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When you get the feeling nobody at the White House knows what the laws are.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is moving ahead on plans to require background checks for guns purchased from dealers even if they’re bought online or at gun shows.

Source: Obama moves to require background checks for more gun sales – WSVN-TV – 7NEWS Miami Ft. Lauderdale News, Weather, Deco

Federal Firearms Licensees do perform BG Checks at gun shows, it is already the law. As for internet sales, they send guns only to other FFLs so they can perform the BG checks on that end.

So, unless the President is mandating double BG Checks (which would be not only stupid but reversible by even Judge Brown on TV) I have the feeling that the “smartest people in government” have no frigging idea what are the gun laws in this country and by tomorrow night they will be the laughing-stock of the country.

PS: Now, if they want a BG Check at point of sale and then ship the guns directly to the home of the buyer, I am all for that. Yes, not happening, there is the form 4473 to be filled and signed.

Never mind.

NICS 2015: 23,174,970.

And December breaks all the records with 3,314,594 background checks. That means guns sold could arm all Federal, State and Local LEOs (704,672 according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics and Criminal Justice Information Services Divisionfour times and still have some guns to spare. 

NICS 2015
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But we are an unimportant minority on this country according to the Opposition and the Anti Gun politicians in Washington and other places where roach congregate.

And we are off to the races…

As predicted, unholy alliances have begun:

Ladd Brady

That is Dear Leader Ladd in which appears to be a joined Brady Campaign/CSGV protest in front of the NRA headquarters. Maybe is just a friendly get together of people with equal goals, or maybe there is some sort of strategic alliance from two groups who are very lean on cash.

I wonder if they will ask Gabrielle Giffords and Hubby to join them since they have a decent cash flow.

After that defeat, “we took a step back, and we realized we had to go state by state,” said John Feinblatt, the president of the Everytown group.
Everytown’s big footprint, however, worries even some fellow gun control advocates. They say some local officials in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and elsewhere have resented the perception of a high-profile, billionaire liberal like Mr. Bloomberg trying to change their gun laws.
“I see them as a lightning rod,” said an official with another gun control group, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of concerns about alienating supporters. “They’re stirring up this opposition, and the N.R.A. as a result is putting more resources into its state strategy.”

Source: State Focus and Infusion of Funding Buoy Gun Control Advocates – The New York Times

So there is trouble in Paradise. There is no doubt that Bloomberg’s acolytes are heavy-footed and want to be the only ones in control of the game, something that does not suit the other groups. But Everytown is top-heavy and although they have the money, they need to finesse (lie) to create wins.

This one shows that they are not necessarily thinking right and they are more into the flash in the pan than anything else

Mr. Feinblatt said Everytown was changing the nature of the debate. He likened the focus on the states to the push for same-sex marriage, which began with a small number of states approving it before the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013 and it spread more quickly.

 

I am still blinking hard at this one: You want to use the strategies of a minority seeking freedom of association and marriage to restrict the freedom of keep and bear arms? Wouldn’t that be like replicating the Civil Rights Movement to impose Jim Crow laws?

Well, we will see what President Obama brings to the table via Executive Orders. I don’t think it would be much, but I am guessing they want to have some sort of event to jump-start their efforts this year. I expect brutal opposition to Florida’s Open Carry and Campus Carry as they got slapped hard with Texas going OC and they are desperate for a big win to rally their followers.

I know I am gonna make some mad, but the important bill for Florida’s future is Open Carry (CS/CS/HB 163) and if necessary, Campus Carry could be delayed one more season. So, let’s make sure OC is passed and signed in Florida, if nothing more to see the Opposition go nuts.

Tickets to the gun show

I enjoy going to gun shows.  I’ve been going to them ever since I was a little kid and my dad would take me.  I can’t wait until my son is old enough for me to take him and we can have that same type of bonding.

I used to live in rural Indiana and Indiana is a good state for gun shows.  The best by far is the INDY 1500, and four time a year, I would drive the hour to Indianapolis to go to it.  I bought my very first gun at the INDY 1500 my freshman year of college.  It is a huge show, and a good one.  I’ve always had a lot of fun going to gun shows in Indiana.

President Obama and Hillary Clinton have been talking about gun control, and about closing the “gun show loophole” in particular.  I guess all that talk is what inspired some putz journalist from The Daily Beast to head off to the Crown Point gun show in Indiana.  Oh, the horror!  Oh, the humanity!  AR-15’s and AK-47’s were for sale!  Just laid out on tables for people to buy!  Of course the author had to bring up Sandy Hook and San Bernardino.  But I don’t seem to remember those guns having come from gun shows….

Yes, the author does bring up that guns purchased at Indiana gun shows have ended up in the hands of criminals in Chicago, calling out the case of David Lewisbey.  But the article notes that “Lewisbey was convicted and sentenced to 16 years in federal prison” for firearms and drug trafficking.  Why?  Because buying guns to sell them to criminals across state lines is already a crime.  The fact of the matter is that gun shows aren’t even a major source of illegally trafficked guns, accounting for about 2% of guns used in crimes.

At least the Daily Beast acknowledges that the people at the gun show were genuinely friendly.

I can’t say the same for the Buzzfeed journalist reporter hack.  She decided to turn her trip the Kokomo gun shows into a race baiting hatchet job.  The thing about the social justice crowd, is that they have to make race and bigotry part of everything.

“Four people sat at the registration table: one white guy in his fifties and three women in their twenties, one of whom was black. Her blackness threw me off nearly as much as the mood outside. We made the sort of eye contact that meant we’d acknowledged each other’s blackness but we weren’t going to bond over it.”

“Black people aren’t part of the big tent of gun ownership. We’re never assumed to be law abiding, reasonable gun owners. That kind of gun ownership is seen as an upstanding white person act; a picket fence closed to outsiders like blacks. I wanted to see what was on the other side of the slats separating me from perfectly honorable, white people gun show attendance.”

Seems the author is not aware that the fastest growing demographic of gun owners and carry permit holders are women and minorities.  Maybe she should watch Mr. Colion Noir’s excellent YouTube channel a little bit.

She spots several other black people at the show, some of who are vendors.  But she still manages to ignore that to come to her predisposed conclusion:

“The gun show is where that white suspicion arms itself…  One gun show table held pamphlets for the Oath Keepers, the non-partisan militia whose mission is to protect Americans from being disarmed — using assault rifles. But what it feels like people are most suspicious of is me.”

Yeah, she found the guy with the table full of Confederate flags.  I’ve been to countless gun shows in half-a-dozen states, and there is always that one asshole who shows up with way too much NAZI memorabilia and vaguely racist literature.  But I’ve never seen “that guy” get much in the way of business and most people ignore him.

By the tone of her piece, you’d get the impression that she attended a Klan Rally.  Except, it seems that everybody there was nice to her… and that was some form of bigotry.

I enjoy gun shows.  Thousands, millions of other Americans also enjoy gun shows.  They are a celebration of freedom for us.  If you don’t like guns, don’t go to the gun show.

I’m not going to attend Burning Man or the the Folsom Street Fair and complain about the attendees wearing a diaper while getting spanked.  You do whatever it is that you liberals like to do, leave our gun shows alone.

Another bad idea of mine

In my area, most grocery stores have gas station near them or associated with them, e.g. Kroger, Wal-Mart, etc.

I want open gas stations near Whole Foods.  Call it “Complete Gas.”  Advertise my gas as gluten free and free range, pumped from only sustainable well heads.  I bet I could get $3.50 a gallon before anybody caught on.