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Does Florida outlaw a militia becoming ‘well-regulated’?

Posted: November 21, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery, anti-gun idiocy
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Earlier this month, an accused white supremacist in Florida named Marcus Faella was sentenced for two counts of the “crime” of “paramilitary training.” The sentence he must serve is six months in prison–vastly less than the 30 years he might have received. From WFTV 9:

The man found guilty of leading a white supremacist group in Osceola County has been sentenced to six months in jail.

Marcus Faella could have faced up to 30 years in prison after being found guilty on two counts of paramilitary training, but he instead got only a few months.

The “white supremacist” accusation, if true (and there appears to be some question about that, according to witnesses called by the defense) paints Faella as an unsavory, and indeed reprehensible, individual. But it does not–cannot, in a free society–make him a criminal. As National Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea notes in his online journal War on Guns:

As for the guy being a racist, if he hurt anybody, prosecute him. If he didn’t, life is full of distasteful people. Tolerance doesn’t mean approval, as much as some insist otherwise.

But rather than Faella’s specific case, let’s look at the Florida law he was convicted of violating (one count of “paramilitary training by teaching,” and one count of “paramilitary training by participation”). Couldn’t, after all, any kind of training intended to make a militia more effective (or “better-regulated”) be considered “paramilitary training”? Well, the law is a bit more specific than that:

(3)(a) Whoever teaches or demonstrates to any other person the use, application, or making of any firearm, destructive device, or technique capable of causing injury or death to persons, knowing or having reason to know or intending that the same will be unlawfully employed for use in, or in furtherance of, a civil disorder within the United States, is guilty of a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

(b) Whoever assembles with one or more persons for the purpose of training with, practicing with, or being instructed in the use of any firearm, destructive device, or technique capable of causing injury or death to persons, intending to unlawfully employ the same for use in, or in furtherance of, a civil disorder within the United States, is guilty of a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

Well, OK, then–the training is only illegal if intended to prepare people to engage in civil disorder. Who could object to that?

Well, anyone who thinks to ask who gets to define what constitutes “civil disorder,” and determine the intentions of the teachers and participants in the training. The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, after all, designates as “insurrectionists” anyone who dares utter that the purpose of the Second Amendment is to guarantee the people’s means of resisting a tyrannical government. That list includes even mild-mannered gun rights advocates.

The Brady Campaign expressed outraged indignation when National Public Radio profiled the Southeast Michigan Militia as a benign organization that prepares to help maintain civil order, rather than reinforce the anti-gun groups’ preferred narrative of militias as terrorist groups.

And the Florida “justice” system is definitely on board with a wide open interpretation of what constitutes paramilitary training intended to foment “civil disorder.” According to another WFTV 9 article about the Faella case, a conviction for the “crime” of “paramilitary training” does not even require the prosecution to prove any specific plans on the part of the accused:

http://www.examiner.com/article/does-florida-outlaw-a-militia-becoming-well-regulated

‘There is no Second Amendment right to own guns,’ says N.M. man

Posted: November 17, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery, anti-gun idiocy
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A New Mexico Op-Ed says citizens do not have a right to own guns under the Second Amendment.
A New Mexico Op-Ed says citizens do not have a right to own guns under the Second Amendment.
Dave Workman

Anyone who honestly believes that the battle over firearms rights is finished could consider an Op-Ed in the Saturday edition of the Santa Fe New Mexican on-line to be the proverbial splash of cold water, as author Hank Bahnsen insisted that “There is no Second Amendment right to own guns. So intended the founders!”

Bahnsen’s 481-word essay elicited only three reader comments yesterday, but more importantly, illustrated the continued divide between firearms owners and gun prohibitionists. No amount of Supreme Court language in the Heller and McDonald rulings will change things, apparently. While Bahnsen is entitled to his opinion, it is likely to rub a lot of his fellow citizens the wrong way.

It may explain why one California sheriff seemed compelled the other day to explain in a website post that his agency will apparently need to be dragged kicking and screaming, as the Calguns Foundation put it, into compliance with the recent Peruta decision. Calguns quote from that decision, noting, “[T]he Second Amendment does require that the states permit some form of carry for self-defense outside the home,” Peruta v. County of San Diego, 742 F.3d 1144 (9th Cir. 2014) at 1172 (emphasis in original), because “carrying weapons in public for the lawful purpose of self defense is a central component of the right to bear arms” (Id at 1175).”

But Sheriff Stanley Sniff’s public information officer reminded readers that, “Residents are reminded that California CCW issuance is discretionary by the police chief or sheriff, and is based upon both reason of (1) self-defense or self-protection, AND (2) good moral character.” (Emphasis in the original document.)

Question: Who defines “good moral character?” Where in the job description of a county sheriff can that authority be found?

If there is “no Second Amendment right to own guns” and only people of “good moral character” can be allowed to carry firearms with government permission in California, what does that say about where the country is, and where it may be headed? Perhaps one answer could be found over the weekend in a two-part treatise by John Richardson at “No Lawyers, Only Guns and Money.”

Richardson first examined the passage of Initiative 594, the 18-page gun control measure, in Washington earlier this month. In the second installment, he made some predictions about where similar efforts, apparently to be supported by anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown For Gun Safety lobbying organization, might pop up next.

One reason Richardson identified some states as ripe for the kind of gun control in I-594 is explained thusly: “The next factor that I thought would have an impact was the proportion of the state’s residents that were actually born there. I call this the ‘Californication’ factor. In other words, people move from California to other states such as Nevada, Oregon, and Washington and bring their California attitudes with them. We see a similar pattern in the East as in-migrants from states like New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts have altered the politics of states like Florida and Maine.”

http://www.examiner.com/article/there-is-no-second-amendment-right-to-own-guns-says-n-m-man

Colorado: Lead Ammunition Ban Defeated

Posted: November 15, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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Today, during the scheduled Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission meeting, the Commission members voted against a proposal that would have banned the use of lead ammunition for your sporting purposes.  This misguided proposal was offered due to an emotional reaction, not one based on sound science and biological data.

We thank all NRA members across Colorado who respectfully contacted Commission members and expressed their opposition to such an unfounded and unnecessary action.

http://www.nraila.org/legislation/state-legislation/2014/11/colorado-ammunition-ban-defeated.aspx

Bloomberg ‘background check’ expansion to Nevada part of warned-against plan

Posted: November 14, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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Nevadans for Background Checks submitted a ballot measure petition with over 246,000 signatures as the next step emulating a successful effort in Washington State, Dave Workman noted Thursday, citing a KTNV News report. That move, Workman recalled, had been predictable, along with expected efforts in other states.

The Nevada effort was warned against in this column last August, in its revelation that, far from being a group springing up from the grassroots, Nevadans for Background Checks is a front group backed by Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety organization. The corporation name was reserved with the Nevada Secretary of State by the same New York law firm that represented Everytown’s trademark registration. The Political Action Committee was headed by the Everytown treasurer, who also directed the I-594 Action Fund in Washington State.

That was all part of a well-planned and funded effort to expand “action group” efforts to the states reported in this column, initially in July of 2013, and warned of again in December of last year because no one else seemed to be noticing. It’s hard to organize against developing threats if the existence of where they are and how they’re structured is unknown.

Significantly, the KTNV “legitimate news media / real reporter” story mentioned none of this. I guess letting Nevadans know outside special interests are trying to buy an election isn’t newsworthy and/or doesn’t help advance the agenda.

http://www.examiner.com/article/bloomberg-background-check-expansion-to-nevada-part-of-warned-against-plan?CID=examiner_alerts_article

Concealed gun ruling stands: Foes can’t fight loosening of California permit standards

Posted: November 14, 2014 by gamegetterII in gun rights
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A court ruling that dramatically loosened California’s restrictions on concealed firearms came closer to taking effect Wednesday, as an appeals court quashed legal maneuvering that might have staved it off.

As a result, sheriffs all over California — including the Bay Area, where many are reluctant to grant concealed-carry permits — could soon have to hand them out based on nothing more than the applicant’s stated wish to carry a gun for self-defense.

Currently, some sheriffs require applicants to prove a specific threat to their safety requires a concealed weapon while other sheriffs don’t. Those in most urban counties hand out permits by the dozens; those in many less-populated rural counties hand them out by the thousands. The court ruling involved a San Diego sheriff’s restrictions.

The state is one step closer to removing the concealed weapons permit decision from police chiefs and sheriffs, said Sam Paredes, executive director of Gun Owners of California. “We’re starting to smell the hint of freedom in the air, and it smells good,” he said.

http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_26923154/concealed-gun-ruling

Bloomberg funded morons trying to duplicate I 594’s passage in Washington with similar horsepucky in Nevada

Posted: November 13, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery, anti-gun idiocy
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“Nevadans for Background Checks collected about 250,000 signatures, according to Kayla Keller, a spokeswoman for the group. It currently takes 101,667 signatures from registered Nevada voters to qualify an initiative for the ballot”

We all know the following is bullshit-numbers produced by wording questions so those who take the poll provide a predetermined answer.

As usual-the anti-gun zealots pushing this garbage are using lies,half-truths, and obfuscation.

There is no way in hell that even 50% of the people of Nevada support this crap-no gun owner I know would support giving the government even more control over our right to keep and bear arms. Lies,false and misleading question on polls-and likely on the ballot initiative-are how these leftist tools produce their false numbers of supporters-wonder how many dead voters signed their petition?

“On the gun issue, polls show that more than eight out of 10 Nevadans support expanding gun background checks to private sales, including over the Internet and at gun shows, advocates say. Now, such checks are required only by licensed gun dealers to prevent felons, the court adjudicated mentally ill and domestic abusers from legally buying guns.”

“The gun background check initiative is supported by the Everytown For Gun Safety Action Fund, a group launched by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg who is spending tens of millions of dollars on efforts to influence elections and ballot measures in states. He spent some $40 million in the recent election, according to Politico.

If enough signatures are found to be legitimate, the initiatives would first go to the Legislature, which has 40 days to act on such measures. If lawmakers pass it and the governor signs it, the measure becomes law. If the Legislature does nothing or if the governor doesn’t sign it, an initiative goes on the ballot.

If lawmakers amend the measure, both the original version and the amended measure would go on the ballot. If both pass with more than 50 percent of the vote, the one with the larger number of “yes” votes becomes law.”

http://www.reviewjournal.com/politics/elections/pot-gun-control-measures-could-be-headed-nevada-ballot

Bloomberg Moms’ political spots relied on deceptive voter manipulation

Posted: November 13, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery, anti-gun idiocy
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Bellicose Demanding Moms have proven as easy to dupe and exploit -- by pushing emotional buttons and letting their ignorance do the rest -- as Obamacare supporters.
Bellicose Demanding Moms have proven as easy to dupe and exploit — by pushing emotional buttons and letting their ignorance do the rest — as Obamacare supporters.
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Employing the same cynical political strategy and contemptuous duping of “stupid” voters as Obamacare promoters, Michael Bloomberg’s Moms Demand Action relied on deception to exploit ignorance, prejudices and fears in the midterm elections, a Gun Rights Examiner analysis of social media messages on TPM Livewire demonstrates. The professionally-produced “Explain Your A” campaign featured in the story targeted three Republican candidates who had received high marks from the National Rifle Association: Carl Domino of Florida, Paul Chabot of California, and Larry Kaifesh of Illinois.

“Does your A grade from the NRA mean you support gun rights for suspected terrorists?” the attack on Domino read. Along with his picture, the Moms included a photo of Al Qaeda’s American-born propaganda tool, Adam Gadahn, whose previous affiliations in the “gun control” debate were with anti-gunners shamelessly exploiting another lie, that full-auto weapons could be bought without background checks and IDs at U.S. gun shows.

“Does your A grade from the NRA mean you support the rights of felons to buy and own guns?” the hit piece on Chabot asked. His portrait was paired with a heavily tattooed prisoner behind bars.

“Does your A grade from the NRA mean you oppose taking guns from domestic abusers?” the smear against Kaifesh insinuated. Accompanying his picture was the image of a distraught, heavily-mascaraed woman with her fists clenched against her cheeks suggestive of both Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” and MacCaulay Culkin in “Home Alone.” For some unexplained reason, the model in the staged photo shoot has what appears to be masking tape across her mouth — either that or she’s wearing a turtleneck like Mort from “Bazooka Joe” comics. With these crazy MILMs, who the hell knows?

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers,” novelist Thomas Pynchon noted in “Gravity’s Rainbow.” In this case, the minds behind the Moms ask those questions for us in order to manipulate emotions and suppress critical examination. After all, who wants terrorist, gangbangers and wife-beaters shooting victims?

The targets of the misleading Bloomberg hit pieces are enabling nothing of the sort, of course. And nothing being demanded would stop the bad guys anyway.

If a person is a known threat, public safety demands he be apprehended. If he’s only a suspected threat, there’s this little protection we’re supposed to have called due process, where people get a trial, are proven guilty and are sentenced. What they’re going for here is a “terror watch list” for guns, as if tipping off those who are under surveillance makes for smart intelligence work. What they’re also going for is people who are not in custody being stripped of fundamental rights and liberty, not that the Bill of Rights means anything when you‘re a “progressive” with an agenda to shove down throats. Besides, there’s another, bigger deception going on: These people are using fear of an Al Qaeda boogeyman to justify deprivation of liberties they really want extended to those they paint as domestic terrorists – that is, anyone who believes the right to keep and bear arms is a legitimate deterrent to tyranny, and in a last-resort right to rebellion.

OK, but what about felons, that is, people who have already received their due process? We’ll put aside my longstanding contention that anyone who can’t be trusted with a gun can’t be trusted without a custodian, and focus on the way things are. Such criminals are already prohibited by law from having a gun – for all the good that does at stopping them. What the Bloombergians want here is to end all lawful (!!!) private sales and transfers, done under another deception as we’re seeing unfold in Washington State, so-called “universal background checks.” And yes, of course they’re aware that the National Institute of Justice produced a “Firearm Violence Prevention Strategies” report in which it concluded “Effectiveness depends on the ability to reduce straw purchasing, requiring gun registration…”

So of course what they really want is gun registration (something the gun-grabbers know felons are exempted from, because requiring it of them would violate their right against self-incrimination). If all they really intended was to ensure recipients of firearms transfers were legally eligible, “common sense gun safety advocates” would be promoting a Blind Identification System, which could verify no legal impediment to a transfer exists but record no information identifying either gun buyers or what they purchased. And, again of course, the real reason they want registration is to facilitate confiscation.

http://www.examiner.com/article/bloomberg-moms-political-spots-relied-on-deceptive-voter-manipulation?CID=examiner_alerts_article

Calif. gun dealers sue AG Harris on First Amendment issue

Posted: November 11, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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California Attorney General Kamala Harris is on the receiving end of a First Amendment lawsuit, filed by four gun shop operators.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris is on the receiving end of a First Amendment lawsuit, filed by four gun shop operators.
Photo by Jason Merritt

Four California gun dealers today filed a federal lawsuit against State Attorney General Kamala Harris, alleging that enforcement of a law that prohibits them from displaying images of handguns or even the word “handguns” where they would be visible to passersby is an unconstitutional violation of their First Amendment rights.

The Second Amendment Foundation is offering financial support for this action, although it is not a plaintiff in the case. It joins the Calguns Foundation and California Association of Federal Firearms Licensees in backing the case.

It’s an interesting complaint, too. The lawsuit alleges that the California Penal Code violates the First Amendment rights of the plaintiffs by prohibiting them from. However, anti-gun protesters are still allowed to appear with signs that use the words or images, constituting what the lawsuit calls “viewpoint discriminatory.”

“By prohibiting firearms dealers from displaying on-site handgun advertisements, Section 26820 violates the right of firearms dealers to disseminate truthful, non-misleading commercial information about a lawful, constitutionally protected product,” the lawsuit alleges.

http://www.examiner.com/article/calif-gun-dealers-sue-ag-harris-on-first-amendment-issue

JPFO remembers Kristallnacht on 76th anniversary

Posted: November 9, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery, anti-gun idiocy
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The night of November 9 – 10 will mark the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the infamous Night of Broken Glass, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership reminds its supporters by resurrecting an essay from the 60th anniversary of the obscene precursor to genocide. Written by Rabbi R. Mermelstein in 1998, the recounting of the night of official hatred and horror gives a graphic reminder of what happens when disarmed people are powerless to protect themselves from evil.

Commemorating Kristallnacht is appropriate. Ensuring government terrorism can never happen again is a sacred duty of free people.

Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images

There are two common lies spread today by latter-day leftists. The first is one of projection, equating Nazis with “conservatives,” and denying that the National Socialists were just what they claimed to be. It’s part of the “For ‘progressives,’ every day is Opposite Day” truism that defines falsely self-identified “liberals,” and it’s a deception giving cover to true ideological heirs.

“It is now clear beyond all reasonable doubt that Hitler and his associates believed they were socialists, and that others, including democratic socialists, thought so too,” researcher and author George Watson revealed. “[Hitler’s] differences with the communists, he explained, were less ideological than tactical [and] ‘the whole of National Socialism’ was based on Marx.”

http://www.examiner.com/article/jewish-gun-group-remembers-kristallnacht-on-76th-anniversary?CID=examiner_alerts_article

Bloomberg-listed mayor’s ‘gang sign’ story raises controversial ‘points’

Posted: November 9, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery, anti-gun idiocy
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Making a point: Is the criticism fair? Are the rebuttals?
Making a point: Is the criticism fair? Are the rebuttals?
Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Adding herself to a long list of problematic Mayors Against (Your) Guns, Betsy Hodges of Minneapolis posed for a photograph, reportedly “with a convicted felon while flashing a known gang sign,” Jay Kolls of 5 Eyewitness News claimed Thursday.

“The man in the photo is a twice-convicted felon for drug selling and possession and illegal possession of a firearm,” Kolls maintained. “He is currently sentenced to five years at the St. Cloud Correctional Facility, with the prison term stayed for three years while he is under supervised probation…”

While Hodges’ supporters claim “the mayor is simply ‘pointing at him’ in the photo,” a retired Internal Affairs officer maintains “She can’t be that naive.” The situation is reminiscent of when anti-gun radical priest Michael Pfleger of Chicago urged a crowd to “snuff out” a legal gun dealer, and apologists expected people to believe someone intimately familiar with gang culture had no idea what the term meant.

For her part, the Minneapolis affiliation with the Bloomberg mayors’ group is documented on the “Everytown” website (for now?). For their part, “progressives” are doing what they do best: Engaging in Alinsky Rule 5 ridicule. And playing the race card. They’ve even established the hashtag, #pointergate to facilitate mocking the story on social media.

If we’re to take them at their word, that this is all “a Tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. Signifying nothing,” then at least we should expect consistency. Maybe all the hysteria over school kids getting suspended for pointing their fingers can be placed in sane context.

http://www.examiner.com/article/bloomberg-listed-mayor-s-gang-sign-story-raises-controversial-points?CID=examiner_alerts_article

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