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If it Only Saves One…Air Conditioner

  An Ohio woman held a would-be burglar at gunpoint until police arrived, warning him, “if you move, you’re gonna go to the morgue.” Tammy Takach of Steubenville was sleeping Thursday morning when a noise in her home woke her up. She told WPXI-TV she grabbed her gun and went downstairs to find an intruder who’d … Read more

HB 135 Up For Vote – Thursday, May 23, 10:00 am

HB 135, to repeal NH’s “Stand Your Ground” , is scheduled for a vote by the full Senate this Thursday, May 23.  The session begins at 10.  Call your Senator and tell him or her to support the Committee’s report to vote ITL – Inexpedient To Legislate!    

Are NH Democrats just Making Stuff Up about Background Checks?

There are more lies about background checks coming from the New Hampshire Democrat Party than truths and no polling can possibly explain the disparity unless the polls are flawed, skewed, or just made up.

Ninety percent of New Hampshire citizens cannot possibly be in favor of  Manchin Toomey background checks when less than 90% of all Democrats are willing to push the meme themselves.  And given that 100% of Democrats don’t agree with the narrative this makes the math required to justify the number impossible.

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Say Hello to the Happy Train

Rick reported the news yesterday of the likely demise of HB 135 (2013)– Deputy Dawg Stephen Shurtleff’s  repeal of stand your ground for me but not for he. Most of us had an inkling of this last week, and I’m not about to go on about that or the bill’s demise because Rick has more to add (or just … Read more

“Shameful” there, ‘Bam? Obama just got Alinsky’d on gun control and is he mad!

What’s good for the gander should be good for the goose – only this time, it seems that the goose has had its feathers all in a dither, as the US Senate voted against the gun control bill, the Manchin/Toomey bill, went down 54-46.  Diane Feinstein’s new and expanded ban on so-called “assault weapons” (hey, I got an “assault fork” too!) and high standard-capacity magazines also was a blank at an even worse 40-60.  And Our Imperial King Obama is royally ticked off:

“All in all, this was a pretty shameful day for Washington,” Obama said, accusing the gun lobby of lying about the bill.

Aw, lying?  Really?  Hmm, this bring back any memories about truthtelling, oh LightBringer?

The Republicans plan, Obama says, boils down to this: ‘Dirtier air, dirtier water, less people with health insurance.’

I would consider this a lie as well; fear-mongering by him.  After all, Saul Alinsky dedicated his Rules for Radicals to the Father of Lies, Lucifer, and Obama is nothing if not a disciple of Alinsky.  But what is permissible to the King can hardly be extended to the serfs, can it?

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IDPA – yeah, we’re ditching Colorado too

Colorado has now put some of the nation’s most draconian guns laws into place thus far (yes, California and New York are right there with them, and soon joining them, Connecticut).  Magupul and a number of other firearms and accessory manufacturers have announced they, their payrolls, their spending, and their tax monies are leaving Colorado posthaste.  Both Grokster Steve and I posted that sportsmen of the hunting nature have started to cancel their money bringing trips in lieu of more gun friendly climes.

And it is not just the hunters any more as other shooting sports are showing “solidarity” (such a distastefully unionista / socialist word, that) with the hunters: from the International Defensive Pistol Association:

Rocky Mtn Regionals - IDPAGRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – Organizers of the Rocky Mountain Western States Regional IDPA Championship, initially scheduled to take place July 4-6 in Montrose, Colorado, have announced that the match is being canceled in the wake of Colorado’s recently passed gun control laws.

An estimated 300-plus shooters from the neighboring states and across the country were expected to attend the three-day competitive shooting event. This is the second shooting competition to abandon the state after a recent announcement by firearms maker Ruger that it was moving the 2013 Ruger Rimfire Challenge World Championship out of Colorado.

“With these new Colorado laws going into effect July 1, and based on the ambiguous way in which they were written, we have decided to cancel the Rocky Mountain Western States Regional IDPA Championship,” said event organizer Walt Proulx of Grand Junction.

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NH House Vote To Repeal Stand Your Ground (HB 135) is Today

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Update [-Skip]:  The NH House just voted to pass HB135 which means that you must flee from danger instead of asserting your Right to Self-Defense.  From the House Republican Alliance:

“We are saddened but not surprised by the passage of HB135, which removes a person’s right to defend oneself. The passage of this politically motivated bill strips away the rights of citizens to stand their ground and protect themselves, others and their property if threatened where ever they have a right to be,” stated Representative Al Baldasaro, HRA co-chair. “Every citizen has a constitutional right to defend themselves and this blatant attempt at political correctness is a disservice to our constituents.”

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We’ve pretty much chopped down a digital forest discussing HB 135, the effort to solve a non-problem in pursuit of an ideological fear-campaign with no evidence to support it.  So much so that I can’t begin to find all of the articles and posts.  But here is a “short” list of content we’ve put out in the last two months on the bill, the idea, and the moonbat behind it all.  If you feel the need to find more just search HB135 (without a space between HB and 135), or search ‘Shurtleff’ or ‘Stephen Shurtleff,’ or even ‘Deputy Dawg.’

Get your fill of HB135 Shurtleff link juice on the jump.

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So what is NH doing to lure these now “orphaned” 2nd Amendment Companies?

You know, we have SigSauer based here in NH.  Sturm Ruger, too, Heckler & Koch as well.  Well known manufacturers – a solid knowledge base and familiarity with firearms manufacturing.  I have been wondering, with Democrat onslaught in various States of restricting the civilian populations’ access to and use of small arms they deem “scary” (as Progressives do not trust “we plebes”), what the State of NH has been doing to go and entice some of their companies to move here.  A win-win situation: companies leave the States that have made it illegal for them to sell their products to their own citizens for a place that should be more welcoming  and we get the jobs  and a larger tax base.  However, I have seen NOTHING in the NH media that would indicate that our present Governor, Maggie “The Red” Hassan has reached out to Beretta in MD, Magpul in CO., Colt in CT, or any other number of companies – all large operations whose (Democrat controlled) Legislatures have said “We do not trust our own Citizens” and, in fact, have said via their actions “We have judged our Citizens to be guilty ahead of innocence for crimes they have not committeed”.  Simply put, they have turned the traditional American philosophy of jurisprudence upside down – and like it that way.  Neither have I heard if DRED (Depart. of Resourced and Economic Development) has done any reach out, either.  While there might be secret negotiations, SOMEONE would have leaked something by now, right?  However, I have received note that a few of our legislators have reached out on their own to these companies – Republicans ran on a Jobs! platform and they are carrying out their campaign promises.  Here are a couple of the letters that have been sent in (emphasis mine):

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March 26, 2013

N.H. House Republican Office
107 N. Main St.
N.H. State House
Concord, N.H. 03301

Dennis Veilleux
President & CEO
Colt Manufacturing Company
PO Box 1868
Hartford, CT 06144

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Blog Headline of the Day – thank you, President Obama

Obama and Biden Bitterly Clinging to Assault Weapons Ban   Turnabout IS fair play.  Obama ACCUSED us to clinging to our guns and Bibles – as if either is a bad thing.  Now, with Harry Reid at the Senatorial helm, ‘Bam and Biden may be clinging to just a dream. Nice to finally see a … Read more

NH Ranked 10th Best State for Gun Owners by Guns & Ammo Magazine

Guns and Ammo Magazine has rated all 50 states and the District of Columbia to determine where the best and worst places are for gun owners in America. New Hampshire ranked in the top ten best. Tenth, actually.  The District of Columbia came in 51st (go figure). Rounding out the bottom after DC are New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, … Read more

How About a Little Bias?

Much of the media bais that occures is subtle.  From choosing what stories to cover and what to ignore to how issues, ideas, and people are framed in context, word choice and tone convey connotation, intentional or not, to the reader. Here’s a classic example from Yahoo! News. Claudine Zap, writing for The Lookout – … Read more

Will Beretta Leave Maryland?

Moving costs money but the owners of Beretta are thinking it might be time.Beretta-Px4-Storm

Beretta is weighing whether the rifle line (which would now be illegal if proposed legislation becomes law), and perhaps the company itself, should stay in a place increasingly hostile toward its products. Its iconic 9mm pistol — carried by every U.S. soldier and scores of police departments — would also be banned with its high capacity, 13-bullet magazine.

“Why expand in a place where the people who built the gun couldn’t buy it?” said Jeffrey Reh, general counsel for Beretta.

It looks like Beretta already moved part of their business out of Maryland after a previous game of chicken with state lawmakers, one the legislature and Governor lost.

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Immunity Bill for Gun Owners Passes the House

How would many Democratic N.H. House Reps, (including the only Merrimack Democratic House Rep), one Republican Rep, and hoplophobes answer the following questions?

Suppose someone hotwires your F-150, spins a few doughnuts in your neighbors lawn, and then proceeds to tear through an intersection only to T-Bone a Statey.  Do you think you should also be liable because it’s your truck?

Suppose someone breaks into your house, locates your Louisville Slugger collection, finds your favorite lumber, and then proceeds to bludgeon mailboxes, a mail truck, and then a mailman.  Do you think you should also be liable for that because it’s your baseball bat?

Now, suppose someone breaks into your house, locates your prized Smith & Wesson “most powerful handgun in the world Eastwood edition” .44 Magnum,…

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Some Anti-Gun Arguments Are So Lame…

There’s a great “Your Turn” editorial in the Union Leader, written by Brandon Harvey of Danbury.   His primary point is that some of the arguments being made in favor of restricting second amendment rights are so lame (as in unable to stand on their own), they have to be addressed, and he does a fine job doing just that.

Another argument in relation to this bizarre position taken by the anti-gun crowd is this: You don’t need an “assault weapon” or “high capacity magazine” to hunt deer.  First, the Second Amendment says “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.”  It does not say “the right to hunt deer.” In fact, deer hunting is not a right. The use of the word “militia” obviously implies using weapons that would be useful in combat. 

Militia, combat, I guess we are entitled to military style weapons after all, whose keeping the government…shall not infringe.  oh! Wait.  Brandon’s not done…

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“Line in the Granite” – Defend Your Gun Rights Rally – Jack Kimball

This past Thursday was a Line in the Granite – People who take the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights of the US Constitution AND Article XX of the NH Constitution very seriously.  They gathered on the steps of the NH Capitol this past Thursday to let the politicians under the Golden Dome know of their seriousness and willingness to fight for that Right – especially for efforts that will result legislation that will not solve the problems they purport to address.

Certainly there were a number of folks addressing the crowd (estimates ranging from 250 to over a thousand; I’ll stick with about 6-700 for a good show of folks on a poor weather work-day afternoon).  Unfortunately, I could not be there due to work – thanks to Bill Wynne of the G

Here, Jack Kimball, Chair of the Granite State Patriot Liberty PAC, speaks:

“Jack Kimball presents – Life, Liberty and Freedom – This production is Jack Kimball’s speech, one of 9 made at the event today, 31 January 2013. Jack is the Chairman of the “Granite State Patriots Liberty PAC. Please visit them on line at http://www.gsplpac.com

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Notable Quotes: Wayne LaPierre

  “There is not a national, one-size-fits-all solution to protecting our children,” he said. “But do know this – President [Obama] zeroed out school emergency planning grants in last year’s budget and scrapped “Secure Our Schools” policing grants in next year’s budget.” Washington Times Related: Washington Guardian

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