Today Is National Ammo Day
November 19, 2009
Like ya needed an excuse to get out and buy some ammo… well if you did here it is. National Ammo Day is a day gun owners hold a Buycott and purchase ammo in support of our 2nd Amendment Rights as well as support our gun and ammo manufactures.
November 19 is National Ammo Day.
It is a nationwide BUYcott of ammunition. You buy ammunition. 100 Rounds a person.
The goals of Ammo Day:
The goal of National Ammo Day is to empty the ammunition from the shelves of your local gun store, sporting goods, or hardware store and put that ammunition in the hands of law-abiding citizens. Make your support of the Second Amendment known–by voting with your dollars!
There are an estimated 75 MILLION gun owners in the United States of America. If each gun owner or Second Amendment supporter buys 100 rounds of ammunition, that’s 7.5 BILLION rounds in the hands of law-abiding citizens!
The gun/ammunition manufacturers have been taking the brunt of all the frivolous lawsuits, trying to put these folks out of business. Well, not if we can help it! And we CAN help it by buying ammunition on November 19!
I’m sure if you can’t get out today then purchasing some in the next few days will help the cause. I stopped on my way home from work and purchased over 600 rounds. That will be a lot of target shooting, plinking, hunting, and if need be defending. I even picked up a box of Moose Killing Rounds Remington Core Lokt 220 grain 3006. Other then a coastal bear here in NC there is not much else I would use it for. I’m hopeful that in the near future I’ll get drawn for another Maine Moose both of my earlier ones were dropped with that particular round. Kind of surprised to see it on a store shelf here in NC so I had to add it to the cart.
So go on out and celebrate Ammo day
Low Life’s Kill American Hero’s Therapy Dog
April 7, 2009
United States Navy file photo of Navy SEALs operating in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. From left to right, Sonar Technician (Surface) 2nd Class Matthew G. Axelson, of Cupertino, Calif; Senior Chief Information Systems Technician Daniel R. Healy, of Exeter, N.H.; Quartermaster 2nd Class James Suh, of Deerfield Beach, Fla.; Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Marcus Luttrell; Machinist’s Mate 2nd Class Eric S. Patton, of Boulder City, Nev.; and Lt. Michael P. Murphy, of Patchogue, N.Y. With the exception of Luttrell, all were killed June 28, 2005, by enemy forces while supporting Operation Red Wing.
Marcus Luttrell Navy Seal and American Hero recovering from wounds he got while defending this country is now dealing with the senseless execution of his therapy dog Dasy. Chesson has a story about having the opportunity to hear this man speak. I’ve read his book Lone Survivor and I can’t imagine the hell this young man and the rest of his team went through for us. In case you are unfamiliar with the story here is a brief video that explains.
Now this man is at home in Texas and you would think far from the horrors he had to live through while fighting for us and some punks show up in the middle of the night and kill his therapy dog.
On Thursday I believe it was, Wednesday or Thursday about 1:00 a.m., Marcus is a guy who doesn’t sleep anymore at night. He sleeps during the daytime. And about 1:00 he happened to be awake and he heard a gunshot. He lives on a ranch with his mother in Texas. He grabs his gun and he goes outside. There he sees, I believe it was four. It may be three but I believe it was four young men 18 to 24 years old, all of them, where they had just shot his dog. Marcus’ dog is named Dasy. Each letter represents D A S Y represents one of the fallen members of his team. It was given to him in recovery to help him through the recovery process. This dog means everything to Marcus. Marcus had his gun and he took it out and he put it right between the eyes of one of the guys. He was standing away from them, pointed right between the eyes. Now, here’s a SEAL team member who is wildly, he’s just, he is having trouble, man. He is still recovering from his injuries. He had just gotten out of surgery. He’s standing there with a gun between the guy’s eyes. He doesn’t fire. All four and he’s just saying, “You killed my dog.” They executed his dog. “You killed my dog. Why would you do that?” They run. They get into his car. Marcus gets into his truck, chases them over four counties, finally runs them into a ditch. He calls the Rangers. The Texas Rangers arrive and these guys, when the Texas Rangers are taking these guys away, Marcus has held them there by a gun. As the Rangers are taking these guys away, they’re threatening Marcus’ life and saying, “When we get out, we’re coming for you next. First it was your dog. It’s going to be you next. You don’t know who you’re messin’ with.” That’s when Marcus kind of snapped just a little bit and said to the Ranger, “Excuse me, ranger, do you know who I am?” He said, “Yes, sir, Mr. Luttrell, I do.” He said, “You might want to explain to these punks because I could have killed them 600 different ways and if I wanted to kill you guys after what you would have done what you just did to my dog, I would have pulled you down into my basement and I would have tortured you for days and you wouldn’t have died until you begged me for death. So before you start saying you’re going to come after me, you better learn who you’ve just whose dog you just killed.”
I saw his interview on Fox News… Glenn Beck’s Show and I couldn’t believe that some punks would pull a stunt like this. Hopefully Texas will make an example of these punks.
Nations Top Firearms Salesman Announced
January 14, 2009
Nations Top Firearms Salesman Announced on the eve before the opening of this years SHOT Show in Orlando Florida. The Outdoor Wire a leading daily news and information source for the shooting and outdoor sports industry has named Obama as the “Gun Salesman of the year”.
In recognition of the unprecedented demand for firearms by nervous consumers, The Outdoor Wire has named President-elect Barack Obama its “Gun Salesman of the Year”. For me, it was a simple fact of recognizing that without President-elect Obama’s frightening consumers into action, the firearms industry might be suffering the same sort of business slumps that have befallen the automotive and housing industries.
It’s credit where credit is due. Mr. Obama has consistently voted against individual rights to firearms, appointed a re-tread Clinton administration full of gun banners, and made it plain to anti-gun groups that despite what he might say to the contrary, he’s on their side That history, along with the unquestioned support of anti-gun organizations has spooked consumers into a buying frenzy for firearms that could be outlawed in another Assault Weapons Ban.
Manufacturers are months behind on orders for semi-automatic pistols, AR-style rifles, and anything with so-called ‘high-capacity magazines, buyers we’ve surveyed across the country seem to have a single explanation for their rush to purchase firearms – Obama.
The buying panic is not limited to people you might be described as aficionados or even ‘gun nuts’. Recently, I was in a gun store when a gentleman came and said he’d never wanted to own a gun before, but wanted to get one while he still could.”
Since the November Presidential election, firearms sales have been at unprecedented levels. For December 2008 the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) recorded a twenty-four percent increase in background checks for 2008 (1,523,426) over December 2007 (1,230,525).
This follows a forty-two percent (42%) increase in November 2008, the highest number of NICS checks in the system’s history. Those FBI background checks are required under federal law for all individuals purchasing firearms from federally licensed firearms retailers. In other words, gun sales have never been better.
Sales are so good that on Tuesday, January 6, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) issued a notice to all federal firearms licensees that “an unprecedented increase in demand for ATF Form 4473 had run supplies low enough that dealers were temporarily given permission to photocopy the form until supplies caught up with demand. Completion of a form 4473 is required whenever a federal firearms licensee sells a firearm.
As a journalist with more than two decades of national newsgathering experience, I’ve never seen anything approaching what he calls the “Obama effect”. In fact, gun and ammunition sales are at such frantic levels that they have surpassed the panic-buying of Y2K or anything during the Clinton years when the first Assault Weapons Ban was passed. This time, he says, concerned consumers are buying guns and ammunition in anticipation of Obama Administration actions to prohibit certain types of firearms.
In 1999, the fear was that computers would shut down, crippling the world. Those fears were unfounded. I don’t think the fears of an Obama administration banning guns are unfounded. His record speaks for itself. He’s never failed to support an anti-gun measure, despite saying he supports the Second Amendment.
Moves to prohibit firearms sales would drastically impact a billion-dollar industry that is not only healthy, but pours more than one hundred fifty million dollars annually into conservation programs through an eleven percent tax collected on guns and ammo.
The Pittman-Robertson Act provides the vast majority of funding for wildlife agencies at the federal, state and local levels and that money comes directly from the tax levied against gun owners. Damaging the firearms industry won’t just put workers in the gun business out of work, it will severely impact wildlife and conservation efforts nationally. That damage could take decades to repair – if it can be undone.”
Choosing President-elect Obama as the Gun Salesman of the Year is a lot like a good-news, bad-news joke.His election has driven gun sales into the stratosphere, but his opposition to guns and gun ownership may be the biggest threat the industry has ever faced. If he puts scoring political points with anti-gun groups ahead of economic realities, he will be deliberately putting thousands of people out of work. I don’t see that as an economic stimulus plan with much of a future.”
“Today, the facts are indisputable. Barack Obama has spurred gun sales in a time when the entire economy seems to be tanking. If that doesn’t make him the gun salesman of the year – if not the decade – I don’t know what would.
- Jim Shepherd
There is little doubt that Mr. Obama has been great for gun sales I hope everyone is ready for the attack on our 2nd amendment rights that will be coming under this new regime. Now is the time to join organizations like the NRA that will stand up for our rights.
Now That Our Gun Rights Are Protected Lets Work On “Sensible Gun Laws”
June 27, 2008
Yesterday’s ruling by the US Supreme Court to affirm the Second Amendment as a right for individuals to own and have guns was huge victory. The antis were handed a big defeat but it seems the spinning has already begun and the counter attack is beginning. A local radio newscast I heard yesterday one of the North Carolina Anti Gun Groups spokesperson was excited because they felt this was a good thing because they could now move on to more sensible and reasonable gun laws in this state now that the court has taken the total banning of guns off the table.
So in another words today I should feel reassured that mandatory registration of guns, limits on the numbers of guns I can buy, etc etc are reasonable because there is no reason I should think my right to own a gun is going to be challenged. Wrong!!! Wrong!! Wrong!! As easy as this court ruled one in the future could change that and these “sensible laws” will be used to confiscate and eliminate my right to bare arms. The antis are going to attempt to use this ruling to pull off middle of the road people who may be willing in the name of “safety” to trade small parts of our freedom to keep us all safer.
How about in light of this ruling some new sensible gun laws? Like the ability to Conceal Carry Nationwide…. How about the right of an American to purchase a gun any where in America with out limits to their home state borders? Huh How bout them Sensible gun laws.
We won a small battle but the war still rages to keep liberty alive.
Story by Dan McLaughlin AKA Moose
Op Ed on Conceal Carry On College Campuses
May 1, 2008
It has been a little over a year since the shootings at Virginia Tech and we still debate about should individuals have the right to protect themselves. In today’s Bangor Daily there is a pretty good Op Ed from Nathaniel Richie a student at the University of Maine. A well thought out position and a good read so Check it Out…
Taking Aim Against Guns
April 15, 2008
This week is the one year anniversary of the tragic shooting at Virginia Tech and a renewed call for gun control. Our right to bear arms is guaranteed by the US Constitution and if we fail to fight to keep it we’ll lose it for sure. Across many college campuses there will be protests and calls for additional gun control. The University of North Carolina is no exception and given the recent high profile murder of their student body president.
On Wednesday, 32 protesters will lie on the ground on Polk Place near Gardner Hall for just a few minutes to illustrate symbolically how little time it takes to buy a gun.
Wednesday – April 16 – is the one-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shooting.
And one year later, not much has changed in terms of gun control, both in North Carolina and in the nation at large.
Why should there be any changes in the gun laws? It is one of the most regulated products out there. Myself I think we need to loosen the laws to make sure people have access so the scum that perpetrate such violent acts might have to think twice before they go on their crime sprees.
Gun control advocates often take the approach of having “sensible gun laws” that include gun registrations, waiting periods on purchases, limits on purchases etc. For what? They only penalize law abiding citizens and work to limit the number of law abiding citizens who can afford and meet all these requirements.
Why do we oppose gun registration? We know that at some latter date that information could be used to confiscate our guns. We only need to look at what happened in Canada and Australia when gun bans took place. New Orleans after the hurricane Katrina where law abiding citizens had weapons confiscated by authorities and then they were left unarmed in an area that was lawless and overrun with mobs to fend for themselves. That’s why we oppose any type of gun registration.
Today WalMart has announced that they will set up their own gun registration process to track all guns they sell. This is a significant cave on part of a major retailer and not really surprising given that they have scaled back many of the gun sales by eliminating them totally from their sporting goods section. What will the fall out be? I don’t know but we’ll follow it for sure.
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Charlton Heston Passes On
April 6, 2008
Charlton Heston 1924-2008
I hadn’t been on line much this weekend or seen any news so I was surprised and saddened to hear that Charlton Heston had died. In my younger years Charlton Heston was Moses’, Ben Hur, or one of the few humans to survive the destruction of the earth and the rise of Apes. In the latter years Charlton Heston was the face of the NRA and our defense of our gun rights. Charlton Heston will be missed our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this time.
Arizona Lawmakers Looking To Put Significant Controls On Ammo Sales
February 14, 2008
If some law makers in Arizona get their way handgun and assault weapon ammo will have a coding system to allow authorities to trace them. Additionally this law appears to l outlaw reloading and will require gun owners to get rid of all non compliant ammo or face charges. Check Out Desert Rat’s Story on this attack on gun owners in Arizona.
Bank Card Processor Targets Gun Industry
January 9, 2008
Citi Merchant Services and First Data Corp will stop doing business (processing credit card transactions) with federally licensed firearms distributors, retailers, and manufactures.
CDNN Sports Inc appears to be the first company affected by this ridiculous and prejudicial decision against the gun industry.
“We were contacted recently by First Data/Citi Merchant Services by a June Rivera-Mantilla stating that we were terminated and funds were being seized for selling firearms in a non-face-to-face transaction,” said Charlie Crawford, president of CDNN Sports Inc. “Although perfectly legal, we were also informed that no transactions would be processed in the future, even for non-firearms. I find this very frightening.”
This decision will not only impact gun sales to individuals but will certainly impact sales for law enforcement and the military. I realize for most of us we never even think about what happens when a retailer swipes are credit or debit card to complete a purchase but should the company handling that transaction be able to decide what we can and cannot buy? I think not and what a scary thing if we allow it to happen. Here is the contact information if you want to let Citi Merchant Services and First Data Corp know how you feel about their business plan.
Citi Merchant Services and First Data Corp., please contact June Rivera-Mantilla at 631-683-7734 or her supervisor Robert Tenenbaum at 631-683-6570
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Sometimes choosing between credit cards doesn’t just come down to finding a lower interest credit card than the competitors. Researching credit cards and the companies behind the various credit card deals you might find, could be of great help in choosing a business credit card for your company.
Blizzard Hit’s DC / OSHA buried under Gun Owner’s Responses Rethinks Rules
July 16, 2007
Rules that we have talked about a few times out here that would have eliminated or severely restricted small arms ammunition has been pulled and will be rewritten. OSHA has pulled down the website for comments on this rule and will post a notice in the 17 July Federal Register announcing the plans to rewrite these rules. They state that it was never their intention to eliminate or restricted the small arms ammunition business. Once again Gun Owners have demonstrated strength in speaking up to defend our rights to bear arms. NRA Press Release.
Beware of a Gun Toting Liberal Columnist
July 15, 2007
A local newspaper columnist Ruth Sheehan put down her pen and picked up a gun this week to see what it’s all about. Anyone familiar with Ms Sheehan’s column will note that she is often looking to take guns out of individuals’ hands. I’ve never met Ruth Sheehan but I’m very familiar with her work and our paths have come close to crossing a few times because of my full time job in the Mental Health arena. Although I don’t agree with her on many things I got to admit I read her stuff.
To be honest with you I support those ideas when it comes to criminals and those who have been deemed mentally ill but of course I don’t support the levels she wants to go to that will also prevent or restrict law abiding people from having access to guns. Her support for allowing anti gun groups into our public schools to pass out their propaganda is certainly something I wouldn’t support. I do agree that people need to keep guns out of young unsupervised hands.
I must admit I was a bit surprised when I opened Thursday’s paper and saw a photo of her with a gun in hand. My hats off to Mike Zlotnicki the outdoor editor for the N&O for getting Ms. Sheehan on the firing line at the Wake County Firearms Education and Training Center. I had to scan the photograph out of the paper where her eyes are firmly closed as she is discharging the weapon. How safe is that? (LOL) I know a few shooters that do that as well but I won’t name names. So what were some of her thoughts about the experience?
And though the firing underscored my fear of firearms, I also found it empowering.
The target was only five yards away, but it was thrilling to see the clusters of bullet holes appear on paper plates stapled to the cardboard.
At the end of the session her NRA Instructor Eric Shuford invited her to return to the range and to bring her sons along.
Still, I fear fueling a fascination with firearms in the boys.
I can’t shake the image of one of them at a friend’s house, finding a gun and “showing” his friends how to use it.
More the reason to teach them what to do when they find a gun or when one of their friends has a gun. But less we think that she didn’t get much out of her session at the range;
Still, I might be persuaded to go back out to the range myself. Who knows? I may end up with a concealed-carry permit.
Whatever happens, one thing is sure: I’ll be hanging my 9mm paper plate here at my desk.
I’m sure her friends at North Carolinians Against Gun Violence loved that line. I guess if our paths ever do cross will have more to talk about then her work on behalf of those with mental illness but maybe I won’t tell her I’m a blogger given her parting shot
I like the idea that bloggers — and editors — don’t know for sure whether I might be packing heat.
I think I’ll keep it that way.
Some Good News!!
July 10, 2007
The OSHA public comment period for sweeping changes in the shipping, storing, and manufacturing of small arms ammunition has been extended.
SUMMARY: OSHA is extending the comment period for its proposed standard
on Explosives for an additional sixty (60) days until September 10,
2007.DATES: Written comments must be submitted (postmarked or sent) by
September 10, 2007.
We are not out of the woods yet so join the fight to protect our 2nd amendment right.
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