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Donations Still Needed

I’m not sure what the issue is exactly, but my friend, fellow blogger and gun owner, Jeffersonian, has run into some kind of legal difficulty and needs help.

Please, go over to his site and make a donation to help him out. I know him personally and he’s a great guy, and a true patriot.

Go here and click on the donate button (about halfway down and on the left).

Thanks!

Funny! »« Turnout heavy in opposition to WA ‘assault weapon’ bill

Turnout heavy in opposition to WA ‘assault weapon’ bill

Dave Workman was there and reports about the hearing. Go over and read the whole thing, including the Bellvue Police Chief who showed up in full uniform, but claimed they were only there in a “personal” capacity, and a video of the event.

More than 300 Washington gun owners descended on the John A. Cherberg Building in Olympia Tuesday morning for a hearing on SB 6396, the so-called “assault weapons” ban legislation sponsored by Senate Judiciary Chairman Adam Kline.

Opponents of the bill vastly outnumbered its supporters, and for many in the audience who had traveled several hours to reach the capitol, it was disappointing that Kline allowed only 30 minutes for the hearing, and only a handful of speakers – evenly divided between pro and con – were allowed to speak. The crowd spilled out into the hallway, and at least a couple of auxiliary hearing rooms were jammed.

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Several open carry activists turned out for the event, and they were as well-behaved as they were visibly well-armed. Surprise of surprises; Washington State Patrol troopers who serve as security guards during the legislative session appeared relaxed and not the least bit uncomfortable with those folks.

Jim Williams, a member of the Washington Arms Collectors’ Board of Directors, observed that a lot of people spent a lot of time and money to travel to Olympia for what amounted to a “30-minute show.” It appears the bill may not make it out of committee.

Judging from the strong turnout in opposition, perhaps it never should have been there in the first place.

Donations Still Needed »« Washington “Assault Weapon” Ban Impacts All Firearm Owners!

Washington “Assault Weapon” Ban Impacts All Firearm Owners!

There will be a hearing on this bill, Tuesday, January 26, in room #1 of the Cherberg building @ 10AM. I cannot be there due to family commitments, but if you can at all, PLEASE be there and help keep this bill from becoming law. Write and phone your representatives! We need to kill this bill now! I cannot stress this enough!

Thanks!

Monday, January 18, 2010

Stand-Up and Make Your Voices Heard Now! Last week, NRA-ILA informed you about Senate Bill 6396, legislation that would bring California-style gun-control to the Northwest and ultimately ban many semi-automatic firearms commonly owned by Washingtonians. In fact, SB 6396 is more far-reaching than it appears on the surface and will absolutely impact a gigantic swath of Washington firearm owners, including concealed pistol license holders, hunters and competitive pistol shooters.  As examples, consider the following restrictions that flow from the provisions of this horrendous piece of gun control legislation: Ø      Every semiautomatic AND PUMP-ACTION rifle and shotgun that has a detachable magazine and has a pistol grip located rear of the trigger (yes, that is just about all of them) is defined as an “assault weapon” and is banned under SB 6396! Ø      If you and your child/children are out in the woods plinking with his or her Ruger 10-22 and there are more than 10 rounds in the magazine, you are a FELON! Ø      If you are a Concealed Pistol License holder and your semi-auto self-defense pistol contains more than 10 rounds, you are a FELON! Ø      The use of firearms defined as “assault weapons” (see first bullet point) are banned for use in hunting! Ø      Competitive shooters will be impacted as any semi-auto pistol that has a detachable magazine and is equipped with a muzzle brake or compensator is defined as an “assault weapon!” Ø      If you own a firearm(s) defined as an “assault weapon” on the date this bill becomes law, you can keep it if you are willing to allow your Sheriff to come into your home once every year to ensure you store your firearm(s) appropriately! Senate Bill 6396 is proof that the gun-ban groups and politicians are not interested in only banning semi-automatic firearms that happen to look like military firearms.  This bill shows where they really want to go with their agenda!  This gun ban scheme will only punish law-abiding citizens and will do nothing to curb crime or keep criminals from obtaining firearms illegally.  This is not only another attack on our Second Amendment rights in Washington State, but an attack on your Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches of your home! Please contact both of your State Representatives and your State Senator TODAY and urge them to oppose SB 6396! Brief messages can be left for your legislators by calling the toll-free legislative hotline at 800-562-6000.  Legislators’ direct phone numbers and email access can be found by clicking on their names either here for Senators: http://www.leg.wa.gov/Senate/Senators/Pages/default.aspx or here for Representatives: http://www.leg.wa.gov/house/representatives/Pages/default.aspx

Turnout heavy in opposition to WA ‘assault weapon’ bill »« Gunnie Still Needs Donations

Gunnie Still Needs Donations

I’m not sure what the issue is exactly, but my friend, fellow blogger and gun owner, Jeffersonian, has run into some kind of legal difficulty and needs help.

Please, go over to his site and make a donation to help him out. I know him personally and he’s a great guy, and a true patriot.

Go here and click on the donate button (about halfway down and on the left).

Thanks!

Washington “Assault Weapon” Ban Impacts All Firearm Owners! »« “I am the eye in the sky…”

“I am the eye in the sky…”

“I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind
And I don’t Need to see any more
To know that
I can read your mind
I can read your mind
I can read your mind
I can read your mind”

-Eye in the Sky
by The Alan Parsons Project

CCTV in the sky: police plan to use military-style spy drones

Arms manufacturer BAE Systems developing national strategy with consortium of government agencies

Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the ­”routine” monitoring of antisocial motorists, ­protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert state surveillance.

The arms manufacturer BAE Systems, which produces a range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for war zones, is adapting the military-style planes for a consortium of government agencies led by Kent police.

Documents from the South Coast Partnership, a Home Office-backed project in which Kent police and others are developing a national drone plan with BAE, have been obtained by the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act.

They reveal the partnership intends to begin using the drones in time for the 2012 Olympics. They also indicate that police claims that the technology will be used for maritime surveillance fall well short of their intended use – which could span a range of police activity – and that officers have talked about selling the surveillance data to private companies. A prototype drone equipped with high-powered cameras and sensors is set to take to the skies for test flights later this year.

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M.O.P.B.S

More commonly known as “Minding Other People’s Business Syndrome“.

Almost nothing pisses me off more than idiots sticking their noses into other peoples business. Personal case in point:

Back when my son was little, the then wife and I went out to a restaurant for supper. At some point, just after we’d sat down, my son started throwing a temper tantrum to beat all tantrums. No amount of sweet talking, consoling or cajoling would get him to calm down. At that point we decided to leave and go home. At this point I discovered my son wouldn’t walk. He had gone completely limp. I picked him up and tucked him under my right arm and we left, him screaming the whole way. We were followed by no less than three diners and two employees. One helpful individual wrote down our license plate number and called the cops on his cell phone while I was strapping my son into his car seat. I have to admit, my wife and I were pretty upset at this point and let the assembled herd know what we thought of them. We then got in the car and left. I never did hear from the cops about this, perhaps because there was NO crime committed. It still irks me to this day however.

This is just one instance of the herd animals, commonly known as sheeple, over reacting and sticking their long snouts into something they don’t understand, and have no business doing so. I imagine it must be pretty jarring to walk around your whole life in condition white and suddenly see something unexpected.

I suspect that’s where a lot of these “Man with a Gun” calls come from. Some sheeple seeing something they don’t understand and misinterpreting it and calling for someone to come save them. I almost have pity on them. I would except for the pain and misery they cause by their startled bleating.

How many lives and rights have these herd animals destroyed through the ages? Perhaps we’ll never know, but, and I’ll say this plainly.

We’d be a lot better off if these morons would mind their own FUCKING business and leave the rest of us alone.

“I am the eye in the sky…” »« Alternate Slogans

Alternate Slogans

I was talking to two fellow gunnies last night and a comment was made about the ubiquitous slogan found on many police cars “To Protect and Serve”. One of my friends has been on the receiving end of police harassment and suggested a replacement slogan. Someone else came up with “To Humiliate and Harass.” In the transformers movie, the Decepticon Barricade’s rear quarter has the slogan “To punish and enslave…” emblazoned on it.

I wish LEO harassment wasn’t common, but a quick look at this disproves that idea. Keep in mind that these are the only ones he’s posted. Many more come in everyday than he could post about. Besides, David doesn’t want police corruption to become the sole focus of his blog, and I can’t blame him. How depressing that would be!

This got me thinking, what alternate slogans can my readers come up with?

Let me know in comments.

M.O.P.B.S »« Fellow Gun Owner Needs Help

Fellow Gun Owner Needs Help

I’m not sure what the issue is exactly, but my friend, fellow blogger and gun owner, Jeffersonian, has run into some kind of legal difficulty and needs help.

Please, go over to his site and make a donation to help him out. I know him personally and he’s a great guy, and a true patriot.

Go here and click on the donate button (about halfway down and on the left).

Thanks!

Alternate Slogans »« Give Me Liberty!

Give Me Liberty!

Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775.

No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony. The questing before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne! In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free– if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending–if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained–we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!

They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable–and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace– but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

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