April 26, 2010 

 

 

To All, 

   I could not have done better if I had said it myself. In other news:

Same Old, Same Old...:

     It should surprise no firearms activist that there are so many new firearms

and ammunition restriction proposals of late in the Fool's Golden State.

    After all, gun control activists are not just going to fold up their tents and 

switch to some other cause, like an ethical United Nations (fat chance) or a

really good pilsner (one can dream). 

    But with the manifestations of the Heller decision seemingly leading to such

firearms rights grails as expanding Vermont-style "concealed carry" (In Arizona, 

just next door) and armed self-defense in National Parks, all those gun-grabbers 

have to go somewhere.

    That "where" in this case is Kalifornia, where the pleas of the people to only

be as armed as much as the criminal under-classes goes unheeded in the name 

of a political correctness gone blind. 

    For example, our old "buddy" Mike Feuer wants to require everyone to register 

their long guns, from Pop's .30-.30 to Granny Clampett's double-barreled 12 gauge.

   Now, perhaps Feuer is anticipating the day when armed and angry seniors might

ride their Hoverounds on to a meeting engagement in Sacramento. After all, it is

types like Feuer and his partisan pals that have reneged on Keeping Social 

Security Safe For All Time.

   Or perhaps Feuer expects that a rash of "drive-bys" will be carried out by gangs

of recalcitrant Perazzi owners, angered at the way Goldman Sachs is being singled

out for "special handling" by the SEC.

   Regardless, it seems that Feuer and the rest of the Legislature from Hell seem 

determined to re-fight the Brawl of '94, a scant 7 months before the General 

Election. 

   Now, one would have thought that the memories of the political classes would 

not have dimmed so quickly. Especially when integument grafts are likely to be

considered as "elective surgery" under Obamacare. 

   Still, it would seem that an Electorate already perturbed over the shape of 

government-debt-to-come and metastasizing unemployment rates might just have 

an additional threat to liberty to confront. 

   Firearms registration has always been about the real threat of confiscation. And 

if it's anything that the Government likes doing, it's expropriation. 

    Even just the hint of seizing millions of dollars of valuable personal property 

in the past has resulted in vast changes of comportment among the law-abiding. 

    At a very minimum, vast concessions can be wrung out of a citizenry with too 

much to lose just over whether they carry their long guns in a traditional leather 

gun case, or triple-locked in a hard container as if they were someone's "original" 

Hawaiian birth certificate.

     That's until, of course, when folks are Mad as Hell, and do not want to take it

anymore. 

     It will be interesting to see what the results of this year's Legislative War On

The Citizenry will be. If the current agitation among the masses is of any 

magnitude, there will be some interesting re-alignments in 2011. That is, if

folks take that "Mad as Hell" anger and convert that to constructive political 

change. Stay tuned.

Links at:

http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1801-1850/ab_1810_bill_20100405

_amended_asm_v98.html

http://nramemberscouncils.com/legs.shtml?summary=ab1810&year=2010

http://nramemberscouncils.com/legs.shtml#contactinfo

Threat Axis:

     Recent events in the California Assembly, and in the far away boondocks

of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, continue to highlight the very real threat

that radical environmentalism and radical regulation pose to hunting, shooting, 

and scientifically objective management of natural resources. 

     From the desk of M. David Allen, President and CEO of the Rocky Mountain

Elk Foundation, it seems that yet another hunting rights organization is discovering

that so-called "wildlife" groups like Defenders of Wildlife are inimical to hunting and 

other "extractive" uses of wildlife resources. 

    In this case, the dispute is over introduced wolf populations (nonessential and

experimental ones, to be precise) in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem that 

seem to have reduced area elk populations by as much as 80%. Calls by RMEF

and local hunting and guide groups in the affected states to allow wolf hunting 

and scientifically-based harvest on these Canadian transplants are falling on the 

deafened ears of the Birkenstock Tyranny. ( What does one expect when radical

wolf interests sit around campfires and pretend to howl "Symphony To Canis in

Ab Major"?).

   Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation has apparently figured out that one cannot 

have a Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation without Rocky Mountain elk. Or, at least

their donor base will drop if Rocky Mountain elk end up receiving a Threatened or

even Endangered listing due to wolf and bear predations in the region. Whether 

their realization of the threat radical environmentalists play to their raison d'être is

in time or not remains unknown at this time.

    Closer to home, Assemblyman Pedro Nava (D-Santa Barbara) is up to his old

chicanery again. Not satisfied to wait on a scientific management process that 

could not be rigged against the hunting and shooting public, Nava has launched

a lead shot ban for hunting on a "fast-track" time allotment that would be better 

spent on budget issues, school efficiencies, or even pairing down Assembly 

decorating expenses in favor of flowing money down to local law enforcement.

    AB 2223 would also restrict target shooting in State Wildlife Areas, and any 

other areas considered to be "deer" or "upland game" management areas. Despite 

protestations by Nava and Dan Taylor of  California Audubon, said language 

remains in the bill at this time and does not reassure that the statewide ammo ban 

envisioned by the Condor Crowd at Audubon is not being attempted by other 

means. 

    Nava may be rushing the bill through for alternative reasons. The science on

the issue of adverse affects of traditional ammunition in SWA's is minimal at best,

well behind such other adverse factors on migratory avians such as trichomoniasis,

West Nile virus, and reduced grain production related to water rationing in the

lower half of the state. Add to that the substantial review effort being conducted

on ammunition "science" previously presented by the same sponsors of AB 821, 

and it may soon become evident why the diminutive Assemblyman is in such a 

hurry. Stay tuned.

Links at:

http://www.rmef.org/NR/rdonlyres/B5773431-39F6-4028-8BA6-2AF3EF8E7A3

1/0/RMEFLtrDefenders410.pdf

http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_2201-2250/ab_2223_bill_20100419

_amended_asm_v97.html

http://nramemberscouncils.com/legs.shtml?summary=ab2223&year=2010

Respectfully,

 

 

Anthony Canales

SFVMC-NRA

 

 

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