Archive for December, 2015

ACT NOW: Oppose EU Firearms Proposal

Wednesday, December 16th, 2015

There are two things you must do to oppose the new EU Firearms Ban Proposals:

First, write all of your MEP representatives (more information below).

Second, sign this petition from Firearms United

H/T Firearms UK

This is a link to a document created by Colin Jenkins and  contains contact details of all the MEP’s involved in the committee that is scrutinizing the EU Firearms proposal.

Please use the list carefully to send the committee members relevant and helpful emails that provide answers and information as well as dispelling untruths they may have been told or heard to help them make the decision we want.

This is excellent proactive work, thank you Colin.

Please click on the following image to open the document…

EU Firearms Proposal Committee Members

Colin’s original document can be found here

The futility of fighting terrorism with gun control

Wednesday, December 9th, 2015
Self-righteousness is liberating. The same people who are most exercised about guns in America, and want to ban and even confiscate entire categories of firearms, know little about them and evidently feel no compunction to learn.

The worst terror attack in the United States since 9/11 has become the occasion for another frenzied, poorly informed push for new gun restrictions.

President Obama gave a prime-time address on the terror threat, in which he resolutely re-affirmed the status quo in the campaign against ISIS. Except that he hopes that gun control, one of the signal political and policy failures of our time, will now be deployed to help foil the apocalyptic terror group.

Almost every time there is a mass shooting, there is a rush to push old gun-control chestnuts regardless of their applicability.

The San Bernardino terror couple didn’t buy their guns at a gun show (making the effort to close the so-called gun-show loophole irrelevant); they weren’t on the terrorism watch list (so the proposal to ban people on the list from buying guns wouldn’t have stopped them); and Syed Farook passed a background check when he bought two handguns (rendering calls for universal background checks moot).

Read the rest at: http://nypost.com/2015/12/07/the-futility-of-fighting-terrorism-with-gun-control/