Category: Guns

ROS sends us a link from Missouri Illinois where a Denny’s restaurant manager tossed out some police officers the other night for *gasp* having guns with them while they were eating at the local chain.

Five on-duty but out of uniform detectives were in the middle of their meal at the Denny’s. The restaurant chain said a customer spotted one of the officers carrying a gun and alerted the manager. The manager told the detective she would have to leave or secure the gun in her car, that guns are not allowed in Denny’s. Even after the officers explained they were cops they were still told they could not carry their weapons in the business. Captain Sax said, “I’ve never known anybody that didn’t want a police officer present in an establishment in a business it’s added security it’s absolutely what they want.”

Now, I didn’t know that Denny’s has a “no gun” policy because I’ve always had mine when I went to local Denny’s in Keyser. I never saw a “no gun” sign, but asking a cop to leave because of their guns is just ridiculous. I guess I won’t be going back – I’ll drive the 50 miles to IHOP instead.

I want to thank David Gregory for sacrificing himself in the gun debate for demonstrating why more gun laws are useless. Of course, you know who David gregory is, he’s the “Meet the Press” TV show host who broke the law when he brought what appears to be a 30-round magazine for an AR-15 style weapon into the District of Columbia where even just possession of of a “large capacity magazine” whether it has rounds in it or if it’s attached to a weapon or not.

Journalists everywhere are condemning pro-gun folks for pushing for the arrest and punishment of Gregory for this crime. The latest is from a link sent to us by Old Trooper to Politico in which Dylan Byers writes;

Those who argue that the investigation is ludicrous have a point: Showing an empty gun magazine on television, though illegal in Washington, D.C., was hardly going to harm anyone. As Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren wrote, it’s hard to think of a sillier use of investigative resources.

But it’s also hard to blame the other side for asking that laws be upheld and applied to all — especially at a time when so many in the media seem to be pushing for more of those laws.

The Gregory investigation may have started as a “non-story,” but that’s no longer the case. There are some folks on the right who still care about the outcome, and are ready to cite it as precedent if it goes Gregory’s way.

So since no one wants to punish Gregory for his obvious violation of a gun law enacted, ostensibly, to protect the public, why do we need more gun laws? Obviously, it’s like the pro-gun folks have always said – there are enough laws to restrict guns, but law enforcement is reluctant to use the exiting laws. If they’re not going to arrest and prosecute David Gregory, why is there even a law to keep a perfectly harmless item while it’s in the District and in Gregory’s perfectly manicured grasp, out of the hands of DC residents?

Gregory should be working to change the law – that’s what he’d do on any other issue which he had flagrantly disregarded. Someone in DC law enforcement should ask themselves if they’re profiling in this case, because Gregory is a pretty white boy who obviously meant no one any harm, as opposed to someone else in DC they may want to prosecute for the crime in other circumstances.

For some reason, the story about former North Carolina State Senator RC Soles shooting a home intruder is making the rounds again in recent days.

The senator, who has spent his political career fighting against the individual right to keep and bear arms, apparently believes the right to keep and bear arms is still valid for elected officials.

The intruder Soles shot, Kyle Blackburn, went to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries and Soles has refused to provide media interviews since the incident.

Folks obviously aren’t doing their research. The incident happened three years ago. Soles is no longer a State Senator. He decided not to run after the shooting incident. And, according to Snopes, his last year in office he had an “A” rating from the NRA on gun issues. I know some of you don’t trust Snopes, but they link to Grass Roots North Carolina which writes this about Soles;

R.C. Soles is not a “virulent anti-Second Amendment activist” nor a “vociferous anti-gun zealot.” [T]he charges are simply not true — he is mediocre at worst and has voted with us on most major issues.

I suspect the old article popped up on Drudge with a “Flashback” warning or something similar which triggered a bunch of folks to write about it thinking it was a new article. But I’ve seen the link in my inbox a few times, so I thought I’d address it here.

Soles pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon and was fined $1000 back in 2010.

Living up to their name, Dick’s, the sole vendor of Troy Industries‘ weapons inventory has decided that they won’t fill orders which were placed before Christmas for those semi-automatic rifles according to The Blaze in a link sent to us by Chief Tango;

Dick’s announced a week before Christmas that it was suspending sales of “modern sporting rifles” in all stores, “out of respect for the victims of the Connecticut massacre,” CBS News 11 notes.

I’ve noticed a lot of companies are doing similar stuff. For example, Amazon used to sell rifle magazines and before the end of the weekend before Christmas, they stopped. When I finally found some magazines for sale at Bass Pro Shops, I discovered that PayPal wouldn’t approve the sale because it was rifle magazines. It didn’t kill my order, but it was a minor inconvenience. Their loss.

Cheaper Than Dirt thought better of their initial decision to stop selling weapons from their online shop.

I guess, politically, it’s easier to piss off gun owners than it is to piss off the perpetually outraged of the Left. But would any of those companies be brave enough to deny a health care benefit that provided abortions to their employees? I don’t think so.

The Washington Post went to the National Gun Show in Chantilly, VA yesterday, and they seem amazed that people went there to buy…wait for it…GUNS!

With an AK-47 slung over one shoulder, Marco Hernandez offered one word when asked why he was in the overflow crowd at the gun show, billed as the largest east of the Mississippi.

“Obama,” he said, standing in front of the Expo Center. “I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for the possible gun ban.”

Like others, the 29-year-old Wheaton resident was in the market for an accessory some lawmakers and anti-gun advocates want to restrict: a high-capacity magazine.

I’m shocked that when the government is planning to stop the sales of a currently legal item, that people would suddenly feel a need to have that item. Of course, many are buying the weapons because they know it’s a fairly good investment. If the government bans the manufacture of more AR-15s, the ones which are already out here become worth more. It’s simple economics. I bought my M4 for about $700 last Spring. I challenge you to find one for that price now. High capacity magazines that sold for $10-15 two weeks ago are going for $60 today, if you can find them. I saw Cheaper Than Dirt was selling a 100-round magazine for ARs for $100 two weeks ago and then last Monday it was $287, today they are out of stock. A hundred-round drum which sold for about $100 two weeks ago is $600 today.

From the Post;

Gun dealers requested nearly 5,150 background checks on purchasers in Virginia eight days after the Dec. 14 shootings in Newtown, Conn. — the largest number ever in a single day, Virginia State Police said. And in the days since, the daily number of background checks has regularly doubled corresponding totals from the previous year.

It’s simple economics. Like I told Old Trooper on the phone yesterday, we’re going to have the heaviest armed civilian population ever thanks to Obama.

But if you really want to read some moonbattery, check out the comments to the Washington Post article. Apparently, we’re just buying these weapons so we can sell them to criminals. Either that or we’re going to start defending ourselves against black helicopters. All at the bidding of our masters at the NRA.

If you look at the demographic of who is attending and buying these weapons of mass destruction, you will see it is WHITE MEN… sound familiar? The same demographic of the GOP. Seriously. How ridiculous! Stay afraid, be afraid, stay afraid is an OLD worn out rant. Bushmaster and other semi-automatics were NOT what our founding fathers had in mind when they wrote the 2nd Amendment. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

I was in the Army so I know all about weapons. That’s why I oppose ownership of sem-auto rifles and support much better background checks and mental evaluations. The current background check, NCIC, is a joke. I’m surprised they even bother with it. Illegal aliens, restraining orders, etc., that all slips thru. I also find that many of the pro gun people are nutty as hell. They go to the range once a year and almost kill themselves. They think they will stop an intruder and they end up shooting one of their kids going into the fridge at 2 am.

How many gun crimes will be committed from what was sold at this show? How many more children will die? When will the United States learn that more guns does not equal less gun crime?

Baseless supposition – but that’s how liberals keep the ignorant on the reservation.