Friday, March 25, 2011

Arm teachers and students or stop whining about murders on campus.

Editor local newspaper

Sir

Next time a psycho murders unarmed teachers and students on a Texas campus I can thank B. G. (Hire additional security March 6) and others who whine and rail against selfdefence.

To get a Texas CHL you submit fingerprints, are examined by FBI and DPS, take classroom training; and demonstrate safe gun handling, and accurate shooting on the firing range.

Please don't tell Ms G that thousands of college age men and women in our armed forces have access to fully automatic rifles and ammunition. She might never get to sleep again.

I just have to ask. Would Ms G want a security officer for each student, each twelve students, each fifty students?? How much more taxes is she willing to pay for this?

Maybe the whiners and railers know more than I about guns, and people under stress. I am a retired career 20 year soldier, was a BAR machinegunner in Co B 27th Wolfhounds Korea 1950-51. After military service I worked 9 years as a Corrections Officer in state prisons working directly with felons. Might that be considered stressful?

We need legal CCW on campus. The teachers and students can and should defend themselves in the twenty minutes it takes SWAT to arrive to save the day. ( How many can a psycho shoot?? That US Army Major psychologist Islamic warrior screaming Allaaaaaaaaaah akbar killed 30 and wounded more at Ft Hood. In 2007 a nut murdered 32 at Va Tech.)

Luke 22:36
Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take [it], and likewise [his] scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.

Did Jesus want to hire more security? I don't think so.

Arm them or stop whining .

Vlad

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

gun billls before Montana legislature

I wish Texas had activists of the caliber of Gary Marbut.


http://tinyurl.com/6dml4oz

----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Marbut-MSSA
To: mssa@mtssa.org
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 12:41 PM
Subject: "Gun bills" in Senate Judiciary Committee


Dear MSSA Friends,

We've had three bills pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee, HB 174 (Suppressors), HB 271 (Permitless Carry) and HB 384 (Prohibited Places). The committee took executive action (discussion, amendments, votes) on all three yesterday.

HB 174. There is still a LOT of misinformation about what suppressors are, how they work and what they do and don't do. The Hollywood version continues to prevail. Misinformation is rampant. One Republican senator voted against HB 174 because of calls stirred up among ranchers by the Montana Stockgrowers Association. These people claim that if HB 174 passes they will have a huge surge in trespass and poaching, problems ranchers would not be able to interdict because they would occur "silently." A Democrat senator asserted that suppressors are perfectly legal to use right now and HB 174 is unneeded, notwithstanding that 87-3-123 makes it a crime to take a suppressor "into the field or forest." Another Democrat who says he is a bowhunter education instructor claimed that it is "unethical" to kill animals "silently" with a suppressor (even after being told that a suppressed hunting rifle still makes a sonic boom of 105 decibels, twice the OSHA safe sound limit. I say again, misinformation is rampant. The Committee tabled HB 174.

HB 271. The Committee passed HB 271 with what I consider a minor amendment. HB 271 would allow a person to carry a concealed weapon (put on a coat - it's about "coat control") inside city limits without a permit if the person is eligible to apply for a permit (non-criminal adult resident with training). The amendment would require the carrier to have proof of training on their person while carrying permitlessly. HB 271 now goes to the Senate floor for Second Reading. Contact your senator and tell him or her you want HB 271 to pass.

HB 384. The Montana "prohibited places" statute, 45-8-328, is a nonsensical, unreasonable law. Although it prohibits concealed carry in a bar (including restaurant with liquor license), bank or public building, it does not affect open carry. So, a person can now legally carry openly in a bar, but may not carry concealed. Also, there is no exemption for cops in 45-8-328, so a detective with a jacket over his gun entering city hall commits a crime if he doesn't remove his coat. HB 384 would exclude from the effect of 45-8-328 anyone with an active CWP, and police officers. However, the Committee tabled HB 384.

We are working on possibilities to resurrect HB 174 and HB 384. I'll paste below my comments about opposition to HB 174.

Gary Marbut, president
Montana Shooting Sports Association
http://www.mtssa.org
author, Gun Laws of Montana
http://www.mtpublish.com
=========================

Suppressor bill, HB 174

There are an unfortunate number of Montanans who have bought into the disingenuous arguments of opponents of HB 174. Let me explain.

Current law and history. Suppressors (incorrectly called "silencers" by those who only know them from the movies) were demonized during the Prohibition Era as being the tools of rum-running gangsters. That's when laws were enacted in Montana to make possession of suppressors illegal. Those laws included making it a felony to even be in the same room with a suppressor, even if it was legally registered with the federal government.

In 1997, MSSA ran a bill to clean up these nonsensical suppressor laws. We left two relevant laws on the books, one to make it a crime to commit a crime with a suppressor (no robbing banks with suppressors), and another to make it a state crime to possess a suppressor NOT registered under federal law.

Still illegal. We missed one. We missed a law in the fish and game section of the Montana law books that makes it a crime in Montana to "take into the field or forest" a suppressor. What does this mean? Who knows, but it's probably imprudent to take a suppressor outside city limits - into a "field or forest." You could be charged with a crime. Not only is it a crime, it is also a "gun crime" for which the FBI could take away your right to possess firearms forever under the federal Brady Law.

HB 174. HB 174 would simply repeal this archaic law that makes it a criminal offense to be "in the field or forest" with a suppressor.

Arguments against HB 174. The arguments against HB 174 are ever so disingenuous. Here are the primary arguments against.

Using suppressors is legal in Montana now - no fix is needed. Wrong. Read the law.

87-3-123. Use of silencers or mufflers on firearms forbidden. A person may not take into a field or forest or have in the person's possession while out hunting any device or mechanism devised to silence, muffle, or minimize the report of any firearms, whether the device or mechanism is operated from or attached to any firearm.

Suppressors are illegal anyway. Wrong. It is perfectly legal to own suppressors under federal law. Yes, a buyer must jump through a LOT of hoops. First you must pay the business selling the suppressor - the full price (most of $1,000), but you cannot take possession of the suppressor yet. Second, you must get a letter of permission from the local sheriff. This includes getting fingerprinted, a mug shot and a criminal records background check. Third, with this material in hand, you can then fill out the application to the BATFE. You send in the application with a check for $200. The BATFE will take about nine months to process the application. Once approved, the BATFE will send you the tax stamp. Only then can you go to the seller and pick your already-paid-for suppressor.

Nobody has suppressors. Wrong. There are LOTS of legally-owned suppressors in Montana. There are probably more than 2,000 people in Montana who have jumped through all the hoops described above to legally own a suppressor.

Suppressors "silence" a hunting rifle just like in the movies. Excuse me? Come back to reality. There are two components to the sound a rifle makes, the muzzle blast and the sonic boom of the bullet flying through the air faster than the speed of sound. Suppressors reduce (NOT "silence") the muzzle blast. Suppressors do absolutely nothing to the sonic boom. At the rifle, the muzzle blast may be louder than the sonic boom for a very high-powered, unsuppressed rifle. However, for anything more than about one hundred yards downrange, the sonic boom is the loudest part of the gunshot sound. The sonic boom is constant throughout the supersonic flight of a bullet, about 1,000 yards for a .308 Winchester. The level of sound from a bullet sonic boom is 150 decibels, twice the amount of sound deemed unsafe by OSHA for a person without hearing protection. This volume of sound emanates from the bullet throughout its supersonic travel and is most of what a person hears from a distant rifle shot.

Hunting with a suppressed rifle is not "ethical." This is an argument made for irrational people. First, will the people making this argument also insist that archery hunting is unethical because it's so quiet? Probably not because such people find no need to be consistent. Okay, the opponents admit, but what about an animal being hit by a silent bullet at a longer distance than an archer can shoot? Isn't that unethical? For the mushy-headed, it's back to Physics 101. Remember that hunting rifle bullets are supersonic, right? That means they go faster than the speed of sound, right? That means that the bullet from EVERY hunting rifle hits the animal before the sound gets to the animal, right? The animal is silently shot before the sound gets there from either a suppressed OR unsuppressed hunting rifle. Okay, the dogmatic opponent admits, but if you miss your shot at the animal, for ethical hunting the animal should hear the sound so it can run away. Back to Physics 101. Remember the sonic boom - 150 decibels - twice that allowed by OSHA without hearing protection? Suppose your shot flies a foot above the elk you shoot at. Are you really arguing that an elk can't hear a 150-decibel sound originating a foot away. Anyone who would make the "ethical" argument about suppressors is certainly challenged, but not by "unethical" suppressors.

Legalizing suppressors will only cause more poaching. Let's get one thing straight for starters. Criminals break the law. That's just what they've chosen to do. Poachers will poach. Okay, say the opponents, but if people are allowed to legally use suppressors they will use them to poach, increasing poaching. Let me see if I get this argument right. A person who is so law abiding that he will wade through a ream of local and federal paperwork, get fingerprinted and photographed, get a letter of permission from his sheriff, pay up to $1,000 for his suppressor, and pay another $200 to the BATFE will then use this precious device to commit a crime that puts his hard-won suppressor AND his ability to possess any firearm at risk. Right.

A rancher won't know if somebody is trespassing and hunting with a suppressor. Back to physics 101. Except near the muzzle of a hunting rifle, most of the noticeable sound from a rifle shot comes from the sonic boom, 150 decibels, unsafe for unprotected hearing according to OSHA. Suppressors only reduce the muzzle blast at the rifle, but do nothing to decrease the sonic boom downrange. There is a zone of about 100 yards surrounding the shooter where the muzzle blast is louder than the sonic boom. Beyond that distance, most of what a rancher hears from a gunshot now is the sonic boom. That would not change with suppressor use. What would change is that if the rancher is within 100 yards of a suppressed rifle upon discharge, the rancher would still be less than 100 yards from a 150-decibel sonic boom. The "rancher won't hear" argument will only make sense to a person totally inexperienced with suppressors (movies only), and who slept through Physics 101 in high school.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Letter

Letter to Governor of Texas,
CC TX state senator and rep
CC editor local paper

Sir

The session ends May 30.

Governor Perry and members of legislature have time to bray
loudly that they are considering CCW on campus, and Texas
firearms freedom act.

They won't do shit, of course. Both bills will die in committee.

It's ok. People are stupid and will vote for them again.

Who do I thank the next time a psycho murders unarmed
teachers and children?

I am disgusted.

Vlad

Monday, March 14, 2011

Obama wants background check for private gun sales

http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2011/03/they
-really-think-they-can-get-away.html

excerpts
......."
“As the president said, we should focus on sound,
effective steps that will keep guns out of the hands
of the criminals, fugitives, people with serious
mental illness, and others who have no business
possessing a gun and who are prohibited by laws
on the books from owning a gun,” Justice Department
spokesman Matthew Miller said. “We will be meeting
with stakeholders on all sides of the issue to discuss
how we can find sensible, intelligent ways to make
the country safer.”..........

"a simple background check for every purchase includes
next to zero burden for law-abiding citizens and can
save countless live,” said Mark Glaze, the executive
director of the coalition of
Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG).
" ............


"The principal debate, then, will likely center around the
application of background-check standards to private dealers."


Get that? "Private dealers," as in individuals, as in YOU AND ME.
They are grabbing at the "gun show loophole" again, which is to
say you or I couldn't give an heirloom to our kids or grandkids
without the government's permission IN ADVANCE. It is a grab
to control THE ENTIRE PRIVATE SALE OF FIREARMS. Not
even King George III was so grasping!

etc..........



Thursday, March 10, 2011

Ron Paul: Hemp for Victory

For the first time since I began writing about Paul and his movement more than three years ago, he agreed to speak with me over the phone yesterday. The occasion was his desire to talk about his support for legalizing industrial hemp. Hemp, a non-psychoactive variety of cannabis famously grown by the likes of George Washington and promoted in the World War II propaganda film Hemp for Victory, is an envrionmentally-friendly source of fiber and protein. Paul is the author of several hemp legalization bills, the latest of which will be promoted in May during the second annual Hemp History Week.

Rep. Paul spoke with me about why the federal ban on the super-fiber is further evidence of "government stupidity," how liberals and libertarians can cooperate in the budget debate, and his plans for 2012.

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/03/ron-paul-hemp-legalization

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

MidwayUSA

I placed telephone credit card order for
22 rifle parts
from MidwayUSA March 4.
UPS driver brought the parts to my
door yesterday.
They sent me a free 1050 page catalog of
things no man should have to live without.


Monday, March 7, 2011

Katy TX muslims tell pig farmer to move

http://www.youtube.com/embed/dUr1NxJDC94?rel=0

On land in his family for 200 years Mr Baker raises pigs.
Muslims bought 11 acres adjacent to his property. Within days
they suggested that Mr Baker move his offensive pigs
elsewhere. Mr Baker is not amused. He now has pig races
during Friday muslim prayers. Y'all come!!

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

There are no illegals in Missouri

There are no Mexican illegals in Missouri.
In 2007, a proposed constitutional amendment designating
English as the official language of Missouri. In November, 2008,
nearly 90% voted in favor! English became the official language
for ALL governmental activity in Missouri. No individual has the
ight to demand government services in a language OTHER than
English.
In 2008, the Missouri Highway Patrol and other law
enforcement officials verify the immigration status of any person
arrested, and inform federal authorities if the person is found to
be in Missouri illegally. Missouri law enforcement offices receive
specific training with respect to enforcement of federal immigration
laws.
In Missouri, illegal immigrants do NOT have access to
taxpayers benefits such as food stamps and health care through
Missouri HealthNET.
In 2009, Missouri's public institutions of higher education,
"Do NOT award financial aid to individuals who are illegally in the
United States."
In Missouri, all post-secondary institutions of higher education
to annually certify to the Missouri Dept. of Higher Education that
they have NOT knowingly awarded financial aid to students who
are unlawfully present in the United States .
Missouri has made it clear that illegal immigrants are NOT
welcome in the state and they will certainly NOT receive public
benefits at the expense of Missouri taxpayers.
KEEP IT GOING UNTIL WE GET ALL 50 STATES TO COMPLY!!!
Taken from: "The Ozarks Sentinel" Editorial - Nita Jane
Ayres, May 13, 2010. If the link does not work, just type in "The
Ozarks Sentinel - Nita Jane Ayres" in Google. Here is the link to
confirm: Be sure to read the reader comments too.
http://www.ozarkssentinel.com/missouri-ahead-of-the-game-in-dealing-with-illegal-immigrants-p1034.htm
Is there some part of the word "illegal" that is confusing????
What is wrong with the rest of the states????
California, "Ship of Fools," with A "Captain Moon Beam"