Wednesday April 5, 2013, while speaking at the Denver Police Academy during his visit to Colorado, President Barack Obama made an interesting statement: “The opponents of some of these common sense laws have ginned up fears among responsible gun owners that have nothing to do with what is being proposed- nothing to do with the facts, but feeds into this suspicion about government. You hear | Read More »
Anti-gun progressives on the left such as Piers Morgan believe that there is absolutely no need for average citizens to own firearms- ever. To debunk this falsehood, James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas undertook an undercover operation to investigate what response times are for crimes and how law-enforcement would have us protect ourselves from a serious physical threat in our homes. The responses vary, but basically were | Read More »
The City of Santa Fe has removed the list of people who participated in Operation Safe Streets, gun buy-back from their website. Last week this blog detailed here, the firearm buy-back as explained to citizens verses how it was actually handled after the city was forced to hand out IOUs when all the funds allocated for the program were used. Though anonymity was advertised as | Read More »
A Freedom Killing Bill Defeated Today there is good news for New Mexico gun owners and other citizens who value their freedom. HB-402 has been tabled in the House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee with a three to two vote. Representatives Alcon, Harper and Anderson voted against the bill while Representatives Caballero and Chasey supported the bill. Alcon, the committee’s Democratic chairman, gave the following statement: “I don’t | Read More »
Promoted from diaries. After the shooting in Newtown, New Mexico officials in a couple cities have supported a ‘gun buyback.’ Among cities coming up with their own plans are Albuquerque and Santa Fe. People who participated in the Santa Fe buyback, which was dubbed “Operation Safe Streets” were given up to a couple hundred dollars per firearm they turned over. These citizens were lead to | Read More »
New Mexico Representative Stephen Easley (Democrat- Dist. 50) of Santa Fe has introduced a bill which is a ban on ‘assault rifles’ and high capacity magazine guns. If signed into law the this legislation would take affect beginning in July and would be very similar to legislation enacted in New York. The entire bill may be read below: No law shall abridge the right of the | Read More »
At least one Republican who voted for the gun control legislation this week which Gov. Martinez says she will sign, has begun to voice excuses for his vote. In the case we are going to look into it was in the form of a Facebook post which can be found here on what was Rep. Baldonaldo’s campaign Facebook page ‘Vote Alonzo!’. The complete text is | Read More »
HB-77 a bill requiring all people buying guns at gun shows to go through a background check and registration passed the House yesterday, more on it can be found in my blogpost yesterday here. As explained in yesterday’s article Gov. Susana Martinez has said she will sign the bill if it reaches her table. The bill may be found here. Eight Republicans joined the Democrats | Read More »
What is Governor Susana Martinez thinking? SANTA FE — Gov. Susana Martinez, a Republican who who has courted the pro-gun vote, said Monday that she supports a compromise bill that would require background checks on people who buy guns at gun shows. Asked by a reporter about House Bill 77, which passed the House Judiciary Committee Friday on a bi-partisan vote, Martinez said, “I think | Read More »
Southern California law enforcement are currently on the track of a man who has allegedly killed a handful of people on a revenge-seeking killing spree. The spree began last week and shortly afterward Dorner posted what is purported by the LAPD to be his manifesto on Facebook. Entire manifesto as released by LAPD can be found here… During the first half of his manifesto Christopher | Read More »
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