Bullets First

In Van Zandt County Texas, east of Dallas, a son is being hailed a hero for saving his father’s life.

Weldom Atherton was awoken in the middle of the night as he heard a prowler rummaging through his property.

Weldon saw the intruder scuttle away but he got his rifle just in case he returned, which he did soon thereafter.  Weldon got up behind the thief and tapped him on the back with the rifle.

BREAK- Bad move Weldon, never get that close, you have a rifle, not a stick, shortening the distance to where the bad guy can grab it will do no good.

At this point the thief turned and took a step toward Atherton, who thought he was going to go for the gun and told the thief that if he took another step he would be shot.   The thief ran off at that point.  Atherton noticed that the thief left his truck running and went over to it to, and reached in to turn it off.

BREAK - Good intention, but with a threat still out in the night, taking your attention off a target lurking somewhere is a dangerous proposition.

While Weldon was reaching into the truck for the key the thief jumped him and there was a scuffle for the rifle which went off in the fracas.  Fortunately that shot woke up Weldon’s son Jonathan because Weldon now found himse

I guess we are going to start the week off with some gun control hypocrisy…shocker.

The Chicago Police department, you know them; the ones who have fought against citizen’s right to keep and bear arms by claiming there will be blood in the streets, all the while having a disarmed populace being able to do nothing about all the blood running in the streets; decided to get all knee deep in hypocrisy doo doo.

Well, not only have the dug in their collective heels while innocent men, women and children are being slaughtered thanks to the success of gun control, but now they have added a dollop of hypocrisy to the bloody stew.

In response to the following billboard placed in Chicago:

The Chicago police issued a statement saying: “military style weapons belong on the battlefield and not on the street.”

I know that little quip is all the range for the gun banners but it is just as hypocritical when the politicians who are protected by these weapons say it as it is when the police who

There is a trial going on in the Supreme Court that isn’t getting too much press but if nothing else it highlights the pointlessness of gun control and the ATF in general.

Abramski v United States

The facts of the case are pretty straight forward.  A Law Enforcement Officer from Virginia goes to a gun shop and buys a gun.  He then takes the gun to a Pennsylvania FFL Dealer and transfers it over to his uncle for whom the gun was for.  The officer, Mr. Abramski, picked up the gun as a gift for his uncle and followed the law about transferring ownership to a resident of another state, hence the FFL transfer and the NICS check.  The uncle had given his nephew money to purchase the gun but the act of picking it up and driving it to him was viewed by Mr. Abramski as a gift.

Everyone agrees on the above facts.

The ATF though, with their heads secured firmly in their fourth point of contact cries “STRAW MAN STRAW MAN”.

This was because on the back of the Form 4473 Mr. Abramski check the box saying that the gun was for him.

Why did he check that box?  Was he trying to be sneaky and lying?  No.  He checked the box because the Form TOLD him to check the box.

In the instructions to “Question 11 a) are you the buyer” the instru

Gun makers are finally saying enough is enough.  For years, gun companies have remained in the gun control heavy states that they were founded in, or they continued to deal with states that chip away at the freedom of the 2nd Amendment .

As the title goes, a number of gun makers have said enough is enough and have either moved their operations or have basically boycotted selling their wares to certain states.

Of course, this hurts gun owners and workers most, but maybe if the people get upset enough and see that jobs are hightailing out of their state they MIGHT take an interest in who is on the ballot in November.

On the 22nd of January, Smith and Wesson joined Ruger in declaring that they will no longer sell their weapons to California based directly on the folly of gun controllers who think that microstamping is in anyway effective.

The pointless requirement demands that all firearms sold in the state have a microstamp on the firing pin so that the spent casing will have an ID marker.  Now, some gun control numbskull in Sacramento probably thinks this is a GREAT idea.  He or she probably never held a gun before in their life and have no idea on how one works.

Funny thing about the firing pin…it can be replaced…EASILY  Or better yet, since criminals all ready s

The 2nd Amendment isn’t about hunting.

That is a well and established fact.

And while the 2nd Amendment is about defense it does not end there.

You see, the Right to Keep and Bear Arms goes so much further than simply defending yourself and your property.  It was enumerated in the Constitution so that the people would always have the means in which to defend their liberty and freedom from dangers both foreign AND domestic.  Namely its own government…or those who act freely with the government’s allowance.

And, despite what VP Biden would have you believe, you need a little more than granddaddy’s ole double barrel shotgun blasting warning shots to do so.

But in the US, it seems many have forgotten our roots.  That, while this country was founded on ideals, it was forged at the muzzle of a gun and the tip of a bayonet.

For those who say such acts are antiquated for these modern times one need look no further to refute that claim than to a country that BORDERS us…Mexico.

With a corrupt government that turns a blind eye to the kidnapping, torturing and murdering of its people at the hands of the drug cartels, what have the Mexican people begun to do?  Why, form their own militias of course.

In Antúnez, Mexico, citizens were tired of the governme

The basis for gun control has always been racist in nature.  It started in the South to ensure that freed slaves wouldn’t be allowed to defend themselves.

It has expanded over the years to encompass a larger range of goals such as controlling the populace at large and centralizing power within the government; can’t have those uppity peons thinking they are citizens after all.

So it should come as no surprise that in 1956 when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr applied for a concealed weapons permit in Alabama, due to his receiving constant death threats and having his house BOMBED, he was denied.

If a man like Dr. King wasn’t “worthy” to be given a concealed weapons permit then I submit that as proof that any notion of needing to ask the government for permission before exercising a right is flawed.  If a civil rights leader who promotes non-violence and is a national figure who gets death threats constantly and has attempts made on his life does not meet the measure of gaining a CCW in a state that can arbitrarily deny him his right to keep and bear arms then the states themselves should have no say in it.

This is what oppression looks like.  This is tyranny.  This is also a successful application of gun control.  

Judges are SUPPOSED to be like umpires or referees.

I mean that, though you may not agree with them they are consistent.  In being such they do not favor some rights more than others.

Yet once again, an activist judge has decided to toss out the will of the people on logic that would be unheard of if used with regard to the 2nd Amendment.

Commonwealth Court Judge Bernard L. McGinley, a Democrat,  has tossed out Pennsylvania’s Voter ID law because:

“the law would unreasonably burden the fundamental right to vote, and the state had been unable to convincingly explain why it was necessary.”

Funny, examples of voter fraud aren’t convincing but somehow Andrew Cuomo, Barack obama and other rabid gun controllers speaking in hyperbole is convincing?

There is NO evidence that gun control has stopped or reduced gun crime.  In FACT, over the past 100 years, whenever major gun control is passed crime skyrockets until gun rights are restored in some measure.