GUNS: NSSF in partnership with ATF launched Operation Secure Store

Friday, September 6, 2024

https://bearingarms.com/lawrence-keane/2024/08/30/smash-and-grab-gun-thefts-threaten-communities-small-businesses-nssf-has-real-solutions-n1226107

Smash-and-Grab Gun Thefts Threaten Communities, Small Businesses. NSSF Has Real Solutions.
By Lawrence G. Keane | 4:01 PM | August 30, 2024

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NSSF in partnership with ATF launched Operation Secure Store®. It’s just one part of NSSF’s Real Solutions. Safer Communities® initiatives to provide answers to the problems the firearm industry faces. Operation Secure Store (OSS) proactively educates federal firearms licensees (FFLs) in identifying and quantifying vulnerabilities and risks associated with the business of firearms commerce and industry-related operations as a whole. NSSF offers firearm retailers a free Risk and Security Self-Assessment Tool to begin to understand how firearm retailers can layer security to help stop these crimes.

Operation Secure Store started when ATF noticed a concerning trend and approached NSSF to help stem the problem. That led to OSS. ATF now responds to every burglary to work with the FFL and local law enforcement to ascertain the number of firearms stolen and put the information into the stolen gun database. This is not a compliance inspection. The ATF treats the FFL as what they are – a victim of a violent crime. ATF will also alert firearm retailers in the area to be on guard because these gangs will often victimize other local area gun shops, and even at times hit the same firearm retailer a second time.

For any firearm retailer, regardless if they are an NSSF member, a security consultant team is available to help with this. NSSF set up a hotline for any firearm retailer to get more information – 1-800-FLLNSSF. That’s not just for security questions, but also federal regulatory compliance questions, lead and noise Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) noise compliance questions and access to NSSF suicide prevention resources. 

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Politicians Punish Firearm Retailers

These Real Solutions are imperative because gun control politicians see these crimes as opportunities to punish firearm retailers with state-level laws that make it increasingly difficult and costly for small business owners. They want to treat the victim of the crime – the dealer – as the criminal and blame them for the crime committed by gangs. Washington state passed a law earlier this year that requires gun shop owners to have bars, grates and security screens on all windows and commercial-grade metal doors at each point of entry. The law mandates firearms be stored overnight in a fireproof safe. The state also requires security alarms systems monitored by a remote base that’s capable of notifying law enforcement and retain those recordings for seven years. Those systems must include motion and sound detectors. Those system also require monitoring of customers. 

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Jason Rantz, a talk-show host for KTTH, called these requirements an effort “to put gun shops out of business with insurmountable, frivolous costs under the lie that it’s about public safety.” 

He’s not wrong. And it’s happening. Stan’s Merry Mart in Wenatchee, Wash., announced they would no longer sell firearms after 11 years in the business because of the new burdensome requirements. 

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Politicians and bureaucrats don’t want to solve the gun problem.  They just want to restrict law abiding people from exercising their natural right to keep and bear arms.  Crime would shrink drastically if the victims MIGHT be armed.  

“Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose

“I particularly like unlimited concealed carry. If the criminal regards the general public as sheep to be shorn, then let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock. Guess which gay to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Pink Pistol and you’re dead! Guess which woman to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Paxton Quigly and you’re dead! Guess which brown person to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Massad Ayoob and you’re dead!” — GUNS: Let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock

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GUNS: The AR-15 is the most popular model of rifle in the United States

Sunday, August 11, 2024

https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2024/08/04/aoc-accidentally-gives-gun-rights-advocates-a-gift-n1225826

AOC Accidentally Gives Gun Rights Advocates a Gift
By Tom Knighton | 12:30 PM | August 04, 2024

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Yet the courts have held that and many anti-gunners have even tried to approach the AR-15 as being a particularly unusual weapon. Despite it being the most popular model of rifle in the United States, some have even tried to argue that it’s not commonly owned.

AOC, however, in acknowledging that these are one of the most popular semi-automatic weapons in the nation, is also acknowledging that they are, in fact, commonly owned.

Whether you think “commonly owned” should matter or not, the reality is that many people do accept that as the standard, and for AR-15s, that hurdle has been cleared. If there should be a hurdle or not is a different topic entirely.

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This “commonly owned” should not matter since we couldn’t own an automatic weapon for decades.  Not that a wise gun owner would want one unless you were facing a mob rushing you.  Then, you’d want to put as much as you could down range and wouldn’t worry about aiming.  Only in the movies, does the hero fire without aiming.

The Marines teach fire discipline.  “One bullet; one kill”.

AOC should be thanked for the rhetorical “gift”.

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GUNS: Magazine limits are nothing less than murder

Monday, July 15, 2024

https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2024/07/11/home-invasion-illustrates-why-gun-control-is-stupid-n1225559

Home Invasion Illustrates Why Gun Control Is Stupid
By Tom Knighton | 2:29 PM | July 11, 2024

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They took the money and pistol-whipped the victim and are currently at-large.

Now, either this gentleman didn’t have a firearm or couldn’t get to it in time, so it didn’t turn into a defensive gun use. However, let’s say, for the sake of argument, that he did.

Do you think one shot would have ended the threat? There were four of them. According to this report, all four were armed. 

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In out forefathers’ days, “home invasion” was unheard of.  Crime came with a chance of death.  

“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” — Robert A. Heinlein

So too, a “home invasion” should have a high probability of “return fire”.

There’s is no excuse for the Gooferment promising “protection” and enforcing disarming victims.

“No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist or killer, like cold blue steel in the hands of their last intended victim.” —W. Emerson Wright

“Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose

“God made men and women; Sam Colt made them equal.” — Unknown

Too many criminals; need every citizen to be armed.

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GUNS: The Unintended Consequences of creating “protected species” of the two and four legged kind

Sunday, March 3, 2024

https://www.ammoland.com/2024/02/wolves-in-northern-wisconsin-a-reminder-to-stay-armed/#axzz8SqoCkVVb

Home » Conservation
Wolves in Northern Wisconsin a Reminder to Stay Armed
Ammoland Inc. Posted on February 22, 2024 by Dean Weingarten

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Wolves that hold their ground when confronted with a human and wolves that do not retreat when yelled at or bluff charged are a problem, as explained by Dr. Valerius Geist, the eminent biologist, and expert on wildlife management. The myth of the harmless wolf developed because people in North America were commonly armed and capable of dealing with wolf packs. The introduction of modern firearms, steel traps, snares, and poison made humans the uncontested apex predator. Wolves learned to avoid humans to survive. The myth of the harmless wolf was born.

Protect wolves from humans with punishing legislation, prevent them from being shot, trapped, snared, or poisoned, and they lose fear and respect for humans. They are subject to the immutable laws of physics. They have developed a healthy fear of cars, which have become their main “predator.”

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There is no way I’d go trapping around the countryside unarmed.  Reports are common about bears, coyotes, and other predators in non-urban areas.  And even some urban ones.

Of course, “protect nature” has led to complacent humans.

And not only do we have to blame the “protect the bears and wolves” people, but also the politicians, bureaucrats, and judges (but I repeat myself) who protect the urban version of “wolves and bears”.

If you can carry a firearm, you are at risk from all sorts af “animals” as well as tyrants who would disarm and shackle you into slavery.  (Figure out your “taxes” and you’ll know how much of a slave you are!)

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn 

“Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose

“§ 1890. The importance of this article will scarcely be doubted by any persons, who have duly reflected upon the subject. The militia is the natural defence of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them. And yet, though this truth would seem so clear, and the importance of a well regulated militia would seem so undeniable, it cannot be disguised, that among the American people there is a growing indifference to any system of militia discipline, and a strong disposition, from a sense of its burthens, to be rid of all regulations. How it is practicable to keep the people duly armed without some organization, it is difficult to see. There is certainly no small danger, that indifference may lead to disgust, and disgust to contempt; and thus gradually undermine all the protection intended by this clause of our national bill of rights.”  — Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 3:§§ 1890–91 https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendIIs10.html

Gun Rights are the palladium of rights  —  the God given right of self-defense!

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GUNS: Guess Dementia Joe forgot about the ass kicking that both Russia and the US got in Afghanistan

Saturday, January 27, 2024

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/01/21/biden-to-gun-owners-youll-need-an-f-16-to-go-against-the-government/

Biden to Gun Owners: You’ll Need an F-16 to Go Against the Government
AWR Hawkins  — 21 Jan 2024

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President Joe Biden again mocked gun owners over the weekend, suggesting they will need F-16 fighter jets if they are really serious about taking on the government.

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AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker at the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.

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And, the Houti, the Viet Cong, etc etc.

“There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.” — character Sergeant Charles Zim in Starship Troopers, a book Robert A. Heinlein, author

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GUNS: Holidays often bring out the worst in domestic violvence

Sunday, December 24, 2023

https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2023/12/19/domestic-violence-gun-n78534

Domestic Violence Survivors Speak Out Against Gun Control
By Tom Knighton | 8:29 AM on December 19, 2023

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Shirley Watral, the state director of the Florida Women For Gun Rights Organization, is a domestic violence survivor and professional firearms instructor. In the hearing, she shared how her views on gun ownership changed after how the man she was in love with kidnapped her and tortured her for 15 hours (via Judiciary.House.gov):

    Attempts I made to escape were met with beatings. I was no match for his size and strength. I was forced to stay seated or kneeling on the floor of the master bedroom. As the hours went by, I found no way out. I thought my salvation came when he brought out a gun and set it on the bed. Hours prior to this, no one heard my screams or came to my rescue. I saw the gun as my way to freedom. I could either use it to defend myself or get a shot off that the neighbors would hear.

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Yeah, I know Christmas Eve is supposed to be about the Prince of Peace’s birthday.

But, to the victims of Domestic Violence, it often brings out the worst.

Christmas, New Years, ad Superbowl Sunday are supposedly the worst for it.  

I only know that when there’s a lot of drinking that’s when the family ugliness comes out.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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GUNS: Why was the homeowner put in handcuffs?

Monday, December 11, 2023

https://nypost.com/2023/12/04/news/la-homeowner-fatally-shoots-suspect-during-attempted-burglary/

 LA homeowner fatally shoots suspect during attempted burglary as horrified child, grandma watch
By Social Links for Isabel Keane
Published Dec. 4, 2023, 8:33 a.m. ET

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A Los Angeles homeowner shot and killed a suspected burglar over the weekend after a group of men wearing dark hoodies and masks broke into his home — where a child and grandmother were left rattled by the brazen attempted burglary.

Police responded to the Granada Hills home around 5 a.m. Saturday morning after receiving radio calls of shots fired inside the residence.

The homeowner told police he was inside his home when three or four unknown men wearing “dark clothing, hoodies and masks” broke in, the Los Angeles Police Department wrote on X.

“A suspect pointed a weapon at the victim and while the suspects were inside the residence, the victim produced a firearm and a shooting occurred,” the department wrote. 

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The homeowner, who was photographed outside the residence seemingly in handcuffs, was taken to the Devonshire Community Police Station to be interviewed, though they were later released. 

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Give you some insight into the Pepuls Republik of Kaliforkneeah’s attitude towards guns?

“No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist or killer, like cold blue steel in the hands of their last intended victim.” —W. Emerson Wright

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GUNS: Don’t miss woman is robbed by rifle-wielding gang on busy Chicago street

Monday, December 4, 2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12797245/Chicago-robbery-rifle-woman-video-police-suspects.html

Shocking moment woman is robbed by rifle-wielding gang on busy Chicago street – before suspects stick up three other people and cops REFUSED to follow them

  •     A group of suspects robbed four people at gunpoint during a Chicago spree
  •     Video surveillance footage of one of the robberies was released by the state Attorney General’s office
  •     A total of 20 armed robberies were reported on Sunday alone in Chicago 

By Emma Richter For Dailymail.Com
Published: 17:20 EST, 27 November 2023 | Updated: 02:35 EST, 28 November 2023

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This is the shocking moment a pedestrian was robbed at a Chicago intersection by a rifle-wielding gang.

The incident took place on September 23, but surveillance video of the scene was just revealed on Wednesday after the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communication refused to release it.

As the woman made her way across the six-way intersection at 4.45am, a silver sedan pulled up as one suspect pointed the gun at her and the others shook her down. 

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Remember “gun control” in Blue run cities?

“God made men and women; Sam Colt made them equal.” — Unknown

If the woman was allowed to carry, then maybe there would be a lot less crime.

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GUNS: Israel’s gun-control policies are much stricter than those of other countries

Saturday, December 2, 2023

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/11/israel_and_gun_control.html

americanthinker.com
Israel and Gun Control
By Jessica Geraghty

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Israel’s gun-control policies are much stricter than those of other countries typically known to be anti-gun, including Australia and England, says Stern.He believes that recent media narratives paint an all-too-forgiving picture of the willingness of Israeli leaders to arm and protect their citizens.

Jessica Geraghty is an established freelance writer and blogger who has over 15 years of experience writing for businesses, political candidates and news publications. Most recently, topics she has written about include human resources, informed consent, the Second Amendment and real estate.

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So, all the pictures of gun toting Israeli’s is “bull <synonym for excrement>”!

No wonder the October 7th attack by Hamas was so successful. The people were like lambs to be slaughtered.

It’s a well known meme about Germans were disarmed and then you got the Holocaust.  A lesson that has been repeated several times in history. 

So when do “We, The Sheeple” wake up?

Native american guns

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GUNS: 2+ mile shot seems impossible

Friday, November 24, 2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12770127/Ukrainian-sniper-claims-new-world-record-picking-Russian-soldier-2-36-miles-away-using-Lord-Horizon-gun.html

Ukrainian sniper claims new world record after ‘picking off Russian soldier from 2.36 miles away using “Lord of the Horizon” gun’

  •     A Ukrainian claims to have the record for longest sniper kill in history
  •     The SBU sniper reportedly managed to pick off a Russian soldier from 2.36 miles
  •     The previous record was held by a Canadian special operations soldier 

By Perkin Amalaraj
Published: 04:33 EST, 20 November 2023 | Updated: 08:58 EST, 20 November 2023 

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The Ukrainian military gave no other details, such as when or where it was filmed, nor did it say how it had confirmed the sniper’s effort.

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I suspect all these claims.  Personally, it’s hard enough to hit a static target at great distances.  The least little wind or hand tremor can make a shot miss widely.  And at those distances, you need to compensate for the bullet drop and maybe the rotation of the earth.  In this specific case, was the unlucky Russian soldier just standing around?  Goofing off down range is a sure way to get killed. Even the article cites several seconds between trigger pull and target dropping.  That implies that the target was a sitting duck.

Maybe this is just more propaganda for the Ukraine War, the rifle maker, and the military?

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