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Mayors’ Campaign Against Guns Hits The Road

February 21, 2011 by  

Mayors' campaign against guns hits the roadThe coalition of United States mayors that supports stricter gun control laws is taking its campaign on the road.

During a Feb. 16 appearance on ABC's Good Morning America, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the launch of the National Drive to Fix Gun Checks, which is a truck that will travel to approximately 25 States over two months. The vehicle will display a running tally of the number of Americans who have been killed by guns since the Jan. 8 shooting in Tucson, Ariz.

"Every day, 34 Americans are murdered with guns, and most of them are purchased or possessed illegally," Bloomberg said in a statement, quoted by The Huffington Post. "It is time for Washington to take action: Since the Tucson shooting, more than 1,300 people have been killed with guns in the U.S. and that number continues to grow."

The national drive began on Feb. 16 in New York City's Times Square. Bloomberg is the co-chair of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), a group of more than 550 U.S. mayors who support tougher gun laws, including more thorough background checks.

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, who is in the final days of his 22-year tenure in office, recently made his last push for stricter gun policies. The outgoing Democrat proposed four new criminal laws for Illinois, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Among the proposals are measures to charge 15- to 17-year-olds arrested with guns as adults in court, as well as a mandatory prison sentence of at least five years for felons caught with firearms.

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  • Ken Bittner

    bloomburg scumbag.
    I’m prepared to die to protect my right to keep my gun.
    Are you prepared to die trying to take it from me?
    Come git some.

    • 45caliber

      He’s not prepared to die, but he certainly has no problem letting someone else die trying to take it.

      I still believe that anyone who starts a war needs to be required to stay on the front lines during it. Congress, the President, etc. This falls into that category as far as I’m concerned. We’d see a whole lot less problems if these “leaders” had to actually lead in battle.

  • Ramon

    He should hope he’s not shot in the back on the way out of town…..

  • http://gunner689 gunner689

    Maybe a loaded Kenworth will T-Bone his bus. Oh Happy Day !!
    Even better if Ms. Hillary was aboard.

  • http://charden@neo.rr.com Charles

    Close the borders,this will help some If you read the paper it is mostly
    blacks and mexicans that are doing most of the killings. I do think in high profile casses whites do most of the killings,however, these are few and in between. I know Americans are not going to give up their guns. In countries wher they did, they were repressed by their goverments and thugs
    that would buy guns on the Black Market.

    • 45caliber

      Let Bloomberg take his bus (with him on it, of course) to Mexico to show his “support”. THEN close the border and don’t let him back in.

  • Kat

    So 12410 people are killed by guns annually? Oh my!! How many people die annually due to drunk drivers? 13,846!! So you are still more likely to be killed by a drunk driver but these mayors are not taking to the streets to oppose them. And how many time has a drunk driver been used annually to deter crime? Based on the risks benefit profile one can only conclude that there seems to be a bias here that has more to do with gun control than it does with public safety.

    • 45caliber

      They may be “killed by guns” but they aren’t necessarily “murdered” by guns. They seem to fail to see a difference there. Many of those killed are criminals who refuse to lay down their weapons when a cop shows up. Many more criminals are killed by their own “friends”.

    • http://gunner689 gunner689

      and how many of those were dope dealers killed by other dope dealers ?

  • Delores Smith

    MAYOR BLOOMBERG,
    Thank you for your information about the number of deaths from guns (1300). How many people are killed with knives? I can speak for the area that I live in, the sovereign State of Arizona. Our neighbor, Mexico, had 30,000 deaths last year. Many of the deaths were beheadings, which is difficult to do with a gun, so they use a knife. Beheadings are the mark of the Drug Cartel, as well as Muslim Extremists who are waiting for the 12th Amam (or whatever). We had an illegal man beheaded in Chandler, AZ on 10-10-10. He was killed in his apartment. It is believed that he worked for the Drug Cartel, and he borrowed drugs from them. It was 15 minutes from my home. Come visit AZ sometime. Bring your tent, and pitch it at the border. You can check for guns there.
    Delores Smith
    Delores109@cox.net

  • Knightowl

    Bloomberg is campaigning; for what, who knows, but the fools who support him in his crusade against the lawful and constitutionally supported right to keep and bear arms are the same fools who believe the government will protect them from all evils. In keeping with that belief, those fools will abdicate their personal freedoms for the same false sense of security that was felt by all who in history have fallen to despotic regimes.

    • 45caliber

      And many were killed by those same despotic regimes after they took power.

      Most libs believe that if you just let the bad people know that you “feel” for them they will do whatever you want them to do. Kaddafy (or whatever the favorite spelling at the moment is) in Libia simply doesn’t understand his people when they riot against his rule. But he’s basically a good person …

  • http://charter howe

    I lose confidence in some of my fellow countrymen more each day when I hear another lame brain story about how guns kill people. People kill people and you cannot ever in this life or the next stop the flow of and illegal use of guns from within and outside the country unless the consequence for doing the crime is much tougher and law abiding citizens are allowed to carry concealed handguns using a system like the state of Texas uses for issuing a license which anyone can get provided they qualify mentaly and physically. Qualification requires that you have no medical history that makes you a nutjob risk and you must be able to hit a fixed target while your learning how to use the firearm in the proper way, including laws and safeguards to protect other people. It’s eight hours of intense training and several tests so you can qualify for a carry license. The idea is to stop criminals not law abiding citizens. This preposterous expenditure of taxpayer money to ban guns from everyone in violation of the 2nd Amendement is a pipe dream and not achievable without martial law and a police state that exists only in a country with a dictatorship and no freedoms. The one thing that seems to be forgotten by politicians who want to jump on the quick fix bandwagon are the social ills and injustices that are never addressed and the enormous problems with inadequate care with people who have mental health issues. Funding this area of humanity would create a far more dramatic reduction in gun related deaths than all the finger pointing and demonization that exists in our country.

    • Ellen

      The problem that I have with “qualifications” for gun ownership is that of mental fitness. Really, how hard would it be for TPTB to declare someone mentally unfit for gun ownership? Multiply that by millions of people all over this nation and, voilà! You’ve made great strides in disarming the people.

      Think of the absurd mental “diseases” that the DSMV now enumerates. This fraudulent organization labels pretty much any behavior as aberrant and in need of their poisonous and mentally crippling medication.

      The Second Amendment makes no such exceptions. Naturally we don’t want nut cases toting guns (or any other weapon) but any restrictions WILL lead to our disarmament. Make no mistake about that.

      • 45caliber

        You are right. It’s only been a problem the last hundred years or less, though. Prior to that, the moment someone with a mental problem started causing trouble with a gun, some sane person shot him.

        If you take a look at the book the Psychiatric profession has out now telling what is a mental problem and what isn’t, basically EVERYONE fits somewhere. It was written that way to try to get more people to go to them for expensive care instead of just those who really needed it.

      • Average Joe Patriot

        That about hits the nail, .45. In the olden days, a screw-up got himself shot (or stabbed or lanced or clobbered with a mammoth bone) before too many others got hurt. This would still hold true today if folks could confront and deal with the reality of Jack London’s “law of club and fang.”

        Many tend to believe in “law” without realizing that the “club” stands behind the law. And that if they give up their clubs, they have given up any defense against those who may have corrupted the law.

        Perhaps this is social Darwinism. The only ones of us standing will be those who hung onto our clubs the longest. And who taught their children, and neighbors, well.

  • Delores Smith

    MAYOR BLOOMBERG,
    Excuse me. You want a mandatory sentence of at least 5 years for felons caught with firearms? Felons cannot obtain licenses for guns. They steal their guns. Are you setting up a “Theft Commission.” You are another puppet of Obama. I’m sorry to cut you short, but I must clean my gun.
    Delores Smith
    Delores109@cox.net

    • Ellen

      Yes, “mayor”, you may have my gun, ammunition first!

    • 45caliber

      Delores:

      There is ALREADY a Federal law that mandates a 10 year sentence without parole for any felon caught using a gun in a crime. This is on top of whatever sentence they receive for the crime itself. There are now a few states that are pushing that law but the libs don’t like it. In fact, it wasn’t even administered until about ten years ago when Virgina started using it. Now Texas does and so does a few other states. But the Feds don’t like it.

      There is also a law that states that any already convicted felon, even if released from prison, cannot have a gun. That too requires more than five years prison time without parole.

      So why is Bloomberg pushing for an identical law for five years?

      • independant thinker

        If you will reread the article you will see it is Daily pushing for that law. That has no effect on the rest of your comment just a correction of a detail.

      • 45caliber

        You are right, no problem.

      • Average Joe Patriot

        Mayor Daley is just being a copycat. Bloomberg wants to make illegal guns illegal. Daley wants to make it really REALLY illegal for felons to own illegal guns. (Any gun in the possession of a felon is, ipso facto, an illegal gun already.)

        I really hope this trend doesn’t catch on. It’s bad enough we have to listen constant political doublespeak, without also being forced to listen to these fools belabor the obvious. But I think I know where it comes from. Since so many of these idiots are FOR illegal aliens, I guess they have to make clear which illegal things they are NOT for.

  • Sprock

    OK, here is another article about some government official upset about gun murders in his town. It’s time to go completely NUTS about this being an Obama Plot to take all your guns!!!!

    • ValDM

      If he was willing to keep it in his own town, I might not object. But since he is taking this garbage on the road, OUTSIDE HIS JURISDICTION, then it becomes my business. You don’t like guns? Don’t have one; that’s fairly simple. I prefer my 5 guns to your no guns. And I refuse to have them confiscated from me by Bloomfool or anyone else. And since you brought it up, yes I do believe Odumbo has a secret agenda.

    • Vicki

      Sprock writes:
      “OK, here is another article about some government official upset about gun murders in his town. ”

      How come that official is not upset about all the non-gun murders in his town? How many of those murders could have been prevented by an intended victim who was armed.
      http://www.americanretiredpersons.com/InsuranceServices/13secago.htm

  • Robert Morrow

    What an idiot, His City is broke and he sending a propaganda truck through other States. How did he get elected? If he really wanted to stop murder he should spend his time saving lives by stopping the FDA and FTC. Let us look at the FDA which approves poison drugs and all for Profits of the Pharmaceutical and approved toxins,15,000 placed in the the processed foods to make us fat and sick, so we will be prescribed more poison drugs to finish us off. How many deaths you ask? About 200,000 per year. How does that compare to the gun deaths from Criminals and crazies. If you don’t believe me, search it yourself. To add I will type in a Quote from Herbert Ley, M.D. Former FDA Commissioner: Quote”THE THING THAT BUGS ME IS THAT PEOPLE THINK THE FDA IS PROTECTING THEM. IT ISN’T. THE FDA IS PROTECTING THE PROFITS OF THE CORPORATIONS THAT PAY US AND THE POLITICIANS!”. Ask your corrupt Politician, Do you own stock in the Pharmaceutical or Food Processor Co? How do you wash the blood stains from your hands after taking the blood stain 30 pieces of Silver? One more thing, did you know that the FDA, EPA, FTC, TSA and other Agencies are a totalitarian Police state of which you or your Corrupt Politician have no controls over. These agencies are Accusers,Judge, Jury and Executor and your rights under the Constitution have been canceled or suspended. So, take away the guns from honest Citizens and the Police State will grow.

    • Ellen

      Well said, Robert.

  • jim

    Yes Bloomberg is a problem. However he is supported by the worst enemy that America has ever had. His name is Obama

  • http://None PA Gal

    Bloomberg is a liberal idiot. He has made billions of dollars and he wants power. He and Soros belong in the same garbage dump.

  • David in MA

    Will someone please send bloomburg a copy of the 2nd Amendment….and point out how well the “gun control” measures are working in N.Y., D.C.,Chicago & in other places, like China, Russia, N. Korea, Cuba, and in Chavezville?

    bloomburgs agenda is , I believe, to help to disarm the law abiding American citizens so he can help with instituting the New World Order/One World Government…….if you look into it, you just might find who bloomberg hangs out with and what their thoughs are for the great unwashed masses—-which they consider YOU & I to be a part of!

  • TP

    I agree with Ronni. What fund is he tapping into from his bankrupt state that is allowing him to spend money for a venture like this. Typical liberal garbage-spend the taxpayers money to take the rest of what the taxpayer has and his ability to defend it.

    • independant thinker

      Do not know where he is getting his money for the anti-gun campaign from.

      Interesting side note though. Many of the mayors who initialy joined MAIG left after they found out the ultimate goal of MAIG was banning guns.

      • JeffH

        independant thinker, Bloomberg is spending a lot of his own cash to support the failing MAIG. You are correct in that a majority of mayors pulled out once thay learned of the real intentions of banning all firearms from the public.

      • independant thinker

        JeffH, know any ways we can make MAIG and his anti-gun campaigns cost him even more?

      • JeffH

        Yes, by supporting your 2nd Amendment organizations like the NRA and GOA. They battle the anti-gunners where the others don’t…right in their backyard…aka…DC. Whether you agree or not, the NRA has a 125 year history and has provided generations of Americans with programs focused on safety, education and responsibility.
        The NRA is still the strongest gun lobby and organization fighting the anti-gunners. The GOA is a no-compromise national gun rights organization that carries a strong pro-gun lobby also.
        It is important, if one believes in the right to keep and bear arms, to become a member in either of these organization. They are clearly the two strongest 2nd Amendment gun lobby organizations in the country.
        These comments aren’t intended to create a “pissing” match between the NRA and the GOA. They both work hard for your 2nd Amendement rights!

  • TIME

    Look call a spade a spade, Blombomb is a “New World Order” Member what else do you think he is going to preach.

    These Elite SOB’s like him have MONEY all they want is POWER and MORE POWER to CONTROL you’re life down to the NANO.

    Send them packing when the Vote comes. Don’t just vote for the lesser of two IDIOTS. Vote for real people who will bring about what YOU believe in not what ever company can buy them tells them to do.

    These people WORK for YOU. Its YOU’RE Tax dollars that pay them, and BTW – if they say They don’t want the pay, YOU had better not vote for them as thats a soild clear picture YOU will get screwed in the end!

    Please wake up.

    • JC

      Exactly Time, It’s not about guns…it’s about disarmament.
      Which is why we must never give up our guns.

      • Al Sieber

        TIME and JC I agree with you, Obama just signed a bill against importing WW11, and Korean War vintage M1 Carbines and M1 Garand rifles into this country. apparently Korea had a surplus they were giving back.

      • independant thinker

        While the ban did happen it was not a bill signed by Obama. He had Hillary and the state department do it by declaration. There either has been or will be a bill introduced in the house to overide the state department’s (Hillary’s) action and allow the importation of the Garands and M-1 carbines.

      • JeffH

        The Arms Export Control Act of 1976 is another component that could ensure that these guns will likely never come home. This act gave the President of the United States the authority to control the import and export of military hardware, which was not limited to just firearms. It further requires governments that receive weapons, and other military equipment, from the United States to use them for “legitimate self-defense.” The act restricts the sale of some technologies as well, but it does put limits on how the guns can be sold.

      • Al Sieber

        independent thinker, thanks for correcting me I had a e-mail from Ron Paul that said something to that effect, or he meant the Obama administration.

      • http://gunner689 gunner689

        It’s not about gun control, it’s about Control, period.
        Screw em.

    • JeffH

      TIME, you got that right!

  • Bill

    how many of these Americans were killed by people in the country illegally? Fix that problem!

    • Delores Smith

      BILL,
      You have asked a great question! I want everyone in America to be willing to show identification and/or documentation. Our military are in Harm’s Way to protect terrorists from reaching our shores. Obama has taken Arizona to court because we want to identify our 500,000 illegals (from numerous countries). Obama has reported us to the U.N. for violating human rights.
      Obama is interfering with the sovereign states of Arizona and Wisconsin. Obama needs to butt out.
      Delores Smith
      Delores109@cox.net

  • newspooner

    Does Bloomberg really think that most of the unfortunate 34 Americans murdered daily were illegally purchased or possessed?

    • Ken Blakely

      Back during the previous presidential primaries, I recall a statistic from a couple of the candidates that 26 people per day were killed by illegal aliens. That number included fire arms, drunk drivers, stabbings, beatings. At that rate, it totals 9,490 per year and a whole lot more than were killed on 9/11/2001.

    • Average Joe Patriot

      What Bloomberg thinks and what he actually says…what makes you think there is some equivalency, there?

      As for “possessed,” probably right about that. I’d bet the majority of these victims were possessed…of the notion that guns are so dangerous they should not carry one. They died for this notion. As is their right, under the Constitution, Bill of Rights, etc.

      Someone has here noted: if Bloomberg were truly so frightened of guns, why does he surround himself with thugs carrying them? Why not just outlaw the damn things so no one can shoot him?

      Bloomberg: “I have it! Let’s just make illegal guns illegal! That’s it! We’ll do a cross-country tour, inviting mayors, like me! Promoting the radical idea that illegal guns should be made illegal! And if that doesn’t work then, by god, we’ll make illegal illegal guns illegal!”

      And so forth.

  • http://purple50.org Gregory Zorn

    Good ol Mayor Daily of Chicago, in Cook County has the strickist gun laws in the nation and the highist rates in gun violance. Prof that gun control does not work.

    G. Zorn
    purple50.org

    • 45caliber

      New York falls in there somewhere too. It is illegal in NY to even own a gun without a license from the city and it is almost impossible to get it unless you are a policeman or a politician.

      • Average Joe Patriot

        Same in MA and CA. I’ve lived in both, owned in both. A nightmare to get in the former, a nightmare to get TO in the latter, should you need to. Never heard a whole lot about safe streets and low crime in either.

        As for NY, yup, lived and worked security management one year there. The only civilian I knew who had a CC was a coked up, liquored up, strung out ex-NYC cop I wouldn’t trust to carry a squirt gun and load a toaster at the same time.

  • Ronni

    Who is paying for this great trip and why does he not stay in his
    own state where he belongs–they voted for him, they need to keep
    him!

    • eddie47d

      There may not be as much unity in the gun control groups as there is in the pro gun groups but the guns rights folks are not policing themselves as well as they think. There are a few of you who believe you walk on water and attack any sensible measure on safety issues. Thankfully you are not the majority of gun owners who want respectful gun laws. The cat is out of the bag at gun shows. The fact that 17 gun sellers in 7 states were willing to sell to unauthorized persons has set the stage for more “policing” of those gun shows/private purchases. Bury your arrogance and make sure all sellers are responsible gun enthusiasts and maybe the Bloomberg’s wouldn’t be hitting the road.

      • JeffH

        Unfortunately, there are too many like yourself that are ignorant of the facts and are swayed by he progressive anti-gun rhetoric hat you spew. Speaking of arrogance, your comment wreaks of arrogance and fact ignorance: ” There are a few of you who believe you walk on water and attack any sensible measure on safety issues. Thankfully you are not the majority of gun owners who want respectful gun laws.”
        You prove daily that you wouldn’t be able to identify “sensible” or “respect” if it hit you between the eyes.

        The fact is that gun shows account for a very small percentage of criminals’ guns. The largest study of the subject ever conducted by the federal government found that only 0.7 percent of prison inmates who had used guns, had obtained their guns from gun shows. That is less than one percent of the convicted and incarcerated, less than 1%…WOW, that means there should be a ban on all guns? Reasonable, sensible and respectful? NO!

        Furthermore, firearm sales have increased over the last several years, the nation’s murder rate fell to a 43-year low in 2008, and fell another 10 percent in the first half of 2009, according to the FBI.

        The BATFE has show it can operate outside the law on more than one occasion. In January 2009, the ATF along with the Austin police department set up a sting operation targeting independent firearms dealers that were selling weapons to illegal immigrants, both inside the show and outside the Austin’s Gun Show’s parking lot.
        One of the gun dealers of Austin’s Gun Show is sentenced to 6-months at a federal work camp for selling a weapon to an undocumented immigrant with a valid Texas drivers license that appeared to be real.

        Got that? The illegal had valid ID, yet, Copeland was the one arrested and sentenced. If Copeland had asked for more, he would have been in violation of federal “supremacy” laws. Perhaps the ATF could have arrested the illegals?

        Investigators with the Austin police department believed many of the guns sold to the undocumented immigrants at the show were headed back across the Texas-Mexico border. “I guess you need ask them for their documentation too; if the police aren’t going to profile why should the common citizen have to” says Copeland. He says none of the undocumented immigrants that were asked to testify against him were arrested by federal agents.

        The police are probably afraid to ask for ID and arrest the illegals, otherwise, the Obama administration will sue them. And what of the illegal who purchased the gun with valid ID? No one seems to know.

        Where is the sensibility in this? There isn’t any and there obviously is no respect for the law by he Austin PD or the ATF where illegal immigration is concerned.

      • Average Joe Patriot

        As I am not an armchair observer, but rather someone who has family in both Austin and Tucson, and live 90 minutes from the Mexican border in NM, I’d like to comment: many of the much-referenced US-source weapons confiscated from Mexican drug cartels? Are actually US military, including full-auto AR-16s and fragmentation grenades. They don’t sell these items at gun shows. The cartels are so well-armed and well-funded, they need hardly be picking through used shotguns, AK-47s converted to semi-auto, and Saturday night specials at gun shows.

        Where are they getting this level of ordnance from? Probably not from anyone posting here, nor from anyone I know. International arms dealers, the Mexican police (who get them from the US government), other countries (which get them from the US government). But you don’t fight the Federales and the Rurales to a standstill, as the cartels have done, with a handful of second hand gun show weapons, or even new sporting goods store inventory.

        This canard, that depriving us of our only means of defense (other than voting) because guns from America are flooding over the border into the hands of Mexican banditos, is absurd on so many levels one doesn’t know where to begin or end in response.

        If our weapons in the hands of Mexicans is such a terrible thing, why is our federal government letting foreign illegals over our border in the first place? This sounds like the very definition of an armed invasion, no?

        If these desperados are so dangerous (and they are), why would our leaders want to disarm legal American citizens? How would that protect us from an admittedly known threat? How does taking away our guns reduce our peril in the face of a clear and present, armed danger?

        If the cartels’ motivation is drug profits (it is), why don’t we at least legalize marijuana and take the wind out of their sails (sales, if you will), thus reducing the incentive to come here in the first place? (Even Calderone has publicly said this.) Here is a case where the pen can be mightier than the sword (or gun); with one stroke, reduce border violence, protect American citizens, reduce the load on law enforcement and the courts, free up prison space, help agriculture, increase tax revenue, etc. I don’t partake, but many upstanding citizens I’ve known do, and this sounds reasonable to me.

        And the more @$$#o1e$ like Bloomberg try to deprive Americans of their 2nd Amendment rights, despite all historical and current arguments to the contrary, we must ask ourselves one question: cui bono? If we must give up our guns but he and his ilk get to keep theirs, who benefits?

      • Dan az

        Jeff and average Joe
        Very well put thanks to both of you.

      • independant thinker

        “The fact that 17 gun sellers in 7 states were willing to sell to unauthorized persons”

        Source please.

      • JeffH

        eddie also says, ” The fact that 17 gun sellers in 7 states were willing to sell to unauthorized persons has set the stage for more “policing” of those gun shows/private purchases.”

        17 gun sellers = anyone that sells a gun and doesn’t indicate whether these “17 gun sellers” were legal FFL license holders or crooks on the street. There are probably more corrupt politicians than there are corrupt “gun sellers”.

        Here are some hard facts.
        June 2008 – source: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

        The total number of FFL holders changes each day. The majority of FFL’s are 01, 02 & 03.
        In 1993, the overall number of FFLs was approximately 284,000. By 2007, that number had declined to 109,000 total active licenses. These numbers include licenses held for business purposes as well as those held by collectors of curios and relics.

        It is also instructive to note the transitory nature of FFL numbers. Each year, a significant number of licensees choose to voluntarily cease operations or fail to renew their licenses.

        While the number of FFL revocations and denials of renewals has fluctuated in years past, the effect of these adverse actions on the numbers of FFLs is insignificant. Since 2005, revocation actions against federal firearms licensees have translated to only 1-2% of the FFL inspections conducted and 0.1% – 0.2% of all active licenses, excluding collector (of curio and relic) licenses.
        http://www.atf.gov/publications/factsheets/factsheet-decline-in-ffls.html

      • 45caliber

        You know, it is sad. They insist that they want “proof” but then they ignore it when it is provided. Then the very next day they demand it again – and ignore it again.

      • JeffH

        45caliber. You’re right! I provide proof because it shuts ‘em down.

      • independant thinker

        eddie……….I am still waiting for your source of information>

      • JeffH

        independant thinker…if history repeats itself, my best guess is nevvvver!

      • 45caliber

        Of course not. They demand proof and ignore it – and then refuse to provide any when asked.

        I quit trying to provide proof unless it is really handy several years ago. It just take up my time – which may be the reason they demand it.

      • independant thinker

        Oh I know that but it is fun to request knowing there will never be an answer from him.

      • Vicki

        Eddie47d writes:
        “The fact that 17 gun sellers in 7 states were willing to sell to unauthorized persons has set the stage for more “policing” of those gun shows/private purchases. ”

        unauthorized persons. So my right to own a firearm requires I get permission from the government? How again is that a right? If I have to have permission then it is being treated as a privilege in clear violation of the 2nd amendment. (What is so hard to understand in the simple statement … shall NOT be infringed? )

  • Okee

    Bloomberg (worth 18 BILLION) George Soros (wort 14 BILLION) are MARXIST/COMMUNIST along with many other Democrat Left Wingers. These two individuals I consider the most dangerous we have in this country.
    They are for total gun confiscation and are spending millions to
    demolish our Country and its’ Constitution. They should be in jail
    for TREASON!!!!

    Let us point out a few more: Obama and his Admin., Shumer, Fienstein, Boxar, Durbin, Waters, Shelia Lee, Waxmann, Calif. Lee, Conyers, Lautenberg, Clinton, Rangel, Frank. I could keep going.

    • http://gunner689 gunner689

      They need to meet Mr. Nozler; he’ll change their minds.

    • Vicki

      “They are for total gun confiscation and are spending millions to
      demolish our Country and its’ Constitution. They should be in jail
      for TREASON!!!!”

      I know it sucks sometimes but the First Amendment is for everyone. Even those we don’t like. Then again our founders KNEW this and that is why it is for EVERYONE not just the ones you like.

  • Disabled Veteran Brian

    This pipsqueak would give up his stance on carrying weapons for self defense if he had to ride the subway every day. And just how does he plan to get the illegal gun holders to pay attention to his new laws when they are by definition not paying attention to current law? I agree, send him to Arizona without a gun to settle the immigration issues…he will leak like the cartoon dummy he is.

    • David in MA

      It seems like everytime you see bloomburg he is surrounded by cops—and them ain’t water pistols they have in the holster……so, he be protected by people with firearms and he wants the great unwashed masses to wander about with a secure feeling they are also protected?
      BS!
      What’s the saying about when there is a crime being committed…(police arrive in minutes,when seconds count….)
      I have to wonder how bloomburg got elected in the first place..

      • Carlucci

        Bloomberg got elected by the same dummies in NY who voted for Madame Couchon Clinton and Charles Schumer. Gun laws in NY are totally draconian, and now this moron wants the rest of the nation to play along. If he’s planning on making a stop in Texas, I’m sure there will be plenty of tar and feathers on hand for him and his staff.

      • Average Joe Patriot

        The problem in Tucson was that were NO guns present other than the one wielded by a crazy person. I live in NM. If somehow they managed to confiscate all of my guns, I assure you I could acquire another in one day, if not one hour. And so could Jared Lee.

        I took the survey attached to this article. I have problems with it. If AZ had stricter gun laws could the tragic shootings have been prevented? Possibly. If Jared Lee had had to undergo two days of licensed training before being allowed to legally carry concealed (as we do here, with proficiency re-testing every two years), and if he were as much of a fruitcake as we’ve been told, there is no way he could have sat through the class without it being obvious that he was a danger. The thing is, though, this required training is not a restriction on ownership, just a requirement that you demonstrate the ability to handle a gun safely and competently before you may carry concealed, same as with driving a car or practicing medicine (and look how many those bozos kill every year).

        Should guns be permitted to people with a history of mental illness? Here again, I have a problem with the phrasing of the question. Who gets to define mental illness (hopefully not the Director of HS)? As the old joke goes: Did you know one in five people are mentally disturbed? Yeah, they’re disturbed by the other four who’re freaking nuts. So, who gets to decide, and where does this stigma get recorded? How might this have prevented the Tucson incident, since Jared Lee had no such history on record? (Nor have the majority of assassins and mass murderers in history.)

        Should a convicted felon be allowed to purchase a weapon? Again I have reservations, but they are tempered by reality. Would I want O.J. running around my neighborhood with a concealed weapon? Not unless I had one too. But here we go back to what I said earlier: If I were disarmed, I could literally re-arm inside 24 hours. And so could Jared Lee, and so could O.J., or Cho, or my 80+ year-old mother.

        As for Bloomberg’s mayoral crusade against illegal guns, I’d like to chat with him about this (I’d never be allowed near him, I go armed everywhere as a matter of course, and his goons would probably shoot me). I’d ask him what he’s hoping to do, make illegal guns MORE illegal? No, he wants to make legal guns less legal, like they did in Australia (where in the first year crime of every sort shot up across the boards, look up the appalling stats). The only level of success Bloomberg and his “Mayors Against” brigade could expect would be two-fold. Step 1, make more guns illegal. Step 2, bust a bunch of peaceful people for possession. Then he’d have some stats to hang his ridiculous campaign on.

        In states like NY and MA, IL and CA, unlicensed possession of a gun is defined as a “gun crime.” Since “gun crimes” scare people, this becomes a self-perpetuating campaign issue. We must take guns out of the hands of citizens because gun crimes are up. Why are gun crimes up? Because it is a crime for citizens to have guns.

        And as we all know, when crimes are outlawed, only criminals will commit crimes. I.e., it’s a circular argument which anti-gun idiots have been bamboozling people with for years.

        Perhaps one of the biggest tragedies about the Tucson shooting? The armed citizen who came out of the store about 60 seconds too late. Imagine if he’d arrived on the scene after the first shot was fired, what Bloomberg would be saying now? Nothing anyone would be listening to.

      • Vicki

        David in MA writes:
        “What’s the saying about when there is a crime being committed…(police arrive in minutes,when seconds count….)

        When seconds count the police are only minutes away.

        Unless you are a big shot politician like Bloomburg.

  • newspooner

    The worst possible situation for liberty would be if only government had guns. That is the goal of the Communists. That is why fools (or evil people?) like Bloomberg want to destroy the standing of the Second Amendment and common sense. They are very disturbed that they still haven’t disarmed the largest freedom-preserving army in the world — American deer hunters.

  • JimH

    Bloomburg says, “Every day 34 Americans are murdered with guns and most of them are purchased or possessed illegally.” If they are purchased or possessed illegally there already is a law in place. Enforce it. Hindering law abiders even more won’t change things. How many of the 34 murders would have found a different weapon, if a gun wasn’t availiable? Maybe the problem is there are people who are willing to kill others and not the choice of weapon.

    • JC

      The fallacy of Bloombergs’s “crusade” is that he can not legislate murder from the heart of a psychopath. And if his argument is that “Guns Kill People” then why aren’t prisons full of illegal guns?
      Registraion and other forms of bureaucracy are simply an infringement on our right to keep and bear and have absolutely NO effect on crime rates. He is just another parasitic podium pounding politico with nothing of relevance to say…

      • Always Right

        actually, gun ownership DOES have an impact on crime rates. The more people are carrying legally, the lower the crime rates. The more draconian the gun laws, the higher the crime rates. An armed society is a polite society, unless of course, the “minority” is the majority. Then you have Mogadishu and Nuevo Laredo.

    • Les

      Ahh, if these morons could gain an understanding of the word “Illegal” and the courts could begin to see how that actually could work; it would all change. So making it MORE illegal will fix it? And how many upstanding citizens die every day because they were not allowed to defend themselves? And how much would THIS number grow with his ideas? Pandering, Anti-American progressive idiots serving spineless entitlement thieves. Pass the ammunition, I can smell them coming.

      • Wandamurline

        What you have to understand, they don’t want to get rid of their guns…they just want to get rid of yours. Example, Congressman from SC has voted to take our guns away on EVERY law that has come before congress, however, the other day, a burglar broke into HIS home and he shot him (with a GUN)…see, they believe that they are entitled to a gun to protect their home and families….they just don’t believe that you have the same right at they do.

    • http://oklahoma1 ajbokie

      maybe we should ban autos also, maybe his truck will hit a IED

    • Al Sieber

      JimH, those 34 people were probably killed in his city, because people that follow the law can’t buy firearms.

    • Vicki

      JimH says:
      “Bloomburg says, “Every day 34 Americans are murdered with guns and most of them are purchased or possessed illegally.” ”

      And every day ~6 THOUSAND Americans protect their own lives and property with guns. Most of them are purchased or possessed LEGALLY.
      http://www.pulpless.com/gunclock/noframedex.html
      (3600 sec/hr = 86400 sec. 86400/13 = ~6646)

      Makes one wonder about the motives of the Bloomburg set.

  • s c

    Like this world doesn’t have enough schmucks. Hey, Bloomberg! If you want to see just how unpopular you are, go to Arizona. Tell them you know what’s best for them. Tell them that only someone like YOU can save Arizonans from themselves. Don’t forget to spread the word that you would lower yourself and accept a Nobel Peace Prize. Twit!

    • JeffH

      I have just two words for Bloomberg…screw you! Bloomberg is driven by the anti-gun obsession of an ego-driven local politician trying to become relevant on a national level. After all, Bloomberg’s the same guy that waged a personal “investigation” on so called “illegal” gun shows which turned out to be a sham.

      The U.S. Department of Justice warned him there were “potential legal liabilities that may attach when persons outside of law enforcement undertake actions typically reserved for law enforcement agents,” such as when people “without proper law enforcement authority, misrepresent that they are the actual purchasers of the firearms,” and “unintentionally interrupt or jeopardize ongoing criminal investigations.” And Virginia`s Attorney General Bob McDonnell–now newly elected as the Old Dominion`s governor–warned Bloomberg he may have violated state law as well, and won passage of state legislation to deter future meddling. But “Hizzoner” still refuses to take the hint. He thinks he is ABOVE THE LAW!

      Like Bloomberg and his anti-gun MAIG, gun control supporters` lips may lie, but their actions don`t. As always, anti-gunners want more. And if they get what they want now, they’ll always want more.
      Gun control supporters aren`t interested in preventing criminals from obtaining guns.

      The Bureau of Justice Statistics has twice reported that most criminals get their guns from the street or other illegal sources. And BATFE has noted theft is a major source of criminals` guns.

      It was very clear, based on the actions of America’s anti-gun leadership that their hatred of guns burns so deeply that instead of feelings of sympathy for the Ticson victims, they only see human suffering as a political opportunity.

      A choice to exploit the suffering of others to make political hay forces us to wonder what else they will do to push their anti-gun agenda. Seeing their action after six people were killed makes it hard to imagine they can lower their discourse even more.

    • JC

      “If every person has the right to defend — even by force — his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus the principle of collective right — its reason for existing, its lawfulness — is based on individual right. And the common force that protects this collective right cannot logically have any other purpose or any other mission than that for which it acts as a substitute. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force — for the same reason — cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.”
      – Frederic Bastiat

      • Dan az

        Some one should check what this clown is drinking,as far as arizona goes I think he found that it was a lost cause and started something much bigger than his ego.The Arizona Firearms Freedom Act Becomes Law
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        Written by: Derek J. Sheriff

        On Monday Arizona made a bold move to check unlimited federal power. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed the Arizona Firearms Freedom Act (HB 2307) into law, making Arizona the sixth state to pass this type of historic Tenth Amendment legislation.

        However, this was hardly Arizona’s first act of defiance against federal overreach. Last year, the Arizona Legislature passed a concurrent resolution known as the Arizona Health Care Freedom Act, which will appear on the ballot this November. If approved by Arizona’s voters, it will amend the state’s constitution and guarantee Arizonans two things:

        -That all Arizonans have the right to spend their own money to obtain legal health care services.

        -That all Arizonans have the right NOT to participate in any health care system, of any type.

        Arizona is also on the verge of passing a bill that would nullify Cap and Trade (SCR 1050), as well as passing another bill that declares “..any incandescent lightbulb manufactured entirely within Arizona and not exported to any other state is not subject to federal regulations.” (HB 2337).

        Question: What do all these bills have in common? Answer: They all push back against Congress’ abuse of the “commerce clause”.

        In an official statement released yesterday, Governor Brewer issued a stern warning to the federal government when she noted that the Arizona Firearms Freedom Act should:

        “..send a clear and convincing message that politicians in Washington should not attempt to get between Arizonans and their constitutional rights.”

      • Dan az

        Sorry I almost forgot for all you libies that are gasping for air here is the facts that allot of what we do here is for the constitutional liberties that you like to try to destroy.
        http://arizona.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/02/arizona-firearms-freedom-act-hb-2307-passes-the-house/

      • Dan az

        In paper number forty-five Madison writes: “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce; with which last part the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State.

      • Dan az

        A. Any official, agent, or employee of the United States government or any employee of an entity providing services to the United States government that enforces or attempts to enforce an act, order, law, statute, rule or regulation of the government of the United States in violation of this chapter is guilty of a class 6 felony, except that any fine imposed shall not exceed two thousand dollars.

        B. Any public officer or employee of this state who enforces or attempts to enforce an act, order, law, statute, rule or regulation of the United States government in violation of this chapter is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor, except that any fine imposed shall not exceed five hundred dollars.

        Can anyone deny that this is truly nullification legislation with teeth?

    • Wandamurline

      Everyday drunk drivers kill more people across this nation than guns….everyday, car drivers kill more people across this nation than guns…are we going to stop using cars? Everyday, people are stabbed to death….are we going to stop making knives? Bloomberg is one of the new world order and he wants to disarm America so we have no way to defend ourselves against our corrupt, unconstitutional government. This is the purpose behind … I hope he comes to Texas, he will not be greeted well…and who are the other mayors that are included in this click? We need to know who all of them are…maybe next election cycle, they will no longer be mayor. As Thomas Jefferson said “Those who pound their guns to plows…will plow for those who do not”. I don’t believe that I have to explain this.

      • Macawma

        Yeah, Wanda, I don’t think Oklahoman’s would be very hospitable either. If they do come this way, they’d better not even stop for coffee…

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