Press release [via AmmoLand.com]:
This past Saturday over 50 Second Amendment supporters from the group Twin Cities Gun Owners & Carry Forum met for lunch at an independent and locally owned Plymouth eatery to show support and appreciation for Twin Cities area businesses that recognize the state’s right-to-carry law and allow “lawful carry” at their establishments. The group called ahead and scheduled their lunch meet up during off-peak hours at the eatery, and it’s estimated that the group spent at least $700 or more during their visit . . .
The group meets monthly and purposefully seeks to support businesses that allow “lawful carry.” If your business allows lawful carry, appreciates loyal, law abiding customers and would like to be the recipient of a “Lawful Carry Cash Bomb,” contact the group via email at info [at] Minnesota2A [dot] com.
As of January 1, the state of Minnesota had 161,535 carry permit holders and joined several other states across the country in breaking records for the number of permit holders added in 2013. MN Dept. of Public Safety records indicate that over half of the state’s carry permit holders are located in the Twin Cities metro counties.
Minnesota’s carry permit holders have received required training and have passed one or more background checks before being issued a carry permit by their local sheriff. The MN Dept. of Public Safety statistics show carry permit holders to be orders of magnitude more law abiding than the general population.
I don’t blame them. Getting hose for $200 per year, per gun model can add up real quick regardless of how large a company is. Also the microstamping requirement prohibits any new models so it’s pointless for them to keep payingthe extortion fee to keep older models no longer in production on the list. Better to prove in court that the renewal is not necessary and there is no basis for it than to keep funding the CA DOJ with this bullshit.
We need to do this in Pennsylvania…
Minnesota’s carry permit holders have received required training and have passed one or more background checks before being issued a carry permit by their local sheriff. The MN Dept. of Public Safety statistics show carry permit holders to be orders of magnitude more law abiding than the general population.
Ugh. The first sentence in this paragraph has no statistical correlation with the second sentence in this paragraph.
Also, TTAG, why no block quote treatment for something which was obviously copy-pasta’d from a press release?
Because the whole thing is a press release, as cited at the top.
“Press Release [Via AmmoLand.com]:”
“would you give up your guns for Charlize Theron?”
I wouldn’t give up half a cup of lukewarm coffee for the liberal bitch.
I’ve also seen these events referred to as “cash mobs”
Banning mention of killers’ names, or even just importuning the media not to, is one of those empty, feel-good non-measures similar to banning so-called high capacity magazines. These killers are not all exactly alike in motives, mentality or sense of posterity. However, they are virtually all a loser in life of one flavor or another, such that mass murder and mayhem is their perceived last, best option for coping with whatever their major problem is. Named or not, it’s the carrying out of their evil act that serves their purpose, not the public chatter thereafter.
That said, it may be helpful to all, or at least less hurtful for the victims’ families, not to go out of our way to celebrate these monsters. Portraying them on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine as deep and brooding rock stars should prompt our condemnation. Beyond that, in the spirit of compromise, perhaps we could show them in all of their final, morbid glory? Maybe we could show their death pic, the one where they came face-to-lead with a 5.56 or 00 buck round. Want to be famous, bad boy? Fine. You’ll be remembered as the latest in a line of unrecognizable, mangled, monstrous mashes.
The cynic in me says a court might claim that if it doesn’t apply to revolvers, then it doesn’t infringe on the Heller decision, which at the very least claimed that one has a right to keep a hand gun in the home.
Poor Dick. He is just steaming mad because this week he should be at the SHOT Show, walking around like a celebrity VIP; people asking for their photos with him; small retailers salivating at the idea Dick might see, like, and promote their product; the comped hotel room, all the attention. And now he has to sit at home.
If he thinks the movement is hijacked only by extremists and a minuscule percentage of nuts, then he should show up to the SHOT show, and see an entire industry snub him to his face. I bet Dick’s beloved Smith & Wesson wouldn’t even let him in their booth! A photo of him holding their latest gun could kill it.
I hope Politico paid by the word.
Given the long term reliability issues in the Kel-Tec pistol just outlined a few posts below, why is it that folks are now clamoring for a vaporware carbine from the same manufacturer?
Maybe they should just sell their CAD files – then folks can print their own, and print parts as they break?
Hell no! My guns would in all probability age better than she does. Also, didn’t Sean Penn get eaten by a giant cat in Team America?
A product not intended for California is a product i am interested in.
Also, less guns that go to California, more of them are available for free citizens elsewhere.
An interesting concept.
How about a real ‘cash bomb’? We all know that if police thugs had intercepted anyone planning to donate a reasonable amount of money (in cash) they would have turned it over to their pig overlords, How about these things are kept on the downlow?
Just so I can fully qualify for my “radical extremist” badge, I’ll share the following:
I am troubled by muzzleloading and archery. I could see them becoming State approved methods of hunting and put forward as one more reason that we don’t need modern rifles.
In my dream Libertarian state (in which I would be governor) I would only allow (yes, I get the irony) hunting with military style weapons–ARs, bolt action sniper rifles, and auto or pump shotguns, so as to ensure that my militia (men capable of fighting) was well regulated (skilled.)
As a California gun owner I support this decision and only hope that other gun makers follow suit. The entire roster is currently being challenged in court, one of the questions that the judge specifically asked for was the total number of guns currently available on the roster. As long as that number remains high, was passes for a legal system in this state will simply state that there is no requirement to provide access to every possible firearm, as long as there are sufficent options available to choose from. Hopefully S&W and GLOCK also follow this route, it’s probably our only chance of invalidating the entire roster concept.
I’ve never been able to find a way to mount either a decent laser or a dot-point on my DP51. At least not without involving a gunsmith. I might need to talk to one…
In the future tho a front rail has become an important selling-point, in part because of things like the subject of this article.
My understanding is that, while it may behoove Ruger to keep paying the $200 fee per model and thus continue selling, this is only the case if they make no substantial changes.
And the DOJ has become unreasonable about what constitutes a substantial change. The SR22 was removed from the roster due to changes requiring restesting (and thus mircostamping), because of a slight improvement to the slide (it had been shaving bullets). Ruger says it is committed to “continual improvement”. If any little change may be deemed substantial, and causes the gun to be yanked, that is a massive PITA.
Now Ruger invested quite a bit in CA friendly designs. If these models are just going to be yanked if you make any improvement, why bother continuing? Personally I would renew up until I make a change, but since that may be in between renewal dates, who knows what that would cause?
But if you merely let it expire, someone who has bought it and has not yet completed the 10 days, will still get it if it falls off due to expiration. But if it is yanked because of a change, then it is not deliberable. This caused an immense round of bitching about “Ruger and Turners, and about how my favorite FFL delivered the gun anyways but Turners is evil, Ruger is evil” even though Turners was constrained by the law, and you local FFL is now a felon who didn’t bother to read the actual law. Not to mention the legal liability if you are deemed selling a handgun “not on the not unsafe roster”.
If Ruger planned to make zero changes, this would be one thing. Because of continual improvement, they are covering their butts. Hopefully this and actions like it by mfgrs helps court cases against the roster
Want. Desperately want.
Hopefully every mfg does this and tells cali to suck it and that they will deny service to LE agencies in the state until they recognize the 2nd Amendment.
Armor of God II, Operation Condor is the best Jackie Chan flick. Everybody knows that.
They are 100% absolutely right on this one, IMO.
the pakiwood pattern reminded me of another (bakelite) bullpup / gun design performance artist a coupla decades ago in the former Soviet Union, G. A. Korobov
http://world.guns.ru/assault/rus/korobov-tkb-022-e.html
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a291/elliot308/Korobov-TKB-022PM.jpg
Joe,
I like your taste in rifles.
I read this one.How about the Ohio papa john delivery driver kidnapped and raped by men she delivered too.All drivers should ccw.
pppfffffppphhhhhh!!
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/12/the-media-needs-to-stop-inspiring-copycat-murders-heres-how/266439/
While I’m not a fan of The Atlantic’s hysteria regarding guns, the above article actually doesn’t suck. The article discusses the body of psychological research regarding how certain ideas can be contagious.
The original research dealt with suicide clusters, and the researchers found that people were more likely to commit suicide if they were exposed to media reporting of a successful suicide. If someone jumps off a bridge, you get a spate of people in the area trying to jump off the same bridge. So on and so forth.
As a result of this the mass media stopped reporting suicides that took place in private, and gave only modest and measured coverage to those that happened in public places. And it worked. It’s likely that a similar mechanism is in play with spree shootings, especially since most spree shooters are also suicidal.
Why do you think there has been such a surge in spree shootings lately? Gun control advocates will try to blame lax gun laws or the availability of firearms, and yet guns are no more available now than they were a decade ago. So what gives, what’s the real explanation? It seems likely that the media firestorm of coverage since Newtown has something to do with it.
Of course this is all easier said than done. Unlike suicides in the privacy of ones own home, a spree shooting is a legitimate event of public interest. Not reporting them is simply not an option, but perhaps we can change how we report them.
Good taste sir. I’ve had some older guys let me shoot their Sharps rifles at ranges. Ringing steel with big ‘ole slow moving lead bullets at long range is an experience that gets into your blood. Then there is the obligatory motion of dropping the breach, ejecting the cartridge, the blowing down the barrel (from the breech end) just like Quigley.
So Cool!
I heard rumors of nitrided Americans…any word?
I like it, sadly I live in the **** state of California so any “shotgun with a rotating cylinder” is banned as an “assault weapon”