How NOT to teach your spouse about firearms

What am I going to say except.....MORON. Now she'll never want to go shooting with you. Oh! And you can forget about that new Kimber Custom you were looking at.

Obama on Guns

Although Obama has guaranteed us that he won't take our guns, it might not be that easy.

Obama said: "I believe in the 2nd Amendment, and if you are a law-abiding gun owner you have nothing to fear from an Obama administration."

Riiiigggghhhhtttt.....

Turns out that even though he may want to, he understands that he doesn't have the support of the rest of his congressional pals.

“Even if I want to take them away, I don’t have the votes in Congress,’’ he said. “This can’t be the reason not to vote for me. Can everyone hear me in the back? I see a couple of sportsmen back there. I’m not going to take away your guns.’’

Of course when he announced that in public it went over like the proverbial lead balloon.

Now it turns out that the 'sportsmen' he talks about, and the 'sporting purpose' that's bandied about by the media and loose in so many in statutes may be open to HIS interpretation.

I support the re-imposition of the ban on the sale of assault weapons that expired in September 2004 because I believe these guns are used primarily for criminal rather than sporting intent.

Ok, I may have a problem with that interpretation. Considering that DOJ stats show that 'assault weapons' are used in less that 2% of all gun crimes, and less than 0.25% of all violent crime. In some major metros (San Antonio, Nashville, etc) and even some states (New Jersey, Maryland, etc) the rate is less than 0.1%.² In fact you're 11 times more likely to be beaten to death than to be killed by a so called 'assault weapon'. ¹

By the way, all of those statistics are from before the original AWB was in place.

So I'm sorry that those facts get in the way of what you 'believe'. Of course that's never stopped you in the past.....

Thanks to http://olegvolk.net/ for photo.

¹-FBI Uniform Crime Statistics, 1994
²Gary Kleck, “Targeting Guns”, 1997, compilation of 48 metropolitan police departments from 1980-1994

How about a lead pill?

Reason #587 why you should 'Go Forth Armed'

GOP is Dead.....

Here is a guy who is telling it like it is. I think Joe has finally put it in words that those politicians may finally understand. Or...maybe not.

If you care about your 2nd Amendment rights, Vote your conscience. It won't be a throw away.

MD

Back in the Saddle!!

I know!

It's been a coons age since I took the time to write something. Sorry for those of you who might have been waiting, but life sorta got away from me there for a bit.

Back to it though.

We were having a discussion on the show the other day about the next technological step in firearms. Its called METAL STORM and I finally found a good video that talks about it.

'Future Weapons' on the Discovery channel is a great show to see the latest on high tech weaponry.



Anyway, fun stuff to look forward too.....If we can keep our rights.

MD

Hey! I'm a member of the Club!

Seems like I'm a new member to a semi-exclusive club. But I'm in GREAT company. My club mates include Ryan Horsley at Red's Trading Post, David Codrea from The War On Guns and even the fellows over at Idaho Ordnance.

How do you join the club? Just expose the corruption, stupidity, and moral ineptitude of the boys and girls over in F-Troop, otherwise known as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Speak out about their botched investigations and raids, talk about their perjured testimony before juries and judges, blog about their attacks on honest law biding American gun owners.

You will be welcomed as the newest members of our club.

You'll know that you have arrived when you go to your blog and you find the folks at the DOJ have developed a certain interest in you exercising your free speech. You'll find like Ryan, David and I that they're not secretive about this interest, in fact they do right out there in the open:








You'd think that a great big Governmental organization would be able to spoof its IP address when it's out there looking for subversive elements threatening the authority of the system. But instead these thugs don't even try to hide who they are, spending your tax dollars and mine, surfing the Internet, looking to intimidate us little people who would dare to question the way they're running our country (and ruining our lives).

This is bunk, this is total BS, this is big brother, bully boy tactics at their worse.

Bring it.........And Welcome To The Club.

Those Dirty Rotten SOBs

I know, I know….

It's been 4 weeks since I climbed on and wrote something down for FF.

In all honesty, part of the reason is frustration. Pure unadulterated frustration at our own Government. The same Government that our Founding Fathers created to safeguard our liberties.

I watch story after story around the country tell the take of a federal agency out of control. I see people like Ryan Horsley of Red’s Trading Post in Idaho, slammed again and again on the legal mat, beaten down with our own tax dollars. Persecuted and prosecuted for what amounts to a %.4 error rate on his BATF paperwork. Now of course the boys and girls at F-Troop (BATFU) want to revoke a licence that’s been in place and serving the community for more than 70 years. Stay strong Ryan.

I see Albert Kwan, an FFL/SOT holder, under attack for the same rabid attack weasels at the ATF. Trying this time to revoke his license for not making enough sales. In the process the ATF seized ALL of his lawfully owned firearms, took them to their offices and had their technical branch modify them to full auto, using that as proof that he had a ‘readily restorable machine gun’. Luckily the jury saw through that one, after it was proven by Len Savage that any idiot with a full machine shop and half an ounce of mechanical ability could turn ANY semi-automatic firearm into a full auto.

I read about Greg Pruess curator of the North Carolina Military Museum, who in 1993 was the target of an ATF raid on his museum. ATF thugs seized approximately 20 full automatic firearms, inert artillery shells, and more than 100,000 rounds of small arms ammunition.

The rub?

All of the 20 firearms were lawfully registered to Mr Pruess, as a Class III and Destructive Device license holder. Also the inert arty was labeled “EOD INERT” yet the geniuses on site from the ‘Guberment’ claimed that not only did the shells contain ‘powder residue’ they and the small arms ammunition ‘could’ have been stolen from the military.

The worst part of that story was that in 1994 Mr. Pruess was indicted and in 1996 sent to prison. 10 years later (March 24, 2004) he was finally proven innocent of all charges. BATFE explosives agent Richard Campbell, under oath stated that the the ammunition, 40mm and larger artillery shells that Pruess was indicted for as "Destructive Devices" were not then, nor are they now, Destructive devices without their launchers. But the information came too late as Pruess states:

However, now that the evidence has finally come out that was never offered timely by the government as to the proper classification of the ammo, its too late, the Court says, to do anything about my conviction!!!

Innocence has an expiration date, it seems, and no one cares. ATF destroyed my museum, my family, my reputation, my livelihood and sent me to prison!! The justice system is a facade and cares nothing about setting anything right even when the government's own expert confirms the real truth under oath in open court.

What happens now, I was subsequently again indicted as a felon in possession of firearms in 1997 for keeping my gun collection of 25 years because I knew I was right but couldn't prove with the cover up, when I was actually never legally convicted in the first place to be a felon!

On top of all this, I see that the FFL’s in this country AND the manufacturers continue to be under attack. Since 2002 85% of American Firearms manufacturers have been forced to close their doors. Sadly only 373 remain in existence today. And of the 245,628 licensed FFL’s that were operating in America in 1994, fewer than 55,000 remain today. And as its reported to me by several local law enforcement officials, the ATF refuses to prosecute federal gun crimes that local LEO notify them about.

Frustrated? You Bet.

It reminds me of a button someone gave me recently, one that at the time, I thought was just alittle paranoid. Now I’m not so sure. It reads:

They’re ALL in it together, and they’re DOING IT ALL ON PURPOSE!