Articles by Herschel Smith

But in all fairness, terrible departments who do terrible things make terrible arguments.

I initially read a Reddit/Firearms post on whether it’s important who spends the money on a firearm versus whose name is on the 4473.  Here is the thread.

I hope this isn’t a stupid question, I have payed for a gun as a gift for someone else, so can they fill out the 4473 as it is/going to be theirs?

ModestMarksman answers.

Yes you can. Anyone saying no doesn’t know what they are talking about.

Source : I have my FFL and SOT

The 4473 asks if you are the actual buyer OR transferee. If it’s a gift then they are the actual transferee.

When I read that I said out loud to myself, “That’s the right answer.”

In order more fully to explain this, he makes an updated discussion thread where he explains more.  This is that discussion thread.

FFLs don’t need to give one whit where the money comes from.  As long as they are transferring the firearm to the transferee on the Form 4473, it’s legal.

Now, just to remind everyone, all gun control laws are unconstitutional.  All of them, with no exceptions.

This time by an ignorant boob, Gretchen Carlson (hey, wasn’t she basically the founder of the “me too” movement?).  Anyway, aren’t they always ignorant?

This is her complaint.

Ordinary people didn’t have AR-15s before 2004. They’re not some time-honored American tradition, they’re a recent mistake that we could fix and save thousands of lives in the process. https://t.co/IlJ4FuadBP

— Gretchen Carlson (@GretchenCarlson) October 30, 2023

This response is amusing.

Catalog from the 1970s would like a word… https://t.co/V3CTqOL387 pic.twitter.com/ullBxUsi0l

— Uncle Zo (@UncleZoGunTales) October 31, 2023

But we already knew that, didn’t we?

Boy, would I like to get my hands on an original AR Sporter like that for $297.50! Does anyone want to let one go? I’ll even pay a bit more!

Alloutdoor.com.

Remember Ronald Stolarczyk, the 64-year-old New York homeowner who shot a pair of home invaders and was then arrested because of the gun he used? Well, they’ve gone ahead and charged him with a felony because his firearm, a Rossi 38 revolver which he inherited from his late father, was never registered with the state in Ronald’s name, although it had been legally purchased by and registered to his father.

This in spite of a statement from Oneida County District Attorney Scott McNamara, who stated that it’s unusual to charge such a person with a felony:

McNamara said his office typically prosecutes unregistered guns where the homeowner is present as misdemeanors, and not felonies. The first priority is to get the gun registered, he said. It’s not unusual for a family member to die and the gun gets passed onto a relative who doesn’t register it right away.

As far as the home invasion goes, it turns out this was not the first time Ronald’s home had been burglarized. During the homicide investigation, which so far looks to be justified and will probably not result in additional charges, a lot of Ronald’s stuff that had been stolen previously was discovered at the home of one of the deceased.

This is the DA to whom they refer.  Imagine being such a horrible person that you use your powers to prosecute a man for employing his God-given right and duty to defend his life because his firearm wasn’t registered with the state.

Now, rehearse what he said again: “It’s not unusual for a family member to die and the gun gets passed onto a relative who doesn’t register it right away.”

So, registering the gun prevents unintended deaths in the family.

Imagine being so stupid that you would mislead others by saying something like that, knowing it to be both false and irrelevant.

And if you still live in NY, why?

Puppy tried to climb stairs.  Cute.

This big cat got tangled up with the wrong crowd.  She’s being tossed every which way but loose.

I like it when dogs get rescued.  I hope this kind boy finds a good home.

Senior Golden Retriever returns home after being lost in the Alaskan woods for 65 days.  Fortunate to be alive.

End of life care isn’t just for humans.

Feral hogs.  They’re awful.  Kill them when you can.

I’m unconcerned about a golf course, which is just a waste of a good shooting range.  But that’s not the point.  This could be a farmer’s crops.  Or your yard where those hogs left that carnage and disease.

Come along with me on my carnage (I mean course) check this morning. What should be one of the most beautiful golf courses in the country is being destroyed by herds of javelina. If anyone has a contact in AZ state govt that can help us find a solution please pass it along. pic.twitter.com/XftywHtVCf

— Em Casey (@emcaseyturf) October 22, 2023

PGF mentioned it, but Backfire is very concerned as am I.  Skip to the 7 minute mark.

Yeah, I hate to have to think like this, but my first thought was “How convenient.”  It’s the FedGov’s fault that we think like this.

As for the “mentally ill,” I don’t like the supposed “yellow flag” laws in Maine and how the NRA and SAF panders to that side.  I don’t believe in anything laws, much less disarmament laws.

Of course, I agree with the new Speaker Johnson.

On Thursday, Johnson appeared on Fox News, where he was asked about the murder of 18 people in Lewiston, Maine. The Louisiana Republican said it was not the right time to consider legislation and defended the Second Amendment.

“At the end of the day, the problem is the human heart. It’s not guns, it’s not the weapons,” Johnson said. “We have to protect the right of the citizens to protect themselves. That’s the Second Amendment and that’s why our party stands so strongly for that.”

The Biden White House, for its part, has renewed a call for gun legislation after the shooting in Lewiston. And it wasted little time hitting Johnson for standing in the way.

Gun violence is “not the result of an imagined deficiency in the hearts of the American people …

That isn’t what he said.  He said nothing about a deficiency in the heart of the American people.  He said something about “human heart.”  As for what the Holy Writ says, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”  That applies to everyone.

This was a killing zone because men didn’t carry weapons.  Folks, there’s such a thing as non-permissive carry.  Do it when necessary.

In order to understand what he’s saying, you have to watch it all from beginning to end.

I would also point out that while he focused on who has the burden of proof, and it should always be on the state, if his example is correct, a complete ban wouldn’t have an effect anyway if the example has to do with carry rather than ownership

That may be the second reason the “dangerous and unusual” test must be pressed to the state, not combined into a textual analysis of the 2A.

In order to understand my remark, you’ll have to watch the video.

David Codrea.

“You have the right to carry the gun on you. But you also need to let law enforcement know, for their protection, everything else, so that that you have the firearm on you,” Capt. Keith Williamson of the Omaha Police Department gang unit asserted. He added that additional charges can be “tacked on with other serious charges” to offenses like gang crimes and that the bill forcing the city “to repeal some ordinances around firearms … made it more difficult trying to track guns in the wrong hands.”

“For their protection.”  Why do they get to decide the rules?  I’m not interested in their protection.  I’m only interested in my own protection and that of my family and friends.

Cops don’t rate for protection in my book.

And moreover, I’m never in more danger than when the police are around.  There is no situation so bad that it cannot be made worse by the presence of the police.