Taurus PT-25

Taurus PT-25 in .25ACP SOLD

For more information or to purchase, contact:

Bryan Headrick
Arcola Guns and Ammo Gunsmithing
220 North Pine St. Arcola, IL 61910.
217-268-5000
arcolaguns@yahoo.com

Ban Ownership

It's only "reasonable".

• Mandatory waiting periods to purchase a gun

That have never been shown to reduce gun violence.

• Requiring citizens to actually register their firearms

So the Gov't knows where they are when they decide to ban them (CA, NY, NJ, DC, Chicago, Etc.)

• Mandatory micro stamping of guns to aid tracing weapons

A process that has been found to be useless in solving crimes.

• Banning inexpensive handguns that make it easier for criminals to acquire

So only wealthy people can own firearms? They never commit crimes, do they?

• Limit gun purchases to one gun a month

So you can end collecting.

• Require training for gun owners

So only the Gov't can decide to make training so onerous, no-one, including police, could pass.

• Restrict gun ownership to citizens 21 and older

So you can vote, join the military, drive, etc. , but not protect your family?

• Eliminate right to carry concealed weapons

So restrict people who don't commit crimes?

• Ban gun shops from operating within 5 miles of a school

Why, if they can't own guns anyway? Are "gun shops" dangerous?

• Ban resale of police firearms which include high powered assault weapons

Why? What is a "high powered assault weapon"? Can you provide a definition?

• Ban high capacity ammunition magazines that are often used by gang members in drive by shootings and not needed to kill a deer

You mean like in the Henry Varmint express? They're "often used by gang members"? How many rounds are actually fired?

Read the rest. The usual histrionics and outright nonsense.

Via ArmsandtheLaw.

Custom Enfield Jungle Carbine

Enfield Jungle Carbine Custom by Santa Fe in .303 British SOLD


For more information or to purchase, contact:

Bryan Headrick
Arcola Guns and Ammo Gunsmithing
220 North Pine St. Arcola, IL 61910.
217-268-5000
arcolaguns@yahoo.com

Hi-Point in .40 S&W

Hi-Point in .40 S&W $190


For more information or to purchase, contact:

Bryan Headrick
Arcola Guns and Ammo Gunsmithing
220 North Pine St. Arcola, IL 61910.
217-268-5000
arcolaguns@yahoo.com

In Memoriam

To all the brave Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines to whom images like this


are ingrained in their memories forever and to those who are no longer with us.

Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers..

OF cops, family squabble over returning guns

Oak Forest, IL police were asked to store firearms for a family while a member was deemed mentally unfit. They accepted. But when the family wanted them back, the OFPD refused, stating that the family had to get a court order (which they can't afford) because the department is afraid of being sued in the future.

Hopefully the ISRA will help this family out w/ legal fees. I've contacted them to try and get some more information.

Clinton Supporters for McCain

They agree:



Angry Clinton Supporters Start Rallying for McCain Online

"We're going to run campaign ads to defeat Obama," says Ed Hale, a 63-year-old rancher and a Clinton supporter from Wellington, Texas. "We have doctors, lawyers, CPAs, the blue bloods, and then we have rednecks like me. It's a very diversified organization."

Does it make a difference which Democrat gets in office?

It was an accident

I didn't think putting my finger on the trigger and pulling it would make the shotgun fire!

Capitalism sucks when you're not part of it

'Che' brand irks Guevara's children

HAVANA - Two of Ernesto "Che" Guevara's children said Thursday they were tired of seeing their father's image used to sell everything from T-shirts to vodka, calling the growth of the revolutionary as a global super-brand "embarrassing."

"We don't want money, we demand respect," wrote Guevara, who is a trained physician like her father.

Respect your enemies their virtues. I respect him as an efficient guerrilla fighter. Efficient including being a cold blooded killer who would not hesitate to remove anyone or thing that impeded his goals. A man who advocated violent bloodletting across the globe.

Why are anti-gun activists so violent?

Sadly, only this is quite clear about the Second Amendment: Whoever drafted it shoulda been shot.

-Toronto lawyer Tom O'Driscoll

Via ArmedandSafe

Yugo M-48

Yugoslavian M-48 Bolt-Action Rifle in 8mm SOLD



For more information or to purchase, contact:

Bryan Headrick
Arcola Guns and Ammo Gunsmithing
220 North Pine St. Arcola, IL 61910.
217-268-5000
arcolaguns@yahoo.com

Ruger Super BlackHawk

Ruger Super BlackHawk in .44 Mag SOLD


For more information or to purchase, contact:

Bryan Headrick
Arcola Guns and Ammo Gunsmithing
220 North Pine St. Arcola, IL 61910.
217-268-5000
arcolaguns@yahoo.com

You're getting warmer...

It's going to be a fun weekend in Gun Free Chicago.

Nine people were shot -- including a woman who was seriously injured and a 16-year-old boy -- in seven separate eruptions of violence late Wednesday and early Thursday on the South and West Sides.

Three men were shot Thursday evening in the Washington Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, police said.

Good thing the police are on the case(s):

Chicago Police Officer Joseph A. Grillo, 45, was arrested Wednesday afternoon as he got off a plane at O'Hare International Airport, FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Robert Grant announced Thursday. He was also charged with mail fraud.

Brady's once again show why Tiahrt is in place

and why "Trace Data" shouldn't be released.

New Jersey’s strong gun laws restrict the flow of guns to criminals, while just a short bridge ride away, Pennsylvania’s weaker laws allow gun dealers to readily supply the illegal market, according to data recently released by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF) and analyzed by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

While ignoring to mention page two of every single report:

(1)Firearm traces are designed to assist law enforcement authorities in conducting investigations by tracking the sale and possession of specific firearms . Law enforcement agencies may request firearms traces for any reason, and those reasons are not necessarily reported to the Federal Government. Not all firearms used in crime are traced and not all firearms traced are used in crime.

(2)Firearms selected for tracing are not chosen for purposes of determining which types, makes or models of firearms are used for illicit purposes. The firearms selected to not constitute a random sample and should not be considered representative of the larger universe of all firearms used by criminals, or any subset of that universe. Firearms are normally traced to the first retail seller, and sources reported for firearms traced do not necessarily represent the sources or methods by which firearms in general are acquired for use in crime.

Not that we expect honesty or any form of integrity from them anymore.

Dedication

The dictionary definition.

Thanks to Ashley Varner (NRA media liaison) for the link.

Doublespeak

Shutting down neighborhoods, searching all vehicles, and arbitrarily deciding whether you have a "legitimate reason" to be there is now:

"A positive pattern of [police] checking things"

The sheep bleated:

Some residents expressed support for the plan yesterday, saying they are willing to submit to the checks if it makes the neighborhood safer.

Obviously not a student of history:

They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.
-Benjamin Franklin

Ruger GP-100

Ruger GP100 in .38 Spc. SOLD


For more information or to purchase, contact:

Bryan Headrick
Arcola Guns and Ammo Gunsmithing
220 North Pine St. Arcola, IL 61910.
217-268-5000
arcolaguns@yahoo.com

Hi-Point in .45ACP

Hi-Point .45ACP $195

For more information or to purchase, contact:

Bryan Headrick
Arcola Guns and Ammo Gunsmithing
220 North Pine St. Arcola, IL 61910.
217-268-5000
arcolaguns@yahoo.com

Foreign Legion MAS

Don't buy this gun. I want it. Seriously though. Who wouldn't want to own this piece of history. One of the only guns carried by a French unit that wouldn't have drop damage.

French Foreign Legion 1949-56 MAS in .308 SOLD




For more information or to purchase, contact:

Bryan Headrick
Arcola Guns and Ammo Gunsmithing
220 North Pine St. Arcola, IL 61910.
217-268-5000
arcolaguns@yahoo.com

News you won't here from the Brady Bunch

By 41 percent to 17 percent, a two to one plurality believes that the Second Amendment supports an individual�s right to bear arms. Interestingly, almost three in ten (29%) feel the Amendment supports both and 5 percent say neither;

A relative majority of U.S. adults � 49 percent �favor stricter gun control with 20 percent wanting less strict gun control and 21 percent wanting no change. Since 2004 these sentiments have changed slightly with the number favoring stricter gun control going down from 52 percent. Since 1998, however, this has dropped significantly as ten years ago, 69 percent favored stricter gun control;

By 54 percent to 18 percent a majority favors stricter laws relating to the control of hand guns and another 18 percent want no change. These opinions have not changed much since 2004 when a similar 57 percent to 18 percent also favored stricter control of handguns. Again, a decade makes a larger difference as in 1998, a 76 percent to 19 percent majority favored stricter laws relating to the control of hand guns.


Via ArmsandtheLaw

A nation of laws not (for your average) men

Well, no surprise, Alderman Mell got his what amounts to a private exemption bill passed in Chicago. Now he can re-register his firearms after failing to do so last year. He claims he was "inundated by calls". If this is true, I wonder how many of those people realize that the bill only covers one year of missing registration?

Here's what I expect to see happen. Mell and a few dozen (at most) other people will be allowed to re-register. Everyone else who does it will be outside of the bounds of the bill , charged by the city, and have their firearms confiscated if they are still in possession of them (ie don't have vacation houses out of the city where they can store them). Daley will then go on TV crowing about having gotten all those dangerous guns owned by criminals off the streets and how Chicago gun control works.

Armed and Safe has more including the ordinance.

Brick and Mortar Support.

The conversation with Paul Helinski, founder of GunsAmerica, at the Blogger Bash got me thinking of what I could do to support the FFL's local to me besides just buying supplies or the occasional firearm. So here's what I'm going to do:

I'm adding a new feature to Days of Our Trailers. Starting June 5th, 2008, I'm going to be advertising firearms available through my local firearm dealerships. Some will be added each day for the next week or so and will be attached to a new sidebar list available on the site. After that, as they are sold, new firearms will be added to keep the list as current as possible.

Except for some store credit for sales made through referrals, I am not being paid for this. I am doing this to not only help out a friend (I bought my first gun through Arcola Guns and about half my others) but to help support the local firearm industry and economy.

Note that I am not selling these firearms. I do not own or have in my possession any of the ones that are being listed.* All sales go through the advertised FFL at his shop or transferred to one local to the buyer. Federal, state, and local laws apply.

If any other Central IL FFL's are interested in this, feel free to contact me.


*If I sell any of my personal collection, it will be noted and same conditions apply.

Comments Off?

More like Comments Gone.

Those of you familiar w/ the old Brady Blog remember the hundreds of comments left over the first half of 2007 before "Reasoned Discourse" kicked in. Can you find them?





Maybe they deleted them because their funding is so low they can't afford more server space?

They want scrap metal?

Give them scrap metal.

'Vigilante' gets revenge on metal shop thieves

VIENNA, Maine - The owner of a machine shop where thieves stole $3,000 worth of scrap steel, iron and aluminum wasn't going to let it happen again. After Saturday night's theft, Joseph Lord loaded his shotgun and laid low, expecting the thieves to return. They came back on Tuesday, in broad daylight.


When Lord saw their 2008 F-250 pickup truck, he shot out its tires and windshield and blasted its radiator, Kennebec County Sheriff Randall Liberty said.

The startled thieves took off on foot, but investigators quickly tracked down the truck's operator, who will be charged with theft, Liberty said. Charges are pending against an accomplice, the sheriff said.

Good. Unfortunately:

Liberty said he discourages the use of guns to protect property.

"I can understand the frustration that Mr. Lord must have been experiencing," Liberty said. But, he added, "We don't want to see anyone get hurt over property."

So when they show up in the middle of the day, knowing people would be there, the Sheriff guarantees they won't hurt anybody? Whose life is he willing to stake on it?

Ship Ahoy!

Mrs. Ahab, lovely wife of , well, Ahab, has decided to enter the world of the Blogosphere. May God have mercy on her soul.

No Shirt, No Shoes, No Lawyer.

The Public Defenders office in Dade County FL are contemplating changing the Miranda warning to :
You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, that's tough, because the public defender's office is short staffed right now.

Due to some budget cuts and reduced staffing, they've decided they're just not going to handle all the cases any more.

Not that it really matters as prosecutors don't bother prosecuting most cases anyway.

The Cult of Snuffy..

A minor deity in the Obamarama pantheon.

Parishioners at St. Sabina's, apparently unconcerned about the death threats and racist comments made by their Reverend, are demanding his re-instatement.

Love the sinner, hate the sin or cult of personality?

Snuffy Pfleger snuffed from the pulpit..

Pfleger suspended from St. Sabina duties

The firebrand pastor of St. Sabina parish was effectively removed from his duties there Tuesday, according to a statement released by the Archdiocese of Chicago.

In the statement, Cardinal Francis George says he asked the Rev. Michael Pfleger, 59, to "take leave for a couple of weeks from his pastoral duties." The statement said Pfleger "does not believe this to be the right step at this time." "While respecting his disagreement, I have nevertheless asked him to use this opportunity to reflect on his recent statements and actions in the light of the Church's regulations for all Catholic priests," George said.

The modern equivalent of sending him to a monastery w/ a vow of silence.

I'll quote the GunGuys:

"Father Pfleger, keep up the great work."

Taking odds...

on the chances of Obama making it through a full term if Hillary becomes his VP candidate.

Oppose Censorship?

Then you're asking to be bombed and killed. Really. It's your own fault. So says Munawar Hassan , secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami:

"This is the reaction," Hassan said. "The government of Denmark is not doing anything positive, despite the fact that millions of people came out on the streets, peacefully demonstrating. Nobody is paying any heed. What is the common man to do? He has no option."

So because a government won't censor, imprison, or otherwise punish one of their citizens who say something you don't like, you have "no option" other than to blow things up and kill people?

Odd. I can think of several options. Product boycotts, travel restrictions to your country on the person who offended you, or even just ignoring him. But no. So much better to kill people that had nothing to do w/ it except work at the embassy of the country he came from. That makes much more sense.

Brady Campaign goes Gonzo

Posting selectively cited and out of context news stories w/o allowing comments. Just like the GunGuys. Along w/ the disappearing/reappearing ink they're using on the GNG site, the Brady's are getting to be more of a parody of themselves every day.


Via SayUncle.

2 down...

Another "GodnotGuns" posting has been flushed down the memory hole. Screen captures are wonderful things.


This is how the Brady Campaign responds to people questioning the idolatry of gun control.

Update: Now "Meat" is back under todays date along w/ a new one placed before it. My bet is they re-added it because it was still available at HuffPo so they couldn't completely deny it like they did w/ them deleting "The people" from a 2A quote. That, or else they're using Acme disappearing/reappearing ink. I'll be honestly surprised if they re-add "Idolatry". But then Brady logic never did make much sense.

Update2: I'm surprised. It's back up minus one offensive comment. They're back to "moderating" though.

Snuffy breaks the 9th Commandment

"I apologize for anyone who was offended and thought it to be mockery. that was neither my intent not was it my heart," Pfleger said.

Really Snuff? You didn't mean to "mock" or "offend" when you said:

"I really don't believe it was put on. I always thought she felt 'This is mine. I'm Bill's wife. I'm white. And this is mine. I just got to get up and step into the plate,'" he said. "And then out of nowhere came, 'Hey, I'm Barack Obama.' And she said, 'Oh damn, where did you come from? I'm white. I'm entitled. There's a black man stealing my show.'"

Pfleger then proceeded to pretend to cry in a dramatization that included a handkerchief.

"She wasn't the only one crying. There was a whole lot of white people crying," he said.

You didn't intend to imply that she and many of her supporters are racists? Is that just the same kind of "dramatics" as calling for shop owners and legislators to be dragged out and "snuffed"? Are Klan members just being "dramatic" when they call for lynchings or refer to "darkies"? Or is that different?

What is it w/ anti-gun religious leaders bearing false witness?

Down in Flames..

IL HB 2760, the Victim Criminalization Act of '08, went down in flames, 64 to 47. And yes, for IL this, as one individual on IllinoisCarry stated, this left a crater. Normally a bill like this would, at best, fail by one or two votes.

At the same time, SB 1007, the Standard Capacity Magazine Ban by notorious fact fabricator Kotowski, is in danger of being gutted by one of its co-sponsors.

Overall not a bad day in Il.


Thanks to 45Superman on IllinoisCarry for the update.

1/2 compromise

De Massr's have determined de Po' Buckra in Michigan and Florida get the privilege of being worth a half vote at the DNC.

Obama has a revelation..

having a fanatical anti-gun extremist who as threatened to kill people as an adviser might not have been a good idea.

CHICAGO Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Thursday that he was "deeply disappointed" by a supporter's sermon at his church that mocked Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Think of what kind of cabinet he would to appoint if this is an example of what we can expect. It must all be part of his plan for "change".

More Brady Reasoned Discourse

Well it looks like the comment censoring moderating over at the Brady puppet site "GodnotGuns" was overwhelmed by a wave of what I'm sure were support so much so that they were forced to turn them off.

I'm sure that's the reason.

I'm sure it had nothing to do w/ statements like"

When Charlton Heston held up a rifle at the NRA convention in Denver Colorado just weeks after the shootings at Columbine High School and shouted, ‘…from my cold, dead hands…’ he was making an idol of the gun.

False.

When our Congressional representatives give the gun industry immunity from prosecution,

False

when they refuse to regulate guns as consumer products,

Stupidity

when they refuse to enact gun laws such as the AWB that will save thousands of lives,

False

when Congress does the bidding of the gun lobby in exchange for campaign dollars they are making an idol of the gun.

False.

You know. That whole Ninth Commandment thing.

And this is someone who preaches to us about blasphemy? This is someone who the Brady's are holding up as an example of moral certitude?

I hope they continue.

Update: Ahab shows that the good Rev. is misusing the word to push their agenda so it went down the memory hole yet they appear to be allowing some comments now. Brady Reasoned Discourse in action.

Judges who oppose gun bans "Extremist"

According to the Brady Bunch and a group called CREDO :

HELP STOP THE APPOINTMENT OF EXTREMIST JUDGES
Our partners at CREDO Action urge you to contact the Senate Judiciary Committee Chair

Dear Thirdpower,

The United States Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling soon in District of Columbia v. Heller, which promises to be the most significant Second Amendment case in U.S. history. The Heller decision will affect the constitutionality of gun laws for a generation.

As we wait for the decision in the Heller case, our partners at CREDO Action have asked us to forward this alert to you. They are asking you to protect our nation's gun laws by making your voice heard on President Bush's judicial appointees. We hope you read it over, and if you agree with CREDO, take action.

No More Second Amendment Extremist Judges Tell Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Leahy to block the appointment of federal judges who are hostile to reasonable gun control laws.

Dear Brady Campaign Member,

George Bush has only nine months left in office; he and his allies are still trying to ram through a set of judicial nominees that could run the courts for the next 50 years.

The Heller case before the Supreme Court is a reminder of the importance of federal judicial nominations to preserving hard-fought legislative victories against the gun lobby. The battle against gun violence is fought in courts as well as in legislatures. We must be vigilant to prevent the appointment of judges who will enforce an extremist reading of the Second Amendment.

So I hope you'll take action today to ensure that Congress will block the appointment of federal judges who are hostile to reasonable gun control laws.

Thank you for working to build a better world.

Sincerely,
Will Easton, Activism Manager
CREDO Mobile

Thanks to CREDO Mobile (formerly Working Assets) for taking the lead on this important issue. We hope you consider taking action.

Sincerely,

Paul Helmke, President
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence


So remember folks. The Brady Campaign in no way advocates gun bans except to call for various gun bans, smearing legislators who oppose their "reasonable" laws, and lobbying for judges that will support and uphold them. Recognizing the 2A as a right of the people and following the words of the Founding Fathers is considered "extremist".

In one of those little bits of irony, the "parent company" , WorkingAssets, has a group called the Center for Constitutional Rights listed right below the Brady Campaign(under Civil Rights no less), an organization dedicated to restricting rights and upholding racist and discriminatory laws .

Obama will scrutinize laws passed by Bush

in his first 100 days.

Hmm. Perhaps if he had spent less time on the campaign trail and actually doing the job he was elected to and is being paid for* , he might have been able to do just that already.

Maybe it's just me.



*same goes for Billary and Col. Tigh.

Criminalize the Victims.

The IL House Executive puppets Committee have passed a slurry of amendments to a shell bill (HB2670) to make it a criminal offense if your firearm is stolen and you don't report it.

Here is a list of legislators that could vote either way and are getting pushed hard by the anti's. Make your calls folks.

Doug Pennington doesn't want to be called a Liar..

And then goes on to lie.

1a. Brady does not advocate banning guns...

That's right Doug. You don't advocate banning guns except for "Assault Weapons"(by whatever definition), "Saturday Night Specials", .50 Cals., and whatever firearms are forced to add technology that doesn't exist.

Brady supports the District in the DC gun case because we want to influence the Court's opinion, not because we like DC's handgun ban as policy.

Yep, you want to influence them to allow DC keep the policy of banning handguns and forcing people to keep long arms disabled.

And then he goes on about "Assault Weapons":

3b. A google news search of "ak-47" - pulling a name out of the air - gets about 2,000 hits. A lot of those are foreign stories; filter those out and look at just the the American articles to see how easily those rifles (and AK-type pistols) end up not in the hands of police, military, or specialized target shooters, but in drug users', gangsters', random teenagers'.... Society shouldn't have to pay this price for the privilege of a few civilian AK aficionados. It's not a tough call.

semi-auto assault rifle

soft body armor-piercing ammunition

Guess what Doug. You know the difference between an AK and a semi-auto clone yet you intentionally try to confuse the two. That's called lying.

PA media supports miscogenation laws.

Just because an AK-47 and an SKS went behind their parents backs and had children, resulting in a cute little SKS 47, doesn't mean that we should drag out the old Miscogenation and Segregation laws again.

Unorganized Militia: Propaganda Corps

TITLE 10 > Subtitle A > PART I > CHAPTER 13 > § 311

§ 311. Militia: composition and classes

(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.

PROPAGANDA:
prop�a�gan�da �audio� (prp-gnd) KEY �

NOUN:

1. The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.
2. Material disseminated by the advocates or opponents of a doctrine or cause: wartime propaganda.

As George Mason stated " I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials. -- George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 425-426." The militia consists of the entire populace. Not every aspect of that is toting a gun. The women who manned the factories during WWII were acting just as much in the defense of the country as were the men on the front lines.

One area that bloggers have become quite proficient at (as Laura Washington and others have discovered) is disseminating information about our cause and working together to do so. Our goal is not only to counter the misinformation put out by the 'mainstream media' but to educate and interest others in the founding principles of our nation.

In honor to those who work so diligently every day to do so, I put together a unit patch:

The coiled rattlesnake is from the Gadsen Flag, one of the earliest symbols of American independence. It is coiled around a quill pen, symbolizing its protection of our freedom of expression in all its forms. Underneath is the motto "Vltima Ratio Populo". The Final Word of the People. For We The People are the final word.

It is my honor and privilege to work alongside these folks for our cause.



As an aside, the image is available in several HTML formats (thanks to Robb Allen and Linoge) for adding to websites or blogs.

There are also patches available in color, tan, and green subdued, Stickers, Lapel Pins and other UM patches.


Feel free to contact me (thirdpower at hotmail.com ) if you are interested. If, however, your site advocates racist beliefs or illegal activities, it will behoove you to take a bath w/ a toaster beforehand.

Modern Militia Series

• Preface
• Part 1: The Uniform
• Part 2: Field Gear I
• Part 3: Firearms
• Part 4: Field Gear II
• Part 5: Vehicles
• Propaganda Corps

Tweet

Obama's Uncle Helped Liberate Auschwitz

First it was Hillary Dodging Sniper fire. Now Osama...Errrrr Obama's uncle, who was part of the American brigade that helped to liberate Auschwitz.

Well folks yes the old brain is a little rusty about World War II history, but I believe is was the Russian army that liberated Auschwitz. So let's see Obama's Uncle was in the American/ Russian brigade........Check.....

"Uh ... I had a ... uncle who was one of the ... uh ... who was part of ... the first American troops to go into Auschwitz, and liberate the concentration camps. And the story in our family was is that when he came home, he just went up into the ... into the attic, and he didn’t leave the house for six months."


What a Smuck!!!

Stupid Criminals

W/ copper at $3 a pound, apparently some people think it's worthwhile to try and steal it from live transformers.

In a shocking development, he didn't manage to do it. This electrifying experience is sure to be repeated by other bright bulbs of the criminal community.

Seattle PSH

Someone's been drinking to much Starbucks:

First, face up to where the Mexican cartels get their weapons of death. Virtually all, including pistols, grenades, high-powered ammunition and assault weapons such as the AK-47, are smuggled from U.S. territory, across the border into Mexico, where the gangster elements pay premium prices for them.

Yep, I can walk into any gun show or shop in the US, grab a couple AK-47's and a satchel full of grenades, and have them shipped FedEx to Mexico for some quick bucks.

Maybe, just maybe, the "pistols, grenades, high-powered ammunition and assault weapons" are coming from the "notoriously unaccountable, often corrupt, Mexican military and police forces".

But that would make sense, now wouldn't it?

One Anti is at least honest about his goals..

The Mayor or Toronto, Canada, David Miller, is trying to get the city the ability to ban guns and ammunition.

I don't think there's any defence for sports shooters any more," Miller said.

They are also trying to close down two gun clubs. The same type that Anti's like Rebecca Peters (and AHSA in agreement) say we should be forced to keep our firearms stored at.

Unpossibles

Oakland is drowning in guns

Consider the 127 people who were murdered in Oakland last year and one similarity leaps out: All but 20 were shot to death.

It's hardly any secret to any of us who live in the city that Oakland is drowning in guns.

String of shootings in New York City leave 8 hurt

NEW YORK - A string of shootings in a New York City neighborhood sent eight people, including half a dozen teenagers, to nearby hospitals with gunshot wounds, police said Tuesday.

Another Bloody Night In Chicago

CHICAGO (CBS) ― The Memorial Day weekend ended with an eruption of violence in the city overnight, after a rash of shootings on the South Side.


How could this be happening in three of the top ten Brady States, I ask you?

Obama and Castro, sittin' in a tree....

Another Gun Blog notes that Castro is supporting Obama for the election. This is no surprise as Obama supporters also hang Che Guevara flags in his offices.

So is the the kind of "advanced" social policy we should expect from Obama?

"No one who is not a member of a revolutionary organization has the right to bear arms in this territory."

Ernesto "Che" Guevara , Military Order No. 1, 1958.

Hill's worried about assassination

How kind of Hillary, she will not drop out because someone might get assassinated. You know I really do not like McCain but he's really looking better all the time.

But folks as I look at the political landscape, I can taste the Bile. This has to be the most disgusting lack of choices in all the elections I have ever seen.

Inaccurate Brady letter. Color me shocked.

Brian Malte, State legislation and politics director for the BC, claimed that :

While the Illinois FOID "permit to purchase" card does require a background check before issuance, it is the only background check required for the next 10 years until someone must renew his or her FOID card. This allows people to pass a criminal background check today but fall into a prohibited class tomorrow. In fact, the Illinois State Police have verified that more than 1,000 FOID card holders were able to purchase guns (although) they fell into a prohibited category after issuance of their FOID card.

The problem? From the FOID act:

Sec. 8.1. Circuit Clerk to notify Department of State Police.
(a) The Circuit Clerk shall, in the form and manner required by the Supreme Court, notify the Department of State Police of all final dispositions of cases for which the Department has received information reported to it under Section 2.1 of the Criminal Identification Act.
(b) Upon adjudication of any individual as a mental defective, as defined in Section 1.1, the court shall direct the circuit court clerk to immediately notify the Department of State Police, Firearm Owner's Identification (FOID) department, and shall forward a copy of the court order to the Department.
(Source: P.A. 95‑581, eff. 6‑1‑08.)

So, by law, the ISP get regular updates on the legal disposition of FOID holders and it is their responsibility to revoke it. All Mr. Malte has shown is that the ISP is failing in their duty.

So we have to options. Either the Brady Campaign Director for State Legislation is ignorant of actual state legislation or he deliberately lied in order to mislead the public. I know where I'ld put my money.

Bloomie's intentional ignorance.

This would be why Judge Weinstein, who has a history of coaching anti-gun cases to proceed, won't let Mayor Bloomberg testify:

NSSF noted that perhaps the mayor’s insults stems from his self-professed ignorance of our nation’s firearms laws and regulations, business practices of firearms retailers and the duties of the ATF. “I don’t know what the law is and what procedures are,” responded the mayor to a deposition question on illegally purchased firearms, NSSF quoted him. “I have no knowledge of what appropriate safeguards are for a dealer to comply with the law or what standard practices are in the arms business,” they quoted him.

In the same deposition Mr. Bloomberg admitted he did not know that ATF conducted inspections of firearms retailers. “I didn’t even know they had inspections,” the bewildered mayor offered and Bloomberg also noted that he did not know what a Federal Firearms Transaction Record, commonly known as a Form 4473 was or a NICS background check.

The anecdote don't fit

In his latest screed, Paul Helmke attempts to associate Police Officers feloniously killed w/ the sunsetting of the AWB:

We can do something about the challenges faced by our local men and women in uniform. We can adopt policies to make it harder for dangerous people to get their hands on dangerous weapons - doing things like requiring background checks for all gun sales, and restricting easy access to military-style weaponry.

Unfortunately for him, the facts don't fit. We've all seen the fact that only about 2% of criminals get their firearms from gun shows so let's look at the AWB:

In 2007, there were 57 officers feloniously killed. While at first glance that would appear to be a trend increase from the 48 killed in '06, looking back a little farther shows that's not the case. In fact, 57 is the same number that were killed in '04 when the AWB was still active. The year after was '55. Since '97, only one year ('99) had a number below 50 with two years reaching 70. All during the AWB.

Of firearms used, the number of rifles (the FBI data doesn't distinguish 'assault weapons') didn't drop below double digits until 2005, the year after the AWB, w/ it remaining there through '07.

Of the 55 alleged assailants identified, 42 had previous criminal arrests, including 11 who had been arrested for assaulting an officer or resisting arrest.

15 of the 55 alleged offenders were under judicial supervision (e.g., probation, parole) at the time of the fatal incident.

And just to make it extra-special disingenuous, here's the details from the anecdote Paul uses:

Incident Details
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: Friday, March 23, 2007
Weapon Used: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect Info: Charged with capital murder

Go wipe your shoes Paul, you're tracking up the place.

Update: One of Paul's lackeys, Doug Pennington, actually comments w/ the usual appeals to authority and popularity and promptly gets his rear handed to him.

Mexican murders up 32% so far this year..

Good thing they have such strict gun control or else the drug cartels might REALLY get out of control.

I'm sure it must be due to all the rocket launchers, grenades, machineguns and the hundreds of thousands of AR-15's that are being shipped in from the US.

Diversity of thought and expression

For approved ideas and only in authorized Free Speech Zones.

So says Tarrant County College which has banned the SCCC's "Empty Holder Protests".

I see lawsuits.

PSH in Oakland

This article via Joe Huffman reads more like an Onion piece or a Brady Bunch press release than anything resembling actual journalism. Case in point:

A majority of guns used in California crimes can be traced to purchase in Nevada, Arizona, Texas and Florida, according to a 2007 study by the Violence Prevention Research Program at the UC Davis.

The problem? This is an outright fabrication. Even though BATFE data is not to be used for statistics, let's compare. Out of 13,798 traces in 2007 where the state was identified, CA accounted for 9,981 of them. That would be 72.3%. How does less than 25% make a "majority". 10,865 of them even had a "time to crime" of over 3 years.

Never mind the fact that they only cite Wintemute, the Brady Bunch, and other anti-gun organizations and throw in the usual tripe about "assault weapons" w/o obviously having ever read the law. Those must be the "experts" that claim "more guns = more crime".

SailorCurt has more. So does Roberta.

Only Ones "It's not our job"

Says Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis on responding to bank robberies. So he's issued instructions that the CPD will not respond to them as they are a Federal issue and not local.

And criminals stand up and cheer.

Excellence in Parenting Award

What do you do when armed intruders break into your house and shoot one of your dogs? Evacuate the house and leave your kids behind.

Is this an example of the Brady's recommendation of "Giving them what they want"?

Missouri 911

17 residents of Gerald, MO are suing after a con artist convinced the local "Only Ones" that he's a DEA agent and they go on raids.

Like Bryan Miller says. You can't make this stuff up.

via IllinoisCarry

FOP opposes Cronyism in Chicago

Fraternal Order of Police President Mark Donahue today decried the "double standard" that prompted Mayor Daley to endorse the idea of temporarily re-opening gun registration in Chicago after a request from Ald. Richard Mell (33rd).

"We have retired police officers who have a right to carry concealed weapons across the country, and they're being barred from registering their weapons in Chicago. We've taken one of these cases to Circuit Court. Dick Mell has taken his case to the City Council," the union president said.

All Daley is looking for is an additional vote on the board since he's losing support left and right. By supporting this measure which really only includes Mell, he'll use that as leverage to push more stupid laws through the council.

The FOP see this as well:

On Wednesday, Donahue questioned the mayor's motives for endorsing the change. If the goal is truly what Daley says it is, then the amnesty window should be permanently re-opened for existing gun owners, the union president said.

"If they're looking to find out how many guns are in the city, leave it open. Why set a window on it? Do it for everyone who has an existing gun," Donahue said.

Some folk just need killin'

No statement can be more true for the two scum who vandalized Stonehenge last week.

Now they're going to have to increase security and restrict access to it because of retards like this.

Wrong "Only Ones" folks.

To further show that ignorance abounds, residences of the ultra-safe, gun-free neighborhood of Englewood decided firefighters are also part of the problem and began harassing them as they tried to extradite critically injured people from a car crash.

Why did they do this? Well apparently one of the crash victims tried to punch a firefighter because he felt they weren't working fast enough and had to be restrained. Obviously the crowd felt that he should be allowed to freely assault the same people trying to help them.

Of course this is the same neighborhood where people scream about needing more police then shelter the gang-members and call out the Jackson squad whenever the police show up.

Brady Grassroots support

Via Sebastian SIH and WaronGuns

The Blogger Media

Via Bitter and the OutdoorWire:

Universally, they were the first to arrive in the mornings and among the last to leave in the evenings.

That's what's known as dedication. It's one reason why we're winning.

To show that we are becoming somewhat accepted I'ld like to present a quote from the Nat'l Geographic guy while standing at the buffet table:

"You're media now, eat up."

My sister's reply on last weekend.

When did you get so radical?

I mean, I mostly agree, but still!
:)

It’s my nutty little brother having an influence on other people that scary to me.

Private Laws for Public Servants

Everyone knows the Chicago Handgun ban right? How you had to register them back in '81 and if you forget one year, you're now a criminal? Well, Chicago Alderman Richard Mell, father in law of the Governor, has found a way around that. He wrote a law allowing himself to re-register his firearm after he forgot.

Mell forgot to re-register the weapons as required every year by the ordinance that he helped to pass as one of the City Council's most senior members.

So, what does an alderman do when he finds himself in violation of the law? He writes a new law. Mell has quietly introduced an ordinance that would reopen gun registration in Chicago and create a one-month amnesty for himself and other gun owners in the same predicament.

While this sounds like a good idea, it's tailored so tightly that it will really only apply to him and maybe a few other people.

But there's no elitism in gun control laws, right?

Thanks to Armed and Safe/Illinois Carry for the link.

UC Davis Microstamping Study

At the present time, therefore, because its forensic
potential has yet to be fully assessed, a mandate for the implementation of this
technology in all new semiautomatic handguns sold in the state of California is
counter-indicated.

'Nuff said.

2A Blogger Bash/NRA 2008: My Thoughts

How far we've come.

Amidst all the wailing and gnashing of teeth that we weren't able to carry during one, three hour session of the convention and the claims of journalists that we feel "under fire" I would like to relate these personal vignettes. During one forum, I was just a few feet away from one of the most prominent speakers in the US, Lt. Col. Oliver North. There were several security people nearby as well as a KY State Police Officer right behind me. While I was taking some of my shots, my carry piece was clearly visible.

And no one batted an eye.

I walked into the BassPro shop and there was a sign stating that fishing gear and firearms needed to be checked. I asked the person at the customer service desk if I needed to. He stated if I had a permit to just go ahead.

And no one batted an eye.

Think about that. Think about how much public perception has changed in the last 15 years. That we can go almost anywhere in the US while being able to protect ourselves and our families. Coming from a state where we are prevented from doing this anywhere and several jurisdictions actually openly violate federal law in regards to it, I find this amazing. I'm still trying to get my head completely around it. The convention was my CCW debut and now, coming home to the People's Soviet of Illinois, it has made me more driven to get CCW in this state. 15 years ago this wasn't even an option.

I don't assign 100% of the credit for these changes to the NRA. There are other great groups out there but be realistic. If our '800 pound gorilla' didn't exist at all or was the size of the majority of the other organizations, very little, if any, of this would be possible. I don't agree w/ the NRA on several issues, and I discussed this w/ quite a few of the reps., but they are getting things done. That's why I give them the majority (but not exclusively) my support.

This, in part, is why the NRA has come to the eminently wise decision IMO :) to work w/ pro-gun bloggers and vice-versa. We're the 'boots-on-the-ground' (or the fingers on the keyboards in this case) so we have a closer view of public perception than the leadership of a 3-4 million member organization can realistically get. It gets US more direct access to the upper-ups w/o having to go through 20 layers of functionaries to get to someone who can do anything about it. We all know things get filtered going up and down. With the horrible track record the NRA has w/ the traditional media, this gets them a venue into an ever increasing information distribution source, Even my small blog gets over 100 people visiting it every day, while we get access to more information than what is commonly available. We also have a faster reaction time than our said behemoth so we can find and respond to media/legislative hit pieces near instantly. Gotta love Al Gore's interweb.

What I like most about this, and still find surprising, is that they are working w/ us as independents. Unlike the GunGuys, I am not receiving wheel-barrows full of cash nor do I base or change my posts based on instructions from my masters. They know there's going to be criticism but feel that working w/ us will benefit more in the long run than not having us as a resource at all.

That said, I'm now going to start the obligatory thanks and kudoes.

First off is Bitter. You and I have butted heads a few times but I couldn't have organized this nearly as well as you did. My hat's off to you. You did a great job.

The NRA staff, Glen Caroline, Ashley Varner, Justin McDaniel, Danielle Sturgis, Daniel Felbusch, and all the other staff and volunteers who worked with us.

The Bloggers who I met:

A Keyboard and a 45
Captain of a Crew of One (my roomie for the weekend)
damnum absque injuria
Gun Pundit
Say Uncle
Sharp as a Marble
The Smallest Minority
Snowflakes in Hell
The View from North-Central Idaho
Call me Ahab
SqueekywheelseeksGrease
UnforgivingMinute
Rustmeisters Alehouse
Traction Control
The Professor and MaryAnn

Wait wrong show. All the other bloggers and commentors that I met over the weekend.

Getting to meet Dave Hardy, David Young, Cam Edwards, Sandy Froman to name a few, dozens of gun nuts from around the country, acres of guns and gear. The only thing I'm sorry about is that I kept missing Tom King and Scott Bach.

I had a blast.

• Day 1: Arrival
• Day 2A: Gun Porn
• Day 2A: Update
• Day 2B: Banquet
• Day 3: Finale

Mainstream Media

It was pointed out on HuffPo and THR that the season finale of Desperate Housewives had two of the main characters purchasing and practicing with firearms because they were being stalked by their ex's.

Desperate Housewives is rated #8 currently by Nielson w/ a viewership of nearly 15.5 million.

Brady's jumping on McCain "Loophole" support

This seems to be the issue they're going to push.

Dear Thirdpower,

Representative Mike Castle (R-DE) has introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 96) that will require Brady background checks at gun shows, and stop criminals and other dangerous people from exploiting these events to buy and sell guns.

We need you to contact your U.S. Representative today and urge him/her to cosponsor this important bill that would close the gun show loophole. We want the law to be: "no background check, no gun, no excuses!"

We need to make it harder for convicted felons, the dangerously mentally ill, and others like them to get guns. One simple solution is closing the gun show loophole.

Note they've dropped the references to Cho. Yep. Time to contact my Rep and ask him NOT to co-sponsor this legislation.

Here's the text. As of right now, it only has 9 co-sponsors, Castle's bit on it, and the NRA sheet.

Schoenke attacks NRA for hosting McCain.

because of his weak stand on firearm rights.

but the AHSA is supporting Barack "Urbanites can't be trusted" Obama.

Does anyone see a disconnect from reality here?

2A Blogger Bash/NRA 2008 Day 3:Finale

Sailorcurt headed home about 6:30am. I headed over to the convention center for a talk w/ Paul Helinksi, the founder of GunsAmerica. He gave a very interesting lecture on how and why he started the company and where he thinks the industry is heading in the future. Ahab and I got into a discussion on Dragunovs before we headed over to the NRA and the Media Forum was being held. Two prominents there were Sandy Froman and Oliver North.

They started out with a video on the CNN coverage of our favorite buddy Sheriff Jenne and his 'assault weapon' fallacy. I was surprised by how many people around me expressed surprise at it as I consider it a staple of our evidence. I presented a question as to how many in the audience had never heard of it and about a quarter of the people raised their hands.

Even several on the panel expressed their surprise at that. I think this shows that we need to work harder to get the information out there when even long-term members are unaware of things like this. Several other questions were posted before the Truther ambush of Col. North. After talking w/ some fellow gun nuts from Michigan, I headed back to the Media room where I spent the next hour or so waiting for Tam and just generally BS'ing w/ the other bloggers. They left for lunch and I was just getting ready to head out to the floor for one last sweep and get some food of my own when the NRA reps got the phone call about our buddies also hitting up Ted Nugent. I decided to stick around to hear what I could hear. I'm glad I did as I was able to get a side of the incident that most didn't see.
Out to the floor I went where I ordered my wife's b-day gift from the NRA store and got some lunch. As I sat down at a table, a lady noticed my "I love Mayor Bloomberg" button but not the Lauer Weaponry site below it.

She gave me a cool look and told me I was sitting at the wrong table. I laughed, explained what it was about, then spent the next half-hour or so chatting w/ her and her friends from Texas and Idaho. Note to self. Next year, make up cards for the site.

That concluded my NRA 2008 convention experience. Once I get things in order, I'll do a roundup of what I thought about the whole deal.

• Day 1: Arrival
• Day 2A: Gun Porn
• Day 2A: Update
• Day 2B: Banquet
• My Thoughts

The Truthers are out there

Several of us were present when a Truther hit up Col. North at the NRA and the Media Forum. He brought up REX84 and Building 7 on 9/11. After continuing to harass North, he went to the back of the room where he started talking to another person. After the Forum, another individual cornered North and apparently talked about the same things.

Turns out there were actually four of these guys and they were from The Liberty Voice. Their website isn't working right now but I got a screen cap of the Google Cache


I was in the Press Office when they got the call about this same group ambushing Ted Nugent w/ the same questions that they asked Col. North. I got this confirmed later talking to some people who were present at the Nugent event. They (the reps) decided to not yank the nutballs credentials as long as they didn't push it to far. Apparently the Truthers got what they wanted from Nugent as they left right after that.

If they ever get their site back up, expect to see posts about the NRA being part of the conspiracy.

We use the expression. 2nd Amendment, defender of the first. This incident shows just how true that is. While the NRA is willing to let these nutballs express themselves even though what they were pushing was completely off topic, I seem to recall the another "pro-gun" organization restricting media access only to approved "authorized journalists". I didn't hear about any this year. Their 25,000 members must not be paying their dues.

2A Blogger Bash/NRA 2008 Day 2B: Seminar & Banquet

Sebastian presented at the "In Your Own Words" Seminar.


A little nervous (you need to look up more Sebastian :) ) but a good overview of getting out and spreading the message. Most of the follow-up questions were directed to Sebastian and the speaker from the SCCC as these were the newest topics for most of the attendees.

Following the seminar, Sailorcurt and I got into discussion w/ several of the NRA reps on what we felt the NRA was doing right and what we felt they needed to improve on both politically and in relation to their PR w/ the boots on the ground. With luck, these discussions we've been having will filter up. Either way, they were listening and we might see some more pro-gun blogs hitting the web.

After going back to the hotel to clean up and get pretty-fied, we headed over to the KICC for the banquet. After mulling around for an hour or so where I met several other IL activists, we found our tables and the show began:

They presented a video of the Katrina confiscations who some people claim didn't really happen. It included not only the videos we've all seen, but interviews w/ people who were assaulted and robbed while the police stood by and did nothing. Of people that were prevented from protecting themselves and their neighbors by the authorities who did little to stop the actual criminals.

This was followed by LA Governor Bobby Jindal. Not only is he an eloquent speaker but he's a strong pro-gun advocate as well. He has an A rating by not only the NRA but the GOA as well. I ask this. Why the hell isn't he running for president? I've heard rumblings that McCain might give him the nod for the VP slot. God I hope so.

As hard as he was to follow. Glenn Beck, the keynote speaker at the banquet, managed. I don't watch him much as he's much more conservative than me and I don't agree w/ many of his opinions, but I tip my hat to a fantastic speaker. Referring to Michael Moore as a "Meatball in Sneakers" and the current presidential candidates as the "Three Stooges" had me, as well as the entire hall, on our feet, cheering and applauding. As he asked. "Is this the best we can do"? No, it's not, but unfortunately, it's what we've got. I think I'm going to have to start watching him more often.

The food was good, the service was slow, the company was great.

• Day 1: Arrival
• Day 2A: Gun Porn
• Day 2A: Update
• Day 3: Finale
• My Thoughts