Lockdown Over Paper Gun Illustrates Zero Tolerance Insanity

"Everyone is safe and the lockdown has been lifted, according to police,” NBC advised. How the police could assure the first part of that claim is left unexplained. We are, after all, talking about supposed adults who freaked out over the crude facsimile in the above police photograph.  Who could see that and feel justifiably threatened? [More]

Why this even made the news tells us much.

Kolbe v. Lawrence (En Banc) Oral Argument

Listen here.

The "kept in the home for self-defense by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes" excludes much of founding intent. Constitutionality is being based on a popularity contest instead of the citizenry being able to take to the field capable of defeating a force equipped with military armaments that are in common use at the time.

Listening to the BS challenges and stupid questions, it's lucky for the black robes that they wield coercive authority, because "You're a ****ing idiot" is pretty much the only response each of them deserves.

[Via Mack H]

We're the Only Ones Riotous Enough

Expecting something, fellas...? [More]

Funny, noting who rules the turf they think the hot spots will be in.  I wonder why that is.

In the spirit of Chubsy-Ubsy and Jojo Krako, don't call it "riot control." Call it "commonsense crowd safety laws."

It's the "progressive" thing to do!

[Via Jeffersonian]

The Young Pioneers

Mossberg, gun pioneers seek to build safer firearm [More]

Don't let protestations that iGuns is a separate company fool you.  Junior's still feeding at the "gun dumb" trough.

Young Pioneers... that has a nice ring to it...

[Via Florida Guy]   

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise

UK police chief apologizes for featuring Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar” in counterterror training exercise [More]

Yes, we all know they're much more likely to scream (pick all that apply):

Pip-pip! Jolly good!

Sacré bleu!

Yumpin' Yiminy!

[Via Mack H]

'Park Robber'

Hiding in the brush, lying in wait, two armed youths successfully rob several victims. In their eagerness and greed for more loot, they ambush the wrong guy... a prepared citizen. [More]

This week on "Stop the Threat"...

Open for Business

Our goal is to be the undisputed best merchant account provider for FFL or Ammo related companies both for retail, phone and ecommerce payments. [More]

After seeing outright discrimination by Square, PayAnywhere and Intuit combined with a throttling attempt by the administration, it's good to see some making a special point of reaching out.

Also see: Giving Gun Owners The Business

Sounds Like With Good Reason

Mike Lee on Donald Trump: 'He scares me to death' [More]

Says the guy with the mediocre overall rating and an F- on chain migration and worker visas...

But it's not Trump he should be scared of  -- he just tapped into the sentiment of people sick and damned tired of being sold out by those who claimed to represent their interests. If Trump cheeses out, their fury will focus on him soon enough.

Take the side of the Norquislings at your peril.

Own a Piece of History!

[No More]

Dang, and I so wanted to add the gun George Zimmerman used to shoot Trayvon Martin to the arsenal.

Anybody else past ready for this guy to just go the **** away?

[Via several of you]

UPDATE: Len Savage just sent me the web cache for the ad. And WarOnGuns Correspondent Steve T wonders if it could have been posted by a hoaxer.

UPDATE 2: Per Dave Licht, the auction is back on. As much as I think this guy is on a wrong track he won't get off of, there's some absolutely inexcusable
"journalism" in this "news story," both in the text and and repeated in a photo caption:

Now, Zimmerman is selling the murder weapon on UnitedGunGroup.com (above) for the same starting bid as he did on the first site ... 

Exclusive Report: NOVA Armory Board Of Zoning Appeals Hearing

VCDL floods Arlington Zoning Board meeting to successfully defeat an attempt to pull NOVA Armory's occupancy permit on May11, 2016. [More]

The best laid schemes o' mice and mendacious mandarins were thwarted when Liberty Advocates not only showed up uninvited to their little surprise party, but dominated the festivities.

[Via Keith B]

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Here's an exclusive report from WarOnGuns Correspondent William T:

First, the hearing room was packed, with the vast majority of attendees prominently sporting one or more of VCDL's bright orange "Guns Save Lives" stickers. I did not do an official head count, but I believe that we had well in excess of 75 people in support of the store, including Philip Van Cleave. Only one person spoke for the antis and raised a number of points that I thought were frivolous (they sell Tannerite! It's a HAZARDOUS MATERIAL!!! or they claim to be a retail shop but claim to give wholesale pricing [as does every car dealer I've ever dealt with], or Dennis Pratte is a "straw owner" for his daughter, a 16 y/o minor who cannot enter into contracts or hold an FFL, or THEY DID NOT FILE FOR THEIR FFL UNTIL AFTER THEY ALREADY HAD THE CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY!!!!). All of these issues had been addressed in the staff's report to the appeals board, but the presentation rehashed them anyway.

I stopped counting after more than 15 people spoke on behalf of NOVA Armory, nearly all of whom denied that the complainants spoke for them in any form or fashion. Some of the speakers invited the folks pressing the appeal to pack up and find living quarters more amenable to their vision of how a community should be organized.

In the end the board voted to deny the appeal, but not until after some distressing personal comments from various members had been entered into the record. For example, one member stated that while he found the protests ultimately unmeritorious, he did not find them frivolous, thus revealing a lack of knowledge about firearms in general and gun stores in particular [Tannerite in particular not being a hazardous material, among other things]. Another board member expressed his thoughts that while he, personally, thought that guns should be sold only by state stores as is liquor here in VA [wait ... what??????], he had no choice but to vote to deny the appeal, etc. etc.

It was a long slog - the hearing was very near the end of the meeting, so we had to sit through more than two hours of hearings about use permits, variances to allow setbacks less than called for by zoning regs, etc. (we even had one guy complain because the board was approving too many variances. All well and good that they required trees to be replaced if any destroyed by renovations, but what about the carbon foot print of larger houses? What about lost turf? What about EARTHWORMS??? [no, I am not making that up]).

So it's settled for now. Until the next round of appeals, lawsuits, or whatever else they have up their sleeve. They are already being sued civilly in connection with this nonsense [large pdf of the lawsuit attached], but I seriously doubt that they will learn from this and just let it go.

A Matter of Priorities

While Connecticut Legislators could not bring themselves to make a timely vote on a budget, they had plenty of time to infringe upon the right to armed defense.   [More]

That's because they know what plays and what makes eyes glaze over.

Here Come the Democrats!

Currently on Drudge:

Rigorous!

Let's not forget to thank Grover and all those cheap labor Republicans for helping make it all possible!

Let's Call the Whole Thing Off

Huge error here in terminology, which leads to a huge error in understanding the subject: – Orders issued in the military are either ‘lawful’ or ‘unlawful.’ – All orders are ‘legal’ if issued from a superior by position or rank to a subordinate because of the formally recognized chain of command and rank structure within the military. [Comment left under my latest OK piece] 

(Mirrored here where it is deemed a "flaw")

First Sergeant, with all due respect, and stipulating that I don't pretend to have your personal professional experience in this matter, ultimately it will be adjudicated as a matter of legality. If you disagree, your argument is not with me, but with, among others, the  United States Court of Military Appeals in UNITED STATES v WILLIAM L. CALLEY, JR.:

I therefore instruct you, as a matter of law, that if unresisting human beings were killed to My Lai (4) while within the effective custody and control of our military forces, their deaths cannot be considered justified, and any order to kill such people would be, as a matter of law, an illegal order. Thus, if you find that Lieutenant Calley received an order directing him to kill unresisting Vietnamese within his control or within the control of his troops, that order would be an illegal order.[Emphasis added.]

Yes, I understand courts are hardly infallible or incorruptible, one of the main reasons we find ourselves in the intolerable mess we're in. I don't offer this to argue the point, as that would be a distraction from the purpose of this article, to solicit the experiences of Oath Keepers for these questions:

Would the guys you know and have worked with “just follow orders”? Do you have a feel for the ratio of those who would vs. those who would not? And do you have a feel for how current active duty personnel would respond? 

Perhaps it would help to rephrase those as orders your understanding concludes are unconstitutional? Isn't that what we're here for?

There's a Lesson in Here Somewhere

Brazil's Senate voted on Thursday to put leftist President Dilma Rousseff on trial in a historic decision brought on by a deep recession and a corruption scandal ... Rousseff, a 68-year-old economist and former member of a Marxist guerrilla group... [More]

Gosh. It's like when "progressives" get the power and control they crave, everything goes to hell.

Always.