Fred Sittmann of Stanwood, Wash., listens to speakers at Friday's gun rights rally.

OLYMPIA – Second Amendment activists came well-armed to a Capitol Campus rally Friday where legislators promised to protect their freedom to have firearms and speakers denounced President Obama and gun control.

With the Legislature considering proposals to ban some firearms and high capacity clips or require background checks for all gun sales, some speakers urged the crowd to prepare for a fight over their gun rights.

But Sen. Pam Roach, R-Auburn, predicted that even if those restrictions  pass the Democratic-controlled House “they will die in the Washington state Senate” . . . 

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Above photo first appeared on SteveQuayle.com, attributed to “Pam”

A platoon of reservists from the 455th Engineering Co. took a walk down a street in Hayden, Idaho, last month and made a right turn into the blogosphere.

Out there, they inadvertently fan the flame for folks worried that any minute now, the gummint’s coming to get your guns, yank down your  Stars and Stripes, and make you put a hand on the Koran to swear allegiance to the New World Order.

That wasn’t where the soldiers of the 455th were headed when they left the Hayden Reserve Center during their one-weekend-a-month obligation on Feb. 8. They were basically trying to make do, after the heavy snow forced them to cancel the scheduled exercise, and their company commander decided to go to Plan B.