NC Senate Bill 17: Concealed Carry Permits Validity.

Senate Bill 17 makes no sense to me. This is a step backwards. At the moment North Carolina has universal reciprocity. This bill would change that. It bars people people who have a valid concealed carry permit from another state from carrying in NC if that state is not their state of residence. These people live in states that don't have concealed carry or have "may issue" which is essentially the same damn thing. Their only recourse is to obtain a permit from another state that issues non resident permits. They still have to jump through all the background check and training hoops residents of that particular state. They proven themselves to be responsible citizens. So what's the problem?

This makes no sense from a GRNC 4 star rated legislator. State Senator Stan Bingham, said legislator, who proposed this change, should have to answer that question. Call him and ask him. Email him and ask him. If you are local to him, knock on his door and ask him. Do it whether you are his constituent or not. We need an answer. This bill needs to die quickly. Don't call just Bingham. Call your own representatives and ask them to drive a stake through this bill's heart.

Senator Stan Bingham
Phone: (919) 733-5665
Phone: (336) 859-0999
Email: Stan.Bingham@ncleg.net

I caught wind of this at Sean's An NC Gun Blog. He has the text of the bill and his usual on point commentary.

Skeet Shooting

By his definition anyway.

New Bill Whittle

What Difference Does It Make?

Paul Ryan open to closing gun-show loophole

Congressman Ryan, I guess I won't be voting for you in 2016. If you support universal background checks, I won't support you. Too bad I really liked you.

Compromise

Ya know, where we give up shit, and they get what they want.

Be still my heart...

H/T to John.

Just saying...

Allegedly, the Iranians claim to have launched a rocket containing a monkey as a payload and then returned said payload back to earth intact. I'm not so sure intact means alive, but there's an easy way to find out. Has anyone seen Ahmadinejad in public recently?

Seriously?

PIERS MORGAN: I have an interview coming up with two young women who wrote a piece in which they said they wanted the rights of the AR-15 weapon at home because they feared they would be attacked and they wanted a gun that would guarantee they would murder or would kill their attacker. How do you respond to that particular argument, which is they believe under their second amendment right they should be allowed an AR-15?

CAROLYN MCCARTHY: I will tell you, if you talk to professionals, hunters and certainly sportsmen, they’ll tell you that’s not the gun to use. A rifle is more accurate. It’s certainly easier for a woman to be able to do that.

Really no additional comment is required. Aw, the hell with it. This is the lady [and I use the term loosely] of "the shoulder thing that goes up" fame. This lady is the quality of people we have writing the laws that govern the rest of us? Seriously? The people of Long Island deserve everything they get for sending her to Congress. Unfortunately, the rest of us don't.

So here's my question?

How many of you guys are actually old enough to have seen Lost in Space when was originally broadcast?

For me its one of those shows remembered fondly but best not re-experienced.

FYI: It was originally broadcast between September 15, 1965, and March 6, 1968.

Serious or not...

...its damn funny.

Know Nothings

ARRRRRG, the stupid. It hurts

In Hyannis MA, a five year old makes a gun out of Legos and is threatened with expulsion. You see according to the principal it was a "threat" to the other children. According to me the principal is an idiot. They're toys lady. FRICK'N toys. They are a threat to no one. He was playing like all normal five year old boys do.

My hope for the family of the five year old is that they are well off enough to pull their child from the local public indoctrination center and home school him. BECAUSE if the principal is any indication of the level of intelligence of the rest of the school staff, he can't possibly be any worse off being taught at home.

Heh.

Tuesday's Congressional joke!

The difference, of course, is that police chiefs...

...are appointed and serve at the pleasure of their political masters. A sheriff is elected and serves at the pleasure of the electorate. Being subject to the voters opens one's mind a bit.

No Consensus Between Obama and Sheriffs

It is called lying.

Dianne Feinstein is Misleading the Public With Her Assault Weapons Ban

The truth is not in her. They lie because the truth will not get them what they want.