And he’s not going to let the Brady Campaign keep him down. I’m glad to see Robb is still clinging to his guns. But off site backups are also a good thin to cling to :)
Year: 2008
Concealed Carry Holder Defends Against Road Rage
Check out the story of this concealed carry permit holder:
A man driving a Porsche pulled in behind him and approached him carrying a baseball bat. The man was yelling about the student’s driving.
The student pulled a Glock 23 pistol from his glove box and got out of his car, the report stated.
The man with the bat put his hands up, returned to the Porsche and drove away.
The student called the sheriff’s office from his parents’ Hilton Head home. He was not charged in the incident.
No doubt this one won’t be showing up on the Brady blog.
Olympic Shooter Arrested
Tom King talks about one member of the United States National Shooting Team being arrested after attemping to transport a firearm in checked baggage as allowed by federal regulations. Bloomberg apparently wants to host the Olympics at some point in the future. Hopefully it New York does host, they won’t arrest all the shooting team competitors as they come into JFK.
How To Get Me To Donate
I will be happy to donate to Republican candidates if progressive political operatives are going to pull crap like this:
The warning letter is intended as a first step, alerting donors who might be considering giving to right-wing groups to a variety of potential dangers, including legal trouble, public exposure and watchdog groups digging through their lives.
Heh. At least Mary McFate never tired to intimidate Brady supporters. God help us if these people ever return to power.
Olympic Coverage
It looks like the major networks are only featuring Chicom athletes in the shooting sports.
Scared by English
Someone reporter in Massachusetts is apparently getting his panties in a bunch because some of us believe the Second Amendment means exactly what it says. I guess the prospect that we can read plain English is indeed frightning to some who believe most of us can barely read.
Corruption of Blood
Mother Jones is now implying that Sean McFate, the son of Mary McFate, was let go from a D.C. think tank because of his mother’s actions. The Think Tank says he moved on prior to the incident.
TSA Exceeding Its Lawful Authority?
They are considering banning guns at airports entirely, despite what state law may say about the matter. Since when did airports become federal installations? I’m sorry to say, but if this passes, Philadelphia will, no doubt, exercise this authority, which means I won’t be able to go to the GBR III event, since it seems to indicate they can just ban them:
The Airports Council International said in a recent letter to Hartsfield, “There is no justification for permitting firearms at any airport.” Policies vary from state to state and from airport to airport. Some bar guns fully, others allow them, sometimes in areas such as a parking lot, said Charles Chambers, the council’s security chief.
Hartsfield spokesman Herschel Grangent said that someone firing a gun in the airport would force a massive evacuation that could disrupt flights nationwide. Hartsfield, with 89 million passengers in 2007, is the world’s busiest airport.
Just one more reason to avoid flying. This is going to be a bitch on competitive shooters if TSA doesn’t make exceptions. Does TSA even have the legal authority to do this?
UPDATE: Looking at the relevant US Code and Federal Regulations regarding airport security, it is my, admitedly non-professional opinion, that the banning firearms from airports entirely would require a change in the Code of Federal Regulations (which is subject to the rulemaking process), but because the US Code demands the screening of all passengers and property, essentially you’d have to make the entire airport a secured area, meaning banning them in the parking lots would be largely impossible. The Aviation and Transportation Security Act doesn’t seem to grant TSA the power to regulate activity in the non-secured areas of airports. They seem to be able to issue recommendations, so they could certainly recommend to the State of Georgia to ban guns in its airports, but in my reading, they can’t force the issue.
It Took Twenty Years …
… but the Brady Campaign finally gets to say “I told you so.” You knows, in another 20 years maybe they’ll get to exploit a concealed carry permit holder shooting up a school.
Are You Sure Senator?
Apparently Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) is inserting himself into the Mary McFate controversy.
Although the NRA and I certainly have had our disagreements over the years, I hope that we can agree that the gun violence prevention debate should be based upon an open and honest exchange of ideas, not on underhanded tactics.
I question whether the Senator really understands what he’s asking for here. There’s been very little that’s honest about gun control organizations, which is why they don’t want to have an “open an honest” conversation about the matter. Otherwise how can they take bloggers out of context, mislead the public about the nature of firearms, firearms owners, the NRA, and the second amendment. Would you like to have an open and honest discussion in public about the nature of the “Terrorist Watch List” that you want use to deny Americans fundamental rights?
We’re completely willing to have an open and honest exchange of ideas, Senator. Are you sure your allies in the gun control movement are willing to do that?