Serious Irony!

The anti-freedom people MUST be stupid! Look at this post from Joan Peterson of the Brady Campaign:

The NRA has profited from and taken advantage of the fears of Americans after mass shootings…We are better than this. We shouldn’t be having funerals like this on a regular basis.

Now I won’t Copy the hyperlinks, but Joan first claims the NRA is profiteering off of tragedies…then links to the Brady Campaign fundraising page in the next breath. A page the Brady Camp created soon after the Colorado shooting . Not only are they asking for money, but they’re asking for contact information so they can sell it!

Oh and to add insult to injury she keeps repeating lies in hopes that they come true:

This article written by Republican pollster Frank Luntz for the conservative Washington Post should be heeded by those who think the NRA and its’ minions don’t want sensible gun laws. Actually, NRA members want sensible gun laws. It’s their leadership and a few gun rights extremists that don’t appear to want anything to interfere with the agenda of fear and paranoia.

We talked about that Mayors Against Illegal Guns poll here, I think we all know that a group that doesn’t allow pro-gun comments on their websites, and only appear on slanted venues, they wouldn’t commission a poll if they weren’t assured it would make them look good….but the reality is the poll isn’t true. Politicians are avoiding gun control laws because they know its horrible unpopular, and places like Wal-Mart are selling Modern Sporting Rifles to their customers. There’s no evidence that supports Luntz’s poll as anything but a lie.

Hey but keep telling yourself that…hell Joan is still citing the Kellerman Study, despite even Kellerman himself wishing the world would forget about his little piece of junk science.

They are THAT tin eared, and that foolish! The truth is, gun owning Americans are the ones who are better!

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Why Are We In Afganistan?

Stories like these frustrate me.

Officials say an Afghan police officer has shot and killed three U.S. Marines in southern Afghanistan. It is the third attack on coalition forces by their Afghan counterparts in a week.

Soldiers get in harms way, but my big issue is FOR WHAT? I mean what would Victory in Afghanistan look like? We don’t want to annex the nation for some empire, the idea of terrorist attacks coming to an end is fantasy. They already have a new government. Why are we having our soldiers killed?

Also good job for President Anti-War! We can really tell!

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Hickok Reviews One of My Faves

FP Liberator .45!

You can buy the replicas here, to comply with modern regulations the smooth-bore pistol is now rifled, has a serial number and appropriate markings. They’re a little spendy, but if you want a really good replica that indeed shoots that’s the price to pay!

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Truth Behind the Private Sale Ban

It doesn’t work.

Christian Hall, 24, was today sentenced to five years in prison and two years of probation after pleading guilty May 23 to numerous counts of straw purchasing firearms, according to a release from the District Attorney’s Office.

Between April and August of 2011, Hall falsely identified himself on federal and state purchase forms as the actual buyer of four handguns and an AK-47, then illegally transferred them to criminals in the Olney section of the city.

Hall bought a Glock .357 and a Glock .40 at Frank’s Gun Shop on the 4700 block of Blakiston Street in Holmesburg and handed over the handguns to two men, identified only as Punch and Brandon. The Glock .40 was recovered at the scene of a shooting on Feb. 22, 2012.

Now what the antis don’t want to talk about is that in Pennsylvania it is illegal to sell a handgun privately….so this guy went to a gun shop and bought the guns legally…then sold then ILLEGALLY.

He had a clean background, and yet now he’s a prohibited person and going to spend a few years in prison. This is EXACTLY the behavior banning private sale is supposed to PREVENT….but laws don’t prevent crime, hence why one of the guns was recovered at a MURDER…you know, one of the most taboo crimes in most cultures. All laws do is direct punishment against people found GUILTY of those crimes.

Of course selling guns to prohibited people, and lying on FFL forms is a FEDERAL crime, so in all 50 states this is a serious crime, the difference in Pennsylvania, the state could also get a piece of this guy if they wanted and charge him with the state crime of selling a handgun privately….but does it really matter?

There’s the crux of anti-rights proposals, ban guns for irrelevant features, add restrictions that won’t work (like the NFA to prevent people like John Dillinger, Clyde Barrow, and Al Capone from using certain weapons…that they got from stealing from Armories or corrupt Police, or the GCA ’68 in the wake of the killing of JFK and MLK, adding restrictions on gun sales that wouldn’t have stopped those assassins, or the Brady Bill, which wouldn’t have stopped Hinkley) or add redundant laws with the intent of stopping activities that are already illegal.

Their logic is “If guns were as illegal as murder, nobody would be murdered with guns!”, and it makes sense to them!

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“Gun Death” Scalding Bath

Just look at this horrible story:

Even in a country that sees 44 murders a day, the case has left the public horrified.

A gang of robbers gunned down a father, raped and murdered his wife.

Then, in a final act of sickening brutality, they drowned the couple’s 12-year-old son in scalding bath water.

Amaro Viana was murdered to prevent him from identifying the three housebreakers who carried out the raid in suburban South Africa.

Those who use “Gun Death” claim that if we submit to their plans we’ll be safe…like in South Africa. Also while the killers had guns, they didn’t use them on the boy! Nice! So two “Gun Deaths” but one young boy who doesn’t count!

Classy!

h/t Brad in MA

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“Gun Death” More Knives

Knives can kill…but only guns count!

A stabbing at Cowboy Jack’s in Bloomington sent one man to the hospital in serious condition.

Police said a fight broke out around midnight at the bar off Interstate 494 and Xerxes Ave.

h/t Maddmedic

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More Internet Radio TONIGHT!!!

Time for Another SQUIRREL REPORT!!!

We have a ton of topics, and hopefully this week we’ll get more callers!

So tune in 9pm EST for THE SQUIRREL REPORT!!!

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Another Oddball Gun

I love the strange ones…the gun is neat too! 😛

Very neat with that “Fast Action” trigger.

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Basics for an Odd Ball

I really like this video because it shows not only how to manipulate the Luger, but he gives some tips on how to clear an odd gun. This skill set might be more useful than you think. How many people have had to clear out the gun safe of somebody who has passed away? Lots of guns, some could be old, and you don’t know the condition of ANY of them.

-Remember the 4 rules

-Search for the magazine release if its a semi-auto pistol. Generally its a button or a tab at the base of the mag well, but you never know.

-Look for Knurling! This is an important one, as a general rule guns are made smooth where you don’t need to touch them to make them easier to clean, and less likely to snag, but where you DO need to touch them there is often knurling. The grip panels, the front and backstrap, the magazine release, any safety controls, any takedown leavers or notches, and how you manipulate the action.

Look for the knurling and see what its attached to and how it might work. Of course ALWAYS follow the safety rules with an unknown gun, odd things can happen, like actuating the safety on an old P38 Walther, or flicking the decocking leaver on an old CZ-52 could result in an honest-to-goodness ACCIDENTAL discharge if the firing pin block is broken. I remember the first time I picked up a Ruger 22 pistol. It doesn’t have a slide, so how do I open the action? Easy look at those two knurled tabs at the back of the bolt!

Good stuff, and actually not as basic when you look at it that way!

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Space Yo-Yo

I’m pretty slick with a Yo-Yo, but so much of it relies on gravity, and this guy does without on the ISS!

Pretty cool that he learned how to make it work in space!

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