On July 4, Pro-gun activist and former talk radio host Adam Kokesh is planning an armed march on Washington. We think this is a bad idea. Why? Read on for more: http://patriotupdate.com/articles/armed-dissidents-attempt-to-invade-washington-d-c/
NC House of Representatives easily passed HB 714 which would prohibit the destruction of lawful firearms that are in safe working order. The bill now goes to the Senate where your help is needed to pass it. More information from the NRA-ILA appears below. Please take a few minutes to read the information from the NRA and then contact your Senators and ask them to vote for the bill.
Click this link to find your Senators’ contact information: http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/members/memberList.pl?sChamber=senate
Ilario Pantano, who spoke at the NC Firing Line Kick-off Rally on April 20, is the keynote speaker in Union County at the Hands Off My Guns Event on Saturday, May 11. Representatives from the 8th and 9th Congressional districts will also be on hand as well as other State legislators. To purchase tickets or for more information, please call 704-309-0285.
After observing last week’s lockdown and door-to-door search for the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, a question has nagged at me. How many of the thousands of people who were locked in their homes, waiting for police to nab the suspect, wished they had had a gun? Were they comfortable depending on the police and law enforcement to get there in time should the suspect cross their path? How many wondered what they would have done had the bomber barged into their home and taken them hostage? No matter how much they trusted their local law enforcement personnel, how safe did they really feel while they waited, unarmed? I am willing to bet that many of them felt more than a little vulnerable, frightened and unsafe.
Last week’s events illustrate exactly why we need to protect our Second Amendment at all costs. Our Second Amendment guarantees that we have the right to defend ourselves and our families during situations just like what happened in Boston. It insures that the law-abiding, legal gun owners have an equalizer against criminals and terrorists.
Yet the liberals among us would have us believe that we don’t need to protect ourselves. They say it’s a job best left up to the police and law enforcement. I wonder how many people caught up in the events in Boston last week still agree with that?
By the way, the Boston Marathon bombing suspect was in possession of an ILLEGAL weapon! This puts him in the same category as the Newtown shooter, the Aurora Colorado theater killer and the Columbine murderers. None of them were in possession of legally-obtained weapons!
For more on this, check out the link to this blog. It’s a firsthand account written by a woman who experienced the Boston lockdown. The ordeal changed her outlook on guns and gun control. I wonder how many others had a similar change of heart?
NC Firing Line volunteers hung a sign advertising their Second Amendment and Kick-off Rally on Saturday, April 20 at 11 a.m. at Ed’s Gun Shop, Route 1, Vass, NC. Speakers include Capt. Larry Bailey, US Navy SEAL; Wild Bill for America; Ilario Pantano, Marine veteran and best-selling author; and Judge Rob Wilkins. Gates open at 10 a.m.
This from Grass Roots North Carolina, Senator Kay Hagan intends to vote in favor of S. 649, the gun control bill which would mandate stricter background checks and which would prohibit those who have been diagnosed with PTSD, ADHD and post-partum depression from owning weapons. Apparently her staffers informed several GRNC callers yesterday that it doesn’t matter if her vote causes them not to vote for her — they probably wouldn’t vote for her anyway.
What arrogance and blatant disregard for the very people she is supposed to represent! Please call Kay Hagan today and let her know just how many voters will be upset if she votes for this bill. If you voted for her in the last election, please be sure to let her know that! Her phone number is202- 224-6342.
While you’re at it, the GRNC has called for a protest at Senator Burr’s office at 10 a.m. today. If you can make it, please do so. His office is located at 2000 West 1st St., Suite 508, Winston-Salem, NC 27104. And if you absolutely can’t make it, at least call!
It you live too far away from this office, visit other district offices, which
can be found at: http://www.burr.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Home
The Senate may begin the debate over the Manchin-Toomey background check bill as early as tomorrow. This bill would not only establish universal background checks for many private gun sales if they are commercially advertised (that includes internet sale) but it would waive privacy restrictions and would require doctors to report people who suffer from PTSD, ADHD and Post-partum depression to the FBI. These individuals would be placed on an FBI list and would be prohibited from owning or purchasing a handgun.
The Senate had a chance to head this bill off at the pass before it was ever debated. But many of them sold out and now the bill is up for debate.
Below is a list of those Senators — Republican and Democrat — who voted to advance this bill to the Senate floor.
Republicans who voted for the motion to proceed to gun control on Thursday are Alexander (TN), Ayotte (NH), Burr (NC), Chambliss (GA), Collins (ME), Corker (TN), Coburn (OK), Flake (AZ), Isakson (GA), McCain (AZ), Heller (NV), Hoeven (ND), Kirk (IL), Graham (SC), Toomey (PA) and Wicker (MS).
Please take a few minutes to call your legislators — or call all of them — and express your displeasure. Urge them not to vote for the bill. There is a link on our homepage that will provide you with the numbers of all federal legislators.
Together, we can raise a strong voice against this infringement on our Second Amendment rights.
Well, Remington’s done it. They are the first firearm manufacturer to break the boycott by selling guns to law enforcement in New York.
Sounds like a boycott of Remington and their products is in order. If we withhold our dollars, they will feel the pinch, government contract or not! Follow the link for more information: http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/04/remington-sells-out-to-ny-for-80-million-sniper-rifles-government-contract/
We suppose we should be used to this by now. But, on April 11th, 2013, both Senator Kay Hagan and Richard Burr betrayed the lawfully armed American citizens of North Carolina by voting in favor of gun control legislation in the U.S. Senate.
Thanks to the Beaufort Observer online, who covers it pretty well.
We received assurances from Senator Hagan in letters written by her to us on April 5 and 9, 2013 respectively that, “ … I do not support changing the current law banning a national registry of firearms, and will continue supporting the rights of responsible gun owners. “ She seems to have dodged the part about the ‘national registry of firearms’ owners that she is enabling. Nor does she assure us that she will not sell North Carolina veterans out via the Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD) subterfuge being pursued by the Veterans Administration and Homeland Security to pull in as many unsuspecting combat vets as possible, thereby end running any notion of due process before their Second Amendment rights are suspended for life.
Pols just love to enable these asymmetric attacks by what they refuse … or are too cowardly … to address.
As for Senator Burr, we only see or hear from him in the Sandhills when he is up for re-election and pandering for our dollars. Senator Burr is emblematic of what ails the Republican Party and what makes a replacement party … versus a third party … the attractive imperative.
We’ll have more to say about this at our NC Firing Line Second Amendment Rally at Second Amendment Field next to Ed’s Gun Shop in Vass. Parking begins at 10:00 am, and the event kicks off at 11a.m.
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