California residents
attempting to comply with the Golden State’s ever-increasing swamp of
firearms laws and regulations should take warning. According to a report out
of Bakersfield, a good faith effort to obey the state’s labyrinthine firearm
rules will not spare a gun owner in technical violation of the law from the
wrath of the California Department of Justice.
We recently
reported on proposed rules announced by the Trump Administration to
update the U.S. export regime for firearms and ammunition and to ease burdens
and red tape on domestic firearm-related businesses, especially gunsmiths and
manufacturers. Comments on these proposals are still urgently needed to help
refine the final rules and ensure the voices of America’s small
firearm-related businesses and gun owners are heard.
Numbers are supposed
to be a universal truth. The issue that arises with numbers –
specifically the number of NICS checks run by the FBI – is the interpretation
or presentation. Narratives shift depending on how the numbers “need” to be
reported. High numbers of gun sales? Fear-based clinging to guns. Low
numbers? Well, we haven’t had low numbers of NICS checks in quite some
time.
Files Joint Legal
Challenge with Oregon Hunters Association The National Rifle Association
today announced the filing of a joint legal challenge with the Oregon Hunters
Association to contest the state of Oregon’s Initiative Petition 43, which
seeks to ban commonly owned semi-automatic firearms and standard-capacity
magazines.
On Friday, May 25,
the California Department of Justice, Bureau of Firearms (CA DOJ) formally
submitted a proposed regulation expanding the application of the definitions
for terms relating to “assault weapons” to apply in all circumstances.
The Office of Administrative Law (OAL) will decide whether to approve the
regulation on or before July 10, 2018.
Guns haven't
changed. People have changed. Behavior that is accepted from today's young
people was not accepted yesteryear. For those of us who are 65 or older,
assaults on teachers were not routine as they are in some cities.
Former President
Clinton invoked former Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in a call for increased gun
restrictions on Wednesday during a memorial for the 50th anniversary of the
former senator and attorney general's assassination.
Legislation to ban
the sale, purchase or transfer of “assault-style” weapons failed to make it
out of a Senate committee Wednesday — a victory for the hundred or so
Delawareans who showed up to protest the measure and the many more who made
their opposition clear on social media or in calls and emails to legislators.
A proposed ballot
measure that would restrict ownership of assault weapons and large-capacity
magazines wound up in the Oregon Supreme Court after a gun rights proponent
on Wednesday petitioned for a review of the ballot title, saying it was
politically charged and deceptive.
Proposed master plan changes would improve access, including
ATV/UTV opportunities, at three Northwoods properties
DATE: June 8, 2018 CONTACT: John Pohlman, 608-264-6263 MADISON - The public will
have an opportunity to comment on draft changes to management plans for three
properties in the Northwoods Region of Wisconsin at upcoming public meetings
and through a comment period. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is
proposing modifications to the property master plans in response to public
requests. The changes at two
properties, the Upper Wolf River Fishery Area and the Turtle-Flambeau Scenic
Waters Area, would enable the department to provide all-terrain vehicle and
utility terrain vehicle access on designated trails across short stretches of
these properties. These short connections on department property, both less
than a half mile in length, would create linkages in larger regional trail
networks. The department is also proposing to update the land management
classifications and maps for these properties and to expand the protection
along the Wolf River corridor. The proposed changes for
these two properties will be addressed through master plan amendments. The
department anticipates presenting the proposed amendments to the Natural
Resources Board at their meeting in Hayward on September 26. The department also received
requests to construct two parking areas at the Willow Flowage Scenic Waters
Area: a small handicap parking area near the dam and a multi-use parking area
at the far south end of the property to serve snowmobilers, ATV/UTVs riders,
and boaters. These small additions to the property will be addressed through a
variance to the existing master plan. Department staff expect to decide on the
proposed parking areas after the public input period. The department is not
undertaking a review of the entire range of management actions at these
properties, but rather is focusing on potentially authorizing these specific
changes to the existing master plans. The public can learn more
about and comment on the proposals at two open house meetings. Both meetings
will run from 4 to 6 p.m. and will be held: June 19, Springstead - Sherman Town Hall, 4094 State
Highway 182 June 20, Antigo - Langlade County Fairgrounds, 1633
Neva Road The public can review the
draft amendments and variance along with a series of maps by searching the DNR
website, dnr.wi.gov, for "property planning"
and clicking on the link for "Northwoods
Region." On that page people can fill out an online questionnaire to
submit comments, or can download the form and mail it in. Comments, either
online or hardcopy, are due by July 10, 2018. Questions can be directed to John
Pohlman at 608-264-6263 or john.pohlman@wisconsin.gov.
The June meeting
of the Manitowoc Gun Club was held at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, June 5th.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
SUMMER TRAP LEAGUE: May 3rd -
August 30th.
TUESDAY & THURSDAY BIG 50s: May 8th - July 26th.
MGC CLUB SHOOT: Thursday, June
14th
YOUTH SHOOT HELP APPRECIATION PARTY: Saturday, June
16th
MARATHON SHOOT: Saturday, June
30th.
STATE SHOOT: July 10th - July
15th.
STEAK FRY: Friday, September 7th.
VETS SHOOT: Sunday, September
16th.
MGC BANQUET: Saturday, November
3rd
SCTP YOUTH SHOOT:
Huge Thank You to everyone who helped with the youth shoot! The
event went great! We received many compliments on our grounds,
targets, the amount of help, and the overall operations of the
event. We ended up with 370 trap shooters, 138 skeet shooters, and
190 sporting clays shooters. Similar numbers to last year's event,
which had 380 trap, 135 skeet, and 230 sporting clays. Thank you to
all the sponsors as well (listed below) and to Jim Ruffolo and Ron
Weisner for arranging use of the AED's.
Sponsors:
AAA Appliances
American Legion Post 88
Burger Boat
Carron Net
City Limits
Central Wisconsin Skeet League
Daane Hardware
Executive Coaches
Francis Creek Sportsman's Club
Indepth Agronomy
Koenigs Conservation
Manitowoc Fish & Game City Unit
Mike Stauber Gun Shop
Pfeffer Funeral Home
Pheasants Forever
TA Motor Sports
The Husky Vault
Valley Mobile Shredding
Van Horn Automotive Group
Wisconsin Refrigeration
MIKE STAUBER GUN
SHOP: Mike Stauber from Plymouth will be here
with a trailer of shooting supplies on Thursday, June 21st.He
will be around for a few hours, and will have basic supplies available
for sale (Cash or check only) If there is something in particular
you would like, you can call ahead and Mike will bring it along for
you. Mike can be reached at (920)980-5781.
MARATHON SHOOT:
We will need a lot of help for the marathon shoot on Saturday, June
30th. There will be between 40-60 shooters who will be getting the
rest of their needed ATA targets in. Each shooter will shoot
anywhere from 100-500 targets. Help with marking and filling traps
will be greatly appreciated. Shooting starts at 9am, and will
continue as long as needed.
LEAGUE RULES:
The league rules were gone through at a director's meeting. Some
wording has been modernized. Here is a copy of the league rules.
TARGET
CALIBRATION: There was a discussion on teams
taking it upon themselves to make adjustments to the trap launchers if
they don't like how the birds are flying. Ron Weisner and Jim
Schleis hoop the birds every Tuesday and Thursday night minutes prior to
shooting to ensure the launchers are calibrated to that evening's weather
conditions. The rules do state that teams can request a trap reset
prior to their round starting if the birds don't look right, which we are
happy to verify and adjust if they are off, but that request needs to be
made to the trap range officer, not a person on the team going and making
adjustments to our launchers.
ADDITIONAL THANK
YOUS: Thanks to Dave Soukup and American Legion
Post 88 for the donation of the American Flag. Thanks to Preston
Konop for the donation of the American Flag. Thanks to Hartman's
Greenhouse for the donation of the flowers for the skeet house.
-There will be no July meeting.
The next meeting will be at 7:00pm on Tuesday, August 7th, at the
clubhouse.
U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “It is clear that we must crack down on deadly, military-style assault rifles, which is why I voted to pass Senate Bill 1657, which holds gun dealers accountable by ensuring dangerous criminals and those with a history of mental illness or domestic violence cannot get their hands on a weapon,” Illinois State Representative Fred Crespo claimed in a letter to constituents. “I also support House Bill 1469, which would prohibit the sale and possession of high capacity magazines which turn regular firearms into fully automatic weapons” [emphasis in original].
First, gun dealers in Illinois don’t sell anything without controls mandated by the feds and the state, and “prohibited persons” are called that for a reason. If citizen disarmament edicts really meant such people “cannot get their hands on a weapon,” we’d expect to see results vastly different from reality, not that the political trough-feeders don’t use still unacceptable reductions as an excuse to brag about what a bang-up job they’re doing.
Second, really? Magazines can convert a gun to full-auto? This is one of the guys responsible for crafting “commonsense gun laws”?
At first I had to make sure the letter wasn’t a put-on, because I doubt The Onion could do a better job at parodying gun-grabber cluelessness. Sure enough, gun owners were giving Rep. Crespo a well-deserved shellacking on his Twitter feed, and he actually doubled down on stupid over at his Facebook page.
“A recent statement from my office incorrectly described two gun safety bills. I appreciate this error being pointed out because I would never want to misinform my constituents. I had intended to inform them of my work with Republicans and Democrats to pass House Bill 1467, which bans bump stocks and other modifications used to make semi-automatic weapons operate like fully automatic machine guns, and my support for House Bill 1469, which prohibits the sale and possession of high capacity magazine clips like those used in the murder of Chicago Police Commander Paul Bauer. I’ll continue working to keep weapons of war out of our community, and striving to provide the people I represent with the latest developments from our Capitol.”
Crespo blames his “office.” What a weasel. So much for “the buck stops here…”
He insists he “would never want to misinform my constituents,” adding new corroboration to the truism that for “progressives,” every day is Opposite Day.
He evidently is above the magazine vs. clip controversy, but what the hell—he wants to ban them all, because “weapons of war” should evidently only be in the hands of the “Only Ones” who have proven trustworthy enough to keep and bear them.
The shameful level of subject matter ignorance is hardly new.
“This right here has ability with a 30-caliber clip to disperse with 30 bullets within half a second,” California State Senator Kevin de LeÏŒn blathered at a press conference to a fawning media that didn‘t know enough to question his claims. “Thirty-magazine clip in half a second.”
Then there's New Mexico gubernatorial candidate Michelle Lujan Grisham, who called for a ban on “high magazine cartridges.” And it gets better (worse).
“I will tell you these are ammunition, they’re bullets, so the people who have those now they’re going to shoot them, so if you ban them in the future, the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won’t be any more available,” Colorado Rep. Diana DeGetteclaimed as justification to ban magazines. Her spokesflack, trying to do damage control, doubled down on the ignorance:
“She simply misspoke in referring to ‘magazines’ when she should have referred to ‘clips,’ which cannot be reused because they don’t have a feeding mechanism.”
And who can forget New York Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, who thought the barrel shroud she wanted to ban was “the shoulder thing that goes up”? Or New York State Assemblywoman Patricia Eddington, who maintained .50 BMG rifles needed to be banned because:
“Some of these bullets have an incendiary device on the tip of it, which is a heat-seeking device, so you don’t shoot deer with a bullet that size. If you do, you could cook it at the same time.”
That any of these authoritarian control freaks consider themselves qualified to weigh in on anything having to do with firearms is nothing short of political malpractice. But the true shame, as has been pointed out throughout the years, is owned by a constituency allowing a real-life version of “Idiocracy” to become inevitable.
Perhaps anyone dumb and dependent enough to vote for Fred Crespo and other gun-grabbing frauds is too stupid and irresponsible to own a gun. That's just the kind of voter they’re counting on…
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating / defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament.
Deerfield, Illinois Residents Must Turn In Their Guns
Illinois –-(Ammoland.com)- The Village of Deerfield, IL is counting on a broad interpretation of the Firearm Concealed Carry Act (FCCA) passed in 2013 to ban modern sporting rifles that have a capacity to accept more than 10 rounds of ammunition; shotguns with a revolving cylinder; and semiautomatic pistols and rifles that can accept “large-capacity” magazines.
The FCCA granted a 10 day window after passage of the law for municipalities to pass so called ‘assault’ weapon bans. It was intended as a “speak now or forever hold your peace” opportunity to ban firearm. At that time, Deerfield did not have a ban in effect and decided to pass a safe storage ordinance specifying that firearms defined as “assault weapons” must be in locked containers, disassembled, or have trigger lock when not under control of owner or authorized user.
The village board now claims they can amend their ordinance and ban these same firearms because they say the original storage ordinance was intended as a placeholder for just this purpose.
Ever wonder where we get the impression that laws restricting ownership or possession of firearms are a slippery slope which lead to firearms bans and confiscation???
How is it that a community with a relatively low level of crime, and even less crime committed with the firearms they are trying to ban, is willing to go to court to challenge state law that preempts municipalities from regulating firearms?
Fortunately for Deerfield firearm owners, the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA) and Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) filed a lawsuit against the Village of Deerfield. The suit was filed in the Circuit Court of the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit Lake County, Illinois, Chancery Division.
A court hearing is set for this Friday, June 8th 2018, at 2 pm for the court to consider a request for a temporary restraining order to stop the village from enforcing the ban just days before it is to go into effect.
This is a huge lesson about elections have consequences, even at the most local level. Be ever vigilant who you elect to your local school board, village board, and county board as well as your state and national legislators. If they do not support your right to keep and bear arms, be prepared for fights like this!
Valinda Rowe
IllinoisCarry spokesperson
About IllinoisCarry.com:
The IllinoisCarry forum was started in April 2004. The idea was that Illinois needed a central location to communicate ideas and information regarding 2nd Amendment issues in Illinois. There are many organizations in Illinois working to protect our 2nd Amendment Rights. Working with these groups IllinoisCarry has become the central location for information and Action Alerts. IllinoisCarry will not endorse political candidates. We simply provide information so voters can make informed decisions. Our goal is to join the other 48 states that allow their citizens to carry concealed firearms. We encourage you to register on our forum and join the fight for your 2nd Amendment Rights in Illinois.
Friday, June 1 was
the deadline for bills to pass out of the house of origin in the California
legislature. Below, find an update on firearm and hunting related bills
continuing through the legislative process and the current status including
upcoming hearings.
Dan Ashe, former
President Barack Obama’s Fish and Wildlife Service director, is proposing
that Washington pass a package of gun control restrictions far stricter than
Hillary Clinton ever proposed or that her husband’s 1994 assault weapons ban
imposed. Under his outline, backed by some outdoors writers, AR-15s and most
semi-automatic weapons would be banned, nobody under age 21 would be able to
buy a gun, and those on the “no-fly” list would be outlawed from owning guns.
It's not up to a
state judge to tell the governor to enact a flawed gun buyer screening law
that voters approved nearly 18 months ago, a top state government lawyer said
Tuesday. "They're asking the court to order the governor to say specific
words, to actually script a letter for the governor and force him to sign
it," state Solicitor General Lawrence VanDyke said during arguments in a
lawsuit seeking enactment of the screening measure. "Those things are
miles beyond any legal standard," VanDyke insisted.
