Category: Anti-Gun Folks

I suppose I should have realized that the real reason Dennis Henigan was crying into his Hennigan’s over the fact that a few mean pro-gun folks had decided to game his book ratings on Amazon down was because it interfered with the Brady Bunch plans to game his book ratings up.

Looks like Richard Aborn is back in the gun control issue after being handed a “humiliating man-beating” on election day. For those who don’t know, Richard Aborn was president of Handgun Control Inc. (which would later become the Brady organizations) during their glory days when they were actually achieving something legislatively.

Mayor Shiela Dixon of Baltimore is among the latest criminal members of Mayors Against Illegal Guns. She was stealing gift cards from the poor. She beat the felony rap, but was convicted of fraudulent misappropriation by a fiduciary.

Clearly we need to do something about keeping illegal guns out of the hands of Mayors Against Illegal Guns!

Press release here. He’s calling for NICS audit records to be kept for 10 years if your name happens to match up to someone or some alias on the terrorist watch list, which as we know would have been the late Senator Kennedy. For the rest of us lucky folks, the records will only be kept for half a year. You will have no way of knowing that you’re on the list, or that your purchase records are being kept and scrutinized by the government. Not being a Senator, you will also have no way of getting the name off the list. Lautenberg is also reporting some misleading information about how the NICS system currently operates:

The 24-hour destruction requirement hinders the FBI’s ability to verify that gun dealers are conducting background checks properly and to retrieve guns from those who are prohibited from having them.

The destruction requirement only applies to records that have been cleared by NICS. In other words, only for people who have no criminal record. In addition, it only requires that identifying information be destroyed. For the purposes of verifying that a background check was conducted, the system is permitted to store an anonymized identifying token, which can allow matching to the number provided on ATF Form 4473 for purposes of verifying the dealers are conducting the background checks properly.

This is another one of those things there can be no negotiation on. NICS is not to be used as a backdoor registry for firearms. Its purpose is to conduct background checks on sales, and the standard should be a an up or down answer within a reasonable amount of time. Can you imagine the response if this proposal was for logging and keeping track of abortions?

The anti-gun groups are all touting this editorial at the LA Times that they no doubt love. But for all the people who want to claim Heller a defeat, you will notice that they concede that handgun prohibition is off the table, and America’s gun culture is unlikely to change. But short of that they bring up the usual canards, about licensing guns like we license drivers, even though we generally already do, and the current push for closing the so-called “gun show loophole.” But they are now forced to making their arguments from a weaker position. Fifteen years ago, I don’t think you’d see too many major media outlets claiming “there are few gun laws that could have prevented the tragedy short of a blanket ban on handguns, and the Supreme Court last year ruled that Washington, D.C.’s handgun ban was unconstitutional.”

We still have a lot of work to do, and we’re hardly safe from the predations of anti-gun groups, but I actually loved that the LA times had to concede that.

… is that if you can honestly say given a situation like this, you’d rather be unarmed than armed, you’re either insane, or seriously and delusionally committed to the proposition that guns are just bad all around. Yes, people who carry guns can still end up being victims. Guns are not a magic talisman that wards off all evil. If that were the case, no police officers would ever be shot and killed with guns. But police officers still carry them, because they’d be foolish not to. You have to wonder if these people honestly believe police officers would be better off without firearms for self-protection.

It looks like the Joyce Foundation is going to try, and they have some recommendations. The good news is we have the opposition in hearts and minds territory, the bad news is this is ground they’ve traditionally been very good at fighting on. They are laying the groundwork for the next big legislative sweep against us, and if this succeeds it’s going to be ugly. It’s always a situation of winning, until you aren’t.

One of the organizations who signed onto the Brady Brief in McDonald is one I hadn’t heard of before, which is the International Brotherhood of Police Officers. If you click on the link, you will see who they are affiliated with. Surprised?

Lautenberg is claiming that the MAIG ad favoring denying Second Amendment rights without any due process shows “Show Srong Support for Lautenberg Measure to Prevent Gun Sales to Terror Suspects” The danger of this group is growing by the day.

Thirdpower notes that John Rosenthal of  Stop Handgun Violence, and founder of AHSA, has joined MAIG in supporting closing the “terror gap” which translated from anti-gun rhetoric to reality means government bureaucrat taking away constitutional rights from Americans with no due process. Thirdpower also has a graphic of the ad MAIG is running promoting the same.