Neal Knox Reports

March 1st, 2012

January 22 Neal Knox Update — This National I.D. Support Slipping

January 22 Neal Knox Update — This morning’s USA Today
reports that public support for a National I.D. Card, which was
favored by two-thirds of adults two months ago, is down to “a
little more than half.”

As USA Today put it: “the public’s willingness to trade some
privacy for the promise of increased security seems to be
slipping.”

Good. Yesterday’s Washington Times had an editorial entitled
“Papers Please,” which says it all.

USA Today reports that legislation is being pushed by Sen.
Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) for a National I.D. card but President Bush
doesn’t think one is “necessary” — although people in the bowels
of the Justice Department and General Services Administration are
working on what should be on it.

The biggest threat appears to be a push in Congress to set
standards — and fund — state driver’s license that could become
a de facto national i.d. card.

With Congress coming back next week, you might want to talk to
them about this and various pending gun bills — gun shows come to
mind.

But remember that the mail to Congress is being delivered very
slowly since the anthrax attack. The smart thing to do is to phone
Washington, or write or call state offices, who can relay the all-
important comment counts to Washington.

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution had another “Gun Nuts Are
Picking on Emory History Professor Michael Bellesiles” article this
morning.

But down in the story they do mention that other scholars have
been taking apart his lying book “Arming America,” including
Northwestern University law professor James Lindgren, who
is a proponent of “gun control” — though they don’t mention that
well-known fact.

The story reports that the new “William and Mary Quarterly,”
will include articles by professors from Stanford, Rice, Ohio State
and the University of Colorado, and his responses to them — which
are supposedly substantive instead of more whining and name-calling.

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I’ve received clips from all over the country concerning the
American For Gun Safety “study” of how many disqualified persons
were erroneously allowed to buy guns. The press has given the
“study” lots of ink.

Most of the disqualifications were for very old felonies,
mental disabilities or domestic violence offenses which aren’t in
law enforcement databases.

As noted in the latest NRA-ILA Fax Alert, Jim Baker pointed
out that law enforcement crime databases were inadequate when NRA
first supported the “instant check” back in 1987.

Some of us didn’t support “Instant Check,” fearing it would be
used as the basis for a registration system — as Schumer,
Feinstein, et al are trying to do, a piece at a time, starting with
private transfers at gun shows, and pushing to ban all private
transfers.

The AGS spokesman, Jim Kessler, boasted that their “study”
showed “California is a big state and it has zero” guns transferred
erroneously to felons and other disqualified persons.

That’s wonderful. We now have a chance to examine the
effectiveness of the California laws — which include registration,
no private transfers and everything short of total prohibition (and
they have that, too, on so-called “assault weapons”).

All who believe that no felon in California can obtain a
firearm, please hold up your hand.

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Lawyers for the city of Boston last week finished collecting
documents and statements from the gun industry, the “discovery”
stage of their lawsuit.

There’s no telling what they have found that will sound
embarrassing, but they won’t find anything to support the notion
that the industry is trying to market their guns to criminals –
who wind up with a tiny fraction of the guns produced.

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Cities across the country are boasting about the Federal
funding they’ve received for more prosecutors to “handle cases
specifically involving violent crimes committed with guns,
violations of gun statutes involving drug trafficking and other gun
related felonies.”

If they would stop with “violent crimes committed with guns,”
I would have little argument with the program, but almost all
Federal gun statutes are felonies — even something as innocuous as
my out-of-state father giving me a shotgun, or me taking it.

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Two students at the Grundy, Va. Appalachian School of Law
stopped and seized the failing Nigerian student who killed the dean
and two others last week.

One was a deputy sheriff who ran to his car for a gun, another
was a former police officer, but it could have been any of the many
Virginia citizens licensed to carry concealed.

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A Chinese Food deliveryman shot and severely wounded (in the
leg) a would-be robber in East Harlem, N.Y.C. Thursday night.

Several hours later the deliveryman was arrested for illegal
possession of a firearm. He was licensed only to have the gun on
his business premises.

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A Virginia man who killed a 200 pound black bear menacing
prized bulls inside his employer’s barn near Smith Mountain Lake
was charged with hunting bear out of season.

In the outcry from farmers which followed, the charges were
dropped but the Bedford County prosecutor said he “could be charged
later with the more serious crime of illegally shooting a black
bear.”

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The judge who canceled the first-ever Wisconsin mourning dove
hunt last fall has ruled last week that the anti-hunting group which
filed the complaint does not have standing to sue.

According to the Milwaukee Journal, the standing issue — whether
a plaintiff has a right to be in court — was raised by the U.S. Sportsmen’s
Alliance, which is the new name for the Columbus, Ohio, based
Wildlife Legislative Fund.

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A Harrisburg, Pa., court has dismissed the Allegheny County
Sportsmen’s suit against state police for maintaining a list of the
names and addresses of gun buyers, and serial numbers of the guns,
saying it doesn’t meet the law’s prohibition against gun
registration.

If it walks like a duck…

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The best evidence of how afraid the NRA Board is of the
Georgia Sport Shooting Association’s proposed State Director bylaw
is that they are running a full page ad opposing it, with another
“Vote No On Bylaw Amendment” in their ad supporting Nominating
Committee candidates.

GSSA was told such ads would cost them over $60,000 each. I
don’t know who paid for the leadership’s ads, but I promise you
that the candidates did not.

Ask your Director — if you know one — how much he
contributed. If he or she didn’t pay the average $1,500 per
Director cost, who did pay for it?

Because the anti-bylaw ad says the “Knox dissidents are at it
again” a lot of folks are asking for my recommendations for
Directors. I don’t have any. (I have some preferences, of course,
but I don’t want to taint my “moles.”)

None except the Nominating Committee selections can or will be
elected — which is why we need the GSSA Bylaw calling for at least
one director to be elected from each state, by and from the members
of that state.

It’s a radical idea called “Representative Government.”

The concept was established by the U.S. Constitution.

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