Exercising Our Gun Rights

My father-in-law and I decided to take Thursday afternoon and exercise our 2nd amendment rights.  Allen Arms Indoor Shooting Range in Greenville is a great location to go and enjoy a few hours shooting your weapons and working on your aim for hunting.

We continue to hope that our government will continue to protect our rights to bear arms.  Some of the rules being proposed by Bobby Rush would damage this market and our rights.  Some of the bill calls for bullets to be bar-coded so they can be traced back to the owners. Other bills being proposed would outlaw the weapon above, the MP5.  The shear cost for the weapon alone would outlaw it ($17,000+).  But we were doing some research and found what else it would take to purchase this weapon.  We found this on Yahoo Answer’s:

Since the Heckler & Koch MP-5 is a fully Automatic Machine Gun, you will need to order one thru a Class III Dealer, but before that you will need to complete an application for purchase of a machine gun thru BATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms) You will be subjected to a complete background investigation, and you will be required to submit fingerprints as part of the application process. When and if approved you will in addition also be required to purchase a $200 Federal Tax Stamp. You will then have to figure out where you are going to come up with the cost of the MP-5 itself. They can cost as much as $20,000 and UP, depending on what model and version you choose.

Needless to say, it’s pretty hard to get one with the current process.  Thankfully, to enjoy shooting the weapon, Allen Arms currently rents it for about $20.  Ammunition for the gun was about $12/box of 50.  Needless to say, we only shot it for about 15 minutes, as it gets expensive to shoot.  Overall though, this weapon shoots like a charm.

Inauguration Day – Purple Ticket Let Down

It is inauguration day and we are standing in line in the 395 tunnel under the capital.

We will be sitting in the Purple Standing area when and if we make it above ground to the US Capital grounds. Check back throughout the day for various updates and pictures.

Update:
We would have brought more updates, but the Internet connection in the subway was horrible. Not to mention the fact that I never made it to the inauguration.

That’s right, we got up at 4am this morning to go to the event to stand in the I395 tunnel for close to 6 hours. Then we get to the entrance and they are closing it up.

From what I heard, the speech was awesome.

Oh well, congrats to the President.

Our Wrecking Crew in Washington, DC

We made our long voyage to Washington DC today for the inauguration of Barack Obama.  For some of us (myself) this is my first time in DC, while the rest of the crew has been here at some point in the past.  Each of us are enjoying the opportunity to see history, the swearing in of the 44th President of the United States.

We had an interesting ride with the one and only Rick Beltram who somehow managed to ramble for 1 hour and 20 minutes about several things.  I shouldn’t say ramble, but he discussed DC in general and reviewed the itinerary with everyone.  Me, I enjoyed watching The Dark Knight on my iPhone and laughed with my friends above.

The Spartanburg Herald Journal is along for the ride and they are making sure to talk to everyone and get their pictures.

We’ll provide some updates throughout the day tomorrow, hopefully, and the next night.

Barack Obama in Charlotte

Barack Obama will be back in Charlotte, NC on Monday, November 3rd, at 5:30pm trying to shore up support to claim another former Republican state.  The doors open to the event at 3pm.  If you are able to make it to the event and have pictures, video, or would like to share your experience, e-mail us at info @ theconservativist.com

University of North Carolina – Charlotte
Hayes Recreation Fields
9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte, NC

Barack Obama in Charlotte on 9/21

The Conservativist has learned that Barack Obama will be in Charlotte this weekend.  Details are below.

Change We Need Rally with Barack Obama
4th Street between S. Davidson Street and S. McDowell
Charlotte, NC

Sunday, September 21st
Doors Open: 11:00 a.m.
Program Begins: 1:00 p.m.

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