Firearms And Liberty

Poor judgement in blogging...Kevin Ecker

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:46:00 -0500

We've seen many examples of bad web bloggers recently ....We've seen it with the partial release of a tape of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod where the clip did not show her entire story, or intent. It turned out she was not a black racist but was actually speaking AGAINST racism in her talk to the NAACP.

So that brings me to a local blogger. One from my own city in fact. A fellow conservative who works on many of the same political campaigns that I do. Under any other circumstances, I might even like him. But not under these.

I found this article written back in October of 2009 written by Kevin Ecker. Note that this is the same Kevin Ecker who mistakenly praised the likes of a Neo-Nazi and encouraged people to attend the Nazi's event Kevin promoted in his blog. To be fair, Kevin may not have known that the person he was writing about was a member of the National Socialist Movement. But he was. Now that he knows, Mr. Eckert has issued a disclaimer on the piece he originally wrote.

In his article on the 10 commandments of Carrying a Firearm, Ecker writes about me and a friend of mine, Joe Penaz saying that we are "not so go" (he meant good but his typing skills were lacking) "from whom you will likely receive lots of bad information that may end you up in jail or worse." I find this statement offending, slanderous and false.

Does Ecker really believe that the BCA would approve curriculum (which they did by approving our company) that would land people in jail? Mr. Ecker has never even set foot in one of our classes. Instead he acts as a shill for a couple of instructors who have already been discredited through their own trade practices by running down other instructors. Ecker provides a link to them in the same article.

Ecker has never contacted us (known in the trade as follow-up), nor as I said has he personally ever stepped foot in our classroom.

Let's look at the facts:
1) Shade's Landing Inc. is an approved training organization in the state of Minnesota
2) It's instructors are NRA certified, including an NRA training counselor
3) The legal company we keep consists of noted attorneys David Gross and Marc Berris
4) Our curriculum has been APPROVED by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety as meeting or exceeding the MN standards for a MN carry class.
5) We've trained over 5,000 students in the art of the handgun and hold roughly 6.5% to 7% of all Minnesota permit holders.
6) We're certified to teach Utah by the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification
7) We post much of the feedback we get online - we let our clients do the talking

Mr. Kevin Ecker is simply a hack when it comes to writing, He does very little investigation of the claims he apparently hears from others. And there appears to be problems with other stories such as the neo-nazi article referenced above. Ecker should take far more care in what he writes.

Islam - The final frontier?

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:14:00 -0500

Head of NASA, Charles Bolden, is told by Obama that his "foremost" priority is to strengthen ties to Muslim countries...The Fox news report is found here.

Disclose Act is UNAMERICAN!

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:53:00 -0500

If you think that your 1st Amendment rights are protected - guess again. The Disclose Act being promoted by Obama and the Democrats will shut down free speech as we know it today...especially political speech. You need to contact your representatives and Senators today!

You need to watch this Rep. Lungren who tells it all in this video. It's a must see.

The Disclose Act requires any special interest group making political statements (ads) for a particular candidate to "disclose" their membership lists. The NRA was successful in carving out exceptions for BIG organizations with more than a million members (like the NRA), and then the Democrats tried to amend the bill so that organizations of only 500,000 would be exempt for the Disclose provisions. Groups like the Sieera club etc. would then benefit.

This is a chilling way to get small organizations - maybe even this blog - to shut up and go away. The Act requires the head of the organization to appear in the ad and there is a lot more. The Disclose Act is NOT good for America.

Daley & City Council defy US Supreme Court

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:05:00 -0500

Mayor Daley of Chicago just does not seem to get it. The 2nd Amendment is a fundamental right that includes the right to self defense. Despite the Supreme Court's ruling....the mayor and city council have passed an ordinance (45 - 0) that limits gun owners in the city of Chicago from fully exercising that right on their own property: According to Fox News, the new ordinance provides that:

Gun owners need a Chicago Firearms permit, which costs $100 and must be renewed every 3 years, in addition to their Illinois Firearm owner’s ID.
Firearms sales are banned in the city.
Chicago residents can register only 1 handgun per month.
When a weapon is transported it much be taken apart and not accessible.
It is illegal to have your gun on the porch, yard or Garage. The gun is only legal inside the residence.
Only one gun in the house can be ready to be fired. The rest must have trigger locks or be disassembled.
Guns are banned from hotels, dorms or group living environments.

(see the entire story)

In Chicago now, they will register the owner of firearms much like the state of Illinois already does through a Firearms Owner ID card (FOID card), but not allow a person to defend themselves with a firearm on their own property other than inside the residence. Although Heller dealt with the issue of owning a firearm in the home for self-defense, I doubt the Supreme Court allowed the banning of such on a person's own property.

But Daley and the council just don't get it. So they play games with their own constituents lives. While they believe that through these actions they are preserving life - in reality they are making it difficult for good honest law abiding citizens to defend themselves against others who would do them harm.

It's not only unAmerican - according to the Supreme Court - it's unconstitutional.

11 reasons to vote for Democrats... NOT!

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:15:00 -0500

Take a look at this video and judge for yourself...Here are some incredible clips of the arrogance and ignorance that permeates the Democrat Party. Do you really believe Americans should suffer for another two years with these clowns in office? Watch this:

2nd AMENDMENT APPLIES TO STATES!

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:09:00 -0500

Today the US Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision incorporated the 2nd Amendment under the 14th amendment, striking down the Chicago and Oak Park ban on handguns! ...The decision follows the 2008 Heller case which overturned the Washington D.C. handgun ban where the majority (5-4) stated that the 2nd Amendment is an individual right that applied to "the people" as stated in the 2nd Amendment.

You read all about it here:

California - least educated state...

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:47:00 -0500

in the Union. A new report...on the US workforce, now places California 50th in terms of workers who have graduated high school. Read the entire report here.

Contract Signed with DCTC

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:55:00 -0500

We're going to college!That's right - we are now taking some of our courses to the campus of Dakota Community Technical College through their Customized Training Program. We begin offering MCPPA firearm carry classes on campus beginning on July 17th.

See our web calendar for a list of classes.

Del Tone range - no handguns per County

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 01:55:00 -0500

Late on Thursday evening (June 9th) we got word that the Del Tone range in St. Cloud will not be able to ....accommodate the shooting of handguns at their range. Sherburne County sent a letter to the range telling that rifle and shotgun is OK - but not handguns.

Due to this handgun shooting ban, we have been forced to curtail classes in St. Cloud until further notice. We're trying to negotiate range time with two parties at this time and will comment here when we can continue MCPPA classes in St. Cloud. We do plan to hold Utah permit classes in St. Cloud in the interim (Utah requires no live fire).

We'll let you know here when things change at Del Tone.

Alabama Ag Candidate: Dale Peterson

Thu, 20 May 2010 22:07:00 -0500

Folks - you have to see this real advertisement...By Dale Peterson who is a Republican candidate for Agriculture Commissioner.

See it on Dale Peterson (R) Ag Commissioner

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Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:28:00 -0500

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