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And This Would Be Just The Start If Obama Is Re-Elected

November 5, 2012 by 1 Comment

I consider Jim Shepherd one of the more astute observers out there. Given his ties to the shooting industry combined with his experience as VP for news at CNN, when he reports on a “rumor” I tend to listen.

In today’s Shooting Wire, he reports on a meeting that Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s legal staff is reported to have had with the FBI and ATF concerning a new assault weapons (sic) ban.

Don’t have the minutes of the meeting (yet), but sources tell me California Senator and longtime gun-hater Dianne Feinstein’s legal staff held meetings on Friday with FTB/ATF legal staff to discuss a new “Assault Weapons Ban” Madame Feinstein would be looking to push through Congress if President Obama wins reelection.

This same “pretty good intelligence” says the items that would lead to a ban would ban pistol grips and “high-capacity” magazines, eliminate any grandfathering and ban sales of “weapons in possession”. I don’t know about you, but if these things come to pass and I’m “in possession” I’m certainly not selling. In fact, the lack of interest in the idea surprised the California liberal’s legal staffers. Apparently, they believe no logical person could possible disagree with them.

Ordinarily, I wouldn’t begin (or end) with a rumor, but today and tomorrow aren’t exactly ordinary days. Today is the final day before the general election, and in case you haven’t noticed there are plenty of significant items on ballots across the nation.

I think such efforts would be just the start of bad things coming from the gun prohibitionists if Barack Obama is re-elected president. Obama said in the second debate that he would like to see a new ban on ARs and AKs.

As Jim notes and I would agree, if you haven’t already voted, then postpone what you are doing “short of live saving surgery” and get to the polls tomorrow. Or as they have been saying on Instapundit, this is a broken glass election – drag yourself to the polls and vote for Romney-Ryan even if you have to drag yourself across broken glass.

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I Love Getting New “Guns”

November 5, 2012 by 4 Comments

A few months ago I saw something about a new “gun” that was in development. It looked interesting and the developer was using crowd sourcing to secure funding. I ended up ordering two and they arrived this week. The developer sold 21,400 of these “guns” using Indiegogo.

My new “gun” is a Bug-A-Salt. It is a pump airgun that shoots table salt at flies and kills them. I love it! I paid $30 including shipping for it and can’t wait to shoot my first fly. I tried it out by shooting into water and it works fine.

You can order your own Bug-A-Salt from the developer’s page here. The price has gone up to $34.95 but it seems worth it. My extra one will go to one of the Complementary Spouse’s sons-in-law for Christmas.

The instruction video is below. I think I’m going to have a lot of fun with this!

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Keep Calm And Finish Him

November 4, 2012 by

I saw this posted at the Chicago Boyz blog which deals with economics and politics from a free market perspective and I really liked it!

Early voting has ended in most states. So if you haven’t voted, Tuesday is your option. Make use of it. As someone said at the recent Gun Rights Policy Conference, this is the most dangerous election of our lifetimes especially when it comes to our Second Amendment rights.

So take heed of the picture below and finish the job started in 2010.

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I Just Shake My Head

November 3, 2012 by 2 Comments

Yesterday I received an email from Leonard Embody with a link to the picture below.

Obviously, he wasn’t happy with how the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee and the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals treated his original complaint (they both dismissed it) and now is seeking a writ of certiorari from the US Supreme Court. His petition can be found here.

I am sure Mr. Embody believes he is right and believes his cause is noble. However, as the longshoreman-philosopher Eric Hoffer noted in his book The True Believer, nothing is as dangerous as the true believer. The danger here is to our Second Amendment rights for this is a case that the gun prohibitionists would love to use in their efforts to stamp out carry outside the home.

Fortunately, the Supreme Court receives many cases and accepts few. The odds that this is the carry case accepted by the Supreme Court are infinitesimally small for which we all should be grateful.

UPDATE: Dave Hardy at Of Arms and the Law provides his take on Embody’s quest. Make sure to read the comments as well. As Dave notes:

It was lucky — actually, luck had little to do with it, it appears to
have been SAF’s strategy as amicus — that the Second Amendment didn’t
take any damage.

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Using Your Lower Body To Stay On Target

November 2, 2012 by

In another of the excellent short training videos from the National Shooting Sports Foundation, cowboy action shooter Jim Finch aka Long Hunter shows how to use your lower body effectively to increase both speed and accuracy.

While Jim is discussing this in the context of a SASS competition, I think his technique is transferable to other competitions like IDPA. More importantly, I could see this as being transferable to defensive situations where you face multiple attackers and no effective cover or concealment. While moving may be preferable, it isn’t always possible.

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The Choice – Bad Versus Perhaps Coming Around

November 2, 2012 by

Ammo.net has released a new infographic which compares Mitt and Barack on gun rights issues and what they’ve done in the past. Let’s face it, both have things in their past which should rightly concern gun owners.

However, Obama has doubled-down and called for a new AWB as well as restrictions on “cheap handguns” while Romney has said we don’t need new laws. I’d rather take the guy who is coming around to our side than the one who still in his heart of hearts looks at us with disgust.

Shooting Straight: A Surprising Look At How Both Presidential Candidates Have Changed On Gun Control [INFOGRAPHIC]
Via: Ammo.net

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Go Darrell!

November 2, 2012 by

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is questioning the amount of money that the White House spends on certain events such as state dinners for leaders from Mexico and India. To illustrate what he considers excessive spending, Issa has released the following video.

I say, “Go Darrell!” If Obama wants to pontificate about being responsible and being frugal, he needs to be called out on it.

Is the timing somewhat political? Probably but I can live with that.

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Scary Picture Of The Day

November 2, 2012 by 1 Comment



Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) toured Staten Island yesterday to see the destruction wrought by Hurricane/Tropical Storm Sandy and brought with them promises of aid. The south shore of the  “forgotten borough” was one of the hardest areas in New York.

Gillibrand had the good sense to wear a normal fleece jacket. Schumer, on the other hand, was wearing an official navy windbreaker from FEMA. Now if that isn’t a scary sight, I don’t know what is. The most anti-gun senator in the Senate wearing a jacket from one of the most inept agencies of the Federal government. I won’t even mention that FEMA is the topic of more than one conspiracy theory.
 

Picture from the Staten Island Advance

(Do keep the people of Staten Island in your prayers and thoughts. My cousin Tom and his wife Meryl still live in my grandparent’s old house on Staten Island and came through OK. Unfortunately, there are plenty of others who’s lives and homes were devastated.)

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In Denial

November 1, 2012 by 2 Comments

The media and the gun prohibitionists try to argue that President Obama supports the Second Amendment and has, in fact, been fairly pro-gun over the past four years. You have an expectation that they would overlook his “under the radar” efforts and his statements regarding firearms over time. However, you don’t expect to hear that line when you are in a store looking at guns.

Yesterday, I had some time to waste so I stopped into a pawn shop in Asheville (NC) to see what they might have in the way of interesting guns. Other than an overpriced Ruger Security Six .38 Special revolver in marginal condition, nothing else caught my eye. I asked the clerk about how often they take guns on pawn or in trade. He said it had been light recently due to the election – people are hanging on to their guns.

I made the comment that if Romney wins that would probably change. Another older clerk, presumably the manager, chimed in that it wouldn’t make any difference. He went on to say that “despite what the NRA says, Obama has been the most pro-gun President in the last 18 years.” He gave as his example Obama signing the credit card bill that had a rider that allowed for concealed carry in National Parks.

When I challenged him on Obama being pro-gun, he did acknowledge that the Obama Administration had implemented the reporting requirement for multiple sales of semi-auto rifles in the Southwest. I asked him about Fast and Furious but he blew it off. I left quickly after that as it wasn’t worth my time arguing with a fool.

I can understand why the gun prohibitionists and media distorts facts regarding Obama’s record on guns. I shake my head at Fudds who think their hunting rifles and shotguns are off-limits. However, I am just perplexed that someone who works in a place that deals in cold, hard reality could be so deeply into denial.

Maybe it is being in Asheville, maybe it is just willful ignorance. Either way, I know of many other places where I’d rather spend my money.