I went to try indoor silhouette at the club tonight. Just for practice. The short of it is that I suck. I hit maybe 5 animals. The sights on my pistol were way off, and with our bullet traps in the back, I couldn’t really see where my shot was going to know how to adjust my aim. That’s what I get for just showing up at the range after not having checked my sights. I got so frustrated I almost wanted to pull out my Glock and blast the animals with something I was more comfortable shooting. Most of the folks there were competing in the scoped rifle category that I could see. I think next time I’ll show up with the 10/22. I prefer shooting rifle anyway.
Author: Sebastian
If he can do for Philly …
… what he did for Washington D.C., we’re in a lot of trouble. Well, I was getting optimistic about Nutter. Now I’m thinking maybe that optimism was misplaced.
UPDATE: Wyatt doesn’t like it either.
Analysis of Committee Vote
Based purely on what I know of Pennsylvania politics, which is admittedly incomplete, I thought I’d do an analysis of how the vote may likely turn out on the gun bills next Tuesday. I got a little bored with my descriptions of how the various representatives will hurt or help us :) Either way, the results of my analysis:
Likely votes against gun control: 15
Likely votes in favor of gun control: 9
Could go either way: 5
This is definitely no time to get complacent folks, because this could definitely break against us if Rendell is able to twist enough arms. The maybe people, and the chairs of the committee are the most profitable people to contact. But make sure they hear from you. Even someone on our side will like to hear that you appreciate their stand in favor of your gun rights.
I’ve provided links, as well as some speculation as to where the various state representatives likely stand. It’s important to contact friends as well as enemies. Click below for more.
Small Victory in Maryland
Not only did their legislature pass a bill that allowed police department to surplus old firearms to civilians, they overrode O’Malley’s veto.
UPDATE: Sebastian has more analysis.
Elections Matter
It’s always been a mystery to me why Pennsylvanians, who normally have no love of the City of Philadelphia, would elect its Mayor as their governor. Rendell made inroads among suburban voters because he has a reputation for turning the city around. That reputation is largely undeserved. Philadelphia rode the same economic boom everyone else in the 90s did, but was greatly outpaced by other cities. Ed Rendell never really fixed any of the cities problems, and to some degree, dumped a lot of those problems on John Street, who was unable to deal with them any reasonably effective manner.
It’s even more of a mystery why gun owners in this state didn’t work harder to defeat him. There are very few politicians more anti-gun than Ed Rendell. He is one of the true believers in gun control. He was smart enough as a politician not to push his gun control agenda very hard during his campaign, and during his first term. Gun owners got complacent, and he was elected to a second lame duck term. Now that he no longer has to face the voters, there will be no arm Ed Rendell won’t twist to get his way, and everyone in Pennsylvania knows Rendell is a pit bull when it comes to fighting for his agenda.
We have to stop this tide now. We all know there will always be Just One More Law, because none of what’s being proposed will fix Philadelphia’s crime problem. I do hope everyone makes at least a few phone calls before this vote on the 20th. If this does make it out of the assembly, we stand a good chance of being able to stop it in the senate. Remind your state representatives that you oppose this. Ed Rendell may be a lame duck, but if we punish his party for this behavior in the next election, the next anti-gun governor will have a much harder time twisting arms. Elections matter, and now it is time to pay the piper for handing Rendell a second term.
It’s Game Time Pennsylvania!
Rendell managed to get a judiciary committee vote on his gun control measures:
At the request of Governor Ed Rendell (D), the Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee has tentatively scheduled a meeting for Tuesday, November 20 at 10:00am, to vote on several anti-gun measures. The package of bills include one-gun-a-month, a requirement for individuals to report lost or stolen firearms, and legislation that would overturn Pennsylvania’s current preemption law.
The bills are:
- HB 18, which basically destroys our state’s preemption law
- HB 22, which limits gun purchases to one gun per month
- HB 29, which requires the reporting of a lost or stolen firearm to police under severe legal penalties. This bill has the potential to trap unaware gun owners who are victimized by crimes.
It’s critical to write your state representatives and members of the Judiciary committee and tell them to vote no on these bills. Follow the link to the NRA alert to get contact info for the state representatives.
Blogger Bash in Louisville
There will be a Second Amendment Blogger Bash in Louisville, KY in conjunction with the 2008 NRA Annual Meeting May 16-18, 2008. Don’t let the title fool you; it’s not an event just for gun bloggers. Any blogger can sign up and come. Big blog? Small blog? Red blog? Blue blog? Come out and meet everyone and have some fun in Louisville.
Arizona Flag Has Origins with Shooting Sports
I heard about this a couple of nights ago when Cam had Sandy Froman on his show. Dustin has the details.
Boston Magainze on Sullivan
It seems there might be some problems here:
Because as Sullivan prepares to decamp for DC, taking with him his carefully cultivated reputation for relentlessly cracking down on street crime, he leaves in his wake a basket case of a U.S. Attorney’s Office. Judges are complaining of sloppy briefs and missed deadlines in Sullivan’s shop. Cases are taking longer to resolve than in any other state in the country. And bungling management and sometimes shocking instances of patronage have sunk morale. An estimated dozen assistant U.S. attorneys—the career professionals who do the important legal work—left the office during a recent 12-month stretch.
Given that track record, it’s fitting that Sullivan feels such warmth for Alberto Gonzales, his old boss at the ATF and U.S. Attorney’s Office, whose going-away party he marked with this dewy-eyed toast: “When I think of the attorney general, three words come to mind: discipline, duty, and honor.â€
When I think of Alberto Gonzoles, I have a different image:
Hat tip to Red’s Trading Post for the story.
The Reasons for The DC Gun Ban
Ahab covers it here:
Read that very carefully. They knew that the gun ban wouldn’t work, but they passed it anyway because they wanted to “start a national trendâ€. It’s a perfect example of how the anti-gun mindset works, start small and spread. DC wanted to impose their style of gun control on the entire nation; even today they still want to do that.
It’s never been about crime control. Read the whole thing.