Tactical Atlas Firearm Blog
New Public Database Reveals Bias of Gun-Control Researchers
USA – -(Ammoland.com)- I read with fascination this article that appeared in the Macon, Georgia Telegraph today, which I’m pleased to see is getting a fair amount of press on my favorite pro-Second Amendment sites.
And by fascination, I really mean the sort of morbid, irresistible curiosity that compels one to stare at car accidents and other scenes of destruction, like The Kramer.
Suppressors Cure A True Public Health Issue
USA – -(Ammoland.com)- The National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) was primarily a response to Prohibition era gang violence.
It mandated the registration of all suppressors, machine guns, short-barreled shotguns and rifles, and imposed a lengthy approval process and added enormous expense for these devices. The $200 tax on manufacturing and transferring the covered items was exorbitant at the time, roughly $3,500 in today’s money.
Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Line of Fire
USA – -(Ammoland.com)- For many years, Americans’ natural right to self defense and our Constitutionally enshrined right to keep and bear arms has been under attack.
The agents have been many of the same forces and factions that have been assaulting and slowly eroding Americans’ other civil liberties. The November Presidential election seemed to be pushing the Second Amendment, like a child with recurrent leukemia, toward a fate from which recovery seemed unlikely.
Universal Background Checks for Everything!
USA – -(Ammoland.com)- Imagine this reality:
It was winter, and our 2 year old had an earache. Even though both my wife and I are doctors, she’s always insisted that our children see the pediatrician when they’re sick.
I was working the swing shift, so daytime sick call fell to me.
Fortunately, the pediatrician was able to see him right away, and neither of us were surprised when her exam revealed an ear infection. I thanked her for her time, and after a brief chat, headed over to the pharmacy with my son in tow to pick up the antibiotic she had prescribed.
The Vaccine “Loophole” and Other Myths
USA – -(Ammoland.com)- In 1998, a group of physicians published a small case study involving just 12 patients in the respected medical journal Lancet, claiming that their results indicated a link between the mumps-measles-rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism.
The story received wide publicity in the media and spawned a tidal wave of public concern, as well as multiple large follow-up studies—none of which supported their conclusion.
In the years since publication, Lancet and all of the authors have retracted the 1998 study in its entirety. It has been convincingly demonstrated that the results were not simply incorrect, but were fabricated, a deliberate fraud perpetrated for financial gain—the lead author had received funding from lawyers representing parents suing vaccine manufacturers.
The retractions, however, received very little media attention.
Government vs. People and Guns : Primum non nocere
By Tom Vaughan
USA – -(Ammoland.com)- The mission of the Food and Drug Administration is ostensibly to protect Americans from potentially harmful substances. Likely you’ve seen the agency come under fire for a variety of reasons—they’re too slow to approve new drugs and devices, they deny access to experimental treatments for terminal patients. The list goes on.
As with any labyrinthine and glacial bureaucracy, the anger and frustration we feel is logical and appropriate. It’s repugnant for government at any level to deny citizens the right to make individual choices which have no direct consequences for anyone other than themselves.
My Disease Free Zone Declaration
By Tom Vaughan
Declares himself a Disease Free Zone!
USA – -(Ammoland.com)- I’m so excited—I’m going to live forever. Today I declared my body a Disease-Free Zone.
I had thought immortality would be complicated. I’d thought it would require a lot of research and some pretty substantial lifestyle adjustments, not to mention a lot of preventive medical care, and constant vigilance for early signs of disease.
But it turns out all I had to do was make my body a Disease-Free Zone. To make it official, I had my lawyer draw up some documents. And to make sure there wasn’t any doubt about it, I got it tattooed on my forearm.
But I think that pretty much covers it: clearly stated intent not to be the victim of disease, legal documentation of my Disease Free status, and a clearly posted sign.