Brady Center: Ginning Up Jonesboro

"You kill five people in cold blood, shocking an entire nation. You go to prison. Seven years later, you get out, and you are free to buy all the guns you want."

Sounds like a perfect reason to disarm you and me.

"[T]his is a textbook case of an individual who should be deemed by society as forever barred from the privilege of owning a gun."

Well, doesn't this little revelation prove the lie that they're not interested in disarming Americans--only in having "sensible gun laws"?

It ain't a "privilege."

True, it's outrageous that the "justice" system reintroduces monsters in our midst. As long as it does, expecting the rest of us to be even more defenseless is criminal and insane.

My thoughts on the effectiveness of laws that disarm segments of our non-incarcerated society--for whatever reason--can be found here.

Bottom line: Anyone who can't be trusted with a gun can't be trusted without a custodian.

Gun Law News: Request for Information - Sullivan Act

"We are beginning an investigation into the origins of and precursors to the Sullivan Act. We have a fair amount of information and the text to some New York Times editorials. What we need is more, and better sourcing for our information. We need quotes, with firm sources and, if possible PDF files. This would be especially true of any newspaper articles or editorials. If you have any information related to this, please forward it to us via Feedback."

Seems like a worthy and potentially fruitful venture.

As an aside, I have found the GLN site to be an excellent resource. RKBA activists would do well to bookmark and visit it regularly, and add it to the roll if you have a blog.

Doh!

So California state officials want the public to believe that by forcing manufacturers to install microstamping mechanisms in handguns and laser-etch serial numbers on ammunition, they'll be able to keep track of it all to solve crimes.

Why don't the dolts focus on finding the 30,000 cars they bought on the people's dime and now can't account for?

"Tracking down the data has been difficult... the situation 'was so bad,'...that one government agency had purchased $4 million worth of automobiles but didn't have any record of where it bought them.

"So far the department has determined that California spent $33.6 million on automobile acquisitions in calendar year 2004, but it is still compiling fleetwide data and does not yet know the total value or ongoing costs of the state's fleet."

Make of This What You Will

"Wilcox's demeanor toward authorities on the night of his arrest contributed to prosecutors' decision to drop the charges."

Random reactions:

I'm glad he's off.

I'm sorry it took a technicality to do it.

I doubt you or I would have the connections to make this work for us--or the high profile to focus a media spotlight so that the technicality couldn't be conveniently overlooked/successfully denied.

When are some of these multimillionaire celebrity gun owners--particularly ones who are minorities and could do much to sway public opinion about the right of all people to keep and bear arms--going to put their shoulder to the wheel and help promote and preserve that right?

The Government We Deserve

“At the close of the constitutional convention, a woman asked Benjamin Franklin what type of government the Constitution was bringing into existence. Franklin replied, ‘A republic, if you can keep it.’”

Flash forward:

“[O]nly 55 percent of Americans [are] able to correctly identify the three branches of government.”

"Thrilling...and Thought-Provoking"

The following review of 'The Black Arrow' appears in the current, August edition of the 'Midwest Book Review':
The Black Arrow
Vin Suprynowicz
Mountain Media
3172 North Rainbow Boulevard, Suite 343
Las Vegas, NV 89108
$24.95
www.TheLibertarian.us / www.TheBlackArrow.us

In "The Black Arrow: A Tale Of The Resistance," author Vin Suprynowicz draws upon his skill and expertise as a syndicated newspaper columnist to write a provocative novel set in the near future of 2031 where America is ruled under the authority of a Patriot-Poindexter police state. This is a time of ID checks, invasive body searches, stacked juries, kangaroo courts, a corrupt political class, and a gray-suited police cadre known as the Homeland Security Special Forces. It is against this background that wealthy record company executive Andrew Fletcher decides to resist the all powerful police state by becoming a masked vigilante known as the "Black Arrow". The result is a thrilling, rapidly paced, 703-page action/adventure novel that also incorporates thoughtful and thought-provoking commentary on the power of the state run amok, an unusual love story, and how a movement of the people can take back their liberties when pressed too far by those above them. Highly recommended reading -- especially for the libertarian inclined!

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Vin Suprynowicz is assistant editorial page editor of the daily Las Vegas Review-Journal and author of the books Send in the Waco Killers, The Ballad of Carl Drega, and The Black Arrow. For information call 702-656-3285, or visit
www.TheLibertarian.us or www.LibertyBookShop.us.

Another Senseless Child Gun Death...

...that could have been prevented if only we would enact "sensible gun laws"?

Good grief, how do you reach ages 19 and 20, and not be able to tell if a revolver is loaded?

Oh, Yeah, THIS'LL Work...

"But what I do believe that we can do is bring a concerted effort to the border so that we can capture many more guns than we have been capturing in the past that are coming in illegally."

Das Boots

How ironic.

A gungrabber has armed guards for his boots.

GunLawNews Replies to JPFO

Scroll down to August 9: SB397 Issues

Coming Soon to the California Hit List: BB and Pellet Guns

From "California Dreamin'," my Rights Watch column in the Sept. 2005 issue of GUNS Magazine, on newsstands now:

"Pellet Guns and BB Guns: Dangerous Playthings on the Open Market," by the Senate Office of Research, calls for regulating air guns with the same restrictions as firearms.

Its author is a former Los Angeles Times hack, the SOR Director is a former aide to termed out (anti-gun) Senate President Pro-Tem John Burton, and the report was prepared at the “request” of Jack Scott, another notorious gun banner.

To prove how dangerous air guns are, the report cites an instance where “[a] 16-year-old boy sustained a severe midbrain injury from a self-inflicted combination BB/pellet gun wound through the roof of his mouth.”

The “study” states “anyone can get a pellet gun with a muzzle velocity of 1,000 feet per second—more powerful than some .45 automatics.”

To back the claim that a pellet gun has “more striking power than many classes of handgun firearms,” it provides an endnote—but one that references back to the original claim, in a nice bit of circuitous deception.

You can read this bit of taxpayer-funded subversive nonsense here.

All you need to know about "study" author Max Vanzi: "Max has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from UC Berkeley."

Ditto for SOR Director Donald Moulds: "...Don was a Visiting Scholar and Teaching Fellow at Harvard University, a Ford Foundation Scholar, and a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Cultural Values and Ethics and at the Program for the Study of Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security..."

Fatal Blindness?

JPFO addresses criticisms of it’s previous alert on S.397.

Some Choice

Westchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro is challenging Hillary Clinton for her New York Senate seat.

"'My support in the Republican Party is broad and deep,’ Pirro told the AP when asked about a possible primary. She also said she would seek the Conservative Party's endorsement and noted that she had it for her races in Westchester County.”

“In 2006, New Yorkers will have a choice,” says the 1997 People magazine's "most beautiful people" listee.

So what kind of “choice” will a Conservative Party-endorsed candidate with “broad and deep” Republican Party support offer gun owners?

Oh, let’s just see.

She joined the New Yorkers Against Gun Violence anti-defense zealots in a Columbine High School Memorial Blood Dance to call “for renewal and strengthening of the federal assault weapons ban.”

She launched a “gun amnesty/buyback” program—“no questions asked,” naturally, “to get illegal and unwanted weapons off the streets.”

I guess gun rights aren’t important when your Republican fundraiser husband is a federal prison alumnus—as a felon, he can’t legally own a gun. Besides, when you have a taxpayer-funded bodyguard, one who made more than $87,000 in overtime in addition to his $101,000-plus salary, who need a personal gun?

The New York Republican establishment evidently believes gun owners are so cowed by the prospect of Hillary that they’ll vote for anyone.

The pathetic thing is, they’re probably right.

And don't even get me started on Rudy Giuliani.

Unwanted

Heartless Libertarian tells us about "the worst TV show gun-related writing ever."

In all fairness, I have not seen TNT's "Wanted," but I know from this promo blurb that I have no desire to:

"Jimmy McGloin (Hurst) is an ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) officer and a bona fide card-carrying conservative."

Couldn't be any Hollywood liberal bias in that assumption, could there?

As if a true conservative, i.e., original intent Constitutionalist, would have anything to do with BATFU.

Front Sight:True Crimes--Casting Final Episodes

I'm passing this along at the request of Deborah Courtney:

Victim Rights Advocate and Second Amendment Activist, Deborah Courtney, is actively seeking those who have been brutally victimized by crime from across the country to tell their story in an upcoming TV reality documentary. She will help those who participate in taking control back into their lives through personal safety awareness and personal defense as part of the show.

She believes in total empowerment of those victimized!

Contact her at the following email before August 25
Deborah Ann Courtney
www.NOVICTIMS.org

Just Do It

I just sent my review of Matthew Bracken's "Enemies Foreign and Domestic" in to GUNS Magazine. As it will be a few months before that issue hits the stands, let me give a brief teaser/spoiler here:

Buy this book. Stop what you're doing, go the the website I've linked to and just do it.

The Courtesy of a Reply Would be Appreciated

Dear Mr. DiMare,

I hope all is well with you. I haven’t received a reply to my open letter yet, and under normal circumstances, you’ve certainly had plenty of time to give me one.

Has anything changed? Are you still the staff contact for the California Chamber of Commerce for “job killer” bills? Should I be writing someone else?

Please let me know. I don’t want people to think the Chamber would duck this important issue out of political correctness or fear of taking a stand related to guns, but without any feedback from you it’s tough not to speculate.

Are SB352 and AB357 not “job killers” too?

Is the Chamber intentionally ignoring my letter?

Are firearm and ammunition makers not part of the California economy, producing legal products enjoyed by millions of consumers? Are the thousands of direct and ancillary support jobs these industries create not worthy of the Chamber’s concern and support?

Will the Chamber issue a statement on these "job killer" bills or intentionally remain silent?

Sincerely,
David Codrea
The War on Guns

Gun Law News Disagrees With JPFO

Looks like we're gonna have us a debate.

Nice to be a spectator for a change.

JPFO ALERT: Is S. 397 a Trojan Horse?

When JPFO talks, gun owners should listen.

In this case their fears, that S. 397 could result in giving the AG power to ban all rifle ammo capable of penetrating BODY ARMOR, should be looked at very carefully--particularly since this opinion is being given serious credence by Len Savage.

I haven't had time to look into this, so am posting this in the hopes of soliciting informed opinions. Is there an alternative explanation? If JPFO's analysis is accurate, why haven't we heard about this from NRA?

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