The Modern Militia

Via Sear & Hammer, I was pointed to a post by Clayton Cramer showing how the Unorganized Militia was called into service as recently as WWII in Alaska, Oregon, and Maryland. Citizen Volunteers, not eligible for Army service, were organized to prepare defenses against potential Japanese and German aggression due to the fact that the National Guard was called into Federal service outside of their respective states.

These men were to be used as a first defense against paratroops and saboteurs in their local areas and to provide a guerrilla force against a large scale invasion as snipers, scouts, and raiders. Many of them were expected to provide their own weapons and equipment.

Thousands heeded the call.

Illinois Roundup..

Pro-Second Amendment resolutions are now up to 65 counties passed w/ and additional 3 proposed. The current map is here.

Armed and Safe reports that Cook County Commissioner Beaver has allegedly withdrawn his gun ban/registration proposal that includes all firearms.

IGOLD 2008 is set for March 11. Unfortunately I won't be able to attend due to family obligations.

SaysUncle found a report that Commissioner Larry Suffredin is a paid lobbyist for the Illinois Citizens for Handgun Control. He claims that there is no conflict yet at the same time he is proposing gun control ordinances and referring them to the committee he chairs.

In the Illinois legislature, a whole plethora of anti-gun bills has been thrown up against the wall hoping that some of it sticks as per PuSH'er SOP. Some of these bills are identical to eachother w/ bill numbers and sponsors being the only differences :

SB1007 Magazine Ban : Anything over 10 rounds. Grandfathered so completely useless.

SB1915 ONE GUN PER MONTH

SB1919 HANDGUN DEALER LICENSING ACT

HB0758 FOID CARD ACT- Bans Private Sales

HB4217 CRIM CD- Mandates programs for gun amnesty/turn-ins for all County Sheriff's offices.

HB4269 AMMUNITION ENCODING- Not Microstamping, but bullet and casing serialization. Includes a 5 cent/ round tax. defacto ban.

HB4349 AMMUNITION ENCODING -Same as above. Some different sponsors.

HB4258 & HB4259 AMMUNITION ACCOUNTABILITY- Two identical bills by the same sponsor. Effectively the same as the Ammo Encoding bills above but w/ some different wording and provisions.

HB4321 CRIM CD-UNLAWFUL USE-WEAPON Assisted Knife- Switchblade ban w/ "Only Ones" exceptions.

HB4357 ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN- The usual. Includes .50 cal and Hi cap magazine ban.

HB4393 ONE GUN PER MONTH

HB4541 HANDGUN DEALER LICENSING ACT

It's going to be an interesting year.

JadeGold wants some attention.

In a post over on Bryan's blog, JadeGold (Guy Cabot) claims that the NORC Firearms study wasn't funded by the Joyce Foundation. Perhaps he should actually try reading the study:

Appendix: Surveys
General Social Survey (GSS), 1972-2006: The GSS is a full-probability sample of adults
living in households in the United States using in-person interviews. For more details, see
Davis, Smith, and Marsden, 2007. GSS gets its main funding from the National Science
Foundation. The added questions on the regulation of firearms in 2006 were supported by a grant from the Joyce Foundation.
National Gun Policy Survey (NGPS), 2001: The NGPS is a random digit dialing sample
of adults living in households with telephones. Sample size was 1,176 in 2001. For more
details, see Smith, 2001. The NGPS was funded by the Joyce Foundation.

Since the GSS is operated by NORC, guess what dumbass? It's funded by the Joyce Foundation.

He then goes on to claim that they "controlled" for differences in population. I'm sure I'll keep waiting for evidence of this when they state that it's based off of percentages of population. There's a reason they used percentages instead of total numbers. It's due to bias. I've shown mine, now we'll wait for JadeGuy to show his. So far all he's done is thrown out his usual insults w/o backing up his assertions.

Quote from CavTrooper:

It's not just that Joyce Fdn gave NORC money, it's that they authored gun-related questions used in collecting data in the survey.

Similar to how the Joyce Fdn authored an anti-gun policy statement published under the name of the National Association of Chiefs of Police last year...shortly after making a six-figure donation to pave the way.

That thud you hear is their credibility, as well as what little remains of yours, hitting the deck.

Following a fine example...

Mayors Against Illegal Guns member Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been caught following the fine example in politics set by former President Bill Clinton. Apparently he lied under oath about a relationship w/ someone other than his wife. At least Kilpatrick set his sights a little higher than an intern and instead diddled his Chief of Staff.

And what was this case about that he lied during you ask. Why it was in regards to him firing two officers that were looking into allegations against his security unit.

Such a fine following Mayor Bloomberg has.

The Zumbo that is the DOJ

While it took a little while, the Brady Bunch has jumped on the DOJ Amicus Brief like a crack-whore shown a $20.

The funniest part is this:

"Do we really want judges making those decisions rather than democratically-elected legislative bodies?"

Can we say Weinstein?

Paul, if you're going to be a disingenuous, hypocritical prick, at least try not to be so obvious about it.

BTW. I notice you no longer have the "Sites linking to this page" function up. I wonder why:

Sites Linking to This Page...

Source	Views
gunnewsdaily.com	275
daysofourtrailers.blogspot.com	64
snowflakesinhell.com	51
news.google.com	21
searandhammer.com	19

Update: Oh, look, it's back. Good links to pro-gun sites.

The Truth Coming Out...

Bryan Miller, after proclaiming my post about PATH member support for complete gun bans to be "increasingly shrill claims and attempts to smear with some bizarre and incoherent 'guilt by association' notion" admits to the truth. Both the Brady Campaign and CeaseFire NJ have filed Amicus briefs in support of the DC Handgun ban.

Interestingly enough, he's honest enough to use a qualifier when discussing possible future intentions of CF NJ:

"Ceasefire NJ does not currently support a New Jersey state handgun ban"

Meaning to say that they are not opposed to supporting one in the future. They're just not calling for one right now.

So my "shrill, repetative, and purposely disingenuous" post was, infact, completely accurate. If it's "repetative", it's only because it's in response to the constantly regurgitated mis-information (ie. lies) endlessly repeated by groups like Ceasefire, VPC, and the Brady Campaign.

You're right Bryan, it is your bad. Don't worry, though, we'll be here to correct your mistakes.

Bryan Miller: Issues w/ the truth

In a response on his blog, Bryan once again distances himself from Prof. Riley and claims that the Brady Campaign, et al. do NOT support the DC handgun ban:

"~Second, as to thirdpower's increasingly shrill claims and attempts to smear with some bizarre and incoherent 'guilt by association' notion...whatever the personal views of individuals in various organizations with which I may or may not be acquainted, none of the following organizations, falsely cited by thirdpower, calls for "complete handgun bans" - Ceasefire NJ, CeaseFire PA, the PATH (Pennsylvanians Against Trafficking Handguns) Coalition, the Brady Campaign. Repetitive and purposeful disingenuousness on thirdpower's part will never make it so."

To bad the BC own website and briefs tell a different story as they are doing everything in their power to uphold the ban. Bryan convieniently words his post to imply that the BC are not associated w/ PATH. A quick look at thier website shows differently:

http://www.pathcoalition.org/

Update: Bryan has recognized his error on the views and standings of the Brady Campaign and has apologized. Now he just needs to recognize the views endorsed by at least one Board Member of CeaseFire PA.

His recent entry brings up (again) the Joyce Foundation funded NORC report emphasizing the Myth of Decreasing Gun Owners which I ( and pretty much every other thinking individual) has skewered as a mere dream of the PuSH'ers.

http://blog.nj.com/njv_bryan_miller/2008/01/gun_ownership_declining_in_us.html

Obviously Bryan CAN make these things up.

I want one.

12 ga tasers.



The perfect thing to complement the pepper rounds and ball rounds I currently keep loaded in Betsy. To bad their only authorized for "Only Ones". I sure they'll use them responsibly.

What are they really afraid of?

WaronGuns has a post about a NY legislator trying to regulate, of all things, Geiger Counters. Why would they possible use to justify this? Just like w/ .50 cals, a scenario that hasn't happened but "might" :

"Our mutual goal is to prevent false alarms"

What are their most likely real goals?

"He and his colleagues will try to accommodate all the concerns when they redraft the bill, he said, but one way or another, the cops are going to have this new power."

Why do they want to know where they are and regulate them? Because they're afraid that people might discover the truth:

"When the Environmental Protection Agency promised that the air surrounding Ground Zero was safe, Vallone said, independent testers proved that such assurances were utterly false."

They want people to be utterly dependent on the Gov't and to rely on "official" information for their safety. Nevermind the fact that the error rate of any Gov't agency is higher than anything people would tolerate from a civilian company or organization. Also, as is typical of legislators, he realized that his proposal would cause issues, yet he cared so much that he tried to fast-track the law even w/ the problems:

"When I was first given a briefing only weeks ago, the potential problems did occur to me,"

With this type of nanny-state mentality, I can almost guarantee what his voting record is on firearms.

Anti-Defamation League defames firearm owners..

Apparently all firearm owners are "violent bigots" according to their press release in support of the DC gun ban:

"The League urged the Court to ensure that states retain the ability to keep guns out of the hands of "violent bigots."

http://www.adl.org/PresRele/SupremeCourt_33/5207_33.htm

The follow the collectivist view even though no historical evidence supports it. And they call others extremist.

Paul's Rant Response II

As we all know, Paul wants to close the "Gun Show Loophole" by making all sales go through FFL dealers. At the same time, they advocate lawsuits against said dealers and the BATFE is closing down as many as they can showing their true agenda. I ask again this simple question:

Would the Brady Campaign support Non-FFL access to NICS for private sales?

Yes or no?

Not like it matters. Arms and the Law reports the VA bill died in committee. VT parents are "upset" even though Cho didn't go to a show nor used a private sale. The Brady's must feel proud lying to these people like they are and writing these bills in the blood of the victims.

A response to Paul's latest,

Paul,

Another insult to the intelligence of the world at large, closing the gun show loop-hole exactly how is this going to reduce crime? With the rational that the Brady Bunch uses to justify absurd laws such as this, they could toss in that this law will brighten teeth, Cure bad breath caused by gingivitis. As with most of the anti-freedom, diatribes it is simple conjured, made up of the stuff of dreams, some star dust, a little “Open pit Barbecue” sauce, and a fart!

Paul tosses in a hyperlink to a NORC/ University of Chicago what an un-bias report. Basically Paul and his buddies wrote it themselves and dropped it on a shill, Paul the truth is out there and everybody’s already seen it after hearing the Second Amendment verbatim, 73 percent said it guarantees the right to individual gun ownership. (ABCNEWS Poll) So what’s your next move Paul, new and better lies?

“All the same, I have read reports that some Virginia Delegates plan to spurn the Virginia Tech families, ignore the evidence, and stubbornly refuse to close the gun show loophole.” Paul you really are sick and sadistic, you were out of the shoot right after the VT tragedy attempting to solicit money. Who really spurns the families?

Melody~

Oh Boy, Idiot arrested near capitol building

U.S. Capitol Police arrested a man carrying a shotgun outside the Capitol building Friday. This guy really sounds like the kind of guy the Brady Bunch would eat up with a spoon. 30 rounds of shotgun ammunition, and had a backpack with a compound bow and Samurai sword, the man was wearing a tactical vest. Are they sure this guy is not just a left over from the Clinton admistration? Let’s face it they has some relatively strange people around in those year, but none inhaled! He was questioned in 1994, for incursions in to the air space over Camp David. An idiot pilot no less. Perhaps he forgot the "tinfoil " around his head.

But he did do the country a favor; he got the government to shut down for awhile. That makes the world a better place when people like Pelosi arguably the stupidest woman on the planet are shut up at least no bad things happen.

But let’s face it most of what’s in Washington D.C. generally swims in the shallow end of the gene pool. Kaveman, pointed out a statement to a point, “children can not be taught gun safety”. This is most likely true, if they are the offspring of the Liberal elite. But I will beg to differ; my kids were around firearms from when they were babies. Never was there a firearm related incident in our house, as well my daughter’s friends. The dangers with firearms today are not the kids in the house with the firearms. It is a criminal element out to rob and steal, they should be in jail. But this is the base constituency of todays democratic party.

Melody

Hello Kids

I am so sorry for not posting sooner but I see Third came out of hiding to keep things moving.

Thank you Third.

Been a busy week, one trip to Houston on to Seattle, yes my company loves to waste money. A few days’ home and back to hell, aka New York. I will so be glad when this project is over. One thing about business travel when you run out of work you do not know what to do with yourself. Keeping up with the news is a good pass time.

Let’s see Global warming appears to be called off, Greenland is reporting extreme cold temperature a Balmy -25 C that’s -13 F for those in the US, And translation for the criminals in the state house in Trenton New Jersey, that's really cold so steal some more money from the tax payers to waste on entitlements to keep the brainless thieves in the state house. (They really don't need a reason to steal, but just in case.)

NASA has new pictures of the planet Mercury, They look a lot like the ones they had before. But they assure us these are better.

And the usual, whining Clinton blather, Things never change.

But I did find a piece written awhile back by “David Kopel” titled “Trust the People: The Case against Gun Control” http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=975

This short piece concludes with a question. Who is more trustworthy, the government or the people?

Well Boys and Girls this is a really simple question. All you need do is look at the government from the local to Washington. Let’s look at our illustrious leaders in Washington.

They include current Rep. Corrine Brown (D-Fla), whose trail of bad debts, lies to Congress and misstatements to the Internal Revenue Service have spawned a number of investigations

Rep. James Moran (D-VA) whose wife has charged him with abuse, who has assaulted other members of Congress on the floor of the House and is a former stockbroker whose judgment in trades is so bad he is, broke from poor investments.

Rep. Enid Greene Waldholtz (R-UT) who kited more than a million dollars in bad checks and ended up in prison.

Senator Ted (Swimmer) Kennedy has stiffed many creditors from past campaigns.

Some research found 117 current and recent members of the House and Senate who have run at least two businesses each that went bankrupt, often leaving business partners and creditors holding the bag.

Seventy-one of them have credit reports so bad they can't get an American Express card on their own (but as members of Congress, they get a government-issued Amex card without a credit check).

Fifty-three have personal and financial problems so serious they would be denied security clearances by the Department of Defense or the Department of Energy if they had to apply through normal channels (but, again, as members of Congress they get such clearances simply because they fooled enough people to get elected).

Twenty-nine members of current and recent Congresses have been accused of spousal abuse in either criminal or civil proceedings.

Twenty-seven have driving while intoxicated arrests on their driving records. Like Teddy “Hic” Kennedy but someone died because of this scum.

Twenty-one are current defendants in various lawsuits, ranging from bad debts, disputes with business partners or other civil matters.

Nineteen members of current and recent Congresses have been accused of writing bad checks, even after the scandal several years ago, which resulted in closure of the informal House bank that routinely allowed members to overdraw their accounts without penalty.

Fourteen have drug-related arrests in their background.

Eight were arrested for shoplifting

Seven for fraud.

Four for theft,

Three for assault and one for criminal trespass.

I seriously doubt I would hire these people to wash the windows.

The question; who is more trustworthy, the government or the people? The answer in simple….

Have a wonderful weekend folks.

~Melody~

IGOLD '08

Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day is scheduled for March 11, 2008. Last year we had 1,200 plus attendees. More than the entire Jessie Jackson/Brady Campaign NATIONAL event. Let's make it bigger this year.


My connection won't allow for inserted links so just follow the one on the blog list or follow the link in comments.

https://www.armedandsafe.blogspot.com/igold-08-be-heard-on-march-11.html

A quick roundup

I only have a limited time on a crappy connection to do my blog/news sweeps. Annoyingly I’m blocked from blogspot so I have to use a proxy server. At least I’m able to keep up. It is causing some withdrawal symptoms though. Here’s my thoughts on the highlights of the last week.

DOJ Cert. Brief:
Who were they trying to appease w/ this one? Was it their attempt to kiss everybody’s asses and not make waves for the upcoming elections? If it was, they only succeeded in pissing us off and giving ammo to the anti’s out there as they will convieniently ignore anything that says “individual right” to promote the “gun bans are OK” statements. Not that Bush really cares. He’s in Lame Duck status and it may be noted that none of the GOP contenders are asking for his endorsement.

NRA statement on DOJ Cert:

Weak. Weak. Weak. Hopefully their Cert. will have more in the way of cajones. This was so fluffy it could be in competition as a fabric softener.

ATF on Broken Semi-auto machineguns:

I guess the dealer I bought my 1911 from sold me a machine-gun as I had to send it back to keep it from double-tapping on me.

But the BATFE isn’t reaching for convictions, no, not at all.

Abrams conviction:

Maybe he f*cked up, but I’m not convinced. Especially w/ the jury-rigging and incompetence we’ve been seeing from the judiciary leaves me w/ too many unanswered questions.

Recent Miller and Helmke posts:

The usual tripe. Make it MORE illegal to commit crimes. Put the onus of crime onto legal owners who are victimized. Continue to call for bans on scary looking guns and for untested technology to be mandatory.

Bryan Speaks again

Who really cares.

Beautiful: Bryan has posted another mindless rant. He raves the wonders of these ridiculous new laws. That will have no effect on crime, what he does not seem to realize is that if the criminals will kill people for fun, why would they care about a foolish law about possession?

But let’s face it Kids it is a good laugh and gives everyone a chance to hand him his ass….

Have a great day all.

Melody

Another Win For the Freedom Side

The lawsuit was filed in January 2000, but according to the opinion written by Associate Judge Michael William Farrell, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act of 2005 required the court to dismiss the case.

SAF founder Alan Gottlieb said the ruling was proper, and recalled that it was municipal lawsuits like this which led to passage of the federal legislation in the first place. At one time, several cities filed a string of junk lawsuits against gun makers, and SAF actually filed counter suits against big city mayors who launched the legal attack. SAF was not a participant in this litigation.

“We’re proud of the tenacity shown by American firearms makers, and their refusal to be bullied by this kind of legal harassment,” Gottlieb stated. “Such lawsuits threaten the gun rights of all law-abiding citizens by posing a threat to the very life of the nation’s firearms industry. It is no secret that such lawsuits have been launched not simply to blame gun companies for out-of-control crime, but to put them out of business through a financial and legal war of attrition.

“Historically,” he continued, “such lawsuits have not been successful, but defending against them has cost the industry considerable time, money and effort, all of which could have been far better spent on research and development of firearm safety education programs, or new, innovative gun safety devices and mechanisms resulting in genuine advances rather than symbolic ‘feel-good’ headlines and paychecks for litigious attorneys.

We need to ask Paullie and Bryan what they think...Link

Response to Paullies new Rant

Paul let’s take a closer look at your little Rant shall we.

“Most people are willing to tolerate a little red tape if it helps prevent more yellow tape at crime scenes.”

Honest gun owners should not have to deal with all the red tape. What is the matter if you are a permit holder and to become a permit holder you had to subject yourself to the “Red Tape” why then is it needed to occur every time you decide to purchase a firearm? Do you realize that the State of New Jersey frequently violates there own laws Intentionally to create More red tape. I sorry Paul I am sick of you and your “Red” tape.

“Law-abiding Americans have nothing to fear from common-sense gun laws that will reduce the toll of 30,000 gun deaths every year in this country.”

Actually we do, You and your fellow Anti-Freedom crusaders constantly attack the bill of rights, not just the second amendment, but the first and the other amendments that are ether not convenient to you or anyone who is not in lock step with you, and your left leaning elk. Paul you have proven time and time again that you are not trustworthy, that you are a Anti-Rights Anti-Freedom hoplophobe

Law-abiding Americans have nothing to fear from preventing suspected terrorists from walking out of a gun store or a gun show fully armed.

Please Paul show me where a Suspected Terrorist has Purchaced or been declined the right to purchase at a Gun Show. I seriously doubt they would even attempt to buy a firearm at a gun show. They will ether obtain it VIA, the mail from there hosting country. Or purchase illegally.

Law-abiding Americans have nothing to fear from getting a background check for every single gun purchase they make, including at gun shows (this is closing the gun show loophole).


You have so much faith in a government who can not even tell you how many Illegal aliens are in the US, or how much they over pay in Medicare to fraud. You expect me to trust people as incompetent as you?

Law-abiding Americans have nothing to fear from strengthening Brady background checks to make sure that "prohibited purchasers" like felons, the dangerously mentally ill, and domestic abusers are denied guns at the point of sale.

Absolutely Not, But get your Government Officials in some states to do there jobs. And Stop violate there own laws.

Law-abiding Americans have nothing to fear from reporting lost or Stolen guns to the police in a timely manner.


Most all are Paul, you just want to make criminals of people who did not realize the firearm was stolen by word play and what your or some other bureaucrat claim the definition of timely manner. What you want is people to trust the un trustworthy

Law-abiding Americans (who aren't in the legal gun business) have nothing to fear from being prevented from buying large numbers of guns in bulk purchases.

Again

Paul you want people to agree with you and your feelings What is Bulk to you Paul?


Law-abiding Americans have nothing to fear from keeping military Style weapons assault weapons out of most civilian hands, reserving them for military and law enforcement use only.

OK Paul, you obviously cannot understand that Assault weapons have been banned for public ownership since 1934. Just because you do not like the look of a firearm does not make it and Assault weapon. You have been asked multiple time to define an assault weapon you have not. One can safely assume at this point you are just lying to make yourself seem knowledgeable.

By wide margins, most Americans want these policies. We're working hard to enact them into law.


Actually Paul you want them, your statement is in error. 65% believe the second amendment is an individual right. You want all private firearms banned. Sorry Paul truth is truth.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-helmke/america-is-turning-a-corn_b_80578.html#postComment

New Jersey Apologizes for Slavery

They did what? What a P.O.S. of a state. One of the most corrupt states they should be apologizing for existing, contaminating the world with trash the likes of Miller. Why is New Jersey wasting time on worthless resolutions? The only up side is they are not making foolish anti freedom laws.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080108/D8U1ENB80.html