Friday - November 18, 2011
Conservative Pandering
House passes concealed weapons permit bill
A state permit to carry a concealed firearm would be valid in almost every other state in the country under legislation the House passed Wednesday.
The first pro-gun bill the House has taken up this year and the first since Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., was severely injured in a gun attack in January, it had the National Rifle Association’s backing and passed by a comfortable margin. The vote was 272-154, with only seven Republicans voting against it and 43 Democrats supporting it.
The Democratic-controlled Senate has no parallel bill. But two years ago, GOP Sens. John Thune of South Dakota and David Vitter of Louisiana nearly succeeded in attaching a similar measure to a larger bill.
Under the House legislation, people with a concealed carry permit in one state could carry a concealed weapon in every other state that gives people the right to carry concealed weapons. While states have various standards for issuing such permits, currently only Illinois and the District of Columbia prohibit the concealed carrying of weapons.
“The Second Amendment is a fundamental right to bear arms that should not be constrained by state boundary lines,” said GOP Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
The bill’s chief co-sponsor, Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., said states should consider concealed carry permits no differently from driver’s licenses recognized by all states. He noted that many states already have reciprocity agreements with other states.
- The Second Amendment already recognizes citizen’s natural right to bear arms. This means anywhere, everywhere, at any time. So this bill is just mouthwash.
- The Second Amendment does not say a single word about “this natural right can only be exercised with the proper government permits, training classes, and psychological exams, and can be limited by time, place, and circumstance at the whim of the government.”
- Article IV Section 1, the “full faith and credit” part of the Constitution, requires states to recognize each others licensing and contracts, so “common sense” would say that “reciprocity” has always existed.
- Without a parallel bill up for vote in the Senate, this vote does NOTHING other than pander to the RKBA crowd, those “bitter clingers”, as we move into an election year.
- The vast majority of states - 39 so far - are already either “shall issue” (35) or “no permit required” (4). Many of those states already have reciprocity agreements with many of the other CCW states.
- CCW is seriously restricted or denied only in the states that are historically highly liberal. California is a mess of local regulations and favoritism. New York’s laws are quite muddy and flat out denied in New York City. New Jersey considers even owning a firearm to be a crime, but will issue CCW to those with lots of money and excellent political connections. I don’t know what the deal is in Alabama and Connecticut, but I’d expect Alabama to have its act together.
- Only Illinois flat out refuses to recognize the Second Amendment in as many ways as it can, and it’s even worse in the city of Chicago and its surrounds.
Had the Supremes made a bolder, more righteous decision in Heller, none of this would be necessary. But while they did kick the ball far down field, they sort of punted at the end. That’s why we’re still going through iterations of idiocy, like this worthless bill.
Many sources covered this story yesterday. If I wasn’t such a cynic I’d be embarrassed at the level of turbo-stupid displayed in the comments at most of them. Instead I’m merely annoyed because I don’t accept those comments as naive. I see them as knowingly misleading. Especially the ones that blather on about “states rights”. Jerks. States have NO rights, only powers. And NO state has the power to ignore the Constitution or any part thereof.
The right of the people to keep and bear arms - in any manner as they desire, whether on their hip or in their pocket - shall not be infringed. “Brandishing” however is a crime when not done for self-defense. And that’s about all there is to it.
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Permalink • Thursday - November 17, 2011
Just Playing
A thread came up on one of the shooting forums I visit, concerning wildcat cartridges for Indiana’s rules for firearms for their deer season. Generally you can’t hunt deer in Indiana with a “high powered” “high velocity” long range rifle, so they wrote the hunting laws in a way to try to avoid that. Problem is that the laws were not written by shooters, but by lawyers who just looked at a bunch of pictures of cartridges and decided to set a specification. Their idea was to force rifle shooters to hunt with guns chambered for “adequate” pistol cartridges, which tend to throw heavy bullets fairly slowly for a short distance. So Indiana set the spec for a cartridge case length no longer than 1.625” (for 2012 it will be 1.8”; I think someone explained brass stretching to them) and a bullet diameter of at least .357”. They did not specify that the cases had to be straight walled, though the example cartridges they list in their 2011 rules and 2012 proposals are all straight walled cases.
They failed to realize that American shooters are a highly inventive lot, and that if a loophole exists we will take advantage of it. There is an entire fraternity within the shooting community, more than a century old, that develops new cartridges, just for the fun of it. Those cartridges are not factory standardized, so they’re called wildcats, and those that play that game are called wildcatters.
So I had a bit of fun and stuck my toes in the waters. Lucky me to live in the 21st century where anybody can have quality ballistics design software on their home computer for just a small amount of money.
Behold the 9.3 Indiana:
It looks a bit odd, but I designed it for a purpose. I like single shot rifles, and I like lever action rifles. Both of those need a cartridge with a rim. So I took the largest diameter easily available modern rimmed case, the .348 Winchester, and used the software to modify the dimensions while keeping the case head unchanged. The neck angle and body taper are borrowed from the .458 SOCOM, which is a dandy little cartridge that lets you shoot 45 caliber bullets in your “M-16” (AR-15 platform). This idea isn’t new, but I made it mine by changing the bullet diameter to the rarely-seen-in-the-USA 9.3mm, and went with the SOCOM taper instead of the actual SOCOM diameters. In a single shot rifle overall cartridge length (OAL) is not a factor, so you can get away with just seating the bullet deep enough for the case to get a good grip on it, leaving the most room for the most gunpowder. That gives me a little bit more case capacity, which means more room for more gunpowder. Run the design through the ballistics software, calculate the right powder and charge, and this is what comes out:
This is big bullet performance somewhere between a .338 Winchester and a .375 Holland & Holland, and all from a short 22” barrel. A 250 grain bullet at over 2600 feet per second with 3812 lb/ft of muzzle energy. It’s a cartridge suitable for deer, elk, any bear that ever lived, and almost any plains game in Africa. You could hunt lions and elephants with it, although I’d want a lot more gun for the elephants. In other words, it’s a cannon. All from a short little case that meets Indiana’s rules which were designed to limit hunters to “low powered” rifle hunting. Neener neener neener!
PS - yes, the recoil is going to be prodigious in any rifle under 9 1/2 pounds. Baby recoil was not part of the exercise. If you take a regular Ruger No. 1 rifle and install this one in a 22” bull barrel it will be plenty heavy enough. Velocities and recoil would be even greater with a 24” barrel, which is still a fairly short rifle when mounted on a single shot action. And of course, if you dial the pressure way down to lever gun levels, velocity, muzzle energy, and recoil drop as well, which means you can get away with an 8lb gun. But even at only 2350fps this one still gives you enough power and a flat trajectory for elk out to 300 yards. But the case design is efficient, so it should still burn up all the powder even at only 43,000psi. A full charge of VV N135 ought to do it.
Ok, play time is over Drew, back to work.
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Permalink • Sunday - November 06, 2011
a gun story, among the charges, possession of a bullet.
There has to be more to this story then told here. Who gave him away? Why? It just seems like something is missing from the article. Cops must have been on to him right? I mean, they don’t go eenymeeny miny moe and then simply pick out a house.
Whatever .... What gets me is the number of violent crimes committed by feral kids who get house arrests and “cautions” and even adults quite often manage to get two yrs or less for doing worse.
Or ... are the streets here a bit safer now? Might he have been up to something not said here?
On the funny side is this line.
and two charges of possessing a bullet.
Hey Drew. You out there someplace with a PC?
Antique firearms collector with more than 140 guns is jailed for two years for owning four air rifles without licence
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
An antiques firearms collector was jailed for two years after he was found to have four air rifles and ammunition without the correct licences.
When police raided Karl Blennerhassett’s luxury flat in Up Holland, West Lancashire, they found more than 140 guns, including racks of rifles and revolvers, a court heard.Expert examination found that the vast majority were classed as antiques and legally owned but it was the other items which landed him behind bars.
Liverpool Crown Court heard that Blennerhassett, who works for his father’s tarmacking business, had previously held a firearms certificate.However, it was revoked in 2008 after he was convicted and fined for failing to comply with its conditions.
Blennerhassett admitted possessing one air rifle without a certificate, which was just over the permitted velocity limit, and was convicted by a jury of illegally possessing three others which had been modified, and two charges of possessing a bullet.‘Each of these three rifles are deemed specially dangerous under the legislation,’ said Judge Mark Brown.
‘Each was of high specification in that each had been fitted with a sound moderator and telescopic sight. Each had been modified and modified in a very professional way.’
The judge accepted that Blennerhassett had not modified the weapons himself but he did not accept that he had not known they were modified.
‘This is a serious case and I am satisfied you were deliberately flouting the provisions of the Firearms Act,’ he said.
The judge said Blennerhassett had decided to sidestep the legislation by having the air rifles modified so that it appeared they were legal when in fact they were not.
The police raid last December also uncovered what was described as an “air rifle kit” involving magazines, pellets and compression springs.
Nick Doherty, defending, said that there was ‘no suggestion of any nefarious use of any of these items.’
However, Judge Brown asked the prosecution to write to the Home Office expressing his concerns over the need for legislation for antique firearms.
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Permalink • Friday - October 28, 2011
Yee Ha For Texans
MASON, Texas—It was a message intended to bring in some extra business. A radio ad for a concealed handgun class at Keller’s Riverside Store in Mason, located in the heart of the Texas Hill Country, is causing controversy.
“We will attempt to teach you all the necessary information you need to obtain your C.H.L.,” the ad stated. Forty-five seconds in, the advertisement added a disclaimer.
Ad for gun training bars Muslims and Obama voters
A radio ad for a handgun training class that bars Muslims and Obama voters has sparked an investigation in Texas.
“We will attempt to teach you all the necessary information you need to obtain your [Concealed Handgun License],” the ad says. Then towards the end, it adds: “If you are a socialist liberal and/or voted for the current campaigner in chief, please do not take this class. You have already proven that you cannot make a knowledgeable and prudent decision under the law.”
And then: “If you are a non-Christian Arab or Muslim, I will not teach you the class with no shame; I am Crockett Keller, thank you, and God bless America.”
The ad ran for six days on KHLB, Mason’s local station. It’s also been heard tens of thousands of times on Youtube.
Keller, 65, has said in media interviews that he just regards the message is just common sense. “The fact is, if you are a devout Muslim, then you cannot be a true American,” he told local news station KVUE, while fielding calls congratulating him for his stance. “Why should I arm these people to kill me? That’s suicide.”
“I call it exercising my right to choose who I instruct in how to use a dangerous weapon,” he added.
But the state of Texas may disagree. The Department of Public Safety said in a statement that certified instructors of handgun training are required to comply with all applicable state and federal laws, and added: “Conduct by an instructor that denied service to individuals on the basis of race, ethnicity or religion would place that instructor’s certification by the Department at risk of suspension or revocation.” The department has said it has begun an investigation.
It seems unlikely that Keller will back down, though. “I’m not going to do it,” he told the local news. “I will give up my license to teach before I will teach them,” he said, referring to Obama voters and Muslims.
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Permalink • Thursday - October 13, 2011
Don’t Be So Exclusive
Attorney General Eric Holder should lose his job because his own statements on the Fast and Furious scandal show that he is either a liar or a failure, Rep. Paul Gosar tells Newsmax in an exclusive interview.
“He needs to resign,” the Arizona Republican said. “I don’t see there is a way here that facilitates good, conscientious oversight at the Department of Justice. “If he had no oversight and he knew nothing about this, he was incompetent. If he knew about this, then he was lying — and that’s perjury.”
Holder told the House Justice Committee in May that he had known about Operation Fast and Furious for only “a few weeks,” but newly released emails show he was told in July 2010. The attorney general now says he did not read those emails, which he said were routine briefings that went into no detail.
Gosar, a member of the House Oversight Committee, was speaking within hours of subpoenas being issued by committee Chairman Darrell Issa requiring reams of internal documents that should show what Holder knew about the Mexican gunrunning scheme. Issa, a California Republican, also has alleged that Holder has shown incompetence regarding Fast and Furious and wants to know exactly when the attorney general learned about it.
“If it was mainstream America that had done this, they ought to be in jail and having to prove that they are innocent,” said Gosar, whose district covers Flagstaff and vast swaths of rural Arizona, the state at the center of the Fast and Furious project.
“If there is one thing that the America needs, it’s confidence in their bureaucrats, that they stand by the same rules that they are enforcing on other people.”
Holder verbally attacked Gosar last week for his comments that administration officials are “accessories to murder” for allowing Fast and Furious, the scheme that saw hundreds of powerful weapons fall into the hands of violent Mexican drug cartels.
Gosar, a freshman congressman affiliated with the tea party, said he is confident that the real story of who authorized the failed scheme will eventually come out. “It has to. I don’t think there is a choice,” he said.
He vowed that the committee will submit all of the paperwork that surfaces under the 22-point subpoena to painstaking review. “There are consequences here and what we have to do is follow the information, find the facts, make sure the American people and Congress are provided with those facts and then make a decision based on those facts.”
Gosar said he does not know whether the cover-up goes all the way into the White House, but he is sure that Holder is not telling the whole truth. And other Cabinet members, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, also should have known about the gunrunning program, he said.
“Something is very wrong here,” he said. “Mr. Holder said he was briefed on it a couple of weeks before his testimony when it is obvious that his aides had very intricate knowledge and very minuscule details on Fast and Furious way back last year. “He should have known about this. “To me it seems that you are dealing with a foreign country, so the secretary of State should have been involved. Then there’s the security of our southern borders, that’s the Homeland Security secretary, as well as the attorney general. “That seems like this was a Cabinet-level decision, so it seems like everybody should have been in there and we really want to make sure that discourse is transparent to the American people.”
Gosar would not be drawn into addressing the claim of Arizona State Sen. Frank Antenori, who told Fox News he believes that Holder’s announcement of an Iranian terror plot on Tuesday was timed to take attention away from the subpoenas.
Sounds to me like this Paul Gosar has his head on straight. Now if he could only learn to speak better (his ‘mainstream America’ statement is grammatically garbled), and understand how our justice system works (innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around). But for now at least he’s seems to be seeing through the smoke and mirrors and .... (oooooh, I just gotta say it! I gots to!!) speaking truth to power. AZ Senator Antenori seems pretty sharp too ... but I still don’t understand why AZ folks keep electing John McCain.
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Permalink • Wednesday - October 05, 2011
Fast and Furious: It’s Bush’s Fault?
WASHINGTON — The federal government under the Bush administration ran an operation that allowed hundreds of guns to be transferred to suspected arms traffickers — the same tactic that congressional Republicans have criticized President Barack Obama’s administration for using, two federal law enforcement officials said Tuesday.
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and other Republicans have been hammering the Obama Justice Department over the practice known as “letting guns walk.” The congressional target has been Operation Fast and Furious, which was designed to track small-time gun buyers at several Phoenix-area gun shops up the chain to make cases against major weapons traffickers. In the process, federal agents lost track of many of the more than 2,000 guns linked to the operation.
When Bush, a Republican, was president, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Tucson, Ariz., used a similar enforcement tactic in a program it called Operation Wide Receiver. The fact that there were two such ATF investigations years apart in separate administrations raises the possibility that agents in still other cases may have allowed guns to “walk.”
On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, called on Obama to direct the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to investigate. Smith said that newly released department documents suggest the attorney general knew about Operation Fast and Furious as early as July 2010.
Federal law enforcement officials familiar with the matter say Operation Wide Receiver began in 2006 after the agency received information about a suspicious purchase of firearms. The investigation concluded in 2007 without any charges being filed.
After Obama took office, the Justice Department reviewed Wide Receiver and discovered that ATF had permitted guns to be transferred to suspected gun traffickers, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the practice is under investigation by Congress and the Justice Department inspector general’s office.
In a statement, Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that “whether it’s Operation Fast and Furious, Operation Wide Receiver, or both, it’s clear that guns were walked, and people high in the Justice Department knew about it. There’s no excuse for walking guns, and if there are more operations like this, Congress and the American people need to know.”
Following the discovery that agents in Tucson let the guns “walk,” a tactic which has long been against Justice Department policy, the department under Obama decided to bring charges against those who had come under investigation in 2006.
To date in Wide Receiver, nine people have been charged with making false statements in acquisition of firearms and illicit transfer, shipment or delivery of firearms. Two of the nine defendants have pleaded guilty and a plea hearing is scheduled for Oct. 13 for two other defendants.
Last October, Jason Weinstein, deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s criminal division, raised concerns about investigative methods in Operation Wide Receiver and about the timing of announcing indictments in both Wide Receiver and Fast and Furious.
The crap in DC just gets deeper every day. “Bush did it first” is no excuse even if true. The only thing this article shows me is that ATF has been out of control and unchecked for a long time, which is pretty much common knowledge among the firearms owning citizenry.
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Permalink • Tuesday - October 04, 2011
Eric, the bus is coming for you
Pretty much proof that he flat out lied to a congressional investigation. Or else he’s utterly incompetent. Or both!
CBS News: Documents reveal that Holder received briefing on Fast & Furious in July 2010
“ ... straw purchasers are responsible for the purchase of 1,500 firearms that were then supplied to Mexican drug trafficking cartels.”
No code words or euphemisms there. Nice and specific. And yet Eric Holder, upon discovering that 1,500 guns had been “supplied” to Mexican drug cartels in an operation managed by the ATF, apparently didn’t demand a full explanation. Fancy that.
Go read the story at Hot Air if you’d like.
As we’ve said from the very beginning, this goes all the way to the top. ALL THE WAY. Guess Obama’s “under the radar” plan to subvert the Second kind of blew up on him. Or would that be “backfired” if we stick with the bus terminology?
As far as I’m concerned, this is a major major felony concocted, run by, and screwed up by, the entire top of the DOJ/DHS pyramid. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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Permalink • Wednesday - September 14, 2011
Reciprocity
First, a little background ...
Reciprocity: you show me yours and I’ll show you mine. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. The whole reciprocity concept falls under Article IV Section 1 and Section 2 of the US Constitution:
Article. IV.
Section. 1.
Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.Section. 2.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.
No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.
In terms of licensing, reciprocity often - but not always - means that licenses granted in one state are valid in all other states. This is the fulcrum for the whole Gay Marriage thing; get married in Massachusetts, and you are considered to be married in Arizona. Get a driver’s license in Oklahoma and you can legally drive in New Jersey. But the concept is not directly federally mandated, even though it appears to be in the ‘Privileges and Immunities’ clause. Some licenses, such as a license to practice law or medicine, are state only; the rest are generally recognized by the Several States. License (in it’s basic definition as permission) to issue insurance has been in-state only for a very long time. And that is where the rub comes in, especially concerning guns.
In Section 1 it does look like Congress has the power to make laws that would enforce reciprocity, although this has not often (ever?) been done before. Now there is a bill before the House that would flex that Section 1 muscle and mandate Concealed Carry reciprocity. On the surface this would appear to be a bill that enlarges the freedoms of the citizenry, so I’d be in favor of it. But there are several bumps in the road, not the least of which is that a couple of states have no licensing or permitting process at all concerning firearms ( I should wish that all states were that way ).
The bill in question is called HR 822: the national right-to-carry Act of 2011. It had been in committee for a long time, but by May enough cosponsors had signed on to force it to a debate on the floor:
This bill gained 13 more cosponsors bringing the total to 227. Well over the top needed to get this bill moving. We could be seeing the beginning of the first movement of a gun related bill in the last two Congresses. Which brings up an interesting problem not only for the Senate, but for Obama as well.
Lets look at this from a purely political point of view and forget the Constitutionality aspect. This actually appears to be able to pass the House. If so, you can bet your bottom dollar, the Senate is watching this and already know there is a distinct possibility that they will have to debate/pass/reject this bill. What do they do? Well, we are in the beginning of the so called campaign mode. Each and every one of the Class 1 senators are up for re-election in ‘12. So, what do they do? Most likely pass the bill.
NOW it hits Obama’s desk. He has already angered the far left, and now he is faced with this. What does he do? He knows full well both Gore and Kerry lost their bid for the White House because of the “gun” issue, and at the moment, his re-election is in serious doubt. Does he veto the bill and remain in doubt, or does he sign the bill into law and increase his chances at re-election because he will have gained a considerable amount of the “gun vote”.
The plot thickens.
Please recall that at least 48 states have laws that allow CCW at this point. Putting a gun in your pocket legally is a done deal in almost the entire nation. 41 states are either Shall Issue or Unrestricted at this point in time. The 7 May Issue states are a mixed bag, where May Issue can mean anything from Never Issue anywhere to Shall Issue in this or that county only.- Please recall that most of those states already have reciprocity agreements with all, most, or many of those other states. It is labyrinthine and confusing though.
- Please recall that federal laws already exist that allow police, retired police, and certain special people to carry in all the states.
Bottom line is that HR 822 is almost unnecessary legislation, except for a small handful of hold out states, IL, NY and NJ among them. The problem is that those few hold out states together contain a really large chunk of the national population.
Now on to the story
House Weighs Bill to Make Gun Permits Valid Across State Lines
Lawmakers are considering a House bill that would give Americans who hold permits to carry firearms in their home states the right to carry their weapons across state lines.
Although many states have entered into voluntary agreements, there is no nationwide framework for honoring permits and licenses uniformly. A bipartisan bill, co-authored by Reps. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., and Heath Shuler, D-N.C., aims to change that.
Supporters say the measure would not create a federal licensing system, but would require that all states recognize lawfully issued permits—regardless of where they were issued. Gun rights advocacy groups say it’s the only way to make sure that lawful gun owners’ Second Amendment rights are guaranteed when they travel away from their home states.
But opponents say the bill tramples on each state’s autonomy to set the standards legislators believe are necessary to confront local problems. Foes also said that the law could allow violent offenders to hold on to their weapons.
Testifying before Congress on Tuesday, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey told the story of Marqus Hill, a man whose Pennsylvania gun permit was revoked after he was charged with attempted murder.
“Despite his record, he then used his Florida permit to carry a loaded gun in Philadelphia,” Ramsey said. “He eventually shot a teenager thirteen times in the chest killing him on the street.”
Not mentioned in the news article is that Ramsey is an anti-gun zealot right up there with NYC Mayor Bloomberg, or that Philadelphia has routinely, almost annually, passed anti-gun legislation that the PA courts have then thrown out.
So what to do? Gosh, let’s bring in the PACS and see what they have to say! [duh, who could’ve seen that coming? {sarc} And I wonder what they’ll say? {/sarc}]
Gun rights advocates say the dire warnings about expanding the rights of law-abiding citizens are overblown. Wayne LaPierre, executive director of the National Rifle Association, said the American public is more interested in self-defense than scare tactics. He’s also predicting a win for what has been dubbed the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011.
“It cuts across Democrats, Republicans, liberals, conservatives—even President Obama’s base is strongly in favor of this legislation,” LaPierre said..
Gun control groups like the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence have successfully defeated similar legislation in the past, and vow to stop this bill as well. They’re aligning with a number of elected officials and law enforcement organizations, who say this measure would make it even tougher for officers to determine which guns are on the streets legally or illegally.
Somewhere in here I hope there is room for some truth. National criminal databases already exist, and I’m fairly sure that they can be accessed in real-time right from the computer that most police cars have in the front seat these days. So such a determination may not be all that difficult, although it make take a minor change and a bit of IT work on those databases to make a “no guns” notation for certain convictions that would then come up on a field query put in by an officer on the street.
Licensing and permitting procedures may need to be ramped up to a common standard, and that common standard will have to be of the California/New York/New Jersey level of drill-down. On the other hand, since all states are now required to use the NICS system for firearms purchases done at gun stores, and that the NICS system already checks those aforementioned databases (the implication thus is that such a “no guns” notation already must exist!), that common standard may already exist de facto. So Chief Ramsey’s fear may only bear fruit when we’re talking about felons from Alaska and Vermont who purchased their guns via private sales (aka “the notorious Gun Show Loophole") ... and I don’t think that group of felons is large enough to be a problem here in NJ or even across the river in PA. Maybe the ones from Arizona are the trouble makers, I can’t say.
But you can expect the media to make a full on symphony out of playing the heartstrings.
Personally, I’m in favor of HR 822. Heck, I want it to become even larger: pass it into national law (losing Obama even more of his base, yeehaa!) and then listen to the New Jersey Legislature try and keep their state “May Issue” (which in truth means “Except For You” for 99.999998% of us) when citizens of all the other 57 states can now carry here but the actual residents can’t. Another entertaining bit of theater would take place in Illinois, the last remaining state to flatly deny it’s citizens the right to carry. Can’t you just see the hangdog expressions on the left wing IL legislators when their golden boy in DC signs a national reciprocity law?
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Permalink • Tuesday - August 09, 2011
Get A Holster, Stupid
CHANDLER, Ariz. — As Joshua Seto, 27, and his fiance, Cara Christopher, walked to a local grocery store last week for refreshments, he tried securing her pink handgun in the front waistband of his pants.
The gun fired, striking Seto’s penis and continuing through his left thigh. The bleeding started immediately and was heavy, according to police dispatch recordings released Sunday.
“He is still conscious, there is just a lot of blood,” Christopher, 26, told 911 operators and dispatchers when the accidental shooting occurred Tuesday.
In the wake the accident, police are warning armed residents to use holsters, not waistbands.
The movies and TV shows, like Sons of Anarchy, that show tough guys with guns shoved into their jeans are not realistic, Chandler Police Detective Seth Tyler said Sunday.
The cops and robbers of the silver screen most likely use rubber weapons, which weigh far less than the real things, Tyler said.
“Whenever you handle a firearm, whether you are a novice or experienced, always treat firearms as though they are loaded,” said Tyler, a spokesman for the department. “If you are going to carry a handgun on your person, use a holster, not your waistband.”
Meanwhile, it is not clear if Seto has been released from the hospital or suffered any permanent damage, Tyler said.
Don’t be a dick with your guns. Get a holster ... especially in states like Arizona, which I believe is open carry. So cowboy up. And keep your finger off the trigger when pulling out your weapon, m’kay?
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Permalink • Sunday - July 17, 2011
Better Than A Dillon Catalog
Anyone who owns one of the Big Blue Machines knows what I’m talking about. Dillon Precision makes the best and the most expensive ammunition reloading presses on the market. Great tools, guaranteed forever for free no matter what, but pricey. And when you buy one you get sent their little catalog every month for the rest of your life. It’s called the Blue Press, and comes taped closed, and always features an amazingly gorgeous and curvy model on the cover fondling some firearm. It almost looks like porn, because it is. Gun porn I mean. Ok, you get a couple more pictures of the cover model inside, but that’s all. The rest is reloading gear and tactical rifle parts. And that’s all the sexy Dillon delivers, other than the 2 large format calendars they sell every year. Really large format. One for the half of the company that makes reloading machines, and another for the half of the company (Dillon Aerospace) that makes the mini-gun for the military. Both calendars feature plenty of jaw dropping good pictures, but no sleaze.
Gosh, what a surprise: guys find themselves attracted to lovely young women looking dangerous while not wearing much clothing. Who’da thunk it? The calendars sell like mad. Actually they sell out, fast, every year.
I saw a post at Vilmar’s. He didn’t mention it, but he had posted one of the pictures (stolen from Theo’s of course) from this year’s Hot Shots Calendar. To the best of my knowledge Hot Shots has no product for sale other than the calendars. They follow the same theme as Dillon Precision, girls with guns, but donate half the money they get to the UK Help For Heroes foundation, which helps out wounded and disabled vets. Good show.
Here’s another shot of Lucy Pinder from that calendar. Nice rifle. Great smile. This is by far the tamest picture in the whole thing.
The 2012 calendars will feature a less military, more girls from video games motif - cosplay with guns!! - and are available for pre-order now. Not cheap, but half the cash goes to a good charity. About $30 delivered to the USA, but only about £13 in the UK.
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Permalink • Dirty Play At DOJ
Letter from Darrell Issa (R-CA) to Eric Holder, excerpts:
We have recently learned that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATF) has afforded potential witnesses for the Committees’ investigation into Operation Fast and Furious access to a shared drive on its computer system replete with pertinent investigative documents, including official ATF emails.
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As we understand it, the shared drive contains the documents that have been produced to the Committees through the course of our investigation, those made available for in camera review and possibly documents that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has not yet provided to the Committee. These witnesses had not previously seen many of these documents.
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Allowing witnesses access to such documents could taint their testimony by allowing them to tailor their responses to what they think the Committees already know. Additionally, witnesses who gain access to documents they have not previously seen could alter their recollection of events. This practice harms not only our investigation, but also the independent investigation that you instructed the Inspector General to conduct.
In other words: the DOJ was either trying to make sure witness stories are consistent with DOJ talking points, or they were going through the back door to make sure everyone who was testifying was on the same page. Either would likely get the average citizen slapped with an obstruction or witness tampering charge in a state or federal court.
The hypocrisy here is egregious.
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DOJ did exactly what they asked Issa’s committee not to do.
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Permalink • Thursday - July 14, 2011
Still Fast, Still Furious
I think for once I may have been a bit ahead of the curve with this Project/Operation GunWalker/GunRunner/Fast and Furious/Castaway thing. I see a lot more blogs catching on, and I’m hearing more and more about it on the news. Good. Keep the story out there. This thing is 1000 times worse than Watergate. It’s a 1000 times worse than a white stain on a blue dress and a bit of human humidor for your cigar. It’s “high crimes”, without the “misdemeanors”. Accessory to murder, acts of war against a sovereign nation, and a deliberate scheme to subvert the 2nd Amendment. Lying under oath and interfering with a Congressional investigation are small potatoes compared to those charges.
Funny thing is, I thought I was way behind the curve getting the story out. I’d heard about this nearly two years ago. When the far left was screaming that “90% of the guns coming into Mexico were from American gun shops”, I read on several gun forums that FFL dealers were having their arms twisted by the feds to make bulk sales to unlikely buyers. But it was all just rumor until somebody official huffed and puffed on the old Acme Thunderer. And now the story is out. Good. Keep it out. Demand action. Real action. Not another cover-up, not another whitewash. Close down the ATF. Fire Holder and prosecute him. And then let’s talk about the “I word”. Impeachment.
Two of many blogs, small and large, running part or all of this sordid tale:
http://ironicsurrealism.com/2011/07/10/proof-that-obama-ordered-and-holder-had-full-knowledge-of-operation-fast-and-furious/
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/%E2%80%98gunwalker%E2%80%99-deepens-agent-zapata-killed-by-gun-from-%E2%80%A6-texas/
Allen West calls for a special prosecutor. Me! Me! Me! Oooh oooh Mr. West, I want the job!!!!
From HotAir:
Via our Townhall cousin Katie Pavlich, who makes an important distinction that’s occasionally been overlooked in all the Gunrunner/Fast and Furious coverage. Namely, they’re not the same program. Gunrunner is the ATF’s umbrella operation for selling guns to straw purchasers and then immediately busting them; F&F is the op that let those purchasers walk them across the border, where they ended up in the possession of cartels. It is true that Holder acknowledged the existence of Gunrunner in a 2009 speech in Mexico, but as Mike Riggs of Reason points out, there’s no evidence — yet — that Holder authorized or even knew about Fast and Furious.
From Pavlich’s post at Townhall, the money quote from Allen West, with video:
Congressman Allen West is calling for the removal of Attorney General Eric Holder by President Obama if a House Oversight investigation shows Holder was involved in the ordering of the deadly “Operation Fast and Furious.”
“Eric Holder has to be brought before an investigative committee and if those charges are warranted he needs to be held accountable but at least the President needs to realize that Eric Holder needs to be removed from the Department of Justice or else I believe President Obama is complicit and in approval of the actions of his Attorney General.”
Rock on, Congressman West (R-FL). And he’s black too!
And of course the far left digs into their bag of bumper sticker slogans and came out with their old chestnut “No Evidence!!”. How original.
Truth. That’s the “2%” I was talking about the other day. At some point GuWalker became GunRunner which got out of control and became Fast and Furious. Somewhere there is a paper trail. This is the kind of thing we used to call “scope creep” in the IT world, and I think it’s what the military calls “mission blurring”. But with all the bureaucracy, meetings, paper shuffling, CYA, and sign-offs going on in DC, there has to be a ton of documentation that shows where and when this happened and who gave it the nod. Come on, the damn thing had an OFFICIAL government project name fer cryin out loud. It DIDN’T just happen by accident. Everyone knew, and approved. So just like last time around, “no evidence!” is a mighty thin thread to hide behind.
Meanwhile, a town in New Mexico has fired it’s entire police force for their involvement in firearms and narcotics smuggling. Gosh, and every damn one of them is of “Spanish” heritage. Right.
New Mexico town dissolves police dept after gun smuggling scandal
The scandal-plagued, tiny New Mexico border town of Columbus is dissolving its police department and asking the county sheriff to protect its citizens.
An employee at Columbus City Hall confirmed to The Lookout that the police force has been dissolved. The Luna County Sheriff’s Office will now take over patrolling the town.
The town has been upended since federal authorities arrested Police Chief Angelo Vega, Mayor Eddie Espinoza, Village Trustee Blas Gutierrez and nine other residents for conspiring to smuggle hundreds of guns to drug cartels over the border in March. All of the accused have pleaded not guilty, and their trial is expected in October, according to the Las Cruces Sun News.
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Permalink • Saturday - July 09, 2011
The Last For Now
One last Fast and Furious post. It’s a tidal wave, m’kay? No, noth this post, just the deluge of information coming in now that people are crossing the T’s and dotting the I’s.
Phoenix news agency runs serial numbers of gun bust, traces back 73% of guns to F&F. All 5 arrested gun runners are non-American; 4 are illegals.
PHOENIX - The ABC15 Investigators have linked an additional 43 weapons recovered during a Phoenix traffic stop to the controversial Fast and Furious ATF case.
According to court paperwork, Phoenix Drug Enforcement Administration agents discovered the guns in mid-April. They pulled over a vehicle near 83rd Avenue and Interstate 10, near the Phoenix and Tolleson border.
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Four of the suspects are listed as undocumented immigrants. The fifth suspect had been admitted to the United States under a non-immigrant visa, according to court documents.
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Agents recovered at least 59 weapons during the bust. The ABC15 Investigators found 43 are connected to the Fast and Furious case with certainty.We reviewed official ATF Suspect Gun Summary documents – a sort of “watch list” for suspicious gun sales and gun buyers. We matched serial numbers within the ATF documents to gun serial numbers contained within the federal court documents.
Most of the recovered weapons connected to the Fast and Furious case included Romarm/Cugir GP-WASR 10/63 UF Rifles and Romarm Cugir Draco pistols. Agents also recovered at least one FN Herstal pistol.
The “Romarm/Cugir GP-WASR 10/63 UF Rifles” is a Romanian import knock-off of the Soviet AK-47. It was not originally a converted military weapon, it was built as a semi-automatic. With a folding stock and a minimum length barrel, it is a fairly short weapon. Once considered total crap, Romanian AKs have been better lately because they have gone over to using ex-military receivers.
The “Cugir Draco pistol” is an AK-47 pistol. No stock, and a pretty stubby 8-12” barrel. Beats me how it gets called a pistol since it still has the rifle’s forearm in place, which makes it a two handed firearm. These are very short guns, perfect for drive-by shootings or for hiding under a jacket prior to robbing a liquor store.
A Draco pistols was used in the ambush that killed ICE agent Jaime Zapata on February 15. Read the link - it sure looks like that particular gun was part of the arsenal sold to Los Zetas, though a month before agents began their “sting” investigation.
I really wonder just how many thousand guns our government funneled into the hands of the drug gangs. 1800 from the Phoenix office, 2500 from the Tampa office ... who can say? 10,000? 20,000? 100,000? The only people with the government records are the government!
I’ve read elsewhere that the ATF is pretty much shut down at this point. That right now the only thing they’re doing is busting people for fireworks. Ya think?
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Permalink • The Smoking Gun
Absolute proof that Gunwalker / Fast & Furious was official government policy at least as far back as March 24, 2009. Here’s their own press release:
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Deputy Secretary of State Jim Steinberg and Deputy Attorney General David Ogden held a news conference to announce the U.S.-Mexico Border Security Policy. They spoke to reporters and answered questions about plans to send about 500 more agents and equipment to the nation’s southwestern border and Mexico to fight Mexican drug cartels and keep violence from spilling over into the United States.
There is no question whatsoever that everyone from the very top on down was aware of this. Which means Holder absolutely lied to Issa’s investigation. Under the bus!
And of course the obvious follows: here comes Obama’s new anti-gun measures. Not done by law. Who needs that? They’ll be done by presidential directive.
WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — Six months after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot, the White House is preparing to propose some new steps on gun safety, though they’re likely to fall short of the bold measures activists would like to see.
Spokesman Jay Carney said that the new steps would be made public “in the near future.” He didn’t offer details, but people involved in talks at the Justice Department to craft the new measures said they expected to see something in the next several weeks. Whatever is proposed is not expected to involve legislation or take on major issues, like banning assault weapons, but could include executive action to strengthen the background check system or other steps.
More fun: The ATF started all this with Operation Gunrunner back in 2005, and by 2006 it was national policy. Read their own public document:
To help combat firearms trafficking into Mexico, ATF began Project Gunrunner as a pilot project in Laredo, Texas, in 2005 and expanded it as a national initiative in 2006. Project Gunrunner is also part of the Department’s broader Southwest Border Initiative, which seeks to reduce cross-border drug and firearms trafficking and the high level of violence associated with these activities on both sides of the border.
In June 2007, ATF published a strategy document, Southwest Border Initiative: Project Gunrunner (Gunrunner strategy), outlining four key components to Project Gunrunner: the expansion of gun tracing in Mexico, international coordination, domestic activities, and intelligence. In implementing Project Gunrunner, ATF has focused resources in its four Southwest border field divisions. In addition, ATF has made firearms trafficking to Mexico a top ATF priority nationwide.
The OIG conducted this review to evaluate the effectiveness of ATF’s implementation of Project Gunrunner. Our review examined ATF’s enforcement and regulatory programs related to the Southwest border and Mexico, ATF’s effectiveness in developing and sharing firearms trafficking intelligence and information, the number and prosecutorial outcomes of ATF’s Project Gunrunner investigations, ATF’s coordination with U.S. and Mexican law enforcement partners, ATF’s traces of Mexican “crime guns,” and challenges that ATF faces in coordinating efforts to combat firearms trafficking with Mexico.
Heck, that document shows that they even did analysis, and concluded that to better their operation they would have to increase the amount of information they were already sharing with other law enforcement departments:
The success of Project Gunrunner depends, in part, on ATF’s sharing intelligence with its Mexican and U.S. partner agencies, including the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Although ATF has shared some strategic intelligence products with each of its partner agencies, it is not doing so systematically and consistently. ATF does share tactical intelligence regularly with the DEA and DHS’s Customs and Border Protection (CBP).3 However, ATF has not provided Mexican law enforcement with intelligence it requested on firearms trafficking patterns and trends, including trafficking routes and distribution points where guns are crossing into Mexico.
I think it’s time to stop playing “I didn’t know nothing ‘bout that” at all levels of the government. They knew. They ALL knew. Years ago. The only real question is who knew that the actual execution of this project was so idiotic, or who knew when it went bad when it went bad.
Because it went bad, and there’s no doubt about that. Perhaps it was bad from the beginning, and not one LE type in even one branch of government had the smarts to see that the plan was deeply flawed from the inception.
Oh, more fun ... but I’d take this with a grain of salt, as I’m not sure about the veracity of the Prison Planet web site, and I realize that a bandito will say anything under interrogation by the federales south of the border: Mexican cartel says it bought guns DIRECTLY from US Government:
Los Zetas Kingpin: We Bought Guns Directly From U.S. Government
One of the kingpins of the infamous Los Zetas drug running gang has told Mexican federal police that the group purchased its weapons directly from U.S. government officials inside America, a revelation that will only serve to heighten suspicions that the Obama administration’s Operation Fast and Furious program was a deliberate attempt to undermine the Second Amendment by stealth.
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according to the testimony of Rejón Aguilar, one of the original seven members of Los Zetas who was recently captured by police, in some cases Mexican drug gangs did not have to wait until the firearms reached the border – they purchased guns directly from the US government itself inside America.In an interview with Mexican federal police that was later uploaded to You Tube and translated, Aguilar sensationally blows the whistle on how the Zetas’ weapons were obtained straight from U.S. federal authorities.
“They are bought in the U.S. The buyers (on the U.S. side of the border) have said in the past that sometimes they would acquire them from the U.S. Government itself,” Aguilar told police.
Crap, there’s still more. I can’t get to the bottom of this damn story because it just keeps getting bigger by the hour. From AmmoLand, the online news page of the Shooting Sports Federation - essentially the voice of the gun industry it seems - comes the story that once Melson is gone, the new ATF chief will be anti-gun zealot and Chicago crony Andrew Traver. The audacity of these bastards is limitless. Caught with a great big bear trap snapped across their asses, they still push their agenda as if nothing has happened at all. That’s gall enough to be divided into 1000 parts, not just the usual 3.
ATF acting Director Kenneth Melson has been conspiring with king corruptocrat Eric Holder to walk thousands of high caliber rifles across the border. These firearms were then handed off to drug cartels, while the two buddies sat in their offices in Washington DC. Unfortunately, their political scheme had some pretty big collateral damage. Besides the collection of guns that ended up in the possession of violent Mexican gangs, the ATF ran into bigger problems. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry ended up dead – shot down by the very guns the ATF was sneaking across the border!
“Project Gunrunner” is the perfect storm for Obama. First, he’ll get to act like the good guy when he kicks Melson to the curb. Then, while everyone is cheering that Melson is gone, he will sneak Andrew Traver in as Director of the ATF. They’ll at least have two things in common - Chicago-style politics and Chicago-style radicalism.
There is no excuse for Obama to use an unthinkable tragedy/bizarre scandal to push yet another one of his far-left nominations. He is DELIBERATELY nominating Andrew Traver – a man who has demonstrated over and over again that he is anti-gun, anti-self-defense and anti-freedom.
Marvelous.
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