BREAKING NEWS: Court grants new trial to New Mexico gun dealer family

“Viewing the significance of the suppressed evidence in relation to the record as a whole,” Brack wrote, the Court concludes that Defendants’ Motion for a New Trial should be granted.” [More]

This evening's Gun Rights Examiner breaking story brings some happy news, along with further evidence of a corrupt prosecution.

You Went Full B. Todd

Never go full B. Todd. [Read]

A Shock to the System

Vanderboegh looks at Bob Owens' latest and raises some considerations. [Read]

Earlier today I expressed my own observation about public opinion. Well, not mine exactly.

Gun owners squandering valuable resources by ignoring social media

Not wanting to be bothered with details in an ideological conflict is intentionally putting on blinders. It’s like soldiers on the battlefield not wanting to know about enemy positions, capabilities, movements and logistics. In war time and in peace, people die to obtain such information, and people die from the lack of it, and yet we have a significant percentage of self-styled activist gun owners who not only don’t care, but disparage and discourage its collection and dissemination. Since when is that a winning attitude? [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column points to a chair more of us would do well to pick up and swing in this bar fight being forced upon us.

The Most Important Thing to Take Away from this Story...

[Insert name of gungrabber here] would rather this young man had been killed than armed. [Read]

They would rather you be killed than armed.

[Via William T]

Wayne's World

Wayne LaPierre will be on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace at 9:00 a.m. ET.

Common Ground

All you need are some kapos and a big trench. [Read]

I wonder if you looked deeper into some of these guys if you'd find they're primarily long-time Democrat supporters?

Minipax Mouthbreathers

WRSA points to a breathless review. [Read]

That said, I don't think Bob Owens, whose  recent conjecture is the focus of hive insect ire would disagree with me, or with Clausewitz, that gaining public opinion is one of the three main objects of warfare.

Kirk to Illegal Enterprise

Looks like an old nemesis just incurred The Wrath of Kurt. [Read]

In the mirror universe, Mark Kirk is pro-gun and has an Evil Spock beard.

Gun Rights Proponents Wanted -- Inquire Within

Vonvo.com is a new video chatting website allowing individuals to discuss trending news stories in a structured and organized environment. Think AOL Chatrooms 2.0. We are fostering a community where individuals are able to openly "Speak Their Minds!" [More]

I was asked to participate but I can't get all the work already on my plate done as it is.  If anyone thinks this is the type of venue you'd be interested in joining, and if you're on Facebook, you can learn more by "friending" Max Ringelheim.

And yeah, I know, a lot of you refuse to join Facebook.  Fine. This is for those of you who don't, and who may be looking to get in on the ground floor of a new and unique forum to make your voices heard.

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise...

Criminals used handguns in 46% more offences, Home Office statistics revealed. [More]

And funny thing about those UK crime reporting statistics...

Maybe Guns Should Have Surgeon General Warnings

See, if we invent a comparison between the "gun lobby" and Big Tobacco, we can gin up a visceral negative reaction in people... [Read]

No surprise. USA Today is a Gannett newspaper, and we've already demonstrated what their ethics are like.

Another Route: For Whom the Bus Rolls

But critics say that this focus unfairly singles out people with serious mental illness, who studies indicate are involved in only about 4 percent of violent crimes and are 11 or more times as likely than the general population to be the victims of violent crime.

And many proposals — they include strengthening mental health services, lowering the threshold for involuntary commitment and increasing requirements for reporting worrisome patients to the authorities — are rushed in execution and unlikely to repair a broken mental health system, some experts say. [More] 

Blanket dragnet anyone?

Liberty will not be won by scapegoating anyone, or throwing anyone under the bus.

Anyone who can't be trusted with a gun can't be trusted without a custodian, and that must not be allowed to happen without full respect for individual rights.  We all must be presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

This fundamental principle of justice should not need to be explained to anyone -- and especially to some who are ostensibly on "our side." 

For Whom the Bus Rolls

What was omitted from all of this was the fact that it was actually the Assistant US Attorney’s office in Las Cruces that threw Deputy Batts under the bus and publicly tarnished his name. [More] 

A-yup.

Unquestionably!

If Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, who just won re-election comfortably, were to make that case, he might change a few minds, given his unquestionable support for Second Amendment rights. [More] 

Yeah, who would question Manchin?

Everybody see what they're doing here?

A Move to the Middle

That's what the people who call ratcheting up tyranny "reasonable," who call insane edicts "common sense," and who call holding fast to principles "extreme" call a move to the left. [Read]

This Day in History: February 1

In the later months of the Revolutionary War, Lord Charles Cornwallis marched his British forces through the backcountry of North Carolina to intercept General Nathanael Greene and his Patriot troops. On February 1, 1781, the Battle of Cowan’s Ford, near present-day Mecklenburg County, was General Greene’s attempt to prevent a full scale battle with the superior British forces. Although Lord Cornwallis successfully tricked the Patriot forces at Cowan’s Ford, General Greene was able to elude the British with his “fight-and-retreat” strategy. [More]