News from The Sight M1911, Volume 194

News from The Sight M1911

Volume 194, 11/12/05

Proposition H

It's truly tragic when a group of people vote to give up their constitutional rights. Early returns indicate that "Proposition H," the gun ban in San Francisco has passed. Approximately 40% of registered voters turned out to vote. It is particularly ironic given that San Francisco is a city so keen on asserting "civil rights," especially for gay people, a "right" which stands on a considerably more flimsy basis from a constitutional perspective than does our right to keep and bear arms. Hopefully, this unconstitutional city ordinance can be overturned in the courts, but it's sad nonetheless. It seems that the benighted folk of San Francisco have forgotten that all of our civil rights, including the "right" to live unconventional lifestyles, is grounded in the universal right to self-defense and self-determination. The first and fourth amendments would not exist without the second.

It appears that the citizens of San Francisco, or at least 22% (56% of 40%) of them, are willing to trade their freedom for Orwell's dark vision of an all-seeing police state which will protect them from all threats at the price of their souls. They seem to want to bask in the benefits of freedom, without bearing its responsibilities, and it never works that way, never.

San Francisco appears to have learned nothing from 9-11 and nothing from Katrina. They seem to have learned nothing from twenty years of successful concealed carry legislation. They have learned nothing from England's failed experiment in gun control. It’s pathetic and contemptible.

What San Francisco has done is to join into that elite club of murder capitals such as Chicago, Baltimore, Washington D.C., London and New York. They have condemned their own citizens to a reign of terror. I feel deeply and genuinely sorry for them. Their nightmare has just begun.

NOW WE’RE GETTING SOMEWHERE

A silver lining in a gun ban by John R. Lott Jr.

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/lott200511091053.asp

VETERANS DAY

http://xavierthoughts.blogspot.com/2005/11/veterans-day.html

http://jerrythegeek.blogspot.com/2005/11/thank-you-veterans.html

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9994096/

SMITH & WESSON MODELS 619 AND 620 .357 MAGNUM REVOLVERS

http://www.gunblast.com/SW619-620.htm

GALCO CLASSIC LITE SHOULDER HOLSTER

http://www.sightm1911.com/lib/review/Galco_Classic_Lite.htm

COLT GUNSITE PISTOL, 1911 45ACP

http://www.seark.net/~jlove/colt_cgp.htm

A TERRIBLE PLACE FOR A GUNFIGHT

http://www.aware.org/success/terribleplace.shtml

FBI MINES RECORDS OF ORDINARY AMERICANS

Under Patriot Act, feds probe lives of residents not alleged to be terrorists

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9939709/

THE GUN RIGHTS POLICY CONFERENCE 2005

By Cindy Ellen Hill

http://www.vermontwoman.com/articles/1105/gun_rights.shtml

GRANNIES ON PATROL

Women help lead Minutemen border vigil

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20051108-125440-3008r.htm

THE MYTH OF ENERGY TRANSFER

http://www.firearmstactical.com/briefs3.htm

USAMU HOSTS POST’S FIRST USPSA WOMEN’S SHOOTING CLINIC

Members of the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit Action Shooting Team coordinated with the U.S. Practical Shooting Association for the USPSA to conduct Fort Benning’s first women’s USPSA pistol clinic at USAMU’s Brinson Range Oct. 20 to 22.

http://www.sportsfeatures.com/PressPoint/show.php?id=26374

GRANDMOTHER SHOOTS INTRUDER IN NORTH ARLINGTON

A 66-year-old grandmother said the training she received to earn her concealed-handgun permit saved her life.

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/13121933.htm

KNOW THY ENEMY: LAWYER USES SKILLS TO ZERO IN ON GUN LOBBY

A soft-spoken La Habra Heights attorney goes to court to win limits on the sale of firearms.

http://tinyurl.com/7dmdz

YOUNG HUNTERS PROMPT DEBATE

http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20051106-112223-8228r.htm

PEDIATRICIAN COUNSELING BOOSTS GUN SAFETY AT HOME

http://tinyurl.com/74dtk

ALABAMA: MONTGOMERY MAYOR PRAISES MAN FOR USING GUN

http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=4079102&nav=0RdE

CALIFORNIA: NY TIMES ON THE SF GUN BAN

http://www.alphecca.com/mt_alphecca_archives/001781.html

CALIFORNIA: PROPOSITION H PASSES

http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/election/results.htm

CALIFORNIA: VOTERS SAY NO TO FIREARMS IN SAN FRANCISCO

http://tinyurl.com/9oq77

CALIFORNIA: SAN FRANCISCO CRIME STATISTICS FOR 2004

http://sanfrancisco.areaconnect.com/crime1.htm

CALIFORNIA: SECOND AMENDMENT FOUNDATION SUES TO STOP VICTIM DISARMAMENT IN SAN FRANCISCO

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=56451

CALIFORNIA: NRA CHALLENGES SAN FRANCISCO GUN BAN

http://tinyurl.com/dv8g5

FLORIDA: TV STATION POSTS NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF CCW HOLDERS

http://www.wftv.com/news/5272863/detail.html

HAWAII: LICENSED GUN DEALER GIVEN PROBATION FOR FIREARMS VIOLATIONS

A gun shop owner apologized and said he had cautioned his customers about proper firearm registration procedures, as he was sentenced Thursday on multiple charges of possessing unregistered firearms and high-capacity magazines earlier this year.

http://www.mauinews.com/story.aspx?id=13977

ILLINOIS: INFLAMMATORY LANGUAGE WON'T SETTLE ILLINOIS GUN CONCERNS

Outlandish comments from a representative of the national Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence won't help gun-control issues in Illinois.

http://www.pantagraph.com/stories/111005/opi_20051110001.shtml

NEW JERSEY: WEAPONS STING NETS FIVE

Following an undercover FBI investigation, five individuals were arrested last week and charged with selling illegal weapons.

http://tinyurl.com/ax5tt

PENNSYLVANIA: FACING A PFA? YOU MIGHT LOSE THAT FIREARM

A bill sponsored by state Rep. Katie True that protects victims of domestic violence from harm and possible death won the support Thursday of Gov. Ed Rendell.

http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/18515

SOUTH DAKOTA: SMALL ARMS ARE BIG BUSINESS IN BLACK HILLS

http://tinyurl.com/9cpvs

TEXAS: MAYOR PRO TEM SAMUEL FIGHTS OFF ATTACKERS

http://tinyurl.com/7a9uh

UTAH: GUN CLASSES OFFER OPTIONS TO DOMESTIC ABUSE VICTIMS

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_3185672?rss

WISCONSIN: SENATE COMMITTEE APPROVES CONCEALED CARRY BILL

http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/13135379.htm

http://tinyurl.com/9jkxp

BRAZIL: BRAZILIANS SPEAK OUT

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lott/lott46.html