Supporting gun ownership and sportsmen's rights in response to the flurry of anti-gun and sport legislation under consideration in Congress and the Illinois State Legislature.
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On the Second Amendment,
Don’t Believe Obama!
The presidential primary season is finally over, and it is now time for gun owners to take a careful look at just where apparent nominee Barack Obama stands on issues related to the Second Amendment. During the primaries, Obama tried to hide behind vague statements of support for “sportsmen” or unfounded claims of general support for the right to keep and bear arms.
But his real record, based on votes taken, political associations, and long standing positions, shows that Barack Obama is a serious threat to Second Amendment liberties. Don’t listen to his campaign rhetoric! Look instead to what he has said and done during his entire political career.
FACT: Barack Obama voted to allow reckless lawsuits designed to bankrupt the firearms industry.1
FACT: Barack Obama wants to re-impose the failed and discredited Clinton Gun Ban.2
FACT: Barack Obama voted to ban almost all rifle ammunition commonly used for hunting and sport shooting.3
FACT: Barack Obama has endorsed a complete ban on handgun ownership.2
FACT: Barack Obama supports local gun bans in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and other cities.4
FACT: Barack Obama voted to uphold local gun bans and the criminal prosecution of people who use firearms in self-defense.5
FACT: Barack Obama supports gun owner licensing and gun registration.6
FACT: Barack Obama refused to sign a friend-of-the-court Brief in support of individual Second Amendment rights in the Heller case.
FACT: Barack Obama opposes Right to Carry laws.7
FACT: Barack Obama was a member of the Board of Directors of the Joyce Foundation, the leading source of funds for anti-gun organizations and “research.”8
FACT: Barack Obama supported a proposal to ban gun stores within 5 miles of a school or park, which would eliminate almost every gun store in America.9
FACT: Barack Obama voted not to notify gun owners when the state of Illinois did records searches on them.10
FACT: Barack Obama voted against a measure to lower the Firearms Owners Identification card age minimum from 21 to 18, a measure designed to assist young people in the military.11
FACT: Barack Obama favors a ban on standard capacity magazines.12
FACT: Barack Obama supports mandatory micro-stamping.13
FACT: Barack Obama supports mandatory waiting periods.2
FACT: Barack Obama supports repeal of the Tiahrt Amendment, which prohibits information on gun traces collected by the BATFE from being used in reckless lawsuits against firearm dealers and manufacturers.14
FACT: Barack Obama supports one-gun-a-month sales restrictions.9
FACT: Barack Obama supports a ban on inexpensive handguns.9
FACT: Barack Obama supports a ban on the resale of police issued firearms, even if the money is going to police departments for replacement equipment.9
FACT: Barack Obama supports mandatory firearm training requirements for all gun owners and a ban on gun ownership for persons under the age of 21.9
1. United States Senate, S. 397, vote number 219, July 2, 2005. (http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00219)
2. Independent Voters of Illinois/Independent Precinct Organization general candidate questionnaire, Sept. 9, 1996. The responses on this survey were described in “Obama had greater role on liberal survey,” Politico, March 31, 20087. (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9269.html)
3. United States Senate, S. 397, vote number 217, Kennedy amendment July 2, 2005. (http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00217)
4. David Wright, Ursula Fahy and Sunlen Miller, "Obama: 'Common Sense Regulation' On Gun Owners' Rights," ABC News' "Political Radar" Blog, http://blogs.abcnews.com, 2/15/08. (http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/02/obama-common-se.html)
5. Illinois Senate, March 25, 2004 SB 2165, vote 20.
6. “Fact Check: No News In Obama's Consistent Record.” Obama ’08, December 11, 2007. (http://www.barackobama.com/factcheck/2007/12/11/fact_check_no_news_in_obamas_c.php)
7. “Candidates' gun control positions may figure in Pa. vote,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Wednesday, April 2, 2008, and "Keyes, Obama Are Far Apart On Guns," Chicago Tribune, 9/15/04. (http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_560181.html)
8. 1998 Joyce Foundation Annual Report, p. 7. (http://www.joycefdn.org/pdf/98_AnnualReport.pdf)
9. “Obama and Gun Control,” The Volokh Conspiracy, taken from the Chicago Defender, Dec. 13, 1999. (http://www.volokh.com/posts/1203389334.shtml)
10. Illinois Senate, May 5, 2002, SB 1936 Con., vote 26.
11. Illinois Senate, March 25, 2003, SB 2163, vote 18.
12. “Clinton, Edwards, Obama on gun control,” Radio Iowa, Sunday, April 22, 2007. (http://learfield.typepad.com/radioiowa/2007/04/clinton_edwards.html)
13. Chicago Tribune blogs, “Barack Obama: NIU Shootings call for action,” February 15, 2008, (http://blogs.trb.com/news/politics/blog/2008/02/barack_obama_comments_on_shoot.html)
14. Barack Obama campaign website: “As president, Barack Obama would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment . . .” (http://www.barackobama.com/issues/urbanpolicy/#crime-and-law-enforcement.)
Posted 11:51PM Jun 10, 2008 by MCSA
Great opinion piece on the rally: Full post is here.
Spend tens of thousands of dollars to pimp your kids out to call for more money and gun bans. That'll fix the problem.
CHICAGO - Thousands of Chicago Public Schools students are expected to fill Soldier Field today in a rally demanding more funding for education.
The students are also expected to push for more anti-violence programs.
Students from all over Chicago will be bused to Soldier Field for the "Shout-Out for Schools" rally. Mayor Richard Daley and public schools CEO Arne Duncan are expected to attend.
As we've seen, every time they call for more "anti-violence programs", it usually has more to do w/ banning guns than trying to sway kids away from actually committing violence.
Posted 11:41PM Jun 10, 2008 by MCSA
Voice your support for Winnebago Co.'s CCW Resolution here!
There is a vast majority of pro-CCW comments on there!
Posted 10:48PM Jun 10, 2008 by MCSA
While we are in Illinois, and this happened in Kentucky, the audio is interesting and revealing - the "I'm going home to see my wife and kids" mentality may keep you fighting when the chips are down...
Property owner Billy Jackson shot and killed two men who he said were trying to rob him.
Listen to the interview.
Jackson said he was sprucing up an apartment in the house he owns at 3517 West Broadway when two masked men forced their way inside. He said one had a large gun, and threatened to kill him and his wife.
"I figured I was going to die and they were going to die, too," said Jackson. "I faked a heart attack; shot him in the side."
The coroner released the names of the alleged intruders late Wednesday afternoon. They are Earl Springer and Dazmond Turner, both 19.
"It just seems like I'm going to lay down, wake up and this is not happening," said Stephanie Roach, Turner's great aunt.She said Turner's death doesn't seem real. She said he once had dreams of NBA stardom, but she never dreamed he would be accused of invading a home.
"It's just something that he wouldn't do and it's been eating at me all night long. It's like, no, that's not Daz," she said. "I don't know if he was forced into doing it, but that is not my nephew."
"At least one of the suspects was armed with a handgun," said Metro Police Detective Phil Russell.
"The property owner was assaulted. He sustained minor injuries."
Police said Springer died at the scene, while Turner died early Wednesday morning at University Hospital.
"They will confer with the commonwealth attorney's office in order to determine if charges need to be placed," Russell said. "At this time in the investigation, it looks as though this was self-defense."
Family members said Turner was once a star point guard for Valley High School who was working toward getting his GED while preparing to be a first-time father this summer.
Roach said family members thought Turner was out of town at the time of the shooting. Now they wish he would have followed through on those plans.
"That's what's shocking everybody. He was supposed to be in Florida to reunite with his mother and his sisters," Roach said. "Now, they're on their way to bury him."
Of course the families of the intruders are saying they those "kids" were the "greatest people in the world"... Sigh...
Posted 04:47PM Jun 10, 2008 by MCSA
Saturday, June 7th was hot, humid and stormy - tornados
would ravage
...But I'm still spinning from attending Spartan Tactical Training Group excellent "Advanced Pistol 1: Developing Reflexive Gun-handling Skills" class, tornados be damned!
Taught by John Krupa III and Vince Jamison, whose combined curriculum vitaes read like laundry lists of every possible cool
shooting courses ever known, the course focused on, (surprise...) the
development of reflexive pistol-handling skills. Most of the classroom teaching
was delivered by Krupa, who is a fantastic instructor with a very witty,
down-to-earth demeanor, delivering information with great humor and gusto.
The core of the class focused on developing the "Natural Action Stance", which had been developed through research identifying the stress-reactions of people in aggressive confrontations. It compliments the body’s natural tendency to square to a threat, lean forward slightly, and get mobile (weight on balls of feet). Being a boxer, I found that the stance mimicked the "peek-a-boo" stance very closely. After stance development, a heavy emphasis was placed on moving laterally off the line of force.
Krupa stated that the reason a new, stress-compatible posture was necessary in training is because many agencies (Krupa and Jamison are both law enforcement) focus on basic weapon familiarization and that there is a significant disconnect between a department qualifier and the real world. He dug out hard statistical data (FBI 2005), which showed that the same officers that are required to perform 70% or better on qualifiers hit only 18% of the time in real situations. He further argued that the rank-and-file’s averages are probably even worse since the statistics include SWAT and Rapid Response teams who are usually better trained and equipped.
With footwork in place and assessed under Jamison's careful
tutelage, the pistol was added in a self-indexing thumbs forward grip which
enabled the student to point naturally, using the thumbs, at the target. We
then practiced moving the pistol out, lining up the sights, breaking a shot, following
through with a second sight picture of the target before resetting to the ready
position.
Next, Krupa and Co. would give either verbal commands or
audible Pact timer beeps to ingrain a "step laterally, fire a number of
shots" reflex into the students. We worked running the gun from 2-6 shots
on a steel plate, which provided instant audible assessment to the student
before breaking for lunch.
The second half of the course got into more drills, a discussion about reactions time and action lag, and scanning a 360-degree area around the student (keep on the lookout for multiple attackers).
The final phase moved into team and individual shoot-offs which assessed the amount of material retained by each student when external stress was added to the mix. When you take into account the sheets of rains, tornado sirens and the some excellent shooter, the shoot-offs were a very novel way of building tension and forcing students to put into practice what had been learned the first half of the day - now, if my hand would just stop burning from the “GLOCK Finger” affliction, I’d be happy!
Posted 02:10PM Jun 10, 2008 by MCSA
