Gun Free Zone

Apparently a compromise between Joe Manchin, (D), and Patrick J. Toomey, (R) on their version of Universal Background checks. Rumors go that:

1. All internet sales must go thru FFL
2. All Gun Show sales must go thru FFL
3. Private sales remain private.
4. No Dianne Feinstein AWB or Hi Cap mag BS attached to the bill.
5. Federal funding for the states to improve data entry for NCIS.
6. Transfer remains as sale of firearm and no as change of possession of firearm.

If this is the bill that will be brought to the floor of Congress, we can call it a MAJOR win.

But the proof is in the pudding…. we shall see later today. My guess is that barring some last-minute treachery, this may pass without many objections. The White House is desperate for a “win” (yes they would call this a win) and stop bleeding political favors as they had with this issue.

Go to 00:50 and start watching…. you may want to take cover while at it.

Now watch it again from the same spot and pay attention to the idiots in the background.
Not since the photographer downrange, I felt so hard the need to wear kevlar while watching a video.

One of right-wing hate radio’s loudest and most poisonous voices was conducting an embarrassing public feud with our press secretary. The President had trapped himself in a seeming contradiction. The video and audio were both damning, and one must admit, very funny—if one’s goal was to make the President look and sound like a liar and a fool. The Youtube videos were getting millions of hits; the TV comics were not letting it go. We had been knocked completely off message, the optics were horrible, and our favorability ratings were collapsing at a crucial moment. (It seems like an ice-age ago when such trivialities actually mattered to me.)

I said something offhandedly to Dennis. “I just wish we could get rid of those bastards, once and for all.”

He stared at me for a long time, chewing on his second BLT sandwich until the Navy steward retreated from range, and then he said, “Actually, Jacinda, there is sort of a plan for that.”

via Bracken: What I Saw At The Coup | Western Rifle Shooters Association.

I expect Media Matters For America to literally crap enough bricks to build a fort after reading this.

It is a numbers game as I keep saying.

Powder Valley is where I buy my reloading supplies…when they have them. They just posted this announcement in their Facebook page.

I know that not many shooters actually reload, but when a mayor manufacturer can only ship under 10% of the order and probably not because of lack of trying, it tells you that the potential for the .Gov to out-shoot the civilian population is at best a sorry myth. I do wonder if anybody has ever tried to calculate how many rounds are shot by civilians every week/month/year and the amount of components sold to civilians.

In the meantime, does anybody know where can I get an 8 lbs keg of TiteGroup for a decent price?
PS: For those who freak out when the word “arsenal” is used to denote 300 rounds and a couple of guns, 8 lbs of TiteGroup is enough to make some 12,000 rounds of 9mm.
You can really freak out now.

In 1998, the movie Pleasantville came out. It tells the story of a teenage couple of teenagers who gets transported somehow inside a TV and ends up living inside a 1950s TV show about an idyllic Andy Griffith/Father Knows Best/Leave it to Beaver-type town where everything is just peachy.

Our friends at the Coalition to Stop Gun Rights Violence apparently live in Pleasantville and have no plans to move into the real world anytime soon.

Apparently most CSGV followers like Ms. Moodie do live in Pleasantville or have no kids or their involvement with the school goes as far as to drop the progeny in front of the school on the way to Pilates class. It is a sad fact that too many schools already look and feel like prisons thanks to an ineffective system that has helped create more problems than solved it up and including spree shooters.

I find hard to believe that CSGV and the rest of the Laddites do not know about metal detectors in schools:
Fences, gates and bars:

Surveillance:
plus the ever popular bag search and the latest in technology: RFID School IDs, same as in selected prisons around the country.

I am sure that one or several of these methods were available at Sandy Hook and other school shootings, but they did not work as advertised by the Gun Control “experts.” But offer the idea of a proactive method that has a better chance to curb an active shooter and suddenly we are transforming our schools into the prisons that already are but they have failed to notice in between sips of Hazelnut Macchiato with tofu flower venti with Splenda.

Brian Malte, director of mobilization for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, named for a White House press secretary gravely wounded in the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, said local officials’ failure to enforce their gun-show ordinances “is not only troublesome, it’s dangerous.”

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/06/3327745/misfire-how-florida-failed-to.html#storylink=c

The lack of background checks for private sales is “a recipe for disaster,” he said, preserving access to guns for convicted felons and the dangerously mentally ill.

via Misfire: How Florida failed to close gun-show loophole – Florida – MiamiHerald.com.

This was front page in the Miami Herald yesterday. To tell you the truth, I did not know that we had a county ordinance regulating private sales. If you read the article with detail, you will notice that nowhere in it tells you about the level of violent crime in the state and for obvious reasons: It is at its lowest in possibly 40 years. Gun violence between 2007 and 2011 dropped 33% while gun ownership skyrocketed, but if the authors of the article were to mention that, they would be shooting themselves on the foot by actually telling the truth. Plus probably the White House would not like them anymore and call them names. Then again the Miami Herald is an irrelevant paper slowly circling the drain.

Based on my own studies of social dislocations, I believe that a rifle is a huge “force multiplier” in a situation where everything flies into the fan. Therefore, having a rifle seems like a good idea. The rifle becomes an extension of the very idea of concealed carry…I’m not sure when a fire is going to break out, so I carry a fire extinguisher.

via The Michael Bane Blog: The Urban Rifle.

Go read the whole thing. If you don’t have a rifle, get one no matter what is available.