The Supreme Court (Haynes v. U.S., 1968) ruled the government cannot prosecute someone for not registering
a gun if that person is prohibited from having a gun. This makes virtually every gun law a sham! Only if you have NOT
been convicted of, or pled guilty to, a felony can you be prosecuted for not registering your firearms, if so required!
"...among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation
of arms as the blackest." - Mahatma Gandhi [2 Gandhi, AUTOBIOGRAPHY 666 (M. Desai, transl. 1927).]
BEWARE of a site titled "Gun Guys" (http://www.gunguys.com/), an anti-gun, anti-hunting web site.
REPORT
OF THE
SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
UNITED STATES SENATE
NINETY-SEVENTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION
To better understand our Second Amendment rights, sometimes we need to look to other portions of our Constitution.
The Ninth Amendment is seldom quoted because at first glance it seems confusing and obscure. However, upon careful dissection, it is clear that it was written as a reminder that the government is not permitted to negate or even reduce in meaning any of the "people's" rights. The amendment, using words not in common usage today, says: "The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." RETAINED, defined: To keep in possession, to hold secure or intact, keep. Rights, listed or unlisted in the Constitution, belong to us, the citizens of the United States, and are not subject to removal, political correctness, denial or disparagement.
"The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials...fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections." (Justice Jackson for the U.S. Supreme Court in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 634 (1943)).
--Chuck Klein writing in Guns & Ammo, August 1999
From Alex Korwin, author of Gun Laws of America:
Total NICS FBI background checks (a rough estimate of gun sales):
2002: 8,454,322
2003: 8,481,588
2004: 8,687,671
2005: 8,952,945
Increase in four years: 5.9%
Jan. to Aug. 2006 increase is 12.1% ahead of same period in 2005
Total background checks since startup in 1998: 67,900,000.
The file Valentino Commentary presents a
published commentary by Gerard Valentino writing for CNSNews.com. This author
represents someone who "gets it" and who presents the reader, with logical reasoning,
the falicy of the "anti-gun" agenda. Print a few copies and pass them along to an "anti."
Winchester exhibition shooter Patrick Flanigan has set a new world record
by busting
11 (yes, eleven) clays he throws skyward by hand, before they hit the ground!
Go here to see
a video of the event. Fantastic!
but... Other professional shooters, after closely examining the video, believe the video should not be accepted at face value.
(Sept. 2007) From reader Jim Vollink comes BORDER PATROL
One simple objective: Keep 'em out... at any cost!
Call it "Sleep the Sheep." Using your left mouse button, you shoot a tranquilizing dart if a
sheep makes a dash from the flock. Don't try to click on a moving sheep, just click the "Shoot dart" button.
After you complete five tries, your reaction time is displayed. The game's author guarantees
"No sheep were harmed in the making of this game."
Click here and have fun!
March 2006: Welcome to Quail Hunting School, Dick!
Your objective in this game
is to shoot ten quail without hitting Dick's companion, Harry. Have fun!
You must have
Flash ver 7 or above loaded to play. Many thanks to reader and friend, Dale K.
Parents need to protect and educate their kids when it comes to guns. For ideas on how to keep kids
safe around guns, read the
safety guide for kids and guns from Taurus.
Here are some safety figures to throw back at the "anti's" disinformation:
Firearm-related fatalities in the U.S. have been decreasing consistently since record-keeping began in 1903, and
dramatically in the last 10 years.
Over the last eight years, the number of unintentional firearm-related fatalities for children (14 years of age and under)
has decreased by 67%.
Accidental firearm-related fatalities are substantially lower compared to the number of accidental deaths caused by other injury types.
Hunting is one of the safest forms of recreation in the United States.
Firearms are involved in fewer than 2% of accidental fatalities among children (14 years of age and under).
In the past 12 years, firearm-related accidents in the home have dropped by more than half (55%).
Firearms are involved in fewer than 1% (0.7%) of all accidental fatalities in the United States.
Over the last decade the rate of firearm-related injuries per 100,000 people has declined by 60% (from 0.5% in 1994 to 0.2% in 2004).
[Industry Intelligent Reports, Vol. 1 No. 12/2006 published by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF).
"...the term people as used in the Second Amendment must refer to
individuals. The Term people cannot possibly refer to states any
more than the term arms refers to the upper limbs of the human body."
-- George Mason University Law School Professor Nelson Lund at the "Firearms
Law & The Second Amendment Symposium" Sept. 24, 2005.
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the
president...." --Theodore Roosevelt
"When a citizen obtains a firearm, liberals assume he or she will use it to commit a crime,
sell it to a criminal, let a child play with it or allow a criminal to steal it, anything but
use it responsibly as do the vast majority of gun owners. This perspective stems from the
fundamentally misguided principle that only government, not the individual, can be trusted with
significant responsibility." —Robert Barr, US Congressman, Republican -- Georgia
"I don't care if you want to hunt. I don't care if you think it's your right.
I say 'sorry'. It is 1999. We have had enough as a nation. You are not allowed to own a gun
and if you do own a gun, I think you should go to prison!" -- Rosie O'Donnell
The Federalist reviewed the latest Centers for Disease Control mortality statistics -- the official
statistics used by Clinton and company -- and found a few additional facts worth
mentioning. Regarding the accidental deaths of children from birth to
age 14, the CDC lists: auto (2,608), drowning (1,010), pedestrian (675),
bicycle (201), and gun accidents (142). Gun homicides in the same age group totaled 346. As for [the]
claim of "12 young people, dying every day," [this figure] is including the 17- to 19-year-old gangsters
and drug dealers -- who target primarily each other -- among the "young." For all ages,
of a population of 270,000,000, there were 13,522 homicides involving the use of a gun. Tragically, while blacks compose 12.8% of the population, they account for more than 50% of all homicides -- mostly black males killed by black males.
Interestingly, the CDC includes gun deaths by "legal intervention" or
self-defense among the total cited above. The Federalist inquired about the actual
number of legal shootings in order to distinguish between those and
illegal homicides, and the CDC declined to release that figure.
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"...the 2nd Amendment was not put into the Constitution by the Founders merely to allow us to
intimidate burglars, or hunt rabbits to our hearts' content. This is not to say that hunting rabbits and
turkeys for the family dinner, or defending against dangers, were not anticipated uses for firearms,
particularly on the frontier -- this is true. But above all, the Founders added the 2nd Amendment
so that when, after a long train of abuses, a government evinces a methodical design upon our natural
rights, we will have the means to protect and recover our rights." -- Dr. Alan Keyes
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. TIMOTHY JOE EMERSON
Appeal heard in the Fifth Circuit Court, New Orleans, LA
Judge Garwood questioning the attorney representing the Federal Government (Meteja) during Clinton's term:
"You are saying that the Second Amendment is consistent with a position that you can take guns away from the public? You can restrict ownership of rifles, pistols and shotguns from all people? Is that the position of the United States?" Meteja (for the government: "Yes" Judge Garwood: "Is it the position of the United States that persons who are not in the National Guard are afforded no protections under the Second Amendment?" Meteja: "Exactly." Meteja then said that even membership in the National Guard
isn't enough to protect the private ownership of a firearm. It wouldn't
protect the guns owned at the home of someone in the National Guard. Judge Garwood: Membership in the National Guard isn't enough? What else is
needed? Meteja: "The weapon in question must be used in the National
Guard."
"Are we still raising young people who will be emboldened by the truth of human equality to fight for their
liberty? Will they resist the temptation to give in to the cowardly behavior that allows tyrants to reign?
Will they have the courage to resist tyranny -- particularly when it offers the kind of comfortable servitude
that our era of material abundance makes possible?" -- Dr. Alan Keyes
"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the
people fear the government, there is tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson
"Quemadmoeum gladuis neminem occidit, occidentis telum est." (A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands.) -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, circa 45 AD
Do I have to be Jewish to join Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership? No.
And joining could be one of your best moves to save your rights to own firearms!
Please read this.
Did you know that sales of hunting licenses have declined in nine of the last ten years?
Over 14,000 fewer licenses were sold, nationwide, in 1998 v. 1997 (USF&W reports). The number
of licensed hunters declined 17% from 1990 to 1998 (Mediamark Research, Inc). Target shooting
involved over 18 million participants in the USA in 1997. That figure, however, is five percent
less than the figure for 1993 (National Sporting Goods Asso). The ATF tells us the number of
licensed firearms dealers has dropped from over 250,000 to around 70,000 --a reduction of over
70 percent-- thanks, in large part, to additional ATF licensing restrictions and requirements.
The number of women owning firearms peaked in 1993 at 13.8% but had dropped to 10.7% in 1998
(National Opinion Research Center). Cameron Hopkins, writing in American Handgunner,
May.June 2000, states "The gun business is in an irreversible decline and nothing can turn it around."
If you're old enough to have grandchildren, they may see the disarming of the American citizenry."
When you hear polls denouncing gun owners and those who would maintain a free citizen's right to be armed
consider the poll conducted by The History Channel.
The question asked in September 1999 was "Should the right to bear arms be repealed?"
The response? 89.8% voted "No!"
