Black Friday Gun Sales
The media has been slow to report that last Friday – known as Black Friday as it is the day many retailers get into the black for the year – saw single-day, all-time high sales records of firearms, surpassing the old record by 32 percent!
And while this could have just been a business story in USA Today, where National Shooting Sports Foundation’s Larry Keane noted that 25 percent of the purchases typically involve first-time buyers, many of them women, the article added additional insight:
Dennis Henigan, acting president of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, said he was “skeptical” of the Black Friday gun surge.
“I think there may be no real signifcance [sic] at all,” Henigan said. “It’s possible that gun companies are just catching on to creating a Black Friday frenzy for themselves.”
How is this not significant, even if the gun companies are creating a frenzy? Could it just be that the Brady Campaign wants everyone to be anti-gun zealots?
All Gov Takes Aim at NRA
In a post titled, “NRA Pouring Millions into Failed Attempts to Attack Anti-Gun Laws,” the site AllGov.com notes recent NRA setbacks and then only offers one quote for the story – from Dennis Henigan, acting president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence:
““Never before have so many courts so cogently affirmed the constitutionality of so many strong gun laws in such a short span of time.”
Where is the fairness in this? Why wasn’t someone from the NRA or another gun rights group quoted as well? It is almost as if the writer had a bias. But an anti-gun bias in the media, is such a thing possible? Oh right, it is and it is every single day.
Paul Helmke Steps Down From Brady Campaign
Former three-term mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana Paul Helmke has announced that he is stepping down from his post as head of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Brady Center effective July 10.
The group’s vice president Dennis Henigan will serve as the acting president while the organization’s board of directors looks for a new president.
Brady Campaign: Obama May Finally Stand up to NRA
Time and time again the mainstream media and anti-gun zealots have noted that President Obama has practically caved to the NRA and gun groups. Whether you believe this is another thing, but this is the message that groups such as the Brady Campaign are promoting.
In a post on Opposing Views, Dennis Henigan of Brady Campaign writes:
“Since 1968, federal law has required dealers to report multiple sales of handguns to ATF because they are such strong indicators of gun trafficking. However rifles – even high-capacity semiautomatic assault rifles like the AR-15 and the AK-47 that are the favored killing machines of the Mexican cartels – are not subject to multiple sale reporting.”
Why perpetrate this myth that “multiple sales of handguns” are “strong indicators of gun trafficking?” Is this accurate or fair? No study has ever confirmed that multiple sales are indicators of anything other than the dealer making multiple sales. Many retailers offer discounts for multiple purchases, and gun collectors would no doubt want to take advantage of such discounts!
On to another point, namely that Obama hasn’t been anti-gun. Well, what about those M1 rifles from South Korea? The State Department as well as Obama have blocked the importation, an act they didn’t even have to do. And Obama said nothing when the EPA tried to ban lead ammunition. It looks to us like Obama has been standing up the whole time. The media just has looked the other way.
Huff Post Writer Sees Irony but Misses Real Irony
Is this guy for real? Author Dennis A. Henigan, who is also Vice President for the Brady Center, and an established anti-gun author/zealot claims in a piece for The Huffington Post that some states on the verge of secession for their gun laws, yet never sees the irony of other anti-gun zealots over reaching beyond what might be considered reasonable.
Case in point, Henigan calls out two states:
“I refer to the extraordinary legislation passed into law by the states of Montana and Tennessee declaring that guns or ammunition manufactured and retained entirely within the borders of those states are “not subject to federal law.” Apparently, similar legislation has been introduced in Texas, Alaska, Minnesota, South Carolina, Florida, Arizona and Colorado.”
So I ask Henigan whether he sees any problems with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg trying to change the laws in Virginia and Ohio? Well, Denny, what’s the difference?
