How did Hoover feel about American citizens possessing subsequent production models of the handgun presented to him? He didn't like the idea one bit, and in typical elitist "Only Ones" fashion did what he could to initiate legal steps to keep that from happening. That’s the gist of a letter from Hoover to Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings dated March 19, 1936. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes two attitudes we're all too familiar with today: "Only Ones" elitism and "sportsmen" mainly concerned with making sure they've got their hobby covered. It includes a copy of Hoover's 1936 letter provided by the University of Virginia's Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library that I obtained this afternoon.
Friday, April 03, 2015
FBI’s Hoover tried to curtail 'highly-powered' handgun development
Turnabout's NOT Fair Play?
The app is a response to another app called Gun Geo Marker, which allows people to mark on a map the locations of guns that they believe are unsafe: For example, the gun's owner may have insufficient training or a history of frequent and unlawful discharge. Gun Geo Marker's makers say it is intended to be a safety tool. [More]Tit for tat bothers "progressives"? They want to know who we are, but forget reciprocity? That seems an admission that posting "Gun Free Home" signs would be stupid, that is, that even the antis benefit from potential predators not being certain if their victims will be helpless.
I've got a solution of sorts for the anti creepers who are all worked up to know who has guns: Assume we all do, and then conduct yourselves accordingly.
[Via Mack H]
I Love It When a Plan Comes Together!
...the rest will live off a government-provided income... [More]You know, "dependents," until such time as they (you) become "useless eaters"...
Interesting Workaround
Me, I still prefer SNBI without the computers, but not too many listen to me. After all, anyone who can't be trusted with a gun can't be trusted without a custodian, and should no more be free to roam among us than a wild animal would be.
Where stuff like this is especially useful is in proving the antis aren't really interested in "background checks"-- what they really want is a way to ID gun owners and register what they bought.
Defying the Defilers
To anyone capable of grasping basic logic, acknowledging the ludicrousness of the cutoff would seem cut and dried. But when descending into the bizarre and often contradictory world of ATF rulings and judicial interpretations, a happy resolution is anything but a slam dunk. [More]My latest GUNS Magazine "Rights Watch" column, about the Hollis v. Holder machine gun case, and the absurdity of what it's challenging being right in line with past BATF-U decisions, is now online.
We're the Only Ones Spicing Up Your Life Enough
That's the old pepper! [More]
I'm reminded of the buckets of "untouchable" water in Bhowani Junction.
[Via Florida Guy]
I'm reminded of the buckets of "untouchable" water in Bhowani Junction.
[Via Florida Guy]
Campus Carry Stalled in Committee
Why not make this today's Five-Minute Activism project?
What, you're not from Florida?
Does Bloomberg confine himself to New York?
Why It Matters
We linked to news about the Crime Prevention Research Center fundraiser at NRA's upcoming meeting in Nashville here.
Dan Gifford, via email, reminds us of the need for such research including how the antis have played fast and loose with the truth to the detriment of freedom in the past:
Dan Gifford, via email, reminds us of the need for such research including how the antis have played fast and loose with the truth to the detriment of freedom in the past:
...I add a bit of institutional memory about The History of Gun Control by Warner Todd Huston [and a] 1993 piece of my own published in the Baltimore Sun titled Gun Control Doesn't Equal Crime Control...To that I would this vital resource that I've talked about in the past, and I'll bet not more than one or two people max have done anything about...
Their Loss, Our Gain
We have not only the most well-armed and well-trained forces in the world – they are, or were, battle-hardened in the furnace of actual combat... [More]I agree with Vanderboegh.
[Via Michael G]
Uncommonly Good!
The deal involving 82 students puts a legal end to the saga that began when Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt was arrested in 2012 and accused of blindfolding students and feeding them his semen on cookies. [More]I guess the title slogan beats "Oh fudge!"
I'm just surprised no one is suing a Christian bakery requiring them to make these.
[Via Florida Guy]
Better Than Warm Suds and a Syringe Tube
Say, while you're administering the treatment, is it OK if I wear my George HW Bush socks and Cheney hat?
We're the Only Ones Camera-Shy Enough
Albuquerque Cop Charged With Two Felonies After Attacking Man, Then Deleting Video Evidence [More]Thank goodness we have some "forward-thinking" law-and-order Republicans out there making sure outrages like this can't happen again!
[Via Florida Guy]
We're the Only Ones Paternal Enough
It was a rare decision considering grand juries tend to believe cops can get away with murder. But the victim in this case, Bryce Masters, is the son of a Kansas City cop. [More]Gee, I wonder what the the decision would have been if the victim were the son of a mundane...
Grand juries certainly can be comprised of ignorant and oblivious idiots some times, can't they? The oppressors are counting on that. That's why it is critical we be not just consumers of essential information, but force multipliers in spreading it.
"And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free."
[Via Florida Guy]
So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
India Declares Dolphins To Be “Non-Human Persons”... [More]As not unusual, my favorite parts are the comments, in this case from resident self-appointed authority Gautamamanda.
"Every animal has a right to life"? What about those fish the dolphins eat?
"[K]illing to eat is not necessary"? Tell that to the dolphins.
They get a pass because of need. As our would-be controllers would tell us, is we don't need to eat meat. Just like we don't need guns.
See a pattern here? It's not about meat or guns. It's about "to each according to his need," with someone else making that decision for us.
[Via Florida Guy]
Just Like Who They're Named After
Cardinals fans outside Busch Stadium on Thursday accepted the enhanced security as a sensible, if depressing, development. [More]I guess if you value sports more, perhaps you shouldn't be trusted.
Besides, the guys the stadium is named after have made their position clear.
Anybody still drink that Clydesdale p!$$?
[Via bondmen]
Another "Progressive" Paradox
Last year Californians bought an average of 1,400 handguns … every single day. They have been on a handgun buying spree ... Meanwhile, the rate of gun violence, which almost exclusively involves handguns, has fallen and continues to fall. [More]What, you mean it's not "the guns"?
It's the Law!
The Indiana amendment prohibits service providers from using the law as a legal defense for refusing to provide goods, services, facilities or accommodations. [More]
News Flash!
I'm not trying to diminish the guy, and it's wonderfully refreshing to hear such talk coming from a "leader," but thing is, some of us "followers" have been bangin' those pots and pans for decades.
Lee, by the way, is rated A+ by both GOA and Numbers USA. I'm disappointed to see his book being tied in as paving the way for a Con-Con when his major premise is the other side cheats and gets away with it all the time -- this write-up makes it appear that way by saying his book "could play a role in the building effort to hold a Convention of States to pass constitutional amendments aimed at limiting Washington's power." I'm not getting why that sentence was put in, as other sources say Lee "is concerned about a convention creating the potential for a barrage of bad amendments.”
UPDATE: Oath Keepers has more on "Why the Article V Convention Must Be Opposed."
This Day in History: March 3
We take the liberty to apply to your Excellency as we are informed that it is practised by our neighbours to Let their Ships sail under American Colours and Papers, as we have just now bought a vessel of a 150 Tuns, we'd wish to Let it Sail to America, with American papers & colours we request your Excellency's advice how this is best Practicable, with granting the necessary papers to us, for whch. purpose 'll as soon as we can advice the name of the Capn and ship [More]