Special Report

24 Hours Prior to Heller Case

Friend Alan Korwin, publisher and architect of The Gun Owner's Guide series and co-author of Supreme Court Gun Cases dropped this note to his email list.  I'm taking the liberty of posting it here.  Hats off to him and the guys in line tonight. 

 

Chris Knox

 

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DATELINE: Washington, D.C. 3/17/08

24 Hours Prior to Heller Case

by Alan Korwin, Co-Author
Supreme Court Gun Cases

More people are on line in front of the U.S. Supreme Court for the D.C.
gun ban case tomorrow than seats are available, and the temperature is
hovering above freezing, but that's not stopping them.

Bob Blackmer and I were the first to arrive, Sunday night about 5 p.m.,
answering the big question of — Would two nights in advance be enough
— aside from did we have endurance to pull that off. Continue reading 24 Hours Prior to Heller Case →

The Knox Update

Shooting Back Works!

The Knox Report

From the Firearms Coalition

 

Shooting Back Works

 

By Jeff Knox

(March 11, 2008) The media and gun control advocates insist that the easy availability of firearms is a problem; that increased firepower equals increased death toll; that the key to stopping armed violence is restricting gun sales and prohibiting lawful firearm possession in certain public places.  They’re wrong.  They have always been wrong and their misguided tampering comes with a very high price – people’s lives.

In the past year there have been a number of very high profile cases of a lone lunatic walking into a public place and indiscriminately shooting people.  Such incidents are aberrations, unpredictable, unstoppable, and relatively unusual.  The best indicator that someone might attempt such an atrocity is not how available guns are or how efficiently background checks are conducted, but the level of news coverage generated by the last such tragedy because so many of these cowards are motivated by a desire for their own 15 minutes of fame.  Since the media refuses to stop rewarding these murderers, the best that can be hoped for is to mitigate the damage when they strike.  In the final analysis, the difference between a crazed bad guy killing several people and a crazed bad guy killing dozens of people is almost always the length of time it takes for good guys with guns to arrive on the scene.  Three attacks in the past year offer graphic proof of this fact. 

Continue reading Shooting Back Works! →

Alerts List

GunVoter.org Needs Your Help!

GunVoter.org Needs Your Help

      We don't want to pick your pocket.  We just want to pick your brain.  We have created a new forum site called www.GunVoter.org to serve as a central clearinghouse for information about the fight for gun rights, particularly regarding candidates and elections, but including legislation too.  We need you to register at www.GunVoter.org (it must be .org as the guy who controls .com is demanding $10,000 for rights to the site,) and then post information about what’s going on in your state. 

    Without your input, the site is just an empty shell. 

    With your help it can become the most comprehensive collection of grassroots gun rights information anywhere.

      Please go to www.GunVoter.org, register, and post information.  The information can be an alert from a grassroots group, an article from a newsletter or blog (with permission and proper credit,) or just your own opinion about the situation in your state.  We’d also like to hear from you in the “General Comments/Suggestions” area to let us know what you think of the site, things we could do to make it better, and your thoughts on general topics.

Continue reading GunVoter.org Needs Your Help! →

Jeff's Blog

Supreme Court on Tuesday

    I'm planning to attend oral arguments in the DC gun ban case in the Supreme Court this Tuesday, 3/18/08.  Whether I make it into the courtroom to hear the arguments or not, I will be there to lend moral support, karma, prayers, or whatever I can.

    Our friends the Second Amendment Sisters have gone through the formal process of securing a demonstration permit so I am looking forward to joining them and having a festive day.  The pro-Second Amendment demonstration is scheduled to begin around 10:00 and all right thinking Americans are invited to participate.

    If you attend, please be sure to say hello.

    Hope to see you there.  — Jeff 

Chris's Blog

Cavalry Arms Raided by BATFE

ATF agents executed a search warrant against Cavalry Arms in Gilbert, Arizona yesterday (February 27).  The local Gannett affiliate, features "shocking" video on their web site.  A call to the station asking why the video was shocking, being as how it's a gun shop received an unintelligible answer.  So this is what happens when a pro-gun President is in office.  No word yet as to the nature of the violations. 

Cavalry Arms is known as a straight operation to its customers.  It's a sizable outfit and they have a good fan base.  Unfortunately, their story on the 10:00 o'clock news also featured a spoof video that the newsies presented in the worst possible light.  Naturally, it's on You-Tube.  I think that's what you call leading with your chin.

We'll be following this one, too.  

Jeff's Blog

NRA Elections

Looking at the nominees for the NRA Board of Directors this year I can't help but be impressed with such a stellar group of people:  Scientists, executives, politicians, lawyers, and celebrities, all with the common thread of commitment to the Second Amendment and the shooting sports.  What’s really impressive is that the nominees this year are no more outstanding than the other current members of the Board.  The National Rifle Association not only has an exceptionally large Board of Directors, with 76 members, but it is composed of some of the most successful and capable individuals in the country.  There are a few who have made their names primarily by working diligently on shooting and gun rights issues who do not have very impressive professional résumés, and there are a few whose professional résumés shine, but who have not been particularly active or proven in the trenches of the gun fight.  Most though, have excelled in both their professional lives and in the firearms arena.

Continue reading NRA Elections →

Alerts List

Copy Cats

  There was another tragedy at a school yesterday: this time in Illinois.  It might have been preventable.  It might have been stoppable.  An armed citizen might have ended the killing.  But not in Illinois.  The Illinois government doesn’t trust its citizens with guns. 

   After the tragedy at Virginia Tech I wrote the attached piece.  It makes some good points, but there was a major flaw in it.  As mentioned in the article, one of the primary motivators for this kind of senseless crime is the public recognition that the murderers receive.  They post pictures and videos on FaceBook and MySpace that they know will be plastered on the evening news and they write nonsensical diatribes about the unfairness and depravity in the world as if they are some sort of messiah or avenging angel.  The truth is that they are just demented cowards seeking attention.  The flaw in the attached article was that I mentioned the names of some of the murderers.  

Continue reading Copy Cats →

Member Blogs

Today I sent the following to my e-mail correspondents this morning.  The evidence of prescription drug involvement in these mass shootings in compelling, and yet to date there has been no serious congressional investigation or FDA suspension of the drugs involved.

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Not "reefer madness" but yet another case of mass homicide, from patent "medicine".  Just as in Columbine and numerous other instances.  Why is there no Congressional investigation?  Is Congress too busy investigating the use of steroids in pro sports?

Surely the media will blame the guns, not the drugs.  After all, who buys more advertising on the media, the drug companies or the gun companies?  They will not bite the hand that feeds their profits.

In today's Wall Street Journal:
> Officials Identify Suspect
> In Illinois University Attack
> Associated Press
> February 15, 2008 11:46 a.m.
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"DEKALB, Ill. Police say the gunman in the Northern Illinois University shooting rampage had stopped taking his medication recently and had become erratic before he killed five people and committed suicide."  [much more to the story]

Ammunition for the grassroots gun rights movement