The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State …
It’s time to start phase two of my “save the tooth” campaign. This isn’t a procedure that causes me all that much anxiety, because I’ve been through it before. At the least, it means there will be no more pain in that tooth, which will make me happy.
Let the jokes about gun owners having bad teeth begin.
From Traction Control, CBS is turning up the bullcrap up to 11 on “Assault Weapons”.
UPDATE: Traction Control updates with a link to a video proportedly showing an “illegal gun owner” with an Uzi, but who the media claims has an AK-47. I’m going to call bullcrap. One of two things is true here.
Either way, someone isn’t doing their god damned jobs.
UPDATE: More from Thirdpower
I think it’s safe to say the media is trying the old bait and switch tactic on this issue.  Bait them with stories of scary automatic weapons. Don’t tell people they are already illegal.  Push for bans on semi-automatic weapons that look like the scary automatic versions, but function just like other ordinary guns.  Add a little sprinkle of “don’t tell people that there are sporting uses for these” and “weapon of choice for criminals” and you have a recipe for the next assault weapons ban.
Only this time, it won’t be so easy for them to snooker everyone.
HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 1 PRNewswire-USNewswire — Governor Edward G. Rendell today proclaimed October as “Crime Prevention Month” in Pennsylvania and urged every citizen to play a part in making communities safer.
Finally! Something from The Governor I can get behind.
Pennsylvania LTCF? Check
Glock 19? Check
16 rounds of Corbon DPX 9mm? Check
Comp-Tac “Infidel” IWB Kydex Holster? Check
*snicker* Somehow I’m willing to bet that’s not the kind of “prevention” he has in mind, but I’m doing my part, nontheless.
Looks like anti-gun activists and the media are looking to guilt companies into helping them pass more gun laws in the Commonwealth.  I’m sorry to see they appear to have the support of former Governor Mark Schweiker, who is currently running the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. Schweiker had this to say:
Let me mention that the business community has been a steadfast participant in efforts to reduce violence. Our political efforts range from the Chamber’s 1999 testimony in Harrisburg in favor of one-gun-per-month sales legislation to our recent testimony in July in support of Philadelphia’s efforts to pass gun laws more restrictive than the state’s. Financial efforts and backing include the record-setting workplace donations to United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania in 2006 as well as the millions of dollars which individual corporations donate directly to social service agencies.
Schweiker’s name comes up when people talk about who’s going to run on the GOP ticket when Rendell’s term is up in 2010. I thought Pennsylvania gun owners should be aware of what he’s been up to in the mean time, in the event he does still have political ambitions.
We’re definitely seeing a serious increase in the number of articles saying the same old things we’ve heard about assault weapons:
In a January series on murder in Jacksonville, the Times-Union discovered that, of 136 people accused in gun homicides over the past three years, one out of every eight was a juvenile.
What that means is that a lot of them won’t be around at class reunion time – if they were in school at all.
McGuinness, for example, told me about a 13-year-old who fatally shot a woman during a robbery attempt.
He’s now locked up for life.
Good! If you murder someone you should go away for life. I don’t care if you’re 13. If you’re old enough to run around with a gun robbing people, you’re old enough to go to prison. But here’s more PSH:
Guns are too easy to get in this city. McGuinness said that a number of his clients say that they stole their guns from trains in the CSX railyard, a contention that a CSX spokesman told the Times-Union in January is more legend than fact. Yet, it’s a story that McGuinness’ clients continue to tell.
So CSX says it isn’t true, there’s really no reason for people to ship guns on rail cars, but we’ll print it anyway. Great journalism!
Then there are the community gun stashes. The gun shows. The lapsed federal ban on sales of assault rifles – weapons that are designed more to maim than to protect.
If they are designed to maim and not protect, why do the police use them?
Right now, McGuinness said, a drug dealer can send an 18-year-old with a clean record into a gun shop to buy several of them.
“If you’ve had a good week selling drugs, you can outfit yourself and your buddies with AK 47s,” he said.
Already a felony.
Seems Rudy has a history of taking calls from his wife, according to Mother Jones.
Over at Ahab’s, there’s a serious threat from the USDA to Winchester Canyon Gun Club. Shooters are continuing to be second class citizens in the State of California.
Beginning Oct. 1, the state of Nevada will recognize permits from eight other states that allow people to carry concealed weapons, the Nevada Department of Public Safety announced.
Those states are Alaska, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Tennessee and Utah.
Mr. Completely laments the exclusion of Washington State on that list. I do too! Because I actually have a license from that state. What’s wrong with Florida too? It’s good enough for Delaware, which is a may-issue (but mostly will, if you jump through the hoops) state to boot! I guess SayUncle will have to be the “designated shooter” for our group :)
From the Detroit Free Press:
The legislation, promoted by gun-rights activists, clarified when a person can use deadly force in self-defense during break-ins, carjackings and other potentially violent crimes — even in incidents away from the person’s home.
Such was apparently the case Thursday night in Detroit.
Given that Michigan is coming apart at the seams, it seems that the right to defend oneself could be even more important.
Grappling with Guns points to a feature in Portfolio.com, a publication of Conde Nast. Go read the whole post.
It is about Justin Moon and Kahr arms. I think it’s pretty much a hit piece. I have little love for weird cults, or really any religion that takes itself too seriously, but this is without a doubt a hit peice, intended to smear Kahr, and the entire industry by association, along with the people who buy its products. In the article, Justin Moon states:
“I’m my father’s son, but I’m also my own man,†he says. “Being my father’s son, there are disadvantages. I’ve had to work my butt off to get away from the negativity.â€
Doesn’t sound like a zealot to me. The piece is here if you want to read. It’s rather long.