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So a person leaves an unsecured car laying about and the car is used in a crime. Shouldn’t the irresponsible owner of that vehicle face penalties?
Well Chicago can keep it’s head in the sand, but it will be nice to see if the crime numbers drop when dgu’s start to happen in IL. I know historical evidence shows as much but another example couldn’t hurt.
If I was the bad guy I know where I’d shop. The place that says Gun Free Zone.
Black bears can be any color, black, brown, blond, cinnamon, albino, even with a blue cast. Some of these comments make my head spin. If you shoot a small black bear with a handgun you will have the fight of your life, and you will loose. Most of the time they do not pose a threat. Rangers still carry bear spray for a very good reason. Ask any ranger in Yellowstone what they are afraid of and they will tell you; Bison. Not black bears, not brown bears. People who let their semi-feral dogs run free pose a much larger threat to people. Check the stats. Theres just no media coverage because they are not bears, sharks, alligators or bigfoots. Awareness trumps weapons.
I worked for various dealers back in the 80s. All over the US. I noticed several jewelry dealers at several shows and struck up a conversation and asked why gun shows? There are quite a few jewelry shows so why not sell there.
The lady just fortified what I already knew. She stated that is was the other dealers and people that frequented gun shows. Everyone was kind and helpful. No problems with merchandise missing from the tables. No threat of robbery at local motels or while going to and from the show. She, and her family that also helped at many shows, felt safer.
I saw her a few weeks ago at a local gun show….we are a lot older now. We still feel the same today.
My wife asked about Jewelry booths at gun shows, I told her they probably do ok due the husbands dragging the wife in, but I told her I’m sure they don’t worry too much about armed robbery.
FYI anyone who jumps reads this article in more modern times – keep in mind that opinions may have changed since the article has been written.
I’m not sure if yankee still follows the same philosophy regarding the 1911. I’ve seen him purchase at least one on his channel (the kimber raptor).
And we will all ride around on unicorns and everyone will eat cupcakes all day and never get fat! =D
Well if you feel that eating cupcakes is healthy and riding unicorns is possible, then that’s, like, your opinion, man.
Duh every liberal knows unicorns are for riding, why else would there be a seat on its head?
That’s funny
I was going to say it’s only a matter of time before an owner or employee of a “gun free” business uses a gun to fight off a robber but then I realized that that has already happened and the result is usually terminated employee and a public that weeps not for the newly unemployed human defending himself but for the newly deceased thug who “never meant to hurt nobody.”
Bizarro world.
The thug that was just in the process of “turning his life around”.
Lying dead on a stores floor, IS turning your life around.
Apparently Ms. Smith’s definition of “Everyone” is “law abiding” because she apparently can’t wrap her head around the fact that there are those who DO NOT PLAY BY THE RULES.
I am in MS, and can tell you this MO has been going on for at least 20 years here. The thieves first steal a car, or more likely a sturdier truck, to crash the gun shop. The better shops around here now have much better barricades than in the past.
And today’s lesson in using gun grabbers’ statements against them is sponsored by Geritol …
Chicago Alderman Michele Smith implores local businesses to be “gun free”. Why does Ms. Smith make such a request? Because in the mind of a gun grabber, armed citizens are seething cauldrons of homicidal rage about to explode at the slightest provocation. Many a grabber has stated as such.
Now to turn that around. If countless millions of people among us are unstable, violent, and homicidal, and if we are likely to run into such people in public stores and restaurants … isn’t that the most compelling reason imaginable to be armed at all times?
My wife and I are strolling into Gander Mountain and I ask her “do you know what these posts in front of the door are?” I said that “these are to stop vehicles from bashing down their doors and thieves stealing the guns. I think that the insurance companies require this.”
The last part was a guess. What do insurance companies require, anybody know?
I saw we pool our $$ and help the local utes by providing free heated/air conditioned busing to/from “gun free” locations chosen from a map in this alderwoman’s precient. After all, it is not the thugs fault they cannot afford a getaway vehicle.
I’m with you. But you need to specify urban yoots, not Utes. Utes are a Native American tribe from the Mountain West (think Utah). That’s a looong bus ride for some people who, though they may appreciate the vacation, aren’t likely to give Chicago the type of treatment this aldercretin is inviting.
That stuff would be great out of my Ruger Single Six convertible. Thing’s built like a damn tank.
Everything else? Not so much.
My thoughts exactly, plenty of steel on that cylinder around the chambers. I’ll gladly take ammo from those lots from anybody on here. At a severly reduced price of course, it is defective after all. I BID 0.2/RND! 😛
Shoot. I just checked and I’ve got some. At least I’ve got other stuff to plink with in the meanwhile.
No need to check my stockpile, would of had to help the driver unload the truck to score a brick of .22 around here.
Seriously though! The employees have been buying the stores out.
Well, crap. I seem to have 2 thousand round boxes of it sitting in my closet. My only .22 is an old Winchester Model 60 my grandpa left me. I don’t want to blow the thing up, but I also don’t want to send the stuff back. Are you sure a bolt action won’t give a rats ass? Super duper sure?
Mine does not.
I’ve got 3 thousand rounds of that stuff and it’s all good. Yeah for me.
Oops…
It’s not a flaw, it is a design feature: 22lr +P ammo for all your tacticool plinking needs.
I’m wondering why Washington no longer recognizes Florida CCW permits? Anyone know why?
I got the impression it was prompted by the T vs. Z case. I could be wrong though.
I live in Idaho and while the Gun laws here are great the enhanced CCW isn’t really worth it. It costs more money plus it requires more expensive training. The best bang for your buck is to just get a Utah permit.
The training I did for the Utah permit covered the basic Idaho permit ( I already had mine though with a DD214), the Utah permit, and satisfied the requirements to get a Oregon permit as well. It’s retarded, I know, but for the cost of ~$150 I can get the Idaho basic and the Utah, which is a much more recognized permit then even the Idaho enhanced.
On a side note, the reason WA will not recognize Idaho’s basic permit isn’t because of the training. It is because WA has codified into law what is required for reciprocity. 1. Recognize WA permit. 2. Not issue to person under 21. 3. Require fingerprint backgrounds.
It was the under 18 section that kept them from recognizing Idaho’s basic permit. Idaho has a line in it’s law that says sheriffs “may” issue to person between the age of 18 and 21 (They “shall” issue to over 21). That may issue part has kept WA from recognizing our permit. The enhanced permit is only available for those 21 and over.
Oregon won’t offer reciprocity because their law requires CCW holders to be US citizens and most other states don’t specifically require that.
In the meantime, we’ll just have to have some Congress critter introduce national reciprocity every session until it’s finally passed.
Unless and until States are barred from imposing restrictions on the right to bear arms, yes I said right (as I know the inarticulate sock-puppets of the civilian disarmament industrial complex are reading these comments), national “Constitutional Carry” will remain a pipe dream.
Even then, some states (we all know how they are by now) will invariably foot it tooth-and-nail on 10th Amendment grounds, which will be literally the only time in the last century that they’ll ever even so much as acknowledge the existence of the Constitution, and only to twist its words to make it mean things that they damned well know that it doesn’t by any stretch of anybody’s imagination. Even those as vivid as, say, Nancy “You’re ALL Terrorists” Pelosi, Janet “Waco” Reno, Dianne “Guns For Me And Not For Thee” Feinstein, or Eric “Fast & Furious” Holder.
Idaho allows carry at 18 with no proof of formal training? That state must be a bloodbath! Shootout at the O.K. Corral! Wait… its not? How can that be?
I wish we in California had the ability to use our franchise as voters therefore the employers of our representatives to force a few of the many anti gun folks from office. That would send a message to others that they REPRESENT us, not control us
On the heels of the original article we see this:
http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20140129/lincoln-park/man-robbed-sexually-assaulted-near-northclybourn-cta-station-police
“Forget it Jake, its Chicago…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v_BVNGAfYM
Chicago is already going the way of Detroit.
‘Its just math’ and those who can do the math are leaving.
In my experience, Winchester .22LR bulk packs are the lowest quality domestic .22LR ammo made. I generally avoid it if possible.
I sent the CEO of Magpul a letter a few weeks ago to welcome him to the Dallas area where we still respect the Constitution…at least for the time being. Obama wants to turn the state blue.
Right now, my CZ75 as it’s the only gun I own.
Eventually though, my dad’s Remington 700 rifle…though I’m in no hurry to collect it.
My grandad’s Colt 1903 Hammerless. He bought it new when he was 18 and its one of the finest shooting pistols I’ve ever shot. I will never get rid of it.
dad’s browning auto 5 12 ga.
I have 2 items one is my first gun, a 20 gauge single shot, and the K-Bar my great-uncle carried when he was in New Caledonia and the Philippines during WW2.
She’s funny. When does her comedy hour premier?
I love the absurdity of it all. The antis get a law passed that very few follow so they decide to give those people another chance to not follow it in exchange for a worse law. The derp is strong with this state.
Is it a doublestack?
I like 1911s and other old pistols but for serious work I like having doublestack magazines. Who am I kidding? I would never buy this, though it seems well designed.
1966 Marlin 336 30-30. It has and continues to slay the white tail year after year. Its the American AK!
Has it dawned on anyone how utterly pathetic it is that Mr. Dale seems to be the only law enforcement officer in the country who does the right thing?
And look at the report. The police said they did not charge the passenger because, after questioning the passenger, they had no reason to believe that the passenger was a terrorist. What that report also tells us is that our State considers all armed citizens to be terrorists until proven otherwise!
How far we have fallen.
Holy shit Batman! 15LPI on the front strap will bit like a farrier’s hoof rasp. Better stock up on some QuikClot for your first range trip!
FPS Russia….. feels like he’s just going through the motions. Like it’s been done before. Nothing new. Heh.
Stupid, evil libtards (democrats).