Second Amendment News and Views.

[Joeylc]

Glenn Beck - 2nd Amendment Under Fire - Part 2
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[Joeylc]

Glenn Beck - 2nd Amendment Under Fire - Part 3
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[Joeylc]

Glenn Beck - 2nd Amendment Under Fire - Part 4
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[Joeylc]

Myth: Gun Control Reduces Crime
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[Joeylc]

             
Supreme Court Overturns Ban on Handgun Ownership
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[tjkeller]

Plaxico Burress On Gun Safety



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[brichter]

Plaxico Burress On Gun Safety



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpgL5kuBpMA

 

Kordell Stewart said it best: If you're going to a place where yuou feel the need to have a gun, that should be the first clue you probably shouldn't go.

OJ could have taken a pointer from that statement too!

[Joeylc]

Obama's Gun Control Plan Here We Go !!!!!!! 
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[Slot Docs]

this should not come as a surprise to anyone......
Slot Docs

[Joeylc]

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[StatFreak]

 

Shoot that-thar whiskey pard'ner!

[Joeylc]

When an armed stranger approached a man as he got out of his parked car in a shopping center,
The armed citizen pulled out his own weapon and shot the stranger.
 
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[Slot Docs]

Yes SIR.........Crime prevention TEXAS style..........enough said
Slot Docs

[tjkeller]

When an armed stranger approached a man as he got out of his parked car in a shopping center,
The armed citizen pulled out his own weapon and shot the stranger.
 

Serves him right. The problem with increased regulation is it only makes it tougher on the HONEST person.
The bad people/criminals will ALWAYS be able to get their weapons on the black market. It's too bad laws
are as tough as they are. If criminals knew every other person was carrying their own weapon, they might
just think twice about committing the crime! Just like in this case, this guy was prepared. Police aren't and
cannot be everywhere. WE should be able to defend ourselves to whatever end! IMO

[Slot Docs]

Well said TJ

[tacman]

Some motivational posters for awareness.

 Dan (tacman)

[Magicslots]

Now that is a gun safe worth droolling over! God, Family and Guns, my top three priorities, then comes, work(yuk), hobbies etc!
Remember, it is the Second Amendment that makes all the others possible!

[tacman]

Would love to see a bunch of these signs out on lawns throughout the USA!

 Dan (taccan)

[tjkeller]

Would love to see a bunch of these signs out on lawns throughout the USA!

 Dan (taccan)

Outstanding sign there Tacman!  I agree...it would be nice to see as many of these in front lawns
as Candidate signs at election time!!! Heck I'd like to have a ton of them but up here in Wyoming
it would be extremely difficult to find a yard to point it towards!

ps: how do you misspell your own nickname?

[tacman]

Don't know, I'm having problems talking and spelling after my wife hit me in the head with the slot handle! 

 Dan (T-A-C-M-A-N)

[Magicslots]

Somebody finally figured out how to do it right!  Hooray for Montana!

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97265

Now if only the other 49 would follow in their footsteps!

By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

The state of Montana has drawn a line in the sand, challenging the federal government to decide whether to follow the U.S. Constitution with a new gun law that exempts from federal regulations any gun, gun accessory or ammunition made in the state and intended for use there.

"What this boils down to is:

    * "Guns and ammo made, sold and used in Montana do not require any federal forms.

    * "Silencers made in Montana and sold in Montana would be fully legal and not registered.

    * "There would be no firearm registration, serial numbers, criminal records check, waiting periods or paperwork required.





Moving to Montana soon," wrote a blogger called Primevalpapa.

In an era in which the administration of President Barack Obama is replete with anti-gun activists in influential positions, including an attorney general who supported a complete handgun ban in the District of Columbia before it was tossed by the U.S. Supreme Court, Montana's move is being called nothing less that revolutionary.

The legislative plan, signed recently by Gov. Brian Scheitzer, a Democrat, is called, "An Act exempting from federal regulation under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution of the United States a firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition manufactured and retained in Montana."


The plan cites the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that "guarantees to the states and their people all powers not granted to the federal government elsewhere in the Constitution and reserves to the state and people of Montana certain powers as they were understood at the time that Montana was admitted to statehood in 1889.

"The guaranty of those powers is a matter of contract between the state and people of Montana and the United States as of the time that the compact with the United States was agreed upon and adopted by Montana and the United States in 1889," the legislation states.

"The regulation of intrastate commerce is vested in the states under the 9th and 10th amendments to the United States Constitution, particularly if not expressly pre-empted by federal law. Congress has not expressly pre-empted state regulation of intrastate commerce pertaining to the manufacture on an intrastate basis of firearms, firearms accessories, and ammunition," it says.

Further, state lawmakers cited the Second Amendment right of the people to "keep and bear arms as that right was understood at the time that Montana was admitted to statehood in 1889."

It specifics that "unshaped wood" and other components are not considered firearms and sets out simple requirements:

"A firearm manufactured or sold in Montana under [sections 1 through 6] must have the words 'Made in Montana' clearly stamped on a central metallic part, such as the receiver or frame."

At the FreedomsPhoenix blog, where author Ernest Hancock had a checkbox for visitors asking whether they wanted to be a "gun owner" or a "victim," he described the Montana action as simple defiance of the federal government.

"This will prompt a showdown between the federal government and the state of Montana. The federal government fears citizens owning guns. They try to curtail what types of guns they can own. The gun control laws all have one common goal – confiscation of privately owned firearms," he wrote. "Montana has gone beyond drawing a line in the sand. They have challenged the federal government."

He cited "important points" about the plan:

"If guns and ammunition are manufactured inside the state of Montana for sale and use inside that state then the federal firearms laws have no applicability since the federal government only has the power to control commerce across state lines. Montana has the law on [its] side," he said.

"Silencers made in Montana and sold in Montana would be fully legal and not registered. … There would be no firearm registration, serial numbers, criminal records check, waiting periods or paperwork required. So in a short period of time there would be millions and millions of unregistered untraceable guns in Montana. Way to go Montana," he said.

[tjkeller]

Somebody finally figured out how to do it right!  Hooray for Montana!

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97265

Now if only the other 49 would follow in their footsteps!

 

[jdkmunch]

Everyday I feel the country is slipping further into oblivion.  Stories like this give me a ray of hope. 

[Joeylc]

Ammunition Shortage Affects Gun Owners, Police

Lancaster County Shop Limits Purchase Of Ammo

POSTED: 10:26 am EDT May 28, 2009
UPDATED: 10:46 am EDT May 28, 2009
ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. -- There are growing concerns over a nationwide ammunition shortage.

It has been an issue for gun owners for some time, but some say it has gotten worse.

Shelves that used to be stocked with popular handgun ammo are all but bare.

At Trop Gun Shop in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, there is a limit on how many boxes consumers can purchase.

The shortage is affecting law enforcement.

The SERT team of Lancaster County practices twice a month.

The required training has been affected by the shortage and it is a concern for officers.

"Yes, it's a concern because it does affect how you train," said Detective Jim Zahm, who commands the SERT team. "It affects how much ammunition you can fire at any given training exercise."

A scarcity of raw materials used to make brass, bullets and powder is contributing to the shortage.

State police are not affected because they use a 45 gap round, which is not in high demand.

Filling orders is also an issue; what used to take a few weeks can now take up to 18 months.

Suppliers are required to fill military orders first, then police and consumer orders.


Multiple views: Ammunition shortage
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Ammo shortages leading some to stockpile bullets
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Out of ammo

Bullets getting harder to come by for police and citizens alike

By Bridget Lewison/The Daily News

BULLHEAD CITY - In recent months, customers looking to buy ammunition for their handguns and rifles have been met with empty shelves at Walmart, Big 5 and other retailers in the Tri-state.

Reasons given for the shortage vary, but the law of supply and demand also means prices have spiked. The pinch is not only being felt by citizens but by law enforcement.

“There is a major issue within police agencies across the nation,� said Bullhead City Police Department Capt. Ted Appleby. “Right now, we're actually waiting on an order of ammo we put in six months ago. Some agencies are seeing 18-month delays.�

Appleby says the department has enough ammunition on hand and, although higher prices have impacted the agency, it has the support of the City Council on the issue.

“We're not using as much ammo as we used to,� he said. “We're being conservative, but we still are meeting training requirements.�

According to the Newtown, Conn.-based National Shooting Sports Foundation, April marked the sixth consecutive month of significant increases in gun sales. Data released by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported 1,225,980 checks in April 2009. This figure is a 30.3 percent increase over April 2008.

In November, a record 1,529,635 background checks were performed, a 42 percent increase over November from the previous year.

“Everything has gone up so much in price,� says Wes Griffin, a gun and ammunition dealer who has lived in Bullhead City for 50 years. “Certain guns that are popular for home defense, such as the .38 automatic, I have one for sale but I have no ammo. I can't get it.�

Griffin says people are “panic buying� out of fear over what the new administration may do in respect to gun laws.

“A lot of people are concerned,� said Arizona District 3 Sen. Ron Gould, of Lake Havasu City. “When Walmart gets a shipment of ammunition, it goes out the door within a couple of hours.�

Gould, a Republican, says gun owners are stockpiling because they're afraid of losing their gun rights.

“People are afraid of what Obama and the Democratic Congress is going to do,� he said. “We've got an (U.S.) attorney general (Eric Holder) that's an anti-gun attorney.�

Gould, who saw gun and ammunition sales step up even before Obama was elected, says the stockpiling has created a bottleneck in ammunition supplies across the country.

“It's feeding on itself,� he said. “Because there's a shortage, that scares people. Then they hoard.�

Ammunition reloading supplies also have become scarce.

“I can't even get primers for reloading, and without that, you can't reload,� said Griffin. “Popular powders also are hard to get. Bullseye, the fastest burning and most economical, you just can't get it.�

Once-fired brass cartridges used in reloading also have become hard to come by, says Gould.

“Vendors used to buy them from the government but now rather than being sold for reloading, they're selling them for scrap metal,� he said. “Fiscally, that's not too bright. (The cartridges) are worth more as once-fired than scrap brass.�

While most retailers have boosted the cost of boxed bullets, Walmart has not followed suit.

“We're keeping it at the same price, but we have seen a shortage of handgun and rifle ammo,� says Chuck Cherry, who works in the Bullhead City retailer's sporting goods department. “Shotgun shells we have plenty of.�

Cherry said he believes manufacturers are one of the hang-ups in the lack of ammunition, citing retail's place in the supply chain.

“Speer (Bullets, out of Lewiston, Idaho) has a big contract through the government,� he said. “The military gets its share, then the police departments, then the Homeland Security Department, and then everyone else.�

[brichter]

My press has been busy lately...