Thursday, October 14, 2010

Gun-Nut Perfidy

"CRIME GUNS"
A follow-up to yesterday's  M-1 story  by David Codrea,  Gun Rights Examiner

One of the expressed concerns raised by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives over the Korean surplus rifle dispute discussed in yesterday's column is to not add another source for "crime guns."
Boned Jello

Crime Guns is the newest gun-nut catch phrase. It "evokes a hardboiled detective recovering one from a crime scene ..". It's the centerpiece argument for gun nut NYC Mayor Bloomberg's current anti-your guns  crusade.  Which brings us to this clarification by a retired police commander.  First, he explains how BATFE defines "crime gun":

"The parties agree that a 'crime gun' is defined as "any firearm that is illegally possessed, used in a crime, taken into police custody, or suspected by law enforcement officials of having been used in a crime."



His key observations from experience?

The key word in this definition is "taken into police custody." I have been a law enforcement officer for over thirty years and held positions up to the rank of Detective Commander. Only a very small portion of firearms that are taken into custody could possibly be considered a "crime gun."

If you expand the term "taken into police custody" to include any firearm that an LEO has temporary custody, such on a traffic stop of an otherwise lawful firearms owner, you could literally be running traces on hundreds of guns for no legitimate purpose. For larger department it could run into the thousands.



Jezuz, but ain't we tired of having to constantly expose organized gun-nut perfidy?  I guess that's where the "vigilance" thing comes in. This also set me to wondering if Michael Bellesiles, after being fired by Emory University, went to work  for the BATF?  Maybe indirectly.  He's written another book.  Which brings up another point.

Bellesiles considers himself  a historian, and was indeed employed by Emory to teach history.  But historians properly have an open mind about what it is they're researching. In the preface to his superb Douglas McArthur biography "American Caesar," William Manchester observed that he held a certain animus for the general, but was determined to let his research flesh out his account.  To his surprise, he wound up admiring McArthur after discovering that his perceptions, going in, were based on falsehood and rumor. Bellesiles got in trouble for violating that rule in Arming America, and repeats in 1877: America’s Year of Living Violently.  Bellesiles is no historian; he's an anti-gun activist, and a sloppy one at that.


7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I understand their concerns. With so many pictures and videos on the net of gang bangers and mini mart robberies the common thread is the love of large antique rifles.
Tim

Anonymous said...

perhaps its the realization that millions of citizens, from what was once " a nation of rifleman"
will be armed with "the greatest battle instrument yet devised". And wondering just whose blood will be nourishing the tree of Liberty.

John III

Anonymous said...

John nailed it.
RAK

Anonymous said...

Amen John.

DE644

Kristophr said...

The only people that rifle pictured threatens are jack booted thugs.

.30-06 FMJ tends to go clean through body armor, and, unlike short AK rounds or .223, can do it at long ranges.

cuchieddie said...

I love my Ruger Mini-14.

JimB said...

My M1 sits beside my M1-A (M14),P1917 and 1903A3.... Bring enough gun

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