Bloomberg Seeks to "New York" America

The gun control debate in Oregon could be awakening from a long siesta that some thought would last through the end of session later this month. Oregon has a strong tradition of strong support for the entire Bill of Rights, including the right to keep and bear arms. 

Liberal fascist New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, founder of  Illegal Mayors Against Guns, is spending money to push gun control in state capitals across the country, including Oregon and Washington, as reported by the New York Times reports.

In Washington, he’s helping a ballot initiative on background checks that failed in the legislative session.

In Oregon, gun legislation including background checks for transfers between private parties, training for concealed handgun license owners and a weapons ban at schools had already died in the legislature.

But Fuhrer Bloomberg has hired lobbyists to reopen background checks on private sales. State Sen. Betsy Johnson, D-Scappoose, posted on her Facebook page on Friday that bipartisan talks on guns have been reignited in the legislature, though she said no specific legislation is being considered and that previously introduced bills are dead.

From Johnson’s Facebook page :

“It’s just an early conversation, but it is a bi-partisan effort to close some loopholes in Oregon’s gun background check system. Senator Johnson says 2nd amendment rights are being respected, and she believes there needs to have a way to have folks who have been adjudicated as mentally ill to be added to the gun registry, so that person would not be able to own a gun.”

Gun rights advocates are gearing up and calling on Oregonians to contact Johnson and fight any proposed regulations.

“No amount of money from an out-of-state billionaire should be able to buy our liberty,” an alert from the Oregon Firearms Federation states.

Bloomberg has already shown that he can influence state legislatures. According to CompleteColorado.com, Bloomberg placed personal calls to Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper during the height of the gun control debate. Hickenlooper eventually signed the sweeping reforms into law, which usurps Second Amendment rights in Colorado.

“I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”
George Mason Co-author of the Second Amendment
during Virginia’s Convention to Ratify the Constitution, 1788

Maryland 11-Yr-Old Suspended From School For Merely TALKING About Guns

The biggest problem our nation faces is Progressives who seek to subvert the Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights.  The state of Maryland is one of the greatest threats to liberty in America. Far less than a million viewers on average watch the political propaganda networks like MSNBC.  90% of children in the United States are subject to progressive propaganda via the public schools.  See  Common Core for details.

There are consequences to elections.  Progressives are liberal fascists intent on transforming the Republic by usurping civil rights. 

WMAL reports  that the father of a middle schooler in Calvert County, Md. says his 11-year-old son was suspended for 10 days for merely talking about guns on the bus ride home.

Bruce Henkelman of Huntingtown says his son, a sixth grader at Northern Middle School in Owings, was talking with friends about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre when the bus driver hauled him back to school to be questioned by the principal, Darrel Prioleau.

“The principal told me that with what happened at Sandy Hook if you say the word ‘gun’ in my school you are going to get suspended for 10 days,” Henkelman said in an interview with WMAL.com.

So what did the boy say?  According to his father, he neither threatened nor bullied anyone.

“He said, I wish I had a gun to protect everyone. He wanted to defeat the bad guys. That’s the context of what he said,” Henkelman said. “He wanted to be the hero.”

The boy was questioned by the principal and a sheriff’s deputy, who also wanted to search the family home without a warrant, Henkelman said. “He started asking me questions about if I have firearms, and [the deputy said] he’s going to have to search my house.  Search my house?  I just wanted to know what happened.”

No search was performed, and the deputy left Henkelman’s home after the father answered questions in a four-page questionnaire issued by the Sheriff’s Office.

Principal Darrel Prioleau did not respond to calls and emails seeking comment. Robin Welsh, the deputy superintendent of Calvert County Schools, said federal privacy rules prohibited her from commenting on a specific case, but she said students are not suspended without cause.

“There has to be some violation within the code of conduct that would trigger some type of consequence or intervention,” said Welsh, who said the county school system does not have a zero tolerance policy.

Based on information about Henkelman’s case provided by WMAL.com, the ACLU of Maryland said the suspension, later reduced to one day, was a poor choice by school administrators.

“It’s appropriate for school officials to investigate when there is a concern about student safety. But based on what’s been described to us, once the school official concluded that all the young man wanted to do was to be safe at school and that he posed no risk to anyone, the suspension was really inappropriate,” said Sonya Kumar, an ACLU staff attorney.

“The school should have been assuring him that they were going to take steps to keep all students safe, not punishing him,” she added.

Henkelman said the incident happened last December right before students were sent home for winter break, but he did not feel compelled to take his story to the public until he learned that a 5-year-old Calvert County boy was suspended for bringing a toy cap gun on a school bus.

“[My son] was very scared at the fact that he was interviewed by the principal and a sheriff’s deputy alone. He didn’t know where I was,” Henkelman said.

The ACLU’s Kumar said there are too many cases of school officials coming down hard on students for relatively harmless offenses.

“Across the board, we are concerned about practices where we have these sort of knee-jerk reactions without really stopping to think and use our common sense about whether what a kid is doing or saying actually presents any sort of concern for the safety and well-being of others,” Kumar said.

“The gun control extremist has at least two things in common with the Islamic extremist. He has a willingness to die for his fundamental beliefs. And he has the sanctimony to demand that others go with him.”
- Dr. Mike Adams

Warrantless New Jersey Searches for Guns OK in Chris Christie Country

Motorists driving through New Jersey can be subjected to a warrantless search if their luggage is similar in appearance to a gun case, an appellate court ruled last week. The Superior Court’s Appellate Division upheld a five year prison sentence against Dustin S. Reininger, a former police officer who was in the process of moving from Maine to Texas when a Readington Township police officer recognized the cases in the back of Reininger’s vehicle as the sort that usually carries a rifle.
During the long trip on March 20, 2009, Reininger became tired and decided to pull off the road in an empty, well-lit parking lot. He stopped his green Toyota SUV, turned off his lights, and went to sleep in the driver’s seat under a blanket. At 3:25am, Officer Gregory Wester knocked on his window and woke him up, shining a flashlight in his eyes. Officer Wester testified that Reininger appeared “nervous and tired.” The policeman asked Reininger whether he was carrying anything illegal.

“No, no, all good,” Reininger replied.

Reininger believes he was targeted because of his Texas license plates. Officer Wester then looked inside the SUV with his flashlight noticed two nylon cases in the back seat. Once backup arrived, Officer Wester asked for consent to search the vehicle, but Reininger said no. Officer Wester then opened up the vehicle to search the cases “for safety reasons” any way. Reininger was arrested.

After obtaining a warrant, police recovered fourteen rifles, four shotguns and three handguns, including a loaded Glock. A grand juror had asked the prosecutor whether this man would have been charged if he had used a different case.

“Basically, if someone is moving… from Residence A to Residence B, or transporting, say, for example, they just purchased it, so they can transport it to their home, if they are properly secured, locked in a trunk, locked in a special lockbox and unloaded, then that would most likely provide an exception to these requirements, and therefore a defense to being charged,” prosecutor Bennett Barlyn explained.

Reininger’s SUV did not have a trunk, and state law only requires the firearm be in a “closed and fastened case” or “securely tied package” while transported. His attorney argued the zippered cases satisfied this requirement.

A jury acquitted him of the charges for possession of the “assault firearms” and handgun possession but convicted him in absentia of illegal possession of hollow-point bullets, shotguns, rifles and a high-capacity magazine. He was apprehended in Texas and extradited to New Jersey.

“What I don’t understand is I am a citizen without a criminal history who has served this country not only in the military but as a volunteer to my community and as a police officer, not even making hardly any income at all, and I would have given my life to protect another person and for this country,” Reininger said in a statement. “How can I be convicted for exercising my right? When does it become a crime for exercising one’s right?”

The three-judge appellate panel insisted New Jersey’s gun control laws do not violate the constitutional right to keep and bear arms, citing the Supreme Court’s recent Heller decision.

“The Second Amendment does not create ‘a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever purpose,’” Judge Ronald B. Graves wrote for the panel. “Furthermore, the Second Amendment does not preclude the state from regulating the manner in which accessories must be transported.”

The court also upheld the warrantless search of Reininger’s vehicle.
“Based on the outward appearance of the nylon cases, Wester reasonably believed they contained rifles or shotguns that were easily accessible to defendant,” Judge Graves wrote. “In our view, however, the warrantless seizure was not necessary for the officers’ safety, because defendant had been removed from the vehicle and there were multiple backup officers at the scene. Nevertheless, we conclude the limited seizure was valid under the plain view exception to the search warrant requirement.”

Facts Defy Gun Progressive Perception of Gun Related Crime

An interesting survey by the Pew Foundation shows that gun crimes, including homicide, have been steadily decreasing with the steady increase in the number of guns owned by civilians in the USA. Despite the progressive propaganda from the left wing media, homicides in schools have dropped at a similar rate, and are the lowest level in recent history.

Most people think gun crimes are increasing, largely because of what they hear from main stream media and anti-gun politicians. According to a Rasmussen poll released on Friday, May 10, while gun killings have plunged 39 percent since 1993, and non-fatal gun crimes have dropped 69 percent in the same period, those who want gun control think that gun crime is up. Rasmussen reports that only 7 percent of adults believe there are fewer gun owners in the country than there were 20 years ago — and more importantly, 64 percent of those who want more gun control think that gun crime has escalated. 

How can this be? We’re surrounded by morons and liberal fascist subversives. Wake up America.

“I ask sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few politicians.”
- George Mason (father of the Bill of Rights and The Virginia Declaration of Rights)

Maryland Passes Unconstitutional Gun Control Law

Left wing Democrat Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley signed into law one of the United States’ toughest gun control laws on Thursday.

The legislation requires all handgun buyers to undergo safety training and submit fingerprints to obtain a license to purchase a pistol or revolver.  Concealed carry licenses are not issued in Maryland unless you are politically connected with Progressive politicians who control the liberal fascist state.

It new law bans the sale of 45 types of firearms, including pistols, rifles and shotguns.

The new law also reduces magazine capacity from 20 rounds to 10 rounds.

Maryland joins Connecticut and New York in expanding assault weapons bans and restricting the capacity of magazines in 2013.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) has announced plans to challenge the new state gun control laws in court.

Republican State Assembly Delegate Neil Parrott said last month that leading opponents of the Maryland bill planned to back an NRA lawsuit, rather than petition for a referendum.

A Maryland woman, Sue Payne, has also launched a campaign to petition the bill to a referendum, filing paperwork with the board of elections last month.

Other features of the bill include mandatory reporting of lost or stolen firearms. Failure to timely report lost or stolen firearms will result in your arrest and prosecution in Maryland.

The law also strengthens the state’s ability to regulate harass gun dealers.

I lived in Maryland from 1976-77 and attended the University of Maryland while working for the Uniformed Secret Service.  I lived in Prince George County, which is now one of the most dangerous urban areas in the country.  If you have seen The Wire, then you know Baltimore. 

I feel for the law abiding gun owners in Eastern and Western Maryland. You are in the same situation as upstate New Yorkers and many Californians who live far from the coast.  But this is what happens when Democrats control all branches of government.  The courts is your only hope and we all know the lawsuits will take years to be resolved. 

Of course the new law will do nothing to keep criminals from using guns and high capacity magazines to faciltate their crime.  The new law is intended to turn law abiding citizens into criminals. The new law will make it more difficult and expensive for law abiding citizens to protect themselves against the many violent criminals and gang bangers who populate Maryland.  See Chicago for the effects of strict gun control laws on criminal behavor.

Armed citizens kill more crooks than the police. Citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as police do every year (1,527 to 606).  Newsweek a member of the progressive propaganda machine, reported that “only 2 percent of civilian shootings involved an innocent person mistakenly identified as a criminal. The ‘error rate’ for the police, however, is 11 percent, more than five times as high.”

“A free people ought…to be armed”
― George Washington