Some Advice

Looks like the woman who open carried to the kids soccer game is going head to head with Bryan Miller.  My advice to her is to be prepared.  Bryan is a ruthless debater, and he will corral you, then go in for the kill if you’re not prepared.  Get your talking points together, and stick to them.  Bryan will try to change the debate to grounds that are more favorable to him.  Play the nice soccer mom who just wants to protect her kids.  Let Bryan’s overly aggressive tendencies work against him in the public eye.

This is the big time.  When you talk to the media you represent all gun owners, and will be judged accordingly.

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Gun Ban in Finland?

50,000 signed the petition:

The petition, calling for a total ban on private ownership of guns with barrels shorter than 600 millimeters (23.6 inches), was handed over to Interior Minister Anne Holmlund.

Finnish defense minister Elisabeth Rehn was among those who signed the petition.

Pardon me, but wouldn’t that ban most rifles too?  I own only a handful of rifles that have barrels that long, including my .22LR Kimber target rifle.  It’s good to see we’re not the only country plauged with anti-gun activists that like to tell the public they are banning one thing, when they are really banning another.

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Testing the Waters?

Clayton Cramer looks at some polling questions and ponders whether the Obama administration is testing the waters to decide on his agenda.  Count me among the readers who thinks that it’s Republican push polling.  Democrats would never ask a question like this:

Do you agree with Barack Obama’s interpretation of the Second Amendment, where gun control is permissible, or do you think the Second Amendment is an absolute individual right that shall not be infringed?

Zogby has done polling like this before.  I think this is either the GOP, or probably more likely a Republican associated interest group trying to figure out how to frame their opposition to Obama.  One thing I would say though is, can we lay off the constitutional amendment crap?  It’s really hard to do, and we ought not be altering our constitution to deal with the political battles du jour.  Why don’t they ask that polling question?

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Questioning our Sanity Again

Fred Lebrun asks the question again:

Well, if it’s true, why in the world would you go out and buy something the government is going to take away from you anyway? Of course, the idea of confiscating our legally owned and permitted handguns is totally insane and flies in the face of where we’re at nationally.

Confiscation is not the real fear driving this.  The fear is that Obama will reenact a broad based manufacturing or sales ban on a large number of commonly used firearms.  His transition team has already called for it.  At this point it’s not paranoia.

And I for one say amen to that. I’m a handgun owner, and rifle and shotgun owner, and an avid hunter.

Avid hunter?  How do you feel about this?  Of course, he goes on to call for more gun control.

UPDATE: Joe Huffman has more.

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Consider it a Warning

I know that Bryan Miller would prefer just to stick his hands over his ears and shout “I can’t hear you.” but the proliferation of articles in news outlets around the country should serve as a warning to the incoming administration.  They’ve been flowing into my inbox all week:

I could sit here all day and do this, and get articles from every corner of the country.  Google alerts have been absolutely wild with stories like this.  How many millions of purchasers does it take to drive a sales boom of this magnitude?  How many millions more people would like to buy now, but can’t afford it?  Is an organized and motivated group of people like this one that is politically wise to cross?  These are things the Obama transition team needs to be thinking about.  The unfortunate thing is, I doubt they are.

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