The Omaha, Nebraska Police Department held a ‘Gun Amnesty Day’ on Saturday, inviting residents to drop off their unwanted and/or illegal guns and ammunition for destruction. As is usually the case with these taxpayer subsidized dog and pony shows, the OPD’s event was done on a no-questions-asked basis. Twenty-one guns were collected, along with two reportedly live items of explosive military ordnance . . .
Despite the pitiful turnout, er, turn-in, the Omaha PD was immediate and effusive in its effusive self-congratulations. OPD Sgt. Matt Manhart told WOWT that”Any time we can get a firearm or handgun or any type of a gun off the streets, it’s going to make the neighborhood and the city a lot more safe.”
In this sentiment, Sgt. Manhart may be a tiny bit correct. Taking our SWAT teams’ fully-automatic M4s and MP5s and MRAPs off the street would make our nation safer, because these measures would roll back the dangerous militarization of America’s police forces. Safe cities need constables and gendarmes, not garrison troops. Think Sheriff Andy Taylor, not Detective Vic Mackey.
And getting the guns of officers like disgraced (yet reinstated) officer Derek Carlile off the streets certainly would make us all safer, by rolling back the unfettered power of police unions to protect incompetent, brutal and dishonest cops.
But this isn’t what Sgt. Manhart is talking about. He’s a cop, so he’s not talking about getting their guns off the streets. He’s talking about taking your guns and my guns off the street. And this is where he’s dead wrong.
Taking our guns ‘off the street’ won’t make my city safer, because it will only embolden the vicious and the insane who would seek to victimize us.
So this sad little ‘turn in’ took 21 guns off the street, but most of them were superannuated pieces of junk. And in doing so, it destroyed the evidence of 21 possible felonies. The bad guys who just disappeared their crime guns ‘with no questions asked’ are laughing themselves silly over this.
Umm… I am fairly sure that banning the very rifles I enjoy shooting, building and collecting does prevent me as a law abiding citizen the ability to acquire and keep firearms.
I am fairly sure “ban” and “acquire and keep” are not the same.
The whole reason they do this is to “get the new guy used to being shot at/ shot.” There really is no way to know how somebody will react under fire, until they actually are
Then again I have met some pretty, interesting, gun owners. Were they nuts, no, they weren’t. Jus eccentric.
I d say most anti gun people typically make some comments that strike me as literally insane. But some people who don’t like guns can sometimes say things pertaining to firearms that, even though completely wrong, don’t make them look crazy.
From all the places I’ve been, and all the places I have yet to go, this is what I have to say. We are extremely blessed to live in the US. Yes, weren’t not perfect, and we don’t see eye to eye most of the time, but that’s what makes our nation what it is. The gentle man above who came here from a third world country makes me smile, hopefully it reminds all of us that despite Americas shortcomings, there are still those who come to make a better life for themselves. And we out it to our children, and our children’s children, and yes, to those who immigrate here to stand for those unalienable rights, among of which are life, liberty, and the e pursuit of hapiness.
I just wish for one of these courts to give the SAFE Act and/or the Connecticut gun law the ultimate bitch slap.
Jeremy S,
It seems to me that you’ve had your money’s worth of fun: Once building and shooting your unique Mosin & twice reading all the B/S and vitriol you’ve raised amongst the nay-sayers.
I reckon you’ve done well on the re-build / resurrection of your own rifle and WTF has it to do with others?
I accept your stated opinion that you wouldn’t butcher [Australian for “Bubba”] a good example, but others, apparently keen to impose their limited views on the rest of us, don’t seem to get that – which says, IMHO, more about them than it does about you.
I know my 16 y.o. son, who is partially brain-washed by the current clever advertising of such weapons to think that any arm that looks “tactical” is better than any other firearm, would benefit from running such a project on a similarly U/S military arm, as it would teach him plenty about the way things were and also a bit about gun-smithing and how it all works.
He’s just about graduated from his .22 Browning “Trombone” so I might just set him up with the job of doing so!
By the way, I own a couple of Lithgow Mk III* Lee Enfield .303’s which have been converted to 303-25 [shooting the Roberts .257 projectile at 85gr in one for smaller and 100gr in the other for larger game respectively] and they shoot and look good, too. Millions of Lee Enfields were made, too, so I don’t feel bad about hunting with mine.
It pays to be sensible around firearms, but that doesn’t mean one shouldn’t have fun, too.
Cheers!
the shed man
That rifle isn’t illegal in NJ, Christie vetoed the .50 cal ban bill. Someone correct me if it’s illegal for a different reason.
That is what is pissing me off!
I am a customer of Ares Armor, and I haven’t heard one freaking word from Dimitri or his employees on whether or not they have turned over my personal information to the ATF.
I am still getting emails offering to sell me shit in order to “support the fight” — yet they haven’t sent one simple email telling us if our privacy has been compromised.
Earlier today (3/18), another customer posed that question on Ares Armor’s Facebook page: “Has our information been given to the ATF?”
Only to have the post on Facebook deleted by Ares Armor’s staff.
I am pissed off, not just at the ATF — but also at Ares Armor for not communicating with us.
That is what is pissing me off!
I am a customer of Ares Armor, and I haven’t heard one freaking word from Dimitri or his employees on whether or not they have turned over my personal information to the ATF.
I am still getting emails offering to sell me shit in order to “support the fight” — yet they haven’t sent one simple email telling us if our privacy has been compromised.
Earlier today (3/18), another customer posed that question on Ares Armor’s Facebook page: “Has our information been given to the ATF?”
Only to have the post on Facebook deleted by Ares Armor’s staff.
I am pissed off, not just at the ATF — but also at Ares Armor for not communicating with us.
If only Americans had a leader that projected strength and diplomacy and real leadership..
instead we ended up with a community activist rolling up to the east entrance of the white house in a clown car..
Putin OWNED Obummer the day he stepped foot in the Whitehouse, we have a KGB trained agent with plenty of confidence, trying to do business with with a Chicago based community organizer.. and this is the best we can do…
Science, American innovation, technology and market forces making for a better world.
Interesting that there is so much man lust for Putin as a studly man and so little clear-headed analysis of his intentions and track record.
Russian gun laws are strict for a reason, and that reason is not expanding the rights of citizens or allowing for protections from criminals (read bankers, oligarchs and mafia).
My feeling is that Ukraine will rapidly liberalize their gun laws like the Chech Republic because they’ve seen what Russian-style strongman rule Putin has to offer and want to see none of that again.
I’d actually be ok with this if the po po shot his nazi tats.
Follow your leader, nazi scum
Back in the 50’s you could buy Lahti anti tank guns from magazine ads through the mail-his father probably bought it.I wonder what range would let you shoot it? 🙂
Strong words from someone who’s afraid of his customers…
Did find the guy a couple days later. Nothing I could do though, as no crime was committed.
The wife locks the car now. All the time.
To shoot a man armed with a knife who is more than 15 feet from the nearest friendly and is turning away at the time he is shot is murder, plain and simple. This victim posed little in the way of credible threat considering the dog and all the armed officers, imminence wasn’t imminent and it appears that he was actually attempting to retreat when he was killed.
One is forced to wonder how long before the police are known as the new ‘murder incorporated’.
Dirk diggler is the man. However I have found that crazy ex girlfriends are better, right up until they stab you