Injustice in the Upper Peninsula
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Right to Bear Arms
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
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Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. — Thomas Jefferson, quoting Cesare Beccaria in On Crimes and punishment (1764).
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By Larry Pratt / July 22, 2009
For at least two years, Panamanian gun owners had to live with the threat that the socialist government of Martin Torrijos (son of the late dictator) was going to impose a George Soros-inspired backdoor gun ban.
The Soros gun ban comes advertised as a licensing scheme which means that gun ownership is illegal unless you get special permission from the government. Getting that permission is the problem. By simply delaying processing of applications and renewals, the clock runs out and before long, nobody has a legal gun.
This kind of law can be very effective at disarming the public. I first saw a law like this on the books and in use in South Africa.
Panamanian shooters actively opposed the measure. At one point I addressed a forum they organized to dramatize the problems with the bill and the threat to safety that it presented. Happily, the Chavez-backed candidate (to succeed Torrijos) in the elections last May got her clock cleaned, and the threat of the bill ended with the socialist government... Click here to read more.
Gun rights advocates have found a sweet spot in Democratic-dominated Washington, and they are using it to aggressively push legislation.
Those Democrats, many from states in the South and Midwest, joined nearly all House Republicans to back yesterday's provision, which has passed in the Senate and could become law this week. The gun bill passed 279 to 147 in the House with the help of 105 Democratic votes; 145 Democrats opposed the bill.
The legislation was the latest defeat for gun-control advocates, who had expected more success with a Democratic president and Democratic majorities in both chambers of Congress.
Yesterday's provision, originally sponsored by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), would allow gun owners to bring the weapons into national parks and wildlife refuges as long as they are permitted by the laws of the state in which the park is located. The bill codifies a change the Bush administration had sought in its final months, but a federal judge blocked the effort in March.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a stinging defeat for gun-control advocates, Congress has voted to allow people to carry loaded guns in national parks and wildlife refuges.
The House approved the measure, 279-147, on Wednesday, one day after the Senate acted.
A total of 105 Democrats in the House joined 174 Republicans in supporting the gun measure, which essentially restores a Bush administration policy that briefly allowed loaded guns in national parks earlier this year. The measure, which is included in a bill imposing new restrictions on credit card companies, allows licensed gun owners to bring firearms into national parks and wildlife refuges as long as they are allowed by state law.... More.
A new law permitting concealed loaded firearms at National Parks will not take effect until February and the Interior Department will continue to enforce Reagan-era restrictions until then, a spokeswoman said today.
"Under the current regulation, firearms are generally prohibited, but citizens may transport unloaded and dismantled or cased firearms and carry firearms while participating in approved hunting programs and under certain other circumstances," Interior spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff said in a statement released minutes after President Obama signed the credit card holders' bill of rights, which includes an amendment allowing firearms at the nation's National Parks and wildlife refuges.
The department plans to work on implementing the new law in the meantime, focusing especially on public safety and the safety of National Park employees, Barkoff said. Permission to carry a firearm into a park and the actual restrictions on such possession will vary by state, since the new federal law is governed by each state's firearms laws.
This week both the House and Senate approved Sen. Tom Coburn's amendment to the credit card bill. The Oklahoma Republican and a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers has tried for years to get the measure approved, arguing that differences in state and federal firearms restrictions made it difficult for gun owners to travel between state and federal lands. Interior instituted new regulations in the waning weeks of the Bush administration, only to have them rejected by a federal judge in March. The Obama administration refused to appeal the decision and the president signed today's bill with no comment on the gun provisions. Approval of Coburn's bill is yet another of several recent setbacks for gun control advocates.
House Approves Measure to Allow Guns Into National Parks
It was a day that will live in infamy.
President Obama traveled to Denver, Colorado yesterday to sign the multi-billion dollar, pork-laden, so-called "stimulus" bill into law.
But forget the $787 billion price tag you heard on TV. Forget the $12 TRILLION debt limit which the bill created.... More.
Firearms Legislation In The 111th Congress
Gun Owners of America analysis of current House Bills:
H.R. 17, H.R. 45, H.R. 197, H.R. 442 & H.R. 495
H.R. 17 (Bartlett): This bill would reaffirm the right to use firearms for self-defense and for defense of one’s home and family.
H.R. 45 (Rush): This bill would require a license for handguns and semiautomatics, including those currently possessed. The applicant must be thumbprinted and sign a certification that, effectively, the firearm will not be kept in a place where it would be available for the defense of the gun owner’s family. The applicant must also make available ALL of his psychiatric records, pass an exam, and pay a fee of up to $25. The license may be renewed after five years and may be revoked. Private sales would be outlawed, and reports to the attorney general of all transactions would be required, even when, as the bill allows, the AG determines that a state licensing system is sufficiently draconian to substitute for the federal license. With virtually no exceptions, ALL firearms transactions (involving semiautos, handguns, long guns, etc.) would be subject to a Brady check. In addition, the bill would make it unlawful in nearly all cases to keep any loaded firearm for self-defense. A variety of “crimes by omission” (such as failure to report certain things) would be created. Criminal penalties of up to ten years and almost unlimited regulatory and inspection authority would be established.
H.R. 197
(Stearns): This bill would establish national standards for concealed
carry reciprocity, but would not protect residents of pro-gun states
like
H.R. 442 (Rehberg): This bill would provide amnesty for a veteran who acquired a “souvenir” (such as a machine gun) while serving overseas, so long as it is registered during a 90-day grace period.
H.R. 495 (Rodriguez, Teague, Engel, Reyes): This bill would authorize $15,000,000 for two years to the BATFE for the purpose of enhancing its project to thwart the transportation of firearms across the Mexican border.
From Gun Laws of America:
Gun Law Update by Alan Korwin,
Democrats have already leaked a gun-ban list.
Send this to every gun owner you know....
Story date: Feb. 14, 2009 / THE COURIER / Joshua Mashon / By Michael Ford / crime@couriernews.com
Since the election of President Barack Obama, local businesses have struggled to meet consumer demand for guns and ammunition due to what some dealers say is a fear of more stringent gun laws.
Though the surge in sales initially helped anyone in the Arkansas River Valley who sells guns and ammo, one business owner said it has turned into a double-edged sword due to increased prices and an inability to obtain what his customers want.
“People buying more stuff has helped, but the fact that I can’t get it kind of hurts,” said Robert Stacer, owner of Roberts Gun & Pawn in Russellville. “Prices of everything have gone up.... More.
“Economic Stimulus” Designed to Aid Anti-gun Radicals
Monday, February 2, 2009
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the far left anti-gun group under investigation for voter fraud, could be eligible to receive millions, if not billions of dollars from the economic bailout bill that passed out of the House of Representatives yesterday.
ACORN was an aggressive supporter of Barack Obama who had served as the group’s legal counsel and even trained ACORN in “community organizing” in the presidential election. The Obama campaign even paid the group $800,000 for “voter turnout,” the very activities that came under scrutiny by the FBI....
Gun sales, gun permits issued increase sharply
By RICKY SHAWGun
sales and applications for handgun permits and firearms licenses have
increased sharply in the past few months in Habersham County.
According
to Habersham County Probate Judge Sue Bottoms, 2008 was a record year
in the county for issuing gun permits.
Live Fire Radio with GOA's Larry Pratt
WEAPONS OF CHOICE
2nd Amendment backers to march on D.C.
'This is a time for brave men and women to stand up and be counted'
A coalition is being assembled to march on Washington to deliver to Congress, the president and even the U.S. Supreme Court a message that the Second Amendment is critical as the single right that allows Americans to ensure continuation of all of the others.
The march is being spearheaded by the Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners,
but also is being coordinated with the National Rifle Association, Gun
Owners of American, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownerships,
Second Amendment Foundation, Virginia Citizens Defense League, Ohioans
for Concealed Carry, Virginia Shooting Sports Association and
others.....
Defeat Firearms Bill HR 45
posted February 9, 2009
This
bill isn't being covered in print or on TV, but the argument over
"Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009" (HR 45)
is building steam, and could become quite a distraction.
It is named for Blair Holt. Holt, the 16-year-old son of a Chicago
police officer, was killed in 2007 while shielding a female classmate
during a gang-related shooting on a Chicago city bus.
It was introduced by Rep. Bobby Rush, an Illinois Democrat. According
to Wikipedia, Rep. Rush went A.W.O.L. from the Army in 1968, and
founded Illinois' Black Panther Party. In 1969, he did six months in
prison on a firearms conviction.... Click here for more.
Open Carry in Michigan
Anti-gun Land Bill On The Move
-- House Vote Expected This Week
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
"Lost in all the news of the massive bailout bill that just passed the
Senate is another enormous bill, one that increases federal control of
public and private land.
Of particular concern to gun owners is that the bill, S. 22, will
greatly expand the amount of land controlled by the National Park
Service. NPS land is currently subject to a gun ban.
While President Bush took steps in the waning days of his presidency to
reverse the ban, the new regulations apply to persons who carry a
concealed firearm with a permit. Non-permit holders and open carry are
not explicitly addressed.
Another eyebrow-raising aspect of this bill is that it is actually a
compilation of over 150 separate pieces of legislation that never passed
out of Congress on their own merits..." Click here to read more.
HR 45: Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009
Click here for a summary of H.R.45
Million Gun Owner March in D.C. planned for spring 2010
Michigan Takes Lead in Organizing National Gun Rights Rally
Thursday, February 05, 2009
"The Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners,
the largest state-based firearms advocacy group in America, is laying
the groundwork for a national rally in Washington D.C. next spring. The
Million Gun Owner March will demonstrate broad national support for the
recognition--and preservation--of the Second Amendment.
Registration for the Million Gun Owner March begins Friday, February 6, 2009..."
Click here to learn more.
Armed police swoop on cowboy party Toy gun-wielding revellers at a cowboy-themed party were left gob-smacked when armed police teams swooped on the pub venue.
Roy
and Val Worthington, from Castle Donington in Leicestershire, were
celebrating renewing their vows with friends and family when a police
helicopter and cars turned up.... Click here to read more.
New assaults on gun rights must be opposed
Open Carry in Michigan
Anti-gun Land Bill On The Move
-- House Vote Expected This Week
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Senate is another enormous bill, one that increases federal control of
public and private land.
Of particular concern to gun owners is that the bill, S. 22, will
greatly expand the amount of land controlled by the National Park
Service. NPS land is currently subject to a gun ban.
While President Bush took steps in the waning days of his presidency to
reverse the ban, the new regulations apply to persons who carry a
concealed firearm with a permit. Non-permit holders and open carry are
not explicitly addressed.
Another eyebrow-raising aspect of this bill is that it is actually a
compilation of over 150 separate pieces of legislation that never passed
out of Congress on their own merits..." Click here to read more.
HR 45: Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009
Click here for a summary of H.R.45
Million Gun Owner March in D.C. planned for spring 2010
Michigan Takes Lead in Organizing National Gun Rights RallyThursday, February 05, 2009
"The Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners, the largest state-based firearms advocacy group in America, is laying the groundwork for a national rally in Washington D.C. next spring. The Million Gun Owner March will demonstrate broad national support for the recognition--and preservation--of the Second Amendment.Registration for the Million Gun Owner March begins Friday, February 6, 2009..."
Click here to learn more.
Armed police swoop on cowboy party
Toy gun-wielding revellers at a cowboy-themed party were left gob-smacked when armed police teams swooped on the pub venue.
Roy and Val Worthington, from Castle Donington in Leicestershire, were celebrating renewing their vows with friends and family when a police helicopter and cars turned up.... Click here to read more.
New assaults on gun rights must be opposed
"Chewy and I are sitting here watching the Outdoor Channel’s Wednesday night programming on shooting sports, the day after Obama was sworn in as President of the United States, I am wondering how long it is going to take this administration to make major attacks on our 2nd Amendment rights.
If you’re not aware of what I speak let’s take a quick look. President Obama is a known anti gun rights politician that supported legislation in Illinois making it illegal to use a firearm in a self defense situation. The new Vice President Biden was the author of the 1994 “assault weapons” ban. The Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi , is a well known opponent of the 2nd Amendment and voted for the “assault weapons” ban. Most of the pending cabinet appointees are anti 2nd Amendment people, as are most of the sitting Democratic House and Senate majority. They will be spurred on by the Brady Campaign..." Click here to read more.Interpreting the Second Amendment
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state,
the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
By Jeff Knox / February 5, 2009
"It
has been famously said and often repeated that the Constitution means
what the Supreme Court says it means. While this statement is generally
true, it is incomplete. Regardless of what the Supreme Court says, the
Constitution ultimately means what the People believe it to mean...."
Firearms Legislation In The 111th Congress
Wisconsin Teacher On Leave After Finding Photo Of Her With Gun On Facebook
February 6, 2009
"This is another example of the world gone mad and this country spinning out of control into the abyss of a nanny state fearing everything that moves all in the name of having control over people.
According to MSNBC,
Beaver Dam Middle School teacher, Betsy Ramsdale, was put on
administrative leave because school officials were told that Ramsdale
had a photo of her posing with a gun on Facebook...."
Ammo coding???
Jan. 18, 2009
"Go
to most any gun store in America and sooner or later you will hear the
rumor that big changes are on the way with regard to ammunition under
the Barack Obama administration.
Several were overheard to say
that one reason retailers can't get adequate supplies of ammo is that
encoding is on the way, and thus, manufacturers are waiting until
sometime after Jan. 20 to attempt to ascertain whether or not ammo
encoding will be required under the incoming Administration...." Click here to read more.
The Good, The Bad, and The Excellent
January 24, 2009 by gunservatively
Group tries to profit off gun control legislation
Ammo Accountability group has patents on technology used to enforce legislation they sponsor but their scheme isn't getting traction
That couldn't be further from the truth.
The Ammunition Accountability Act and corresponding website are run by a company that developed the technology necessary to enforce the same legislation they lobby for..." Click here to read more.
New Gun Law
Michigan gun law to change Wednesday
"Beginning Wednesday, Michigan will no longer require a post-purchase safety inspection of handguns purchased. Currently, every time a handgun is purchased in Michigan, whether it is a commercial sale or a private sale between two individuals, the purchaser must take the pistol to their local police department and present it for "safety inspection." During these inspections, actual checks for safety really never took place. What was accomplished was that the make, model, caliber and serial number of the gun was registered to the purchaser. The Legislature has recognized the hypocrisy of this process and will now trust its citizens to send them the correct information regarding the handgun to be registered...." Click here to read more.
NRA - The National Rifle Association
Chicago’s First Murder of the New Year -
despite the handgun ban
LearnAboutGun.com - Jan. 1, 2009As reported, David Garrett, 47, of the 5100 block of West Potomac Avenue, was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head on the 100 block of Green Street around 2:15 am on January 1, 2009. A second person was also reportedly shot during the same incident, and is in serious to critical condition. The gunman fled after shooting the victims.
The new year was just a couple hours old, and already a Chicago resident was murdered by a criminal who ignored the decades old gun ban (as well as the many state laws that prohibit carrying a gun and shooting someone). Just as criminals ignored the handgun ban in 2008, and caused the Chicago murder rate to skyrocket, it seems that they will continue to do so in 2009. Chicago’s Mayor Daley and other anti gun activists should make a new year’s resolution to address the true causes of crime, rather than blaming guns and making it harder for Chicago’s citizens to defend themselves against violent criminals; especially when the legal system is failing to protect the victims.
Michigan judges get weapons leeway under new law
Legislation
signed Tuesday by Gov. Jennifer Granholm lets judges and retired judges
with permits carry weapons in gun-free zones.
Gun-free zones include stadiums, bars, schools and hospitals. A 2001 Michigan Supreme 
DeTroit Columnist Thinks He Knows Better Than Founding Fathers
It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. -- Samuel Adams
Of Arms and the Law
FIRE on 1st *and* 2nd Amendment infractions
"In an April 10 response Juan Garcia, Vice President for Student Development, “granted” Poulos’ request to stage a protest on the South Campus, but he changed the fundamental nature of the protest by banning the protesters from wearing empty holsters anywhere on the South Campus, including in the designated free speech zone. The tiny free speech zone on the South Campus, according to Poulos, is an elevated, circular concrete platform about 12 feet across. Poulos met with Garcia on April 18 and was told that TCC would take adverse action if SCCC members wore empty holsters anywhere, strayed beyond the campus’s free speech zone during their holster-free “empty holster” protest, or even wore t-shirts advocating “violence” or displaying “offensive” material...." Click here to read more.
CCW allowed in State Parks
WASHINGTON – "People will now be able to carry concealed firearms in some
national parks and wildlife refuges.
An Interior Department rule issued Friday allows an individual to carry a loaded weapon in a park or wildlife refuge — but only if the person has a permit for a concealed weapon, and if the state where the park or refuge is located also allows loaded firearms in parks.
The rule overturns a Reagan-era regulation that has restricted loaded guns in parks and wildlife refuges.
The previous regulations required that firearms be unloaded and placed
somewhere that is not easily accessible, such as in a car trunk....." Click here to read more.
Crime and our National Parks
Obama Claims He Supports Your Right to Own a Gun -
So Please Stop Buying Them!
"Dear Readers,
Freedom is a precious and rare condition of human existence. When the winds of tyranny begin to blow, it is up to the PEOPLE to either defend their rights or to acquiesce to the will of their rulers.
Despite what most politicians would have you believe, the Second Amendment of the Constitution was NOT put in place to protect the rights of deer or duck hunters!
The Founding Fathers and the American Colonialists had been under the oppression of English rule. The Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights made it clear that the people must always have the ability to defend themselves against Governmental tyranny and the criminal class.
Recently, “President-Elect” Barack Hussein Obama took time out of his busy schedule to state that he “Supports the Second Amendment” and that there was no need for people to be rushing out and buying guns in record numbers..." Click here to read more.
(Anti-gun rights Article) - Date published: 1/2/2009
21st-century guns unforeseen by Founders
"First, I should state that I support the right of citizens to bear arms.
However, I would surely place more of a caveat on it than letter-writer Dennis Hannick suggests ["One more restriction on guns? Don't bet on it," Dec. 29].
I believe
that there should be a right to carry a concealed weapon for
self-defense, and for individuals to own and transport guns for the
legitimate purposes of hunting or shooting practice and
competitions..." Click here to read more and to post your comments.
Another ANTI:
Packing heat in plain sight
Jan. 2, 2009 - "It's frightening enough that Americans can carry concealed guns. Should they be allowed to wear them in the open too?..."
Gun Sales Up
Since Election Day, firearm sales across the nation have skyrocketed, and North Dakota is part of that trend.
Gun dealers here say they have noticed the increase in sales, specifically among military rifles and handguns.
They say it`s prompted by fears of a future weapons ban, despite
assurances by President-elect Obama that he`s a supporter of the right
to bear arms.
And they say they hope that philosophy doesn`t change.
The rush to buy guns means some manufacturers are running short of supplies and in many places, prices are going up.
forest through the trees
In Defense of the Self and the Second Amendment
Dec. 9, 2008
"Long ago, the Apostate had asked me to discuss gun ownership in modern America from two perspectives, the constitutional and the individual:..." Click here to read more.
Don’t Worry … Be Happy
December 10th, 2008
"President-elect Barack Obama said Sunday that lawful gun owners have “nothing to fear” from his incoming administration so there is no reason for Americans to stock up on guns.
Gun shops across the country have reported increased sales amid fears that Obama intends to restrict gun sales after taking office on January 20.
While Obama supports gun control, he has repeatedly denied any intention of “taking away folks’ guns.”
Doctors Vs. Gun Owners
Time to take ammo bill seriously
Three Seattle Guys Want to Bar-Code Bullets
"Second Amendment junkies hate that idea"
By Laura Onstot - Published on March 04, 2008
"Russ Ford
might look like a longhaired, gun-control, hippie type. And in many
ways, he is. Ford and his business partners, Steve Mace and John
Knickerbocker, have patented a system that uses laser technology to
imprint coding on ammunition with the hope of making it easier for cops
to track it back to its shooter.
-
Kevin P. Casey
A trio of former Realtors wants all bullets to be coded like beer cans.
But Ford is not a gun-hating, anti-self-defense (as his opponents call him) activist; he has several guns that were passed down by his father, and once was an avid hunter. Unloading rounds into paper and clay pigeons at a range is still a favorite hobby. "An armed society is a polite society," Ford says, echoing rhetoric favored by Second Amendment devotees.
As
a gun lover bent on creating a system for tracking ammunition, Ford is
an anomaly in the firearm advocacy world. Says Alan Gottlieb, chairman
of the Bellevue-based Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear
Arms, "I'm sure every gun group in the state is opposed to it." Click here to read more.
READY, SET, TRACE
Making Progress in Tracking Illegal Arms
Marking and Tracing Arms and Ammunition:
a central piece of the arms control puzzle
"A global system for tracking illicit arms and ammunition is central to
improving accountability in the international arms trade and
preventing arms getting into the wrong hands. The United Nations
negotiations to establish international Marking and Tracing controls
present states with an historic opportunity to take a tough stance
against the worldwide proliferation of illicit arms and the use of arms
for violations of human rights and international humanitarian law and
to make real progress...." Click here to read more.
Ammunition Coding System (ACS)
"Almost
every day in every major US city you can open your local newspaper and
read about the aftermath of gun violence. A child, a police officer, a
mother or a father is cut down in the prime of life. An assassin
murders a popular Seattle prosecutor. Two bloodthirsty snipers prey on
innocent bystanders and terrorize our nation’s Capitol or a lone gunman
takes potshots at passing motorists on a Columbus freeway. In most
cases, the only evidence left behind is a body, a bullet, and possibly
a shell casing or two.......According
to the United States Department of Justice, there is more than a 30%
chance of never finding the killer in homicides involving a firearm1.
If ballistic evidence cannot be quickly linked to a crime gun, and the
gun recovered and quickly linked to a suspect, the chance of arresting
the perpetrator is far less likely. If the bullets and cartridge cases
used by criminals were linked directly to a potential suspect, more
crimes involving firearms would be solved and more gun crime could be
prevented...."
* Gun Owner Not Welcome on Obama's White House Team?
* Obama win spurs U.S. gun sales boom
Gun owners fear tough new laws; one shop criticized for 'Obama sale'
* Guns flying off the shelves with election in balance
* Guns 'flying off the shelves' at local stores
5:23 p.m. ET, 11/6/08
Obama's Election Sparks Gun Sales
"While shoppers are cutting back on almost everything, sales of one item are suddenly soaring -- guns. Buyers across the country are snapping up firearms at a record pace..." Click here to read much more.
Gun Sales Thriving In Uncertain Times
"Americans have cut back on buying cars, furniture and clothes in a tough economy, but there's one consumer item that's still enjoying healthy sales: guns. Purchases of firearms and ammunition have risen 8 to 10 percent this year, according to state and federal data..."
Click here to read more.More Guns Less Crime
Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws
John R. Lott, Jr.
John R. Lott, Jr.
"A law abiding citizen with a concealed gun can ruin a criminal's day. The more concealed guns in a community, the more a criminal is apt to go elsewhere, or seek another line of work...." Click here for more.
"As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the means of self-defense is not itself worthy of trust. Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not the servant, of the people"
-- Jeff Snyder
The NRA's political picks for MI
Sheriff begins taking away concealed weapons permits
Montanans insist on gun rights
Sundown at Coffin Rock by Raymond K. Paden
and the sequel:
Sunrise at Coffin Rock by Raymond K. Paden
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
-- James Madison, The Federalist Papers
Obama Wants NRA Ads Banned
You know why there's a Second Amendment?
In case the government fails to follow the first one.
-- Rush Limbaugh,
in a moment of unaccustomed profundity 17 Aug 1993
NRA Goes on Offense Over
"The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, short swords, bows, spears, firearms, or other types of arms. The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings."
-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi, dictator of Japan, August 1588
Fake Pro-Gun Group Endorses Fake Pro-Gun Candidate
"One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms."
-- Constitutional scholar and Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, 1840
Sportsmen should find Barack Obama's stand on gun control to be reprehensible.
"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. [...] the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible."
-- Hubert H. Humphrey, 1960
Obama; No Gun Shops Within Five Miles of Schools;
Isn't Self-Defense Common Sense?
Barack Obama's Second Amendment is all about hunting and target shooting.
"As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives [only] moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun, therefore, be the constant companion to your walks."
-- Thomas Jefferson, writing to his teenaged nephew.
Obama's Other Anti-Gun Running Mate
The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."
-- Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story of the John Marshall Court
Obama's Gun Control Positions by Wikipedia
Much more on Obama and Guns here!
"No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave."
-- "Political Disquisitions", a British republican tract of 1774-1775
Barak Obama's Gun Control Positions
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so."
Obama's lies about supporting gun rights
"False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes."
-- Cesare Beccaria, as quoted by Thomas Jefferson's Commonplace book
Obama Says D.C. Gun Ban Constitutional!
John Lott's take on DC Gun Ban:
A match, a knife, a stone, a stick;
A car, a rope, a spike, a brick,
With these, crimes happen every day;
But only guns we take away.
Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao;
All confiscated guns somehow.
Thus suppressed, their people fled
Or joined 100 million dead.
ANON
It
has become known that the murder rate in the old Soviet Union was 4
times that of the US, despite or because of the stiff gun control laws
in the old Soviet Union.
Of course the high murder rates in Washington, D.C. have won that city the opposite of fame.
When someone begins to advocate Gun Control, you have to ask, do they emulate Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, or Mao?
Or
do they just want gun control for you, their slave, set to labor on
their Plantation, while they have plenty of guns in the Big House, just
to keep you safe, no doubt.
More on our Gun Rights:
* NRA Goes on Offense Over Obama’s Gun Control Record
* Obama; No Gun Shops Within Five Miles of Schools; Porn Shops Okay
* Obama's lies about supporting gun rights
* Isn't Self-Defense Common Sense?
Barack Obama's Second Amendment is all about hunting and target shooting.
* Barak Obama's Gun Control Positions
* Examining Obama's Gun Control Policies in His Own Words
* Obama's position on gun control
* Montanans insist on gun rights
Are you a member of
Gun Owners of America
and
The National Rifle Association?
Maybe you should be!
"Let us hope our weapons are never needed --but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny. If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government -- and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws."
-- Edward Abbey, "Abbey's Road", 1979
REVISED AND UPDATED: FIREARMS INDUSTRY STATEMENT ON RESULTS OF CDC BLOOD LEAD LEVELS IN HUNTERS STUDY
"Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the *real* object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"
98-- Patrick Henry, speech of June 9, 1788
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