Wait, WHAT?

Dianne Feinstein finally admitted it!  She said of the previous Assault Weapons ban:

“It had begun to do what we wanted it to do, which is to drive down the number of these guns over time,” she said. “The NRA has their statistics, I have mine.”

I thought the purpose of assault weapons bans was to reduce crime and protect our schools?  This would suggest the REAL purpose was to get semiautomatic rifles away from law-abiding citizens.   But that would mean that she told us something that wasn’t  true to support an agenda, and it would also mean that gun owners are NOT “heartless mother fuckers”  for resisting laws that are CLEARLY not designed to reduce crime.

She also failed to mention that the NRA Statistics came from Law Enforcement whereas Diane’s came from the Amalgamated Federation of Moon-bats local 6, department of wishful thinking…..

 

Well Piers, this is why I NEED an AR-15…….

I would love to sit across the desk from this well dressed British Git.  I would love for him to use his aristocratic British tone to whine  “why do you neeeeeeeeeed and AR 15 that holds 30 rounds”  This is what I would say, provided he would not try to talk over me as he does every other guest.

“Well Piers, first of all it is the bill of RIGHTS not the bill of NEEDS, and in America one can own a $85,000 car or drink a $7 coffee which none of us NEED but we can have without having to explain ourselves to anyone.  I think your question is more why an AR-15 instead of a double-barreled shotgun like Vice President Biden espouses.   First let me give you the Constitutional answer, then I will give you the practical answer.

When Drafting our Constitution and the Bill of Rights our Founding Fathers were crafting a document that would by its very design limit the power of government while empowering the citizens to keep watch over their own liberty.   They recalled that it was the citizen soldier with privately owned firearms that forged our nation and viewed a standing army as a tool of oppression.  With this in mind they created the Second Amendment to protect the ability of the Citizenry to be able to take up arms against a standing army should it ever become necessary.  In the Late 1700’s there was no difference between a “military” and a “Civilian” arm.  There were long arms, pistols and swords.  The idea that a citizen could only own one type of arm and the military could have another would never have occurred to them.  There are about 2.2million Men and Women in the United States military and between 60 and 100 million lawful gun owners in the United States, which is why we are still free. So IF you were an American Citizen and the day came where you and your neighbors had to take up arms against invading troops which would you rather have to protect your family with, an AR-15 with four 30 round magazines or a double barreled shotgun?  But of course you do not believe that would even happen so lets talk practical.

Police in the U.S. carry guns.  They do this to protect themselves first and foremost.  A lot of study, testing and research goes into the selection of police equipment.  Currently, most uniform patrol officers carry at least a semi automatic pistol with a standard capacity magazine of 15-17  rounds, plus two additional 15-17 round magazines on their belts.  If this is the national standard for a police officer’s personal protection, why is this not the ideal standard for my personal protection?  Additionally, the police in jurisdictions in my area have an AR-15 in their cruiser and usually a shotgun as well.  WHY?  Because each of those weapons plays a different role in different self defense situations.  Since I have no idea what situation I could find myself in, it stands to reason that I should look to the Police for direction as to what firearms make the most sense.

Absent the proper licensing and tax stamps and other red tape  required to own a fully automatic machine gun, Semi Automatic rifles and pistols are EXACTLY the kind of weapons you would want to fight against an invading army, and these are EXACTLY the arms protected by the Second Amendment.  If you were an impartial journalist and not an entertainer you would be asking the real question which is why are these ideal self defense weapons EXACTLY the ones Diane Feinstein and company trying to ban?”

Everyone should have an “assault weapon”!

Ban “assault weapons?  Are your kidding me?  they should be ISSUED!

Forgetting for a minute that there is actually no such thing,  What we are talking about is Semi-automatic rifle, and even though they are all the same for the sake of argument we will assume they tactical rifles.

The Founding Fathers crafted  the Second Amendment to ensure that American Citizens could always defend against and defeat a “standing army”.  Absent having an FFL and all the associated paperwork to own an actual M16A2 or an M4 Carbine, what would the next best thing be?

Call me crazy (and many do) but it would seem that a semi auto-automatic rifle with a detachable magazine in a sufficient caliber would be the thing to have would it not? Oh, and LOTS of Rounds.   Every home without prohibited persons in it should have at least one semi-auto rifle, shotgun and a pistol in it and everyone should be proficiant in their use.  In the Days when the Consisitution was drafted, every home had a musket over the hearth.  This is as good an idea today as it was then!

 

Gun Lobby connect the dots

Ever notice the Anti-freedom folks are always up in arms about “THE GUN LOBBY”  like it is some alien invading force hellbent on the destruction of all that is good and right with the world?    According to these moonbats, the majority of America would do away with guns altogether but THE GUN LOBBY forces Congress to go against the majority of right thinking people etc etc.  Problem is, they have no idea what the GUN LOBBY is.   Like any other lobbying group, the “gun lobby” represents the special interests of a certain industry.  Realtors, Oil companies, Home builders, Hotel owners all have lobby’s to watch out for their interests.  

  The complaint by the Antis is that they are too powerful and have too much money to spend.  ok, so where do they get the money? The all-powerful “gun lobby” is funded by American Gun manufacturers. ok, so where do THEY get all that money to spend?  why, from SELLING GUNS!   So, if they have a lot of money to spend, and it is from selling lots of guns, who bought all of those guns?   Contrary to what the Antis would have you belive, every new gun goes through THREE legal purchases before it can get into the hands of a criminal, so therefore if a gun manufacturer sells a million dollars worth of guns, that means they sold 2000 guns to American citizens that the Federal Bureau of Investigation said were legal to purchase.   Lets follow this a step further;  A portion of every gun purchase goes to fund the “GUN LOBBY” to help keep manufacturers in business.  Since the demand for their product is very high, then they are by proxy representing the wishes of a large number of Americans to be able to purchase their products.  How does that translate into the “Majority” of the country is opposed to gun ownership?  Simple-It doesnt!

in 2011, there were just under 16.5 MILLION  nics checks done, and allowing for the 1.3% denial rate that means  at least 14.3 milion guns were sold in the U.S. last year, the number is most likely higher.  To put that in perspective that is enough guns sold in the U.S. one year to arm each soldier in the world’s ten largest armies with one gun each and still have 4 million left over.  Since Nation wide 1 out of 3 Americans own a firearm and 5% of the population buys a new firearm, how do you trivialize these numbers?????

In addition to ignoring History, Logic, and Reason, the Anti will now need to ignore Math as well.

Moonbats are stupid.

Sound supressors

Is it amazing that the same assholes who would call the cops on you if your car had a loud exhaust panic at the very idea of you putting a muffler on your gun? I’m just saying……

Having their cake and eating it too

Not that I should be surprised, But has anyone besides me noticed the anti-gunners rapid change of heart now that National concealed carry reciprocity is working tis way through congress?

The same folks who have been calling for NATIONAL  licensing, NATIONAL  Gun Bans, and NATIONAL registries and now screaming about STATES rights in the face of NATIONAL  concealed carry.  Nothing lends credibility to your position like turning 180 degrees to keep the party line going, no matter how moronic it makes you look.

A Simple Explaination of Gun Control

A small group of liars deceiving a large group of morons to disarm and control the only citizens brave enough to stand up to tyrany

Apparently I’m a terrorist

Apparently,I’ m a terrorist.  Please be assured gentler reader I had no idea.  I believe in the Constitution of the United States I am grateful for the sacrifices ALL service people in uniform have made since the Battle of Lexington,  I ALWAYS stand at attention and put my hand over my heart or salute  as appropriate not only during the pledge of allegiance and national anthem , but also when the flag is in motion with a color guard (how many of us know to do THAT?)  I thank Veterans whenever I can, and I believe that the U.S. Is the Greatest nation on earth.  I volunteer in My community and I vote in every election, even the presidential one, not because I think it makes a damn bit of difference but because Americans have died to make sure I could. It never occurred to me that I was an enemy of the state.

While it is somewhat old news, I recently had occasion to re-read “Rightwing Extremism:Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization  and Recruitment”  This was Homeland Security’s memo to police departments to warm them to the Idea that anyone who recently served their county, stands up for constitutional rights, especially the second amendment ,people who stockpile guns an ammunition ahead of a ban, and basically believes in the country but is not happy about the direction it is headed in needs to be watched and might be a domestic terrorist.  Since I wa reading it as a PDF, I did a word search.   The world’s “Islam” “Muslim” and “Jihad”  were not written anywhere in the document

“veteran” appeared 8 Times. “gun” in the context of laws, bans, or control, appeared 7 times”rightwing” appeared 51 times, “terrorist” 14 times and “extremist”61 times, and “Firearm” appeared 7 times.

How long do you think it will be before I am called an “insurgent”?

 

 

The ‘Microstamping” lie and its uterior motive

There is a lot of talk about “microstamping”  and elected moonbats cannot WAIT to co-sponsor any bill than includes this.  As a constituent, for or against gun ownership you should be insulted at how stupid you representative thinks you are.

The THEORY goes like this;  Gun makers etch a serial number on the the head of the firing pin on a semi automatic pistol, thus it would leave the number imprinted on the back of the casing.  Police arrive that the crime scene,pick up the spent casing, read the number off the back, look up the number, drive to the criminals house and arrest him.  Case solved faster than last weeks episode of  C.S.I.

The REALITY ( there’s that word moonbats hate so much) is much different.

1.  The technology does not actually exist yet. While state governments in places like CA and NY want to make it the law of the land, gun manufactures are unable to make guns that meet the requirements.  They would therefore be unable to sell guns in the states with this legislation.  Well, would you look at that?  It would become a back door gun ban!  How convenient for the gun banners!  After Microstamping fails to stop crime with semi-auto pistols, what is to stop them from including rifles and shotguns?  Why, nothing! In one fell swoop the antis could get rid of everything but revolvers! As long as we are legislating non-existent technology, what not pass a law that says car dealers can only sell cars that get 200mpg or better?

2. lets say for the sake of argument that the technology exist and actually was viable.  If I bought a microstamped gun, how would the police know to arrest me if committed a crime with it?  Why, they would have to have a list with my name on it! Isn’t that convenient?

3. Now lets say the technology were to exist and the registry now exists.  What Happens if I want to sell my gun to a buddy of mine  what then?  How would big brother be able to match the microstamping mark to the correct criminal?  Well I guess we would have to go to  gun dealer and got through a NICS check sothe new owner can be registered.  Say, as long as we do that for Microstamped guns, might as well do that for all of them huh? Wait, wouldn’t that get rid of that  “Gun show loophole”?  well what do you know about that?  This of course ignores the fact that Canada just spent a few BILLION on a gun registry only to find out that it doesn’t work and they are now scraping it.  Upon hearing of the failure of the gun registry, California has decided it wants to start a gun registry.

4.  Since new guns can only be legally sold through gun dealers and criminals cannot buy their guns legally, no one has mentioned how the micro stamped guns are going to get into the hands of criminals so they can commit these solvable crimes.  I am especially interested in how they are going to get criminals to register the microstamps?   The Supreme Court ruled in 1968 that criminals cannot be punished for failing to register their guns as it violates their 5thAmendment rights.

5.  If my microstamped gun is stolen and then used in a crime, the microstamp will tell police who USED TO own the gun, not who committed the crime.  I’m not a detective, but that does not strike me as a terribly useful piece of information

At this point does anyone but me see that the crime solving ability of this technology hinges solely on lawful gun owners suddenly turning to a life of crime?  I do see that it has spent a lot of money without solving any crimes yet.

So how easy would this be to defeat? TOO EASY

1. Use a revolver.  Revolvers don’t eave brass behind so stamping them would be pointless

2. Pick up your spent brass, better yet drop some casing picked up at a gun range as red herrings.

3.  Put a bag over your hand to catch the spent brass.  A 1 gallon zip lock and a  zip tie just like in the movie Mr Brooks should do the trick

4.  File Down the firing pin.  A monkey could do it.

5. Use a stolen gun

6. Change out the firing pin.  The thing is the size of a one inch nail used to set floor edge trim, can you imagine how easy it would be to smuggle those around?

 

There you go…. five reasons why microstamping won’t work and six ways to defeat it for little or no cost. Any politician who is supporting this idea is deliberately  wasting time and money.

VPC-Very Partial to Crack

It is incredibly comforting to know Paul Helmke in generous in sharing his crack rocks with Josh Sugarman and Co over at the Violence Policy Center.

The VPC funded a study…   hold on a second, lets start there.  If I were to pay shitloads of money to some group to conduct a study to find out if I was the sexiest man alive, what is the bet that they could find away that they could confirm to me that I am in fact the sexiest man alive?  So double or nothing,  if I  take this study to Angelina Jolie ‘s dressing room and show it to her, it will that cause her dress to fall to the floor, exposing her luscious…..wait where was I going with this?  oh yeah…just because I paid for a study to say it, it does not make it so.   Considering I look more like Larry the Cable Guy than Brad Pitt., I’m guessing study or no Angelina will not be impressed.  Back  to the Very Partial To Crack folks….

The VPC Claims that Gun ownership in America is at an all time low, less Women own guns now than in 1982, and basically having a gun in the home is a fad whose time has past and it should now take its rightful place in the back of the closet with Pet Rocks, Pop rocks, Chinese Jack and Furbys.

Mean while, at the FBI, NICS background checks, which is a decent indication of traffic at gun retailers has risen from 9,138,123 in 1999 to 14,409,616 in 2010.  Based on averages for 2011 up through may 31, we should be at 16,389,074 by Dec 31, 2011.

FBI says LEGAL gun purchases are at an all time high,  VPC says gun ownership at all time low.  How is this possible????

f you look at the VPC data, it was collected by calling random people and asking them if they own a gun.  Sweethearts, if some random survey called my house and asked me if I owned a gun, I would tell them HELL NO!  Apparently, gun owners don’t trust the motive of strangers calling their house to ask about their firearms.

Lets all conduct a VPC Style “study” !

1. Call random people from your local phone book and tell them you are conducting a survey to find out on average how much cash people keep in the house.  Want to bet they wont want to tell you if they do?

2. How about this, get a list of Orthodox Jews and call them up to ask them how often they eat ham?  Ham consumption in the U.S. must be at all time low you would surmise from the data.

3. look at the raw data for number of police officers per-capita and violent crime rates for Massachusetts and New Hampshire.  Since there are 100 more police officers per 100,000 population  in Ma, and three times the per capita violent crime rate in Ma, we should publish an article in the  Huffington Post that having more police officers on the street leads to more violent crime.

The VPC uses biased studies, junk science  and outright lies to draw bizarre conclusions  for the sole purpose furthering the gun ban agenda.  Whats worse is they think the average American is stupid enough to believe them.  Here are my sources for the VPC and NICS information, don’t take my word for it, draw your own conclusions!

Click to access 060111_TotalNICSBackgroundChecks.pdf

Click to access ownership.pdf