“Common Sense” Gun Control

So the Brady Campaign is talking about this case.

Attorneys for the pawnshop had asked Iwasaki to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that the pistol-grip shotgun that had been sold to the Talovic didn’t qualify for the federal restrictions and argued the weapon was a shotgun legally sold to an 18-year-old. The pawnshop attorney argued that the weapon has a removable pistol grip and is designed and intended to be used with a shoulder stock, making it a shotgun.

Is this even remotely legitimate? Since we’re not talking about a .410 which is the only shotgun bore under 0.50″ therefore allowing it to not be an NFA item if sold as a handgun (given that the bore of said gun is rifled), then this shotgun must by law be a long-gun. Federal minimum age for long guns is 18. If this isn’t a long-gun, and pistol-grip shotguns are NOT NFA items, what are they?

This convoluted bullshit is what the antis call “Common Sense”.

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Criminals Support Criminals

Go figure!

A re-branded ACORN branch in California is raising money to help fund an upcoming “Occupy” protest in Sacramento, FoxNews.com has learned.

The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment sent out letters this month pleading for contributions of up to $20,000 for buses, food, printing, sound and other supplies for an upcoming event dubbed “Occupy the Capitol.”

The “Occupy” movement has been well known for breaking the law, like protesting without a permit, illegal camping and squatting, indecent exposure and improper disposal of human wastes, drug dealing and use, and of course the violent assaults happen when the police attempt to keep the peace.

And ACORN a group well known for Voter Fraud, and supporting criminal activities.

As a matter of fact I can’t think of a single LEGAL thing ACORN has done. Of course like the “Occupy” groups, ACORN is the criminal front of the Democrat Party.

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Normal People

I got to thinking about one thing that is absent in the mental behavior of the antis.

You, I, and most people we know, people I’ll be pejorative and call us “Normal People”, when discussing things always ask about results.

I heard two people in the office talking about a diet plan one of them was trying. “How is it going?” Person A, askes, Person B responds “Great! I’ve lost 3 pounds already and I’m enjoying the food options!”

A co-worker heard I was lifting weights to get into better shape (haven’t lost a pound, but I’m down 2″ on my waistline, I’ll call that a “success”) and was telling me that their health club has Kettlebells, and what a great workout they provide.

You’ll also hear warnings from people: “Don’t see that movie, it sucks!” or “Man the service at that restaurant is terrible!”, or “Man I’m on the 3rd transmission on that truck, and it only has 100,000 miles!”

The end result of things are VERY important. Heck in the Grab-and-Go post there was a whole side track of people discussing the Ruger LCR (BTW I love little discussions like this, as its a good way to spread knowledge).

Now look at the Antis. They get excited about success (thankfully something that hasn’t happened in a good while for them), and upset at failure, or success of people they don’t like.

But never once do they concern themselves with results. The Assault Weapons ban was designed to stop bad people from getting dangerous guns. You ever hear antis talk about it as a success story?

The antis often talk about registries, but never mention how ineffective they are. I can’t think of a single story that was stopped by Massachusetts gun registry, nor other states who also have registries, and of course Canada’s national registry does nothing.

Ballistic Fingerprinting .

Antis will talk about how safe Chicago or NYC, DC, or Boston are, thanks to their heavy restrictions on lawful gun control, but they won’t go walking through these cities after dark…at least not without their armed bodyguards.

They are neither rational, nor healthy people. Of course this is why they support gun control!

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Rules for Thee

…But Not for Me! Sebastian has a great post up on the the Head of Media Matters having an armed bodyguard, and carrying in direct violation of DC’s gun control laws.

Pretty typical that the Joyce Foundation Shills don’t practice what they preach. Its hardly the Only Case.

Of course that’s not taking into effect all the Politicians who vote against civilians owning and using guns for self defense, but accept Secret Service Protection.

Just like Al Gore and Global Warming, the antis don’t actually believe the crap they shill, its just a way to make a dishonest living.

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The Right Kind of Racism

After the sweeping desire for both Political factions to close in on more government oversight on more and more aspects of lawful citizens lives is how politics handle racism.

I grew up in an America that took racism VERY seriously. I grew up in an America where the words of Martin Luther King were frequently quoted, and his “I have a Dream” speech played once a year in my classrooms. One line from that speech I find the most moving.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Of course that dream has yet to be met. The difference is today people are judged the OPPOSITE, now you CAN’T judge the character of somebody with different skin color as you because THAT’S RACIST! You get miserable race-centric behavior as this.

Samuel L. Jackson said he voted for President Obama because of his color: “I voted for Barack because he was black. ’Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them,” the actor says in an outspoken interview in the March issue of Ebony. Jackson sounds off on his feelings for Obama to writer Kevin Powell, saying: “That’s American politics, pure and simple. [Obama’s] message didn’t mean [bleep] to me. In the end, he’s a politician. I just hoped he would do some of what he said he was gonna do. I know politicians say [bleep]; they lie. ’Cuz they want to get elected.” Repeatedly using the N-word, Jackson added that Obama’s philosophical presence had been universally appealing: “When it comes down to it, they wouldn’t have elected a [bleep]. Because, what’s a [bleep]? A [bleep] is scary. Obama ain’t scary at all. [Bleeps] don’t have beers at the White House. [Bleeps] don’t let some white dude, while you in the middle of a speech, call [him] a liar. A [bleep] would have stopped the meeting right there and said, ‘Who the [bleep] said that?’ I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, ’cuz he ain’t gotta worry about getting re-elected.”

Voting for somebody because of what color they are? No allowing somebody to speak to you because of their skin color?

Why that’s racist…if Mr. Jackson and President Obama were white…but they’re not. Black people disliking white people is the right kind of racism!

Reverant Wright and then Senator Obama disparaging white people and Jews at Trinity United Church of Christ was the right kind of racism.

Sadly this isn’t just a black thing, but a “Progressive” thing. Remember it was OK that Robert Byrd was a Klansman, because he said he didn’t really mean it.

Its really a shame that such horrible behavior is encouraged today.

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Tactical Reload

A Tactical Reload is when your firearm has a partially filled magazine, but you no longer see any immediate threats. We load our guns up to +1 Capacity because a gun stuffed-to-the-gills is has the most potential. Also since ammo is valuable in a gun fight why would you throw a magazine away that still has ammo in it? So if you’re going to put your gun away, you might as well get that gun full before you declare the position “Safe”. IDPA uses the tactical reload in stages, and this drill is defined by reloading your gun and retaining the partial magazine. To do this quickly (because unlike real-life there is ALWAYS more shooting after a tactical reload) you get maneuvers like this.

I won’t malign this technique, because the only drawback of it is its much more complicated than the standard reload, and often has several different steps from the slide-lock reload. I saw this video back in my Livejournal days and since lost track of it until I found it here.

LOVE this video. It shows a fast draw from concealment, a quick and efficient elimination of threat, and then his guard stays up. Being training this is where the role-playing comes in. So the cardboard target was the “Threat” that posed imminent threat. Those quick COM shots did the trick (have a look at the grouping, that’s pretty realistic), but what next. Was he alone? Does he have friends? Did somebody hear the shots? He keeps that gun out and looks around. He then declares the area “Safe” and quickly reloads the gun. I REALLY like this as he’s reloading the gun almost EXACTLY how one reloads from slide-lock, just he understands that there is a round in the chamber, so there is no need to do a motion to chamber that first round off he mag.

Then there’s more observation. Has anything changed? Nope, so he then collects the mag from the dirt. Again has anything changed? (This is not unrealistic, as he JUST SHOT SOMEBODY) Nope, OK well now you can put your gun away.

At any point during this drill if the fight “began again”, like the initial target began to fight again, or more hostiles arrived, he can continue the fight.

If he needs to seek cover at some point he can simply leave that mag behind. No huge deal, as his gun is filled to the max and he has more reloads.

Also the first video is a more slow and methodical approach, the second video is much faster and polished, the 2nd technique is slower on time, but IMHO that’s BETTER as if you’re doing a tactical reload the timer is “Stopped” because you should ONLY do this when there isn’t an immediate threat. It should be quicker than say how you load up and holster-up your gun first thing in the morning as you’re generally locked in your home which is inherently “Safe”, this is MORE dangerous, but considerably LESS dangerous than if you were taking hostile fire.

Great vid!

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Jesus the ‘Nuge is Good

I’m starting to re-think Ted Nugent. Used to be he struck me as more of a 2nd Amendment bomb-thrower and rabble rouser. Somebody who wasn’t afraid to say the “Politically Incorrect” things that others didn’t want to say. All well and good if you’re more-or-less in-line with Uncle Ted, a little scary if you’re somebody like 18-year-old Weer’d Clean-Shaven (grew my first beard at 19, about 8 months after I shot my first gun) who thought “Assault Weapons” were unnecessary and scary, and CCW holders were paranoid.

Still recently he’s been dropping some interviews where he’s just as loud and wild-eyed as ever…but he’s like a tiger stalking his prey. Loud, fast, and impossible to defeat.

Its the point that Ted makes here is why I’m a gun owner, and pro-second Amendment. I was against guns because I thought like Mr. Morgan. Guns kill people, so get rid of guns, and less people die! I switched sides when I heard and understood Ted’s point. Bad people will ALWAYS get guns (they get drugs don’t they? I have a permit to own and carry a pistol, you think I can get a permit to snort cocaine, or drop Acid?) and violent crime and death has NOTHING to do with the number of guns in an environment, but the ratio of good-guys to bad guys who have guns. Chicago, New York City, Boston? Lots of guns, and most of them are in the hands of Criminals. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Montana, Wyoming, Florida, Texas…etc. LOTS of guns, possibly MORE guns than the other places per-capita, but the good guys, the law abiding citizens, have the Majority.

…And the bad guys FEAR them, and find someplace ELSE to do bad thing…or they chose crime that has the least chance of MEETING good guys face-to-face.

You simply can’t argue with that.

h/t Maddmedic

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Morning LOL

Love these guys

“Ghosts” is my favorite!

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“Gun Death” Mass-Murder

Remember “Gun Death” is a relevant stat because you need a gun to commit mass murder

Dallas police say a man stabbed his estranged wife to death Thursday morning, then killed her father and mother as they rushed to their daughter’s defense.

Fifty-year-old William Palmer of Sachse is charged with capital murder for the deaths of his wife, 47-year-old Donya Palmer, and her parents, 69-year-old Raymond Davis and 67-year-old Mary Davis.

Its not the tool, but the person behind it.

h/t Bob

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Anti-Rights Fanatics

This story is being shilled by the antis right now.

udden shotgun blasts recently shattered the quiet of the homes that line West Crooked Lake in Eustis.

Boom! Boom! Madelaine Lock was visiting with her neighbor, and together they ran toward the lake. Boom! Doors flew open, and residents streamed outside. Five of them dialed 911 to summon police.

They needn’t have bothered…..During last year’s session, state lawmakers passed a fiasco of a series of gun bills, one of which prevents any local government from enacting rules about guns that are more strict than state laws. It provided for fines up to $5 million for doing so.

Not really, the restrictions were illegal before the law was passed, just the people had no way to rectify fines and penalties against illegally passed laws.

And of course the anti-rights people are upset because the sportsmen are spoiling THEIR good time…no concern for spoiling the hunter’s good time. Obviously they’re worth more! Still the kicker was this:

“It is OK to hunt ducks on a lake surrounded by residential homes, but it is against the law for these same residents to use fireworks?” asked Eustis police Chief Fred Cobb, whose officers were powerless to restore peace to the West Crooked Lake neighborhood. “If the Legislature is concerned about public safety, I don’t understand their logic.”

Have you maybe considered that fireworks aren’t that dangerous either, and maybe that law is also bullshit?

When in doubt, there can ALWAYS be less freedom with these people!

**UPDATE**Some Good Info from Countertop here. Looks like the anti wasn’t painting a very honest picture. Surprise Surprise!

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