OBSERVATION POST

Observation Post - A Blog by Anthony Canales
Anthony Canales - President San Fernando Valley NRA Member's Council

Anthony Canales is the President of the San Fernando Valley Member’s Council, NRA. He works as a Quality Control Manager in Glendale, California. He is married with one son.

Anthony has been an firearms activist and Member’s Council volunteer since 1994, and a blogger for the California Member’s Councils since 2002. Recent projects include work on firearms outreach to public health officials, debunking faulty science related to ammunition and endangered species, and shooting as a self defense option for women from a martial arts perspective.

The opinions expressed in ‘News Briefs’ belong solely to the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Rifle Association of America or the NRA Members’ Councils of California


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A Bullet Ban By Any Other Name...

Golden eagle preys upon protected California condor at a proffered feeding site near Big Creek, California ____________________________________________ A ban on the statewide use of lead ammunition for hunting and depredation is currently making it’s way through the California Assembly. AB 711 (Rendon), which is opposed by the National Rifle Association and other shooting and hunting groups, is legislation designed to bypass both a regular scientific review and public oversight of suc [...]
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Imagine That

Imagine a gun control regime so strict that criminals are willing to shoot police officers to gain quick access to certain kinds of firearms. In the case of the Marathon Bombing Brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, it is being reported by a Massachusetts CBS affiliate that it is likely what they did when they murdered MIT Security Officer Sean Collier. Unfortunately for Officer Collier, his holster was reportedly of a 3-way lock design that kept the Tsarnaev brothers from accessi [...]
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Go Ahead, DiFi Says It's Okay...

Video clips from a Fox News Interview between Chris Wallace and Senator Diane Feinstein (D-DPRCA) has DiFi singing the praises of the 12 gauge over that of noble "mouse gun" when it comes to self defense in the home. And while there is a significant case to be made about the utility of the modular AR, when configured properly a lot can also be said about such fare as Benelli's M-4 design. With the proper collapsible stock, extended magazine tube, and reliable optical accessories, [...]
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Old School Ass-Whuppin'

President Barack Obama- Google Image _____________________________________ Senator Charles Schumer shrieked. Vice President Joe Biden dialed Senatorial cellphones until he got blisters on his fingers. Senator Diane Feinstein even played her own version of "Double-Dog-Dare-Ya" to vote for a semiautomatic rifle ban that would easily cost thousands of jobs in such "blue" states as Connecticut, Illinois, and Maine. But in the end, the old school techniques of NRA Members' phone [...]
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