Click here to The Gun Violence Task Force’s Comprehensive Plan. “There is no law or set of laws that will completely end gun violence,” the report begins, “but that cannot be an excuse to do nothing.” If only! The first two recommendations pay lip service to the Second Amendment—via the Heller decision. With breathtaking irony, the third calls for an “assault weapons ban.” For those who find that term both frightening and offensive, the Task Force also recommends a federal ban on “assault magazines.” Universal background checks, strengthening NICS checks, new penalties for straw purchasing, tax money for social programs and “safety” campaigns, yada, yada, yada. Nothing new here. And it’s clear that the civilian disarmament movement is finding purchase on the state level, rather then the federal. At the moment.
I think the Glock and the M&P are the two best polymer pistols on the market today. I own a couple of each, and can’t pick a winner between them. Excellent article!
How about a polymer RIFLE review? I’d love to see/hear some more about AR polyment lowers that are out there now. (Let the flames begin). I know, I know…polymer rifles suck…blah blah blah. Funny, I rememebr hearing that YEARS ago too…
I can rememebr when (long ago in a galaxy far far away) I was in my first career and went to the police academy, my class was split about 50/50 between revolvers and semi-autos (yes, that long ago). I was one of the first folks in my area to try the “plastic fantastic” first gen Glock 17 as a duty weapon. Some folks were lauging back then, until I took the top gun spot in my class from a guy with a tuned up S&W Mdl 19 Combat Masterpiece. Lots of long faces after that…:)
Now, you’ll be hard pressed to find a police agency issuing anything BUT a polymer handgun.
Wow I can’t believe this! I was so sure they would read the data we all do and support the 2nd amendment! I am just shocked SHOCKED I tell you. /sarc
*than, Mr. President.
I like plastic guns because they’re often light and easy to conceal. But for a true “duty” gun, please make mine steel.
(Future) doctor, perhaps? =)
Thanks for speaking up, Richard!
First thing we should do is ban the word “Assault.”
It no longer has any meaning, same as Racist.
OK, I’ll be the one to say it.
You CANNOT be pro 2A…it’s an inalienable right, it exists for every man woman and child. You cannot be for it or against it, because it just “IS”.
That’s what a lot of these Pro-Gun control folks need to realize. It’s like being against the fact that you have the ability to breath when your born.
You can be for concealed carry, or open carry etc…but the 2A just isn’t up for debate, one way or the other.
Hope you all get what I am trying to say here.
I support the First Amendment but language that assaults the Second must be prohibited. For the children. And puppies. Because we have to do something. No matter how stupid. If not now, then when? And why?
We need to have a reasonable discussion about common sense free speech regulations.
This stupid state’s bastion of liberal extremist idiots in government continue to shoot themselves in the foot by chasing away high income earners and job providing businesses with their wonderful liberal laws and taxes. California used to be such a wonderful state. Now Kalifornia has become a liberally extreme center of takers rather than makers who have bankrupted the landscape with failed lala land fantasy policies and laws. And the stupid barely thinking electorate keeps voting these fools into office so they can live up to their fashionably progressive liberal self image.
The only thing conservative thinkers and gun owners can do here is protest to the un-listening overwhelmingly liberal politicians and try to stay under the radar.
Unfortunately my wife and I are tied to our employment which is anchored in San Diego county, but when we retire in a few short years, if things don’t change, that anchor is will be tossed overboard and we’re outta here.
If anyone hasn’t already, I highly recommend Matthew Brackens “Enemies, Foreign and Domestic.”
We’re on about chapter 5 or 6 these days.
A bold claim. Not a plan to reduce gun violence, a plant that reduces gun violence. Apparently it’s the plan itself that does this. A bold claim, indeed.
One thing popped into my brain while I was just standing there, brain in semi-neutral, turning something on a lathe yesterday:
If one guy with some guns and a plan gives one of the largest urban PD’s, with all their supposed “training,” “expertise,” and military toys this much trouble and causes them to go bonkers in the head, shooting unarmed women in the pre-dawn hours for no reason at all…
imagine how much trouble they’d be in if a dozen people with a plan went off the reservation, even if they weren’t acting in concert?
This is something for policy makers to think about as they’re concocting all these schemes to seize people’s guns. Your employees aren’t what you’ve cracked them up to be, and things ain’t gonna work out quite the way you’re planning…
I’m almost certain that a ban of anything doesnt fall under ex post facto. It’s a dick move but I don’t think it qualifies. Now, if they were trying to enact the bans retroactive to 2004 so that there was no gap between the 94 bill and a new one and then tried to prosecute anyone who bought a firearm or magazine since then (or even scarier tried to charge any of the manufacturers) , that would be an example of ex post facto.
The scary thing is that there is a way that they could effectively disarm us, they dont need a single new law and i’m almost positive it would even stand up in the supreme court. I’m even scared to post it here just in case it keeps slipping their minds. So lets just hope they and the clowns in DC just keep on thinking that their laws are the only answer and we may even get lucky enough that enough of our state and national elected officials take a stand and keep these nightmare scenario’s never come to pass.
F the task force, what a crock!
I also joined in 1938 to enter a contest.
I have no words to express my anger at this entire ordeal. THIS specifically has pushed be a bit too far. Makes me want to yell, but I mustn’t, or else I’ll be labeled as a psychopath gun nut and used to further the anti-gun agenda. Then again, my sense of logic seems to not click with many of the men and women I’ve debated with – despite my reliable sources of information…
What to do…? I’m running out of ideas…
I keep any not currently in use locked up but do not want the government to feel compelled to verify that with on-site inspections.
Even on the playground, “You use a pistol to fight your way to a rifle” still applies.
Once availability gets back to normal, I’m buying from them!!!
Good! Finally, the “Ronnie Barrett Option” is catching on.
But, WhoTF made Feds/MIL ‘gods’?
Why the hell do people routinely forget that they’re our SERVANTS!
Hell, if I had my druthers, it’d be a law for every single public servant to clean up the dirtiest of public bathrooms, once a week, as part of their elected office contract, and put their entire asset (including all legal entities, ie. trusts, blind trusts, shell companies, etc.) into a public escrow for the duration of their service & if violated or conspire to violate their Const. Oath, forfeit it all to their respective constituency/district, just to remind them whoTF their masters are.
This whole two class shit has got to stop. Might as well declare themselves the Shogunate.
Yes, while we DO have a de facto caste system in America, now, do you really want to solidify it and make it de jure??
The threat is also coming from the lunatic Fed govt statist controlfreak servant lackeys, not just the commie Fabian socialists and RINOs at state levels. When the likes of FeinSKUNK & Fucky Schmucker et al are pushing for a traitorous obliteration of our pre-Constitution universal Natural Right of Self Defense, high time the likes of Glock, S&W, Sig, FNH, Hk, and Colt invoke the “Ronnie Barrett Option” on their GSA contract prospects, as well.
Yes, I ‘get’ that it’s highly unlikely that major Fed/Mil contractors would renege their corporatist Fed tit-sucking profit margins, we’re not talking Lockheed Martin, or aircraft carrier or submarine contracts here.
If they really delude that ignoring the commercial market that’s 100’sX larger than their GSA contract, and give the finger to their own consumer base, in the long run, they’ll go the way of Jennings Arms.
Time for the entire 2A industry, and I mean ALL: guns, ammo, component, accessories manufacturers, as well as training companies, to forge together and cast a concrete line in the proverbial sand.
No further.
Let’s hope Mr. LaRue is a trendsetter.
BTW:
Why do the police need 30 rounds in their ARs? They have backup. They have radios. If things get too hot, they can leave like they did in the LA riots.
I’m glad to hear this news but also concerned that Our Government will be buying guns from manufacturers in other countries. That would again take more jobs from our country and also fund Governments in other countries that ma come back and bite us in the ass. Don’t get me wrong. I’m in favor of LaRue’s decision but also concerned of the recourse it may benefits to other countries.
The civilian disarmament movement can’t withstand too many more ‘victories’ like this.
The report claims that Lanza was wearing a bullet proof vest. Isn’t this known to be untrue?
I think they are “putting” each of these shooters in bullet proof vests after the fact intentionally to foil the argument that civilians with guns would be able to stop them.
Besides, soft armor or not, you can still stop the threat with body shots. I don’t see anyone taking a couple body shots in soft armor and not going down, regardless of if the bullets penetrate.
-D
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22272843/newtown-school-shooter-adam-lanza-wasnt-wearing-bulletproof