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Guns and ammo can save our floundering economy

Now that America’s banking, real estate, stock market, insurance and automobile bubbles have all burst, what’s a hard-working, God-fearing citizen supposed to do for a job? Can you believe that even the casino industry is laying off? Fortunately alcohol is still stable, but prostitution futures have tanked. Curses, if the sin market is sinking, we’re in more trouble than we thought.

But one industry has heroically come to our rescue – yes, guns. Firearm sales are through the roof. Gun makers are adding shifts and gun stores are adding clerks. They’re sparking the whole economy. Researchers have identified several reasons: Barack Obama, the recession, and self-defense.

It’s not that they fear Mr. Obama will come after them physically. Rather they see him as a strident gun control zealot who will soon make gun sales illegal. Thus we had better buy now. The recession in turn provokes fears of unemployed armed mobs roving the streets looking for any wealth they can grab. If you happen to have some, you’d better be ready to mount a show of force in response. And nowadays, it’s also critical to be armed and ready when screwballs at Columbine, Virginia Tech, Binghamton and North Carolina show up and start shooting. Who let those nuts have guns anyway? But since they do, we’d better too.

Thus you’ll be pleased to learn that Connecticut has just taken a solid step to end this insanity. Thanks to its valiant legislature, it is now illegal to hand a machine gun to anyone under age 16. Seems last year an eight-year-old at a local range got hold of an Uzi, lost control of it, and shot his head off. Brave pols thought that was wrong and responded fast.

In fact some folks in D.C. figured this would be a good cover to pass still sterner laws. After all, our nation’s chief gun nut left office in January and many of his congressional soulmates were on the same outbound train. But surprise, the Democrats who replaced them still report to that same constituency. Consequently when an amendment to the popular credit card reform bill proposed to allow guns in national parks, it passed in a breeze. There’s bears out there, and wolves and rattlers, and Packers fans.

Neither could Congress even rouse itself to reinstate the old ban on assault weapons. That one expired five years ago. OK, maybe you wouldn’t have expected it to be brought back during the recent Dark Ages, but why not now in the new glow of enlightenment? Are we trying to make it easier for the terrorists?

Well, some are. The Texas legislature is considering a bill to allow the carrying of concealed weapons on college campuses. Virginia Tech, you know – you’ve just got to be ready for anything. Meanwhile lawmakers in Arkansas are contemplating allowing heat in churches. Hang on now: 42 states already do, although churches can establish their own prohibition if they like. Visit your local police department for usher training.

In fact why not go further? Let’s have guns and their owners licensed and registered like cars and drivers. Every gun would be listed in a single giant database, tested and certified, with transfers recorded. Owners would be tested too, photographed and subject to periodic re-registration. You’ll be shocked to hear that some despotic countries, like Switzerland, already do that very thing.

But for now, let’s worry first about the economy. If each of us would simply pledge to buy just one gun we could get that old GDP rolling again. It seems almost a patriotic duty.

Smith and Wesson Model SW40VE Pistol Review

The Smith and Wesson Model SW40VE was first brought out into the market in 1994. For a couple years after release, some owners of this pistol had jamming and clipping issues. The late models, though, no longer have these problems. This review is staying away from the earlier model years.

and concentrating on the most recent years’ production of this pistol.

Of course, most items sold get better with newer releases because problems and flaws are fixed as they arise. This pistol is a prime example of this. Buying a used sw40ve may not be a wise idea for this very reason. But as a consumer, if you were looking to buy a used model of this pistol, make sure you purchase a model with the accessory rails molded into the frame. This will limit some of the problems you could run into. The rails began appearing in 1999 and are primarily made for attaching accessories such as a laser sight or a lightweight tactical light. Of course, to avoid worrying about these annoyances, you can purchase a new pistol. The price on a brand new Smith and Wesson model SW40VE is still extremely reasonable.

Smith and Wesson Sigma sw40ve Pistol Review – The accuracy: Most gun owners that have had a chance to shoot this pistol agree that the accuracy is point on, for a short barreled gun. A long barreled gun will almost always have better accuracy, but that isn’t something that can be changed. Physics and ballistics come into play when you take barrel length into consideration, so to speak. As far as a short barreled gun goes, this pistol does what it is supposed to do, and does it well. The sigma sw40ve features a sleek 4″ barrel that looks excellent and is accurate. In the hands of a competent shooter, this pistol has top notch accuracy.

Across Pennsylvania cities and towns at odds with the NRA and the constitution

Nine months ago, a group of Pennsylvania mayors gathered in Reading to announce a new strategy in the war against gun violence: They urged municipalities to enact their own gun-control ordinances.

Frustrated by the General Assembly’s failure to enact what they described as “commonsense gun laws,” the mayors pledged to follow Philadelphia and push for local laws requiring owners to report lost or stolen guns.

On Tuesday, Lancaster became the eighth municipality to pass such an ordinance, joining Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Reading, Easton, Pottsville, and Wilkinsburg.

“It was time to make a statement,” Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray said after the council’s unanimous decision.

The coalition’s goal puts the municipalities at odds with the powerful National Rifle Association, which has followed through on its vow to sue Pennsylvania cities that approve what it called illegal gun laws.

Gray and Reading Mayor Thomas McMahon, a state leader of the national Mayors Against Illegal Guns, said they were tired of going to funerals of children caught in the crossfire of gang wars or drugs deals gone bad.

“The mayors said, ‘Enough is enough,’ ” said McMahon, who asked other mayors to sign a pledge to support legislation to combat illegal gun sales. So far, 83 have signed.

The tipping point for Gray was last month during a viewing for a 9-year-old Lancaster girl slain in a drive-by shooting in York, Pa.

“We have to do something about gun violence,” he said. “Obviously, the General Assembly cowers at even taking minor steps.”

The law, which can vary by community, aims to curb illegal gun sales, or so-called straw purchases, by not allowing legal buyers who sell guns to felons to claim that their guns were lost or stolen when the firearms turn up at crime scenes.

The mayors launched their city-to-city campaign after a year of advocacy in Harrisburg failed to sway the legislature on the reporting proposal, which made it to a floor vote in the House. Lawmakers rejected the measure by 53 votes; supporters say they hope to introduce a similar bill in the fall.

The NRA has argued that local ordinances would threaten innocent gun owners who may not be aware their weapons are missing and who would face penalties for not reporting the losses.

“I don’t know of any law that criminalizes victims of crime,” said John Hohenwarter, the NRA’s lobbyist in Pennsylvania. “These ordinances do that.”

Supporters of the ordinance counter that it would allow a reasonable reporting time after owners discovered guns were missing.

Chad Ramsey, senior associate director of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, based in Washington, said he believed the Pennsylvania mayors’ efforts were the first in the country.

“We’ve never seen anything quite like this,” he said. “Mayors see it as a personal affront from the NRA and the gun lobby that they are not allowed to set their own laws that deal with guns at the local level.”

Ramsey said his organization offered to defend any municipality free of charge against an NRA lawsuit.

The first to accept the offer was Pittsburgh, which passed its ordinance in December. The NRA sued, arguing that the state firearms code prohibits the city from passing gun laws.

“The state law clearly preempts regulation of firearms and ammunition,” Hohenwarter said. “Just because they lose the debate in Harrisburg doesn’t mean they have the right to pass ordinances.”

The NRA also is battling Philadelphia over several gun laws, including a reporting requirement, enacted in the last two years.

The Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas ruled in the city’s favor in the fall on the reporting requirement for lost and stolen guns, saying the NRA and its plaintiffs lacked standing because they were not affected or likely to be affected by the ordinance. That case has been appealed to Commonwealth Court.

The city argued that requiring someone to report a missing gun does not infringe on the right to own one.

“The state preemption only prohibits laws which limit ownership, possession, and transportation and purchase. This ordinance doesn’t limit the right to own, possess, or purchase a firearm in any way,” said Richard Feder, the city’s chief deputy for appeals and legislation.

A Philadelphia Police Department spokeswoman said that residents were reporting their stolen guns as required and that no one had yet been arrested for false reporting.

David Kairys, a professor of constitutional law at Temple University, said cases challenging local gun ordinances could have far-reaching implications for home rule in Philadelphia and elsewhere.

He said the state Supreme Court had “gutted home rule” in Philadelphia with decisions such as the 1996 overturning of a ban on assault weapons. But Kairys said communities recognized that crime and safety were local issues and they wanted to make their own decisions about how to protect residents.

“They’re doing their duty, saying in order to have law and order we have to get guns off the street and restore local authority,” Kairys said.

That was what Jason Cohn was thinking when he voted yes this month to the lost-and-stolen ordinance in Wilkinsburg, population 19,000, just outside Pittsburgh.

Cohn, a 12-year resident of the borough, said his community was horrified last year when 12-year-old Kholen Germany was caught in a gun battle on a downtown street.

“For our size, we have a higher violent-crime rate than we should,” Cohn said. “We viewed this as a simple way to close a big loophole that criminals use.”

Local leaders concede it will be difficult to prosecute cases involving fraudulent reporting because of jurisdictional boundaries, but they feel their action sends a strong message to potential offenders and to lawmakers in Harrisburg.

“For the cities that are passing these ordinances, this is a cry for help to the state legislature to please begin to address these issues,” Gray said. “Talk to the little girl’s mother who was killed in York: What good is prosecution? We should try to keep the wrong people from possessing guns in the first place.”

State of Tennessee fires another salvo in favor of firearm owners rights

Gov. Phil Bredesen signed legislation Friday that opens public parks to handguns, even though a deal to exempt local parks broke down.

Bredesen approved the bill, which is designed to let handgun permit holders carry their weapons into all green spaces in the state, despite a sponsor’s decision not to call it back. Bredesen had until the end of Friday to sign or veto the bill, or it would have become law automatically.

The decision came a day after the bill’s backers, Rep. Frank Niceley and Sen. Mae Beavers, told reporters that they had decided to recall their bill, which passed last week. They said they had intended to recall the bill to remove language covering parks owned by city or county governments.

Niceley and Beavers said Thursday that Bredesen had agreed, in exchange, not to veto the bill and other gun legislation pending in the statehouse. But Bredesen later said discussions about the bill had been held with a staffer, and he wasn’t aware of any veto deal.

That prompted Beavers to reverse course.

“There was no deal,” she said Friday, after the Senate adjourned for the weekend. “The governor started saying he wasn’t a part of the agreement, so we decided we wanted to go with our bill like it was.”

Despite the backers’ intentions, Bredesen’s signature does not mean handguns will now be allowed in all Tennessee parks.

A provision inserted to win over holdout lawmakers lets local governments identify certain parks where handguns are not allowed.

Bredesen urged city and county officials to take advantage of that clause.

“I do want to urge local governments to use the opt-out provisions of this bill to remove parks from its effect where they are located close to schools and other places where large numbers of children gather,” Bredesen wrote in a letter explaining his decision.

The measure was one of two firearms bills to become law Friday. Bredesen also allowed the Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act to pass into law without his signature.

The act asserts that the federal government cannot regulate guns that are made in Tennessee and never cross out of the state. The law is based on a “fringe constitutional theory” that will not stand up in courts, Bredesen said.
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He also signed a measure Friday that allows shotgun and rifle owners to carry weapons and ammunition in the same part of the vehicle without a carry permit, as well as a bill that removes the requirement to list a Social Security number on an application for a gun safety course.
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Local debates expected

The passage of the guns-in-parks bill probably will set off a wave of local debates about where carry permit holders can take firearms.

Metro Council members Jerry Maynard and Megan Berry have already proposed an ordinance that would ban firearms in all Metro parks, reaffirming a longtime city policy. That bill is scheduled to come up Thursday.

Meanwhile, the Tennessee Firearms Association says it will fight local bans on handguns in parks, particularly along greenways and in large, secluded parks.

“That effort’s already under way,” said John Harris, the association’s executive director.

Handgun permit holders will be able to carry their weapons into state parks effective immediately, under the law.

They will be able to carry them into a local park effective Sept. 1, unless the local government has acted to ban handguns in the park before then.

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they have achieved a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. – James Madison

I stumbled upon this statement a while ago when doing research for an essay and noticed immediately the words’ incredible timeliness. I analyzed the three listed requirements for a tyrannized people and saw that the current United States administration is stealthily pursuing them all. But whenever I shared this jarring discovery with someone, they didn’t seem to find is as frightening as I did. Here we’re talking about domination and despotism, and they’d just say, “yeah, weird coincidence.”

I understand that as Republicans we’re hesitant to use scare tactics because that’s typically a strategy reserved for the Left (i.e. global warming, economic recession), but when the fear is merited, I feel it is vital that we spread it to provoke movement. Allow me to speak plainly: Barack Obama is stealing and usurping our rights for the purpose of eventual tyranny. We have been forewarned by one of the most brilliant men in history, a true Founding Father, that certain things must align to make way for oppression, and we cannot ignore his immortal words as we begin to see these things come to pass.

His standing army will come in the form of the Obama Youth Camps. Not unlike the Hitler’s camps pre-Nazi Germany, Obama’s camps would rally highly impressionable youth into advocating radical social change via threats, pressure, and confrontations, all of which are tactics used by Obama’s old community organizing pal, Saul Alinsky. Plans for these camps contain such baffling doublespeak phrases as “universally voluntary,” and, of course, are to be paid for with our tax dollars to the effect of $500 billion annually. Perks for the youth include but are not limited to college grants, health care, child care, and a monthly stipend currently estimated at just under two grand. And because these camps are paid for and run by the government, their missions will all fall under the category of furthering the government’s agenda, whatever it may be. But considering these are the same sorts of camps used to enforce the rules of past dictators such as Mussolini and Mao, I’m going to go ahead and put my money on “less than favorable.”

These youth camps lead to tyranny by brainwashing generations so that only one extremity of political thought is ever in power. A mild case of this has already overtaken big chunks of the public school system, but these camps would perpetuate and fertilize the effects tenfold. If you think I’m exaggerating the framework or purpose of these programs, take a look at the propaganda footage from 1930s Germany, then compare blueprints between now and then. It’s absolutely terrifying.

In terms of Obama’s achievement of enslaving the press, I really don’t think there’s any dispute. I’ve already spoken at length about the Fairness Doctrine and Obama’s underlying goal to silence all conservative thought, and his new Diversity Committee is only helping him get it done faster. The mainstream media has been involved in a torrid love affair with the man since day one of campaign season and is quick to hide any of his wrongdoings. And every journalist knows that he who speaks out against Obamessiah is instantly shunned and discredited just like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh. So they don’t. They are already slaves. The other ingredients for tyranny pie have yet to be sufficiently mixed, but this necessity of media enslavement is oven ready.

It was today as I shopped online in preparation for my very first firearm purchase that I was reminded of this James Madison quote. H.R. 45, recently introduced in the House by Blair Holt, is a big step toward Obama’s final tyrannical frontier, a disarmed populace. A large-print warning about the bill’s loom haunted the top of the Rocky Mountain Guns & Ammo website as I clicked through thumbnails of handguns, and upon further investigation I discovered that this particular piece of legislation revokes not just our second, but our fourth amendment rights as well. This law would essentially outlaw all guns, from 9mm to hunting rifles to shotguns, unless every gun owner adheres to a strict list of unreasonable rules and submits to random, unprompted search and seizure.

Upon purchasing the weapon, one would have to provide a driver’s license, social security number, and fingerprints. Alright, fine. But then things start getting out of hand. The purchaser would also have to agree to undergo physical and mental evaluations by law enforcement or government officials at any given moment, and would have to open his or her doors to random home inspection to ensure that the gun is being stored safely at all times. Failure to do so would result in one to five years in prison and the permanent revocation of firearm ownership rights. A quote directly from Obama’s transition website reads, “weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets.”

I know that in recent years we’ve been programmed to fear and hate all guns and their owners. I even remember an episode of Boy Meets World I saw as an intellectually pliable youth that taught me how bad guns were, and I see the horror in my friends’ eyes whenever I mention my intended gun purchase. But the stories of guns saving rather than taking lives are seldom published even though they far outweigh the tragedies. We aren’t told about the Oklahoma pharmacists who take down violent robbers with the help of a pistol. We don’t hear about fathers who were able to defend their families against murderous stalkers because they kept a rifle by the door. No one reports on the valiant strangers who rescue mothers and children from carjacking. I have to seek out these stories because they’re not as sensational or angering as the young-boy-shoots-brother stories they tell us. But they’re everywhere. And they’re incredible. They’re beautiful.

Many people have come to think that the 2nd amendment is outdated and was only applicable when Madison and his comrades first wrote it. But nothing else these brilliant men wrote for us has been proven outdated, and for us to pick and choose which of the original, essential American rights is or is not current is dangerous. The Founding Fathers thought the right to bear arms was absolutely vital, and it takes a disgusting amount of ego to challenge their cumulative intellect.

And when we sacrifice this right, we usher in the tyrant. We will no longer have the option to protect ourselves if and when we need to. We will stand defenseless against any political movement, be it foreign or domestic, and we will fall victim to the obvious, inevitable result that when guns are outlawed, only outlaws have guns.

American Tactical Imports has launched a new line of high-quality ammunition

American Tactical Imports has launched a new line of high-quality ammunition, focusing on the demand for a quality product at an affordable price.

The new line of ammunition is available in both a 5.56 x 45 caliber and 7.62 x 51 caliber. This ammunition is available through ATI and is ready for dealer shipping.

“We are pleased to enter the ammunition market,” says Joe Calabro, ATI Marketing and Purchasing Director. “Dealers are facing a shortage of ammunition, so we feel we are entering the market at the perfect time. This ammo is designed for the everyday shooter with quality performance and value for the dollar taking first priority.”

All American Tactical ammunition is boxer-primed and fully-reloadable.

American Tactical Imports is a worldwide importer of firearms, ammunition and tactical equipment to the United States of America. While still a relative newcomer to the firearm industry, ATI is moving quickly to establish itself as a reputable and recognized importer of many high-quality products from around the world.

Boy it seems to be the same all over, in regards to guns and ammo legislation. Law makers don’t seem to have a brain.

This is a report from Vancouver B.C. Canada. And as such some hunters go up there to hunt. So I felt you should see this.

I watch with disgust as some Metro Vancouver governments propose further restrictions on sporting goods stores that sell firearms and ammunition.

This is analogous to the federal Liberal insanity of registering long guns (hardly the weapon of choice of criminals) in full knowledge that handgun registration requirements in force since the 1930s do not deter criminals.

You just harm legitimate gun owners and all taxpayers through the creation of useless bureaucracies.

I and most legitimate gun owners support safety rules and owner licences requiring criminal record checks and training, but not this nonsense.

On Sunday in Surrey a man shot another at a party.

The shooter was under a court ordered weapons prohibition. Can’t politicians “get it?”

These goons will not obey your laws. Do Metro Vancouver councils really believe these thugs go into local sporting goods stores with a Firearm’s Licence and buy their guns and ammunition?

This approach is like GVRD shutting down the Pacific Shooter’s Association club last December.

This action shut down Olympic biathlon and army cadet training, closed the only wheelchair accessible ranges in the Lower Mainland, and forces former members to drive 30 to 40 kilometres to another range burning gasoline and producing GHGs.

Where is the win here?

C. Hunter, North Vancouver

Again new york senators go after another silly micrpstamping law for ammunition, when will they learn this does no good?

New York State Senate Bill 4397 Sponsored by Liberal Pinhead NY State Senator Eric Schneiderman Requires semiautomatic pistols manufactured or delivered to any licensed dealer in New York State to be capable of micro-stamping ammunition and establishes fines for violations of this requirement.

It seems to me that Senator Eric Schneiderman has been watching way to many Science Fiction movies like Judge Dread. In the movie Judge Dread starring Sylvester Stallone the Peacekeeper multi function firearm imprinted the users DNA profile on all ammunition fired by the weapon. Now Schneiderman’s bill does not go this far, I am sure he would like it to, but it would require all Semi automatic handguns sold in New York to “Micro- Stamp” all fired ammunition casings.

Firearm Micro-Stamping also known as ballistic imprinting and ballistic engraving is a process where each round a firearm fires is stamped with the make, model and serial number of the weapon used to fire it. The information in theory would be imprinted on each bullet casing ejected from the gun via the guns firing pin and breach face of the firearm.

Now in the Liberal Pinhead mind of Senator Eric Schneiderman the “Micro-Stamping” process would prevent the illegal use of guns in the commission of a crime. I guess the good Senator feels that criminals actually use legally purchased firearms to commit crimes.
Senator Schneiderman should listen to firearms experts in his own state. Firearms expert George Krivosta, of the Suffolk County New York crime lab, found that the “vast majority” of micro-stamped characters in the alphanumeric serial number couldn’t be read on “any of the expended cartridge cases generated and examined.”
Now there is another major flaw with the idea of Micro-Stamping ammo casings. Anyone with cheap common household tools could remove the micro stamp in just minuets completely removing the micro stamp imprint from being applied to the spent ammo casings.
Also all criminals would have to do is obtain spent casings from any firing range to seed and contaminate a crime scene. This alone would cause a law enforcement nightmare and cast reasonable doubt in almost any crime that used a firearm with the micro stamp technology.
What would the micro stamping technology really do? First it would make firearms much more expensive for manufactures to produce and this cost would be passed to law abiding gun owners in New York State. Gun manufactures may stop selling guns in New York State altogether to avoid the micro stamp requirement. It would cost New York taxpayers millions of dollars to set up and maintain the firearm micro stamp database to keep track of the micro stamp codes used for each firearm sold in New York State.

The bottom line here is that New York State Senate Bill 4397 is just another Big Government attempt to take New Yorkers Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms away from them.

Looks like Alaska and Texas are going the way of Tennessee in way of telling the feds to stick their gun laws where the sun doesn’t shine

Executive Summary – There are now bills in the Texas and Alaska legislatures to exempt from Federal regulation firearms made and sold inside the respective states. The bills would not apply to firearms not made in the state or made in the state and sold outside of the state. These bills are very similar to the bill voted and signed into law in Montana. They are also similar to the bill proposed recently by Tennessee.

Texas Bill – This bill exempts from federal regulation firearms, accessories and ammunition made in the state of Texas intended for sale within Texas. This bill requires the State of Texas to pay for the defense of the Texas citizens if prosecuted by the Fed for firearms violations that this bill allows for. This means the State of Texas would throw the book at the Fed with a barrage of lawyers and seek a ruling that was favorable. It is really impossible for Texas to lose unless the Federal judges throw the case illegally.

The constitution has no provision for Federal gun control and to the contrary provides for gun ownership rights. These rights are specifically intended for military weapons, not hunting guns as one can glean from the use of the term “militia”. Militia is not a word used to describe foxhunts. If Texas got their favorable ruling they would attempt to use this to recover legal fees from the Fed. The decision would also be used to cookie cutter more favorable judgments. When other states saw this they too would pass similar laws. It is more likely the Fed would pick a case and jurisdiction where they could rely on the judge to throw the case their way.

This of course sets the stage for secession. Texas would have to blatantly accept an insulting and illegal ruling or just throw in the towel and secede. The constitution specifically grants certain rights to the fed and any other rights are reserved to the states. The fed can jump in and try to control firearm sales by screaming it is interstate commerce. This is a fact. Now when the guns are made and sold in Texas only there is no legal basis for the fed to step in and try to regulate them. A line has been drawn in the sand.

Alaska Firearms Freedom Act – This great piece of legislation was passed by the Alaska house 32 to 7 and now moves on the their senate for passage. The outlook is encouraging. This bill basically charges the Federal government with using the Interstate Commerce Clause and US Code 18 USC 922 as an excuse for them to regulate firearms that are involved in interstate commerce. We all know the goal of gun control is to confiscate privately owned guns. This bill calls for the State of Alaska Attorney General to defend any firearms manufacturer located inside of Alaska that is charged by the Fed when they a re compliant with the soon to be new Alaska law.

The Anti-Gun Fed Marches On – A member of the US house of Representative, Peter King of NY, has sponsored H.R. 219. The name of this bill is “The Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009”. This absurd bill wishes to deny transfers of a firearm to any known or suspected dangerous terrorist. This is basically a way for the fed to stop anyone they want from getting a new gun by treating them as suspected terrorists. This can be anyone opposed to Obama, a pro-gun rights person, etc. It does not call for confiscation of existing firearms. This would be like the much abused no fly list. If any bureaucrat wishes you to be on the list, that is that. They never tell you that you are on the list. Because of nonsense like this the states rights firearms laws are needed or they will eventually get the guns.

Discussion – Well I always said Obama is the perfect President for secession. The states gun rights bills are a line in the sand. The Fed cannot safely move on to their next level of control unless they get the guns out of private hands. Obama causes a flurry of gun and ammo sales. Seems like people do not trust this junior inexperienced senator with birth certificate problems. Someone with a lot of money thrust this inexperienced guy at the public. He played well. He talked well. He has a personality. He slung a good line of promises, which he promptly broke. He magnified the money supply by a lot. He basically did nothing to even stop the freefall in the economy.

In a word he is a joke and he is there because he played well at the polls. Obama may not be with us much longer. His college transcripts at Occidental College showed his application for a Fulbright Scholarship, which is only available to a foreigner. His Grandmother says she witnessed his birth in Kenya. The Kenya government said his birthplace was going to be a monument in Kenya. Then someone told them a naturalized person cannot be President of the USA and then the birth records became classified as secret. The Supreme Court has finally agreed to review one of the cases on appeal regarding Obama not being qualified to be President by nature of his birth. Obama is going to have a lot of trouble remaining in office and this is a shame.

He is like the perfect storm, something that rarely ever occurs. Just what we needed to spur secession of the states from the union. He is insecure. He is buried with massive problems and running scared from the threat of riots. He is going to have a tendency to not deal with states rights. People in glass houses should not throw stones. He has a lot of problems even hanging onto his Presidency so the last thing he needs is for the states to bring his flaky citizenship issues into the legal fight over states rights thus magnifying the problems to the point where they make it to the headlines in the major papers. Another possibility is Obama will resign. He would not be prosecuted and then they would not have to void all of the bills he signed. Then there would be a transition government and probably a new election. This would be another wonderful time for more states rights bills and of course secession.

If the states get the fed out of their guns then the concept could be expanded. States could coin lawful silver and gold money. States could prohibit Federal Reserve notes. States could attack the federal debt as fraudulent and deny it. Stop income taxes. All sorts of wonderful possibilities.

The media says the states right gun laws are a legal challenge to the fed. This is a lie. What it is simply a way to defend themselves against a government saying they are empowered by the constitution and then not agreeing to abide by what rights the constitution grants them and to the individual states. Usurping power illegally is the term. The federal government does not want private citizens to have guns but they are sure fond of them and spend fortunes on getting the latest and greatest weaponry. It is guns they respect and fear.

originally published at: http://www.panamalaw.org

Aluminum cased ammo?

We are hearing that some ammunition manufactures are ditching the brass casing in favor of aluminum. At the outset this sounds interesting. Fully loaded magazines are lighter, aluminum is cheaper to come by. The government has yet to try and ban aluminum cases. A few things we have yet to hear, aluminum is a obviously aluminum a softer metal then brass. So can it withstand the abuse that the brass ammo can? Can it stay useable years after it is manufactured? A big one, is it re-loadable? Would it make the ammunition cheaper to manufacture and thus cheaper to sell? Hence less expensive to the end user? If the answer to the above questions is yes then we are all for it. However we are not metallurgists here so we can not answer these questions. If you the reader can answer any or all of these questions please reply and let us all know.