Month: September 2010

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Gun Blogs Get the Most Interesting Visitors

September 1, 2010 by

Over the past few months I have had some interesting visitors to this blog. I have been honored to see the NRA checks it out from time to time. I have been intrigued to see multiple visitors from the Department of Justice ending up at the blog after doing a Google search on a potential Director of ATF. And today, I got this visitor from Washington, DC:

I don’t normally consider this blog as “not safe for work” but I guess it might be if you work for the Brady Campaign. Anyway, welcome visitor from the Brady Campaign. I hope you’ll come back again and maybe learn a thing or two about individual liberties and freedom which includes gun rights.

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Tackiness

September 1, 2010 by 2 Comments

First off, I am a NRA Life Member. You will also find a recruiting button for the NRA on the sidebar of this blog. That said, for Chris Cox and the NRA to claim credit for the win in McDonald v. Chicago is just plain tacky. To not even mention the role of the Alan Gura and the Second Amendment Foundation just compounds it.

Tom Gresham hit on this in his GunTalk radio show on Sunday and he was right. It just doesn’t sit right. David Codrea has more in his National Gun Rights Examiner column from yesterday.

In terms of strategic Second Amendment litigation, Alan Gura is a master. He picks his plaintiffs with care and he crafts the case to have a narrow – but winnable – focus. One need only compare his follow-on Chicago case, Ezell v. Chicago, with that sponsored by the NRA, Benson v. Chicago. Ezell is focused solely on the gun range issue. Benson takes more of a scatter gun approach and has already been amended once.

In an ideal world, the NRA would focus on the legislative arena where they are really, really good and leave litigation to the Second Amendment Foundation and Alan Gura. The legislative arena calls for an organization that can be the 800-pound gorilla who must sometimes resort to steamroller tactics. Civil rights litigation requires a deft, strategic approach as the courts are not meant for steamroller tactics. With his wins in the Heller and McDonald cases, Alan Gura and – by extension – the Second Amendment Foundation have shown their great ability in Second Amendment litigation. The NRA is the heavy armored division to the SAF/Gura’s Special Forces A-Team. Both are needed to win the war but each should be employed where they will do the most good.

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Gun Quote Collection

September 1, 2010 by

Buckeye Firearms Association, a grass-roots gun rights organization in Ohio, has come up with a gun quote collection. They are famous quotes from movies, celebrities, the Founding Fathers, Col. Jeff Cooper, and others.

Here are some samples:

“A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.”
– Sigmund Freud

“Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.”
– Charlton Heston

“An armed society is a polite society.”
– Robert Heinlein

“You can say ‘stop’ or ‘alto’ or use any other word you think will work but I’ve found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone’s head is pretty much the universal language.”
– Clint Smith

“Remember the first rule of gunfighting … have a gun.”
-Col. Jeff Cooper

“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“The gun control extremist has at least two things in common with the Islamic extremist. He has a willingness to die for his fundamental beliefs. And he has the sanctimony to demand that others go with him.”
– Dr. Mike Adams

If you have a gun quote that is not listed in their collection, you can send it to them here.