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Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists

  • The NY Democrats’ secret agenda, no longer secret

    At Ace of Spades, I picked up a link to Weasel Zippers which linked to the Facebook account of NY Republican legislator, Steve McLaughlin, who lifts the veil of secrecy on the list of Democrats’ wish list for legislation last week. But, we’re paranoid that the Democrats are coming for our guns, right?

    Here it is. This is the video where I was asked to keep the Democrat proposals for the NY SAFE Act away from the public. This list was given to me by a colleague and it is not confidential.

    This bill was an attack on the 2nd amendment and the Democrats clearly wanted to dismantle the work of the Founding Fathers. None of these amendments were included in the final bill thanks to us fighting back. I will not stand silent while these unpatriotic proposals are pathetically thrown at us a 11 o’clock at night:

    1. Confiscation of “assault weapons”
    2. Confiscation o ten round clips
    3. Statewide database for ALL Guns
    4. Continue to allow pistol permit holder’s information to be replaced to the public
    5. Label semiautomatic shotguns with more than 5 rounds or pistol grips as “assault weapons”
    6. Limit the number of rounds in a magazine to 5 and confiscation and forfeiture of banned magazines
    7. Limit possession to no more than two (2) magazines
    8. Limit purchase of guns to one gun per person per month
    9. Require re-licensing of all pistol permit owners
    10. Require renewal of all pistol permits every five years
    11. State issued pistol permits
    12. Micro-stamping of all guns in New York State
    13. Require licensing of all gun ammo dealers
    14. Mandatory locking of guns at home
    15. Fee for licensing, registering weapons

    My cousin, who still lives in New York State, had to send his guns out-of-state to avoid having to register them, because, you know after reading this list, the Democrats in New York are ginning up a reason to confiscate folks’ guns and registration is the first step.

  • LBs

    Some advocates for liberal causes are simply naive but well-meaning people.  They’re rather like the “useful idiots” of whom Soviet leaders spoke:  they mean well, but their efforts are ultimately destructive.

    But some of them are, bluntly, nothing but lying sacks of excrement who should be exposed as exactly that.  For brevity, I’ll simply refer to them as “lying bastards”, or “LBs” for short.

    Want an example?  Take a look at “The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence”, for one.

    It seems that this particular group of LBs has decided to go after Georgia Representative John Barrow.  They’ve done so by selectively editing some of his former campaign ads to remove significant parts – omissions that significantly change the meaning of the original.

    Here’s one example of what these LBs did.  In the Congressman’s original ad, he says “I’m John Barrow, and long before I was born, my grandfather used this little Smith & Wesson here to help stop a lynching.”

    In the LBs’ version, the quote is “I’m John Barrow, and long before I was born, my grandfather used this little Smith & Wesson here.”  The rest – which is kinda pertinent, in my opinion – is omitted.  And then the lying bastards cut to a video montage of coverage of the Sandy Hook school shooting.

    Both videos are available in the article cited above.  Take a look for yourself if you like.

    Talk about a hatchet job.  But that’s neither new nor surprising when it comes to causes supported by liberals.  Remember NBC’s deliberate selective editing of the George Zimmerman’s 911 call in the Trayvon Martin case?

    Being a LB isn’t limited to gun control advocates.

  • Biden tales

    Our country’s highest elected politician known to be a plagerizer and habitual liar has been caught in another lie according to the Washington Times which claims that Biden told some of the nation’s mayors that he was playing golf a quarter mile from the site of an Amish school shooting in 2006 in which five children were killed and five others were injured. So close that he heard the shots;

    But a search of maps of the area in Lancaster County, Pa., shows the nearest golf course to the site of the shooting, Moccasin Run Golf Club, is about five miles away. Rodney King, the golf pro at Moccasin Run, said Friday he was working at the course on the day of the shooting and never saw Mr. Biden, who was then a U.S. senator.

    “There’s a lot of things here that I find hard to believe,” Mr. King said. “I looked in my database, and he [Mr. Biden] is not in my database.”

    Even if Mr. Biden had played at the course that day, Mr. King said, “It’s very far-fetched that he would have heard it.”

    “I know he didn’t hear those gunshots,” Mr. King said. “They were inside the school. Even if they were outside, he wouldn’t have heard them.”

    A spokeswoman for the vice president did not return a request seeking comment Friday. Mr. Biden told the story as he was describing for the mayors’ group the Obama administration’s efforts to enact new gun-control laws.

    But, you know it COULD have happened, you know if they hadn’t put the golf course so far from the school and if the shooter had done his killing outside, and if Biden was in the same state at the time of the shooting.

    The Times reports that it’s not the first time that Biden made shit up to place himself in danger;

    While running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2007, Mr. Biden said in a debate that he had been “shot at” during a trip to Iraq. Pressed by reporters, he eventually described three incidents on two separate Iraq trips in which he felt that he was shot at or might have been shot at.

    He ended up revising his description by saying: “I was near where a shot landed.”

    Yeah, well, whatever. Aides later said that Biden heard some outbound mortar fire once while he was in Iraq. That’s just like getting shot at, though. Well, except that the rounds were headed the other way from where he was standing, but, ya know, when you’re the smartest man in the world, you can’t be bother with ordinal directions and stuff.

    I can just imagine the media frenzy this will create. Day and night, 24 hours coverage of Biden telling a whopping big lie to influence legislation with what I’m sure he thinks gives him some sort of morale authority in the gun discussion. Oh, wait, Biden is a Democrat isn’t he, so never mind.

  • New York surrenders to emotion

    So, the New York legislature is expected to shoved their new gun ban through the legislative process today, turning some New Yorkers into criminals overnight. Why the rush? Well, the governor, the legacy Cuomo, said it’s because he wanted to beat the panic buying of legal stuff – well, stuff that is legal today, but not tomorrow. From Huffington Post, some highlights of the legislation;

    Under current state law, assault weapons are defined by having two “military rifle” features, such as folding stock, muzzle flash suppressor or bayonet mount. The proposal would reduce that to one feature, including the popular pistol grip. The language specifically targeted the military-style rifle used in the Newtown shootings.

    Current owners of those guns will have to register them.

    None of those things make a weapon more lethal, just more scary-looking to hand-wringing liberal do-gooders.

    Private sales of assault weapons to someone other than an immediate family would be subject to a background check through a dealer. New Yorkers also would be barred from buying assault weapons over the Internet, and failing to safely store a weapon could lead to a misdemeanor charge.

    I’m sure the criminals will only sell their guns on the street after a thorough background check. the background checks that are in effect now didn’t stop Dawn Nygun from buying the weapon that she gave to William Spengler in Webster, NY.

    Ammunition magazines would be restricted to seven bullets, from the current 10, and current owners of higher-capacity magazines would have a year to sell them out of state. An owner caught at home with eight or more bullets in a magazine could face a misdemeanor charge.

    So, I guess now the police can search your house for a magazine with more than seven rounds capability. And a rifle that still fires from a seven round magazine can kill just as easily as one that has ten rounds.

    Stores that sell ammunition will have to register with the state, run background checks on buyers of bullets and keep an electronic database of bullet sales.

    So, since there are no serial numbers on bullets, we can reasonably expect that this is just to keep track of people who buy a large quantity of ammunition. And what magic number will trigger an investigation? 100? 101?

    In another provision, a therapist who believes a mental health patient made a credible threat to use a gun illegally would be required to report it to a mental health director who would have to notify the state. A patient’s gun could be taken from him or her.

    Has there ever been a crazed murderer who made a credible threat to a mental health professional who wasn’t reported and later went on a killing spree? Even crazed murderers have enough sense to keep their mouths shut.

    The legislation also increases sentences for gun crimes including the shooting of a first responder that Cuomo called the “Webster provision.”

    Yeah, there was an increased sentence imposed in 1995. Killing a first responder was in New York’s death sentence provisions signed by Governor Pataki. Seven people were sentenced to death in New York since then and none of them were put to death. Cuomo’s predecessor dismantled New York’s death chamber.

    My cousin, who lives in New York emailed this morning that he’s sorry that he didn’t leave New York when I left nearly 15 years ago. Well, Scott, there’s still time. He can leave with the Remington Arms Company, currently headquartered in Ilion, New York, just down the Hudson River from Albany. It’s been there since 1816, but maybe not much longer. from the Herkimer Telegram;

    The factory directly employs more than 1,200 residents and their production supports more than 1,500 full-time jobs….

    How much does Governor Cuomo care about those overnearly 3,000 people who depends on those scare paychecks in Upstate New York? From YNN;

    “I think if the companies are worried about future sales of assault weapons, they’re gonna have to worry about a lot of other things besides the State of New York and the State of New York’s market,” Governor Andrew Cuomo said.

    Because emotional knee-jerk reactions are more important than jobs to the Cuomo family.

  • Obama talks about guns

    So, today, Obama offered a peek at his plans to control guns in his last press conference of his first four years.

    “I’m confident that there’s some steps that we can take that don’t require legislation and that are within my authority as president. And where you get a step that has the opportunity to reduce the possibility of gun violence then I want to go ahead and take it.”

    That might be to gin up some sort of over-the-top reaction from the right. I honestly don’t think there’s much he can do without approval from Congress. I think that the late Patrick Moynihan called it “boob bait for the bubbas”. The Washington Post writes;

    Aides have said Obama favors a reinstating a ban on assault weapons, something most Republicans and some Democrats in Congress have said they likely won’t support. Asked what he would do if Congress rejects a ban on assault weapons, Obama declined to be specific, saying that “members of Congress must have a debate and examine their own conscience.”

    Yeah, I don’t see much coming out of Congress what with an election coming up next year. And all of that fear about Obama taking our guns is coming out of the gun industry, apparently;

    “Any time we propose gun measures, it effectively gins up fear on behalf of gun owners that somehow the federal government is about to take all your guns away,” Obama said. “It’s good for business.”

    Yeah, or maybe folks really do think that he wants to come our guns. I get a couple of hits a day from someone asking when “Obama’s gun laws” take effect. Some folks are pretty sure it’s already a done deal.

    The president added that his record over his first four years shows that “it’s hard to argue that somehow gun owners have had their rights infringed on.”

    Yeah, well, like T Rowe Price reminds me every month, past performance isn’t necessarily an indication of future returns. Things change, elections come and go.

  • “Do SOMETHING”, NY!!!

    Well, Andrew Cuomo and his legislature in New York will be the first to DO SOMETHING! on gun control after the Sandy hook shooting. When I say “do something” I mean “do something stupid and useless”. A link to NBC sent to us by Old Trooper explains just how eager Liberals are to do anything to appear to voters as if they have good intentions;

    The tentative agreement would further restrict New York’s ban on assault weapons and limit the size of magazines to seven bullets, rather than the current 10. Other elements, pushed by Republicans, would refine a mental health law to make it easier to confine people determined to be a threat to themselves or others.

    Senate Republicans also have included a further crackdown on illegal gun trafficking into New York, the people said. Most New York City gun crimes involve weapons illegally brought into the state, state and city officials say.

    The people spoke on condition of anonymity because the proposal had not been discussed among rank and file legislators. They say the tentative deal was struck over the weekend and will be debated behind closed doors Monday in the Senate and Assembly.

    Yup, three rounds will make a huge difference – it wouldn’t have stopped William Spengler, the Webster, NY shooter who shot four firefighters, killing two. Four is less than seven. The only people who will benefit are the magazine manufacturers who will have to pound out new magazines for the folks who bought their guns when the limit was 10. And the funny part is that this is the best that gun grabbers could get. And they worked it out over a weekend. A whole weekend!

    How do you “further restrict” a ban? Albany’s proctologists must be working overtime helping the legislators who spent all weekend pulling things out of their ass.

  • House on gun map robbed

    Of course, you remember the map that New York State’s Journal News provided criminals a few weeks ago. Well, one of those houses was robbed this weekend, according to Newsday. Luckily, while the 70-year-old home/gun owner wasn’t home, he had his gun locked in a safe and the burglars were unable to get their grubby paws on it. You know, like responsible gun owners – those folks who buy guns legally and register like the law tells them – tend to do.

    Of course, Journal News’ enemies are all saying that the burglars targeted the house because of the map, but police remain silent on that subject at this point.

    White Plains police Lt. Eric Fischer confirmed that a burglary occurred but would not release further information Sunday.

    The Journal News has been the target of sharp criticism from gun rights advocates and some media ethicists since running the story and interactive map Dec. 23. The story was published 10 days after the Newtown, Conn., mass shooting that claimed the lives of 20 young children and seven adults.

    A call for comment to The Journal News was not immediately returned.

    Although some good-government groups have come to the defense of the White Plains-based newspaper, some elected officials, including State Sen. Greg Ball (R-Patterson, have complained the permit map could aid criminals.

    “If the connection is proven, this is further proof that these maps are not only an invasion of privacy but that they present a clear and present danger to law-abiding, private citizens,” Ball said Sunday in a statement.

    Police groups have said that the interactive map also provides a valuable resource for criminals to find police officers and corrections officers in the area for retribution. Regardless of whether it’s proven in this case that the burglars targeted that particular residence because the of the map and knowing that a law abiding resident wouldn’t have his gun with him when he left the house, the Journal News must finally admit that maybe this wasn’t a good idea. I’m sure the commercial retribution the map has inspired against the Journal News is more than they anticipated.

    Thanks to the scores of you who sent us links to the story.

  • CT’s Murphy says Congress ready for AWB

    Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy predicted to CNN that Congress is ready to pass the so-called Assault Weapon Ban says the Washington Times. He claims that people like West Virginia’s Joe Manchin, who was previously opposed to the ban, are ready to cross over to the fascist gun grabbers’ side. Manchin, who has been squishy on guns since his reelection last November, says otherwise;

    … Mr. Manchin on Sunday disagreed with Mr. Murphy’s assessment, saying later on “State of the Union” that a stand-alone ban on assault weapons “will not, in the political reality that we have today, go anywhere … it has to be comprehensive approach.”

    Yeah, I don’t know what that means either – it sounds just like the form letter I got from him when I wrote to warn him that he’d have one more irritated constituent if he went anywhere near the Scary-Looking Weapon Ban. When I was in a local gun shop here in Mineral County last week, Manchin was the target of lots of comments. None of them positive.

    The NRA predicts that the Weapon Ban won’t happen according to Reuters;

    National Rifle Association President David Keene signaled little appetite for compromise as the White House mulls action on gun violence after the December 14 massacre of 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school.

    […]

    “The likelihood is that they are not going to be able to get an assault weapons ban through this Congress,” Keene said.

    Meanwhile, Peirs Morgan who has been busy showing his complete ignorance on the subject of gun control this weekend, claims that we don’t need our guns to protect us from a tyrannical government because the Obama Administration would just nuke us anyway says The Daily Caller;

    America has over 5000 nuclear warheads. Quite hard to defend against a ‘tyrannical U.S. government’ with that kind of firepower. #GetReal

    When he’s not busy making specious arguments, he’s making up his own facts and weapon calibers arguing with Dana Loesch on Twitter, according to Twitchy.

    Morgan represents the reasons this ban won’t work…the “other side” doesn’t even understand the issue or even the simplest aspects of the technology involved and they look like absolute clowns to the rest of the country.