Mayor Bloomberg tries to frame the Second Amendment as a deer hunting recreational issue. People wince . . . that anyone could be that stupid, or that corrupt, to think that
our God-given right has something to do with weekend recreational considerations. So we’re responding the best way we know how: We’re consuming more and more firepower . . . and we’re joining the most important family grass-roots organization in the world that stands up for the very simple self-evident truth that people have the right to self- defense. I’m very proud to be a life member of the NRA. My band, my crew, my guys and outfitters, every member of my family, anybody that hangs out with Ted Nugent is indeed a member of the NRA — or you’re going to go work with Tom Petty.”
— Ted Nugent rock star, NRA life member
vative columnist Walter E. Wil- liams shares Hunter’s suspicion that planting a few seeds of regula- tion today will spawn a regulatory thicket tomorrow. “If you give congressmen the
right to do one thing,” he warns, “they’ll move it on down the line.” He compares the current debate
ally and unintentionally will run afoul of the law. They are creating criminals — that’s the point. “They want to create people
who are, in their lingo, noncom- pliant. And once they’ve got those criminals, then they can go after them not because they want to take their guns away . . . but because they are ‘out of compliance.’” That fear may seem overblown.
But not to California attorney Bruce Colodny. He has literally built a career out of represent- ing law-abiding Californians who unintentionally run afoul of the Golden State’s byzantine gun laws. A typical case he handles:
Someone has a semi-automatic weapon in their family for decades, but neglects to fi ll out an extra form and mail it, with a $20 check, to register the weapon with state
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authorities. Those unfortunates, he says, can literally fi nd them- selves facing a felony rap. “I’ve been doing this for 30
years,” Colodny tells Newsmax, “and one thing that it’s taught me is everything that the NRA has been saying about gun control since I was a kid in junior high school in the late ’60s, and joined as a junior member, is true.” He adds, “The
fi rearms law viola- tions are really just gravy for the prosecuting attorneys. The major- ity of people who are ensnared by these so-called gun-control laws are average citizens who’ve com- mitted a technical violation. The laws just don’t work.” Author and syndicated conser-
over gun control to the gradual introduction of the Social Security tax, which began in 1936. “They said, ‘You will never pay
“The problem is not the gun laws.”
— Mark Mattioli father of Sandy Hook
Elementary School victim
more than 2 percent of your income in Social Security.’ Or with the fed- eral income tax, they said, ‘Only 1 percent of the American people will ever pay a federal income tax,’” he says. “There is example after example where you can show when gov- ernment starts out small on something — they have to start small in order to be politically success-
ful — then they move up. The same thing will be done with guns.” Shapiro, the former D.C. pros-
ecutor, pauses a moment before conceding that Williams and Hunter are right. “I don’t think the right is para- noid in thinking that people who
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