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Category: Guns

  • CBS: Fast & Furious sales used to support more gun control

    We all knew in our heart of hearts that the government planned to use their own sanctioned gun sales to drug cartels as a justification to add more gun control to the volumes of laws that burden gun dealers. Well, CBS News has uncovered documentation;

    On Jan. 4, 2011, as ATF prepared a press conference to announce arrests in Fast and Furious, Newell saw it as “(A)nother time to address Multiple Sale on Long Guns issue.” And a day after the press conference, Chait emailed Newell: “Bill–well done yesterday… (I)n light of our request for Demand letter 3, this case could be a strong supporting factor if we can determine how many multiple sales of long guns occurred during the course of this case.”

    This revelation angers gun rights advocates. Larry Keane, a spokesman for National Shooting Sports Foundation, a gun industry trade group, calls the discussion of Fast and Furious to argue for Demand Letter 3 “disappointing and ironic.” Keane says it’s “deeply troubling” if sales made by gun dealers “voluntarily cooperating with ATF’s flawed ‘Operation Fast & Furious’ were going to be used by some individuals within ATF to justify imposing a multiple sales reporting requirement for rifles.”

    Yeah, it’s more than “deeply troubling”, its thuggish and heavy-handed regulators run amuck.

  • NY Post: the F&F Lies

    If you still think that Attorney General Holder is still n honest broker in the scandal over the “Fast & Furious” scandal, you really need to read the Michael Walsh article in the New York Post;

    It’s time for the months of lies to end — but don’t hold your breath. The administration recently sealed the court records relating to agent Terry’s murder and — a year later — the one man arrested hasn’t been tried.

    So far, three presidential candidates, a couple of senators and more than 50 congressmen have called for Holder to resign. If he can’t answer the one question that matters — why — that number ought to include his boss.

    Meanwhile, Darrel Issa is investigating whether the US government helped the Mexican cartels launder money, according to The Hill;

    According to an article published in the New York Times on Sunday, undercover agents with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) helped transport millions of dollars in cash across the U.S.-Mexico border in an effort to study and dismantle the trafficking routes of drug cartels.

    The article said the DEA allowed the drug cartels to continue functioning as they tracked their money moving methods.

  • Soldier stops robbers (Link fixed)

    From a link posted by Michelle Malkin on Facebook, a soldier who recently moved to Colorado from Fort Hood, TX foiled two thieves when they tried to rob him and his wife on the street.

    The couple was out for a walk in a neighborhood near Fairmont Place and Fairmont Drive when two masked men approached them.

    The man, a soldier, has a concealed carry permit and was carrying a gun, police said.

    The soldier confronted the robbers with the gun, police said. Police tell us one of the robbers pointed what appeared to be a handgun at the couple. That’s when the man fired one shot in the suspect’s direction, police said.

    Armed military veterans walking the streets. The country couldn’t be in better hands.

  • National Concealed Carry passes House

    In a bi=partisan vote yesterday, the House passed the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act with a vote of 272 to 154. 43 Democrats crossed the aisle to while 7 Republicans defected. The bill allows folks with a concealed carry permit to carry their weapon concealed in any other state that allows their own citizens to carry weapons concealed. Currently, only the District of Columbia and Illinois have no such laws.

    As it stands now, I can only carry my gun concealed in 32 states which have reciprocity with West Virginia. If this bill passes the Senate (and, honestly, I don’t think it will), I can carry my weapon in Maryland…twelve miles from my house.

    ROS sends us a link from New Jersey congressman, Steve Rothman who says that passage f the law threaens New Jersey;

    “If the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act becomes law it will be an imminent and dangerous threat to New Jersey and our nation. Under New Jersey law, concealed carry permits are strictly limited to those who demonstrate a “justifiable need,” such as police officers. Under the proposed federal legislation, anyone permitted to carry a concealed or hidden firearm in his or her home state could do so in any other state, regardless of state regulations…”

    So what about drivers’ licenses? Doe New Jersey forbid drivers from other states? For my CCW permit, I had to take 8 hours of classes with some range time to prove I kew how to shoot. I underwent a more stringent background check than the feds did for my security clearance – I know that because the Mineral County Sheriff Department turned up a 14-year-old dis-con warrant the feds hadn’t found.

    But like I said before, I have no illusions that this bill will get past the Senate or the White House. I agree that the bill infringes on States’ Rights, but if the States were more reasonable in their reciprocity agreements, the bll wouldn’t be necessary.

    How ridiculous is that I can carry a handgun concealed through WV, then unconceal it and lock it up for the twelve miles that I drive through Maryland and then conceal it again when I get to Pennsylvania.

  • CCW in DC?

    The Washington Times reports that five Illinois Congressmen are trying to find a way around their own gun laws which may result in an amendment to the National Right to Carry Reciprocity Act that could extend the right to carry concealed weapons across the country;

    Rep. Timothy Johnson and four fellow Republicans offered an amendment to the National Right to Carry Reciprocity Act that would allow a resident of a state or jurisdiction that does not allow concealed carry permits to obtain the permit in another state and then use it in their home state. The amendment would also allow people with a concealed carry permit in another state to bring that privilege with them into the District.

    I have no illusions that this has any chance of getting past the Senate or the White House, but nonetheless, it’s nice to see folks still working on it.

  • Gun kills Occupier in Burlington

    Believe it or not, Vermont has some of the most liberal guns laws in the country, and I mean “liberal” in the traditional sense. So when an occupier in Burlington gets shot to death, who is the next casualty? Gun owners. Burlington Free Press link;

    Firearms are not allowed in City Hall Park. [Burlington Mayor Bob Kiss] said the shooting raises questions about the easy availability of firearms.

    “We need to reflect on guns in Vermont,” he said.

    Yeah, whoever shot the protester was already breaking the law by bringing a gun to the park, so what is the logic behind punishing every other gun owner in the State except the person who broke the law?

    When I lived in Vermont, the saying went; “The nicest thing about Burlington is that it’s so close to Vermont”. Bernie Sanders, the communist Senator from Vermont, began his political career as mayor of Burlington.

    Thanks to Adirondack Patriot for the link.

  • Sheriff Chuck Wright: Don’t get Mace. Get a gun.

    At about the same time today, Old Trooper and Mr Wolf sent us the same link to an article about the Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright discussing a recent attempted rape in his county by a repeat offender. WYFF Channel 4 reports that the sheriff took the opportunity to lecture the press on the benefits of concealed carry weapons;

    Wright said, “It’s too bad someone with a concealed weapons permit didn’t walk by. That would fix it.” He said people are tired of doing the right thing and criminals getting away with their actions.

    He said several times, “I want you to get a concealed weapons permit.”

    Wright said, “I’m tired of looking at victims saying, ‘There’s life after this’ … I’m tired of saying, ‘We’re sorry, we can’t keep them in jail.’”

    Wright said in his view gun control is, “How fast can you can get the barrel of your gun back on the target?”

    According to the report, Wright mentioned several times that his listeners should get guns and a CCW license.

    “I want you to get a concealed weapons permit. Don’t get Mace. Get a firearm.”

    Compare that to the blather coming out of New York, California and Illinois.

  • Mother drills kidnapper

    Old Trooper sends us a link to a short Fox News article about a heart warming story of a mother who ventilated a thief turned kidnapper when he tried to haul off her 1-year-old child;

    Authorities say 22-year-old Elizabeth Easterly was alone in the store with her 1- and 2-year-old daughters. Collier County Sheriff’s spokesman Jamie Mosbach says the man was acting erratically before the incident.

    Mosbach says the clerk shot the man as he headed toward the door with the child. He was taken to a hospital where he died of his injuries.

    I hope he was conscious in his final moments so he that he came to regret his actions. And, i hope it was painful, too.