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From GOA: The U.S. Senate today [Thursday] defeated the so-called DISCLOSE Act when it failed to garner the 60 votes necessary to overcome Republican objections to the bill. The final vote was 59-39. Even though the exact same bill, sponsored by Chuck Schumer (D-NY), had been defeated just two months ago and was unlikely to pass, anti-gun Majority Leader Harry Reid (NV) brought it up for another vote to "stir up" his left-wing base. Instead of protecting the most important type of speech protected by the First Amendment – political speech – with this bill Congress attempted to force groups like GOA to "disclose" the names of donors in certain political advertisements. Since Gun Owners of America will never disclose its membership lists to the federal government, it could be prohibited from running radio or TV ads exposing a federal candidate's voting record in the weeks leading up to an election… With a lame-duck session of Congress looming after the election, anything is possible – including another attempt to push through DISCLOSE. So please stay tuned.
http://gunowners.org/a092310.htm
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I Wouldn't Hold My Breath: A South Jersey senator has proposed a new law considerably liberalizing New Jersey's concealed-weapons-carrying laws, but the whopping fee and required proficiency demonstration will not make this new law attractive to libertarians. Matt Friedman of The Star-Ledger (Newark) Statehouse Bureau reported yesterday on the bill, S2264, which Senator Jeff Van Drew (D-Cape May) actually introduced last Monday. It amends the current concealed-carry law (NJS 2C:58-4) to allow a person to carry a gun for reasons going far beyond the current standard. According to current law, an applicant may receive a concealed-carry permit only if he satisfies his local police chief, and then a judge, that he has a "justifiable need" to carry a handgun. Van Drew's new law, among other things, strikes that… Van Drew's new law would require a background check, courses in gun safety and when the use of force is lawful, demonstrate proficiency in using the particular gun he proposes to carry, and pay an annual fee of $500. That fee alone is a show-stopper to many, especially because this is an annual fee, not the biennial $20 fee charged at present. Van Drew admits that the chief reason for the fee is to provide yet another source of revenue. The new law provides that of that $500 fee, $50 is to go to the issuing law-enforcement authority, another $50 to the relevant County Clerk's office, and the rest to the state General Fund…
http://www.examiner.com/essex-county-conservative-in-newark/state-senator-proposes-liberalizing-nj-gun-carry-law
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Speaking of Crime at Restaurants: Gilbert [AZ] police say they have arrested a 52-year-old man accused of fatally shooting another man at a steakhouse. A police statement says Eligio Millanes-Esquer opened fire at about 8 a.m. Saturday at a Texas Roadhouse Restaurant on Power Road and killed 26-year-old Daniel Gerardo Zamora-Robles. Police say Millanes-Esquer sped away from the scene in a white pickup, and he was taken into custody at 6:40 p.m in the West Valley. Police say Millanes-Esquer and the victim had a domestic relationship, but the details of the relationship were unclear. (Yesterday I linked the comments of Wisconsin journalist: "But chances are remote that A) a crime will occur at a restaurant where a legal gun carrier just happens to be eating, and B) the crime will be of sufficient seriousness to risk actually firing a gun amid the diners" Fortunately, this shooter only choose to target one other diner.)
http://azstarnet.com/news/state-and-regional/article_e887e9b2-3516-59dd-8057-173715c8f16f.html
And Speaking of Open Carry in Wisconsin…: A list member has pointed out that the US Supreme Court overturned a California law that criminalized refusing to produce identification on the demand of a police officer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolender_v._Lawson
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In Canada, Close but No Cigar: It certainly looked promising six weeks ago when the Conservative-backed parliamentary measure to do away with the boondoggle-ridden registry of rifles and shotguns seemed to have the necessary votes. This past Wednesday's bid to scrap the registry, though, was thwarted by a razor-thin 153-151 vote in favor of a Liberal motion to kill the private member's bill introduced by a Tory backbencher which would have fulfilled a 2006 Conservative campaign promise. The disappointing loss left Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper vowing to continue the battle to abolish the registry, which fight he is expected to use it as a prominent issue in the next federal election. Despite the September 22nd outcome, the matter is still being debated today. A little late to enlightenment, Robert Barron writing in The Nanaimo Daily News (British Columbia) admits that a dispassionate look at the contentious subject changed his thinking…
http://www.thegunzone.com/TGZBlog/2010/09/24/sooooooo-close-but-canadas-long-gun-registry-endures/
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Revolver Malfunctions: Grant Cunningham is a gunsmith who specializes in tuning "the classic double-action revolver." This article is worth reading but I give the highest points to the comments about dispensing with diagnosis and transitioning to a backup gun in a fight. Cunningham's tips are particularly useful if you experience a malfunction on the range. Note that traditional S&W revolvers have the cylinder release – the thumb piece, in S&W nomenclature – mounted on a "bolt," which keeps the action from cycling if the cylinder is not locked in place, unless the thumb piece is held to the rear. This is not true of Colt and Ruger double-action revolvers. I have never checked this in my limited experience with Taurus and Rossi DA revolvers but I suspect that they follow S&W in this regard. In a training environment, users of double-action revolvers should keep a used toothbrush or similar cleaning brush in a pocket and periodically brush the underside of the extractor star and its mating surface on the cylinder, to remove any accumulation of unburned powder granules.
http://www.personaldefensenetwork.com/articles/handguns/the-revolver-malfunction-drill/
http://www.grantcunningham.com/
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Specificity in Training: While the gunfight isn't a recognized "sport" as some fighting formats are, one has to wonder how much sports training translates to gunfight training. There is commonality. Martial arts were geared to teach fighting not to earn degrees and belts but to provide a means of effective defense. The "stylized dance" or ritual of some martial arts has lessened the art's relevance as we see in mixed martial arts/ultimate fighter venues. Specificity in sports training is a simple concept - you train doing what you need to do with everything as close to the competitive event as possible in the training practice… It was inappropriate, under the principle of specificity, to teach gunfighters to shoot on bull's eye targets. Using the B-27 and the stylized dance of PPC was better, we were told. Okay… Specificity, appearing simple as a principle, has depth. It's something to consider. Just remember, precision is as necessary as speed. (Bill Jordan liked to repeat the saying that speed is fine but accuracy is final. In this context, I believe that precision and accuracy are virtually synonymous and they are relative to distance. With the caveat that peripheral hits will not incapacitate anyone who is determined not to be incapacitated, generally, the closer you are the more important speed becomes and the farther you are, the more important precision becomes. Remember Ray Chapman's dictum that speed is five-sixths smoothness. Smoothness is the elimination of unnecessary motion. I shot a handful of "combat pistol" matches when I lived in Douglas and was always impressed by how slow most of the competitors were coming out of the holster. Some were very precise and even fast shooters but I saw lots of unnecessary motion in their little-practiced draw strokes.)
http://www.thetacticalwire.com/archived/2010-09-23_tactical.html
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http://gunowners.org/a092310.htm
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I Wouldn't Hold My Breath: A South Jersey senator has proposed a new law considerably liberalizing New Jersey's concealed-weapons-carrying laws, but the whopping fee and required proficiency demonstration will not make this new law attractive to libertarians. Matt Friedman of The Star-Ledger (Newark) Statehouse Bureau reported yesterday on the bill, S2264, which Senator Jeff Van Drew (D-Cape May) actually introduced last Monday. It amends the current concealed-carry law (NJS 2C:58-4) to allow a person to carry a gun for reasons going far beyond the current standard. According to current law, an applicant may receive a concealed-carry permit only if he satisfies his local police chief, and then a judge, that he has a "justifiable need" to carry a handgun. Van Drew's new law, among other things, strikes that… Van Drew's new law would require a background check, courses in gun safety and when the use of force is lawful, demonstrate proficiency in using the particular gun he proposes to carry, and pay an annual fee of $500. That fee alone is a show-stopper to many, especially because this is an annual fee, not the biennial $20 fee charged at present. Van Drew admits that the chief reason for the fee is to provide yet another source of revenue. The new law provides that of that $500 fee, $50 is to go to the issuing law-enforcement authority, another $50 to the relevant County Clerk's office, and the rest to the state General Fund…
http://www.examiner.com/essex-county-conservative-in-newark/state-senator-proposes-liberalizing-nj-gun-carry-law
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Speaking of Crime at Restaurants: Gilbert [AZ] police say they have arrested a 52-year-old man accused of fatally shooting another man at a steakhouse. A police statement says Eligio Millanes-Esquer opened fire at about 8 a.m. Saturday at a Texas Roadhouse Restaurant on Power Road and killed 26-year-old Daniel Gerardo Zamora-Robles. Police say Millanes-Esquer sped away from the scene in a white pickup, and he was taken into custody at 6:40 p.m in the West Valley. Police say Millanes-Esquer and the victim had a domestic relationship, but the details of the relationship were unclear. (Yesterday I linked the comments of Wisconsin journalist: "But chances are remote that A) a crime will occur at a restaurant where a legal gun carrier just happens to be eating, and B) the crime will be of sufficient seriousness to risk actually firing a gun amid the diners" Fortunately, this shooter only choose to target one other diner.)
http://azstarnet.com/news/state-and-regional/article_e887e9b2-3516-59dd-8057-173715c8f16f.html
And Speaking of Open Carry in Wisconsin…: A list member has pointed out that the US Supreme Court overturned a California law that criminalized refusing to produce identification on the demand of a police officer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolender_v._Lawson
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In Canada, Close but No Cigar: It certainly looked promising six weeks ago when the Conservative-backed parliamentary measure to do away with the boondoggle-ridden registry of rifles and shotguns seemed to have the necessary votes. This past Wednesday's bid to scrap the registry, though, was thwarted by a razor-thin 153-151 vote in favor of a Liberal motion to kill the private member's bill introduced by a Tory backbencher which would have fulfilled a 2006 Conservative campaign promise. The disappointing loss left Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper vowing to continue the battle to abolish the registry, which fight he is expected to use it as a prominent issue in the next federal election. Despite the September 22nd outcome, the matter is still being debated today. A little late to enlightenment, Robert Barron writing in The Nanaimo Daily News (British Columbia) admits that a dispassionate look at the contentious subject changed his thinking…
http://www.thegunzone.com/TGZBlog/2010/09/24/sooooooo-close-but-canadas-long-gun-registry-endures/
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Revolver Malfunctions: Grant Cunningham is a gunsmith who specializes in tuning "the classic double-action revolver." This article is worth reading but I give the highest points to the comments about dispensing with diagnosis and transitioning to a backup gun in a fight. Cunningham's tips are particularly useful if you experience a malfunction on the range. Note that traditional S&W revolvers have the cylinder release – the thumb piece, in S&W nomenclature – mounted on a "bolt," which keeps the action from cycling if the cylinder is not locked in place, unless the thumb piece is held to the rear. This is not true of Colt and Ruger double-action revolvers. I have never checked this in my limited experience with Taurus and Rossi DA revolvers but I suspect that they follow S&W in this regard. In a training environment, users of double-action revolvers should keep a used toothbrush or similar cleaning brush in a pocket and periodically brush the underside of the extractor star and its mating surface on the cylinder, to remove any accumulation of unburned powder granules.
http://www.personaldefensenetwork.com/articles/handguns/the-revolver-malfunction-drill/
http://www.grantcunningham.com/
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Specificity in Training: While the gunfight isn't a recognized "sport" as some fighting formats are, one has to wonder how much sports training translates to gunfight training. There is commonality. Martial arts were geared to teach fighting not to earn degrees and belts but to provide a means of effective defense. The "stylized dance" or ritual of some martial arts has lessened the art's relevance as we see in mixed martial arts/ultimate fighter venues. Specificity in sports training is a simple concept - you train doing what you need to do with everything as close to the competitive event as possible in the training practice… It was inappropriate, under the principle of specificity, to teach gunfighters to shoot on bull's eye targets. Using the B-27 and the stylized dance of PPC was better, we were told. Okay… Specificity, appearing simple as a principle, has depth. It's something to consider. Just remember, precision is as necessary as speed. (Bill Jordan liked to repeat the saying that speed is fine but accuracy is final. In this context, I believe that precision and accuracy are virtually synonymous and they are relative to distance. With the caveat that peripheral hits will not incapacitate anyone who is determined not to be incapacitated, generally, the closer you are the more important speed becomes and the farther you are, the more important precision becomes. Remember Ray Chapman's dictum that speed is five-sixths smoothness. Smoothness is the elimination of unnecessary motion. I shot a handful of "combat pistol" matches when I lived in Douglas and was always impressed by how slow most of the competitors were coming out of the holster. Some were very precise and even fast shooters but I saw lots of unnecessary motion in their little-practiced draw strokes.)
http://www.thetacticalwire.com/archived/2010-09-23_tactical.html
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