More Interested Teachers Than Spots In Free CCW Class

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• More Interested Teachers Than Spots In Free CCW Class
• NC Handgun Permit Modernization Act To Be Introduced
• Only If You Want To Look Like A Mexican Bandito
• More Revenue Than Ford Motor Company
• Junk Research Is Still Junk Research
• Why Doesn't Obama Support Self-Determination For The Falklands

More Interested Teachers Than Spots In Free CCW Class Posted: 10 Mar 2013 08:22 PM PDT The Rowan County Wildlife Association thinks the way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. To help increase the number of good guys they offered a free NC Concealed Handgun Permit class for teachers on Saturday in the Salisbury, NC area. The good news is that they had a lot of interested teachers show up. The bad news is that they had to turn some away because they didn't have enough room. Some of the teachers told Eyewitness News they were taking the class to help keep their students safe. "That's why we are teachers, because we love the children we work with," interim teacher Jordan Waller said. Waller joined dozens of other educators at the free concealed carry class in Salisbury. She sat next to Susan Smith, a teacher's assistant, who worries about her students who have special needs. "Our children are not very mobile," Smith said. "They would have a very hard time getting out of the way." Smith and Waller both support bills in the state Legislature that would allow teachers to carry weapons. "If that's what the world is coming to, I'd go along with it," Waller said. Of course as the report below makes clear, the gun prohibitionists at North Carolinians Against Gun Violence are aghast and resort to quoting junk research.  Subscribe in a reader

NC Handgun Permit Modernization Act To Be Introduced Posted: 10 Mar 2013 05:46 PM PDT According to Grass Roots North Carolina, Rep. Jonathan Jordan (R-Ashe & Watauga) will be introducing this week the Handgun Permit Modernization Act. This bill if enacted would do three things: remove redundant mental health checks, stipulate that no additional fees or information could be required over what the state mandates, and reduce processing time from 90 days to 45 days. In my home county it took me 85 days to obtain my NC Concealed Handgun Permit. This was in 2009 when sheriffs' offices were swamped with applications. By contrast, the Complementary Spouse applied for her permit in Buncombe County. In addition to fingerprints, training, background check, and the fee, Sheriff Van Duncan (D-Buncombe) required applicants to mail a mental health records release to Mission Hospital and to another mental health agency. While the Complementary Spouse did receive her CHP sooner than I did, it came with extra fees. This bill would change that. GRNC is asking people to do two things: contact the General Assembly leadership and to contact their own legislator to push this bill. Their alert with more info is below. Remove Obstructions To Concealed Handgun Permits Over the past two years, many of you have told GRNC that some sheriffs are obstructing concealed handgun permits by either delaying issuance or asking for intrusive personal medical information. Others are imposing extra requirements such as photos, character affidavits and fees for redundant criminal background checks. 1. GRNC has listened. Thanks to Representative Jonathan Jordan (R-Ashe, Watauga, GRNC ****), this week will see introduction of the "Handgun Permit Modernization Act," which will: Remove redundant mental health checks: Our CHP law predates the computerized National Instant Background Check System, which for several years has included mental health data. Yet NC CHPs continue to be delayed as sheriffs send forms to local mental health facilities. Worse, some sheriffs have begun requiring physicians to "certify" the mental health of applicants. Stipulate that no additional information or fees may be required: Among the abuses we have seen, sheriffs have had applicants line up with sex offenders for mug shots, while others have required additional background checks (and fees), notarized character affidavits, and even contact information for employers. Limit permit application processing to 45 days: At present, sheriffs are delaying permits for several weeks due to mental health check delays from local facilities. IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED! Help Rep. Jordan move this bill, which will be filed on Monday: Email NC House Speaker Thom Tillis and Rules Chair Rep. Tim Moore and ask them for a favorable committee assignment for the bill Immediately email and call your representative to the North Carolina House and ask them to co-sponsor this critical legislation CONTACT INFO Speaker Thom Tillis: Thom.Tillis@ncleg.net Rules Chair Rep. Tim Moore: Tim.Moore@ncleg.net To find your House rep, go to: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/representation/WhoRepresentsMe.aspx DELIVER THIS MESSAGE Suggested Subject: "Remove Obstructions To Concealed Handgun Permits" To Speaker Tillis and Rep. Moore: Dear ______________: Please support Representative Jonathan Jordan's "Handgun Permit Modernization Act" by giving it a favorable committee assignment. Too many obstructions prevent lawful North Carolinians from obtaining concealed handgun permits essential to protecting themselves and their families. Our law was drafted long before creation of the computerized National Instant Background Check System, and long before North Carolina began reporting mental health data to that system. Yet permits are being delayed as sheriffs make archaic, haphazard and redundant inquiries to local mental health clinics. Some sheriffs are subjecting permit applicants to arbitrary requirements beyond those stipulated by the General Assembly despite the fact that our concealed handgun permit application system was intended to be a uniform statewide process. These extra requirements include "mug shots," extra fees and even phone calls to employers. Since inception of the law in 1995, concealed handgun permit-holders have spent eighteen years proving themselves sane, sober and law-abiding, with a rate of permit revocation of less than three tenths of a single percent. By reducing delays in permit issuance, this non-controversial bill may well save lives. Respectfully, To your House rep: Dear _______________: Please co-sponsor Representative Jonathan Jordan's "Handgun Permit Modernization Act." Too many obstructions prevent lawful North Carolinians from obtaining concealed handgun permits essential to protecting themselves and their families. Our law was drafted long before creation of the computerized National Instant Background Check System, and long before North Carolina began reporting mental health data to that system. Yet permits are being delayed as sheriffs make archaic, haphazard and redundant inquiries to local mental health clinics. Some sheriffs are subjecting permit applicants to arbitrary requirements beyond those stipulated by the General Assembly despite the fact that our concealed handgun permit system was intended to be a uniform statewide process. These extra requirements include "mug shots," extra fees and even phone calls to employers. Since inception of the law in 1995, concealed handgun permit-holders have spent eighteen years proving themselves sane, sober and law-abiding, with a rate of permit revocation of less than three tenths of a single percent. By reducing delays in permit issuance, this non-controversial bill may well save lives. Respectfully,  Subscribe in a reader

Only If You Want To Look Like A Mexican Bandito Posted: 10 Mar 2013 01:10 PM PDT I received an ad in my email today from Botach for a shotgun bandoleer. Now shotgun bandoleers have been around for a long time. However, this bandoleer hold 123 shotgun shells! Looking at that bandoleer filled with shotgun shells all I can think of are the old Westerns featuring Mexican banditos. I just don't think something like that would be that practical. I also don't want to think what that would weigh filled with shells. If I want practical, I'll buy one of the Shotgun Grab and Go bags from Olongapo Outfitters down in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Their bag is well-thought out and will hold a boxes of shells in each pouch. It may cost more but you do get what you pay for.    Subscribe in a reader

More Revenue Than Ford Motor Company Posted: 10 Mar 2013 05:47 PM PDT The One Minute MBA studied the business of guns and found that the firearms industry generated $10 billion more revenue that Ford Motor Company. It also employs five times as many people as Google. As Exurban Kev noted at Misfires and Light Strikes, this shows "why Magpul’s potential move out of Colorado matters." Unless two Democrat state senators change their vote Monday on the final vote on HB 1224, I'm afraid the good people of Colorado are going to find out this out first-hand. Even if the Colorado Republican sweep the Democrats out of office in 2014, Magpul and their jobs will still be gone. Once they move I sincerely doubt that they would ever relocate back to Colorado.  Subscribe in a reader

Junk Research Is Still Junk Research Posted: 10 Mar 2013 10:03 AM PDT Mayor Bloomberg and his Illegal Mayors are touting a story about a "study" that ostensibly shows states with the most gun control have fewer "gun-related deaths". The story in USA Today highlights a study put out by Dr. Eric Fleegler, Boston Children's Hospital, and Harvard University. Part of the study team was notoriously anti-gun David Hemenway of the Harvard School of Public Health. The study used data from the CDC's Web-Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) database and from the Brady Campaign. Yes, you read that right, the Brady Campaign. They included both homicides and suicides in their population of "firearms-related deaths".  As hard as they tried, they only found an "association" and not any causal relationship between firearms laws and the deaths. The study also found that laws requiring universal background checks and permits to purchase firearms were most clearly associated with decreasing rates of gun-related homicides and suicides. Despite the findings, researchers did not establish a cause and effect relationship between guns and deaths. Rather, they could only establish an association. You know your research has a problem when even Garen Wintemute criticizes it. That failure illustrates the limits of the study, said Garen Wintemute, an emergency physician and director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis. "Policy makers can really draw no conclusion from this study," Wintemute said, explaining that the study doesn't provide critical answers to which laws work and why. And what is the answer that both Wintemute and the authors of the Boston Children's Hospital study push? More money to do anti-gun research. There was a reason that Congress limited the CDC's budget on firearms research and junk research was at the heart of it.  Subscribe in a reader

Why Doesn't Obama Support Self-Determination For The Falklands Posted: 10 Mar 2013 09:29 AM PDT The Heritage Foundation has released an interesting YouTube cartoon regarding the Falkland Islands and the Obama Administration's refusal to back self-determination for the islanders. The islanders are holding a referendum today and tomorrow to vote on whether they want to remain a British territory or become part of Argentina. The United States has traditionally supported self-determination. However, in this case, the United States seems to be backing the Argentinians who want bi-lateral talks with the UK and a UN resolution on "decolonization." The Falklands and their residents are different from most colonies in that the "native peoples" are still direct descendants of the original settlers. Colonialism was a reasonable framework to apply to European colonies in Africa and Asia, but it is utterly inappropriate to apply it to the Falkland Islands, where virtually the entire population is of British descent. The Argentine argument that Britain is exercising “19th-century colonialism” by allowing the people of the Falkland Islands to govern themselves as they see fit illustrates the extent to which the Argentine position rests on nothing more than outdated and historically erroneous abuse. As Jan Cheek, a member of the Falklands Legislative Assembly, pointed out in response: “My grandchildren are the eighth generation of my family to have lived here, which is considerably longer than the Argentine president’s family have been living in Argentina." I certainly could see why the Falkland Islanders would prefer to not be part of Argentina. Even the Argentinians are protesting against the high inflation, corruption, and crime in their country. One just needs to read Fernando Ferfal Aguire aka Ferfal's book on surviving the economic collapse in Argentina to know that becoming part of Argentina is not exactly a smart proposition. Indeed, Ferfal now lives in Northern Ireland. I can't explain the Obama Administration's tilt towards Argentina other than to think it is a reflection of the anti-West ideology that Ann Dunham fed her son when he was growing up. It certainly makes a mockery of the special relationship that has existed between Great Britain and the United States as well as making a mockery of our traditions.  Subscribe in a reader

 

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