After being injured on his second tour of duty in Afghanistan, Lt. Augustine Kim spent the night in a D.C. jail for possessing unregistered guns.

Mr. Kim was transporting his firearms from his parents’ house in New Jersey to South Carolina when he stopped at Walter Reed in Washington for a medical appointment in the summer of 2010.

After being pulled over, handcuffed, arrested, thrown in jail overnight, his guns were confiscated by the city.

In the end, the platoon leader felt forced to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge, which was later dismissed, but the District still refuses to return to him $10,000 worth of firearms and parts. The national guardsman will deploy to Kosovo this summer. The city should return his property before he leaves to serve our nation overseas for the third time.

Read more: Injured vet’s guns stolen by D.C.

During his first term, President Obama has:

• Appointed anti-gunners Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court, where they could influence Second Amendment rulings for several years.
• Appointed liberal anti-gunners to lower federal courts, where most gun rights cases will be decided because the high court is under no obligation to accept every gun case for review. Their rulings could govern gun rights for several decades, because these judicial appointments are for life.
• Reversed standing U.S. policy on the proposed international Small Arms Trade Treaty.
• Appointed avowed anti-gunner Eric Holder as attorney general – whose performance was discussed in this column earlier – gave us the Operation Fast and Furious cover-up scandal. Holder will forever be remembered by Northwest shooters as the man who wanted to “brainwash” people against guns, as this column discussed.
• Let his bureaucrats push through a multiple sales reporting requirement on long guns in four southwest states because of the gun trafficking scandal.
• Blocked, by executive order, importation of thousands of surplus M1 rifles from Korea. (Remember what Clinton advisor Paul Begala once told a reporter: “Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kinda cool.”)
• Attempted to nominate an anti-gun bureaucrat to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un3twFZr9cY

Ginny Simone talks to Congressman Paul Gosar (R-AZ) about the latest on Fast and Furious

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSZlT5XLHNM

Cam Edwards talks to Sean Maloney from Buckeye Firearms Association

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwbwTknW3N4

Ginny Simone talks to Lt. Augustine Kim and his attorney Richard Gardiner

A wide-reaching investigation by military and civilian authorities has uncovered a criminal conspiracy within the Armed Forces to steal and sell nearly $2 million in guns and combat gear to gangs in the U.S. and foreign countries including China, military officials have confirmed.

It added:

With cooperation from Marine and Navy officials, NCIS has been able to conduct 66 investigations involving 47 active duty Marines and sailors to include enlisted and high-ranking officers and 21 civilians who are now in various stages of prosecution.

Tax dollars wasted and criminals with military grade hardware. Who Guards the Guards indeed!

I am in favor of law abiding citizens who wish to responsibly purchase and own a firearm.

He then adds:

I encourage federal legislators across the nation to put politics aside and sign a uniform gun bill into law. Give our law enforcement officers a fighting chance. Let’s take the guns that are purchased in Florida off of the streets in Union City, Jersey City, Newark and New York City.

So in other words a law abiding citizen would be highly restricted from where they can buy a gun. And yet this doesn’t address that many criminals buy illegal guns on the black market and would continue to do so.

But of course a good politician knows to support all sides of an issue and the center.

A pair of California cities and the state’s Department of Justice are facing a federal lawsuit today because, plaintiffs claim, the police confiscated firearms during investigations but now refuse to return them – even after the subjects of the inquiries were cleared of any wrongdoing.

The story added:

(Douglas) Churchill’s firearms were confiscated by the San Francisco Police Department in January 2011 as part of an investigation, but the district attorney dismissed charges less than a month later. Nonetheless, police refuse to return seven of Churchill’s weapons – including a Remington .22-caliber rifle and a Winchester 20-guage shotgun, among others.

Police, court documents suggest, are relying on a letter from the California Department of Justice instructing the police not to return firearms unless the alleged owners can present “proof of ownership,” though the same letter admits the state may have no official records for “long guns” like Churchill’s Remington.

In Churchill’s case, however, police officers presented him with a receipt for the firearms they confiscated. Churchill’s attorneys argue that’s good enough and the police need to return the weapons they took.

This is highly disturbing because it could allow the police to seize guns and then demand that “proof of ownership.” We know what this is – backdoor gun control.

The Passaic County Sheriff’s Office spent more than $20,000 buying back 282 guns from residents in Paterson in an effort to rid the city’s most dangerous streets of firearms, officials said Tuesday.

First, is there any evidence these guns were the “city’s most dangerous” – more likely these were in closets and under beds. But wouldn’t $20,000 have been better spent on paying for tips and programs to help the community instead?

A $2,000 pair of pocket pistols and a military rocket launcher — sans rocket — were among the 1,673 firearms that Los Angeles residents traded in for gift cards in the city’s gun buyback this weekend.

So a “military rocket launcher – sans rocket” is worthy of a headline? There is nothing illegal about owning a deactivated rocket launcher and there are collectors of these things, but the headline almost implies that this was something ominous.

We’re also curious if those $2,000 pocket pistols will be scrapped with the other 1,671 firearms?