The Arizona Rifleman is offering to tumble brass for the cost of shipping. I could keep his tumbler busy for a while with what I’ve collected. I will make a similar offer, except I get to keep the brass when I’m done :)
Category: Guns
NRA National Indoor Championships
Bob Barr Speaks the Truth
Bob Barr cuts through the rhetoric about Lautenberg’s civil rights destroying bill that would deny folks on the terror watch list their Second Amendment rights. I’m glad he’s using his MSM soap box to get the truth out there. I suspect even Americans who aren’t gun people would be more than a little disturbed about the idea of the government limiting constitutional rights based on secret lists.
A Modern Militia Act
The Defensive Handgun blog takes down a notion floated by the CSGV that we could disarm everyone by drafting all American citizens into a new, federal militia. I think the supremely ironic thing about this proposal is that it is exactly what the anti-federalist were afraid of — that if the national government had plenary power over the militia, they could use that power to disarm the militia. The federalists, namely James Madison, chose to deal with this concern by recognizing, through the Second Amendment, that the people had the right to keep and bear arms. I think it’s amusing that the gun banners just came up with a scheme that was the reason the Second Amendment exists in the first place.
Blue Trail Range in Trouble Again
This time DiNatale, the developer who has been trying to gt Blue Trail shut down for a while now, is using the lead issue to try to get his way:
Tests commissioned by a Durham man who is suing the Blue Trail firing range in Wallingford show high concentrations of lead from bullets on land near the Ulbrich Reservoir opposite the range, and elevated levels in the sediment at the water’s edge.
Blue Trail and the town will be allowed to do their own tests. Generally speaking, elemental lead is fairly imobile in soil, and not all that hazardous. But it some soils, the lead can become more mobile. This is going to continue to be an issue for commercial ranges, clubs, and public ranges as time wears on.
Last Weekend for This Month’s E-Postal
Entries are due on Monday for Flying Aces, the E-Postal match for this month. Don’t forget to send me your results, along with a scan or photo of your target. I hope I can get more entries before shooting closes on Monday at midnight.
Sandy Froman Urges Opposition to Sotomayor
A heated debate has started in the U.S. Senate over her opposition to the right to keep and bear arms. This issue, which has decided the fate of presidential elections, could also decide her nomination. Gun owners, and especially the members of the National Rifle Association, must aggressively oppose Judge Sotomayor’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.
We have to see what kind of opposition to her can be generated, and I think also get an idea as to whether we’ll have enough Democrats to block not only her, but to insist on a pro-Second Amendment nominee. A lot will come out in the hearings. Given that she’s against incorporation, and given that’s our immediate goal, she is definitely a problem.
I’m just skeptical Obama will put anyone on the court that will vote the way we want. At best, I think he finds someone who hasn’t said much about the Second Amendment, says all the right things in the confirmation hearings, but still ultimately votes against us.
Let the Gloating Begin
Bryan Miller’s press release on the One-Gun-a-Month Victory in Trenton. I’m sure he’d like to have put that on CeaseFireNJ’s old domain, but it was taken over by pro-gun forces when he allowed the domain to expire.
“It came down to the Senate understanding its duty to mediate between the personal privilege of a tiny minority of NJ handgun extremists and the common good – public safety. Happily, it decided for the latter,†said Jardim. “We anticipate the Governor will sign this critical bill post haste.â€
There’s that phrase again. I guess Jardim has been getting rhetoric lessons from Miller. I thought the Supreme Court was pretty clear it was an indivudal right, rather than a “personal privledge.”
You win this round, for now.
Accessories
Looks like there’s been a fair amount of back and forth between Linoge and Mostly Genius about accessories on your self-defense guns. My competition guns are pretty heavily accessorized, but I keep my self-defense guns as they came from the factory. My Ruger Mk.III with a Volquartzen trigger in it is nice, but I’ve also had it take the gun down because one of the adjustment screws came out a bit.
Who to Thank
We know what we need to do with Fred “One-Gun-A-Month” Madden, but there are some Senators who made a good show of opposing the gun rationing bill on the floor of the Senate, at a time when I’m sure most of them just wanted to go home and sleep (I know I did).
The people who got up on the floor and spoke against rationing your rights were Marcia Karrow (R-23), Tony Bucco (R-25), Kevin O’Toole (R-40), and Gerald Cardinale (R-39). I will endeavor to get a hold of the video from their floor speeches. Also to be thanked is Senator Tom Kean Jr., who is the Senate Minority Leader, and who held the Republican caucus together on this. Those if you who know gun politics in New Jersey know keeping Republicans on the reservation on guns is like herding cats. Senator Kean has done an admirable job.
We also owe some thanks to former GOP chair Tom Wilson, who has been supportive of the GOP in New Jersey rebuilding the trust of gun owners, and trying to better serve this abused constituency. I sincerely hope Jay Webber will continue to advocate for the interests of New Jersey gun owners, since he’s taken over as GOP state chair a few weeks ago.
If you live in New Jersey, contact those Senators who at least were willing to call this bill out for the crap that it is, and thank them.