Firearms in commerce hearing to examine BATFE practices

I just received the following by email from a Senate press secretary who chooses not to be identified for attribution...[More]

This development warranted a follow-up to today's earlier Gun Rights Examiner column.

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A Lever Long Enough

"Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I will move the world." -Archimedes 230 BC.

Got a place to stand? [More]

That's One Way to Break Up a Crowd

Long Island Man Arrested For Defending Home With AK-47
Says Many Gang Members Were Coming After His Family [More]

A gazillion of you sent me this link. I was going to base today's Gun Rights Examiner column on this but then ran into the Firearms in Commerce Hearings story.

Maybe tomorrow...

Meanwhile, go read what Liberty Belles has to say.

We're the Only Ones Denying Enough

When we last visited Ramsey County, Minnesota Sheriff Bob Fletcher, he was left trying to explain just why his handgun carry permit denial rate was so much higher than any other county in Minnesota, and exactly why the data that his own office reported to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency required by law to collect such numbers once a year from each of the 87 counties in Minnesota) appeared to provide direct evidence that someone in Fletcher's office was trying to hide an even higher denial rate from the BCA as well as the public at large. [More]

Why?

Oh, that's easy. Because he can. If he couldn't, he wouldn't.

This investigative report from Northern Muckraker is the kind of stuff you'll never see coming out of blogger-disparaging "Authorized Journalists."

Fox Guarding Hen House: "All is Well."

Nothing to see here. [Read]

Hey, if you can't trust the government, who can you trust?

[Via Harvey]

All Good Things...

...must come to an end. [Read]

No worries--it looks like his replacement [?] will be just as evil and a whole lot smarter.

[Via Mama Liberty]

Senate committee to hold firearms in commerce hearings-why is information so scarce?

"The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing entitled 'Firearms in Commerce: Assessing the Need for Reform in the Federal Regulatory Process' for Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building," the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary website informs us. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column asks what's it all about. I wish I could say it's unbelievable how getting a straight answer out of some people is like pulling teeth, but I would actually expect nothing less than what is chronicled here.

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This Day in History: September 8

September 8, 1778 at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts - On September 8, a British raiding force attacked the island of Martha's Vineyard. They destroyed several vessels and seized a large number of sheep and oxen for the British army. Conclusion: British Victory [More]