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The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State …
Yep… pretty much.
Cam Edwards outlines some Obama’s contradictions on guns:
But if he holds with the statement that he believes in the individual right to keep and bear arms, but the D.C. Gun Ban somehow passes constitutional muster, I think it’s fair to ask (as Jacob Sullum suggested when I interviewed him today) Senator Obama to name an example of a gun control law that he thinks does or would violate the 2nd Amendment. As it stands, Obama’s turning an “individual right†into something the goverment can violate at will.
It’s hard to really condemn Obama on this when President Bush’s own administratation will be arguing the same thing in front of the Supreme Court in a few weeks. Obama is just lip service. Bush is lip service, and is willing to throw us a few table scraps every now and then. I think we deserve better out of Bush that we’ve gotten, and if gun owners fail to push McCain over the top, McCain will only have Bush to blame for it.
Apparently I’m now one of Wayne LaPerre’s right wing attack dogs. I feel happy I managed to engage Bob Ricker in the comments over at Bitter’s. Let’s look at some of what Bob had to say:
Me: So how many members are up to so far Bob?
Bob: More than enough to cause the “whackos†in the gun rights movement serious problems.
So we’re all “whackos” now eh? AHSA claims to represent shooters. I am a shooter, by most anyone’s definition. They think I’m a whacko.
Bob: I don’t understand why you self defense whackos are so concerned about how AHSA elects its directors or our how the organizations finances work.
Because self-defense is oh so whacko. Normal people have no desire for self-preservation! Either way, the reason to be concerned is because it speaks to whether AHSA is a real grass roots organization, or a front to give anti-gun Democrats political cover to keep crapping all over your rights. Good thing the plot didn’t work. So Schoenke says on Kos:
And remember, NRA rarely acknowledges defeat. That’s why they lead off their attack on AHSA with references to old wins in the 1994 congressional elections and Bush’s win in 2000 despite his having lost the popular vote.  However, the NRA attack dogs fail to mention that Democrats did take back the Senate in 2000 by defeating pro-NRA candidates in Washington, Missouri, Michigan, Delaware and Florida.
I’m not even going to get into why none of these matter, but it’s good to see AHSA showing its true colors here, as a tool of the Democratic Party. Keep digging guys, that hole of irrelvancy you’ve been working on isn’t quite deep enough.
Rightwingprof has the data up. Looks pretty interesting. Ahab says it’s because of the election. Things were looking bleak for us in 1993. I’m sure a lot of those gun purchases were intended to be buried in back yards in the period where politicians talking to Mr. and Mrs. America about turning them all in.
Strangely enough, I haven’t been in a black rifle buying mood. I really should consider it, because the economy isn’t looking too good, and by the time the threat is really upon us, I might not have the money. Of course, that’s gambling that they won’t make us turn them in this time. The real danger of an Obama presidency is that he is naive about this issue, and about life in the country outside of Chicago. Hillary has felt the sting of the gun vote before. Obama has not. To some degree, that makes Obama the bigger threat to the second amendment.
Looks like a three part series covering their Masada, The folding SMG, and their PDW:
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Neat
This Tuesday, Red’s Trading Post will have its day in federal court to challenge the ATF’s revocation of their federal firearms license. I wish him luck in his case. Hopefully, he won’t need it, given ATF’s track record in court.
… or, you know, I’ll shoot ya! It’s amazing what these people think about us.
Looks like a proposed ban on concealed carry in Lancaster County Parks is no more.
With the leading Democratic candidate for president that believe “in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manufacturer’s lobby,” it’s a very good thing we have guys like Pro-Gun Progressive on our side. Click on the link to his video. That’s about as favorable a report I’ve seen from media, especially local media, on a right to carry bill to date. And to think, it’s Baltimore local media. Will Obama reconsider his position on urban gun rights in light of guys like PGP? It will take more than courting Bill Richardson to convince us.
“If somebody approach me wrong, I’m going to cold cock them.” – Mayor Nagin of New Orleans.
He gave the order to take honest people’s guns after Katrina, because they might perpetrate violence, you know.