Hartford gun rights rally draws thousands

This correspondent was invited to be keynote speaker, and part one of that speech is embedded in the video player, above. Due to the length of the entire speech, just over 28 minutes, part two is posted on YouTube. [More] 

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report provides links to all of the speeches so you can watch them as time permits.

Armed American Radio Redux

A world class lineup.  A-List.  You saw him on every major cable network news program and heard him on Hannity and Mark Levin all week discussing the second FT. Hood shooting.  NY Times best selling author, economist and Fox News Contributor, Dr. John R. Lott joined the program along with Buckeye Firearms Association Chairman, Jim Irvine.  The Alan Korwin Experience returned for two hours along with an outstanding report on the CT situation with AAR Contributor, David Codrea fresh off of a speaking engagement at the CT State Capitol.  Mark paid tribute to and honored Otis McDonald who passed away on April, 4th 2014.

• AAR 4-6-2014 Hour 3
• AAR 4-6-2014 Hour 2
• AAR 4-6-2014 Hour 1

If Only They Would Disarm You and Me

Jamara Stevens was fatally shot Saturday morning with a gun that police believe was brought into the home by the mother's boyfriend a few hours earlier. [More]

Yeah, I used to do that with/to my girlfriends' children all the time...I'm sure we could all tell stories like that.

No?

E Forms Outrage

Oh, wait, that says "Outage." [More]

Same difference.

Thank goodness "Organizing for Obama" is still functioning flawlessly...

[Via everrest]

Mexican Standoff

Never disarm!  The "cartels" aren't the only criminals. [More]

Where do you think Los Zetas came from?

Jackie's "Logic"

We need to ban guns to keep us "progressive" anti-gun Democrats from committing "gun crimes." [More]

This "thing" is what the Founder had in mind when they warned about "domestic enemies."

Juan for the Money, Two for the Show...

Why has "conservative" Faux News given this subversive a voice?  Let MSNBC have him. [More]

Lawsuit Against CA Microstamping

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) and the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute (SAAMI) have filed a motion for a preliminary injunction on behalf of their members against the State of California in Fresno Superior Court to prevent enforcement of the state's microstamping law. [More]

Got this one several days ago--this is the first chance I've had to get to it.

Stranger than Fiction

My latest GUNS Magazine piece on Leland Yee was picked up by The Daily Caller. [More]

Win Fabulous Prizes

The Weapon Blog presents the gun giveaway contest for April. [More]

Speechifyin'

Here's the audio of my Saturday speech in Hartford. [Listen]

I understand video will be available shortly, and will pass that along when it is, along with an after-rally report, but the good thing about "sound only" is you can't see how wiped out I looked.  I'll confess, it took every ounce of physical endurance to make the trip to and from, and to stand for hours in the cold. I'm surprised I'm not bedridden right now, but the day is young.

This getting old and mortal is for the birds.  Especially since Jonathan, the guy who put this together, had a wonderful-smelling cigar he was smoking and indicated he had one for me, and I had to beg off because I'm not ready to resume my normal life of revelry and debauchery just yet...

Soldiers as Targets

And we, the supposedly elite paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division, ran like frightened rabbits, because in a "gun-free" zone, the armed predator is king. [More]

Kurt shares some memories to remind us that for the people we read about in the news, it's as personal as you can get.

R.I.P. Otis McDonald

Dave Workman delivered sad news over the weekend. [More]

I have my own memories from the 2011 Gun Rights Policy Conference, when Mr. McDonald obliged my request for an autograph, and as no writing surface was conveniently present, Alan Korwin cheerfully put his back into it.

This Day in History: April 7

Being informed by Major Burnet that the arrangement of the several Lines of the Southern States had not been made agreable to my order on that head, I have enclosed a Copy of all that have come to my hand, or that I have been able to procure. The distraction that has prevailed in these States, the great number of Officers belonging to the several Lines in captivity, and the great extent of Country over which the rest were spread, together with the little prospect of filling up the Lines, have been some of the difficulties which have retarded and perplexed the business. I have been unwearied in my endeavors to get it done, but without full effect in any, and very defective in several. [More]