Category: Guns

Hillary’s Gun Summit

Life long hunter Hillary Clinton wants a presidential “gun summit”:

“I believe we really should have a summit where everybody comes together on all sides of this issue,” Clinton said. “Let’s figure out how we can be consistent with the Second Amendment, which I wholeheartedly support, and do more to keep people safe.

“I think we can do that, but it’s going to require us all to maybe give a little and understand the point of view of the other people,” she said. “That’s something I would do as President to really bring people together.”

While surely this is campaign rhetoric, all one has to do is go read Bryan Miller’s comments on his blog to see what Hillary’s summit would look like.  It’s hard to come to terms with people who don’t even want to recognize the existence of a constitutional right to arms, or recognize that it means anything.

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NIU Shooter Was Known Whack Job

Over at Crime, Guns and Videotape:

In order to buy the four firearms in Illinois, Steven Kazmierczak had to lie on four separate #4473 Firearm Transaction Forms, and his Illinois Firearms Owners Identification Application. That FOID process takes months to complete. Once the FIOD was received Kazmierczak could not take delivery until he had endured the mandated waiting periods for the guns he had already purchased.

It would appear he was prohibited from having a firearm under both federal and IL laws, yet he still managed to get past the many obstacles Illinois throws up against purchasing a firearm, including state licensing, waiting periods, and a host of other controls the Brady Campaign and others say will prevent this kind of stuff.

It doesn’t work, now can we start talking about solutions that will?

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Philly Preemption Lawsuit Update

Thanks to reader Jack, we have an update on the lawsuit by the City of Philadelphia to overturn state preemption through the court system, talked about several months ago here.

Bochetto said some things have changed since [the 1996 ruling upholding preemption], including the recent increase in Philadelphia’s gun violence. Also, the state Supreme Court recently ruled the city can impose its own rules when it comes to campaign finance.

And three justices who issued the 4-0 decision in 1996 have since left the court.

“I’m playing Texas Hold ‘Em — of my seven cards, I now get six new cards,” Bochetto said.

Clarke and Miller first sued in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court in July, but the case was later transferred to Commonwealth Court, where disputes between Pennsylvania governmental bodies often end up. The March 12 hearing concerns whether the case should be thrown out or allowed to continue.

So basically, the City is just going to keep playing poker with your rights until they get a winning hand, and gun owners in or near Philadelphia lose.  I sincerely hope that Commonealth Court throws this case out based on the Ortiz precedent, and this stops here.  The law is not a card game, and preemption in Pennsylvania is well established.

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Hillary Clinton, Life Long Hunter?

Pandering like this is almost enough to make me sick, but you have to imagine it’s not half as sickening to me as it is to the folks in the gun control movement:

Well, well. We wondered, did she have any hunting tales to tell? Did she ever shoot anything?

“A duck,” she answered a bit later in a press availability. “And a lot of tin cans, and a lot of targets, and some skeet.”

Maybe she was spending time hanging out with that other life long hunter, Mitt Romney, in the duck blind, but I’m not buying it.  Still, if people weren’t fooled by this stuff, politicians wouldn’t do it.

Via Gun Legislation & Politics in New York

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No National Park Carry for You!

Harry Reid has decided he doesn’t want Hilly and Obama to have to vote on it (i.e. they will vote against it, which could become an issue in the election):

Republicans counter that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is trying to protect the two leading Democratic candidates for president by shielding them from a politically difficult vote on an issue that many rural voters consider crucial.

Arizona Sen. John McCain, the leading Republican contender for president, is a co-sponsor of the amendment, which would allow gun owners to carry loaded, accessible firearms into national parks and wildlife refuges. Current regulations ban gun owners from carrying easy-to-reach firearms onto lands managed by the National Park Service and Fish and Wildlife Service.

Is it political pandering on McCain’s part to co-sponsor this bill?  Or are there real differences between McCain and Obillery on the gun issue?

Hat tip to Of Arms and the Law

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