Month: September 2008

Missouri Governor Stands up to Obama’s Goon Squads

At least someone is willing to tell the Obama Campaign where to stick it:

“Barack Obama needs to grow up. Leftist blogs and others in the press constantly say false things about me and my family. Usually, we ignore false and scurrilous accusations because the purveyors have no credibility. When necessary, we refute them. Enlisting Missouri law enforcement to intimidate people and kill free debate is reminiscent of the Sedition Acts – not a free society.”

And I thought the Clintons were dirty.  Hillary would be a godsend compared to this guy.

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Those Crazy Swiss

Yves Rossy has to either be the craziest guy in the world, or the coolest guy in the world.  Quite possibly I think both.  It takes some balls to jump out of a plane with a jet wing you built strapped to your back.  Apparently he used it to cross the English Channel Friday.  Here’s some video:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-oQ–U-WaQ[/youtube]

His jet pack has a bunch of these strapped to the underside.  The funny thing is they only cost a few thousand bucks.  Here’s his web site.  Awesome.

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I Won a Gun!

I actually won a gun in one of the raffles at the Bucks County Friends of the NRA dinner!  I never win anything.  From the Friends of the NRA merchandise:

NRA Edition Marlin .17HMR
NRA Edition Marlin .17HMR

Imported from Italy by Marlin, each rifle includes a carbon fiber dipped stock, four-shot and seven-shot clip magazines, and stainless steel heavy bull barrel.  Perfect for a long day at the range or hunting varmint.  With the NRA logo lasered on its stock, this rifle will boost any hunter’s collection.

That’s not all I got either.  I bid in the silent auction too, and ended up with one of these, which I figure I can use to store powder and primers:

NRA Tool Chest
NRA Tool Chest

Up and coming Friends events are a hidden secret. The NRA limited edition Kimber Custom II 1911 went for 690 dollars.  The Smith & Wesson .38 Small Cheif’s special NRA edition revolver went for like 320 bucks. This is a bit cheaper than you’ll get them on the open market, and all the proceeds are going to a good cause.  The manufacturers donate these guns to the NRA Foundation to be auctioned.

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Rained Out

The Garand and CMP match this morning were rained out.  Drat.  I spent several hours last night loading up .223 to shoot my AR in the CMP match, and got up at 7:15 to make the match.  Oh well, some days you eat the bear, some days the bear eats you.  I’ll try again next month.

Bitter and I are attending a Friends of the NRA event tonight.  Since Friends is a program to raise money for the NRA Foundation, I can’t do any EVC electioneering outreach there.  But I can introduce myself, handing out my business cards, and hoping later I might get a few people signing up to my e-mail list.  Outreach is going more slowly than I would like.  One problem is the people who have time to do this tend to be older, and tend to not have computers and e-mail.  It’s hard communicating with these people and getting information to them.  I kind of feel like I’m in the wrong generation for trying to get people involved in local efforts.  We can bring a lot of new ideas, and new methods of organizing to the gun rights issue, but that doesn’t do us much good if the people I’m trying to reach don’t have the means to integrate with it.

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Philadelphia Loses Another Lawsuit

The City of Philadelphia lost another gun lawsuit in Commonwealth Court yesterday.  This was the lawsuit by the city against the Pennsylvania Legislature in Harrisburg for failing to pass sufficiently strict gun laws, and for disallowing the City fo pass its own gun laws:

The state Commonwealth Court struck down a lawsuit filed last year by City Council members Darrell Clarke and Donna Reed Miller against the state General Assembly for not passing enabling legislation to allow a package of gun-control laws to be enforced in the city.

The court rejected Council’s argument that the state’s Uniform Firearms Act does not preempt local control over guns.

“While we understand the terrible problems gun violence poses for the city and sympathize with its efforts to use police powers to create a safe environment for its citizens, these practical considerations do not alter the clear pre-emption imposed by the legislature, nor our Supreme Court’s validation of the legislature’s power to act,” the ruling said.

Nutter is not surrendering on this issue, however:

“People have to make a decision as to what side of this issue they’re going to be on. You’re either going to stand up for the citizens of Philadelphia or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or you’re going to stand up for criminals.”

How about standing up for the Constitution Mr. Mayor?  You know, the one that you took an oath to uphold?  No one is standing up for the criminals here, least of all me.  But Let me tell you, Mayor Nutter has some stones here, to talk about supporting criminals when his City criminal justice system is letting people like this roam the streets.  Until we can have an open honest conversation about how to deal with that problem, the City politicians are continuing to pretend to be addressing the problem.

UPDATE: Looks like Uncle beat me to it.  Now he’ll start telling me I don’t read his blog again :)

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Wouldn’t You Know It?

I’m shooting a Garand match tomorrow, and I don’t have a sling for my Garand.  I do have an M1907 sling, but that’s on my AR, and since I’m also shooting the AR in the CMP match after the Garand match, I don’t want to transfer it.  A commie sling is just going to have to do.  The one that came with my PSL seems to work fine as a hasty sling on a Garand.  I took the Garand to the range today to make sure it was zeroed, and to try some strings standing slowfire.  Unlike with my AR, my groups are all to the right, and low more often than high.  I think need to shift my weight around differently for the Garand.  Next months for the CMP match at my club, I think I’ll slap the Ko-tonics (looks like they changed names) 6.8 upper on the AR and shoot that.

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Debate Impression

Going into the debates, I was wondering whether Obama would be on his best game.  I’m seen him give fantastic speeches from the telepromter, but off the cuff he’s always seemed to be at somehwat of a disability.  I didn’t see any of that tonight.  Both candidates did very well, I thought.  I didn’t think there was a clear winner.  Obama seems to have tacked a good bit close to the center than he was during the primary, for instance he’s now supporting missile defense, when before he was against it.  But Obama came off well, and I didn’t think McCain came off as a slouch either.  One thing I did notice watching CNNs coverage is that independents seem to track closer to Republicans most of the time, in their reaction.

I have to wonder whether Obama’s move to the middle is pissing off a lot of his base.  I mean, I didn’t get the impression Obama was any hippy flower wearing peacenik when it comes to foreign policy.  He is definitely a man of the left, but he plays the role of a moderate very well.

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DNC Now Attempting to Silence Gun Owners

URGENT: I got a response back already.  Do not use their e-mailers, as they send attachments along that do contain Obama’s legal threat, along with all the material from FactCheck.org and various other sources.  They do send your content, but you don’t want the baggage that goes along with it.

The Democratic National Committee is now taking up a petition to get NRA’s ads off the air.  I have filled in my information so you don’t have to:

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please stop broadcasting the misleading and phony NRA attack ad against Barack Obama on your stations.

Time and again, Barack Obama has defended the right to bear arms created by the Constitution. However, this shameful ad misrepresents Barack’s position on illegal guns and tries to scare voters with incorrect information about his stance on the issue.

This NRA ad is a lie, and is not fit for public broadcast.

The public airwaves are no place for this kind of hateful and misleading trash. I hope you will stop broadcasting this deceptive ad on your station and prevent the level of discourse to be lowered by the lies it presents.

Please take this ad off the air at once.

Will the blue dogs in the party condemn this action?  Or will they stand by and take it from Obama?  If they want gun owner support, this isn’t how to go about it.  I will say that at least the DNC didn’t threaten their broadcast licenses.  Since they allow editing, I have taken their form and translated it to this:

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please do not give into intimidation and threats from the Democratic Party and the Obama campaign to cease running NRA’s ads.  As an independent voter, a gun owner, sport shooter, and an NRA member, I find it offensive that the Democratic Party has chosen to attempt to silence my views.  Please keep running the ads by the National Rifle Association.  They speak for me, and many other gun owners who will not be voting for Barack Obama this coming November.

Thank You,

Sebastian
Langhorne, PA

That should be a nice middle finger extended to the Democratic National Committee.  Unfortunately, they ask for a donation after you submit, and “Piss Off” is not among the options.

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