"Yes, Even Here in Wyoming"

Apparently there are some serious flaws with this story.

Mama Liberty tells me they interviewed Wyoming Gun Owners Association executive director Anthony Bouchard.

Per Mr. Bouchard:

[L]ook how all the statistics were printed as fact.

I want you to know that I disputed the CDC statistics but none of that made it into the article.

Here are good examples of disputed numbers:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,113094,00.html

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20081013/ARTICLES/810100238/-1/NEWS4525?Title=Gun-owners-often-use-the-weapons-on-themselves

Also unmentioned, are we to give up our rights because one might commit suicide?

Or how many of these deaths were deemed justified shootings or even by police?

The average person will not sift through the data and the more the media slams us (yes even here in Wyoming) with "statistics that purposely leave out the facts", we lose another inch.

The Fighting Haiduci

So these merry bands of armed Romanians took arms and retreated in the Carpathian mountains; they called themselves "haiduci" (spell hayduchy) and they were the Romanian version of Tito's Partizans - only they were fighting the Soviet and the Communist Romanian army. Their guns were whatever they could get their hands on but they benefited from the support of the population in the small mountain villages where they were fighting. [More]

Transylvania Phoenix gives us a recent history lesson from the land of my ancestors that has timeless applicability for freedom fighters.

Fascinating stuff--good job.

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Well She Was There!

“What about an apology? Did they apologize for killing a US Marshal?” [More]

In fairness to HS Precision, I cannot confirm the accuracy of this report. That said, I have no reason to doubt it, and the company's handling of the entire self-created Lon Horiuchi mess does not make me sympathetic to their plight.

I'd say it's up to them to address this to the gun-buying public. If they choose not to, the consequences will be theirs to live with.

As soon as this is posted, I'm going to contact them, give them this link, and invite them to make a public statement.

[Via FatWhiteMan]


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National Parks Gun Bill Presents Dilemma for Constitutionalists

Hey, I'm just pointing out that you don't get benefits without costs, that you dance with the devil at your peril, and that he is unexcelled at making you think you're the one leading. [More]

And everybody is up on what those costs are.

Right?

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column discusses the price of "victory."

Also get the latest from my fellow GREs.

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This Day in History: May 20

An emission totaling $16,500,000 payable in Spanish milled dollars, or the equivalent in gold or silver, was authorized by ten Continental Congress resolutions passed between May 20, 1777 and April 18, 1778. [More]