Breaking News: Olofson Attorney on Lou Dobbs

One of Olofson's attorney's, Herb Titus, will be interviewed live tonight on Lou Dobbs. The program airs at 7:00 pm EST on CNN, so check your local listings in your time zone. I'm told significant information will be disclosed, and hope to have an update to this story soon to include documents just made public. [More]

I've just issued a breaking story on Gun Rights Examiner. Go there if you'd like to know more.

UPDATE: I've added a link to oral arguments.--4:11 PM EST

UPDATE 2: Larry Pratt says Titus won't be live, but reporter Bill Tucker will give an update on the hearing.--4:34 PM EST

UPDATE 3: I posted a recap of tonight's program, provide some supplemental information, and anticipate having more information soon.--9:45 PM EST

Crouch Down and Lick the What...???

Oops--wrong Sam Adams. [More]

I wonder if this is why Mayors Against (Your) Guns hasn't updated their membership gallery, and still features former mayor Tom Potter in their Legion of Doom roster?


[Via Ed M]

We're the Only Ones with Brain Freeze Enough

Mexico police chief's head found in ice box... [More]

There's gotta be a damned American gun shows nexus in here somewhere...

...unless it slipped out through that loophole...

[Via Zachary G]

MOWCA Updates

From Paul W. Davis, via email:

MOWCA Blog has posted two new items: 'U.S. v. Fincher Update' and
'Education or Entertainment'

You may view the posts at:
http://arkansasmilitia.com/blog/?p=62
http://arkansasmilitia.com/blog/?p=53

Time to Ban Assault Bricks

A woman is accused of pointing a gun at a man and smashing his windshield with a brick in a dispute over money, police said. [More]

Now wait just a minute--she's a "prohibited person"--could it be that "gun control" laws don't work?

The other thing I wonder--if in the hands of an "Only One," would it be a "patrol brick"?

[Via Ed M]

More Blood for Larry Hincker

On Wednesday, Jan 21, at 7:06 p.m., Virginia Tech Police received a 911 call reporting that a female was being assaulted in the cafe at the Graduate Life Center at Donaldson-Brown...[More]

Gee, Larry, why is it you don't come right out and tell people she was brutally stabbed to death in that gun-free zone you're so damn proud of?

I can't help but wonder how useless you'd have been had you been there to witness it, Larry. If the killer had turned his attention to you, do you think you'd have pleaded, blubbered, sobbed, girly-screamed and animal-howled?

And how wonderful you offer after-the-atrocity counseling.

If anyone would like to counsel Larry, go for it: hincker@vt.edu

Oh, and look: President Charles W. Steger is slinging BS around like the seasoned pro that he is:

We will continue to do everything we can to support the Virginia Tech family.

Really, Charlie? You'll rescind the firearms prohibition in Section 10 of your Student Conduct Code and get the hell out of the way of human beings who choose to be able to defend themselves? And ditto for section 2.7.3 of your Faculty Policies and Procedures? And Section 2.2 of your ludicrously-titled "Campus Workplace Violence Prevention Policy"?

How are those documents working out for you, Charlie? And if you say you can't do this, does it mean you're lying when you promise to do everything you can?


[Via Curses! Foiled Again!]

Imagining Gun Control in America

Several readers have sent me this law review article. [More]

Dr. Lott says simply:

Well Respected Law Professor Predicts that the Heller Decision will be Overturned

Read the entire paper for yourself.

I found good information in re the "gun show loophole" to use in today's Gun Rights Examiner column.

Here's the bottom line for me: In order to do what would need to be done to enact total gun control, mass disobedience and defiance would be the guaranteed reaction. There's no getting around that, and in this sense, this article is extremely useful, if for no other reason than to point out "You don't want to go there."

As for imagining such gun control, I already have. That's why I'll fight to keep it from happening until my dying breath.

"Baloney and Lies"

The claims are baloney and lies, based on distorted date and misrepresentations of results from ones with better data. [More]

Satisfied Rapex customers attack John Lott.

The new study in question is here. Look at all the vitriol and snottiness, particularly in "Comments."

These children have no idea what the fight is really about, do they?

I'll be sure and link to the rebuttal when it happens.

[Via Al N]

The Gathering Storm

If you think I'm rough on the Lairds of Fairfax, check out Michael Gaddy's latest...[More]

[Via Zachary G, who writes "Please be sure to click on the hyperlink 'possible accomplices.'"]

Fair and Balanced

But members of the grassroots organization Georgiacarry.org say many statistics are twisted and guns can save lives if they’re in the right hands. [More]

This is the kind of coverage you couldn't buy. Sure, they give the obligatory nod to the antis, but overall, my source from Georgia Carry tells me:

Reporters can be won over. Ashley Olmstead ran a news story recently on the surge in firearms license applications in Georgia that had some factual and legal errors in it. When GCO members pointed this out to her, she immediately corrected the errors. In response, local GCO members invited her shooting this morning. She had never shot a pistol before, and neither had her cameraman. They ended up having a blast and stayed so long that they were late for a subsequent story. Here is a link to the news video that ran this evening. http://www.georgiacarry.org/ with the headline, Grassroots Group Fights for More Gun Rights. It is a good piece, and our members represented themselves very well.

[Via Ben G and Georgia Carry]

Closing the Bill of Rights Loophole

Come we now to Team Obama's next hope for change:

"They support closing the gun show loophole...

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Today's Gun Rights Examiner offering...

Please share it with other gun owners, or anyone who might be interested in looking at gun shows from an angle they won't get in most media outlets...

This Day in History: January 22

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