Showing posts with label CCW. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CCW. Show all posts
Sunday, July 17, 2016
A Wonderful Self-Defense Handgun!
This SIG P245 has been around at least 20 years. Releasable, accurate and simple to operate!
Friday, June 10, 2016
Concealed Weapons and Yesterday’s Ninth Circuit Court’s Intellectually Bankrupt Decision
San Francisco, CA—The Ninth Circuit Court’s three judge panel originally ruled that California’s Concealed weapon law was void in light of both the recent Heller and McDonald cases in the US Supreme Court.
California counties and cities issue carry permits except that the jurisdictions controlled by Democrats simply deny them except for a select few politically connected favorites.
Yesterday the full court, at the urging of State Attorney General Kamala Harris revisited the case, en bank. The full court reversed and allowed for the continued blanket denial of permits.
The case Peruta v. County of San Diego is now been positioned in direct conflict with the Supreme Court and other Circuit court opinions to the contrary. Here the Ninth Circuit Court simply repealed the right to bear arms through an outrageously biased and defective judicial action.
The next fight will be in the US Supreme Court and we must now guess who will be confirmed to fill the absence of the late Conservative Judge Scalia.
However hope is not lost depending on the November elections. Donald Trump has vowed to make sure every law abiding American has a right to a concealed weapon for self-protection through national legislation. With Obama and his minions this was all but impossible.
Out Constitution and gun rights cannot be left in the hands of Democrats, Socialists or Communists. We need to remove all of them and those Republican pretenders from every political office in the land.
Wednesday, March 04, 2015
The Final Gun Rights Battles--Campus Cary and Gun Free Zones
Washington, DC—The United
States Supreme Court reaffirmed and settled the primary Second Amendment rights issues of all Americans in two somewhat recent cases, Heller and McDonald.
Despite this some arrogant
politicians feel they and some of their supporters are above the law. They still seek to use the full force of
government and violence against anyone exercising their gun rights.
It looks like it may take
several more years of lower court battles before these determined and lawless
political thugs are reigned in. These
cases move ever so slowly through the courts.
The Second Amendment simply
says we can possess and carry firearms. Impairment
of these rights by government is nothing more than a pure Civil Rights
Violation.
On their face laws barring
Campus Carry or those that allow for Gun Free Zones clearly violate the law of
the land.
Campus Carry:
These prohibitions like every
law only affect the law-abiding. The
late convicted serial killer Theodore “Ted” Bundy was a very real beneficiary
of the bans on Campus Carry.
Theodore Robert
"Ted" Bundy was an American serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, and necrophilia
addict who assaulted and murdered numerous young, primarily college women during the 1970s and possibly earlier.
On at least two occasions
this incredibly clever killer broke out of jail only to continue his raping,
slashing and murdering of America’s beautiful daughters.
College campuses were Bundy’s
choice to prey on young, vulnerable and unarmed women. Bundy, a one-time law student positively knew
he’d never find armed resistance on any college campus.
Just before his execution,
after more than a decade of denials, he finally confessed to at least 30
homicides committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978. Bundy actually beheaded at least 12 of these
young women. The true victim count remains
unknown, and could be substantially higher.
I have to ask why some of our
politicians insist upon being accessories and enablers to the all of the Ted Bundy’s of
America?
Gun Free Zones:
What people and lawmakers
seem to forget is that our cops can’t just simply search people for weapons
even if they look shady or suspicious.
That is unless or until they actually commit a crime!
The Fourth Amendment protects
foreign terrorists, killers, criminals and the law-abiding equally. The difference is that the law-abiding
respect the various gun bans, even those that violate their rights.
Gun Free Zones are found at
libraries, Parks, malls, government buildings and schools. Accordingly, these are guaranteed soft
targets and popular choices for mass shootings.
This comes after decades of our politicians handing over massive amounts of military weapons and cash to Islamic people that hate our culture
and us.
We’ve meddled in these Muslim
nation’s affairs trying to police them. Accordingly they continually look
for ways to murder innocent Americans where we live, work and play.
Aside from dealing with our
own existing robbers, rapists and killers we have to deal with military trained
and well-armed Islamic assassins.
The public policy of the Gun
Free Zone is the product of incredible bliss and ignorance. This concept deeply flawed and actually
increases any potential danger.
Disarming the law-abiding in
no way protects them. On the contrary
the Gun Free Zones are in fact nothing more than government created Killing
Zones!
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
LAPD Has Bad Some Advice For Those Facing Armed Robbers
Los Angeles, CA—I spend a lot of time in L.A. when I’m not
in Phoenix or Chicago. The crime rate
here is climbing because of prisoner releases by California Corrections and the
Obama Administration dictating the mass release of criminal aliens. I don’t know where this is going yet. Hopefully, I’m as prepared as I can be if a
thug or thugs actually select me for victimization.
The good news here is that in two separate rulings the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled the current scheme that bars people from
carrying concealed weapons for simple self-defense is unconstitutional.
The current law is now unenforceable. Some California Sheriffs already began
processing thousands of new CCW permit applications because the Supreme Court
settled this in McDonald vs. City of Chicago.
The Mugger, Rapist Killer Protection Act (as I call it) in
California is about to die a quick death.
The reasonable expectation that potential crime victims are unarmed will
be a memory. Darwin is about to begin collecting the
tarnished souls of many really dumb criminals.
L.A.P.D’s Wilshire Division just tweeted that if you’re
confronted by robbers, don’t resist and to give up your property. They suggest this may save your life. There are plenty of things that can go wrong
and despite full cooperation you still can be murdered. I won't fault the advice if you are untrained and unarmed.
I’m a believer in conflict avoidance. I will for example avoid confronting
suspicious people around my car or home.
That’s why we have cops. However
if I’m somehow in a trap I’ll never cooperate.
I will pretend and show fear and quickly give the bastards all the hot
lead I can.
There is absolutely no guarantee that with all of my
military, police and civilian firearms training that I will survive. Among cops I rank in the top five percent of
our shooting scores. The average gun
owner never gets necessary training to deal with rapid fire, night fire and
multiple assailants. That brings me
right back to conflict avoidance!
Even if my gun mortally wounds my attacker/s that does not
mean they won’t succeed in killing me before they die. Instant kills are very rare except in
fictional motion pictures. Once again, that
brings me right back to conflict avoidance!
My gun does not make me taller, stronger, braver or
smarter. It only gives me a much better
chance of survival if the unthinkable happens.
If you ever have to use a firearm in self-defense you must
know what your, obligations, rights and responsibilities are. Most people would rush to call police and tell them
what happened. Particularly in Leftist
LA-LA Land, a jail cell will house you as you wait a jury determination that
may take as much as three years of your life.
You’ll probably be bankrupt and homeless by the time you are cleared by
a jury and released.
Here are the rules that will save you from the jaws of Hell
if you’re lucky enough to survive a
shooting!
Friday, March 21, 2014
Why the No Guns Signs in Restaurants and Shopping Malls are Unenforceable
Chicago, IL—As thousands of concealed weapons permits are
being issued here some people running local businesses apparently fear anyone law-abiding
that is also armed. They are putting up signs prohibiting guns.
Illinois politicians opposed to gun rights have offered up a feel
good solution allowing businesses to ban guns on their property that’s otherwise
open to the public. Some of the
businesses are following corporate mandates others are ignorant and perhaps
frightened by the idea of guns.
Of course all armed and dangerous criminals can be counted
upon to ignore the signs. Adding to the
madness the business owners utilizing the signs are telling criminals that they
can rob, kill or rape without encountering armed resistance!
These days in most safe appearing neighborhoods finding
armed security guards not involved in money transportation is nearly
impossible. No local business would
dare begin TSA style frisking. If they
tried doing that, it would guarantee a trip to the Bankruptcy Court.
Putting up the signs sends a political message that will
bring more than enough customer loss and economic damage. Frankly you have a choice and can avoid
doing business where such signs are displayed. It’s simply one more good reason to use
amazon.com, skipping the brick and mortar Gun-Free Zones altogether.
First and foremost concealed weapon arrests are made almost
exclusively during vehicular traffic stops.
Occasionally some arrests are made incident to unrelated arrests for
shoplifting, street disturbances or trespassing cases. Shoplifters that carry guns find out the hard
way that packing heat may raise a misdemeanor offense to a much higher-level
felony crime in many jurisdictions.
Thankfully none of us have ever seen police enter businesses
and restaurants and begin searching patrons.
There is still a shell of the Fourth Amendment protection from
unreasonable search and seizure preventing that kind of police nightmare. The fact is entering a sign posted business
with a No Gun sign carries almost no risk of discovery. That may and should change with a breach of
the peace.
If a permit holder were discovered armed, they’d have to
prove that the sign was not obstructed from view. Often I’ve seen the signs posted on glass
doors that were actually propped open and not facing where people could
reasonably be expected to see them. Did
the patron enter behind a large person blocking view of the sign?
One thing we can all count on thugs, robbers, rapists and
killers will never obey these or any signs or laws. Why put yourself at risk simply to obey a
stupid sign?
If there was the rare situation where a violent crime occurs
like a robbery and a patron was armed and actually displayed or otherwise used
the firearm judiciously I think an arrest would be highly unlikely especially
of a violent crime was halted.
The signs have no real impact but to divide businesses from
customers. A concealed weapon permit guarantees
that the holder is a sane and law-abiding citizen. Felons, the insane and otherwise troublesome
people cannot be barred from businesses without fear of bringing the wrath of
the ACLU and government regulators.
If you have a concealed weapon permit and you are armed you
need not fear arrest provided that you are not intoxicated or disorderly. If something happens and you either display
or otherwise deploy your weapon do not answer questions but instead ask for a
lawyer.
My advice is to not patronize any business with these ridicules
signs. If for convenience, you feel the
need to give them business they don’t deserve you should simply ignore the
signs. Never let some politician or law
deter you from protecting yourself or someone you love. Be safe, not sorry!
Friday, March 14, 2014
Gun Free Zones vs. Gun Rights and Survival
Phoenix, AZ—I’ve been in the fight for Gun-Rights here since
the 1980’s. Arizona had a real Wild West
mentality mixed with the Liberal ideation of the huge influx big city Eastern
transplants that brought their gun bans with them.
Those from New York, New Jersey and Chicago fled from their
cities but quickly demanded the same kind of Liberal baloney that made them run
away in the first place! It may not make
sense, but it’s reality.
Gun control has long offered the false promise of greater
public safety. Some people actually
believe that in a free society you can simply make laws and people will somehow
obey them. If we can’t keep drugs and
weapons out of our maximum-security prisons how can we possibly control them in
our cities?
The problem with gun control is a simple one. Gun bans are unenforceable. The Fourth Amendment in our Bill of Rights
guarantees the right to be free of unreasonable searches. Okay, many people hate our hard won freedom
and the Second Amendment that guarantees the right to keep and carry firearms
more than anything.
How can our government search everyone in order to seize his
or her firearms? As it is, every year we
spend hours, even days and weeks in lines waiting to be frisked like a criminals
as we enter government buildings, planes, boats and trains.
Gun bans are only enforced by the honor system. Since when do violent criminals and
psychopaths have honor? It’s obvious
that honorable and law-abiding people are the only ones that obey the gun
bans. By banning guns we guarantee only
criminals have guns.
Okay, some believe that cops are the solution. However we’ve redundantly seen how poorly
they’ve responded in virtually every mass shooting. The cops are too little and always too late
to stop the carnage.
Today our cops can only be counted on for a great show of
military might with their fashionable SWAT gear and military style vehicles for
the nightly TV news. We can of course remember
well their wonderful victories in places like Waco, Texas and Ruby Ridge,
Idaho.
Who can forget the pageantry of Jefferson County, CO SWAT cops marching
around the Columbine High School while school kids were being slaughtered
inside? The cops dutifully waited until
the gunmen committed suicide and the victims bled to death before they entered
the school.
When the dust settles after a mass shooting we get the body
count and see the grieving relatives on TV.
Quickly politicians promise us the violence will end with just one more
gun ban. Of course we know the answer to
that, gun bans only make things worse.
The most dangerous place in America is those places with the
feel good, Gun-Free Zone signs.
Ignorance is bliss if anyone actually believes that those signs do
anything but remind deranged misfits they need not fear any resistance if they
begin killing people.
There are those that believe that the police should handle
everything and that they have no personal responsibility to protect themselves,
families, and neighbors or for that matter their country.
Self-defense is really not about politics. It’s not about laws either. Self-defense is deeply rooted in the law of
survival. Simply put, those that can’t
or won’t step up to the plate and use every means to survive were not meant to
live. Charles Darwin is the obvious
ultimate authority here.
Darwin was not yet around to influence our founding fathers
but they seemed to understand the concept he later established in his widely
accepted teachings.
Every sane, sober and competent American has an absolute
duty to make sure they and their families survive. Abdicating this responsibility is not a sign
of civilization but one of ignorance.
That means firearms must be treated like fire extinguishers,
seat belts and first aid kits.
Professional training and safety are key elements too.
Propaganda generated by history’s worst despots, has always
brainwashed the citizenry into believing that they should surrender their
instinct for survival to the agents with the bucket helmets, jackboots and
rifles.
Fools fall for that old line every time. What’s past is prologue.
Saturday, February 22, 2014
San Diego Sheriff Announced he Won’t Appeal from 9th Circuit Appellate Decision Striking Concealed Weapon Ban!
San Diego, CA—Yesterday
Sheriff Bill Gore announced that he wouldn’t appeal the decision in Peruta vs.
County of San Diego.
That of course was the ruling
that struck down California’s ability to obstruct the issuance of concealed weapon
permits to law-abiding people requesting them.
The permits were nearly impossible
to obtain in the state's most populous jurisdictions. Officials had the power to arbitrarily and
capriciously deny permits. Only the
politically powerful, very wealthy or connected applicants got the permits.
Some California Sheriffs
would routinely and nefariously sell the permits to their campaign contributors.
Under the now invalidated law CCW permit applicants had to
prove "moral fitness" and a compelling need for the added protection. Those nebulas factors were so incredibly
vague that they were void. Despotic California sheriffs and police chiefs got away with violating the Second
Amendment rights of citizens for decades.
Several plaintiffs sued and when the case finally reached the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals California’s long-standing but unconstitutional concealed weapon permit law was shot down and invalidated.
Several plaintiffs sued and when the case finally reached the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals California’s long-standing but unconstitutional concealed weapon permit law was shot down and invalidated.
The obvious reason for not appealing
the case to the U.S. Supreme Court is that the high court’s recent rulings in the
Heller and McDonald cases solidly reaffirmed the right to not just keep but to carry arms outside the home.
By not appealing it the gun banners are
seeking to avoid total destruction of their ability to regulate the permits and
violate the privacy of applicants.
Politicians in a few other
Leftists run states don’t want SCOTUS making yet another ruling that would have
an immediate impact on their own various gun bans.
There’s no doubt that these other jurisdictions have been in
communication with California gun ban proponents.
Just what hat does this all mean right
now for California’s millions of gun owners?
It means that prosecution of
cases involving the carrying of concealed weapons by otherwise law-abiding
people is impossible. The law was
invalidated pure and simple.
California must now rewrite
their law to cure the defect. They can’t
just simply create new obstacles to replace the old ones.
Until then
Constitutional carry will be the law of the land. I’m sure a few cops will make some bogus
arrests that will fail in court later.
Anyone currently charged with
a CCW offense would be crazy to enter into a plea agreement. Litigating the matter citing Peruta vs.
County of San Diego along with the Heller and McDonald cases would bring
certain vindication.
There are still serious issues
with non-California residents and thousands of security guards with so-called
Exposed Weapon Permits that need to be addressed.
It would save California
taxpayers millions if the simply took the exposed weapon permits and relabeled them additionally for concealment. The holders of
these permits have already completed background investigation and training requirements. No need to do anything with these permits but
to simply rename them carry permits that allows both exposed and concealed carry.
There is no reason to
redundantly relicense thousands of security guards and private
investigators to deal with parallel requirements and costs. California's Bureau of Investigative and Security Services
has already satisfied any and all present or future needs.
The BISS weapon permit
program that’s already in place has more than adequately addressed all of the
public safety needs and Constitutional questions.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Breaking News! California’s Concealed Weapon Ban Struck Down By The 9th Circuit Court of appeals!
San Francisco, CA—Today the
Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals followed recent rulings by The United
States Supreme Court by striking down the California ban on concealed weapons.
In a 127page opinion ruled
that the long standing law that allowed for “may issue” permits was
un-Constitutional.
The stricken aw had given
police official’s absolute power to issue or deny permits to applicants. The permits were almost exclusively issued to
politicians, bureaucrats and heavy political campaign donors in the more
populous jurisdictions.
Appeal is unlikely because of
the SCOTUS McDonald decision that is in fact the law of the land.
That case is what toppled Chicago’s ban.
Illinois officials are currently
issuing thousands of permits to law-abiding citizens.
What this really means is
that if a gun owner is free of felony or domestic violence convictions and is
not mentally ill the current law requiring a permit to conceal a loaded firearm
in their vehicle or on their person is simply unenforceable.
The police may still decide
to make an arrest but the case will eventually crumble in court. At some point
arrestees may be able to sue police for violating their Civil Rights for making
such an arrest.
California will now have to
write a new law that is not in conflict with citizens Second Amendment rights. That law must mandate that permits be issued
freely to qualified gun owners.
If California chooses to not promulgate
a new law there will in effect be no law to regulate concealed weapons. I’m sure they will write something.
Here is the opinion below:
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