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Tired of the gun haters.

The local Rag here is so anti gun it's almost painful to read. I rarely see a pro-gun LTE. Yesterday they ran one of those we hate gun articles calling for "Common Sense".

The headline was,
Iowans plead for common sense as gun debate intensifies

 Nothing like using the gun haters own code words in the headline. And of course in the comments were all the usual idiots calling for banning this or that and the gun owners and believers in the Constitution took them to task.

The ones that get on my nerves the worse are the FUDDS. They can't seem to understand that that nice Remington 700 with the high dollar scope is the same rifle our military uses for their sniper rifle. Add a bi-pod, a synthetic stock and you have the M40A1 sniper rifle. Damn, must suck when the government get's ready to ban your evil military sniper rifle. Maybe when some government thug shows up at their house to get their guns they will wake up. Or maybe not. Maybe they will be the sheep they are and just hand them over. That's sad.

USMC M40A1

Caliber:

308 Win / 7.62 NATO

Action:

Remington 700 Short Action

Barrel Type:

Schneider 1-12 Twist, 6 Groove, Stainless Steel

Barrel Length:

25" (24" from Recoil Lug)

Stock:

Mcmillan M40A1-HTG stock in Forest Camo

Trigger Guard:

USMC Spec custom made from winchester model 

70 steel trigger guard

Finish:

Matte Black

How about that, the Marine armorers even use Winchesters.

Having just got over the flu here at the Gunshop, I was in no mood for a bunch of gun banner bullshit. I cut loose in the comments. Since the Register went to Facebook for comments, they can't remove any they don't like. So I told all of the gun haters what I thought. Here is the comment in it's entirety  You can also access my FB page with the link in my name. I left that last night and as of 0700 this morning it had 8 "likes". I must have punched a button or two somewhere.


Robert Fowler ·  Top Commenter · Works at Iowa Firearms Coalition

"Common Sense" and "Reasonable" are code words the gun haters that mean they want to win on their terms. Well, too bad. I'm not going to argue with a bunch of gun hating idiots anymore. Here is my line in the sand. I will not register any gun I own. I will not turn in any gun I own. I will not be a sheep lead to a boxcar ride. (Look it up, history repeats). If you want my guns, come get them. I'm tired and don''t really give a shit anymore. I would much rather die in the middle of my street, shot by a government thug, than to stand next to a open pit and be shot in the back of the head by a government thug.


Damn, sometime I just have a way with words.

Oath violators

The scoundrels in congress will never stop. Pelosi thinks defending the Constitution is dissarming the American people. 

read it here.
Pelosi held a House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee hearing on "Gun Violence Prevention: A Call to Action,” where she endorsed the gun control proposals President Barack Obama unveiled today.


“I, (name of Member), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”

This is the oath that your congress critter took just a couple of weeks ago. I states right in it, " I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;"

What's so hard to understand? The Constitution, that many of them would wipe  their ass on, has been the law for over 200 years. It's language is very precise and simple. Look at the 1st Amendment. Our right to free speech, assembly, redress of grievances. It starts with 5 simple words, "Congress shall make no law".That's about a simple as it gets. 

When you look at the 2nd Amendment, when you get to the end, there are 4 more simple words. "Shall not be infringed". Of course it's been infringed for years. NFA34, GCA68, The Brady act, and there are more and more. And that is just at the federal level. 

Do they not realize that they are violating their oaths with every Unconstitutional law they pass? Do they even care? Actually, they do no and they don't care. They are in control and they know what the sheep need. What we need, more than more gun control is to clean House, and Senate. We need to send a bunch of these old bastards packing. They need to be stripped of their fancy retirement package and live in social security like the rest of us. Of course a short rope and a tall tree works too.

I took a oath too.


I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.

I was a 17 year old kid when I held up my hand and repeated those words. 40 years later, I still hold that oath to be my duty as a US Marine. Like the oath, being a Marine doesn't expire. 

Molon Labe assholes, I'll be here waiting.

An open message to those who think it’s time to take the guns

Claire Wolfe bats one over the fence. Read it all. Be sure to follow the links. Especially the ones for the genocide in the last century.

I am a woman of a certain age. I have silver hair. Wrinkles. I’m tired. I don’t like conflict. I have never been arrested nor committed an act of violence. I want to lead a peaceful life. I sincerely hope you get to live in peace, too.

I am also a gun owner. Some of the guns I own are ones you want to take away or limit my ability to possess or use. You want to do this despite the fact that I’ve never used them for any aggressive purpose — and don’t want to. You want to do it to other people I know, despite the fact that their guns are no threat to you or yours.

As a gunowner who hopes to live a long, peaceful, free life and be a valuable member of my community, I have this to say to you. I speak only for me.

But I am not alone.

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So you believe guns will go away after you’ve forbidden them? They will go away exactly as much as liquor did during the 1920s, as much as illegal drugs have. Welcome to Prohibition. And the drug war. And all the futile violence they spawned, times ten.

So you imagine your loved ones will be safer because you’ve made ourloved ones subject to your whim? You are putting everyone at greater risk.

So you believe that only police and soldiers should have guns? So didmillions of other people, who died at the hands of their paid “protectors.” Study the history of genocide.

So you’re a member of some elite class and you believe you and your privileged friends will always be protected by armed guards, police, or soldiers? Fine. Enjoy the history of the Praetorian Guard.

To The American Military & Law Enforcement Communities

Spread this far and wide.

Screwed in the middle of the night

The New York Legislature has rammed a gun control measure through in the dark of night. Signed by Cuomo before the sun had come up. Own it New York, you voted for these usurpers of the Constitution.

What they passed. and what it is going to mean.

• Further restrict assault weapons to define them by a single feature, such as a pistol grip. Current law requires two features.
•  One feature? get out the hacksaw and cut of your evil bayonet lugs. Because we can't have drive by bayonettings.

• Make the unsafe storage of assault weapons a misdemeanor.
•  How is the state going to know unless they show up to see your storage method? And who is to decide what constitutes safe? 
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• Mandate a police registry of assault weapons.
• Yep, because that would never be used for confiscation. Just ask all of the 100 million or so disarmed and killed by their own governments.
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• Establish a state registry for all private sales, with a background check done through a licensed dealer for a fee, excluding sales to immediate relatives.
• As a gun dealer, I should like this, increase in business and all. It just goes against my sense of private property rights. Why do I need the states permission to sell something I own.
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• Require a therapist who believes a mental health patient made a credible threat to use a gun illegally to report the
  threat to a mental health director who would then have to report serious threats to the state Department of Criminal Justice Services. A patient’s gun could be taken from him or her.
•  Yeah, no possibility of abuse here. 
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• Ban the Internet sale of assault weapons.
•  Good luck with that. Of course with registration it might be a trick telling them where your AR went.
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• Require stores that sell ammunition to register with the state, run background checks on buyers of bullets and keep an electronic database of bullet sales.
•  The background check system is going to grind to a full stop. A background check on a box of 22LR is beyond stupid. But hey, they are politicians.
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• Restrict ammunition magazines to seven bullets, from the current national standard of 10. Current owners of higher-capacity magazines would have a year to sell them out of state. Someone caught with eight or more bullets in a magazine could face a misdemeanor charge.
•  Where did anyone come up with this number? What makes 7 rounds so much safer that 8? I have 8 round mags in both of my 1911's as the main mags and carry 7 rounders as a reload. Does that make me that much more dangerous? Does that 8th round turn you into a monster?
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• Require that stolen guns be reported within 24 hours. Otherwise, the owner would face a possible misdemeanor.
•  I have never met a gun owner that would not report a theft as soon as they possibly could. 
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• Increase sentences for gun crimes including for taking a gun on school property.
•  A nutcase that is going to shoot up a school, or other gun free zone is going to be stopped because he could spend a extra few months in jail. OK.
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• Increase penalties for shooting first responders, called the “Webster provision.” Two firefighters were killed when shot by a person who set a fire in the western New York town of Webster last month. The crime would be punishable by life in prison without parole.
•  Their lives are more important than yours. Remember that. You are just sheep to be hearded as the master shall decree.
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• Limit the state records law to protect handgun owners from being identified publicly. The provision would allow a handgun permit holder a means to maintain privacy under the Freedom of Information law.
•  Finally, a measure I can support. I don't have a problem with my name being public record. I do have a problem seeing it in print because I'm a gun owner.
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• Require pistol permit holders or those who will be registered as owners of assault rifles to be recertified at least every five years to make sure they are still legally able to own the guns.
•  Why every 5 years? Why at all? Who is going to determine the criteria for certification? 

Cuomo want's to be President. I think this should be the torpedo that sinks his hopes forever. There's nothing like passing and signing such bullshit laws in the middle of the night to instill confidence in our elected officials.

If you haven't already, write your Representative

write your Senator too.

We have to keep up the pressure. All we have to loose are our rights. Just look at what happened to New York.

Stick to your guns–no matter what!

Matt Braken, another great article.

by Matt Bracken

If they come to take away your guns by force, they have declared war on the Constitution, and on you. At that point, war is joined, just as it was during another famous gun confiscation raid on April 19, 1775.

If a firearm was legal in 2012, under the 2nd Amendment it’s still legal in 2013 and it will be legal forever, no matter what so-called “executive orders” are handed down or new “laws” are passed by a panicking Congress. Those who say otherwise are liars and traitors and oath breakers and domestic enemies.

Every survivor of every genocide says the same thing: when they come to take your guns, shoot them! Make them take them, and their system of repression will be overwhelmed, because they don’t have millions of jack-booted thugs ready to do armed battles all over the country.

If you give up your arms, you are placing your entire trust in the permanent future benevolence of the U.S. government. This trust is invariably fatal: ask the American Indians about those treaties that were guaranteed forever.

History is clear, with numerous examples, of the danger of gun registration and gun control. The German gun registration laws were enacted duuring the 1920s Weimar Republic, years before Hitler came to power. German gun registration was mandated in the name of “public safety.” Note that phrase well. I’m sure today’s liberal utopians would agree that they were “common sense” and “reasonable” gun control laws. Don’t we all want “public safety?”

Then Hitler rose to power, and used the gun registration lists to first disarm the Jews, and then to force them into starving, overcrowded ghettos, and finally into mass graves and gas chambers. The Nazi genocide of the Jews was enabled by those “common sense” German gun registration lists.

Millions of Polish Jews were rounded up by German military police battallions. The German military police only needed a 1-10 ratio to their victims. A mere 100 German military police, (4-Fs in their forties, bottom of the barrel conscripts, not rabid SS), would round up and murder a town of a thousand Jews over the course of one day.

The Germans would force them to sit tightly packed together on town plazas or sporting fields under the watch of only a handful of armed guards. The Germans would then march groups of twenty or thirty at a time at gunpoint into the woods for point-blank executions. A 1-10 ratio means the military police were not worried at all about meeting resistance. The victims were all previously disarmed.

During the Armenian Genocide from 1915-23, two million Christian Turks were exterminated by being marched at gun point into burning deserts with no food or water. The Turkish gun registration laws were enacted in 1911, in the name of “public safety.” The genocide began a few years later, after the Armenians’ firearms were confiscated.

Entire divisions of Russian troops hiked home from WW1 in 1917/18, carrying their rifles and swords and other sidearms. Very early on, Lenin decreed that “public safety” required they all be turned in, under penalty of death. And so the Russian war veterans were disarmed—but not the Communist Party members. Then came the Soviet purges, the Great Terror, the Gulags, and tens of millions of disarmed Russians were murdered.

I’m sorry, but I do NOT trust that our federal government won’t turn as brutally tyrannical as the old USSR at some point in the future, perhaps after an economic crash or other major crisis. The Obama regime already perceives that we “Bitter Clingers” are “reactionaries” who are not only standing in the way of social progress, we are actively blocking it.

That makes us pure Evil, since their plan for a socialist utopia is pure Good. And that means they will ultimately come to feel totally justified in seeking a “final solution to the Bitter Clinger problem,” in the same way that the Turks, Soviets and Nazis did. Can anyone guarantee Americans that tyranny will never visit our shores?

If the socialists in power are scapegoating us as national villains now, what will they do when they have no reason to fear us whatsoever? Did the Turks, Soviets or Nazis treat their despised minorities better, or worse, after disarming them? Think!

And once a despot’s enemies (that’s us) are disarmed and helpless…the temptation grows to simply do away with them. Obama mentor and ghost-autobiographer, the Weather Underground bomber Bill Ayers, stated that they would need to murder ten percent of the American population to achieve their socialist nirvana. Thirty million bitter clingers. Guess who that is?

Don’t relearn this bitter lesson the hard way. Learn from history’s many examples. As it was for the Turkish Armenians, German Jews, Russian Kulaks, Chinese, Ugandans, Guatemalens, Cambodians, Cubans, Rwandans, and on and on, history’s lesson is crystal clear:

Stick to your guns–no matter what!

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur — what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked. The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!”

~~Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago.

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