More on the August 28 Ammo Buy Proposal

In answer to some comments: Yes--you can buy reloading components. You can buy something else if you don't need ammo. Buy some targets.

Thanks to the happy few who have taken the initiative to help spread the word on this. Please inform me if I've missed anyone:

KeepAndBearArms.com
The Liberty Sphere
Rational Review News Digest
A Keyboard and a .45
Kent's Hooligan Libertarian Blog
Ohio CCW Forums
The High Road

I appreciate the mentions. That said, this is pretty pathetic, and this minimal effort is doomed not to happen if that's the extent of it.

I guess I never seem to understand the extent of gun owner non-involvement and apathy--even though I should know it better than most. This site had under 2,000 hits yesterday (and that's pretty pathetic, too, especially considering the kind of mega-traffic anything about LiLo or Paris will generate), and yet how many of you--who come here every day--have even sent an email to anyone about this, let alone asked other blogs, or gun organizations, or gun stores, or whoever, to help promote this concept?

And by the way--where are the gun stores that are signing on to this?

I must confess--when I read posts (generally anonymous ones) saying things like "From my cold dead hands" or "Molon Labe" and I know from experience that most gun owners won't even send an email, it does not fill me with hope that these will show up on the green when muster is called.

Churchill said it best:

If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

Enough bitching. I hope you join me, but I'm fresh out of ideas on how to make that happen. So ultimately, the fault must lie within me. Maybe it's just because it's a trivial idea, but I keep coming back to the worry that if we can't even take small steps together, dreaming of ever taking giant strides is futile.

Press Credentials

Here's a story, and I suspect the bottom line is the reporter didn't understand what they were writing about.

Oh come on, Mr. Hardy--the person is a trained, professional "authorized journalist." Who ever heard of them getting anything wrong when it comes to reporting on guns?

My editor at GUNS Magazine sent me a link to this story yesterday. My hip-shot reply:

Not sure how ATF can legally do that since they're specifically withheld funds for the purpose of establishing a database--NICS records aren't supposed to be kept, and it requires a specific trip to a gun store to check form 4473s--unless the store has gone out of business, in which case the records go to ATF (and that may help explain why they're shutting down so many dealers).

It may be a database only of guns reported stolen--just don't know yet. Lemme check around.

So I admit I don't know what's going on. Anyone who does, please feel free to enter a "comment" below and educate us all.

"Authorized Journalists" Give Thanks for Parasites

Gun dealers over a barrel thanks to strict laws

"Thanks?"

Gee, Michael Doyle and the Bee editors, I wonder which side of the debate you're on?

And why not just assume for your readers that declines in reported gun ownership and "gun-related crimes" are directly attributable to a decline in dealers? I'd love to see the data and methodology you used to derive that conclusion. After all, it's not like demographics, birth rates, economic conditions, and declining public trust of the media, along with dozens of other factors, would have any impact...

One thing is clear, though: BATFU, under a Republican administration that eked out the narrow margin of votes needed to win two terms due to the support of gun owners and their leaders, has been relentlessly gaining ground with very little scrutiny. This is why the ongoing story of Red's Trading Post is so vitally important--to cast a light on them they so obviously hate. It's why I keep harping on it here, and I must admit, I'm disappointed that so few others--with much more influence than I have --even give it a mention.

Note the bit about increasing inspection frequencies. BATFU learned from Waco and Ruby Ridge that spectacular media stunts can backfire--and that slow but steady wins the race, meaning budgets and authorities and personal career ambitions are rewarded--that is, the parasites have learned how to gorge on their host as much as possible without killing it. And the ignorant and/or intentionally subversive "authorized journalists" wouldn't have it any other way--except to get out there occasionally and cheer the destruction of liberty from the sidelines.

[Via Ted Nugent's "Hunting News"]

Ted Spreading Word on Red's

The manager of Red’s Trading Post in Twin Falls has met with a pretty famous ally in his fight against the ATF. Ryan Horsley talked with rock star Ted Nugent Monday night.

Looking good: Nugent's website this morning includes a post on Red's Blog, and a link to a "news" story (more on that later) about the decline of gun dealers.

This Day in History: August 17

Benjamin Durant of Capt. Wadsworth's Company and Col Bailey's Regiment, convicted by a General Court Martial whereof Col Wyllys was President, of "getting drunk on Guard," sentenced to receive Thirty Lashes.