Category: Gun Rights

Bob Moates Sport Shop Settling

According to the Wall Street Journal:

In an out-of-court settlement, the former holdout, Bob Moates Sport Shop, Midlothian, Va., agreed to tougher rules for selling guns, according to a copy of the agreement reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

The new rules are based directly on stricter standards Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation’s largest gun seller, adopted earlier this year in a voluntarily agreement with a gun-control group called Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

You made a deal with the devil Bob Moates, and I’m afraid it will likely cost you your business.  Just ask Smith & Wesson.  You can’t give into bullies.  You have to fight them.  By giving in, you’ve encouraged Bloomberg to find more shops to beat up.  Fortunatly, Bloombergs little sting is now a crime in Virginia, but that’s not going to get other states off the hook.

Spread the word.  Don’t shop at Bob Moates Sport Shop.

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When Unions Lie

Unions should be ashamed of themselves for lying to their members like this:

Trumka, an avid hunter and fisher, says corporate interests will again seek to exploit the issue of gun ownership this year, hoping to distract gun-owning voters from real issues like jobs, health care and retirement security. This election is too important to let distortions and falsehood affect it, Trumka says.

It’s not corporate issues seeking to exploit this.  Am I a corporate interest?  Are NRA’s 4 million members corporate interests?  No.  You can’t hide from Obama’s record.  Union members need to be aware of their leadership attempting to pull the wool over their eyes this election in hopes they’ll be good little union members, and pull the lever for the O-man.  Let’s hope the union folks are smarter than their leadership gives them credit for come November.

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The WaPo Has Some Gall

The Washington Post are taking Mark Warner to task for getting behind the bill to force DC to comply with Heller:

It was jarring, however, to see Mr. Warner take a position at odds with his well-groomed image of a moderate. As he knows, D.C. officials already are working to bring the city in compliance with the ruling of the high court, and Mr. Warner would never countenance for Virginia a law as extreme as that proposed for the District.

What?  Do Journalists even bother to do research anymore?  Virginia’s gun laws are in numerous ways more liberal than those proposed for the District of Colombia by Congress.  In fact, that is the case in most states.  Here’s what you can do in Virginia you can’t do in DC, even if the proposed Heller enforcement bill becomes law:

  1. Get a license to carry a loaded firearm concealed.
  2. Carry concealed on a reciprocal license if you’re from another state.
  3. Carry any firearm loaded, openly, without a license.
  4. Buy a machine gun, suppressor, or short barreled rifle or shotgun.
  5. Own pistol ammunition that you don’t own a pistol for.

Mark Warner doesn’t have to countenance a law as “extreme” as the District’s for Virginia.  Virginia law is already better than the proposed law for D.C.!  And I won’t even get into the fact that Arlington and Fairfax Counties have crime rates that are a fraction of those found on the other side of the Potomac.

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Obama Lies About Guns

Kurt got a response from Barack Obama’s Senate Office about guns:

On the other hand, I support the re-imposition of the ban on the sale of assault weapons that expired in September 2004 because I believe these guns are used primarily for criminal rather than sporting intent.

Again, Obama does not understanding what the Second Amendment is about, and he’s even dead wrong on the sporting intent.  I am about to go out and embarrass myself by attempting to shoot my evil “assault weapon” in the gun blogger summer rifle match.

Lest one of the Brady lurkers thinks this match was concocted out of thin air by myself need only check out this video by Robert of the Texas State Rifle Association’s Highpower Championship to see that’s its also common in sanctioned matches, and has been for years.  If either The Brady Campaign or the Obama Campaign want to explain how these firearms lack “sporting intent,” I’m all ears.

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Quote of the Day

Biden says that Obama better never come after his shotgun:

One of rural Democrats’ biggest fears about Obama? That he’ll come after the Second Amendment. Not so, said Biden — and he’d better not try.

“I guarantee you, Barack Obama ain’t taking my shotguns, so don’t buy that malarkey,” Biden said angrily. “They’re going to start peddling that to you.”

“I got two, if he tries to fool with my Beretta, he’s got a problem.”

Biden has said he doesn’t hunt, but shoots skeet with his two firearms. “I like that little over and under, you know? I’m not bad with it,” he said today.

Yeah, except the Second Amendment ain’t about Crazy Joe’s over/under, or his alleged skeet shooting prowess (I’ll believe it when I see it).  Barack Obama not only doesn’t support the Second Amendment, he’s deeply offended by the entire idea.  The good thing in this is Biden comes off as disingenuous to even a slightly discerning ear.  Biden might think these guys are rubes, but we’ll see come November.

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Finding Dad’s M1 Garand

This is a great story of a son who found the M1 his dad carried around with him in Korea.  Read this and remember that Congressmen Patrick Murphy, Joe Sestak, and Allyson Schwartz all have signed on to make sure this can never happen again.  They should be forced to explain themselves for this.

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Valley Forge Gun Show

We had a good deal of success at the Valley Forge Gun Show handing out literature, bumper stickers, and talking to folks.  For the first half of the show, we worked the NRA Volunteer Table.  We managed to get a few names of people for various other EVCs, but no one from my own district, sadly.  Hopefully we’ll have better luck in Allentown.

One thing about the Valley Forge Gun Show — don’t eat the hot dogs.  I had one around noon, along with some relish whose color I can only describe as glow in the dark green.  After that we went to man the Montgomery County GOP Victory table, where I started feeling progressively worse, wondering if maybe someone poisoned the relish with polonium, perhaps explaining the unnatural green color.  A few antacids when I got home was enough to calm my stomach, but I felt bad that we had to leave early due to the radioactive relish.  We were handing out a lot of McCain stuff.  Everyone wanted McCain/Palin stuff, but those items are in short supply.  I think Palin has literally changed everything for McCain.  Evidence is gun owners are now on board with him, and are motivated for him.  I suspect this will have influence on the NRA when it comes to endorsements.  It should.

We’ve gotten some ideas to use for the next show, which will be Allentown.  My friend Jason has agreed to lend us an LCD touch display so we can try to set up the O-Match Obama applet that PVF created in order to attract people to the table.  I also had the idea of using Digital Picture Frames to display NRA material, and also help attract people to the table.  Granted, there’s a lot of choir preaching going on at these things, but getting the material and bumper stickers out there is worthwhile, just for the buzz factor.  And every once in a while you sign someone up for your volunteer list.

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New York Times Not Happy

Perhaps it’s high time they realized that in the rest of the country outside the immediate area of New York City, people actually do believe the Second Amendment means what it says:

In all, 85 Democrats joined with a nearly unanimous block of Republican lawmakers to pass the dangerous measure 266 to 152, a reminder that catering to the gun lobby during election season is a bipartisan affliction. The bill was pushed by the National Rifle Association and opposed by the District Police Department.

At some point the New York Times, and a lot of other papers, need to face up to the fact that they lost.  Sorry, but you guys lost.  New York City’s gun laws will be next, once we skewer Mayor Daley’s Chicago on the foil of the Second Amendment.

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