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Volume 2, No. 35; August 30, 2013
In This Issue
Editorial: 1984 today
Obama to halt M1 repatriation
Next generation of target shooters
Dems - Big tax on guns & ammo
NY Times: FBI checks flawed
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Winchester is offering its new Super X Pump Black Shadow Deer 12-gauge shotgun featuring a 22" rifled barrel and three-inch chamber with black synthetic stock and forearm. The receiver is drilled and tapped for optional mounts that allow you to easily install an electronic or optical sight. The rotary bolt features four massive lugs that provide a solid lockup to the barrel. The bolt and other components have black chrome protection that lasts longer than traditional bluing. MSRP: $519.99. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Editorial

Orwell missed the mark by about 30 years

David A. Lombardo

 

Sixty-four years ago, when George Orwell wrote his book 1984 about how the world was morphing into a dystopian society, his prediction was off by about 30 years. With computers, the Internet, Predator drones and video cameras not yet so much as on a drawing board, Orwell prophetically wrote this passage describing our world today:

 

"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."

 

While there has always been grumbling about background checks when you purchase a firearm, few seem to be concerned that the government has reportedly admitted they "don't have the time" to destroy those records as mandated by Congress. Somewhere there's a pile of information about gun owners. About the only thing gun owners do seem to be passionate about is this White House's fetish for disarming American citizens using any legal or illegal method possible. Give me a break-selling arms to Mexican drug cartels that will use them against Americans, thus proving America is the source of the world's gun woes.

 

Few voiced objections when toll roads installed transponders so you wouldn't have to stop to pay tolls; it would simply be debited from your account. No one thought twice about the fact it was keeping track of where you're traveling. Likewise when stop light cameras began to appear. People were angry at the possibility of being fined for being late through a stop light, but, again, no one stopped to think that those cameras are keeping track of where people are traveling. And now speed cameras are increasing the street coverage of where we go and where we are.

 

We ignored FEMA buying 400,000 coffins to be prepared for any disaster, just as we ignored the fact that, other than the pre-historic Permian-Triassic extinction event that occurred 252 million years ago, the largest number of deaths resulting from any single point-in-time event took 150,000 people when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Just what event does the government anticipate that will require 400,000 coffins?

 

We also ignored the Department of Homeland Security buying 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition, enough to wage an all-out 20-year war based upon ammunition consumption in Iraq and issuing TSA agents personal M-16s for home defense purposes. Or the acquisition of recently retrofitted U.S. Marine Corps mine-resistant MRAP vehicles that are turning up all over the U.S. with gun ports and bullet-proof glass capable of withstanding a 50-caliber round.

 

Several years ago, when the Department of Transportation issued a notice of proposed rulemaking about opening U.S. airspace to drones, the only hue-and-cry was having unmanned aerial vehicles sharing the airspace with commercial aircraft. No one asked why, and today we have drones in the sky with cameras keeping watch over what? Who? And now the government is saying it makes sense to arm those drones as they do in Afghanistan. Over American skies. Over American citizens.  

 

And then we discovered the IRS was auditing conservative organizations. If your organization had such heinous words as Patriot, Tea Party or Liberty in its name, you became the beneficiary of an IRS audit or inquisition.  Right about the time you figured it couldn't get any worse, it was revealed that the National Security Agency is recording every telephone call and every email American citizens produce. They're quick to stress no one is actually listening or reading what we say. They're just storing it...you know...just in case.

 

Are you kidding me? Am I the only person that sees some sort of connect-the-dots thing going on with this president? Which prompts me to ask once again, when are we going to take back America? 

 

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This week's On Target Radio will be discussing privacy and government intrusion. 

 

 Join WIND Radio hosts David Lombardo and Gretchen Fritz who'll be discussing these issues with Steve Balich, Will County Board member and co-founder of the Homer/Lockport Tea Party, and Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point, an organization dedicated to empowering conservative young people and promoting capitalism and the free market.

 

All that and more, this Sunday evening from 9:00 to 10:00 p.m. on AM560 THE ANSWER. 

 

 

 

Obama to ban return of surplus M-1 Garands

 

Barack Obama's new strategy for attacking gun owners specifically targets collectors and competitors, by blocking returns of surplus military rifles over six decades old, and reveals his extremist anti-gun attitude, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. The president's new gun control measures, announced today by Vice President Joe Biden, will prevent the recovery of thousands of military-surplus M-1 Garand rifles that are valued by collectors, competitors and historic reenactors. These firearms were loaned or donated to South Korea decades ago. This new prohibition would have far-reaching effects on all kinds of curio and relic firearms. Such firearms have considerable historic significance and value to American firearms aficionados, and there is no evidence that such firearms have ever been favored by criminals. There is pending legislation, H.R. 2247, the "Collectible Firearms Protection Act" sponsored by Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) that would counteract it.

 

 

America's New Target Shooters:

Younger, Female and Urban

 

New target shooters-those who have taken up the sport in the last five years-are younger, female and urban when compared to established target shooters, or those participating for more than five years, according to a survey commissioned by the National Shooting Sports Foundation. Just how this new segment of target shooters varies from established target shooters can be found in the Analysis of Sport Shooting Participation in the U.S. 2008-2012, the findings of which are based on a survey conducted by Responsive Management, a public opinion research firm specializing in outdoor recreation issues. The demographics of new shooters show they are:

  • Younger: 66 percent of new shooters fall into the 18-to-34-year-old category, compared to 31 percent in the same age category for established shooters.
  • Female: 37 percent of new target shooters are female compared to 22 percent of established target shooters.
  • Urban: 47 percent of new target shooters live in urban/suburban settings versus 34 percent of established target shooters.
The report shows that one-fifth of target shooters in America first started participating in the shooting sports between 2008 and 2012. That means 20 percent of all target shooters began participating in the past five years. 

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Dem bill would trigger huge new taxes on guns, ammo

 

An August 26th FoxNews.com article written by Perry Chiaramonte reports a pair of Democratic lawmakers are proposing steep new taxes on handguns and ammunition and tying the revenues to programs aimed at preventing gun violence. Called the "Gun Violence Prevention and Safe Communities Act," the bill sponsored by William Pascrell, D-NJ, and Danny Davis, D-IL, would nearly double the current 11 percent tax on handguns, while raising the levy on bullets and cartridges from 11 percent to 50 percent. "This bill represents a major investment in the protection of our children and our communities, and reflects the long-term societal costs of gun and ammunition purchases in our country," Pascrell said. The lawmakers say the bill would generate $600 million per year, which would be used to fund law enforcement agencies and gun violence prevention. Critics predicted defeat for the measure. "What the anti-gun interests can't ban, they want to tax it out of existence," Alan Gottlieb, chairman for the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, told FoxNews.com. "It's nothing more than confiscatory taxation. I doubt this bill will pass, but we will lobby against it if need be."

 

 
 

NY Times: FBI checks "Woefully Flawed"

 

In a scathing editorial published August 18, titled "A Flawed Background-Check System," the New York Times takes the FBI to task for the detrimental effect the agency's inability to conduct accurate checks has had on job seekers. The Times notes that "F.B.I. background checks are widely viewed as the gold standard but are in fact woefully flawed and often based on fallible and incomplete data." The article, which points out inaccurate or incomplete records of those who were arrested, but not convicted, or those who had their cases dismissed or expunged, cites "examples of workers who were either turned away from jobs or fired based on faulty F.B.I. background information." On April 17 the Times excoriated the Senate for not passing the Manchin-Toomey-Schumer background check expansion amendment. A week earlier the Times ran an editorial complaining that the legislation up for debate didn't go far enough, noting, "Ideally, the Senate would approve a bill to require background checks for all gun sales." And on March 23 the Times editorial page touted legislation that would "require almost all gun buyers to undergo a background check," calling it a "vital step." The Times made no mention of the innocent people such checks would wrongfully snare.