The Real Gun Guys

Governor Gregoire Signs Griego Act

The Griego Act is named after the University of Washington employee who was shot to death by an ex-boyfriend, who then shot and killed himself. If you are unfamiliar with The Griego Act, this is from the sponsors website:

OLYMPIA – On a unanimous vote today, the House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 6357, now known as the Rebecca Jane Griego Act, sponsored by Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D-Seattle. The bill was written following the tragic murder of Rebecca Griego, a University of Washington employee that was killed by an ex-boyfriend whom she had previously attempted to serve with a protection order.

Before today’s vote, Rebecca Griego’s mother and sister, Diane Perry and Rachel Griego, testified in the House Judiciary Committee on Feb. 20, and spoke of the difficulties Rebecca had in serving the protection order that could have helped save her life. Currently, protection orders must be served on the abuser in person, and there are no clearly defined limits to how many times a victim must return to court if the authorities are not able to locate and serve the abuser. Under Kohl-Welles’ bill, courts may not require a domestic violence victim to make more than two attempts at serving a protection order in person.

“With this unanimous vote in the House, the Rebecca Griego act is one step closer to becoming law,” said Kohl-Welles. “This legislation will provide uniformity across the state in making it easier for victims to serve process by mail or by publication when an abuser has successfully avoided being served in person.”

This act makes it easier to serve restraining orders in domestic abuse cases. What good it would have done for Rebecca Griego I haven’t a clue. She got a restraining order against this creep, which he ignored and killed her.

Unless a restraining order is printed on Kevlar it’s worthless.

If I had my choice between a piece of paper and a good 1911 shooting 230 gn hollow points over 1,000 FPS, I’m going to take the pistol. Of course the state has decided, in their infinite wisdom to ban the possession of the very thing which could have saved her life. Several students testified at the hearing in favor of allowing permit holders to CCW on campus, but they were ignored. I’m not surprised.

I predict more of the same in the future unless the government comes to it’s senses and eliminates the victim rich shooting zones otherwise known as “Gun Free Zones.”

I’m not holding my breath.

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Corruption In The Anti-Gun Crowd

The NSSF did some research into some of the leading anti-gun rights crowd. In addition to the “Why are the anti’s so violent?” question, we could ask “Why are they so corrupt?”

“In recent years, big city politicians and trial lawyers have filed lawsuits seeking to blame law-abiding members of the firearms industry for the criminal misuse of guns. In the wake of the recent resignation of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who as that state’s attorney general sued the industry, and the recent conviction of two of the leading trial attorneys whose firm represented many of those cities in their failed lawsuits, NSSF decided to take a closer look at what became of some of the politicians that sought to scapegoat the industry.

Take a look at what was discovered. It just might surprise you—or maybe it won’t.”

Click here for the dirt.

(h/t) The Gun Shots

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What a Sanctimonious Tool!

This guy really pisses me off. This from a story done on him on the SFGate site. How fitting that his last name is ‘Ricker’.

About eight years ago, Ricker began crafting more explicit works, including a “Gun Coffin,” a box-shaped frame composed of distorted guns welded together. The piece includes curving AK-47s Ricker purchased from a Czech arms dealer, a pancake-flat .357 Magnum allegedly owned by Hunter S. Thompson, a .38 Special from a former San Francisco police officer and a pearl-plated pistol once carried by an officer in the Italian National Fascist Party.

“If you have a gun, you have to envision who you’re going to kill,” Ricker said. “I want people to think about who they think it’s OK to shoot, and where that puts them morally.”

How about someone trying to kill me or a loved one? Oh, I forgot, idiots like this don’t believe it’s right to defend yourself. *spits* How about the mentality of this brain donor who took a classic 1911, over 100 years old, to this idiot to destroy, even though his uncle had wanted it to stay in the family.

After Heath Maddox’s father died unexpectedly in 2006, Maddox was clearing out his dad’s belongings when he found a surprise: a U.S. military-issued .45-caliber handgun wrapped in a towel and tucked into a kitchen drawer.

Maddox vaguely recalled a story about his grandfather owning the gun, but he wasn’t sure why, or how, it turned up in his father’s kitchen.

Yet on a recent Friday evening, two years after the discovery, Maddox stood inside artist John Ricker’s San Francisco studio, ready to smash the gun flat with a sledgehammer.

“My uncle wanted to keep it in the family,” said Maddox, a planner in the city’s transportation agency, before he delivered the first blow. “But I knew about John and what he does with guns. … I wanted it destroyed.”

All I can say is, how disrespectful! This would be like me taking my dead grandfathers guitar, cutting it apart and making “art” out of the pieces. What a disgraceful thing to do! The least he could have done was give it to the Uncle who wanted it instead of taking it to this butcher to destroy.

Hmmm… Looks like the Butcher has a website. Some select quote from his site:

Guns kill. In the countryside hunter kill their prey. In the city and suburbs guns are for killing people. Guns create hate.

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Donate your gun to Guns Into Art before the gun kills somebody you love.

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Hate groups love guns. Go to a gun show and you will see Neo-Nazi groups recruiting under the banner of gun owner rights. Timothy McVeigh stole and sold guns at gun shows.

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Then I ask most white male gun owners who it is they think they may need to shoot in self defense they will speak directly of blacks or Hispanics or use code words like “Gang Banger”, but in general, the person they image they may need to shoot has darker skin then theirs.

Our national gun fetish and increasing racism go hand in hand. You just can not have a decent society when a significant portion of the population is walking around thinking who it is ok to kill. It just is not neighborly.

Rape, robbery and murder are not neighborly either. Of course that’s assuming gun owners walk around thinking about who they want to kill. Project much John?

I take great exception to the bile this gun bigot is spewing. I will admit to being white and male, but I’ve never fantasized about killing brown skinned people. I’ve never belonged to a racist organization. There are racists who own guns, but that doesn’t make every gun owner a racist. Correlation does not equal causation. I have also never seen racists recruiting at gun shows. I think he’s lying. I’ve never hunted or killed anyone, but I will do whatever I need to do to keep my family safe, no matter what their skin color is. Criminal, just like Muslim, is not a race.

Anyway, I’ve wasted enough electrons on this bigot. Go read the article, check out his site…comment if you want. I was surprised to see almost a 98% negative reaction to the story in the comments. This is good, but doesn’t help anything, unfortunately.

Ah, looky here….his site has a forum…

(h/t) Xavier.

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Screaming Squirrel

Not gun related, but hilarious. Perhaps Barnes Bullets could make something similar for their Varmint Grenade rounds?

Barnes Bullets Varmint Grenade

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