Pass The Ammo

here is an interesting (older) article from the NRA-ILA website.

Should people who lawfully possess firearms be able to leave them locked in their motor vehicles, on business property? Common sense would say, “yes.” All 50 states allow the transportation of firearms in motor vehicles for all lawful purposes and 48 states allow the carrying of firearms in vehicles for personal protection, in some manner.¹ More than one of every four of America`s 65-80 million gun owners carries a firearm in his or her vehicle for protection.²

The U.S. Constitution and the constitutions of 46 states protect the right to arms and/or self-defense.3 And since 1986, federal law has protected the right to transport firearms in vehicles interstate.⁴

However, over the last few years disagreements over the right of people to leave firearms locked in their vehicles on business property have arisen. As a result, five state legislatures have passed, and during their current legislative sessions additional states are considering passing, laws to protect that right.⁵

The issue began in 2002 in Oklahoma, when the Weyerhaeuser corporation fired employees for having guns in personal vehicles on company property. The Oklahoma Legislature responded, unanimously in the House and by a vote of 92-4 in the Senate, by prohibiting “any policy or rule” prohibiting law-abiding people “from transporting and storing firearms in a locked vehicle.”

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UPDATE »
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Apparently, this article and Larry Pratt’s interpretation are misleading. From Snowflakes In Hell:

This bill does not do that. Gun Control Act of 68 is what gave us life time prohibition for mental health commitments and adjudications. HR 2640 actually enables those with mental health problems in their past to clear their names, something they can’t do currently.

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Via World Net Daily

The Gun Owners of America is launching an urgent campaign encouraging citizens to call their U.S. senators and ask them to oppose a bill that could be described as “disarmament by diagnosis.”

The legislation would allow a person’s right to own a gun in the U.S. to be permanently removed under a wide range of circumstances.

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y.,
announcing a provision to
allow doctors to ban people
from owning guns

“You’d think that when rabid, anti-gun legislators like Sen. Charles Schumer and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy join together to pass anti-gun legislation, it would raise a few red flags,” the alert says. “But these two New York Democrats are currently planning to roll over gun owners with H.R. 2640 – legislation which would bar you from owning guns if: You are a battle-scarred veteran suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; or as a kid, you were diagnosed with ADHD.”

Gun Owners Executive Director Larry Pratt told WND that those are just two of the circumstances that legitimately could be used under the pending proposal to permanently remove an individual’s right to own a weapon in the U.S.

Someone in counseling during a bitter divorce, a child who at one point gets into a scrape on a school yard and is put on Ritalin, or even someone given “counseling” for issues such as depression during recovery from an accident or work-related injury are some other situations that could trigger such “disarmament by diagnosis,” he said.

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National Review Online
Sept. 27, 2007

In last night’s Presidential Debate, Tim Russert put the screws to Democratic hopefuls using an instrument from their own dungeon.

“I want to move to another subject, and this involves a comment that a guest on ‘Meet the Press’ made,” Russert said. “I want to read it, as follows: ‘Imagine the following scenario. We get lucky. We get the number three guy in Al Qaeda. We know there’s a big bomb going off in America in three days and we know this guy knows where it is. Don’t we have the right and responsibility to beat it out of him? You could set up a law where the president could make a finding or could guarantee a pardon.’”

Russert asked the candidates to comment. Obama said he wouldn’t torture the prisoner under any circumstances. So did Sen. Joseph Biden. Then Russert turned to Sen. Clinton. “Should there be a presidential exception to allow torture in that kind of situation?” he asked.

“You know, Tim, I agree with what Joe and Barack have said,” Clinton answered. “As a matter of policy it cannot be American policy, period….These hypotheticals are very dangerous because they open a great big hole in what should be an attitude that our country and our president takes toward the appropriate treatment of everyone. And I think it’s dangerous to go down this path.”

Russert then delivered the punch line. “The guest who laid out this scenario for me with that proposed solution was William Jefferson Clinton last year,” Russert said to Sen. Clinton. “So he disagrees with you.”

“Well, he’s not standing here right now,” Clinton said.

“So there is a disagreement?”

“Well, I’ll talk to him later,” she answered.

The crowd laughed; Clinton had handled the situation as best she could. But Russert’s question zeroed in on her frequent citations of her husband, and his administration, and her part in his administration, among the reasons she is qualified to be president. What are the differences between them?

There would be no answer Wednesday night. And after all the odd and sometimes perplexing answers, there weren’t any winners, either.

Yes. I got it. And yes, I enjoy it. And if anyone else wants to join in the fun, be sure to watch this appropriate video on proper halo playing edicate etiquette .

Heath showed me this great way to fish. I’m not sure what other fish this would work, and I don’t know much about gar fish, either.

I just finished reading president abul-ahmed-mohammed-jihad’s columbia U speech. And it was laughable. He basically dodged every question posed to him.

Zach is an inspiration for me to open carry. He mentioned on a forum that he’s thinkin of starting a open carry awareness club. I sent him a message, stating I was interested. So hopefully he’ll respond. He’s pretty famous at this point, since all this was happening back in April and May.

POST FALLS, Idaho — Two home-schooled teenagers in this northern Idaho town say they are carrying loaded guns to the library, grocery store and other public areas for self-defense, as a crime deterrent, and to educate others about their rights.

Zach Doty, 18, carries a loaded Glock handgun on his hip. His 15-year-old brother, Steven, carries a .22-caliber rifle in a sling on his back.

Police have been called on several occasions to question the teens but have not found the teens to be in violation of the law.

In Idaho, residents 18 and older can openly carry a firearm in public. And those ages 13 to 17 who have parental permission can carry a rifle in public.

“I certainly don’t anticipate that I’ll need to use it, but I’d rather have it and not need it than to not have it and need it,” Zach told the Coeur d’Alene Press. “There’s no reason for me to hide a weapon.”

Zach was stopped April 17 on his way to Bible study. On Friday, police again responded when someone reported the brothers with guns in a park. But police left after confirming it was the Doty’s. More »

Found a great site called Military Motivator. It’s chock full with these nuggets of wisdom.

hattip: Texican Tattler

I’m pretty sure Idaho is the only state to produce license plates with the NRA logo and they become available in a couple days! We were able to preview these plates last year at the Lake Country FNRA 2006 event, where Dwight NRA Field Rep got up and talked about them.

you can see JJ’s ugly mug just behind Dwights left lens.

NRA-ILA
Thursday, September 20, 2007

The National Rifle Association specialty Idaho license plate will go on sale Monday, September 24, at your local county auto-licensing office. The Idaho Transportation Department will be holding an introduction ceremony on Tuesday, September 25 at the Idaho Correctional Facility in Boise at 1:30 p.m.

The NRA license plate is being made available because of legislation sponsored by former Senator and current Idaho County Commissioner Skip Brandt, State Representative Mike Moyle (R-14), and NRA National Board Member Dwight Van Horn during the 2006 Idaho Legislative Session.

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Wolves have always been an issue for hunters and ranchers in the Idaho Panhandle. The threat of running into a wolf in the woods is not so great that everybody has, but everyone knows someone who has. So hatred of the wolf has become pretty strong. I think the main reason for the hatred is the fact that we cannot destroy them when we do encounter one. Hunters have had to stand idly by while their best hound dog was torn apart, after a mistake encounter.

There are apparently only three packs in the northern part of the Panhandle. But they have yet to cause any problems. It’s more the lone wolves that get into tangles with hunters and ranchers’ cattle.

There have been a couple groups working toward removing wolves from the protected species list. And it seems that we’ll be able to shoot em only in a tangle come early next year. This is more toward the common sense approach that we’ve been trying for.

I really don’t see why we even reintroduced them back in 1995. What good does a wolf have to offer the ecosystem? Why let wolves reduce the elk count, when a paying hunter can better manage their growth?

Wolves slowly handed to state
Posted: Thursday, Sep 20, 2007 - 11:07:54 pm PDT
By SEAN GARMIRE

Animals to be delisted as early as February 2008

NORTH IDAHO — A plan that could alter the way wolves are managed in Idaho has been reopened for public comment by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The proposed plan would grant state and tribal governments flexibility in killing wolves if they are shown to have caused a major decline in elk, deer or moose populations.

The plan would also give citizens on private or public land the legal right to kill a wolf that is in the act of attacking their dog or stock animal.

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Jonas and I have been headin out to the woods lately. Bear season is open till the end of October, so we’ve been out patrolling beauty creek saddle. Plenty of sign (read sh*t) up there, so now we’re gonna lay some bait down. Typically, we use the innerds of local liberals for bait, but this year we’ll go with Hershey syrup and fish.

Incidentally, a young black bear has been spotted roaming my neighborhood. I guess I could just sit on the tailgate in my driveway, with my rifle. But I guess there’s no shooting in city limits, so I’ll have to resort to my Buck knife, and wrassling the bear down.