Category: Gun Rights

The Governor has released a press statement saying he’s going to sign the Iowa shall-issue bill. It’s scheduled for April 29th. We’re very glad to hear the Governor has decided to sign.

It looks like the Daley machine, faced with the destruction of its own gun laws when McDonald is handed down, is lashing out any way it can. If I had to take a big picture look at what’s going on here, with the push in Illinois, to Bloomberg’s attacks on Pennsylvania, upstate New York and Ohio, it would be the old guard trying one last ditch effort to assert itself. Let’s hope this ends up being their “Battle of the Bulge”

Part of me thinks we’ve become unstoppable, but I try to keep that in check. Things can turn quickly. This is not a done deal yet. It wouldn’t take much for the momentum to begin to shift the other way.

Dave Kopel goes into detail in an editorial in the Denver Post on why Bloomberg’s gun show bill isn’t just about background checks. This is what MAIG Mayors are pushing. It’s real gun control, not just concerning itself with illegal guns. If your Mayor is a member of MAIG, you have to get him out. Make him understand what these people are pushing in his or her name,

From the Redding Record Searchlight.

That said, so far the dangers of the “open carry” crowd exist only in their opponents’ imagination. The protests — while ill-mannered and intimidating to many — have peacefully made a political statement, and Saldana’s reaction only proves their point that the 2nd Amendment is under siege.

It’s also an all-too-typical example of legislating by headline. Saldana’s bill, AB 1934, is not a well-considered law to a address pressing public safety problem, but a knee-jerk response to a few news stories and the surrounding hullabulloo.

At least someone in the media is speaking out against the silliness of this bill.

In the UK.  I agree they aren’t toys, but I used to run around with air guns when I was a kid, and never managed to shoot anybody, destroy property, or get accidentally shot by police.

I’m sympathetic to the notion that you don’t want a bunch of miscreant teenagers running around destroying property with air guns, but from reading the article you’d think they were talking about drugs or something.

Looks like the Conservative Party thinks they can raise money on the issue of getting rid of the gun registry. I hope they are right. If there’s money in it, you can create a political movement politicians will cater to.

When I first read that headline, my first thought was “How much money does it take to get rid of a gun registry?” I mean, give me a 100 grand, a bargain by Government standards, and I can “rm -rf” and “DROP DATABASE ” with the best of them.

Very interesting blog, called The Court Artist. I went back and found he had a sketch of the McDonald oral arguments. The guy holding his arm up to his chin in the gallery looks like it could be NRA General Counsel, and the blonde woman next to him would match his wife. Alan Gura is pretty recognizable up at the podium, but the likeness in this picture makes him look older than he looks in real life.

UPDATE: I’m told it couldn’t be them, based on the seating arrangements at the time. It’s still a nice drawing though.