Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Gone with the Windbag
Kurt notes Bloomberg deserves to be condemned, often, and by someone who knows how. [More]
With Friends Like These
In the video, Baker can be seen talking about gangs in Newark, and he recounts a story of a friend who was stabbed to death while trying to rob someone. [More]I think I may have stumbled across a relevant consideration here.
Federal court rules interstate handgun transfer ban unconstitutional
In a huge victory for supporters of gun rights, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Fort Worth Division issued a ruling Wednesday declaring the federal ban on interstate transfers of handguns unconstitutional. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes a big obstacle has been removed, using the enemy's own NICS tool against them. Now all we need do is lose that tool forever.
A Taxing Proposition
Eric Hill of MetroPlan Orlando: What the hell is wrong with you? How about, if you're so hot on the idea, we just track you instead? [More]
[Via Florida Guy]
[Via Florida Guy]
Another Obama/Kerry Middle East Triumph
Houthi rebels took all U.S. Embassy vehicles parked at the Yemeni capital's airport and wouldn't let departing U.S. Marines take their weapons with them, a top Sanaa airport official said about the latest evidence of unrest in an Arab nation long seen as key in America's fight against terrorists. [More]As per usual, "folks" are in harm's way without adequate resources in a place of questionable value to Constitutional interests.
Ah well, I'm sure the administration will be able to come up with some comparable examples by Christians from a thousand years ago, to inject some moral equivalency, and to make some of us feel like undeserving, racially-privileged beneficiaries of an evil heritage.
Besides, it's time to take on the Ukraine...
UPDATE: US Marines Deny Handing over Weapons to Houthi Rebels while Leaving Yemen Following Political Unrest
Who Put the Bullet in the Furnace?
For some reason, that old Bill Cosby routine comes to mind... [More]
If ammo is physically restricted, it could create a real danger. I don't think I'd be inclined to risk my life to save someone's property. Matter of fact, I know I wouldn't.
If ammo is physically restricted, it could create a real danger. I don't think I'd be inclined to risk my life to save someone's property. Matter of fact, I know I wouldn't.
A Secret Deal?
Was Operation Fast And Furious Really Part Of A Secret Deal Between The DEA And Mexico's Sinaloa Drug Cartel? [More]This article is over a year old, but it was just sent to me, if I've blogged about it before I can't find it, and it raises some points I think could stand restating.
I've seen this hypothesis being offered for years, starting with Robert Farago at Truth About Guns. I told him while I acknowledge it is certainly possible, I had no information given to me by any of my sources to corroborate it. He, in turn, dismisses outright that Gunwalker was about setting up conditions to pave the way for more gun control, which Mike and I were directly told early on by an insider who used the term "pad statistics."
I think the way things have unfolded since our first reports lends a bit of credibility to those sources who were feeding us information. That and the four border states reporting imposition since enacted by Holder's DoJ...
I note the bulk of the new "evidence" appears to come from a defendant trying to save his own hindquarters, and the motive of creating doubt by muddying the waters and finger-pointing cannot be discounted. So I have to come back to my original sentiment on this-- it's an interesting theory but I have no information given to me to corroborate it. If anyone has more documentation, I repeat my longstanding recommendations to get it to the Oversight investigators -- I first recommended that a few years back as I recall, yet, for whatever reason, have not seen that happen.
If this does bear out -- and note I've never said it wouldn't, I've only said you can't prove it by anything anyone has told me -- I'd think it would add a great deal of weight to the hypothesis that Hillary's State Department was intimately involved, another flag I haven't seen too many besides Mike and me waving. And that makes the cynical and murderous plot even worse.
Also, importantly, why the White House has shielded Kevin O'Reilly is a mystery I believe would reveal much. No one is asking about that, either.
I wonder if Forbes' "write from the left" contributor Rick Ungar would be interested in following up on some of these leads in addition to the ones he seems fixated on.
"Right wing conspiracy theorist" that I am, I'm not holding my breath.
[Via bondmen]
We're the Only Ones Open Carrying Enough
Funny. I don't hear anyone screaming "extremist" over a sniper with a "weapon of war suitable only for killing large numbers of people" who is prepared to open fire in the gallery. [More]
If a uniform is all it takes, I've got this "Superman" Halloween costume from a few years back, and I've been meaning to get in some flight time...
[Via Mack H]
If a uniform is all it takes, I've got this "Superman" Halloween costume from a few years back, and I've been meaning to get in some flight time...
[Via Mack H]
All Those Books
That's the way the Morlocks have arranged things.
The Rest of the Story
The Whiskey Rebellion, then, considered properly, was a victory for liberty and property rather than for federal taxation. [More]Which naturally means the hive insect Prozis are using it as a false front for "proving" there is no right to rebellion and that the sole intended purpose of the militia was to support federal tyranny.
[Via Florida Guy]
Commissioner Martha Schrader, Ex-Wife
Schrader repeatedly mentioned that her family members owned guns (though she was “not allowed” to have them.) [More]I can see why this ranting headcase would be too much even for a Mugwort V-Steamer of a husband.
Your Papers!
Today, air travel, tomorrow, Checkpoint Charlie! [More]
They already have this crap in the southwest, where they harass everybody else while foreign invaders and cartel mules bypass it all on wilderness trails in areas posted to warn Americans from going.
Funny thing-- I don't hear anyone screaming about how requiring government ID will "disenfranchise minorities."
[Via Mike H]
They already have this crap in the southwest, where they harass everybody else while foreign invaders and cartel mules bypass it all on wilderness trails in areas posted to warn Americans from going.
Funny thing-- I don't hear anyone screaming about how requiring government ID will "disenfranchise minorities."
[Via Mike H]
An Ounce of Prevention
Iotians for Common Sense Fancy Heater Safety Laws Redux
"It still allows transactions to be made by private parties, neighbors and friends. It just requires the buyer to go to their police department, obtain a transfer permit and then conduct the transaction through a federally licensed dealer.” [More]Who's interferin'? We're takin' over.
Right, Jojo?
Who are the kapo "sportsmen" supporting it? Why aren't they being raked over the coals as loudly as open carry "extremists" are being?
We're the Only Ones Precedential Enough
“I don’t know of any other case where someone shot and killed a police officer in the course of a drug raid has been no-billed by a grand jury,” DeGuerrin says. [More]If the attorney's name sounds familiar, he represented one of the gun stores ATF put the squeeze on and then set up in Fast and Furious.
Can't We All Get Along?
Pretty much the only ones who wouldn't expect such an outcome are the "progressive" fools who display such signs to lord their superior "tolerance" over everyone. [More]
I always liked this one better anyway:
Then again, I've always sided with Gary.
I always liked this one better anyway:
Then again, I've always sided with Gary.
The Surge
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency charged with approving the applications, expects more than 800,000 applications in just the first two and a half months, or a 70 percent surge compared to last year’s total intake for the entire agency. Over the first 18 or so months, the agency will process more than 4 million pieces of mail related to the larger part of the new amnesty, according to contracting documents. [More]And Jeh Johnson says every one of them has "earned the right to be citizens."
And all credible polling shows them to overwhelmingly identify with Democrats and support "gun control."
Meaning every legislative gain will be knocked back, and judicial confirmations will be putting robed activists on the benches of district and appeals courts and higher.
Yeah, this has nothing to do with that "single issue."
Any gun rights group or "leader" with a voice not warning against this and doing what can be done to alert followers and mobilize opposition is not leading. Anyone dismissing it is a demonstrable liar, and I'll tell you how you can prove that for yourself: Have them produce credible data -- not just their wishful thinking or opinions -- to refute this.
A key to creating grassroots pressure to force the big gun groups to lead on this is the tone being set on so-called "gun blogs" and forums. Note how silent most have been. They won't have the data, either.
All the huffing and puffing over "extremist" open carriers "making us all look bad" they're focused on notwithstanding, there is no more significant threat to the right to keep and bear arms than this business of amnesty combined with promiscuous "legal" immigration that gives all advantages to helping foreign ideologies grow. Meanwhile, mighty NRA refuses to buck the Grover Norquist RINOs --hell, the Nominating Committee even recommended him for director again, and that's AFTER he helped an award-winning gun-grabber gain power -- because that provides the Lairds of Fairfax more of what they immediately crave -- access to the people they value more than a cynically-manipulated mass-membership.
They set this crap up and then deride those who are taking what is theirs back without waiting for anyone's permission.
You think the surge is scary, just wait 'til the shock and awe part. I have a feeling some are going to be wishing there were a few more "extremists" around.
This Day in History: February 11
The demands of the Officers tho’ just, are distressing; & we wish their sentiments had been such, as your Excellency mentions. But we have no reason to apprehend, that they will forget they are Citizens as well as Soldiers; or be dissatisfyd with the best provision that can be made for them, during the distress of the war. [More]