College Conservatives raffle off an assault rifle

From the Daily Illini (University of Illinois), a completely baffling story:

The Orange and Blue Observer (OBO), a conservative political journal at the University, staged a controversial raffle Thursday - first prize was an AK-47 assault rifle.

<snip>

The OBO, a registered student organization, normally publishes three times a school year with funding from the Student Organization Resource Fee (SORF)... However, this year the SORF board only gave the journal enough funding to publish two issues.

The OBO used the raffle to help fund their paper...the raffle was meant to raise awareness about the benefits of gun ownership.

http://www.dailyillini.com/news/2005/04/01/News/Ak47-Assault.Rifle.Raffled.At.Rally-909876.shtml

Or is this another loophole?

"To enter the raffle, participants paid $5 and had to state that they had a Firearms Ownership Identification Document (FOID). If a participant didn't have a FOID, the OBO provided applications for the participants."

http://www.isp.state.il.us/foid/firearmsfaq.cfm

to read the entire article.

So, this is how the repugs to do everyday. Just read one portion and react.

My apologies.

I find it ironic actually. Thanks.... I now have a perfect example of how dumb these pukes are.

Since AK-47's are class III firearms, and require among other things to posses, a FBI backround check, fingerprints on file with the FBI, a waiver for the ATF to come into the place where you store it and inspect it at any time they deem proper, and a letter of authorization to possesses it signed by the chief Law Enforcement officer in the jurisdiction (chief of police, sheriff, etc). Oh, the rifle themselves cost up wards of $20,000.

I bet what they raffled off was a semi-automatic knock off clone that does a good job of LOOKING like an AK-47, but falls way short of performing like one.

Though it could not have been a real AK-47 (meaning selective fire) so it could not have been an assault rifle.

The right to own personal weapons for defense of ones life and liberties is a progressive value.

AK-47 to defend yourself

But shorter longer guns are a viable alternative to handguns for those who are uncomfortable with the recoil.

If you're dealing with a foreign invading army or your own tyrannical government and its fanatical brownshirt supporters, you're gonna need help.

so what's your point?

is a personality disorder not shared by everyone. It is rooted in a sense
of powerlessness, and a low level of negotiation and relationship skills,
IMO.

Great. What`s next, case of land mines?

Darwin...do your stuff! :evilgrin:

what are they commies? i guess they don`t have enough money to actually buy a decent hunting rifle to raffle off. never under estimate the stupidity of smart ass republican college students.

But they are much more expensive and do not generate the publicity that a AK look alike does

The funny thing is, I teach Economics at UI, and as students filed into my three classes, I talked with them about the article. As I read the article to them, the responses were all either laughs and eye-rolling or else dumbfounded jaw-dropping.

And an intro Econ class is hardly a liberal cross-section of the school's population. This was a publicity stunt, of course, but I just don't understand how this possibly helps whatever their cause is.

in 1969. Are you still using Samuelson?

I doubt he's been used for 15-20 years. The school uses a variety of intro books now. Krugman; Baumol & Oates, etc.

on campus . . . with the OBO's blessing . . .

They auctioned off a semiautomatic civilian lookalike of an AK-47 assault rifle.

Chandler gunfight leaves man dead
By Kristina Davis, Tribune

A gunbattle that started at a Chandler bar and ended in front of a home miles away left one man dead and two others with gunshot wounds early Saturday morning, police said ... An officer followed a vehicle that sped from the scene and stopped it near McClintock Drive and Guadalupe Road. Inside they found Cartagena, critically wounded, along with several different kinds of firearms that matched the shell casings at both scenes. Police said one of the weapons was an AK-47 assault rifle ...

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=38979


Jeff Hampton is Guilty
Allison Braxton
Apr 2, 2005 5:20 PM EST

... On August 2, 2004 Tara Swilley and her husband were asleep at her father's home, Dalton carpet owner Buddy Parker. Investigators say Jeff Hampton fired eleven shots into the home. One bullet fired from an SKS assault rifle hit Tara in the head. She died instantly as her eight month old baby slept by her side ...

http://www.wdef.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WDEF/MGArticle/DEF_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031781933875&path=


Change of venue sought in Portage killing spree trial
Trimble says he can't get fair hearing in county because of media attention
By Stephen Dyer / Beacon Journal staff writer

... Trimble is accused of killing his 42-year-old girlfriend, Renee Bauer, and her 7-year-old son Dakota before roaming the woods around Ranfield Road while taking pot shots at police officers with an AR-15, which authorities say is an automatic assault rifle. He ended up taking 22-year-old Kent State University student Sarah Positano hostage in her Ranfield Road home before he shot and killed her too, police allege ...

http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/11291496.htm


Search, arrests uncover guns, several grenades after burglary
A raid on a Beaverton house nets three suspects and weapons believed stolen from a storage facility
Saturday, April 02, 2005
JOHN SNELL and JACKSON HOLTZ

BEAVERTON -- Police recovered 11 handguns and rifles -- including a semiautomatic version of the M-16 assault rifle -- during a raid Thursday in Beaverton. Investigators also found nine homemade hand grenades designed to explode on impact and kill or maim anyone who happened to be nearby. Three men with previous felony convictions face charges and were being held Friday in the Washington County Jail ...

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1112439471296310.xml


Taunton police make biggest drug arrest in recent history

... At 10:32 p.m. on Thursday, police received a call in which they could hear screaming in the background and someone say "put your hands behind your back." The phone was then either dropped or taken away ... Upon entering the residence, they found blood on the living room floor of the single-family home. Pearson found 5 kilos of cocaine in plain view in an open kitchen cabinet and Medeiros found an AK-47 assault rifle sticking out of a closet. After Pearson secured a search warrant, police found marijuana, a 20 gage shotgun in the bedroom, two clips for an AK-47, a digital scale, and a little over $2,000 in cash, and 15 kilo wrappers in the trash ...

http://www.tauntongazette.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14272087&BRD=1711&PAG=461&dept_id=24232&rfi=6


Police suspect man of drug possession

... Officers found methamphetamine on Fonseca and also reported finding a trigger housing for an SKS assault rifle in his car. Fonseca was on felony probation, according to the report, and officers found the rest of the SKS assault rifle in Fonseca's residence during a probation search. The assault rifle had the serial numbers removed, officers said ...

http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/11301335.htm


Hudson man guilty of weapon charge
Published: Friday, Apr. 1, 2005
CONCORD

A Hudson man .. pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court to a charge of being a felon in possession of a semiautomatic assault rifle at his residence Nov. 17, officials with the U.S. attorney’s office said. Probation and police officials discovered the AK-47 assault rifle, as well as heroin, during a search ...

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050401/NEWS01/50401014/-1/news


Minuteman Project: A grotesque caricature of patriotism
By: CHRISTIAN RAMIREZ

<snip> According to the Arizona Daily Star, Chris Simcox, a leader of the Minuteman Project, was convicted on federal weapons charges for practices similar to those that the Minutemen will engage in for the month of April.

Another key figure among the so-called Minutemen is Roger Barnett, who in March 2004 kicked a woman and shouted obscenities at her while holding her at gunpoint in a remote location along the Arizona-Mexico border. In October 2004, Barnett was accused of pointing an AR-15 assault-rifle at a group of two men and three children, all U.S. citizens, because apparently Barnett confused the group with "illegal aliens." <snip>

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/04/03/opinion/commentary/17_24_244_2_05.txt


Police find weapons in Norwalk woods
By Matt Breslow / Staff Writer
April 1, 2005

NORWALK -- Police found two assault rifles, including a Chinese-made AK-47 among a cache of guns hidden in the woods near Colonial Village after a foot chase following a Wednesday night shooting. The small arsenal -- which included a second assault rifle, a shotgun and three pistols -- was uncovered after police stumbled onto a safe in the woods containing an ammunition magazine for an AK-47-style weapon, police said ...

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/scn-sa-nor.cache1apr01,0,5294764.story?coll=stam-news-local-headlines


Club 20 hosts battle of the budget sides
Sunday, April 03, 2005
By GARY HARMON
The Daily Sentinel

The first skirmish in the coming battle over the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights broke out Saturday, and it featured University of Colorado Prof. Ward Churchill in a pose reminiscent of revolutionary communist Che Guevara, complete with assault rifle. In a debate before Club 20 on a pending ballot question to lift the state’s revenue caps, former Republican state legislator Penn Pfiffner flashed the photo of the renegade ethnic-studies professor ...

http://www.gjsentinel.com/hp/content/news/stories/2005/04/03/4_3_Club_20_TABOR.html;COXnetJSessionIDbuild69=CQhVKTe0MIzSBJ1bVLNn1G8XDZSm1TrcRG6TWDvm4VKTTjlItP3G!-197603965?urac=n&urvf=11125476698890.5513841365339726

I have grandpa's 1915 Winchester 30-30, and damnit, if I can't hit with the first or second round, I am wasting lead.
Gun control is hitting what you aim at.
What a bunch of wanna-bes.

Armed and heading toward menopause...

This just seems to me like another attempt to shock the world with their "political incorrectness." Much like the affirmative action bake sales so many right wing college groups do so often.