Outdoor commentary and legislative issues.
NEWTOWN, CT — The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms industry, has filed a lawsuit against the City of Sunnyvale, California and the Sunnyvale City Council to prevent an ordinance passed in November from being enforced that is detrimental to responsible and law-abiding firearms retailers doing business within city limits. Read more
If ever anyone doubted the reasons that the NRA vehemently opposes gun registration, here is a good example. New York has changed the rules and is coming after citizens’ firearms based on registration records. Letters being sent to owners contain the following language:
“It appears you are in possession of a rifle and/or Shotgun (listed below) that has an ammunition feeding device capable of holding more than five (5) rounds of ammunition. Rifles and shotguns capable of holding more than five (5) rounds of ammunition are unlawful to possess in New York City, as per NYC Administrative Code 10-306 (b).”
“You have the following options,” the letter explains.
“1. Immediately surrender your Rifle and/or Shotgun to your local police precinct, and notify this office of the invoice number. The firearm may be sold or permanently removed from the City of New York thereafter.
2. Permanently remove your Rifle and/or Shotgun from New York City and provide the following…Disposition Report/Registration Certificate…Notarized statement of permanent removal…Utility bill or other proof of residency regarding the address where the firearm will be stored outside the City of New York.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/06/new-york-city-confiscating-rifles-and-shotguns/#ixzz2myShDr4u
Google “Organizing for Action” (OFA), supposedly a non-partisan, grassroots group, and you get www.barackobama.com. Likewise, click on the preceding link, and it takes you to the Organizing for Action website. Despite OFA’s innocuous-sounding name, the Chicago-based group is an arm of the Obama political machine, the successor to a similar Obama store-front put together after his 2008 election, Organizing for America. Whatever the group’s name happens to be at a given moment, fulfilling the president’s goal of “fundamentally transforming America” remains its mission. Read more
A Congressional Research Service (CRS) report shows that while gun ownership climbed from 192 million firearms in 1994 to 310 million firearms in 2009, crime fell—and fell sharply. The exhaustive report is here…
Introducing the most versatile weapons storage system ever, the Weapon RAC (Ready Access Containment) from BenchMaster. Read more
State Senator Evie Hudak resigned her seat Wednesday, just before gun-rights Americans were prepared to submit petitions to boot the lefty Democrat from office. The move enables the Dems to appoint another anti-Second Amendment politician, thus retaining the Dem’s majority. Details of the maneuver are here…
The law attempts to declare that federal firearms regulations don’t apply to guns kept in the state where they were manufactured. Details of the case are here…
The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree…and think 25 to life would be
appropriate.
–Jay Leno
Create secure perimeters around the locations or allow civilians to carry their own guns to protect themselves. So says Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble in the wake of the terrorist attack at a mall in Kenya. More here…