Update to the story in today's Journal --
She didn't receive approval due to her background check coming back as "Delay." No indication as to why. Since it has been over thirty days, she again will apply. She says support for her decision was almost unanimous.
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If she was just delayed, if it’s not denied or approved, she can pick up the gun in three business days.
“If the FFL has not received a final determination from the NICS after three business days have elapsed since the delay response, it is within the FFLs discretion whether or not to transfer the firearm (if state law permits the transfer). If the FFL transfers the firearm, the FFL must check no resolution was provided within three business days on line 21d of the ATF Form 4473.”
My wife is active with Marine and military family support and troop support groups. She knows several people in Eloy, a little town 65 miles southwest of Phoenix, between us and the source of illegal Mexican drug mules and their armed thug escorts. My wife says that one of her friends from Eloy says that many Eloy citizens are now packing because of they feel threatened by dangerous criminal Mexicans.
And does she still feel that it is all "senseless violence" and "no good can come from owning a gun"?
The job police really have is "To Investigate and Arrest." Some LEOs are nice enough to do some service-ish stuff along the way, and most are probably nice enough folks if you aren't currently the subject of their professional interests...
But the harsh truth is this: When called, the police will probably get there AFTER the crime has already been committed, that is to say, after you and/or people you love have been assaulted or killed.
Protection from the police is mostly by luck, or if you're an important witness they want to have testify for the prosecution.
Your protection and defense is YOUR OWN RESPONSIBILITY FIRST!
A very short, side by side, 12 gauge shotgun for domestic use.
Now if only people like her would stop and ask themselves “I wonder what else those ignorant rednecks might be right about.....”
What do know? Another lib doing a 180 when reality smacks her upside the head.
I can’t think of a single liberal “issue” that a lib wouldn’t do a complete turnaround on if his life or the lives of his loved ones hung in the balance (note, however, that usually he’ll only make the exception for himself or other libs in a similar situation).
OTOH, I can’t think of a single issue that a conservative person would change his mind about if in similar circumstances. What would make a conservative person decide it was okay to start killing babies, or abolish property rights, or give up his right to defend himself, etc.? NOTHING. That’s how you can tell us apart. In the end, the left has no core principles.
Dumb, dumb, dumb. She just announced to all the thugs, burglars and rapists in NM that she’s armed with a butter knife.
I went out with this woman about 36 years ago. She didn’t get it then and she doesn’t get it now.
As a journalist, Joline, you should do some real research and find out how bogus those studies are.
All I can say is honey, buy the damn gun!
It’s the most feminist, impowering thing you can do...
Get a concealed carry permit and you will never be a victim...
Learn to use it properly and you will never live in fear...
Lastly, share this with sisters, it may save their life.....
I read the comments and her responses over there. A lib has taken the first step over to our side.