Last night, NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre gave the keynote speech at the 2013 Western Hunting & Conservation Expo in Salt Lake City, in which he discussed the real purpose behind so-called “universal background checks” for gun sales. It was an excellent speech in front of a packed house of Second Amendment supporters, none of whom appeared to be drooling or even crazed.
To watch the video, which is about 19 minutes long, follow this link.
For a transcript of the speech in PDF format, go here.
“This is the strongest, best nation on the planet — because our Constitution and our Bill of Rights imparts the greatest freedom on earth. We, all of us, standing here right now will stand together and fight and, by God together, we will prevail in defending our freedoms!”
Update: For those planning to attend the NRA Annual Meeting in Houston, tickets are on sale now for some of the events, including the Friday afternoon Stand and Fight Leadership Forum and Saturday evening’s Stand and Fight Rally. These events will probably sell out, so it’s a good idea to purchase tickets now.
One bit of good news:
I parted ways with the NRA when they supported Harry Reid. (Hey, what good are rights in a destroyed nation ?) I am tempted to reconsider but we all know where temptation leads… No I want all my rights not just this one.
@ lobo91:
All Beretta has to do is select some office space on the south side of the Potomac.
Oh, and “universal” background checks simply cannot work without “universal” registration. This isn’t rocket science…
@ Mike C.:
Obviously
Mike C. wrote:
I will get an ID for a firearm when they get IDs for voters… and don’t get me started with illegal as opposed to undocumented… 2 can play this game.
lobo91 wrote:
And of course the WaPo had to screw up that Beretta piece. The standard magazine on that 9 mm is 15 rounds, not 13.
Mike C. wrote:
Re: with two or more “military-like” features. that can be read as a sight and a trigger…
@ brookly red:
That’s the rifles they’re talking about there. They’re not going to do any original thinking on that -- they’ll just lift them from DiFi’s bill or the NY bill.
Mike C. wrote:
None of them actually know the meaning of any of the terms they use, anyway.
Beretta does make factory 10 round magazines for their pistols, though.
Big surprise
Mike C. wrote:
don’t worry the libs here in NY are already working on an “assault handguns” bill which would outlaw David’s slingshot…
lobo91 wrote:
http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/24/liberal-astroturf-group-offering-9-to-11-per-hour-to-join-its-gun-control-campaign/
I’m fairly certain that we won’t see much of anything come out of Congress on guns in the near future. Their new tactic seems to be ramming all sorts of crap through at the state level.
It came out last week, for example, that Biden called most of the Dem legislators here in Colorado and promised them all kinds of goodies if they voted to pass the garbage they wanted. I’m sure the same thing is happening all over.
When the dust settles, we’re going to see half the states with relatively free ownership of guns, and half with California/New Jersey/Illinois-style laws.
Once that happens, Congress will step in and proclaim that we can’t have that sort of patchwork of laws, so they’ll try to make them uniformly bad.
Well, apparently the IL legislature had their legal exoerts clue them in on what would happen if they missed that 7th circuit deadline, namely that the would have no laws concealed carry. So despite their chest-beating the other day, they’ve decided they better try and come up with something.
@ brookly red:
Follow the money.
@ lobo91:
Whatever genius authored this “study” must have failed Statistics 101.
Yes, there’s a correlation between crime and low incomes, but one doesn’t necessarily cause the other.
Raising the minimum wage certainly isn’t going to create job opportunities for illiterate high school dropouts. If anything, it will decrease them.
If someone’s not qualified for a job that pays $7.25 an hour, raising it to $9.00 an hour doesn’t improve their qualifications.
lobo91 wrote:
work at 7/11 get 12 bucks per hr (8 after taxes/ benefits: none ) as opposed to sell rock of crack get 30 bucks per 3 minutes (no taxes/benefits: sleep late, make your own hours, plenty of Hoes & collect welfare/mwdicaid/foodstamps on the side.) guess where this is going?
@ Bumr50:
soros is the Greek word for satan… plain and simple when that dude grows old and dies the world is a better place.
lobo91 wrote:
on the other hand most of the victims of gun violence in Chicago are under 25 and even if drug users, have organs viable for transplant… it seems they are wasting a good crisis after-all.
@ brookly red:
I wonder if one of the ‘benefits’ is their own copy of the Constitution to burn, shred, or use as toilet paper.
And what kind of ‘living wage’ (something I’m sure the parent group supports for eeeeevil businesses, is $9-11/hour?
brookly red wrote:
the only gun violence victims in Chicago I’d care about are the innocent kids and adults…the shooters are just meat
brookly red wrote:
nope. Satan’s son is worse
@ mfhorn:
The people who would actually get it are just pawns.
Notice that all those groups are tied to labor unions. Why? Becaue most union contracts are tied to the minimum wage. If it goes up, their members get an automatic raise, as well.
lobo91 wrote:
gotta preserve the dignity of union labor
heysoos wrote:
well a story I like to tell is some years back I got robbed at gunpoint (yes he was black) in broad daylight … I positively identified the guy from his prior mugshots (hey he was arrested 4 times already for armed robbery at the age of 24, but never did any time) he was shot dead (by a cousin) in drug deal gone bad 2 days later in the housing project where he resided at taxpayer expense.
It is difficult for me to take any of this seriously I mean wtf? he still has 3 children with 3 mothers all living on welfare that I pay for with my tax dollars.
Burn it all down and start again.
@ brookly red:
That’s going to happen soon enough.
lobo91 wrote:
God willing it will.
brookly red wrote:
What do you think will happen when the EBT cards and Obamaphones quit working one day?
@ brookly red:
Except we’ll be taxed even more to provide more ‘upscale’ housing. Or they’ll integrate middle class neighborhoods with taxpayer funded housing for the poor, driving the value of those neighborhoods down.
I’m fine with helping those who are unable to provide for themselves, but those who are unwilling to do so need to learn some responsibility.
Fat chance of that happening with the left in the driver’s seat.
@ lobo91:
Outcome-based economics.
lobo91 wrote:
I was discussing this with a GF last night… yes, there will be riots. The grocery store will be looted… but this can only happen once. The store will not be replenished., it’s over.
Cops or no cops the property owners will defend their property and those that can leave will. I expect this will happen this summer.
brookly red wrote:
Ev’rywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet, boy
‘Cause summer’s here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy
@ brookly red:
Which they’ll use to push for further gun restrictions, of course.
“Nobody needs 10 bullets to kill a deer!”
No, but they might need an AR-15 with 30 in order to defend their store against a mob of Obama voters.
heysoos wrote:
Basically yes… there is no more. They have run out of other peoples money, what will be will be… I am a renter I will not shoulder a rifle to defend my landlord’s property. I think I will spend this summer in New Hampshire.
lobo91 wrote:
the last doe I killed, I shot at 5 times…she turned just a bit and my 1st shot grazed her back, she took a step an stopped…2nd shot missed entirely…3rd shot plowed through her gut and she got up, ran a few steps and collaped against a fence, 4th shot missed again and now I’m very bummed out…I climbed off my perch, walked 50yds, and killed her, rathert than let her bleed out…the worst piece of shooting you ever saw…I just stood there for a bit, then walked back to my truck and hauled her up to the house…two of my buddies wouldn’t even look me in the eye, they’d heard the shooting…I took by shotgun over to the barn, leaned it against the wall, and told my buddy he could have it…a Remington 870 autoloader, deerslayer barrel, nice gun…I dressed out the doe and gave that to him too…I was so ashamed and I never hunted deer again to this day…we were almost fanatical hunters, clean kills by the rules, and my failure was so immense I didn’t want to hunt anymore
lobo91 wrote:
that is really heartening…people putting principle before profit
lobo91 wrote:
The Great Zombie Hunt of 201X.
So where does Soros think he’s going to find all these progressive PI’s?
@ waldensianspirit:
what’s a progressive PI?
waldensianspirit wrote:
I don’t think most PIs really care about red or blue.
They’re mostly interested in green.
@ lobo91:
Yea, but when it’s this kind of thing they most likely will play both sides for green
heysoos wrote:
a whore who knows how to snoop…
@ heysoos:
Ed Asner?
waldensianspirit wrote:
war is a bitch
Very possible the unintended things will happen with U.S. gun manf. not selling to U.S. law enforcement in these states.
Might give commie Obama and the Chicago way the idea to buy from the commies of China to bypass this deal.
Never forget the R’s do not have the guts to say shit if he does it by executive order.
The ammo too.
He hates U.S. and there is not one thing on this earth he will not do in his quest to destroy U.S..
Bumr50 wrote:
beats me, forget I asked
The Republicans have not yet come to grips with the real deal that Obama and the current commie Democrats are not with U.S..
Clintons, Gore, Kerry, Schummer, Pelosi, Obama, the Chicago thugs, William Ayers, Earth First, the Social Justice Black Panther cacus in the House, the real actions, the open borders, the back stabing of the fighting men in Afganastain and Iraq, the gun running to Mexico from the U.S., the gun running from Lybia to Syria, on and on and on.
Until we get people in D.C. who have the courage to think for themselves we are all in mortal danger.
No, I could seriously see him sitting outside in a brown Grand Marquis in a bad shirt stalking some Republican State Secretary.@ heysoos:
taxfreekiller wrote:
This implies that they will eventually “get it,” and therefore some don’t know the game already.
I’m not so sure about that.
taxfreekiller wrote:
dude you are so yesterday, like we don’t know he is sucking Chiacom dick? LOL no doubt he is already spending stimulus dollars on Chinese weapons for the muslim brotherhood. I like you TFK but you are a bit of a pussy. Just go and say it, we can take it, we are already on death row
If the game is not rigged, how can this be?
I’m not on any row Obama ever built or has any thing to do with.
I helped find and get Ted Cruz elected, we have more like that.
Other states working on the same thing.
Fact is Obama has over played his hand and is on the down stroke with no new gas coming in for the next revolution he so much lust for.
Get a photo of him now, he is headed back to the islands as soon as he gets his last boot licks by the likes of McCain.@ brookly red:
a New Yorker calling a Texan a pussy…that’s rich
@ 59 heysoos: It’s like a Manning trying to Staubach you.
darkwords wrote:
I just gotta laugh..Yew Nork is responsible electing some of the worst commies lunatics in our history…and remember Staubach won the 64 Heisman, then served 4 years in the Navy, a standup guy
heysoos wrote:
Oh I am just funnig with him, letting him know we actually get it. So come on don’t pull punches we get it, I am trying to get the next steps
where is the NY outrage?…free the Big Gulp, you pussies!…can you wipe your own asses?
brookly red wrote:
and I’m just riffin myself…go buy us a drink
Just make sure those weapons don’t have too many “military features”…
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heysoos wrote:
well actually NYers don’t drink soda… we do however buy it for the help.
lobo91 wrote:
arming anybody in the ME is exactly wrong…those people are butchering each other at a record pace…stay out of it
lobo91 wrote:
Obama is the Muslim Brotherhood. There I said it. We all know it… the game is over.
brookly red wrote:
I love NYC is spite of you…rather than pay attention to your stupid nanny rules I just look at the buildings, the water and bridges…tourist stuff…if you’re a tourist, you’re never guilty…you live there so that’s your problem..I come home to NM and everybody behaves with propriety, and a Glock strapped to their thigh…nice and peaceful
I looked high
I looked low….
Savoy Brown
@ heysoos:
Mixed feelings. If they just butcher each other, I’m fine with it. When they start attacking anyone else, there’s a problem.
mfhorn wrote:
yes, agreed….but it’s not our problem…people die by the boatload in the ME…not sure what the US can do about it..I say, let em die
the fact that the US has no, and has never had a policy or plan to rid ourselves of this murderous ME Islamic culture…one might be led to think that relations with the KSA and others benefits us somehow…convince me
lobo91 wrote:
You mean, like “the shoulder thing that goes up”?
@ The Osprey:
we are fucked, the fix is in
if you live off the feds you cannot vote….reasonable people understand this..you can be a racial minority, sit on your ass and collect enough dough to prevent you from dying, other than that you are a cow, and everybody knows cows can’t vote
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu at 2-23 Day of Resistance at the AZ State Capitol in Phoenix
this thread needs a shot of steroids
maybe politics is burned out for this evening…does anybody dig sailing?
in port…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdov2UIjUpY
the Beach Boys defined voice harmonics…Brian Wilson is a genius…told here with a huge backup band…of course you clods won’t notice
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=xNHNl3Id2J4&feature=endscreen
@ heysoos:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=xNHNl3Id2J4&feature=endscreen
@ heysoos:
Who’s the clod now, Mr VideoFAIL???
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Bumr50 wrote:
I’m trying my darndest to keep the thread alive…it’s dead
There’s an OOT up.
heysoos wrote:
@ heysoos:
I’ve seen the beach Boys several times across the years….laugh all you want, no they are not the Stones or Cream, but they delivered…they have a great body of music and can put it out there live…no blazing riffs, no instrumental wizardry, just good plain rock and roll…I may be all about Skip James and the revolving Delta guys, but the Beach Boys were something, what, I do not know…but they kicked ass in their day
@ 85 heysoos: I’m a doctor Jim, not a blog poster.