On the passing of a warrior, Gen. George Patton once said, “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.” This week, however, we do mourn the loss of a Patriot — the father of one of our Senior Editors, Jonah Walton. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1943 and served in the 41st Division in South Pacific combat zones from New Guinea to the Philippines. He was a Patriot who honored his oath and served his country well. To Jonah and other family members he leaves behind, we offer our condolences and prayers.
Archive for October, 2009
Jonah Walton 41st Division
October 25, 2009Registration, then confiscation, then what? Ovens?
October 24, 2009I was sent this from a colleague. I was like, guess what? I’ve been bitching about this for years. So now it’s a big deal? Why the sudden interest is my question. The B.A.T.F.E. is a rogue agency period. Some legitimacy, applied as lipstick on a pig was bestowed on them during the Clinton years by adding Explosives enforcement and investigation to their duties. To an agency that, at that time, was under the control of the IRS? What the hell? Isn’t the F.B.I. capable of enforcing Federal laws? All the lipstick that the History Channel has been applying to this out of control group as of late still will not cleanse the sins of the past committed by them in the name of unbridled power and control.
Still, I suppose better late than never as the saying goes. J.F.P.O. has been on top of this since at least 1994.
Read about this blatant abuse of power and disregard for the rule of law HERE.
Obamacare: Misogynous Connection
October 23, 2009Misogynous obamacare? Is there disgust for women in this fiasco that the administration and socialist’s in congress are ramming down our throats? You decide.
Such piddling hurdles as federal law don’t matter to the Obama administration.
October 22, 2009For a decade, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been forbidden by Congress from doing research on gun-control issues. Such piddling hurdles as federal law don’t matter to the Obama administration.
With a wave of a hand, the CDC has simply redefined gun-control research so the ban no longer applies. They’re not researching guns; they’re researching alcohol sales and their impact on gun violence, or researching how teens carrying guns affect the rates of non-gun injuries. “These particular grants do not address gun control; rather they deal with the surrounding web of circumstances,” wrote National Institutes of Health (NIH) spokesman Don Ralbovsky.
Gun-control advocates claim that banning the CDC from examining gun control amounts to a gag order on science. After all, what can be wrong with further scientific inquiry? But the issue isn’t about scientific inquiry. It is whether government resources should be used to promote an ideological agenda.
Take the Obama administration’s justification for its new gun research. “Gun-related violence is a public health problem – it diverts considerable health care resources away from other problems and, therefore, is of interest to NIH,” wrote the agency spokesman in an e-mail responding to questions from Republican members of Congress about new grants the CDC is giving out. The statement assumes the conclusion of the research before the first study is done.
The research on right-to-carry laws illustrates the problem with the CDC. Dozens of refereed academic studies by economists and criminologists using national data have been published in journals. While the vast majority of those studies find that right-to-carry laws save lives and reduce harm to victims, some studies claim that the laws have no statistically significant effect. But most tellingly, there is not a single published refereed academic study by a criminologist or economist showing a bad effect from these laws.
Look at the refereed academic research on laws that require people to lock up their guns in their homes. The number of accidental gun deaths and suicides of children remain unchanged, but the number of murders and other crimes rises. This is not too surprising as the locks make it more difficult for potential victims to quickly obtain a gun for protection, hence criminals are less likely to be deterred. Accidental gun deaths aren’t affected because most involve guns fired by adults with criminal records.
The research on guns that the CDC conducted before the ban – and that “public health” advocates continue to produce – is a joke. The statistical methods to research people’s behavior, such as criminal activity, are different from methods used to evaluate drug efficacy, where controlled experiments can be done.
In drug studies, patients don’t determine who gets the real drug and who gets the placebo. In real life, gun ownership isn’t assigned randomly. People who are more likely to be victims are more likely to own guns. They may still be more likely to be victims even after getting a gun, but are much less likely to be a victim than they would have been if they had never gotten one.
The CDC’s brazen end run around restrictions on gun-control research is hardly surprising given that when President Obama served on the board of the Joyce Foundation, it was the largest private funder of gun-ban research in the country. Now he has the resources of the whole federal government.
First we’ll get the half-baked studies followed by fawning press coverage. Then Democratic politicians and activists will pretend the gun restrictions they’ve always wanted were spurred by the new government research.
Well, we warned you!
Gallup Confirms: Obama is still Gun Salesman of the year!
October 22, 2009Gallup released poll results that confirm our contention that the President is indeed Gun Salesman of the year. While, as noted in the poll he himself has not proposed any firearms legislation, the legions of his minions certainly have, and he has not once. Not one single time said so much as a whisper in opposition to them. Whether it is something so drastic as giving away American sovereignty to the United Nations, or trying to control Mexico’s home grown endemic corruption and violence by destroying America’s Constitution he remains silent.
Hat tip to Anthony: Obama co-conspirators in the destruction of America are many, and are much more radical than most anticipated. Don’t think so? Read about them HERE.
As Gallup confirmed, I am not alone in my beliefs. Read about that HERE.
The incredible extremism of those that surround Obama can only be summed up by an old saying. “Birds of a feather flock together.” Perhaps the time has come to revive local militias, and prepare for the inevitable showdown that is on the horizon.
Ruger 10/22 fans: More bang for the buck!
October 20, 2009It’s not often that I endorse a product or service but that is precisely what this will be. If you are anti-gun or have something against the Ruger© 10 / 22 Rifles, the most popular rim fire rifle in the world then stop reading.
I recently purchased a 10/22 rifle for my better half, as she had expressed an interest in learning to shoot. She had attended two “Becoming An Outdoors Woman” clinics that were offered by the Colorado Division of Wildlife. They may have created an addict because we are now getting her a Remington 870 Shotgun as well.
I have taught so many people to shoot over the years that I have learned a few things about doing that. One of the biggest is that trying to teach someone with inferior tools just results in utter disappointment, and frustration. For the student as well as the instructor, and that friend, is not a good thing.
Please don’t misunderstand me. The 10/22 is one of the absolute best semi-auto rifles that exist in whatever configuration. However, my better half, is an Engineer, and (sighs) a perfectionist to say the least. Ruger, like all the manufacturers have to live in a world filled with lawsuits and political correctness. What that translates into is a trigger near eight pounds, which was rough, gritty, and not at all acceptable. The magazine release was rough to use as well, and the Bolt Release was a nightmare to get working properly, if it would work at all. Still, I had high hopes…
I topped it off with a good but inexpensive scope. Finally found some 22 Long Rifle ammunition, and off to the range I went after using a BSA brand Bore sighting tool.
I initially did a “200 inch zero,” and things looked pretty good. Then I moved out to about twenty-five feet, and put ten rounds into about a dime sized group. I thought, alright, I must have pulled a few. It happens to the best of us sometimes after all. I put up another target and put five rounds down the spout. Four o’clock on the Nine Ring and not much over a quarter inch. Not bad, not bad at all. Considering the solid lead ammo that I was forced to use due to the nation wide ammunition shortage. 10/22’s are notorious for liking jacketed ammunition. But, still I wasn’t all that un-pleased.
About then I decided to do a bore swab and then switch over to the single box of Mini-Mag© ammunition that I had been able to purchase. I moved to the classic fifty-foot range that NRA Rim-fire Three position Matches are shot at.
The cleaning was a nightmare but using Hoppe’s Elite the fouling from the Remington solid lead ammunition finally cleared the lands and grooves. I checked the tightness of the rings on the scope and the main stock bolt as well as the barrel band screw. Yes, both needed a little bit of help. That’s the way things are with new rifles so I didn’t have a worry in the world beyond the looming thunderheads rolling in from the Big Horns.
Target Number One was a U.S. Army fifty foot qualification Small Bore Rifle Target. Ammunition was CCI Brand© Target and plinking Forty grain ammunition at a rated 1235 Feet Per-Second. I put five down the spout from a rest at the upper Zeroing Bull’s-eye. Fairly tight group centered on the three ring at the six o’clock. Adjusted and fired another five round set, and they were on the nine ring at ‘noon! The groups were so tight that I wondered if I had completely missed two of the shots! Then I shot the Bull’s…
One through ten. I was not a happy camper. Anyone can blow a shot at anytime. That is why it is called marksmanship after all. Let’s just say that if I would have been shooting for qualification any Range Officer worth the title would have pulled me from the line. Sheer fact is, he / she would have been more than justified. I was pretty shaken… I gathered up all the toys, and headed home.
I fired up the Internet and looked around for clues. I was in a near frantic state when? Lo, and behold! Yahoo Instant Messenger popped up. It was Brother Bear! We talked, actually typed, and started going over things. I had the rifle in my hands as we checked things over. I had already scrubbed the barrel, and looked at the muzzle thinking I needed the thing re-crowned. Good grief! Things were loose, and torqued in a way that so that a lot went cock-eyed once things, such as the barrel got hot!
Two days later I headed back out to the range. Things were better. At fifty feet all the bullets dropped into the seven ring or better. Can you say “Sharpshooter?” Yes, you could, but neither bear nor I was satisfied. We talked, and decided that that God Awful trigger had to be a big part of the lack of consistency. Like most people that enjoy the shooting sports I am more than willing to blame myself for any performance failure well before I will lay blame to the tool in my hands. The least of all when it comes to Ruger© firearms entire product line of excellence, in producing rifles, shotguns, and yes, pistols as well.
Where do we go from there? Well? Brother Bear told me to send him the trigger action, as a swap. He worked his magic on a trigger group that he had and sent that to me. The results were almost beyond belief!
The Bolt release actually works as it should! The trigger is smooth as a new born baby’s butt. The magazine drops like it is supposed to. And the groups are now working on one hundred yards. Not to mention that the bolt hold open feature, actually does work!
Having talked or otherwise contacted some very respected and qualified gunsmiths I wholly support, and recommend StalkingBearArms© if you, like myself, and so many others absolutely love shooting the Ruger 10/22.
It is rumored, by the way, that he works similar miracles on Remington 870© Shotguns (12 gauge only). We shall soon see!
Neil Stalkingbeabear is the “Owner” Of “Hunters Central” at Yahoo Groups. Please stop by for a chat.
If you are interested in having this Best for the buck upgrade applied to your 10/22 contact Neil at StalkingBear.Arms@yahoo.com for the particulars. Prices start at $80 including return shipping.
Read more about bear, and see some of his work HERE
Feds gone haywire..? Again? Say it isn’t so…
October 20, 2009Prosecutorial misconduct is something that most people hold to be immeasurably immoral. Other than Prosecutors, that is. Oh sure, they will all line up in well spaced rows reminiscent of a regiment of soldiers condemning that sort of behavior. Yet they have their way of looking at what constitutes said act, or acts.
This way of thinking, warped as it is, and essentially Utilitarian in nature, says that the end justifies the means. It is in their collective DNA from all appearances. Alright, perhaps not all, but in the vast majority, winning, at any cost, while maintaining the appearance of high virtue is a given.
Convict for infractions and misdemeanors based in political correctness, and mysandry while knowing that there will be felony penalties attached but making sure that the defendant does not know that is just good business. Ignoring the Constitution that they swore to uphold, be that state or federal, and enforcing things like ex post facto law? They,as a group, are good to go. After all, the SCOTUS confirmed that such is the law of the land. Logic and morality be damned!
“When the government is allowed to use vague statutes to pursue prosecutions, no American is safe from stumbling into a vast, sticky web. Yet the use of such statutes has grown to such a perilous degree in the past quarter-century – especially via laws governing activity in cyberspace – that citizens can run afoul of laws that they do not know exist and that no one can really explain.”
Where will this stop? I have no idea. When will it stop? Same answer. With the caveat that I most certainly do not expect the Republicans to do anything about it. Remember Ramos and Compean? The Democrat attacks on civil liberties are just as evil, and unfolding before our eyes every day. Is the Internet next? No,it’s already in their sights as a target in their never ending crusade for unbridled power and control over our lives, and has been for some time.
Read the whole thing HERE.
REAL ID: Show Congress you’re paying real close attention to REAL ID
October 20, 2009Congress exhibits yet another example of broken clock politics…
REAL ID: Congress is cutting the appropriation for the REAL ID national ID card — by $40 million. That’s good! But they’re still planning to spend $60 million on it in 2010. That’s bad!
Please send Congress a letter objecting to any further funding for REAL ID.
You can copy what I said in my letter to Congress . . .
I’m upset that Congress just appropriated $60 million for the REAL ID national identification scheme. I’ve asked you repeatedly to repeal REAL ID, and replace it with nothing. I’m repeating my request today.
I do not want a centralized national ID system. It lays the foundation for a police state, and will do little or nothing to improve security. Instead, it will subject me to increased risk of identity theft, and eventually entangle me in new Congressional schemes to do things like control my health care decisions.
I also object because the REAL ID Act was passed under false pretenses. It was rejected three times by the U.S. Senate, and was only enacted because it was added to a larger bill containing funding for disaster relief and Iraq. REAL ID never could have passed on its own merits, but now that we have it, we can’t seem to get rid of it. But you, as my representative, can do something about this . . .
Please introduce legislation to repeal REAL ID and replace it with nothing. I’m paying close attention to how you represent me.
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October 24, 2009Due to a few people that have no business being near a keyboard of any kind and much less the Internet I have made the decision to go to comment moderation. To my regular posters, once approved to make things easier, then you may comment directly.
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