A Disassembled Firearm: No More Than A Paper Weight…

With Heller vs. District of Columbia (2008) the United States Supreme Court found that the Second Amendment was an individual, not collective, right. Shortly after that ruling the District of Columbia Mayor, Attorney General, and Chief of Police issued a statement and the last line of the sixth paragraph is said, quote:

“In addition, although the Court struck the safe storage provision on the ground that it was too broadly written, firearms at home should be kept either unloaded and disassembled or else locked except for use in self-defense in emergencies” (http://dc.gov/mayor/news/release.asp?id=1325&mon=200806).

Well, I decided to test this line with both the “unloaded and dissembled” and “locked” part “except for use in self-defense in emergencies.”

I tested this with my Kahr CW40. Below are pictures of it completely unloaded and disassembled:



This picture shows all the individual parts of the firearm. On the top you have two unloaded six (6 round magazines and the slide to the Kahr. On the bottom of the case you have a box of ammunition, the barrel, handle with trigger lock, spring, rod, and pin.

Below that is the two locks and keys to secure the case.

Here is everything as it was packed into the case:



Here is it completely locked:



This is where I put it in my closet in my bedroom:



The dresser and where the key was to get to that firearm:





Now that you see where everything was I will give you the diagram of steps (distance) and everything to get upstairs to be able to put together a firearm to defend myself and my family:

-Six (6) steps to the stairs from my computer desk (about 18 feet)
-Fourteen (14) steps on the stairs
-Nine (9) steps to the dresser (about 27 feet)
-Three (3) steps to the dresser (about 9 feet)

I ran the experiment three times. Here is how long each run took:

First – 1:50.27
Second – 1:51.77
Third – 2:05.85

The reason the third experiment took fifteen (15) seconds longer was because I had trouble getting the pin in to complete the firearm.

Each time I would race upstairs from my desk, lock the bedroom door, get the key from the dresser, get the case from the closet, drop to the floor and unlock the case, assemble the firearm and test it, grab the box of bullets and load a magazine, load the magazine into the firearm rack the slide to put a round into the firing position, load a second magazine, stand and face the door to confront my attacker.

Now as you watch the video below you will see the exact distance I had to travel to perform this experiment:



My conclusion: An unloaded, disassembled, and locked firearm will do you no good when an intruder enters you home. This experiment may be very different to others and their homes, but for my home it doesn’t work. I would have to move pass my front door, probably where an attacker would come from, to get to my bedroom. An attacker would only need to go upstairs in a few short steps and kick in the door before I even got the case unlocked.

Gun laws and policies such as those of the District of Columbia and others are only protecting one person: the attacker/intruder. With an unloaded firearm they have nothing to fear.

This is why in my home I have a firearm within reaching distance at all times. As I write this I have a Springfield XD40 and Kahr CW40 on my kitchen table, no more then four feet away from me.

Why did I conduct this experiment: to show that these types of gun laws and policies do not work. We as armed citizens and as Defenders of the Second Amendment must fight these types of policies. We have to write our representatives and tell them to not pass gun laws that only harm the innocent, but protect the guilty.

E-mail to Governor Huntsman

Dear Governor Huntsman,

On your desk from the State Legislator are two very good pro-gun bills that are awaiting your signature to sign into law. Those bills are:

House Bill 357 and Senate Bill 78

As a person that voted for you in the last election I am requesting that you sign these two bills into law. They are very key in maintaining the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution and Article I, Section VI of the Utah Constitution. These two bills will be restoring these rights that so many are trying to take away from law-biding gun-owners like myself.

Defend the Constitution of the US and of the Great State of Utah and sign these bills into law!

Respectfully,
Charles A. Hall, "Tony"
Founder, Second Amendment Defenders of America
www.charlesahall.com

The Second Amendment: The People's Check

Nothing in the United States Constitution or its amendments gives “We The People” a “check” on Our government except the Second Amendment – The Right to Keep and Bear Arms. It is the one check “We The People” have against a corrupt government. The Freedoms and Rights of speech, religion, press, assembly, voting, speedy trial, due process, no quarter and all others are not a check on Our government, only the Right to Keep and Bear Arms allows Us that check.

If it Our check on Our government why are Democrats, Handgun Control, Inc. (HCI – “The Brady Campaign”), liberal groups and judges trying to take away Our check and Our right? Because without it “We The People” no longer control the government. The government will no longer be our government but Theirs, They will have control and may do as They feel is needed: suspend free and open elections, take away freedoms like the freedom of the press and speech, put in jail whom They’d like, etc. The people are now at the mercy of the very government set up to protect them.

Many on the left (liberals) will say it is to protect us. That taking away our guns and ammo we will be safer. That gun registration allows the government to control gun violence. Well, many crimes committed today are done with firearms sold on the black market in back alleys ad abandoned warehouses. By taxing and taking aim at law-biding citizens with outrageous laws, rules, and regulations only further puts the innocent at the mercy of their government and criminal alike.

I have a sign in my front room window that says, “Criminals Prefer Unarmed Victims” and if we lose the Second Amendment criminal will have their way. PERIOD!

When Australia took away the right of their citizens to own a firearm all aspects of crime went up (see post and note titled “The Second Amendment – No First Without The Second”). Why? Because criminals had their way with their victims, the very people the government thought would be safer. Do we want the streets of America running red with the blood of the innocent? No! We want to be safe, not at the mercy of criminal and our government alike! We want to have that check against corrupt government.

In the movie National Treasure Benjamin Gates (played by Nicholas Cage) reads from the Declaration of Independence: “But when a long train of abuses and years of patience perusing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government and provide new guards for their future security.” He explains it to mean “if something is wrong, those that have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action” and replace it with a new government.

On July 4th, 1776 the most educated men on the American continent began that process. Now 232 years later we have to defend what they created: A More Prefect Union. They look down from the heavens today, waiting to see if we live up to the gift and legacy they have left us. We will be judged on how we treat this nation they, our ancestors, set up.

We must preserve it and always check our leaders and hold them accountable for their actions. If we allow them, the government, to take away our one and only “check” the rest of our freedoms and rights will soon follow.

The Founding Fathers set up a checks and balance system between the three branches of the Federal Government. They then gave us, The People, a check: The Second Amendment – The Right to Keep and Bear Arms. If we allow corrupt politicians and interest groups on Capital Hall and across this nation to take way the Second Amend Father in Heaven, God Almighty, have mercy upon us for we have failed. Forgive us, our ancestors, which freed us from foreign rule and established the greatest nation to even be setup upon this earth for we have let the corrupt destroy that which you built with your own blood, tears, and lives. Forgive us, our children, for we have not passed onto you a legacy of freedom but a past of sorrow and corruption. Forgive us for we have failed on our watch. Forgive us.

I pray that day will never come. We cannot let it come! What can you do to make sure that day never comes? Take up your modern day quill and parchment (pen and paper) and write your elected officials (local, state, and federal) that you want your rights to remain untouched. Tell them to leave your God Given Rights alone! Tell them they serve you, not us serve them. Get your family and friends involved. Go out and buy a pistol, shotgun, and rifle and then train to use them. Become an American Marksman. Join the National Rifle Association of America (NRA - www.nra.org), join Second Amendment Defenders of America (SADA), join local shooting associations and clubs. Take your gun hating friends to the range and teach them how to shoot and then teach them why it is so important to preserve our Second Amendment right. These are just some of the many things you can do to preserve your right and my right and their right and this great nation.

Now is the time to stand up and be counted. Now is the time to protect our nation. I quote James “Mitch” Vilos: “Citizens who quietly watch our freedom eroded, who don’t want to rock the ‘comfort boat’ by speaking out (many of whom are couch-potato-sports addicts) are no longer Americans; they are rich, comfortable, oversexed Romans who foolishly believe Rome could never fall.” We cannot be as the Romans for we are Americans. “We The People” must preserve this great nation, The United States of America, that it may never perish from the earth

The Second Amendment: No First Without The Second

The Bill of Rights was introduced by James Madison, the Father of the Constitution and Fourth President of the United States, in 1789 to the First United States Congress and were put into effect as constitutional amendments on December 15, 1791 when they were ratified by the states of the Union at that time. Originally Madison wanted this to be included in the original constitution but those were struck down by the Founders at that time.

The Bill of Rights is just that, rights! Something that is guaranteed that cannot be taken away. Many people now days do not think of them as rights but they are. They are not privileges, they are rights!

The Second Amendment is probably the most heated of them all, literally and figuratively. It reads:

"A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Many have thought that the word "Militia" means "military" when in fact at the time of the Bill of Rights "militia" meant "the people" (Norton, page 206). That is right, "the people" have the right to keep and bear arms. If you have ever seen the movie The Patriot starring Mel Gibson you will understand this concept even more. I recommend you go and watch it.

"The first legislation on the subject was The Militia Act of 1792 which provided, in part:
"That each and every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective States, resident therein, who is or shall be of age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years (except as is herein after excepted) shall severally and respectively be enrolled in the militia, ... every citizen, so enrolled and notified, shall, within six months thereafter, provide himself with a good musket or firelock...."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_Act_of_1792)

This was replaced by The Militia Act of 1903 that established the "organized militia" and "reserved" or "unorganized militia". The Organized Militia is now the National Guard, maintained by each state. The Unorganized Militia is the people.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_Act_of_1903)

The Second Amendment is what protects the rest of the Amendments regarding the freedoms of speech, religion, voting, and others.

In "Utah Gun Law" by Mitch Vilos he gave three (3) reasons for the Second Amendment:

1) It is a vital "check" on government tyranny.
Here are some unknown facts about when the "right to keep and bear arms" were taken away from other nations:

* In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. This doesn't include the 30 million 'Uncle Joe' starved to death in the Ukraine.

* In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

* Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, leaving a populace unable to defend itself against the Gestapo and SS. Hundreds of thousands died as a result.

* China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

* Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

* Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. The total dead are said to be 2-3 million

* Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, 1-2 million 'educated' people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

* Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because of gun control: 56 million at a bare minimum.

You won't see this data on the US evening news, or hear politicians disseminating this information.

Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens.

Take note my fellow Americans, before it's too late.

The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please remind him of this history lesson.

With Guns...........We Are "Citizens".
Without Them........We Are "Subjects".
(Source: http://www.illuminati-news.com/Articles/117.html)

It just shows you that gun control doesn't work! The Second Amendment protects the citizens!

2) It in an important deterrent to foreign invasion.

During W.W.II the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew most Americans were ARMED.

Note: Admiral Yamamoto who crafted the attack on Pearl Harbor had attended Harvard University 1919-1921 & was Naval Attaché to the U. S. 1925-28. Most of our Navy was destroyed at Pearl Harbor and our Army had been deprived of funding and was ill prepared to defend the country.

It was reported that when asked why Japan did not follow up the Pearl Harbor attack with an invasion of the U. S. Mainland, his reply was that he had lived in the U. S. and knew that almost all households had guns.
(Source: http://www.illuminati-news.com/Articles/117.html)

3) It allows free citizens to defend themselves from violent criminal attack.

* Gun owners in Australia were forced by new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by their own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars. The first year results:

Australia-wide, homicides went up 3.2 percent

Australia-wide, assaults went up 8.6 percent

Australia-wide, armed robberies went up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)

In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not, and criminals still possess their guns.

It will never happen here? I bet the Aussies said that too.

While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady DECREASE in armed robbery with firearms, that changed drastically upward in the first year after gun confiscation...since criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed.

There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the ELDERLY. Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in successfully ridding Australian society of guns. The Australian experience and the other historical facts above prove it.
(Source: http://www.illuminati-news.com/Articles/117.html)

(Vilos, page 1).

So, there we have it. The three (3) big reasons for the Second Amendment. There are no other rights without the Second Amendment. It protects us and our community, our nation, our very way of life.

Say "No To Gun Control!" Say "No To Anti-Gun Laws!" Say "No To Liberal Politicians Wanting To Disarm America!"

More coming soon as we look to see how the Obama Administration treats the Second Amendment.

Work Cited:
Norton, Thomas James. The Constitution of the United States: Its sources and its application. New York: Committee for Constitutional Government, Inc., 1974.

Vilos, James D. "Mitch". Utah Gun Law, 3rd Edition. Centerville: Self published, 2007.