Sandy's Soapbox

JULY 2010 SOAPBOX

McDonald and Freedom, and Blogspots

You’ll have read/heard about the recent Supreme Court decision (McDonald vs. Chicago) that found that states/cities/communities cannot “unreasonably” infringe on the individual right to bear arms decided in the Heller vs. DC case. The result is generally a positive one and was expected by all who followed the debate. The decision did recognize that “some” regulation is reasonable but the Court made no effort to describe “some”, the result of which is to spawn a spate of individual suits which will begin to answer the question (is registration, a user fee, a purchase limit, a waiting period, a handgun board, microstamping, user recognition, etc. etc. “reasonable”?). These are questions that I don’t anticipate being resolved in my lifetime but it appears that, while the landscape for gun ownership is not likely to get immediately better, nor is it likel to get immediately worse. That’s a victory, I guess.

I also draw your attention to another resource for learning more about NAA and its products. Visitors to our Message Board will have “met” NAAlover (Reggie Paulk), who has recently started a blogspot featuring our products http://naaminis.blogspot.com/. I’ll admit that I’m not very familiar or practiced with this type of site/social media but am delighted that someone is willing to give our products some attention. As I dug further, I discovered another such blog created by a guy named BR. His can be found at http://br-naa.blogspot.com/ (if your browser doesn't allow pop-ups then you may have to hold the CTL button when you select this link, because it opens in a new window.) As another point of information, I encourage the NAA community to visit and participate in these sites. Please note that these are not operated or sponsored by the factory and we cannot take any responsibility for their content, they both appear to be very professionally prepared and offer some valuable information and feedback on our products – check them out!

Note from Webmaster: I've just recently taken over responsibilty for the maintenance and hopefully improvement of our website. If you notice any "broken links" or things that can be improved I'd really appreciate it if you'd bring them to my attention by emailing me at webmaster@naaminis.com.

(if you can, include a link of the actual page you found the error on.) Thanks for those of you that have already done so, I don't take it as a insult, "I take it as a little help from my friends" Carolee Elder, IT Manager (webmaster)

For your amusement, we are happy to offer a screen saver with multiple animations of a NAA handgun being fired. This file is fairly large (approx. 16M) but if you have a high-speed connection, it's worth a grin!
Click here for the screen saver.

Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT) checks out the latest edition of the North American Arms catalog. He mentioned that he regularly carries two of the firm's firearm products after receiving death threats several years ago. ASSC's 1996 Congressional Leader of the Year Award was presented to Sen. Hatch "in appreciation of his leadership and commitment in defense of our heritage, our industry and our life"