Aw gee, they can’t decide whether to take it away all at once or keep on doing it incrementally….

April 18 Neal Knox Report — This morning’s L.A. Times reports
a growing rift in the anti-gun movement, dividing those who support
“smart guns” and other incrementally more restrictive gun laws, vs.
“an increasingly vocal minority” contending that the time is ripe
to demand outright bans on handgun possession.

The L.A. Times has been demanding an outright ban for several
years, of course. That suits me fine, for it makes a mockery of their
claims only to want “reasonable” laws.

The handgun ban push is largely coming from the newer anti-gun
groups mainly funded by millions in grants from “philanthropic
groups” such as George Soros’ Open Society Institute, the San
Francisco-based Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund and the
Chicago-based Joyce Foundation.

Handgun Control Inc.’s political director Joe Sudbay “doesn’t
think a ban is necessary” — meaning HCI has learned they get
nothing by asking for too much. The almost-founder of HCI, Nelson T.
“Pete” Shields, laid out the organization’s strategy on page 53 of
the July 26, 1976 New Yorker Magazine:

Pete told columnist Richard Harris: “We’re going to have to
take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily — given
the political realities — going to be very modest.”

“Our ultimate goal — total control of handguns in the
United States — is going to take time. … The first problem is
to slow down the increasing number of handguns being produced….
The second problem is to get handguns registered. And the final
problem is to make the possession of all handguns and all handgun
ammunition — except for the military, policemen, licensed
security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun
collectors — totally illegal.”

There are a lot of phony quotes from Sarah Brady floating
around, but this quote is for real. I read it to Pete during our
first debate in San Antonio on May 10, 1977. He was furious, but he
never denied he had said it.
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The Arizona Senate yesterday passed a bill prohibiting cities
from forbidding licensed gun carriers in certain areas, and sent it
to Gov. Jane Hull.

It was called a “compromise” because it ostensibly allows
communities to ban guns carried by non-licensees, but the Arizona
constitution specifically authorizes open carry.
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Friday, gunmakers won a major victory when an Atlanta judge
prohibited any further depositions or other activities in the
city’s case until the George Supreme Court allows it to proceed.

At issue is the state’s preemption laws which prohibits cities
from regulating firearms “in any manner,” and whether the attempt
to use the courts to restrict guns violates the state’s
constitution, which reserves the right to enact laws to the
legislature.
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Seven North Carolina and Virginia state police offices have
been burglarized over the past year and at least 30 guns have been
stolen, according to an Associated Press story datelined Franklin,
Va.

It’s a reminder that if police were the only ones to have legal
guns
– as in Japan — such attacks would be common. Years ago, the
wife of the South Korean president was killed with a gun taken by
force from a Japanese policeman and smuggled into Korea for an
assassination attempt on her husband.