War on Guns Alerts Placeholder

 Reposted from a 2010 Examiner.com piece via Internet Archive . Internal links may no longer work. April 20, 10:26 AM Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea I'm back from a rather exhausting past couple of days. I'll have time over the next few days to catch up on what the media is saying about the Second Amendment March and the Restore the Constitution rally, but for now I just wanted to share some of what I experienced. After a seven-hour drive, my son and I checked into the Sheraton National in Arlington. Nice digs. From our 8th-floor window we could see the Pentagon, and then across the river the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial, the Capitol Dome...most impressive. Once settled we decided to explore the hotel, check out their gym, their roof-top pool, and an accompanying open-air balcony from where we could see Arlington National Cemetery. We then went down to the lobby to explore other hotel amenities and found a Second Amendment March press conference already underwa...

  Reposted from my Examiner article archive   (internal links may no longer work) Does Al Sharpton agree with Michael Bloomberg about race-based disarmament? If not, why is he so quiet about discrimination this time? Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images Pressure from Michael Bloomberg has caused the Aspen Institute and Grassroots TV to spike distribution of a video of his speech in which he advocated for cities to bar minority males up to age 25 from having guns, The Aspen Times reported Friday . The decision not to make the footage available for broadcast and distribution was made at the request of Bloomberg “representatives.” “He did not give a reason nor did we have any reason to ask for one,” Institute Chief External Affairs Officer” Jim Spiegelman offered by way of explanation. “We often feature speakers who prefer that their presentations not be videotaped.” That may be the case for some, but in Bloomberg’s case, he had to be aware that the program was being recorded. As thi...

 From  https://web.archive.org/web/20120821235321/http://www.examiner.com/topic/john-shipley/articles John Shipley Facts of Shipley case lead to some conclusions, much speculation John Shipley August 21, 2012 A series of stories developed from documents received and analyzed in this column over the past few days have resulted in some answers and more...  Read more Unlikely trafficker cited in Shipley case given inexplicably lenient sentence John Shipley August 20, 2012 Documents analyzed over the past few days in this column, received from a source close to the case of former FBI agent John Shipley, convicted of...  Read more Conspiracy indictments indicate sanctioned gunwalking, government lies ATF August 19, 2012 Documents analyzed over the past few days in this column, received from a source close to the case of former FBI agent John Shipley, convicted of...  Read more Documents show prejudicial tactics helped result in Shipley conviction ATF August 18, 2012 ...

Reposted from my 2009 Gun Rights Examiner article-- retrieved via Internet Archive so internal links may not work. A DA investigator has crapped out on one of the fundamental responsibilities people must assume when carrying a gun-- being responsible for it : LaBarre left his Glock 30 Austria handgun loaded with .45-caliber hollow-point bullets in the second-floor restroom of the Frank Crowley courthouse in Dallas... Luckily, a jail guard found the gun...It's unclear how long the gun was in the restroom, which is often used by criminals leaving the Lew Sterrett jail. What the story doesn't tell us is what punishment LaBarre can expect. We know if he had not been one of the privileged " Only Ones ," those deemed superior to you and me in terms of trustworthiness and competence with firearms, an arrest would have been made. After all, mere citizens are barred from carrying guns in Texas courthouses. We might lose them in the bathroom or something. And some judges want ...

  Originally published  August 7, 2015  by David Codrea. Embedded links may not work. Essentially, authoritarians on the Los Angeles City Council have decided they don’t trust non-enforcers with the same technology used in Pez dispensers. Princess High-Cap courtesy RA Bear & Associates. The Los Angeles City Council passed an ordinance last week banning what it calls “large capacity” [read “standard capacity” ] magazines, ordering citizens to surrender them within 60 days. Gun owners caught in possession of a 10+round magazine by LAPD enforcers will face misdemeanor charges, the Los Angeles Daily News reported . California already bans the manufacture and sale of such magazines, but “it’s not against the law to possess large-capacity magazines in most of the state.” And true to form, now that they’ve imposed their edict in L.A., the antis are looking to expand it nationwide. That was a major talking point at a rally outside City Hall featuring citizen disarmament advoc...

 (Originally published in 2001 on KeepAndBearArms.com) From West Hollywood Ordinance No. 95-453, Sec. 1: "D. The City Council finds that, as a result of inferior craftsmanship, Saturday Night Specials are not sufficiently accurate or reliable...as as...means of personal protection...they are not well suited for this purpose." Let me begin with a confession: I'm a lousy shot. I don't practice enough to become good and probably never will, what with the demands of family and work. So I was a bit apprehensive about taking on the City of West Hollywood when they made the above assertion. But I knew that they were full of it, and also figured I had a way to prove it to people. I have a Raven .25, what those who want to ban affordable firearms would call a "Saturday Night Special". It's small, not powerful, and if there was a less expensive gun on the market at the time I bought it, I don't know about it. My gun is 20 years old. I hadn't fired it in ye...