"My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton's army. He saw the dead and dying across the fields of Europe; he heard the stories of fellow troops who first entered Auschwitz and Treblinka."
ASSAULT WEAPON Any weapon used in an assault (see WEAPON and ASSAULT).
ASSAULT A crime of violence against another person. Assault refers to the threat of violence caused by an immediate show of force. Assault is often defined to include not only violence, but any physical contact with another person without their consent (i.e. Pushing, Slapping, Hitting, and Spitting)
WEAPON Webster defines it as “an instrument of offensive or defensive combat.” So an automobile, baseball bat, bottle, chair, firearm, fist, pen knife or shovel is a “weapon,” if so used.
So how do you ban that?
In this interview McCain is asked about Assault Weapons. Instead of pointing out the fallacy of the terminology, he acts as if it were a legitimate question.
Politicians just don't get it.
By answering the question, instead of pointing out that the incorrect use of the term "Assault Weapons" has cost the American taxpayer huge amounts of money (someone has to pay the lawmakers, and enforcers while they dicker over thumb-hole stocks and bayonet lugs) he tried to appease the interviewer with an evasive answer.
He says he doesn't see a scenario under which he would ever support such a ban (on Assault Weapons).
That's gonna get the pro 2nd amendment public sending in the big donation checks, Not!
This newly released video from Hamas provides a rare (probably first time) glimpse into the way the Hamas Secret Service protects (or doesn't) Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.
This assassination attempt against Haniyeh, by PA (PLO) forces, loyal to Muhammad Abbas occurred at the Rafiah Crossing -- and it appears about 4,5 minutes into the video.
Watch and wonder. Lots of scruffy, poorly trained, badly equipped, and completely unprepared wanna be security guards keep their Principal alive, in spite of their best efforts.
At about 4.5 minutes into the video, the attempt begins, now watch as the "secret service" attempt to cover and exfiltrate their Principal. First they stumble around a bit, then they take him to the get away vehicle. An open bed pickup. They get in the bed, all 25 of them and proceed to drive at OJ slow chase speeds for almost 4 minutes.
The whole time the cameraman is following on foot.
It's no wonder there are so few reported dead when the PLA and Hamas clash in Gaza.
Excellent quote from Aaron Zelman executive director of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.
"We’re not interested in compromise. We are only interested in the destruction of something we consider to be a very evil and deadly policy known as gun control." J
For me to meet and spend the weekend (May 15-18) getting to know other Gun bloggers would be really cool. I read their blogs daily, feel like I know them, but have never met them.
When I first heard about the Second Amendment Blog Bash, I signed up as a possible attendee.
More than 70,000 gun enthusiasts are expected to attend the NRA convention.
Mayor Jerry Abramson said the city and its hotels, restaurants and stores stand to get an economic boost of $15 million to $20 million from the gathering.
"Thou didst call in trouble, and I rescued thee;" Psalm 81:7
Israel is sending aid teams to devastated Myanmar (formerly Burma) , where the death toll from a cyclone that battered the Southeast Asian nation over the weekend is said to be between 23,000-50,000.
The Foreign Ministry sent teams from the IDF's highly trained search-and-rescue team as well as a 10-member team of top Israeli doctors and nurses. Israel also dispatched badly needed supplies, including plastic sheeting, food, household appliances and water filters.
Israel has sent rescue teams around the world to aid in various disasters.
Barack Hussein Obama says he's been to fifty-seven states, not including Hawaii and Alaska, and he still has one left to go.
So there are sixty states in the United States of America. WTF??
Is he really that stupid? Or didn't they teach US geography in the Islamic school he attended in Indonesia?
If you think the US Dollar is in trouble now, wait until Obama uses his Islamic math skills and devalues it by another 16.66%. Saudi America here we come
Two Israeli civilians received IDF certificates of appreciation for having responded heroically to terrorist attacks. IDF Binyamin Brigade Commander Col. Amir Abulafia awarded the certificates to two residents of the Binyamin region of Judea and Samaria.
Moshe Benbenishti was cited for having "acted courageously when he did not lose his cool when attacked by rioters from the village of Zara el Kabaliye." In the incident, which occurred in March of this year, Moshe "used his personal pistol and hit one of the central inciters, and as a result saved his own life and scattered the mob that wanted to harm him."
Rabbi Erez Bar'on was praised for "acting with a perfectly cool head when he responded effectively and killed a terrorist who tried to attack him as well as a youth at the Shilo hitch-hiking post." The incident occurred a month ago.
Jewish Bikers from around the world are here in Israel.
They shipped their motorcycles, and came to tour Israel.
They will ride around the country in a landmark ride to commemorate the Holocaust, celebrate Israel's 60th anniversary and express support for the Jewish homeland. The idea for this trip was dreamt up at a Ride to Remember (R2R) in 2005, when members of various worldwide Jewish motorcycle clubs rode to the grand opening of the Holocaust museum in Washington DC.
Since that ride, the R2R has become an annual event that takes riders to various landmarks around the US to commemorate and educate about the Holocaust, and represent the Jewish people as free and strong.
As part of their tour, Jewish Bikers visited the Latrun Armor Corps Museum on Israel's Memorial Day.
Israeli Bikers joined the tour as well. Being motorcycle addict, I just had to be there.
My friend and I met up with the convoy of Harleys, Hondas, Yamahas and others, on the Highway and rode to Latrun. At the Armor Corps Museum there are tanks , antique and modern weapons, and every armored and tracked vehicle ever used by the IDF on display. We were given the VIP treatment with our very own IDF Armor Corps tour guides.
We got to see, and touch all of the equipment from huge Merkava tanks to various small arms. I even got to check out the new RPG7.
Tanks on display
Wall of heroes More tanks Parade gorund and wall of names where we participated in the Memorial day ceremonies.
The air-raid siren's blare last night at 8:00 PM found me as I was driving home on the mountain roads of the Shomron.
I pulled over to the side of the road, turned on the car's hazard lights, got out and stood next to my car under the dark sky. Other cars also stopped, their driver's got out, and we stood silently listening to the siren.
So what do you think about during the siren? Once upon a time, I used to recite Psalms to myself to honor the memory of the IDF soldiers who fell defending Israel. Yet the one minute siren is so short, many more thoughts last night reverberated in my head. More Here, Hattip Jameel.
Are you planning to visit Israel? Are any of your friends? Caliber 3 Shooting Range has opened up their training services to the general public.
They are offering a special 2 hour package for tourists visiting Israel (and Israeli civilians).
The package includes a briefing of the security situation Israelis face, examples of different anti-Terrorist techniques, and of course the fun part - Shooting pistols and rifles.
The program is open to individuals, groups, and families. You can see from the photos on their site that everyone is having a great time.
Of course they’re having a great time. They're shooting M-16A1s and Glock pistols!
Take a look at their website and learn first hand what it is like to protect an Israeli settlement and fight a terrorist.
Approximately 150 paratroopers from armies from around the world arrived this past weekend in Israel, to participate the parachuting exhibition with the IDF.
The visiting paratroopers include delegations from the American, English, Singaporean and South African armies. The paratroopers are being hosted at the IDFs paratrooper school.
Here in Israel, every privately owned firearm is registered to a single owner. Every carry permit holder is required to qualify at the range in order to renew the permit on the weapon.
My permit expires in June, so instead of relying on the local militia for ammunition and training, I went to the local range.
I took my 15 year old son along figuring it had been way too long since I had taken him shooting.
The guy that runs the place knows me, and the range instructor has seen me around, so instead of putting me through the standard permit renewal stuff, he just went over the safety basics and went to the back of the room.
I went through safety rules with my son, the correct way to check a weapon, how to draw cock and shoot, maintain eye contact with the target, change magazines, and how to doubletapp.
At this point the range instructor left the room, figuring that we knew what we were doing.
My son, who started shooting at the age of 7, is a confident and extremely proficient shooter.
I let him do most of the shooting, just enjoying the "quality time" and basking in pride at what a man he is becoming.
After over 6 years of daily carry while, riding through rain, sleet and hail on my Yamaha 660, off-roading, landscaping and military maneuvers, my Glock 17 and the 3 magazines (a 17 round, and 2 33 round Glock originals) preformed flawlessly. No jams, no miss-feeds, no stovepipes, no nothing!
We spent over an hour shooting. My son was doubletapping the heads of the silhouette targets, and changing magazines with ease by the time we were through.
The sirens wailed for two minutes, the entire country came to a standstill. Cars stopped in the middle of the road, people stood, and took time to remember the martyrs and heroes.
Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day was set to mark the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and has been traditionally commemorated around the world.
The Tenth of Tevet, (this year January 6) was set by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel as the day for the recital of the Kaddish prayer for those murdered during the Holocaust whose date of death is not known.