Phyrfight Intel

A post on Warrior Times led me to this Reason.com article that you absolutely must read. It seems clear to me that the rabid anti-gun crowd will stop at nothing to persecute gun owners. They can’t get the U.S. Supreme court to go along with dismantling the U.S. Constitution so they use state legislation to turn technical infractions of state law into felonies with mandatory prison time. Reading the following section of the Reason article made my blood boil.

“New Jersey gun laws are insane,” Nappen says. “It makes a criminal of every gun owner and forces him to prove his innocence.” Worse, in 2008 the New Jersey legislature and then-Gov. John Corzine changed the law to make the penalty for possessing a gun the same as the penalty for using it to commit a separate crime. That means someone like Aitken gets the same punishment as someone who assaults another person with a gun. In November 2008, New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram issued a directive (PDF) urging the state’s prosecutors to apply the new law “vigorously,” “strictly,” and “uniformly.”

I think I’ll go donate some more money to  Reason and to pro-gun lobbyists and maybe my blood pressure will return to normal.  Be sure to read the whole article.