Monday, February 28, 2011

Lots of news for Monday.

In the article about the ATF and Obamaccare on the chopping block it explained how the house went after the ATF while defunding the unpopular socialized medicine bill. It says the house approved the following: an amendment to defund Obamacare for the next 6 month and an amendment blocking the ATF long gun reporting which has been previously discussed. The article went on to say that 41 senators are now in a position to either simply defund Obamacare and the ATF long gun reporting or shutting down the non-essential functions (they didn't fully explain what these are) of the Obama administration, INCLUDING THE ATF! For the sake of our gun rights I hope they choose the latter.

Permitless carry-
I support the proposed permitless carry legislation in SC. I feel that licensing to carry is an infringement of the 2nd amendment. The framers of the constitution included the 2nd amendment in order to protect Americans from a government that ignores the will of the people. It is absurd that the very institution that the 2nd amendment was designed to protect us from is regulating our 2nd amendment rights. The 2nd amendment is not about the right to plink, hunt, compete, or even to defend yourself. The 2nd amendment was designed to be the ultimate check and balance, maintaining the power of the individual citizen.

Castle Doctrine-
You wake up in the middle of the night to a loud noise in the other room. You sneak out of the bedroom to find an unauthorized person in your in your family room. Should you have a "duty to retreat" or should you be able to forceably remove them from your property. I choose the latter, this is your property! There is no reason that the law abiding, tax paying citizen should retreat and let the intruder do as they please. You don't know what the intruder is there for. It could be to steal a TV or it could be to kidnap or kill a loved one, are you willing to take that chance? If there is an intruder in an OCCUPIED home, they have no regard for the life inside. They must be dealt with immediately. The Castle Doctrine legislation does away with the duty to retreat. People should be able to stand their ground on their own property above all other locations.

The ATF has been involved in some of the "gun trafficking to Mexico"
Project Gunrunner, the program in question, apparently allowed the transfer of thousands of guns to Mexico. They did this to apparently to track where they end up. One of our own agencies is now one of the methods in which guns end up in Mexico. Of course when they collect the guns later, after they've likely killed multiple innocent citizens on both sides of the border, they will NO DOUBT be thrown into the "assault rifles from the US" statistic. Im very happy to see a possible complete defunding of this deceiving agency.

The last article from Friday was about permit holders being exempt from NICS checks.
A permit holder goes through a much more thorough background check, fingerprinting, and application process. If that individual was not allowed to buy a gun they would not be allowed to get a license in most cases. I know that in Texas this is already true. As always CHL holders are some of the most law abiding people. Their backgrounds have already been checked.

There is a new piece of national legislation that has been proposed.-
A right to carry, universal reciprocity bill is being considered. This will allow carry permit holders to carry their firearms in other states that offer a permit. There already is reciprocity between many states, but this will further broaden the amount of states that most permit holders will be allowed to carry in.
http://www.nraila.org/issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?ID=189

2 comments:

  1. I encourage everyone to support the national reciprocity bill. Write your national rep and tell them to get behind the bill. I did it this morning over coffee. It only takes a minute to remind them we are watching.

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  2. Well I hope it passes, but we do have Obama to worry about.

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