The BATFU In-and-Out

Wish I knew what Area Supervisor Linda Young meant by "We're done!" Be nice if they really were...

Click on title link for details from Ryan Horsley at Red's Blog...

[Via George K]

Someone's Got a Sense of Humor...

...and when you're dealing with BATFU, that ain't easy. Having coined and routinely employed the acronym, I would expect Google searches to put WarOnGuns at the top of the hit list. But we were edged out not just by the agency itself, but by the link to their "Kid's Page"!

I'm still disappointed my art submission will never make it to their exhibit wall...

A War of Attrition

“We’ve spent $70,000 [on legal fees] so far . . . and there’s still no court date,” Horsley told American Free Press on July 11. He believes the ATF and U.S attorneys want to avoid setting a court date since the feds might lose the case and receive unwanted publicity.

Their tactic appears to be: Find clerical glitches, if any, make court filings and exhaust Red’s finances.

“They’re trying to win by attrition,” said Horsley, adding that every legal rebuttal to the citations from each ATF visit costs the store $5,000 to $6,000.

Mark Anderson of AmericanFreePress.net gives us a good summation of the continued BATFU assault tactics on Red's Trading Post.

In related news, Ted Nugent may get involved.

[Via Ryan Horsley]

By Popular Demand

2 of the 100 comments the university received about the new policy supported it.

"Baaaa," said one supporter.

"Oink, oink," said the other.

Equality Under the Law

A Facebook profile containing a photograph of young men posing with guns has been cited as a factor in a police shooting that killed an 18-year-old robbery suspect last December.

Hmmm...

The Sex...Uh...Gun Offender Registry

In an effort to fight the city's spike in gun-related crime, Mayor Sheila Dixon yesterday introduced legislation that would let police - and possibly the public - know home addresses of people convicted of gun violations.

These people just won't stop, will they?

Please Please Me

The Democratic governor said he was pleased with the level of security he is provided.

Tell it to Rick Stanley, governor, who was arrested for open carry in Denver despite the clear wording of the Second Amendment and the Colorado Constitution. Hopefully Parker will be the beginning of the end of "home rule" gun bans that allow politicians to enjoy publicly-funded armed security details, but prohibit We the People from protecting ourselves.

Brady/VPC Spin on Fenty Appeal

Brady Center:

If the U.S. Supreme Court follows the words of the U.S. Constitution and the Court's own precedents, it should reverse the Appeals Court ruling and allow the District's law to stand.

Just because Paul Helmke says so, apparently.

Violence Policy Center:

Washington, DC's ban on handguns in the home has long protected DC's residents as measured by the District of Columbia's firearm suicide and overall
suicide rate.

I guess that all depends on who is being protected. If you follow the VPC link, it claims 5 reported suicides per 100,000 persons related to firearms in 2004, with no evidence that the absence of a gun would not have resulted in a different choice of method. In the same year, their murder rate was reported at 35.8 per 100,000, almost seven times higher than the national average of 5.5.

This Day in History: July 17

Washington is waiting our motions here, & has detached Sullivan with about 2500 men, as I learn, to Albany.- My intention is for Pensilvania where I expect to meet Washington, but if he goes to the Northw.d contrary to my / and you can keep him at Bay, be assured I shall soon be after him to relieve you.