Guns Save Life

By Prof. Nicholas Johnson, guest-blogging at the Volokh Conspiracy
now at the Washington Post

Surveying the landscape in the summer of 1892, Ida B. Wells advised, that “the Winchester rifle deserved a place of honor in every Black home.” This was no empty rhetorical jab. She was advancing a considered personal security policy and specifically referencing two recent episodes where armed Blacks saved their neighbors from lynch mobs.

Twice within one month, lynch mobs formed, one in Paducah, Kentucky, another in Jacksonville, Florida. Square in their sights were hapless Negroes who were on track to the same fate as many others before them. But in both cases, the mobs were thwarted by armed Blacks, though the record demands some speculation about how many of their guns were actually Winchester rifle

Sounds like Monique is under-promising hoping to over-deliver.

We’ve heard nothing directly contradictory to this from anyone we trust, but it seemed as though ISP would begin mailing permits out in the next two- to three-weeks at most, not mid-March as Monique Bond was quoted as saying in this story.

Also, we know they have “approved” a whole slew of early applicants, but are holding issuance of licenses until they “feel” as though cops in IL have had a chance to watch a new Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board video on interacting with CCW holders.

As though that’s a difficult quantum physics problem to solve.

(Daily Herald) – The first applicants seeking to carry concealed handguns in public could have their permits by mid-March, Illinois State Police spokeswoman Monique Bond said Thursday.

“We’re probably looking

Illinois’ new concealed carry law was approved last summer.

Since then, the Illinois State Police have been making all sorts of regulatory decisions and rule-making.

You almost need a program to keep track of the changes, and they carry the force of law, so it’s important to understand them.

CCW instructors in particular need to be particularly mindful and do their best to keep up with these changes.

We, too, are learning the ropes about regulatory rule-making.

IN the end, we’re posting the latest rules and regulations which took effect on December 31, 2013 as now-published in the Illinois Review.

Here they are:  FCCARulesDec3113

We’ve distilled them out of the big issue

How embarrassing.  A Massachusetts low-information legislator is now appearing at the Bay State’s capitol building in handcuffs to testify at hearings.

Who is this Democrat state representative and why is he in cuffs?

His name is Carlos Henriquez.

He’s in cuffs following his conviction for beating the snot out of his then-girlfriend in July 2012.

Democrat inmate lawmaker Rep. Carlos Henriquez is steadfastly refusing to resign his seat, and he is doggedly holding onto his job, trying to execute it from his jail cell while he serves a 6-month jail term – for beating the snot out of that former girlfriend.

The sweet irony here is that Democrat inmate lawmaker Rep. Carlos Henriquez

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Mark Wahlberg, star of the current hit movie Lone Survivor, has a checkered past.

In fact, as a 16-year-old, Walberg pled guilty in 1988 to two counts of criminal contempt after beating a Vietnamese man badly enough that the victim of the attack lost an eye and was sentenced to two years in prison.  The original charge was attempted murder.

(Model Minority) – At approximately 9:00 p.m. on April 8, 1988 Thanh Lam, a Vietnamese adult male who resides in Dorchester, traveled by car to 998 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester, Massachusetts.  At 998 Dorchester Avenue, Thanh Lam left his car carrying two cases of beer.  As he crossed the sidewalk

by John Boch

House Representative Ed Sullivan, Jr. (R) called in recent days and explained his new House Bill 4290.

In a nutshell, it’s more or less a single-paragraph in length (why couldn’t more bills be like this one?) and says if you fraudulently certify someone has completed firearms training as required by Illinois law, you shall be convicted of a Class A misdemeanor and it’s non-probational.  In other words, commit instructor fraud and you’re going to spend time in jail – up to 364 days, in fact.

You’ll also never again be an Illinois State Police-approved instructor.  Ever.

Representative Sullivan said the bill was a pretty close to a sure thing to pass both chambers and be signed into law.  Brandon Phelps, the downstate Democrat who introduced Michael Madigan’s authored Firearms Concea

Oh yeah, and while we’re embedding videos, check this one out.

Argue with a judge, spend time in jail.

Tell a judge “F-you”, spend a lot of time in jail.

Here’s a priceless three minute video for you.

It’s a little humorous watching a disrespectful, mouthy woman get her come-unpins.  Skip the first minute to get to the meat of it.

“How you jist gunna tell me I can’t go home?!”  …”I betcha I do!”

“Ebony Burks earned the dubious distinction earlier this month of drawing the longest jail sentence that Elyria Municipal Court Judge Gary Bennett has ever handed down for contempt of court.”

The gun-hating mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan – a colossal jewel of brilliance – released an official statement to his city council in reaction to a peaceable citizen open carrying at a local government meeting in recent days.

Fair disclosure and warning:  take a blood pressure pill before reading.

Since last we met as a City Commission – according to the online resource Wikipedia – there have been nine school shootings, and at least one movie theatre and one mall shooting in the United States. If that pace continues it will outstrip last year’s reported 31 school shootings. Since January 1, 2000, there have been a reported 119 school shootings in the (United States). How could we forget the 6-year-old boy in Flint who brought his uncle’s gun to school and killed his little 6-year-old classmate because, as he said, “I don’t like her.” . . .

In Grand Rapids there have been 23 reports of gunshots and three shooting victims since January 1.

There have been uncounted numbers of suicides by gun in the country since last we met, but, if averages hold up, then 1,119 people have turned their guns on themselves and taken their lives in the last three weeks. Just over half of all suicides are by gun.

There is estimated to be 310

Ladies:  Looking for a manly product as a gift for that man in your life?

Look no further than Duke Cannon Supply Company.

Real products for real men.

Here’s their manifesto:

Their donations for veterans?  Goes to Honor Flight.

Nice.

In the print issue of GunNews, the editor emeritus made a mistake and wrote the Liberty Guns Remodeling Open House was February 14 & 15, when it was really February 21 & 22.

Here’s the corrected information:

Remodeling Open House
February 21 & 22 from 10am-5pm both days.  There will be food, prizes and special deals, along with greatly expanded retail space.

Valentine’s Day Special
Also Feb 14th and 15th:  Come in for a sweetheart deal for your Valentine.  We have all kinds of guns of color, or not, for your ladies pleasure, also carrying the Flash Bang holster line.

See their website at Liberty Guns & Ammo.net for more information.

We regret the error.

Beretta told Maryland’s state legislature that passage of anti-gun bills early last year would force the company to re-think their plans for growth and expansion in Governor Martin O’Malley’s state.  “Berettas don’t bluff,” the Old Line State lawmakers were told.

The legislature passed a whole new raft of gun restrictions anyway.

Well, not only did Beretta cancel plans for growth and expansion in anti-gun Maryland, they announced their intention to move the whole kit and caboodle to Tennessee later this year.

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From The Truth About Guns…

The above photo showing members of Come and Take It – Ft. Worth and some local cookie purveyors is getting heavy play on the internets — and causing panties to twist. Kathy Perkins (second from left), head of

In this time when some veterans assistance groups take in hundreds of millions in donations and spend precious little on the donors’ intended purpose, there’s an up and coming company called Wounded Wear that helps veterans with some of the psychological adjustments of returning home after being wounded in service.

Here’s an article about how and why the company was formed by a severely wounded US Navy SEAL.

Wounded Wear:  “Events that empower.  Clothing that inspires.”

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