The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State …
From John Derbyshire of National Review:
Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.
All to effectively explains the difference between people who want liberty, and people who want to be relieved of its burden.
BTW, Ruger is reporting unprecedented advance sales of the LCP .380…shows what you can do with the right product and the power of the Internet!
I’m definitely interested in trying out an LCP as soon as I can. I’m glad to hear Ruger is doing well with it. Now, if Ruger can just make the Mk.IV a gun I would actually want to buy, we’ll really be getting somewhere.
War on Guns doesn’t seem too happy about PVF donating to the campaign of Tim Johnson. Quite possibly, in consideration of the fact that he signed onto the Congressional amicus brief on the side of Heller, this donation could be seen as an encouragement for Johnson to be more pro-gun. Given that it’s exceedingly difficult to oust an incumbent, I can’t say I have any problem with doing stuff like this. Influence can be bought, as we saw yesterday. Politics is not a clean or honorable game, and if $2500 bucks is enough to convince Johnson to go from a C+ record to a B record, I consider that money well spent. Don’t be surprised if PVF also donates to his opponents campaign. That’s common practice among PACs as well.
Kevin Baker catches CNN in another stupid gun mistake. Not a shocker, they seem to know about as much about guns as the mice I’ve been trapping in my attic.
Robb Allen has a bit of Montana’s brief in Heller:
A collective rights decision by the court would violate the contract by which Montana entered into statehood, called the Compact With the United States and archived at Article I of the Montana Constitution. When Montana and the United States entered into this bilateral contract in 1889, the U.S. approved the right to bear arms in the Montana Constitution, guaranteeing the right of “any person” to bear arms, clearly an individual right.
There was no assertion in 1889 that the Second Amendment was susceptible to a collective rights interpretation, and the parties to the contract understood the Second Amendment to be consistent with the declared Montana constitutional right of “any person” to bear arms.
As a bedrock principle of law, a contract must be honored so as to give effect to the intent of the contracting parties. A collective rights decision by the court in Heller would invoke an era of unilaterally revisable contracts by violating the statehood contract between the United States and Montana, and many other states.
That sounds like secessh talk to me. This will mean that quite possibly Montana will be the haven of shooters when The Messiah sends his jackbooted angels to give us the knock on the door.
SayUncle details other instances when Montana has told the feds to go to hell. If Montana secedes from the union to preserve gun rights, I’ll move there.
From Joe’s Crabby Shack:
State Sen. Brad Ashford (Omaha) amended his proposed Gun Crime bill to remove everything, but to add the formation of a seven-member panel to meet every two years to decide what guns are inherently dangerous and should be prohibited from sale or ownership in Nebraska.
As is typical with these types of bills, the real risk comes in how they determine what is an assault weapon.
- A semiautomatic center-fire rifle that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine, with any one of the following: a pistol grip protruding conspicuously beneath the weapon’s action; a thumbhole stock; a folding or telescoping stock; a grenade launcher or flare launcher; a flash suppressor; or a forward pistol grip.
- A semiautomatic center-fire rifle with a fixed magazine with capacity for more than 10 rounds.
- A semiautomatic center-fire rifle that has an overall length of less than 30 inches.
The first clause is the usual list of cosmetic features, but the overall length and application to fixed magazine firearms is a new twist. Needless to say, this has to be opposed most vigorously.
It’s one thing to have a KB on a small arms cartridge. How about one of these:
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Dr. Helen does a nice job of tying the story about Hillary being a Life Long Hunter and her graduate thesis on Saul Alinksy together. She asks:
Will Americans fall for Clinton’s manipulative tactics, especially in the area of gun control? It’s possible, but then again, many Americans know when they are being fed a big pile of bull. Or at least, I hope they do.
Read the whole thing. It would seem as if Americans are already rejecting Hillary, but I’m not sure how good that makes me feel considering they are rejecting her in favor of following The Messiah to The Promise Land.
Here’s more duplicity by Ammunition Coding Systems that was brought up on Cam Edward’s show last night.  See the patent for Ammunition Coding, filed by Russell H. Ford:
In general, no governmental agency would be required to supervise the test cartridge firing, and to retain the information in a central repository, or data base. Instead, ammunition having an identifying mark could be conveniently tracked through a chain of supply in a manner similar to ordinary inventory tracking, so that the costs associated with tracking the ownership of the marked ammunition are widely distributed. Furthermore, since the burden associated with identification of the firearm is effectively shifted from the firearm to the ammunition, the identity of a firearm owner or user may be determined without regard to the age of the firearm, so that all firearms currently in existence could be traced.
Emphasis mine. That last part seems like a pot shot at the microstamping technology, which carries a chief weakness of not applying older firearms. But this isn’t the duplicity; that is in the first part I bolded. Take a look at their model legislation (PDF) that’s being pushed on their web site:
Section 4. Authority to establish an Ammunition Coding Database.
1. [AGENCY] shall be responsible for establishing and maintaining an Ammunition Coding Database (ACD) containing the following information
What kind of information will this database contain?
a. The date of the transaction.
b. The name of the transferee.
c. The purchaser’s driver’s license number or other government issued identification card number
d. The date of birth of the purchaser.
e. The unique identifier of all handgun ammunition or bullets transferred.
f. All other information prescribed by [AGENCY].
It’s basically complete ammunition regulation, down to the last bullet. No more handloading either, the model legislation outlaws it:
No later than January 1, 2011, all non-coded ammunition for the calibers listed in this chapter, whether owned by private citizens or retail outlets, must be disposed.
You can have my reloading press when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Darling of the international left, Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted in 1981 and sentenced to death in the shooting death of Officer Daniel Faulkner, has been denied his appeal by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in a unanimous decision.