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Mexican Drug Violence Versus the RKBA: As Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder visited Mexico on Thursday to discuss disarming Mexico's drug cartels, experts from both sides of the gun-control debate said the measures are missing the mark. "It's hard for me to take all this stuff seriously, considering how incredibly sporadic Mexico is about its own enforcement of its own border," said David Kopel, research director for the Independence Institute, a Colorado think tank that advocates for gun rights. The United States should pressure Mexico to stop complaining about border fences; crack down on corrupt Mexican cops who sell their weapons; and stop tolerating migrant smugglers, Kopel and other gun-rights advocates say… Mexico also needs to crack down on Mexican police and military deserters who take their weapons with them, said Chris Cox, chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association. Rocket-propelled grenades, anti-tank weapons and fully automatic assault rifles are hard to obtain in the United States and are likely coming from somewhere else, he said. "These are things that are either coming from the Mexican government - the military or police deserters who have gone to work for the cartels - or from Central or South America," Cox said.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/04/03/20090403mexicoguns0403.html
While it is frequently reported that 90 percent of the guns used in drug-cartel violence in Mexico come from the United States, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives told CNSNews.com that the number is defined in a very strict way, referring only to gun information relayed by Mexican authorities to the ATF. An ATF spokesperson explained to CNSNews.com that the bureau does not actually count, acquire, inspect, or warehouse the weapons confiscated in Mexico; and it does not know for sure how many guns in total have been confiscated by Mexican authorities, or how many confiscated guns may not have serial numbers. Also, the ATF spokesperson said there are warehouses in Mexico full of confiscated guns, the serial numbers for which may or may not have been sent to the bureau…
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=46080
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Campus Carry Still Pending in Texas: Holders of concealed handgun licenses could bring their weapons to college campuses if Rio Grande Valley lawmakers have their way. A proposal working its way through the state Legislature would lift a ban on handguns on campuses of both private and public institutions. Proponents of the bill view it as a way to preserve gun owners' rights while promoting safety on campus, arguing that if students or staff on campus had weapons, they would have a better chance defending themselves against a Virginia Tech-style shooting. Rep. Kino Flores, D-Palmview, one of the bill's co-authors, said he views the measure as a "defensive mechanism" at universities…
http://www.themonitor.com/articles/campus_25043___article.html/way_shooting.html
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Lance Thomas Speaks: Those who have read The Deadliest Men will likely agree that the chapter on Lance Thomas is the best, probably because it was the only one based on actual interviews. While that chapter is much more comprehensive, this Discovery Channel segment is worth watching. Notice the diversity of handguns he purchased, not a choice I would recommend. Placing multiple guns on the limited-access countertop seems to have worked for Lance but I would want to have at least one holstered handgun on my person, which would have been legal in California, at one's own place of business, even without a CWP. I am still amazed that the knuckleheads kept hitting the store, even though it was common knowledge that other robbers had died there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkWgp2abM2w
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Some Thoughts on Trigger Control: More attention should be given to one of the most fundamental shooting skills - trigger control. I've come to realize that trigger control is not well understood. In an article on a gun forum, for example, the author stated that trigger control was not at all important. According to the author, police gunfights occur at such close ranges that worrying about trigger control is unnecessary. My thoughts: If you don't properly control the trigger, the muzzle will go off target and you will miss… (In my analysis, the most important contribution of resetting the trigger or "catching the link," as John Farnam calls it, is that it ensures that the trigger finger does not fly off the trigger and sympathetically relax the grip on the gun at the moment that the gun fires. This is particularly crucial with an autoloading pistol, which may fail to cycle if this occurs. In my observation, this is much more crucial than whether the wrist is "locked" or loose.)
http://www.lawofficer.com/news-and-articles/articles/lom/0503/firearms_trigger_control.html
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Tangentially Related: A pair of bills introduced in the U.S. Senate would grant the White House sweeping new powers to access private online data, regulate the cybersecurity industry and even shut down Internet traffic during a declared "cyber emergency." Senate bills No. 773 and 778, introduced by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., are both part of what's being called the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, which would create a new Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor, reportable directly to the president and charged with defending the country from cyber attack. A working draft of the legislation obtained by an Internet privacy group also spells out plans to grant the Secretary of Commerce access to all privately owned information networks deemed to be critical to the nation's infrastructure "without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule or policy restricting such access." …
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=93966
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http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/04/03/20090403mexicoguns0403.html
While it is frequently reported that 90 percent of the guns used in drug-cartel violence in Mexico come from the United States, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives told CNSNews.com that the number is defined in a very strict way, referring only to gun information relayed by Mexican authorities to the ATF. An ATF spokesperson explained to CNSNews.com that the bureau does not actually count, acquire, inspect, or warehouse the weapons confiscated in Mexico; and it does not know for sure how many guns in total have been confiscated by Mexican authorities, or how many confiscated guns may not have serial numbers. Also, the ATF spokesperson said there are warehouses in Mexico full of confiscated guns, the serial numbers for which may or may not have been sent to the bureau…
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=46080
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Campus Carry Still Pending in Texas: Holders of concealed handgun licenses could bring their weapons to college campuses if Rio Grande Valley lawmakers have their way. A proposal working its way through the state Legislature would lift a ban on handguns on campuses of both private and public institutions. Proponents of the bill view it as a way to preserve gun owners' rights while promoting safety on campus, arguing that if students or staff on campus had weapons, they would have a better chance defending themselves against a Virginia Tech-style shooting. Rep. Kino Flores, D-Palmview, one of the bill's co-authors, said he views the measure as a "defensive mechanism" at universities…
http://www.themonitor.com/articles/campus_25043___article.html/way_shooting.html
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Lance Thomas Speaks: Those who have read The Deadliest Men will likely agree that the chapter on Lance Thomas is the best, probably because it was the only one based on actual interviews. While that chapter is much more comprehensive, this Discovery Channel segment is worth watching. Notice the diversity of handguns he purchased, not a choice I would recommend. Placing multiple guns on the limited-access countertop seems to have worked for Lance but I would want to have at least one holstered handgun on my person, which would have been legal in California, at one's own place of business, even without a CWP. I am still amazed that the knuckleheads kept hitting the store, even though it was common knowledge that other robbers had died there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkWgp2abM2w
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Some Thoughts on Trigger Control: More attention should be given to one of the most fundamental shooting skills - trigger control. I've come to realize that trigger control is not well understood. In an article on a gun forum, for example, the author stated that trigger control was not at all important. According to the author, police gunfights occur at such close ranges that worrying about trigger control is unnecessary. My thoughts: If you don't properly control the trigger, the muzzle will go off target and you will miss… (In my analysis, the most important contribution of resetting the trigger or "catching the link," as John Farnam calls it, is that it ensures that the trigger finger does not fly off the trigger and sympathetically relax the grip on the gun at the moment that the gun fires. This is particularly crucial with an autoloading pistol, which may fail to cycle if this occurs. In my observation, this is much more crucial than whether the wrist is "locked" or loose.)
http://www.lawofficer.com/news-and-articles/articles/lom/0503/firearms_trigger_control.html
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Tangentially Related: A pair of bills introduced in the U.S. Senate would grant the White House sweeping new powers to access private online data, regulate the cybersecurity industry and even shut down Internet traffic during a declared "cyber emergency." Senate bills No. 773 and 778, introduced by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., are both part of what's being called the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, which would create a new Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor, reportable directly to the president and charged with defending the country from cyber attack. A working draft of the legislation obtained by an Internet privacy group also spells out plans to grant the Secretary of Commerce access to all privately owned information networks deemed to be critical to the nation's infrastructure "without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule or policy restricting such access." …
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=93966
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