Penny Dean and Your Rights

A man standing outside a weapons buyback event in Seattle on Saturday bought a missile launcher for $100 from another person, reports SeattlePI.com.

As a controlled military item, the missile launcher is not available to civilians through any surplus or disposal programs.

The military weapon was a single-use device and had already been used. The weapon was confiscated by police, and they replaced it with a gift card.

Police said the missile launcher was taken to determine what exactly it was and that the non-functioning weapon could be later returned to the man.

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And we might add this: where is the outrage against the man who threatened her life using that knife, just so he could steal a few bucks from her? There is no call for "knife control" or any idiotic message like that. The knife did not commit the crime. A human did.

There seems to be no outrage against the "bad guy".

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<img src="http://zionica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/slater2.jpg" align="right">A Georgia mother gunned down an intruder who broke into her home as her children hid in a crawlspace.

The 37-year-old woman initially thought the person knocking at her door was a solicitor. But when the man repeatedly rang the doorbell, she called her husband. He told her to gather the children and hide while he called 911.

By that time, the man had already forced his way into the three-story house in the town of Loganville.

“Our Founders intended the Senate to be a body where legislation was slowed down and subject to improvement through extended debate and amendment. [Harry] Reid’s proposed ‘reforms’ would remove two of the most fundamental rights traditionally reserved to all Senators -- to freely debate and amend legislation. I shall not stand for that.” -- Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)

On Election Day last November, several Democrat Senators were campaigning for reelection in pro-gun states. And in order to get their constituents’ votes, they promised fealty to the Second Amendment.

In early morning news that went unchallenged by the mainstream press, Jaime Avila Jr., 25, a ring leader caught red-handed in the Fast and Furious government gun-smuggling operation, was allowed on Wednesday to take a plea agreement with just over a month of punishment for each of 52 AK-47-type rifles he is known to have smuggled to drug lords. Two of Avila's smuggled guns were found at the scene of the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

<img src="http://www.gopusa.com/news/files/2012/07/gun_control.jpg" align="right" width="200">BELLEVUE, Wash.- PRNewswire-USNewswire -- President Obama was absolutely correct when he told NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday that "there will be resistance" to his extremist proposal to ban the most commonly-owned and popular rifles in America, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

"We will be on the front lines of that resistance," vowed CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb.

The Virginian Tech Review Panel's assessment of the April 16, 2007 shooting in which 32 were killed and 17 and wounded, contains a pertinent piece of information for the gun grabbers who are currently tripping over themselves to blame high capacity magazines for the evil in the world. The panel's assessment found that a high capacity magazine ban would not have stopped Seung-Hui Cho from carrying out his criminal act.

<img src="http://libertycrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/guns-and-bullets.jpg" align="right">As the nation debates whether more guns or fewer can prevent tragedies like the Virginia Tech Massacre, a notable anniversary passed last month in a Georgia town that witnessed a dramatic plunge in crime and violence after mandating residents to own firearms.

Bob Stewart’s experiences with the ATF bear an eerie resemblance to another outrageous case of gun owner abuse.

Al Woodbridge, of Sumner Washington, was a gun dealer, a licensed firearms manufacturer and, unfortunately for him, a very successful pro-gun lobbyist in Olympia.

Woodbridge, known to most as "Big Al," counted among his friends and customers countless members of law enforcement and state legislators. He’d never been convicted of a crime, but none of this would help when the ATF set their sights on him.