From Fox Nation:

On March 30, the 30th anniversary of the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, Jim Brady, who sustained a debilitating head wound in the attack, and his wife, Sarah, came to Capitol Hill to push for a ban on the controversial “large magazines.” Brady, for whom the law requiring background checks on handgun purchasers is named, then met with White House press secretary Jay Carney. During the meeting, President Obama dropped in and, according to Sarah Brady, brought up the issue of gun control, “to fill us in that it was very much on his agenda,” she said.

“I just want you to know that we are working on it,” Brady recalled the president telling them. “We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar.”

These people never give up. I’ve said from the beginning that this administration needs to be watched like a hawk when it comes to guns. Between Obama’s anti-gun history and Attorney General Eric Holder’s lifelong crusade against guns, the 2nd Amendment is in real danger.

Secondly, this large magazine capacity issue is totally phony. Outlawing certain magazines will have zero effect on gun violence. It’s silly. We cannot give an inch when it comes to our guns. You give them hi-cap magazines and it will be something else next year.

Joe Scarborough’s transition to left wing pundit is pretty much complete. This morning he and his “Morning Joe” cronies were advocating for stricter gun control laws. Joe makes the absurd claim that 90% of the American people “want this stopped.” He sites Dick Cheney and Pat Buchanan as examples of conservatives who allegedly want stricter gun control laws.

I have no doubt 90% of the people in Manhattan where Joe lives do indeed want stricter gun control. But here in Texas, I don’t know anyone who wants that. I literally don’t know anyone who wants stricter gun control. In fact, quite a few people I’ve spoken with recently admire Arizona’s gun laws and would like to see them adopted here. The main differences between Arizona and Texas is that in Arizona you don’t need a license to carry a concealed weapon or openly carry one.

Politicians never let a tragedy go by without attempting to piggy back some new gun legislation on it. The tragedy in Arizona could not have been prevented with stricter gun laws. Jared Loughner legally purchased his handgun and passed a federal background check. That’s as good as it gets.

I do favor adding mental health records to a federal background check. If you’ve spent time in the nut house you don’t need a gun. We can agree on that one. But when it comes to limiting magazine size or banning so-called “assault weapons” I’m vehemently opposed.

In the words of the late Charlton Heston, “from my cold, dead hands.”

(hat tip The Right Scoop)

From the AP:

The Supreme Court says the Constitution’s "right to keep and bear arms" applies nationwide as a restraint on the ability of government to limit its application.

The justices on Monday cast doubt on a Chicago area handgun ban, but also signaled in their 5-4 decision that less severe restrictions could survive legal challenges.

I remember fuming about this the other night when Bill had a member of the Oath Keepers on his program. I was stunned when O’Reilly began advocating for the right of the government to seize people’s guns after a hurricane. It’s an outrageous suggestion on its face, but one O’Reilly himself strongly advocated against just a couple of years ago. He said the aftermath of hurricane Katrina changed his views on guns. He said you cannot depend on the government to protect you in situations like that and must be able to defend yourself.

I was frankly too lazy to go back and dig up the clips of him saying all that, so I never wrote about it. Fortunately, the Oath Keepers of Oklahoma did the digging on their own and made a video highlighting Bill’s strangely evolving stance on gun rights.

(hat tip Gateway Pundit)

The National Rifle Association will present Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with a commemorative Alaska-themed AR-15 “assault” rifle next week.

Called the Alaskan Hunter, the Arctic-White AR type rifle is chambered in .50 Beowulf and comes with 50 rounds of custom .50 ammunition, custom sling, and custom case.

Custom engraving on the rifle includes the Big Dipper constellation, an outline of Alaska on the 6-way adjustable stock, a moose, and the NRA logo with the inscription, “In Honor of Governor Sarah Palin,” on the upper receiver.

Guns are continuing to fly off store shelves as they have been ever since it looked like Obama would win the election. I can say personally, that I’ve never seen this kind of surge in gun sales. You can’t get semi-automatic rifles anywhere, because they’re hopelessly on back order. I’ve been waiting for more than a month to get my M4 and have scoured the Internet looking for one. Every make and model is completely sold out. It’s even difficult to get 500 round cases of ammo in some calibers.

As Obama sets out to remake America into Sweden it’s at least comforting to know that some of us well be well armed.

The man whose lawsuit overturned Washington’s handgun ban has successfully registered his handgun, ending a more than 30-year wait to keep the weapon in his home. Dick Heller walked triumphantly out of a D.C. police station today with his permit in hand.

It’s a shame that Heller had to go all the way to the Supreme Court merely to excercise his right as an American, but thank God he did. Thanks to Dick Heller the SCOTUS has said once and for all that Americans have the consitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms.

(Hat tip to Michelle)

It looks like a Texas school district will be first in the nation to finally take a common sense approach to school shootings. Rather than allow students to be lambs waiting to be slaughtered by a crazed gunman, teachers in one tiny Texas town will be able to intervene.

A tiny Texas school district may be the first in the nation to allow teachers and staff to pack guns for protection when classes begin later this month, a newspaper reported.

Trustees at the Harrold Independent School District approved a district policy change last October so employees can carry concealed firearms to deter and protect against school shootings, provided the gun-toting teachers follow certain requirements.

In order for teachers and staff to carry a pistol, they must have a Texas license to carry a concealed handgun; must be authorized to carry by the district; must receive training in crisis management and hostile situations and have to use ammunition that is designed to minimize the risk of ricochet in school halls.

Superintendent David Thweatt said the small community is a 30-minute drive from the sheriff’s office, leaving students and teachers without protection. He said the district’s lone campus sits 500 feet from heavily trafficked U.S. 287, which could make it a target.

“When the federal government started making schools gun-free zones, that’s when all of these shootings started. Why would you put it out there that a group of people can’t defend themselves? That’s like saying ‘sic ‘em’ to a dog,” Thweatt said in Friday’s online edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

It’s at times likes this that I’m most proud of being a Texan. Every law abiding citizen should have the right to defend his or herself in America. So called “gun free zones” are absurd, because then the only person with a gun is the crazed lunatic.

Had a teacher had a gun at Virginia Tech, it’s very unlikely that lunatic would have been able to murder 31 people before killing himself. The idea is to at the very least stop a school shooting from turning into a double-digit blood bath.

A grand jury cleared a Pasadena, Texas, man today in the shooting deaths of two suspected burglars as they left his neighbor’s house — a case that stirred a national debate over whether he was a vigilante or a hero.

For the vast majority of people here in Texas Joe Horn is without a doubt a hero. Horn noticed two men crawling out of his neighbor’s window carrying stolen loot in broad daylight, and chose to intervene.