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The other day a really odd tweet came across my news feed. A man who is a news editor for Valley News, an organization that serves both Vermont and New Hampshire, made a really strange and ridiculous correlation. John Gregg, news editor for Valley News, attempted to make the claim that shootings are up in … Read more
“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.” —Joseph Stalin
On Saturday, a Union Leader Editorial entitled, “Grabbing gun makers NH’s big opportunity” posited the question, “So why is the state not aggressively pursuing these companies and the jobs they would bring with them?” The UL editorial named
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:
GRAND 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.
Ruger is coming out with a new pistol in honor of Obama.