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RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS

Nov 20 13:36

South Carolina To Have Tax Free Holiday For Gun Sales

Most people are probably unaware of it, but on the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving, handguns, rifles and shotguns will be sales tax free in South Carolina. State lawmakers passed a bill in June that includes the sales tax holiday on firearms. They called it the Second Amendment Recognition Act.

Nov 07 13:12

Fears of a Dem crackdown lead to boom in gun sales

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Now, I think people should have guns in their homes. No question there. But maybe this particular reason for buying guns deserves a closer look?

I think someone needs to study the unintended side-effects or after-effects of the usual flood of campaign hype on society. The claim that Obama is going to grab all the guns was clearly McCain campaign scare tactics, about as real as the Y2K bug that was supposed to crash all of our computers (or global warming), yet Americans are responding as if it is fact.

Nov 07 10:27

GUN SALES EXPLODE DUE TO ELECTION OF OBAMA

Sales of handguns, rifles and ammunition have surged in the last week, according to gun store owners around the nation who describe a wave of buyers concerned that an Obama administration will curtail their right to bear arms.

Oct 27 12:41

Boy Accidentally Kills Himself With Uzi

An 8-year-old boy died after accidentally shooting himself in the head while firing an Uzi submachine gun under adult supervision at a gun fair.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Well, that was plain stupid. When you teach a kid to shoot you give them one bullet at a time.

But setting aside the tragedy, I want to point out that many more kids have been killed today making equally stupid mistakes driving cars, but their deaths do not rate the same media coverage, nor will legions of misinformed but well-intentioned do-gooders be screaming for more car control the rest of the week.

Oct 27 11:15

Report hike in gun and ammunition sales

Experts say U.S. economic conditions and the presidential election are partly responsible for an increase in the sale of guns and ammunition this year.

Data supplied by federal and state government show sales of firearms up 8 to 10 percent in 2008, continuing a trend that began in 2006, The Washington Post reported Monday.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

We are past the Claire Wolf stage.

Oct 26 18:19

Captain Kirk "Shatner" on gun control!

Webmaster's Commentary: 

This is TV. In real life if you get the drop on the bad guy, skip the fancy stuff and put three in the center of mass fast as you can, then a double-tap to the skull just to make sure. If the target can still scream, he can still shoot back.

Oct 26 12:34

The Gun Control Genocide Chart

The message is simple: Disarmed people are neither free nor safe - they become the criminals' prey and the tyrants' playthings. When the civilians are defenseless and their government goes bad, however, thousands and millions of innocents die.

Oct 19 11:00

Gun crime 60pc higher than official figures

Data provided to The Sunday Telegraph by nearly every police force in England and Wales, under freedom of information laws, show that the number of firearms incidents dealt with by officers annually is 60 per cent higher than figures stated by the Home Office.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Britain's gun grab, like gun grabs everywhere else, resulted in an INCREASE in crime. The answer by the gun grabbers is not to change a bad law, but to fudge the official figures to "prove" they were right.

Oct 15 08:00

FBI: Justifiable homicides at highest in more than a decade

The number of justifiable homicides committed by police and private citizens has been rising in the past two years to their highest levels in more than a decade, reflecting a shoot-first philosophy in dealing with crime, say law enforcement analysts.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Is this a problem?

As the economy crashes, crime will skyrocket. And based on prior history a clear trend will emerge. Neighborhoods in which criminals die in the middle of their attempted crimes will have far less crime as a result.

It is clear from the statistics that police do not prevent crime. At best they show up after the crime is over and make sympathetic noises while they clean up the mess. And if the police cannot prevent a crime, then We The People must.

911 won't work? Try .357!

Oct 11 07:32

Sheriff begins taking away concealed weapons permits

It is clear that the intention is to demonize gun ownership while making the 'permit' aspect convey a privilege rather than a right, as guarded by the 2nd amendment of the Constitution. Further, the claim that the former sheriff was 'corrupt' is meant to justify the revoking of permits, which are also associated emotionally as being wrong to hold. Instead, government should control who's allowed to carry self-defense.

Oct 08 21:27

NRA to settle suit over Katrina gun seizures

City officials have agreed to return hundreds of firearms that police officers confiscated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, part of a deal to resolve a lawsuit filed by gun lobbying groups.

Oct 05 10:12

What the Second Amendment is REALLY For

Texas state representative, Suzanna Gratia-Hupp, whose parents were killed by an insane gunman while her gun was out in the car, gives very moving and bold testimony about the REAL reason that the second amendment was designed to protect our God-given right to keep and bear arms.

Sep 26 16:36

ADL Joins Broad Coalition Opposing DC Gun Bill

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has joined with a coalition of religious and civil rights organizations in an effort to stop the Senate's consideration of H.R. 6842, which would endanger the lives of D.C. residents and the millions of people who visit Washington each year.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Just so you know exactly who wants you disarmed!

Sep 24 16:24

Press Censorship over SSRI case

The headlines in the Finnish Press (below) discuss a shooting rampage by an 18-year old High School student, Pekka-Eric Auvinen. Before killing six students, the head teacher and a nurse, and turning the gun on himself, Auvinen indicated that he "ate SSRI antidepressants" which, he said, made him feel "aggressive."

Sep 05 09:54

Intruders shot after Texas couple wrests shotgun

The 34-year-old mother of two grabbed a shotgun that had been pointed at her face early Wednesday, starting a struggle that ended with one intruder killed with his own weapon and another in the hospital.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Good for her!

Aug 29 10:44

With Gustav approaching New Orleans Residents stocking up on AR-15’s and ammo

We just got a call from Devline Rossell, a charter captain based out of Venice, Louisiana. He was shopping in New Orleans to get some supplies before the arrival of Gustav (currently listed as a tropical storm that has left at least 22 dead in the Caribbean) and reported that the item most in demand was not food, clothing or shelter.

Webmaster's Commentary: 
Aug 29 09:28

Armed and Jewish

Jews with guns is not necessarily an oxymoron.

Certainly not in Israel, where the sight of firearms is commonplace. In contrast, gun ownership among American Jews is far rarer, although just how rare is unknown. Reliable statistics on this phenomenon may be nonexistent.

Aug 01 09:33

Man arrested in lakeside ambush on 3 Wis. swimmers

Marinette County Sheriff Jim Kanikula did not immediately release the suspect's name, motive or details of the arrest.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

I suspect the motive was to give the gun-grabbers another media event to use to derail the Second Amendment.

Jul 25 09:22

Man sues Nassau over seized guns

A member of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corp. is suing Nassau County to get back nine rifles and 15 handguns seized from his Freeport home by police after he made repeated visits to the office of Rep. Carolyn McCarthy to complain about what he believed to be "illegal aliens" in his neighborhood.

Aides to McCarthy (D-Mineola), whose husband was one of six people slain by Colin Ferguson in the 1993 Long Island Rail Road massacre, eventually called police, which led to the seizure of the weapons.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

I wonder if they ever did anything about the illegal aliens.