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Volume 1, No. 48; November 30th, 2012
In This Issue
Senate Fails to Advance Sportsmen's Act
Gunlaws.com's Korwin's name hijacked
Mossberg sponsoring Smith & Wesson IDPA Indoor Nationals
Print out a real handgun at home
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EDITORIAL

 

Self Defense v. Murder

 

David A. Lombardo

 

I'm pretty hard to shock. What tends to do me in is my overly romantic, noblesse oblige view of life. I've always admired the Knights of old with their code of chivalry. Would I use lethal force against someone who was threatening lethal force against me? You bet but as I always say in our Home Protection and Concealed Carry seminar, I have no desire to take someone's life beyond the necessity of stopping the threat against me.

 

That said, I was genuinely shocked this week by a Minnesota man who killed two teenagers who broke into his house. It wasn't so much their age; gang bangers are mostly teens and I'd happily use them for Whack a Mole any day. It was the shooter's blood lust I found as chilling as any Friday the 13th horror flick. Fox reported and debated it. Here's the piece in U.S. News on NBC News.com:

 

A 64-year-old Minnesota man was charged Monday with murder for killing two teenagers who he said broke into113012b his  Little Falls home, shooting them in the head. Byron David Smith was arrested after he told police he shot and killed two teenagers who he said were breaking into his home on Thanksgiving Day.

 

"If you're trying to shoot somebody and they laugh at you, you go again," Byron David Smith of Little Falls told investigators, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday.

 

Smith was charged with two counts of second-degree 113012cmurder in the deaths of Haile Kifer, 18, and her cousin, Nicholas Brady, 17, both of Little Falls. The teens were shot on Thanksgiving Day, but their deaths weren't reported until Friday.

 

In the criminal complaint, Smith said he was in the basement of his remote home about 10 miles southwest of Little Falls when he heard a window breaking upstairs, followed by footsteps that eventually approached the basement stairwell. Fearful after several break-ins, according to the complaint, Smith said he fired when Brady came into view from the waist down. After the teen fell down the stairs, Smith said he shot him in the face as he lay on the floor.

 

"I want him dead," the complaint quoted Smith telling an investigator.

 

Smith said he dragged Brady's body into his basement workshop, then sat back down on his chair, and after a few minutes Kifer began coming down the stairs. He said he shot her as soon as her hips appeared, and she fell down the steps. Smith said he tried to shoot her again with his Mini 14 rifle, but that the gun jammed and Kifer laughed at him.

 

"Smith stated that it was not a very long laugh because she was already hurting," according to the complaint.

 

Smith said he then shot Kifer in the chest several times with a .22-caliber revolver, dragged her next to Brady, and with her still gasping for air, fired a shot under her chin "up into the cranium."

 

"Smith described it as 'a good clean finishing shot,'" according to the complaint, but also that he acknowledged he had fired "more shots than (he) needed to."

 

There's more but that's more than enough. Minnesota has the Castle Doctrine which, those who are intimately familiar with Minnesota law point out, gives a home owner the right to use deadly force if someone breaks into their home. It makes it simple to defend one's life; no second guessing. The greater question is where does self-defense end and sociopathic killer begin?

 

For many, in this case, it will be an easy choice because these are two, good looking kid next door types. It isn't difficult to picture her as Homecoming Queen and him as the King. Sure, they may well have been the modern day equivalent of Bonnie and Clyde for all I know, but the point is not who they were but who the shooter was. In this case, given the details I've read so far, this had nothing to do with defending hearth and home. They were stupid kids, intent on committing a crime that included breaking into the home of what turned out to be a sociopathic killer. It appears to me the bleach got poured into the wrong end of the gene pool.

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Procedural vote puts Sportsmen's

Act of 2012 on back burner

 

In a surprise upset, the U.S. Senate failed to advance the Sportsmen's Act of 2012 (S. 3525). After months of discussion with Senate members by a diverse coalition of angling, hunting and conservation organizations to create a historic bill containing 17 key provisions for anglers, hunters and fish and wildlife conservation, the bill failed to pass over a party line vote on a procedural motion. The National Shooting Sports Foundation has expressed disappointment but pledged to continue working in a bipartisan fashion, along with a coalition of more than 45 other leading sportsmen's and conservation groups, to advance the historic package of bills before the adjournment of the 112th Congress. "It is clear there is broad bipartisan support for the policies contained in the Sportsmen's Act, which contains our industry's top legislative priorities" said Lawrence G. Keane, NSSF senior vice president and general counsel. "While we are disappointed by Monday's procedural vote, we will continue to work in a bipartisan manner to address budgetary concerns raised by senators in time to ensure a vote on the Sportsmen's Act before the end of the lame-duck session."

 

Gunlaws.com's Korwin's name hijacked
 

Alan Korwin, owner and publisher of Bloomfield Press, gunlaws.com and The Uninvited Ombudsman, recently took some heat over an email bearing his name. The problem is he'd had his name hijacked. Thousands of Second Amendment advocates received an email, or found it on various web sites, with Korwin's name attached. It included some fairly inflammatory rhetoric including, "Remember, the first step in establishing a dictatorship is to disarm the citizens." Whether one agrees with the statement relative to our current political situation is not the issue; someone unleashing the rhetoric and hiding behind another's name is the issue. In an open letter Korwin denied sending out the email but explained the gun list that went with it was something he'd published in 2009. "I did indeed post, in January 2009, the huge list of guns to be banned that came with it -- which I took directly from a Democrat's proposed bill, HR 1022, in the 110th Congress. That list is accurate including the blanket powers to be granted to the Attorney General, amounting to an extraordinarily broad firearms ban," he said. While Korwin may have a reputation as a firebrand and doesn't shy away from taking the heat, he should at least be allowed to choose what burner he lights.

Mossberg sponsoring Smith & Wesson

IDPA Indoor Nationals

 

The International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA) announced Mossberg will be one of the major sponsors of the Smith & Wesson IDPA Indoor National Championship. Well known for its support of hunting and the shooting sports, Mossberg joins Brownells, the National Shooting Sports Foundation and match host Smith & Wesson as one of the major sponsors of the match. The 2013 Smith & Wesson IDPA Indoor National Championship will take place February 21-23 on the indoor ranges of the Smith & Wesson Shooting Sports Center in Springfield, Massachusetts. "We are so very pleased to have Mossberg, one of the great names in firearms, sponsoring the 2013 Indoor Nationals. They've been strong supporters of hunting and conservation efforts, youth shooting sports initiatives and veterans' programs, so their support of IDPA is greatly appreciated by our organization's 21,000-plus members," said Joyce Wilson, executive director for IDPA. Regarded as one of the finest competitive shooting matches in the country, the Smith & Wesson IDPA Indoor National Championship represents the official start of IDPA's competition season. More than 300 of the sports' best shooters are expected to compete.

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"A little piece of paper is all that prevents the printing of firearms at home using 3D printers," Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. wrote in the November 27th issue of New American. He was quoting Cody Wilson, co-founder of a company that will soon offer customers plans for printing the plastic guns in the privacy of their own homes. Texas-based Defense Distributed has already finished three downloadable designs of plastic guns that can be printed using the new 3D technology. The company calls the new technologically tooled guns the Wiki Weapon. According to a report published by Business Insider, the company has applied for nonprofit status and describes itself as organized for charitable and literary purposes. Reportedly, the homemade weapons will be constructed of plastic resin applied in layers until a fully functioning firearm is formed. The Guardian (U.K.) quotes Wilson saying that his company is "sitting on the logistics, time, resources and money" necessary to begin offering the historic product. The only obstacle remaining is the federal firearm license required of all gun manufacturers in the United States.

 

 
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