https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuBijyNOF54
Following the shooting at Ft. Hood a couple days ago, the Texas Senate Committee on Agricultural Affairs and Homeland Security decided to hold a hearing — even though they were out of session for the year — on the topic of open carry. The usual characters showed up, from anti-gun Austin residents and Moms Demand Action radicals to people like CJ Grisham, whose testimony was sliced out into this YouTube video. The full 8 hour video from the session is available here, but if you listen to any one argument, this would be the one.
You go girl, love it. To bad this country doesn’t see it that way. Be safe out there and if they don’t take a no for an answer, well then!
Outside the “First Amendment Area”, hopefully inside the “Fourth Amendment Area” that extends 100 miles from the border. Where does the 2nd amendment area run to and from?
I think it is insane that our government is using snipers over some cows eating grass (which will grow back) and a tortoise that was in no way ever harmed. WTF!
These actions are a replay of what happened to Wayne Hage when the USFS wanted his water as well. The USFS had 25+ guys with rifles aimed at him while he was taking video of them too. What do you expect? They’re thugs. They’ve trained to be thugs, and their behavior comports with their self-chosen role as thugs. They have a badge and a federal pension, you don’t, so get out of the way, peasant.
Where Wayne (who has gone on to his reward) was smarter than the average bear was in taking the USFS to court in the US Court of Claims. Suddenly, the US government yahoos don’t know what to do when a guy says “OK, I’m not questioning your authority. I possess valuable property, you’re trying to appropriate it, we’re going to establish that you’re appropriating my property, then we’re going to talk about how much you need to compensate me for taking my property.”
Wayne ultimately won on the issues of a) he owned water rights, b) the Feds were taking his water by indirect action (pulling his cattle, ie, his “beneficial use” of the water). When I left NV, Wayne’s daughters were continuing the case against the USFS on the issue of “how much is this water worth?”
The answer is “if you let Harry Reid and Del Webb get their hands on it, quite a lot.”
What most people from the east don’t know is a) the history of the west (outside what they’ve seen from the idiots and perverts in Hollywood) and b) that some of those ranches in the southwest have property rights that transcend federal authority. Yes, for all you who claim that the Feds trump all, you need to re-read your Constitution. Treaties trump the FedGov. And some ranches on the lands ceded to the US in the aftermath of the US-Mexican War of 1848 are, in some cases, bearing deeds that pre-existed the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildago, and said Treaty allows those deeded lands to remain owned by those who owned said lands before the Treaty. There are some ranches in the southwest that have land grants from the King of Spain in their title chain.
Other ranches in Nevada, Utah, Idaho and southwestern Wyoming are “Mormon Pioneer” ranches and pre-date the application of these states to the Union, or even as territories. They have rock-solid water rights going back a long way before there were contests over water, because Brigham Young recognized even in 1849 that water was the real gold of the West and sent out pioneers to “find land with water.” The Pioneers got as far west as Genoa, NV. You can pick out Pioneer ranches to this day if you know what you’re looking for from the road.
The Feds want those pre-state water rights worst of all.
He spent 20 years grazing his cattle on land he was told NOT to graze on. That it took the Feds two full decades to get around to doing something about his brazen thumbing his nose at the government is the sad part.
The ammo for the five-seven out of the pistol is pretty useless. After going through anything, the jacket separates from the lead and barely penetrates gelatin.
I thought use in a pistol had to be the intended use for the ammo to deem it not importable, not that you could use it in a pistol?
“the firearm accident death rate has fallen to an all-time low, 0.2 per 100,000 population”
“now we aim for one in 10,000 failure rates”
I’m just doing the math in my head, but I think that adds up to 50x more people dying when their “smart” gun won’t work in a DGU than we have currently dying from “accidental discharges.”
Crap. Does this mean I am going to have to start cutting my steak with a spoon! “Won’t someone think of the children!”
I bet there won’t be much play on this on the media circus, I mean circuit, except to say “thank God it wasn’t a gun, we should ban guns anyway”
About footnote 14: where are these crazy felonies? Specifically, where is it a felony to use a pill dispenser or dump olive oil in the yard?