CONTENTS

1- Background Gun Check Records Are Saved

A "firearms background check" under the federal NICS system is just a code word for gun registration, everyone involved knows that. No one serious about gun rights accepts what the media and the left are calling universal background checks. When the feds built the $250 million NICS computer, they publicly claimed it couldn't even erase a record. I documented all that when it went live in 1998 (https://www.gunlaws.com/updates.htm). How soon we forget. It's the lead story below.


2- Communist China Cyberattacking U.S.
3- Voting's Not Working
4- Schumer Offers Nothing
5- Closing Builds Business?
6- Federal Stingray Exposed



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STARTERS


1.

"The Brady bill will make the streets of America so safe
that our nation's police will not even need to carry guns anymore."

William Jefferson Clinton, on TV, while signing the Brady bill in 1993,
quoted in Sheriff Richard Mack's book, The Magic of Gun Control.

"When they're not lying they're just ignorant."
--Anonymous, speaking about political leaders.



2. ALERT:
So-called "universal background checks" can stop all gun sales nationally:

When NICS (the FBI background computer) is down, you can't buy a gun at retail.
But you can still get a gun if you need to -- private sale, loaner, gift, temporary transfer, etc.

If all transfers are forced through NICS, no one in the nation could get a gun
if NICS were turned off, or broken, or went under maintenance for a while.

No one has thought that angle through very far so far, or made much noise about it.

NICS was closed 84 times in a six-month period in 1999.
https://www.gunlaws.com/brady8day.htm

It's been closed for as long as four days in a row (so far).
It can be closed regionally.
https://www.gunlaws.com/updates.htm
(Scroll down to Federal Gun Registration Plans)

Although the law explicitly says you don't have to use NICS if it's not running,
federal agents have intimidated everyone into waiting until they turn it on again.

And of course, so-called "universal background checks" is a coverup for
universal gun registration, everyone but the lamestream media knows that,
see the main story below.



3. Name calling.

Friend Jon Haupt was struck recently by how liberals like to put down conservatives (and Founding Fathers) as a bunch of "dead old white men." It occurred to him that's ageist, racist and sexist, and let me add, morbid. The left is forever projecting their own biases onto those they hate. I'm forever reminding them, "It's not good to hate."



4. Christmas in July

It's not too early to start thinking about National Training Week, when everyone is encouraged to go to the range and practice during 4th of July week (July 4 - 11). https://www.gunlaws.com/NationalTrainingWeek.htm. "Celebrate the 4th of July with fireworks, firearms and freedom!" Ask your local range if they plan to support it with free one-hour handgun rentals during that week.



Adult gift giving --
Maybe your first gun came under the Christmas Tree. Today, with so many adults considering their first gun, Independence Day becomes the perfect gift-giving holiday! A uniquely American tradition on the day firearms ensured our freedom. There's just enough lead time to get ad placement done... if only inventory wasn't already maxed out...

Look at the plans for National Training Week. NOTE: Supporters -- It's time to get this year's info up on your websites. Copy and paste at will. https://www.gunlaws.com/NationalTrainingWeek.htm



5.

"I do find it mysterious that the lefties fear excessive government power yet want to disarm everyone but the king's men.  Very irrational... [in an email, that I can't find now]. The word "irrational" is becoming ever more important, as the medical community comes under ever greater scrutiny in the firearms debate.



6.

You can trust lawyers as much as you can trust a guy with a gun.


7.

This whole ammo shortage thing --
I haven't seen anything that suggests foul play of any kind, to me, it's strictly supply and demand, and it shows you what panic in a market looks like. Rationing and price spikes are the result of demand far outstripping supply. Sure, government ammo purchases should give you pause, it's the reason we're all armed.

A trusted source provided this: "Take for example .22LR ammunition. The industry as a whole (all manufacturers combined) is setup to produce 4,200,000,000 (4.2 Billions) .22 LR annually. That is running all the machines, full capacity all the time, all manufacturers together. There is NOTHING they can do to produce more. That corresponds to 230,137 cartridge per State per day, which is 460 bricks of 500 .22lr per day per State. That means that if less than 50 people per day in each State are buying 10 bricks of .22, it is enough to dry up the entire supply as it is being manufactured."

News from ammo makers seems OK too, but it's right to be wary. Trust but verify. How do you do that?

If you don't have ammo, you're stuck in a high market.
If you're like many Americans, you'll comfortably ride this out
until the market corrects.



8. How did that ASU debate go?

Thanks for asking, here's that short video
as I warmed up the Students for Liberty event at
Arizona State University. It's a little unsteady
at the start but the guy sits down, audio's fine.

The entire gun-rights debate in a capsule according to Alan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-KdfuP-rX4
The whole debate that day if you care:
http://www.youtube.com/ld26azgop




9. Let’s conduct a thought experiment.
 

If there was no mental illness and everyone owned five assault rifles,

how many senseless murders would occur?

 

If everyone was mentally ill and guns did not exist,

how many senseless murders would occur?

(Thanks, Bob.G. for the idea)

1- "Background gun check records are saved."


The lamestream media told you:
The lamestream media told you:


It's only reasonable, and studies show the overwhelming majority of Americans support universal background checks. We're not talking about registering guns.



The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

How soon we forget. When the NICS computer was built and turned on by attorney general Janet Reno, in compliance with the Brady bill in 1994, she announced that the system not only would not erase records immediately after a gun-buyer background check as required by law, it could NOT erase records at all. She said it with a straight face, to Congress.

The Justice Dept. under Bill Clinton, had built a computer capable of checking out every American, from one spot in West Virginia, controlled by the FBI, a dream project the Bureau was dying for, and the quarter-billion dollar computer was incapable of deleting a record. That's what Janet Reno wanted us to believe, it's what she told us, and who knows -- maybe it's exactly what she built. We have no way to know. [Note: C'mon it's a computer, there's no such thing as one that can't delete a file, she lied through her teeth, had planned this all along].

Congress went wild, because the bill that authorized the monster computer (read, buildings full of equipment and staff) required that background check records be destroyed instantly after the background check was completed. Congress was well aware, and had been pressured incessantly by its constituents, not to start creating rosters of gun owners. The only way the background check got in the bill at all was with instant destruction of the record mandatory. Turns out statute didn't matter much to the feds.

Gun-owner registries are the start of confiscations, everyone knew that, history proved it over and over all last century. Now the government had gone and done that very thing, directly against the law. The so-called background check computer was a recording device.

They use the same machine today of course and no, you can't look at it. The FBI, which knew the Brady bill was its one vehicle for their much-coveted one-stop-shopping ID checker, didn't scrap it and start over. They only had this shot at the $250 million needed to build the thing, including the "campus" features, ongoing operating costs, and of course the upgrades, maintenance, and literal federal jobs program that goes with it. But it's still the NICS system Janet Reno gave us, retrofitted to erase some records somehow, probably. There is no way to know. The FBI will not allow you in for an independent audit.

It's worse than that. Multiple federal sources have revealed that the information checking infrastructure of the NICS system, and its interconnected NCIC and III data systems, link with international sources of criminal data. Record destruction is not a requirement anywhere but here (and even here it can be disregarded at will, as we've seen), so "privacy" might as well all be wishful thinking. On top of this, ten consecutive sets of backups are made, it's routine, according to agents within the FBI, and these are sequentially stored and destroyed, over some time frame, on and off site... it's complicated.

The government has already told us that background check records are saved. It has built a system designed to save records and register gun owners, with no way to behave differently, in direct defiance of written law. It has provided no way to confirm that such records are not saved.

This is like hearing Iran continuously say they are not building nuclear weapons, while they continue to build their nuclear weapons.  The calls for universal background checks are a deception. The NICS background check system is designed as and fully functional as a record storage system and federal gun registry. The risks it presents to freedom is so significantly great it should be dismantled, and replaced with the equally effective, far less expensive, non-invasive transparency of the BIDS system. https://www.gunlaws.com/BIDSvNICS.htm













3- Voting's Not Working

The lamestream media told you:
The lamestream media told you:

According to the latest surveys, Congress has an approval rating somewhere between 9 and 15%. The re-election rate for incumbents in the 2012 election was a scorching 91%, higher by far than the margin any individual official every obtains.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:


That does not make any sense. I'm not looking for an explanation here. I'm just pointing out that something is severely wrong. I don't want this disjoint to slip by. The election process is not working. Is "Give them the vote and tell them they're free" actually happening before our very eyes? Whatever rolls through your mind to explain, or more likely rationalize this phenomenon, something ain't right. Voting isn't working the way it's supposed to.



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4- Schumer Offers Nothing (oh, the irony)


The lamestream media told you:
The lamestream media told you:

According to published reports (AP, 3/14/13), Sen. Charles Schumer, speaking about his proposed background-check bill S.374, said, "The bill explicitly says there is no registration, explicitly says no confiscation."



The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

A number of Page Nine readers misunderstood my recent offer to Mr. Schumer (though most got it), when I suggested we take him up on this part of his plan. We'll have nothing to do with the so-called background check part, because that's just a coverup for gun registration and everyone knows that. But the no-confiscation and no-registration part might be a good idea, let's see a bill for that part, and maybe agree at least there. I don't think that's what he expected, but why not try to hold him to his own words.

Now for the irony. His bill says nothing of the sort.
There are no explicit, implicit or smoke signals dealing with a restriction on gun confiscations or registration. We can only assume the Associated Press got it wrong, played along, failed to read the bill, took Schumer at his word, misquoted, misheard, quoted someone else, hey I'm running out of excuses here.

Even if it's in there somehow and I missed it (the bill does it's deeds in only 15 pages), we all know by now that a Schumery statement in a bill such as "There shall be no such act..." is meaningless tripe, lets the government walk, and must be coupled with punishment to count. "Anyone who acts thus shall pay..."is where the teeth are. Make it comitatus law or legislators are lying, it's that simple. If they mean it, they can say it, no problem. The idea of prison terms for actual or attempted confiscations or registrations remain sound.

I think what threw some people was the headline, designed to attract the media's attention.
Which it did.

The only part of Schumer's plan that gun owners might accept,
depending on the final draft, would be arresting politicians for infringement.
A cool word we should be using more often.


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The original letter to the editor (it got a lot of ink nationwide):

Gun Owners Could Back Part of Schumer's Plan

Dear Editor,

According to published reports (AP, 3/14/13), Sen. Charles Schumer, speaking about his proposed background-check bill, said, "The bill explicitly says there is no registration, explicitly says no confiscation." It's good that Mr. Schumer put this on the table, it's a step in the right direction.

The firearms community might accept this, in principle, with slightly different wording. It's a question of laws with teeth. What if, instead of saying "no gun registration," Schumer's bill said, "Anyone who creates or attempts to create any sort of gun registration shall go to prison."

Think of it as constitutional comitatus law -- law with teeth that holds officials accountable, instead of laws that merely make statements (like Mr. Schumer's draft). The rewrite is modeled after our posse comitatus law that has worked so well for a century and a half.

Similarly, instead of "explicitly" saying no confiscation, let it say, "Anyone who confiscates or attempts to confiscate firearms (or ammo or accessories) that the public bears shall go to prison, too. And pay serious fines." Mr. Schumer's noble assurance would be met.

I'll bet the pro-rights community might support Mr. Schumer along those lines, and we'd have at least partial agreement at last. Let's work together for reasonable bipartisan compromise. No registration and no confiscation, under penalty of law. It's just common sense. Honest legislators should have no reason to object.


Note: Because the NICS background-check system is inherently a registration-prone model, the registration-free BIDS model should get serious consideration at this point in time. https://www.gunlaws.com/BIDSvNICS.htm


Alan Korwin






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5- CLOSING BUILDS BUSINESS?


The lamestream media told you:
The lamestream media told you:


WASHINGTON (AP) - The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday it will stop delivering mail on Saturdays but continue to disburse packages six days a week, an apparent end-run around an unaccommodating Congress.

The service expects the Saturday mail cutback to begin the week of Aug. 5 and to save about $2 billion annually, said Postmaster General and CEO Patrick R. Donahoe. "Our financial condition is urgent," Donahoe told a press conference.



The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Only in government could the answer to declining revenues be to close for business one day per week. "If my business was hurting for money, the last thing I would do would close," said seven thousand businessmen interviewed for this story. "I would extend my hours, stay open late, offer extra services, cut prices, anything but close for a day and expect that to increase my margins and make business better," every single one of them said.

Leftists and bureaucrats applauded the move, displaying a total lack of understanding of an olden principle called capitalism, the engine that generated the most affluent society the world has ever known, the only proven method for lifting people out of poverty.

This pointed to a basic fact of business that every businessperson knows, that government does not, and supporters of government have never learned -- business creates wealth, government consumes wealth. If you're consuming wealth, it makes sense to shut down before you go bankrupt. If you're generating wealth, you need to stay open to make more.

See the story on how this works https://www.gunlaws.com/Page9Folder100up/PageNine-112.htm



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6- Federal Stingray Exposed


The lamestream media told you:
The lamestream media told you:

Nothing.


The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:


At an ACLU presentation about privacy last week, I heard from one of their attorneys representing them in federal court. There may only be nine amendments in their Bill of Rights, but they're pretty good on some issues, and limiting federal power concerning privacy is sometimes one of them. Gotta take your allies where you find them.

The important part is this. Privacy and copyright and patent law lag way behind technology and will for a long while. Anything left in The Cloud (like anything you have in a gmail account) for more than 180 days is deemed "abandoned" under the small text no one reads governing cell phones, laptops, all apps, pretty much everything, according to their attorneys.

The feds and the big firms take this to mean they can harvest it all and use it as they see fit, go gripe all you want, according to the knowledgeable ACLU attorney arguing this particularly amazing case they just came from in U.S. District court.

In the days when you downloaded stuff from a server and kept it locally this was not so much the case, so you owned it and controlled it (mostly). With The Cloud in the picture, this is no longer the case. So aside from the fact that anything you transmit is like an old-fashioned party-line telephone that people with know-how can snoop on, anything you keep in The Cloud is not solely yours if it's there for six months or more, they say. Go ahead and argue with me if it makes you feel more secure. Chuckle. Have a nice day. I'm just sayin'.

FWIW, this isn't even what their case was about. It seems the feds have been tapping everybody's cell phone, to track one individual, in an undisclosed radius, for three years, under a one-month search warrant, using a device called a Stingray. They know your location if you have a cell phone with you, in something up to a cell tower's radius (they won't reveal the full range).

The poor guy under surveillance has been in prison for five years now without a trial (it's a tax case) and the story goes downhill from there. The federal court was apparently very concerned with the 4th Amendment implications all over the case, and cloaked use of the device, and federal secrecy over the matter without court understanding or approval. Attorney Linda Lye was in from California for ACLU representing their interests, and she was in District court for three hours on what she said would normally by a 20-minute hearing.

Her description was rattling. The judge, in what she said was highly unusual, grilled the feds, who were evasive, obfuscatory and dumbfounded at some of the judge's questions. The suits huddled with each other before answering. He'd ask things like, why were you still working under a 30-day warrant. After some whispering they responded, what does "conclude" mean (I'm paraphrasing). These are the people we're supposed to trust with all the guns.


















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Thank you for writing Your First Gun and selling the four pack for twenty bucks. Having read some of your other books and after reading the description of this one, I went ahead and got the pack of four, knowing that I would pass them out to others. I read the book in one sitting, and couldn’t wait to start passing out the other copies to my intended recipients. My only problem now is that my list has grown and I will likely need to purchase one or two more packs of four. I have converted a few coworkers to the pro-gun-rights side over the past few years, and with the help of your book I’m sure to convert a few more. Thanks again.  I also very much enjoy you on the Armed American Radio show.  Regards,  Dave G.

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[Isn't it strange that people who want to ban guns and are afraid of their dangerous power want to give all those dangerous guns and all that power to the government that everyone thinks is too powerful and dangerous? Who do you put in charge of "issuing" guns? (no reply received)] Alan.

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