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Gun Rights Attack Ad

Here’s my attempt to make a pro-McCain/Palin attack ad against Joe Biden.Â Joe Biden deserves a special place in hell.Â With Barack Obama, I merely do not like his policies.Â He’s a good orator, and a talented politician.Â But very little can describe my loathing of Joe Biden.Â If I were stuck on a deserted island with Joe Biden, assuming I couldn’t fashion a set of earmuffs out of coconuts, I’d probably throw myself off the nearest cliff.

This week Biden said something that was utterly laughable.Â He said that he was raised not to attack people who he disagrees with politically.Â Well, pretty clearly he does not honor his upbringing:

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Special thanks to my friend Jason for providing the video, and the idea of splicing these two together.

Boston Globe Mislead

When are reporters going to learn that the Brady Campaign does not provide them with accurate or clear information?

According to the Brady Campaign, Washington state has some of the most lax gun control laws in the country. There is no license, permit, or registration required to buy or own a handgun, and background checks are not automatically required for gun sales.

Zamora surrendered to police Tuesday and is being held on $5 million bail. How much grief could have been spared had this rageful man been saved from himself?

The Boston Globe makes it sound as if you can walk into a gun shop in Washington and not have to go through a the background check.Â Washington’s gun laws are not vastly different than most states.Â From reading this, you’d almost believe that there was some kind of loophole.Â There was no legal way for Zamora to get a gun in Washington, or anywhere in the United States.Â He would have had to get it illegally.Â So the solution to that is to pass more laws that crazy people won’t obey?Â Murder is already about as illegal as you can get.

Possible Screwup in San Franscisco Lawsuit?

It looks like the lawsuit by NRA and SAF against the City of San Francisco may fall flat on its face due to failure to tie a City Ordinance banning guns from public property to the lease agreement promulgated by the housing authority, which is apparently a federal entity.

Ordinarily, you win some and you lose some, which is why you proceed on multiple fronts, but this is a big enough screw up that the City of San Francisco might be able to seek to have their legal costs recovered. These are not mistakes we can afford to make in the immediate post-Heller legal climate.Â Hopefully this isn’t as bad as these articles seem to make it out to be.Â Don Kates is one of the lead attorneys on this case, and he’s experienced at these kinds of suits, so it’s kind of hard to believe he’d make a mistake like this.

Hat tip to War on Guns

UPDATE: In the comments Chuck Michel says: “I assure you there is no screw up here“Â That’s good to hear.

Be Afraid

Be very afraid:

Under the treaty, governments would also be required to report their arms transfers to an international register, a move which arms control advocates say will lead to greater public scrutiny and confidence.

If these ideas are allowed to proliferate, and find roots, the shooting community in this country will be in a lot of trouble.Â Got an eye on a new Glock?Â Too bad, they won’t export to the United States because we lack proper control.Â New Anschutz?Â Too bad, your country doesn’t track firearms closely enough.Â Definitely forget about a Beretta, you citizen of a third world arms bazaar you!

It’s a serious worry that in a few decades, international treaty will make it nearly impossible for Americans to import arms from overseas.Â That’ll be a boon to the American gun manufacturers, but a detriment to the shooting community as a whole.

Holmes Norton and Waxman Team Up

Team up to slash and burn the Heller ruling, that is.

Comparing Blogger Outreach

Bitter does a much more detailed comparison of the outreach by the Republican National Committee and the Democrat National Committee when compared to the National Rifle Association.Â In short, NRA did pretty well in comparison.

New Jersey is This Bad

Last night those of us who shoot Thursday airgun silhouette at the club learned of an air pistol match held on wednesday evenings at the Delran Junior Marksman Club.Â In virtually any other state, this wouldn’t really be an issue at all to go to the match.Â But Delran is in New Jersey, and in New Jersey, airguns are firearms, and as we know, firearms are illegal in New Jersey.Â You can only possess them under exceptions.

One of those exceptions is traveling to a shooting match, but you must go directly there.Â You are only allowed to deviate in your course of travel as reasonably necessary under the circumstances.Â They get to define reasonably necessary.Â Considering I have to travel from work, my course of travel through New Jersey would be direct, but my entire course of travel would not be.Â I’d also have to make sure I can find the range first, so I don’t risk getting lost.Â And god help me if I have a hollow nose .22LR cartridge floating around in my car or range bag.

I’d like to shoot matches in New Jersey, but after hearing many a horror story from New Jersey gun attorneys of ordinary gun owners, including ones from Pennsylvania, ending up in serious trouble over there for things which are not illegal in any other state, I’m wary of traveling over there to shoot.

The Jarrett Grip Demonstrated

Sailorcurt has a pretty good illustrated guide to the modern isosceles stance that Todd Jarrett taught us at the Gun Blogger Summer Camp.Â It also helped improve his speed shooting when he tried it.Â Prior to Todd’s instruction, I shot a modified weaver stance.Â It’ll take me a while to unlearn that.Â Go have a look if you want to improve your speed shooting.

Speaking of speed shooting, I found a local IDPA match.Â It’s not sanctioned, but it’ll do.Â Still looking for a good steel match somewhere, and a USPSA match that’s not in fraking New Jersey.

DC Gun Sales Start Next Tuesday

You’ll be able to transfer a firearm in the Distirct of Columbia starting next Tuesday.Â You’ll pay monopoly prices for the transfer though, $125 dollars, as there’s only one FFL in the district who’s willing to do transfers.Â Sykes says he’s getting several calls a day about transfers.Â At that price, I suspect not many people are going to bite.Â Hopefully Josh Sugarmann will see the light and put his own FFL to good use.Â A couple hundred bucks a day is probably more than VPC is making now!

More on the Peter Manso Indictment

The Examiner rightly takes the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to task as author Peter Manso faces the possibility of ten years in prison because his previously lifetime Firearms Identification license expired, and he didn’t know to renew it.Â They go on to state:

The more intricate and technical the law becomes, the harder it is to understand, respect and abide by. It’s irresistably tempting for many people to ignore the law’s sillier restrictions, and all too easy to unwittingly fall behind in paperwork — at the cost of years behind bars if a local official wants to be by-the-book about such things.

And, of course, offending local officials then comes to carry a hefty penalty in terms of selective enforcement of arcane law.

Exactly.Â This is something the Brady Campaign would like to quietly sweep under the rug, because this isn’t really a bug in their eyes, it’s a feature.Â Look how easily guys like Bryan Miller dismiss these concerns.Â They want gun owners in jail.Â It’s where they think we belong.