Category: gun politics
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Gun Control as a Winning Issue?
Paul Helmke wrote an article claiming that gun control was a winning issue in this election. Someone ought to tell the candidates, because a quick check of their websites finds only one of the three lists it on their “issues” page. And that one is John McCain calling gun control a failure as a crime…
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It’s time for Pizza Hut to get a clue
Via Dave Hardy: Another Pizza Hut employee has been suspended after defending himself with a legally owned, legally carried, firearm. There have been numerous stories of delivery drivers being robbed, and some killed. Pizza Hut puts it’s employees in danger by nature of the job, but to put them in even more danger by publicly denying them the most effective means of protection…
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Well, He DOES have the lone vote between the democrats
American Hunters and Shooters Association appears to be supporting Obama, apparently on the strength of HIS ONE PRO GUN VOTE (the federal Katrina bill), which apparently nullifies a lifetime of infringing on our rights. If the laundry list of gun ban proposals they support (50BMG bans, FBI access to NICS, and closing the Sale of private property loophole, and opening…
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Lost or stolen firearms: a backdoor to registration.
The lost or stolen firearms bills and “gun show loophole” laws are not only an unnecessary imposition on gun owners, making it harder for people to be a law abiding gun owner. They are also a backdoor, and/or a steppingstone to gun registration. When you have such laws in place, along with the trace data for sales,…
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Dave Hardy on gun politics trends
Dave Hardy has an interesting story regarding the gun control/gun rights trends over the last few decades. I think he minimizes a few of the recent bad things, but also doesn’t directly touch on the good over the last few years: Katrina legislation, Castle doctrine, CCW, etc. I do find it funny that the two main democrat…
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The Bloomberg Collection
Kim du Toit already weighed in on this one, but I felt compelled to chime in, being about fellow Wisconsin resident Steve Lauer and Lauer Custom Weaponry. Steve was interviewed on NRANews, and said that Bloomberg’s ban was the greatest advertising he could hope to get. link A Wisconsin company that disguises deadly firearms with bright…
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Sebastian v. Rebecca Peters
Sebastian from Pro-Gun Progressive recently was involved in a debate on Al Jazeera opposite IANSA queen Rebecca Peters. Check out his take on the debate herePart 1 of the debate hereand part 2 here Standard tired old arguments that more guns equal more crime, America has the highest crime rate, blah blah blah. Even if we give her, for the sake of argument, that America is more violent…
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Gura on machine guns
Michael Bane had a post regarding the discussion of machine guns in the D.C. v. Heller oral arguments, including quoting a post from Alan Gura. I have to admit that I cringed listening to the exchanges regarding machine guns, as I believe that military style weapons should be available to U.S. citizens, and machine guns…
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Real Estate agent found dead
The A.P. is reporting a story out of Wisconsin of a 71 year old real estate agent, Ann B. Nelson, who was found dead in a house she had been showing earlier in the day. She was found in a bedroom with a smoldering mattress and wounds to her head. This certainly looks like a…
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Well, Does he?
Shooting Wire had this great quote from an interview with Dick Heller, the respondant in D.C. v. Heller: At that point, a reporter interjected: “The Mayor (DC Mayor Adrian M. Fenty) says the handgun ban and his initiatives have significantly lowered violent crime in the District. How do you answer that, Mr. Heller?” The initial answer…