Tom S. sent us a link to the California Department of Justice Bureau of Firearms De-Certified Handgun List. Click here to peruse the lengthy document, which includes reams of Rugers and more than a smattering of Smiths (the two companies that have announced their decision to let the remainer of their CA-approved pistols fall off the list as they fail to meet the Golden State’s microstamping mandate). Tom also sent us a link to the guns added to the Department of Justice Bureau of Firearms Newly Added Handgun Models. Click here for a list without a single entry (as above). The Second Amendment Foundation has contested the whole DOJ approved list misegos in court. While we await the court’s decision, one list grows longer while the other . . . doesn’t.
Same here on RMGO and NAGR… A dog farts and its “URGENT ACTION REQUIRED!!” from Dudley in your inbox for 5 days straight, and at the end asking to send money.
Thing is, when things like the mag ban in CO weren’t a sure thing yet, and while it was going down …. crickets.
I understand we need more than the NRA. But NAGR and its xxGO offshoots, and Dudley Brown in particular, I’ve got reservations about.
I’m not really sure what RMGO has done here in CO except collect money. Dudley was against the recalls. Until they looked viable, and then of course out came the emails to “support” the recalls (which RMGO had nothing to do with, they were driven by a few everyday joes on Arfcom) by … yep; sending him “$5, $10, $20 or $50” ASAP.
RMGO has also been known to be adversarial against other gun rights groups. Anyone setting up such a group (including the recall organizers) have, and will get threats and fightin’ words from Dudley. Usually he’ll just say they’re doing it wrong (such as when he disapproved of the recalls, since I feel he felt there was more money in it for RMGO and their email world-is-ending campaign if the grabbers stayed in power) … but oftentimes he’ll just get personal at his “competition”.
I even feel he wanted the mag ban to pass so that gun owners in CO would wake up, be scared and …. send him money.
If I see any actual action that RMGO takes to fight the recently passed laws here, I’ll change my tune, but for now the only reason to support RMGO is to get a kinda cool looking ar-15 sticker to put on your car.
Same goes for one-in-the-same NAGR. (Take a look at the other xxGO, RMGO and NAGR web sites… they’re all pretty much the same design.)
I agree we have to support more organizations than just the NRA, but I have yet to be convinced that Dudley’s operations are one of them.
“Convince-me-I’m-wrong” is welcome.
So this is what people’s disarmament looks like…….
God help you all in CA
The cattle rancher had An American Militia stand up to that JungleBunny in the whitehouse and the government backed down Because the miltia HAD guns and this obammi government does not want a shoot out of militia Americans versus his dhs goons……califarcia is a giveaway welfare state for the illegal alien leaches and their “anchor babies” to provide cheap labor for the evil rich
There is no god!
Hmmmmm, not much left. Surpised so many revolvers since number of rounds are self limited due to design
All double action revolvers and semi-auto handguns must go through the list. It isn’t about capacity or safety… it’s just about control.
S&W and Ruger (along with Glock and Sig) need to announce that effective immediately, they will no longer sell to LEO’s and will not service LEO firearms in CA . . . . . Let’s see how long this BS lasts or they will end up using Taurus as their go-to firearm of choice.
“While we await the court’s decision…”
…That the list, and all the laws and practiced policies attached to it, will be found Constitutional. Again. Still.
“It’s for your own safety! Promise!
I used be very confused about how California turned into such a confused mess of (mostly) suck and fail … Until I spent some time in LA and drove I-5 to San Diego and back. What a strange, ignorant (can’t legitimately say uneducated) mistrusting, consumerist bastion of new American society.
I feel like those last two are the important ones – if you love your stuff too much, and you worry about other people taking your stuff too much, you’re gonna have some serious trust issues from day one. Lack of trust in our common man is why the grabbers feel justified. The really strange part is my failing to understand why they look so confused when one tries to explain the inherent mistrust in government central to (and for good reason) at the core of our Constitutional system, and why things like persistent surveillance and a totally monitored internet are terrible for us as a free people. I just got looked at like some kind of paranoid whacko … And this was before I got into guns.
We, as Americans, need to shift away from loving our things to the detriment of our neighbors, and to give the intelligence community a serious smackdown. They do important work every day, but the continued releases from the likes of Snowden definitely justify the use of the term “Orwellian” as a possibility when describing the near future – or even today.
Consistently reelecting Fienstien & Co. doesn’t help either. That lady is seriously nuts.
The Vast majority of “californians” are by nomenclature Only were taught What to Believe Not How to think.
People here in califarcia are herded sheople and love it as long as it is politically correct and tastes good.
These people are souless cardboard moronic nincompoops, of course they stared at you that way.
I’m pleased to see no names on that list. I hope that no manufacturer is even bothering to implement microstamping in their products. A defacto ban on new guns will be easier to overturn if nobody can say that at least you can buy (brand name/model).
While I agree that it indeed will be easier to overturn this shenanigans if no pistols are available, it really is a pain in my ass. Plus, I can’t help but worry that in this back asswards state it might not ever be overturned. And that is a scary thought.
The Serpent and the Rainbow is a book written by ethnobotanist and researcher Wade Davis and published in 1985. He investigated Haitian Vodou and the process of making zombies. He studied ethnobotanical poisons, discovering their use in a reported case of a contemporary zombie, Clairvius Narcisse.
The book presents the case of Clairvius Narcisse, a man who had been a zombie for two years, as showing that the zombification process was more likely the result of a complex interaction of tetrodotoxin, a powerful hallucinogen called Datura, and cultural forces and beliefs.
According to the book, there is an assortment of ingredients in Haitian zombie powder including puffer fish, matter from a corpse (specifically to Davis’ adventure in Haiti, the bokor, a Haitian shaman, crushed the skull of a deceased infant that had been dead for a month or two, and added it to the poison), freshly killed blue lizards, a large dried toad (Bufo marinus) with a dried sea worm wrapped around it (prepared beforehand), “tcha-tcha” (Albizzia), and “itching pea” (pois grater, a species of Mucuna).
Maybe he has a roommate that does weed. Lots of reasons to deny a search. Very few reasons if any to permit one.
Reasonable Laws they say,
Common Sense they say,
What a crock of S@#!
I would be thrilled if the National Review succeeds in redefining the coalition of voters that stand for liberty and economic discipline. As for the use of the word “irenic,” it highlights what went wrong in the last presidential election: Far too many actively religious people excluded both candidates from consideration. As a result we unquestionably, from the 2nd amendment point of view, ended up with much the worse choice as president. Though my religious views are very different from his, I hope Romney runs again. Even more, I hope that people in favor of restoring liberty do not sit out the next election.
Don’t know why we even argue over irrelevant things like gun violence stats. So the premise is that if guns are somehow used in a very small fraction of violence, they are OK and 2A opponents should concede. Wrong. A basic human right and one protected by the Bill of Rights needs no justification for existing. Period. Refuting the arguments of the stupid only serves to make two idiots.
The video don’t match the article, it confuse me!
A place which supports being stoned docile and disarmed AND militarized police gangs. Sounds like Utopia.
“All would be well and good with this, except these blue state expatriates also bring with them their political ideology, too. As time goes on and blue states with unfriendly business climates and astronomical tax rates collapse under their own weight, companies and their employees will start leaving in even bigger numbers for more business-friendly, conservative locales. And that means moving left-leaning voters into those conservative areas.”
Good point, but not always applicable. Idaho saw a major influx of people moving here from the PRCa in the 1990s-early 2000s, and the Democrat Party in Idaho was thrilled – they thought they would be able to dominate the legislature and state offices. Instead, most of the escapees (including me) could best be described as “extremist” libertarians. Idaho’s legislature went form about 60% GOP/40% Dem in the 1980s to 81% GOP since 2006. And we have been carefully weeding out the RINOs by taking over the local precinct offices and going to a “closed” primary (you have to register as Republican to vote in the Republican primary, which pretty much ended the Dem’s practice of crossing over to elect “moderate” Reps in our primaries.)
So sometimes you can go against the trend. Now if we can just get rid of the libs in the Sun Valley and Boise North end precincts …
learn to shoot with your off hand. well.
I know this wasn’t the main point of the article, but I feel compelled to comment anyway.
The John Birch Society’s “The New American” is one of the best political publications out there. Anyone who loves the Constitution, limited government, and the truth should consider subscribing to it. If you give it a try, I believe most readers of this blog would agree that it is generally excellent and informative. By the way, every single issue (2 issues per month) has a dedicated column to defensive gun uses. Another example of what you’ll read in it is a detailed analysis of things like the UN Arms Treaty.
http://www.thenewamerican.com
So, according to the story, one is wearing a track suit and jeans and the other is pantless. Never could English fashion.
Never ceases to amaze me the stuff folks can think up to try and separate us from our money…and I’m just talking about the good guys.
I did quite a bit of research on the subject and I am surprised that more people have not found the FBI Crime Statistics website. It has a wealth of information and is the most authoritative source that you could possibly find. It is at http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/violent-crime/violent-crime. It takes them several years to compile all of the data so 2012 is the most recent complete compilation available. It contains violent crime numbers broken down in just about every possible way and will lead even a gun control advocate to become a subscriber to this site. It provides very convincing data in very short order but, if you are willing to spend the time, it would yield data that would even convince Mr Obama.
“Ignorance of the law and/or a belated sense of concern about being caught is no reason to change the law.”
And what about ignorance of the Constitution, and the effects (and lack thereof) of gun control?
Awww look, his grade-school rage is showing:
Worrying about all those “automatic weapons” and “clips” makes me wonder who is stupid.
The ignorance that persists astounds me. Still going on about automatic weapons and “high capacity clips” without the slightest attempt to sound like they know what they are talking about. Which they obviously don’t. Hats off to those in CT that have chosen civil disobedience.
I love fine guns. I make some nice looking guns. I love buying walnut stock blanks while imagining what they’ll look like turned into rifle stocks. My taste in shotguns would leave most here wondering why I want to spend that much money on a gun that needs to be reloaded every two rounds.
But where my CCW piece is concerned? I keep it simple, reliable and cheap: Glock. If the 5-0 take my piece, another six portraits of Benjamin the Fondler of French Women gets me another one, pronto, and it will be just like the one I had to fork over to the 5-0 earlier that day. That’s really the only reason why I carry a Glock. They’re (relatively) inexpensive and widely available – as in “right now, today!” available.
If I could design my perfect CCW piece, it would be a Glock with a grip safety and a better trigger that is just as available as a normal Glock. Alas, there’s nothing I’ve seen yet that meets those criteria; almost everything fails on the availability issue, even here in Wyoming, where we own lots and lots and lots of guns.
automatic weapons and high capacity clips . . .
Soo, this problem is already solve, done and done.
Just have constitutional carry and save a lot of paper and hassle all around
Huh… they’ve ALMOST got that illegal gun problem licked, I’ve heard. “Almost.”
Full of win. Humor is one of our best weapons, people!
Shared.
I currently live in California with my wife and her family. And this place sucks. On the one hand, I live in San Bernardino County, which has one of the best sheriffs in the state as far as gun rights go. On the other hand, it’s still California. The paperwork for a CCW itself is going to leave me minus half a bottle of Tylenol. Then it’ll be perusing the gun stores for a rather slim selection of pistols for me and my wife. All because the great majority of “Angelinos” have no idea how to handle or operate a gun of any sort. Seriously thinking of moving to Texas. Or back to Oregon. Things haven’t gotten too out of hand back home yet. Yet.
I’d also like to give a quick shout out to Senator DeLeon for being the shining example of anti-gun dumbasses that the rest of us can briefly chuckle at before we remember these are the idiots that have been put into positions of power by the ignorant many.
There is a way to do micro stamping without micro stamping. Every rifled barrel gun has a unique rifling signature. By firing a test bullet through each firearm and sending that bullet and the associated serial number tot eh state one woudl seem to have met the objectives of Micro stamping. And it’s better than micro stamping becasue cases don’t kill people Bullets do.
Why? Why must you stupid ignorant people always blame this shit on blue or red D this R did that it’s CA as a whole we need to do something we need to fix it we live here we deal with it I dislike people who are always blaming demo or repubs it’s your fault they are paid to sign shit they don’t read shit that’s why laws slip in with education bills for kids