2007 – Page 99 – Shall Not Be Questioned

Clayton Cramer Article in Shotgun News

Clayton Cramer has a pretty good article on HR2640 in Shotgun News.Â This will be a useful article in my fight to keep the club I recently joined from removing its 100% NRA status.Â Â There has been a lot of claims that fail to pass the smell test circulating in regards to this bill, and I think Clayton does a good job with some of them.

As I’ve said before, some have come up with good reasons to not like HR2640, but others have become downright unhinged over it.Â I think this is one of those cases where reasonable people can debate whether the deal is worth it.

Ack! It Begins

Squeaky Wheel is taking one of the first steps on the long and expensive road toward gun collecting.Â One you start comparing purchases to what you could have bought for your collection, you’re just about a lost cause.Â I had to dump a nice over under shotgun into tree trimming this year myself.Â Just spent a Glock’s worth on the car last month.Â Hopefully at the end of the year I’ll get a few AR-15s worth of bonus.

Reasoned Discourse

I engage Paul Helmke in some reasoned discourse, guest blogging over at SayUncle.

SacBee: Blame Congress

Even though federal law currently makes:

1. Straw purchases a felony
2. Unlawful to purchase a handgun outside of your state
3. Unlawful for felons to possess or purchase firearms at all
4. Requires firearms dealers to report multiple sales to the BATF
5. Requires dealers to run background checks on gun buyers

I could go on, but I don’t have room to list the many and numerous federal gun regulations that criminals ignore on a daily basis. Â Yes, despite all this, the SacBee still thinks that Congress isn’t giving police the tools they need to fight crime.Â They blame the Tiahrt Amendment, which does not restrict police for accessing trace data in criminal investigations, but they seem to imply that it does.Â The facts are inconvenient when you’re trying to mislead the public to make your point.

Hat tip to AceÂ

Living in a Blogger Paradise

Tam says that you can’t swing a cat in Knoxville without hitting another blogger. Apparently Philadelphia is quite a bloggy city itself.

Evil “Assault Weapon” Taken Away by Victim

This group of criminals in Uniontown, Pennsylvania were certainly not prepared to have their victim fight back.Â Â Despite brandishing an “assault weapon”, their victim managed to drop the magazine, and effectively disarm them, sending them fleeing.Â They were captured by police. Â Good show!

Folks who hate guns often tell us that criminals will just take the guns from us.Â Well, that seems to happen quite often to them!

Congresman Peterson Responds on I-80 Tolls

Congressman Peterson has an editorial responding to a previous editorial in the Allentown Morning Call that I blogged about here. I agree with the Congressman that tolling I-80 would be a negative for the Commonwealth, and wish him the best of luck in stopping it at the federal level.

UPDATE: Looks like plans are moving ahead on tolls anyway.

Now Baltimore Knows How it Feels

Baltimore is pissed it’s getting passed up for Amtrak’s Acela express service between New York and Washington, DC.Â The only stop will be in Philadelphia.Â Â Usually, Philadelphia is the city everyone just passes by.Â Now Baltimore knows how it feels.

Carry at all Times

Here’s another reason if you have an LTC in Pennsylvania, and somewhere around six to seven hundred thousand of us do, you ought to be carrying all the time.Â Â Robberies are always a sticky issue, because often it’s just better to let them go down.Â Â But when you have nervous people pointing guns at other human beings, there’s always a chance for tragedy.

PSH From Across the Pond

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The amount of pant shitting hysterics in this Guardian piece would be sufficient to fertilize an entire field of soybeans.Â It’s about Florida’s castle doctrine law.