If you can't pass a bill, an executive order works just as well

Kurt Hofmann informs us of the potential of executive orders headed our way.

Can you say background checks for everyone?

Keep an eye on the left and the right hand.

It's not the shooters fault

It's because you have too much freedom, you dim-witted, common citizen.

We need a nanny-state watch dog to lord over you so that bad things would never happen.

Horse shit.

Arizona Aftermath: Permit-Free Carry Law Prevented Law Enforcement From Having an Opportunity to Stop Jared Loughner From Carrying a Gun, Says Mayors Against Illegal Guns

These asshats are telling you that freedom is the cause of evil.

Update - Kurt Hofmann has more thoughts on Mayors Against Freedom

Illinois gun rights rally, March 10, 2011

For my Illinois readers (both of them), Kurt Hofmann gives a heads up:

It's that time of year again: time for gun rights advocates in Illinois to set aside a day to let Springfield know that shall not be infringed isn't a suggestion, and it's definitely not a request. That day is March 10, and the event is Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day (IGOLD).

Continue reading at his St Louis Gun Rights Examiner:
Mark your calendars, Illinois gun owners; March 10 is the day

National gun permit proposal

If Sen Boxer has her way, the new permit law in Iowa would be scrapped in favor of a national permit law. The sheriffs would get their power back.

Sen. Boxer would expand California-style 'gun-control' nationwide

Magazine ban on the horizon

Kurt Hofmann brings to our attention the growing clamoring for additional gun controls, in particular banning magazines that would hold more than 10 rounds.

Magazine bans and unintended consequences

Journalists, politicians and think-tanks in cahoots together.

Multiple gun purchase requirement proposal

Kurt Hofmann is reporting the proposed change that the ATF wishes to implement on us. This change would require an FFL dealer to report a customer who purchases more than one long gun.

...the possibility that in addition to the 42-year-old requirement to report multiple handgun sales (as part of the Gun Control Act of 1968), multiple sales of long guns (rifles and shotguns, in other words) would now have to be reported.

Gun owners must speak up to stop long gun sales reporting requirementWhile it's supposed to be for those dealers along the Mexican border, is there any doubt that this would soon go nationwide?

They want to implement this rule by Jan 5th, and Kurt has the contact information so our voices can be heard. Others have suggested to contact our members of Congress and that's not a bad idea either. (Although Harkin would be a waste of time.)

Blame the Dealer

Kurt Hofmann points to an article by the Washington Post:

The Washington Post has, over the course of this week, run what they're calling an "investigation"--a multi-part hit piece on gun dealers, blaming them for "gun crime."

With Brady Bunch getting their knickers in a twist about a gun store in Milwaukee, and the Post describing non-violating violations, could there be a pattern developing?

The poor need not apply

Kurt Hofmann provides the history for the BATFE decision for banning re-importation of M1 Garand and Carbines from South Korea:

Because it would drive the price down.

David Codrea has more details regarding the ban as a "public threat."

Knowing the relative history that could be a part of a historical firearm always affects me.

But not with girly-mamby-boy fear.

Rifles of of the kind once carried by one in defense of his country has always caused me to pause to remember the solder, sailor or marine that might fired said weapon at his enemy.

If for that one moment to honor them in remembrance, it is the least I could do.

I suspect that there are some among us who collect historical arms who are rejoicing at this ruling. It would seem that the value of their collections just went up.

But if these arms are such a threat to public safety that we can't have them imported into the country for the rest of us, how long before the ATF agents come knocking on their doors?

Because that collection is a "threat to public safety."