The only two drawbacks I can see are getting the police unions to go along with this (you’ll recall so-called “smart guns” were initially developed due to cops being disarmed in “takeaway” incidents, but they made sure they were exempted from laws requiring “personalized” firearms), and then deciding who gets to control the On/Off switch.
Governments, right? [More]My latest JPFO Alert looks at an idea that's dumb and dumber.
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Significantly, the KTNV "legitimate news media / real reporter" story mentioned none of this. I guess letting Nevadans know outside special interests are trying to buy an election isn't newsworthy and/or doesn't help advance the agenda. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes the story behind the story that the media is ignoring, once more illustrating through a real "case study" why it is critical for gun rights advocates to be force multipliers and share information the establishment will not.
One can’t help wondering if the zeal for weaponry has been fueled by the same dismal racism that has propelled so many social ills. [More]Sure they can, if they're not a ridiculous lying Prozi gundupe.
Introduced by newly re-elected Representative Tim Kleinschmidt (R-Lexington), House Bill 176 (HB176) declares all federal restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms to be "invalid" and "not enforceable" within the state of Texas. [More]Doesn't look like he has any co-sponsors yet, but the "text" tab is active if you want to read the bill.
Oregon’s first anti-gun ballot measure has been filed. [More]You tell 'em, Ifeanyichukwu.
The reason for this is that the guidelines, like the mandatory minimums, provide prosecutors with weapons to bludgeon defendants into effectively coerced plea bargains. [More]Between that and economic Wacos and career-obsessed "team player" prosecutors, and "progressive" judges and ignorant juries...
This Democrat Is Giving Up on ObamaCare [More]Starting next week, I hope to examine why the time is ripe for repeal from a gun perspective I've been laying a foundation for and will be building on. Thing is, we're going to need the guys who told us they'd fixed everything to admit the dangers that still exist and then apply pressure for a corrective vote.
If you can’t get a gun, You can’t use a gun. [More]Thanks for admitting the end game.
Let’s not mince words. People who punish and restrict innocent people are bigots. [More]Let's not. They're that and a whole lot more.
I was finished with the NRA when the California assault weapons ban video came out. In it the NRA narrator said, not verbatim, "So like any law abiding citizen Mr. Schmuck turned in his SKS-D." [More]Mr. Doss, actually. That would be this incident, now only available via an Internet Archive/Wayback Machine link.
Nevadans for Background Checks made it official yesterday when, according to KTNV, they submitted more than 246,000 signatures on a petition calling for so-called “universal background checks” in the Silver State, a move predicted months ago by the Washington gun rights advocate battling the first such measure in his state. [More]And not just the Washington gun rights advocate...
The helpful 911 caller who found an armed suspect’s car became the victim as Washington state cops shot him in the leg. [More]I'm not sure I get why the victim fired a shot of his own if he expected to deescalate the situation, but it evidently got their attention and gave everyone pause, and the story says he was released after being hospitalized.
In the absence of the Quartermaster General the Assistant Quarter Master with the advice of the General officers and commandants of brigades will fix upon a spot for erecting a Provost guard house and also a hut for the Provostmartial—He will likewise settle with the Judge Advocate the place for building a courtmartial room. [More]
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers,” novelist Thomas Pynchon noted in “Gravity’s Rainbow.” In this case, the minds behind the Moms ask those questions for us in order to manipulate emotions and suppress critical examination. After all, who wants terrorists, gangbangers and wife-beaters shooting victims? [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes vile people rely on vile tactics. And judging from their tactics, these are some really vile people.
It is my understanding that the federal regs regarding background checks and the NICS system might be useful to nullify this atrocious new law.My reply:
My understanding:
FFL's are REQUIRED to run the BGC when selling a gun from their inventory
No one except an FFL can run this check through the system
Many but not all FFL's will run the check for a customer who is receiving a gun being transferred from out of state. My understanding is that they are not REQUIRED to perform such NICS checks.
IF this is the case, then no FF: would be REQUIRED to run BGC on face to face transfers, as the new law wants done.
What would happen if every FFL in Washington STate would refuse to run face to face transfer background checks? Seems to me the idiots that drafted this initiave measure are conditioning the whole thing on VOLUNTARY performance of a task necessary to make this law work.
IF no FFL in Washington would perform the BGC then the law becomes a clearly unconstitutional infringement on the RIGHT to own and carry aobut arms, as guaranteed, and government have inposed an unlawful infringement upon that right.
WHAT would it take to get this idea going mainstream in this state? And promote the ocncept across the nation, as we KNOW Bloomie is already working on Oregon, Arizona, Nevada...... and likely has a few more states in his sights.
What do you think? Am I off base in my understanding of the law? I think its 18 USC dealing with BGC and NICS... but not sure where.
Unless I'm missing something, offhand what I'd say would happen is all non-FFL transfers would stop except for the "illegal" ones. I'm not seeing how the antis wouldn't love that outcome, and what recourse gun owners would have except be captive to a system where they lose some price bargaining leverage by being forced to sell only to dealers, assuming an FFL wants what they're trying to dispose of and is prepared to offer top dollar.If you have any knowledge to share, please do.
I'm not a lawyer, but there could be anti-trust/collusion implications as well and then there would be the matter of dealing with FFLs who don't go along with the idea and offer BGCs anyway. I think you'd find gun owners divided on defending or condemning that.
Owners of shotguns and other firearms are to have medical files permanently marked. If they develop health conditions which could lead to a gun being used, either against others or themselves, or not kept safely, doctors would have to inform the police. [More]Just "signs"?
Over the course of this generally routine maintenance, an Iowa City Police Officer accidentally discharged a service weapon which in turn caused non-life threatening injuries to the officer and another officer who was standing nearby. [More]I wonder if they'd be this understanding and dismissive if you or I injured an officer with a negligent discharge.
"We would seize whatever we need to find out exactly what we need to know and to find out if this accusation is actually true," McKneely said. [More]Under what legal authority? For what crime?
The reappointment of Mr. Jefferson as Minister Plenipo: for negociating peace was agreed to unanimously and without a single adverse remark. The act took place in consequence of its being suggested that the death of Mrs. J. had probably changed the sentiments of Mr. J. with regard to public life, & that all the reasons which led to his original appointment still existed and indeed had acquired additional force from the improbability that Mr. Laurens would actually assist in the negociation. [More]
While the effort reportedly received a “warm reception” from Ruger...THIS Ruger?
In giving permission of absence to Officers for the recovery of their health, I have supposed the experiment of change of air & diet might be made in a few weeks, as well as in any length of time; I must therefore consider the indulgence given to you for the purpose, as limited to eight weeks from the date hereof, at the expiration of which time, I shall expect you will return to the Army. [More]
“Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,” Gruber admitted in a televised panel discussion. “And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.” [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes being used is nothing to be militantly proud about.
Rob Pincus, Neil McCabe, Lee Williams, Alan Gottlieb and David Codrea analyze what actually happened to America on election night 2014!
Police Use Department Wish List When Deciding Which Assets to Seize [More]Does this Lamborghini make our @$$ look big...?
Survey suggests Seattle anti-gunners out of touch with American majority [More]One more proof that Dave Workman is a much nicer person than I will ever be...
Currently, conservatives say congressional Republican leadership is considering breaking the promise Priebus made before the election. [More]The only thing keeping that from happening is they're every bit as personally gutless as they are fraudulent. Which means they need to hear from you about consequences.
We have recd. no intelligence from Europe since my last. I have inclosed to the Govr. a copy of a late letter from Carlton which breathes a much less conciliating spirit than his preceding correspondence. No steps have been taken by Congress as to the Cessions since the acceptance of that of N. York. Asgill is directed to be set at liberty, without any special reason being assigned for it, and Gl Washington instructed to call upon Gl Carlton to fulfil his promise to pursue the guilty. [More]
To those who would “whistle past the graveyard of history,” deny that brutal tyranny could ever happen here, and call talk of armed defense against it unsupportable and even treasonous, where in history is any civilization guaranteed stasis? Has not despotism and mass destruction plagued every civilization that preceded ours? Is it not, in fact, still commonplace throughout the globe? By what suspension of reality, by what denial of the observable and the probable, by what art, device or magic are we sheltered few immune from catastrophe? Are we certain, from our brief and privileged vantage point, that such things will ever remain headline curiosities? Is it not naive, willfully blind or fraudulent to proclaim that our familiar way of life will forever be the norm, when everything that has gone before us shows we are, instead, the extremely lucky beneficiaries of a rare and fortunate convergence of circumstances -- and one, by the way, that has only been preserved under force of arms? [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes there's only one way to ensure the phrase "Never again" is more than just words.
The real point here is, why is a Bloomberg-listed mayor happily embracing a “gun criminal”? And why is that person part of a “get out the vote” effort, soliciting in an area that overwhelmingly votes for citizen disarmament proponents who demand laws binding on the rest of us? [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes a controversy that, for the most part, is missing the "point."
Malloy and his anti-American toady Lawlor have just made things utterly simple for us. They have announced that they will be answering the question for us, this "Where to draw the line," with their own tyrannical actions. Like heedless children playing a game they scarcely understand, they have declared their solution in bloody crayon upon the wall. They will draw the line for us. [More]Vanderboegh notes who has determined where it will be drawn.
