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Well, it was fun shooting with you all.  If you think the current ammunition shortage is bad then you are in for a rude awakening.  Yesterday Assembly Bill AB 962 was sent to the State Assembly floor for a vote that could make it law.  In the current bad economy we need to focus our attention on more pressing matters.  We do not need another government mandated program to regulate the sale and transfer of products and services.  This law will put out of business firing ranges, gun stores and firearms training classes in California.  Additionally this bill will decrease the state revenue from these business and leave the people they employ jobless.

The gist of the bill is that it will:

1) stop internet ammo sales (forcing all ammo sales to be face-to face)

2) require registration and thumbprint at each ammo purchase

3) require certification of ammo sales personnel

4) require all ammo kept inside a secure enclosure

And the worst part …

5) limit the sale or transfer of ammunition to 50 rounds per month

PLEASE CONTACT YOUR STATE REPRESENTATIVE AND TELL THEM YOU OPPOSE AB 962!

Text of AB 962

Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain
records pertaining to firearms transactions.

This bill would require the department to maintain additional
information relating to ammunition transfers and licensed handgun
ammunition vendors, as specified.

Existing law generally regulates the sale of ammunition.

This bill would establish a program administered by the Department
of Justice for licensing handgun ammunition vendors, as specified.

The bill would establish a database maintained by the department
to serve as a registry of handgun ammunition vendors.

This bill would require that commencing July 1, 2010, unless
specifically excluded, no person shall sell or transfer more than 50
rounds of handgun ammunition in any month unless he or she is
registered as a handgun ammunition vendor, as defined. The bill would
also require these vendors to obtain a background clearance for
those employees who would handle ammunition in the course and scope
of their employment. The bill would require the Department of Justice
to maintain a registry of registered handgun ammunition vendors, as
specified. Violation of these provisions, as specified, would be a
misdemeanor.

Sotomayor is not really a big fan of the 2nd amendment.  Short summary: She thinks that the 14th amendment, which has been used as an argument that ALL of the bill of rights must bind the states as well as the government doesn’t apply to the 2nd amendment.  Why?  There was some ruling that occurred before the 14th amendment that directly addressed this point and said the 2nd amendment does not apply to the states.

Eh.  So she sides with the dissenters in Heller v DC.  Why am I not surprised.

Rule 1…  Treat all guns as if they were loaded.  Always.  (of course the NRA Rule 1 is Always keep guns pointed in a safe direction, but, that’s quibbling).

Keeping that in mind.  You have to love this story:

“Phoenix man killed in gun-safety demo

As talked about here (TheCitizen), HR 2159 (The Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009) would allow the Attorney General to have the power to deny firearms to potential terrorists.

If our no fly list is an example of what the government considers to be potential terrorists, this bill would have serious unintended consequenses….

For those of you with too much time on your hands and some disposable cash, you too can assemble an AR-15 to look like your favorite power tool manufacturers latest tack driver.

By way of Gizmodo, I saw this device at BillllsIdleMind.

It’s a stationary bicycle that powers an air compressor that pressurizes a launch tube that is capable of embedding spike-tipped empty shot shells into wood after only two minutes of peddling…

Seriously,  Whats not to love?

Now you have a reason to save all your spent shot shells after Saturday’s shotgun class

Startled burglar pleads for his life

For the first time in recorded history a Desert Eagle was used in home defense.  I am a little disappointed that it was not a .50 AE, but this pistol, long admonished as a useless movie fanboy firearm, was used by Eric Stucky to change history recently.

A builder and woodworker by profession, Eric Stucky said he was on the phone in the basement about 9:30 a.m. when he heard the window to his back porch shatter. He said it took him about 20 minutes to figure out what happened.

“I’m being robbed,” he finally surmised.

Playing the role of detective, Stucky said he speculated the burglar left but would return after it appeared safe enough to enter. Playing the scenario in his mind, Stucky said he took his handgun from his nightstand and envisioned catching a burglar red-handed.

“This was kind of stupid,” he said, “but I took a shower. I left the music on, got out of the shower and dried myself off.” Then he waited.

About 10:30 a.m., Stucky said he peeked around the corner from his bedroom to see a large man climbing through the broken window. Returning to the bedroom, he said he heard a second person enter. He said one went to the second floor of his home and the other went into his office. Crouched on his knees, Stucky said the unarmed burglar in his office turned around to discover he was being watched.

As Stucky described it: “Then he started screaming like a little scared girl, ‘Please don’t shoot me, please don’t shoot.’ ”

While holding one burglar at gunpoint, Stucky said the second man broke through an upstairs window and escaped.

Basically I see this as a lesson on how not to handle a home invasion.

Here are a few lessons to be learned from Eric’ mistakes:

If you know bad guys are coming, call the police and get the hell out. The police get paid to deal with criminals and unless you have things that cant be replaced or family in danger it is not worth it.

For the love of God and all that is Holy, don’t take a shower while you wait for bad guys to return. Your stink might scare them off more than your big ol’ D’Eagle.

Grabbing your big ol’ gun and laying in wait for guys to break into your house may not look good to a jury.

Lastly, if you know where the bad guys are entering your home confront them there rather than allowing them enter unabated, wander through your home and separate thereby exposing yourself to possible armed assault from multiple locations.

I honestly think most beginning ADE student would have handled this situation better.

Article on Defense Review

Last year Desert Tactical Arms released a new bullpup rifle called the Stealth Recon Scout.  This rifle fits a 22″ barrel in a package that is only 31.5″ long for the .308 Win. version.  They even have a .338 Lapua Magnum version of the rifle with a 26″ barrel which is just 6″ longer at 37.5″.  Best part is that you don’t need to get two of these rifles if you want both a .308 Win. and a .338 LM since you can just change out the barrels with a conversion kit.  These rifles are sleek and light for their purpose.  I could do without the quad rail but otherwise it looks like an awesome system.

Seems a couple of home invaders got taken by surprise when they broke down the door of a party with the intent to rob, rape and murder the 10 birthday party attendees.  One of the people at the party had a gun in his backpack and opened fire on the two murderous party crashers killing one of them before they had a chance to rape or kill anyone.

College Student Shoots, Kills Home Invader

Snipped sections of story …

“A group of college students said they are lucky to be alive and they’re thanking the quick-thinking of one of their own. Police said a fellow student shot and killed one of two masked me who burst into an apartment.”

“They just came in and separated the men from the women and said, ‘Give me your wallets and cell phones,’” said George Williams of the College Park Police Department.

Bailey said the gunmen started counting bullets. “The other guy asked how many (bullets) he had. He said he had enough,” said Bailey.

That’s when one student grabbed a gun out of a backpack and shot at the invader who was watching the men. The gunman ran out of the apartment.

The student then ran to the room where the second gunman, identified by police as 23-year-old Calvin Lavant, was holding the women.“Apparently the guy was getting ready to rape his girlfriend. So he told the girls to get down and he started shooting. The guy jumped out of the window,” said Bailey.

The current Supreme Court has had a series of recent rulings that have led to further and further restricting of the protections offered by the fourth amendment, best one is this one which basically says that if you can get a search warrant by “mistake” that anything you find is still ok — remember it had to be a mistake (wink wink).

However, in the most recent ruling, the protections offered were actually expanded.  Specifically:

For the police to search your car, they now must meet one of two conditions:

1. The suspect being arrested must be out of police control AND within contact distance of the vehicle.
2. -or- there must be reasonable suspicion that evidence of the crime for which the arrest is being made is present in the car.

The first condition is for police safety, the second is probable cause.  This is a somewhat rational ruling…  What was the law before the ruling?  Police were able to handcuff a speeding suspect, lock him in the police car, and then search for drugs and weapons or other possible who knows what crimes — after all, the fact they were in a car clearly means that they have no right to privacy……  Perhaps a little overreaching .

Some addtional references:

What to do during a traffic stop (youtube video). — The FlexYourRights youtube channel.

And of course, http://www.flexyourrights.org/ and http://www.aclu.org/,

The ACLU, defenders of Rights 1 and 3-10 of the Bill of Rights

UPDATE: California just also made a ruling regarding 4th amendment rights in your car.  Here, specifically, the aquiescence to a search of the truck of a car was NOT an aquiesence to a search of the passenger compartment.  Further, handing the keys over to search the truck and remaining silent during the passenger compartment search were not mitigating factors in the reducing the rights of the suspect in protecting the privacy of his passenger compartment.