The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State …
So today I attended the legislative committee session. Much of what was talked about was in regards to HR2640, and some matters that are appearing in the states like the “victimized twice” laws, forcing the reporting of stolen firearms. I was also quite pleased that the NRA is realizing that they need to have a … Continue reading “Interesting Day”
Despite my fear of public speaking, I managed to force myself to stand up and have my say at our club’s board meeting.  Sadly, I don’t think I had much impact, because the board indicated that the ballot measure to end our club’s 100% NRA participation was a done deal. I urged the board to … Continue reading “How It Went”
Clayton Cramer has a pretty good article on HR2640 in Shotgun News. This will be a useful article in my fight to keep the club I recently joined from removing its 100% NRA status.  There has been a lot of claims that fail to pass the smell test circulating in regards to this bill, and … Continue reading “Clayton Cramer Article in Shotgun News”
I attended the monthly meeting for the gun club tonight, and now am working on the fallout from HR2640.  The NRA is doing it’s usual bang up job of communicating exactly nothing to it’s clubs and members in regards to the nature of the deal, and as such, our Legislative chairman is getting all of … Continue reading “Fallout”
Via Of Arms And the Law, apparently Carolyn McCarthy has responded to Josh Sugarmann’s objections to HR2640 over at HuffPo. I wonder how many coctails the Congresswoman from New York needed to imbibe in order to dull the pain of writing these words: The author must also consider the political realities of Washington. Despite the … Continue reading “Carolyn McCarthy Responds to Sugarmann”
Josh Sugarmann of the Violence Policy Center, takes the a look in the gift horse’s mouth, and doesn’t like what he sees. Hey Josh, the Brady Campaign figured out that they could spin this as a victory to their supporters and donors, and were lucky to have the media gobble up the notion like they … Continue reading “Sugarman Not too Pleased With NICS Deal”
It’s getting tiring posting about this, but it’s important, so I’ll keep doing it. Via SayUncle, I found a pretty good article opposing HR2640: No one knows how many of the 21 million records Congress seeks will truly identify Americans who lack the legal right to have a firearm. The effect on guns already owned … Continue reading “Yet More NICS Stuff”
Clayton Cramer is talking about the “poisoned well” that the gun control movement has created that’s causing a lot of gun owners to see HR2640 as a gun control bill, when it’s really no such thing. He’s absolutely right that the gun control movement has created an environment where there’s substantial mistrust even on bills … Continue reading “Poisoned Well”
Clayton still isn’t buying GOA’s concerns about HR2640. I’m not either.
The GOA issues a release today (or yesterday by now I suppose), detailing their opposition to HR2640. I understand why GOA wants to oppose this, but I don’t think most of their concerns really persuade me, and I think they are even getting some things wrong: The reason is that Section 101(c)(1)(C) of the bill … Continue reading “GOA Press Release”