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  • Congress opposes “green tip” ban

    Congress opposes “green tip” ban

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    The Washington Times reports that 239 members of Congress have signed a letter to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Director Todd Jones asking that he oppose the current moves the agency is planning to ban 5.56mm “green tip” ammunition that is used in most AR style rifles.

    White House press secretary Josh Earnest said this week that President Obama supports the move because he believes a prohibition on armor-piercing bullets will save the lives of law-enforcement officers.

    […]

    “The ATF should refocus its efforts on serious threats to law enforcement officers,” the lawmakers wrote. The agency “has not even alleged — much less offered evidence — that even one such round has ever been fired from a handgun at a police officer.”

    I suspect that the boneheads in the White House want to ban it because of the green paint on the tip of the bullets. Knowing how they’re scared of the appearance of most black rifles, I’m sure they think that the paint gives the ammunition certain supernatural powers.

    If they actually tried to fire an AR pistol, they’d realize how clumsy and unwieldy the thing is. An AR pistol is difficult to bring to bear on a target, and even harder to aim with any accuracy. Anyone using it against a cop with a holstered standard semi-automatic handgun is at a disadvantage. They should encourage criminals to use them in crimes – if the BATFE knew what they were actually doing. But that will never happen.

  • Bullet ban as gun control

    Bullet ban as gun control

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    Fox News reports that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is set to ban “green tip” M885 5.56mm ammunition for the popular AR-style firearms, based on the barely true fact that the ammunition can be fired in a pistol. I don’t know how many AR pistols there are out there, but they are unwieldy things and not very accurate – but they are scary-looking. But anyway, the president is taking executive action to effectively render useless firearms upon which Congress won’t take action.

    The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives this month revealed that it is proposing to put the ban on 5.56mm ammo on a fast track, immediately driving up the price of the bullets and prompting retailers, including the huge outdoors company Cabela’s, to urge sportsmen to urge Congress to stop the president.

    There are many more rifles than pistols which use the ammunition, but that doesn’t seem to matter to the BATF/White House.

    From the Washington Examiner, Congressman Bob Goodlatte, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is pushing for legislation to block the executive action;

    BATFE says that since the bullets can be used in semi-automatic handguns they pose a threat to police and must be banned from production, sale and use. But, as Goodlatte noted, the agency offered no proof. Federal agencies will still be allowed to buy the ammo.

    “This round is amongst the most commonly used in the most popular rifle design in America, the AR-15. Millions upon millions of M855 rounds have been sold and used in the U.S., yet ATF has not even alleged — much less offered evidence — that even one such round has ever been fired from a handgun at a police officer,” said Goodlatte’s letter.

    Even some police don’t buy the administration’s claim. “Criminals aren’t going to go out and buy a $1,000 AR pistol,” Brent Ball, owner of 417 Guns in Springfield, Mo., and a 17-year veteran police officer told the Springfield News-Leader. “As a police officer I’m not worried about AR pistols because you can see them. It’s the small gun in a guy’s hand you can’t see that kills you.”

    Even in pistol form, the AR-style firearm is more than 20 inches long – a little hard to conceal, a lot harder than, say, an 8″ long 1911-style handgun, which is still considered pretty big to conceal under clothing for many people.

    But, yeah, I told you to stock up more than two years ago.

    Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.

  • New York Times; Concealed Carry’s Body Count

    New York Times; Concealed Carry’s Body Count

    Jacobite sends us a link to an article about the New York Times‘ attempt to poison the debate on concealed carry laws. The use data from the Violence Policy Center to make their case;

    In studying the 544 shootings, the center found 177 cases where people with gun licenses were ultimately convicted of crimes, including homicides, and 218 cases where the permit holder used the gun to commit suicide. There were 44 total lives taken by licensed individuals who first murdered others, then committed suicide.

    The full death toll attributable to concealed carry is undoubtedly larger because the center’s study did not cover all 50 states. Lawmakers dare not allow a national tally, so badly needed, to be kept by the government. No one is sure how many citizens now legally carry guns, but estimates run beyond 11 million nationally with many statehouse agendas pursuing even more permits.

    John Lott takes a closer look at those statistics in Fox News and does a much beter job tearing up the NYT’s Editorial Board and the Violence Policy Center better than I ever could;

    The VPC keeps a record of permit holder abuses in each state. Take the claimed worst state, Michigan. The VPC cites state police and media reports indicating that permit holders committed 277 suicides or murders during the period from 2007 through 2015 (217 suicides and 60 murders). If accurate, a 38 percent share of all 722 deaths nationwide that the VPC attributed to permitted concealed handguns occurred in Michigan.

    But suicides are not in any meaningful way linked to the act of carrying a permitted concealed handgun outside of one’s home. The Michigan State Police reports it does not collect information on how the suicides were committed, just that permit holders committed suicide.

    Interestingly, the 2013 suicide rate among Michigan permit holders (6.2 per 100,000 permit holders) is lower than the rate among the general adult population (16.59). Typically, suicides — with or without guns — take place at home. So, again, what do these numbers have to do with the concealed-carry debate?

    Yes, I know that none of you are surprised that the New York Times’ editorial board would lie but a few states are considering permitless concealed carry, among them, my own West By God Virginia. I’m sure that the New York Times would like to derail that process. Our State Senate passed the legislation unanimously the other day and the West Virginia Sheriffs’ Association is standing in the breech according to the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action.

    The Sheriffs’ Association has armed itself with the inflated statistics of the New York Times in an attempt to derail the legislation. They claim that felons and the mentally ill will then be able to carry weapons concealed, despite the fact that those people are already forbidden to own or possess firearms even without permitless CCW. So what’s the big whoop? WV law allows for the open carry of weapons for law-abiding citizens.

    The Sheriffs’ Association expressed a further public safety concern, arguing that law enforcement would now have to treat everyone as if they are armed. However, conventional law enforcement training already dictates that law enforcement treat everyone as if they are armed, anyway.

    Only foolish officers don’t treat everyone they talk with as if they are armed. The only people who will be able to carry a concealed weapon legally are those people who would qualify anyway. Permits will continue to be available for those of us who carry concealed weapons out of state – and those permits require background checks and training.

    The New York Times and the WV Sheriff’s Association should save wetting themselves for the criminals who carry guns instead of law-abiding citizens who carry guns.

  • Vermonters debate gun control

    Vermont folks love their guns, and there are very few restrictions on gun ownership – like Arizona, if you can legally own a firearm, you can carry it concealed without permission from the State. Of course, the handwringers need to change that, despite the fact that the feds have said that Vermont is the safest state in the union in regards to crime. They have introduced Senate Bill 31 to change all of that, according to the Associated Press – mainly by expanding background checks to include private sales that aren’t between family members. You know, the same thing that Democrats in the US Senate tried last year in an attempt to open a back door to gun registration.

    Hunters have nothing to worry about, said Ann Braden of Brattleboro, president of the group Gun Sense Vermont, which supports the measure.

    “This legislation doesn’t affect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. It’s focused exclusively on keeping guns out of the hands of convicted abusers, violent felons, and drug traffickers,” she said.

    Yeah, hunters have nothing to do with this – it’s firearm ownership. Period. The flatlanders have been trying to change Vermont ever since Bernie Sanders became the mayor of Burlington. The Senate Bill includes restricting firearms ownership for the mentally ill and felons – things federal law does already. The thing they want to do is get the expanded background checks and the other elements are just distractions. It has flatlander Nanny Bloomberg’s fingerprints all over it.

  • Moms Demand Action massive protest against Krogers

    That group of hand-wringers and gun grabbers who call themselves “Moms Demand Action” staged a massive protest against a Krogers grocery store in Lansing, Michigan the other day, according to the Lansing State Journal where they assembled to tell shoppers to avoid the Krogers until they changed their policy towards legal gun owners who pack weapons while they shop;

    The eight women, including East Lansing resident Linda Brundage, asked shoppers to shop elsewhere until Kroger prohibits customers from openly carrying guns. Protesters were members of the nationwide Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America. Brundage heads the group’s mid-Michigan chapter.

    Kroger’s 124 stores and 64 gas stations in Michigan will continue following state law, which does not prohibit open-carry of guns, said Ken McCLure, spokesman for Kroger’s Michigan division. McClure said lawmakers, not retailers, should decide the issue. He said any change on Kroger’s party would from its Cincinnati offices, not at the state level.

    I commend the shoppers who were able to brave the huge protest and shopped at the store anyway and Krogers for standing tall with legal gun owners who keep those MDA protesters safe while they’re on Kroger’s property.

    Thanks to Old Trooper for the link.

  • McAuliffe’s gun control fails in VA Senate committee

    The new governor of Virginia was handed his first defeat yesterday when the State Senate Courts of Justice panel defeated his proposals for limiting gun sales to one per month for legal gun owners and for tightening private sales rules for background checks according to the Associated Press;

    Not all gun control measures failed. The committee voted in favor of a bill that would make it illegal for those convicted of certain violent crimes from transporting or possessing. The measure had broad support from many of the state’s law enforcement groups.

    The panel also voted to allow gun owners to obtain a lifetime concealed carry permit.

    Sounds like wins all around, well, except for McAuliffe, the carpetbagger from New York.

    The Daily Press says that the carpetbagger will probably veto the parts of the bill that made it out of the committee. But then he’s a carpetbagger, that’s why he’s out of touch with Virginia.

  • Feeling a bit outgunned, Liam?

    Feeling a bit outgunned, Liam?

    Last week I wrote here about actor Liam Neeson’s incredible, yet typically liberal, hypocrisy in condemning widespread American gun ownership while he himself makes millions starring in movies depicting extreme gun violence, most of it wrought by his character. Well, Liam’s getting his wish, at least in his own particular situation. The company that furnished the weapons used in the series of Taken films, PARA USA, has decided it will no longer furnish firearms for any movie in which Neeson appears. Here’s the article from Daily Caller reporting their announcement:

    PARA USA regrets its decision to provide firearms for use in the film “Taken 3.” While the film itself is entertaining, comments made by its Irish-born star during press junkets reflect a cultural and factual ignorance that undermines support of the Second Amendment and American liberties. We will no longer provide firearms for use in films starring Liam Neeson and ask that our friends and associates in Hollywood refrain from associating our brand and products with his projects. Further we encourage our partners and friends in the firearms industry to do the same.

    Neeson’s stupidity in badmouthing his primary audience is just another example of how all those supposedly smart people in Hollywood just don’t get it, as evidenced by the huge opening success of the film American Sniper this weekend. Let’s hope the firearms industry better understands their own market and complies with the request of PARA USA.

    Crossposted at American Thinker

  • Sean Penn doesn’t miss his “cowardly killing machines”

    Yes, I know, who cares – but this talentless clown by the name of Sean Penn had his gun collection destroyed and made into a sculpture and then sold it to Anderson Cooper for $1.4 million, according to MSN;

    Penn didn’t mention Theron by name during the auction but said that “a strong woman who happens to be from South Africa” changed his minds about owning the guns.

    “Being provoked by this aforementioned strong woman and considering how liberating of bulls–t and ugliness it would be not only get rid of the guns I have in the continental United States but also to destroy them, Jeff Koons and I had a chat the other day,” Penn said.

    He said, “The highest bidder gets every single one of my guns put in the hands of this iconic artist and sculptor…Koons will decommission [and] render inactive all of my cowardly killing machines.”

    So, I’m guessing that his body guards’ weapons won’t be put into the sculpture. It’s just so much mental masturbation. And all because Charlize Theron promised him a peek at the goodies. Of course, as groteseque as Penn looks these days, it’s probably the best he can hope for.

    Yeah, you should stay out of the comments at the link. Thanks to Pinto Nag for the link.