GAO’s ATF report to Congress skirts wider concerns about dissolving bureau

Unaddressed in the report ... are concerns expressed by gun owners about ATF powers, by Federal Firearms Licensees about inspection inconsistencies and application of rules and revocations, by firearm developers about arbitrary and often contradictory rulings, and by whistleblowers and disaffected agents about agency waste, abuse and corruption. [More]

This afternoon’s Gun Rights Examiner report cautions be careful what you wish for. Very, very careful.

Beautiful DREAMERS

Tell me this won't give the Prozis more "child gun deaths" to crow about. [More]

Death Wish

This is why we have Darwin Awards. [More]

Meanwhile, Over in the Sweet Land of Liberty...

Four librarians gagged and threatened with prison time under the Patriot Act [More]

What? It was on the watch of the "Vote Freedom First President"?  And he handed the keys to that car over to his successor?  Who hasn't relinquished that power?

My guess is career Connecticut librarians teaming with the ACLU are probably pretty "progressive."

Not that I expect the antis to appreciate this, but some of us are about liberty and justice for all, notwithstanding how they try to portray us.

And about the Second Amendment being the ultimate in egalitarian power sharing...

If that makes me "right wing," what must that make Monopoly of Violence-worshiping Prozis?

[Via Florida Guy]  

Put on a Happy Face

Or not... [More]

It all depends on the flip of a COIN.

Some Day My Prints Will Come

That oughtta wake some people up... [More]

Survey SAYS...

If GOP takes Senate in November, would gun rights benefit? Yes! [More]

Still, if most are pro-amnesty "Republicans, that'll just be kicking the can down the road a bit...

R.I.P. Chris Woodard

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From his bio:

Chris Woodard is a retired commercial helicopter pilot who worked and lived overseas for 30 years, in Iran, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom and China. Living and working in these various countries sparked an interest in law as applied to the people in general, and guns in particular.

This is sad news. When we learn more, we will share it.

Go Figure

Criminals love "gun control." [More]

Gomer?

First-Responders Report

Alan Korwin of GunLaws.com is taking a much-needed message to those unlikely to otherwise be exposed to it: USA Today readers. [More]

Full Court Press

SCOTUS has been ducking that issue for a long time, along with that most inconvenient of clauses, “shall not be infringed.” They bought some time with prior rulings that allowed for enough “reasonable restrictions” and “compelling state interests” to give a nod to individual rights while not overturning the status quo. But as for full-blown recognition for what Tench Coxe, a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress, advocated, that’s something they just won’t cede, because those who have power rarely voluntarily share it. [More]

Sure we won Heller and McDonald, but what have the black robes done for us lately? My latest GUNS Magazine "Rights Watch" column is online, and you can read it well before the issue hits the stands.

This Day in History: July 9

We have nothing new in this Quarter. Sir Guy, gives strong assurances of the pacific disposition of his most gratious Majesty, by Land. Sir (that is to be) Digby, gives proofs, if he is dificient in assurances, of his most gracious Majesty’s good intentions of capturing every thing that floats on the face of the Waters; and of his humane design of suffocating all those who are taken thereon, in Prison Ships, who will not engage in his service. To an American whose genius is not susceptable of refined Ideas there would appear some little inconsistency in all this; but to the enlarged, & comprehensive Mind of a Briton, these things are perfectly reconcilable. But whether they are right, or whether they are wrong time will determine. [More]