Good news!
Today’s gun owners and shooting community is well funded, well organized.
Victories against tyrants in Colorado and the defeat of anti-freedom gun
legislation in the last year are a welcome contrast to the bleak days after the
oppressive 1994 gun ban. Kansas has become the 5th state to pass Constitutional
Carry into law.
Bad news! The war
on freedom continues. The Obama administration is blocking the return of
American M1 rifles from South Korea. I hope the importers can wait another
three years, until our inevitable regime change in 2016, when hopefully adults
may again be in charge of our government.
YouTube Madness! I’ve seen a number of videos “testing guns
to destruction”. I don’t find them interesting. Firearms should be treasured
and respected. To simply abuse them until they break for video sensationalism
seems foolish and disturbing.
Open Carry? Is it a
good idea? As a boy, growing up on a cattle ranch, we open carried all the
time, in the pastures and woods. We
often had firearms with us in ranch trucks and tractors while using county
roads. We used mostly rifles, but there were revolvers occasionally present.
This would be open carry by today’s standards, and a good idea. Walking around a large or small city with a
rifle or openly holstered sidearm seems like a very bad idea. Constitutional Carry
of concealed weapons seems like a much better idea.
Ammunition is once again widely available for every caliber
except .22 Long Rifle cartridges. I hope that situation improves soon. The
shortages over the last few years were sheer frustration for many shooters. I
hoped manufacturers learned a few lessons.
But, I’m afraid the days of inexpensive surplus are gone.
The war on police seems to continue. This is one battle
where we cannot remain neutral. It’s one side or the other. I’m with the police.
ISIS is a more dangerous for of Al-Queda. They will come to
these shores, just as AL-Queda did, and we must get ready. Training, preparation,
and common sense, the three actions to take now.
