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Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists

  • 80-year-old vet defends home

    Again, more than few people who were worried that I wasn’t writing enough posts sent me this link to the story of an 80-year-old veteran who caught some derelict breaking into his home a laid the scumbag low. I’m sure the old guy isn’t as proud of the event as he is worried about the outcome;

    No charges have been filed against the homeowner, but Chicago currently has a statute outlawing the possession of handguns. Its legality is currently being decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

    A high-profile Chicago attorney has already stepped forward offering to represent the man pro bono if he faces charges for possessing a weapon.

    “Self-defense isn’t just a right, it’s a duty,” said attorney Joel Brodsky. “If this man is prosecuted for saving his own life it’s not just a travesty, it’s justice turned inside out.”

    So how long did take the veteran to decide which was more important – his family or his freedom? I’m sure the lawbreaker got a few more seconds of life while the homeowner weighed the decision.

  • “Closing the terror gap”

    I just watched NYC’s Mayor Bloomberg and his Police Chief Ray Kelly lecture Joe Lieberman and the Senate Homeland Security Committee about “closing the terror gap in our gun laws” which, I guess is the new code phrase for “gun control”.

    Apparently, they want the FBI to be able to prevent “potential terrorists” from legally buying guns. How do you identify “potential terrorists” without profiling?

    Since Bloomberg, Kelly and Rep. Peter King were busy profiling white men on Sunday for the failed attack on Saturday, we can be pretty sure they won’t be restricting any real potential terrorists from buying guns.

    Of course, Bloomberg blamed President Bush for not “closing the terror gap”. Yet another thing Bush got right. And oh, how would writing more laws that law enforcement won’t enforce have prevented the failed attack last Saturday?

    It’s like gun control is their answer to everything including unemployment and inflation.

  • Nidal Hasan and gun control

    Olga sent us this article from the Associated Press and the Marine Times last night about how the Pentagon has fallen into the same trap as some local governments; gun control regulations only provide a temporary sense of security for the uninformed;

    Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered this week that a new comprehensive policy be developed to cover all branches of the military and its bases and offices. The standardized policy would replace or buttress a patchwork of regulations adopted by each service or individual military installation.

    The weapons policy is among recommendations for security and administrative upgrades released by the Pentagon on Thursday. Gates ordered that an interim weapons policy be in force by June, and a permanent one is due early next year.

    Since Nidal didn’t store his weapons on the installation, this new policy woudn’t have stopped him. Unless the military is willing to search every vehicle and person when they enter an installation, they won’t be able to stop a flow of weapons. This is so much mental masturbation and typical Liberal thought process.

    But I think the most insulting part of the whole article is this single line;

    A disgruntled Army doctor is charged in the deaths.

    Is that all he was? Just another disgruntled Army doctor? Does AP think that we’ve already forgotten the details of the shooting spree?

  • Pentagon shooter’s gun confuses Post readers

    The Washington Post‘s Josh White and Sari Horwitz wrote an article this morning about the trail of one of John Patrick Bedell’s handgun this morning that purposely misleads Washington Post’s readers.

    The Sturm, Ruger & Co. 9mm gun ended up with Bedell, 36, not long before he opened fire at the Pentagon’s Metro entrance March 4, officials said. Law enforcement officials aren’t sure how Bedell got the weapon, but they were able to track it to a Las Vegas gun show, where it was sold last year to a private individual.

    The implication is clear for anti-gun Nazis – the gun was bought at a gunshow, and therefore, the NRA is at fault for the gun ending up in the hands of Bedell. Take this comment as an example of the knee-jerk gun-grabbers who read the Washington Post;

    It is fairly clear the loophole – sales at gun shows NOT being regulated needs to be changed!

    How about only allow guns sold illegally the third Tuesday in Oct on even years in states that end with the letter S – so absurd and ridiculous the damn loopholes need to end.

    Yes, a legal gun show sale between a legitimate buyer and seller is at fault for Bedell’s short-lived rampage. Never mind that the gun changed hands several times since the gun show sale, the gun shows need to be more heavily regulated.

    One especially over reacting Post reader says guns should be outlawed;

    As I’ve said before, guns should be outlawed. Change the Constitution– by means of a referendum and Government action. In this instance, the police actually made a profit by selling a confiscated gun on, back into the hands of another wrong-doer

    I wonder if he realizes that the police ARE the government.

  • ATF’s Airsoft blunder

    Remember the story last week about Customs and the ATF seizing 30 air guns because, ostensibly, the toys could be converted to real rifles? Well Confederate Yankee did some digging;

    * The WE TTI M4s lack any sort of functional gas tube which is integral to an AR15’s operation
    * The upper receiver of an AR15 fits onto the lower of the WE TTI M4
    * The stock trigger pack in the WE TTI cannot strike the firing pin of a AR15 bolt
    * The body of the WE TTI lower is several mils thinner than an AR15 lower, and shims would be needed for any AR trigger pack to work
    * The trigger pack of an AR15 appears to be able to fit onto the lower receiver of a WE TTI M4, one of the AR15 trigger pack retaining pins is impossible to insert without major modification, and the hammer isn’t operable with the WE TTI lower.

    In short, the gunsmith determined that the entire upper receiver would have to be replaced by an upper from a real M4/M6 type rifle to have a hope of functioning, and a trigger pack from a real M4 would have to undergo extensive modification to even fit. And even when modified to fit, it wouldn’t fire. If this gunsmith is correct, then all the effort to take a $400 toy and $600-plus of real gun parts — plus significant labor from a proficient gunsmith — would result in a thousand-dollar club less functional than the original toy, unable to fire real bullets or Airsoft pellets.

    So, if you wanted to spend more money than it would cost to purchase an actual rifle and don’t mind that it blows up in your face on the first discharge, it’s all perfectly feasible. Yay, ATF, for keeping us safe from incompetent boobery.

  • ATF seizes 30 air guns

    1stCavRVN11B sent this article about ATF seizing a shipment of 30 airsoft guns, claiming that they could easily be converted to “machine guns” (article from KOIN6)

    A local business owner is flabbergasted after a shipment of 30 toy guns for his store was confiscated by ATF agents in Tacoma.

    Brad Martin and his son, Ben, sell the Airsoft BB guns from their store in Cornelius where they’ve been in business for seven years.

    The Martins said they buy their stock from Taiwan because the merchandise is less expensive. But the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives seized a shipment of 30 in October. That shipment is worth around $12,000 and the ATF is promising to destroy the entire shipment.

    Special Agent Kelvin Crenshaw said the toys can be easily retro-fitted into dangerous weapons.

    “With minimal work it could be converted to a machine gun,” Crenshaw said.

    Now, I don’t know much about air-soft, but what I’ve been able to find out is that they fire a missile using pressurized air – every firearm I’ve handled is not like that. It sounds to me like the ATF is over-reacting because the guns don’t have orange paint on the barrel. And I’m wondering if the ATF even knows what a machine gun is at this point, unless Special Agent Crenshaw was talking down to the media.

    Airsoft can’t be that rugged if it attracts people like this to the sport, though. I’m sorry, but I forgot who sent me that link last week or so – it’s been keeping me in stitches ever since. Notice each of their profiles mention that their military experience is “classified” – I’d change that to “wussified” for accuracy.

  • Haiti Police “It’s every man for himself!”

    The police of Hatai are now telling the population that they are better off at it themselves then rely on the police. Not only that but actively encouraging them to shot and kill criminals.

    “If you don’t kill the criminals, they will all come back,” a Haitian police officer shouts over a loudspeaker in the country’s most notorious slum, imploring citizens to take justice into their own hands.

    Yep you read that right, how often do you hear something like that today?

    The call for vigilantes comes as influential gang leaders who escaped from a heavily damaged prison during the country’s killer earthquake are taking advantage of a void left by police and peacekeepers focused on disaster relief.

    “Even as we are digging bodies out of buildings, they are trying to attack our officers,” Cite Soleil police inspector Aristide Rosemond said, surrounded by officers wielding automatic weapons.

    I know we have not had anything on this scale, but what where to happen if there was a major disaster that really causes things to get blown wide open.

    But don’t worry the the UN is on it, sorta.

    The Brazilian peacekeeping unit assigned to Cite Soleil lost 18 of its 145 soldiers in the earthquake. Ten perished when the “Blue House” — a landmark concrete tower converted into a U.N. post near the slum’s entrance — collapsed, leaving weapons and equipment readily available to fast-acting looters.

    The U.N. peacekeeping mission also lost its chief, deputy chief and acting police commander.

    The police lost an uncounted number of personnel and equipment, leaving a group of officers who in large part are just recently recruited and trained.

    So I would really like to see a reply on what would happen able to hand a situation like this if full gun control would be in place? I mean this is not just a hypothetical one, this is happening today, now as we speak.

  • Hasan investigation reveals that pogues act like pogues

    A two month investigation into the shooting of scores of soldiers at Fort Hood by a REMF-ass doctor who was being sent to the war has been completed and arrived at the same conclusions that have been known to every buck sergeant since the beginning of time – pogues skip PT and no one does anything about it. From the Stars & Stripes and the Chicago Tribune;

    Investigators found that the [Army Medical Corps] places too little emphasis on being a good military officer. Hasan was promoted because he was an adequate doctor. But he was a poor officer and should have been forced to take corrective action. The review determined Hasan was overweight, avoided physical training, was frequently late and did not meet standards for appearance.

    So, the Army is going to reprimand some other pogue officers for allowing pogues to act like pogues. Does it guarantee that pogues won’t skip PT and get porky? Nope. It just covers the Army’s collective ass for this investigation.

    But Hasan was a difficult person to work with and at other times pushed back forcefully against counseling. At one point, the review found, a supervisor insisted he get help by seeing a Muslim psychiatrist.

    Hasan refused, saying his religious views were none of the Army’s business. The supervisor backed down, a decision the review found was a mistake.

    So, Hasan was able to throw the “Islamic” card and everyone let him slide.

    Despite the failings, the review did not conclude it was a mistake to send Hasan to Fort Hood and found no clues that he would become violent.

    Despite the fact that Hasan was a marginal performer, they promoted him and sent him to work with real combat soldiers – not a mistake at all. The troops don’t necessarily deserve good services. It’s more about the Medical Corps and their career development.

    After all, the real reason Hasan went off was because of gun laws;

    The report also looked at weapons policies. Hasan had two weapons, one given to him by his brother in Virginia and one bought in Texas, when he arrived in Fort Hood.

    Because he resided off base, there was no requirement to disclose he owned those weapons.

    The review does not recommend a specific weapons policy, but does say there should be a unified department policy, rather than one that varies by service or installation.

    When the Army is doing it’s best to look beyond the real reasons for this incident, it’s always best to blame the guns.