Disarming America, Moving Toward Tyranny?

"People love conspiracy theories." —Neil Armstrong

Not so much. Yes...The internet is awash with all sorts of conspiracy theories that spin tales of how the government is going to disarm the populace and tyranny shall rule the day. A considerable amount of what is out there amount to no more than "Tin-foiled hat-wearing" doomsayers who probably didn't get enough attention, Ritalin or positive feedback as kids. It's there.

But on the other hand, Some of the stuff is well-written and compelling enough to literally scare the "bejesus" out of impressionable young souls. Am I dismissing much of it? Yes. But not for the reason I state above.

Survival Blog makes some very good points. Points worth rehashing. There are in excess of 316 million privately-owned firearms in the U.S with less than 10 per cent documented via state registries. Up to 30 per cent have Form 4473s filed with the FFL dealers where they were first purchased, and the shelf life on such documentation is limited.

There are a great many guns in these United States. And I don't care who you talk about, people do not easily give up their guns. Australia has roughly 4 million guns and their compulsory buyback program netted 640,000. 16 percent of all guns. Germany experienced similar results, as did the UK. I suspect an even lesser result in the United States were it to implement a gun grab, given our history and our gun culture. Citizens have the guns. And more citizens are buying guns....But lots of guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens does not amount to government respect and discomfort.

In July of this year, Small Wars Journal featured a article entitled, "Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A “Vision” of the Future" The Authors, one a retired Army Colonel and the other a History Professor at Princeton, paint this fictional scenario where:

"In May 2016 an extremist militia motivated by the goals of the “tea party” movement takes over the government of Darlington, South Carolina, occupying City Hall, disbanding the city council, and placing the mayor under house arrest. Activists remove the chief of police and either disarm local police and county sheriff departments or discourage them from interfering."

So now we have Military Hacks and Academics teaming up planning for scenarios on our home soil where the U.S. Military has to intervene because of an insurrection. The article is plain nutty and goes into lengthy detailed discussion of the considerations and contingencies of waging war against the Tea Party. The discussion is very technical, detailed and scary.

But...let us, for the sake of conversation, accept their premise. In reality, none of us have to be PhD graduates of Naval War College to understand Historical realities.

The Malayan insurgency, Northern Ireland, Philippines, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Kashmir, Northeast India, Yemen, Djibouti, Colombia, Sri Lanka, and Democratic Republic of the Congo and (Soviet) Afghanistan, Vietnam and insurgencies faced in Iraq and Afghanistan most recentlyare all insurgencies of more or lesser degree.

Many People say that citizens cannot fight governments. It is those same folks who quickly forget Lexington and Concord, or the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan. Citizens most certainly CAN fight the government, and they usually win when they try.

An organized army does well when it fights against another organized Military. Fighting people is an entirely different metric and the government is at a disadvantage. When one looks at world today, it becomes clear that "guerillero" have the upper hand.

Given the deep-rooted American patriotism that has bolstered so many generations, How many active American service men and women will stand and take on their fellow citizens in a pitched battle? Many of these so-called insurgents served in the same Military forces. Many have the same training in weapons, tactics and skill, but are now civilians. Intelligence gathering against the populace by the Armed forces would be an absolute nightmare.

The American culture is smart, well-trained, educated and quick on its feet. Fighting an insurgency on American soil would be the downfall of all who brought such a plight. Americans would be far more armed and well-heeled than any other such insurgencies in the world.

It has been said countless times that nothing matches good old fashioned American know-how ingenuity, and self-reliance. How do these tin horn war college hacks factor that American will and might into their quixotic mix? It would be a blood bath. We, the insurgency could do a great deal with so little while the hack planners plan.

Certainly, it is neither noble nor desirable goal to wish for such circumstances, as the personal suffering and austere conditions brought about by such iniquities would be immeasurable. Truly evil is he or she that wishes this, but you hacks in DC, don't think for one second that the people of this nation would not rise to the fight, it tyranny began to rule the day.

While some will read this and likely say, "Rick Olson is nutty!"....So be it. But, remember, I didn't write, "Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A “Vision” of the Future" A Military Planner and an academic did.

I still remain a skeptic. I say that it is unlikely to happen here, at least in my lifetime. But that is not to say it won't, either.

CROSS-POSTED AT GRANITE GROK

In A World Where Only The Police And Military Have Guns…

CROSS-POSTED AT GRANITE GROK

Commentary From Crooks On Journal News Gun Ownership Postings

“Having a list of who has a gun is like gold – why rob that house when you can hit the one next door, where there are no guns?” —Walter T. Shaw, Notorious Ex Burglar and Jewel Thief

On December 30, Steve shared with us about the Journal News and its' December 22nd publication of each and every address of gun owners in Rockland and Westchester Counties, NY...replete with interactive maps. Moreover, Steve provided the names and addresses of the principle players at Journal News.

Steve makes a valid point here:

Because turnabout is always fair play, a blogger went and dug up the names and addresses (phone numbers and other contact info) of the folks at theJournal-News.

The Journal-News thought it would be fun to release all the names and addresses (with interactive map) of registered gun owners in New York’s Westchester and Rockland Counties, and this is just more “public information,” right? It is all just sitting out there or on the internet. But I have wonder if that was the response the employees of the Journal-News were expecting?

Steve also made this particularly sobering point:

"…but in my experience there are a lot of dopey liberals (which includes most people in media) who are too busy being excited about how clever they are–and how much they are likely to impress their peers–to think about the potential side effects of their “great ideas...”

To quote Reverend Jeremiah Wright, "(The) Chickens have come home to roost."

ENTER, Walter T. Shaw, considered the world’s most notorious former jewel thief. According to Fox News, the FBI blames Shaw for more than 3,000 break-ins netting upwards of $70 million during the 1960s and 1970s. This guy is an expert.

"That was the most asinine article I have ever seen.“Having a list of who has a gun is like gold - why rob that house when you can hit the one next door, where there are no guns?" The 65-year-old Shaw told Fox News. Side note: "Do criminals fear citizens with Guns? Sounds like Shaw qualifies that as a, "yes". Shaw continues, "“What they did was insanity.”

Inversely, anotherex-crook, Bob Portenier asserted, “(The Jounral News) just created an opportunity for some crimes to be committed and I think it’s exceptionally stupid,” Portenier, 65, now a crime prevention consultant, is a former burglar and armed house robber.

While some burglars may use the newspaper’s information to avoid guns, Portenier said others will target homes with guns. The newspaper’s decision could even lead to legally-owned guns proliferating on the street, he said.

Portenier maintains that for some Burglars, guns are on the top of the list of contents to steal. Shotguns and handguns can be sold on the street for $300 or $400 each (more than the LAPD Gun buy-back). In all likelihood guns are sold to a gangbanger who ends up killing another.

Frank Abagnale was portrayed by in a 2002 Fim, "Catch Me if You Can" with the leading role played by Leonardo DiCaprio. Abignale called the newspaper’s actions, “reprehensible.”

Abignale went on to say,

“It is unbelievable that a newspaper or so called journalist would publish the names and addresses of legal gun owners, including federal agents, law enforcement officers and the like... This would be equivalent to publishing the names of individuals who keep substantial sums of money, jewelry and valuables in their home.”

So there you have it: Three major crooks weighing in on this, providing insights from the criminal-element side of life. Yet the Journal News Publisher Janet Hasson issued statements supporting the disclosure of private information, relying on New York States, Freedom of information Laws (FOIL).

Most recently, Putnam County Clerk Dennis Sant has refused the requests of the Journal News for information there. Editor Rex Smith of the Times Union in Albany calls resistance to the FOIL application, "Intolerable."

New York Assemblyman Steve Katz in supporting Sant's decision, says the Journal News gives no compelling reason to expose the names gun owners other than,"that they can."

This is yet another gun control ploy typical of barn burning Gun control extremism. And as Dr. Mike Adams says, Gun Control Extremists have at least two things in common with Islamic extremists. They have a willingness to die for their fundamental beliefs, and the sanctimony to demand that others die with them.”

Like my colleague Steve Mac Donald says, "Turnabout is always fair play," I once again bring to you this list below"

EDITOR: Cynthia Lambert
Miss Royle’s married name is Lambert. She lives in White Plains and here is her Facebook page complete with pictures of her and her kids. Hello Sanctimony. http://www.facebook.com/CynDeeRoyle

Cynthia R Lambert
17 Mcbride Ave
White Plains, NY 10603
(914) 948-9388 Work: 914-694-5001
croyle@lohud.com https://twitter.com/croyle1
https://www.facebook.com/cyndee.royle.7https://www.facebook.com/CynDeeRoyle Drives a red convertible:
Family photo:

Publisher:, Janet Hasson,
3 Gate House Lane,
Mamaroneck NY, 10543
(914) 694-5204

Reporter: Dwight R. Worley
23006 139 Ave
Springfield Gardens, NY 11413
(718)527-0832

“Visual Editor” responsible for the map itself is:
Robert F. Rodriguez (w)
Stephanie Azzarone
(212) 222-4566
420 Riverside Dr, Apt 7A
New York, NY 10025-7748

Publisher: Janet Hasson
(@janhasson on twitter)
3 Gate House Rd,
Mamaroneck, NY 10534

GANNET CEO:
Gracia C Martore
728 Springvale Rd
Great Falls, VA 22066
(703) 759-5954

CAN THE MEDIA GET MY INFORMATION IF I HAVE A PISTOL REVOLVER LICENSE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE?

NO!

CROSS-POSTED AT GRANITE GROK

No Firearms Ban Coming? Think Again.

"If I could have banned them all - 'Mr. and Mrs. America turn in your guns' - I would have!" —California Senator Diane Feinstein, appearing on NBC News' 60 Minutes, February  5, 1995

When reading the above quote, which time was Senator Feinstein being sincere? When she said this in 1995? Or, when she said recently,

(This legislation) will be carefully focused on the most dangerous guns that have killed so many people over the years while protecting the rights of gun owners..."

"While protecting the rights of gun owners" says Senator Feinstein. Which is it? 

Yes! The Anti-gun left in America is speaking out and their talking points go something like this:

"Most Americans believe, while supporting the second Amendment,  there are reasonable restrictions that can and should be implemented to restrict who can own a firearm, what sort of weapon they can own, and the amount of ammunition that can be loaded into the weapon."

There is nearly always some discussion of what "America needs," in the form of some, "Common Sense," gun laws.  But who decides what is, "common sense?"

 Senator "Chuckie" Schumer, in a recent op-ed for the New Hampshire Union Leader wrote,

The gun debate of the past two decades has devolved into a permanent tug-of-war between the National Rifle Association (NRA) and advocates of gun safety. One side has viewed the Second Amendment as absolute; the other has tried to pretend that it doesn't exist. The result is a failure to find any consensus, even as one mass shooting after another underscores the need for sensible reform.

Chuckie also said this little gem:

"The truth is, it was bad strategy to ever deny an individual right to bear arms and, similarly, the special place guns hold in our culture. That mentality alienated potential allies in the ideological middle of the gun debate - something I learned three years ago when my friend, Ben Nelson, invited me to Nebraska for my first hunting trip. I returned with true respect for how, in many parts of America, gun ownership is not just a constitutional right, but a way of life."

Chuckie is going to get a few, hook, line and sinker with that morsel. He almost sounds sincere, not withstanding his track record of viscera against guns.

Sensible reform; Consensus... The favorite contemporary buzz words of anti-gun liberals seeking to curb ownership of firearms by law-abiding citizens.

Apart and aside from the Kool-Aid Drinking true believers who want to ban all guns, are those shrewd, machiavellian-liberals who adopt the time-honored incremental approach to taking away our guns and extinguishing the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Presently, a centralized registration system is being proposed by California Senator Diane Feinstein while Gun control proponents accuse second amendment supporters and advocates of paranoia and other such "tin-foil hat-lined," Fear-mongering despite a long and well-documented world history showing registration as a precursor to confiscation. Here, and Here.

Yes. A National Registration is on the table, folks. Below, is what Senator Feinstein proposes in her up and coming legislation for 2013:

Requires that "grandfathered" weapons be registered under the National Firearms Act, to include:

• Background check of owner and any transferee;
• Type and serial number of the firearm;
• Positive identification, including photograph and fingerprint;
• Certification from local law enforcement of identity and that possession would not violate State or local law; and
• Dedicated funding for ATF to implement registration

Firearms registration existed in New Zealand for fifty three years and then in 1971 all revolvers were confiscated by the Government.

Australian states and territories had firearms registration requirements until 1996 when most semi-automatic rifles and semi-automatic and pump shotguns were completely banned. Private citizens were required to surrender their firearms  so that they may destroyed following a 12-month amnesty program.

Since 1921 the UK required that all lawfully-owned handguns be registered with the government. However, with the implementation of 1997 handgun ban, UK handgun owners had little choice but to comply with the surrender of their handguns as mandated by the new law.

While we look to these examples outside the United States, we have some experience with registration and confiscation right here at home.

In 1967 New York City council enacted a registration law for rifles (long guns). Yet, in the early nineties, that same law was used to confiscate semiautomatic rifles and shotguns, following a Council ban on firearms classified (by the city only) as "assault weapons." 2,340 NYC residents who had registered firearms were summarily notified that these firearms had to be surrendered, rendered inoperable, or removed from the city.

There is nothing in gun registration laws that will prevent government from being arbitrary. Take the case of California where the state revoked a grace period for the registration of certain rifles (SKS Sporters) declaring  registered weapons illegal.

The NRA and other Second Amendment advocacy organizations have come under fire for failing to "compromise" or assent to "reasonable" gun controls. Likewise, Citizens who own guns are scolded for being paranoid, called conspiracy theorists, tin-foil lined hat wearers and other enumerated pejoratives. Liberals dismiss these groups and citizens claiming,  "Nobody is going to take away your guns." 

In United States v. Emerson, (270 F.3d 203 (5th Cir. 2001) ) The Government actually argued, "there is absolutely no right of an individual to own firearms!"

Judge Garwood: "You are saying that the Second Amendment is consistent with a position that you can take guns away from the public? You can restrict ownership of rifles, pistols and shotguns from all people? Is that the position of the United States?"

Meteja (attorney for the government): "Yes"

Garwood: "Is it the position of the United States that persons who are not in the National Guard are afforded no protections under the Second Amendment?"

Meteja: "Exactly." Meteja then said that even membership in the National Guard isn't enough to protect the private ownership of a firearm. It wouldn't protect the guns owned at the home of someone in the National Guard.

Garwood: "Membership in the National Guard isn't enough? What else is needed?"

Meteja: "The weapon in question must be used IN the National Guard."

Res Ipsa Loquitur. I think I understand all of this now in the full context of the pursuit "sensible gun policy."  Sensible gun policy means I must agree to ban semi-automatic rifles that are dark colored and scary.  If I do not agree, then I am unreasonable....irrational and don't care about children.

So, we, the law-abiding citizens who currently own these scary black rifles need to be photographed, fingerprinted and have the permission of government to have them?...Even though they are "grandfathered?" And we simply have to take the government at its word that perhaps ten, fifteen or twenty or more years down the road, when everybody is lulled into this acceptance of Big Brother Government, nobody is going to step up and propose and enact a total gun ban? Bollocks!

History of Gun Registration in world democracies supports the assertions of this, "tin-foil hat-lined writer."  Moreover, Historical precedent is an inconvenient predictor of facts.

This legislation, proposed by Senator Diane Feinstein is bad. Really really bad.  I've seen the numerous headlines: Gun Groups digging in for a fight. I say to them, "Good on you!"  This is not compromise, nor sensibility, nor reasonableness they ask for...It is carefully disguised rank capitulation to an anti-gun agenda, with the ultimate goal of confiscation.

What The Heck Is An, "Assault Weapon?"

“Hoplophobia is a mental disturbance characterized by irrational aversion to weapons, as opposed to justified apprehension about those who may wield them.”—Col. Jeff Cooper.

Gun Grabbers are seeking an, "Assault weapons" ban in knee jerk response to the heinous and dreadful Newtown Massacre. There is little discussion about Adam Lanza or the victims from whom he lawlessly and barbarically snatched life.

Fox News' Bill O'Reilly likes to refer to these black scary guns as, "Heavy weapons" (and still we have no clear and articulate definition on what heavy weapons are) So exactly what is the anatomy of a black scary gun these gun banners seek to vanquish from our hands?

The term, "Assault Weapon" is a redundancy created to assist an anti-gun pathos. The definition of Assault in its simplest form is, "a physical attack." A weapon defined in simple terms is, "any device used to injure, defeat, or destroy."

Absent the pathos where common sense prevails, an assault weapon can now be effectively defined as a knife, a club, a bat, a tire iron, a whip or an atlatl, in addition to any firearm, not just scary black guns.

The AR-15 is a gas-operated, magazine-fed, shoulder-fired firearm. It is a semi-automatic rifle, meaning, it fires a chambered round, while simultaneously extracting the spent casing and loading a new round dispensed from a spring-loaded magazine with each independent press of a trigger. The AR-15 is not a machine gun.

The AR-15 fires a .223 Remington cartridge (or 5.56x45 mm NATO) round which has a typical average velocity of 3,200 feet per second. .223 is the caliber or, "size" of the bullet. they range in weight from 55 grains to 62 grains or a smidgen more than a quarter of an ounce. We are talking about a projectile that is under a quarter of an inch, weighing a quarter of an ounce....fired from a scary black gun.

The Ruger 10/22 and the .22 caliber rimfire bear some limited similarities to scary black guns. Ruger 10/22 is semi-automatic. So is the AR-15. The Ruger 10/22 can take a higher capacity magazine. So can the AR-15. The AR-15 and Ruger 10/22 have comparable sized projectiles that exit the muzzle. While the power between the two vastly varies, we can now see the intellectual flaws in terminology like, "Heavy weapons" and "Assault Weapons." Then there is one final glaring fact: Both firearms when used criminally and illegally, kill people equally dead.

An average .22 caliber rimfire cartridge has a muzzle velocity of roughly 1,065( +/) feet per second. Like the .223 Remington, the .22 caliber rim fire projectile is roughly the same size, separated only by 1/1,000th of an inch in size. These projectiles weigh anywhere from 19 to 40 grains: an infinitesimal weight difference between the two.

On January 29, 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spenser used a Ruger 10/22 to "plink" at kids and teachers at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego California. She is now doing 25-to life in Prison as she killed two and wounded eight others. The Ruger 10/22 is one of the most popular selling rifles since hitting the market in 1964 and is Not an assault weapon...

"We have to ban these powerful weapons..." go the hues and cries of the anti-gun liberals. But as usual, they are never clear about what they speak, letting ignorance and confusion stand.

How about a Marlin 1895 CB lever action rifle, chambered in 45-70 Government? What makes that firearm so powerful? Is it its' low velocity round and muzzle energy, effective to take down most North American Big game animals? Or is it whether or not the shooter can tolerate the recoil that rattles ones fillings at the press of the trigger?

 What about the even bigger rifles like the Armalite AR-50, MacMillan TAC 50, and the Barrett M82A1, all of which employ the massive 50 caliber bullet, commonly known as the 50BMG? (.510 diameter) 650-800 grains in weight. Now, these might conceivably be considered, "Heavy weapons." Perhaps the Bolt Action Rifle, .505 Gibbs? 375 H&H? 404 Jeffrey? 416 Rigby? .577 Nitro? All of them have MASSIVE, MASSIVE power. I have fired them all and they left me bruised and sore.

Most of the aforementioned are designed as, "long range shooting rifles." Or in the case of the big game rounds, meant for hunting Dangerous game. (Lions, Tigers, and Bears, Oh My!) They all have very long barrels, are very heavy (in weight) and most often (except for the Barrett) are bolt action (big game rifles tend to be double rifles and break action) rifles. But this fact that lacks relevance in the gun ban debate where killing sprees happen at very close ranges with small caliber arms. Despite that, California has banned them because they are simply scary. To date, there are no gun crimes recorded using any of these extra-large caliber firearms.

Facts are inconvenient things.

Asia has the United States beat, "hands down" on the Spree Killings with 122. Since 1863, there have been sixty-three such spree killings in the U.S. The decade with the highest number was 1980 to 1990 counting at 15, and handguns are the most used firearms in spree killings.

Might the reader find this information bordering on mundane? Probably. But certainly it cannot be argued that I am not reasonably informed about that which I write.

All the calls to ban these scary black guns FAILS to deal with the other inconvenient hard cold facts. Fact 1: We have these gun safe school zones...no guns present anywhere. If a spree killer enters into a school with a .22 rim fire rifle, be it a bolt action, lever action or semi-automatic, with the express intent to kill many...he (or she) will likely kill many. Fact 2: The fallen dead will be as equally dead as if they were shot with a pistol, a Bushmaster Rifle, a musket or a big bore hunting rifle....and no less dead.

History tells us that spree killers have been around since the civil war and long before the advent of the so-called assault weapon. Spree killers have frequently used items other than firearms in mass murder, such as the dynamite and timer used in Bath Michigan in 1927 by Andrew Kehoe: 45 Killed, 58 injured...38 were children.

Efforts to ban firearms possessed by law-abiding citizens is not only misplaced but gives further evidence to a progressive-statist utopian worldview that citizens do not need guns, that they may be subjects to an oppressive government and not citizens. Some of the most poignant statements advocating for the confiscation of guns comes from the likes of Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler, Mussolini, Kim Jong Il and Fidel Castro. Most recently, Hugo Chavez has banned the possession of all firearms by citizens and will require surrender of all privately owned firearms.

Col. Jeff Cooper put it like this:

“The conclusions seem inescapable that in certain circles a tendency has arisen to fear people who fear government. Government, as the Father of Our Country put it so well, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. People who understand history, especially the history of government, do well to fear it. For a people to express openly their fear of those of us who are afraid of tyranny is alarming. Fear of the state is in no sense subversive. It is, to the contrary, the healthiest political philosophy for a free people.” – Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries, vol. 4, no. 16, December, 1996

Assault weapon is a term of redundancy. A misnomer...a liberal pathos. Next time a liberal asks why a person needs a black scary gun, tell them to trade in their Lexus', their Volvo's and their Land Rovers for Yugo's, Why not? Nobody needs any of those vehicles. Transportation from point A to point B is all that is "needed". Comfort and style are the bane of the opulent. So, buy that Yugo today!

This isn't about scary black guns. This public debate is about keeping the populace in check and disarming those who the progressives perceive as a threat.