Amicus briefs filed supporting AG in Mississippi gun bill injunction case

Friend of the court briefs were filed yesterday in the Mississippi Supreme Court for the case of State of Mississippi v. Robert Shuler Smith supporting the position of state Attorney General Jim Hood. Last week, the attorney general filed an appeal petition and a motion to vacate an injunction by Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Winston Kidd preventing a law clarifying concealed weapons from taking effect. Smith is the Hinds County District Attorney, who along with a handful of legislators and constables, receiving legal prodding and support from the Southern Poverty Law Center, filed the action to block the new law. [More]

This afternoon's Gun Rights Examiner report notes all the legal arguments for why an activist judge and his anti-gun political cronies are either hopelessly incompetent, hopelessly corrupt, or both. They just say it nicer than I do.

Controversial gun activist arrested with 'silencer'

I was held a couple of hours and then taken to the CJC where I was booked and charged with possession of a silencer. [More]

Today's second Gun Rights Examiner report brings exclusive commentary from Leonard Embody on his latest arrest, along with video documentation of his initial police encounter and detention.

Journalists play same game with Weiner-lover numbers as they do with guns

78 percent of mercenary floozies responding to a client poll by a ... uh... matchmaker website and “78 percent of young women” are two very different numbers, but the technique of drawing broader generalities from narrower samples is familiar to those who have noticed how Mexican “crime gun” numbers have been fudged by the media over the years to gin up demand for more domestic “gun control.” [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner commentary notes that if you make your proposition rewarding enough, you can get some people to swallow anything.

"Legitimate Media"

Look, a "gun" story AP is interested in! [More]

Maybe it'll make their Top Ten!

[Via several of you]

Never Go Full Detroit

Kurt analyzes some mental defectives. [More]

We Get Our News from NBC!

Which explains the focus and tone of the comments on a development that should concern everyone ... [More]

We're the Only Ones Camera-Shy Enough

Mocek says the man who took the camera eventually identified himself as an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. He returned the camera, but Mocek says one of the images on it had been deleted. [More]

They certainly demand their privacy, don't they?  Even (especially) in public.

Look at the way different "services" ganged up and police allowed it to happen.

It's getting to where activists are going to need to wear devices like these for whenever they do anything in public that might attract "law enforcement" attention.

A Political Statement

"This is not a political statement." [More]

...said the judge, making a political statement.

Funny. "Authoritah" doesn't consider David Gregory dangerous for essentially the same "crime."

Yeah, Well You Hanoi Us, Too

Some situations are too dangerous for police intervention. The courts leave that decision to the trained officer in the situation to decide. Meanwhile, ron paul-y nutbags are calling to arm every man, woman, and child and start shooting -- without even safety, practical, or legal training. [More]

Oh, look: A "progressive."

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This Day in History: July 30

When your Exellincy made the first Requisition on this State for Five Hundred Militia, you informed us that we should be Relieved by the same Number from Massachusetts. The second Month is now nearly expired, and not more than one Company had arived from that State two Days agone. [More]