ATTN Illinois Gunnies: MUST Call

In the Illinois State House a magazine ban (ten rounds, NO grandfathering) was narrowly defeated 57-59.

They're trying for another run to get it pushed through.

Light up the phones.

Contact your Senators on S374 The Private Sale Ban.

Sebastian has details.

Here's some highlights:

If you left town for more than 7 days, and left your gay partner, or unrelated roommate at home with the guns, you’d be committing a felony. This should be called the “denying gun rights to gays act.” Remember that the federal government does not recognize gay marriage, even if you’re state does, thanks to DOMA. 5 years in prison.


It would be illegal to lend a gun to a friend to take shooting [or hunting]. That would be a transfer. 5 years in federal prison.

Enacts defacto universal gun registration, because of record keeping requirements.

Oh and heaven help you if your loose a gun on a hunting trip or your house gets broken into while you're on vacation.  That violates the 24 hour reporting rule and you'll go to prison.


As Sebastian notes:

This bill has nothing to do with ensuring people who are getting guns are law-abiding, and everything to do with getting backdoor registration, and creating a patchwork of rules and laws that will land anyone who uses guns, and isn’t a lawyer, in federal prison for a long time. Lots of otherwise law-abiding people are going to federal prison if this ends up passing, and I’m convinced that’s the whole idea.

Call and write your Senators.  Tell them to Vote No. 

Essay of the Day: A Girl on Friendship and being able to say: Scew 'em

Just go read A Girl and Her Gun's latest. She talks about the value of friendship and the importance of those that you can count on. She says it far better than I could.  Go Read.

And she says it about someone else you may know Erin Palette. Erin's had some bad days lately and is dealing with a birthday today.

True friends are rare, but that makes them worth it.  And the rest?  Screw 'em.

Happy Birthday Erin. And yes you are 10mm!

You've been a help with me as well.  Sure the universe may just end in heat death but that doesn't mean we can't do what we can with what we have.

And speaking of comments Tam and  Linoge might appreciate some.  Even if for the latter is to help for his veteran's fundraiser.

ATTN: Colorado Gunnies.

Bills are up in the Senate.

In good news it looks like the Pro-Rape Campus Carry Ban bill has been pulled.

Publicola has notes on what you can do.  Even if you're not a resident.

Edit:  Here's an update:  Campus Carry Ban is dead.  Assault Weapons Ban Dead.  But the Magazine Ban and the Private Sale ban are through and will have a final State Senate vote on Monday.

As MikeJ says: "Still have the weekend to email and call."

And as Sebastian says:

UPDATE: Mag ban passes 18-17, as Dave Kopel mentions, “Obama and Bloomberg rule the Colorado Legislature.” The Democrats must be punished in Colorado. Severely. I will be following the 2014 races there closely. Any loss of freedom anywhere diminishes us all.

Hickenlooper is also up, and won last time because the Republican Party was in shambles. He can’t count on that in 2014. It’s time for Coloradans to take their legislature back from the interlopers in DC and New York.

Shows that Bloomberg and Obama will push and win by the slimmest of margins, on a party line vote and it'll be enough for them. There has to be electoral consequences.   Otherwise these politicians will do this all over again.

Senate Judiciary Committee Votes

Go here for info as the various gun control bills get voted on.

You have written and called your Senators this week right?

Colorado Democrats: Now telling rape survivors directly that they're too dumb to carry guns.

Colorado Democrats really don't think much of women.  As this keeps happening, again and again.



So now the Democrats are saying that it's "statistics"  that show that women shouldn't carry guns do defend themselelves.

Well at least they're not saying it's "science".




Video from Allahpundit on Hotair who notes:

When you boil down Hudak’s “statistical” argument, what she’s really saying is that guns are so dangerous that society’s better off leaving women unarmed and tolerating a certain amount of rape than letting them arm up and risking extra gun thefts and shootings. Note to House Democrats: I encourage you to run on that message in 2014 as part of your big “yay, gun control” platform. Suggested slogan: “You’re safer when you’re defenseless.”

On Monsters.

Sebastian pointed something out that was key on Friday.

Do our opponents still want to continue to operate under the delusion they are fighting the evil gun industry and some faceless “gun lobby” rather than millions of their fellow Americans? Do they still want to suggest we’re all the stereotype of the OFWG? Want to continue to pretend all this is manufactured when most of these people are carrying homemade signs?

If yes, I understand. The illusion is important to you. Because the alternative is that you want to take something very important away from millions of people who care deeply and passionately about it, and that, well, kind of makes you a monster, doesn’t it?

Indeed.

And more on that subject.

Midway is one of NRA’s largest, if not the largest corporate donors, but it’s all done voluntarily by the customers… the one million customers. Like I said, the gun control proponents go through great lengths to convince themselves they aren’t battling millions of real people, but that would make them kind of awful, wouldn’t it?

It’s hard for me to think of any activity or past time people engage in that I find horrible enough that I think it ought to be taken away from them. Even though I will admit I like being able to go out without having to deal with cigarette smoke, as a general principle of freedom I remain opposed to public smoking bans. That’s about the closest thing I can think of. It’s hard to think of anything else that doesn’t involve a tragedy of the commons issue. I guess I just don’t have any Carrie Nation type moral crusading tendencies. I have enough going on managing my own life. I definitely don’t have the time to manage anyone else’s.

This is why we need to be engaged.  We need to reach out, not just to our politicians (you are contacting them right, right?).  But also to friends, family, neighbors, coworkers.

Gun control succeeds in ignorance.    Consider that an Assault Weapons Ban is ridiculous only if you know what it actually means.