No, As a Matter of Fact, I Haven't Blogged Anything Today!

It's Friday, after all, and I've been busy as all get-out. I did take my motorcycle out at lunch and ride for an hour, just to clear the cobwebs out of the bike's engine and my head. I rode up to toward the Continental Divide, and I was reminded of the Bob Seger song, Roll Me Away, where he's standing on the Divide, knowing he could go west or east, it was all up to him to decide:

And as the sunset faded
I spoke to the faintest first starlight
And I said next time
Next time
We'll get it right...

Well, it has been a long week. Spent too much time worrying last night and ended up at 2 AM watching Shaun of the Dead. No wonder I'm jello today.

Had a major meeting last night on the Forest Service antigun initiative — we're now officially the Ad Hoc Committee for the Preservation of Recreational User Rights, and we're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore. Attendees included the ubiquitous Col. Robert Brown, ace police trainer Diane Nicholl, John Higgs from Paladin Press, Firearms Coalition of Colorado President Steve Schreiner, NRA rep Darin Goens and several other long-time advocates.

How serious is the USFS antigun initiative? Well, despite representatives from the Department of Agriculture, which alledgedly controls the unruly mob of Clintonistas that pass for "Rangers," roundly denying that the USFS has called jihad on recreational shooting, the new "no shooting within 150 yards of a road" is now being enforced throughout the West. Posted signs are up in several states; citations are being handed out...and the ringer here is that federal law says, "no shooting within 150 yards of an occupied area." My own attorney read the statutes and said the law clearly doesn't not include "roads" as "occupied areas."

You can read the details here, from last June, when the jihad first came to light. In short, USFS Greenies, who readily tell everyone who will listen that they are the USFS"law" in their districts, opted to revise federal law all on their ownsy, and since nobody stepped on them last year, they've expanded the jihad.

Let me make this perfectly clear — if we don't stop this USFS antigun initiative in its tracks, there will be precedents on the books for shutting down whole national forests to recreations shooting and plinking. Yes, they already do that in California, but USFS has never been able to pull off a total ban — and that is clearly what they are after — outside of that beknighted state. USFA is now bleating like a goosed sheep that, "hunting won't be affected."

Yet.

If you believe that antigun activists will stop at shutting down recreational shooting, I have a lovely bridge I'd like to sell you!!!

The Ad Hoc Committee will be ramping up our national efforts, aimed at legislators and our own lobbyists to make sure they understand the seriousness of this issue. This is the real deal, folks.