They don’t seem surprised at the idea of the state funding gun control groups.
Category: Guns
VPC Lies About Cannons
VPC tries to argue that we can’t hunt with black powder cannons. Pretty clearly, this is a bald faced lie. They also work for cutting down the feral cat population.
Pizza Hut Boycott
I’m with Uncle on this one, but for me it’s no biggie. Pizza Hut pizza just plain sucks. It’s easy to boycott that which I wouldn’t eat anyway.
Student Discounts for Glocks?
They have them for cars, so why not? Peter Hamm and Josh Sugarmann aren”t happy about it though:
“He’s arming the criminals and then telling the rest of us to buy guns so we can protect ourselves from the criminals he’s armed,” said Peter Hamm, communications director for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
While gun control advocates acknowledge that Thompson has a right to make this offer, they say this is yet another example of the gun industry trying to profit from gun violence.
“What this shows is that to the gun industry, gun violence is at best an abstract concept and at worst a business opportunity,” said Josh Sugarmann, the Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center.
“No matter how these products are used against citizens, the answer is always more guns when in fact these problems stem from the fact that there are too many guns out there already,” Sugarmann told ABCNews.com.
When the standard playbook no longer works, keep repeating it, only louder! If Mr. Thompson is selling guns to criminals, shouldn’t Josh and Peter be complaining to the ATF instead of a newspaper? Or are they merely hoping the public doesn’t realize that Eric Thompson can’t ship any firearms directly to the public, but must ship through a licensed dealer who will run the federally mandated criminal background check?
Also, college students are adults. They can vote, get married, get drafted, sign contracts, and what have you. You have to be 21 to get a license to carry one in all but one state (Indiana, I think). So what’s the problem?  A lot of these guys were toting automatic weapons around Iraq before they became students. If you’re old enough to bear arms for your country, and possibly die for your country, you’re old enough to buy a gun.
More on SCCC Empty Holster Protest
Over at Dustin’s Gun Blog, which includes some video.
How Are the Brady Finances?
They really must be pretty bad, because I can’t believe they don’t know this looks really bad.
NRA Elections – Last Minute Reminder
Bitter reminds us that NRA ballots have to go out now for board elections, and she squeezes in a last minute message to vote for Bob Viden of New Jersey.
Gun Porn of Defeat
ABC Lying About Guns
Go check out Confederate Yankee. We really need to start educating reporters that there is basically no way that people are buying machine guns on the US market and shipping them south of the border. As Confederate Yankee says:
The focus of the story, according to ABC News, is that U.S. dealers of civilian firearms are to blame for Mexico’s drug cartels and their violence problems… so why do they highlight an M60 general purpose machine gun, a weapons still in use in Mexico’s military, but impossible to find in the open U.S. civilian market?
Could it be, and maybe I’m crazy here, that the Mexican government finds it more convenient to blame the US, rather than admit there’s massive corruption within its own military that allowing smugglers to pilfer weapons out of government armories? Of course, there are people on our side of the border willing to play along with this charade for their own purposes, including, apparently, ABC.
UPDATE: SayUncle has more.
Local Coverage of Empty Holster Protest
From the local news station:
“First, is to raise awareness and dispel a lot of myths about concealed carry and to show people that concelead carry actually helps reduce crime. The second goal is to get states and school administrators to change their policies.”
Clark says about 10 other ‘Nova students took part in the ”Empty Holster Protest” but he doesn’t have much hope the university will change its no-concealed weapons policy any time soon.
Looks like some good work by Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. This is one of those fights those of us who are beyond that age can’t win alone, but now that students themselves have gotten involved, and are taking their rights back themselves, perhaps we can win on this. I would note that it’s not unlawful to carry on a college campus in Pennsylvania if you have a License to Carry Firearms (or are carrying openly), but colleges and universities, including those in the state system, can and do prevent students from doing so. It’s silly policy when applied to people who are licensed to carry everywhere else, but it’s the academic (and corporate for that matter) mentality.