Rick Olson

Rick Olson is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, and a graduate of Southern New Hampshire University with a BA in Social Science. Rick subsequently attended Massachusetts School of Law in Andover MA. Rick takes up second amendment issues on Granite Grok, as well as issues surrounding hunting, fishing, trapping and wildlife issues. Rick Olson is a former Police Officer and Deputy Sheriff. He is Past President of the New Hampshire Wildlife Federation, President of the Londonderry Fish & Game Club  Rick is a nationally certified firearms instructor and a Hunter Education Instructor. He can frequently be found teaching Urban Rifle and Defensive Pistol classes as an Instructor with Defensive Strategies in Goffstown, NH.  Rick resides in Manchester with his wife Lisa. He has four children and ten Grandchildren.

“Gun Nuts” To The Rescue…

“These people protected me when I couldn’t protect myself..” —Kevin Dorsey, Houston Robbery Victim, rescued by armed citizens.

“I don’t believe in guns,” said Kevin Dorsey, who found himself suddenly the victim of an armed robbery in Houston’s Hermann Park neighborhood. “I don’t own a gun,” Dorsey added.  

But Kevin Dorsey was one of the few lucky people that a couple of, “Gun Nuts” happen to be driving by while he was being robbed. According to KPRC Houston, Police say the armed thug was canvassing a

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New Website Promoting Gun Rights: SenatorFeinstein.com!

“The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.” —Jay Leno

I’m now promoting the second Amendment! You make Joke!

When thinking of Gun Control, Assault Weapons bans and other sordid nefarious stuff crafted by the charlatan left to take our guns away, “Senator Diane Feinstein” immediately comes to mind. Yes, make no mistake about it. I really intended that title.

As reported in the Daily Caller, Feinstein failed to register  her domain name, SenatorFeinstein.com. Consequently, Dimitrios Karras, CEO of the gun parts (not making this up) and accessories store Ares Armor, which will now run the site. Karas tells the Daily Caller he has also purchased Senator Boxer’s domain name as well!

Domain Name? Domain Name? We don’t need no steenking domain name!”

But here is the real irony. Feinstein hails from

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Shrill Kathy Chronicles: “We Need To Take Away The Guns Now!”

“One man with a gun can control 100 without one.”  —Vladimir Lenin 

Kathy SullivanKathy Sullivan wants gun control, indeed. “We need to take the guns away now!,” She declares. Sullivan says a, “majority of Americans believe that the time has come for action.” But the anecdotes, facts, and statistics belie her assertion.

Facts are curious things. Sullivan sources Mother Jones Magazine attributing an absence of mass killings in Australia to

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Say Hello To My Little Friend

  What is it that Liberals do not know? Treat and respect all firearms as if they are loaded; Point the muzzle away from non-targets and in a safe direction; Keep fingers off the trigger; Be sure of your target and of what is beyond it; Schmucks….

Dear UK: Please Keep Your Wankers Over There

“We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.”  —Bill Watterson 

“You know what you can do, Piers Morgan”

Piers Morgan does not like guns. That is okay with me. A great many people in this country do not like guns.  Some people from here are particularly noisy about not liking guns. I suppose that is okay as well.  What I take issue with are those instances where foreigners step upon our soil, and wag their finger at us, telling how we should not have guns. Piers Stefan O’Meara…Morgan is just one such scroat.

When a foreigner says, “you should

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Guns And Freedom

“Today, the limitations on the power and precision of the guns we can lawfully own not only violate our natural right to self-defense and our personal sovereignties; they assure that a tyrant can more easily disarm and overcome us.”—Judge Andrew Napolitano

Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, is the senior judicial analyst at Fox News Channel. Judge Napolitano has written seven books on the U.S. Constitution.

The right of the people to keep and bear arms is an extension of the natural right to self-defense and a hallmark of personal sovereignty. It is specifically insulated from governmental interference by the Constitution and has historically been the linchpin of resistance to tyranny. And yet, the progressives in both political parties stand ready to use the coercive power of the government to interfere with the exercise of that right by law-abiding persons because of the gross abuse of that right by some crazies in our midst.

When Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, he was marrying the nation at its birth to the ancient principles of the natural law that have animated the Judeo-Christian tradition in the West. Those principles have

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Not Exactly William Loeb III’s N.H. Union Leader Anymore

“I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.” —Leon Jaworski

Remember Me?

In life change is inevitable. Sometimes change is good. Other times, change is not so good. Then there are times where change is merely a change that we might individually do not care much for.

The New Hampshire Union Leader, once a reliably conservative publication established in 1863 out of the Frank Knox moderation strain, (moving decidedly right under the leadership of William Loeb III and Bernard J. McQuaid)  is now part of a “new media era” sometimes showing

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Of Hand Wringing Hoplophobes, and Hollow Points

“Freedom isn’t for wimps.” —Neal Boortz

On Sunday, January 6, The Nashua Telegraph featured a, Letter to the Editor from Andrew Mazer of Hollis. Ordinarily, letters like Mazer’s are piss-poor subject matter for any edifying blog. But painfully, the nation is rife with Middle-aged sensitive new-aged progressive guys like Andy Mazer. We use to call them, “Whiners,” or, “Wimps.” Now they are called something else. Pick whatever “PC” label that doesn’t piss anyone off.  Just don’t call them wimps because you will have to go to PC rehab.

Mazer takes issues with a statistic

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Gun Control In Australia: Watch What Happens When Guns Are Banned

   “If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats…”   —U.S. House Rep. John Dingell, (D) Michigan 12th District http://youtu.be/OyS3CEIbpJo

An End To Presidential Term Limits?

“How come liberals never admit that they’re liberal? They’ve now come up with a new word called ‘progressive,’ which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it’s a label.” —Marco Rubio 

His Majesty, King of the United States, Barack Obama

Obstinate continuance in a particular course of action despite ongoing and continued opposition encapsulates the very definition of Persistence. Such is the case of  Representative Jose Enrique Serrano, a DemocRAT , representing New York’s 15th South Bronx District.

As Fox News Reports, Serrano proposes the constitutional amendment ending presidential term limits. The resolution dates back 15 years Serrano  bringing it forth with each foray into public life.

I would be remiss if I neglected to mention that Señor Serrano is a member of

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Disarming America, Moving Toward Tyranny?

“People love conspiracy theories.” —Neil Armstrong

Not so much. Yes…The internet is awash with all sorts of conspiracy theories that spin tales of how the government is going to disarm the populace and tyranny shall rule the day. A considerable amount of what is out there amount to no more than “Tin-foiled hat-wearing” doomsayers who probably didn’t get enough attention, Ritalin or positive feedback as kids. It’s there.

But on the other hand, Some of the stuff is well-written and compelling enough to literally scare the “bejesus” out of impressionable young souls. Am I dismissing much of it? Yes.  But not for the

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LA Gun Buy-Back Yields Rocket Launchers!

“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.” —Frank Zappa

Pictured: Left Image At-4 Light Anti-Armor Weapon Tube, Right: M72 Light Anti-Tank Weapon Tube: Both inert.

Yeah! not so much…Forgive my side-splitting laughter, but this is one of those, “gotcha moments” when the Lame Stream Liberal Hoplophobic Media gets sucked right in and then, “Punked.”…But one guy is not laughing because back in the hood, a Military collector who likely paid 300 bucks apiece for the tubes is now missing pieces of his Militaria collection; All  so that Junior could run down and cash them in for a government-issued gift card. Just that thought alone cracks me up.

The LAPD was duped! Anybody can buy these on

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Commentary From Crooks On Journal News Gun Ownership Postings

“Having a list of who has a gun is like gold – why rob that house when you can hit the one next door, where there are no guns?” —Walter T. Shaw, Notorious Ex Burglar and Jewel Thief

On December 30, Steve shared with us about the Journal News and its’ December 22nd publication of each and every address of gun owners in Rockland and Westchester Counties, NY…replete with interactive maps. Moreover, Steve provided the names and addresses of the principle players at Journal News.

Steve makes a valid point here:

Because turnabout is always fair play, a blogger went and dug up the names and addresses (phone numbers and other contact info) of the folks at theJournal-News. 

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Petition of Redress? Nope. The Legislature Did Away With That Committee

“An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.” —Michael Korda 

N.H. State Senator Martha Fuller-Clark

Last Wednesday, the new leadership in Concord saw fit to forgo the Committee on Redress of Grievances. And they did. 

Enter State Senator Martha Fuller-Clark. She found a “petition of Redress” from twenty black slaves in Portsmouth dating back to 1779.

According to the Concord “Fishwrapper” Monitor, “On Nov. 12, 1779, 20 black slaves in Portsmouth sent a petition to New Hampshire’s General Assembly. Amid the rhetoric and

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Tax Avoidance: Only The Little People Pay Taxes II

“Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.”—Robert A. Heinlein

Tax Avoidance: Only The Little People Pay Taxes was my July 30, 2010 article at New Hampshire Insider detailing how Massachusetts Senator John F. Kerry, a/k/a, “Mr. Heinz,” saved himself over a half million dollars in sales taxes otherwise owing to the Bay State had he moored or docked his newly purchased Yacht in his home state. Instead, Mr. Heinz docked in Portsmouth Rhode Island. The savings: >$500,000 in Sales and Luxury Taxes and $70,000

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Waterbury CT Police Chief Cancels Gun Show

“Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.” —James Madison 

Chief Michael J. Guggliotti, Waterbury Connecticut Police

Waterbury Connecticut Police Chief Michael Gugliotti  has cancelled the Northeast Gun Show’s January 12th and 13th dates scheduled at the CoCo Key Waterpark Hotel and Convention Center.

Why? Chief Gugliotti says he’s concerned a firearm purchased in his city might one day be used in a mass shooting. “We are not going to go ahead and issue a permit for the show until further notice,” said Chief Gugliotti to WTNH New-8.

“I felt out of honor and respect that the least I can do was to, for the time being, postpone an

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The Right Of Self-Defence In The UK

“Gun control extremists have at least two things in common with Islamic extremists. They have a willingness to die for their fundamental beliefs, and the sanctimony to demand that others die with them.”—Dr. Mike Adams

Leicestershire, UK. In the early morning hours of Sunday, September 2, Andy and Tracey Ferrie were sleeping in their home when intruders forced their way in. While his wife Tracie called 999, (UK equivalent of 911) Andy Ferrie grabbed his legally-owned break-action shotgun and fired at two of the four home invaders.

The attack was thwarted although Ferrie had injured two of criminals. The four burglars, ranging in ages from 23, 27, 31, and 33, were later arrested at Leicester Royal Infirmary where the injured had been taken for treatment of their wounds.

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Gun Free New Hampshire House

“The D.C. gun ban works – just ask James Brady…”

To follow up on Grokster Steve’s post yesterday…

No gun ban proposed for NH House by Democrats...again

Should it have been a surprise that these six RINO’s voted the way they did? No. We already had hard evidence they could not be counted upon as evidenced by the pre-election grade assigned by the NRA.

Rep. Dennis Fields (R)INO Belknap 4 -Sanbornton; NRA Grade: C

Not necessarily a

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