Category: Gun Rights

Over at SayUncle. Looks like they are lend lease rifles, and the reason Korea can’t sell them is because they don’t own them. They can be returned to the United States, where they would be turned over to the CMP to be sold. Sounds like a happy ending to me.

A discussion between Ted Novin and Larry Keane of NSSF:

The Black Bear Blog thinks not, largely because the TSCA exempts any product subject to the Internal Revenue Code, which ammunition is among. I’ve also skimmed the Toxic Substances Control Act a bit, and it’s hard to see how it grants authority to ban lead ammunition. Certainly they could put a lot of requirements on manufacturers, but based on my cursory examination, I’m not sure the authority is there at all. But I did not examine the law in great detail.

Thanks to Camo Underground for the pointer.

Philip Mulivor in Ohio explains why the Second Amendment is his single issue. Sounds like a persuasive reason to me.

As experts on statistics and criminal investigation, naturally this is a fit:

Snider said most patients coming to hospital with gunshot wounds are accompanied by police, who use the registry regularly to determine whether the patient had a registered gun in the home.

I’m fairly certain that most people who show up, and the gun shot wound is from a gun in their home, it doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to figure out who done it. And maybe I’m nuts here, but I’m betting the percentage of rifle and shotgun wounds treated by emergency room physicians in Canada is vanity small compared to handguns, which are already registered and highly regulated in the land of snow and beavers. According to their own statistics, 76 percent of the 774 of the firearms deaths in Canada were suicides. And this helps your case how? Are the police in Canada really that dumb that they can’t figure out the gun laying next to the dead guy with an empty round in the chamber might likely be a suicide?

If you ask me, this please comes down to “Eeew… guns are icky,” rather than science or good medicine.

NRA is reporting their challenge to the Cook County ballot measure has been successful. A semi-automatic firearms ban will not appear on the November ballot, the petitioners having not even come close to meeting the requirements. See what kind of grass roots support gun control has? Even Cook County’s numerous dead voters wouldn’t show up to sign on.

NSSF is springing into action, as the public comment period opens on EPA considering a regulation that will ban all traditional lead ammunition. This would basically end the shooting sports as we know it. Remember this is a no-win situation for us, because bullets made of materials other than lead are often considered armor piercing by law. Copper is your basic material, and copper is expensive, and has much poorer performance properties than lead.

As NSSF has pointed out, there’s no real scientific basis for restricting lead ammunition. Just about all shooting ranges at this point are recycling their lead (it’s too valuable to just leave in the ground). California’s ban has not been shown to reduce lead levels in Condors, and has driven more people away from hunting. Additionally, it’s interfered with lawful self-protection in parts of California that are considered condor habitat.

Are the gloves coming off? The Obama Administration has, until now, been reluctant to antagonize gun owners. Perhaps now that his popularity is reaching new lows, he’s looking to appeal to an important part of his green base by beating up on gun owners and shooters. Having utterly failed to eliminate the Second Amendment by hook, now it would seem he’s proceeding to do it by crook; by demonizing gun owners and the shooting sports as environmental devils. Let’s hope this is about as successful as the President’s other endeavors.

UPDATE: Black Bear Blog thinks this is beyond EPA’s mandate under the TSCA. His argument looks compelling.

A spate of shootings in Sydney has authorities panicked:

His spokesman said Operation Kadar was formed earlier this month to deal with outlaw motorcycle gangs and Middle Eastern organised crime gangs believed to be behind gun crime emerging across Sydney.

The great problem with drug related crime, is that the profitability of the business creates a strong incentive to kill anyone who gets in the way, including residents who call the police on the dealers, and get a reputation for being snitches. You are never going to successfully disarm people who deal in illegal commodities. You will, however, succeeded in disarming, and rendering helpless, the residents who’s neighborhoods the dealers operate in. This doesn’t seem to be a recipe for less violence to me.

NRA and CPRA seem to be preparing to run a lawsuit against California’s lead ammo ban, among other things. The argument would appear to not be that California can’t ban lead ammunition for the purposes of taking game, but that the regulations are overly broad and interfere with mere firearms possession which is unrelated to the taking of game. Actually, most of this seems to be that the California Fish and Game Commission lacks statutory authority to regulate firearms possession in the manner they have chosen to regulate it.