NYC gun proposal gets mixed response from store owners

Bloomberg's gotta love this guy.

The good thing about freedom, Mr. Elfaki, is you have the right to do as you please here. No one is intent on forcing a gun on you—except, of course, those people who want what is yours. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column points Big Apple predators to a story that tells them where they can go to get not only a great deli meal, but also a willing bared throat.

Also note:

• I'll be on Tom Gresham's Gun Talk Radio today in the 2:00 pm EST segment. Click here to find a radio station in your area or to listen via live streaming.
• I'll be on Armed American Radio with Mark Walters this evening at 8:00 pm EST.  Click here to find a radio station in your area, or click here to listen live. [NOTE: I've advised Mark about the links not working so he can get tech support to fix it. UPDATE: If all else fails, go here to listen live.]

Can I count on you site regulars to share the link?

Interview with GOA's Larry Pratt

Because GOA takes a somewhat different approach that can yield different performance assessments, tensions sometimes arise between its supporters and NRA's, along with often acrimonious, even bitter debate.  And because this election has such potential to impact gun owners, I thought it important to learn not just about GOA and the man who is the driving force behind it, but to seek his assessment of some of the criticism being promoted in some quarters. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column provides some answers.

Also get reminders on today's rallies and tomorrow's radio.

Participate in the discussion?  And share the link?

Hotlinks

I hadn't intended to WoGblog today, but got sent some links I want to call your attention to:

• Western Rifle Shooters Association calls our attention to "Neither Predator Nor Prey."
• Sipsey Street Irregulars perseveres through "The Ruckus."  Mike also sent me a copy of the speech he prepared for today, but I see he hasn't posted it yet, so I'll leave that prerogative to him and link to it when he does.

Tomorrow...

Gun Rights Examiner...

My interview of Larry Pratt...

Hardballs thrown.

GRE Round Up for October 29

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:

• Arkansas politicians show their fear of the Second Amendment

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:

• Tennessee Firearms Association Knoxville Chapter

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• High stakes for gun owners in Tuesday’s Senate election

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Framed: The campaign to portray gun dealers as criminals

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• Michigan Firearms

Contempt of Court

Elder feral son Uday and I laughed so hard reading this I couldn't breathe. [Read]

More:

• Lowering the Bar
• Volokh Conspiracy
• Ninth Circuit
• SCOTUS

[Via Mack H]

We're the Only Ones Making You Croak Enough

The Pinal County Sheriff's Office plans to fight an order that it rehire a deputy fired earlier this year after using a Taser on a frog. [More]

Evidently the Orwellian-named "Merit System Commission" thinks someone who enjoys torturing small, helpless creatures merits special "Only Ones" exceptionalism, and deserves another shot at having official power over lesser creatures...

They must think we'll "take it like a champ." 

Thing is, champs win.

[Via HB]

We're the Only Ones Unexceptional Enough

[S]everal officers were surprised when they found themselves stopped and checked for weapons with a handheld metal detector.

They had been an exception to a strict rule in place there. [More]

No "Only Ones" exceptions? Well that's pretty exceptional...

And it looks from comments like some take exception...

[Via Bill R]

We're the Only Ones Distracted Enough

Glover said in July that he was stepping away from the post because the troubles, which included profiling, drunken driving, animal abuse and sex on duty, had become a distraction for the patrol...[More]

But just among a few bad apples, mind you...


[Via cocked and loaded]

Elephant Fumes

National Republicans are furious with the National Rifle Association, their natural ally, for endorsing 58 incumbent Democrats who support gun rights. And with Republicans aiming to win control of the House, some are promising retribution for the NRA next year. [More]

I'm the first one to question NRA endorsements of Democrats as being incompatible with "voting freedom first." But when the GOP offers us merde like Mark Kirk, Dan Coats, et al, they can just go to hell.

Go ahead and fume, m...........s.  You really want to talk about promising retribution?

We may not be able to win every election, but we damn sure have the numbers to ensure they'll lose some if they don't toe the line.  But for those timid souls who so want to believe that "lesser of two evils" wishful thinking...

Getting A Head in Phoenix

The gruesome case of a man who was stabbed and beheaded in a suburban Phoenix apartment has police investigating whether the killing is potentially the most extreme example of Mexican drug cartel violence spilling over the border. [More]

Are they sure they have the resources?

Don't they have some signs they need to pull down first?

Get Out the Vote!

And you domestic enemies had better pray to whatever dark gods you worship that your vote snatchers don't force a reckoning. [Read]

As bad as taxation without representation was, think about what the opposite implies...

Knew or Should Have Known

The complaint alleges that less than two weeks before purchasing the Taurus, Badger Guns negligently and illegally sold Fernandez a Masterpiece Arms 9 mm assault weapon, two high-capacity thirty round ammunition clips, and a flash suppressor. [More]

Did Fernandez lie?

Did whatever ID he provided pass the NICS?

When the Brady complaint says "gun dealers should screen suspicious purchasers" beyond the requirements of the law, might doing so to minorities like the criminal involved in this case lead to charges for illegal racial profiling?

When the Brady complaint then says store policy should apply to "every potential handgun purchaser," doesn't that mean in their opinion every gun buyer is "suspicious"--in spite of their earlier assurances that their lawsuit "does not in any way challenge the right of law-abiding citizens..."?


Anybody have details on this that don't involve these jackasses soiling their thongs in anticipation of renewed relevance? Because the major complaint I see here is that the gun dealer being sued is not psychic.

They know--or should know--that type of subversive harassment just steels the resolve of some of us.

Enough of us.

Another Big "But" Gun Owner

Morally, hunting deer for sport is no different than hunting people. [More]

I dunno, pally--why don't you try hunting people to stop it and let's see?

Humans need population control more than deer

Josh Briggs must be racist and xenophobic then, because a 1.8 total fertility rate for non-Hispanic white women means such couples aren't even replacing themselves--and that doesn't even specify the race of women's partners. Maybe, since he sees no difference between hunting people and hunting deer, he can effect a little population control among the groups he thinks "need" it?

These Ingrid Newkirk types (but he swears he's not!) have a hell of a lot of gall talking morality.

Go Ahead...

Make our day. [Read]

As if that would have any bearing on our unalienable right to keep and bear arms...Fool presumes to tamper with a law he doesn't even understand...

Still, it's discouraging to know a lot of gun owners don't get that, either.

Is anti-gun Chuck Schumer poised to become Senate Majority Leader?

Before the chorus of “We told you so” begins, let me just say this:

So what?[More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column say's bring it on.

Also join me on two radio programs this Sunday (Tom Gresham's Gun Talk Radio and Mark Walters' Armed American Radio), attend your choice of armed rallies, and find out what Agent 13 is still up to in that mailbox.

Can I count on you site regulars to share the link?

This Day in History: October 29

[More]

GRE Round Up for October 28

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Dan Bidstrup/Denver:

• Self defense and revenge

Sean McClanahan/Des Moines:

• Some Iowa Sheriffs are hitting the panic button over the new firearms law

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Yet another problem with a DOC-supervised felon

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Divide and conquer: CSGV's strategy to disarm us piecemeal(Part 3 of this series)

Chris Woodard/Tucson:

• Korean M1 Rifles and carbines. A scam of epic proportions.

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• Michigan Firearms

A Quandary

Scientists Find 'Liberal Gene' [More]

Smells like BS to me, but let's take it at face value for a moment.  So if prospective parents could screen for it in order to abort affected fetuses, would the "progressives" try to pass a law against that? 

We're the Only Ones Providing a Real Shot in the Arm Enough

The officer, who was holding a gun in his right hand and a flashlight in his left hand while chasing the man across a field June 12, was in “plain clothes” and did not have a holster for his gun, according to Ombudsman reports. [More]

This sounds like just the guy to add whole new wrinkle to the Lee Paige experience.

[Via Link P]

Illinois Argues Orwell

War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength...

FOID is uninfringed...[Read]

We're the Only Ones "Is This Some Kind of Bust?" Enough

Yes, very nice:

It quickly became clear, however — as bartenders, patrons and exotic dancers were ordered to the floor and handcuffed — that they were part of some type of raid.

[Via William T]

We're the Only Ones Non-Residual Enough

Gun residue no longer on victim’s car [More]

So? That doesn't prove anything.

Exactly...

[Via Ed M]

We're the Only Ones Resistable Enough

The guard pulled a gun on the officer after he allegedly hit her, the police official said. He said the guard would not be charged because she acted in self defense. [More]

Unbelievable!

How the hell are we supposed to make it home at the end of our shift if quasi-"Only Ones" are allowed to resist? If this keeps up, regular "civilians" may start getting ideas...

It does make me wonder what else Officer Donnie took for granted during those 15 years, to where he ended up feeling comfortable assaulting a woman over a parking dispute...for her not to be charged implies her story must be unshakable.

[Via Mama Liberty]

A True North Summit

Join us for a program of guest panelists to discuss collaborative organizing, legal options and political strategy. We will also engage in round-robin discussions designed to develop an ambitious and assertive program, one that enhances and promotes the rights of firearm owners in a visible political campaign. [More]

We are everywhere, eh?

Wish them well--they're starting from a tremendously disadvantaged place compared to where most of us are.  It's nice to see some refuse to just capitulate.

As with us, though, I fear attempting reasoned discourse with evil will just not be enough.  Hats off to the determined minority.

May they--and we--prove sufficiently determined.

We're the Only Ones "Cut!" Enough

A police officer can also be seen and heard telling a witness to stop videographing the incident. [More]

No doubt to protect the identity of a minor...?


[Via Ed M]

I'm Calling YOU a Nazi, Nazi

If you don't like it, stop acting like a damn Nazi. [Read]

A Free Press for a Free People

Ain't it something, when we get more truth out of Pravda and Adevărul than we do from our own "Authorized Journalists"...

Because Why Even Have a Master If He Can't tell Us What To Do?

Baltimore Hands Out First Trans Fat Citation [More]

I'm certainly glad they have the spare resources.  That must mean they've got this under control.  And this.

Landru, guide us!

Somos Los Únicos Aterrorizados Suficiente

Damned American gun shows...[Read]

Gun grabber exploits product recall to advance semiauto ban agenda

“In other words,” Sugarmann concludes in a triumphant “Gotcha!” moment, “they’re machine guns.”

He’s right, you know. They are. At least according to the government. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a broken clock being right--for all the wrong reasons.  Anything to facilitate a deception if you're desperate and shameless enough...and what professional anti-rights fanatic isn't?

Also take (or retake) a short quiz and then go for a whirlybird ride!

Can I count on you site regulars to share the link?

This Day in History: October 28

October 28, 1778 - The remains of the 24th C.M.R. men who lost their lives in the battle and massacre on July 3, 1778 are gathered and buried. [More]

Outing the Genocide Enablers

I know I already linked to these columns in my GRE Roundups, but Kurt Hofmann's columns yesterday and today are simply outstanding, and deserve special mention and attention.

If you have not read them, go do so. If you have read them, share the links with everyone you know.

Just excellent stuff.

People need to be warned about what these domestic enemies are really about.

GRE Round Up for October 27

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Charlotte/Paul Valone:

• The checkered past of NRA-endorsed Rep.Hugh Holliman and what it means to YOU

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:

• Tennessee Governor's race, the final week

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Accidental shooting triggers revival of ‘safe storage’ debate

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• CSGV says only the government can protect you from . . . the government

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• Michigan Firearms

Ready...

Set...GO! [Read]

Call Waiting

To report a coyote sighting, call the FWC...[More]

If I've got it sighted, why would I need to call anybody? Or want to? Particularly someone who may want to use it to incriminate me?

No, I think that call can wait.  Besides, I'll have some shoveling to do.

[Via Ed M]

Stop Or I'll Pour!

16-year-old DeLand High School student holds up DeLand convenience store with bottle of salad dressing [More]

So let's see...we have the Ramilaben Patel response, or the Thameen Baker response...

I always have trouble deciding between French and Italian, myself...

[Via Ed M]

We're the Only Ones Disarmed Enough

Marchant does not have any other guns, she said. [More]

That they know about, right?

What "prohibited person" in Boston does?

[Via Ed M]

Weekend Restoration Projects

WRSA lists some. See if any are in your area. [Read]

Vanderboegh will be here.

The Other Gun Group

GOA backs a different man. [Read]

Hmmm...evidently the NRA pick:

• Voted NO on prohibiting product misuse lawsuits on gun manufacturers. (Oct 2005)
• Voted NO on prohibiting suing gunmakers & sellers for gun misuse. (Apr 2003)
• Voted NO on decreasing gun waiting period from 3 days to 1. (Jun 1999)

And he was also one of those unanimous votes for Pelosi as Speaker.

Oh well, I'm sure he must have seen the error of his ways, started voting right, washed away his sins and we can trust him now. I guess better the guy who's betrayed us in the past rather than the Republican A-rater. I can't really judge because I'm such a lousy chess player.

Hell, I'm so unsophisticated, I didn't even realize this was a game!

Finns Chose to Be Stupid and Suicidal

Their loss. [Read]

Good thing for them a repeat of this would be impossible.

Wouldn't it?

Lonely Soldier Seeks Understanding Woman. Oh, and What's Your PIN?

These "Soldiers" are NOT Soldiers, people! Even in the crappiest shithole, we still have access to money and communications! No official military address ends with a .com or a .us. [More]

Nicki warns us of some lowdown Internet scammers.

She also shares some of her fun experiences outsmarting them.

I once convinced one he'd caused me to hang myself.

You Mean Their Gun Policy Is As Crappy As...

...their food? [Read]

I made the mistake of stopping at a Flying J once.

Never again, and that's before I knew about their citizen disarmament fetish.

It's time for this guy to stop offering lip service and put his money where his mouth is.

Bloomberg’s New York City gun laws continue to endanger the 'law-abiding'

“Fine”? Did a government official just admit the city extorts "a sum imposed as punishment for an offense" for exercising a Constitutionally-recognized right? Or does he just personally believe gun owners need to be punished, often, and by someone who knows how? [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner notes how rank hath its privileges in Furious Mike Paradise, and the rest of us be damned.

Also get in the trenches with GOA and take a powder with MSSA.

If you're a regular here, can I count on you to help spread the word by sharing the link?

This Day in History: October 27

I have been witness to a great and important revolution this morning, which took place while the greatest part of the world was asleep. Like many state-revolutions, its first beginnings were almost undiscernible; but the progress, though gradual, was steady, and the event decisive. A while ago darkness reigned. Had a man then dropped, for the first time, into our world, he might have thought himself banished into a hopeless dungeon. How could he expect light to rise out of such a state? And when he saw the first glimmering of dawn in the east, how could he promise himself that it was the forerunner of such a glorious sun as has since arisen! With what wonder would such a new-comer observe the bounds of his view enlarging, and the distinctness of objects increasing from one minute to another; and how well content would he be to part with the twinklings of the stars, when he had the broad day all around him in exchange! I cannot say this revolution is extraordinary, because it happens every morning; but surely it is astonishing, or rather it would be so, if man was not astonishingly stupid. [More]

GRE Round Up for October 26

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Sean McClanahan/Des Moines:

• Ottumwa Chief of Police Clark still confused

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Vet denied gun rights while illegals campaign for Murray

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Otis McDonald endorses Bill Brady for Illinois Governor
• The REAL reason CSGV hates the right to keep and bear arms--it works

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• Michigan Firearms

Fed Visit du Jour

I joked about starting the feature the other day.  Just got two in a row (click on graphics to enlarge). 

The "0" seconds is a Site Meter property--unless the visitor clicks on another internal link, they don't measure duration. Looks like two different browsers at the same time?

UPDATE: Just to have a record...

UPDATE 2: To the OIG (BCC recipients not shown)

Don't Listen To Vanderboegh--He's Wrong!

As much as it pains me to publicly repudiate a man I've agreed with so often, I cannot let a statement he just made go unchallenged.

No, I'm pretty sure I couldn't. Do a better job, that is. [Read]

Mike Thomas' Big 'But'

I am establishment when it comes to guns. I support Florida's concealed-weapons law and the Stand Your Ground law. I cheered when the Supreme Court overturned the gun ban in Washington, D.C. I'll be heading for the gun range this weekend.

Liberals think I'm the unholy spawn of Charlton Heston and Marion Hammer.

But this is too much. [More]

Yeah, sure, dickhead. Throw open carriers under the bus and call them exhibitionists. What a gun rights champ you are!  What an unholy spawn! 

I was going to take this prag fraud to task, but correspondent SamAdams1776 did a superb job and was much nicer about it than I'd be inclined. I'm using his screen name because he's active duty in Kuwait, so I imagine a Threeper in the ranks would give the brass a hemorrhage.

Greetings,

Read your article from my desk in Kuwait. I am deployed here and from Florida. I am involved in the 2A rights movement, but you misunderstand the motives. You also misunderstand the process. And the history. Prior to the Jack Hagler Act in 1987, open carry was the only way in Florida except for discretionary conceal carry (local police decided whether or not to grant a CCW license.) And people DID openly carry.

Before continuing, I must comment on the "Hollywood" term gunslingers-a very yellow journalistic term to use in your article and besides, in the old west, "gunslingers" were not called that at all, they were called "shootists."

The motive is not centrally one about guns. It is about liberty and individual sovereignty-our founders intended the states to be; except for some very limited--and also carefully enumerated-powers, reserved to the Federal Government and only the Federal government, sovereign entities and individuals were largely sovereigns able to exercise any non-prohibited powers (c.f. the tenth amendment) and otherwise subject to the constitutional laws of the union and the state they lived in and the statute laws as well. Even sovereign entities are subject to the law.

The primary purpose of the Bill of Rights (BOR) is to limit government. The Preamble to the BOR says so, in fact. It does so by enumerating PRE-EXISTING rights that government must not encroach upon. And one of them is the right to keep and bear arms. Numerous writings of the founders (which I will provide to you upon request) make it clear that it is first a prophylactic measure against tyranny and second as a remedy to tyranny if the prophylactic measure fails.

Exactly what do you think it means in the Declaration of Independence when Jefferson writes:

"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

He was speaking not just about events then but a truism for all times really. It is an insurrectionist philosophy.

Government SHOULD fear rebellion. They SHOULD fear the people and that is not possible if the people are estranged from arms or are disarmed-thus the real purpose of gun control is not crime control, but simply control. Let me give you an example of how different things are: When I was a boy of 8 before the Gun Control Act of 1968, the year I turned 9, There were ads in the Back of Boys' Life for Marlin and Winchester Rifles we could order (and many of us did) and have delivered by US Post to our doors. We could also order DEWATs typically for $99. You'll just have to look that up as a homework assignment. But I digress.

The right enumerated in the 2A does not say you can exercise it only if you prove to some government official that you are trained or worthy in some way; it is absolute. The right to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. Government is forbidden to regulate arms and this amendment, protecting a PRE-EXISTING right came in AFTER the commerce clause and thus easily supersedes it, and would be recognized as such if the judiciary itself were not corrupt and assisting the other two branches of government in their encroachment of powers.

If someone abuses that by using their right criminally or negligently (perhaps by lack of training) THEN there are consequences. In a FREE society people are FREE to act. The legal term for preventing someone from committing an undesirable act is known as "prior restraint," and although the term is used in publishing, it is equally applicable here. It is not tolerated with regard to the First Amendment and we can ill afford to tolerate it in regards to the Second.

To continue with motives and process: gun laws in the US did not spring up all at once. They likely will have to be undone piecemeal as well. Reestablishing open carry in Florida together with Shall Issue Conceal Carry is the next step toward Constitutional Carry. Only 3 states have that so far: Vermont, Alaska, and most recently Arizona, but a fourth also out west, will soon be joining the other three. But let me state this most emphatically: THE REQUIREMENT OF LICENSES TO EXERCISE ANY RIGHT IS OFFENSIVE. How would you like to have to obtain a license to exercise your first amendment rights or to vote? Hmm?

Also in our cross hairs is the most egregious and harmful law with regard to the ability to defend against tyranny, which is the obscene National Firearms Act of 1934 most recently amended by the Oxymoronically-named Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986. This law closed off all new full auto sales to the public, artificially increasing the values of those weapons remaining that are transferrable.

Finally, if you REALLY want to understand us, I suggest reading Unintended Consequences by John Ross. It is now quite an expensive book and available in Hardcover only. I treasure my copy bought years ago.

v/r

I don't expect this "they make us all look bad" ivory tower sterile bee queen Thomas to  learn anything from a warrior explaining reality to him. Anyone who dismisses men who "guard with jealous attention the public liberty" as "silly" is most probably an ineducable fool, who will simply be astonished into paralysis the day his illusions come crashing down on him.

Do be sure and take his poll.

An Ambitious Goal

Smith's goal is an ambitious one — to be the attorney who argues the deciding case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court about where handguns should be reasonably prohibited. [More]

Go ahead.

Release the Kraken.

A Defining Issue

Michael W. Dean worked on this political ad. [Watch]

Meanwhile, even a confirmed anti-gunner sees the value of subtly pretending guns--albeit those apparently accessible to young children--are a big part of her life. [Watch]

Let the obsessive public denial continue.

Good for Me But Not for Thee

This guy reminds me of the stereotypical asylum patient who dresses like Napoleon. [Read]

We're the Only Ones Not Snitching Enough

The failure to protect whistle-blowing cops is inexcusable. [More]

I guess those whose profession involves so much relying on snitches would know...

What I don't get is, if it's only "a few bad apples," why is this even an issue?

[Via Luke]

New Jersey to 'relax' gun laws?

Guess what, anti-gun and asleep-at-the-switch Garden Staters: You're on your own. You always have been. That this realization hasn't been forced on you--yet--has been more a matter of odds than anything.

So what is New Jersey's largely pro-citizen disarmament political class doing to face a reality they can no longer keep buried?  [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at some talk about grip-loosening.  Expect it to remain talk unless someone forces the issue.  Whether that that someone will be the courts or a fed-up citizenry remains to be seen.

Also do something we all just love--review an insurance plan!  This one's a bit different.

Can I count on you site regulars to share the link?

This Day in History: October 26

[More]

GRE Round Up for October 25

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Paul Valone/Charlotte:

• A response from the NRA?
• Mike Easley: The smoking gun in his own words 
• Flawed NRA ratings plague North Carolina races

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Why gun rights activist Gottlieb was right about Nov. 2 elections

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• Michigan Firearms

The Dutchman on The Watchmen

He'll be on Doc Bean's show tonight. 

7:00 pm Central.

Liberty News/Safer Streets

Read the Oct. 25 Newsletter here.

Sign up to get new ones here.

Assault Weapon Suspect Captured!

Arrest made in assault of man with transmission fluid [More]

Automatic transmission fluid, or is this just more "Authorized Journalist" parroting of VPC (Vehicle Policy Center) talking points...?

This Time, We're the Fauxnly Ones Enough Again

Jailer suspected of letting boyfriend use badge, gun and uniform in robbery [More]

This is just too bewildering...

How are we supposed to keep up?

We're not...?

We're the Faux...No, This Time We're the REAL Only Ones Justified Enough. Keeps You Guessing, Though, Doesn't It?

ATF Agent Tom Mangan says the split-second decision to end the man's life, was the right one, "Based on what occurred here today, the actions of the agents was justified," said Mangan. [More]

Well, as long as a trusted voice like Tom Mangan says it's justified...

I mean, it's not like the dead guy would have had an excuse or anything...

[Via Plug Nickel Times]

UPDATE: Hi guys!

Must be a slow day today:

Plus I had the FBI coming around the other day. This keeps up, I may start a daily blog feature.

We're the Only Ones Unjustified Enough

Woodcarver's shooting by SPD officer ruled not justified in preliminary finding [More]

Hey, if "paid leave" under these circumstances is "routine," does that mean we'd get it too?

What? We'd be in the slammer, with the prosecutor arguing against bail?

Well, that hardly seems fair.

[Via Jeet]

In Spite of It All

Swedish police hunt serial shooter [More]

In spite of all their "gun control" laws?

You know what this means, don't you?

No one can be trusted with guns.

With just a few exceptions, of course...

[Via Ed M]

If Wishes Were Fishes

And if complaints were restraints...[Read]

[Via William T]

The Hidden Life of Grant Whores

So, if we follow the money, where does it lead? [More]

Where do you think?

Highly Successful

Organizers of a weekend gun buyback program in New Bedford say they took about 140 weapons off city streets, three times as many as a similar event last year. [More]

I guess as long as they don't snitch the sheep oughtta be alright. Until one of those wolves who don't turn in the tools of their trade for gift cards decide they want something, and don't care if you give it to them or not, because they're gonna take it regardless.

Hey, since there's no questions asked, I'll bet a street worthy could even use a "liberated" card with impunity.

Talk about highly successful!

In Memoriam

If Bloomberg is going to be remembered for something, it ought to be that, for gun laws as tough as there are anywhere. [More]

Yeah, as tough as nails.

Mike Lupica can't seem to work out the disconnect between Furious Mike Paradise and a "terrible, bloody day."

Where our intrepid government watchdog is going with this, of course, is cheerleading for Bloombergian disarmament throughout the Republic.

It's his M.O.

UPDATE: I also ought to call this out from ths story:

Sunday, the Bronx cop said, "You know what would be pleasurable? About 8,000 more police on the street."

I'll just bet. Also check out the "Gravity's Rainbow"* poll.

*

We're the Only Ones Lowering the Bar Enough

In deciding whether Leonardo Quintana should be reinstated as an officer for the Austin Police Department, an arbitrator used the lowest common denominator to give him his job back. Everyone else who got drunk kept their jobs, so Quintana should not be the first cop in recent years to lose his job for getting plastered and then getting behind the wheel. Got that? [More]

Yeah.

Billy's mom lets him do it.

[Via Lane]

By the Time I Get to Phoenix...

Trusted Threepers Wanted.

Inquire within.

No provocateurs or informants.

We're the Only Ones Styled Enough

A tough-as-nails off-duty NYPD cop yesterday foiled an armed heist while she was getting her hair done at a Brooklyn salon -- trading bullets with a wildly firing thug in a spectacular shootout, sources said. [More]

Guess what would have happened had an Only One not been on premises?

And guess what would have happened had a non-"Only One" been equipped for self-defense, and the "tough-as-nails off-duty NYPD cop found out about it?

If you're not one of the state elites, die.  We can then use that to further justify more control.


Fortunately, Mayor Bloomberg remains unharmed.  Meanwhile, the "Authorized Journalists" at the Post have another cop worship story to keep the meme going, and judging by all the useful idiot comments to their story, it's going stronger than ever in Furious Mike Paradise.

Their own criteria demands NRA oppose Reid

That’s all we need to know. Harry Reid gave up all expectations of support from gun owners when he made the political choice to support Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. It doesn’t matter what else he has done that can be construed as “pro-gun.”  He’s been given two shots at doing the right thing in this most important of tests, and he’s failed both times, opting for party loyalty über alles. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner looks at someone who broke his oath to a signed document.  I guess it wasn't notarized.

Also see which California politicians support open carry.

Can I count on friends to share the link?

This Day in History: October 25

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Gas for guns program may yield unintended consequence

Atta girl, Martha! Use the money you would have spent on gas to help up your stopping power from that .32.  [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at the best laid plans of mice and "Only Ones."

Also get an "on the road" report from my friends at American Trigger Sports Network.

Will you site regulars help me spread the word by sharing the link?

Will 'fusion center' accept 'militia enthusiast's' challenge?

It's important to recall that David Koresh offered to speak with the government, too, before their murderous raid, which a peaceable conversation could have preempted entirely. They refused. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes we can all help in trying to ensure history doesn't repeat itself.

Will you help? Share the link?

GRE Round Up for October 22

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Sportsmen gearing up for vote; how this relates to the Juan Williams outrage

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Inter-American Arms Treaty back in the news again

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• Michigan Firearms

NRA-PVF changes GA candidate's grade and issues endorsement!

I have a happy outcome to yesterday's column about a pro-gun candidate for the Georgia State Senate who was given a failing grade by the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund. They have changed her grade to "AQ" (based on her questionnaire response, as she has not held office to be rated on), and gone one step further and endorsed her! [More]

This certainly warrants a second Gun Rights Examiner column today. Thanks to those of you who joined in. To those of you who did not, please use this example to consider the potential of doing simple requested actions if enough join in.

And with that: Share the link?

We're the Only Ones with Alternate Travel Plans Enough

Two U.S. air marshals who arrested the wife of a Brazilian judge on a flight to Rio de Janeiro -- and were themselves arrested and had their passports confiscated by Brazilian authorities -- fled the country using alternate travel documents rather than face what they believed to be trumped-up charges, sources said. [More]

It actually sounds like they were in the right, and we know how corrupt and unjust foreign laws are.

So can "We the People" also skip out, and trust our government to take care of things for us? As opposed to, you know, upholding the foreign conviction to strip us forever of a right their only instruction on is not to infringe...?

Ha!

As I've noted before:

The unspoken danger, aside from the outrageousness of this intentional legal paradox, is the practical effect that foreign law trumps the Bill of Rights in the eyes of the court. Spreading the gospel in China is also equivalent to a felony, or violating Sharia "law" in Saudi Arabia...

It's the law!

Unless, you're an "Only One," apparently...


[Via William T]

Hear Ye!

McDonald on audio. Oral argument and opinion announcement. [Listen]

[Via Alan R]

We're the Fauxnly Ones...

3 men posing as ATF agents break into home, kill resident [More]

But your honor, I guess I've read so many news accounts about the "Fauxnly Ones" that I reacted instinctively in self-defense when they attacked me...how was I supposed to know, when anyone can get a badge--and it's not exactly like they were behaving any differently...

[Via William T]

Dropping Out

Why? [Read]

It Can't Happen Here

Remember this provincial bigot?

The one who's big rebuttal was:

How many incidences of violence where someone needed a gun to protect themselves in the 38 years of the fair have there been? Zero!

Well, lookee here:

Man in Jets jersey robs Manhattan Beach bank

Apparently a note and a green shirt is all it takes when you're disarmed and conditioned to give 'em what they want (hoping against hope what they want isn't you).

And look where it happened:

The yellow is the bank.  The purple is the area of the fair from the initial link (and, incidentally, the place where I first conceived the "Authorized Journalist" concept). The red is my old condo.

Many's the time I hitched feral then-toddlers Uday and Qusay to the stroller and made them haul loads of bricks up that hill...

Hey, I'll bet Sharon Tate thought she lived in a pretty safe neighborhood, too. I'll bet she and her friends had never seen anything like that there before...

All it takes is once.

"Kick Out the Uncle Tom Puppets"

Aaron Zelman takes the gloves off. [Read]

A Mugged Liberal

I'm afraid of guns. When you get right down to it, I abhor them. [Read]

They make her sick to her stomach...nauseated...

She still doesn't get it. Anybody trumpeting this as a turnaround victory, all I can say is don't trust this nitwit. She's still an idiot.  I'll bet she's against "assault weapons."

I found this telling:

I used to date a guy who owned a handgun and regularly trekked into the woods with his friends to shoot. I made him move the small gun safe from beneath the bed to another room before I'd agree to stay overnight.

And he didn't tell her to get lost?

Hopefully, his recollection of the "relationship" is more like Advance Sergeant Carl Harris'.

Rent

A single, 31-year-old woman in Michigan who posted a note on her church bulletin board seeking a "Christian roommate" to share her residence has been cited by the state for violating the Fair Housing Act by discriminating against those of other faiths.[More]

I guess all those men seeking men ads are illegal now?

I have an attic I've just decided to rent. I will only give it to an under-20 black Catholic Swedish hermaphrodite who speaks fluent Mandarin and has 20/14 vision.  If you don't fit into that category, you need to pay me more, based on a sliding scale of my prejudices. If I missed any opportunities to discriminate, let me know.

Anybody who wants to enforce an action against me now, bring it on.

I have a feeling it's going to take stupid bureaucrats who pushed the wrong person too far swinging from lampposts over smoldering ruins to convince these petty dictators to back off.  I hope they don't expect me with my guns to get involved and stop it.

"Alter and Abolish." You Know, Majority Rule!

But, he said, "Do I see our government today anywhere close to that point? No, I don't." [More]

Really? Not even a little close?

Remember Mrs. O'Leary's Cow?

Mr. O'Leary introduces us to his bull... [Read]

Don't step in it.

Is that a chess piece? Ew-w-w-w...

I'm not picking it out of there.

Why has Phoenix banned gun safety ads?

This is arbitrary tyranny.  It is nothing less than un-American, and Mariscal, who like all public officials took an oath of office attesting his fidelity to the Constitution, ought to be ashamed of himself. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column shows how even banning guns will not be enough.  The very idea must be eradicated from the public consciousness. 

That similar tactics (when perpetrated with no personal costs) have historically resulted in eradicating more than the public's consciousness seems not to have been considered here. So consider it.

Be a "force multiplier"?  Share the link?

This Day in History: October 22

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GRE Round Up for October 21

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:

• Accidental firearms discharges
  

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Olympic Park tragedy underscores guns in parks issue

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Hear son of 'Defiance' hero speak in St. Louis

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• Michigan Firearms

BJS and FISTing

For those of you who are into such things... [More]

I can't wait to see what kind of traffic THAT drags in. Caught this one the other day:

Hope the undoubted letdown hasn't lost me a valued reader...

We're the Only Ones Securing the Perimeter Enough

Before he went into the Big House, where more than 113,000 people had gathered on Oct. 9, a police officer ensured his weapons were empty and double-checked that he did not have any ammunition on him, said Diane Brown, a spokeswoman for the university's department of public safety. [More]

That's some police work, ensuring none of the other 112,999+ attendees was his ammo-smuggling accomplice...

[Via Ed M]

The Color of Suspicion

No, I'm not talking about this racist diatribe from the self-described "colored people" equating Vanderboegh with a hater and Oath Keepers with a "quasi-militia."

I'm talking about this latest bit of tolerance from NPR, where Juan Williams said:

There is nothing more painful for me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery -- and then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.

Oh, wait a minute--that was Jesse Jackson.  Sorry--they all sound alike to me. You know, "progressives."

I really don't give a damn about Williams, as he's done his share of subversion and it's kind of fun to watch national socialists eat their own. It's also instructive to watch so many on the left throw him under the [back of the] bus, and see his primary defenders appear to be coming from the "conservative" seats.

Note to NPR CEO Vivian Schiller--please take up issues of profiling and prejudice with that infidel-killing group who identify themselves as the true representatives of their religion.

I do suggest you wear a burqa.

UPDATE: If they're going to be consistent, she ought to step down for employment discrimination against those she considers to have mental disabilities.

Do you think these creatures realize what walking contradictions they are?

We're the Only Ones Giving You a Chance to Perform Enough

A Denver Police officer is behind bars after investigators say he coerced a woman under arrest into performing a sex act to avoid going to jail. [More]

Guess he really blew it that time. Or she did.

You really can tell a lot about a person's character by how they act when they have power over someone.  And you really can tell a lot about a person by how they act when someone has power over them.

[Via William T]

We're the Only Ones Nice Enough

Friends say Petersen is a nice guy who, on Sunday, let his emotions get the best of him. [More]

Yeah, I always pull a gun on people who get me mad when my emotions get the best of me.

Hey, if they'd just act the way I want them to, we wouldn't have a problem in the world...

[Via Brent T]

We're the Only Ones Similar Enough

In the release, the sheriff calls the rocker "a great American" and says the two men have similar goals. [More]

Really, Sheriff? So you would remember your oath to the Constitution and not arrest him if he acted in front of you like "shall not be infringed" actually means what it says?  Assuming that's his goal, too?

[Via Ed M]

Another Child Gun Death

Witnesses say the would-be carjacker, identified by the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office as Kenyon Reese Jr., 20, of Detroit, shot the victim, who fell to the ground, pulled out his own pistol, and returned fire. [More]

If only we could--I don't know--hold a vigil or something...

Flower Power

Gun violence victims honored with dafodils [More]

I wonder what actually works better--that or a "community vigil"...?

Me, I always preferred the "lie-in," but that's basically because I think motorcycles are cool.

Prohibit Prohibited Persons

Wisconsin's law banning all felons from ever possessing a gun violates the 2nd Amendment, according to a lawyer for a man who has challenged the long-standing prohibition. [More]

Speaking as an uncaught felon--and a "gun criminal" doing my utmost to "make us all look bad" at that, I approve of the concept.

[Via cycjec]

Why did NRA give pro-gun candidate an 'F'?

NRA rates Diana Williams equivalent to this guy? Seriously? Even Harry Reid, who supported Obama, Holder, Sotomayor and Kagan got a "B." Not to mention close to five grand. "F's" should be reserved for enemies. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes with friends like PVF, who needs enemies? This is seriously unbelievable. There are a lot of pages to go over in the slideshow, so do reserve a few minutes for this one.

Also get the facts on that New Jersey gun owner, watch me interview some Brits in KY, and get more on those Korean guns.

Help me spread the word by sharing the link...?

This Day in History: October 21

October 21, 1778

Commander Colins gives up on the attempts to free the Zebra and transfer his men and himself to the Nautilus. [More]

GRE Round Up for October 20

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Paul Valone/Charlotte:

• Why the NRA is bent on snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:

• Safer Streets 2010: Which gun laws to repeal first?

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Mid-term election IS about gun rights; John A. Nosler, in memory

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Who let the thugs out? IL Gov. Quinn, who also wants to keep you unarmed

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• Michigan Firearms

Liberty News/Safer Streets-Oct. 20

Here's the latest from Longenecker. [Read]

Metastasizing

I bet one could also equate this animation with expanded government interference. [Read]

Look at how rapid and drastic this is.  Now imagine a sudden national catastrophe.

Everybody who thinks everything is going to be just fine after November raise your hand.

[Via Ed M]

Supply and Demand

Just look how well prohibition works under total government control! [Read]

Economics as taught by Father Guido Sarducci at the Five Minute University...

What's that definition of insanity again...?

[Via The Bitter Clinger]

"What Do You Want?" Information.

No, this isn't the recurring opening dialog from "The Prisoner."  It's a plea for assistance from Jeff Knox at GunVoter.org:

If you have pro-rights candidates you are supporting, please post information about them in the appropriate state area at GunVoter.org.

Click here to learn more and to participate.

We're the Only Ones Probational Enough

A former Pleasant Hill police officer who stole methamphetamine from an evidence room and crashed his squad car was sentenced Friday to probation. [More]

Comments indicate he suffered the loss of his family recently, so perhaps compassion is in order. For "Any Ones" acting out in such circumstances, not just "Only Ones"...

[Via William T]

Haslam Pledges to Sign Constitutional Carry Bill

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Haslam says he would sign legislation to eliminate Tennessee's permit requirements for carrying handguns in public, meaning most Tennesseans could go armed if they choose to do so. [More]

Would he really?

From Leonard Embody, via email:

He showed up at a Tennessee Firearms meeting last night. Me and a couple of other guys including Richard Hamblen got him to say he would sign legislation. This helps pressure the legislature.


This has been spreading all over Tennessee. It is a big deal because Haslam has a B rating with the NRA. He was a member of Bloomberg's Mayors against guns. As Mayor he oversaw the banning of guns in Knoxville City Parks.

Click here for the YouTube Q&A from Embody.