Attorney Alan Gura has filed an opening brief in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column.
A former Teton County Sheriff's deputy who shot a dog three times after its owner had tied it to a tree pleaded guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor trespassing..[More]I had to dig through a lot of stuff to find the last time I talked about this.
Just heard this on Shep's show (approx 7:40PM): The Army has 'recalled' 16,000 sets of body armor. They were their usual obfuscatory selves about explaining exactly why this particular 16,000 units and what the criteria were. The reason I'm alerting you all is that in all likelihood these things will hit the surplus market late this Spring or early Summer and folks need to be aware of exactly what they're looking at.OK, here's the story.
[B]ullet-shielding ceramic plates in the armor failed testing...Seems like it would be a hell of a liability if they released these into the civilian market...
"Before you take the sword, before you walk the way of the sword, know this", she held back slightly and the heat I felt became somehow instantly cold, lonely, vacuous. "Once taken, you can never let go. If you accept, you can never relinquish. The price is great. Your Forebears paid. This way is fraught with peril. The reward, however, is greater than gold, brighter than diamonds." [More]Mike H sets out on a quest.
The Borgs at the AP tell us resistance is futile, and Eric Holder will be confirmed by the full Senate Monday evening. They say there's nothing we can do, that "the outcome is not in doubt." [More]
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January 30, 1777
- In Jamaica, attorneys claim that American vessels and their crews captured by British warships prior to January 1, 1776, when the Trade Prohibitory Act became effective could not be detained. [More]
Hobbled by the Supreme Court decision in D.C. v. Heller, recognizing that individuals have a constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms, gun control advocates are roaming the land with virtual lightbulbs over their heads. "Ah ha," they say. You can have your guns, but we'll control your ammunition. [More]J. D. Tuccille makes the rounds and presents some bullet points.
Recreational shooting would be severely curtailed or destroyed entirely.Cut back practice and training--there's a surefire happy ending solution! Why wouldn't we want people less trained, less able to hit what they aim at?
I have been summoned for jury duty in King County Superior Court. Initially, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to do my duty. Moments later it occurred to me that the court would most likely want me to convict someone of violating unconstitutional laws, like laws criminalizing drugs, sex, guns, etc. [More]Mark A. Taff thinks through a process most of us will face.
We only use off-duty police officers [More]Why does the slogan "We use only 100% pure 'Only Ones'" come to mind?
A Chattanooga detective accused of assaulting an elderly Wal-Mart greeter who asked to see his sales receipt has been suspended from duty. [More]He's not really the "Only One" in suspense. I have been too, wondering how all that equal treatment under the law was going to work out...
Five people imprisoned for the 1985 rape and murder of a 68-year-old woman were pardoned Monday, two months after investigators said DNA evidence proved they were innocent. [More]One can only wonder how many enter pleas because they've been bullied into it over threatened consequences. And somehow, those who defrauded them into it remain free to do it again and again...
VCU Police Chief Willie B. Fuller was arrested yesterday. The Chesterfield County Police Department media advisory states that Chief Fuller is charged "with use of a communications device to solicit sex from a minor and attempted indecent liberties with a minor." [More]At least we can now guess why VCU "Only Ones" are so intent on maintaining a monopoly of force.
Ah, the old "home rule" argument.Today's Gun Rights Examiner column focuses on a common deception propagated by the anti-gunners-- when "home rule" favors citizen disarmament, they're for it. When it doesn't, it's time to being in the feds.
You know, their position that places like Washington DC should be able to enact gun bans. Just like President Obama's Chicago/Cheyenne sleight of mind...
It's a great trick to use on those who aren't paying attention. You distract everyone with talk about assaults on local control, and then you enact sweeping legislation that encompasses everybody everywhere. [More]
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Your wish, to be the instrument of restoring peace, to a much oppressed and more injured People, is certainly most laudable, but you must very well know, that this is not to be effected by the interposition of any person in a private Character, and Lord and General Howe have refused to negotiate with the only great representative Body of this Continent. [More]
A former North Texas sheriff has admitted to forcing a woman to perform a sex act after telling her it was the only way she wouldn’t go to jail for drugs found in her house, a federal prosecutor said Monday. [More]What, he didn't check her "Only One"-filed false disease report first?
H. R. 645Huh.
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish national emergency centers on military installations. [More]
Terry Neal, a Tampa activist and former City Council candidate, sued the city of Tampa, two police officers and the Police Department, alleging his reputation was ruined when police falsely wrote he had HIV, hepatitis C and a violent mental illness in a police report four years ago. [More]So if I report that both the named "Only Ones" have oozing genital lesions, and can't "pinpoint where [I] got the information...even when such information is unverified," will my "warning [be] justified to protect [citizens] from even a possibility of a potentially fatal exposure" if these rights rapists ever get them in their clutches?
Whatever alibis the Soviet-era Russians and other captive peoples might have had as the Gulag's apparatus churned and grumbled, we kulaks of the Obamanation have no such excuses. [More]Sure we do. They're just not very good excuses.
The threats were, in the opinion of security experts we consulted, serious. The individual has a felony record and owns a gun. Police in three states became involved and we hired a personal security team to protect me, my family and TechCrunch employees. [More]Find the Boots asks some obvious questions.
U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek said today that last week’s shooting in Miami that left seven injured and two dead shows the need for reinstating the federal ban on assault weapons. [More]You can contact this f*****g idiot here, if you like.
A new bill introduced in the Congress by New York Republican Rep. Peter King requires mobile phones with digital cameras "to make a sound" when a photograph is taken.I have a better idea. Why not just tie cans to Peter King, so we'll all know a rights molester is approaching?
The move is part of the 'Camera Phone Predator Alert Act' and the idea is to ensure privacy and safety of the public, especially children, claims the bill. [More]
Authorities said the St. Lucie County firefighter who took a man's severed foot from an Interstate 95 crash scene last year has been charged with misdemeanor theft.So if you give "Only Ones" an inch and they take a mile, what happens when you give them a foot...?
The firefighter told the Florida Highway Patrol after the Sept. 19 crash that she took the remains to help train her cadaver dog. [More]
An "Authorized Law Enforcement Officer" has been ordered by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, to make an arrest in a machine gun case.My Gun Rights Examiner column for today follows up on Len Savage and the duct-taped upper declared a machine gun.
Guess who they're arresting?
Wrong. Not "who."
"What."
Seriously. [More]
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John's To-Do List:God, I love these monkeys. Not a day goes by they don't make me laugh, even when it's at my expense, which, naturally, is probably the most fun.
Be a noob.
Hartford Mayor Eddie A. Perez was charged Tuesday with receiving a bribe and falsifying evidence, the latest in a string of Connecticut politicians caught up in recent corruption investigations. The four-term Democrat is admitting to "a lapse in judgment"... [More]
Could we please have a Mayors Against (Your) Guns corruption/lapse in judgment moratorium?Another problem with this "law" is that it would be impossible to fairly enforce. VCU is a spread out, urban university, and city property and VCU property blend together with no clear definition. To effectively enforce this law, VCU would need to post hundreds if not thousands of signs deliniating the boundaries to its property...[More]There's a discussion going on. My own thoughts are to do what I think is necessary--a hell of a risk to demand a free man to take. You can only marvel at the evil mind that thought that one up, and the ignorant ones that think it makes them safer.
The university is committed to providing an environment conducive to academic freedom, free inquiry, and equal access to educational and occupational opportunities. The principle of academic freedom requires all persons to respect another's dignity, to acknowledge another's right to express differing opinions, to cultivate and to cherish intellectual honesty, and to promote freedom of inquiry and expression. It is therefore the policy of the university that no act of any member of the university community shall serve to restrain or inhibit access to opportunities or the exercise of these freedoms. To that end, no person, either singly or in concert with others, shall willfully:Basically, a bunch of academic weasel words that say our feelings and our choice on how to react to you acting like a free and sovereign human being will be used to dictate what "dignity" we will allow you to "cultivate" and "cherish."
4. Have in his possession any firearm, other weapon, or explosive, regardless of whether a license to possess the same has been issued, without the written authorization of the president of the university. This restriction does not apply to persons whose duties lawfully require the possession of firearms or other weapons.
This is an issue that has confused the 2A crowd in VA for some time, with no clear answer. This is a more serious issue than it seems at first glance, because the campus of VCU is spread out throughout the City of Richmond, surrounds part of the state capital, and it is virtually impossible to enter, exit, or travel through Richmond without passing through VCU.Go on over and read the whole thing.
That is, to mail President Obama one teabag. Nothing dangerous, nothing illegal - just one teabag.My thought was to tag each tea bag with a fitting message, and I suggested the following as something that could be copied, pasted, printed, cut and attached.
Send one to your Congressman and one to each Senator.
I saw a comment on this somewhere, and I can't find it now, that suggested this is probably illegal under a whole bunch of different Homeland Security--not to mention USPS--regulations. In which case, were I to do this, I'd probably dress like an Indian.
"Law enforcement approached and detained Nichols who was sitting on the curb eating sushi and wearing traditional Batman apparel, complete with cape and partial mask," the motion to dismiss states. "It was a dark day for the Dark Knight, as he was subsequently placed under arrest for wearing a hood on a public street."Thank goodness this menace to public safety has been unmasked. And y'know, "Dark Knight" does sound like a Klan title...
During an interview tonight, Nichols said a sergeant in Ybor City had an issue with his costume and caused him to land _ Pow! Zap! _ in the slammer. The sergeant, Nichols said, had previously advised him to unmask himself and told a fellow officer to arrest him. [More]
The TSA and the U.S. Secret Service trained about 70 Tampa police officers and Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies working the event in their techniques. Milano described them as "telltale signs of people about to engage in wrongdoing" based on the Israeli security system. [More]So if your ears go back, it means you're about to bite the horse in front of you?
Why I will vote 'no' on HolderGood for you, Senator Barrasso.
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Holder clutches at gun rightsHolder first squall in an approaching storm
How to hold Holder without 'using guns'
Gun show sales not big source of problems [More]Well, shoot, I could'a told you that.
One answer to that question is to consider investing a portion of your portfolio in firearms – and I don’t mean just buying a revolver to keep on your nightstand to protect the wad of green paper under your mattress. I mean buying and holding firearms and ammunition that you anticipate will go up in price over the coming months and years. There are several economic and political reasons why firearms can be reasonably expected to increase in price, and thus ought to make up a portion of your investment portfolio. [More]What's in your gun safe?
Come we now to the jewel in the crown, the centerpiece of Obama's gun policy, a valued prize for gunhaters everywhere, and what they certainly see as saving the best for last (at least in this term):Anyone who seriously thinks this character doesn't want their guns enjoys being lied to.They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent.[More]
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January 27, 1777
Upon the final departure of the British from Boston, Washington decides to send a brigade under General Sullivan to New York. [More]
After being deadlocked twice, a D.C. Superior Court jury yesterday acquitted a Marine amputee on felony charges of gun possession stemming from an arrest while he was on the way to Walter Reed Army Medical Center. [More]A lot of people are expressing outrage over this--as well they should.
Seconds after BART police officer Johannes Mehserle shot and killed Oscar Grant, police immediately began confiscating cell phones containing videos that have yet to see the light of day. In fact, the only videos that have been seen by the public were filmed by people who managed to leave the scene before police confronted them. [More]This is posted under the title "Do police have the right to confiscate your camera?"
Hill made a police officer a regular citizen inside the courthouse. [More]But no more, thank goodness. Now, they're once more extra-special elite "Only Ones."
A 14-year-old boy was charged with false impersonation of a police officer after entering a South Side police station in full uniform Saturday and “reporting for duty.” [More]A proto-Chi-Town "Only One"...
Police in Nigeria are holding a goat handed to them by a vigilante group, which said it was a car thief who had used witchcraft to change shape.Hey, we shouldn't laugh. Look how many people in this country still believe "Only Ones" have some kind of special magic making them more trustworthy to bear arms than "regular people."
A police spokesman in Kwara State has been quoted as saying that the "armed robbery suspect" would remain in custody until investigations were over. [More]
My bottom line? If Obama wants "childproof guns," let's see him mandate them for his Secret Service protection detail first. I'll still be against the idea, but at least we'll see he actually believes in a technology he would impose on you and me. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column picks up where we left off on Friday...
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January 26, 1777
The Provincial Congress of South Carolina approves a new constitution and government for the province. The legislature is now the General Assembly of South Carolina; the group elects John Rutledge as President, Henry Laurens as Vice President, and William Henry Drayton as Chief Justice.[More]
If you belong to a grassroots group and can see the advantage of cross-promoting with a national gun rights column that is growing and branching out, or if you are a pro-gun rights blogger who would like to exchange links... [More]I keep giving little clues that I'm serious about promoting this Gun Rights Examiner opportunity, and this is my latest outreach. I hope I can count on the regulars here to look kindly on this effort and lend a helping hand...?
That this civil liberties nightmare is intended as our next attorney general ought to scare all of us--enough to motivate our personal and sustained involvement in opposing him. [More]Here is today's Gun Rights Examiner post. I consider it the most important one in the series so far, and as such, will be spending most of my time today promoting it. I hope I can count on the regulars here to join me, to share the link with your friends, to link to it in your blogs, to post it on forums you frequent...
These are the people who would use the power of the state to disarm you and me. They insist on imposing their ignorance on the rest of us-- under force of law.[More]I thought this was an appropriate follow-up for today's Gun Rights Examiner theme.
Miner is also accused of grabbing her "forcefully by the back of the head and hair" and kissing her, straddling her when she tried to get up, and threatening to post digital pictures of her in restraints on the Internet if she didn't spend the night with him...What more can I say about forceful, penetrating "Only Ones" being such a driving force in Newport News?
Lt. Ronald M. Hendrickson, 47, of Yorktown faces felony charges of abduction, abduction with intent to defile and animate object penetration, plus misdemeanor sexual battery...
Finally, last summer an assistant police chief was arrested for drunken driving after a state trooper spotted her weaving in traffic on Interstate 64.[More]
Today[Via HZ]
This weekend, C-SPAN presents oral arguments in the case of Nordyke vs. King. The Court decides if Alameda County, California's ban on gun shows at the annual county fair is unconstitutional. Gun show promoters Russell & Sallie Nordyke argue that the ban violates their First Amendment right of free speech and their Second Amendment right to bear arms.
The wife of a Conservative councillor told police about an arsenal of handguns he kept at his sprawling country home in revenge for having to give him £180,000 in a divorce settlement, a court has heard. [More]Hell hath no fury...
The Senate has voted for a bill that would let county, state and federal prosecutors carry concealed guns into county courthouses. [More]Because "Only One" lives are more valuable than yours, silly.
So what, am I just belly-aching again? Nothing is good enough? Maybe I'd have preferred Caroline Kennedy?Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at what the Kirsten Gillibrand appointment means for gun owners.
Hey, I'm just pointing out that what the enemies of gun rights would have the world believe is "pro-gun" is hardly a benchmark definition we should settle for. Why would you let someone who hates guns define a line over which anyone who crosses can be labeled an "extremist"? [More]
C-SPAN at 7pm (ET)
Court Hears Challenge To Ban On Gun Shows