Apparently the tactics from the story from Mississippi I told you about Saturday are a thing now. Three men backed a car (well, probably only one was driving) into The AR Bunker in Newnan, Georgia at about 5 a.m. Sunday morning. The men took less than a minute to jump out and clean out the display cases. The store’s owner initially estimated losses at $50-70,000, but later revised that estimate down to about $40-50,000, after discovering that about half the guns they took (11 of 22) weren’t actual AR-15s, but .22LR copies. There was also an estimated $15,000 in damaged inventory and. . .
another $15,000 in building repair costs. Police arrived less than 20 seconds after the burglary, but the thieves got away. Investigators think that they had an accomplice waiting on the nearby interstate, and they carried the rifles through the woods to that car, leaving the one they’d crashed into the store behind. That car had been stolen from nearby Union City. Click the photo above for video of the robbery.
Your Lockdown of the Day™ comes from Gilbert, AZ, southeast of Phoenix. Several schools in Gilbert were placed on lockdown today after a suicidal person was reported to police. He had apparently made threats earlier in the day, and while there was never indication he was on a school campus (or headed for one), at least three schools were locked down for a couple hours. The lockdown was eventually lifted, and at some time later police located the suspect, and said no charges are forthcoming.
ctsheepdog writes:
The local Connecticut media is starting to pick up on the discrepancies between the preliminary AW and LCM counts and the previous estimates of relevant rifles and mags (particularly the 2011 OLR report). What if vulnerable politicians (Dem, GOP, Malloy) are worried about having to deal with election-season questions on what good a law does if it is massively ignored? How does a sitting governor deal with a question like: “Governor Malloy, what do you say to the Sandy Hook families now that it appears your signature gun law has been roundly ignored by Connecticut gun owners?”
Now imagine that in an effort to defuse this as a campaign issue, “they” decide late in this legislative session (say late April) to have the Legislature pass a 6-month extension that opens on May 1st and runs through October 31st. Or choose any start and end dates you want as long as the final count will not be disclosed to the public until after the first week of November (hint hint, after Election Day). Sure, some pols will still have to defend their votes but at least an “open registration” period will not force them to acknowledge that the law was a dud or worse. Could they be that cunning?
A group of Washington state lawmakers are sponsoring a bill that would exempt firearms from sales tax for the next ten years. They reason that firearms are a “basic necessity” like food and water, and thus, like food and water, should be exempt. The exemptions would apply to firearms and firearms ammunition, including cartridges, primers, cases, bullets, and gunpowder, and would expire July 1, 2024. The bill was introduced on January 20th, and is now in the hands of the House Finance Committee. Supporters are hopeful for its chances of passage, but they would be, wouldn’t they.
The Yankee Marshal on Open Carry Nutjobs & Gun Rallies (specifically at gun rallies). I’m sure many of you will disagree with him. Let’s hear it.
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Good luck finding ammo for those .22LRs.
Good luck passing a pro gun bill in the WA State Legislature.
I would like to call the massive failure of DISconnectedcut’s (illegal) registration scheme the result of an act of equally massive non-compliance, but I have the sneaking suspicion that some of them were just too lazy to do it.
Either way, they should damn well carry on not doing it anyway like any good citizen would.
But wait… these criminals didn’t get background checks!?!?
-Mind Blown-
WTF? Do they not keep thei guns in a safe when they’re closed?
It is hit or miss with me agreeing with The Yankee Marshal on many issues, but I am with him on this one -It’s a gun rally for pete sake!
It would be like not riding your motorcycle to a motorcycle rally because – well… why would you even go to a motorcycle rally and not ride a motorcycle (unless you did not have a motorcycle & were just window shopping)
Open cary at a gun rally is not taking your guns to Starbucks, it is demonstrating safe and responsible gun ownership in public where people will be looking to see what happens, and actually expecting to see some guns being open carried.
I’m starting to think Robert doesn’t know what the word “breaking” means, in a news context…
“It’s too dangerous to wait…” she says, from the people who brought you the SAFE Act and the Patriot Act…
My local gun store has large concrete blocks out front, and now I know why. That’s crazy, but I suppose that would be the easiest way to break into a store that has that level of security…
I didn’t know so many hillbillies had computers. Maybe once you guys sober up, you might start to make sense. Ok, maybe not.
If they had this type of support they’d almost certainly have the 66% needed to amend the Constitution……they don’t…….it’s a lie. I wish Loughner used a .45
ACP. I’m tired of being lied to by politicians. I don’t care about your platform. Our Constitution is at stake. No mercy. Don’t give one inch to these people.
C’mon Marine, that’s not cool. If you don’t approve of the politicians and their views, get involved in the process, campaign, vote, whatever it takes. Wishing ill will on any law abiding American citizen, even one whose views you disagree with, only puts you on the bad guy’s level. As a Marine, you swore to uphold and defend the Constitution, and by proxy the citizens it protects. Semper Fi, right?
Dear Dude – Getting shot in the head doesn’t make you an expert on gun control anymore than getting hit by a drunk driver makes you an expert on drinking and driving. The difference is that Gabby is trying to take rights away from law abiding citizens while drunk driving is already against the law. It’s too bad she was shot but maybe next time she won’t set up a card table in a Safeway parking lot and consider it ample security.
What actually makes it harder for criminals to get guns is if they are in jail. What makes it harder for the homicidally ill to get guns is if they are in institutions.
I think we are at the point where tried and proven conventional JHP ammo is really “good enough” – just look at gel tests of Federal HST.
As multiculturalism spreads you will hear more and more talk like this from politicians at all levels. It will win elections as demographics change. Your Constitution will then be nullified by popular vote and said to be the outdated ideals of former slave owners and sexist bigots. Then revolution. This reality is rushing towards us at record speed. No one will talk about it though for fear of being called a name.
Time to work against his (the mayor) getting reelected, within the boundaries of the law. BTW, has anyone checked to see if this paranoid fear-mongering mayor is a member of MAIG (Ya know: Mayors Against all Non-Government Owned and Operated Guns?)
The thing about statistics is, you can massage them to fit your purpose, very easily. Just like any sponsored study or review usually has a tendency to spotlight the sponsors in a positive light, or at the least, their competitors and the things they have solutions for, in a negative light. Phrase the questions just right, phrase the answers just right, allow pollsters to fill in the blanks where no answers are given, etc. You can get a tainted result that can support any claim made.
Jesse Ventura may have some out there conspiracy theories (you may opin, they all are) but his statement of “Follow the Money,” if done, will usually expose any source of bias or motive for what it is, if it exists. (it’s one reason Consumer Reports claim they don’t accept advertisers… advertiser money would try to influence reviews in favor of the advertiser.)
I had to stop watching after they said they respect the rights of gun owners.
This is an outrage. I’m sick of the media portrayal of bears in our society. The FACT about this bear is that it had actually been out there on a hunger strike for THREE DAYS. Its only demand was a hug. I would have hugged that bear, and so would you. That’s what this is about and I am kinda shocked you would post this alarmist propaganda. Bears are for HUGS.
OK, perhaps I am dense, what exactly makes this bolt action rifle worth $14,000? Is it made of super secret metal of some sort? Pretty sure my SMLE will kill just as effectively and I paid $94 for it.
Welp….no. Don’t really see myself feeling any safer in Chicago. At least the 43rd appears to be blue. And criminals only stay in the blue donchaknow.
Chicago Ward Map – http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/The-312/January-2012/The-New-Chicago-Ward-Map-Passes/
Chicago crime heat map – http://censusviewer.com/wp-content/uploads/HeatMap-Chicago-AfAmerican.jpg
This is laughable, but what else would you expect from a Chicago Alderman? No worries here, I wouldn’t go to “The Windy City (and I mean the kind of wind that comes out of your butt)” for a million bucks.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fYL0yN110go
Moving right along on to our civilian disarmament paradox of the day:
Chicago Alderman Michele Smith implores local businesses to be “gun free” because, otherwise, she expects armed patrons to go berserk and shoot fellow patrons.
Paradox: Ms. Smith, who does NOT trust armed citizens to comply with assault and murder laws, DOES trust citizens to comply with “no gun” signs.
I just don’t understand these people. Actually I do: they are hysterical.
This is the third .22 ammo recall that Winchester has suffered upon us .22 rimfire shooters in the last 8 years. There were also recalls in 2006 and 2007, and the 2007 recall was for the same problem (but not in the M-22; it was a different load).
I had a chance to buy some Winchester .22 ammo several months ago.
I passed.
While I was almost asleep last night I remembered an apropos quote by Jeff Cooper that also encapsulates the same mentality succinctly:
“An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.”
I wish I could have lay claim my own badass quote like Tarrou but there it is.
Wow, bahahaa what a joke. I’d rather use my Aikido training and my edged weapons than this flyswatter!!!
Was this response delivered in person? or was this simply a posted message somewhere? i sincerely hope the gentleman who wrote this went before the city council and spoke these words to the Mayor in person, with the city council and other residents looking on.
-Paulus
The level of ignorance in her statement is simply mind boggling. Some people can be educated, but she is clearly beyond help…
also take a neighbor new to guns out to the range. pay for the ammo. bring a few guns. help them work on their groupings. shooter for life.
got my wife to start taking a few friends and now they are up to 20 women who get together to shoot and hang out. . . . it is all good, even if the spousal unit will not clean the guns she shoots. small price to pay.