Republican Tim D’Annunzio, a candidate in the Republican, a candidate in the 8th Congressional District, holds his second “Machine Gun Social” Tuesday night in Belmont [NC].
The fundraiser starts at 6:30 p.m. at Shooters Express, 2 Caldwell Dr. in Belmont. It runs to 9 p.m. or “until the ammo runs out.” Cost is $25 per magazine. MP-5s and M-16s will be available.
Guests will be eligible to win an AR-15 from Shooters Express. D’Annunzio held a similar event last month in Fayetteville.
Apparently, D’Annunzio is big on the Second Amendment gun thing. And then there’s the Republican vampire in Florida (Jonathon “The Impaler” Sharkey) running for President.
Other fundraiser: the $25 per shot dinner.
That is so cool!
That second amendment gun “THING”? What’s next ?
people standing up for that wacky freedom of speech bullshit.
I just don’t get this… The machine gun guy seems perfectly fine to me. You’re actually complaining about this??? Have you ever fired a gun? Have you ever driven anything as big as a dump truck? Have you ever operated heavy machinery?
The vampire guy though is really out there.
How many hundreds of promises has BHO broken?
How many more promises will he break before we
finally toss him out of office?
gee i wonder when one of these enthusiasts will have moment and start shooting everyone at one of these fund raisers…
#5 Pmitchell
The US Government / Army must be quaking in their boots at all those armed yokels.
Sounds like loads of fun to me and I am pretty liberal. Except I’m not sure how long a fluffy rabbit like me would survive in there with all those bunny hunters and their guns.
But dig the cool shootersexpress.com retro website! It’s 1999 all over again. Wow!
#4: Where did you get the idea I’m complaining? I just think it’s bizarre and wacky. And yes, I’ve fired a number of guns. Had a girlfriend once who killed a guy with hers. Not into trucks. Fast sports cars, at least back when I was wealthy.
#5: FYI, if you’re directing that at me, you should know I’m opposed to most gun control laws. Just not for the same reasons.
I think this is a great idea, a little creative fund raising.
My uncle has a genuine Tommy Gun, and it is the most fun gun to fire I’ve ever experienced. Lordy, the thing really has some kickback, and it’s tough to keep it level. Ever shot an entire case of beer cans lined up in a nice row? Now, that is one fun 10 seconds worth of bullets. Makes me remember that old TV show, The Untouchables.
Can anyone name the star of that show? It was a great one.
I think he’s just mad that at $25 a magazine, average people can actually attend. Unlike the $1000 a plate dinners most politicians throw.
Somehow in the face of all that’s going on I don’t think traditional republican campaign technique are going to be useful.
#9 – calling something “bizarre and wacky” would be complaining in my book.
Anyways… I’m not seeing the problem here. Politicians meet with people doing ALL sorts of activities. From quilting to shooting. Big deal.
Just more hysteria around evil guns.
For confused foreigners, firing machine guns at election time is not limited to places like Afghanistan and Iraq. In America, too. Suicide bombings and sacrificing goats, not so much.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9wLyMJ7LER4
At least he is sticking to his political beliefs unlike Obama who promised a lot during the campaign but has quickly back tracked as President. The latest is that he said the public would have 5 days to review any bill that hits his desk. So what does he do with the health scam bill? Signs it in 36 hours before ANYONE has a chance to read or understand what is in it.
I laugh at the wingnuts bitchin’ and moanin’ about Obama breaking his problems. STFU guys, you didn’t vote for him, you didn’t want him to do those things he promised to do. So you should be happy about him breaking his promises to us liberals.
Sheesh, incoherent, clueless wingnuts. Y’all must be Tea Party members. 🙂
#18 Geez, breaking his promises. Error between seat and keyboard. 🙂
#16 WmDE
That’s awesome, the only thing that could have made that commercial better is if she had a smaller nighty.
Was the local high school gym not available for this BYOG fund raiser?
What you’ll never be posted by the leftist goons on DU :The lies of Obama, Chicago style
1. The bill provides more affordable coverage for the middle class.
According to Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a health care scholar at the free-market American Enterprise Institute, the new bill will actually make it more costly for middle class families to buy health insurance by forcing those who shop on the individual market to buy generous, but expensive plans mandated under the new law. Middle class families earning $88,000 or more a year won’t qualify for health care subsidies. A family earning $100,000 would end up spending nearly a quarter of their net income on health care.
2. Health insurance premiums will go down.
Health care premiums for those in the individual insurance market will rise 10 percent to 13 percent by 2016 under the plan, according to the Congressional Budget Office. While the cost of premiums will be subsidized with taxpayer dollars for 57 percent of those enrolled in the new government-run insurance exchanges, the 43 percent of enrollees who do not qualify for assistance will have to pay higher costs.
3. The bill creates jobs.
The Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, says that the health care reform bill will create “between 2.5 million to 4 million additional jobs over the next 10 years.” But the fiscally conservative Beacon Hill Institute, part of Boston’s Suffolk University, conducted its own analysis and found that in response to higher taxes and mandates on companies to provide insurance, “firms would be induced to fire or lay off workers” to the tune of 120,000 to 700,000 employees by 2019. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, found that the new taxes would kill 690,000 jobs per year.
4. Federal funding will not cover abortion.
Obama agreed on Sunday to sign an executive order to reaffirm the Senate bill’s “consistency with long-standing restrictions on the use of federal funds for abortion.” But pro-life groups say the executive order does not carry the force of a law and will do nothing to curb the provision in the bill they believe will allow taxpayer dollars to cover the procedure. “The president cannot amend a bill by issuing an order, and the federal courts will enforce what the law says,” the National Right to Life Committee said.
5. If you like your current health care plan, you can keep it.
The new health care law will impose a list of benefits each health care plan will have to offer if they are to remain in business. The Congressional Budget Office also estimates that about 4 million people would lose their employer-based plan and be forced to buy plans on the new government exchanges.
6. Medicare costs will be cut, not services.
The bill makes $528 billion in cuts to Medicare, including a $136 billion reduction for Medicare Advantage. The Medicare Advantage cuts will force 4.8 million seniors off the popular plan by 2019. An additional $23 billion in cuts to Medicare will come from a panel charged with slashing Medicare spending.
7. The bill pays for itself.
The CBO found that the bill would reduce the deficit by $138 billion over 10 years, but the savings was achieved by leaving out a $208 billion provision lawmakers will have to enact later to ensure doctors are adequately paid for treating Medicare patients. When the “doc fix” is included in the bill, it runs $59 billion in the red over the next decade. And former CBO Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin said that “if you strip out all the gimmicks and budgetary games” the 10-year deficit would exceed $560 billion.
8. State won’t get stuck with the bill.
The health care reform bill expands Medicaid to all non-elderly individuals up to 133 percent of the poverty line. The federal government would foot the bill for this expansion, but only until 2016. Beginning in 2017, states would gradually begin paying a portion of it. By 2020, states would cover 10 percent of the cost of Medicaid expansion.
9. There will be no rationing of care.
A survey conducted by the Medicus Firm, a medical recruitment company, found that 46 percent of physicians said they would quit or retire if the Democratic health care reform bill becomes law. The survey noted that “even if a much smaller percentage such as ten, 15, or 20 percent are pushed out of practice over several years at a time when the field needs to expand by over 20 percent, this would be severely detrimental to the quality of the health care system.”
10. The bill does not raise taxes.
The bill imposes a 40 percent excise tax on insurance plans costing $10,200 for individuals and $27,500 for families. It also raises revenue by increasing the Medicare payroll tax for those earning more than $200,000, plus a new 3.8 percent tax on unearned income for these earners. The bill also imposes new taxes on drug makers, medical device manufacturers and health insurers that are likely to be passed on to consumers.
(Source Washington Examiner)
#22 How about thinking for yourself and pose a question for a response?
Instead, you copy/paste paragraphs from some cherry picked magazine (you probably haven’t read yourself) and propose it’s some smoking gun set of questions you never get a straight answer from. Bhaaaaa Bhaaaaa
Wait till the fundraiser moves to the Chicken Ranch. A good time (and much fund/hell raising) was had by all.
Obama is not going to take away your guns.
The gun and ammo industry cynically spread this rumor to get money from paranoid gun clutching nuts.
And those goofballs fell for it.
The evening has 2nd amendment supporters shooting at paper targets of 1st amendment supporters.
#23 He can think. That is why he went looking for the facts. He wanted to base his actions on reality. You on the other hand are oblivious to reality. I’m going to save his post (#22). Thanks guy. You are a breath of fresh air.