Sarah Palin!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NAJA65]

Defend the 2nd!!

Can you say..."Unintended Consequences"...?

K&K

Sent in my NRA membership app this week!! Have CCW, for the protection of me and mine, now need to hire lawyers and lobbyists for the protection of we and thine. (Damn them capitalists!)

And, BTW, do not buy into thinking that the authors of the Constitution wanted to make sure we could hunt or be in the National Guard when they wrote in the Bill of Rights that Congress CAN NOTtake away our guns.
No, it was, and IS, a pure and simple declaration that WE, each of us collectively, form the unspoken of FOURTH branch of Government. And therein lies the all essential checks and balances of power, with "WE THE PEOPLE" being not only the governed, but the governing.
A beautiful arrangement assuring our freedom. . . if we don't let the other 3 branches squander it all away. They have chipped at it for some time, and it is in desperate need of an overhaul and restoration. Sarah would have been a big help in that effort. The Supreme Court stepped up to the plate earlier this year and the fact that the DC gun ban was shot down by ONLY a 5 - 4 vote, instead of a unanimous decision, should be a wake up call to all
as to how close we are to letting it all slip away.
My .02??

Sarah was the only TRUE maverick on the ticket.

Palin / Jindl '12!

Join the NRA??? Why not. It's for NAJA!!

 

[Kerry & Kathy]

Sent in my NRA membership app this week!!

Join the NRA??? Why not. It's for NAJA!!

Lifetime Member here...

BTW, Read the book "Unintended Consequences" by John Ross. I have met the author several times and he has written an interesting account of the gun culture in the US with a fictional account of what might be our destiny if liberals continue to chip away at our freedoms.

What makes this book an interesting read is that the primary character, Henry Bowman, recounts his life growing up in St. Louis with references to Gumbo Flats in Chesterfield and the day the Highlands burned... at what is today Forest Park Comm College. It obviously draws from John's own childhood growing up in St. Louis.

It's a big book...over 800 pages...but it is one that is hard to put down once you start reading. My criticism is that it includes a depiction of multiple rapes that is overly graphic with an excess of gratuitous violence in my opinion. However, It is a book that might change your outlook on guns forever. It provides an unparalleled historical account of guns in America and how we came to be saddled with present gun laws. It also tells a story in the vein of Tom Clancy while providing technical details of which even the most dedicated firearms enthusiasts are not aware. It certainly will be an education for those who know little about guns and the people who own them. At the very least it will make you think...and look at guns and gun rights differently than you ever have before.

Highly recommended.

http://www.amazon.com/Unintended-Consequences-John-Ross/dp/1888118040



Kerry

 

[Matthew 10:16]

Even though....................

I don't own any guns, I totally support everyone's right to own one. I would like to ask a question out of ignorance because I am totally uninformed with respect to gun laws. What present gun laws are wrong, improper, overly restrictive, etc.?

 

[STL-Scott]

K&K,

I'll put that on my reading list.

I personally don't own any guns. I've hunted once or twice when I was young.

But I do read a lot of spy, anti-terroism, international intreague (sp?) novels, i.e. Tom Clancy, Vince Flynn, Clive Custler, Stephen Coonts, Dale Brown (not the guy who wrote DaVinci Code - that's Dan Brown). They are all good page turners.

Scott

 

[Kerry & Kathy]

I don't own any guns, I totally support everyone's right to own one. I would like to ask a question out of ignorance because I am totally uninformed with respect to gun laws. What present gun laws are wrong, improper, overly restrictive, etc.?

To gain the best perspective I would encourage you to read the History section of the book. It really does a good job of putting current gun laws in perspective.

But in a nut shell... a rifle that fires one shot of .308 caliber hunting ammunition with each of pull of the trigger and has a conventional wooded stock and a detachable magazine is considered a "sporting rifle" such as a Browning BAR Safari semi automatic, Winchester 100 semi automatic or Remington 7400 Semi automatic.
However an Armalite AR10 which also fires one shot of .308 caliber hunting ammunition with each pull of the trigger and has a detachable magazine is deemed a "assault rifle"...

The difference...? one has a plastic stock with a vertical hand grip and the other has a wooden stock with a horizontal hand grip. The Armalite is not a machine gun, it is not fully automatic, it is in function IDENTICAL to the mentioned sporting arms. Both categories can accept detachable magazines from 5 to 20 rounds. Yet because of physical appearance...ALONE...one was banned in 1994 as an "evil assault rifle".

Another example...

You take your Remington shotgun out hunting , It has a factory 18" long barrel. You trip and drop the gun damaging the end of the barrel. But you see the damage is minor so you chuck the barrel in a lathe and remove 1/8" of an inch to remove the damaged edge. You are now a FELON. A 1/8" difference in barrel length will put you in prison for not conforming to arbitrary BATF barrel length regulations.

Another example...

Your uncle lives in Arkansas and decides he is going to give his nephew (your son) a .22 rifle for his birthday. He brings the rifle to your family Christmas dinner in St. Louis and gives the present to your 19 year old son. He is now a felon...for interstate transportation of firearms and for delivering a firearm to a minor that was purchased originally in his name. This also would be considered a "straw purchase". A purchase of a firearm made by one individual for use by another individual.

You may read these examples and say.."this can't be true. Surely there are exceptions to such minimal regulation infractions."...NO...the BATF prides itself in high profile arrests of law abiding "average citizens" in order to keep the public too afraid to ever consider even a minor infraction of firearm regulations.

The more you become aware of the regulations, the more you become incredulous that such arcane regulations exist and are enforced. The regulations are extremely confusing and often two different BATF regional offices will interpret the regulations in totally different ways. They will respond to questions about the regulations that contradict rulings made at other BATF offices.

Even other law enforcement agencies have low regard for the BATF and consider many of their people poorly trained and misinformed in the laws they are assigned to enforce.

Kerry

 

[Matthew 10:16]

Thank You Kerry

Your first example is an obvious example of meaningless form over substance. I guess Congress does not consult sensible informed gun owners like yourself before they enact legislation containing such meaningless distinctions.

In your last two examples, it appears as though the BATF is the culprit/problem. What is the criteria for employment within BATF? Is it political patronage? Why aren't sensible gun rights/experienced law enforcement types employed by BATF?

Can we as citizens lobby our representatives to pass laws to prevent tragedies like Columbine, Virginia Tech., etc. w/o impeding the rights of law abiding citizens like yourself to own & possess guns & ammunition? It seems to me the solution lies in identifying individuals like those who committed those tragedies beforehand & then empowering law enforcement agencies & others to take the steps necessary to stop those types of individuals before they commit those kinds of atrocities. Those are the kinds of laws that need to be passed. Not the kind that take away the rights of law abiding citizens.

 

[NAJA65]

At least this segment of the economy is - dare I say it(?) . . . booming!