Category Archives: Gun Rights

She lost half her followers because, after reading about the four year old who accidentally killed his father, she called for gun safety. That pissed off her followers because they are want a world where gun safety isn’t necessary. There is no need for gun safety if citizens are not allowed to own guns.

Actress Katee Sackoff said she lost half of her Twitter followers when she tweeted a message urging people to practice gun safety.

After watching a television report about a four-year-old who accidentally shot and killed his father with a loaded gun that had been left unattended at a friend’s house, the “Battlestar Galactica” star tweeted Monday:

“Please practice gun safety. This is horrible!”

Soon after, Sackoff’s Twitter feed blew up with followers advocating gun control instead of gun safety.

“Here’s a radical idea folks. How about NO gun?” one wrote.

There you have it.

Obama is the greatest gun salesman in human history.

There have been 73,441,399 background checks for gun purchases since President Obama took office, according to data released by the FBI.

In 2009, the FBI conducted 14,033,824 background checks. If we subtract the month of January (Obama did not assume office until the end of the month) we get 12,819,939.

The FBI conducted 14,409,616 background checks in 2010, 16,454,951 in 2011, and 19,592,303 in 2012.

Add to that the first five months of 2013 (2,495,440, 2,309,393, 2,209,407, 1,714,433 and 1,435,917 respectively) and the total number of background checks under President Obama comes to 73,441,399.

Obama has put more guns into the hands of the citizenry than any other person who has ever lived. When people buy guns, they buy ammunition. Tens of millions of new guns probably represents millions of new gun owners and they all want bullets.

Finding market equilibrium might take a while. Especially if Barry the Gun Salesman decides to fill the sales funnel again.

More here.

Citizens of Colorado have completed a petition to recall an anti-gun Senator in Colorado.

Petition signatures filed with the Colorado Secretary of State’s office are more than sufficient to recall state senator John Morse (D). The recall is the first recall of a

Colorado legislator in the state’s history.

The Recall Morse committee filed over 16,000 signatures, more than double the required number.

In his position as the senate president this past session, Morse coordinated the passage of anti-Second Amendment bills over massive citizen opposition.

This should be a wake up call for all legislators in the heartland. Take away our 2nd Amendment rights at you peril.

That’s the proposal.

Californians who want to buy ammunition would have to submit personal information and a $50 fee for a background check by the state, under a bill passed by the Senate. The state Department of Justice would determine whether buyers have a criminal record, severe mental illness or a restraining order that would disqualify them from owning guns.

Ammo shops would check the name on buyers’ driver’s licenses against a state list of qualified purchasers.

The goal of the bill is “to ensure that criminals and other dangerous individuals cannot purchase ammunition in the state of California,” said Sen. Kevin De Leon (D-Los Angeles), author of SB 53.

The vote was 22-14, with a few Democrats joining the Republican minority in opposition.

This week 54 of 62 Colorado sheriffs filed suit to argue that the state’s new gun laws violate the 2nd Amendment.

Colorado sheriffs upset with gun restrictions adopted in the aftermath of last year’s mass shootings filed a federal lawsuit Friday, challenging the regulations as unconstitutional.

The lawsuit involves sheriffs from 54 of Colorado’s 64 counties, most representing rural, gun-friendly areas of the state.

The sheriffs say the new state laws violate Second Amendment protections that guarantee the right to keep and bear arms.

Hopefully this will be a setback to the Californication of Colorado.

This man was two bullets over his limit. He went directly to jail.

An upstate man was arrested under the state’s new gun law when troopers found him with a legally registered pistol that had a magazine that held nine bullets – two more than the new statute allows, state police said.

Troopers from the New Lebanon barracks in Columbia County stopped a car driven by Gregory D. Dean Jr., 31, of Hopewell Junction, around 9:45 p.m. Sunday on Route 22 because the vehicle’s license-plate lamp was not working.

While interviewing Dean, troopers noticed a handgun on the front seat, partially covered by a sweatshirt.

The troopers determined the gun, a .40-caliber pistol, was legally registered and possessed. However, when the troopers inspected the pistol, its magazine contained the nine bullets – New York’s Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act only allows seven bullets per magazine.

Thank God he didn’t have a 20 oz Coke too. He’d never see the light of day in New York.

Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe accused the Obama administration of buying up ammunition to keep it out of the hands of citizens.

The Oklahoma Republican called the buy-ups intentional and referred to testimony last month from Nick Nayak, the Department of Homeland Security’s chief procurement officer, who said DHS has the right to buy up the ammunition.

“I believe it’s intentional,” Inhofe said. “Now we had someone testify the other day the DHS, the Department of Homeland Security, has the ‘right’ — this is a bureaucrat that said this — they have the ‘right’ to buy as much as they want, and they’re planning to buy 750 million rounds. Well, that is more than three times the amount that our soldiers are using for training to defend our nation. So, it’s just another effort to restrict gun activity and ownership. We have in this country the Second Amendment, that preserves the right to keep and bear arms, and the president doesn’t believe in that.”

Ammunition manufacturers are required by law to fill the government’s needs first – always. This is a condition policy of being licensed to manufacture ammo. This is also why gun grabbers want to ban the importation of ammunition. They have little regulatory power over that.

Among other things, LaPierre ridiculed Obama’s calls for more gun legislation, pointing out that his hometown of Chicago is the site of nearly constant violence.

“If the president had one clue about how to clean up violent crime, don’t you think he would do it in his own hometown?” LaPierre asked.

Senator Cruz offers to debate Slow Joe.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, noting that Vice President Joe Biden reportedly plans to revive a legislative push for gun control, challenged him to a debate about policy responses to gun violence.

“I would like to invite the vice president to engage in an hour-long conversation and debate, ‘How do we stop crime’,” Cruz said at the National Rifle Association Leadership Forum today. “If Vice President Biden really believes that the facts are on his side … then I would think he would welcome the opportunity to talk about the sources, the causes of violent crime, who is carrying it out, and how we can do everything humanly possible to stop it.”

Let’s see if I can get on board with this line of commentary.

Any Senator who supports abortion literally has blood on his hands. It is that simple.

Any politician who opposes decreasing speed limits on interstate highways to 25 mph literally has blood on his hands. I want to see their response the next time someone is killed driving 65 mph.

Anyone in government who did nothing to limit access to pressure cookers literally has blood on his hands.

Every year approximately 35 U.S. fatal dog attacks occur in they United States. Any member of the Senate who refuses to implement a federal background check system for dogs literally has blood on his hands.

Hell, I could literally type these type of comments literally all day.

They aren’t done yet.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) promised on Sunday to continue his push for legislation to expand background checks for gun sales.

Manchin said he “absolutely” plans to bring his legislation back to the Senate floor and insisted the measure could pass.

“I truly do,” Manchin said on “Fox News Sunday.” “The only thing we’ve asked for is that people read the bill.”

Manchin’s bill, which would have required background checks for all gun show and Internet sales, failed in a 54-46 vote earlier this month.

Someone should report him to PETA for beating a dead horse.

He is still banging that drum…

On gun control, Biden said it’s never been a simple issue, but that Congress has miscalculated how deeply the public feels about it and has failed to stand up to groups like the National Rifle Association, particularly after the shootings in Newtown. He said the public is looking to Congress to be mature enough to figure out a way to diminish the chance it will happen again.

“For the first time ever, you have people who are for gun safety, for increasing background checks,” Biden said. “Two out of three of them say it will be a major determining factor in how I vote. That’s the political dynamic that has changed. So I think we’re going to get this anyway. I think this will pass before the year is out, within this Congress.”

Biden went on to say that more than 110 percent of Americans support banning the scariest looking guns.

Yeah, that was always fiction.

Four months after the shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a USA TODAY Poll finds support for a new gun-control law ebbing as prospects for passage on Capitol Hill seem to fade.

Americans are more narrowly divided on the issue than in recent months, and backing for a bill has slipped below 50%, the poll finds. By 49%-45%, those surveyed favor Congress passing a new gun-control law. In an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll in early April, 55% had backed a stricter gun law, which was down from 61% in February.

The survey of 1,002 adults was taken Thursday through Sunday by Princeton Survey Research. The margin of error is +/- 4 percentage points.

Here is an idea: How about if Obama drops gun control and, I dunno, pivots to jobs. We could call it “Recovery Summer”.

New York State Troopers aren’t too keen on Cuomo’s soup sandwich of a gun grabber law either. They are busily distancing themselves from the thing.

As the primary enforcers of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s sweeping gun control laws, state troopers hear directly from New York gun owners — and so far, it’s been an earful.

So much so that, last week, the New York State Troopers Police Benevolent Association issued a statement distancing troopers from Cuomo and warning of public resentment toward law enforcement since the gun law’s passage.

“The individual members of this union did not write the terms of the bill nor vote on its passage,” the State Police PBA said. “We urge the citizens of New York State to remember that troopers are simply tasked with the lawful mandate to enforce the laws of the state, regardless of their personal opinion of such laws.”