Oath Keepers: Join Us At 2nd Annual Open Carry Kentucky Gun Rights Rally
Oath Keepers:
Oath Keepers Founder Stewart Rhodes and Sheriff Richard Mack (who is on our National Board of Directors) will both be speaking at this open carry event at the Kentucky State Capitol, in Frankfort this next Saturday, October 8, 2011.
This march is organized by Oath Keepers founding member Rex Bartley, who also organized last year’s march. This is an important event. So far as we know, this is the only open carry rally (including open carry of rifles) at a state capitol. Please turn out to stand with the strong patriots of Kentucky as they exercise their right to bear arms. Read more
Firearm Sales Still on the Rise
Didn’t the media report that firearms sales have leveled off? After two years of reporting about the rise of gun sales the mainstream media must have finally gotten bored with the story. And with guns being only a sideshow issue in this election year, how could the MSM put a spin on the latest findings.
According to the Buckeye Firearms Association, via our friends at Ammoland.com, the FBI has released its National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figures for September 2010. NSSF-adjusted figures (770,310) show a 6 percent increase over September of last year (726,572). The adjusted NICS data were derived by NSSF by subtracting out NICS purpose-code permit checks used by several states such as Kentucky and Utah for CCW permit application checks as well as checks on active CCW permit databases.
Though not a direct correlation to firearms sales, the NSSF-adjusted NICS data provide a more accurate picture of current market conditions.
Now that’s interesting. So will the media continue to blame fears by gun nuts, or maybe tie this into with an inappropriately timed story on “right-wing extremists.” We have to wonder.
Huff and Puff Gives Platform for L.A. Mayor
Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of the City of Los Angeles took to the Huffington Post to rant and rave, and promote the group’s anti-gun report that notes that “Crime Guns Crossing Borders and Taking Lives.”
Of course Villaraigosa is quick to note:
“The report analyzed crime gun trace data from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), and paints a portrait of states around the country that are the top sources of guns recovered in crimes. In 2009, the ten states that supplied the highest rate of crime guns were Mississippi, West Virginia, Kentucky, Alaska, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, Indiana, Nevada, and Georgia.”
What you don’t hear from the mayor is that, as with the situation with guns recovered in Mexico, only a percentage of firearms from crimes are ever actually traced. So this “study” is highly questionable at best.
Maybe Los Angeles would be better too, if not only guns from those states didn’t travel to the city, but if tourists from those states stopped spending their dollars on all things made in the City of Angeles. Just a thought.
Who Guards the Guards: Soldier Sells Mines and Machineguns
There continues to be an argument that most guns used in crime must have been legally purchased. This is argued again and again by the liberal media, suggesting that if guns were all illegal that no legal gun could ever become illegal in the first place.
But the latest exception to the rule has come up, and this time it was a soldier who sold not only guns but even landmines, reports The Leaf Chronicle of Clarksville, Kentucky. The paper noted:
“A 22-year-old Fort Campbell soldier on Monday sold a machine gun and a Claymore mine to an undercover ATF agent in Oak Grove, Ky., according to a news release from the Hopkinsville, Ky., Police Department.”
Again, this wasn’t a straw purchase, anything to do with the so-called “gun show loophole,” but instead this was just another example of how bad people would (and do) obtain guns when legally doing so isn’t an option.
Who Guards the Guards: 78 Guns Missing From Kentucky Sheriff’s Office
Imagine what would happen if a law-abiding gun owner called the police and said, “I lost 78 guns.” Do you think this would make the news across the United States? Do you think the person would face felony charges? We think so, but yet when this happened to a sheriff’s office in Kentucky, it was barely a blip on the radar.
This followed an alleged burglary reports TheTimesTribune.com:
“The following list contains firearms that are unaccounted for following an examination of the evidence storage, written evidence logs, and documents pertaining to the release of property found at the Whitley County Sheriff’s Department following an alleged burglary which [sic] was reported on December 21, 2009.”
While the article suggests that not all the guns may have been stolen, it is still disturbing to think that criminals could have made off with all these firearms. It also should as a warning to anyone who believes that all illegal firearms begin from legal purchases!
