We're the Only Ones Hootin' and Hollerin' Enough

Three carloads of off-duty Deerpark police officers, outside law enforcement officials and residents headed to Hooters restaurant in Franklin, N.J., Thursday night.

While the officers were out on the town, there were no town cops on duty back in Deerpark — 35 minutes away.

I agree with Chief Werner that "the safety of the town was not compromised," but probably for different reasons.

[Via Declan]

[More from "The Only Ones" Files]

I Make People Feel Like What?

From J.T.McAdams:

I spoke with Ryan at Red's today. I ordered the blue hat. He doesn't know me from Adam but you wouldn't know it by our conversation. He is very personable and seems to be a genuinely humble and appreciative individual -despite the downright BS he is having to endure. He was very complimentary of you and the work you've done to get the story out. I told him you had a way of motivating people to get involved...and making them feel like crap if they don't. He laughed. I did too. Keep it up David. Thanks.

I laughed too, J.T. Thanks for brightening up my day.

Open Carry While Delivering Fliers

Drew tells us of his adventures spreading the word about the August 28 Brady Counter-Protest Ammo Buy to local gun shops.

He also may get a letter published in the paper.

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August 28th ... Buy Bullets For the "Brady Bunch"
I don't mean to slight anyone by not posting a link to your blog if you've mentioned this--because I have such limited time, I just copied these directly from my original post on this topic, and that's what shows up automatically. Feel free to add related links in Comments below.

NRA On Board with Red's

UPDATE: I AM PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT CHRIS COX-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF NRA-ILA JUST SUBMITTED A LETTER IN SUPPORT OF DEALERS FOR THE FORUM

Here's a link to the letter.

[Many thanks to Whose Paranoid for hosting files.]

[More about Red's Trading Post from WarOnGuns]

Submit Your Artwork to the Payne Jr High Gun Drawing Contest

Hmmm....looks like Principal Karen Martin has deactivated her email.

I wonder how she'd react if people were to send (non-threatening) pictures of guns to the school via mail? Say, that's a pretty ferocious looking panther in their school logo--fangs bared and all... I guess the message is, animals with weapons are good, people with weapons are bad.

I don't know what the big deal about children drawing guns is. I used to do it all the time.

Responsibility

Concerning responsibility, there is a topic that seems taboo unless it is dealt with negatively.

That is the subject of gun ownership.Most firearms are owned by decent honest people for a variety of uses. This includes self defense. That said, we have the responsibility with the right to keep and bear arms to know how to responsibly and effectively operate them.

Check out the first comment: Naturally, an effete Huffington Poster who is all in a dither over "unfettered access to Uzis," disagrees.

Where are All the "Assault Weapons"?

A key component of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' (ATF) enforcement mission is the tracing of firearms on behalf of thousands of Federal, State, local and foreign law enforcement agencies. Firearms trace data is critically important information developed by ATF. ATF has prepared the following state-by-state reports utilizing trace data which is intended to provide the public with insight into firearms recoveries.

Perhaps an alternate title would be "BATFU Does PowerPoint."

One thing that strikes is that of all guns recovered during the report period, the "National Average Time-to-Crime" is 10.17 YEARS! That's quite some flow for the "pipeline, " wouldn't you agree?

But the thing that caught my immediate attention was the "Firearm Types" graphic presented for each state:


Where are all the "assault weapons" they're tracing? I mean, these are the bogeyman guns we're always hearing about from the Bradys and their "authorized journalist" heralds...

Aside from a very rare machine gun trace, all the other classifications I see make no distinction...

Hey, wait a minute...you don't think the antis might be all about manipulating semantics, that is, lying, do you...?

[Via Of Arms and the Law]

This Day in History: August 23

On the march to day I was honoured with a Letter from Congress transmitting Sundry Resolutions for calling out reinforcements of Militia, to repel the threatned invasion by the Enemy, who have arrived high up in the North East part of Chesapeak Bay.