The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State …
A guy claiming to be just your ordinary gun owner, but is really a heavy Democratic Donor and a professor at an Idaho University, says no one should listen to us crazy gun people when it comes to Sotomayor. I guess he’s been getting his AHSA newsletter.
Started with Joe, who notes this guy isn’t like any other Idaho gun owner he knows, worked over to Thirdpower, who discovers he’s a big Democrat donor, and then Caleb, who notices he’s a liar too.
Mike Cox, Attorney General of Michigan:
The Free Press failed to mention that 34 attorneys general signed on to the NRA’s challenge of Chicago’s strict gun ban, including both Democrats and Republicans. This isn’t about politics; it’s about standing up for principle.
It may come as news to the Free Press, but this office files amicus briefs all the time to protect the rights of the state and its citizens. For example, this office has filed amicus briefs in support of the Big Three auto industry and tougher standards to protect the Great Lakes.
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I make no apologies for my support of the Constitution and the Second Amendment.
Good on him for not backing down.
Thirdpower reports the Bradys seem to be in full retreat on some of their earlier Mexican Gun Canard claims after the GAO study pretty much called it like it is. Brady position seems to be “Well, it’s still a really big problem.”
Smith and Wesson are making a blue state compliant version of their .22LR M&P AR-15s. This should be welcome news for those behind enemy lines. Also, in what no doubt will make Bryan Miller weep, Tactilite is making an .50BMG upper for the AR-15. I’ve seen other .50BMG uppers for the AR platform, but this one looks pretty good. It’s bolt action. At $1550 dollars, it’s a cheap way to get into long range .50BMG shooting. If I lived out West, I’d think about it, but we don’t have ranges around here long enough to make a .50BMG anything other than an expensive toy.
… about bourgeois Bostonians, who wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, terrified at the prospect that there might be people out there having fun. That, in a nutshell, is northeastern leftism, and for the better part of a century that’s been the predominate philosophy in Washington D.C.
I suppose that’s why the Environmental Protection Agency thinks it’s time to crack down on boaters:
A proposal from the Environmental Protection Agency has boating organizations up in arms. Those organizations are now asking individual boaters for help in letting the EPA know the idea of allowing introduction of a new fuel that has not been independently tested in marine engines isn’t a good one. […]
That was proposed in March after Growth Energy, a pro-ethanol group collected fifty four other groups and petitioned the EPA to allow what is a fifty-percent bump in ethanol and reclassify E-10 fuel as E-15.
The boating industry is highly cyclical. When economic times get tough, people stop buying boats, and start selling them. It’s devastating to the boating industry. This is only going to make things worse. Hope and change, folks. Hope and change. This Congress and Administration aren’t about jobs. It’s about making middle class folks pay for our sins. A permanently reduced standard of living will be our penance.
Really? I’d have to find out whether it’s the national ACLU or the state chapter. Some of the state chapters are not hostile toward gun rights. If it’s the national ACLU, perhaps they are coming around.
Knife Rights is reporting that an amendment has been introduced to stop the Customs enforcement of new regulations that would reclassify many types of common pocket knives as switchblades:
We now have a a bi-partisan amendment that has the critical support from the Senate committees which have responsibility for the FSA and which is endorsed by the Administration (Customs and Border Production have signed off on it). That gives it a very good chance of making it through the process, but first we have to get it voted into the Homeland Security Appropriations Bill.
They are asking people to write their senators and ask them to support it. The amendment basically adds a specific exception to the Federal Switchblade Act for assisted opening folding knives.
And signed by Jack Markell? A few days after Jerry Brown signs onto Second Amendment incorporation? Did NRA launch a leftist mind control satellite with all that money they are making by scamming people into paying for DVDs they didn’t order? If so, can they turn it on Fast Eddie next?
Colt will no longer have an exclusive deal, and other manufacturers will be able to sell firearms to the military. I wonder if this will end up making Colt more interested in the civilian market than it currently is.
Here’s a quick analysis of something mentioned in that Joyce study that SayUncle linked to.
According to the study, cities with the lowest levels of in-state gun trafficking were Santa Ana, CA; Camden and Newark, NJ; New York, NY; and Boston, MA. Each of these cities was in a state that regulates private sales of handguns, four had strong gun dealer oversight and four had discretionary handgun purchase licensing systems. Cities with the highest levels of in-state gun trafficking were Gary, IN; Tucson, AZ; Phoenix, AZ; Albuquerque, NM; and Indianapolis, IN. None of these cities had any of the gun sales accountability measures examined in the study.
Funny, because if you look at the average violent crime rate for the cities mentioned that have the least gun trafficking, it’s 1083 per 100,000.  If you look at the cities mentioned that have the most gun trafficking, it’s 884 per 100,000. So it would seem if your city has more gun trafficking, it’s actually safer.
What good are passing these dumb laws if they don’t actually reduce crime?