 Minuteman Monthly Newsletter Issue 86 September 2008 |
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Welcome to this issue of the Minuteman Monthly Newsletter. This is the monthly communication from my Web site at www.SaveTheGuns.com. Thank you for reading this month's issue and for passing it on to a friend. When I was just twenty one years old, (more than half my life ago), I became eligible to obtain a concealed carry permit in my home state of Massachusetts. At the time, all I had to do was to fill out a form with my name and address and the reason that I wanted to obtain a concealed carry license. I also had to be able to load and unload a handgun in a safe manner and do some live fire practice with a police officer observing at the indoor pistol range in the basement of the police station. Now, there is an official basic firearm education safety course that is required for obtaining a concealed carry license in most states in the United States. This course covers the basics of safe gun handling and marksmanship, ammunition knowledge and a basic knowledge of state law, but in my opinion, it is not nearly enough information to effectively and safely carry a concealed firearm in public. Carrying a concealed firearm in a public place is a very personal choice and it's not for everyone. The training and knowledge required by your State to obtain the permit should only be the beginning of your quest for information on concealed carry and not the end of your journey. There is so much more to learn about concealed carry than what the average permit-holder knows. I believe that it is very important for someone who chooses to carry a concealed handgun in public, to have a thorough and complete knowledge of the subject. Read on... SaveTheGuns.com Quotes of the Month "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise
their Constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to
dismember it or overthrow it."
"A man with a sword in his hand demands my purse in the high-way, when
perhaps I have not twelve pence in my pocket: this man I may lawfully kill."
"What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man."
"We're bending the law as far as we can
to ban an entirely new class of guns."
"It is irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. It is a feeble mindset to accept defenselessness. It's unnatural, cheap, cowardly and
pathetic."
"Conformity and obedience, bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
makes slaves of men and of the human frame, a mechanized automaton." SaveTheGuns.com Gun Safety Tip of the Month The most common cause of an accidental discharge is when an inexperienced person who is holding the gun places his/her finger on the trigger. Placing a finger inside the trigger guard and resting it on the trigger comes naturally for the inexperienced person. We've seen it thousands of times in the past. Just look at just about any advertisement for a television drama or action movie and most of the time, the main character in the ad has a gun and their finger is on the trigger. Everything from Elmer Fudd in the Bugs Bunny cartoons and the Three Stooges, all the way up to the movie poster for the latest action movie, the trigger-finger is shown inside the trigger guard and resting on the trigger. For anyone concerned about gun safety like myself, it's very frustrating to see the constant portrayal of one of the three basic rules of safe gun handling constantly violated. The first time a firearm is held by a young child, I could almost guarantee that the trigger finger will go directly to the trigger like a powerful magnet. We must condition ourselves, our children and our grandchildren to place the finger alongside the firearm's trigger guard and NOT into it. Three (3) to five (5) children each week have to be buried because this basic gun handling rule is ignored. You can prevent a child from dying in September 2008, from an accidental firearm discharge simply by sending this newsletter or at least this one gun safety message to everyone you know. If everyone who reads this message would do that, we can make sure that a child who is alive right now, will also be alive in October, it is really that simple. EVERY child or inexperienced adult should be taught and conditioned to NEVER place a finger on the trigger until they're ready to fire. Please contribute this month if you have not done so before. More than 90,000 children have learned something about gun safety from my Web site. Please contribute when you can so I can reach another 90,000 in the future.
NRA Membership Recruiter Corner http://membership.nrahq.org/default.asp?campaignid=XR017807 This link will take you directly to the checkout page at the National Rifle Association to make it easy for you to renew your current membership, give an NRA membership to a friend or family member or join the fight for the first time. Using my links will save you TEN BUCKS ($10.00) on a one year membership. The normal one year membership is $35.00, but it's only $25.00 through my special link above. A 10% discount to the services of LifeLock Identity Protection Services to protect against identity theft has recently been added to membership in the National Rifle Association. SaveTheGuns.com is one of thousands of NRA Membership Recruiters across America. As an NRA Recruiter, I'm officially a subcontractor for the National Rifle Association of America and not an employee. I make a small commission whenever you join, renew or give an NRA Membership as a gift. Please use the link above for all your NRA Membership needs. If your NRA Membership expires within ten weeks, I encourage you to renew your membership early using my convenient link that lands right on the appropriate page at the National Rifle Association. I have written a Web page with more information on membership in the National Rifle Association. It has a list of benefits as well as membership options and prices. For your convenience the above NRA Membership link is there as well. http://www.savetheguns.com/nra_membership.htm P.S. Remember, my link goes directly to the NRA Membership check out page. Using my special link is a lot more convenient than trying to find the page yourself. As of this issue of the Minuteman Monthly Newsletter, I've recruited 332 NRA Members through this link. 168 NRA Members recruited in 2008 alone! In my quest to be one of the top ten NRA Recruiters for the twelve state Northeast Region which includes Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont, I have become one of the TOP TEN NRA Recruiters in the United States. Please use my convenient links for all your NRA membership needs and pass it around to others. http://membership.nrahq.org/default.asp?campaignid=XR017807 Contributions to SaveTheGuns.com Please use the following convenient link to securely use a credit card online to give SaveTheGuns.com a voluntary contribution: http://www.amazon.com/paypage/P3GXU3PIEM5ST1 (After giving a contribution of at least $5.00, you'll receive an e-mail with a link to download my e-book entitled How to Choose a Handgun.)
To write me a personal check, it's almost as easy! Write out a personal check made payable to Marc H. Richardson. Sign it and put it into a stamped envelope addressed to: Marc H. Richardson My contributors have kept this informative Web site going for more than eight years. Become a contributor today... please? Active contributors are the only thing keeping www.SaveTheGuns.com online. Thank you very much for your support! CONTRIBUTIONS SINCE LAST ISSUE... $15.00 in contributions were received since the August 2008 issue of the Minuteman Monthly. Thank you! Fifteen dollars is better than nothing to help defend the Second Amendment with. P.S. I just used the $15.00 in contributions for this month to give a Junior NRA Membership to a co-worker's ten year old boy. If we do not start getting kids involved now, we will be able to watch the end of the Second Amendment in a few short decades. E-mail me with suggestions or comments Item of the Month This is the Minuteman Monthly Retailer of the Month. My retailer of the month is 123Inkjets. Everyone with a printer needs to buy ink cartridges. Why go to a retailer and pay full price, when you can get ink shipped to your house for less money?
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Heller News Here is a link to the NRA's political action arm called the Institute for Legislative Action or NRA-ILA. They have created a special page for District of Columbia v Heller updates. From the following Web page, you can visit a link to hear the oral arguments in the case, read all of the Amicus Curiae Briefs, download the opinion of the court and much more. Obama News Here is a link to the NRA-ILA's Web page that is completely dedicated to Barack Obama and his firm stand against the Second Amendment. Despite his current rhetoric that he supports the Second Amendment, Barack Obama has consistently opposed lawful and honest gun owners at every turn. I encourage you to look at this page thoroughly and send it to any of your firearm-owning buddies who think Barack Obama would make a good president who would support and defend the rights of America's honest gun owners. U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) has made so many mistakes, gaffes, lies and has flip-flopped on so many important issues that he makes Bill Clinton look honest, John Kerry look consistent and Dan Quayle look like a spelling bee champion. He is virtually insulated from harsh criticism from the mainstream media. Make no mistake about it, a President Obama would be a friend to anti-gunners throughout the world and a domestic enemy of the Second Amendment. I stop short of endorsing John McCain for President of the United States, but a President Barack Obama would be disastrous for law abiding American gun owners and would mean almost nothing in the minds of the violent career criminal. After Barack Obama chose the anti-gun zealot Senator Joe Biden (D-DE), I chose to stand behind Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) for President of the United States. An Obama and Biden Administration would set back the Second Amendment dozens of years, while John McCain has changed his positions on a couple of firearm issues and poses an insignificant threat to the Second Amendment. Vote your conscience on November 4th, but risking an Obama-Biden Administration with a Democrat-led Congress and we'll suffer as a result. Minuteman Monthly Newsletter Aiming Point Concealed carry of a firearm in a public place is lawful in 48 of the 50 states in the United States of America. Only the states of Illinois and Wisconsin have refused to allow their own citizens to have personal protection in public. Thirty six (36) of the States are "Shall-Issue" states where a citizen will be able to obtain a firearm with having to deal with the discretion of a local police body, as long as they are a lawful and honest citizen. In most of these forty eight states where concealed carry is allowed, the only requirements to obtain the permit are a clean criminal record, no history of domestic violence and no alcohol or drug abuse, as well as a basic firearm education course. In my opinion, anyone who carries a concealed firearm on a daily basis, with a concealed carry permit and only has a basic knowledge of safe gun handling is totally missing the boat. Sure, I'll agree that a basic firearm safety course is a good thing if you wish to carry a concealed firearm in public, but it's not nearly enough. Anyone serious about the subject of daily concealed carry in public should not be satisfied with possessing only basic safety and marksmanship skills. There is so much more to know about concealed carry than basic gun safety and marksmanship and a cursory treatise of self defense law. The subject goes significantly deeper, way deeper, deeper than most concealed carry permit holders are even aware of. A much deeper and much more complete knowledge of this subject should be a goal foremost in the minds of those of us who choose to carry concealed firearms around with us. Sure, there are many books available on the subject. Some of these great books can be found right here: Concealed Carry Books At Amazon.com But this month's Minuteman Monthly Newsletter is not about promoting books about concealed carry. This month's Aiming Point is about the United States Concealed Carry Association or rather the USCCA. U.S. Concealed Carry - The Ultimate Resource for the Armed Citizen When visiting the USCCA, please use this text link and banner above. I believe in the United States Concealed Carry Association (USCCA) so much, that not only did I join, but I also became a USCCA Membership Recruiter as well. If you decide to become a USCCA Member, there is a banner at the top of every page at www.SaveTheGuns.com that you could use as well. There are many, many reasons why I believe in the USCCA. First of all, it's The Ultimate Resource For The Armed Citizen, which is its moniker and it lives up to the hype. The issues of Concealed Carry Magazine which come out eight (8) times a year are packed with true stories of self defense, articles written by professional self defense trainers, industry pros and more. There are articles on weapon choice, caliber, holsters, carry positions, women who carry, when to shoot articles and much more. The USCCA's Web site at www.USConcealedCarry.com, has many more benefits than just the magazine, though the magazine is good, the Web site is great. The list of writers, contributors and experts who contribute to the USCCA is a listing of who's who in the self defense field. Classic writers and industry professionals like Gabriel Suarez of the Suarez International firearms training institute at http://www.suarezinternational.com/, Massad Ayoob of the Lethal Force Institute has been a contributor, Tony Walker of SAS Training and author of How to Win a Gunfight is one of the USCCA writers as well. George Harris of the Sig Sauer Academy also writes a regular column on training and tactics at http://www.sigsauer.com/EducationTraining/ There are member forums available at the Web site that you will have access to once you become a member, that are second to none. There's a New Members forum, a General Discussion forum, a Ballistics and Ammunition forum, a Gun & Holsters forum, a Knives, Lights & Gear forum, a Training and Tactics forum, an Emergency Preparedness forum, a Marketplace forum to sell your stuff and the very popular Force on Force Notebook forum, where industry professionals can answer self defense related questions and more from USCCA members. I have recently received a twenty eight page report from the USCCA called How to Transform Fear Into a Powerful Ally. This report featured tips from a South Central L.A. Police Sergeant, a retail merchant who has survived four gunfights and killed five assailants, a professional bodyguard, a retired U.S. Marine Sergeant, an Israeli Military Intelligence Agent, a PHD in Psychology and more. The article on how to transform fear into a powerful ally can be life-changing to some people who have not taken a close look at themselves. Once you become a USCCA Member, you will learn more about:
I simply cannot say enough about the United States Concealed Carry Association (USCCA). The annual membership was recently $69.00 a year, but has been reduced to $47.00 or just ninety cents (90¢) per week. I know that it might be difficult to come up with the forty seven bucks ($47), but once you become a member, you'll be happy that you chose to spend the money. Membership in the United States Concealed Carry Association is an investment in yourself and your loved ones more than anything else. So when your spouse tells you 'no' on spending the $47.00, you can say that 'I'm investing in myself and my family and I have a duty to learn as much as I can about this subject.' :-) Ninety cents (90¢) a week is well worth the price to be able to log into the forums and ask specific questions about concealed carry and self defense issues and get feedback from professionals and SERIOUS concealed carry permit holders from every corner of the nation. I have posted a .pdf file from the USCCA on my Web site called the Armed Citizen Solution. It can be found here: http://www.savetheguns.com/PDF_Files/armedcitizensolution.pdf I was going to attach the file to this newsletter as a convenience, but it would have made the file very large. If you would like me to e-mail the Armed Citizen Solution to you privately, just let me know and I'll get it out to you, most of the time in less than a day. This .pdf file is well worth a look if you would like to learn more about the United States Concealed Carry Association. But remember, if you choose to join and invest the $47.00 in yourself, please use the following banner: I encourage you to learn more about the USCCA and once you become a member, I'll see you on the forums. I'm excited about being a new member of the United States Concealed Carry Association and I hope you are too. They are the 'NRA' of concealed carry in my opinion. JOIN THE NRA AND FORWARD THIS ON TO YOUR NON-NRA FRIENDS AND FAMILY. http://membership.nrahq.org/default.asp?campaignid=XR017807 Closing Comments Thank you for taking the time out of your day to read the Minuteman Monthly Newsletter. I encourage you to pass it on. You may use this newsletter as you see fit. You may post it, blog it, print it, forward it and publish it. The only thing I ask is that somewhere in your material, make sure the URL www.SaveTheGuns.com appears prominently. Thanks,
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