WLS Radio: Grassley saw memo to Holder from top aide approving Gunwalker

He says he has seen a memo from a top aide to Attorney General Eric Holder, approving a plan to sell guns to Mexican drug gangs, in the hope the sales would yield evidence of crimes in Mexico.  [More]

UPDATE:  WLS has pulled the quote from the story on their website about Grassley claiming he saw the memo. Mike Vanderboegh advises the recording does not contain such a statement. I am leaving this post as originally written rather than pulling it down.  Until this is cleared up, treat the original WLS claim as unfounded. I sent the link to this article to WLS reporter John Dempsey, saying "A clarification/for-the-record quote on why it said that would certainly be appreciated."

Minimum Standards

Since judges were typically handing out sentences of less than a year for straw purchasers and just over a year for providing false information on a firearms application – the most common charges brought against gun traffickers – U.S. attorneys said that it wasn't worth their time to prosecute cases with only one or two charges against the defendant. The attorneys told ATF that if they wanted a gun-trafficking case prosecuted, the defendant needed a minimum of 10 to 20 separate offenses against him and there needed to be a tie between a gun the defendant had purchased and at least one violent crime. [More]

Hell, they should have just had their lab techs work the single purchases over until they could get them to malfunction out more than one shot per trigger squeeze...

An Appropriate Request

...from arguably, the most disgustingly hypocritical oinker on the planet...[Read]

Ol' Tim-Tom doesn't like it when his precious hind quarters are at risk.  He must have men with guns ready to kill or be killed to protect them!

And what about you?  Who the f... are you?

Forget it Jake, it's Chi-Town.

A Dying Institution

Diaz, who has been linked with Matt Dillon, Justin Timberlake and now Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, has pretty specific ideas on what makes a relationship work. [More]

No doubt. After all, she's evidently had so many. 

Sounds like sour grapes.

The-world-revolves-around-their-navel celebrity "progressives." Is there anything they don't know?

Yea, Though I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death...

...I will fear no lack of empathy. [Read]

Eggheads.

Off By a Thousand Feet?

Just received from a WI activist in response to this NRA Alert :

The NRA  "misstates" that [the  "shall issue" ] bill has the additional benefit of eliminating Wisconsin's 1,000 ft. School Zone nonsense. Both bills bring it down to just the school property. (See the last sentence of page 2 onto page 3 of the Constitutional Carry legislative bureau's summary.)

See:

• www.wisconsincarry.org/pdf/bills/LRB-11-2007-1.pdf:  "Constitutional Carry"
• www.wisconsincarry.org/pdf/bills/LRB-11-2027-1.pdf: "Shall Issue"

I haven't really been following Wisconsin, so I'm putting this out there for discussion. This would appear to be another instance of "pragmatists" vs. "absolutists,"  and there will be no shortage of arguments backing each approach that won't be resolved here.

What I would like to see discussed here is the disagreement on the school zone claim.

Thoughts?

Gun control should be taken personally

These are two cases that illustrate how “gun control” can affect all of us, even those trying to abide by the law,  and they’re the springboards for my latest GUNS Magazine “Rights Watch” column, now posted on the magazine’s website. [Read]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column illustrates why we should view something that affects one of us as something that affects all of us.

Also, join me for dinner tonight.

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This Day in History: May 6

Then, on May 6, 1779, terror struck Sillimans family while they slept. Eight Tories broke into their home and ordered Silliman and his son William to come with them. [More]