Daily Archives: December 3, 2013

Law-Abiding Criminal Meme.

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Ironically, some of the gun control laws they like to pass might turn us into criminals without even knowing it. Here’s an interesting letter to the editor on the subject:

SAFE Act makes criminals out of law-abiding citizens
Source: http://www.buffalonews.com/opinion/letter-safe-act-makes-criminals-out-of-law-abiding-citizens-20131129

The NY SAFE Act should be called the SAFE Criminals Act, for only criminals are safe from prosecution of the major components of this law. The 1968 U.S. Supreme Court case Haynes v. United States involved Miles Edward Haynes, who was precluded from owning firearms due to criminal convictions, yet still illegally obtained a handgun. The National Firearms Act of 1934 demanded firearms with short barrels (easily concealable) to be registered, with failure to do so resulting in a crime. Haynes was arrested for illegal possession of an unregistered firearm, and was charged with same. The court found in a 7-2 majority that Haynes could not be charged with failing to register his firearm, because had he done so, his action would have resulted in self-incrimination. We are protected from self-incrimination by the Fifth Amendment.

The SAFE Act requires law-abiding citizens to register scary looking rifles or risk a felony charge. The criminal is safe from this law because of the Fifth Amendment. The law requires all law-abiding citizens to sell their private property (firearms) through a Federal Firearms License dealer and undergo national background checks, both seller and buyer. The criminal need not follow this part of the law, either. Criminals are safer, indeed.

What the SAFE Act accomplished is creating criminals out of law-abiding citizens through arbitrary and capricious actions. Those who passed this law are lawyers, expected to understand established law before crafting new laws. The SAFE Act is pure bad law, and had all involved upheld their oath of office, we would not have this today.

Florida’s Warning Shots Law.

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Some gun owners need to realize that warning shots are fine for the movies, but they cause problems in real life.

Marissa Alexander had hoped the warning shot would scare her allegedly abusive husband. The two were in the middle of a heated argument when she picked up the gun and fired the fateful shot. She claimed Stand Your Ground, but a judge rejected that plea at her trial.

Instead of legal immunity, the Jacksonville defendant drew a felony conviction and a mandatory 20-year sentence thanks to another controversial Florida gun law — 10-20-Life. It seemed like a harsh penalty for a woman many believed was only trying to protect herself from domestic violence.

Source: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/editorials/fl-editorial-warning-shot-dl-20131203,0,1486589.story

True, and maybe if she had shot her husband, the Judge would have understand.

The conviction drew national outrage and two dubious bills filed in the Florida Legislature that exempts individuals who fire warning shots from criminal and civil liability. HB 89 and SB 448 fall short as a fix. The solution isn’t a new legal exemption as much as ending mandatory sentencing.

Aren’t liberals something else? You make law-abiding gun owners go through hell but then you get all sentimental about criminals. Yes, Marina acted like a criminal, maybe we can fix the law but get rid of mandatory minimums? No way. Those minimums are there to prevent bleeding-heart judges from giving ridiculous sentences like 30-days in prison or home arrest. The law also ensures that some of the scum get put away for a long time.

HB 89 may provide a legal exemption to a 10-20-Life conviction. But, the legislation complicates Stand Your Ground, a state law already riddled with legal ambiguity, by encouraging confrontation and the escalation of gun violence. Who, for example, gets Stand Your Ground protection when it comes to defending one’s self against a warning shot?

That’s four the cops, the DC, and the courts to decide if it comes to that. It’s just like self-defense, if you shoot in self-defense maybe there will be a trial, maybe charges won’t be brought. With Zimmerman there wasn’t supposed to be a trial, but then the sheriff got fired and Sanford decided looking good on social media was more important than justice.

Florida already has a law that gives victims the right to use deadly force as protection. There’s no need for a new law that further encourages people to use a firearm to resolves disputes.

Typical liberal. I don’t know anyone who’s dying to shoot someone in self-defense, or fire a warning shot. It’s not like people are going to move to Florida and start looking for opportunities to test the new law.

 

 

Sports Grid’s Jake O’Donnel attacks Guns.

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Sports Grid is owned by Mediaite, which is notoriously liberal. Perhaps that is why Jake O’Donnel wrote this about the NFL rejecting the ad from Daniels Defense.

Ya, and strip clubs serve lunch — but they ain’t considered restaurants. It doesn’t matter what your logo is or what you don’t picture in your commercial — this ad is explicitly selling guns, which were responsible for 19,392 deaths in 2010. Also, Daniel Defense (unlike other gun seller, like, say, Walmart) describes itself on Google like this: “Offers a range of AR15 parts and accessories like slings and uppers.”

See, Guns & Ammo is right. This commercial isn’t selling guns, it’s selling pink pro-automatic weapon ladies apparel. Tie it to your doorknob to scare away the home invaders with ugly shirts.

Watch the video, sound off below, or hit me up on Twitter and berate me for being un-American. Just don’t shoot me (I’ve got eight or nine more ugly NFL Christmas sweaters to knit).

Source: http://www.sportsgrid.com/nfl/daniel-defense-super-bowl-commercial/#comment-1149406407

The good news is that most of the comments are pro-freedom. Feel free to click the link and let them know why idiots like Jake have no business writing about sports or gun ownership. Instead, Jake should move to Sweden where he can live happily ever after with a fat, socialist wife.

 

 

Gun Owner Stops Jewerly Heist.

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Sorry GTA V, in real life you’re not the only people carrying guns.

Guns win the day again!

ELLISVILLE, MO. (AP) — Two men are in custody after allegedly trying to rob a St. Louis County jewelry store, only to have the store owner pull out a pistol and shoot at them.

Authorities say two men from Detroit entered Clarkson Jewelers in Ellisville on Tuesday and implied they had a gun. The owner pulled out a gun of his own and chased the men, firing several rounds but missing them.

The would-be robbers sped away. Police gave chase and caught the men after the suspects’ car crashed near Chesterfield Mall.

A stolen watch was recovered, but police say no weapons were found in the car.

(Copyright ©2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

Source: http://www.connectmidmissouri.com/news/story.aspx?id=978886#.Up5DHOKv6ZQ

Hey criminals, next time try to break in at night, less chance of finding a gun-tootin’ owner.

 

Biden’s BS: Touting ‘Progress’ on Gun Control.

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Obama’s Marxist brotha from another white momma loves to blab, even if his remarks are nothing than gobbledegook.

As Guns Magazine reported:

“Those 23 executive actions are keeping guns out of dangerous hands,” Biden said. “They’re providing support for communities to hire school resource officers. And they’re reducing the stigma around mental illness.”

 

Though, in truth the list of objectives are a mixed bag, ranging from actions that can be empirically measured, such as the appointment of a full-time director to the ATF, B. Todd Jones was sworn in back in August, to nebulous goals such as “maximizing enforcement efforts.”

 

While Biden appears to be pleased with what they’ve accomplished thus far, he vowed to continue the fight. Specifically, he believes that an expanded background check bill that would require background checks for private transfers made via the Internet and at gun shows is a necessary undertaking moving forward.

Source: http://www.guns.com/2013/12/03/biden-touts-progress-gun-control-open-letter-video/

 

None of those 23 measures do anything to fight crime, but are designed to harass law-abiding gun owners. Executive Order #23 for example is extremely troubling, for it other the bleeding-heart liberals at the CDC to “research” the causes of prevention of gun violence.

Really? That’s like ordering PETA to research BBQ recipes, what do you think their conclusions will be?

Oh Biden, you’re the gift that keeps on giving BS.

 

 

Canadian PC Kills Gun Salute.

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PC destroys everything that’s nice and good, including a 90-year-old tradition.

The omitting of a three-volley gun salute at this year’s Remembrance Day service at Riverside Veteran’s Memorial Park signals the end of 90 years of local tradition. Citing a Canadian Forces protocol directive that a gun salute is only accorded a funeral, the local army reserve unit declined to continue a long standing tradition.

This tradition was granted to the local Legion since the commemoration of the wartime memorial/cenotaph in 1922. The 21-gun salute conducted in Ottawa and the various provincial capitals, are limited to naval guns or army howitzer salutes and are listed as protocol in those cities only. However, in the past, the three volley rifle salutes were often held in various cities and over the years grew smaller and smaller until cities like ours remained. That is until this year.

While never officially sanctioned, it was a local custom granted to the Legion to help commemorate the fallen in wartime/peacekeeping service, which was always the South Alberta Light Horse and its predecessors that conducted the salute. As a past 37-year member of the Regiment and one who served on the rifle party on several occasions, it was with pride that I participated in the gun salute. The Regiment, in the past number of years, has always had to fight to be recognized in this community, and always been in the shadow of the CF Base to the west of the city, but has now by its own volition lost the one major “Footprint” in the community.

Traditions trump protocol when it is for the betterment of the community and this decision by the Regiment not to proceed with a local tribute to the fallen citizens that even came from its own ranks, is just one more loss it cannot afford.

The guns are silent, but hopefully the voices are not. For many in the crowd it was always the sound of the rifle volleys that reverberated down the river valley signaling the end of the two minutes silence that bring them to remember the fallen soldiers and draws them to the services for the uniqueness over others. It was those voices that’s asked, “where were the gun salutes?”

Jim Ogston

Medicine Hat

Source: http://medicinehatnews.com/commentary/letters-to-the-editor/2013/12/gun-salute-discontinued-due-to-protocol/

Sad, isn’t it? A noble tradition killed for what? Protocol? This is why I always say liberals have no respect for nothing.

 

 

Greed almost gets criminal killed.

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Know your limits, criminals. Even people who allow themselves to be robbed will only do so up to a certain point.

A store clerk on Madison’s East Side gave some money to a robber Friday afternoon but drew the line when the suspect demanded more, pointing a handgun at the suspect while telling him to get out.

The suspect did flee and no one was injured during the robbery at Megan’s Custom Framing, 4512 E. Washington Ave., Madison Police said in a news release.

“The clerk pointed the gun at the robber and told him to get out, and get out he did,” said police spokesman Joel DeSpain.

The suspect is a black male about 25 years old, 5 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 8 inches tall, 150 to 170 pounds, short hair, wearing a zippered dark navy-colored coat, and blue and white checkered boxer shorts under low-riding pants.

Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/crime_and_courts/clerk-points-gun-at-robber-flees-with-less-cash-than/article_92e9e757-1a2b-5517-93a1-0c42e2e26933.html#ixzz2mRKC7cAA

The article didn’t mention whether the suspect had a gun or a knife. If he had the later, then I don’t know why the clerk gave him any money.

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Changes in Gun Trust Rules.

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I don’t have any NFA weapons, but if you do, you’ll find this interesting:

 

A gun trust allows a person to register NFA firearms to a trust rather than to his or her name, and the trust can have multiple trustees. The real appeal of a gun trust is that it greatly simplifies the process of registering machine guns, silencers and short-barreled rifles. It bypasses some of the obstacles individuals face like submitting fingerprints, photographs, and, the sometimes difficult task, obtaining the permission and signature of a Chief Law Enforcement Officer. With an established gun trust, you simply submit your paperwork to the ATF.

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The new changes will turn the current process on its head.  Any new trusts will have to be certified the way individuals are certified, meaning every trustee will have to provide the aforementioned information or, more importantly, every individual will have to get approval from a CLEO and in some areas it just isn’t going to happen.

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One group that has led opposition is the American Silencer Association.  This group of suppressor makers has banded together to make their individual voices heard.  They’ve prepared a hybrid form letter that can be downloaded, customized and sent in during the public comment period for ATF 41P.  There’s even a Facebook page for Americans Opposed to ATF 41P.

 

Source: http://www.guns.com/2013/12/03/will-new-changes-gun-trusts-mark-end-era/

 

They love “fixing” what isn’t broken.