The So-Called Gun Show Loophole: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

 

There is a lot of misinformation circulating about background checks for gun ownership.
Under the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act—which created the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)—all federal firearms licensees are required to conduct a background check for all firearms transactions, even if they sell the firearm at a gun show. This is to make sure that the gun isn’t being sold to a person who is prohibited from purchasing a gun under Section 922(g) or (n) of Title 18 of the United States Code, which would include convicted felons, people who have been adjudicated to be severely mentally ill, and people who have been convicted of a domestic violence offense.

President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I), and scores of others have repeated the mantra that approximately 40 percent of all gun purchases are conducted through private sales at gun shows and are not subject to a criminal background check. This has become known as the “gun show loophole.”

At a recent Senate hearing, Baltimore County Police Chief James Johnson went so far as to say, “Allowing 40 percent of those acquiring guns to bypass background checks is like allowing 40 percent of airline passengers to board a plane without going through airport security.” 

What gun control proponents never say, though, is that this oft-repeated statistic is based on stale data that was grossly exaggerated even when it was fresh.

More @ The Foundry

The States People Are Fleeing In 2013

Via Billy

 

Long-term shifts in the U.S. economy coupled with the recent recession means Americans are more likely to pack up and move for employment-related reasons. Although the total number of residential moves is down, new data shows a clear pattern of the states that people are fleeing the fastest.

Moving company United Van Lines released its 36th annual study of customer migration patterns, analyzing a total of 125,000 moves across the 48 continental states in 2012. The study provides an up-to-date, representative snapshot of overarching moving patterns in the U.S., and reveals a mass exodus from the Northeast.

At No. 1, New Jersey has the highest ratio of people moving out compared to those moving in. Of the 6,300 total moves tracked in the state last year, 62% were outbound.

“New Jersey has been suffering from deindustrialization for some time now, as manufacturing moved from the Northeast to the South and West,” says economist Michael Stoll, professor and chair of the Department of Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles. “And because it’s tied to New York, the high housing costs may also be pushing people out.”

In fact, most of the top-10 states people are leaving are located in the Northeast and Great Lakes regions, including Illinois (60%), New York (58%), Michigan (58%), Maine (56%), Connecticut (56%) and Wisconsin (55%). According to Stoll, this reflects a consistent trend of migration from the Frost Belt to the Sun Belt states based on a combination of causes.

More @ Yahoo

Shift to hard assets away from paper money has started says Ron Paul

Via Billy

Former US Representative from Texas Ron Paul weighs in on the currency war and speaks to Bloomberg’s Sarah Eisen.

He thinks the shift away from paper money and into hard assets has already started with the housing recovery. But Ron Paul does not believe in going back to the gold standard but the crisis in paper money is already upon us…

More @ Arabian Money

Disabled Marine rifles at inauguration signal shift in administration policy

Via Cordite In The Morning

 

Worried much?

“Didn't know the Marines had to take the bolts out of their rifles for the Inaugural,” an email forwarded to Gun Rights Examiner from a United States Marine Corps source observed. “Wonder if someone can explain why [they] would be marching in the inaugural parade with no bolts in their rifles!”

The email linked to a YouTube video of the 57th Presidential Inaugural Parade, embedded in this column, featuring Bravo Company Marines from the Marine Barracks Washington. Sure enough, the observation in the email is confirmed by watching the video, with screen shots provided in the photo and slide show accompanying this article.

This prompted an internet search to see if others had also noticed, and the Blur-Brain blog had.
“The bolts have been removed from the rifles rendering them unable to fire a round,” the post stated. “Apparently Obama’s Secret Service doesn’t trust the USMC. Simply searching each guy to make sure he didn’t have a live round hidden on him wasn’t enough, they had to make sure the guns were inoperable.

More @ Examiner

50 Studebaker cars among items destroyed in Chesnee fire

Via Cordite In The Morning

 

A fire at a classic car shop in Chesnee on Wednesday afternoon destroyed, among other things, 50 Studebaker cars.

The fire happened about noon at 417 Studebaker Rd.

Cherokee Creek Fire Capt. Billy Bishop said firefighters arrived to find one of the sheds on the property collapsed and a tour bus ablaze. He said eventually two of the three buildings at the scene collapsed, making it difficult to extinguish the fire.

SLIDESHOW: Chesnee fire destroys 50 classic cars

Bishop said neighbors reported hearing several explosions, which were likely caused by tires or welding tanks at the shop.

More @  Fox

Administration’s New Climate Report: Next Ice Age ‘Has Now Been Delayed Indefinitely’

 Dr. Robinson (Dixie's Homeschooler) Myth Of Global Warming

A federal advisory committee appointed by the Obama administration to produce a report on climate change says that if Earth’s climate were still “primarily controlled by natural factors”—rather than by man-made global warming—then the next ice age would occur within the next 1,500 years.

But now, because of humans, the committee says, the next ice age has been "delayed indefinitely."
“Confirmation of what are called Milankovich cycles (cyclical changes in the Earth’s orbit that explain the onset and ending of ice ages) led a few scientists in the 1970s to suggest that the current warm interglacial period might be ending soon, plunging the Earth into a new ice age over the next few centuries,” the advisory committee said in a draft report released last month.

More @ CNS News

Nancy Pelosi Bringing Newtown Child To State Of The Union

 

They have no shame.

-- A increasing number of House Democrats are bringing people affected by gun violence as their guests to next week's State of the Union, with the list now including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.).

Pelosi announced Friday that she plans to bring a fourth grader from Newtown, Conn., along with her mother, as her guests to President Barack Obama's annual address to the nation. A Pelosi spokesman said the student does not attend Sandy Hook Elementary School, the site of a December mass shooting, but attends another elementary school in Newtown. Her office is not releasing the names of the girl or her mother.

More Communist propaganda @ Huffington Post

"Only accurate rifles are interesting"

 

 *This did work for the VC/NVA in Vietnam though.

I don't actually agree with that view. A 4MOA AK clone is plenty useful for its intended purpose. But given that we the people are far behind the most probable enemy in firepower, we have two main options. *The first is to close in and so avoid the enemy support weapons. That option is a loser because we are overmatched on the rate of fire, the amount of body armor, on the availability of grenades and closer quarters training in general.
 
The second option is to sniper from stand-off distance. While that makes us vulnerable to indirect support weapons as well as to vehicle mounted stabilized machine guns and cannon, it gives some chance of escape without detection. Absent sufficient explosives to make an ambush count, that means relying on the first shot hit against distant, armored and possibly moving foe. The cost in inaccuracy isn't in the ammunition but in the risk of detection and in the the exposure to return fire. In that sense, only accurate rifles with good ammunition and very, very competent shooters are interesting.

More @ Oleg Volk 

Comment on How the post-Sandy Hook gun control push spectacularly backfired in America

hefferman1

 

 That giant, may have woken up. 

If he is fully awake, the libs attempts of acting like they are giants too, or hiding behind a photo op will not make one bit of difference.

If the giant is fully awake, he will smash his fist down and destroy the alarm clock that woke up his slumber.

If we can keep lighting fires the giant will get up out of bed, and catch on that the libs have been trying to tie him to the bed, and murder him.

There will be no Jack the Giant Killer able to stop this giant, which is the 100,000,000 strong American People, who love and cherish this country and the Constitution.

NC: 2nd Amendment ACTION ALERT: Chatham County Commissioner Wants to Prevent New Wal-Mart From Selling Guns & Ammo!

 

Commissioner Sally Kost (progressive liberal) is already trying to prevent the new Wal-mart that is being built here to not allow guns & ammo to be sold. Sally Kost in front of Sen Hagan’s Office protesting with Moveon.Org  supporting Obamacare.

 Evidently when God made female liberals, he decided that all  would be ugly.

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NC Renegade

VERBATIM

We are hearing from liberals who want to stop gun & ammo sales in our county. We want our County Commissioners to know that these liberals do “not” represent the majority of people in the county.

They have secretly set up a team of Obama supporters to speak at the next Chatham County BoC meeting Feb 18 @6pm regarding the new Wal-mart being built  in our county off 15-501 to prevent any ammo or gun sales at the new store that is presently under construction.

I have no problem speaking openly vs the sneak attack to ambush our County Commissioners into believing the majority of citizens want a band on gun & ammo sales in our county.

I urge all 2nd amendment supporters to sign up to speak up at the public input session at the beginning of the meeting Feb 18th 6pm at the Agriculture building just behind the circle in Pittsboro. You have 3 minutes to speak.

Link below to sign up for public input session, just make sure you put correct date and fill out info, you may ignore the subject and several other questions and just click submit. This will automatically put you on the list the evening of the BoC meeting. When you arrive, just ask to check the sign in sheet and your name should appear on the sheet for public input: