Written by Philip Mulivor
Friday, 24 February 2012 13:47

In 1964, the Houston Astros were named the Colt .45s, and their uniform jersey featured a picture of the Colt Peacemaker revolver. That classic single-action revolver was carried by U.S. troops in the Spanish-American war.

This season at Friday home games, the Astros will wear vintage jerseys from different periods in the team's history. But the Peacemaker will be missing from the "Colt .45s" uniform.

The authoritarians at Major League Baseball were afraid that the embroidered antique guns might jump off the players' jerseys and do bad things, so they ordered the gun image to be removed from the players' uniforms. Though this politically correct clownery is more a First Amendment than Second Amendment issue, it still roundly qualifies the gun-phobic censors at MLB as Idiots of Day.

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Philip Mulivor is a coordinator for Ohioans for Concealed Carry and author of Proclaiming Liberty: What Patriots and Heroes Really Said about the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.