years. Any gun shop that can even get one can sell it before it arrives; the things will never get as far as the display rack. So that part smells a bit.
And, would that I had 2 Large to spend on “making a statement” if that is, in truth, what Kelly did. I didn’t follow the story, nor see any video, but I’ll bet some reporter caught up to him just as he left the dealer, and he had to do some fast and fancy footwork. “Duh, um, I’m making a statement! Yeah, that’s it! My plan was always to get one and give it to the cops. Right! That’s my plan!” So his quick-stepping doesn’t count as perjury either. It’s just another wheelbarrow load of hypocrisy from the Left ... outlaw these evil guns for everyone, except me and my peeps. Which is crap, but not a crime.
Ok, skoolz over!
UPDATE: Rich K points out in the comments the latest development: Kelly does not yet possess the rifle. It turns out that a local ordinance requires gun shops to hold onto guns they take in in trade for 20 days, to give the LEOs time to trace the guns to see if they were used in crimes. So does THIS now make Kelly a felon and a perjurer? No, it just makes him a bullshitter pulling a stunt.
Found at FARK, and backed up by several links (1, 2, etc) because “Arizona” and “waiting period” do not go together:
Tuscon has a law that all guns sold back to a gun store have to be held for 20 days before being resold so that the police can determine if they’ve been used in a crime. He purchased the gun, but he can’t pick it up until that time period expires. That’s probably the only reason he could find one: It was sold to the gun store probably the same day he bought it, or at most 1 or 2 days prior. They’ve been flying off the shelves as fast as they get are stocked.
Ironically, if he turns it into the Tucson PD, it’s likely that they will be obligated to sell it to a gun store to be sold again. Arizona has a law that requires that of guns seized and turned in, as a revenue measure.
Once the hold period is up, Mr. Kelly must then show proper identification, complete the Federal Firearms Transfer Record (Form 4473) and successfully complete the NICS background check prior to his taking physical possession of the firearm.
So that explains that. And it’s a double bucket of yucks that if he gives the cops the gun, they’ll take it right back to the gun shop and get some money for it. Where it will then be traced again, and wait another 20 days for the next left wing astronaut to come by with more cash than brains. Looks like he picked the wrong gun to make an example out of how quick and easy it is for a Grade AA+ citizen like him to buy a gun. Criminals be listening up!! NOT.
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Permalink • Tuesday - March 12, 2013
Sometimes my brain works even before coffee
I got out of bed this morning and came downstairs. My wife had the morning news on.
“Judge throws out Bloomberg’s soda ban. Rules the law ‘arbitrary and capricious’” ... and then goes on to tell the details.
“Ha!”, says I, “that ought to then nullify NY’s new gun control law.”
“Wake up sleepyhead”, says she, “this is about the soda thing, not guns.”
Here’s a link to noted smart person John Hindraker in today’s Powerline, saying pretty much the same thing.
In a closely related development, a New York judge has thrown out Mayor Bloomberg’s decree against selling “sugary drinks” in New York City in containers larger than 16 ounces. The judge, Milton Tingling, held among other things that the ban was “arbitrary and capricious,” which is to say, irrational. He explained:
The petitioners state the decision to target only certain sugary sweetened drinks is nonsensical as a host of other drinks contain substantially more calories and sugar than the drinks targeted herein, including alcoholic beverages, lattes, milk shakes, frozen coffees, and a myriad of others too long to list here.
Note how closely this reasoning applies to the Democratic Party’s effort to ban “assault weapons,” certain randomly designated semi-automatic rifles which are identified by cosmetic features.
Yeah, and the 16 ounce size limit is exactly analogous to the 10 round magazine limit. It is it is it is!
It’s good to know I’m not a complete vegetable before Mr. Coffee works his morning magic.
Bear in mind, too, that there is a constitutional right to own and carry firearms, while there is no corresponding right to consume sugary beverages, so an assault weapons ban would be judged by a more stringent standard. Judge Tingling continued:
Petitioners also point out the exceptions to enforcement of the Rule whereby certain food service establishments are exempt from complying with this Rule. The effect would be a person is unable to buy a drink larger than 16 0z. at one establishment but may be able to buy it an another establishment that may be located right next door.
Sounds to me just like that “this law doesn’t apply to cops, retired cops, soldiers, and other government employees” addendum part that New York had to add on to their stupid law later, because they passed it so damn fast they weren’t even thinking. Not that I think that any law that has any exceptions for any special class of people is even close to constitutional, but at this point I’m on my third cup of the day, so that deep thought may be clearly attributable to the beans. Of which I may be full of.
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Permalink • Sunday - March 10, 2013
PSA
I may have to move back home!!
Posted on my Facebook page by my uncle, who now lives in Florida.
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Permalink • Saturday - March 09, 2013
you can’t have one
HK’s new 7.62 NATO machine gun. Versatile and adaptable, it fits the various mounts and tripods already in service. The new design shaves several pounds off the current gun. Fast change barrel system allows the gun crew to take a smoked barrel off in seconds and just drop it in a puddle or a bucket of water to cool it down, and a spare barrel goes on just as fast. Looks to me like it’s a Browning style cycling barrel, and the spring mounting (an a muzzle brake?) cuts recoil and muzzle climb to just about nothing. Pretty ferocious gun.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e29_1352371125&comments=1
h/t to John J
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Permalink • Tuesday - March 05, 2013
Sooner or later, it had to happenF
West Salem OR man accidentally killed by AR-15 he had just stolen
A man was killed when an AR-15 rifle he had just stolen from a Polk County farm discharged Sunday morning, police said.
Deputies responding to the report of a gunshot victim in the 5600 block of Halls Ferry Road found the suspect, 19-year-old Genaro Hernandez Mendoza of West Salem, dead inside a farm truck, said Polk County Sheriff’s Office Detective John Williams.
Investigators learned that the truck had been stolen from a home on Independence Highway earlier that morning, along with a rifle, a shotgun and several other items.
“The evidence showed that while Hernandez Mendoza was driving away from the scene he was the victim of an accidental, self-inflicted gun shot wound from the rifle he had just taken,” Williams said.
Williams added that the AR-15 rifle and the shotgun were both angled with their butts on the floorboard and their barrels pointed upward, toward the driver’s seat. On the bumpy farm road, the bolt head of the shotgun apparently bumped against the rifle’s trigger, firing one shot that hit the suspect and exited through the roof.
The suspect seemed to have acted alone in the burglary, Sheriff Bob Wolfe said.
That would be the bolt handle, the “sticky outy bit that goes back”, not the bolt head. Not to be confused with “the shoulder thing that goes up”.
Scratch one felon. Neither weapon has been arrested.
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Permalink • Oldest Company In The World Set To Leave Maryland
One of the world’s biggest gun makers is threatening to move its Maryland manufacturing plant – along with roughly 400 jobs – as Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley pushes one of the most ambitious gun-control agendas in the country.
Beretta USA executives have grown weary of the state’s attitude on guns and reportedly have backed up their threat by pointing out the company moved a warehouse to neighboring Virginia in 1990 when Maryland previously tightened gun laws.
Republicans, who largely oppose the new legislation, are warning about the economic impact of Beretta’s threats.
“We are pushing a legitimate manufacturer and good neighbor out of Maryland,” Republican state Delegate Anthony J. O’Donnell told FoxNews.com on Wednesday.
“Losing them would be a big disappointment. Maryland has a reputation for having a horrible business climate, and this would be one more nail in the coffin,” continued O’Donnell, the state House minority leader.
Beretta, the nearly 500-year-old Italian company, arrived in southern Maryland in 1997.
A government contract in 1985 made Beretta the standard sidearm supplier for the U.S. military, helping the international company, and its small U.S. division, supply more than 500,000 guns to the Armed Forces.
The O’Malley-backed legislation – which includes bans on possessing assault rifles and high-capacity gun magazines – would unlikely impact Beretta’s manufacturing.
However, possession of its 9mm pistol, with its 13-bullet magazine, would be illegal under legislation now moving through the Democrat-controlled General Assembly.
Under Marylands’ new law - it passed the legislature so it may already be signed - current firearms owners will have to submit to being fingerprinted, even if they are not currently planning on buying another firearm. In other words, they’ll be treated as criminals-in-waiting. And they’ll have to take training classes, and fork out money for an in-depth background check. All this merely to retain the firearms they already own. And the license would only be good for 5 years. Read more here. And here too.
O’Malley dismissed criticism from Republicans and some Democrats that his proposed licensing requirement would trample on Second Amendment rights, saying he believes he has broad public support to require every new Maryland gun owner to obtain a license to own a gun.
“It is a common-sense licensing requirement,” O’Malley said. “If you have to get a license to drive a car in Maryland . . . you should have to be licensed in order to operate a firearm.”
Wow, how’s that for arguing from a false premise?
Governor O’Malley is also looking to jack up the gasoline taxes in that Recession-strapped state, with a plan that increases the percentage year after year.
Prices at the pump may be going up. Governor Martin O’Malley has unveiled his new transportation plan, which includes an increase in the gas tax. It’s a move leaders say is critical.
Governor O’Malley says his plan would generate $3.4 billion over the next five years.
Flanked by House and Senate leadership, the governor announced a new transportation investment plan. With crumbling infrastructure, transit projects on hold and the state’s transportation fund near bankruptcy, leaders say something’s got to give.
“We know it’s a tough economic time. We think we’re doing this in the appropriate way that we can phase this in,” said House Speaker Del. Mike Busch.
Under a new proposal, the wholesale price of gasoline would increase two percent starting July 1—that translates to about two cents a gallon. In 2014, it would go up to four percent, about nine cents per gallon.
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Just last year, the governor proposed a six percent increase to the gas tax. That bill never made it out of committee.
Tax and spend, limit your freedoms, push legislation to turn ordinary citizens into criminals. It’s the same song and dance from Progressive Democrats New Marxists everywhere.
h/t to Roger, The Real King of France
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Permalink • Monday - March 04, 2013
gun control … in his dreams
Well here we are again, the same annoying character and my hobbyhorse gripe about foreigners and gun control in the USA.
We’re back to CNN’s Piers Morgan again because .... he writes for Live Magazine here and this is what his Brit audience sees.
Here are a few of his allies in his campaign to control guns in OUR country. This is part you might say, of his bragging rights.
Just thought you might be interested.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25
Piers Morgan
Everywhere I’ve gone in LA this weekend, I’ve had stars come up to me wanting to talk about my guns campaign.
Jamie Foxx collared me in a lift at Soho House, and was so animated on the subject that we had to step outside and wait for another one.
‘We have to deal with this problem now,’ he said. ‘It won’t be easy, but I grew up a young black man in Texas. I learned how to compromise with people on emotive issues.’Dustin Hoffman interrupted our red-carpet interview to suddenly exclaim, ‘By the way, God bless you for what you’re saying about gun control.’
Tonight, I was dining with friends at Madeo, one of Sinatra’s favourite old Italian haunts in Beverly Hills, when Kiefer Sutherland walked over, shook my hand and said, ‘I just want to say something to you. I’ve been watching all the gun stuff you’ve been doing on CNN and it’s one of the bravest things I’ve seen anyone do on American television for a very long time.’
I was genuinely gobsmacked, particularly as 24 is one of my all-time favourite dramas.
‘Thanks, Kiefer,’ I replied. ‘Coming from you, that means a lot.’
‘Just don’t stop,’ he added, firmly. ‘It’s too important. We’re all behind you.’
And then he was gone. Jack Bauer had given me my orders.
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Permalink • Thursday - February 28, 2013
Turning On A Phrase
Democrats have begun an all-out push to move a new assault weapons ban through Congress. But it faces strong headwinds from House Republicans, Democrats in pro-gun rights states and many legislatures in western and southern states who are moving in a different direction to ease gun control, rather than strengthen it.
And of course the hearing was more full of totally imagined bullshit than a John Edwards lawsuit summation ...
The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by the bill’s author, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, heard emotional testimony Wednesday from a witness list stacked with pro-ban speakers—none more powerful than Neil Heslin of Newtown, Conn., whose son Jesse, was killed in the elementary school massacre. He pointed to his forehead and told the hushed hearing panel about the bullet that struck just below Jesse’s hairline.
“Jesse looked at coward Adam Lanza in the eyes, saw his face and he looked at the end of that barrel, Jesse didn’t run, Jesse didn’t turn his back. That was the fatal shot that killed Jesse,” he said.
Really motherfucker? Really? Your 6 year old was heroic? Really? Because you yourself were there and witnessed this right? Oh wait, you weren’t. Not at all. No survivors in that classroom. So it’s just as likely that Lanza grabbed your hysterical pants-shitting kid by the face, put the muzzle against his forehead, and pulled the trigger. Sorry to be nasty like that, but your dribbly emotional scenario is complete bullshit, and you yourself are such a disgusting piece of shit that you’re willing to whore out the death of your own child to make some political hay. You sicken me more than just about any human being I’ve ever heard of.
Democrats are pushing for a new gun ban that would limit, among other things, 157 types of so-called assault weapons and magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. When asked if there is a constitutionally protected right for someone to own a gun with that kind of capacity to kill, John Walsh, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado speaking on behalf of the Justice Department, said, “There clearly is room for reasonable regulation particularly of dangerous and unusual weapons.”
That phrase, “dangerous and unusual weapons,” is key to the Democrats’ strategy of seeking a new ban that withstands court challenges. In the Supreme Court’s Heller decision, which struck down the District of Columbia’s handgun ban, Justice Antonin Scalia referenced a 1939 U.S. Supreme Court decision that gave Second Amendment protection to weapons “in common use at the time” of its being written.
Scalia wrote, “We think that limitation is fairly supported by the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of ‘dangerous and unusual weapons.’”
1) If our Supreme Court was not full of morons and pussies, they would have thrown out the 1939 Miller decision as part of the Heller decision for the flawed piece of junk that it was. Instead, our modern, cowardly, dickless court is even less brave than a father’s fantasy claim for a certain 6 year old: this court will split atoms to avoid making any decision that is one angstrom unit wider than the exact words in front of them. Miller was crap, if for no other reason than that the other side of the arguments were never heard, because Miller himself was already dead.
2) The Miller decision was about the 1934 National Firearms Act, another idiotic knee-jerk reactionary “we must act now!!” bill which put an extremely onerous tax on fully automatic weapons, thus reserving their use to the rich and powerful. It also banned short bodied rifles and shotguns, even though it allowed pistols of the same or smaller size to still exist. And that same 1934 Act banned “dangerous and unusual” firearms, like pen guns, guns built into pocket watches, wallet guns, belt buckle guns, guns built into hats, buns built into walking sticks, guns built into tire irons, etc. - firearms that were disguised as other things. I never really understood that one. Were gangsters running around robbing banks with lamps, vases, and couch cushions? “There’s a gun built into this, so give me all the money or I’ll blast you with this quart of milk!”
3) The Miller decision was made against Miller, who had argued that short shotguns were indeed of military value. The court of that day must have been full of lazy men who knew nothing of history or firearms, because short shotguns had been used by mounted cavalry for more than 100 years at that point, and short shotguns had been used defensively to great effect in the trenches of The Great War just 16 years prior to this case. So effectively that the Germans, who were only too happy to use poison gas and flame throwers against us, sued in international court to have shotguns banned as terror weapons. So Miller was 100% wrong because the blackrobes purposely ignored the facts that they could have found out about with only the most minimal effort.
But the important thing is what “dangerous and unusual” meant at the time. Oh to hell with it. Why should I waste my finger’s efforts writing about original intent when dealing with unhinged leftists? They don’t get it. The whole damn modern government is based on a deliberate misreading of the original intent of “regulate interstate commerce”. These gun control petty tyrants STILL claim that the Second Amendment is only about the militia, and the weapons hiding under it’s penumbra are 6 foot long muzzle loading muskets. Because most citizens are stupid lazy morons run by their emotions and their gonads, who can’t be bothered to read the reams and reams and reams of writing by the Founding Fathers - ALL OF THEM, not just evil slave-fucker Tommy JeffJeff - who wrote and wrote and wrote about what the whole “keep and bear arms” thing was all about, right on up to including “Their swords and every terrible implement of the soldier are the birthright of Americans.” That’s real original intent: all citizens to go about armed at all times. So obviously, I’m wasting my breath.
But Republicans argue that those weapons are hardly unusual if in the possession of millions of Americans. There are presently more than 4 million AR 15’s in American homes alone, and many more millions of excess-capacity magazines
Rather than create new laws that impinge on the Second Amendment, one Republicans asked why existing laws are not better enforced. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., asked Walsh how many people who had failed gun background checks had been referred to state prosecutions.
Walsh said, “Senator, I don’t have a particular number on that.”
Graham replied, using the most recent DOJ statistics. “Almost 80,000 people failed background checks and 44 people are prosecuted, what kind of deterrent is that?” he asked.
Republican Sen. Charles Grassley asked why a second assault weapons ban is needed, when a Justice Department study found the effects of the first ban to be inconclusive.
“They cannot clearly credit the ban with any of the nation’s recent drop in gun violence,” he said.
Democrats will never let little things like facts get in the way of their emotionally charge rush to stampede your rights and freedoms. It’s too good a crisis to let go to waste, and they will use this to push Forward™ their anarcho-tyrannist agenda as much as they can. There is no foul deed nor disgusting and false display of piety or phony moral superiority that they will not make. Frankly, I am amazed that they haven’t brought the exhumed bodies of the Newtown victims out as display pieces. Or murdered other children and pretended they were Newtown victims. Because yes, they are that sick, that twisted, and that desperate.
PS - Hey Senator Graham: you’d better make sure that failing a NICS check is an actual crime before shooting your mouth off like that. And get your numbers right at both the initial and post appeals level. You know, little minor things like 69% of NICS denials are based on data asynchronicity, and those cases are approved on appeal, and about 12,000 other denials are not prosecuted because of executive orders on federal immigration policy.
PPS - even the Daily Kos understands that Miller was crap.
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A must read…
My favorite line:
Predictably, the homeowner grabbed his home defense pistol and perforated the perp with extreme prejudice.
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New Jersey Next Please
7TH CIRCUIT LETS POSNER RULING STAND; HUGE WIN FOR CCW, SAYS SAF
For Immediate Release: 2/22/2013
BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation today won a significant victory for concealed carry when the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals let stand a December ruling by a three-judge panel of the court that forces Illinois to adopt a concealed carry law, thus affirming that the right to bear arms exists outside the home.
The ruling came in Moore v. Madigan, a case filed by SAF. The December opinion that now stands was written by Judge Richard Posner, who gave the Illinois legislature 180 days to “craft a new gun law that will impose reasonable limitations, consistent with the public safety and the Second Amendment…on the carrying of guns in public.” That clock is ticking, noted SAF Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb.
“Illinois lawmakers need to create some kind of licensing system or face the prospect of not having any regulations at all when Judge Posner’s deadline arrives,” Gottlieb said. “They need to act. They can no longer run and hide from this mandate.”
“We were delighted with Judge Posner’s ruling in December,” he continued, “and today’s decision by the entire circuit to allow his ruling to stand is a major victory, and not just for gun owners in Illinois. Judge Posner’s ruling affirmed that the right to keep and bear arms, itself, extends beyond the boundary of one’s front door.”
In December, Judge Posner wrote, “The right to ‘bear’ as distinct from the right to ‘keep’ arms is unlikely to refer to the home. To speak of ‘bearing’ arms within one’s home would at all times have been an awkward usage. A right to bear arms thus implies a right to carry a loaded gun outside the home.”
Judge Posner subsequently added, “To confine the right to be armed to the home is to divorce the Second Amendment from the right of self-defense described in Heller and McDonald.”
Read the rest and mark your calenders. I want to see just what happens in Illinois with this one.
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http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2012-04-18.html
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Zak’s book Back To Basics For The Republican Party is an important addition to any Conservative bookshelf. It’s not a big book, but it will put you in touch with some roots you’d be hard pressed to believe given today’s lying media.
Let’s remember, no matter who bears the brunt of any gun control laws, they are always and forever Black Control laws first and foremost, brought to you by the party of slavery. ALWAYS.
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