This Rolls-Royce Phantom I, once owned by an Indian Maharajah, failed to sell at Barrett-Jackson over the weekend. It had quite a long list of value increasing characteristics, such as the original build sheet and original factory tool set, the Howdah gun (double-barreled shotgun pistol) in the passenger compartment, and the hand-cranked .450-caliber machine gun towed behind, as well as factory installed gun racks and a hidden safe. Despite all that, nobody wanted it badly enough to bid up over the $450,000 reserve price.
Colin Powell eulogizes Tom Clancy. “Tom’s books were incredibly accurate. He didn’t invent impossible schemes. He invented things that could happen. Some things that have actually happened over years bore some resemblance to scenarios that he put together. Tom could sense things and see things in a way that others couldn’t. Even though he wasn’t writing nonfiction, some of the things he wrote became reality.”
Behind the numbers on yesterday’s post about declining gun ownership… There are currently 49,000 Illinoisians awaiting approval of their $10 FOID card, which allows them to own a gun. Further, once the state’s new concealed-carry law is fully in place, state police officials expect 400,000 applications in the first year for the $150 “carry” permits. “People say it’s the same ‘gun guys’ buying more guns,” said Todd Vandermyde, the National Rifle Association’s lobbyist in Illinois. “FOID proves that it’s just the opposite.”
The NRA has indicated that it plans to sue if California Gov. Jerry Brown allows the assault weapons ban bill passed by the legislature to become law. The law would ban the future sale of most semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines. The NRA-ILA wrote on its website that the law is unconstitutional and “would make unprecedented changes to California’s already unjust and byzantine ‘assault weapon’ law.”
Hyatt Gun Shop of Charlotte, NC, America’s largest gun shop, has been dropped by its credit card service provider, Authorize.net/CyberSource. The reason they were dropped? Because Hyatt Gun Shop — in what will come as a surprise to absolutely no one — sells guns. Authorize.net/Cybersource has been Hyatt’s service provider for over four years, but having apparently just discovered that a gun shop sells guns, notified Hyatt in a letter that they would be terminating their services effective September 30th for violating their service agreement, to wit: “the sale of firearms or any similar product.”
Turn your speakers down for this one, and enjoy the sight of one of our middle eastern brothers learning about recoil and proper bracing.
Sounds like a good half of those were written by children.
Tons of fun?
As funny as that vid is, those people still want to kill us and destroy Israel
I feel sad for America if those are the comments.
“In just a few words, how would you describe an assault weapon?” Good! That was my favorite answer.
I was going to say an Enfield during a mad minute is an assault weapon. I think Frankenstein and Reid would freak out and soil their depends if they witnessed that. OMG a bolt action that fires that fast! OMG!
If I was rich instead of so darn good looking, that Rolls would be mine, even if I had to leave the machine gun behind. That is one fine automobile!!!!!!!
Yup. Mine too, and hit the paypal tip jar. Will make the phone call to Governor too.
Remember, Brown is a canny lawyer, gun-owner, ranch-owner and has disciplined the liberal wing of his own party more than once.
I see a chance for a veto on a couple of these, especially with the NRA lawsuit threat.
Many thanks to those from outside the state who walked the walk, and got in the fight,
vs the trolls and naysayers who can’t resist taking potshots at CA gun-owners/2A supporters, who refuse to give up, despite living among the ignorant majority.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, — go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!””
~ Sam Adams
Fun.
Cute.
What they would have done if the shirt simply had the text of the 2nd Amendment and period-correct pictures of minutemen with, you know, muskets?
Next thing you know they’ll ban Massachusetts state quarters from the vending machines.
Yup, we do this for the children, with the children, by the children, and to the children. I’ll give the kid points for trying. A little more time with that fake 870 and we will let him play on the range with a real one.
“Cook County Commissioner Edwin Reyes … introduced a resolution … that calls for … a ‘gun team’ going after people whose cards have been revoked to prevent them from trying to use the credential to get a concealed carry permit.”
Oh come on. Does Mr. Reyes really think that an applicant is going to flash their FOID card and get a carry license? So the Illinois State Police are not going to check every applicant’s FOID status on their electronic database before approving their concealed carry license?
This is nothing more than an excuse to exert heavy-handed tactics on the citizens of Illinois. This stinks to high-heaven.
And another important comment. Concealed carry licenses are a carry-over from the Industrial age when police had no way of knowing whether or not someone was “legitimately in possession of a handgun”. These days, police can simply call their dispatchers and verify instantly if someone is a “prohibited person” in terms of firearm possession. The entire premise for concealed carry licenses no longer exists and we should eliminate them in all states as a simple cost saving measure. Of course that would make concealed carry easier for citizens and the government doesn’t want that. Whose side is government on?