Police reportedly having difficulty buying ammo according to the national news.
To which I replied:
Welcome to the club folks. Maybe you LEOs should tell your legislators to chill out and stop using tragedies to infringe rights.
Now, it is not a joke, and it’s very real that some departments are having trouble getting ammo. Is it a surprise? Which is more profitable for the manufacturers right now? Hold it for the police or sell it to consumers?
Who must continue to expend ammunition due to legal and department policy requirements?
Law Enforcement Officers.
Who will be tasked with enforcement of any new gun laws dreamed up by our elected critters?
Law Enforcement Officers.
Who stands to not have enough ammunition to enforce said treasonous laws?
Law Enforcement Officers.
Yeah, personally I’m failing to find anything wrong with this situation. If our elected representatives would like to keep our paid law-enforcement officers plush with ammo, the solution is simple. “Stop threatening the rights of Americans.” Creating a bunch of felons overnight with the stroke of a pen will do nothing but result in conflict and additional unnecessary work load for those who honestly work in law-enforcement. It is worthy of note that the class of individuals I am talking about should not be confused with those who appear on the SSCC. Though many of that latter group are chomping at the bit, waiting for the order as an excuse to fight their brother. The badge is merely a method to get away with criminal actions themselves.
Keep the heat on our representatives. Don’t stop, and honestly even if it looks clear, do not waver. It is quite possible and probable they may indicate our overwhelming strength early in order to cut down our response. Look at what happened in Illinois. The bills would die just to be resurrected again. They wanted to fight the bear, by god they’ll get it.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
How about now? Still think they should be given a monopoly on force?
What about the Massacre at Wounded Knee? The internment of the Japanese? The incident at Ruby Ridge? The Waco massacre? Still think the government should be invested with a monopoly on force?
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
If you know someone sitting this one out because they think the anti-gun groups don’t matter, slap them silly. We’re not facing the anti-gun groups, we’re facing the White House and the whole Obama coalition, and if you think that doesn’t matter, just ask Mitt Romney whether he agrees with you.
[Like Sebastian I’m nervous. I keep hearing from more and more people who they’re “voting with their wallet” to indicate their opinion. Well that’s all well and good but it doesn’t really help where the real fight is. Currently I’m working on creating a kiosk for the local gun shop so people can contact their representatives right there.
Form letters should be avoided I know, and I will help anyone who asks write a letter. I have been meaning to post my letter but keep forgetting. I will however post a copy of TMW’s because honestly it was much better and probably considerably more effective, it’s also what I have a copy of handy.
Honorable xxxxxxxx,
The tragedy at Sandy Hook elementary school has sparked new proposed legislation regarding firearms. Currently many throughout the country are riding on emotion and crying for something, anything, to be done. Even if ultimately what is done would have no bearing on what happened.
The actions of that lone monster belong to him and him alone. His actions should not affect the law-abiding gun owners in this country. The calls for “gun control”, a new “assault weapons ban”, and “magazine ban” stem from an emotional reaction to the tragedy. The emotional response is placing blame on the law abiding instead of the deranged individual who is actually responsible.
If any new gun control is passed, it will not only affect the able-bodied law-abiding gun owners, but the disabled as well. As a disabled woman, it is very discriminating to me and others like me. A new assault weapons ban, as well as a magazine ban, will risk my life as I will have no other effective means to defend myself.
The AR-15 is by far the easiest and most comfortable rifle for me to shoot and operate with my disability which limits function of my dominate hand. Many of the features being attacked are what make that rifle functional for myself and others who are disabled like me. Having an adjustable stock merely allows the rifle to properly fit the user. A pistol grip allows my disabled hand to form a more natural angle and operate the rifle. The rail system allows me to attach things to aid in supporting the rifle with my functional arm.
Yet legislation being brought to the floor wants to strip me of a tool that allows me to level the playing field with men stronger and fully able-bodied; a tool that actually allows me to enjoy hunting with my husband since I can properly use and employ it. Currently due to a work related injury to my other hand the AR-15 is the only firearm I can operate safely.
Further my defensive pistol, which is much less comfortable to operate, would be rendered much less useful as well. Magazine restrictions stand to require me to have to reload and work considerably harder to keep the weapon in the fight. Instead of focusing on stopping the threat I will have to focus more on worrying about running out of ammo. This magazine restriction will not stop an able-bodied attacker, it will not even slow them down, it will however slow me down.
Why must I be disarmed and rendered less able because of the actions of a lone mad man? Why are technological advances that benefit women and the disabled being thrown under the bus? Why do you support the disenfranchisement of disabled women?
I implore you, respect and defend the rights of gun owners and in so doing respect and defend the rights of disabled women to have a choice in what their most effective means of self-defense is.
Thank you,
TMW
Now this was a targeted letter sent to the two Senators, both of whom support gun control. We sent this over a week ago, we still haven’t gotten a response from either Senator. There was a modified version that was sent to the more gun friendly representatives.
I will say I was quite pleased with one of my state representatives. He actually sent a reply the Saturday after we sent it. The good news on that one is he’s evidently been hearing from all over his district to head off new gun control.
On that same front, I will say I do have some good news for Sebastian if he’s reading this. There are many people I know of who also were just consistently on the bench who are now moving to become active in the political fight. Hopefully we can keep the momentum and keep growing.
If you haven’t contacted your representatives yet, do so now. -TMM]
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
“We cannot have big guns out here as far as the big guns that are out here, the semi-automatics and all of them,” Muhlbauer said. “Those are not hunting weapons.
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“Even if you have them, I think we need to start taking them,” Muhlbauer said. “Because if they’re out there, they’re just going to get circulated around to the wrong people. Those guns should not be in the public’s hands. There are just too many guns.”
[First, let me be perfectly clear. μολὼν λαβέ or molon labe Representative Muhlbauer. I didn’t go shoot anyone with my firearms and neither did the majority of gun owning Americans so leave my property alone.
If you desperately want my property, I request that you lead the confiscation teams so that those you would attempt to use force of government to steal from can more easily deal with the tyrannical bureaucrat who sent the jack booted thugs to their door. However like most petty tyrants you won’t actually bleed for your cause, instead you will send others to do your dirty work for you.
Lesson No. 2: If a bureaucrat, or a soldier sent by a bureaucrat, comes to knock down your door and confiscate your firearms– kill him. The disarmament of law-abiding citizens is the required precursor to genocide.
A word of warning though Mr. Muhlbauer, if any of those you attempt to kill succeed in surviving and escape, my assumption is they are coming for YOU. A man like that will be on the run already and ultimately have nothing left to lose. In the process of attempting to steal his property, you threatened his family, invaded his house, and even attempted to kill him. Think about that sir, you may not be pulling the trigger yourself, but you’re creating the laws to tell others to kill people for you. You are responsible!
I didn’t put a gun in anyone’s hand, I didn’t pull the trigger, I had absolutely nothing to do with a mentally deranged individual, yet you want to hold me and others like me responsible. You would disarm us to leave us as defenseless as those children, praying that the police show up in time. Tell me, did the police show up in time? Because it took 20 minutes and it was a blood bath that any responsible gun owner could have stopped if they were there, but you sir would disarm them. You would take their property or imprison or kill them.
That sir is sick and down right despicable. You claim to be about protecting the children, yet you would have masked men invade homes in the middle of the night heavily armed killing anyone inside who merely looked like they might resist. Think I’m exaggerating? Look at your war on drugs and the number of innocent people killed in the wake of that mess. You would use the force of government to kill otherwise law-abiding citizens for the victim-less crime of merely owning property.
Who is the mass murderer here Mr. Muhlbauer? Who is attempting to use force to coerce others into behavior you, Mr. Muhlbauer, deem acceptable?
One group wants to merely be left alone, another group blames the first for tragedies the first group had no part in. Tread wisely Mr. Muhlbauer. We are not bloodthirsty and we aren’t out to kill or hurt people like you would claim. We will however defend ourselves and our natural rights, rights that you have no say in.
To the people of Iowa, find a way to run that tyrant out of his job. Sadly your state doesn’t support recalls like mine does, and yes I’m already looking into what needs to be done to recall a politician. Anyone who votes yes from the State of Washington for an Assault Weapons Ban or Magazine ban, I will lead the charge to remove from office. Some officials may think their reelection would be at least 2 years away, not true in some states.
There’s the Soap Box, Ballot Box, and Cartridge Box. An attempt to remove anyone of the three options for defending ourselves and ensuring the governed can revoke their consent results in the third box being the only option. –B]
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
The good news is they actually canned his ass. There’s not much in the way of details on how the predator found the victim. It may have been while in his professional capacity or maybe not.
Due to the lack of details and the fact they canned him, this one’s going in the HM column barring his reinstatement. If you hear about that happening, please bump an email and he’ll get a number.
State Sponsored Criminal Honorable Mention: Martin Herrmann
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
[On my way home tonight I stopped by to chat with Chris and see how things were doing at my local gun shop. Here’s how it looked as I walked in:
I walked in as the last AR on the shelf was being bought. The few remaining that look like they are are really just dedicated .22 LR. The one sole carbine on the right is a 9mm carbine which was also liberated by the same individual who bought the last AR. Notice how there are no Glock mags, AR mags, or just about any other standard capacity magazine. Yeah the last of the P-Mags were leaving as I arrived. They moved, in the middle of no where mind you, in a store that’s mainly known as a golf shop, over 50 rifles in the past 4 days they were open for business.
So here’s what it looked like as I left from the purchase of a single individual:
To give you an idea of how serious this rush is, he was asked if he had any SCARs or other high end rifles and was offered cash for purchase. Think about that for a second folks, people were arriving cash money in hand to buy these.
I don’t think our opponents have fully realized what they have done. I can guarantee you that those who have bought rifles over the past weekend aren’t planning on turning them in if they’re outlawed. I went through all the pistols he had left. Most were single stack or revolvers. Every other normal capacity Glock, S&W, and XD was gone.
People are seriously afraid and I cannot say that the fear is ungrounded. But as piece of good news I do think that Sebastian is right in this following statement:
There’s no question though folks, this is going to be a fight. Do not underestimate the power of our enemy, especially with emotions on their side. Do not get cocky, do not think that magically we are just going to win this. It is going to take work and effort. Write or otherwise contact your legislators starting immediately. If you’re not sure what to do, follow this write up from Robb. Sadly again unlike our paid competitors I have to work for a living and I will be busy through the weekend. My goal is to sit down Sunday afternoon or take the day off Monday and write up an improved form letter based off of Robb’s. At the same time I’m going to work on creating a simple way to automate the whole process of contacting the necessary people.
I offered my help to Chris on arming customers on the political front and got him hooked with with Sebastian’s primer. My goal is to arm every last customer with the knowledge necessary to help win this fight.
Now is the time to fight. To those that argue for a ban on assault weapons I say, “Molon Labe!” –B]
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
So already I’ve seen comments and even got an email from a friend about a particular comment that was left, below is what the comment said (emphasis mine, spelling his).
We all here want to feel safe and do what we can to protect our families & loved ones: we are parents to our children, wives to our husbands, true friends to our friends. More than this we are neighbors and members of our community, in church, club, workplace and park.
I honor the Bill Of Rights and welcome the freedom the Second Ammendment gives me. I also recognize that this was written 221 years ago against the backdrop of our emerging nation. At this sad time and remembering past atrocities I will now seek a complete ban on assault rifles – I will continue to proudly keep and carry my little Ruger. While I dont know many of you here I know that you are no different to my own neighbors; good people living in difficult times. We all need to do the right thing and show leadership.
Here’s the thing folks, you either have a right to arms or you don’t. There is no negotiating on this, we did that in 1994 and look what happened. Further the current atrocity pulling at everyone’s heart strings happened within a state with an assault weapons ban!
If the ban didn’t stop him there what makes you think it would somehow work in the future? Please inform me how “just one more law” would have altered the course of events given the litany of laws he broke before he even started shooting children. Explain to me how the law-abiding gun owners are at fault and the sacrifice of their rights will somehow make the world a safer place. Even law-makers admit that an assault weapons ban wouldn’t have changed anything, you must know something the rest of us don’t.
But lets destroy your BS regarding 221 years ago shall we? At the time people owned cannon, artillery, and during the American Revolution the Kentucky Long Rifle was the AR-15 of the era. Read that again, the Kentucky Long Rifle was the AR-15 of the era. It was a military arm that was quite excellent at striking targets at long distances. By todays standard our bolt-action rifles could be compared with muskets. Muskets, lacking rifling, were less accurate but quicker to reload. So there’s a trade-off yes, overall the technology was quite similar, however there was a considerable difference between the two.
Lets move forward not even 100 years to the civil war and the advent of the henry repeating rifle as well as the percussion-cap revolver. Both of which greatly increased the available firepower of a single individual, yet by your argument we should have nothing more than what we had 221 years ago when it was written. So no revolvers, no repeating rifles, this destroys cartridge firearms, thus kiss your bolt-action rifles and shotguns good-bye seeing as they couldn’t have conceived of this 221 years ago.
Because they couldn’t conceive of the advances in technology 221 years ago, because they didn’t see the immediate benefit of the printing press, you argue for a complete ban on an inanimate object, that you don’t use, thinking that will somehow stop evil. You are however more than happy to continue carrying your “little Ruger” which, by your argument, should be outlawed since we should only take into account what they had at the time.
So if you want to carry a defensive pistol and you want to carry on this argument, you will carry nothing more than a single shot flint-lock pistol. For you see, you should only ever need one round! If you need more than one, obviously you need to practice your aim more! No one needs a 10 shot magazine, the size of the Ruger LCP, or even a six shot revolver, for our fore-fathers survived on 1 shot flint locks and that is what they had in mind when they wrote the 2nd Amendment, at least that’s what you claim. You cannot have it both ways, you cannot just embrace technology you like and throw away that you dislike.
Our opponents would be happy to take away every semi-automatic pistol, who needs them right? You can carry a revolver, it has six rounds, more than enough for anything you might encounter! Then one day someone goes on a spree, reloading while the response takes 20 minutes and you hear cries that we need blanket revolver ban. It’s a slippery slope my friend and the first assault weapons ban proved that along with another important fact.
Now you could say I’m over stepping and taking this too far to which I would reply, how do you set the bar then? George Washington didn’t cross the Delaware to get to his duck blind and by god the Second Amendment was not written with the aspect of hunting in mind. No, at the time the American public maintained it’s own supply of military arms and while some would say that is no longer necessary, I would point out that to this day the United States has an unorganized militia that can be called upon to defend her. As well as the fact that our government has committed atrocities against her own people and you wish to give that same government a sole monopoly on force. Merely ensuring that her own citizens cannot resist if they feel it necessary to do so.
Lastly your argument for an assault weapons ban also completely ignores the fact that the majority of the features banned are purely cosmetic and safety related. Tell me, what good does it do to ban a collapsible stock? You know that thing that allows you to adjust the length of pull for different sized shooters. That thing you adjust to make sure the shooter doesn’t get scoped, or otherwise suffer injury. The pistol grip, which is quite beneficial for disabled shooters allowing for a more natural grip angle and thus preventing further damage to the wrist because of recoil. Also my personal favorite, banning a barrel shroud. Really!? Banning an object who’s sole purpose is to prevent the user from burning themselves. That’s like banning suppressors, because we all like hearing damage!
Your statement above is nothing but pure hypocrisy no matter how you cut it. You either support the individual right of self-defense, including their right to choose what they think is the best arm for them, or you don’t. You cannot just say, well I don’t like evil black rifles so their bad but leave my pistols alone. What happens to the disabled woman who cannot easily deploy a pistol but can a rifle? Must she be stuck with a bolt-action rifle that she cannot effectively operate the bolt on? Ok, so you’ve left semi-auto rifles now with the necessary features to aid in ease of use. Now are you going to limit her to 10 rounds? That operator as I said lacks normal dexterity so while you can quickly and easily reload a magazine you’ve still limited the disabled shooter. And for what? It’s not like the magazine bans really matter to a determined individual:
Remember it was 20 minutes for the police to respond, so short of banning metallic cartridges, people can reload guns, again and again, using them for evil. The answer is to step up and stop evil when it appears, that is best done by allowing people to retain the best tools for doing so. That is not done by banning the otherwise law-abiding and turning them into felons overnight. I find it ironic though that you claim we should do the right thing and show leadership and you do so by blindly following the talking heads. The right thing is stepping up and doing what needs to be done, even if it seems difficult. The right thing is protecting the rights of others despite the actions of a lone mad man. By the way sir, you lead from the front, not from the rear as you kiss the boots of your future masters begging forgiveness for something that wasn’t your fault.
In the words of Samuel Adams:
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace.
We ask not your counsels or your arms.
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.
May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
When I was mugged I blamed only 2 people. My attacker and myself. I can’t control him, so I looked at myself to figure out what I could do to put myself in a better position for survival should the element I couldn’t control decided to come after me again. I took responsibility. I didn’t blame the cops or the grocery store parking lot or even my parents. They had some influence as did society, but it was me who stood there and did nothing. It was me. I did not come after you or anyone else. I didn’t go to congress and ask for new laws to protect my lack of action. I took action. Law abiding, legal action and I took responsibility for my part in that day. I can tell you none of it felt good. I didn’t feel good after I picked myself up off the ground, I didn’t feel good as I hid in the bathroom and took care of my scraped up arms and back. I didn’t feel good when my so called friends turned their backs on me. I didn’t feel good when my daughter looked me in the eye and told me she didn’t feel safe because I didn’t stop the and guy. It didn’t feel good when I showed up in the park to learn how to defend myself. I felt anything but good. I felt sad and lonely. I felt lost and broken. I felt ashamed and confused. I felt scared and and hopeless. And I fought all of that everyday for over a year in order to take responsibility. In order to feel good again.
[First, go read the whole thing, it’s worth it and there were a few other quotes I almost put up first till I hit that one.
Now when I read that my immediate thought was, “No one ever said doing the right thing was the easiest route.” I did a previous rant in the immediate wake and honestly her post and mine are intertwined together.
Feelings are driving the conversation for a lot of people right now, they want to do something, anything. As I said before:
They want to be able to look at a physical object and blame it for what as happened. They want to destroy the physical object and blame it for their grief.
They don’t want to admit that ultimately there was a person behind the gun. They don’t want to admit no matter how hard they tried, they wouldn’t be able to control him. They don’t want to admit all the efforts they took in advance to feel good in the wake of things like Columbine and other mass shootings in the end did nothing. Not only did they do nothing, but the may have made it worse.
To them though that last thought is an impossibility It is impossible that the actions they took to satisfy their feelings could have been counter productive. How could they? Their responses felt right to them in a previous time of emotional tragedy.
People currently forget that 11 years ago a group of men brought this country to its knees with a set of box cutters. The tool is a tool and nothing more. It’s use for good and evil rests entirely with the person holding the tool.
The principal, Dawn Hochsprung, gave her life ultimately trying to protect her students. She was forced, by law, to be unarmed in that encounter. The aggressor however broke numerous laws and had to actually steal the firearms to carry out his crime. Think about that for a second, objectively. We, as a community, trusted that woman, as well as the staff with the care and protection of our children. We trusted that they would do what is necessary to keep them safe and educate them for the future. We trust them enough to send our children there for a decent part of their young lives. Yet we refuse to allow them the choice of carrying a firearm to defend our children should evil come before them.
We refused to allow the people immediately on the scene to respond to the threat posed against the children. Instead the shooter was given 20 minutes to perpetrate his crimes. He was given 20 minutes with defenseless victims. Victims who were in the charge of responsible adults. Those responsible adults, responsible for the children in their charge, were forcibly disarmed under the law.
The law in this case guaranteed the outcome. We will never know what the outcome would have been had just one teacher been able to choose to be armed. We can hypothesize given previous events, such as the Pearl High School incident in 1997. But we can never actually know, all we can do is wonder.
It’s time to stop passing laws based on irrational emotion and examine a very simple and harsh fact. When evil finally shows up, how can we react. We focus too much on stopping evil out right and preventing it from ever happening. While definitely a worthy goal, it is almost impossible to achieve since you cannot actually control the aggressor. All you can do is react as quickly as possible and try to minimize damage. What you can control to achieve that goal is yourself and your response, except in many cases the law has neutered that ability from the victims. -B]
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
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