I remember the late-60’s. America was split in two: pro-war vs. anti-war. Short hair vs. long hair. Domestic cars vs. foreign. Pablum pop vs. protest music. Highballs vs. getting high. Republicans vs. Democrats. As Ralph recently reminded me, you can sum up the tension between these two camps in two words: Kent State. Or one image (above). The gun control rolling downhill in New Englands’ Democratic strongholds is headed in the same direction: violence against a protesting populace. Except this time the populace is bunkered and armed. Sad to say, I can foresee a dozen Ruby Ridges led by ATF (the National Guard won’t play this time). And then . . . a return to Constitutional sanity via the ballot box. Worst case? Best case? In any case, here’s the news . . .
The new generations of [Swiss] citizen soldiers have demonstrated that the respect their forefathers had for the military gun no longer exists. As a result, new preventive measures had to be taken: while military guns are still stored at home, the ammunition is now stored at the arsenal. Nowadays, the assault weapon must be disassembled and stored in two separate closets. This way, if anyone steals the gun, they will be left with a useless piece of steel instead of an agent of death.
This Is How They Hijacked My Country huffingtonpost.com
A new anti-gun metric animated here for maximum impact. Click here for the top 15 causes of death for 2010.
Full speed ahead Mr. Boatswain, full speed ahead. Rep. Gwen Moore: Will Right to Bear Arms Lead to People Owning Submarines? newsbusters.org
If “weapons of war don’t belong in our schools” does that mean cops can’t use AR-15s against active shooters?
FYI: civilian disarmament is alive and well at the state level. Assault Weapons Ban Likely To Die So That Broader Gun Policy Legislation Can Live huffingtonpost.com
I don’t think “packing heat” means what they think it means. 13 Photos of Presidents Packing Heat motherjones.com
That’s MISTER gun nut. Hundreds of Confused Anti-Gun People Think I’m a Gun Nut—And That This Is My Gun kotaku.com
Not so quietly, now. The World’s Hottest Hedge Fund, Tiger Global, Has Quietly Sold Its Gun Stock forbes.com
Quietly now. “Georgia State Senator Bill Heath has introduced Senate Bill 93, a bill which would allow hunting with suppressors in Georgia.” aacblog.com
Wow this and that very helpful review of the Ruger 10/22 in the same day. You are the bread and butter of this site Nick, thank you for relevant info about guns that I cant get from watching Fox or CNN. Thats why you guys are in business.
Fortunately his son doesn’t share his opinion.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/02/04/Rand-Paul-responds-Ron-Paul
So…when can I buy my submarine?
Subs are legal to own. But they’re not cheap- http://www.ussubmarines.com
I know two guys who own Cobra gunships.
I have to say that I personally don’t particularly care if smoke was added in order to make the photo more dynamic.
Additionally the argument’s I’m seeing regarding the president’s body “absorbing recoil” and all the other BS are just specious. It’s a still photo taken at a low shutter speed.
A lab may be able to demonstrate that the smoke itself was added or altered digitally, the rest of it though is just pure speculation by trolls.
Regardless of whether you believe the right to self defense is God given or not. It is the way of nature. Every creature on earth has a self defense mechanism. Whether by fang and claw, camouflage, fleet footed, freeze response, all have it. We as an evolved species have just been able to create better self defense tools.
Mr. Stevens exercised his right to free speech to tell his audience in no uncertain, plain spoken terms we have a God given or natural right to self defense.
Texas legislators are considering bills that expand gun rights. Campus and Open Carry, the main ones.
So this is what the stupid little runts at TTAC were blogging about!
TTAC went down the toilet when you left, RF. Now it is just like all other car websites with their stupid publik skewl commentators.
The liberal parasites are in full-on disarm-the-people mode now because they are going to collapse the dollar soon. Can you imagine what their gimme-gimme liberal cesspools (aka, Cities) will be like when the food, water, and energy is cut off? You want to be far away from these violent tapeworms when the dollar collapses…UN Agenda 21 will be put into affect at that time so the rural self-sufficient won’t be safe either.
Multiple CCWs?
You guys are brainwashed if you think the military today is fighting for the constitution or our freedoms. Keep feeding the beast and it will eventually turn on you.
If AR-class rifles are weapons of war, I don’t want the police to have them because I don’t want a war breaking out on the streets of my city. Maybe they should use double-barreled shotguns instead, like VP Biden suggests for situations of civil unrest.
What’s that you say? When a LEO holds an AR in California, it’s a “patrol rifle”, but if I hold the exact same rifle, it’s an “assault weapon”? Pshaw, sir, no one would be so silly as to pass a law like that.
I do not want to register my guns with the one group that I will need to use them on when they decide that my right to bear arms no longer exists.
I do not want to allow the ObamaCare Health Care program that believes that guns are evil monsters deciding my mental ability to own a firearm.
I do not want the same group that refuses to punish criminals when they use guns to commit crimes deciding who gets to own a gun.
I do not want the one person that has no respect for the Constitution telling me what my Constitutional Rights are (or are not).
I do not want to share my personal information with the one group that believes Lying is simply being “Deliberately Disingenuous”.
I do not want to be disarmed by the same group that is giving guns to Drug Lords.
Does this make me a RADICAL??????
It makes you a traitor/patriot, glad I could narrow that down, Randy
So, if we want to stop crime in California we take guns in Maine? OK, just so I know, Randy
MSNBC EXCLUSIVE: Justice Dept. memo reveals legal case for drone strikes on Americans
“The confidential paper says the government can order the killing of some citizens without intelligence indicating that they are plotting to attack the U.S.”
Links or it didn’t happen.
They dont even have to be plotting a attack, see Abdulrahman al-Aulaqi and Anwar al-Aulaqi, both of whom were American citizens who were extra-judicially executed in separate drone strikes 2011.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7MwB2znBZ1g
Several followers of Awlaki have already committed attacks in the US. Maybe it’s just coincidence that Nidal Hasan, Carlos Bledsoe, the underwear bomber, and the failed printer bomb guys were all buddies of Awlaki.
Mr. Stevens you are a patriot! God bless you and your family…
I feel like i’m the only person on the planet who doesn’t really care for the 10/22.
I don’t like the magazines
i don’t like the magazine release
i don’t like the bolt release
it’s a pain in the ass to get back together
And, if this makes any sense, it doesn’t feel like it has a soul.
i have no inclination to buy a gun that i do not like now in the hopes that i will like it after a few hundred dollars worth of mods. Although, a threaded barrel is tempting for when i can afford a can.
A new anti-gun metric animated…
I seem to recall a statistic recently that something like 80% of gun homicides were either criminals and/or persons involved in criminal activity? How exactly does that relate to the statistic of “Stolen Years”? If they had been arrested and convicted of their crimes instead would the time in prison also count as Stolen Years? If you want to calculate “Stolen Years”, related it to the percentage of innocents or good guys who were murdered. Criminals who die from gunfire didn’t have their life stolen, they gambled it and they lost.
what the hell happen to ron paul… oh thats righr hes old and cenile.
I’m in Minnesota, and I am fighting this with everything I can bring to bear.
It’s going to be a tough fight, but our strategy is to concentrate our fire on the rural district representatives. We have ZERO hope of impacting the Twin Cities area districts (of which I am in one, unfortunately).
The grabbers see blood in the water, and they are going insane to try for it. The wording is so vague and expansive it could quickly be used to encompass any and all revolvers, most every other handgun, and damn near all rifles and shotguns that don’t fit their very limited standard. Dayton, his minion Mayor Rybak of Minneapolis, and the Dems here are marching full force.
They declared war on us. We’re fighting back through any means we can.
If this fails, I am leaving the state. Simple as that – better to flee as a refugee to somewhere we can make a real stand than to stay and die here. I will not comply with any of these restrictions.
Too often, Ted can be soooo over the top that anyone who doesn’t already agree with him can be completely turned off. However, this logical and subdued version of Ted seems to be settling in to get some business done. Good work, Ted. Keep it up.
Hollywood actors are experts on gun control, just like gun shot victims are. We should listen to their opinions and adjust our attitudes accordingly. /s/
Very glad to know you’re part of the community.
Wait a sec…. To my knowledge, I cannot buy any gun in any state in which I am not a resident. For me to buy a gun where I’m not a resident, they have to ship it to an FFL in my state. RIGHT? Or am I mistaken? I know in Florida, to buy a gun here, you MUST be a state resident (show drivers license). If not, then the gun has to be transferred via an FFL in your home state. Is that not true for ALL states?
Please correct me, if I’m wrong.
And he continues using firearms in his movies, from now on he is dead to me.
Use the force, Rob!!
I think Mental Illness runs in the family…first JJJ now JJ….seriously…go back to race baiting over the whole George Zimmerman thing and sleeping with other women while trying to put yourself out there as a “man of god”.
Defeatism like I see the author advocating here is exactly what the anti-gun playbook has advocated from the beginning. Imagine the conversation went something like this: “We’ll scare them by wanting to ban everything, confiscate things, and outlaw the stuff out there. Then, after letting ’em sweat, we’ll shave the list down to two or three things, then hit them with that. Make ’em feel like they sacrificed something tiny to save the rest. I mean, it worked when we passed the Brady Law. And the last AWB was passed the same way. Hell, the NRA helped us last time. We scared the crap out of them.”
Stand strong. Let them blink.
Thanks for speaking up, Jason.