Doh!

So California state officials want the public to believe that by forcing manufacturers to install microstamping mechanisms in handguns and laser-etch serial numbers on ammunition, they'll be able to keep track of it all to solve crimes.

Why don't the dolts focus on finding the 30,000 cars they bought on the people's dime and now can't account for?

"Tracking down the data has been difficult... the situation 'was so bad,'...that one government agency had purchased $4 million worth of automobiles but didn't have any record of where it bought them.

"So far the department has determined that California spent $33.6 million on automobile acquisitions in calendar year 2004, but it is still compiling fleetwide data and does not yet know the total value or ongoing costs of the state's fleet."

Make of This What You Will

"Wilcox's demeanor toward authorities on the night of his arrest contributed to prosecutors' decision to drop the charges."

Random reactions:

I'm glad he's off.

I'm sorry it took a technicality to do it.

I doubt you or I would have the connections to make this work for us--or the high profile to focus a media spotlight so that the technicality couldn't be conveniently overlooked/successfully denied.

When are some of these multimillionaire celebrity gun owners--particularly ones who are minorities and could do much to sway public opinion about the right of all people to keep and bear arms--going to put their shoulder to the wheel and help promote and preserve that right?

The Government We Deserve

“At the close of the constitutional convention, a woman asked Benjamin Franklin what type of government the Constitution was bringing into existence. Franklin replied, ‘A republic, if you can keep it.’”

Flash forward:

“[O]nly 55 percent of Americans [are] able to correctly identify the three branches of government.”

"Thrilling...and Thought-Provoking"

The following review of 'The Black Arrow' appears in the current, August edition of the 'Midwest Book Review':
The Black Arrow
Vin Suprynowicz
Mountain Media
3172 North Rainbow Boulevard, Suite 343
Las Vegas, NV 89108
$24.95
www.TheLibertarian.us / www.TheBlackArrow.us

In "The Black Arrow: A Tale Of The Resistance," author Vin Suprynowicz draws upon his skill and expertise as a syndicated newspaper columnist to write a provocative novel set in the near future of 2031 where America is ruled under the authority of a Patriot-Poindexter police state. This is a time of ID checks, invasive body searches, stacked juries, kangaroo courts, a corrupt political class, and a gray-suited police cadre known as the Homeland Security Special Forces. It is against this background that wealthy record company executive Andrew Fletcher decides to resist the all powerful police state by becoming a masked vigilante known as the "Black Arrow". The result is a thrilling, rapidly paced, 703-page action/adventure novel that also incorporates thoughtful and thought-provoking commentary on the power of the state run amok, an unusual love story, and how a movement of the people can take back their liberties when pressed too far by those above them. Highly recommended reading -- especially for the libertarian inclined!

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Vin Suprynowicz is assistant editorial page editor of the daily Las Vegas Review-Journal and author of the books Send in the Waco Killers, The Ballad of Carl Drega, and The Black Arrow. For information call 702-656-3285, or visit
www.TheLibertarian.us or www.LibertyBookShop.us.

Another Senseless Child Gun Death...

...that could have been prevented if only we would enact "sensible gun laws"?

Good grief, how do you reach ages 19 and 20, and not be able to tell if a revolver is loaded?

Oh, Yeah, THIS'LL Work...

"But what I do believe that we can do is bring a concerted effort to the border so that we can capture many more guns than we have been capturing in the past that are coming in illegally."

Das Boots

How ironic.

A gungrabber has armed guards for his boots.