(CORRECTION: The headline for an earlier version of this story and the one appearing in Friday’s PVT incorrectly states the Gun Appreciation Day event is Friday instead of Saturday. The PVT regrets the error. )
By Selwyn Harris
Some local gun enthusiasts are planning to recognize National Gun Appreciation Day by gathering at the heart of town tomorrow.
The event, organizers say, is to celebrate the Constitution’s Second Amendment.
A Jan. 10 press release stated, “Nye County residence (sic) from all over the county are invited to meet at the corner of Highways 160 and 372 (sic) . There is nothing more basic to the human experience than self protection. We Americans have the ability to protect ourselves, our family and property. This is a right given to us by our creator and the Constitution through the Second Amendment. We value our gun ownership and will not relinquish it,” the release states.
In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings last month, the issue of firearms, especially military style assault weapons, is a hot topic for debate around the country.
On Wednesday, President Obama signed 23 orders that he said would tighten background checks on gun buyers.
The orders also expanded safety programs in schools.
The president called on Congress to restrict ammunition magazines holding more than 10 rounds and order background checks for anyone buying a gun be it at a store, a private sale or at gun shows.
Local resident Robert Brentlinger is the owner of The Master at Arms Gun Shop on the south end of the valley.
He said sales of guns, ammunition and accessories have increased dramatically since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
“Sales since December and the unfortunate tragedy have been getting larger constantly and each time some new gun control idea is brought forth or they start pushing towards trying to actually accomplish some kind of gun control legislation or magazine ban, then we see an increase in sales. It started in December and it just keeps getting larger. It shocks me just how bad it has gotten,” he said.
On Wednesday, Brentlinger’s shop on Thousandaire was bustling with customers buying guns and ammo.
The shopkeeper said all kinds of items were flying off the shelves.
“It’s a little bit of everything. You would have thought that sales would tend to stay towards high capacity magazines and military lookalike firearms, but we are selling anything from accessories to regular standard revolvers and every semi-automatic known to man. There doesn’t seem to be a rhyme or reason. People are scared and as a consequence, they are buying everything,” he said.
Shortly after Obama’s 2009 inauguration, firearms sales soared mainly out of fear that stronger restrictions and bans would be enacted by the Democratic president.
Though gun restrictions did not appear to be on the short list of Obama’s first-term agenda, ironically, Brentlinger said the commander-in-chief has done more for the firearms industry in terms of sales and National Rifle Association memberships than anyone in recent memory.
“The president has probably been the largest seller of firearms ever in the history of the United States. He has a legislative history of being against the Second Amendment and against gun owners. In general, his policies have always been negative towards firearms owners in general. In the past, he has made statements that some would call a little radical as far as the Second Amendment and gun ownership. That has a tendency to scare people who think he is going to push a legislative agenda which will mirror his past speaking,” he said.
Pahrump resident Donald Tribble is a staunch supporter of gun rights. He said he plans to be among those recognizing National Gun Appreciation Day.
“I have carried a gun ever since I was probably 14 years old and I am now 68. I was raised in Texas and I carried a pistol where I went. I don’t believe in registering but I do believe in getting background checks because you never know who is going to be trying to buy guns. The thing is that background checks and doing all of that at the gun shows is not going to keep a gun out of the hand of someone who wants to kill somebody. All you have to do is go downtown of any town and spread the word that you are looking for a gun. If you have the money to buy it, someone will find you or they will tell you where you can go to get it,” he said.
Another local resident and firearms owner, David Corso, is a bit more outspoken on the subject. He said all Americans have the right to own firearms, even fully automatic weapons if they choose.
“The government has no f*****g right to regulate anything. They can’t regulate anything because the only thing they are concerned with is what? Screwing people. Politicians suck. I’ve killed more people than you can count and it doesn’t bother me; you know why? I did it while I was in the service,” he shouted.
Corso also had some interesting if not disturbing musings about the tragedy in Sandy Hook.
“How many of those kids really got killed? That’s a big cover-up. Why don’t you kiss my a**. You are a god damn troll,” Corso advised before hanging up on this reporter.
According to the press release with Corso’s contact information attached, the National Gun Appreciation Day gathering will be held from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. in front of the Pahrump Nugget two days before Martin Luther King Day, which is also President Obama’s inauguration day.
Misleading~Is this today or tomorrow? Headline says today but first sentence says tomorrow.
It’s Saturday unless it was changed over the last 18 hours.
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PVT~ Thanks for making the correction
By definition an “Assault Rifle” is AUTOMATIC….Which IS already ILLEGAL and has been for decades. Do not believe this Socialist Propaganda drivel.
If these people REALLY were concerned about “Saving and protecting poor innocent children and babies”…..They wouldn’t CELEBRATE 1 million ABORTIONS per year as “Freedom”. Whether you are FOR it or AGAINST, The definition of GENOCIDE doesn’t change.
Did anyone happen to notice the ONE thing Obama forgot to tell you in his “Parade of Victims” propaganda parade? Oh yeah….Shhhhhh. Its gonna cost $500,000,000!!!!
While whining about “Debt Crisis” and living through the “Great Depression 2.0″.
It’s amazing to watch as once again Socialists destroy another country by Brainwashing the perverted, Lazy and Low IQ’d enough to corner the vote.
You are correct. It is genocide and since Roe versus Wade in 1973 there have been nearly 50,000,000 abortions and that is more than 25 times what Genghis Khan killed.
And for that, the Nation is committing suicide………… the populace being so dumb it will be too late when they finally realize it.
Long on negative rhetoric, and name calling, but short on positive suggestions for action.
This is a very sensitive issue, we need to work cooperatively to resolve it.
With any luck it was yesterday!
First point I would like to make, given the previous editorial positions of this paper, I don’t for a second believe that it was an accident that resulted in the wrong day of the event being published.
Secondly, it took me 45 minutes on Tuesday to get through to the NRA subscriptions services number. 250,000 new members have signed up and there is a discounted price for life time membership going on right now.
Mr Selwyn do you live in NYE (SIC) <What does that mean ? The GAthering is SIC /on 160 and 372 ? Please Be Specific!
National Apprecaition day is Saturday 01/19/2013! I wish Mr Peirs Morgan would attend !
The Latin adverb sic (“thus”; in full: sic erat scriptum, “thus it had been written”) added immediately after a quoted word or phrase (or a longer piece of text), indicates that the quotation has been transcribed exactly as found in the original source, complete with any erroneous spelling or other nonstandard presentation.
Thank you I stand Corrected I shouold have Looked in the Webster but Simple definement of where the cross roads are at will do no fancy pig Latin for me!
Not sure what ROCK Mr Corso has been living under…But PLEASE somebody get him his Medication. All the FILTHY Language you can spew is not a going to lead anyone to take any thing you have to say seriously. WAKE UP MAN
i do i know how to read im sorry you dont understan freedom
Who would have guessed that our local gun nuts would’ve reacted so badly to a ban on military assault weapons. Really? Color me shocked. AR-15s, AK-47s and SKSs have but one purpose. That’s killing as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time. Those who worship at the alter of the NRA are a bunch of paranoid conspiracy theorists and Wayne La Pierre should be utterly ashamed of himself and his organization.
love the antis Fact checking on Expert fire arms Issues and the end disrespect to American Values do you Know Wayne Lapeire in pearson the Executive Vice preident of the NRA not the President as some childish New Jounalist have mis quoted ? Sorry most of Americans will never bow to the Kremlin or Un American baseless nonsensse Like Al Gores Rip off from fools like Appalled you who believe in Man Made Global warming the SUN Is rolling in the sky Laughing his Rays Off ! yes the Full Auto is designed for one thing Combat but are fun to shoot! and A Ban is simply against our will the meaning is liberty from the historical facts of(Roman) Empires and human Destruction who dis obey!
We The people are the Boss Not a handful of Phony Marxist !Through Human Endevor and Struggle we move forward one thing Obama like to use but against most of Americans the News media is a Lazy way to talk fact checkng wars against each other and you who serve King Oboyo wil do so on your Knees !
Wow, I wonder how much the presidents anti gun buddies, the DNC, and the Brady bunch pay people like this to post this kind of tired old rhetoric on message boards.
“AR-15s, AK-47s and SKSs have but one purpose. That’s killing as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time. ”
Bingo, you win a prize. You at least got this one right. If I am fighting off 2 home invaders at 3 AM or fighting for my rights to own firearms, I want the best available technology out there.
If you think for one second, ANYONE will comply with any ban, or new law, you are truly crazy. Not now, not next week, not ONE more inch.
i have a gun and no ones taking mine i live in AMERICA.
Unfortunately, the media seems to focus on eccentrics like Mr. Corso for their colorful language and extreme position. That said, his opinions, taken in their intent, are basically those of most of the country. As a NRA Life Member I am distressed at the sudden brazenness of the gun banners who’s true colors were hidden until this tragedy in Connecticut. Banning rifles because of the way the look is ludicrous. They keep using the term “assault rifle” as if they actually knew what they were talking about. By definition, an “assault rifle” has select fire capable of full automatic. Citizen cannot own full automatic weapons unless they have a Class 3 Federal Firearms License, and these required extensive background checks and investigations.
I do not have a problem with availing instant background checks for all firearms sales, however, that may incur a cost to complete the check. If the check can be done without expense, or minimal expense, to the seller/buyer I suspect there would be even less resistance to it. What needs to be done, however, is to beef up the databases for these checks to include those adjudicated mentally deficient, all felons, and all those who have been convicted of domestic violence or have active restraining orders against them. Unfortunately, if the federal No-Fly Watch List is any indication of how messed up a database can become, we have a very difficult time getting the background check list together and correct.
Unfortunately, there will always be some who will rail against any perceived threat to their 2nd Amendment Rights and resist vociferously. Of course that is their right as well.
Isn’t it ironic that the Second Amendment of our Constitution (the right to own firearms) was placed there specifically to protect us from the tyranny of OUR federal government, not FOREIGN governments and/or troops. The same federal government now initiating the disarming of its own people. THAT should scare you!
You need to go back and read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. You will find that the Declaration of Independence states – “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” This specific sentence is meant for any foreign government who would attempt to apply a government of Despotism upon the free citizens of the U S.
The 2nd Amendment to the Constitution, To Keep and Bear Arms has nothing to do with the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration is exactly that, a declaration to the King of England, but the Declaration has NO force of law. No court, including the Supreme Court has every based a ruling because of the Declaration of Independence – NONE! It is our constitution that governs the actions of its citizens through the legislative and Presidential powers.
These are two separate and unrelated issues. No matter how hard you attempt to link them, there is no linkage available. Please get your facts in order before raising a cry that our government has any intentions to disarm any citizen who lawfully owns a firearm(s).
@puzzler1
I’m going to suggest that you go back and read the document very carefully and slowly before you criticize black star ranch.
You sir, are incorrect on this statement>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>”This specific sentence is meant for any foreign government who would attempt to apply a government of Despotism upon the free citizens of the U S.”
This isn’t your fault, puzzle1. It is the fault of the schools and teachers that you cannot read and understand and that is deliberate. Therefore, please go back and read the COMPLETE document because the top third is the important area that defines something very important.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. —
For those who actually read this post, get a dictionary and look up the words
self-evident
Creator
endowed
unalienable
and become knowledgeable.
I used to live in Pahrump, and I still enjoy reading the paper. What I would suggest in addition to the rally, is to contact your U.S. Senators and Representative and tell them that a vote for ANY gun control measure will be a vote AGAINST them and their party. Make it clear. Make it specific. Don’t threaten.
They understand ONE thing only: staying in power. Nothing else. Remember, every person who has bought guns, ammo, accessories across this whole nation in the last month is a VOTER, or should be.
Complaining amongst yourselves will do nothing to change Obama’s and Reid’s gun grabbing agenda. You need to be organized, just like the Left is. Do something. Act. Write a letter. Send an email. Go in together and create an ad in the LVRJ or PVT. But don’t make fools of yourselves by conspiracy theories and foul language.
Mac, you bring up an interesting point. Once upon a time there was another NRA “event” that was in the news. The NRA members who were in one group (not a scientifc study BTW), were asked their opinions and, to a member, they all agreed with the typical NRA positions on guns. Then, under a blind survey on paper, LESS than 25% of those who claimed to be registered voters actualy stated they did vote in the last election. Lesson here..don’t just shout, yell swear and be loud..do some constructive action to push your point.I am not an NRA member, nor do I plan to be, but the system works best when used properly.
Dear Mac we email and have met informally with Mr Reid I am an Independent but Vote GOP I am the Republic Democracy is not my Game ! We believe in the Words of the Bill Of Wrights of people Individually! not to be Governed but to govern with Our vote is the Final voice we are the boss not Obama !
We believe Nothing will happen But NY in the evil night did in defiance to the Americanan people and the Nation as a Dictation No sir Mr Cumo!
We are vets members of the NRA, NV Gun Owners .50 cal club C.III Weapons etc. we are Christians believe in the foundation of America, Ranchers Farmers,Miners, RR workers, Truck drivers Gun Smiths and FFL dealers etc.
We also fight the Abortion Lobby, taxes, for our Bill of Wrights Liberty etc. every year ,We hope to Convincec Sandoval one more Term! Last year we NV G.O and the NRA reps attended an invite to Carson City NV to hear why America and NV need to own Assault Weapons !witn the AAG of NV and an “Infiltraitor.” law professor from SFS U,Calif with the NV Judiciary and it was Shelved in a manner of hours end of Discussions !
We have tried and tried again try to educate the correct termonology of Assault,,,,,,,, To the Libs in the Journalism world and Know Nothing Politicians and Especailly the younger Gen !
Wayne Lapeire is a Gentalmen! The President of the NRA is a God Fearing man !
I am on the side of gun rights, but anyone who thinks that Sandy Hook was staged is exhibiting, by that idea alone, that they are not sane enough to own a firearm.
Until the FBI releases any Info know one Knows because the News media Lies
The Info is openly Suspeciuos by experts who see a lie ! Like 9/11 and Bulding 7 tells any Engineer of Structural steel it was Imploaded perod ! the main Argument was Sandy Hook Elm was a Liberal mistake gun free Zone those who did the evil deed knew , to not realise evil is every where and The blood of the Fallen are on the city fathers hands a gun free zone does not work if it was so many Ligves wold hae been saved in Chicago ILL Oboyos back yard Hypo Obama !
the campasus should allow it!
To learn to be aware is the key and we can really do something no cop is a better shot then any one who is dedicated in self defense tactics be it a Civilian! and serious minded honest Cops who go beyond.
Once to die in a self defense siuation where by leathal or hand to hand,Knife or base ball bat we will never comeback! if we don’t know how to fight back, is our wright to survie and a wright and an earned privilage to learn how in any self defense tactics and live as a Human beign in the Eyes of God our Creatour !
Our protest would be warrented by George Washington and the fouding fathers not framers of the New Nation called America!
I certainly hope that you are under a doctor’s care and taking your medication!
Not staged but there are too many inconsistencies about the AR-15, the 30 round magazines and how many handguns Lanza used. Were the children shot with a .223 bullet or a handgun bullet?
For an experiment, conducted at a local gun store, I loaded up 11 twenty round magazines. With cargo pants on I could barely get them into all the pockets with one in the gun. Let me tell you that is a lot of weight I was carting around. Now add 4 handguns and the full magazines for those guns. Then Lanza supposedly entered through a window carrying all that equipment. And he was found to be carrying 30 round magazines, even more weight and in my case they would have fallen out of my pockets because they are so long. The teachers and students had multiple gunshot rounds. According to the coroner’s interview, he said 3-4 for each person. That is 26 dead times say 3.5 rounds average equals 3 thirty round mags with no misses. It was reported he shot himself and still have HUNDREDS OF ROUNDS left. Too damn many inconsistencies. And now it is revealed that an AR-15 was found in the trunk of Lanza’s car. HOW MANY AR-15 did the Mother have? Media and Connecticut Cop said one. Where did the one in the truck of the car come from?
Questions need to be asked by people who want the truth.
I saw one video interviewing the parents about the shooting of their child and there was something just not right about their answers or the way the husband and wife spoke. It was like I was watching the move The Stepford Wifes…………….trance like. Grief or no grief something was not right in that interview.
“The fraud and lies are only allowed to continue because the people allow it. Either through apathy or ignorance, they still allow it.”
@ Apalled. Sir, I color you uninformed. Of the weapons you cite, 2 are semi-automatic AR15 & the SKS, 1 pull of the trigger 1 shot. On the other hand the AK47 is a selective fire weapon hold the trigger down in full auto mode it will empty the magazine. In semi auto mode one pull one shot. I see that you spew out more uninformed hate than AK in Full Auto. Please educate yourself about what you speak before you speak. Yes guns are made to kill but it takes the human element to make them kill.
The 2nd Amendment was discussed at great length before passing as part of the Bill of Rights. This discussion went on in what became knows as the Federalist Papers, letters and opinions written by the founding fathers on just why they felt it important the citizens of the new country had the right to keep and bear arms.
This link will take you to a few of the excerpts that specifically explain why they did what they did. It’s good reading.
http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/quotes/arms.html