Tactical Blog

Thanks to the massive opposition and outcry against this extreme anti-gun bill, the sponsor has elected to withdraw the legislation. Senate Bill 516 would have prohibited the possession, transfer or receipt of these firearms by law-abiding Maryland residents.

Late last year, the Rankin County Mississippi Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance prohibiting the discharge of firearms within 500 yards (more then a quarter mile) of a platted subdivision, or hunting with a bow within 100 yards of a platted subdivision. The ordinance was passed with little notice or opportunity for affected landowners and sportsmen to express their opposition to it.

Willows High School acted as if this was another Columbine in the making, but it was just a young adult going hunting before school.
Willows High School became the focus of national attention this month, and unfortunately few people from out of the area understood what makes Willows unique.  The firearm wasn’t even located on school property.

The Indiana Senate voted 41 9 to approve a bill that would make it illegal for employers in Indiana to adopt prohibit workers from keeping firearms in their locked vehicles on company property.
The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Johnny Nugent, R Lawrenceburg, told his colleagues on the Senate floor that people should be able to keep legally permitted firearms in their vehicles so they can go hunting before or after work, or defend themselves if needed on the way to or from their jobs. It would not prevent employers from banning guns inside the workplace.  This is once-again common sense legislation.

Trijicon ACOG

Word got out today that references to verses from the Holy Bible are being imprinted on Trijicon ACOGs and there seems to be a few people whose panties are getting in a wad over it.  First, the military has a right to pick and choose which hardware they use.  They may specify what is imprinted on that hardware but specifications come at a cost.

The problem is that a Trijicon ACOG, short for Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight, is a superb optic and it would be a shame if the military stopped using them over political correctness.

The first time I ever picked one up I was in awe.  The optics are crisp and light transmission is very good.  They are lightweight, compact, and durable.  If you’ve ever watched Fox News, they always use stock footage of Marines in Afghanistan using Trijicon ACOGS.  They use them for a reason.

The argument against them now is the so-called separation of church and state.  To be clear, the First Amendment states that “Congress shall not….”  A reference to Bible verse on a Rifle Scope is not Congress.  Additional arguments are that Bible verses will offend Muslim sensitivities.  My best response to that is, “too bad.”  The wadded panty people are afraid that it reaffirms the “Crusader” image. Too bad.

This is an issue for the military to work out with Trijicon.  For the sake of our troops, lets hope they don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.

Recent news reports about an individual carrying a legal but uncommon looking handgun into Radnor Lake State Park raises questions about whether Tennessee’s handgun permit laws need to restrict handgun permit holders from carrying certain handguns based on their appearance.

The question of appearance is important because that is what the so-called assault weapon ban is based upon.  What is considered an assault weapon is based primarily upon aesthetics and not on function.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg knows a lot, and what he knows has helped bring him success on many levels. But when it comes to federal firearm laws and the Second Amendment, Bloomberg is either uninformed or intentionally deceptive.

The Georgetown County School Board will have major issues to consider when it meets next including the district’s concealed weapons ban.
The school district has attracted state’s Attorney General Henry McMaster’s attention regarding its ban of concealed weapons on all school property, which is more stringent than state law.
McMaster released an opinion in December that the district’s policy supersedes state law, which allows a concealed permit holder to have guns in a car while dropping off kids at school, or in a locked compartment in their vehicle in a school parking lot.

In general, Schools need to revisit their concealed weapons policies.  It’s no coincidence that shooters seek schools to spread their havoc.  It’s schools are gun free zones.  When was the last time a nutcase shot up a police station?  They know the they’d get a few shots off before they’d be shot themselves.   If you think we need more gun free zones, then consider putting a gun free zone placard on your front door.

The Second Amendment faces a decisive year in 2010. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has called for new semi automatic gun bans despite their decade long record of fraud and failure, and despite his own Justice Department’s failure to fully or even half heartedly prosecute federal firearm felonies.
Mr. Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have demonstrated their willingness to use cooked statistics to blame Mexico’s violent drug war on Americans and their Second Amendment rights.
Anti gun leaders in Congress have introduced bills to ban guns, license gun owners, register guns, tax bullets, serialize ammunition, shut down gun shows and a hundred other schemes. They’re still there, proposing every nonsensical gun law they can imagine that only affect law abiding citizens, while criminals go about their evil business unfettered.
Meanwhile at the United Nations, global citizen disarmament nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and freedom fearing dictatorships worldwide maneuver to impose their will on you through international treaties. But it is a new year.
And, in a very crucial way, 2010 may be a year unlike any other in American history when the Second Amendment could, finally and truly, be recognized as a right for all Americans.

So if you feel you have the right to defend yourself, then you have to defend your right.

It’s been dubbed the “make my day” bill, after the oft quoted line from a Clint Eastwood movie.
State Sen. Mark Christensen of Imperial prefers to talk about the “castle doctrine” and about Nebraskans being able to defend themselves without fear of prosecution or lawsuits.
If someone is breaking into your home, he argues, you shouldn’t have to wonder whether the law thinks you are justified in shooting that person.

We might add that not only are you justified in shooting that person, you have an obligation to your fellow citizens to stop that person one way or the other.  Not stopping the person puts yourself and other in future danger from that very same criminal.