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• Guess How Demand Is Going for That Rifle With the Tech That Makes It Difficult to Miss a Shot

  May 17, 2013 at 1:32am

  In reply to THX-1138.

  I think I could find a number of things I could spend $17,000 on rather than a new high tech whiz bang rifle that will be nearly worthless once the batteries die. I think for that kind of money, I could buy a Barrett 50 BMG, a LOT of ammo and have enough left over to be able to attend a good shooting school as to be able to shoot like that without the use of batteries. I’d probably opt for that new Paratus rifle that is a semi auto 308 that fits in a brief case complete with magazine, scope and suppressor. It shoots pretty well from all accounts. With the over $8000 in savings, I could spend a LOT of time at a gun range.

• Father Dies After He ‘Begged for His Life’ While Cops Struck Him With Batons — Cellphone Videos Seized

  May 14, 2013 at 12:13am

  In reply to krenshau.

  How about everyone takes a deep breath and we let all of the facts come out? Was excessive force used? Almost certainly. Was a taser or other non lethal weapon available that could’ve eliminated the need for the batons? There are a lot of questions to be answered. Nine on one is a HUGE disparity of force and I would think that at that point, they could’ve simply cracked the guy across the knees with a baton and them jumped on him when he was down. You don’t have to beat an unruly drunk unconscious to cuff him. Pepper foam will sober him up enough to get him to cooperate. PCP is another story. Let’s let the information come out. Confiscating the phones was completely inappropriate and unnecessary as they could’ve simply sent the video to an email address within a few minutes and been done with it. There is no reason to take the phones when they could simply ask the owner to send them the video.

• Inconsiderate (and Potentially Illegal) ‘Gallon Smashing’ Prank Goes Way Wrong

  May 12, 2013 at 1:45pm

  In reply to RyanCawdor.

  Hey Solitude, if we could guarantee that mass suicide, I’d donate to the cause to build the EMP generator. However, considering the average level of competence of the Facebook generation, I have to doubt they’d be able to accomplish the simple task of killing themselves without Googling methods and then asking their Facebook friends for their input as to which to try.

• ‘Remember Separation of Church & State, Joe?’: Blaze Readers React to Biden Telling Faith Leaders to Say Passing Gun Control Is the Moral Thing to Do

  May 11, 2013 at 11:51pm

  In reply to Coyote1953.

  Keaton, don’t you consider 22000+ gun laws adequate? The problem isn’t a lack of laws, it’s a lack of enforcement. Research how low the investigation and prosecution rate is on the current laws and you’ll see that new laws aren’t needed. One of the gun runners caught under “Fast and Furious” was handed a sweetheart plea deal of only 54 months for running over a dozen weapons to the cartels. Except for requiring background checks on sales between individuals, which is already illegal if you know the person buying the gun is prohibited from owning one, the laws that went down in flames actually did nothing useful. The problem with those background checks is that the sellers have to PAY dealers to perform them (I recently had to pay $50 to a dealer to handle a transfer on an antique shotgun I bought online) IF you can find a dealer willing to handle the transfer. There is no gun show loop hole, or online sales loop hole. Sales from dealers at gun shows have to go through a background check and guns sold online across state lines have to go through a background check at a local dealer as well. It’s not legal to deal in firearms without a license, so the claim of unlicensed gun dealers is a straw man argument since that’s already illegal. Buying firearms for someone who isn’t eligible to own one is called a straw man purchase and is already illegal. So since everything that the law was supposedly going to ban is already illegal, what’s the point?

• CBS Anchor Scolds: ‘We’re Getting the Big Stories Wrong Over and Over Again’

  May 11, 2013 at 11:16pm

  In reply to Keatonc33.

  Keaton, Cronkite had his good and bad days. His reporting on many things was straight up old school journalism. His editorializing on the Vietnam War was almost pure propaganda. From a military standpoint, the Tet Offensive (yes I’m old enough to remember it and had cousins fighting in it) was a huge military victory for the US/South Vietnam because it brought out all of the VC units into the open where they could be targeted by US military firepower. The US won the Tet offensive militarily, but it lost the propaganda war as the horror of war was splashed across TV screens. Of course, it didn’t help that Johnson’s administration had been feeding the press false reports about what was going on in Vietnam for years.

  What a lot of people fail to realize is that the way that news is reported is sometimes more important than what has happened. There are numerous examples of news stories being worded solely to reflect poorly on the Republican party, whether it’s justified or not. If the government shouldn’t be doing something, whether the Republicans did it first isn’t relevant. Other times it’s what isn’t reported that’s important. An example would be either the 50+ tons of Uranium found in Iraq, the fact that there was no method for tracking the weapons in “Fast and Furious” even in the plan, the investigation into Obama’s eligibility, or the idiotic Valery Plame witch hunt.

• A Sneak Peek at the Amazing Guns Glenn Beck Will Be Using During His NRA Keynote Speech

  May 3, 2013 at 9:11am

  In reply to sparkyrules.

  I am seriously hoping that we don’t get any uninvited guests at the convention. On the drive down to Houston yesterday I saw a convoy of military trucks, including up armored hummvees from the 1st Cavalry Division’s 4th sqdrn, 9 Cavalry Regiment, aka the Dark Horse Squadron headed towards Houston. I bet they wish I had never learned to read bumper numbers now. A friend who works in that area also saw a convoy of what he called artillery (I doubt he’d know a howitzer from a mini gun, but that’s what he called it.) They were both spotted over 150 miles from their home base at Ft Hood. There’s no good reason for those vehicles to be in that area. They would flat bed them on a train if they were going to another military installation. I’ve been there and done that.

• Hollywood Actor’s Gun Control Proposal: Let’s ‘Get Rid’ of Firearms

  April 29, 2013 at 11:00pm

  In reply to caveman1o1.

  Never attended a gun show in Phoenix following the 2006 election huh? I did volunteer recruiting for the NRA at the Phoenix gun shows and saw people buying ammo 10,000 rounds at a time.

• Dem. Senator ‘Absolutely’ Bringing Back Failed Gun Control Bill

  April 28, 2013 at 5:11pm

  Manchin and Toomey had better watch their backs. They’re BOTH from areas that are heavy in union coal mines. The coal miners’ union refused to endorse Obamao in the last election. They get the miners ticked off, they could VERY easily end up on the wrong end of a hunting rifle. Dad was a union coal miner and he wouldn’t go anywhere near the mine during a strike because of the possibility of violence. Union miners will kill people and not think about it. The democrats are already ticking off a lot of potentially violent people with their attempts to destroy the coal industry, going after their guns will be an invitation to open warfare.

• Dem. Senator ‘Absolutely’ Bringing Back Failed Gun Control Bill

  April 28, 2013 at 4:43pm

  In reply to surfrat.

  It’s illegal to send a firearm through the mail already. There is no such thing as a legal online sale that doesn’t include meeting the person face to face, or that the gun be transferred through a gun dealer. This shows exactly how dishonest gun control advocates are. The law already bans sales over the internet via the mail. Since the laws already prohibit it, exactly what are they trying to ban?

  I’ve bought numerous guns through online auctions (just won a Winchester Model 12 shotgun made in 1925 ) and every single one has had to go through a licensed dealer. I live in Texas and routinely go to Arkansas for work. The best stocked gun shop I’ve seen is on Stateline Rd in Texarkana, AR. Because I live in Texas, I can buy a rifle or shotgun from them (go through the background check process) but if I want to buy a handgun, I have to pay to have it shipped to a gun dealer ACROSS THE STREET and then pay that dealer to do the background check.

  For those who don’t know, until the National Firearms Act of 1934 (which was a knee jerk reaction to the St Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chitcago) it was legal to buy fully automatic weapons through the various catalog companies and have them sent to your home. Prior to that time, the federal government didn’t regulate firearms, they punished people who used them to commit crimes. In the past

• ‘God Help Us If We Don’t Do It’: Senators Defend Background Check Amendment

  April 14, 2013 at 4:34pm

  In reply to wowjustwow.

  Well Wow, I don’t disagree with you I just understand why no one is talking about taking action now. The only reason why so many people are talking about what they will do WHEN is because in truth the only cure for the boil that is festering below the surface in this country is to lance it, and to do so before it all comes to a head would only be used to spread the infection. When the boil finally comes to a head, lancing it will still be illegal, but no one will care as it will become obviously necessary. While I would prefer that the infection be treated with antibiotics to prevent its spread and keep it from coming to a head, those who administer that treatment will certainly be vilified for doing so.