Pennsylvania’s concealed carry laws are among the best in the nation, but I can’t imagine our legislators having a debate like this.
Category: Guns
Let the Reasoned Discourse Flow
SayUncle pointed to another anti-gun blog. I went over and commented, and it would appear the site is moderated, and comments are not being approved. Now it could be that the proprietor hasn’t gotten around to it yet, but feel free to go engage in some reasoned discourse of your own.
Just One Question
Many of you have probably seen Joe Huffman’s Just One Question. He managed to get a response back from a reporter this time.
Good News!
Fresh from stabbing gun owners in the back with the Heller Brief, the Bush administration seems to have decided to be nice to us again:
At the request of the Bush Administration and 51 members of the United States Senate led by Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID), the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service prohibition of firearms on agency land will be revised in the following weeks.
Victory at last.
Nebraska Ban on “Inherently Dangerous” Firearms
This turd passed unanimously out of committee. Folks in Nebraska need to get off their butts and join Joe in stopping this. You only get one chance. Repealing laws once they pass is next to impossible.
We’re All Shills to Them
It’s probably hard for a cadre of paid activists to believe that folks like myself and W. Scott Lewis do what we do because we value our rights, and not because we’re paid shills for the “gun lobby”
Or perhaps it’s not so hard for them to believe, but in order to paint the big bad NRA, and its 4 million members, in a negative light, it has to claim we’re all paid shills of some nefarious “gun lobby”
From Peter Hamm, of the Brady Campaign:
But Peter Hamm, communication director for the Brady Campaign to Stop Gun Violence, is concerned that the group is the latest tool of the powerful gun lobby.
“We know very clearly that they were organised and they are funded by the gun industry, by the companies that are selling the guns,” he said.
“This is not some spontaneous, grassroots organisation.
“There are more members than there were before Virginia Tech because the gun industry is spending more money to enlist more young people to help them spread the word, that if only we had more guns in America, we’d have less of a gun violence problem.”
So the tens of thousands of people on SFCC’s Facebook group are all paid shills of the “gun lobby” and not real grass roots? If Peter Hamm wants to know what astroturf looks like, he doesn’t need to look very far.
Peter Hamm offers no facts to back up this assertion, but are we really surprised?
Silhouette with Bitter’s Rifle
Shot a 21 with Bitter’s new CZ-452 Lux rifle, open sights. Not good, but I meant to take it to the range last night to make sure the sights were zeroed, but didn’t get the chance because I felt like dog pooh. It was shooting a bit high at to the left, but it’s hard to tell exactly how much just looking at the splatter on the animal. I ended up missing the first couple of animals until I figured out where to aim for that particular animal. After that it was down to my general skill, which only gets me about 30 or so with my scoped 10/22.
I think it’ll be a great shooter once I get the sighs zeroed and get a scope on it.
CNN Story on Campus Carry
CNN has a pretty balanced piece of campus concealed carry. They get some of the legal subtleties wrong though. For instance, you can carry on a college campus in Pennsylvania legally, it’s just that Colleges and Universities, including those in the state system, exclude firearms through policy (rather than law). This is the case in Virginia as well. The laws being proposed in different states are meant to have various effects.
Many states, including Texas and Tennessee, ban concealed carry on college campuses through law. There are proposals to repeal this, but that would still allow college to ban them through policy. You could be expelled from the school, but you won’t be facing charges for violating a gun free zone. Virginia’s proposal would have prevented the state run school system from imposing restrictions on individuals who possessed a Concealed Handgun License.
While I have some issues with how CNN has chosen to cover this, the fact that this is becoming a serious debate at all is a sign on how far we’ve come here. Even five years ago, it wouldn’t even be up for serious debate.
Gun Control Obama Style
Obama says that he wants to implement California style gun controls, as an example of how much he loves the second amendment. Sportsmen for Obama talks about what exactly that would mean for the whole country.
Advance Sales of Ruger LCP Brisk
BTW, Ruger is reporting unprecedented advance sales of the LCP .380…shows what you can do with the right product and the power of the Internet!
I’m definitely interested in trying out an LCP as soon as I can. I’m glad to hear Ruger is doing well with it. Now, if Ruger can just make the Mk.IV a gun I would actually want to buy, we’ll really be getting somewhere.