Wisconsin Hunters: 8th Largest Army In The World

While I was in Wisconsin earlier in the week, I checked the family's mailbox for my latest issue of MidWest Outdoors, a monthly magazine that focuses on fishing, hunting, and camping in the Midwest.

From one of my favorite sections, "Shot Shots and Small Catches," for October:

There will be over 600,000 hunters this year in the state of Wisconsin. Wisconsin's hunters will become the eighth largest army in the world.

According to an August 2012 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service survey entitled 2011 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation, 13.7 million Americans, or 6 percent of the population 16 years old or older, went hunting last year.

13.7 million American hunters? Ladies and gentlemen, meet the largest army in the world.

"A gun behind every blade of grass" is the likely reason no foreign nation has ever attempted to invade America in modern history. 

Furthermore, while overall hunting participation increased 5 percent from 2001 to 2011, the survey noted participation has jumped 9 percent since 2006.

So much for the death of hunting you hear so much about in the mainstream media.

What? The Brady campers are making it up?

You can read the entire survey on the U.S. Department of the Interior website here (.pdf document)

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Original Page: http://survivalandprosperity.com/2012/10/12/wisconsin-hunters-8th-largest-army-in-the-world/

99% Chance That This Florida Attorney General’s Brief Was Filed by Someone Not Licensed to Practice Law

Mr. Volokh, you had me at Florida. 

Odd, you say — wouldn't it be pretty likely that whoever is signing the brief is likely licensed to do so? Well, I can prove it: Less than 1% of the Florida population is licensed to practice law. Thus, given the small percentage of the population that is licensed to practice law, the overwhelming majority of briefs are not licensed. Thus, my suspicion that the brief was signed by someone who isn't licensed would be reasonable because, in any given case, there would be, statistically speaking, a 99% likelihood of unauthorized practice of law.

Nonsense!, you say. Nonsense indeed — yet it is the argument that the Florida Attorney General made with regard to licenses to carry concealed firearms.

The legal question was when a police officer who has reasonable suspicion that a person is carrying a concealed firearm is entitled to briefly detain and frisk the person. Generally, reasonable suspicion that a person is committing a crime suffices to justify the brief detention, and — once the stop takes place — reasonable suspicion that the person is armed and dangerous suffices to justify the frisk. But concealed carrying with a license is legal, though whether or not the person has a license generally can't be determined until he's stopped.

May the police officer act on the assumption that it's sufficiently likely (though far from certain) that someone who he suspects is carrying a gun doesn't have a license? Should it matter whether a license is an affirmative defense to the crime of carrying a concealed weapon, as opposed to the absence of a license being an element of the crime of carrying an unlicensed concealed weapon? It's a complicated, interesting, and unsettled question.

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Homemade Leather Pocket Holster

Looks like a pretty interesting project, especially if you can't find a holster you like for your pistol.

Michigan Handgun Registration Idiocy

legislation that would eliminate the state handgun "permit-to-purchase" and registration requirements, is currently stalled in the Michigan Senate.

Imagine that...

The reason for this delay stems from opposition by the Michigan State Police, as well as Governor Rick Snyder's office, asking Senate leadership to "hold" HB 5225.The Michigan State Police, never friendly to pro-gun reforms, including the current state Right-to-Carry law, has even proposed a number of crippling amendments to HB 5225 that would perpetuate Michigan's antiquated registration system in the event that they are unable to stop its passage.

The Michigan State Police (MSP) has made its position clear.  The MSP wants to maintain records of law-abiding citizens that legally purchased handguns in Michigan.  In essence, MSP wants to have easy access to a list of guns owned by law-abiding citizens, like YOU.  The MSP continually ignores the fact that criminals do not buy guns at retail stores and criminals do not register firearms.  This gun control scheme has failed to prevent the violence in Detroit and Flint, two of top five most violent cities in America.  Guns misused in a crime can and are traced in the forty states without such a permit-to-purchase/registration requirement.  In fact, last year alone over 5,000 firearms recovered in Michigan were run through the federal trace system.

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Original Page: http://www.ammoland.com/2012/10/05/help-repeal-handgun-registration-in-michigan/

What Happens When You Fire a .50 Cal At An iPhone 5?

Richard Ryan may have the simplest YouTube channel concept. And one of the coolest.

The channel is cleverly called RatedRR. Still, that doesn‘t give a hint as to what you’re about to see. So what is RatedRR all about? It follows host Richard Ryan firing his big guns at various objects. We’re talking a .50 caliber taking on a new iPhone 5. And that’s exactly the subject of his latest video.

Recently, Ryan took his Barrett out to see how the new iPhone would stand up to a couple rounds. Answer: better than you’d think.

What Happens When You Fire a .50 Cal At An Iphone 5? « THE WAKING GIANT

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Amish Edition

An Ohio Amish man who fired a shot into the air that killed a 15-year-old girl more than a mile away has been sentenced to jail.

Holmes County Prosecutor Steve Knowling says 28-year-old Marion Yoder pleaded guilty Tuesday to negligent homicide.

Judge Robert Rinfret sentenced him to the maximum six months in the county jail on the misdemeanor conviction, but he suspended all but 30 days of the term. Yoder will be on probation for three years and will go back to jail for the full term if he violates it.

Yoder fired a shot into the air as he cleared his muzzle-loading rifle on Dec. 15. The round killed the girl, who was driving a horse-drawn buggy home from a Christmas party.

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Fast and Furious: Romney Executive Privilege Pledge

An open letter request to Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to make good on his words of “applause” for the Operation Fast and Furious “gunwalking” investigation with a pledge, should he be elected, to revoke executive privilege protecting the production of subpoenaed documents, is likely to go nowhere if confined to limited niche readerships.

While there has been modest support spreading the word on social media sites, realistically, not enough attention will be generated that way to create the pressure needed to convince the Romney campaign that this is something they shouldn’t ignore.

One correspondent advised me that we really need to be able to put the pressure on a campaign insider, but that’s problematic—Romney’s manager, Matt Rhoades, keeps himself insulated with a low profile, and his style and strategy appear to be fixed on the center line and swing voters, rather than a core constituency the Republicans reflexively take for granted.

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