Armed citizen rapid response- works every time it is tried. Note the armed citizen did not fire a single shot to disarm the assailant.
David Codrea’s New Year’s Resolutions
A reminder to regular readers to keep up with David Codrea’s growing list of suggested New Year’s Resolutions.
Pick out one or two and add them to your list.
Happily to date, there is only one resolution not already in my portfolio- Attend an Appleseed.
I trust everyone else can say the same.
Tantalizing Excerpt:
I will spread the word to fellow gun owners about the Gun Rights Examiner columns.
You’ll note “columns” plural. I include the link box at the bottom of each post for a reason–if you don’t care for my offerings, there are plenty of talented and insightful GREs who more than make up for my numerous shortcomings.
We’ve had pretty good success at this so far–in just over a year from when I started as the Cleveland commentator, Examiner.com has added 18 additional members to this category, and we have potential to add many more.
More Plucky Free Staters Open Carry Rifles
Bless the dauntless, intrepid New Hampshire Free Staters!
Jihad Training Camps In The United States
Muslims of America undergo paramilitary training in camps around the country.
Christian Action Network Video Description:
A new Muslims of America (MOA) terror training video has been uncovered by the Christian Action Network.
This video show members of MOA participating in paramilitary style training on their compound in upstate New York, near the town of Hancock.
Please visit our website at www.christianaction.org for more information and for breaking news as it develops.
Chilling Excerpt From WorldNetDaily:
New training video: How to slit throats
Jihad maneuvers taught at New York compound
Posted: December 15, 2009
9:04 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Jihda training video
A new video released by the Christian Action Network shows Muslim women at a compound in New York state practicing throat-slitting techniques and assault weapons attacks.
The video was distributed by the makers of the movie “Homegrown Jihad: The Terrorist Camps Around the U.S.,” which documents how a jihadist group has developed dozens of training camps across the nation.
Raleigh Constituent Response To Burr Senate Staffer ChrisJ
Editor’s Note: Published as written because I sure do not want to go “all wobbly” or anything like that.
Editor’s Note #2: ChrisJ’s remarks are in the comments section of this post: CLICK LINK HERE. It may help to read them first.
Editor’s Note #3: All Senator Richard Burr Posts are collected in their own category from the newest to the oldest: CLICK LINK HERE
You must click the individual posts to view the comments attached to each.
Dear John Jacob,
Good Gravy! Someone besides the paperboy reads your blog? Who’d athunk?
Originally as I read the ChrisJ posts I thought the obvious- he (or she–Chris?) was a poseur.
But now I believe the comments to be authentic because they perfectly mirror the mentality that made my phone calls to the Senator’s office so memorable. CLICK LINK HERE
The blather starts almost from sentence one, message one and continues through sentence last, message last.
Some of my favorite hoots:
1.Ohio and Maryland Voters should hold their officials accountable.
Really? Well maybe they could if the Feds didn’t spread so much LEO Grant and Funding Pixie Dust around!!!
Hey Barney Fife you want an M4 Patrol Carbine? We got a grant for that!
Maybe an armored personnel carrier? We got funding for that too!
Wanna go to “big boy” tactical training school? Here, sign on the dotted line.
The peasants will never know what hit them. Ask David Koresh or Randy Weaver.
2. Blowing Rock Voters should hold their officials accountable.
Really? It is to laugh……bitterly, bitterly laugh. The whole dispute revolves around secret meetings and closed door negotiations.
I guess Senator Burr, avid hunter and shooter that he is, never signed up for the GRNC Alert List.
Here are just a few tidbits from GRNC:
GRNC Alert 11-09-09:
Why Is Burr Supporting Blowing Rock Land Grab?
The issue started nearly a decade ago when the North Carolina Land Trust purchased a 192 acre tract of land from a local hunting club outside the city limits of Blowing Rock. Local hunters,believing they were protecting a treasured hunting area,generously donated to the Land Trust for purchase of the tract. As testament to the past use of hunting on the land, the Land Trust wrote language into the deed which designated hunting as an allowable activity on the land for perpetuity.
A few years later however, the Town of Blowing Rock, unbeknownst to the general public, purchased the 192 acre tract from the land trust for potential trade to the National Park Service. In late 2005 the purchase revealed itself to sportsmen when police tried to close the area, including the NC Gamelands portion, to hunting.
Hunters and GRNC members, concerned with suddenly being told they were not allowed to hunt public lands, began questioning recalcitrant town officials. It was then that the questionable land trade was uncovered.
Further investigation revealed that an influential town councilwoman’s expensive home overlooks the land, as well as the fact this very same councilwoman is an outspoken anti-hunting, anti-logging activist.
Some grassroots members are even beginning to question the Town of Blowing Rock’s role in the Land Trust’s original purchase of the tract. Letters written to Mayor J.B. Lawrence regarding these and other questions have not been answered. The town maintains the trade is necessary to gain full control of the town reservoir located on Park lands between Boone and Blowing Rock. This does not seem plausible given the fact Blowing Rock already has water interconnection permits with Boone as well as an unused intake permit at the confluence of Payne Branch and Middle Fork.
As a new twist, Mayor Lawrence recently declared the 190 acres as closed to hunting via a vague town code prohibiting loaded guns on town property (i.e. town hall). Coinciding with the Mayor’s announcement, National Park Service spokeswomen Shelia Dixon indicated that if NPS acquires the land, all hunting, trapping, and shooting will be prohibited as per NPS policy. This deal will cut in half the last public lands that Blowing Rock hunters, shooters and trappers can easily access. Hunters attempted to voice concerns with Mayor Lawrence during a March 10, 2009 town meeting, however the Mayor decided to convene an illegal closed meeting to discuss the issue. No recordings or minutes exist of this meeting.
Now it seems that Senator Richard Burr and Congresswoman Virginia Foxx are on board with this deal as well. Burr’s and Foxx’s offices purport that their support stems from the dubious water issue. Locals are skeptical about this and again point to the councilwoman’s home which overlooks this land. Several times GRNC members have requested from both Burr and Foxx to have a voice in the questionable land deal, but that has not happened.
3.Would I like to be able to shoot every day? Absolutely. Am I able to? Unfortunately, no.
What a howler!!!!!
Are we, the peasants, to believe ChrisJ does not play golf or tennis or raquetball or baseball or softball or badminton as well? The Senate, home to one of the most lavish exercise facilities on the planet could not fund a shooting range for use of members and staff if it so chose or colonize the old NRA shooting range abandoned somewhere in downtown Washington? The avid shooters on Burr’s staff know nothing about air rifles or pistols?
Just a guess here, but I would bet if some staffer picked up the phone and dialed Remington or S&W and explained their dilemma, solutions to the problem would materialize out of thin air.
As member of the Armed Services Committee I’d guess further the Senator has access to all manner of Military Practice range techniques.
Come on Senator! Man up and put a 3-D target range right in your office for all to see!
Put a framed poster sized copy of Swiss Militia Operations Order #2 right in the reception area of your office.
Teach your people to answer the phone: “Senator Burr’s Office, Home of the Right To Keep And Bear Arms”
4.S 669
That thing. Hmmm. S 669 trys to partially fix something that was broken long ago and needs complete restoration.
We are told by independent websites Senator Burr votes 92 % of the time with his fellow Republicans.
Here is a thought: How about he should start to vote 92% of the time with THE CONSTITUTION???
If there ever was a time to introduce Constitutional Legislation it is now.
Example:
S 1:
The National Firearms Act (“NFA”), 73rd Congress, Sess. 2, ch. 757, 48 Stat. 1236, enacted 1934-06-26, codified as amended as 26 U.S.C. ch.53 AND Gun Control Act of 1968, Pub. L. No. 90-618, 82 Stat. 1213 (also known as GCA or GCA68, and codified as Chapter 44 of Title 18, United States Code)
ARE HEREBY REPEALED.
Wouldn’t that stir up the pudding in the old town tonight if someone introduced legislation like that??
Don’t go all wobbly on us John Jacob.
The Poster ChrisJ is cast from the same mold that made the Dole and Faircloth office staff legendary.
Right now Republicans are distracted by the bright shiny bauble known as Election 2010 while Obamanation pre-positions his ACORN men,munitions and money.
If the Senator does not move now and move fast he too will go the way of the DoDo Bird.
Raleigh Constituent
Holy Moly! Start Your Own Porcupine 411!
Readers of this blog know I have long admired from afar the activities of New Hampshire “Free Staters”.
One of the best ideas they have had is an emergency communications network dubbed Porcupine 411. ( For details CLICK LINK HERE or HERE. )
Now I learn they want to spread their idea nationwide. God Bless them!
Here is an opportunity for Three Percenters or Oath Keepers or the Unorganized Militia or even your garden variety activist to make a real difference.
CLICK LINK HERE
Tantalizing Excerpt:
Start Your Own Porcupine 411
Bringing people together.
Whether it’s to document police misconduct, rescue a stranded traveler, or simply to get together for dinner, Porcupine 411 has proved itself indispensable in helping people connect and improve their activism. Now you can bring Porcupine 411 to your local organization, activist group, or geographic area.
We handle all of the technical aspects of Porcupine 411 for you, letting you focus on your activism.
Real Gunfights: Marksmanship
Great, great commentary. Must read blog!!!
Tantalizing Excerpt:
As flintlock riflemen can pump out a maximum of only four shots per minute, it is obvious that Vietnam troopers have 75 times the firepower of the flintlock riflemen of the Revolution.
This is in terms of muzzle statistics.
In terms of target statistics, the flintlock shooter has four times the firepower of the M16 user because he has the skill to make every shot hit and the M16 user cannot hit more than once per minute.
Boot Schwarzenegger The AmmoBanNinAtor
L. Neil Smith and Ken Holder offer their comment on Schwarzenegger the Ammo Confiscator.
L. Neil Smith Archive at Jews For The Preservation Of Firearms Ownership CLICK HERE
An Indecipherable Embarrassment of Regulatory Incoherence
Duplin County Regulation 2009
Duplin County Regulation 2008
Duplin County Regulation 2007
Raleigh Constituent drops by with another editorial for the files:
Dear JohnJacob,
Now that Turkey Hunter Clyde Coffey’s life has been sacrificed on the altar of incomprehensible law enforcement policies I thought it might be useful to study the legal terrain Hunter “Joe Rifleman” must traverse in his adventures afield.
I quickly discovered this topic cannot be reasonably covered by an encyclopedia, let alone a book or a few articles. In fact, this maybe the first in an unending series of comments so difficult is it to plumb the depth of knavery and tomfoolery embedded in North Carolina hunting regulations.
The word “quagmire” only begins to describe the situation. The IRS code is an Elementary School “Dick and Jane” reading primer by comparison.
Below please find a brief (?!) overview of the topic.
To begin know it is said amongst the knowledgeable North Carolina is sprinkled with a number of “sweet spots” where a fellow can stand in an open field and box the compass in four opposite directions (North,East,South and West) for a few hundred yards and find himself under four conflicting sets of hunting regulations.
I know not personally if this is true, but a quick perusal of the hunting regulations certainly reveals it to be plausible.
You have your International Treaty Laws and regulations, your Federal laws and regulations, your State laws and regulations, your local (rural) county laws and regulations and your local (urban) city and town laws and regulations.
There are separate laws and regulations that govern conduct on State Game Lands and another separate set of laws and regulations that govern conduct on Military Reservations and yet another set of laws and regulations that essentially ban hunting from mining operations and facilities even if the owner were inclined to give permission.
“Working Agriculture Operations” (farms) have their own set of exemptions and rules.
Dare and Currituck Counties have their own countywide Game and Wildlife Commission.
Every year the Hunting Regulations Digest issued to hunters with their license purchase helpfully highlights regulation changes in red. Every year there are at least fifty changes, some quite significant.
In the August 2008 issue of North Carolina Sportsman Magazine (CLICK LINK HERE) author Craig Holt reported Judge Timothy Lee Paige ruled the definition of “take” was “unconstitutionally vague” when he dismissed a charge of “hunting over bait” against bear hunter Charles Smith
Craig Holt concluded his report with the comment if the ruling stands “WRC (Wildlife Resources Commission) will have to rewrite the bear baiting law for the third time in two years, then get new wording adopted by the General Assembly”.
In the 2007 archives of the North Carolina Bear Hunters Association website these comments are included in a discussion of Senate Bill 1246:
Senate Bill 1246
Regrettably, the NCBHA and the Wildlife Resources Commission (WRC) found themselves faced with vastly opposing viewpoints on how best to stop an unexplained flood of bear baiting enforcement citations.
The issue came close to ruining an effective working relationship that had spanned over 20 years.
At issue was a sudden and mysterious increase in bear baiting enforcement citations.
Hunters were charged without particular evidence or conditions that would normally cause an enforcement officer to write a citation.
There was remarkable evidence that suggested poor enforcement practice and possible violations by law enforcement personnel in District 2.
Hunters on several occasions met with WRC executive staff trying to find out what was behind the incidents.
In the face of incredible evidence, the WRC did not demand that the rash of enforcement abuse stop.
If anything, arrogance and intimidation, in addition to poor law enforcement was the response. Hunters loudly voiced concerns and the NCBHA leaned hard against the WRC.
All of the above examples do not even begin to describe the local regulations that attempt to outline geographical areas where certain practices are restricted.
They are couched in genuinely obscure and arcane language such as that found for Franklin County.
This is what the Franklin County paragraph says, I kid you not:
(It is illegal to) hunt game from the right-of-way of any public road in that part of the county bounded on the north beginning at the Tar River at the Granville County line east to US 1, then south along US 1 to the intersection of NC 56, then east along NC 56 to the intersection of US 401,then north along US 401 to the intersection of NC 39, then south along NC 39 to the intersection of NC 98, then east along NC 98 to the Nash County line.
So now you know, when it comes to hunting, local sovereignty still rules over both State and Federal Highways! And you thought all that stuff was forever relegated to the musty past with the Magna Carta and the Constitution!
Nope, when it comes to hunting the Bolshevik “greatest good for the greatest number” is unapologetically replaced with good old fashioned local sovereignty.
Anything goes if it cudgels an unenlightened activity like hunting into submission.
But I am not finished!
Here is one more really great example of indecipherable regulatory incoherence. The leading (current) contender for complete Alice-In-Wonderland-Mad-Hatter “the law is ours to know and yours to find out” bureaucracy is DUPLIN COUNTY.
On page 67 of the North Carolina Regulations Digest the Duplin County portion contains this instruction: For information concerning hunting from the roadway in Duplin County contact the County Attorney.
When you call Duplin County you will be told by staff they have a guideline sheet that must be A. Mailed or B. Faxed or C. Picked up in person. It CANNOT be emailed or posted on the Duplin County Website.
So there is a genuine mystery here. The mystery maybe related to the number of times the regulation for Duplin County has been changed in the last five years as demonstrated by these JPEG images.
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Some knowledgeable commentators have said Duplin County has two diametrically opposed and unenforceable statutes regulating the same activity.
If so, what could the County Attorney possibly include in a super secret guideline sheet to reconcile the conflict? And why would that guideline sheet be unavailable under the Public Documents Law?
Only Alice’s Mad Hatter knows for sure.
Here is the North Carolina General Statute for Duplin County.
Presumably it is the current “controlling legal authority” Or maybe not. (CLICK LINK HERE)
My suggestion is for all 500,000 hunters who have a copy of the North Carolina Regulations Digest call Duplin County Attorney Wendy Sivori at (910) 296-2233 and asked to be mailed their own personal copy of Duplin County’s Super Secret Hunting Guidelines so they will be in compliance and not be shot by some zealous Game Warden whose grasp of the law may be no better or worse than the people who create them.
Hunters are not second class citizens and should stop allowing government to treat them as though they were. If tourism dollars are welcome, so should recreational hunting dollars be welcome.
Clyde Coffey rest in peace. Apparently you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time: hunting on your own land, minding your own business. (CLICK LINK HERE)
Incorporation And The Roberts Court
This is what happens when mail stacks up unopened for days.
Our friend the Welshman from The Liberty Sphere has an excellent analysis of the Chicago 2nd Amendment Incorporation Case.
The comments section offers some further intriguing thoughts.
Stop by and add your two cents.
Tantalizing Excerpt:
Gun rights and legal quackery
October 2, 12:16 PM
Columbia Conservative Examiner Anthony G. Martin
Rationality, it would seem, would dictate that it is a no-brainer that the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights automatically extend to all of the state and local governments. What good is free speech or a free press, for example, if the Constitution is meant only to restrict Congress from encroaching on those rights but leaves state and local governments with the power to run slip-shod over our God-given liberties? This school of thought seems to be antithetical to everything we have come to cherish about America–the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Yet, in order to insure that state and local governments got the message, our forebears began the process known as ‘incorporation’ to insure that all governmental entities within the United States abide by the restrictions set forth by the Constitution.
