The Gun Blogs

Here's a shocker.

Go figure...the AP report on Baltimore's homicide problem is laden with antigun bias and unrebutted quotes from paid antigun shills.

Well...I'm giving the MD State Police exactly what they asked for: more documentation.

The ball is in their court.

They wanted additional documentation about threats I've received...and now they have it. Next move is theirs.

It's not like they ever have to face violent bad guys or anything...

Pat Jessamy is an idiot.

I can think of better means for personal defense than a hammer...

Mine usually involve projectiles that are four tenths of an inch in diameter.

If you're in the Baltimore Washington area, we're organizing a protest to protest JJ's protest outside a legitimate gun store.

Be there to buy your Ammo on National Buy Some Ammo Day!!

Former Anti-Rights Lobbyists Wants to Go Shooting!

This should be pretty interesting...

Ironic kinda sorta...

The juxtaposition is fascinating, isn’t it? Gun control’s history is inarguably racist, and yet the black mayor in a majority black city is trying to preserve a racist gun control policy with caselaw founded in racist efforts to deny black people the means to defend themselves; what’s more, the basis of his policy position on gun control is based on the larger presumption that you can’t trust a bunch of black people with guns.

The Bradys are so full of it that it's not even amusing anymore.

I didn't use the gun to defend my home per se, but if I hadn't had it, I wouldn't have opened my back door and been able to ID the shooter in this case. A criminal is going to be off the streets because I had my gun for personal protection. Funny how you'll never hear Sarah Brady acknowledge such a thing.

Rare to see any anti anywhere admit they were wrong.

But we still have our work cut out for us.

They're dropping like flies!

Too bad it took getting mugged at gunpoint to make the guy see the light.

Wouldn't it?

Not sure how you can justify a vote for this guy as a gun owner.http://progunprogressive.com/?p=478

So I saw Giuliani getting grilled for his flip floppery and jonny-come-lately pandering to the right wing by Chris Wallace (gotta hand it to that guy, despite how blatantly Fox serves as the propaganda wing of the GOP these days–something ole Rupert prides himself upon–Mr. Wallace really let Rudy have it).

Rudy’s peeing down our necks and calling it rain; I’ll vote for a gun grabbing Democrat before I’ll vote for him–at least with them you know what you’re getting, and the resultant backlash to their hoplophobic rhetoric will scare legislators away from gun control. Rudy’s far more dangerous to liberty–the Swiss-cheese logic lip service he’s paying the 2A is designed to lull us to sleep on the gun issue. Then, once suitably tone-deafened by his have-it-both-ways platitudes, we’ll drop the ball when his authortarian designs come to fruition. We’re much better off with someone who’ll be up front about their gun grabbery than someone who obscures their true agenda with Giuliani-style sleight of hand.

Mrs. Morrison wanna be saying some dumb shit.

As any fan of The Doors knows, Oliver Stone made generous use of his usual “creative license” when making The Doors movie. It was on over the weekend, and I found myself scanning Wikipedia’s page on the movie for hints about things that Stone embellished or fabricated, stickler for the truth that I am.

It’s pretty commonly known that Patricia Kennealy has overstated her role in Morrison’s life; if he took his Celtic ritual “marriage” to her all that seriously, he probably wouldn’t have run off to Paris (where he died) with longtime girlfriend Pam Courson. Duh.

Anyway, Wikipedia has a link to her website; turns out Kennealy fancies herself a blogger! (I refuse to address her as Kennealy-Morrison or Mrs. Morrison, as she seems to prefer–it’s clearly an effort to continue 15 minutes of fame that should have dried up circa 1971.)

Check out her screed on the VT tragedy.

On the other hand, I have nothing but contempt for the State of Virgina and its redneck, NRA-ass-kissing gun laws. And I say this as a person who often feels that everybody should be armed in public, because the criminals and lunatics don’t stick to the law and play by the rules, and we’re all defenseless against this sort of thing.

What the hell?

I think everyone should be armed, but I don’t like VA’s “redneck” laws because…they allow people to be armed?

First and foremost, let’s address her basic premise: that the “NRA-ass-kissing-gun laws” are to blame. Apparently all that lysergic acid and coke snorting has shorted Ms. Kennealy’s synapses. The law about who can or can’t buy in this context in VA is no different than the law here in gun-control-heaven-A-rated-MD or anywhere else: if you pass an NICS check and “correctly” fill out a form 4473, you can buy a gun. The only difference is the waiting period; here in MD you have to wait seven days, in VA, you don’t. Cho waited 33 days to go on his killing spree, so the waiting period is irrelevant. Even in gun-control-happy states like MD, Cho still would have been able to buy a gun. Because the background check (which is the same in every state, it’s the NATIONAL Instant Check System) didn’t include his mental health history, he’d have been able to buy his gun in virtually any state in the union, not just VA. I’m not aware of any state where Cho would have been prevented from buying his guns. Kennealy doesn’t provide examples of any states that require gun dealers to be mind readers either.

There’s plenty of blame to go around for Cho getting a gun, I’m sure. But blaming it on Virginia is amazingly stupid.

The harebrained narcotics addled meandering continues:

But that’s a far cry from the kind of thing Virginia is doing. That state is the biggest supplier of illegally imported guns to New York City. It’s so easy to get a gun there, as we have all seen, and just drive back here with it, to keep or to sell.

Jim Morrison said he believed in a prolonged derangement of the senses to achieve the ultimate experience; apparently Ms. Kennealy bought one of those tickets and didn’t make the return train. She’s not even close to reality.

Every legal gun purchase in VA requires an NICS check. The idea that you can drive to VA, load up on multiple handguns at the gun store without a background check, and drive home to NYC no questions asked is simply delusional. You think NYC’s Bloods and Crips are filling out form 4473 and waiting for the NICS check to come back?

The guns they’re buying are bought on the black market, not through legal channels. VA’s gun laws are NOT the problem. New Yawkurs keep blathering that they wish VA would quit selling their crooks guns; funny, VA is one of the safest states to live in despite its permissive carry law and lack of seven day waiting period. I’ll bet VA wishes NYC would put its crooks in jail and quit sending them south to buy black market guns.

The law abiding citizens of VA have no problem responsibly handling their firearms. Why should they forgo their freedom because New Yorkers can’t follow their own damn laws?

Kennealy should stick to pretending she was anything but a rockstar’s harlot and groupie and leave gun politics out of her deluded ranting.

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For starters (and this will change as it’s breaking news) the breaking news headline at the top of the page reads “Four Baghdad car bombings kill at least 66 people”.

Pretty clearly the idea that mass killings require guns or only happen when people have guns is BUNK. Anyone saying otherwise is either intentionally being deceitful or shamefully misinformed about what happens in Iraq–and elsewhere–in this day and age. We’re blessed here in the US, and we so often forget it. For much of the world’s population, mass killings are the norm, not the exception. Remember that.

Virginia Tech senior Cho Seung-Hui walked into a Roanoke gun shop five weeks ago, put down a credit card and walked out with a Glock 19 handgun and a box of ammunition. He paid $571.

Forgive my ignorance, but there’s no seven day waiting period on handgun purchases in VA? I know there’s one here in MD (when my pistol got repaired a few years back, I had to wait seven days just to have my own property returned to me). Let’s check with, of all people, the Brady Bunch. Nope, no waiting period. Demerits to the Brady Campaign for having misinformation on their website, though (shocking, I know)–it says there’s no training requirement for a CCW permit in VA, which is patently false.

Sidenote: The VT shooter didn’t have a permit, did he? Once again, people who go through the trouble to get permits aren’t generally the people you need be worried about. Troubled students with a worrisome psychological history and a pattern of really creepy writing…yes. CCW permit holders, not so much. Moving on.

I can hear the antigunners now, “see, if there’d been a waiting period maybe this wouldn’t have happened!” Look closer friends, that article makes it clear why that isn’t the case–the shooter waited a month before going on his rampage.

Virginia does require an NICS background check.

Virginia State Police Superintendent Col. W. Steven Flaherty said Tuesday afternoon that both guns were purchased legally in Virginia.

So the gun store did what it was supposed to do, or else A) the store owner would be in a calamitous world of hurt and B) the VASP wouldn’t say that the purchase was legal. Which rather obviously requires us to ponder the nagging question any gun controller needs to consider, exactly what gun control law would have prevented this? Other than an outright ban on the sale of the gun, what gun control law would stand in the way of this sort of thing? A waiting period wouldn’t have done it. A background check wouldn’t have done it. The guy was a legal resident and had no criminal history.

A psychological profile, perhaps? Please. The guy was a student at a prestigious university, if he wanted to effect the purchase I’m sure he’d simply have said “no, I’m not a crazy person planning on shooting up my school and my girlfriend.” Anyone who thinks gun dealers should be both clairvoyant and trained in psychiatry is themselves in need of a psychiatrist.

More bias:

Under the federal assault-weapons ban enacted in 1994, magazines were limited to 10 rounds. But that ban was allowed to expire in 2004.

All indications are the guy reloaded several times and had several magazines on him. Magazine capacity is not the issue here. A 9mm slug from a ten round mag is just as deadly as one from a five rounder or a fifteen rounder.

Cue the obligatory quote from the gun grabbers without rebuttal from a pro-self defense organization.

“The key thing that we have seen in all of these school shootings is easy access to high firepower weapons,” said Daniel Vice, an attorney with the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. “These killings can’t be done with baseball bats and knives.”

Boy is that line getting tiresome; nope, killing 30+ people with a baseball bat or other blunt weapon would be tough, but a talented guy with a sword in a room with a bunch of trapped people (the VT shooter chained the door shut) could do a lot of damage . They can be done by an idiot with a grenade, a homemade bomb, an IED, a Ryder truck, an elderly person behind the wheel at a crowded street market, etc.

The idea that mass killings only happen in the presence of guns really needs be confronted head on, folks.

Should we call ignoring legislatures in other states and federal courts when they tell you to quit infringing on gun owners rights Pulling a Fenty?

More handwringing bullhuckey about Stand Your Ground laws.

Why is it that they get away with distorting the truth about what these bills actually say?

I really think they thought they could get whatever they wanted in MD, and then use MD as a springboard to attack gun rights in other states. They thought they'd steamroll us...ooops!

Brady Campaign looks for a scapegoat.

Support Brochin!

Looks like the Bradys aren't going to get the vote they needed for SB43 (the worst AWB I've ever seen...since it also would have banned every semiauto pistol in the world).

Call him and thank him...even if you don't live here in MD. Why? MD is ground zero for the Brady Bunch. They've told me as much in person.

I'm fighting them here so you don't have to where you are.

Parker and the SCOTUS

Seems they’re really angling for the SCOTUS showdown. I’m not entirely uncomfortable with the idea; while I part ways with Alito, Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas on a lot of issues, I have to think we’re in good shape with those four votes re: the RKBA. We only need one out of Souter, Kennedy, Ginsberg (from what I hear, she’s pretty much in the collectivist 2A interpretation camp…ugh), Breyer, and Stevens. My uneducated guess would be that Kennedy and Breyer are our best hopes there. Someone more knowledgable about how the various justices line up on individual versus the collectivist nonsense (I mean really, people, come the hell on…why would the Founders write an Amendment whose meaning is that the state can’t tell the STATE it can’t have firearms? Clearly the meaning of the “people” in the 2A is NOT the state. If they wanted it to say “you can have a gun if you’re in uniform” or “you can have firearms if you represent the state”…it would flippin say that).

People have noted that Parker represents a real gamble. We could lose at the SCOTUS. We could lose big. They might rule that you don’t have a right to a firearm unless you’re an agent of the state, and that essentially any gun control law, no matter how confiscatory and draconian, is legit if a legislative body approves it.

That would have a few consequences, not the least of which would be the end of the Democrats’ newfound power in Washington; they damn well know that, despite the stupid sounding press clips from Carl Levin and Nancy Pelosi you’ve probably seen. If you think the backlash against the Clinton era AWB was bad for them, wait until the Brady Bunch and the Ceasefire Maryland harpies are popping champagne inside the Beltway and state legislatures in anti gun states start confiscating guns left and right; wait until the 2A truly is gutted, and the NRA points out to the 80mil+ gun owners in the US that there’s now caselaw from the highest court in the land saying you conceivably could be forced by the government to hand them all in.

It would decimate the Democrats for a generation. Maybe the Bradys will think about that before they pick this fight? They could win the battle and lose the war. Yup, the war isn’t just us vs. them in front of the SCOTUS.

The civil rights movement wasn’t stopped by Plessy vs. Ferguson. It wasn’t stopped by Orval Faubus and Byron de la Beckwith and every other Dixiecrat bigot who at certain times actually represented the majority opinion of their constituents. Despite setback after setback, people fighting for everything from gay marriage to legal medical marijuana to every other personal freedom you can think of have had to soldier on against negative results at the legislative level, polls and public opinion stacked against them, etc.

I’m quite confident that the backlash against an anti-individual freedom 2A ruling would be of similar magnitude. Greater, probably–gun owners are black, white, Asian, Hispanic, gay, straight, liberal, conservative, you name it. That ubiquitous thirst for freedom isn’t going to be squelched by five folks in black robes.