Thursday - February 19, 2009

Next Time Just Keep Your Mouth Shut

You Asked For It, Stupid



Pro-2A NY Senator Kathy Kirsten Gillibrand, Shrillary’s replacement, reaps the whirlwind after mentioning that she herself owns firearms. My hope is that this will only reaffirm just how rabid the anti-freedom crowd really is, even to a fellow Democrat.

Gillibrand removes guns from under bed

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) has moved the two rifles that she kept under the bed to protect her upstate New York home, her spokesman said Monday.

“Given that the location of the guns has been disclosed, they have been moved for security reasons,” Gillibrand’s spokesman Matt Canter said. She relocated the guns over the weekend while upstate to endorse Democrat Scott Murphy in the March 31 election to replace her in the 20th District, he said. He also said Gillibrand, mother of a 5-year-old and an infant, kept the ammunition separate from the empty guns, and then later called to add that the rifles were locked in a case while stored under the bed. She had refused to describe her gun safety measures.

Gun-control activists questioned the safety of placing guns under a bed where children can find them and burglars look first. The National Rifle Association said it is up to gun owners to safely store weapons.

Gillibrand disclosed she had guns under her bed in an interview with Newsday last Thursday. A Newsday story on the interview ran Monday, prompting reactions by advocates for gun rights and gun control.

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-Mineola), a gun-control activist ... added, ”I hope the guns didn’t have bullets in them.”

Gillibrand also has not replied to requests for a meeting by New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, said the group’s executive director, Jackie Hilly.

As a result, Hilly said, the group will hold a rally on New York’s City Hall steps Thursday to urge Gillibrand to work to pass three gun control bills. It will feature Lois Schaffer, a Great Neck woman whose daughter was shot and killed in her St. Louis home last December by teens with a stolen gun.

“I am very upset about the whole thing,” said Joyce Gorycki of Mineola, widow of a Long Island Rail Road official killed in the 1993 train shooting and co-chair of Long Island’s New Yorkers Against Gun Violence. “I don’t know why she needs two rifles.”

Way to go Kathy. Next time, take the Fred Thompson approach: it ain’t none of their damn business. They played Gotcha! on your naive upstate ass but good.

And now Gillibrand will be plagued by the professional hand-wringing extortionists. The untouchable victim squad who can never be doubted. The Cindy Sheehans of the movement, with their “unimpeachable moral high ground”. Bullshit; Ann Coulter was 100% correct. Communists, every single one of them. “You must support our bill, or we’ll come and ooze at you forever! Our husband’s deaths are your fault because it’s people like you who bought these things which were stolen and then used to kill!!!”

Where the hell is that reset button graphic?

   Sunday - February 15, 2009

SOMETHING TO KEEP NOISY NEIGHBORS IN LINE? ( supergun that kills from a mile )

OK, how many of ya want one of these?

Pictured: The supergun that kills from a mile - and the camouflaged crackshots using it against the Taliban

By Christopher Leake
Last updated at 9:51 AM on 15th February 2009

British Army snipers call it ‘the Silent Assassin’ and it is the weapon the Taliban fear the most.

It is the British-made L115A3 Long Range Rifle which, in recent weeks, has killed scores of enemy fighters in Afghanistan.

In a new initiative on the front line, the Army is using sniper platoons to target the Taliban and ‘The Long’, as the snipers call it, can take out insurgents from a mile away.

Many of the elite marksmen who use the rifle make their own extraordinary suits of camouflage to stay hidden from the Taliban.

Some have been known to go ‘under cover’ for two days while they pick off the enemy.

Last week Army snipers were training with the rifle and full camouflage on the snow-covered ranges of the Support Weapons School at the Land Warfare Centre at Warminster, Wiltshire.

One of them, known as Yuppie, said: ‘You could call it made-to-measure camouflage.

‘This one is green string tied into sheets, then covered in straw with straps attached so it fits tight. It took three months and a lot of patience to make.’

His comrade Dean, who like Yuppie is a veteran of Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Northern Ireland, said: ‘I wouldn’t say us snipers are an elite, but we think we’re a cut above the rest.’

The L115A3 Long Range Sniper Rifle - based on a weapon used by the British Olympic shooting team - weighs 15lbs, fires 8.59mm rounds and has a range of 1,100-1,500 yards.

   Thursday - February 12, 2009

Oops 2

Didn’t we hear this same story last year, only about Iran? What is going on already???

More than a third of U.S. weapons to Afghan forces unaccounted for

American efforts to arm Afghan government forces in their fight against the Taliban and al Qaeda have suffered from “significant lapses in accountability,” with more than one-third of all U.S.-procured weapons currently unaccounted for, according to a U.S. government report released Thursday.

The U.S. military failed to “maintain complete inventory records for an estimated 87,000 weapons — or about 36 percent — of the 242,000 weapons that the United States procured and shipped to Afghanistan from December 2004 through June 2008 … Accountability lapses occurred throughout the supply chain,” a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report states.

The Defense Department spent roughly $120 million during this period to acquire a range of small arms and light weapons for the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), including rifles, machine guns, and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.

Account for every rifle. Every grenade. Every bullet. From when they get made to when they get handed over. If you can’t do that, then you’re out of a job. What the yabbos do with them after that is not your responsibility, but if you start seeing them for sale at the local bazaar, then you stop handing them out. Is that too hard a concept to understand? NOTHING “falls off the back of a truck”. Especially on our side of the pond. Hey, crazy idea: have the shipments guarded!

Arizona Home Invaders Are Mexicans

You probably saw the video on the news last night. This guy in Tuscon Arizona has surveilance cameras all around his house. A bunch of banditos drive up in what looks like a Chyrsler 300, with great big chrome rims. They all jump out of the car firing and go running into the guy’s garage. But he saw them coming, so he has time to get his own gun. Suddenly he returns fire and they go flying. 3 of them jump the wall and run away, 1 gets back in the car as bullets tear up the windshield, and away he goes, loud exhaust and all.

Amazing video of an attempted home invasion in Tucson. Investigators say the victim fought back by shooting at a group of armed men trying to break into his house. This all happened Thursday afternoon near Cardinal and Irvington on the southwest side.

The is video from a surveillance system overlooking the driveway of the victim’s home. It shows the suspects pull up in a car and jump out. One of the would-be home invaders fires a shot as he runs into the garage. Within seconds several more shots ring out. Investigators say those came from the man inside the home.

In the video you can see shards of glass fly as bullets hit the front windshield. Two cameras caught the crime on tape. Once the homeowner shot back the suspects scattered. Three ran away on foot and the fourth jumped back into the car and sped away.

As for the suspects, they all got away but police did find the getaway car a short while later. That lead them to 23 year old Jesus Mendivil. He remains on the loose but investigators say he was shot in the arm during the shootout.

My guess is that’s the guy from the rear seat, the one who stumbles to his knees and falls against the front of the car as he’s running away. It’s pretty clear video. I bet they can ID the faces easily from it. Notice that the thugs are all wearing gloves too. It’s a hit squad.



I was just watching CNN interview the Sheriff or Police Chief from Pima County. Aside from the usual reporter idiocy of “we don’t know what kind of guns they used, but they sounded like machine guns”, the officer let on that at least one of the suspects is known to the authorities already, and wanted on previous assault charges. Finally the reporter asks the right questions, and the officer admits that this is likely gang related and that the suspects are from “south of the border”.

There you have it. Organized crime, from Mexico, invading American homes, possibly with automatic weapons. They got out of the car shooting, so add “with intent to kill” into that mix. Can we secure our borders now please?

food for thought: these guys are from Mexico, so that probably IS an M16 in the picture. Notice that it has a sling, which is kind of rare on a civilian weapon. Makes me wonder though.

If you listen to the video, it’s pretty obvious that no automatic weapons were fired. The homeowner gets off about 10 shots to the bandito’s 2, but the rate of fire is way too slow for actual machine guns. That doesn’t mean the thug wasn’t carrying one; he either didn’t shoot it, or had it switched to single shot mode.

Oh, and while the cops say the homeowner was fully within his rights, they also say that he is a person known to them, and that it is not likely that this attack was random. Which might also explain why the guy had so many security cameras around his house, and why he was so fast to get hold of his gun. Or that could be BS from the cop. Stay tuned, story as it develops.

   Saturday - February 07, 2009

That’s why it’s called a “collection”

Latest “round” of anti-gun hysteria in New Jersey



This entire bullshit avalanche was kicked off because one of our brownshirts State Troopers talked to this guy at his front door, and saw a gun in the house. Overreactions followed, and now the baying hounds of idiocy the press and insanity the Brady folks are in full swing, with the predictable results.



Ex-cop had 259 guns at home, say police


Buckle your seat belts and get out your barf bags, here we go again ...

FRANKLIN—Behind a shroud of tall, tangled brush at the front of his four-acre property, former Vineland police officer Brian Hinkel allegedly hid a massive cache of guns and ammunition—an arsenal state police said is the largest they’ve ever seen.

Watch the code words flow from the holier-than-thou leftist pens ...

He also built an underground bunker on his Rosemont Avenue property, complete with an access ladder and carpeting, police said.

State police said Thursday they don’t know why Hinkel, 49, amassed such a huge collection of weaponry, a live grenade—which state police detonated at the scene—about 500,000 rounds of ammunition, gunpowder and military items. And he has not been charged with illegally possessing any items in the arsenal, although police were checking to see if the 259 weapons they seized were properly registered.

Why? Hey stupid, it’s called a collection. And the grenade? What grenade? The one you blew up, with the assistance of your own explosives? Prove it was real. Prove it was live. And no, no charges on having 259 guns ... because ONE firearms ID card is all you need. So who is this guy, some neo-revolutionary? Some straw purchase felon equipping all the street gangs in the state with guns? Some hell-bent anarchist? No. He’s a retired cop, who lives by himself on his little farm at the end of a dirt road, and gets by buying and selling farm equipment.

Hinkel was charged in an earlier alleged assault on state troopers when they went to his home Monday to question him in connection with two recent burglaries at a farm in Upper Pittsgrove, said Sgt. Stephen Jones, a state police spokesman. Hinkel was charged with aggravated assault on police. He was released from the Gloucester County Jail on $10,000 bail. Hinkel was staying with friends or relatives Thursday, Jones said, and could not be reached for comment. Jones said Hinkel has retained a lawyer, but did not identify the attorney.

For his sake I hope he has hired Evan Nappen, who is our most famous gun rights lawyer. He writes books on that subject. Man knows his stuff but good.

Jones said state police received information that items stolen from separate burglaries over the past two weeks at a farm on Friendship Road in Upper Pittsgrove might have ended up on Hinkel’s property.

When police went there to question Hinkel, he asked to go inside to get a jacket and, when he did, he allegedly grabbed a loaded handgun off the kitchen table. Troopers had to wrestle the gun away from Hinkel, Jones said.

None of the stolen items were recovered on Hinkel’s property, although some of them have been found at other locations in Vineland, Jones said. Hinkel has not been charged in connection with the burglaries.

So the Statey’s “information” was nothing more than some rube saying, “duh, there’s a lot of farmy stuff at Hinkel’s place. Maybe some of it is stolen.” And they swing into action!! Of course, none of the stuff turns out to be stolen after all ... but that doesn’t matter at all, does it? No such thing as False Suspicion I guess. And the “wrestle” part? Dollars to donuts this is the standard cop lie/CYA-cuz-we-fucked-up routine, repeated for the 3 millionth time. Sure, because an EX-COP is going to freak out over going down to cop-land to talk with some other cops. Riiiight. And pull a gun on them. Riiiight. No. I bet what happened was that he was carrying. In his own home. Which is entirely legal for anyone to do, but here in NJ we have a special aspect to the law that allows retired police officers, just like this guy Hinkel, the nearly exclusive right to carry. A special law that gives these special people special rights. Because they’re better than you an me. But the stateys saw the gun when he put on his coat, and tackled him on the spot. In his own home or on his front steps. Permit? We don’t waste time asking for no stinkeen permit. We just bust your ass and then make up a story.

Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get back to fear mongering. Wake up the idiots, pass out the pens ...

While they were at Hinkel’s home, state police noticed weapons throughout the house, and executed a search warrant there on Tuesday morning. While executing the warrant, police found hundreds of weapons stored inside two enclosed trailers on the property. State police removed the cache from the property Thursday morning using a box truck, and were still on the scene later in the day.

“This is the largest collection of weapons most of us have ever seen,” Jones said at the scene, as television news helicopters hovered overhead. “Some of the bullets, my people aren’t even familiar with.”

So they got a warrant to be nosy? Is that it? Because they saw some guns around the guy’s house - which is fully legal, since no children live there - and away they go on their rampage! And that was an immediate warrant, not one with actual cause, one that might have been warranted (sorry) if the property in question was indeed stolen. No, this is another case of out of control goonsquads, pretending to act in the public good. Had they waited just a couple of hours, long enough to find out that the farm stuff was legit, or to even check that the ex-cop had permits (which is 10000% guaranteed that he did), they never would have been granted that warrant. But hey, it’s Vineland, which is about as rural as it gets in NJ, and this was probably the first Big Case they’d seen in years, so Let’s Go!! Hut hut hut hut!

“some of the bullets, my people aren’t even familiar with” Oh, it is to laugh. Most cops don’t know jack shit about guns. Not jack shit. They might be able to recognize a .38spl cartridge, and tell it from a 9mm Luger cartridge. But please. Pointing out how large and varied an ammunition collection is because cops don’t know the rounds? It. Is. To. Laugh.

So let’s get back to the fear. Time to paint this guy as a dangerous loner, a time bomb that could have gone off at any second, if not for the brave and selfless actions of Our Brave Boys

Neighbor Antoinette Ragone said she’s lived across the street from Hinkel for about three years, but had no idea he was allegedly housing enough firepower to outfit an army.

“I never really spoke to him,” she said Thursday morning. “It was a hi-bye relationship. I’m shocked and upset.”

Ok, that’s it for the small town farm report newspaper. Knuckleheads don’t really know the script. Let’s send the story to the pros in the big city.

Ex-Vineland cop jailed on new weapons charges

Atlantic City - A former Vineland police officer surrendered to police Wednesday and faces new criminal charges related to a 259-weapon arsenal he kept in his home.

Brian Hinkel, 60, of Franklin Township, Gloucester County, faces five new charges of possession of assault weapons, and one new charge each of possession of high-capacity ammunition and destructive devices - in his case, a functional grenade, according to police.

Police jailed him on $250,000 cash bail that he must pay in full to gain release while he awaits trial.

Ok, now we’re cooking with ass gas. “Assault weapons” is a crock term, and you know that. But they are entirely legal in NJ if you follow the rules. Grandfathering, “fundamentally non-identical” etc. You can even get new ones if you do it right. But I’m ROFLMAO over “possession of high-capacity ammunition”. WTF is that? Do Joe Reporter mean ”standard high capacity magazines”? What a dumbshit. Oh, and grenade again. The one that doesn’t exist any more. And Hinkel remains in jail, on FULL bail, which is unheard of even for murders and rapists. The man is a full blown terrorist!!!!1111!! Quick, call the airlines and reroute the flights, this guy is gonna start shooting down airplanes!!!!1111!!!!1

State Police arrested Hinkel and searched his Rosemont Avenue home last week after a robbery investigation in Upper Pittsgrove Township, Salem County, led them there.

That means the false information that resulted in the stateys verifying that all of his equipment was not stolen merchandise? That lead? Gee, that was forthright of you to say it in that way. Not.

Police said Hinkel fled State Police Detective Mike Peterson and assaulted him by slamming a door on him and reaching for a loaded gun.

Closing your door is an assault? And if the door was closed, how do you know he was reaching for a gun? How do you know it was loaded? Inquiring minds wonder where yours is, and if you can breathe in there.

From that incident, investigators obtained a search warrant after Peterson said he saw the gun. Police searched the home for three days and found 259 guns, thousands of rounds of ammunition, and an improvised bunker on Hinkel’s property.

So, a false lead leads to false pretenses, which gets the cops a search warrant. And let’s throw in the fear term “improvised bunker”. It’s called secure storage moron. But I guess that’s a crime too?
Why, didn’t he have the right kind of building permit?

Hinkel’s arrest has drawn widespread attention, and the case has been bumped up to the state Attorney General’s Office for prosecution. Anti-gun violence groups have criticized Hinkel, who took a disability retirement from the Vineland Police Department in 1986 after 13 years on the force.

Time to pull out the “big guns”. Let’s investigate further maybe, and claim the disability is false? Which it probably is. But that’s cops. They ALL seem to retire on disability. Usually a back injury, which is impossible to disprove. I wonder if disability gets you a bigger pension? But that’s neither here nor there. But kick the case up to State, because the AG wants to share the spotlight. And bring in the looney left, so they can spout their usual drivel.

Bryan Miller, executive director of Ceasefire NJ, said: ”Hinkel deserves to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and, if convicted, sentenced to a long term. After all, as a former cop, he knew the law and apparently chose to actively violate it. And, by possessing such an arsenal he may have put his neighbors and others at risk. Imagine the potential harm such an arsenal represents, if it were stolen and ended up in the hands of criminals or domestic terrorists.”

“Apparently” chose to “actively” violate it. Cover your ass much Cryan Bryan? But let’s throw the book at him anyway. And it’s an “arsenal” of course. Putting the neighbors at risk. Really? How? Tell me that please. “Imagine” the “potential” harm. “domestic terrorists”!!!! Give this drooler a tissue. I think he came all down his leg. Ewww.

Several newspapers have published Hinkel’s picture. Many have published pictures of his house. Some have even published a map, so the protesters will know exactly where the guy lives. This kind of makes me wonder, who is leading who? Does our press learn it’s trade from Hugo Chavez and his Jew baiting? Or is it the other way around?

That’s not it for the story though. Why stop at just one day’s coverage? Now let’s move on to the “unanswered questions” part. Unanswered, probably because they’re also unasked.

Questions surround Franklin Twp. man’s gun collection

Walking with his auburn-colored retriever around the trailers and piles of clutter that dot his land on Rosemont Avenue in Franklin Township, a subdued Hinkle said he did not want to talk. As a whirring helicopter passed overhead, the former Vineland, N.J., police officer cast his eyes skyward with suspicion.

“Maybe I’m going to get hit again,” said Hinkle, shaking his head. “Unbelievable.”

Until this week, Hinkle, 59, lived in relative anonymity. Neighbors saw him as a kindly recluse, and neither they nor his former employers have provided any clues as to why Hinkle may have amassed such a large cache of weapons.

Another iteration of the crazy-loner-with-guns angle. Add in the “piles of clutter” to imply he’s white trash. Journalists sure do seem to work off of a script, don’t they? I covered the “why” part already. It’s called a right. That’s something that the rest of the country gets to do whenever they want and as often as they want, without question. In NJ, you need permission, and you know that getting that permission is part of the legal Pay To Play corrupt monkeyshines that go on here.

On Monday, Hinkle was arrested on charges of aggravated assault after allegedly drawing a gun on two New Jersey state police troopers. The officers had been questioning Hinkle about his connection to a man who is wanted for burglary.

So now State Trooper Peterson has become TWO officers. Who got drawn on. From the other side of a closed door. After they were assaulted by having it closed on them. :eye roll: But come on already, let’s ratchet up that public fear!

The arrest led to the officers’ discovery of Hinkle’s firearms, a stockpile that authorities have said is the largest they have seen in private hands. Hinkle had everything from World War II-era firearms to rifles and modern handguns, police said. He also had a live grenade, gunpowder, and a canister of tear gas, they said.

By the time they finished searching Hinkle’s property on Thursday, officers had seized 259 guns and nearly a half-million rounds of ammunition. Some of the weapons were stored in a homemade bunker Hinkle had fashioned out of an old septic tank.

Gun noobs crack me up. WWII firearms aren’t modern? Hey stupid, guns made in 1899 are modern. Granted that semi-automatic pistol design has come a long way since 1899. That particular branch of modern firearms development reached it’s apex ... in 1911. Geez Louise. And gunpowder is not illegal, neither the black or smokeless variety. I can’t say that about the tear gas. This is NJ after all. But the guy is an ex-cop. Don’t they have a special law as well that lets ex-cops have tear gas? And tasers? And evil switchblade knives? Why the hell not? If you’re going to write laws that make them Superior Citizens, why stop halfway? Back on track please Drew ... Ok ... “bunker” again. With the obvious Hitler association of course. And a “half-million rounds” of ammo, which works out to a little over 40 boxes per weapon. A good stash ratio. I’d only call it large because this guy had a decent sized collection. That’s right my foreign readership! Mr. Hinkle is not really an exception. Tens of thousands of us own just as many firearms or more. Not me. I’m just a little wiener, minding my own business. Nothing to see here, move along. I am not the droids you are looking for.

Hinkle has not been charged with illegally possessing any of the weapons found in his house. State Police Sgt. Steve Jones said that may change, depending on the outcome of the investigation.

So far, he said, police have determined that the grenade, gunpowder, tear gas and a few other items are illegal.

Well you determined wrong dimwit. The gunpowder is not illegal. At all. And what’s this “a few other items” bullshit? You’re doing your oinking pig best to destroy an honest man’s life over bullshit, so why not tell us? Did he have an illegal hatpin? Were his kitchen knives illegally sharp? Did you find the old bearskin rug baby photo of his son? Child pornography!!!!

Hinkle never spoke about guns or weapons, [encroaching suburban neighbor] Murray said. Occasionally, she heard a few shots coming from the direction of Hinkle’s land.

“But that’s not unusual in this area,” she said. “We have a lot of hunters around here. I never thought twice about it.”

One of the only hints of discontent Murray ever noticed in Hinkle was that he was opposed to higher taxes, and seemed to resent government interference in his life. “He would say things like, he doesn’t want to be told how to live,” she said.

Horry Clap! Horrors!! Shudders!!! The guy sounds exactly like ... an American!!! But in the People’s Socialist Republik of New Jersey, that’s discontent! Oh pleez, massa gob’mint, takes all a my moneys and tells me whatta do. I can’ts be figgering dat out nohow, dues it for me!! Discontent my ass. Sounds like patriotism to me. Commie bitch.

But wait, there’s more! YOU KNOW WHAT COMES NEXT. Like Spring follows Winter, like peanut butter and jelly, OF COURSE this next bit had to follow. There are rules to be followed!

Corzine calls for tougher gun laws
Gov. Corzine called yesterday for tougher gun laws at the state and national levels, citing the recent discovery of 259 firearms at a man’s Gloucester County home as a reason to bring back a federal ban on assault weapons. Corzine also called on the state Senate to give final legislative approval to a plan to limit New Jersey handgun buyers to one purchase every 30 days - putting public pressure on lawmakers to pass a bill that appears stalled.

“There is no reason why anyone needs more than one gun a month,” Corzine said. “It is time for the Senate to take this bill up and pass it.”

The Assembly has approved the measure. [but it has been tabled indefinitely - Drew]

Corzine made the calls for tougher laws before a roomful of gun-control advocates who had gathered as he signed a law increasing the penalties for illegally possessing machine guns or assault weapons in New Jersey.

He said a federal assault-weapons ban was needed to complement New Jersey’s restrictions. A national ban “in theory” would have blocked Brian Hinkel from amassing such a large arsenal at his Franklin Township home, Corzine said.

“Seat belts” Corzine is an idiot. He should be bitch slapped with an anchor chain for that “nobody needs more than one month” remark. It ain’t about needs ya fascist. And your theory is a crock. 259 guns, some antiques, takes a long time to collect. Decades. Who wants to bet that some of these guns weren’t Hinkel’s dad’s? WWII souvenirs? Family heirlooms? Not me. Your theory only holds a small amount of water IF your idiotic law was in place 25 years ago. One month less than that, actually. [No, I’m wrong. Because it only applies to future purchases. So he’s full of shit, totally.] And even under that law, Hinkel could still inherit many guns at one time, so you’re grasping at really thin straws.

And let’s not even go there with the machine gun thing. Actual automatic weapons have been regulated out the ass by the federal government for over 70 years, along with major penalties for illegal possession. And NJ also has long had it’s own additional major penalties for illegal possession of them. And just about ZERO actual automatic weapons have been used in crimes anywhere, much less in NJ. Plus, criminals don’t care about the laws to begin with. So you’re just flapping your gums and signing a do-nothing law that will likely never even be used, all to make it look like you and your corrupt cronies in Trenton are “tough on crime” and “doing something about it”. What a galactic jerk off.

Hinkel, whose 259 weapons were discovered in late January, faces numerous criminal charges, including five counts of possession of an assault rifle.

Bryan Miller, executive director of Ceasefire NJ, said that even though New Jersey bans assault weapons, they can be bought in other states and brought here illegally. A national ban would prevent buyers from obtaining assault weapons anywhere, he said.

“They’re made to kill as many people as possible as quickly as possible, and as such they have no use in a society,” Miller said.

Same asshole, different fart. Cryin Bryan yet again, and yet again he plays the fear card while at the same time ignoring the actual existing law. I have a friend who bought an “assault rifle” 2 years ago. Brand new. Right here in NJ. Oh wait, it’s not really one, because it doesn’t have a bayonet lug on the barrel. And the lower uses a bigger assembly pin than the “pre-ban” model. So his gun is legit. Well, as long as a newspaper reporter or cryin Bryan doesn’t see it. Then it will become an eviil scary black rifle.

Hinkel, 59, came to widespread attention after police found a store of firearms at his home. It was discovered after state troopers arrived to question him about his ties to a suspect in a recent burglary. Police are still investigating how and where Hinkel, a former Vineland police officer with no criminal record, obtained all of the weapons.

Oh God, this shit never stops, does it? It. Never. Stops. “how and where”. Get real. How? With money. Where? Anywhere in the state he wanted to, as often as he wanted too, as long as he had his little piece of colored paper. Because that’s all a NJ Firearms ID card really is. It doesn’t even have your picture on it, it’s not even laminated. It’s just a scrap of paper that a 5 year old could run off on a mimeograph machine in 2 seconds. So much for “gun security”.

Is there no breath of fresh air here? Even one little whiff of common sense? Yes, at last there is. Three in fact.

Andrew Arulanandam, a spokesman for the National Rifle Association, said Corzine should focus on existing regulations, noting that anyone in New Jersey who possesses an assault weapon is already breaking the law.

“The reason gun control laws and especially laws like this don’t work is that criminals by definition don’t obey the law,” Arulanandam said. “If Gov. Corzine was serious about combatting crime, he would put the focus on prosecuting criminals who violate existing gun laws.”

Evan Nappen, an Eatontown, N.J., lawyer whose practice focuses on firearms law, said the definition of “assault weapon” is often based on technical factors that do not relate to how dangerous a gun is.

“This is just another show for the public that will have no effect on crime,” he said.

Within the state, Senate Majority Leader Stephen Sweeney (D., Gloucester), one of the opponents of the one-handgun-per-month bill, said New Jersey has enough laws.

Horry Clap, you could knock me over with a feather after that last statement. A leading NJ Democrat who says we have enough gun laws. Swoon! There might be one thin weak ray of hope left after all. But don’t bet on it.

   Friday - February 06, 2009

Of Interest To Gun Geeks Only

An illustrated essay on the different methods used to make gun barrels can be found here.  Overall it is much easier to follow than some of the articles published by Lilja, Douglas, and others. It tells you more than everything you ever wanted to know about long hole boring, cut vs. broached vs. forged rifling, profiling, and the stresses induced in the metal by the processes. Pretty cool. I can’t pick too many nits with the essay, although I would like to see some empirical proof to the author’s “too smooth a finish” belief. There is a very modern method of rifling barrels using an electrochemical process that is not covered here. That same ECR process can be used to impart an extremely fine polish on a barrel’s bore. This is said to both decrease fouling and to significantly improve accuracy. More information on barrel metallurgy can be found on Mark Stouse’s video, available for $11.

   Wednesday - February 04, 2009

bizzy bee

Sorry no posts from me lately. I’m working on squaring away my letter to my state legislators, the one about improving the firearms application process. I’ve done some more research, and I’ve talked to some more people. Their responses are not positive; the opinion is that NJ does not want it’s citizens to own guns. Period. That the cops, who process all the applications, are going to sit on them as long as they want, regardless of what the law says. Period. That bringing my awareness of the existence of the law to their attention is akin to mouthing off, and is bound to get me in trouble or at least to have my forms shunted to the bottom of the pile. Forever.

So it’s been quite a struggle for me to write this idea up in a way that can come out win-win for everyone involved. But I think I have it. The last part to fall in place was my consideration of the workload of the staff who processes all the application forms. It’s quite possible that these are the same people who who process the background checks done on prospective employees. And if they are snowed under with work, then that means that people trying to get hired have longer to wait. So give them a little more staff if necessary ... because it will be good for the economy as well.

It’s the New Jersey way. I do something for you, you do something for him, he does something for me. And everybody’s happy. Even Obama. Badda bing baby.

   Thursday - January 29, 2009

The greenies must be seeing red over this

“Environmentally Friendly” air rifle pellet is lead free ... and actually increases killing power by a large fraction.

The Gamo airgun company has developed a hardened copper based pellet. Called the P.B.A.^tm for Performance Ballistic Alloy, the new pellet is much harder and much lighter than regular pellets which are made from lead. The light weight allows it to fly much faster on the same blast of air, and the harder alloy alloys it to penetrate deeper. That ought to make it a superior hunting pellet.

New Raptor Performance Ballistic Alloy, the first non-lead Alloy Airgun Ammunition that increases velocity up to 25% over lead, while maintaining “match grade” accuracy. Specifically designed as a hunting load, the new P.B.A.™ enables airguns which normally shoot 1000 f.p.s. to shoot up to 1200 f.p.s., with tremendous penetration. In fact, the ammunition is 50% harder than lead causing penetration to be enhanced by up to 100% in tests in actual hunting situations as well as ballistic mediums. Raptor P.B.A. test results show ballistic stability at super-sonic speeds and up to 90% weight retention using the new semi-pointed design. Comes in a 100 count .177cal rocket package.

A penny each for the .177 size, two cents each for the .22 size. How powerful can a standard caliber airgun be? How about potent enough to hunt wild hogs with?
Ok, that may be a perfect situation video. I would prefer something with a lot more power just for a bit of margin, even for a head shot. Fair sporting go and all that. But still. Wow.

With very light weight projectiles, velocity really matters, since E=½MV². And a 25% increase in velocity is pretty impressive. Nice job Gamo; you’ve pushed the 16 lb/ft air rifle power category up to into the 21 lb/ft realm. And done it without polluting the environment!




UPDATE, slightly off topic, but still on topic if the subject is really “hunting big stuff with puny little bullets”

The Aquila ammo company is selling a .22LR round that uses the standard evil lead bullet, regular or extra evil hollowpoint, in the standard 40gr weight. They add a bit more powder or something, as their new ammo, called the Interceptor, shoots at 1450fps instead of the standard 1250fps. Possibly faster, since no two .22 guns will shoot the same ammo at the same speed. But that extra 200-300fps increases the range and power of the old .22LR by nearly half. Cost? About halfway between regular .22LR and “target” .22LR. 10¢ per round. Which is still much less than .22WMR, which won’t work in your regular .22, although it is faster still. Anyway, here’s a watermelon blown apart by a single shot of Interceptor, from 25 meters away. I’d choose this one over the air rifle to take this one pig hunting, though I’d rather take a nice .45-70 instead. No doubts about that one being up to the task, at all, ever, from any angle or at any range.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

This is another post on my experience of applying for a Pistol Purchase Permit here in the Worker’s Paradise of New Jersey. It’s been a bit over 30 days now, which is what a toothless NJ law says is the allowed time limit for the process to take. By now all the various dark and dusty corners of my life should have had the pure light of investigation shown on them; all my little rocks should have been overturned and the worms underneath accounted for. A decision on my level of sanity and social malfeasance should have been reached. It hasn’t yet, so now it’s up to me to figure out what I should do about that.

In the meantime I’ve done quite a bit of research. Since “ignorance of the law is no excuse” I’ve looked up and read every single law my state has on the books regarding the legal acquisition and legal use of firearms. There are lots of them. It’s been quite the eye opener. NJ even has laws about what questions can and can not be on the application form.

I wish somebody had asked me. I would have asked two questions and that would have covered everything: “1) Are you a nutter? If so tell us about it.” and “2) Have you ever been in trouble with the law? If so, tell us about it”. To which my answers would be 1) NO and 2) I’ve had a few speeding tickets over the years, and I got caught with a shoebox full of fireworks when I was 23 and had to pay a $40 fine. And that would be that. Oh, and in 4th grade I once told the teacher, Mrs. Blair, that I had my trombone lesson when I actually didn’t, and snuck out of class for half an hour. And that got me sent to the principal’s office, although no criminal charges were filed.

But such a simple solution like that would never work, and I’m being naive by assuming that people are as honest an open as I am. So the law is that my background must be investigated by the proper authorities. Ok, fine, have it your way. But after a couple weeks of waiting I started to wonder what that meant, so I started looking for answers. And what I found is pretty amazing. I had no idea just how much investigation is done, and that awareness really opened my eyes to the level of “watchbird"-ism that our government has. On the one hand I can see the need for almost all of it. On the other hand this awareness really gets under my skin because it shows how little freedom we may actually have. Or maybe that “little freedom” just applies to those who have broken the law.

Or are thinking of breaking the law.

This is a (assumed to be partial) list of all the agencies that New Jersey contacts during the firearms application background check process. I also get investigated by the FBI, and I have no idea at all what other things they might do. How do I know this? Because the entire world is online these days, and that includes the background check form that the New Jersey State Police use just for this purpose. Behold, the mighty form SP 407, NJ “FAIR”, the Firearms Applicant Investigation Report, which records the results from contact with these agencies:

• NCIC/SCIC

  National Crime Information Center / State Crime Information Center

  NCIC is a computerized index of criminal justice information (i.e.- criminal record history information, fugitives, stolen properties, missing persons). It is available to Federal, state, and local law enforcement and other criminal justice agencies and is operational 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

  PURPOSE: The purpose for maintaining the NCIC system is to provide a computerized database for ready access by a criminal justice agency making an inquiry and for prompt disclosure of information in the system from other criminal justice agencies about crimes and criminals. This information assists authorized agencies in criminal justice and related law enforcement objectives, such as apprehending fugitives, locating missing persons, locating and returning stolen property, as well as in the protection of the law enforcement officers encountering the individuals described in the system.

  NCIC/SCIC checks to see if there are wants or warrants against me, whether I possess a stolen car, boat, or license plate, treasury notes, a violent felon, a missing person, or even hang out in gang areas. Also, am I a terrorist?

  This is a fully automated, computerized system. This look-up can also be done from a networked police car, and the results come back in about 8 seconds.

  SCIC has largely been replaced by NJWPS, the New Jersey Wanted Persons System. This is all part of the NJCJIS Criminal Justice Information System, which is controlled by the SBI (State Bureau of Investigation) which is part of the NJ State Police.



• Promis/Gavel

  The Promis/Gavel system is an automated Criminal case tracking system enhanced and supported by the Criminal Practice Division and the Information System Division (ISD) of the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) in response to the needs of the criminal justice community. It captures information concerning defendants who have been charged with indictable offenses and tracks the processing of those defendants from initial arrest through appellate review. This system provides the function of docketing, indexing, noticing, calendaring, statistical reporting, case management reporting, and so forth. At the present time, 100% of the statewide criminal caseload is handled by Promis/Gavel.

  Promis/Gavel checks to see if there are currently charges lodged against me, and gets the status of those charges. Am I currently in the court system? This is a fully automated and computerized system.



• III/212a

  “III” stands for Interstate Identification Index, which is the government name for your national rap sheet. The 212a part is totally an INS thing. I looked and looked, and that’s the only time “212a” ever turns up in relation to a government anything. I guess it tells them whether I’m a foreigner, because, hey, my passport that I used for ID could have been a forgery you know. Along with my super-duper NJ driver’s license guaranteed to be forgery proof, because both IDs required quite a bit of proof of birth, proof of address, etc.

  So now we know all about my nefarious criminal past, and when I snuck across the border with a knapsack full of beans. III/212a is fully computerized as well.



• NJ Domestic Violence Registry

  The Domestic Violence Central Registry is accessible through the Family Division’s Automated Case Tracking System or FACTS.  The registry became operational in six of the 21 counties that comprise New Jersey in February of 1999.  [it’s operational in all of them by now] ...  The registry is accessible to all Superior Court, Family Part and law enforcement officers. 

  Have I stopped beating my wife recently? Does she have a restraining order out on me? Has she ever? We can thank good old Senator Frank Lautenberg (commie-NJ) for this one, which denys 2A rights to a special class of people convicted of a misdemeanor, and to those even subject to a restraining order, a legal action that is taken without any due process whatsoever for the person subject to it.

  Does DYFS get involved here too? I have no idea. I have no children, so that’s a wash for me, but what if some uppity DYFS worker “suspects” that you mistreat your kids? I wouldn’t bet half a stale donut that DYFS doesn’t have access to the FACTS, or that a national DVR doesn’t also exist which they can poke their noses into. Maybe I’m better off not knowing.

  NJDVCR/FACTS is another computer system.



• NJ DMV (DWI)

  Ever get caught driving drunk? I think it’s interesting to see this one on the form, because your driving record isn’t specifically one of the questions on the application, though it does ask about criminal offenses and alcoholism. And your driving record is almost always considered a separate thing from your actual criminal record, by all cops and courts everywhere. I have no idea why the State Police need to look up my driving record, but since they spend so much of their lives handing out tickets this is probably second nature to them. They may not know how to do an investigation without contacting DMV ... and this is not the only time they make such contact as part of my background investigation. Because my ability to drive a car has soooo much influence on my worthiness to own a firearm.

  No question that the DMV has everything on the old computer. No. Sorry, wrong. DMV has everything on the new computer. Even faster!



• State / Federal Fingerprints

  Otherwise known as AFIS for all you CSI fans. In NJ the police call it AFIU, probably pronounced Eff You, our own acronym that stands for Automated Fingerprint Identification Unit. “Eff You” has been upgraded to FIFIS, the Fully Integrated Fingerprint Identification System. [has it gone fwench?] And it is zippy quick: less than 10 days for a nationwide check, less than an hour for a statewide check.

  The use of new live scan fingerprinting technologies has reduced the ink card process and completes the background check within ten business days for both State and Federal checks. Fingerprints are electronically captured using Live Scan devices, eliminating poor quality submissions and the need to create two sets (state and federal) of fingerprint cards. Submissions are electronically processed using the FIFIS, allowing SBI state checks to be completed in approximately one hour. The fingerprints are also electronically transmitted to the IAFIS if needed, and are processed within twenty-four hours. Submitting state agencies are receiving criminal history record results electronically within one to ten business days.

  AFIS is of course connected to III, so this is another way that my past as a crimelord will come to light.

  Lucky for me that I had my fingerprints taken digitally, so that will save them lots of time. Another computerized system of course.



• ACS / ATS

  This is the Automated Traffic System (ATS) and its criminal component, the Automated Complaint System (ACS)

  The cornerstone of the Judiciary’s efforts to modernize and improve the State’s Municipal Courts rests with the development of the Automated Traffic System (ATS) and its criminal component, the Automated Complaint System (ACS). The ATS/ACS system database permits Municipal Court personnel to perform all case management functions—from initial entry, case status updating and case histories to collections, disbursements of monies and case dispositions. Additionally, the system is also designed to accelerate the direct exchange of information between the Division of Motor Vehicle Services (DMV) and the Municipal Courts.

  Every Cop Shop in the state has one of these terminals. Another way of checking to see if there are warrants out against me, and also to see how many traffic tickets I’ve had (2 in the past decade). So now the cops are again looking at my driving record, and they’re again seeing what’s in the court system that I’m involved in. But hey, what’s a little redundancy between branches of the government? You wouldn’t want a citizen to slip through the cracks, so let’s check another computer system that does the exact same thing, just in case. So this is yet another process that should take at best a few seconds.



• US DEPT HOMELAND SECURITY

  Another way to see if I’m secretly a terrorist, or on a no fly list, or actually named Mohammed. But in theory they only check with this group if it’s already been shown that I’m not a citizen. Don’t bet on that one either, although it may save the NJ State Police a little time by just letting the FBI tell them if I’m a suspected domestic terrorist. The good news is that the FBI only gets 72 hours to return the results of their investigation to the NJSP. The gooder news is that the federal government is even more computerized than the state government, so who knows what they can turn up in a matter of seconds by contacting departments and agencies you and I have never even heard of.

  Guaranteed to be fully computerized and run on the latest and greatest computers going. What, you think we spent all that Patriot Act / Homeland Security money on garbage trucks?



• Alien / VISA Registration Number

  I guess if all this background checking has shown that my real name is Pedro and there’s no warrant out for me in southern California for Illegal lettuce picking, then I might have a Visa. If so, that number goes here. I guess not being an actual American might preclude me from buying a gun in NJ, but I’m not 100% sure on that. Certainly foreigners can come to the US on hunting vacations, so they must be allowed to bring guns with them. Does that mean that can buy another one while they’re here? I don’t know. And if they’re over here to work or go to school, and maybe apply for citizenship, can they exercise the old 2A while doing so? In NJ?? Again, I don’t know.
  

Wow. That’s a lot. I feel the need to go take a shower after reading it all. In the dark, to defeat the hidden cameras. And I’m running low on tinfoil, better go to the store after that.

Interestingly, the NICS check that gets run on me, by law, when I actually get the one gun pistol purchase permit and use it before it expires in 90 days, also checks me out with NCIC, III, the NJ Domestic Violence Registry, Mental Health, and DMV all over again. Just in case I’ve turned into Al Capone in the meantime.

The NICS Operation Center transmits a formatted message to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) NICS Operation Center accessing the Interstate Identification Index (III), National Crime Information Center (NCIC) hot files and the NICS Index. In addition to these files the NJSP NICS Operation Center accesses the following New Jersey data bases: the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) Domestic Violence Central Registry, the Division of Mental Health Services (DMHS) Census and USTF databases, the New Jersey Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) files and the NJSP Firearms Investigations Unit files.

The [NJ SBI] Bureau has management responsibility for the following statewide programs:

* Master Name Index
* Computerized Criminal History System
* Noncriminal User Fee System
* Megan’s Law Sex Offender Registry
* Central Drug Registry
* Interstate Identification Index
* Court Disposition Reporting System
* Automated Fingerprint Identification System
* Arrest and Conviction Flag File
* National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)
* New Jersey Wanted Person System (NJWPS)
* National Crime Information Center (NCIC)
* Criminal Justice Information Systems
* Volunteer Review Operation
* Expungement

Which leads me to wonder, why not just take my fingerprints and run them through AFIS? If they come up clean, run me through NICS right there at the police station. If that clears, I’m good to go. The exact same checks are done at the point of purchase as are done during the application process. NICS takes a minute or two. The application process takes 30 days by law, but no more than 10 days maximum in real life to acquire the data. Most aspects of it take less than 10 minutes, probably less than 10 seconds, and are coordinated by the CIU of the SBI of the NJSP so that they all fire off at the same time. So why is Trooper H telling me this is a 3 to 6 month process, and maybe longer?

The Great And Powerful Oz seems to have the whole world at their fingertips; I think the process should take less time than it takes to even fill out the forms. I must be missing something. Oh yeah. The mental health part. Which is also completely computerized.

Maybe I should take 2 showers, just in case.

   Monday - January 26, 2009

Process Improvement

This kind of thing is what I used to do for a living, back when I was working in IT. Any big business runs on rules. These are the rules that tell each worker what to do and how to do it. They are called Processes. Processes are quite similar to computer code; if you can write efficient programs you can do process analysis and improvement. Many is the meeting I attended where the conversations went “You must follow the process!” “Yes, but the process sucks!”. So Process Improvement was born. I’m not going to get into the BS aspects of it, worthless things like CMM and Continuous Quality Improvement and ISO 9000 and other false metrics and standards that allowed a small group of PI “engineers” to draw fat paychecks, make a lot of noise, and actually accomplish nothing. I am going to focus on the honest core concept of PI: understand an existing process, analyze it for weaknesses, then put steps in place that eliminate or mitigate those weaknesses, then make sure that everyone understands what the new steps are. The best fixes are the ones that have both very low cost and very low change. Radical change upsets everyone, and huge costs upset everyone even more. The best kind of Process Improvement smooths out the bumps in the road and greases the rails, but it doesn’t change the direction of the tracks. Unless the tracks ran right off the edge of the cliff, but that’s a different story altogether.

My wife and I and a friend are going through the NJ firearms ID/pistol permit application process. Having once been PI people, we have the disease. Once you are trained to observe, analyze, and improve, it’s nearly impossible to not apply those skills to any situation life sends you. I think I’ve covered all the bases here, but I’m publishing what I have so far in hopes that others will read it, think it through, and respond with helpful analysis and suggestions.

I have developed a simple concept that will make this process better. Most of what is required is that each step of the process be receipted. Existing laws need to be told to the applicants, and one or two small gray areas within those laws need to be clarified. That’s all the grease necessary.

But hidden underneath everything is a radical concept: that government works for you AND is fiscally responsible to it’s citizens. When you apply for a state permit that has a fee attached to it, you are in effect hiring the government as a contractor to work for you to obtain the permit. You have the right to expect that this contractor properly do the work they are hired for, and to do it in the agreed time period. My process improvement document adds a small non-performance penalty, because the law that current exists that mandates a performance time window does not have a penalty associated with it. Laws without penalties have no teeth. They are worse than a waste of time; they are dishonest in nature because their existence is reassuring but there is no incentive for them to be followed. You can point the cart in the proper direction, but without a stick and a carrot the horse is never going to get you there.

And my suggestions should make Obama happy, since they do exactly what he wants to be done: improve the honesty, transparency, and efficiency of government. And restore people’s faith in that government. And do it all for no more cost than a few small sheets of paper and maybe a postage stamp.

Our new President has called for a new era of honest, transparent and efficient government. Let’s get that ball rolling.

Obama won the election, but 48% of the population voted against him. A large portion of those voters were fearful that his political leanings would result in a loss of rights and freedoms. One of the most vocal of those groups were the law abiding gun owners.

New Jersey has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation. Gun sales and pistol permit applications have skyrocketed across the country since the election. There are many people who are nearly paranoid that the new administration is going to erode their Second Amendment rights.

New Jersey has a law on the books, a statute, NJS 2C:58-3(f), that says that the pistol permit / firearms ID application process will be completed in 30 days or less. This is reassuring, but this law has no penalty. Without a penalty a law has no teeth. The application process can thus take as long as the governing body wants it to, which could result in effectively banning new firearms ownership by honest and stable citizens, which in turn would legitimize those feelings of paranoia.
Horror stories abound on firearms forums on the internet that bemoan the length of time the application process takes, and the “storm trooper” mentality behind such times. Let’s put a lid on that by bringing the process out into the sunshine and making sure the law is obeyed to the letter.

I propose a few simple changes to NJS 2C: 58-3, probably to go in paragraph (f) that will remove those feelings and show all the people that New Jersey is moving in the direction that our new President wants the government to go. A lot of positive press can be generated by improving the process that surrounds this most sensitive issue.

This is the application process as it currently exists:
The citizen fills out form the application form sts-33, and the mental health background check form sp-66. The citizen acquires the proper certified checks or money orders to pay for the application process. The citizen submits these forms to the proper local governing body (State Police, town police, town or county clerk, etc) and has to be fingerprinted. If the fingerprinting is done by an outside agency, then another form has to be filled out, signed and numbered by the fingerprinting agency, and also submitted to the proper local governing body.

Suggested changes to improve the process at almost zero cost:

• Upon application, the citizen will be told that NJS 2C: 58-3(f) exists, and shown a copy of the law.
  
  Let them know that a law has been on the books for years that makes this a 30 day process. The New Jersey State Police have highly efficient computer systems and databases in place that can access your criminal record in seconds. The FBI is already required to return the results of their background checks within 72 hours. The State Bureau of Investigation is also highly computerized, giving them the ability to rapidly complete their research. Many municipalities have already outsourced the fingerprinting task to companies like Sagem Morpho Inc which use a digital process. The digital fingerprints are, or can be, delivered electronically to all the necessary agencies within seconds of their being taken.


• Receipt all paperwork at each step of the application process.
  
  When a citizen submits the forms they are given a dated receipt that shows that these forms were received, properly filled out, and signed. The citizen is also given a dated receipt for their certified check(s) or money order(s) that shows that the money was collected and what it was collected for. A photocopy of the signed and dated application would suffice for most of this. If a small change to the form was made that showed what funds were collected for what reasons, then such a photocopy would suffice for all of this.

  * When an outside company is used to take the citizen’s fingerprints:
  

  • If the fingerprints are obtained digitally, then the PCN number will be added to the form only when the electronic transmission of the fingerprints is complete. This is a no cost step, since it is likely that the documents are sent via email, and almost all email applications have a receipting feature. When the fingerprint people get the “email delivered” message, they put the case number on the form.
  
  
  • If the fingerprints are obtained with the old ink method, and then mailed out, then the citizen will be instructed to not take the form back to the local governing body until they have received the Return Receipt from the Post Office. The cost of the process will be increased by the cost of the fee for a Return Receipt letter, plus a token $1 for the delivery to the Post Office by the company of the Return Receipt form. If the fingerprints have to be delivered to several government agencies by the fingerprint company, then the Return Receipt will be done only for the local governing agency that accepts the application forms from the citizen.
  
  


• A decision must be made that clarifies the full meaning of “the application” mentioned in NJS 2C:58-3 (f).
  
  If the decision is made that “the application” also includes the fingerprint form, then the statute should be amended to state this. This is important, because statute NJS 2C: 58-3(f) starts a 30 day timer from when the application is submitted, but, because many municipalities use an outside company to obtain the fingerprints, and those sessions are done by appointment which could be several weeks in the future, the local governing body may not actually obtain the citizen’s fingerprints until quite some time after the citizen submits the first part of the application. It seems fair that if the governing body is given 30 days to complete this task, those days should be counted from when they have all the forms and information necessary to execute the task. The citizen should be told this when the application is submitted.
  
  
  When the citizen returns the completed fingerprint form to the governing body, they will be receipted for the submission of this form. The receipt will also indicate that a check has been done that shows the fingerprints are present at that agency. Since this is the citizen’s final step in the application process, it will be made clear to the citizen and on the receipt that their “30 day clock” starts on the first government business day after this receipt. Thus if a citizen submits the form on a Friday preceeding a holiday weekend, their “clock” begins on Tuesday morning after the holiday.


• The statute needs to have some teeth.
  
  It should be amended so that a token fine of $5 per day is paid to the citizen for each day after the 30 days that the process takes.
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• Clarify the time limit and consider adjusting it a bit more in favor of the government.
  
  The “30 days” concept may need to be further rewritten as “30 business days”, where business days means Monday to Friday minus any government holidays that fall within that period. This gives the governing body even more time to complete the process, but removes one small gray area from the statute. The process will be considered to be complete when the governing agency contacts the citizen to tell them that a decision has been reached on their application. This can be done via delivery receipted email or any kind of postal mail that generates a Date Sent receipt. It should also be done by telephone, although telephone contact will not count as “clock stopping” notification unless direct and verified contact with the applicant is made, at which point they can be given a check number to write down, and this same number be added to their application along with the date and time of the telephone call.
  Each governing body will track the number of applications made and the time each application took to fully process, and that information is forwarded quarterly to some state agency. The data will be collected for a year, and if it turns out that, on average, the process can not be completed in the 30 days as the law currently specifies, or that the process can not be completed in the 30 government business days as this plan suggests, then to save the government money the statute NJS 2C: 58-3(f) will be amended to allow 45 government business days instead of the current 30 days. If such an amendment is necessary then the application cost payable by the citizen shall be cut in half. Given that the process is highly computerized already, and that it really could be fully executed within a week, then such an amendment must state that no other time extension will ever be made, although the state agency will continue to collect, average, and publish the number of applications made and the average processing time for the next 10 years

There you go. A process improvement suggestion for the state with some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, that does not change the existing laws, but adds transparency and accountability to the execution of those laws that will ease the minds of the one group in the nation that is most in fear of the government. And by clarifying the meaning of “30 days” in a manner most beneficial to the government it gives the government even more time to get the work done. I’m trying to make things better for both sides here, even though I feel that 30 calendar days from the time the fingerprints are delivered is more than ample time to execute an almost fully computerized process that might take as much as 15 minutes to complete.

Ok, maybe “most in fear” isn’t the best phrase to use when referring to law abiding gun owners or those citizens desiring to be so. “most apprehensive” or “least trusting” or “most protective of it’s rights” would be better.

My plan could easily be bi-partisan, as all it is doing is putting a few very low cost checks in place that force everyone to be treated equally, and eliminate things “accidentally” falling between the cracks and getting lost. And all that the cash penalty does is provide a means to pressure the government to obey a law already on the books that they themselves put there, to provide a service that they have been hired to do within the time that they have stated that they can do it in.

Equal treatment for everyone. No loopholes left for government workers to impart their own agendas on the citizens. More honest, transparent, and efficient government.

Hey, I’ve managed to make both the NRA and Obama happy at the same time. Woo hoo for me!!

   Monday - January 19, 2009

Gun Porn

The .38 Special +P Ruger LCR

Ruger introduces a 21st century revolver unlike anything you have ever seen before



Yes, I know. I said I was only going to do pretty gun porn. And I was halfway done writing about the new Little Sharps rifle from Charles Daily, but I concluded that it was too expensive for it’s very minor amount of pretty, and that there were several other cartridges it should have been chambered in that would make it into a far more practical hunting rifle. It’s a nice little showpiece for the rifle range, but for the same money you can buy the real deal. If Daily had chambered it in .307 Winchester, or the highly practical but nearly forgotten 9.3x53R Finnish, this would have been a magnificent hunter, but as they sell it it makes for a cute conversation piece and that’s about all. Darn.


Then I saw the new Ruger LCR. That stands for Light Carry Revolver, and that’s exactly what it is and what it’s for. The little 5 shot pistol only weighs 13 ounces, and it’s mostly made from aluminum and plastic. There is no exposed hammer. It doesn’t even have one. It’s nearly as narrow as a small semi-automatic, like their own extremely popular LCP. And the really amazing part is that, even though it’s a Ruger, it has a glass smooth trigger that’s easy to pull and doesn’t stack up. This is a miracle. Ok, it’s the first miracle.

The Ruger Lightweight Compact Revolver (LCR) is an evolution in revolver design and boasts the following features:

** Long-fiber, glass-filled polymer fire control housing helps reduce recoil.

** Aircraft quality aluminum monolithic frame with a black synergistic hard coat provides sturdy, rigid support for the cylinder and barrel.

** Extensively fluted 400 series stainless steel cylinder is lightweight and compact, but strong and durable enough to handle .38 Special +P loads. It is treated with an advanced form of Ruger’s Target Grey® finish.

** Cylinder front latching system uses titanium components, optimized spring tension, and enhanced lockup geometry to ensure that the LCR’s cylinder stays locked in place during firing.

** Friction-reducing cam fire control system results in non-stacking, smooth trigger pull for this double-action-only revolver.

** Replaceable ramp front and fixed U-notch rear sights.

** Internal lock is hidden unobtrusively under the grip and does not interfere with the fire control mechanism in any way when disengaged.

** Hogue® Tamer™ grip helps reduce perceived recoil. Crimson Trace® Lasergrip® model offers the advantages of a laser sighting system.

The second miracle is how the gun is made. While the barrel and the cylinder are cut from good stainless steel, those two parts are held together by an aluminum alloy upper frame. The revolver is modular in the extreme: the trigger, the springs, and all the little cogs and pawls that make a revolver revolve are built into a polymer casting, which is the lower frame. The lower part of the gun is plastic! No side plates. Ok, I think this thing is butt ugly. Who cares? Looks don’t matter here at all. This is the next generation of pistol design. It works, it’s tough, it’s very lightweight. And if you take out 2 or 3 little pins or screws the whole thing falls apart for easy cleaning. Want bigger grips? One screw and they come off the grip peg. Neat. But the nicest part is, it’s a Ruger. And that means it’s built like a tank, and will eat max loaded +P ammo forever, without a hiccup.

Ruger has put the “evolve” back in the revolver


There is an extensive animated presentation online at the Ruger factory web page. The gun won’t hit the market until March. $525 MSRP. Read the short but happy review over at GunBlast.com, from whom I lifted the above picture. They have lots of pictures of it. This new Ruger LCR weighs just two ounces more than the titanium S&W 340, which is the same size but double the price.

Ruger has been extremely successful selling their little .380 LCP semi-automatic. That gun has been on the market less than a year, but Ruger has made more than 65,000 of them. All the other little “mouse guns” from the other companies are selling like hot cakes too. Funny. You’d think that the citizens of the 40 states with CCW are buying little pistols as fast as they can, along with citizens in other states that don’t have CCW (and perhaps those folks are intending to ignore the law?). Maybe it has something to do with a certain crop of leftists coming into power in Washington DC? I couldn’t say. The LCR is a little bigger than the LCR, but the LCR is so small that it can be hard to hold onto.

For a tiny little mouse gun, a .38+P is hard to beat. Especially if you live in one of those states (NJ) that don’t like hollowpoint bullets; a 148gr plated swaged soft lead double ended wadcutter at 900fps makes quite an impact. Much much more than you can get from a .380, or even from a 9mm with a 2” barrel.

Oh, and while I’m on the topic of guns ... in this month’s Blue Press, Barrett Tillman suggest we re-arm ourselves in the never ending war of words against the anti-gun crowd. That’s right. No longer are they “anti-gun”, which sounds like they’re in favor of safety, now they’re “anti-freedom” which is more correct. And we aren’t “gun nuts” any more. Not even “gunnies”. No, we’re “marksmen”. That makes sense, and it’s a term I’m sure would get Kim’s NOR stamp of approval. Read Tillman’s whole article online ... start up an IE session and go here. After you’ve recovered from the heart attack caused by the front cover, flip forward to page 64. Then enjoy pages 60, 40, and 17. You can’t turn pages while zoomed in. (I suggest IE because I went there in Firefox and it crashed. I had 10 other tabs open, so who can say?)

   Friday - January 16, 2009

Guest Post #2, by Carol

The Ammunition Coding/Numbering Kerfuffle

This is going on. In more than a dozen states very similar bills have been introduced. You know as well as I do that this is totally unworkable, and it’s just as stupid as the case imprinting idea. And you know it won’t do a G_d damned thing to eliminate, reduce, or even slow down crime. Not a thing. But the well coordinated asshats in many parts of the country just keep pushing. Time to look up the pending bills in your state, and get out the writing paper, stamps and envelopes, along with the phone directory. You can’t turn your back on these rabid little chipmunks for a jolly second.

Remember what Hitler did in WWII.  Read on.

Here ya go.

Nobody can sell any unmarked ammunition after June 30, 2009

And so it begins.

It has already started…

Ammunition Accountability Legislation.

Remember how Obama said that he wasn’t going to take your guns? Well, it seems that his allies in the anti-gun world have no problem with taking your ammo!

The bill that is being pushed in 18 states (including Illinois and Indiana) requires all ammunition to be encoded by the manufacture a data base of all ammunition sales. So they will know how much you buy and what calibers. Nobody can sell any ammunition after June 30, 2009 unless the ammunition is coded.

Any privately held unmarked ammunition must be destroyed by July 1, 2011. (Including hand loaded ammo.) They will also charge a .05 cent tax on every round so every box of ammo you buy will go up at least $2.50 or more!

If they can deprive you of ammo they do not need to take your gun! This legislation is currently pending in 18 states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington. And Georgia too

Send to your friends in these states AND fight to dissolve these bills!

To find more about the anti-gun group that is sponsoring this legislation and the specific legislation for each state, go to:

http://ammunitionaccountability.org/Legislation.htm

Spend a few minutes and find out what sneaky shit your state is trying to push. It’s a good bet they are. 

   Wednesday - January 14, 2009

Gag Me

What IS it with “professional” authors and journalists? What happens to their braincells when they have to write about guns? Do they suffer some kind of apoplexy? Is the subject just so naughty to them that their reasoning shuts off, and they have to go have a quiet lie-down for a while afterwords? It’s stunning just how poorly these “professionals” understand the subject. And it never gets better. Ever.

Case in point. Here is a link to a Fox News article. Vomit Inducingly titled “World’s Deadliest Conventional Weapons”, and of course the US has all of them. And number 5 on the list is the ultra eviil 50 BMG sniper rifle!!!111!! Airplanes beware!! Favorite gun of terrorists, gang bangers, and sexual predator grade school teachers!!

The .50-caliber sniper rifle: Confederate soldiers first mounted scopes on high-powered rifles during the Civil War, but the first specially designed sniper rifles for both police and military use came about in the 1970s. The barrels are precisely machined and specially mounted to minimize recoil.

Many Western sniper rifles use NATO standard 7.62-mm cartridges, but models using massive .50-caliber bullets are so powerful they can take out enemy ordnance by sheer force of impact.

One .50-caliber model, the McMillan TAC-50, set the record for longest kill in 2002 when a Canadian corporal shot a Taliban insurgent from a mile and a half away in Afghanistan.

“The advantage is range,” says Wright. “You can fire 2,000 meters plus, more than a mile, and hit a target accurately. ... If it hits it’s probably going to kill.”

Who wants to throw the first stone? Ok, fine, I will.

There were no “high powered rifles” in the Civil War, since even the oldest definition of “high powered rifle” describes a weapon that shoots a bullet faster than one can be shot from a conventional black powder muzzle loading rifle. Which is pretty much all they had, since smokeless powder wouldn’t be invented for another two decades.

Should we mention how there have been snipers ever since there even were rifles? Against muskets and arrows, the guy with the rifle is a prize asset. I’d guess snipers go back to about 1500. Maybe the military didn’t have a “specially designed rifle” for sniping before the 70s because they didn’t need one. Put a telescope on a Star gauged ‘03A3 and it works just fine. So would a nice Model 70 with a match barrel. And cops? How on earth did they survive before they had SWAT teams (hut! hut! hut!) and their ominous black trucks? Maybe if they had to shoot something at a long distance they just took the old .30-30 out of the trunk and did what they had to do, without special funding and uniforms? Maybe?

Do regular rifles use imprecise machining? No. If your barrel’s bore is off by more than about 0.001” the bullet will either get stuck, causing an explosion, or be wildly inaccurate, causing a miss.

Hey, how about special ways of mounting the barrel to reduce recoil? Um, you mean like a recoil operated M2 machine gun (1917-1919) or a Browning A5 shotgun (1898)? Or the recoil operated M1941 Johnson? No, that’s nothing new either. Muzzle brakes? They’ve been around at least 70 years now.

Bullets taking out a target by sheer force of impact? Um, that’s what they do. That’s their job.

And so on. And so on. Always. It’s pretty sickening. Book authors are even worse, although nobody gets the gun facts wrong worse than movie and TV directors.

Gotta go finish reading my gumshoe detective story. The private dick is in a shootout, and he’s down to his last clip for his 14mm double barreled automatic revolver. Hope he makes it through!

ACORN can’t spell

You remember ACORN right? Obama backers, fraudulent voter registrations, public funding? Well, they have another agenda too. Your firearms.

They took out the “SHI” and put in an “E” by mistake

ACORN’s latest: “STOP THE BULLET”
The grassroots community organization, ACORN, is fighting for a new law it says will save lives. “Stop the Bullet” is a campaign that would make it harder for felons to buy ammunition from stores.

When you buy a gun, gun shops have to run a background check first to make sure you’re not a convicted felon. Although it is also illegal for convicted felons to buy bullets, a background check is not required. As it stands now, gun shops aren’t required to ask any questions before selling bullets, as long as the buyer is 18 and can present identification.

Community organizer for the local NC ACORN group, The Rev. Melvin Whitley, says it’s too easy for criminals to buy ammo, and he plans to close that loophole. ACORN’S initiative would expand the law to include ammunition, and may even include a requirement for bullet permits.

“The problem with the law is that it allows criminals to have access to bullets. And it’s the bullets that’s killing us,” according to Whitley.

But gun shop owners disagree. They feel it’s just another way organizations are trying to take away their Second Amendment rights.

“We have to make it clear we are not talking about gun control, we’re talking about bullets,” said Durham City Council Member Howard Clement III.

Stupid stupid ACORN. They believe a “loophole” exists because no cop is standing behind the counter to PROVE that felons aren’t breaking the law. It’s against the law to speed too. And to sell mattresses without those little tags on them. Let’s put a cop in every bedding department in the country! Let’s put a cop right next to every driver on the highway! Damnation, it’s obvious that the mere presence of laws doesn’t do anything to actually prevent a crime from taking place! We have to do more than that! Enforcement doesn’t work either, because that’s after the fact. We need to close those loopholes in people’s minds! We need to stop them before they commit a crime. Why don’t we reeducate the entire population? Why don’t we teach them all how to think properly? We could send them all off to camps for that. Why, there can’t be more than 25 million or so folks we couldn’t get through to. That’s the real loophole that needs closing!

 

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