In a Class By Themselves

UNABLE to stem the tide of murders of media people, the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is now suggesting that journalists do the job themselves. Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said the government would allow legitimate journalists to carry firearms if they wanted to do so."

Because we all know the folks who tell us what our opinions should be are better than the rest of us...

Still, you gotta love the editorialist rejecting the proposal and abdicating all responsibility for self defense. What kind of coward would expect another man to put his life on the line defending something he himself will not?

"A New Weapon"

Jonas Thage feels a lot safer since he declared the community recreational centre he runs in Diepkloof, a suburb of Soweto, a 'Gun Free Zone' (GFZ). "Before this was a GFZ the situation was terrible but now, at least during the day, there is no problem," he said.

GFZs - public places where firearms are unwelcome - have been endorsed by Gun-Free South Africa (GFSA), a gun-control lobby group established in 1994 as a response to decades of armed violence.

That's right, Jonas--you go on "feeling" that citizen disarmament zones will keep you safe. And who but an "authorized journalist" would consider this a new concept?

We all know predators obey signs.

Say, how about putting up "No Hunting" signs on the veldt if you guys ever have a lion problem...?

Mill Valley Schools to Institute Knowledge Control

Every year, physics teacher David Lapp brings his Korean War era M-1 carbine to school, fires a shot into a block of wood and instructs his students to calculate the velocity of the bullet...

The rifle demonstration would not even be an issue if an anonymous parent had not complained.

We can't have teachers being:

a. Independent-minded;
b. Innovative; and
c. Actually educating their charges.

Jeez, what do they think this guy's teaching, physics?

And the indignant worm of a "parent" probably "feels" totally justified...

Police Chiefs and Prosecutors Against Self Defense

A campaign by gun rights advocates to make it easier to use deadly force in self-defense is rapidly winning support across the country, as state after state makes it legal for people who feel their lives are in danger to shoot down an attacker - whether in a car-jacking or just on the street...

[C]ritics - including police chiefs and prosecutors - warn that criminals are more likely to benefit than innocent victims.

Yeah, only The Only Ones are qualified to make such judgments...

This Day in History: May 25

With George Washington presiding, the Constitutional Convention formally convenes on this day in 1787. The convention faced a daunting task: the peaceful overthrow of the new American government as it had been defined by the Article of Confederation.

Unintended Consequences of Proposed LA Law

Yesterday, I posted about a proposed Los Angeles law that would require gun owners to report stolen firearms under threat of punishment.

If I thought their true agenda was public safety, I'd be surprised that the most obvious unintedned consequence of this measure has been missed: It will not affect the class of people who commit "gun violence," since most criminals do not legally "own" their guns. They would actually be immune to complying for another obvious reason: If they reported a stolen gun they were not legally eligible to possess, they would be in a position where local law requires them to incriminate themselves, that is, the City is presuming authority to override Constitutional Fifth Amendment protection.

On the plus side, I suppose anyone defying California's evil militia weapon ban could also claim similar immunity were their unregistered firearms stolen...

Change of Attitude Needed in Gun Sales

More "anti" hysteria lauding the Bloomberg stings from the Reading Eagle.

There's a comment form link at the bottom of the editorial.

Use it and help change some attitudes.

Prosecute Bloomberg Under RICO Act?

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg should be investigated for obstruction of justice, and possibly prosecuted under the federal RICO statutes, for his headline-hunting "sting" operation of alleged law- breaking gun dealers, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said today.

Good.

Be nice to see someone outside the "gun community" making noise about this...

Now THOSE are Curious Search Terms

File this under WTF? Someone from Peru visited WarOnGuns yesterday after looking for a string of words I'm not entirely comfortable with...



Yeesh!

This Day in History: May 24

On this day in 1775, John Hancock is elected president of the Second Continental Congress.

And here's a tardy link for May 23 in History

LA: HB 89 Passes Senate

The Louisiana Senate passed House Bill No. 89 with 36 yeas and no nays (three senators were absent).

On Monday, the House approved the bill 98 to 0.

Under HB89, the courts would be required to assume the use of deadly force was reasonable if the victim illegally broke into someone’s home, vehicle or business. The person shooting an intruder also would no longer have to show an attempt to retreat under the legislation.

Look for more ridiculous "License to Murder" hysteria from the collectivists. Now if Ray "Chocolate City" Nagin would just give citizens their guns back...

Text of Bill

Senate Votes

House Votes

[Thanks to Lee McGee]

From the Same Folks Who Brought You Jim McGreevey

More "gun control"!

And why not?

The government-dependent mothers of those "17,000 gang members" they can't protect the sheeple from from will thank them for it. As will the sheeple themselves.

Let's see, 17 bills--that's one for each thousand gang members...I wonder what the magic ratio is before people realize the magic incantations not only don't work, but guarantee more of the same--all the while taking focus and draining energy away from finding sane and rational solutions?

If Bloomberg Can Break the Law, Why Can't We?

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa joined with gun control advocates Monday to call for a city law requiring gun owners to report lost or stolen weapons.

California law gives the state preemption, meaning cities can't legally enact their own more restrictive measures.

That never stops them, of course, as evidenced by the San Francisco handgun ban.

And our lawless anti-gun courts and lawless anti-gun attorney general will probably let them get away with it.

It seems everyone is entitled to break laws not to their liking except us citizens.

A Portrait of Self Control

Jim McGreevey shockingly admits that before he became governor of New Jersey, he'd have anonymous gay sex at Garden State highway rest stops...

Nice control demonstrated there, Jimmer. No wonder you have such a sick compulsion to control others.

And look who agrees:

"New Jersey needs the proven leadership of Jim McGreevey to put the safety of our children and our families first."--Michael Barnes-Brady Campaign/Million Mom March

Again I recall some of my favorite lyrics:

He can't even run his own life
I'll be damned if he'll run mine...

"On My Worst Enemy"

Of course, under normal circumstances, I wouldn't wish the ATF on anyone, but for these sorts of anti-freedom operatives, I think it only right they get a dose of their own medicine, and in spades.

Ayup.

Blognomicon on Bloomberg

alandp has also been posting on the Bloomberg Conspiracy:

In "One of the Gun Dealers Speaks Up," we get another denial of wrongdoing by an accused dealer.

"On Bloomberg's Illegal Activities" reveals the claim:

NRA-iLA is pursuing the vagaries of the legal questions.

And "Bloomie Makes an Oopsie" includes his plea for the New York Daily News to quit being a shill and start acting like investigative reporters.

On a side note, he's also looking for pictures of famous women pipe smokers. Here's my favorite:

Hardy: BATFU Investigating Bloomberg "Sting Sales"

ATF has said they will be investigating every aspect of these "sting" sales (and there were ATF people present who repeated that). This may be bad news for the city, since IF the sales were illegal straw sales, their investigators committed felonies.

One gun was traced TWICE in NYC. The first time was for a crime, so it would have to have been confiscated. Only explanation for how it would later be on the street is that someone in NYC PD is selling seized guns on the street.

This is an interesting development, particularly the bit on how a gun apparently wandered away from the Only Ones' custody...Wonder if BATFU really has the guts and the administration backing to take on a billionaire Republican, though, and my gut says "no."

Prove me wrong--please.

It's not that I want to promote enforcement of existing laws. My goal in staying with this subject is primarily to expose hypocrisy and lawbreaking among those who think they're higher and better than sovereign citizens. That said, if Mikey or his minions take a fall on this, you'll see no tears shed here.

[Via Jed]

Gun Owner Asks Georgia AG to Investigate Bloomberg

May 22, 2006

Office of the Attorney General of Georgia
Mr. Thurbert E. Baker
40 Capitol Square, SW
Atlanta, GA 30334

Dear Mr. Baker:

As a resident and law-abiding gun owner of Georgia, I am outraged at the recent illegal straw gun purchases made by an “investigative team” assembled at the behest of Mayor Bloomberg of New York City.

Mayor Bloomberg continuously attacks the civil liberties of law-abiding gun owners in this country and has taken it upon himself to destroy these liberties by targeting gun stores throughout the country, including some stores in Georgia such as Adventure Outdoors in Smyrna. In order to gain publicity for his anti-gun campaign he knowingly conspired and planned illegal straw purchases at these gun stores and violated federal law as well as possible Georgia state laws. His attempts to entrap gun store owners and produce evidence of illegal gun sale procedures at these Georgia gun stores are despicable.

I ask: What is the authority of private individuals from New York to conspire to break, and then actually violate, federal gun purchase laws and the laws of other states?

Mayor Bloomberg’s out-of-touch viewpoints are a threat to all law-abiding gun owners in Georgia as well as law-abiding legitimate businesses in Georgia.

I urge you to launch an investigation into these illicit tactics that were performed to support Bloomberg’s frivolous lawsuits against these legitimate and law-abiding Georgia businesses.

Thank you for your attention into this matter.

Sincerely,

Jason Morin

We're the Only Ones Off-Road Enough

A town police officer's stolen sport utility vehicle was recovered yesterday morning in Jersey City - minus the loaded 9 mm pistol he had under the front seat, police said.

Practicing "safe storage," I see...

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

Bloomberg Fraud Continues to Unravel

Farmer said improper sales, such as the ones that the undercover agents pulled off, happen frequently. If the buyer can produce valid identification, passes a background check and takes legal responsibility for the gun, the sale will go through, he said.

"It's the same scenario repeated many, many, many times," Farmer said. "Husbands buy guns for their wives, boyfriends buy for their girlfriends, fathers buy for their daughters."

This is pretty much what I expected to find: No crimes are being committed by the gun dealer's targeted in Bloomberg's "sting"--only routine procedures followed when one person gives another the gift of a gun.

Here's another account from a pawn shop in South Carolina:

The woman filled out papers registering the sale and signed a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives declaration saying she was the buyer and buying for someone else, he said.

Men routinely advise women on what guns to buy, Mickalis said, adding "I think they were specifically sent here to create a lawsuit."

It appears these dealers were following the book to conduct a legal sale in both instances. It wouldn't surprise me to find this chain of events repeat itself in all 15 of the instances Bloomberg would have us believe resulted in "illegal gun sales," where dealers knew the purchasers "would turn the weapons over to criminals."

Is someone intentionally lying here?

If any lawbreaking has occurred, it appears to have been within the Bloomberg "sting team" camp.

Was the federal gun purchase form falsified?

Were the "agents," that is, private investigators, that is, private citizens with no special privileges and immunities, residents of the states in which they made their purchases? If not, is this a violation of GCA '68, which prohibits, among other things, unlicensed individuals from acquiring handguns outside their state of residence?