Category: Gun Rights

It’s been introduced by Senator Brad Ashford:

Senator Brad Ashford of Omaha says his proposed bill would have caused 19-year-old Robert Hawkins to be reported before the rampage.  Others disagree.

The bill would require gun dealers to include trigger locks on every sale, mandate that stolen guns be reported within 48 hours and trace how youths get firearms.

Because parents who are careless enough to allow their firearm to fall into the hands of their mentally disturbed, convicted felon son are, of course, going to dutifully report it to the police as the law says.

This law wouldn’t have prevented anything, except give the police something to charge the father with.

Bush might be coming at us once again at the State of the Union tonight.

Apparently Mitt Romney is taking questions from Field and Stream as well.

John Edwards’ snake oil salesman rural liaison, Mudcat Saunders, agreed to answer reader questions, but I’m guessing wasn’t counting on Bitter entering the fray.  She caught some interesting flack from an undecided voter, who apparently was mostly concerned over whether John Edwards hunted and had guns in his home.  Bitter had this to say:

However, Sherri, I would consider that you look at previous Edwards statements to address your concerns. The number of guns he owns is irrelevant. John Kerry owns guns, but in his home state, the cost is so high to be approved for even a round of ammunition that many hunters who don’t bring home large salaries have either given up their guns or risk owning them illegally while they use what’s left of their ammo. Gun ownership is still legal, but they have effectively made it impossible for anyone outside of the middle class and higher to do legally.

The folks who wish for a candidate who is sufficiently pure on the second amendment need to realize that there are a lot more of these types of ignorant voters out there than there are of us, and that’s exactly the kind of person that Mudcat Saunders is after.  If we are not also evangelicals for the second amendment, we’re doomed.  Ignorance is the brick wall we hit that limits what second amendment advocates can accomplish politically.

Bitter says she’ll let us know if Mudcat ever come back to answer the questions, but I’m guessing , like a snake oil salesmen who starts getting townspeople screaming at them that it gave them hives, he’s split town in a hurry.

John Hohenwarter, who is Pennsylvania’s NRA State Liaison and representative in Harrisburg, had this to say about Philadelphia attempting to enforce its own gun laws:

This morning John Hohenwarter, the NRA’s lobbyist and representative in Harrisburg, said Nutter would be squandering taxpayer dollars — which could be better used to put police officers on the street — if he mounts a futile legal challenge to established precedent that prevents local governments from enacting their own gun laws.

“We heard the same thing out of Mayor Street’s office the last couple of years,” Hohenwarter said. “The programs that the mayor is backing are nothing more than attempts to grab headlines,” he said. “Chances are, it’s going to be thrown out immediately, and if they keep trying to appeal it, you’re looking at a lot of cost to the city for nothing.”

I couldn’t agree more.

ATF’s motion for summary judgment has been denied.  Red’s Trading Post will be headed to trial.  I have a lot of confidence, given ATF’s track record in court, that Red’s will be keeping their FFL.  That doesn’t help make up for the legal costs, unfortunately.  This is why ATF reform is vitally important.  Even if you win against the ATF, you still kind of lose.

Greg thinks the same way I do, and will turn down jobs with companies that locate in anti-gun jurisdictions, and are with companies owned by certain people that like to poop on the constitution. I would be up front with the employer as to exactly why you won’t relocate, “I’m a sport shooter, and I’d have to give that up to move to New York City. I’m not going to do that. I also don’t appreciate what your Mayor is doing to my second amendment rights in that regard.”

Once employers realize, especially in tech fields which are awash with People of the Gun, that they are losing out on good employees because of these laws, they might start locating in better places.

Massachusetts is considering a law to make it illegal, with a 5 year prison sentence, to have more than fifteen guns within the Commonwealth.  This is where one-gun-a-month and restrictive licensing will lead if we allow it to happen here.