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Quote of the Day

We want sensible gun laws.Â You don’t hunt with M-16s. You blow holes in tanks with those weapons. They were built just to kill people. – Jesse Jackson

You’d have a hard time blowing a hole through much of anything with an M-16, much less a tank.Â Besides, M-16s are already heavily restricted, and my AR-15, which is not an M-16 but looks like one, hasn’t killed anything.Â Â Damned thing must be defective!Â Jackson is a world class horses ass; always has been as long as I’ve been alive and able to pay attention. Â This it just the latest proof.

Another Anti-Gun Blog

This blogger loves her daughter more than my gun. I’m just wondering what my guns ever did to her daughter. I keep them locked up at night. Maybe they are sneaking out. You’ll notice that much like other anti-gun blogs, this one also closes comments in order to promote reasonable dialog.

Hat tip to Thirdpower, who should get a blog :)

UPDATE: Sharp as a Marble has more.

Nation of Islam Suing NRA

Cam Edwards talks about the Nation of Islam’s move to sue the NRA for gun violence in Philadelphia.Â I’d say that ought to get thrown out of the court, but this is Philadelphia.Â Anything can happen.

Scumbag Caught

They finally caught the scumbag(s) who shot, execution style, three Newark, NJ teenagers in cold blood. Unfortunately, no information as far as motives are coming to light yet, but authorities are ruling out gang activity. Given the backgrounds of the four who were shot, it seems reasonable that this is just a particularly heinous act of savagery.

UPDATE: Longhorn links to another story on this at nj.com:

During the proceedings, Larchire Carranza’s lawyer, Felix Lopex-Montalvo, said the defendant is an illegal immigrant from Peru.

“My client has no documentation,” said the lawyer, Felix Lopez-Montalvo.

In a news conference after the arraignment, Essex County Prosecutor Paula Dow and other officials would not comment on reporters’ repeated questions about whether prosecutors had reported Larchire Carranza’s illegal status to federal authorities after his two previous arrests, which included a charge of child rape.

Sweet Jesus, this guy should have been deported after his first arrest! Â Yet people like Bryan Miller use these incidents to call for further controls on guns, rather than further controls on criminals, especially illegal immigrant criminals who commit crimes, and ought to have been deported.

People like Bryan want to make sure you cannot protect yourself from these sociopaths.Â Â If the government isn’t protecting us, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask tough questions of those who want to restrict the tools that allow for effective self-defense.Â It certainly did nothing to stop this illegal immigrant, already prohibited from purchasing or possessing firearms, from getting one, and committing an unspeakable act of violence.

Steve Bailey Attacks SAF

Davethea, guest blogging for Uncle, points out that Steve Bailey has written an a column attacking the SAF. I’ll be honest, Bitter and I looked at SAF’s tax returns long before Steve Bailey did, and concluded there was a lot of questionable activity going on there, including the things Bailey is looking at. It’s questionable in the sense that I’m concerned about how my donations are being spent, but not questionable in the sense that it’s unlawful, which is what I think Bailey is trying to imply. I think Alan does a lot of good things with the organization, but I don’t give nearly as much as I used to.

But that’s really not here, nor there. This wasn’t ever about Alan Gottlieb, and we really don’t want to get into a pissing match where we just dig up dirt on each other. This is about whether or not Steve Bailey was a party to a straw man purchase at a New Hampshire gun show. As I stated previously, after looking at the facts we have available to us, I think the answer is no, he didn’t. But Bailey, rather than getting to know the law, and defending himself with facts, has chosen to fling poo. That’s all I need to know about this guy, and his integrity.

False Flag Operation?

SayUncle points to another potential false flag operation.Â A quick look at the TRCP, and I don’t think that this is another AHSA, meaning, I don’t think this is a group that intended to push gun control, and founded by anti-gunners.

It would appear this group is funded largely by the unions, probably in order to weaken NRA, yes, but not because TRCP necessarily want gun control, but because the NRA supports Republicans, who are anti-union, more than Democrats.

This is a group to keep an eye on, because, as I’ve said before, a weak NRA mean disaster for our cause.Â Whether that weakness from because of groups like AHSA or TRCP is of little matter.Â You can bet TRCP will steer away from the gun issue if it’s not something that will affect hunters.Â If they are successful at stripping away NRA members, particularly in states where unions are still somewhat relevant, like Pennsylvania, it could be the best thing CeaseFire Pennsylvania or the Brady Campaign could ask for.

A Legislative History: Uniform Firearms Act

I noticed there’s no good summary out there on the legislative history of Pennsylvania’s Uniforms Firearms Act, which is the section of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes that relate to firearms. I thought it would be worthwhile to go through and offer a legislative history of this act from the passage of right-to-carry in 1988 to the present time. I’ll keep updating this post with links to further posts. For the sake of brevity, I will only cover the major revisions to the UFA, and not the more minor ones.

Part 1: Act 158 of 1988 – Right to Carry
Part 2: Act 68 of 1989 – Firearms in Vehicles

If We Just Record Enough…

Centuries ago, Native Americans once practiced rain dances in the belief that their dances could bring the rain. So many gun control proposals today make about as much sense, only instead of rain dancing, if we just record enough things, we can fight crime. This is the latest out of California:

Some Sacramento gun dealers say a proposed ordinance requiring them to keep track of all the ammunition they sell will hurt business. But police say itâ€™ll help catch criminals. City Council members are set to vote on the ordinance Thursday.

There is no way to trace ammunition or ammunition components back to an individual. All you get is a manufacturer, and sometimes maybe a lot number, or year of manufacturer. That’s about it. Someone needs to explain to me how having the gun shop owner record ammunition sales is going to catch a criminal, given that ammunition recovered at a scene of a crime isn’t going to be matchable to those sales records.Â You can match a bullet to a gun, and sometimes a casing to a gun, but you can’t match a bullet to a piece of paper.

This seems like a case of politician rain dancing.Â If only we could force some more record keeping, it will magically translate into lower crime, no matter how absurd the idea is.Â Do a little dance, and hope for the best.

NRA Supporting Biofuels

No, not this NRA, I’m talking about the National Renderers Association. They have formed a committee relating to biofuels. Who is the NRA? Well, according to their website:

The NRA is an American Trade Association, whose business is to promote the interests of it’s members. Members of this association are all in the business of rendering, i.e. transforming waste from the meat industry into useable products for animal feeds and technical use. Renderers are even known as the original recyclers. On average slaughter houses, packing plants, supermarkets, butcher shops and restaurants collectively generate at least 40,000 metric tonnes of animal byproduct each week. Without the rendering industry, byproducts from meat and poultry processing would fill up landfills very quickly and the decomposing waste would contaminate our soil and water with disease-causing microorganisms and vermin. For more information on this and related subjects see the Environmental perspective page found on this site.

This is the kind of biofuel I can get behind; the kind made from waste product. I certainly like it a lot better than screwing up the economy to give ADM nice fat subsidies, along with artificially inflated corn and feed prices.

NRA Arming Kids Again!

We talked a month or so ago about the NRA arming kids, in that case, 16 year old Katie Bush, who is a trained sharpshooter.Â Well, the NRA is continuing its dastardly plot for teaching our nation’s children the safe and responsible use of firearms.Â Their treachery clearly knows no bounds.

Congratulations Garrett Cranney, the award is well deserved.