Geeks + Guns Keep up on the newest, geekiest weaponry in the planetary arsenals!
Promote peace through superior firepower!
Have we mentioned that this isn't your fathers' 2nd Amendment Website?
Something Completely Different
|
 While a healthy sense of distrust and skepticism for the U.S. government is the only silver lining in this 20-year-old, gloomy cloud, adult Sara Weaver is willing to look past the incident on Ruby Ridge and offer forgiveness. Two decades ago, she witnessed the death of her mother, her father being shot twice by U.S. government snipers, and she crawled around the floor of her home for 10 days as she struggled to collect food and water for her terrified family. Twenty years is a long time for a wound to heal, though. Sara, now 36 and a born-again Christian, has found it in her heart to forgive the people who laid siege to her family.
“All bitterness and anger had to go. I forgave those that pulled the trigger,” she said. “After losing mom and Sam, I almost felt guilty even thinking about being happy after they were gone. But that’s a lie. Your family members don’t want you to grieve them. They want you to move on.”
“It’s hard to live without (your mother) to turn to,” she said. “I want to turn to my mother for advice. We miss her terribly. It never goes away.” Sara Weaver may be able to forgive what happened at Ruby Ridge, but she isn’t willing to forget — and neither is the rest of America.
It’s hard to know where to begin with the Ruby Ridge incident, because nothing that happened is fully black and white. Mistakes were made by both parties involved and many of the details are still disputed to this day, so the safest place to start is back at the beginning — where it all began.-[source]
 It’s kind of exciting to come home from work and see a brown package sitting on your front door step. Usually, it provokes one of two reactions. If you’re the type of person who rarely shops online, then you probably think, “Ohh! My thing is finally here!” If you’re the type of person who does online shopping all of the time, your first thought is likely, “I wonder what it could be. It’s like Christmas in the middle of the year!”
Seth Horvitz of Washington, DC was in the first category. He was looking forward to the TV and knew the second he saw the big, brown package sitting outside his door that something was wrong.
Something’s Not Right Here
The package was long and slender rather than wide and flat. “The package didn’t match the shape,” Horvitz told DCist in an interview.
He flagged down the UPS driver and asked him if there were other packages addressed to him that went along with this one, but the deliveryman explained that he only had one package with Horvitz’s name on it.
Hmm, how puzzling.
The only way to solve that mystery was to break open the box. Horvitz recalled the event, “Even as I opened it there were some metal parts and I thought, ‘Oh, maybe these go with the TV?’ And then of course as I opened the foam up a little further, it was kind of a huge shock to see that this was a military-grade rifle.”
More precisely, it was a Swiss-made Sig Sauer SIG716 AR-15 with a total length of 37 inches – just two inches off from the 39-inch LED TV Horvitz was expecting.
Possession of an Illegal Firearm — Accidentally
That presented Horvitz with something of an ethical conundrum. What do you do with a high-powered rifle that isn’t yours and is illegal to own? The rifle has a suggested retail price of $2,132, nearly seven times the price of the $320 TV he ordered, so it might have been tempting to do something unethical and keep or resell the pricey gun.
To his credit, he did the most sensible thing he could: he called the cops. He knew that simply owning a gun like this was illegal in the District of Columbia and that transporting it in a car was also illegal, so he just stepped back and let the cops come and confiscate it.
But Where’s My TV?-[source]
 Mexican federal police have arrested a suspect in the killing of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, site the slaying at the center of the scandal over the botched U.S. gun-smuggling probe known as Operation Fast and Furious.
Jesus Leonel Sanchez Meza is one of the five men charged with killing Terry in December 2010 during a shootout in Arizona near the Mexico border. One is on trial in Arizona and the other three remain fugitives. Sanchez was arrested Thursday in Sonora state.
Two guns found at the scene were bought by a member of a gun-smuggling ring that was being monitored in the Fast and Furious investigation. Critics have knocked U.S. federal authorities for allowing informants to walk away from Phoenix-area gun shops with weapons, drugs rather than immediately arresting suspects.-[source]
 There were two big developments Monday in the case of a motorist who was shot and killed along Greenwell Springs Road Friday after a fight with a police officer. Investigators say an autopsy shows the deadly bullet was fired by a bystander, not the officer. Police also announced that no charges would be filed in the case, either against the police officer involved or the bystander who fired the fatal shot into the head of George Temple.
East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s spokesman Greg Phares says Officer Brian Harrision was escorting a funeral procession Friday when he pulled Temple over and wrote him a ticket for breaking into the procession. According to Phares, that’s when Temple attacked Harrison. Police say Perry Stevens was walking outside of the Auto Zone on Greenwell Springs Road when he heard Harrison yelling for help. Harrison was reportedly on his back with Temple on top of him. That’s when Stevens went to his car and grabbed his .45 caliber pistol.
According to Col. Greg Phares, “[Mr. Stevens] orders Mr. Temple to stop and get off the officer. The verbal commands are ignored and Mr. Stevens fires four shots, all of which struck Mr. Temple.”
Perry Stevens fired four shots into Temple’s torso. Officer Harrison had already fired one shot into Temple’s abdomen. With Temple still struggling with the officer, Perry continued to advance toward the scuffle.
“He again orders Mr. Temple to stop what he was doing and get off the officer. Those commands are ignored and he fires a fifth shot and that hits his head. The incident is over with, and as you know, Mr. Temple is dead.”
Police are calling the shooting death justified. -[source]
A letter asking presidential candidate Mitt Romney to make good on his words of support for the Congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious “gunwalking, viagra order ’ and for his campaign’s words of condemnation for the Obama administration invoking executive privilege, link is being sent to the Mitt Romney for President campaign today. Written jointly by this correspondent and citizen journalist Mike Vanderboegh of the Sipsey Street irregulars blog, Romney is being asked to commit to revoke the executive privilege claim, and to instruct full cooperation from the Department of Justice in assisting with, instead of obstructing the investigation.
The text of the letter follows:…-[source]
Dianne Feinstein announced Wednesday that she’s re-entering the battle over gun control during her keynote speech to the California delegates to the Democratic National Convention.
Feinstein was president of the San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors on what she calls that city’s “day of infamy” in 1978, when a former colleague shot and killed Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. Since then, Senator Feinstein has been one of the most vocal proponents of gun control on Capitol Hill.
She promised California delegates she’d return to Congress to reintroduce “an updated assault weapons bill.”
At the delegates’ breakfast, she said that, “Weapons of war do not belong on our streets, in our classrooms, in our schools or in our movie theatres.”
Feinstein co-sponsored an assault weapons ban signed into law in 1994, which expired 10 years later.-[source]
One man is dead and two more are behind bars after a World War II veteran took matters into his own hands when a burglar broke into his home.
Boone County Police say a man broke into the basement of a home in the 15000 block of Violet Road in Verona just after 2 a.m.
The homeowner, and Earl Jones, 92, was awakened and grabbed his .22 caliber rifle. Thieves targeted Jones’ farm at least three times recently, stealing guns, money, even cattle. This time, Jones woke up when he heard intruders in the cellar.
When the intruder came through the door from the basement, Jones fired a single shot, police said.
Jones immediately called his neighbor, who then called 911. When deputies arrived, they said they found the outside basement door ajar but no one other than Jones at the home.
Police say the wounded intruder was carried off by two other accomplices. They say those accomplices, Ryan Dalton and Donnie Inabnit, put him in their car and took off. They got about a mile when they stopped on Courtney Road to call 911.-[source]
If all hell breaks out in America, shop will the police be there to protect us? We don’t have to go back very far in time to find a microcosm of what could happen. The Occupy Movement and high-profile people like Cornell West are itching for a fight.
“It’s a major question of priorities here. That’s why the Occupy movement is so important because some of this is going to be fought in the streets. Civil disobedience does make a difference, adiposity ” he said.
“Corporate greed now is an issue everybody has got to talk about. Wealth inequality. Everybody must talk about it because of the Occupy movement,” Mr. West concluded.
Police forces around the country are preparing for what some believe could be riots leading up to and following the November election. People are nervous. They’re afraid their government might turn on them. They’re uneasy about the fragile state of the economy. Talk about more gun control is pushing gun and ammunition sales. The following is from Wikipedia…-[source]
 Outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderon blamed loose US gun laws and American addicts for fueling his country’s drug violence as he defended his controversial anti-cartel offensive on Monday.
Presenting the final annual report of his presidency, Calderon insisted that his 2006 decision to deploy thousands of troops to round up drug traffickers was not to blame for the relentless crime wave plaguing the country.
The conservative leader, whose single six-year term ends December 1, said the wave of murders and kidnappings was linked to brutal turf wars being waged between Mexico’s ultra-violent drug cartels.
But he also pointed his finger at the United States, saying criminals were able to arm themselves with powerful guns after Washington lawmakers refused to renew a law banning the sale of assault weapons such as AK-47 rifles in 2004.
The United States, he said, “is co-responsible for this grave problem because they are the consumers, they are the providers of funds and they are the providers of weapons.”-[source]
 A training program for civilian police by the United States Marine Corps has caused concern among liberty activist/Second Amendment-supporting bloggers, resulting in a call to demand accountability from the Marines and from Congressional representatives, Western Rifle Shooters Association blog alerted it’s readers yesterday.
Responding to a report last week by WNCT CBS 9 News in Greenville, NC, titled “Marines, civilian police officers conduct urban training excercise,” WRSA linked its readers to The Arctic Patriot blog, where “a veteran with over eight years of prior service in the US Army” expressed his concerns and asked “As a civilian rifleman, being a part of the United States’ Constitutional Militia, when can I and my other countrymen expect an invitation to train alongside US Marines?” Semper Fi.-[source]
|
|
Loading ...
.Com Chatter