Tuesday, April 03, 2007

May I Be Frank?

It’s not like Frank is asserting his right to keep and bear arms as a matter of Constitutional principle. He just wants his guns, and the hell with everybody else. You see, Frank is not only a member of Michael Bloomberg’s cabal of anti-gun mayors stumping for more citizen disarmament laws, but he also wrote an executive order to ban gun shows in Jackson, Miss., along with closing down gunshops.

"May I Be Frank?," my Rights Watch column for the April issue of GUNS Magazine, is now online.

GUNS Magazine, April 1957

It is well-known that the female is deadlier than the male, including small-fry. When an intruder broke into a private home in Pittsburgh while her parents were away, a 12 year old girl went to the drawer where dad kept his revolver, loaded the .38 as she had been taught to do safely, and fired two shots at the intruder. The first shot hit the ceiling, hut the second hit the break-in artist's leg as he hopped out the window, resulting in his capture when he reported to a doctor for treatment.
Fifty years ago, this story brought nods of approval. Today, it would bring endangerment charges against the parents and disapproval from the community at large.

The April 1957 issue of GUNS Magazine is now online.

Also in this issue:
  • Guns for Mexican Hunting
  • Crows are Tricky Targets
  • Why American Shooters Lost the Olympics
  • Elmer Keith's Favorite Gun(s)
  • Rifles of the Confederacy
  • and much more, including the classic period ads

Can't These Psychos Read?

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A University of Washington researcher was shot to death in her office Monday morning by a former boyfriend who then turned the gun on himself, police said...

The 26-year-old woman was granted a restraining order last month against Jonathan Rowan, according to court documents.
That's strange...I wonder where UW spokesman Norm Arkans is--or was at the time of the shooting:
“This is a learning institution, and there is really no need or cause to possess a weapon on campus,” Arkans said. “Not allowing guns on campus contributes to public safety and greatly reduces the risk of anything happening, accidental or otherwise.”
Right you are, Norm. Imagine what might have happened if Ms. Griego had been armed.

We're the Only Ones Reinstated Enough

The city and its police department must take back an officer fired last fall amid accusations that he had used a stun gun on a handcuffed prisoner, an arbitrator ruled Monday...

Investigators concluded that Santiago, 24, of Lorain had done nothing to deserve being shocked. Santiago was handcuffed in the back seat of a cruiser when he was stunned, the report said.

The Fraternal Order of Police appealed Bozsoki's dismissal to the arbitrator.
Of course they did.

[More from "The Only Ones" files...]

We're the Only...Oh, There it is...

Former Asbury Park Police Director Louis Jordan has his gun back, law officials said Monday.

Jordan, of Tinton Falls, had reported his gun was missing on March 23. He has said he last knew he had it on the night of March 17, but first realized it was missing on March 20.

At that point on March 23 when Jordan reported his gun was missing, Long Branch police already had it in their possession, Long Branch Public Safety Director William A. Richards said Monday. An individual had found the gun at a commuter parking lot...

See, this is why we need gun registration and licensing--so "The Only Ones" can lose a gun, report it missing, search all over for it, and then find out it's in their possession from the freakin' newspaper...

Tell me this would have all ended happily had Jordan been a mere citizen.

We're the Only Ones April Fooling Enough

As they placed their bags on the conveyor belt and went through security, Kate’s bag triggered a detector.

According to Kate, when the detector went off a Transportation Security Administration employee said, "That’s it, call police."

As more TSA employees surrounded her, Kate suffered a severe asthma attack.

That’s when a supervisor told her it was an April Fool’s joke.
Michelle Malkin demonstrates that, when it comes to pranks, there are "The Only Ones" and then there are the rest of us.

[Via Cryptic Subterranean]

This Day in History: April 3

In Congress, April 3, 1776. Resolved, That every Person intending to set forth and fit out a Private Ship or Vessel of War, and applying for a Commission or Letters of Marque and Reprisal for that Purpose, shall produce a Writing...