Geeks With Guns

For the first time in at least 15 years, look the Colorado Springs Police
Department has stopped destroying weapons that have been confiscated in
criminal investigations and is looking into whether they can be
auctioned for profit.

The idea of selling confiscated firearms is the brainchild of Vice
Mayor Larry Small, who proposed it in February as a money-making
endeavor when the City Council was trying to close a nearly $17 million
budget gap.

Only Councilwoman Jan Martin sided with the Police Department, which
recommended against auctioning the weapons and essentially putting them
back on the street.

 “They are still looking into the different legal requirements and
how best we could actually sell the guns, what’s going to be the most
cost effective way for us to get it done,” said Sgt. Scott Schwall, a
police spokesman.

“We are not at a point yet where we’re going to sell any guns. But
we are researching it and should have a proposal for City Council here
in a month or so,” he said. [read more]
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Senators voted for the measure, approved  58-39, cheap but it fell short of the
required 60 votes for passage in an unusual setback for the gun rights
side, which has been able to muster majorities of Republicans and
pro-gun Democrats to move its agenda through both the Bush and Obama
administrations

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Wednesday turned aside the latest attempt by
gun advocates to expand the rights of gun owners, narrowly voting down
a provision that would have allowed gun owners with valid permits from
one state to carry concealed weapons in other states.

A group comprising mostly Republicans, along with some influential Democrats, had tried to attach
the gun amendment to the annual defense authorization bill, a must-pass
piece of legislation. But the provision got only 58 votes, two short of
the 6o votes needed for passage under Senate rules. – [source]
Continue Reading ‘Senate Rejects Concealed Weapons Measure’

A line was drawn in the sand last week – a response by the Federal Government to the State of Tennessee and their assertion of sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution.

Continue Reading ‘The Battle Begins: ATF vs the Constitution’

Continue Reading ‘Schumer Threatens Filibuster Over Concealed Carry Reciprocity’

"Why is everybody being so damned polite?

          
No sane individual living in the last days of the 20th century would
knowingly welcome Nazis, the KGB, the Khmer Rouge, the ATF, or the
FBI into their homes. We’ve learned too much from what happened to
Jews in Germany, Kulaks in Russia, "landlords" in China, everybody in
Cambodia, and victims of state terrorism at Ruby Ridge and Waco.

          
But let the Jackbooted Thugs’ Ladies’ Auxiliary slap on makeup and
broomstick skirts, let them prattle in squeaky little girl voices and
breathe their vegetarian breath all over us, and for some reason we
think we have to ask them in and offer them chamomile tea.

          
Well, to hell with that. I used to give a lecture at the local
university that began like this: "Until this morning you could plead
ignorance for positions you take or fail to take on the moral and
political issues of the day. When you leave this classroom an hour
from now, having heard the facts I’m about to present, it’ll either
be as a brand new libertarian, or as a fully self-aware fascist
monster."

          
Today I say the same to politicians, bureaucrats, cops, Handgun
Control, Inc., Colorado Governor Bill Owens, and those so miserably
lacking in originality that they had to plagiarize Louis Farrakan (of
all people) and launch a "Million Moms March". Also, anybody else who
thinks it’s morally acceptable to use the hired guns of government to
take everybody else’s guns away.

          
Gun control may have felt like a nice, warm, fuzzy idea to its
advocates back in the 1960s. However today, owing to a great deal of
serious legal and historical scholarship — and a series of
horrifying but highly educational events — anyone who wishes to
violate the fundamental covenant on which this nation is based, by
attempting to outlaw personal weapons, has to get past three
extremely inconvenient but absolutely incontrovertible facts.

          
(1) Every year, in this nation of more than a quarter billion
individuals, a few thousand (three quarters of them suicides) are
killed with firearms, while _millions_ of Americans successfully
use personal weapons to save themselves and others from injury or
death. Guns save many, many times more lives than they take.

          
(2) In every jurisdiction that has made it even microscopically
easier for individuals to carry weapons, violent crime rates have
plummeted by double-digit percentages. Vermont, where no permission
of any kind is required to carry a gun, is named in many respectable
surveys as the safest state to live in.

          
(3) More telling and urgent, every episode of genocidal mass murder
in history has been preceded by a period of intense disarming of the
civil population, usually with "public safety" or "national security"
as an excuse. According to Amnesty International — hardly a gang of
right wing crazies — in the 20th century alone (in events entirely
separate from war), governments have slaughtered more than a hundred
million people, usually their own citizens." ~ [Read More]
Continue Reading ‘Murder by Gun Control’