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Do Pelosi and Hoyer Think We’re Stupid?

Looks like they are open to making a deal:

House Democratic leaders are offering the National Rifle Association (NRA) a separate vote on legislation that would weaken the District of Columbiaâ€™s gun laws, trying to wriggle out of a conundrum created by their centrist members.

An amendment supported by the powerful gun-rights lobbying organization is holding up a bill that would give the District of Columbia a voting member of Congress. That legislation is a priority for Democratic leaders. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the chief advocate among leadership for D.C. Voting Rights Act, confirmed Tuesday that a standalone bill on the gun provisions has been discussed.

â€œIs that an option? Yes, it is, and if that frankly got us there, Iâ€™d be for that option,â€ Hoyer told reporters Tuesday. â€œIâ€™m for the option that gets us there.â€

Hoyer knows as well as I do that a separate bill is highly likely to be vetoed by President Obama, and would start the whole debate over again.Â If the Democratic leadership is OK with the idea of NRA running a bill, why not just pass this one?Â They wouldn’t make this offer if they didn’t already know DC Second Amendment rights has no future as a separate bill.

Keep the pressure on.

A Lesson in Public Relations

If you’re trying to rebrand yourself, much like AHSA seems to be trying to do, it’s inevitable that you’ll try to spin certain things.Â But it’s never a good idea to try to spin something where the real facts can be easily looked up by anyone, like denying the fact that Ray Schoenke donated money to the Brady Campaign:

Did they think that maybe people wouldn’t realize HCI renamed itself to the Brady Campaign?

FAL Gas Regulator

Over at NRA’s Gun’s and Hunting blog, there’s an excellent article on how to adjust the FAL’s gas system for your loading.Â I like how the article ends with, “This is just the sort of firearm regulation we can live with!”Â Agreed.

Corzine Introduces Budget

This budget is going to cause some issues for the legislature.Â This is good for us because it means the New Jersey Legislature will be too busy to want to spend time and resources on one-gun-a-month.Â The budget has to be in by June, so there’s not much time.

Buyers Remorse

The Buckeye Firearms Assocation takes a look at AHSA’s reaction to Holder’s call for a new semi-auto ban and wonders why they seem surprised.

Ignorance on Parade

Head over the Cemetery’s.

Hope and Change Comes to Delaware Valley

Even the local stations are picking up on the Great Obama Gun Rush.Â Not only that, but you have all these sources in the media still talking about the issue even months later.Â But will it continue?Â Check out this bit from VSSA:

Maybe because while other industries are sliding down a slippery slope of lower demand, the output of U.S. small arms manufacturing is forecast to grow at an annual compounded rate of 2 percent between 2008 and 2013, as seen on the following chart …

It’s change you can believe in.

Let Me Rephrase

Robert Schlesinger doesn’t seem to understand how rights work.Â Let’s take a look at what he says:

Thanks to the Supreme Court, D.C. citizens can keep and bear arms. They simply have to register them, and cannot have any of the semi-automatic variety. Only radical gun rights advocate suggest these are unconstitutional limitationsâ€”and if they are unconstitutional, then under-armed D.C. citizens can gain redress through the courts.

What they can’t do is try to gain redress through Congress, where the 600,000 D.C. residents lack a real voice. Which wouldn’t stop Congress from dictating what kind of gun laws D.C.’s 600,000 residents should have.

Let me rephrase this slightly:

Thanks to the Supreme Court, D.C. citizens can subscribe to newspapers. They simply have to limit themselves to newspapers registered with the government, and may not read any radical papers like USA Today. Only radical first amendment advocates suggest these are unconstitutional limitationsâ€”and if they are unconstitutional, then under-educated D.C. citizens can gain redress through the courts.

What they can’t do is try to gain redress through Congress, where the 600,000 D.C. residents lack a real voice. Which wouldn’t stop Congress from dictating what kind of censorship laws D.C.’s 600,000 residents should have.

Still consider yourself a Bill of Rights supporter Mr. Schlesingler?

Good News for Us, Bad News for Bloomberg

The Supreme Court has denied cert on the appeal of New York City’s suit against gun manufacturers.Â This lets stand a ruling in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals that ruled the lawsuits could not proceed due to the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.

Nice Article from the Lancaster Papers

I like this article because it gets the message out to hunters that they are under threat from many of the proposals too.Â Whether Angel Cruz or Bobby Rush realize it or not, they are tremendously useful to the cause, because they introduce bills that go nowhere, but serve as examples that hunters and shooters will not find rescue if they throw high-power competitors and “self-defense whackos” off the lifeboat.