Saturday, April 3, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Declaration of Independance
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies:
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.
He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing taxes on us without our consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury:
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
Sunday, January 24, 2010
2010 Illinois Gun Show Schedule
2010
Jan 2-3 Springfield, State Fairgrounds, Orr Building 300 Tables, $45.00/8' tables. Food on Premises.
Jan 23-24 Robinson, Community Center 300 S Lincoln. A:$3, Tbls $25, ML Skaggs 618-569-3352
Feb 13-14 DuQuoin, State Fairgrounds, 6' tbls $15 min 2 per vendor, A:$5 Sat: 9-5, Sun: 9-3 Contacts: Nelson Adams, 618-625-6753 and cell # 618-713-3604. Ron Snyder, 618-548-5703
Feb 20-21 Effingham, Knights of Columbus Bldg ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Feb 21 Lakemore, Lakemore Banquet Facility, 28874 RTE. 120 "Belvedere Road" A:$5 Don Chichoski, 815-363-9541
Feb 27-28 Bloomington, Sale Barn ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Mar 6-7 Collinsville, Gateway Center ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Mar 13-14 Belleville, Belle-Claire Expo ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Mar 13-14 Kankakee, Kankakee County Gun Collectors Assoc. Terry Kelly1 (866)-930-4422
Mar 21 Lakemore, Lakemore Banquet Facility, 28874 RTE. 120 "Belvedere Road" A:$5 Don Chichoski, 815-363-9541
Apr 10-11 Lawrenceville, Lawrence County 4-H Fairgrounds, 9am to 4pm. A: $3, Tbls $25 618-546-0163.
Apr 17-18 Kankakee, Kankakee County Gun Collectors Assoc. Terry Kelly1 (866)-930-4422
Apr 18 Lakemore, Lakemore Banquet Facility, 28874 RTE. 120 "Belvedere Road" A:$5 Don Chichoski, 815-363-9541
May 1-2 Belleville, Belle-Claire Expo ECA Inc 618-495-2572
May 16 Lakemore, Lakemore Banquet Facility, 28874 RTE. 120 "Belvedere Road" A:$5 Don Chichoski, 815-363-9541
Jun 26-27 Belleville, Belle-Claire Expo ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Aug 14-15 Decatur, Civic Center, 400 Tables, $45.00/8 ft. table, A: $5, Sat. 9-5, Sun. 9-4 ECA Inc., Bob Leckrone. Phone: 618-495-2572
Aug 28-29 Belleville, Belle-Claire Expo ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Sep 11-12 Kankakee, Kankakee County Gun Collectors Assoc. Terry Kelly1 (866)-930-4422
Sep 11-12 Robinson, Community Center 300 S Lincoln. A:$3, Tbls $25, ML Skaggs 618-569-3352
Sep 19 Lakemore, Lakemore Banquet Facility, 28874 RTE. 120 "Belvedere Road" A:$5 Don Chichoski, 815-363-9541
Oct 2-3 Belleville, Belle-Claire Expo ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Oct 9-10 Springfield, State Fairgrounds, ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Oct 16-17 Champaign, Champaign Co. Fairgrounds ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Oct 17 Lakemore, Lakemore Banquet Facility, 28874 RTE. 120 "Belvedere Road" A:$5 Don Chichoski, 815-363-9541
Oct 23-24 Effingham, Knights of Columbus Bldg ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Nov 6-7 Kankakee, Kankakee County Gun Collectors Assoc. Terry Kelly1 (866)-930-4422
Nov 6-7 IL Lawrenceville, Lawrence County 4-H Fairgrounds, 9am to 4pm. A: $3, Tbls $25 618-546-0163..
Nov 13-14 Bloomington, Sale Barn ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Nov 21 Lakemore, Lakemore Banquet Facility, 28874 RTE. 120 "Belvedere Road" A:$5 Don Chichoski, 815-363-9541
Nov. 27-28 Decatur, Decatur Conference Center and Hotel. 4191 West Hwy. 36 (Wyckles Rd) 300 tables, $45/8 Ft. Table A: $5, Sat. 9-5, Sun. 9-4 ECA Inc., Bob Leckrone. Phone: 618-495-2572
Dec 4-5 Collinsville, Gateway Center ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Dec 11-12 Kankakee, Kankakee County Gun Collectors Assoc. Terry Kelly1 (866)-930-4422
Dec 19 Lakemore, Lakemore Banquet Facility, 28874 RTE. 120 "Belvedere Road" A:$5 Don Chichoski, 815-363-9541
Jan 2-3 Springfield, State Fairgrounds, Orr Building 300 Tables, $45.00/8' tables. Food on Premises.
Sat 9-5PM Sun 9-4PM. ECA Inc. Contact Bob Leckrone PO Box 138, Centralis, Il. 62801 618-495-2572
Jan 9-10 Belleville, Belle-Claire Fairgrounds 200 So. Belt East 400 8'tbls $45 ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Jan 9-10, Kankakee, Kankakee County Gun Collectors Assoc. Terry Kelly1 (866)-930-4422
Jan 16-17 Highland Lindendale Park, 200 Tables. ECA Inc.Contact: Bob Leckrone, 1-618-495-2572Jan 9-10 Belleville, Belle-Claire Fairgrounds 200 So. Belt East 400 8'tbls $45 ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Jan 9-10, Kankakee, Kankakee County Gun Collectors Assoc. Terry Kelly1 (866)-930-4422
Jan 23-24 Robinson, Community Center 300 S Lincoln. A:$3, Tbls $25, ML Skaggs 618-569-3352
Feb 13-14 DuQuoin, State Fairgrounds, 6' tbls $15 min 2 per vendor, A:$5 Sat: 9-5, Sun: 9-3 Contacts: Nelson Adams, 618-625-6753 and cell # 618-713-3604. Ron Snyder, 618-548-5703
Feb 20-21 Effingham, Knights of Columbus Bldg ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Feb 21 Lakemore, Lakemore Banquet Facility, 28874 RTE. 120 "Belvedere Road" A:$5 Don Chichoski, 815-363-9541
Feb 27-28 Bloomington, Sale Barn ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Mar 6-7 Collinsville, Gateway Center ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Mar 13-14 Belleville, Belle-Claire Expo ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Mar 13-14 Kankakee, Kankakee County Gun Collectors Assoc. Terry Kelly1 (866)-930-4422
Mar 21 Lakemore, Lakemore Banquet Facility, 28874 RTE. 120 "Belvedere Road" A:$5 Don Chichoski, 815-363-9541
Apr 10-11 Lawrenceville, Lawrence County 4-H Fairgrounds, 9am to 4pm. A: $3, Tbls $25 618-546-0163.
Apr 17-18 Kankakee, Kankakee County Gun Collectors Assoc. Terry Kelly1 (866)-930-4422
Apr 18 Lakemore, Lakemore Banquet Facility, 28874 RTE. 120 "Belvedere Road" A:$5 Don Chichoski, 815-363-9541
May 1-2 Belleville, Belle-Claire Expo ECA Inc 618-495-2572
May 16 Lakemore, Lakemore Banquet Facility, 28874 RTE. 120 "Belvedere Road" A:$5 Don Chichoski, 815-363-9541
Jun 26-27 Belleville, Belle-Claire Expo ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Aug 14-15 Decatur, Civic Center, 400 Tables, $45.00/8 ft. table, A: $5, Sat. 9-5, Sun. 9-4 ECA Inc., Bob Leckrone. Phone: 618-495-2572
Aug 28-29 Belleville, Belle-Claire Expo ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Sep 11-12 Kankakee, Kankakee County Gun Collectors Assoc. Terry Kelly1 (866)-930-4422
Sep 11-12 Robinson, Community Center 300 S Lincoln. A:$3, Tbls $25, ML Skaggs 618-569-3352
Sep 19 Lakemore, Lakemore Banquet Facility, 28874 RTE. 120 "Belvedere Road" A:$5 Don Chichoski, 815-363-9541
Oct 2-3 Belleville, Belle-Claire Expo ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Oct 9-10 Springfield, State Fairgrounds, ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Oct 16-17 Champaign, Champaign Co. Fairgrounds ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Oct 17 Lakemore, Lakemore Banquet Facility, 28874 RTE. 120 "Belvedere Road" A:$5 Don Chichoski, 815-363-9541
Oct 23-24 Effingham, Knights of Columbus Bldg ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Nov 6-7 Kankakee, Kankakee County Gun Collectors Assoc. Terry Kelly1 (866)-930-4422
Nov 6-7 IL Lawrenceville, Lawrence County 4-H Fairgrounds, 9am to 4pm. A: $3, Tbls $25 618-546-0163..
Nov 13-14 Bloomington, Sale Barn ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Nov 21 Lakemore, Lakemore Banquet Facility, 28874 RTE. 120 "Belvedere Road" A:$5 Don Chichoski, 815-363-9541
Nov. 27-28 Decatur, Decatur Conference Center and Hotel. 4191 West Hwy. 36 (Wyckles Rd) 300 tables, $45/8 Ft. Table A: $5, Sat. 9-5, Sun. 9-4 ECA Inc., Bob Leckrone. Phone: 618-495-2572
Dec 4-5 Collinsville, Gateway Center ECA Inc 618-495-2572
Dec 11-12 Kankakee, Kankakee County Gun Collectors Assoc. Terry Kelly1 (866)-930-4422
Dec 19 Lakemore, Lakemore Banquet Facility, 28874 RTE. 120 "Belvedere Road" A:$5 Don Chichoski, 815-363-9541
Saturday, January 23, 2010
This guy just won't stop
Obama Pushing Treaty To Ban Reloading
Gun Owners of America
April 25, 2009
Remember CANDIDATE Barack Obama? The guy who “wasn’t going to take away our guns”?April 25, 2009
Well, guess what?
Less than 100 days into his administration, he’s never met a gun he didn’t hate.
A week ago, Obama went to Mexico, whined about the United States, and bemoaned (before the whole world) the fact that he didn’t have the political power to take away our semi-automatics. Nevertheless, that didn’t keep him from pushing additional restrictions on American gun owners.
It’s called the Inter-American Convention Against Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials. To be sure, this imponderable title masks a really nasty piece of work.
First of all, when the treaty purports to ban the “illicit” manufacture of firearms, what does that mean?
1. “Illicit manufacturing” of firearms is defined as “assembly of firearms [or] ammunition … without a license….”
Hence, reloading ammunition — or putting together a lawful firearm from a kit — is clearly “illicit manufacturing.”
Modifying a firearm in any way would surely be “illicit manufacturing.” And, while it would be a stretch, assembling a firearm after cleaning it could, in any plain reading of the words, come within the screwy definition of “illicit manufacturing.”
2. “Firearm” has a similarly questionable definition.
“[A]ny other weapon” is a “firearm,” according to the treaty — and the term “weapon” is nowhere defined.
So, is a BB gun a “firearm”? Probably.
A toy gun? Possibly.
A pistol grip or firing pin? Probably. And who knows what else.
If these provisions (and others) become the law of the land, the Obama administration could have a heyday in enforcing them. Consider some of the other provisions in the treaty:
* Banning reloading. In Article IV of the treaty, countries commit to adopting “necessary legislative or other measures” to criminalize illicit manufacturing and trafficking in firearms.
Remember that “illicit manufacturing” includes reloading and modifying or assembling a firearm in any way. This would mean that the Obama administration could promulgate regulations banning reloading on the basis of this treaty — just as it is currently circumventing Congress to write legislation taxing greenhouse gases.
* Banning gun clubs. Article IV goes on to state that the criminalized acts should include “association or conspiracy” in connection with said offenses — which is arguably a term broad enough to allow, by regulation, the criminalization of entire pro-gun organizations or gun clubs, based on the facilities which they provide their membership.
Something to think about
History is clear that the first ten amendments to the Constitution were adopted to secure certain common law rights of the people, against invasion by the Federal Government. — Bell v. Hood, 71 F. Supp., 813, 816 (1947) U.S.D.C., So. Dist. CA.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Mayor Richard M. Daley and Gun Control
“Unfortunately, America loves Guns. We love guns to a point where that uh we see devastation on a daily basis. You don’t blame a group.”
Thursday, January 21, 2010
E-Mail or Fax YOUR Message to Senators, Congressmen, Governors, and State Legislatures!
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