Half the reason I became a lawyer was so I could get away with being belligerent.
February 9th, 2013
[Jefferson made this comment about the fact that he started the Walter Steed protest, more on the protest later, and he was wondering how his activism and blog would affect his professional career.
I offered to set him up with anonymity and that was his reply… Touché Jefferson, touché!
Not to mention there’s a lot to be said for a man willing to stand front and center behind his convictions. -B]
If you want a guaranteed one shot stop, I suggest hitting your attacker with a Chevy Impala going 85 MPH. That would have a 3,500,000 Power Factor, which definitely makes major.
Caleb Giddings – Stopping power explained
February 8th, 2013
[Yup. This is why you carry a pistol for the unexpected. When I know that I’m going into a situation where there might be trouble, I grab a rifle.
The myth of the one shot stop is one of the other reasons you hear people arguing you don’t need more that X rounds.
News flash everyone, pistol rounds suck at stopping an attacker in a single hit. Shot placement helps, but anyone who claims that in the middle of the stress induced by fighting for their life they will magically be able to always hit their attacker in the head, which happens to be moving, is full of crap. Even center of mass can be difficult on a moving target, especially when that target is trying to kill you.
You carry a pistol defensively for the unexpected. Though I will say, I am saving this video because honestly, claiming officers carry for offensive purposes, that means they can shoot first and ask questions later. Oh wait, LA, almost forgot about that.
That video will be quite handy if someone kicks in my door in the middle of the night and happens to be an LEO. They’ve stated they’re packing offensively which automatically means they intend to kill me. They need no justification, they’re acting offensively. -B]
Tell me, if someone threatened me and I opened fire on a car full of innocent people where would I be right now? These officers will not be punished despite their gross negligence of firing into a truck that was the wrong color to boot.
Of note though look at how the actions of a single man have put one of the largest police forces in the country on its toes. Tell me, how is it going to work attempting to confiscate guns from a bunch of people who don’t want them confiscated?
State Sponsored Criminal #518: The Entire LAPD
Because when some nut job is threatening you, you can shoot whoever the hell you want without any restraint. You’re in fear for your life right?*
*Yeah that excuse doesn’t work for the rest of us so why does it all the sudden work here?
The email I got this morning was regarding this bill:
AN ACT Relating to promoting firearm safety through an education program funded through fees on firearms and ammunition and creating a sales tax exemption on gun locks; adding a new section to chapter 82.08 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 82.12 RCW; adding new sections to chapter 9.41 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 43.70 RCW; creating a new section; prescribing penalties; and providing an effective date.
The bill aims to do the following:
So overall they want to tax us more because the government is going to somehow do something that the private sector already does. Last I checked, people were funneling money into the NRA in droves, mainly for the legislative reasons currently. I would think if our legislators were smart they would leave our rights alone so the NRA could focus on safety and youth programs.
Now I mentioned that there were other taxes. The bill as written just says it will add new sections meaning current taxes will remain in place. Washington has a use tax which is equivalent to your local sales tax. So if you buy a firearm off of gun-broker, technically the FFL is supposed to collect a use tax of fair market value at the sale and the 25 dollar fee would be then added to it.
A note on that fee, due to federal law, all new firearms sold must come with a gun lock, so for any new firearm the default fee will be $15.00.
Gun safes however will remain tax exempt in Washington.
Moving forward, we have Federal Excise taxes on firearms that applies up the food chain instead of directly to the consumer. These rates and affected items are fully defined here. Here is a small table to give you the outline:
Remember these are taxes that are applied to the manufacturer or importer. They are already integrated into the price of your item before you get them.
So lets look at an example firearm, the Springfield XDm.
Lets say the firearm is sold to the distributor at $490 dollars. The need to however collect a 10% excise on that so add an additional $49 dollars to the price. The distributor then marks up 6% to turn a profit making the sale to the retailer $571.34. Then the retailer to make a profit for himself will give himself some percentage, lets say 6%, making the price to you the consumer: $605.62. But now under this new law we need to add in the 15 dollar fee, plus the state sales tax. It isn’t clear which side the fee goes on, but knowing it’s the government sales tax will be the last thing computed. This makes the final price out the door just for the firearm at a sales tax of 7.8%: $669.03.
Lets break out how much of that goes to the government shall we?
$49.00 in Federal Excise tax. In the end yes you the consumer does pay for it, don’t be fooled.
$15.00 in the new Fee.
$48.41 in sales tax.
So if you pull all those fees and taxes and recalculate up the chain, (your distributor cost will shift), the actual price without government interference is: $550.57. But lets go ahead and ad sales tax back in, that’s applied to everything else you buy. Your total comes out to be: $593.51.
Think about that, you’re paying damn near an extra $80 bucks in taxes and fees on a relatively low priced gun.
But now you need ammunition to go in that gun, two 50 round boxes of 9mm.
Lets from manufacturer sells the ammo at $0.30 a round. So for a 50 round box it’s $15.00 plus the 11% excise tax. Bringing the total to $16.65. Then we have distributor and dealer markup bringing the total to $18.71. But, you need to also pay an extra 50 cents per box for the new fee. Then add in sales tax, it’s $20.71 per box. Given it’s two boxes that’s $41.42 in ammo, or $0.41 cents a round.
So what are the cuts for taxes:
Federal Excise: $1.65
New Fee: $0.50
Sales Tax: $1.50
That’s an extra $3.65 per box. Per round it’s an additional $0.073 per round.
Tell me, why do we keep piling taxes on a right? Is it to try and cause people to not want to exercise it due to financial burden?
This bill needs to get shut down. It is nothing more than an additional burden on gun owners and for what? A government run program which will be an unsuccessful knock off of a program many of us already fund through the NRA. Thanks but no thanks. I’d rather just keep sending that money to the NRA to help support gun safety and gun rights. It’s an additional unnecessary burden veiled as doing something good.
If our representatives really want to improve safety, they would write legislation to encourage, not mandate, things like Eddie the Eagle in schools along with other programs to teach children how to safely and responsibly handle firearms. The wouldn’t threaten our rights allowing us to focus funds and effort on safety programs.
Now, yes you should contact your state representatives about this bill. While doing so, also encourage them to support this bill.
AN ACT Relating to adopting the Washington state firearms freedom act of 2013 and establishing penalties; amending RCW 43.06.220; adding a new chapter to Title 19 RCW; creating a new section; and prescribing penalties.
If your representative is one of the sponsors, I have noticed one flaw with this bill, there is not a “Severability Clause”. This means that if part of the act is struck down as unconstitutional the whole act is struck. That’s bad. Call their attention to it and ask them to amend the bill.
Let’s multi-task folks. If we’re going to have to spend time contacting our legislators fighting against one bill, we might as well call for them to support a different one at the same time. This will help force our opponents to also actually have to expend resources as bills gain traction.
Currently I’m reading through all 58 bills introduced this year pertaining to “firearms”, as I find more I’ll give a heads up.
It doesn’t cost the anti-gunners a damned thing to introduce bills. True, most of them will never see the light of day, but it’s the one you don’t expect that makes it through and makes your life a living hell. This is very much like how an inmate in a prison can harass the person who put them in there – they can file frivolous lawsuit after frivolous lawsuit against them. The inmate doesn’t pay a dime, but the target expends a lot of capital fighting them.
This is what is going on right now. They are trying to wear us out with so many horrific bills that what they really want will get passed when we’re too exhausted to fight any more.
Robb Allen – The inmates are running the asylum
February 7th, 2013
[Back when the first pushes were happening in Illinois I figured this was their game plan. Distract, divide, and exhaust us by creating numerous issues at the state level we cannot as effectively fight at the national level.
We keep seeing little BS bills come up here and there and they all require our attention lest we lets one slip by and get burned.
I’ve got a post I need to write-up tonight. I just had some WA specific legislation roll into my inbox this morning. Do I think it will pass? No, but if we do nothing it most certainly will pass.
Yes it sucks and yes it can be exhausting, at the same time though we can start introducing our own bills to push forward. If we’re going to be stuck writing in about bad legislation, we might as well be able to say at the same time, please support this bill over here. Our enemies are fewer and not as capable at defeating legislation we push forward. Lets work this momentum to our advantage. -B]
The money shot for why this one made the count quite simply speaks for itself.
Nice huh? Wonder what would happen to any of the rest of us how behaved like that and didn’t have a badge.
State Sponsored Criminal #517: Cory Pierce
Because when you create an informant you can manipulate them however you like, including getting them to score you money and drugs.
via Tammy
Journalists just assume this stuff is true, and print it as truth, but the truth is that the gun culture changed first, and then the gun culture changed the industry. The industry did not change the gun culture. When is the left going to recognize that this is a movement composed of millions of actual people? Thinking people. People who are often smarter than the journalists who write this crap.
Sebastian – On the Popularity of the AR-15
February 6th, 2013
[When is the left going to realize that fact? Never. They want to destroy us and our culture. They want to imprison us for being different and daring to be independent. They hate who we are and what we represent and they will peddle any lie they can to help them accomplish their goal.
The idea that this culture is big enough and massive enough to move whole industries is unfathomable to them. The idea that a rifle became popular due to its utilitarian value just the same is blasphemy. They are trying to understand and comprehend a culture and an environment they know nothing about.
When you cannot even get basic nomenclature correct, when you constantly describe things incorrectly, it should be obvious that you don’t know what you’re talking about. Alas they double down on stupid because they have no interest in learning, just in criminalizing those they hate with differing opinions. -B]
If you listen carefully, you might hear why I like this one.
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Still Unbroken
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