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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.

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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.

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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.  

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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.
>
"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]

Chris's Blog

Yet Another University Shooting

As I was in here doing some administrative stuff on the site I learned that there's been another college shooting, this one at Northern Illinois University.  With a daughter in college, these stories are bugging me. 

A bill is before the Arizona legislature to permit adult carry with a CCW permit on public school grounds, including on univesity campuses.  I'm getting involved in this one.  I'll be looking for (or maybe helping found) a chapter of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus.  Mixed as my emotions are about CCW permits (they're dangerously close to general carry permits here in AZ), I want to see this one pass.

 

Chris's Blog

American Rifleman On Competition M14s

Page 32 of my February 2008 American Rifleman carries the following "Second Shots — 50 Years Ago" feature:

 

M14 In Competition?

The following statement appears in a brochure which is being distributed by the American Automatic Weapons Association.

"We have already begun to formulate shooting clubs under the direction of this Association and the Director of Civilian Marksmanship, in an attempt to allow us to train with the Army's newest automatic weapons and we will organize competitive shooting with these weapons."

This statement is not authorized by the Director of Civilian Marksmanship and the American Automatic Weapons Association has been requested twice to delete it from their brochure. 

 

I'm not sure, but I think AR just told Class III fans to buzz off.  NRA threw machine gun owners under the bus with the 1986 "freeze" that accompanied passage of the McClure-Volkmer Firearms Owners Protection Act.  I guess this is to prove that NRA never liked the machine gunners anyway.  At least the position is consistent.

Note:  I have updatd this entry — I failed to include the final paragraph when I originally posted this note.  Kind of lost its thunder without that bit.

 

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