Gillibrand and McCarthy to Make Illegal Gun Transactions Even More Illegal

That's pretty much the gist of today's press conference. [More]

Here's the follow-up to today's earlier Gun Rights Examiner column. There's not a lot to say because most of what they said was such BS.

A Brief Nod

Is it really as good as a wink to a blind horse? [More]

Grey's Anatomy Spin-Off Webcast Starts Tonight!

Western Rifle Shooters Association tells us about it. [More]

But first they make us sit through some boring economic stuff.

And It's All Perfectly Legal!

There are armed men and women in the tri-counties that we don't hear much about. They aren't police, rather they're ordinary citizens carrying a concealed gun in public-- and it's all perfectly legal. [More]

Provided you can prove to Master that you "need" it.

We're in Bill Brown country now!

I like how some connected businessman's money roll or some club musician's fan interactions are more important than my childrens' lives.

And it's all perfectly legal!

I wonder if they did a quick audit of these counties if you'd find any inconvenient racial disparities in re approvals...

Actually, we don't need to wonder.

[Via Gerhard Paul]

We're the Only Ones Stripped Bare Enough

Newly obtained documents reveal a former Scottsdale police officer may have illegally strip searched as many as 20 Valley women during his two years on the force. [More]

If he'd tried that on some of the women I know, ol' Chong Kim here would have ended up in deep kimche.

The thing about "Only Ones" stories like this that always gets to me is just the fact that they believe they operate in a culture that allows them to get away with it. That and their attitude that citizens are chattel to be used and disposed of as they see fit.

Maybe this is why:

A police spokesman said the department also investigated possible criminal charges against Kim, but determine he did not violate any state laws.

Think they'd have been able to gin up some relevant statutes if one of the victims had...uh...blown this evil pig to hell?

And then there's this:

"Clearly this was an officer who was going way beyond his job description," said Ulises Ferragut, a defense attorney who has been involved in similar cases.

Really? It wasn't within established department protocols? Or is Ulises here just having fun with wry understatement?

William Grigg has more.

[Via Danno and Zachary G]

The Way Things Oughtta Be

Two days after the General’s death, a 14-year-old girl in Bushenyi allegedly killed one Josephat Mpigika, a 40-year-old man who had tried to rape her. She reportedly killed him with a rock accurately aimed at his head. The police arrested her. [More]

Thank goodness some parts of the world recognize the danger posed by guns, and take that awful choice away from women, leaving them with poison and witchcraft.

We could get there some day here, too. Our finest feminist mind is working on it.

[Via Mama Liberty]

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise...

Thugs who broke a man's jaw on a night out were freed after just one day of their nine-month jail sentences after a judge decided he had been too harsh, it emerged today. [More]

Any questions?

Oh, right, you can't ask them. Your jaw is broken.

[Via Harvey]

Stop with the Fred Maslack Emails Already

Fred Maslack is not a current member of the VT legislature.

Here: See for yourself.

Please stop forwarding the email about him introducing a bill requiring gun ownership. You'll notice they never actually come with a bill number and a link?

I heard such a bill was introduced a while back, but you couldn't prove it by me.

It's kind of like that damned SB 2099 HR 45 email that keeps urging us to SEND THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW. And it seems they're always sent by people clueless as to "BCC," so a "reply to all" delights us all. Not to mention provides a convenient cherry picking resource for spammers, especially as forwards accrue more edresses...

We have real efforts required of us. We can't afford to waste time and energy.

We're the Only Ones Mildly Responded To Enough

Yet despite one officer's own admission of the fraud as well as payroll sheets outlining the officers' misdeeds, no charges were brought against them. [More]

Well, yeah...hh...

Why do you think we call them "Only Ones"?

[Via retrotruckman]

No Business for Randy Rayburn, EVER

"We will have vigilantes shooting up bars all over," said Randy Rayburn, the owner of three upscale cafes, who led opponents of the law. [More]

Insulting, isn't he?

I wonder what Randy's prepared to personally do if someone downscale decides an upscale cafe with unarmed patrons provides an attractive opportunity for those not afraid to ignore the rules when it suits their purposes?

You know, people who look at "No Guns Ever" signs as invitations...?

You can ask Randy. You'll find him down at the Sunset Grill. Or at the Midtown Cafe, or his third "Dine While Disarmed" establishment, Cabana.

Any gun owner who spends a dime in these joints is giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

And here's an interesting twist: Randy's executive chef "specializes in wild game dishes in the framework of contemporary cuisine."

Does that mean they have to shoot it?

Might be an opportunity to do a little CUM ULLA SELLA IN PUGNO TABERNA bridge-building, and find out how many PETA activists in the Nashville area might be outraged at the exploitation and murder of our animal friends just to satisfy upscale gluttony and greed...

[Via Loki1776]

Kirsten Gillibrand Ramps Up Abandonment of Gun Owners

I noticed one conspicuous absence in particular among the signatories: formerly "pro gun" Kirsten Gillibrand, who abandoned her supportive gun-owning constituents to embrace the political opportunities of citizen disarmament. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column once again chronicles the serial infidelities of...well, we know what she is and we've established her price.

Also get the latest from my fellow GREs.

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This Day in History: November 24

Information having been given that divers of the late sutlers, and some of the inhabitants have opened tippling houses within and adjacent to the encampment of the army, by which the design of banishing the Sutlers from the army is in a great measure frustrated. The Deputy Quarter Master General is required forthwith, to make diligent inquiry, and examination, for discovering such houses, and suppressing them, and to assure all who are driving this pernicious trade, that if continued any longer, their liquors shall be seized, and they expelled from the neighbourhood of the army, on pain of the severest punishment if they return. [More]