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   The Editor of the Boston Globe had this to say about a reciprocity gun bill, that is picking up momentum, that would allow Americans who have a concealed carry permit to be legal country wide:

GUNS: This isn’t Salt Lake City:

   “Massachusetts should be able to decide for itself who can carry concealed handguns within its own borders. However, that may not be the case for much longer. The US House is on the verge of passing a bill to make all permits for concealed guns reciprocal between states. It would mean that a permit from Utah, a state with notably lax standards for concealed-carry permits, as well as from every other state, would be valid in Massachusetts”.  If this bill is brought up in the Senate, John Kerry and Scott Brown — and every other right-thinking senator — should vote against it.

   Mark’s Note:  The above statement about UTAH ‘lax standards’ is false. Utah has strict criteria to gain a Utah carry permit, it is easily as strict as Massachusetts criteria. I know, I teach it, as well as the qualifications for a Ma. LTC/FID.  Obviously the Editor of the Boston Globe has allowed his anti-gun stance to leak out of his mouth before he engaged his brain. Investigative reporting IS dead, has been for a long time, his reporters should have informed him of the facts before he could openly make a fool of himself.

   “Massachusetts should be able to decide for itself who can carry concealed handguns within its own borders”. Mark’s Note: Sure. And Massachusetts should be allowed to decide which parts of the Constitution are available to its citizens and visitors and which are not! I have a huge problem with this statement. I pay state as well as federal taxes, as all working Americans do. I am not only a citizen of Massachusetts but of the United States as well. This editor would regulate my, and your freedoms, confine them only to within the state borders wherein we live, really?!

   Maybe one of the Globe reporters should look up the Constitution and let the editor read it. He should not limit himself to reading  just the Second Amendment, he should read the clause under Article  IV section I , Full Faith and Credit, (the reason we don’t need 50 drivers licenses). This ‘editor could also read the Privileges and Immunities clause; States have no rights to deny Privileges and Immunities granted by other states. Concealed carry is a ‘privilege’ granted by your state, right?

“If this bill is brought up in the Senate, John Kerry and Scott Brown — and every other right-thinking senator — should vote against it”. Mark’s Note: I think the editor misspoke, he meant to say ‘and every other left- thinking senator’. I am amazed the liberal Boston Globe is still hanging on with its ‘prepared/scripted’ statements that masquerade as ‘news’, this ‘newspaper’/fish-wrapper could only survive in Massachusetts.

 Mark Shean, Submitted 10-29-2011,  www.mafirearmsafety.com

    We have all heard by now, (unless you live under a rock) that a Super Committee has been formed in DC and their task is to lower the deficit. This is the very same deficit that every member of the so-called super committee, along with the rest of Congress created through their utter incompetence. Now we will all be ‘saved’ by this group of six Republicans and six Democrats, sure….. These 12 ‘Representative’s’ will not be looking out for the American people, instead their decisions will lean heavily to the big money special interest groups that have funded their campaign’s for years. That’s the political way of life folks. Political gridlock begins with special interest lobbyist’s. These people found it easy to run up a 15 trillion dollar debt in three years but only want to cut one trillion in spending over the next ten years! There will be more interest than that accrued over ten years!! These people need to go, all of them!

    As a constituent/American, I know that according to population, there should be roughly 435 members of the House of Representatives sent by We the People to represent us on the issues of the day from the 50 states. We send them to find solutions and to keep us safe. We have 100 Senators charged with the same mandate. They are all failing in that mandate. Istead they allow ‘Czars’ to take up the slack it seems, really….? 

    The following list of 32 are appointed so-called ‘Czars’, they are not accountable to you or I, we can not vote them out. In many cases we are not even told what their salary’s are that they suck out of our taxes, but the decisions they make can negatively impact our lives, with no recourse. Read their inflated titles, they are comical, because what they represent are all failures. Its apparent to me these are politically ‘connected’ hacks that you have never heard of, and we are paying through the nose for these bottom feeding ‘good ole boy’ types…… Obama has stated he will appoint 3 more, Cyber, Health Insurance, and Copyright Czars, to sponge off our taxes, oh joy… Does Congress even have a function anymore? Should we keep them?

My solution in a move toward correcting the deficit is at the bottom of the page in my ‘Summary’ concerning the so-called ‘Super Committee’ and the so-called ‘Czars’.

CZARS:

1. Afghanistan Czar – Richard Holbrooke Title: Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Salary: unknown

2. AIDS Czar * – Jeffrey Crowley Title: Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy. Salary: $102,000

3. Auto Recovery Czar – Ed Montgomery Title: Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers. Salary: unknown

4. Border Czar * – Alan Bersin Title: Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Special Representative for Border Affairs Salary: unknown

5. California Water Czar – David J. Hayes Title: Deputy Interior Secretary. Salary: unknown

6. Car Czar – Ron Bloom NOTE: on July 13, 2009, Bloom took over as head of the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry, replacing Steven Rattner. Title: Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury. Salary: unknown

7. Central Region Czar – Dennis Ross Title: Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for the Central Region (encompasses the Middle East, the Gulf, Afghanistan, Pakistan and South Asia). Salary: unknown

8. Climate Czar – Todd Stern Title: Special Envoy for Climate Change. Salary: unknown

9. Domestic Violence Czar – Lynn Rosenthal Title: White House adviser on Violence Against Women. Salary: unknown

10. Drug Czar * – Gil Kerlikowske Title: Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Salary: unknown

11. Economic Czar * – Paul VolckerTitle: Chairman of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Salary: Volcker reportedly isn’t paid for his advice…..

12. Energy and Environment Czar – Carol Browner Title: Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change. Salary: $172,200

13. Faith-Based Czar * – Joshua DuBois Title: Director of the Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Salary: $98,000

14. Government Performance Czar – Jeffrey Zients Title: Chief Performance Officer. Salary: unknown

15. Great Lakes Czar – Cameron Davis Title: Special advisor to the U.S. EPA overseeing its Great Lakes restoration plan. Salary: Unknown

16. Green Jobs Czar – Van Jones Title: Special Adviser for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Salary: unknown

17. Guantanamo Closure Czar – Daniel Fried Title: Special envoy to oversee the closure of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. Salary: unknown

18. Health Czar * – Nancy-Ann DeParle Title: Counselor to the President and Director of the White House Office of Health Reform. Salary: $158,500

19. Information Czar – Vivek Kundra Title: Federal Chief Information Officer. Salary: unknown

20. Intelligence Czar * – Dennis Blair Title: Director of National Intelligence. Salary: $197,700

21. Mideast Peace Czar – George Mitchell Title: Special Envoy for Middle East Peace. Salary: unknown

22. Pay Czar – Kenneth R. Feinberg Title: Special Master on executive pay. Salary: Reportedly receiving no compensation for his work….Out of the goodness of his heart……..

23. Regulatory Czar – Cass R. Sunstein  *Title: Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Salary: unknown

24. Science Czar – John Holdren Title: Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology. Salary: unknown

25. Stimulus Accountability Czar – Earl Devaney Title: Chair of the Recovery Act Transparency and Accountability Board. Salary: unknown

26. Sudan Czar – J. Scott Gration Title: Special Envoy to Sudan. Salary: unknown

27. TARP Czar – Herb Allison  Title: Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability. Salary: unknown

28. Technology Czar – Aneesh Chopra Title: Chief Technology Officer. Salary: unknown

29. Terrorism Czar – John Brennan Title: Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism. Salary: $172,200

30. Urban Affairs Czar – Adolfo Carrion Jr. Title: White House Director of Urban Affairs. Salary: $158,500

31. Weapons Czar – Ashton Carter Title: Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. Salary: unknown

32. WMD Policy Czar – Gary Samore Title: White House Coordinator for Weapons of Mass Destruction, Security and Arms Control. Salary: unknown

SUMMARY:

    So if  523 out of 535 of our Representative’s have decided to turn over all their responsibilities to 12 representative’s, and 32 unelected/appointed ‘czars’ of questionable ethics,  I have a deficit cutting  proposition for the constituents of those 523 dead beat ‘Representative’s…..We obviously no longer need them, send them all home if they have decided not to do the job they were sent to Washington to do! They are fired, no gold plated retirement pension, go back to the real world and work for a living like the rest of us. That would save us a bundle!

   The only other alternative for our ‘Representative’s would be to fire all the so-called czars, disassemble the so-called super committee, and get back to the work of the people as they were voted in to office to do. Pass a Balanced Budget Amendment, repeal Dod/Frank that continues to decimate the housing market, now!  ‘Czars’ are nothing more than an end run around the checks and balances that were built into our Constitution, no wonder Obama likes to appoint ‘Czars’!!  Congress needs to outlaw the use of ‘Czars’, now. That would be a good start.

Mark Shean, submitted 10-26-2011  www.mafirearmsafety.com

A * next to 7 of these means these ‘Czars’ were in other administrations as well….. Obama invented the rest…..

    10-3-11, I have watched all of the GOP debates with interest as the 2012 race heats up. This is my opinion of the candidates so far, in no particular order.

UPDATE: 10-11-11 Debate,  I did not like the round table set up and the Bloomberg channel does not try to hide their ‘left’ slant with ‘gotcha’ questions. Also I noticed the media (Mr.Rose, host) of the show was not giving each candidate the same amount of time, instead he was trying to lead the audience to who he wanted to go against Obama by omitting others from the debate, mainly grilling Romney. Newt Gingrich for instance was only given two questions in the entire two hours, he gave great answers and drew applause both times, the other candidates did not. All in all I don’t think anyone lost any ground, they stuck to their ‘talking points’.  This is the media trying to decide for us who should run in 2012.

   Michelle Bachmann: She started out strong but has faded almost into obscurity, she really has not been able to resonate well with the overall public since before the Florida debate. I don’t think the public is ready for a woman President quite yet. I think she would be good as a  VP if she is offered that chance. UPDATE: 10-11-11 Debate, Michelle sounded very good, I did not like the round table set up and the Bloomberg does not try to hide their ‘left’ slant with ‘gotcha’ questions

   John Huntsman: When he starts talking I cant help but thinking of a phony car salesman. This guy is the ‘slick’ type of politician, he really does not belong as a GOP contender, I think he is a democrat acting as a ‘spoiler’ to the process. By looking at his poll numbers he obviously is only fooling himself. Get out of the race John.

  Rick Perry: I like most of his stands on issues, he appears honest in my view. He is a conservative candidate and we need conservatives in this race.  I do not agree with his Dream Bill in Texas for illegals getting ‘free’  college educations while Americans struggle for the same education.  I do understand that as a governor he was presented the bill by the representatives of the Texas people, and signed it in accordance with the will of the people, so in that respect he did what he was elected to do. As far as the vaccination issue for young girls, he has stated it was a mistake to go about it the way he did, but it was not lost on me that he did have a opt out for parents, it was not mandatory even though people want to pretend it was so to hurt him in the polls. Politics are dirty.

  Ron Paul:  What can I say about this guy, some things he talks about I agree with, like his views about the Federal Reserve, and on the Constitution. Other times I think he is a totally senile isolationist wing-nut, as when he made the statement that he did not see any reason Iran should not have nuclear weapons because other nations did. Gee Ron, the very second Iran got nukes they would launch them on Israel, and you do not understand this as a sitting congressman all these decades? If people want Obama to win just put Ron Paul against him. It would be the same outcome as when Dole ran against Clinton, or when McCain ran against Obama the first time. Old and Cranky vs. Charismatic, the GOP should know the outcome by now. Ron Paul does not have what it takes to win a majority of conservatives, his son would stand a better chance.

  Mitt Romney, I firmly believe that there are southern democrats in office who are more conservative than Romney. He is a very weak Republican at best, who talks a good game but even then his words come off as insincere. He is only a couple notches above Huntsman on his ability to hide his phony side. He is not what real conservatives are looking for in a candidate, many will just stay home if he is the one who runs against Obama. I believe this is why the lefty media is trying to keep him in the limelight, they want him to be the one. His health-care (Romneycare) for Ma. is surviving solely because it is being subsidized by the federal government. In other words it is a failure. Obama care will also need to be subsidized, who will do that? Sky high taxes will be the only way to subsidize Obamacare. Romney does not have the moral courage to say his health-care plan in Ma. is a failure. He is weak.

  Newt Gingrich: He is very smart, probably the brightest candidate on the stage. He thinks fast, has good solutions, would make a great VP because he would be a real asset to any President. The problem is Newt just comes across as a cranky old professor. Personally I think he would make a great President, unfortunately he has a lot of baggage and the media would use it against him to harpoon his message with smoke and mirrors. I would like to see all the states move their primaries into January of 2012, get it over with, so the media would have lost the ability to manipulate the public perception of candidates to the medias liking.

  Herman Cain: I liked him from the very first debate. Refreshingly candid, direct and to the point. He is the only one on stage that is not a career politician. I like that fact. I can detect nothing phony about him. He is the only candidate that has a tax structure plan that makes sense, the 9-9-9 plan, no one else says a word that makes any sense in that direction. You will hear him talk of it in these debates. He is starting to pick up momentum, as he should if anyone is listening. I feel he would get this economy back on track in short order. What he may lack in foreign policy he can surround himself with experts in the field, not thugs and unqualified friends from Chicago…..Americans deserve better and Mr. Cain knows it. Cain & Gingrich in 2012 has a nice ring to it………….

  Rick Santorum: I do not like his whiney debating style, he sounds desperate to make a ‘splash’ in the polls, its not going to happen. I don’t see him as Presidential, or even as a VP, now or in the foreseeable future. Step aside Rick.

  Gary Johnson: I have only seen Gary once in Florida, he was dry, and at times entertaining, (dogs making shovel ready jobs), I will need to see how he carries himself in a couple more debates before I form an opinion. He is a Libertarian, that is not a bad thing, I like the fact that Libertarians like small government. I like the fact that he vetoed nearly 700 tax bills as Governor of New Mexico and did not raise any taxes in the 8 years he served as Governor. I need to hear more about him….

  NOTE: There may be others that throw their hats into this race, as I am sure there will be those throwing in the towel soon, I will update this as events occur.

 Mark Shean, submitted 10-3-2011

   In the September 12th edition of  USA TODAY, the editors ‘view’ on Rick Perry’s stance on Social Security was, in my view, comical. They begin by saying that since its inception in 1935 that it has been very popular with both parties. Of course it has been popular, both parties have been stealing from it since 1935, whats not to like about putting in worthless I.O.U.’s with no thought of ever returning the money? If Social Security was established correctly it would have been OFF limits to everything else except people retiring, if that had been done from the very start a huge surplus would be in place right now.

    USA TODAY says that Perry’s “harsh rhetoric misstates the reality”.  His view that it is a “Ponzi scheme” and “monstrous lie” is way over the top so the paper says. USA TODAY then goes on to define a Ponzi scheme, as being “an undertaking designed to swindle people out of their money by using income revenue to produce bogus investment returns to attract more money”.  “Ponzi schemes have two salient features USA TODAY says. First, they are criminal enterprises, second, they work only until people get wind of what is going on, at which point they inevitably collapse”. BINGO! I agree with USA TODAY completely, they hit the nail right on the head!

  Social Security/the government  has been swindling  people for years out of a portion of their income promising a bogus return on their investment in the form of a retirement stipend in old age. A majority of people put in far more than they ever live to get back, what happens to the money they did not live long enough to collect back? It is rolled back into the SS fund so politicians can then steal it for other things, it should go to the persons family, that sounds very criminal to me that it should be rolled back in…. The second point made by USA TODAY, that once a Ponzi scheme is uncovered it collapses…. well SS is/has been collapsing, and the people are now very aware of it. It is not an ‘entitlement’ as the politicians, including Obama would sorely like you to believe, it is YOUR money that YOU have put into SS, you SHOULD get it back, you earned it throughout your working life!

   Politicians think that by raising the retirement age more people will die before they can collect anywhere near what they put into SS, this is the political ‘fix’ for years of political theft of the SS fund.  Is it a “monstrous lie” as Perry indicates? It most certainly is. It is a lie to continue garnishing young peoples wages for the failing SS fund knowing full well these young people will never get any return on their investment due to politicians direct theft of the SS funds. So I guess that makes it a government run Ponzi scheme after all, run by government criminals. Bernard Madoff was a boyscout compared to Congress all these years.

   USA TODAY says Perry has not made clear his ‘fix’ for SS, everyone except USA TODAY already knows what the ‘fix’ is, pass legislation that makes it a federal crime and life imprisonment for any politician that puts his dirty money grubbing paws into the SS fund for anything other than what it was intended, RETIREMENT! Fixed.

That Rick Perry is the ONLY candidate with the courage to say what needs to be said about SS in these GOP debates tells me he is the right man, (so far) to lead this country out of the mess Obama has only helped to worsen since he took office. So by USA TODAY’s own definition they unwittingly show precisely why Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, and a monstrous lie. Good job USA TODAY!

NOTE: In the 9-15-2011 edition of USA TODAY they ran a political cartoon stating that there are 462 million Americans in poverty….even counting all illegal aliens there are not that many people in the entire country, not even close……I hate to confuse the issues with the facts, obviously USA TODAY would rather slant then use facts.

Mark Shean, 9-15-2011

    I thought I would float this out there for your consideration/input. Now I know that this past storm, (Irene) was bad in many areas, but I live in Plymouth Ma. which was not  even near the direct path of this  downgraded storm. The day before it hit New England, NSTAR left a message on all answering machines about what to do when power was lost, (I guess they somehow knew it was a forgone conclusion) the next day, (Sunday) at exactly 10 AM the power went out. I could not understand why it went out because it was barely windy, it was only lightly raining sporadically. I have been through many Nor’ Easters with really high winds and heavy rain conditions without losing power……really.

    At the same time, 10 AM, we lost our Verizon service, in our case it was the land-line phone and computer, these were out for the better part of 5 days, again, why? We tried to contact Verizon to get any idea as to how long this might drag on, with no luck, no one at Verizon would answer their customer service number. We left the cell phone on ‘speaker’ for hours listening to crappy elevator music designed to drive you off the phone while on hold waiting for anyone to answer!

   After 35 hours we got electrical power back from NSTAR,  jusssst  long enough to throw out everything in the refrigerator. I will watch to see if NSTAR reflects that time frame on the bill……. As for Verizon I will watch closely to see if they deduct the five days from their bill. I suggest you do the same. I have a sneaking suspicion that NSTAR will bill everyone for those hours, pure profit for service not rendered. Keep an eye on your bill. Now there is talk another hurricane may be on the way up the coast, lets see how delicate our services are this time around…….

 Mark Shean, submitted on 9-4-2011

Mark Shean, author of Gun Sense, now #1 on Amazon.

I am attempting to give you all an accurate reference or ‘at a glance’ guide of what states will honor the Utah non resident CCW, and what states will honor the Florida non resident CCW, and what states will honor both of them, or just one of them. Now , I have found this to be harder than I thought it would be when I set out to do this project,  if there is something, anything I have missed please email me about the oversight pointing to accurate facts, and I will research and correct the error quickly. Thank you. Mark Shean–

First things first, I thought it would be best to begin by listing all the constitutionally dysfunctional states/regimes, these are the regimes where the progressives, (democrats) will not honor anyone’s out of state license to carry, (your a bad guy in these states). These regimes are listed here in alphabetical order:

CALIFORNIA, CONNECTICUT, HAWAII, ILLINOIS (Obama nation), MARYLAND, MASSACHUSETT’S, NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK, OREGON, RHODE ISLAND, WISCONSIN. There you have it, eleven states that do not consider your gun rights as a citizen of the United States under the Constitution. Personally, I will not spend my money in states that do not honor our Constitutional/God given right to self defense within our nations boarders, from sea to shining sea.

These next 4 states will only honor the UTAH non resident CCW, (as opposed to Florida) if you have it, not both:  Arizona,  Michigan,  Minnesota, + North Carolina. *Bear in mind the title of my article, I am not talking about other non-resident licenses these states may already honor, only these two ‘multi’ state license’s.

These next 3 states will only honor the FLORIDA  non resident CCW, (as opposed to Utah) if you have it, not both:  Kansas,  New Mexico,+ South Carolina.*Again, bear in mind the title of my article, I am not talking about other non-resident licenses these states may already honor, only these two ‘multi’ state license’s.

Colorado, under 18-12-213. Current Reciprocity.
(1) A permit to carry a concealed handgun or a concealed weapon that is issued by any state that recognizes the validity of permits issued, (by Colorado) pursuant to this part 2 shall be valid in this state in all respects as a permit issued pursuant to this part 2 if the permit is issued to a person who is:
(a) Twenty-one years of age or older; and
(b) (I) A resident of the state that issued the permit, as demonstrated by the address stated on a valid picture identification that is issued by the state that issued the permit and is carried by the permit holder; or
(II) A resident of Colorado for no more than ninety days, as determined by the date of issuance on a valid picture identification issued by Colorado and carried by the permit holder.
(2) For purposes of this section, a “valid picture identification” means a driver’s license or a state identification issued in lieu of a driver’s license.

   Before I get to the states that do honor both the Utah and Florida CCW, there needs to be some clarification for New Hampshire, Florida, Kansas, New Mexico + South Carolina. OK, here we go, New Hampshire will honor the Florida and Utah CCW only if  you are a resident of Florida and Utah.  Kansas, South Carolina and New Mexico will honor the Florida CCW only if  you are a resident of the ‘Sunshine’ State, they will not honor Utah. Lastly, Florida will recognize the Utah license only if  your a resident of Utah. Please read this paragraph over a couple times, it can be confusing.

The next list of 27 states will honor both the Florida and Utah CCW, this does not mean they will not honor other state licenses as well, but for the sake of attempting simplicity, if you have a non resident Florida and/or Utah CCW multi state license you will know where you can take your concealed handgun in your travels:    Alabama,  Alaska,  Arkansas,  Delaware,  Georgia,  Idaho,  Indiana,  Iowa,  Kentucky,  Louisiana,  Mississippi,  Missouri,  Montana,  Nebraska,  North Dakota,  Ohio,  Oklahoma,  Pennsylvania,  South Dakota,  Tennessee,  Texas,  Utah-(FL),  Vermont,  Virginia,  Washington,  West Virginia, + Wyoming. Again, 27 states in all.  NOTE: Utah honors the Florida CCW even if your not a resident of Florida. As mentioned previously, Florida does not do the same for Utah.

These next are a few states that do not honor the Utah CCW, but a couple may honor Florida* and other state licenses, only if you are a resident from that state:

KANSAS, As of 6-14-2011, will recognize: Arizona, Florida, (as already mentioned),  Minnesota,  Nevada,  New Jersey, North Dakota,  South Carolina, + Texas.

MAINE, As listed 8-23-2011,will recognize:  Arkansas,  Delaware,  South Dakota,  Louisiana,  North Dakota, + Wyoming.

NEVADA, As of 7-1-2011, will recognize:  Alaska,  Arizona,  Arkansas,  Kansas,  Kentucky,  Louisiana,  Michigan,  Missouri,  Nebraska,  New Mexico,  North Carolina,  Ohio,  Tennessee,  Rhode Island, + West Virginia.

NEW HAMPSHIRE, As listed 8-23-2011,  Alabama,  Alaska,  Arkansas,  Arizona,  Colorado,  Florida (as previously mentioned), Georgia,  Idaho,  Indiana,  Iowa,  Kentucky,  Louisiana,  Michigan,  Mississippi,  Missouri,  North Carolina,  North Dakota,  Oklahoma,  Pennsylvania,  Tennessee,  Utah (as previously mentioned), + Wyoming.

NEW MEXICO, As listed 8-23-2011, Formal written reciprocity with Texas, informal reciprocity with;  Alaska,  Arizona,  Colorado,  Delaware,  Florida, (as already mentioned),  Kentucky,  Michigan,  Minnesota,  Missouri,  Montana,  North Dakota,  Ohio,  Oklahoma,  South Carolina,  Tennessee, Virginia, + Wyoming.

SOUTH CAROLINA, As listed 8-23-2011, will recognize:  Alaska,  Arizona,  Arkansas,  Florida, (as already mentioned),  Kansas,  Kentucky,  Louisiana,  Michigan,  Missouri,  North Carolina,  Ohio,  Oklahoma,  Tennessee,  Texas,  Virginia,  West Virginia, + Wyoming.

NOTE: It does not matter what license you may have to go into other states, the states you go into EXPECT you to know their laws concerning concealed carry. So it is in your best interest to do your homework prior to traveling. Even in the 11 constitutionally dysfunctional states you are protected by a federal law* if you find yourself passing through one of these 11 regimes, it is known as the McClure-Volkmer Act of 1986, you can read it below:

INTERSTATE TRANSPORT of FIREARMS info:

NOTE:   The Federal McClure-Volkmer Act of 1986*:  In a nutshell, (as I read it, not verbatim). This federal act will protect you from criminally friendly, ‘constitutionally dysfunctional’ states/regimes, (11 of them, Ca. Ma. Ill. NY. NJ. etc.)  in this way: Individuals transporting through certain states that would otherwise view such transport as ‘illegal’, may do so under this law if the weapons are unloaded, cased and stowed in a trunk or locked vehicle compartment which is not readily accessible to the occupants. Any ammunition must also be kept separate and be locked away from the occupants and firearms.

 Mark’s Note: (This ‘act‘ I believe, is to ensure the safety of any criminal(s)  intent on a felony assault of you and your loved ones in these 11 ’constitutionally dysfunctional’ states/regimes) also (I suggest buying the ammo when you get to where your going, as there may not be enough ‘compartments’ in your vehicle to be in compliance.)  This ‘act’ is a reflection of our so-called Representative’s looking out for our safety…….?! Sure…..

‘ACT’ 0f 1986 continued;   The law abiding traveler(s)  must simply be passing through the ‘constitutionally dysfunctional’ states/regimes, and must be bound for a jurisdiction where the possession of such weapons are not considered a threat or illegal by any ‘constitutionally respectful’ state(s).  As long as the traveler(s) maintain a steady uninterrupted course through the ‘constitutionally dysfunctional’ states/regimes with the ‘offending’ weapons/ammo stowed in the manner described above, they will be protected from a felony assault on their inalienable  rights from the 11 ‘constitutionally dysfunctional’ states/regimes that they might travel through. Prime example; New Jersey

   On a personal note: I believe we should be able to go anywhere within our United States, with one license issued by the state wherein we live, as we do with a drivers license per the Full Faith and Credit clause in our Constitution, found under Article IV, Section I. Go read it, it is already clear, all but two of these states are playing games with our gun rights. Vermont and Alaska has the Constitution right, they dont need gun licenses there to own firearms, if your a known criminal, a code is put on your drivers license, you can not own firearms, and you better not be caught with one.

Submitted By Mark Shean, 8-23-2011

  This is all public information, but remember that while you look these over,  just keep in mind there has been a  freeze on Seniors Social Security cost of  living adjustments for two years….

These White House Staff increases go anywhere from 17% up to 86%, quite a bit higher than what the average American experience’s, around 2% if they are lucky, and still employed.

1. Matt Vogel, Special Asst. to the Pres. for Economic Policy, $71,400 to $130,500 an increase of 83% = $59,100,  Not bad for lousy advice in a failed economy…..

2. Heather Zichal, Deputy Asst. to the Pres. for Energy and Climate Change, $100,000 to $140,000 an increase of 40% = $40,000 ! Not bad for an invented junk science job.

3. Kevin Lewis, Director of African-American Media, $42,000 to $78,000 an increase of 86% = $36,000 !  What doe’s he do?

4. Elizabeth Olsen, Special Asst. Director of Presidential Correspondence, $76,500 to $110,000 an increase of 44% = $33,000 !

5. Jessica Wright, Deputy Asst. to the Pres. and Director of Scheduling, $96,000 to $130,000 an increase of 34% = $33,100 !

6. Lauren Paige, Special Asst. to the Pres. and Director of Message Planning, $62,000 to $95,000 an increase of 53% = $33,000 ! She must make the coffee.

7. Elizabeth Nelson, Deputy Director of Scheduling, $45,900 to $75,000 an increase of 63% = $29,100 ! This one makes the coffee for the Director of Scheduling above at #5.

8. Ashley Tate-Gilmore, Director of Travel Office, $45,900 to $75,000 an increase of 63% = $29,100 !

9. Carlos Monje Jr., Spec. Asst. to the Pres. and Chief of Staff of the Domestic Policy Council, $91,800 to $120,000 an increase of 31% = $28,000 !

10. David Cusack, Deputy Asst. to the Pres. and Director of Advance and Operations, $102,000 to $130,000 an increase of 27% = $28,000 !

11. Kimberley Harris, Deputy Asst. to the Pres. and Deputy Councel to the Pres., $130,500 to $158,500 an increase of 21% = $28,000 ! A lot of Deputy Assistants and other ‘assistants’ to the President throughout the list, why? Do they take turns making coffee? BIG Government anyone?

12. Jonathan Samuels, Deputy Asst. to the Pres. $130,500 to $158,500  an increase of 21% = $28,000 !

13. Thomas Vietor, Senior Director and National Security Staff Spokesman, $78,000 to $105,000 an increase of 35% = $27,000 !

14. Frederico Gardaphe, Deputy Director, (of what ?) $50,000 to $75,000 an increase of 50% = $25,000 ! What doe’s he direct?, the other Deputys making the coffee?

15. Denis McDonough, Asst. to the Pres. and National Security Advisor, $147,500 to $172,200 an increase of 17% = $24,700 !

16. Johanna Maska, Deputy Director of Advance and Director of Press Advance, $56,100, to $80,000 an increase of 43% = $23,900 !

17. Kwesi Cobbina, Chief of Staff, Office of Legislative Affairs, $42,000 to $65,000 an increase of 55% = $23,000 !

18. Semonti Stephens, Deputy Communications Director, $53,550 to $75,000 an increase of 40% = $21,450 !

19. Amanda Anderson, Senior Legislative Affairs Advisor, $60,000 to $80,000 an increase of 33% = $20,000 ! She keeps track for the Pres.  of all his lawyers who are fooling around…..

20. Stacy Koo, Deputy Chief of Staff for Presidential Personnel, $55,000 to $75,000 an increase of 36% = $20,000 !

21. Andrea Turk, Director of Information Services, $50,000 to $70,000 an increase of 40% = $20,000 !

Deficit ? WHAT DEFICIT ?!!!! There is no shortage of our money in the White House for political hacks with important sounding titles! This White House has turned a deaf ear to our economy!  Remember this crap in the Fall of 2012 at election time!

    Personally, I do not believe Obama and crew, especially Obama, ever cared about a second term. Anyone who cared about the country would not have let the deficit run amok, it was done by design. The ‘mission’ was to devastate the American economy by any means possible, drag it down to build it back up using Europe’s socialist economy as his model. To come together in a one world system/economy which we are allready linked through the stock market. A second term would have been frosting on the cake but not absolutely necessary.

    We now have a 16 TRILLION dollar deficit Since the Democrats took control in just 2 short years! It will take real concentration/work to correct this run- away freight train now. There needs to be a reckoning with all the politicians that brought us and future unborn generations to this mess! We need accountability for the way all incumbents have callously toyed with all our futures! Prison would be a good start!!

Submitted by Mark Shean, 8-15-2011

    A news story came on the other day that caught my attention, it was concerning Ohio police and a motorist who had a legal gun permit. During the news story they gave a small clip of the dash cam video in which you heard the police officer yelling at the motorist for not disclosing that he had a handgun permit, it was a brief story about the possibility of the police being overzealous. I decided to go online to see if I could find the video, and what I found was, in my opinion, an example of an officer who forgot his oath to the public long ago. The oath to protect and serve. The media did not assign as much importance to this story as they would to any sports story. Badly misplaced priorities, badly represented on the medias part. (Update to this story at bottom of page).

     The video was a little over 17 minutes long, which is quite long for these things. I watched all of it and will add this link so that you do not need to take my word for it, watch it yourself at: www.gunvideos.blogspot.com also if you want to contribute to this citizens defense you can go to: http://OhioCCW.org/cantonPD , I hope these links work.

    I will break it down as it plays out, it starts with three people at the car, two men and a woman, the woman is outside of the car. When the police get out they ask the woman and a black man some questions and then tell them to leave. Meanwhile the officer that is not doing much talking sticks his head into the backseat area of the car searching for who knows what, but he never bothered to ask the driver who is still sitting in the car if he can make a search, the driver is told to be quiet though. There was no ‘probable cause’ to search as far as nothing was ever found. I believe this was an illegal search, the police should of known better, anything that might have been found would have been nullified as evidence in most cases like this. The officer did not tell the driver to exit the car while he looked around which is probably contrary to department standard operating procedure (SOP). The drivers 4Th Amendment rights I believe were violated here.

    When the police took control of the situation they immediately told the driver to be quiet which effectively nullified his ability to notify them that he had a gun permit as stipulated by law in Ohio. When the driver is finally told to get out of the car he has his gun permit in his hand holding it out to the police, the officer says ‘whats that’ and the driver says a license to carry. The officer then go’s crazy screaming why didn’t you tell us this immediately! The driver replies that he tried but was cut off each time he tried to tell them. {The police can’t have it both ways, on the one hand he is told not to speak, on the other hand he is threatened for not telling them, it is a ‘lose lose’ for the citizen who was not allowed to follow the law}.

    The very agitated police officer asks if he has a gun and the driver says yes, the police see it and confiscate it. The officer at this point has now completely lost it, 13:31 into this saga he starts screaming, (not all inclusive, but some of the worse things) “I tell you what I should have done. As soon as I saw your gun I shoulda taken two steps back, pulled my Glock .40, and just put ten bullets in your ass and let you drop. And I wouldn’t of lost any sleep! Do you understand me? “And he, (meaning his partner) would of been a nice witness as I executed you, because your stupid“! “Do you want my gun against your head“? And, “every time I’m putting you in the computer, I see your car I’m pulling you over, tow it, and your going to jail every time“! A few minutes go by and this officer says to his partner: “I swear to God Mark, I’m going to lose my mind if I see another one of these numbskull’s“!

    In Ohio, as in many states, the fact that someone has a gun license is connected with their registry information, the officer should have known before he exited his cruiser that the driver had one by running the plate. This should not mean you will now be treated like a criminal. The police dispatcher is heard informing the police on the scene that the driver has a gun permit 11 minutes into this scenario, why it took that long is a puzzle? If the police are going to be so controlling that a driver is not allowed to speak than the law should be rewritten so that the police are required to ask the citizen if he/she has a gun license, not the other way around, that would solve the problem.

    The police do have a dangerous job, but they understand this when they sign on. It would appear that legal gun owning citizens in Ohio could face death by execution when they are pulled over? Another spooky way to look at this, if it happened to you, would you drive to the police station to report it? Could that be like walking into the ‘enemys’ camp to be abused more, or maybe even executed? Is this the way we should feel about police? I hope this was just the exception to the rule and not the rule.  How did the officer in the story know he would not lose sleep if he executed the driver? Is he drawing from past experience? He seemed very confident his partner would side with him in an execution, how could he be so sure of that? The officer did not seem concerned by what he was saying, why? Maybe this points to a larger department wide, maybe even a state wide problem that needs to be investigated from without, not from within.

    Should the facts point to wrong doing beyond any reasonable doubt on the officers part, the police officer should not only be fired, but charged with aggravated assault, and violation of the public trust, as well the city being sued. Threatening someones life with his Glock goes beyond the pale, threatening to continually harass someone by arresting them and impounding their car every time he sees you in the future is pure intimidation, an obvious abuse of authority/power. This cop  thought  himself to be the judge, jury, and executioner.  It is said that the investigation will be an internal one, the proverbial  fox guarding the chicken coop. Are the ‘numbskull’s‘ he is referring to every gun permit holder in Ohio?

Our Founders and early citizens knew how to deal with abusive over reaching  authority, in their day they sent them packing back to bloody ole England. And created the Constitution to send the ‘home grown’ variety to prison.

Just a note: If you are ever subjected to this type of abuse by local police, have the presence of mind to contact the State Police to report it, call your lawyer as well. Don’t call 911, if you do you cannot have confidentiality as your call is taped. 

 Mark Shean, submitted 7-23-2011

www.mafirearmsafety.com

UPDATE: Last year at about the same time this same cop was doing the same thing, go to the link above in the second paragraph to hear his earlier rant as he threatens some people, “I will put you in the grave and sleep good at night”. He is on sick leave at this time, (with pay of course). I think the Chief should tell him he is fired and that he, (the chief) will sleep good at night after he fires him………Justice.

I am sure people will start coming out of the woodwork now that this made it on the air. And why were these dash cams not reviewed by someone before? What are these dash cams for anyway if no one is looking at them? The ole fox guarding the chicken coop snydrome, the police looking out for our safety, sure…..

New Update:

Hearing for Canton police officer who threatened to execute concealed carry licensee postponed again