Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists

Chief Tango sends us a link to the Washington Post which reports that Li’l Chuckie Schumer is going ahead with his plans for mandating background checks on all gun sales, despite the fact that he can’t even get a consensus from his little working group.

For weeks, Schumer has been locked in negotiations over a new background check bill with Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.). Early on, Schumer agreed to change his original proposal to permit limited exceptions for the transfer of firearms between family members and close friends. But aides familiar with the talks said Schumer and Coburn repeatedly locked horns over whether to keep records of private gun sales, a provision that Democrats believe is necessary to fully enforce any new background check law.

Now, think about it, how would keeping a record of background checks prevent crime? Seriously. The only reason that anyone would want to keep a record is for eventual registration, which would, we all know, lead to confiscation. Schumer said as much last year when he admitted that registration is a back door to eventual confiscation.

Joe Manchin, West Virginia Senator, says that he won’t support Schumer’s bill, but ya know what, I’ll wait to see how the vote comes out before I’ll pat him on the back. Of course, I’ve flooded his office with faxes, so he knows we’re watching.

The Post continues by posting a completely irrelevant poll;

A January Washington Post-ABC News poll showed that nearly nine in 10 Americans (88 percent) support requiring background checks for sales at gun shows. Seven in 10 (71 percent) endorsed the creation of a federal database to track all firearm sales, with 54 percent supporting the idea “strongly.” More than half of respondents in gun-owning households supported each measure.

Yeah, I wonder what your poll would say if you asked respondents whether they support keeping records of transfers after watching the Schumer video;

Yep, the morons keep opening their mouths and the stupidity flows forth. From Fox News comes their latest brilliant idea – you should take anger management classes before you’re allowed to buy ammo says Florida state senator Audrey Gibson;

The bill filed Saturday by state Sen. Audrey Gibson, D-Jacksonville, would require a three-day waiting period for the sale of any firearm and the sale of ammunition to anyone who has not completed anger management courses. The proposal would require ammo buyers to take the anger management courses every 10 years.

“This is not about guns,” Gibson said. “This is about ammunition and not only for the safety of the general community, but also for the safety of law enforcement.”

Gibson said she’s concerned with citizens stockpiling ammunition, potentially creating dangerous situations should those individuals ever come in contact with law enforcement agencies or criminals.

Well, I stockpile ammo, but then I already took a completely useless anger management class. So I guess I’m good. Even though I never threatened or harmed anyone (well, except their feelings) before my completely useless breathing exercises. It sounds to me that Audrey Gibson is just trying to employ her hippie friends. Maybe she’s going to open a candle shop or something.

Funny that she’d want ammo buyers to take anger management classes, but she doesn’t mention any firearms safety courses, the ditz.

Zerlina Maxwell, a Democrat strategist, told some folks on Fox news last night that women don’t need guns to prevent rape – they only need to convince men not to rape them. From the Washington Times;

“I want women to be able to protect themselves, yes, but I want women to not be in this situation,” she said.

“We can prevent rape by telling men not to commit it,” she repeated. “If firearms were the answer, then the military would be the safest place for women and it’s not.”

Again with the “military all carrying guns” bullshit. For one thing, I’m not buying this shit about all of the men in the military are preying on women. I think these anti-war idiots are using this to demean the troops because we’re never supposed to question rape. They tried to call the troops baby-killers, they’ve tried the “crazy vet” thing that worked so well in the 70s and 80s and neither of those worked, so now they’re trying to make everyone in uniform out to be a rapist. I’m not saying rape doesn’t happen, but it doesn’t happen as often as we’re led to believe.

And if talking men into not raping would work so well, why haven’t the laws and all of the Law & Order: SVU episodes worked?

Yeah, I think there’s a war against women and it’s coming from the ideological Left who don’t mind that women might die because of their opposition to guns.

ROS sends us this video from Gun Owners for Reform with little Gary Nutt who tells us what we already know; we don’t need a scary black rifle to hunt deer, because somehow he brought down his deer last year with one shot. And, if you don’t believe him, well, he’s a Vietnam veteran, so there.

And that Gun Owners For Reform web page doesn’t look like an Obama website at all. Um, Gary, sit down. We’re not saying that we need scary black rifles to shoot our deer. Have you been paying attention? We also don’t need rocket launchers or grenade launchers for deer hunting. Now, the bayonet lug, that’s a different story – we may need to bayonet our deer if you’re going to limit us to one bullet per deer.

If you want to limit yourself to a lever-action .30-30 rifle, that’s your choice, I don’t think that any of us want to take it away from you, so why do you want to take away our scary-looking black rifles?

And WTF does the fact that you’re a Vietnam veterans have to do with anything? Seriously. I want to see a DD214. Hey, you brought it up, so since you think that it gives you a measure of moral authority in the discussion, you should be able to document it for us.

I see in the bill introduced last week in the House, (H.R. 437) that Rep. Carolyn McCarthy [D-NY4] has decided to crack down on rocket launchers, or at least shotguns that can have a rocket launcher attached to it. So, in case you didn’t think they know what they’re talking about, you can rest assured that they most certainly do.

All semiautomatic shotguns that have a folding, telescoping, or detachable stock; pistol grip; fixed magazine with the capacity to accept more than 5 rounds; ability to accept a detachable magazine; forward grip; grenade launcher or rocket launcher; or shotgun with a revolving cylinder.

I guess I missed that Feinstein’s bill also bans rifles with rocket launcher adaptation features, too.

All semiautomatic rifles that can accept a detachable magazine and have at least one military feature: pistol grip; forward grip; folding, telescoping, or detachable stock; grenade launcher or rocket launcher; barrel shroud; or threaded barrel.

So, I guess that, if I don’t mind getting my face burned off, I can still attach a rocket launcher to my bolt action rifle or my single-shot shotgun and that would be fine. At this point, I’m wondering if they even know how rockets work.

At least it looks like they’ve backed off from registering grandfathered weapons. McCarthy’s bill allows transfers of weapons to family members, whereas Feinstein’s bill would require a background check. However, both bills prohibit the sales or transfer of all grandfathered magazines. Basically, they’ll give the farm away just to pass any old bill that bans pistol grips, flash suppressors and bayonet lugs. And firearms that have rocket launchers attached to them.

Preston sends us a link from the Morgantown Journal of a Q&A they did with West Virginia’s junior senator, Joe Manchin. But the only part you need to read is the disclaimor that the Journal put in the beginning of the interview;

Editor’s note: This question and answer session was permitted under the condition that The Journal would not ask questions regarding gun control legislation or the Second Amendment, as requested by the senator’s staff.

I quit reading the article after that. One of the biggest issues of the day, and Manchin hasn’t been at all forthcoming about what his plans are for the legislation currently being discussed in the Senate and he doesn’t want to respond to those questions about it. All he’s told West Virginians about his views is that “no one is going o take your guns”, but then, tell me why he’s working with known serial gun-grabber Chuck Schumer trying to craft a stronger system for background checks when Schumer himself has said that he wants to use background checks as a backdoor to registration and registration as a backdoor to confiscation?

Manchin’s inability to craft a coherent message on gun control only leads to speculation here. None of it favors Manchin. We may be stuck with him for six more years, but he may end up being the senior Senator from West Virginia before we get to replace him.

Maryland and Colorado are taking legislative actions against guns and employers in those states are taking a stand against in favor of their prospective customers. In Maryland, Beretta, arguably one of the largest makers of handguns in the world, is being courted by neighboring Virginia and West Virginia says Fox News;

[Jeff Reh, a member of the Board of Directors for Beretta U.S.A. Corp.] testified that the nearly 500-year history of the Beretta family shows commitment to the community in which it locates its business. The state, however, isn’t reciprocating by advancing the gun-control bill, he said.

“Instead we are confronted with a state government that wants to ban our products at a time, by the way, when numerous other state governments are courting our investment,” Reh said in written testimony to a Senate panel. “It is worth noting that these states also do not try to blame a product for human misconduct.”

Personally, I’d pick West Virginia. Marylanders have been moving into Northern Virginia for years and the politicians that they elect there are not the friends of Beretta. West Virginia, on the other isn’t going anywhere on the political spectrum for several more decades, if not centuries. The banter between my classmates during our CCW class made even me uncomfortable.

In Colorado, Magpul, the maker of magazines mostly for AR-style rifles, made similar threats to leave the State and take it’s hundreds of jobs with them, says the Washington Times;

The company, started in an ex-Marine’s basement in 1999, is in a standoff with Colorado Democrats who want to restrict the size of ammunition magazines after mass shootings in a suburban Denver movie theater and a Connecticut elementary school. Magpul has issued lawmakers an ultimatum potentially worth millions: Pass the bill, and the business will move.

It’s a bold threat from a company that, by its founder’s admission, has distanced itself from politics.

My problem with Magpul is that they won’t sell their magazines from their own online store and instead tell customers to buy from retailers without telling us where those retailers are, and some of those retailers have jacked the price out of range of most of us. An item that we paid $18 for a few months ago, sells for around $50 now. Yeah, we’re being gouged.

And Magpul is conducting a “Boulder Airlift” making special sales to Colorado residents and leaving the rest of us out of it. Ya know, its their business and they can do what they want, but the rest of us who’ve been loyal customers want some Pmags, too.

But, it all boils down to whether the legislators of Maryland and Colorado care more about doing something that’s not even going to have a real effect on gun violence, or keeping their constituents employed. But, they’re politicians, so I’m guessing that they’re going to take the politically expedient choice – the one that makes them look good to the hippies in the media.