QOTD!!!

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Quote of the day-

One sentence editorial that appeared in today’s Peoria Journal Star-

“A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than a gun in the hands of 200 million law-abiding citizens.”
 
h/t JP

The nose under the tent???

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Babs (call me Senator) Boxer is trying to sneak one in on us…

I don’t know about anyone else, but this was the first I’d heard about ‘this‘ little gem…


JANUARY 24 (legislative day, JANUARY 3), 2013
Mrs. BOXER introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To establish minimum standards for States that allow the
carrying of concealed firearms.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa
2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Common Sense Con
5 cealed Firearms Permit Act of 2013’’.
6 SEC. 2. CONCEALED FIREARMS PERMITS.
7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 44 of title 18, United
8 States Code, is amended by inserting after section 926C
9 the following:

1 ‘‘§ 926D. Concealed firearms permits
2 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Each State that allows residents
3 of the State to carry concealed firearms shall—
4 ‘‘(1) establish a process to issue permits to resi
5 dents of the State to carry concealed firearms; and
6 ‘‘(2) require that each resident of the State
7 seeking to carry a concealed firearm in the State ob
8 tain a permit through the process established under
9 paragraph (1).
10 ‘‘(b) REQUIREMENTS.—In establishing a process to
11 issue permits to carry concealed firearms under subsection
12 (a), a State shall—
13 ‘‘(1) ensure that a local law enforcement agency
14 participates in the process; and
15 ‘‘(2) at a minimum, require that an applicant
16 for a permit to carry a concealed firearm—
17 ‘‘(A) be a legal resident of the United
18 States;
19 ‘‘(B) be not less than 21 years of age;
20 ‘‘(C) demonstrate good cause for request
21 ing a concealed firearm permit; and
22 ‘‘(D) demonstrate that the applicant is
23 worthy of the public trust to carry a concealed
24 firearm in public.
25 ‘‘(c) LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY REPORT.—If a
26 State establishes a process under subsection (a) that al-

1 lows for an agency other than a law enforcement agency
2 to issue permits to carry concealed firearms, the process
3 shall require that—
4 ‘‘(1) a local law enforcement agency submit to
5 the agency responsible for issuing permits a written
6 report that describes whether the applicant meets
7 the standards of the State to carry a concealed fire
8 arm; and
9 ‘‘(2) the agency responsible for issuing permits
10 maintain a report submitted under paragraph (1) in
11 the file of the applicant.
12 ‘‘(d) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘local
13 law enforcement agency’ means a law enforcement agency
14 of the unit of local government with jurisdiction of the
15 area in which the applicant for a permit to carry a con
16 cealed firearm resides.
17 ‘‘(e) COMPLIANCE.—Not later than 270 days after
18 the date of enactment of this section, each State described
19 in subsection (a) shall be in compliance with this section.’’.
20 (b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—
21 The table of sections for chapter 44 of title 18, United
22 States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relat
23 ing to section 926C the following:
‘‘926D. Concealed firearms permits.’’.


Lines 10-24 my highlight and underline…

And 18 USC 926C is HERE.

“MY” take I think this bill is proposing to take away states rights to “Shall Issue and replace it with a federal “Good & Substantial” definition.

To me it does this two ways, one it would now require a ‘good reason’, and it brings local police into the mix officially…

So basically, the states can remain shall issue by defining G&S to be ???  But the local LEOs also have to approve your app rather than at the State level.  So a possibility would be let’s say Philly- Local police would always deny, where the rural places would continue to be shall issue.

Another problem is states that have NO wording in their state constitutions supporting 2A, e.g. Maryland, other than that the US Constitution is the law of the land. Depending on how they ‘parse’ that, it ‘could’ exclude the Bill of Rights, and poof, no 2A and no issue.  

Am I being totally stupid here, or reading too much into this??? Or just overly paranoid???

A Twofer…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
The Washington Times (as opposed to the WAPO fishwrap) has two very good ‘points’ in two editorials today…

One is Emily Miller (aka Emily get your gun), writing on the MD kefluffle HERE.

A perverse side effect of Maryland’s gun-control hysteria is that certain proposed legislation could leave American soldiers disarmed. The General Assembly should slow down and think about what it’s doing.
The state Senate voted 28 to 19 on Thursday to prohibit manufacturers from holding any “assault weapons” in their inventory or receiving magazines with a capacity over 10 rounds. The state House of Delegates opened committee hearings on Friday on the companion measure needed for final passage. Maryland-based suppliers to the military services are concerned.

/snip/

Opponents of Mr. O’Malley’s gun-control agenda are considering asking the courts for an injunction to stop the General Assembly’s assault on Second Amendment grounds. That’s an extreme step, but extremism invites extremism.

And another from Jim Bovard, writing on police gun violence HERE.  

President Obama is promoting his gun-control agenda by appealing to “all the Americans who are counting on us to keep them safe from harm.” Some perils, however, are not worth registering on Mr. Obama’s scorecard. While the president’s strident warnings about privately owned guns evoked a hallelujah media chorus, his administration is scorning a mandate to track how many Americans are shot and killed each year by government agents.
The same 1994 law that temporarily banned the sale of assault weapons also required the federal government to compile data on police shootings nationwide. However, neither the Justice Department nor most local police departments have bothered to tally such occurrences.
Instead, the Justice Department relied on the National Crime Survey of citizens to gauge the police use of force. Yet as professor James Fyfe, one of the nation’s foremost experts on police shootings, observed in 2001, “Since dead people can’t participate in such a survey, this work tells us nothing about how often police kill.”

/snip/

Jim Fisher, a former FBI agent and criminal law professor, compiled a database of police shootings and estimated that police in the United States in 2011 sThe federal government has no credibility condemning vast numbers of private gun owners as long as it refuses to compile the casualty count from government agents. Washington has deluged state and local law enforcement agencies with billions of dollars in aid in recent years. Is it too much to ask the recipients for honest body counts?

/snip/

The federal government has no credibility condemning vast numbers of private gun owners as long as it refuses to compile the casualty count from government agents. Washington has deluged state and local law enforcement agencies with billions of dollars in aid in recent years. Is it too much to ask the recipients for honest body counts?

Both ‘interesting’ reading, and I cannot help but wonder if these are ‘intended’ or ‘unintended’ consequences… 


Random thoughts…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
I know, I know, that’s dangerous… Sigh…

Had to go out and replenish the food stocks yesterday and standing in line at the checkout behind two very obviously liberal women. They were prattling on about how ‘well’ things were going with the gun bans, and one from MD was crowing about how close the new bans were to passing and how GREAT and SAFE the state would be when guns were banned. 

I couldn’t help it, I laughed when she said that, and of course she snapped around and glared at me, asking what I was laughing about.   

I told her she was dreaming if she though that would actually increase safety, and I asked her how she would defend herself.  She said she’d call the police; so I asked her how long did she think it took for the police to get there. Something to the effect of a minute or so; she thought.

I told her the ‘average’ was 4-5 minutes, in the county 10+ minutes, and that in large cities the best response times were up to 9 minutes. And that, OBTW, the police had NO reason to actually protect them. It’s not actually in their charter. They are just there to clean up the mess, take statements from the survivors and put out an APB for the perpetrators.

She couldn’t think of a comeback to that, so she said I must be a Republican (said with a sneer), and I was just against all the GOOD things the democrats were doing.

I told her actually I was an independent and a conservative, and “I” was not the one trying to ban everything or institute nanny state laws or overturning our freedoms in the Bill of Rights; and that since she was trying that, she HAD to be a liberal democrat.  And she vapor locked… 🙂

Another line opened up and I moved quickly to get away from them.  I wonder what they would have done if they’d known I was carrying???

And last night I talked to my grandson for a bit, he’s 13 and I’ve been working with him on his shooting and safety for the last couple of years.

He asked me what I was ‘afraid of’, and when I asked him what he meant, he told me that one of his teachers (this is in Kalifornia) said that anyone that kept guns was scared of something or getting ready to do something bad.

So I turned it around to him and asked him if HE felt like doing something bad when he went to the range with us. Of course he didn’t, so I asked him if he thought his mother or his aunt would do something bad and he said they wouldn’t.

I also asked him if he knew why his mother and aunt both had fire extinguishers in the house, and his answer was to protect themselves and him in case of a fire.  So I asked him if he felt safer or less safe with the extinguishers.

I also asked him if he knew why his mother and aunt both had pistols in the house, and his answer was to protect themselves and him.  So I asked him if he felt safer or less safe with a gun in the house.

He thought about it for a minute, and said he felt safer in both cases. So I asked him if he though the teacher was right or wrong.

Then he circled back to my being ‘afraid’, and I wasn’t afraid of anyone but I was going to protect myself and my family and that included him. And that I knew I was too old to fight, and with the situations and gangs out there, anything I could do/use to diffuse a situation I was going to use it just like the fire extinguisher in the kitchen in case there was a fire.  And I told him I hoped I never had to use either of them to protect any of us.    

He finally came up with the analogy of the fire extinguisher and gun being used to keep him safe, one in the kitchen and one in life; and that the teacher was wrong.  

I also cautioned him again about our privacy and to never tell anyone there was a gun in the house or where it was.  That it was no ones business outside the family. He said he doesn’t talk about it, and when asked he only told his friends he had gone to the range with his papa and the cop (actually a deputy sheriff but he doesn’t remember that part).

Other things I continue to wonder about are the bills pending in various states, like Colorado that would ban pump shotguns and I wonder if that is an intentional inclusion or not…  No question it is a quick way to turn an entire middle class into criminals.  I’m betting there are a LOT of shotguns sitting forgotten in closets all over Colorado and most other states. 

And DHS releasing over 2000 ‘low level’ illegal criminals back onto the streets (not the ‘hundreds’ the administration admitted to) in California, Arizona, Texas and Georgia.  And ‘nobody’ knows who authorized it??? BS…  Low level bureaucrats NEVER do things like that without approval from higher authority; but this administration and Big Sis claim they had NO knowledge???  And all these releases were not ‘payback’ to CA, AZ, TX, GA for not toeing the party line?  I dunno what they’re smoking, but I want some of that…

And NY now going back and excluding Hollyweird from the NY gun ban, so they can still make movies??? WTF???  

And I’m hearing through the mil-email grapevine that there is no movement on allowing DOD to do any re-programming of funds, to purposely maximize the impact on DOD.  I’m at the point that I’d like to see them go ahead and shut the damn government down the end of March. At least if they’re shut down they can’t cause anymore problems… Sigh…

And this from a friend of mine’s daughter…


Kicking the soapbox back in the corner…

Three gun, with a twist…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
If I remember correctly, this young lady is 13 years old…



But according to most states (and Uncle Joe) she’s not capable of shooting a weapon safely nor defending herself…

I’d like to see those pols try to do as well as this young lady does…

Just sayin… 

Good gun store primer…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
This guy gives GOOD advice, especially for newbies going to a gun store for the first time…



And all of these people DO exist, and if you get one “my” recommendation would be to just leave and go to another store.  If that isn’t an option, politely ask to see what you wanted to look at and tune the guy out.  For the ladies, if you’re getting patronized, ask to speak to the manager or someone else.  I’m seeing more and more stores where women are behind the counter too, and the are more knowledgeable and less critical of newbies than most of the other salespeople…

For a good cause…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Supporting young shooters…
Danno has a link to a raffle for a good cause.

A chance to win a Winchester SX3 Sporting shotgun for $10? And the proceeds go to help an organization that teaches kids how to shoot clays? There isn’t a downside here that I can see.

Going to the dogs…

Posted on by March 6, 2013

The truly sad part about this is the dogs ARE better dancers than I am…


Sigh…

h/t JP

It’s done…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Well, by the time you read this, Sequestration is reality…

The Prez ‘claims’ he’s not a dictator, but he’s sure trying to act like one… 

He held ONE 52 minute meeting yesterday with leadership on sequestration, then spent 37 minutes in a press conference blaming the Pubs for the crisis…

And the dems are dancing in the streets, because they’ve gotten their wish and are gutting the military.  After all, the military/DOD doesn’t ‘pay’ for any votes for them…

And both the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds will be grounded.  

With $85 billion in automatic cuts to the military budget taking effect beginning Friday, millions of fans across the country will miss out on the precision flying by the Navy’s Blue Angels and the Air Force’s Thunderbirds, military officials said.


Blue Angels shows scheduled in more than two dozen cities between April and September are expected to be canceled as part of the cuts, said the team’s spokeswoman, Lt. Katie Kelly. Some shows featuring the Blue Angels already have been called off in the face of budget uncertainties.


The Thunderbirds entire 2013 season, beginning April 1, has been canceled, the Air Force said in a statement. The Air Force said that all aviation support for the public has been halted, including air shows, trade shows, flyovers and open houses.

Full Article HERE. 

DOD is NOT allowed to move $$ between accounts, so all the money comes out of Operations and Maintenance (O&M) which is day to day funding for the military.

And I friend of mine’s son just landed at Baghram last night to start his year of deployment…  Thoughts and prayers for him and all the others that are downrange and now being hung out to dry…

And from a source I trust, this is the priorty for the Army on bullets…

Prioritized within the funding.

1. OEF

2. Deployed/deploying units
3. Korea call forward
4. Homeland Defense
5. Rapid Deployers
 
All Joint Service Training ammunition support stops 1 March except as noted above.
 
So a VERY perishable skill will be stopped for the Army (and probably the Marines too)…
 
I hope you F**KERS in Washington are proud of yourselves… And I for one no longer have ANY confidence in Congress or Obama being willing to do what is right for or actually LEAD America.  I respect the office, but I DO NOT have to respect the individual sitting in the chair…

And as Tim points out HERE, DHS has $9B in their slush fund, so WHY is Napolitano BSing us with how bad it’s going to get at TSA/airports/Customs???

At this point, I hope they shut the whole damn mess down the end fo the month…