” Police arrested a burglar in the act Thursday morning after the owner of the home he targeted held him at gunpoint.
Authorities said Tammy Takach was sleeping inside her Steubenville home when she heard what sounded like a door slamming.”
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Step Inside The Connecticut Gun Factory That Is Leaving The State In Protest
” CEO Josh Fiorini and his gun manufacturing company PTR Industries, are right in the center of the national gun control debate.
PTR makes clones of the HK-91 semi-automatic rifle and is located in Bristol, CT. Bristol is about 45 minutes north of Newtown, where 20 children and six of their teachers were shot to death last December.
We visited PTR Industries to get a firsthand look at the company, their operation, and employees living on the front lines of the gun control debate.”
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Published on May 29, 2013
NRA Women presented by Smith & Wesson
New Energy sponsored by Remington” Aysha Webb is a singer, songwriter and firearm instructor. Aysha is passionate about teaching first-time female shooters and advocating for a woman’s right to defend herself with whatever firearm she chooses.”
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” I love Judge Jeanine Pirro!! Check this out-she’s at the range target shooting with a handgun. Awesome!!
Judge Jeanine: “I’ve been reading your comments. Thanks so much!! FYI close to the target with handgun because any engagement would be with someone in my home. I am not a sniper ergo I will not be shooting from 25 yards but rather only to defend myself in my home.” “
MP5 wow!
My AR15 hits the target.
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NEW REPUBLIC CLAIMS NRA POWER DIMINISHED, GUN OWNERSHIP DECLINING
” The New Republic contends that while the group has “real clout,” its power “has been more a matter of entrenched wisdom than actual fact.” In other words, the NRA only looks strong because it has long been assumed strong. But in reality, individuals with an “F rating” from the NRA have won Senate and gubernatorial seats recently, demonstrating that the NRA isn’t really that influential after all.
The New Republic also claims an alleged decline in ownership of firearms proves the gun lobby is losing. In reality, however, gun ownership is skyrocketing, and not just with gun owners whom the mainstream media loves to depict as backwoods hayseed: women from all walks of life and male first-time gun owners are also increasing.
From the beginning of 2009 through May 3, there were 73,219,367 background checks for gun purchases. This number only indicates the number of purchasers, not the number of guns purchased. The number of guns purchased could have been two or three times that number. The years 2011 and 2012 both saw the highest number of background checks of any year on record; already 2013 is on pace to have the highest number of background checks ever.”
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In Russia a man pulls a gun to stop traffic so he and his boy can cross the street .
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” Sure, it looks like a smooth little semi-auto mouse gun but, as with many things in this crazy world, under it’s sleekness hides some strangeness. First, it’s not a pee-shooter, but rather a 5-shot .45 ACP hardballer. Second, its not semi-auto at all but rather more of a pump-action. It’s the Semmerling LM-4, and though it may look like a swan to some, at its heart it’s still one odd little duck.
Since the beginning of modern time, there have been rough handed individuals whose services are retained by certain quiet branches of the government to maintain a fragile system of covert operations. These
individuals are sent to exotic places, meet interesting people, and occasionally have to fight for their lives to make it back home.”
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NY Sheriffs Join Together To Sue Gov. Cuomo For Infringing Gun Rights
” Sheriffs are so concerned about enforcement issues, that the New York State Sheriffs’ Association, along with five individually named sheriffs, is planning to support a lawsuit that the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, Inc. filed against Governor Cuomo.
“It’s an unenforceable law. I believe it will ultimately be declared to be unconstitutional.”
As far as Howard and his fellow sheriffs are concerned, existing laws provided sheriffs and the public with all the protection they need against gun crimes.”
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Police Fatally Shoot ‘Drunk’ 75-Year-Old Korean War Vet On Memorial Day Weekend In Posh Connecticut Mansion
” The founder and president of a Connecticut military museum was shot and killed at his home by police after he pointed a handgun at officers, Connecticut state police said Sunday.
State police identified the man killed Friday in Ridgefield as 75-year-old John Valluzzo.”
Let me get this straight , the girlfriend was free to call her friend in Florida yet didn’t call police .
” Connecticut’s News Times reports that Valluzzo’s girlfriend called a friend in Florida about 5:15 p.m. Friday and said Valluzzo was intoxicated and waving a gun around. The friend called police, who raced to the home to find Valluzzo still armed.”
She never says to her friend that she was being threatened , nor attempted to call the police herself , just that he ” was intoxicated and waving a gun around ” . Why did she stay in the home ? If the man was intoxicated and armed why didn’t she leave him to his own devices ?
Seems to us that if the girlfriend felt endangered she should have left , period . Perhaps then Mr Valluzzo would still be alive . This would seem to be a truly senseless tragedy .
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” You may have noticed my complete lack of posting about Cody Wilson and his printed gun technology. The reason for that is simple: it’s a gimmick. Sure, printed guns can work, but the question is inevitably “how long?” When it comes to the catastrophic failure of the thermoplastics used in the construction of the barrels and firing chambers, it isn’t a matter of “if,” but “when.”
As a practical matter, with current and near-term technologies, plastic guns are a loser.
That said, some of the emerging technologies that make plastic guns feasible are viable for metalwork as well, and machines like the crowd-funded Othermill means that CNC metalworking machines will soon be in the hands of people for a fraction of the cost of the plastic printing machines.”
The other day we posted an article on how the advent of 3D printing was striking fear in heart of the State , and possible ways that they might attempt to regain control . One of the ways was through the control of the specialized materials required to make use of the “additive manufacturing” technology .
Today we happened upon an article by Bob Owens that makes it even less likely that the government can control the home manufacture of firearms and thus maintain some semblance of “gun control”. Welcome to the world of home CNC machining . No need of hard to get or potentially” regulated” additives with CNC . Commonly available raw metals will do the trick .
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New Illinois Law Will END Chicago “Assault Weapons” Ban
” As I’m sure most of you know, yesterday Illinois state House passed a bill that, when/if signed into law, will give residents of the state a mechanism for concealed carry. Illinois was previously the only state in the US without some kind of concealed carry program.
The new bill has further reaching implications though. One of the aspects of the amended version of the bill is that the state will get preemption on gun laws. This would mean that cities, towns and counties would not be able to enact their own gun legislation. This means in cities like Chicago, the strict “assault weapons” ban in place there will be effectively repealed.”
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” If you still think gun control isn’t a problem, it’s about to get a whole lot worse. As 3D-printed gun blueprints continue to circulate, they will cause more harm than good.
Back in 2012, a Texan student, Cody Wilson, developed a gun designed to be built with a 3D printer. The full story can be viewed over at the Sydney Morning Herald. In order to conform with US firearm laws, an inch large chunk of steal was inserted to make it detectable for meta detectors.
It took 16 parts and 27 hours for the NSW police to make a gun. While the gun did fire and generated an enormous stopping power for what it’s worth, there are drawbacks which Homeland Security and various regional police units are emphasizing.
Seen through a demonstration video by released by the NSW police, the 3D printed gun blew up after a shot, which can cause bodily harm to both the victim as well as the shooter. Scraps of plastic flew everywhere as the gun was fired, and it can be views from the attached video.”
We think there are some problems with this video , or rather the events that it depicts . It is certainly very easy for the authorities to produce these kinds of videos showing the inherent “dangers” of making your own firearm by using plastics that are known to be unable to withstand the pressures involved in detonating a center-fire pistol cartridge .
There are different grades of plastic available for all types of manufacturing today and that goes for 3D printing as well as any other. Having experience as professional fireworks technicians we can say that there are plastics that are safe to use as launch tubes and there are others that are not . That goes for metals as well as plastics .
While we’ve no doubt of the veracity of the video and the New South Wales experiment in 3D gun construction , the fact is that Mr Wilson has created one that does fire safely.
There can be no doubt either , that the whole concept of 3D printing and the loss of control that it represents to the State has the authorities quaking in their boots , as well it should . However , the fact remains that the “Additive Manufacturing” horse has fled the barn never to be re-stalled .
Furthermore , the emphasis placed on the choice of plastic as a construction medium is of minimal importance to the whole “make it yourself” issue . Very few people have a desire for an undetectable firearm , especially when the authorities are certainly capable of detecting the cartridges and projectiles , without which the “plastic” gun is useless
What the State should truly fear from 3D printing is the fact that it works with metals as well . That means that with the proper printer , freely available CAD drawings and materials anyone will very soon be able to print up their very own , un-numbered , untraceable , fully functional 1911 or AR-15 … Chew on that …
There-in lies the rub . What mode of Statist intervention are they going to try in a ham-fisted attempt at stuffing the 3D genie back in the bottle ? They’ll never be able to stop the flow of digital file sharing … the drawings , CAD files and how-to information freely available via the internet , that much is a certainty . Of course that doesn’t mean the idiots won’t try , but that effort is doomed to failure .
No , the only real hope they have of smothering this technology in it’s cradle is through the control of either the printers themselves , or the materials using in the layering process itself . But again , the task that the State faces even attempting to tackle the issue from the supply side is daunting . You have doubts , you say ?The State will be able to control the sale of printers and additives you say ?
If you believe that allow us to put this in a different perspective … just think of the printers as guns and the additives as drugs . Need we say more ? We don’t know about where you live , but in most parts of the country it would take all of an hour on the street to be able to come up with just about anything in the gun/drug department anyone could desire .
We have been following Mr Wilson and this emerging technology for some time now and have posted many items on this fascinating topic . In fact we feel that the combination of the internet and the coming 3D home manufacturing revolution sound the death-knell for the State as we know it … One can hope anyway . To that end we offer a collection of links from past articles that we have posted on the future as seen in 3D …
Introducing Defense Distributor’s “Cuomo” AR Mag … DIY … With 3D Printing
“3D Printing Brings the Science Lab to Your Backyard”
3D Printing = The End of Gun Control
3D Gun Fires 600 Rounds – Legally*
The Battle Lines Are Drawn – Technology vs The State
Cody Wilson On The Angel Clark Show Talking 3-D Printable Guns
The Genie NEVER Goes Back In The Bottle
A Sit-Down With Cody Wilson Of Defense Distributed
Does Technology Doom The Gun Control Movement ?
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[Video] NJ Woman Blasts Anti Gun Lawmakers During Hearing “It’s Not Your Job To Protect Me!”
” How many interesting videos are there from this NJ hearing? We’ve already published two extremely viral videos (here and here) from a recent hearing on NJ’s additional gun control measures.
Now we find this gem. This woman, Nora Craig, absolutely gets it and takes the anti gun lawmakers running the meeting to task.
“It’s not your job to protect me,” she told elected officials. “It’s not your job to defend me. It’s your job to protect the Constitution and protect my rights to defend myself.” “
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Woman Fires Shots At Men Trying To Break Into South KC Home
” A south Kansas City woman fired shots at a group of people she said was trying to break into her home.
The woman’s husband said he had just left the home in the 10600 block of Greenwood Road to get an oil change when she heard someone jiggle the knob of the front door. The woman said she saw two other men heading to the back door.
The woman said she peered through the blinds and saw the men putting on gloves and raising their feet to try to kick their way through the sliding glass doors. She said she pulled the trigger and fired straight ahead.
The woman said the men ran off, firing shots toward the house.
Police said they arrested three people after they came to Research Medical Center. One of the men was treated for a gunshot wound to his chest.”
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” The daughter of a fallen police officer, Samantha Minehart, was tending to her horse in the family barn when a man walked up behind her, put a knife to her throat, and told her “not to do anything stupid”. Despite her compliance, the man started stabbing her, once in the stomach and once in the leg, resulting in the need for multiple stitches.
Minehart wasn’t taken totally by surprise though. Her family had been attacked on their land before, and she was ready. Minehart drew a gun that she was carrying for personal protection and fired two shots at the suspect, who then fled.”
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” Investigators said that George Ramirez, 27, was walking home from a nightclub when he was approached by four to five armed men who opened fire on him.
Ramirez was also armed and fired back at the suspects, police said. Ramirez was hit once in the back, but was able to kill one of the suspects and wound another.”
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” The United States is the most heavily armed nation in world history, and it seems we have President Barack Obama to thank for it.
Before you ask: we’re not talking about the U.S. military, we’re talking about the firearms owned by the general population. The National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) estimates that there are roughly 300 million firearms in the United States — and of those, nearly 40 million new firearms have been sold just since Barack Obama came into office in 2009.
This is a staggering jump of more than 15 percent in just over four years, in a nation 237 years old.
The current standing military of the United States, including National Guard, Air National Guard, and Reserve units, is approximately 2.2 million servicemen. Citizens have purchased enough new firearms since 2009 to equip every member of the military 18 times. Of those arms purchased, the overwhelming majority aren’t sporting arms (like Vice President Joe Biden’s recommendation of an archaic double-barrel shotgun). As I noted in December, people are buying very specific arms designed for very specific purposes:
Manufacturers were running full-bore, but couldn’t come close to keeping up with market demand. It wasn’t just the AR-15s, the AK-pattern rifles, the M1As, and the FALs that were sold out. It really hit me when I realized that the World War-era M1 Garands, M1 carbines, and Enfield .303s were gone, along with every last shell. Ubiquitous Mosin-Nagants — of which every gun store always seems to have 10-20 — were gone. So was their ammo. Only a dust free space marked their passing. I’ve never seen anything like it.
Every weapon of military utility designed within the past 100+ years was gone …“
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” Alabama lawmakers stayed up late into the night to consider last-minute bills before the last day of the 2013 legislative session on Monday.Both chambers in the state house voted to override Gov.. Robert Bentley’s veto on a local bill that would allow armed teachers in Franklin County schools.The bill will now become law without the governor’s signature.It will allow teachers and other school employees to carry a gun at school – so long as they are properly trained as police officers or sheriff’s deputies. “
Gay Rights and Gun Rights Linked In Seattle Posters, Causing Control Freaks’ Heads To Explode
” Across Seattle, reports alt-weekly The Stranger, posters are appearing linking gay rights and gun rights in ways that are just freaking out the usual control-freaky suspects. Some of the posters suggest that disliking guns is just like disliking homosexuality: a personal foible that ought not be turned into legislation. Other posters suggest that armed gays “aren’t going to take shit from homophobes.” It’s clearly inconceivable that anybody could actually hold in his or her mind, simultaneously, a regard for the right of people to love who they want and respect for the right of self-defense, so it must be some horrible, trollish plot. At least, that’s what The Stranger‘s Cienna Madrid suspects.”
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” Jimmy Lee Garrett, 48, of Alabama is a registered sex offender who has been arrested twice in 1985 for first-degree sodomy and first-degree sexual abuse of a 69-year-old woman.Garrett, apparently not content with the freedom the state so graciously lets him enjoy, decided to break into the home of a neighbor at 4am for unknown reasons.
When the woman who lives at the home saw Garrett in her kitchen, she yelled for her husband, who grabbed a gun. During a confrontation Garrett was shot once in the foot by the homeowner.”
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