Posts in '1st Amendment'

PA Town Posts “NOT A Gun Free Zone” Signs at Town Limits

PA Town Posts “NOT A Gun Free Zone” Signs at Town Limits

I love Pennsylvania. One of the many reasons I do is because of places like Conoy Township and the smart, reason minded people who live there. As you enter into the small township at the westernmost area of Lancaster County you are greeted with a “Welcome to Conoy Twp” sign.  These signs are ubiquitous to nearly every population center you come across so I’ve no doubt that you’ve seen them before. What you may not have seen is what comes AFTER the first like. No THAT is a sign. Unlike those criminal empowerment zone signs that radical organizations like Moms Demand Action and Everytown for gun safety that want to ensure that criminals have free reign to rape murder to their hearts content, the good people of Conoy want to set the record straight. If you are a criminal it is best to keep moving on because the people of...
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New Documentary Exposes Dangers of Gun-Free Zones

New Documentary Exposes Dangers of Gun-Free Zones

Gabriella Hoffman is a guest contributor to Bulletsfirst.net, renowned public speaker and the creator and editor of her own successful site: All-American Girl for the Restoration of Values Las Vegas, Nevada — The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF)’s 37th annual SHOT Show conference is underway here in Las Vegas, Nevada. Over 60,000 people are estimated to be in attendance. People from all sectors of the gun industry are here. One of NSSF’s goals is to educate the populace about the Second Amendment. Due to constant misinformation, the gun industry is unfairly targeted. One common misconception anti-gunners spread is gun-free zones stop crime. Quite the contrary. As a result,  a new documentary from Outdoor Channel is seeking to expose how dangerous gun-free zones are. Yesterday, I attended an exclusive screening of “Safe Haven: Gun-Free Zones in America” at SHOT Show. Townhall.com News Editor and Fox News Contributor Katie Pavlich teamed up with...
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New DC Mayor to City: “You have a mayor who hates guns”

New DC Mayor to City: “You have a mayor who hates guns”

To be honest, I am a fan of politicians who shut the filter down and are totally honest.  At least until their handlers get a hold of them and they inevitably backtrack on whatever controversial belief they had recently pontificated on. The most recent case of this is with self professed gun hater and rights infringer, Muriel Bowswer, the new Mayor of the District of Columbia.  It’s no shock that a gun hating liberal Democrat has been elected as Mayor of DC, but what was a bit different is that Bowswer didn’t hide her disdain behind the false narrative of other gun controllers by saying she was just against “illegal” guns.  No, Bowser is against ALL guns. While speaking at the Washington Interfaith Network Meeting Bowser spoke quite candidly about her disdain for gun owners, the Constitution and the peoples’ rights in general by saying: “You have a mayor...
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The VA Tries To Trick Veterans Into Adding Their Firearms To A Federal Registry

The VA Tries To Trick Veterans Into Adding Their Firearms To A Federal Registry

Any rational minded person understands that the reason you have a firearm registry is in order to make it easier to confiscate those weapons later.  I mean, a registry doesn’t stop crime, it doesn’t help solve crimes either unless someone actually LEAVES the gun behind, and it doesn’t make anyone safer. What it does do is give the Federal Government an EZ Pass on the highway of tyranny.  This is of extra import when it comes to military veterans as the Obama administration has all ready made it clear that  it views veterans as a terrorist subset of Americans. Case in point, Operation Vigilant Eagle, a program launched by the Department of Homeland Security in 2009.  Military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are being characterized as extremists and potential domestic terrorist threats because they may be “disgruntled, disillusioned or suffering from the psychological effects of war.” How easy is it to...
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Musical Guns – A Gunpowder Homage To Pitch Perfect (video)

Musical Guns – A Gunpowder Homage To Pitch Perfect (video)

In case you never saw the movie Pitch Perfect, Anna Kendrick uses an empty cup to keep the beat while she sings  “When I’m Gone.” She did it a capella and it was pretty good. In truth, until now, I never thought it was missing anything. Then I saw this and realized what was missing…FIREPOWER. This is Nashville singer Jim Huish’s rendition of the song with a 2nd Amendment twist. Enjoy! True, the vocals are drowned out a bit at the end by the near automatic fire, but still…if that didn’t bring a smile to your face then this winter has frozen your heart my friend.  This is pretty clever interpretation of what Ms. Kendrick did in the movie and the coordination of which wasn’t easy by any means. For those of you who hadn’t seen the Pitch Perfect, here is the clip in which I have been referencing http://youtu.be/v2mawaBrvFg Despite what the gun...
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New Year, New Laws, Same Absurdity

New Year, New Laws, Same Absurdity

Welcome to the year 2015.  Along with the big party  and the personal resolutions there is yet another tradition that comes with the dawn of a new year.  January is often the time when laws from the previous year are enacted.  This year is no different. With the Federal Government this is the year where citizens will be forced to pay a fine if they do not yield to the governments dominion over their lives and purchase Obamacare. But of course that is not all, there are 3,541 new rules and regulations that rang in their first new year along with us in a register 78,978 pages long.    While among those 3,541 new rules and regulations there are plenty of personal infringements and undermining of small businesses, I want to focus on the new laws passed on the STATE level that are just awful.  So bad I question whether...
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Has Florida Outlawed Well Regulated Militias?

Has Florida Outlawed Well Regulated Militias?

Despite not being an open carry state, nor its moderately high cost of a CCW, Florida is not known for being a hotbed of Gun Control fever.  That is why I was so surprised to hear about Florida Statute 790.29.  The statute expressly prohibits paramilitary training; teaching or participation.  Basically anything that could very loosely be described as a militia. I heard about it because a man was facing 30 years because he violated it. Here’s the statute in it’s entirety: 790.29 Paramilitary training; teaching or participation prohibited.— (1) This act shall be known and may be cited as the “State Anti-paramilitary Training Act.” (2) As used in this section, the term “civil disorder” means a public disturbance involving acts of violence by an assemblage of three or more persons, which disturbance causes an immediate danger of, or results in, damage or injury to the property or person of any other individual...
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Pro Abortion Radical Wants To Ensure Children Aren’t Protected Even After Birth

Pro Abortion Radical Wants To Ensure Children Aren’t Protected Even After Birth

As if anyone really needed more evidence that gun control zealots don’t give a damn about safety or preventing violence but really just want to CONTROL people, I give you Anna Eskamani.  Eskamani is a your general all around liberal true believer. A self proclaimed, “Organizer, Writer and Feminist”, Eskamani has a extensive history of fighting for abortions being the Regional Manager for Florida Planned Parenthood PAC, the Director of External Affairs for Greater Orlando Planned Parenthood and the former Young Leaders Advisory Council Leadership Chair for Planned Parenthood Federation of America.  Suffice it to say that Anna Eskamani believes in abortion. Coincidentally enough, since Ms Eskamani doesn’t believe in protecting the life of unborn children viewpoint has recently evolved to ensuring that children who are born also are denied protection. I’m referring to a recent article that Eskamani penned for the Central Florida Future. In it Eskamani vehemently comes out...
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Pretty Pin Ups With Guns, Utah is NOT Pleased [Video]

Pretty Pin Ups With Guns, Utah is NOT Pleased [Video]

In a story that mashes together the reserved nature of Mormon dominated Utah, with the sexualized fits of fancy you would expect from a pin up calendar, a bit of situation has arisen in the Beehinve State. The calendar maker, Hot Shots, filmed a promotional video of their models during the photoshoot that took place both in the desert flats as well has the mountain peaks of Utah.  The film and subsequent calendar utilized equipment from the Utah National Guard, both vehicles and weaponry. Some in the state of Utah are not happy about it and as such are demanding an investigation into the entire situation.  I’m not exactly sure what they are looking to investigate as the video clearly shows that the bikini clad models are firing live ammo and rolling around in tanks and armored vehicles, not props. Here, take a look for yourself.  Note, there are...
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Cuomo Campaign Throws Tantrum: Forces Factory Worker To Go Home Over NRA Shirt

Cuomo Campaign Throws Tantrum: Forces Factory Worker To Go Home Over NRA Shirt

In the film version of “1776”, when the vote on whether to open debate on Independence comes up the  resolution is tied.  The Representative from Rhode Island then saunters in, returning from the lavatory, and is questioned on how Rhode Island stands on the question of debate. The response from Stephen Hopkins was as follows: Well, in all my years I ain’t never heard, seen nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn’t be talked about. Hell yeah! I’m for debating anything. Rhode Island says yea! Alas, in New York, apparently Mr. Cuomo says “NAY”.  And I’m not talking about him avoiding televised debates with his opponent Rob Astorino. I’m talking about his recent trip to an alternative power company in upstate New York. In an exclusive, a reader of Bullets First who works for the hydrogen fuel cell company, Plug Power, passed along the following email that...
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Company Fires Employee For Having Gun…IN HIS OWN HOME

Company Fires Employee For Having Gun…IN HIS OWN HOME

Under the guise of “zero tolerance”, gun hating private community Lakes of the Four Seasons (LOFS) has fired a seasonal landscaping employee of 21 years because he was a gun owner.  And no, I don’t mean that he was carrying a gun while working, nor did he have a gun in his car on LOFS property. Nino Ferlaino had worked for LOFS for 21 years before this summer when, in conversation amongst coworkers, he acknowledged that he believed in the 2nd Amendment and kept a gun at home. Two days following this conversation, on July 2nd, Ferlaino’s supervisor, Doug Weiss, approached him and asked him if he carried a gun. Ferlaino admitted that he owned a gun but never carried it while working. Let me interject something.  While in Ferlaino’s mind he was just having a pleasant break time conversation among coworkers, someone in that group heard “gun owner”...
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Gun Shop Owner Goes Off The Rails And Bans All Muslims From Buying Guns

Gun Shop Owner Goes Off The Rails And Bans All Muslims From Buying Guns

When I was in the army, in a post 9/11 world, I was basically trained to killed Islamic terrorists.  When I came home I was able to differentiate between a middle eastern terrorist and a mid western cowboy hat wearing, F150 driving American who happens to pray in a mosque. Jan Morgan, owner of the Gun Cave, in Hot Springs Arkansas has come out and publicly and stated that she will NOT sell to Muslims and that her store is in fact a “Muslim Free Zone.” Morgan puts forth “facts” that she claims legitimizes her personal belief that punishing an entire sect of people for their right of religious choice is somehow valid. Here are her ten “facts” with my rebuttals in bold. 1) The Koran (which I have read and studied thoroughly and (which all Muslims align themselves with), contains 109 verses commanding hate, murder and terror against...
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The Duplicitous Nature of Requiring Good Cause In Order To Exercise 2nd Amendment Right

The Duplicitous Nature of Requiring Good Cause In Order To Exercise 2nd Amendment Right

DC has, because they were forced to by the courts, enacted legislation that allows people to get pistol permits in order to carry a firearm while in the city…sort of. Unfortunately the District looked to places like New York City and other rights infringing metropolitan areas to model there new program on.  And while they MAY be technically following the judges orders, it is akin to a childish tantrum in which a parent tells one child to stop touching the other so the belligerent child holds his fingers a hairs breath from the skin all while cackling “I’m not touching you, I’m not touching you.” As the Associated Press reports: “Mayor Vincent Gray and other city officials said they plan to propose legislation that would make the District of Columbia similar to a half-dozen states, including Maryland, where residents can be denied a concealed-carry permit if they can’t show...
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Court: Sexual Predators Protected By the 1st Amendment…2nd Amendment For Law Abiding? Still Ok To Infringe

Court: Sexual Predators Protected By the 1st Amendment…2nd Amendment For Law Abiding? Still Ok To Infringe

It boggles the mind sometimes when I hear how judges rule things.  But a case in which a judge actually defended a case of a sexual predator who was taking photos up women’s skirts takes the cake. On Wednesday, the highest Criminal Court in Texas, tossed out part of a law that sought to criminalize the improper photographing of video recording of images commonly referred to as “upskirting” or “downblousing”.  Basically taking a photo up a woman’s skirt or down her shirt.  First of all, I’m shocked that crawling under a woman and sticking a camera between her legs and taking a snapshot ISN’T a crime everywhere. Secondly that I am shocked that the Texas court ruled such a law is unconstitutional and did so in a ruling of 8-1. But finally I am most shocked with the asinine reasoning behind the decision. According to court these sexual perverts...
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Sign Brings Customers In…Gives Truth Out

Sign Brings Customers In…Gives Truth Out

A controversial message displayed on the outdoor marquee of Tactical Firearms, a gun dealer in the Houston suburb of Katy, Texas, has locals talking, though what some residents are saying can’t be repeated on a family website. The sign reads simple, “Does one of Obamas [sic] family members have to be beheaded for “change” to happen?” Read more at http://libertyunyielding.com/2014/09/14/sign-outside-tx-gun-store-takes-shot-obama-creates-stir-video/#o0VAtu3qOTxIOQMJ.99   I have been a fan of Tactical Arms for a while now, though I have never actually been there. I take on the mindset of Prince Edward in “A Knight’s Tale” when speaking to the peasent who pretended to be a knight: “You’re men love you.  If I knew nothing else about you, that would be enough.  But you also tilt when you should withdraw, and that is knightly too” So I don’t need to go to Katy, Texas and walk into Tactical Firearms because from all I have seen the...
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If Tim Tebow Was Gay, Maybe the NFL Would Force a Team to Give HIM a Job

If Tim Tebow Was Gay, Maybe the NFL Would Force a Team to Give HIM a Job

Michael Sam, the under-qualified, undersized, slow, weak, mediocre player from the University of Missouri got drafted because he was gay.  He was cut from the St. Louis Rams because he wasn’t good enough. The NFL couldn’t have that so they went around the league begging teams to take him on their practice squad. Jerry Jones eventually figured he could make a couple of bucks on jersey sales and took him on, also figuring that the league now owed him a favor. Before I go any further, let’s get to Sam’s qualifications first, just so you don’t think this is some subjective viewing. Michael Sam runs a slow 4.91 forty yard dash. Michael Sam can only bench press 225 lbs 17 times. Michael Sam runs the three cone drill in an interminable 7.8 seconds. Michael Sam SEC Co-Defensive Player of the Year is misleading.  He recorded 11.5 with sacks which appear...
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First they come for our guns…then our bacon

First they come for our guns…then our bacon

This country’s government was formed with the notion that the minority must be protected.  How then have we devolved so much that when a single crybaby gets their  panties in a bunch rights begin getting stripped from everyone else? What has me so worked up?  Oddly enough it isn’t the gun grabbing zealots this time that try to deny a fundamental right because THEY don’t like it. No, this time it is someone who took that same mentality and forced a local restaurant to remove a sign it was allowed to place in a median because that restaurant PAID a donation for its upkeep. The Sneakers Bistro got its pick of a sign to stake into a prime traffic median along Winooski’s Main Street after dolling up the bed with annual flowers for the city of Winooski’s “Operation Bloom” volunteer program. What was so offensive about Sneakers Bistro’s sign?...
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Political Correctness Runs Amok as Student Arrested For Writing About Shooting a DINOSAUR

Political Correctness Runs Amok as Student Arrested For Writing About Shooting a DINOSAUR

Oh, South Carolina…I expect better from you. On the other hand, this incident takes place in a public school, and those have long been known to be bastions of liberal asininity so I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised. Summerville High School Freshman Alex Stone was given a creative writing assignment for his English class. That short assignment written in “facebook-like update form” (don’t get me started on why students don’t seem to actually write papers anymore)  would lead the school administrators to calling the police and Alex Stone getting arrested. What threats and dangerous writings did Stone put into his work of fiction?  He wrote a story about shooting his neighbors pet dinosaur with a dinosaur hunting gun “he purchased to take care of the business.” Now…I guess PETEA is getting involved.  You know, People for the Ethical Treatment of EXTINCT Animals. What if Stone wrote about being attacked by...
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