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So much for the claim that “Nine out of 10 Americans support [expanded] background checks”

Posted: November 6, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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So much for the claim that “Nine out of 10 Americans support [expanded] background checks”

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It is frequently claimed that 90 percent of Americans support the expanded background check bills that are being considered before different legislatures, though other surveys indicate that support for the actual bills is below 50 percent.

Well, gun control advocates were able to write up their own initiative (594) and put it on the ballot in Washington State. With what may turn out to be a 50-to-1 spending advantage ($9.5 million to what appears to be a couple hundred thousand ($1.7 million was spent on another gun initiative)), the initiative passed with just less than 60 percent of the vote. What this vote implies is that even under ideal circumstances with a massive campaign spending advantage and picking a liberal state where they thought that the would do well, about 60 percent of the voters supported the initiative. Why do gun control advocates feel it necessary to so greatly exaggerate support for their initiatives? It will be interesting to see if the 90 percent claim keeps being made.

http://crimepreventionresearchcenter.org/2014/11/so-much-for-the-claim-that-nine-out-of-10-americans-support-expanded-background-checks/

Document dump shows State had a hand in ‘Fast and Furious’ redactions

Posted: November 5, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery, anti-gun idiocy
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Darrell Issa is concerned about what else Eric Holder's DOJ has withheld from Oversight.
Darrell Issa is concerned about what else Eric Holder’s DOJ has withheld from Oversight.
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With the media and engaged citizens focused on critical mid-term elections, the Department of Justice turned over 64,000 pages of documents related to Operation Fast and Furious that it had previously claimed executive privilege for, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Responsibility announced Tuesday. Per the committee release, the production of the documents, compelled by court order, is further evidence the administration had no legitimate reasons for withholding them in the first place consistent with the purposes behind executive privilege, and their withholding was part of a continued effort to avoid disclosures “that embarrass or otherwise implicate senior Obama Administration officials.”

http://www.examiner.com/article/document-dump-shows-state-had-a-hand-fast-and-furious-redactions?CID=examiner_alerts_article

Election can determine potentials, but positive change needs personal commitment

Posted: November 3, 2014 by gamegetterII in gun rights
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What will happen tomorrow, and if gun owners "win," how much difference will it make without their continued activism?
What will happen tomorrow, and if gun owners “win,” how much difference will it make without their continued activism?

Tomorrow gun owners will see if all the hype about sweeping Democrat losses is just that, or if Republicans actually end up capitalizing on a disaffected electorate to enjoy substantial gains in state and federal races. Tomorrow we’ll see if the balance of the Senate shifts, ousting Harry Reid from its leadership, with all that means in terms of bills advanced and nominations confirmed.

Tomorrow we’ll see if gun owners are motivated to vote. That’s not a sure thing, with some declaring it makes no difference who is in power, deeming all politicians sell-outs, and others maintaining “lesser of two evils is still evil” purity and opting for a third party. That among those, at least based on comments they post on the internet, there’s no shortage of “Molon Labe!” bravado, we may see what the likely results of detachment and/or reaching for the unreachable star yield. For those committed to sit on their hands, we’ll see if not lifting a finger now will really work out better for them — and for us all — in the long run.

We’ll see if moves to punish bad governors for bad gun edicts succeed. With Connecticut now being a two-way race, we’ll see if Dannel Malloy will be given his walking papers (and we’ll see if he goes gentle into that good night, or what he’ll do if he holds on). We’ll see if Colorado gun owners can give their incumbent governor a bad case of The Hickenlooper Blues. And we’ll see if a plutocrat-funded initiative on safe blue turf is used as a template to roll Astroturf over grassroots on other ground.

http://www.examiner.com/article/election-can-determine-potentials-but-positive-change-needs-personal-commitment?CID=examiner_alerts_article

AG Holder’s wife linked to ‘Fast and Furious’ and abortion clinic fraud

Posted: November 2, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery, anti-gun idiocy, gun rights
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Attorney General Eric Holder is resigning from his post as the longest-serving member of President Obama’s Cabinet. From the “Fast and Furious” scandal, to collecting reporters’ phone records, to the Defense of Marriage Act, here’s a look at Holder’s c...

 
Attorney General Eric Holder is resigning from his post as the longest-serving member of President Obama’s Cabinet.

While outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder continues to fend off responsibility for the law enforcement snafu known as Operation Fast and Furious, documents obtained through a judge’s order reveal that not only did Holder know about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), but he discussed it via email with his physician spouse, Sharon Malone, however President Barack Obama is granting those emails to be withheld based on an “executive privilege” claim.

http://www.examiner.com/article/ag-holder-s-wife-linked-to-fast-and-furious-and-abortion-clinic-fraud

A little ingenuity renders Colorado ‘high capacity’ magazine ban toothless

Posted: November 1, 2014 by gamegetterII in gun laws, gun rights
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“…Magazine manufacturer Magpul has left Colorado as a result (although not before equipping Coloradans with tens of thousands of the soon-to-be-banned magazines–many of them for free–just before the law went into effect), taking their tax revenue and good jobs with them. But the political fallout went much further than that. State Senator John Morse (D), who as Senate President spearheaded the law, and Senator Angela Giron (D), became the first (and so far, the only) two Colorado senators to be kicked out of office on a recall vote (actually, the first two to have even faced a serious recall effort), despite an enormous funding advantage, courtesy of gun-hating billionaire and aspiring King of the Galaxy Michael Bloomberg. Then, when faced with her own recall vote–again because of her part in passing the magazine ban–Senator Evie Hudak (D) resigned her senate seat, so that, as per Colorado law, she would be replaced by a new senator from her own party, rather than lose the recall election to a Republican, thus shifting control of the senate.

The political fallout for Governor John Hickenlooper (D) has also been severe, to the point of causing him to flip-flop and waffle chaotically with regard to the ban–prompting the superbly ironic “Hickenlooper Blues” (do not cheat yourself out of the opportunity to watch the video).”

“According to the breathless “reporting” of CBS Denver’s Brian Maass, Colorado gun shops have found a couple methods of legally providing buyers with the ability to equip themselves with 30-round magazines. One way to do it is using parts kits:

In Colorado Springs at Old Colorado City Surplus, an Army Surplus store, a CBS4 producer bought two brand-new high capacity magazine “kits.”

The kits consist of the magazine hardware and a spring that needs to be inserted to make the unit operational.

The clerk opened the package, put it together in 24 seconds and sold CBS4 the 30 round magazine for $25.

According to the clerk, the kits are “selling really, really fast.” Another method is to sell 30-round magazines that have been modified in such a way as to limit their capacity to 15, but the modification is easily reversed by the buyer:”

“Restoring the magazine back to its standard, designed capacity of 30 rounds is as easy as popping a rivet out. This, of course, is without even delving into 3-D printed magazines. A magazines is, after all, little more than a box with a spring inside–it hardly requires a sophisticated factory to produce.

The CBS crew seems unconcerned about any prosecution they might face for possessing “illegal” magazines–perhaps they have secured for themselves the hallowed “David Gregory exemption” to onerous magazine bans.”

http://www.examiner.com/article/a-little-ingenuity-renders-colorado-high-capacity-magazine-ban-toothless

“a plan to sell “universal” checks with fake gun sportsmen in flannel shirts”

Posted: November 1, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery, anti-gun idiocy
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wwhellno Pic shamelessly stolen from…I can’t recall,maybe WRSA?

Brief article and 3 short videos originally from NRA…

http://www.nraila.org/news-issues/articles/2014/10/must-see-video-vote-or-let-others-determine-the-scope-of-your-rights.aspx

The video’s…

***Edit*** I somehow screwed something up-or wordpress screwed something up in the posting of the videos,all three contain the whole series of three-so…

There’s a menu top left of the video screen-use it to pick part 1,2 or 3.

In the following-the 3rd and last short video-watch the state of Oregon’s top Dr. try the same bullshit that Obama’s failed surgeon general nominee Dr. Vivek Murthy tried-claiming “gun violence” is a “public health issue” and Dr’s need to interrogate their patients about firearms.

The anti-gun zealots and leftists never stop trying-ever.

They start by indoctrinating our children in our public schools-brainwashing children into believing all guns are bad,and no one but cops and soldiers should have them-then the indoctrinated children grow up to be Dr’s like Murthy and this twit.

Lawsuit challenges federal machine gun ban

Posted: October 31, 2014 by gamegetterII in gun laws, gun rights
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Attorney General Eric Holder and ATF Director B. Todd Jones have been named defendants in a lawsuit seeking to overturn the federal machine gun ban.
Attorney General Eric Holder and ATF Director B. Todd Jones have been named defendants in a lawsuit seeking to overturn the federal machine gun ban.
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A complaint for declarative and injunctive relief was filed Thursday in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Dallas Division. Plaintiff Jay Aubrey Isaac Hollis, acting individually and as trustee of a revocable living trust, is suing Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Director B. Todd Jones in their official capacities for administering, executing and enforcing “statutory and regulatory provisions [that] generally act as an unlawful de facto ban on the transfer or possession of a machine gun manufactured after May 19, 1986.

“By imposing such a ban on an entire class of weapons, the statutes and regulations exceed the power of the United States,” the complaint states. It makes its case by citing violations of Article I of the United States Constitution, the Second, Ninth and Tenth Amendments, and “principles of federalism and dual sovereignty.

“[B]y arbitrarily ‘disapproving’ an already approved Form 1, Defendants’ actions violate Plaintiff’s Fifth Amendment right to due process and is an unjust taking; and violate the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,” the complaint continues. “Plaintiff seeks declaratory and injunctive relief against … unconstitutional provisions … declaring the ban on machine guns unconstitutional … and declaratory and injunctive relief prohibiting Defendants from unjustly taking property without Due Process.

http://www.examiner.com/article/lawsuit-challenges-federal-machine-gun-ban?CID=examiner_alerts_article

Ohio-More Than A Dozen Gun Bills Await Lawmakers After Election

Posted: October 30, 2014 by gamegetterII in gun laws, gun rights
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – A variety of gun bills are being shot out at the statehouse, all of them ready to be debated by lawmakers after the election next Tuesday.

Mike Weinman from the Ohio Fraternal Order of Police says law enforcement dislikes many of the proposed gun bills, beginning with an Ohio version of Stand Your Ground.

“You’re going to have questions come up in your head when you’re reading these bills so ask those questions,” said Weinman.  “What you don’t want is lethal force being the first and only force being used and that’s pretty much the fear in stand your ground laws.”

Stand Your Ground is just one of 14 bills – at last count – that would expand access to guns in Ohio.

One bill would eliminate most requirements for carrying a concealed weapon, while another would allow guns in the classroom.  A third would recognize concealed carry permits from other states.

“We shouldn’t have the legislature in the state of Indiana determining who carries a gun in Ohio,” said Weinman.

But Ken Hanson from the Buckeye Firearms Association says all of this worry is overblown.

“My goodness when we changed carry in the car, people were going to be twirling guns on their fingers,” said Hanson.  “Well we can carry guns in restaurants and now people will be drinking beers and shooting each other. None of it every comes true.”

Hanson says despite objections from the Fraternal Order of Police, each gun bill will have its day at the statehouse.

“I’ve called it an embarrassment of riches. we have a lot of gun bills,” said Hanson.

http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2014/10/27/columbus-ohio-over-a-dozen-gun-bills-await-lawmakers-after-election.html

On the Coming Elections by David E. Petzal

Posted: October 29, 2014 by gamegetterII in gun rights
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My Fellow Bloggers and Gun Nuts:

In a few days we will have the opportunity to fight down our gag reflexes and cast our ballots for a slightly different set of untalented hicks and hacks than we voted for last time, under the laughable pretext that they will do what is right for the republic and, in the process, solve some of our problems.

Hell will freeze before this happens, but we must not be dismayed. Congress has always been the halfwit child of American government. Mark Twain said: “Suppose you were an idiot; suppose you were a Congressman. But I repeat myself.” Congress is the only place, outside of a fraternity house, where acting like an ass is not only the norm, but praiseworthy.

Even so, it matters who gets elected. The prime example for gun owners is New York State’s Governor Andrew Cuomo. Mister Cuomo is not gifted with an unusual wisdom or honesty, but he abounds with what Ed Zern called low animal cunning, and after the Sandy Hook shootings, he rammed an unworkable, unenforceable, and highly restrictive gun law through the state legislature literally overnight.  Called the SAFE Act, this work of genius requires among other things that owners of “assault weapons” register them with the state police.

However, the state police refuse to say just how many ARs have been reported to them. This indicates that most gun owners have chosen to give Governor Cuomo the finger, so to speak, and risk the consequences. But there have not, to date, been any consequences, because many law officers refuse to enforce the thing, and Cuomo, probably having national political ambitions, is not about to start confiscating people’s guns and putting them in prison for non-compliance. Not yet at least.

But there is the SAFE Act, on the books, waiting for someone to employ it and put the screws to Empire State shooters in a real and meaningful way. And there it will stay.

The only way to prevent this where you live is to check the NRA ratings on the candidates, which can be found here.

Cuomo earns an F. Elect people with a C or lower and you’re asking for it.

I know that many of you would rather that I stayed away from politics, and I can’t blame you; it is a detestable enterprise, populated by detestable people. But be reminded: Apolitical gun owners will wake up one day to find that while they are still apolitical, they are gun owners no more.

Vote.

http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/the-gun-nuts/on-the-coming-elections

The Fate of Ohio Hangs in the Balance

Posted: October 21, 2014 by gamegetterII in firearms
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YOU have the power to help our cause on November 4!

Sharon Kennedy and Judi French do not have great name recognition. They interpret the law instead of “making law from the bench” and most people just don’t follow court rulings, let alone the justices. So IT IS UP TO YOU to help your friends and family, neighbors and co-workers understand the importance of voting for Kennedy and French.

– See more at: http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/fate-ohio-hangs-balance#sthash.ZFKLCo2S.dpuf

“Justice Judi French has earned the endorsement of Buckeye Firearms Association PAC because she fairly interprets the law and approaches the bench with a conservative judicial philosophy. She has written over 800 legal opinions in her career that give her a record of a fair and honest jurist.”

 

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