Weapons are all over this country, he said. The Americans try to let people keep at least one assault rifle per dwelling, as long as they're legitimate, in order to defend themselves if the Taliban show up.They're talking about full-auto weapons, here.
Turns out that the key lesson in gun class is to keep your finger off the trigger.I think part of his purpose was to play down the "blood in the streets" dire predictions by hoplophobes in Iowa and bring some common sense and maybe "old school" reporting back to the pages of the Register.
The focus is on why not to fire your weapon.
We ain't Canada.Maybe the Iowa State journalism department should spend less time reading the opinion pages of the Des Moines Register and start reading actual articles from real reporters.
Watching a Lethal Weapon movie to glean the evil "cop killer" bullets and plastic guns lies, is some fine journalistic investigation.
And the word "regulated" in the Second Amendment doesn't mean what you wrote.
Take this no-name pastor from an obscure church who was threatening to burn the Koran. He didn’t burn any buildings or women and children. He didn’t even burn a book. He hadn’t actually laid a finger on a Koran, and yet the mere suggestion that he might do so prompted the President of the United States to denounce him, and the Secretary of State, and the commander of US forces in Afghanistan, various G7 leaders, and golly, even Angelina Jolie. President Obama has never said a word about honor killings of Muslim women. Secretary Clinton has never said a word about female genital mutilation. General Petraeus has never said a word about the rampant buggery of pre-pubescent boys by Pushtun men in Kandahar. But let an obscure man in Florida so much as raise the possibility that he might disrespect a book – an inanimate object – and the most powerful figures in the western world feel they have to weigh in.There are many quotes from the mind of Mark Steyn, such as:
The same people who tell us "Islam is a religion of peace" then turn around and tell us you have to be quiet, you have to shut up because otherwise these guys will go bananas and kill a bunch of people.Please take the time to read this.
Sean McClanahan is the host of Firearms Weekly on the World Wide Amplified Internet radio network, and is the President of The Iowa Firearms Coalition. Sean has owned firearms for 25 years, and is a firm believer that the Second Amendment protects the First. You can reach Sean at sean@firearmsweekly.comHis second article is of attorney general candidate Brenna Findley, which gives us a glimpse of our current attorney general Tom Miller.
While much of the attention in Iowa politics is on the Branstad vs. Culver race for Governor, there is another race that is even more important to those who own firearms in the Hawkeye State. The position of Attorney General has been held by Tom Miller since 1978. Mr. Miller has proven himself to be no friend of the Second Amendment. In recent years, he has refused to sign on with 23 other state Attorneys General telling USAG Eric Holder that they are opposed to the renewal of the Clinton-era Assault Weapon Ban. He also refused to sign on with 31 AGs who filed an amicus brief in support of Heller, and with 38 other AGs who filed an amicus brief in the McDonald vs. Chicago case. In Iowa, Mr. Miller issued an opinion regarding local pre-emption that flies totally in the face of what is already enumerated in Iowa law, section 724.28.Sean provides plenty of links so we can follow his sources. Please head over there.
Brenna Findley is the logical choice for Iowa firearms owners
“I even had my shotgun with me at Iowa,” he said. “I wrote a story about my fiancée and me and another couple going pheasant hunting and got an A-minus. It was the best grade I ever got in college. My professor called me in and asked, ‘Is this true?’ I said, ‘Yes it is,’ and he asked, ‘Do you own a shotgun?’ and I said, ‘It’s out in the trunk of my car do you want to see it?’ Then he asked me, ‘Do you think an outdoor magazine editor would buy a hunting story with women in it?’ My, how times have changed.”The times have indeed changed.
Talking about the great outdoors: Kirkpatrick going strong as host of the nation’s longest-running radio talk show
(Justin Hayworth/Des Moines Register-photos)Ottumwa, Ia. — A crowd of about 200 people gathered Monday evening at a rally to voice opposition to President Barack Obama's Iowa visit - but they wanted to be polite about it.Protesters politely beg to differ with president's leadership, visit
One of the group's main organizers said the event was planned for Monday instead of during Obama's visit today out of respect for the office of the president.
"I don't feel that tomorrow is the place to protest," said Trudy Caviness, chairwoman of the Wapello County Republican Party.
And yet, to Obama and the Left, the assertion of "No" does not matter. Smug and entitled, drunk with power and giddy when they see our fear, they take what they want anyway.I always thought it was a mistake when we took the death penalty off the table for rape. Now I know I was right.
But look how these arrogant politicians are behaving. They don’t seem to care. Were elections held tomorrow the bums would be tossed out … by the truckload.Read all of his thoughts at: Are Politicians Even Worried About The 2010 Elections? He has some poignant questions that beg us to think about our near future.
And so, the question must be asked: Are there even going to be elections in 2010? And, if there are, will they be honest?
Sorry, but with a title like Citizens Police Academy registration due by Jan. 15 I had to use the picture.
Dubuque citizens have the opportunity to learn how to make an arrest, shoot a gun and have pepper spray blasted in their faces at the 14th annual Citizens Police Academy.
Federal investigators recommended revoking the license of Badger Outdoors gun shop after a 2006 inspection - a rare move that could have closed the West Milwaukee business, a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation has found.The paper complains that most of the records the ATF handed over had been redacted but they did find this:
But there was no revocation and the store remains open, operating as Badger Guns. Federal records show the license recommended for revocation was voluntarily relinquished, the players inside the operation took on new roles and a new license was issued, creating what one federal official called a "clean slate" for the store.
But in an interview, a top ATF official said inspectors found "inventory discrepancies" during the November 2006 inspection and added that his agency doesn't recommend revocation for minor violations.I'm going to repeat my skepticism regarding Badger Guns. There has been no report of when the crime guns were purchased. If the guns are recent purchases and the store was culpable in transferring the guns then yes, go after the current owners.
Since Badger Guns began operations Sept. 1, 2007, the ATF has uncovered more violations, documents show. A warning letter was issued May 30, 2008, telling Adam Allan he may face revocation if the agency finds more violations.If these were serious violations, wouldn't the ATF had shut them down?
"In 99.9% of the time, it doesn't need to be adversarial. We are all working toward the same goal," said Sherry Duval, an ATF spokeswoman. "Our business is not to put them out of business."Tell that to Red's Trading Post.
Critics of the ATF said that the agency's oversight of gun dealers is lax compared to other businesses.The current owners have worked with local law-enforcement and has called on their help to nab some crooks. (see earlier posts) So it would appear that they are attempting to be good neighbors in the community.
"I think it has been watered down to basically where there is no regulation," said Gerald Nunziato, who retired from the ATF after 29 years. "It is a perfect industry to do whatever you wish."
The National Rifle Association, which lobbies on behalf of gun owners and dealers, argues just the opposite. It says some gun shops have been harassed by the ATF.
"There are some ATF agents who do a good job, and some are overzealous in their efforts," said NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam. "If firearms retailers are involved in criminal conduct, they ought to pay the price, but if not, they ought to be left alone."
La Gabelle was the most hated tax in France - indeed, it was so hated that it was one of the reasons that King Louis was not just shuffled aside into a Constitutional Monarchy role, but had some Quality Time with Madame Guillotine. You could call the tax a mistake.Borepatch posts a history lesson regarding forcing a people to buy something by government decree. La Gabelle
So what was it about la Gabelle that made it so despised? After all, it was just a tax (in this case, a tax on salt). You don't like the tax, don't buy so much salt. Ah, there's the rub.
You had to buy the salt. By law, everyone ten years old or older had to buy salt, at a price set by the Crown. More infuriating, different parts of the realm paid different tax - favored regions got a break. Naturally, this led to a thriving smuggling trade, with increasingly draconian penalties as time went on. In the end, the cash was too important to the financially-strapped Ancien Regime to allow for reform, and the whole system collapsed.
Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources will have extra funding in its coffers because of a massive increase in revenue from gun and ammo sales.Please purchase more guns and ammunition to help the environment. I'm sure Greenpeace would agree.
In addition to a sales tax, there is an excise tax placed on guns, archery equipment and ammunition that is redistributed to states through U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said Bob Manwell, public affairs manager for the state's DNR.
For Wisconsin, those funds are used for habitat development, wildlife restoration and environmental research, Manwell said.
Observers say Democrats have largely abandoned gun-control efforts because of the well-funded and politically organized base of the NRA — especially when stacked against the less cohesive and less well-funded gun-control groups.So in Jessica VanEgeren's eyes the pro/anti gun argument is based on who has the most money. Constitutional law has nothing to do with it.
“They’ve been using the same rhetoric for years,” Rodriguez [legislative assistant to Rep. Leon Young, D-Milwaukee] says. “And we disagree with 99 percent of it.”Her conclusion:
“This isn’t government intrusiveness,” Bonavia [executive director of the Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort] says. “This is just about living in a peaceful society together.”I think we can guess which side she's on.
Chuck Hurley, president of the Iowa Family Policy Center, said that Palin has “intense charisma that makes her very exciting and attractive” and that she “will be a force.”After using phrases like "massive book tour" and "contentious state of American political discourse", and the whole paragraph for the U of I professor, I noticed that they link to the professor, but not the guy from the Iowa Family Policy Center. They have a website, so that's no excuse.
“Watch who the left hates the most – that is somebody with high potential,” says Hurley. “They don’t shoot their bullets at someone who is not a threat to them.”
University of Iowa professor Ken Leicht, author of “The Post-Industrial Peasant,” views the current economic crunch as a key reason why so many are willing to fill a fear of the unknown with conspiracy theories regarding rampant gun-control laws, American cities being turned into massive concentration camps and even death panels for the elderly.
“We have the perfect storm for some pretty uncivil political activity,” he says.
TROTWOOD — Colin Goddard, a 24-year-old Virginia man who survived being shot four times in the bloody 2007 rampage at Virginia Tech, walked into Bill Goodman’s Gun & Knife Show at Hara Arena in August with an Ohio friend and a hidden camera.Bill Goodman's gun show buy underscores loophole
They walked out with an Egyptian-made AK-47 variant and a Tech-9 assault pistol — obtained without a background check and without producing any identification.You mean the mere possession of the firearm didn't turn these guys into homicidal maniacs? I'm shocked.
“We literally walked in and within 20 minutes we walked out with those two guns,” said the friend, Doug Smith, 26, of Columbus. “I was shocked.”
Pennington said the video shows it was Ohio resident Smith, not Goddard, who made the purchases. “We planned this out so no laws would be broken, and none were,” he said.If no laws were broken, where's the story?
