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Hunter mistakes woman for moose

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Feds: Medical Marijuana Patients Have No Right to Second Amendment ( Article)

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Why the gun industry secretly loves Obama: Sales of firearms have surged since he took office

The bottom line: Since Obama took office, Ruger’s stock has climbed more than 400 percent, outperforming gold.

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I own between two and three dozen firearms. Fully a quarter of them are Rugers. I consider them to be some of the most overengineered, best buys in modern firearms, and they are made in the US, by American workers.
I haven't bought anything new since the President took office, and not much in the way of ammo either, because prices have been so artificially inflated. I do lust after Ruger's new SR-556 (I want one in 6.8 to be my "ranch rifle"), but I have a kid in preschool, and just had to help my old lady buy the VW wagon she had to have, so I'm still making do with the 181-xx Mini-14 that Ruger built when it was Bill Ruger's company, back in 1980, and that I bought as a "pre-ban" rifle when I was 20, in 1998, during the '93 AWB. After the POTUS was elected, I could hardly go into a gun store without getting into an argument with some jackass who was telling everyone to buy every "black rifle" in the place, because "Obama was gonna ban them." I can't tell you how many times I tried to explain that the POTUS doesn't write the laws, and that the COTUS was never in a million years gonna pass anything like an AWB, because it was suicide. Generally, this was recieved with a look of vauge distrust, and confusion that I didn't just automatically nod, and join in the Obama-bashing. WTF was wrong with me? Anyway, there is a saying about the length of the relationship between a fool and his money, isn't there?

Ammo prices have been atrocious too. Part if this is to be attributed to the fact that there are two wars going on, and so there is no "military surplus" ammo. I was told that in 2009 Lake City was turning out 4 million rounds of 5.56mm a day and not keeping up with what was being shot up in Iraq and Afghanistan. As metal prices have risen, the materials used to manufacture ammo have become more expensive, particularly the copper that was for so long that most common jacketing material. Now we're seeing nylon and other materials being substituted, and in many cases, performing better, since their cost is justified because copper is just as costly.

There was also a really great article in the Atlantic last month about the history of the NRA and the private gun-ownership movement in the US, and its origins, which might surprise a lot of folks. Catch that if you can, too.

I know that current is a left-leaning site, and I am definitely a left leaning thinker, but I see no reason to pick daisies while people who obviously have ill will for folk like myself arm themselves to the teeth. I was born in Huntsville, Alabama, and grew up in the rural county between Huntsville, and Tennesse. I owed $1 on a Glock 26 on my twenty-first birthday, and had a CCW two weeks later. When I was in my early twenties, my dentist's office was next door to a women's clinic, and so I had to walk past picketing nutcases every six months at least, just to get my teeth cleaned. By the time he moved to a different office building, my dentist didn't even mention it when he came in and my holstered gun was lying on the floor beside the chair on top of whatever book I had been reading in the waiting room (You don't want to be strapped up while you're in the dentist's chair, and he's using your torso for a tray table).

Anyhow, sorry for the wandering monlouge, talk amongst yourselves.The bottom line: Since Obama took office, Ruger’s stock has climbed more than... more

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Martial Law in America: No Longer Just a Possibility!( Videos)

As the United Kingdom continues to riot many have wondered how the United States would... more

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Black Panthers and the secret history of gun control

A good article on both sides of the second amendment gun control debate.

Obviously, the 2nd Amendment is going to play very heavily in the 2012 debate with the possibility of a total financial collapse on the horizon, anti-2nd Amendment groups are likely to try and capitalize on that in the unfortunate event that it happens.

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It was May 2, 1967, and the Black Panthers’ invasion of the California statehouse launched the modern gun-rights movement. On the west lawn of the state capitol in Sacramento 30 young black men and women [arrived] carrying .357 Magnums, 12-gauge shotguns, and .45-caliber pistols. The 24 men and six women climbed the capitol steps, and one man, Bobby Seale, began to read from a prepared statement. “The time has come for black people to arm themselves against this terror before it is too late.”

Opposition to gun control as what drove the black militants to visit the California capitol with loaded weapons in hand. The Black Panther Party had been formed six months earlier, in Oakland, by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. Like many young African Americans, Newton and Seale were frustrated with the failed promise of the civil-rights movement. Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were legal landmarks, but they had yet to deliver equal opportunity. In Newton and Seale’s view, the only tangible outcome of the civil-rights movement had been more violence and oppression, much of it committed by the very entity meant to protect and serve the public: the police.

Inspired by the teachings of Malcolm X, Newton and Seale decided to fight back. Before he was assassinated in 1965, Malcolm X had preached against Martin Luther King Jr.’s brand of nonviolent resistance. Because the government was “either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property” of blacks, he said, they had to defend themselves “by whatever means necessary.” Malcolm X illustrated the idea for Ebony magazine by posing for photographs in suit and tie, peering out a window with an M-1 carbine semiautomatic in hand. Malcolm X and the Panthers described their right to use guns in self-defense in constitutional terms. “Article number two of the constitutional amendments,” Malcolm X argued, “provides you and me the right to own a rifle or a shotgun.”

The Pathers’ efforts provoked an immediate backlash. Republicans in California eagerly supported increased gun control. Governor Reagan told reporters that afternoon that he saw “no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.” He called guns a “ridiculous way to solve problems that have to be solved among people of good will.” In a later press conference, Reagan said he didn’t “know of any sportsman who leaves his home with a gun to go out into the field to hunt or for target shooting who carries that gun loaded.” The Mulford Act, he said, “would work no hardship on the honest citizen.”A good article on both sides of the second amendment gun control debate.... more

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Norwegian Terrorist Got His Weapons from the United States

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Norwegian Terrorist Anders Breivik Got His Weapons... more

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White House staffer knew about gun running operation last fall

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WHACKO-TV INTERNET POLICE

Finally the government has added another branch we can get behind. Homeland Security... more

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Al Qaeda says erstwhile terrorists should use gun shows

NRA has no comment about this. I wonder why?

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Over a barrel? Meet White House gun policy adviser Steve Croley

Read this quote from Obama about regulating guns "Under the radar"... more

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Two British tourists gunned down in Sarasota ghetto

*** James Cooper, 25, and James Kouzaris, 24, were in Florida when they were killed... more

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Texas Senate delays vote on campus guns bill

AUSTIN, TX -- The Texas Senate abruptly cut off debate Thursday as support weakened... more

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Don’t Mess With Texas (College Students)!

The Senate Criminal Justice Committee today approved a controversial bill that would... more

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Criminals For Gun Control 1 Home Invasion

MAKE ALL GUN OWNERSHIP ILLEGAL. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngsKzdKNAmo

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Montana Radio Shack offers free gun or pizza with satellite TV purchase

A Radio Shack owner in Montana is offering free guns for new satellite television... more

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Children under 10 licensed to use shotguns, BBC learns

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Why the NRA won't talk gun control with Obama

Washington (CNN) -- The chief spokesman for the National Rifle Association is expected... more

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In Op-Ed, President Obama Advocates For ‘Common Sense’ Gun Control

On a smaller platform than some may have hoped, President Obama wrote an op-ed in... more

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2nd Amendment is Under Attack!! Fight Back!!

A historic right to carry lawsuit is currently taking place in the state of New Jersey. The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs (ANJRPC), and 6 plaintiffs have filed suit against several New Jersey officials for deprivation of civil rights under color of law.

The 6 plaintiffs---who are private citizens---had their gun permits denied on the grounds that they had not proven "justifiable need" to own a firearm.

One of the plaintiffs is a kidnap victim, another is a part-time sheriff's deputy, another keeps large amounts of cash in his private business and a fourth is a civilian employee of the FBI who is fearful of attack from a radical Islamic fundamentalist group.

If these people are denied firearm permits, then who can legally own a gun in New Jersey?

New Jersey courts claim that the Second Amendment only applies inside the home. Where is that in the Constitution? "The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Where does it say, "only in the home?"

The Attorney General has defended New Jersey's ridiculous existing laws and moved to dismiss the case. It is clear that "SOME" liberals will do anything to limit a person's right to defend themselves---even if it means making up a whole new clause in the Constitution.

Law-abiding New Jersey citizens have been arbitrarily deprived of their ability to defend themselves and their families for years. The law grants uncontrolled discretion to police chiefs and other public officials to deny license applications even in cases where the applicant has shown a clear and present danger exists.

Supreme Court rulings have made it clear that the Second Amendment gives us the right to carry a handgun for self-defense.

What does the State of New Jersey consider a justifiable need? Do citizens need guns to their heads or knives to their throats before they are allowed by the State to protect themselves? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6nBK7Yx2Ig

Please CLICK THE LINK to donate to the Second Amendment Foundation as we continue to defend our Constitutional right to bear arms.
https://secure.conservativedonations.com/saf/?a=5780A historic right to carry lawsuit is currently taking place in the state of New... more

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Bloomberg Launches Driving Campaign For Gun-Control Laws

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, co-chair of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, appeared on "Good Morning America" Wednesday to announce a new campaign to raise national awareness regarding flaws the coalition of 550 U.S. mayors sees in the federal system of background checks for firearm purchases.

Displaying a tally of the number of Americans killed with guns since January's Tucson, Ariz., shootings, the "National Drive to Fix Gun Checks" truck will spend two months driving across at least 25 states, Bloomberg said. That includes stops to meet with local leaders, law-enforcement officials and victims of gun violence -- the first in Newark on Wednesday afternoon at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, for an event hosted by Mayor Cory Booker.

"Every day, 34 Americans are murdered with guns, and most of them are purchased or possessed illegally," Bloomberg said in a statement on Wednesday. "It is time for Washington to take action: since the Tucson shooting more than 1,300 people have been killed with guns in the United States and that number continues to grow."

The drive, which began Wednesday morning in New York City's Times Square, will be led by Omar Samaha, whose sister, Reema, was killed during the Virginia Tech shootings in April 2007. Samaha will join a handful of volunteers in collecting stories from people affected by gun violence, which will appear on the campaign's website.

Among the loopholes the gun-control campaign says should be closed: Millions of records are missing from the National Instant Background Check System. The Virginia Tech shooter was able to purchase a firearm because his information was never submitted to the system, and though Congress passed legislation to improve it in 2007, the bill was underfunded and noncompliance penalties too weak. Almost four years later, 28 states and the District of Columbia still have fewer than 100 mental health records in the system.

And in many cases, guns can still be sold without background checks. Although federally-licensed gun dealers are required to conduct checks on prospective gun-buyers, "occasional sellers" dealing at gun shows or other informal venues are under no such obligation under current law.

Bloomberg's mayoral coalition is calling on Congress to ensure that the names of people ineligible to buy a gun (including felons, the mentally ill and domestic abusers) are kept in a single database, and to require that every would-be gun purchaser undergo a background check.New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, co-chair of Mayors Against Illegal Guns,... more

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