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California Outlaws Guns

You might think that a state cannot outlaw the purchase of a firearm because the Second Amendment prevents such a prohibition, but cagey lawmakers in California have figured a way around that little "problem".

Californians who surmount the paperwork and scrutiny required to purchase a handgun can still buy any of the handguns on the current Roster of Handguns Certified for Sale. But that’s about it. As of today, all new models which manufacturers want to introduce for sale in California will need to follow the new guidelines. They’ve got to be capable of microstamping.

There’s not a single handgun manufactured in the United States that microstamps a cartridge. Not one. Why should there be? The technology is both expensive and useless (the firing pin can be replaced or sanded down in seconds) and consumers may well balk at the idea.

The Supreme Court has overruled similar scams pulled by gun grabbers in the past and they’ll probably shoot this one down as well. You can’t get around the 2nd Amendment by charging $1000 each for bullets or by only making non-existent guns legal. But, who knows? Maybe this time the liberal gun grabbers will get away with it. In any case, it will take time for the court system to rule so until then, if you want to buy a new semi-automatic handgun, I guess you’ll have to move to Texas. If gun owners in California aren’t sure how to get there, they can just follow the flood of business owners fleeing the state. [John Hawkins]

***THE ARMED CITIZEN*** An Every Friday Feature

Kelby Smith, 34, pulled into his brother’s driveway and was carrying his 2-month-old son in a car seat when a man with a pistol approached them and demanded money. Smith knelt in front of his son to shield him as the robber held the gun to Smith’s head. As Smith handed over a small amount of cash, he pulled his own gun from its holster. Upon seeing the firearm, the robber fled, but turned and pointed his gun back at Smith, who fired his gun. The man was later identified as he entered a hospital seeking treatment for a gunshot wound. (The Plain Dealer, Columbus, OH, 1/15/13)

Reprinted with the encouragement of the NRA

Big Brother Update: Censorship Is Here

Have you heard about the student who designed a fully functional gun that can be produced with a 3D printer?  It is a method that allows a computer to actually make a firearm out of a special plastic using this new technology.  Well the government heard of it too and now they have ordered him to remove the information from the Internet.

As Tech Crunch reports, "the State Department has demanded that new blueprints for a fully 3-D-printed gun be taken offline just a week after they were posted. The Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance is forcing outspoken Second Amendment crusader Cody Wilson to remove the downloadable 3-D printer files from Defcad.org under expert laws known as the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)."

"Until the Department provides Defense Distributed with final [commodity jurisdiction] determinations, Defense Distributed should treat the above technical data as ITAR-controled,” reads the State Department order, seen below in its entirety.

Specifically, the Dept of State claims that under "ITAR, it is unlawful to export any defense article or technical data for which a license or written approval is required without first obtaining the required authorization from the DDTC. Please note that disclosing (including oral or visual disclosure) or transferring technical data to a foreign person, whether in the United States or abroad, is considered an expoert under [ ] ITAR." And since by implication this means that all the data can be seen by at least one foreigner, "this means that all such data should be removed from public access immediately." [Zero Hedge]

Yes you read that correctly.  The United States Government has ordered a student to remove information from the Internet.  That, my friends, is censorship.

Armed March On Washington? No, Please

Another talk radio host is proposing that Americans with loaded rifles assemble on the Virginia side of the Potomac River on July 4th and march into Washington DC where guns are in essence prohibited.  It was a bad idea when a local guy came up with it and a really bad idea that Adam Kokesh is doing it again.

I get the whole concept of liberty, free speech, the right to assemble and to petition the government for redress, but marching toward the Capitol with loaded guns is a really stupid idea.

Kokesh is apparently an anti-war smear merchant according to Michelle Malkin, who at one time had the support of Ron Paul and the liberty movement.

And I will be the first to tell you, among many of the TEA party people out there, the level of frustration and dislike for the government that seethes in their conversations will make some of them think this is a good idea.

It's not.  It's a really, really bad idea and it could have a very disastrous and perhaps unintended ending.

***THE ARMED CITIZEN*** An Every Friday Feature

Three masked men entered Plaza Jewelers one afternoon, one carrying a gun while the other two wielded hammers. Store owner Alfonso Angela spotted the men through the store window and grabbed the gun he kept hidden behind the counter. The two men with hammers, one carrying a bag, were approaching the glass cases of jewelry when Angela cocked the hammer of his gun. Within seconds, the men were making a hasty exit. Police were called and two male suspects were later taken into custody. (San Jose Mercury News, Fair Oaks, CA, 1/21/13)

Reprinted with the encouragement of the NRA

***CALL TO ACTION*** It's Boston Again

I am asking everyone who reads this post to please forward it, send it, email it, copy it, embed it and use it to tell as many people as you can what has just happened in Boston.  Forget opinions and conspiracy theories, due to modern technology you can trust your own eyes.  Watch this shocking video. Then answer this call to action by sharing this with everyone you know.

 

 

If you watched the above video what you have just seen is people being ripped from their homes at gunpoint.  You saw military uniforms, fully automatic weapons and the full fire power of an organized government trained on ordinary citizens as their homes are entered and searched (likely without a warrant).

What you saw with your own eys is exactly the kind of force against which our founders fought and the kind of abuses of personal liberty that they sought to prevent with the protections they embedded in the Bill of Rights, specifically the Second Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, the Ninth and the Tenth Amendments.

We do not need to be told by commentators what this video shows.  This could just as easily have been a drill for Martial Law.  It just as easily could have been any type of enforcement action.  But what it is does not need explanation, just context.

This is a video, shot by a citizen, during the manhunt in Boston.  You can see it with your own eyes, thanks to modern technology and the Internet.

Now, for additional context.  This raid, caught on tape, came as the Manchin/Toomey amendment was about to receive a vote in the Senate.  It came within a year of an effort by the supporters of Barack Obama, Diane Feinstein, Joe Biden and many others to outlaw certain firearms, certain magazine capacities and to create a record keeping system which the National Institute of Justice said could only work if there was a national gun registry AND mandatory buy-backs of guns.

It came within a year of the worst shortage of ammunition available to ordinary citizens in the last 50 years.  And despite the arguments from the left that our founders could never have envisioned 30 round magazines and AR-15's, Senator Frank Lautenberg took the opportunity after Boston to call for background checks for the purchase of BLACK POWDER, the exact same propellant used by our founders in their muskets!

See what your eyes tell you.  Read the Second and Fourth Amendments. And then remember the words of Patrick Henry:

"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston!"

It's Boston, again.

Want To Be A Junior Dick Tracy?

The following website has posted a series of photos which were sent to law enforcement agencies with possible bits of evidence in them regarding the Boston bombings.  If you go to the site and click through the pictures you can see the kinds of things they are trying to connect.

One part I found of particular interest is an email from an anonymous source who says that he has been working on a project where the incident was not described to him in detail but that he feels the blame will fall on a 20 something person with mental disabilities who has guns, an NRA book and some re-loading powder in his house, the goal being to limit private citizen access to gun powder and re-loading supplies and to limit ammo purchases to a few rounds at a time.

Wanna be a Junior Dick Tracy?  Have at it by CLICKING HERE.

Oh, and as far as the gunpowder thing goes, well, can't say I didn't try to warn you.

I put this up on Facebook right after the news broke.

Senator Lautenberg Is A Laughing Stock

Senator Frank Lautenberg has penned an opinion piece in which he urges his colleagues to support a ban on "high capacity magazines" and his entire feeble attempt at logic boils down to this: "The NRA tries to portray that banning the sale of these magazines would be a calamity. What they don’t tell you is that they were banned from 1994 to 2004 as part of the Assault Weapons Ban. The gun industry and its allies in Congress allowed that law to expire."

No, Senator, what YOU aren't telling people is that since the repeal of the "Assault Weapons Ban" violent crime in the United States has dropped by 17%.  And what you are also NOT telling people is that the one common thread in each of the so-called "mass shootings" was the fact that a crazy person was doing the shooting.

Your argument is reduced to meaningless dribble even further as a result of the Boston bombings.  Look at the carnage caused by pressure cookers filled with shrapnel.  There was no ammunition magazine involved.  The point is that a crazy person dead set on killing and maiming a large number of people can do it in a variety of ways that don't involve guns at all.

Now add to the fact that there are millions of "high capacity" magazines already out there and then tell me what your silly bullet count will do except make you look even more foolish as you attempt to acquire political capital by using sympathy over other people's dead children as a ploy.

How about this, Senator.  How about bringing home all of the troops from Afghanistan right now.  How about taking one last series of flights over the country and rendering the poppy fields fallow for the next 100 years.  How many young lives will the destruction of 90% of the world's heroin production save?

Your phony arguments are not only illogical, the fact that you would seek to advance an illogical argument on the graves of other people's children is disgusting.  But why should we be surprised?

You once argued that anybody who opposed federal funding for abortions didn't deserve the protections afforded to them by the Constitution, so you have a long history of using the graves of dead children as your political soapbox.

**ACTION ALERT** Senate Votes Today On Gun Bill: Call Them NOW!

The Senate is scheduled to vote at 4pm today on the Toomey/Manchin gun bill and while some say that the White House does not have the 60 votes needed all admit that the margin is razor thin.  Here is what you can do, call them today.  You can call Senators McConnell and Paul, but they are pretty solid against it.

But you can call other senators and let them know that if they even think of voting away your rights, that you will donate and volunteer to see to their removal from office.

Just think about it.  A lot of these guys can't do anything else and the thought of getting the pink slip is pretty powerful.  Here's how.  You may phone the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121. A switchboard operator will connect you directly with the Senate office you request.

I suggest you request as many of these as you have time to call urging them to oppose S. 649 and all anti-gun amendments to that bill:

Patrick Toomey, Rob Portman, Lindsay Graham, Susan Collins, John McCain, Angus King, Mark Begich, Lamar Alexander, Kelly Ayotte, John Barrasso, Roy Blunt, John Boozman, Richard Burr, Saxby Chambliss, Daniel Coats, Tom Coburn, Thad Cochran, Bob Corker, John Cornyn, Mike Crapo, Ted Cruz, Michael Enzi, Deb Fischer, Jeff Flake, Chuck Grassley, Orin Hatch, Dean Heller, John Hoeven, James Inhofe, Johnny Isakson, Mike Johanns, Ron Johnson, Mark Kirk, Mike Lee, Jerry Moran, Lisa Murkowski, James Risch, Pat Roberts, Marco Rubio, Tim Scott, Jeff Sessions, Richard Shelby, John Thune, David Vitter, Roger Wicker.

And don't think for one minute that if the bill passes we can always defeat it in the House or win in the Supreme Court.  We need to KILL THE BILL NOW!

Did Bloomberg Buy Toomey's Compromise?

I don't think anybody could make a credible case that Senator Toomey's leftward migration was "bought and paid for" by Bloomberg's mayors against guns group, but my what rewards can flow from the abandonment of principles.  Compare these two ads.

 

h/t HotAir