Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists

According to the LA Times, the recall election in Colorado succeeded last night. Here are the election results from the Denver Post.

In an unprecedented backlash, two state lawmakers who helped stiffen Colorado’s gun laws were ousted Tuesday in a recall that turned into a nationally watched referendum on gun control.

Colorado Senate President John Morse, who shepherded the legislation to passage, was defeated on a 51%-49% vote. Sen. Angela Giron of Pueblo, a fellow Democrat who voted in favor of the measures, lost 56% to 44%. They were replaced by Republicans who opposed the new restrictions.

Of course, although it was about guns in the smaller sense, it was more about freedom. State legislators are now on notice that the way they try to restrict the freedoms of their constituents will affect their political futures. Most affected by the recall vote yesterday is Michael Bloomberg. As Giron had told the New Republic earlier in the week;

“For Mayors Against Illegal Guns, if they lose even one of these seats, they might as well fold it up. And they understand that,” she said.

The billionaire’s group had pumped over $350,000 into the recall election to little effect. On the other side, the NRA only contributed $100,000 to the effort, probably because it wasn’t a hard sell to Coloradans that their legislature is out of control. Numerous sheriffs in the State had already said that they wouldn’t go out of their way to enforce the new gun laws. The recall in Colorado is also a preview of how the midterm elections will look next year, especially if the president and his lap dog, Joe Bite me, continue harping on their gun grabbing.

The Washington Post sounds an alarm from The Third Way, a leftist think tank, that the internet is facilitating gun sales and that it’s the most used medium for people who want to avoid background checks.

At any given time, more than 15,000 guns were for sale in those states, according to the study, and more than 5,000 of them were semi-automatic weapons. Nearly 2,000 ads were from prospective buyers asking to buy specifically from private sellers, where no background checks are required.

“At this point, this is the biggest loophole in the background check system,” said Lanae Erickson Hatalsky, director of social policy and politics at Third Way.

Background checks — designed to keep guns out of the hands of convicted felons, domestic violence perpetrators or the severely mentally ill — are mandatory for gun sales at retail stores, but not at gun shows or for private sales, such as between neighbors and family members.

What this breathless reporting doesn’t mention is that these guns are being bought and sold within the same State. It’s like buying from your neighbor doesn’t require background checks because it’s private sale within the frontiers of a single state.

Federal laws already mandate that interstate sales be between Federal Firearms licensed dealers. If I was selling a gun across state lines to Maryland, ten miles from my house, I’d have to take a firearm to a local dealer and pay him to ship it to a dealer near the buyer, where the buyer would have to go through background checks. So, it’s already illegal to sell a gun that will end up across state lines without a background check.

But, by all means let’s keep the public ignorant about the laws that are already in place so we can pass even more laws. By the way, I’ve bought two guns on the internet and had to go through background checks. I’ve also bought two guns at gun shows in recent years and went through background checks.

Misfit Politics has a letter from Brian Maher, the mayor of Walden, New York which tells how he was hoodwinked into joining the Michael Bloomberg group of “Mayors Against Illegal Guns”. He tells how he was convinced to sign a “petition” calling for safer communities, which of course, being a politician, he did.

What I found out later is that my name was being used in anti-gun propaganda to further the personal agenda of Mayor Bloomberg.

The organization never asked for permission or asked for approval to use my name to promote their agenda. Never was any information disclosed to me about the organization being in favor of gun control or that they would use my position as Mayor to spend millions of dollars to try to take away the rights of legal gun owners.

This is not my surprised look. But then Mayor Maher, tried to get out of the organization that he says that he didn’t join in the first place;

…it took several months to contact the organization as they concealed information about the people behind the group. After several attempts and requests to be removed, I did finally receive a call from a representative of the organization attempting to “buy me off” by promising political donations in return for my continued membership.

Still not surprised. It’s characteristic of the anti-gun people to lie, obfuscate and dodge the truth, becuase, after all, we’re talking about the way they feel about themselves, not any sort of facts or connection to reality. The same way they fear large sodas and baby formula, they fear guns enough to make shit up. Buncha cowards.

Eggs sends us a link from Tucson’s KGUN9 in which they report that some hand-wringing “progressives” are sponsoring a toy gun buy back program;

They’re nothing but plastic, wood and paint.

They shoot styrofoam and squirt water.

But some worry these toys carry a menacing message.

“By having a toy guns around the house, they look at it as just a toy,” said Lieutenant Jeff Inorio of the South Tucson Police Dept. “So what makes that kid not pick up a real gun thinking its also a toy?”

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“Our kids are growing up in a very harsh reality,” said director Gloria Hamelitz. “Kids dying in school– its happening and we need to do something about it.”

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“It probably leads to kids wanting real guns at a younger age,” said one man. “It probably leads to more violent behaviors.”

And the hippies can sleep at night knowing that they “did something” in their tiny warped little minds. I guess it doesn’t matter that majority of Americans are snickering behind their backs because of their naivete and total disregard of common sense. Maybe they can partner up with the LAPD which also buys back harmless plastic tubes as if they’re doing something.