If you don’t believe the government wants to take away guns, this might open your eyes.

I was at a handgun training course on the mainland last week.  Standing in a line to have CCW papers notarized, I met someone with an interesting story.  The man is a Deputy Sheriff in California near the LA area.  He’s a Chaplain, so he’s not required to carry on duty.  He does, however, think it’s important to carry for self defense, plus he believes we need to take advantage of 2A before we can’t.

His story began with his brother-in-law having early onset alzheimer’s.  The county adjudicated the BIL as mentally unfit to own and possess firearms.  According to the law, he has to sell or transfer his collection of 2 dozen weapons, or surrender them to the state.  He wasn’t sure they would sell in the time allowed, and he had no relatives interested in taking them.

This deputy took his own time to drive the collection out-of-state,  The guns were transferred to an FFL who was asked to sell them on commission.  The deputy also kept all transfer records.

A few weeks later, DOJ officers called and asked him to meet 20 miles from his work to “talk” about the guns.  He said he was on duty, and would meet them at his station.  They tried to force him to meet at a place of their choosing (far away from his office and any witnesses, he believed), but he told them to meet at the Sheriff station or nowhere.  In hindsight, he believes they were hoping to claim he committed a crime (use your imagination) during the meeting which their crew would willingly back up with no independent witnesses to contradict.

The DOJ officers interrogated him alone in an interview room for an hour, trying to get him to make inconsistent answers.  He finally told them to stop the questions.  He asked them why they are treating him like a criminal and to say what was on their minds, or he’d call a lawyer.  They said there was a gun missing from the collection they wanted to account for.  He asked which one? They said a Black Hawk .44.  The deputy pulled out his paperwork, and that was #1 on the transfer list (of course it was a lie that it was missing, but first on the list was first one to come to the DOJ officer's mind).  They backtracked and said they weren’t sure which one.  It was all a story to try and pin a crime on him, or at least make him believe he’d mistakenly done something wrong.  When he asked to leave the room, they finally told him the real reason they had a problem with what he did. 

They wanted to make sure no one else in his office advised or assisted anyone in transferring weapons out of state because THEY (DOJ) WANTED THE GUNS!!  The DOJ could not find any laws the deputy had broken, but that was irrelevant.  The laws are written so it’s more likely the guns will be surrendered for destruction, which is what lawmakers and DOJ intended.  Keeping the guns in the hands of the public goes against the government’s plan, and they were trying to punish him for it.

The deputy told me flat out he will never trust our government after what they did to him and what they tried to do with his family member’s guns.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -

Hawaii News Now has learned that Hawaii State Senator Gil Kahele has died.

The Hilo native, who represents District 1 on the Big Island of Hawaii, was first appointed to the
State Senate in 2011 by then Gov. Neil Abercrombie.



Senator Kahele was absent from the first day of the 2016 legislative session last week Wednesday
because he was hospitalized for undisclosed medical treatments.


Kahele was 73 years old.

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/31061756/state-sen-gil-kahele-dies?sf19716800=1

Massachusetts Town Subjects Gun Permit Applicants To An Essay Portion

Lowell, Massachusetts is going to require gun permit applicants to write an essay to explain why they’re exercising their Second Amendment rights.
If a federal judge struck down California’s 10-day waiting period for gun owners as an unconstitutional infringement on their civil rights, then this
essay portion should surely be struck down.

The policy requires anyone seeking a license-to-carry to take a gun-safety course. Anyone applying for an unrestricted gun license must state in
writing why they should receive such a license, and to provide additional documentation, such as prior military or law-enforcement service, a
prior license-to-carry permit, or signed letters of recommendation.

Critics who spoke Tuesday, and who've blasted the policy before, made one last attempt at persuading Police Superintendent William Taylor to
make it less onerous on applicants.

"I will never write an essay to get my rights as an American citizen," resident Dan Gannon said.

A state law requiring that you prove a valid "need" to carry a handgun?  That's crazy talk!   


http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2016/01/22/massachusetts-town-subjects-gun-permit-applicants-to-an-essay-portion-n2108196

If we had more criminals doing this, think how much safer we'd all be!           

10 days into new year, more than 100 people shot in Chicago

January 11, 2016

Seven people were shot to death and 30 more were wounded across Chicago over the weekend, raising the number of
shootings in the city to more than 100 in just over a week into the new year, according to police.

The fatal shootings included two teens killed by a store clerk during a robbery in the Gresham neighborhood on
the South Side, and one of three people shot at a party four blocks from Mayor Rahm Emanuel's home.

As of Monday morning, at least 19 people have been killed in gun violence in Chicago this year and at least 101
more have been wounded, according to data compiled by the Tribune.  This time last year, nine people had been
killed and another 31 wounded, according to statistics kept by the Chicago Tribune.

Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi released a statement blaming most of the violence on "chronic
gang conflicts."

"Every year Chicago Police recover more illegal guns than officers in any other city, and as more and more
illegal guns continue to find their way into our neighborhoods it is clear we need stronger state and federal
gun laws," Guglielmi said in the statement. "So far this year, the majority of the gun violence we've seen are
a result of chronic gang conflicts driven in part by social media commentary and petty disputes among rival
factions. Despite an overall lack of cooperation from gang members, detectives are working aggressively
and making optimistic progress in several cases."

 


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-more-than-100-people-have-been-shot-in-chicago-so-far-this-year-20160111-story.html

US Senate Makes Major Announcement That Concealed Carriers Will LOVE

With nearly 1.4 million new concealed carry permits being issued each year, it only makes sense that a
national reciprocity law be enacted to protect law-abiding holders of CCW permits to cross freely from
one state to another without worrying about breaking neighboring state’s gun laws.

Thanks to the newly GOP Senate, such a law could become a reality soon. Senate Majority Whip John
Cornyn will reintroduce the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act which would allow permit-holding
gun owners to carry lawfully in other states that have concealed carry laws.

As more Americans obtain these permits, it seems like reciprocity would not only be advantageous
to an already backed-up court system, but also necessary to prevent lawful citizens from being lumped
into the same category as thieves, drug dealers and murderers.

While this type of bill has a much better chance of passage in the current Congress, there’s still a major
roadblock —  our anti-gun, anti-constitutional rights president.

If he’s willing to veto a bill like the Keystone pipeline project to keep his lefty environmentalist friends
happy, it’s doubtful he’ll look on this bill any more favorably.

Hopefully the GOP can figure out a way to attach the bill to legislation that the president would be forced
to sign — that’s probably the only way it would ever become law under this administration.

 

http://conservativetribune.com/senate-concealed-carriers-love/?utm_source=Facebook

2/14/2015

[...] when comparing gun ownership to violence within a country, which often shows a "negative correlation."

"Where firearms are most dense, violent crime rates are lowest, and where guns are least dense violent crime
rates are highest," said the report.

This is the kind of study result you get when you ask honest questions.  Instead of "gun deaths" or "gun crimes", they actually looked at violence and crimes overall.

Of course if you ban guns, you'll have fewer crimes committed with them, but that does NOT look at the bigger picture:  self defense against crime and violence across the board.

As the Daily Caller noted, this explains why many shootings take place in "gun free zones" like schools
and movie theaters rather than in police stations or gun clubs.

The study pointed out that there are 40 states that allow citizens to carry concealed handguns, which the
authors said reduced murder and violent crime.

"Adoption of state laws permitting millions of qualified citizens to carry guns has not resulted in more murder
or violent crime in these states. Rather, adoption of these statutes has been followed by very significant
reductions in murder and violence in these states," wrote the researchers.

You would think Obama would have included this study in his Gun in America Side Show last Thursday, since he also is a Harvard grad.

Oh, wait ..... agenda.  Never mind!

The Harvard study concluded with the following warning to lawmakers who want to further regulate
gun ownership in the U.S.: "The burden of proof rests on the proponents of the more guns equal more death
and fewer guns equal less death mantra, especially since they argue public policy ought to be based on that
mantra. To bear that burden would at the very least require showing that a large number of nations with more
guns have more death and that nations that have imposed stringent gun controls have achieved substantial
reductions in criminal violence (or suicide). But those correlations are not observed when a large number of
nations are compared across the world."

http://www.hngn.com/articles/141814/20151020/harvard-gun-study-the-more-guns-the-less-criminal-activity.htm

Why we will never win the 2A argument using facts:

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

--Mark Twain

Here's an actual exchange on Twitter I had during the Obama Circus, Guns in America Town Hall.  Makes my head hurt re-reading it!



Didn't get anymore tweets from Janny M. 

Facebook post from Alex's wife:

Today Alex went to the DMV to renew his license. When he was told to go have his picture taken he noticed
that there were some men having their picture taken, these men were wearing turbins on there heads.

Alex was asked to take his hat off to have his picture taken. He said “no”, and “no” again when asked the second
time. When he was asked why he would not remove his hat he said, “those men didn’t remove their head wear, I
shouldn’t either”.

It was explained that this was their attire and their religion. Alex told the DMV person that what he had on was his
attire and when he entered the Marines he declared an oath to the USA, and one nation under God, so that his
oath was under God so just as good as his religion.

Well, the DMV people didn’t know what to do, they spoke to supervisors and called Sacramento. Alex was told,
after an hour, that he could wear his hat for the picture and if there were any problems they would let him know
and he could appeal their decision. He told them if there was a problem he WILL appeal it.

Alex feels no one has more right to display their head gear then a Veteran or active service person. When he left
several employees at the DMV clapped quietly for him.

White House: Obama Thinks Gun Control Will Deter Terrorists


The question at the end is what really bothers me. 

To make it harder for terrorists to get guns, you either have to:

(1) identify who the terrorists are before they acquire guns, or

(2) make it harder for everyone to acquire, which makes it harder for people to defend themselves against all criminals, including terrorists.

This is what we are facing this coming year ..... 

And his little smirk tells me even he doesn't believe the BS he's shoveling for Obama, but he really doesn't care.  He's getting well paid, and is set for life!