Category: gun politics

  • A good question

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    David Hardy wonders: Mayor says that for the last “you should have to really show that your life is in danger, and that having a gun will protect you, will improve the chances of you surviving.” Curiously, the last include a fair number of actors, celebrities, and politicians. I wonder why Donald Trump, Robert DeNiro,…

  • Quote of the Day – Unstopable Edition

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    If 3% of gun owners were as involved in political activism as they supposedly are at preparing for civil war, we’d be an unstoppable political force.  – Sebastian 3% of gun owners would be enough to keep a lot of politicians up at night if they went anywhere near gun control.

  • Sounds like Remington gets it

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    David Codrea talked to Remington CEO Tommy Millner, who assured him that Remington takes the H-S Precision incident very seriously, and will put pressure on them, up to and including changing suppliers. Good to see. I also agree with David that it is great to see Mr. Millner being as open and accessible as he…

  • NRA Membership

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    I just renewed mine, is yours up to date? You can use this link to get a $10 discount. Please post a comment if you join or renew.

  • Book review: Every Handgun is Aimed at You

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    As you might have guessed from a couple of posts excerpting the book, I purchased a (used) copy of Every Handgun is Aimed at You; The Case For Banning Handguns written by Josh Sugarmann of the Violence Policy Center. The raw hyperbole of the title is continued through most of the book, blaming most of…

  • Quote of the Day – State Power Edition

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    The issue of gun control is really the issue of state power: those who want more control want the state to have more power; those who want less control just want to be free. – Pierre Lemieux Don’t just take it from me, read the thoughts of someone who lives in a country with much…

  • A good “Assault Weapons” resource

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    The NSSF has a fact sheet debunking some of the myths revolving around so called “assault weapons.” It is going to be important to get the message out that they are not machine guns, not weapons of war, etc. if we want to defeat any attempts to renew the assault weapons ban. ETA: Hat Tip…

  • Wait a minute, fewer guns doesn’t equal less crime?

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    From Josh Sugarmann’s book, Every Handgun Is Aimed at You: Cook and Ludwig’s Guns in America shows that 16.5 percent of whites own handguns, compared to 13.1 percent of blacks, and a mere 7.2 percent of Hispanics. If one wishes to pour more killing power into the black and Hispanic communities, there is clearly room…

  • Quote of the Day – Respect Edition

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    If this is how Barack Obama respects the Second Amendment, I’d sure hate to see how he’d disrespect it.  I suspect that would involve a trip to the National Archives, a match, and some lighter fluid. – Sebastian

  • More thoughts on “Fudds”

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    There  has been some argument in the comments over at Sebastian’s about the use of the term “Fudd.” As I stated in a previous post, I think using the term is counterproductive, at best. This does not mean, as some have suggested, that I give the hunters, or any other gun owners, who do not…