Supporting gun ownership and sportsmen's rights in response to the flurry of anti-gun and sport legislation under consideration in Congress and the Illinois State Legislature.

Look, a RINO!

RHINO

 (Actually, that's unfair to the real Rhinos that I've met at the Lincoln Park Zoo since they're rather sweet... Like BIG docile cows.)

"Kirk said Friday that federal gun laws have two key weaknesses -- the ease with which people on the FBI's terrorist watch list are able to purchase guns and the "gun show loophole," in which unlicensed individual gun sellers and "occasional sellers" are not required to perform background checks on gun purchasers."

 That would be Congressman Mark Kirk of "Secure" Social Security Id fame, who, if you looked at his voting record and agenda seems more like a 5th column Democrat than a Republican - I mean, he's endorsed by the Brady Campaign!

 The fact is that he erroneously believes that a law limiting people from making private sales of firearms would actually do anything to stop someone from obtaining a gun. If that was the case, then Chicago, with it's myriad of restrictions on possession and ownership of firearms would be the safest place in Illinois, which it apparently isn't and the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) would've prevented both the VA Tech and NIU shootings where both shooters obtained their firearms through NICS approved, 100% legal means.

 The reality is that NICS has never applied to individuals making an occasional sale (for example, me selling my deer rifle to my cousin) and only applies to federally licensed firearm dealers. States already decide if they will allow or disallow private sales between qualified people from the same state, which by virtue of not being interstate commerce is clearly the domain of the state and not the job of the federal government.

Update: Armed and Safe in Illinois goes over some of this and Kirk's connection to Bloomberg.

Posted 07:45AM Apr 28, 2008 by MCSA