One is a smear piece on the group and their activities, and the other is pretty good. Good on the Virginia-Pilot for blancing out the viewpoints. I do have to wonder whether their editorial board believe that a criminal or mass killer would choose to carry the instrument of his crime out in the open where everyone could see it, including law enforcement.
Category: Guns
Careful
A church in Brooklyn is accepting guns and exchanging them for cash.
As part of the program, anyone can anonymously hand in a gun or rifle, legal or illegal, and get a $200 bank card — no questions asked. The cards may be used at stores or to withdraw money at ATM machines.
While gun owners can turn their weapons over at police precincts for $100 anytime, pastors say churches are seen as sanctuaries by those wary of authorities.
Except it’s a violation of the laws of the State and City of New York for the pastors at these churches to take possession of the firearms that are being turned in. If I were to go to New York to swap guns for cash, they’d throw me in prison. Why do these guys get a pass?
More Fighting with Allentown
But Pawlowski responded that the new state law would still leave police the difficult job of proving that a straw purchaser was lying about losing the gun. That’s no different from the current system, ”which obviously isn’t working,” he said.
The mayors have acknowledged that only the state may regulate legal guns, but ”this law is about illegal guns,” Easton Mayor Sal Panto Jr. said. The mayors’ argument is that the guns become illegal once they’re lost or stolen.
They are arguing over HB 1845, which was passed last week, and I believe signed by Ed Rendell. It makes penalties stiff for falsely claiming to police that a gun was lost or stolen, when it was really sold on the streets. The idea that this isn’t a law regulating the possession of firearms, which is preempted by state law, is absolutely abusrd. The gun might become an illegal gun, but the possession of it by the person that was victimized was not illegal, and regulation of that possession is strictly a matter of state, and not local law.
LA Times Not Liking Endorsement
The LA Times isn’t liking the NRA endorsement of McCain:
Even during the presidential campaign, he hasn’t ruled out “common-sense” efforts to lower the murder rate in big cities. That’s anathema to the NRA, which wants no one to abridge gang members’ right to slaughter one another.
Even if the NRA is right about Obama, he’s still not going to take Americans’ guns away. By striking down Washington’s handgun ban in June, the Supreme Court assured that it will be very difficult for the government to forbid gun ownership by law-abiding citizens in the future. It’s unclear whether the NRA cares; having won its 2nd Amendment battle, it’s now out to block any restriction on gun freedom, even the freedom of felons and the mentally ill to buy guns. There are dangers in such extremism, and they’ll become clearer as the body count rises.
Nothing to see here. Please move along. Pay no attention to what the gun loons think and get out there and vote for The Lightworker.
Forget One Gun a Month
In the past week, I’ve bought four guns. Three of them I bought today. There was the Kel-Tec at the show last week. I just got my ParaUSA LDA .45 and the ParaUSA LTC 9 for Bitter, and also picked up the Marlin .17HMR rifle I won two weeks ago at the Friends of the NRA dinner. Four guns in a week. Three guns in a day. CeaseFire Pennsylvania can kiss my ass.
If I get a visit from the ATF or State Police, my reaction will be “Gun trafficing? Hell no. Have you been watching the poll numbers?!?!?” In these trying economic times, the mildly pessimistic will hoard their money. The real pessimists will hoard ammunition :)
Court Rules Against Akins
Looks like the District Court agreed the Akins accelerator is a machine gun. Dave Hardy has the details.
Obama Talks to Smerconish About Guns
And look what he says:
“I do believe in some gun safety measures — so, for example, with all the shootings in Philadelphia, most recently police officers, I want to make sure that we can trace back guns and bullets that are used in crimes back where they were purchased, so we can make sure that in fact the laws are being enforced.”
That has to be music to Russ Ford’s (of ammunition coding systems) ears. We have to defeat this guy. I don’t care what the polls say. Get out there and start volunteering for McCain. We have to stop this here. If we don’t, there might not be any stopping it once Obama gets the political winds blowing against us. We could be in for some dark days.
More on Fighting Pirates
The Firearms Blog weighs in with his choices. RAH would appear to be our resident expert on the keeping and bearing of arms on the high seas, and on what will and won’t get you into trouble when you enter territorial waters or ports. Avoidance seems to be the preferred method of dealing with pirates. That’s pretty much the right strategy for any armed confrontation. I like the idea of a fake RPG, but you’d be awfully screwed if the pirates produce something that looks similar, only isn’t fake.
Congrats to Joe
Video of NRA Endorsement
Traction Control has it. I hope everyone out at GBR III is having a good time.