Jason tells me we’ve gotten to the point in the magazine project where we’re ready for a live fire test. There’s only one problem: we need a place where we can both shoot and film. There’s a range near us that allows full-auto, but it does not allow cameras or recording equipment, I’m guessing because of people’s tendency to do stupid things with guns when cameras are turned on them. At my club, we could film, but we couldn’t fill the magazine, and definitely could not shoot the machine pistol on full auto. So I need somewhere within 20 or so miles of Philadelphia that will allow full auto and for the experiment to be filmed for posterity. Anyone know of such a place?
Category: Guns
More on the Obama Statement
In the meantime, Paul Helmke of Brady Campaign calls the hint “the most significant statement any president has made on gun violence in over a decade,” with no apparent awareness of just pitiful that sounds.
Is he including Bush’s half-hearted murmurings about renewing the assault weapons ban? I don’t even know if we can get Barry to say “assault weapon,” let alone suggesting we ban them. Of course, if you look at the Brady home page, now they’re all about assault clips. I can imagine if you threw one of these at me hard enough, it might kinda hurt.
Good Castle Doctrine Editorial
From the Patriot News, even going so far as to point out a case of aggravated assault where Castle Doctrine wouldn’t come into play. To hear some in the media tell it, this bill makes it easy to just shoot people. Another case that wouldn’t be helped by Castle Doctrine? Gerald Ung. Even if it eliminated the duty to retreat when facing an unarmed opponent(s), which it doesn’t, the prosecution never made the case that Ung violated a duty to retreat.
You Remember the Guy that Paid $1 for Newsweek?
Like You and Me, Only Better
California lawmakers want to be able to carry concealed weapons. But many who do, don’t want you to be able to enjoy the same rights and privileges they do. I wonder how the Second Amendment is worded in their world.
Statement from the Bradys
“We’re just going to pretend you said you were cool with our agenda, Barry!” They kind of have to look at the bright side of things. They don’t have much else to bitterly cling to.
Obama Speaks on Gun Control
He mostly says we need to do a better job of getting states to report mental health records to NICS. That’s the meat of it. The rest of platitudes. In speaking of “porous background checks,” he did not call for closing the gun show loophole. I would imagine the Bradys are going to be less than thrilled with this, but they’ll try their best to extract what little marrow was left in the bone the President just threw them. Obama has basically just called for the bill that passed after Virginia Tech, only with vigor this time. Since I didn’t have any serious objection to that bill, I don’t really have any serious objections to more incentives, provided they are respectful of federalist principles, and respect the sovereignty of the states.
UPDATE: I’ll leave it to readers to decide what it means that Obama released this to the Arizona Star, and not to the New York Times or Washington Post, at a time when the news cycle is focused pretty exclusively on what’s happening in Japan. Also, think about what that says about how highly Barry thinks of the Bradys.
UPDATE: More from Dave Hardy here. He also doesn’t think this is going to live up to the expectations of the gun control groups that endorsed Obama.
US Embassy in Mexico Releases Statement
They say Gunwalker is “an operation that dismantled a major arms trafficking ring that has been called Fast and Furious.” Read the whole sad thing. Their damage control is pathetic. From what we’ve seen so far, there was enough evidence to bust those rounded up and indicted for quite some time now. Why did it take this long to make an actual bust?
Special Treatment from Teacher
In what is perhaps, a third grade moment for the Brady folks:
Mr. Skinner’s statement indicates that CDC is placing the NRA in a preferred position by giving it advance notice of firearm-related studies CDC has finances, before those studies are published or otherwise available to the general public. Needless to say, CDC has given the Brady center no such “courtesy” notification of studies before they are published, nor are we aware of any other gun violence prevention organization receiving such notice.
Waaah! We can’t have teacher giving special treatment now, can we? Cry me a river. Their side has enjoyed the upper hand for the better part of two decades. Now they whine that the tables are turned. Get used to it.
Gun Show Non-Loophole
I was concerned when I saw the headline here, but it was a legal sale through an FFL. If this says anything about what our gun policy should be, I don’t know what that is. I would expect our opponents to try to exploit this, because he could have purchased this in a private sale, after all.