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Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists

  • Judge: MD gun law unconstitutional

    I’ve been hearing rumors that this was going to happen. In 2009, Raymond Woollard was denied renewal of his CCW permit in Maryland because he couldn’t prove that a threat against him existed outside of his home even after he tussled with a burglar in his home in 2002. So he took it to court. I’ve also heard that he has named the state police in his lawsuit because they denied his application for renewal;

    In an opinion filed Monday, U.S. District Judge Benson Everett Legg says a requirement that residents show a “good and substantial reason” to carry a handgun infringes their Second Amendment right to bear arms. He says it isn’t sufficiently tailored to the state’s public safety interests.

    I never owned a handgun while I lived in Maryland, so I can’t speak with authority, just repeat what I’ve heard – in order to get a CCW license you have to prove imminent harm will befall you if you don’t have a weapon outside your home. The police require some sort of proof. It seems to me that living in Baltimore is proof enough, but not according to state authorities.

    The range I use is in Maryland and I have the tightest sphincter you’ve ever seen while I make the trip. I don’t drive too fast or too slow, hands at 10 and 2 on the steering wheel. Maryland doesn’t fool around with guns. Even having a loaded magazine is like carrying a loaded weapon in the eyes of Maryland law, whether you have a gun that fits the magazine or not. And the range is like a free-fire zone, Marylanders shoot like they drive. Probably because everyone else is reluctant to train properly with the weapon, too.

    So I’m glad to see this judge take a whack at a measure of fairness for gun owners in Maryland.

  • Bloomberg: Those illegal gun sales? We need more laws to make them more illegal.

    ROS sends us a video of that vacuous retard New York keeps hiring as a mayor, Michael Bloomberg in which he expresses his amazement that we haven’t passed more gun laws since Gabrielle Giffords was shot;

    He claims that 400k Americans have been shot with privately owned guns since Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were shot. I guess he forgot that the Gun Control Act of 1968 was also passed as a result of those assassinations – it was probably the most drastic gun control legislation in our history, and if there were indeed 400k people killed by privately owned weapons since 1968 (who knows, because Bloomberg isn’t always quite accurate with his facts) what have more regulations done to reduce handgun crimes?

    Bloomberg wants a federal law that prohibits gun ownership which is about the only way to prohibit private ownership transfers. If he wants federal laws, he should quit inflicting himself on the people of New York and run for office in the federal government, maybe he can wrangle a job at BATFE from Obama in the next administration and victimize law abiding citizens across the country with his narrow view of the world.

    It must be nice to have armed bodyguards around him all of the time so he can tell the rest of us we shouldn’t own guns.

  • “Emily Gets Her Gun” testifies

    If you didn’t see my original link on the series, Emily Miller of the Washington Times has documented her experience while trying to obtain a legal gun with which to protect herself as a resident of the District of Columbia, which has been forced by the Supreme Court to allow legal handgun ownership. Miller recently testified to the Judicial Committee of the District and recorded her testimony in her column;

    Which brings me to the astronomical cost of registering a gun in DC. On top of Sykes’s fees, I paid $225 for the class. $35 for range fees and ammunition. The passport photos cost $20. Then I paid the city $35 for fingerprints, $13 for gun registration and $12 for a ballistics test.

    So I have spent a total of $465 in fees. And that doesn’t include the cost of the gun!

    I had no idea registering a gun would be this expensive.

    It’s especially expensive when you consider that the only state fees you incur in West Virginia is the sales tax on the gun. I think the gun safety class I took for my CCW license was $75 and the license itself was $100 because I opted for the laminated one with my picture on it which was an extra $25.

    But, back to DC. There are thousands of unregistered and uninsured automobiles in the District because they’ve made it so expensive to maintain a vehicle there. The practice has apparently seeped into the gun owning process, too. There are so many illegal guns in the District precisely because the government wants to limit LEGAL GUN OWNERSHIP – a self fulfilling prophecy.

    Thanks to ROS for the link.

  • Starbucks targeted by anti-gun fascists

    ROS sends us a link to an article to an article in the Sacramento Bee which announces a protest against Starbucks for it’s “pro-gun” policy. According to the article, Starbucks doesn’t have a pro-gun policy, they just don’t have an anti-gun policy;

    Starbucks’ compliance with the National Rifle Association’s Pro-Gun Agenda was exposed in 2010 when members of the “open carry” movement began meeting in popular chains, such as California Pizza Kitchen, Peets, IKEA, Disney and Starbucks openly carrying their handguns and assault rifles. (Types of Guns)

    To protect their customers and employees, all of the retail chains—except for Starbucks— banned guns from being carried in their stores

    So apparently, if you just allow the law to run it’s course and don’t adhere to the anti-gun fascists world view, you’re in “compliance with the NRA’s pro-gun agenda”. Or maybe, you just support the Constitution.

    [S]ays Elliot Fineman, CEO of the NGAC. “Open and conceal and carry are among the reasons there are 12,000 gun homicides each year in the U.S.

    I’d like to see the proof that law abiding citizens carrying weapons in compliance with their local laws are responsible for those “gun homicides”. My guess is that there have been no homicides committed by lawful citizens in Starbucks, and Starbucks probably wants to maintain that record by keeping criminals guessing about whether their customers are carrying firearms.

    Starbucks has the legal right to ban guns but despite having been petitioned by thousands, asked at a shareholder meeting, and a direct appeal made to their Board, Starbucks clings to this policy that puts millions of Americans at risk every day and encourages the spread of guns being carried in public.

    Starbucks also has a legal right to allow guns in their establishment and the right to ignore noisy Leftist crybabies. Personally, i don’t like Starbucks’ coffee much, but given the ire they raise among the hippies, I’ll choke more of the stuff down just to piss off the smelly, fungus-ridden Leftists.

  • Interesting Take on Gun Laws – No More Than Three?

    Don’t Panic YET! The story is from Australia.

    Three guns and no more, say Greens

    THE NSW Greens hope to reduce gun numbers in the state with new legislation it is putting before parliament.

    “It is simply wrong that individuals can accumulate an unlimited number of deadly weapons with next to no scrutiny,” says Greens MP and firearms spokesman David Shoebridge.

    Under the legislation, registered holders would be limited to a maximum of three guns.

    It follows a spike in gun theft, gun ownership and gun crime in NSW.

    “Less guns in society mean less opportunities for gun crime,” Dr Shoebridge said in a statement.

    Just the usual drivel on the surface, it seems, but I’m trying to grasp the rationale here?

    I don’t live in New South Wales. And I haven’t explored the background of the story either, I’m simply puzzled by the concept.

    Is it “the toe in the door” for further gun control? If they are successful down under could we see something similar here? Our Second Amendment only guarantees the Right to keep and bear arms. No mention of a number.

    Not really on topic, but the notion does raise an Exit question: If you could only have three, what would they be?

  • Emily gets her gun

    If you haven’t been paying attention, the Washington Times is running a series of articles written by Emily Miller on the trials and tribulations of becoming a gun owner in DC. The series begins with her decision to buy a gun when she confronts a large crowd of thugs in her neighborhood and realizes that she only has a Blackberry with a no-round magazine.

    Rather than me posting all of the articles (there are more than ten) in the series, just go to the first link and click the links at the bottom of the page to the next article. It’s fairly obvious to me that DC wants to smother prospective gun owners with paperwork and hoops to jump through.

    ADDED: Speaking of guns and hoops, New York Post reports that a toy store owner in NYC was fined $30,000 for stocking toy guns.

    [T]he .44-caliber fines for the orange-tipped, obvious fakes are forcing him to close for good.

    “It doesn’t make any sense,” said Khaled Mohamed, 23, manager of 99¢ Target in Flatlands, which has been ordered to pay a staggering $5,000 fine for each gun offered for sale — the maximum under the law.

    Yeah, that’s how you stop crime, put shop owners out of business.

  • Mounties always get their scary-lookin’ gun

    TT sends us a link from north of our border, from the same people who infected us with Bryan Adams’ music. How would you like to get a letter like this from your government;

    “This notice is to inform you that the firearm registration certificates indicated below have been revoked,” says the letter, obtained by Postmedia News. “You have 30 days to deliver your firearms to a peace officer, firearms officer . . . or to otherwise lawfully dispose of them.”

    Apparently, this latest round of seizure of previously legal guns is going after a .22 caliber rifle that looks particularly scary to the Canadian government;

    Yeah, but gun registration is just so we can keep track of guns, don’t worry about it.

  • So…don’t take your gun to NYC

    A Marine is learning that lesson the hard way, according to a Daily Caller link sent to us by Old Trooper;

    Ryan Jerome was enjoying his first trip to New York City on business when the former Marine Corps gunner walked up to a security officer at the Empire State Building and asked where he should check his gun.

    That was when Jerome’s nightmare began. The security officer called police and Jerome spent the next two days in jail.

    The 28-year-old with no criminal history now faces a mandatory minimum sentence of three and a half years in prison. If convicted, his sentence could be as high as fifteen years.

    Yeah, I go back to see my Mom in New York State and I can carry concealed across the state of Pennsylvania, the before I get to New York, I have to lock up the ammo and gun separately and out of my reach, and out of the reach of the passenger, because, apparently, the urge to be a criminal is stronger in New York than the other 33 states that do allow me to carry a weapon concealed.

    According to the Daily Caller article, Jerome found faulty information on the internet, which led him to believe that he was within the law…that never happens. And, apparently, he’s not the only one;

    In December, Tennessee nurse Meredith Graves noticed a “no guns” sign at the World Trade Center site and asked where she could leave her weapon, only to face similar charges.

    The “no guns” sign should have been posted around the whole State. Unfortunately, ignorance is no excuse, especially when it comes to guns and New York City. The Daily Caller goes on to say that Jerome faces a mandatory two years in prison, even if they give him the benefit of the doubt and credit for being straight-forward about the gun and trying to do what he thought was right.