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John Stossel Myth: Gun Control Reduces Crime

The myth of gun control is busted by John Stossel, buy, using the governments OWN statistics and number. A must see.

The UN anti gun treaty started being discussed on July 12 to end July 23. News from SAF

The Arms Trade Treaty Prep Committee began on July 12, 2010 and will conclude on July 23, 2010. Ambassador Roberto Garcia Moritan of Argentina is the Chair. On Friday, July 19, Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) representatives were told that the majority of the meetings would be closed to them. The critical discussions on the scope of the treaty will have no input from any non-governmental entity. Scope is critical in the Arms Trade Treaty process. In North America, some Pan Asian Countries and in some other parts of the world, the arms that we expect to have covered in this treaty are nuclear weapons. In much of Europe and most all of Africa, the delegates anticipate that the ATT will cover rifles, shotguns, handguns and ammunition as well.

There appears little doubt that some sort of treaty will be adopted by 2014, if not by 2012. It is anticipated that the final treaty will attempt to register all firearms, require micro-stamping, destruction of surplus ammunition on a very set schedule, registration of all firearms and restriction on any transfer of arms including between private individuals and many other restrictions. If the United States is a signatory and this is ratified by the U.S. Senate, this UN treaty would be the law. On October 30, 2009, UN members voted in favor of an ATT. The United States voted in favor of an ATT.

The UN has an aggressive schedule of meetings planned to push for these restrictions and we will be there representing you in every way we can. We will be at the CTOP/COP meeting in Vienna the week of October 18 and a General Assembly meeting at the end of October. In January, the five permanent members of the Security Council will meet and this is on the agenda. There will be another ATT Preparatory meeting at the end of February in New York. The regional UNIDIR meeting sponsored by the EU will start in March. We will come full circle with the Programme of Action Experts Meeting in May 2011 and the July 17-21 ATT Preparatory meeting that is expected to offer the final draft to the treaty.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the U.S. State Department Celebrates U.N. Gun Destruction Event

Gun owners hold onto your firearms. This may come to a city near you.


Today, the U.S. State Department announced its support for the United Nations’ “International Small Arms Destruction Day.” The State Department, under the leadership of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, calls this ridiculous event part of the United States’ ongoing efforts to support the “rule of law around the world” and boasts of spending more than $130 million to destroy “1.4 million small arms and light weapons.” A press release from the State Department says this money was spent at the behest of the anti-gun United Nations to reduce the impact of “illicit flows of small arms and light weapons.”

We win you loose dems Supreme Court rules in favor of citizens and gun owners in McDonald vrs. Chicago

We would like to thank the SAF for bringing this suit to the high court. Note it was not the NRA that did it.


Today’s Supreme Court ruling in the Second Amendment Foundation’s challenge of the Chicago handgun ban is “our call to action,” said SAF Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb.

“This morning’s high court ruling clearly shows that the right of the individual citizen to have a gun is constitutionally protected in every corner of the United States,” Gottlieb stated. “We are already preparing to challenge other highly-restrictive anti-gun laws across the country. Our objective is to win back our firearms freedoms one lawsuit at a time.”

In striking down Chicago’s handgun ban, and incorporating the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms so that it applies to state and local governments as well as the federal government, the high court affirmed that a constitutionally-protected civil right cannot be arbitrarily regulated as though it were a privilege, he added.

Gottlieb announced that in recognition of SAF’s victory, the organization will host the 2011 Gun Rights Policy Conference in the Chicago area. The event will serve as SAF’s official celebration of today’s Supreme Court ruling.

“By that time,” he said, “we should have some exciting news about other actions we are currently planning.”

The ruling marks another important Second Amendment victory for attorney Alan Gura, who also successfully argued the Heller case in 2008. This time around, Mr. Gura represented SAF, the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA) and four Chicago residents. The case was McDonald v. City of Chicago, named for plaintiff Otis McDonald.

“I’m glad the Supreme Court has ended the years of oppression of law-abiding gun owners by the City of Chicago,” added ISRA Executive Director Richard Pearson.

“Thanks to the Supreme Court,” Gottlieb observed, “average Chicago residents like Mr. McDonald will now enjoy the same right of self-defense as a squad of bodyguards provides to Mayor Richard Daley. Now we can work to lower the deplorable violent crime rate in Chicago, something that the anti-gun mayor’s policies have been unable to accomplish.

“The Second Amendment Foundation is delighted to have worked with Alan Gura, who brought together the individual plaintiffs and organized this landmark case for us and our colleagues at ISRA,” Gottlieb concluded. “Today, it feels great to be the most effective community organizer Chicago has ever had.”

Supporters of gun control are RACISTS!

The historical racist roots of gun control by JPFO

We here at Guns and Ammo Enthusiast Blog first heard of this from Kenn Blanchard. The host of The Urban Shooter Podcast. Now the JPFO yhas done a video about it as well.

The liberal social engineers, and their political shills, have fed their lapdogs in the Mainstream Media the “gun control” party line. For generations it has poisoned the American consciousness.

Without the sophisticated brainwashing agenda of NBC, CBS, ABC, and the “educational” PBS, the socialist proponents of citizen disarmament would have long ago been crushed and defeated.

To aid in the goal of destroying “gun control”, JPFO has prepared three versions of a placard (and handbill) that are aimed directly at the soft underbelly of the media. These are purposely designed to be used at gun shows, Tea Party rallies, or any form of demonstration that seeks to send a hard core rebuttal to those who smear gun owners as racists.

During rallies, make sure you shove the placard in the face of everyone holding a camera. We never know when that image might turn up on the news or go viral. Go here for free pdf files of the placards and handbills –
http://www.jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/freebies.htm#latest

Many print shops can expand these files up to size 18″ x 24″.

The goal? To bring millions of eyes and ears to the irrefutable historical facts presented in the landmark documentary made possible by JPFO supporters.

Go here to view a free download of “No Guns for Negroes” –
http://www.jpfo.org/filegen-n-z/ngn-download-view.htm

Do your part today to destroy “gun control”.

Big mother government grabbing more power over the second amendment, business, and firearm rights

In a recent ruling regarding the “transfer” of firearms, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATFE) has reversed policies that have been in place for more than 40 years.

In the ruling, BATFE declared that a temporary shipment of a firearm by a federal firearms licensee to a non-employee for business reasons (such as a manufacturer’s shipment to a gun writer or engineering consultant for a technical evaluation), will now be considered a “transfer” and require completion of a Form 4473 and background check.

This reverses a ruling issued in 1969, right after the passage of the Gun Control Act, although BATFE provided no explanation of the need for the change. According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, BATFE hasn’t been able to name a single case in which a gun temporarily shipped under the old rule has been used in crime.

The short-term impact may be limited, because many major manufacturers already require firearms sent to non-employees to go through the transfer process. But manufacturers who didn’t follow that practice will now have to ship guns to licensed dealers to complete these “transfers.”

Furthermore, the ruling only applies to temporary shipments by federal firearms licensees to carry out those licensees’ business operations. Given that limitation, the new ruling won’t affect private individuals who ship guns to themselves when traveling to shoot or hunt, or who ship firearms to a manufacturer or gunsmith for repair or customization.

However, this new ruling may have broader implications for future issues. For example, some have suggested that although the ruling doesn’t relate directly to rental of guns for use on commercial shooting ranges, its reasoning might require rentals to be treated as “transfers” subject to recordkeeping and background check requirements.

The current USA government is terrified of firearm ownership. This report show why

Executive Summary – It seems like the Fed spends a major portion of its time, energy and resources dreaming up ways to try to convince the gun owners that they need to not have guns. This is generally done using the salami theory. The salami represents gun rights. They cut off a slice each time until there is nothing left.

The way they are treating soldiers is even more illustrative of the extreme fear the fed has of gun ownership. They even tried getting Mexico President Calderon to ask for a reinstatement of the assault weapons ban. The NRA should call for a boycott of any Mexico tourism until Calderon renounces this statement and he would renounce it to stop a boycott. If he closed his border no guns would get in, Duhhh. Do they think we are as stupid as they are?

Fort Riley Kansas – Overzealous base commanders can impose their will on the soldiers and their privately owned firearms. For example see what the base commander did at Fort Riley:

They require the registration, with Fort Riley administration, of its soldiers’ privately-owned firearms kept off-base, and those of the soldiers’ family members residing anywhere in Kansas. This violates the rights of the family members big time. The family members are having their rights violated in that they are not in the military and thus not under the constitution. It gets worse:

The Fort riley base administration prohibits their soldiers who have firearm-carrying permits from carrying firearms for protection off-base. Absurd. They are also allowed to to set arbitrary limits on the caliber of firearms and ammunition their troops may privately own. So if a soldier transfers from one base to another he may have to sell his guns and ammo.

Analysis of this Action – The government is scared to death of an overthrow of their administration. They are guilty of many violations of the constitution and in fact their administration is repugnant to the constitution and everyone knows what the laws say to do with a government repugnant to the constitution. They know that and the informed citizens know that. The military is also acutely aware of the gross violations of law being advocated and enforced by the administration. Obama is now giving speeches minus the American flag. He would not go to Arlington for memorial day being the first president to not go there. Well he is also the first non qualified Kenyan Muslim President too.

The controlling of private firearms reassures the government that the soldiers will have a harder time uprising. The military weapons are under serious lockdown on the bases. If the soldiers have personal weapons they can over run the base and get the military weapons. Of course the flaw with this thinking is that those guarding the base can become involved in the overthrow as well. The government is of course not thinking straight these days. They have fears of standing trial for treason sedition, theft of government property and resources, fraud, falsification of documents, violating numerous laws and who knows what else will turn up when the secret files and bank accounts get opened up. Those mutual legal assistance treaties will bite them in the butt when used against them to get their money from foreign banks.

This of course makes one wonder why Saudi Arabia a member of the G-10 did not sign any tax treaties. Kuwait also did not sign any treaties. Is this where they plan on keeping their wealth when the egg hits the fan and they have to hit the helicopter to the submarine or jet? Images of Sadamm Hussein being hung with reporters present goes through their minds. They know they are guilty and are trying to hang on. They cannot just let go because that means imminent doom for them in a trail of their peers. As more and more people become educated to the evils and violations of law their situation becomes more and more precarious. By now the paranoia has sunk in big time and they will behave more and more irrationally.

The stunt with Calderon appearing before both houses illustrates the lack of logic they are operating under. Using a leader from another nation to call for USA gun control, come on what idiots. A good question is how many of their employees who are not Muslim or communist are actually loyal to the administration. Sure they are being bought off with large salaries disproportionately large considering the state of the economy but this is just a real cheap superficial form of loyalty that anyone who ever lived in the third world will recognize clearly.

The Nazis gave extreme exemptions from law and accountability to their people yet many tried numerous times to kill Hitler. They did come close too. Hitler and the Nazis even had their own army (SS) to protect them from the soldiers and people. Then they had a secret police the Gestapo as well. In spite of this he came close to getting killed a few times. So far Obama has not raised his own army to protect him from the regular army and the people. He does have the secret police thing down as good as Hitler right down to the secret prisons, torture and no courts involved.

Of course the Obama youth corps is the groundwork for a special army. They use these camps as a recruiting forum for those easily brainwashed and corrupted into being tyrannical. This Obama will fail. He takes the shortcuts, is lazy, likes to lie about who and what he is and cannot keep his story straight. People are getting madder and madder daily. Do not expect him to back off he does not wan to stand trail for his frauds and treason. Obama has painted himself into a corner being the jerk he is and has no way out except to place the country under dictatorial powers thus ensuring his freedom from prosecution.

I wonder how much of these slaps in the face the government workers and military are going to put up with. How can you have a two bit lying street punk muslim like that as your boss and look yourself in the mirror every day?

Idaho National Laboratory’s Microsight: A new kind of sight for a new era

Idaho National Laboratory’s Microsight: A new kind of sight for a new era

Hay gun grabbers you are on the wrong side of the facts; FBI Data Again Shows More Guns = Less Crime

Anyone needing proof that fanaticism for gun control hasn’t waned on Capitol Hill, that anti-gunners are—as Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) put it last year—only waiting to “pick the time,” should watch the video of Mexican president Felipe Calderon’s speech to Congress last week, versions of which have been posted on youtube.com. When Calderon asked that the federal “assault weapon” ban be re-imposed, a very large number of U.S. Representatives and Senators present gave him a standing ovation.

However, on Monday the FBI released crime statistics that should cause the applauding anti-gunners to sit on their hands. The statistics indicate that between 2008 and 2009, as gun sales soared, the number of murders in our country decreased 7.2 percent. That amounts to about an 8.2 percent decrease in the per capita murder rate, after the increase in our nation’s legal and illegal population is taken into account. And it translates into about a 10.5 percent decrease in the murder rate between 2004, when the ban expired, and the end of 2009. And finally, it means that in 2009 our nation’s murder rate fell to a 45-year low.

The FBI’s report was also bad news for anti-gunners elected to other offices. With the Supreme Court’s decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago no more than a few weeks away, Mayors Bloomberg, of New York City, and Daley, of Chicago—who fear that it will require them to respect the Second Amendment for the first time—have continued to beat their drums for gun control. As we have noted, Bloomberg recently encouraged a Senate committee to support the Lautenberg-King terrorist watchlist bills. And last week Daley told a Chicago Reader reporter, who expressed skepticism about the effectiveness of Chicago’s handgun ban, “It’s been very effective.” Holding a bayonet-equipped rifle, Daley added, “If I put this up your butt, you find out how effective it is.”

But, murders in big cities declined over 11 percent between 2008 and 2009, translating to over a 12 percent decrease in the big city murder per capita rate. We hope, but don’t expect, that the indisputable fact that an increase in gun ownership does not necessarily correspond to an increase in crime, will reduce the frequency of Bloomberg’s stunts aimed at gun shows, and Daley’s periodic rants against the firearm industry.

‘MORNING SHOOTING UNDERSCORES WHY WE SUED CHICAGO,’ SAYS SAF

This brought to you by the SAF


BELLEVUE, WA – This morning’s fatal shooting of a home invasion suspect by an 80-year-old retired Army veteran in Chicago’s East Garfield Park neighborhood underscores why we filed a lawsuit to overturn the city’s gun ban, the Second Amendment Foundation said today.

That case, McDonald v. City of Chicago, is about to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Joining SAF in that lawsuit are the Illinois State Rifle Association and four Chicago residents including Otis McDonald, for whom the case is named.

Today’s shooting of an armed home invader with a lengthy criminal record is still under investigation by police, noted SAF Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb, but it appears to be a clear-cut case of self-defense. Local newspaper reports show strong support from the older man’s neighbors. The Chicago Sun Times quoted next door neighbor Curtis Thompson, who observed, “It’s a good thing they had a gun, or they might be dead.” Another neighbor, identified as Audrey Williams, told the newspaper “I’d have done the same thing. They say we’ve got to give up our guns, but that’s crazy.”

The newspaper is also quoting the man’s 57-year-old son, who put it bluntly: “If homeowners can’t have guns to defend themselves and their families, there’s going to be more home invasions. My father’s glad he had a weapon. He did what he had to do.”

“We filed our lawsuit two years ago to protect the self-defense rights of Chicago citizens just like this man,” Gottlieb said. “We have taken the McDonald case to the Supreme Court because far too many people in Chicago are not been able to defend themselves. They have been unconscionably disarmed, and left in as much fear of being arrested and jailed for having a gun as they are afraid of being robbed and murdered by armed thugs who have ignored the gun ban.

“Chicago’s ban did not stop this violent criminal,” he added, “a homeowner with a gun did. The ban also did not stop the recent murder of off-duty police officer Thomas Wortham IV. It is time for this insidious ban to be nullified, and we are hopeful that’s exactly what the Supreme Court is about to do.”