GRE Round Up for June 7

Here are the latest Gun Rights Examiner posts:

Dan Bidstrup/Denver:
Talking across the aisle

Rob Reed/Detroit:
A Michigan House committee to hear legislation to eliminate the pistol 'purchase permit' requirement

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: Forget the Republicans, they're not listening.

Safer Streets 2010: California's AB 1934.

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Focus on SCOTUS: Chicago ruling due, Kagan nomination will heat

Kurt Hofmann/St.Louis:

NRA endorses anti-gun extremist John McCain in AZ Republican Senate primary

The Brady Campaign sure knows how to pick 'visionaries'

I do hope you realize the importance of sharing these links and show these guys your support by doing so...?

And while you're at it, be sure and check out these other liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Kent McManigal/Albuquerque Libertarian
• Kevin Wilmeth/Anchorage Libertarian
• Jesse Mathewson/Cochise County Libertarian
• Anthony Martin/Conservative

The Iron Law

Lawyers like Josh Horwitz and Casey Anderson (authors of Guns, Democracy and the Insurrectionist Idea) would have you believe that the state’s monopoly on the use of force is essential to the ’survival of democracy and ordered liberty’. [More]

Except they misquote their ideological hero, Nazi-ascension-to-power enabler Max Weber, who actually called for a "monopoly of violence."

I talked a bit about that creepiness here. I have more to say, but it's in a GUNS Magazine column that hasn't been published yet, so I'll probably hold off on further comment until then.

Candid Camera

What with laws against videotaping "Only Ones" once more gaining attention, correspondent Todd reminds us of an earlier U.S. District Court decision in favor of the citizen... [Read]

An Assault Weapon

As opposed to a "patrol vehicle"...? [Read]

[Via retrotruckman]

We're the Only Ones "Joke's On YOU" Enough

Cop walks as DUI charges dropped in fatal '07 crash
'IT'S A JOKE' | Victims' families upset, but may press civil case [More]

I don't get why everyone is so surprised.

Haven't we established cops and booze have a special "Only Ones" relationship?

[Via The_Chef, who has more]

NOT "Assault Weapons"...

"Patrol rifles"... [Read]

That old black magic...

[Via Carl S who wrote them a letter about this. I'll make sure and link to it if they publish it.]

Null and Void

Unlike Judge Weinstein, I have reflexively incorporated into my jury instructions what can only be viewed as an anti-nullification charge: “You should not be concerned about the wisdom of any rule I state. Regardless of any opinion that you may have as to what the law may be or ought to be, it would violate your sworn duty to base a verdict on any view of the law other than that which I give you.” [More]

And then he goes on to tell us that doesn't work. Typical. But not surprising from the Brady talking points he cites.

Screw him. Vote your conscience and nullify the influence of judicial tyrants.

If it doesn't help secure the Blessings of Liberty, the hell with what these arrogant authoritarians say. Besides, they routinely break a more solemn oath every time they put on the black robe...

And yeah, I realize this is a year old. Unfortunately, as long as it is still "relevant," it will remain a timely reference.

[Via cycjec]

Mentally-Challenged Weiss Confused

Weis: 'Homicides continue to challenge us' [More]

Or as Yul Brynner observed in "The King and I":

Is a puzzlement.

Forget it Jake, it's Chi-Town.

Full Disclosure

Democrats pushing legislation to require that groups airing political advertisements disclose their donors are trying to prevent the National Rifle Association and AFL-CIO from joining the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in opposing the measure. [More]

I don't get it--I know NRA fought "campaign finance reform," but then they turned around and endorsed one of its primary architects...twice now...

Are Police the Only Ones Who Should be Armed in Establishments Serving Alcohol?

You don't go copping unwelcome feels off people, joke or not.

But there are ways of dealing with those who do that do not involve executing them on the spot. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column gives a sobering look at what can happen when we assume employment equates with trustworthiness.

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This Day in History: June 7

James Warren, on June 7, 1778, tried to summarize the effect of the recent election on him and the state. He had not been reelected by Plymouth voters in May, and the legislature did not promote him to the Council. “[If I were] dismissed from the Navy Board I should be truly a private Man, and an Independent Farmer. . . . I am tired of public life tho’ I was determined never to desert the Colours I helped to hoist. . . . If you Enquire how all this came to pass, I must tell you it is oweing to various causes. The people feel themselves uneasy and don’t know the reason. They have therefore shifted their members more generally than ever.” [More]