Grassroots Advocates Influencing Pro-Gun Caucus will be Key to Its Effectiveness

Bottom line, it looks like a pretty good team (although team leader Massie could use some work on immigration). The task now is for them to actually do something so they continue earning those high marks. [More]

You've heard about the caucus. Here's how they rate where it counts and how you can make sure your input is heard.

Pastor Dan's Musings

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What can we do?

Certainly not this.

Oh, and look who his church partnered with:

As in "progressive" about guns.

If I had more time I'd do more searching. If you find out anything more, feel free to add a comment and a link.

The Deep State Strikes Back

 ...the minimum goal of the anti-Trump forces is to sow massive confusion. [More]

And the maximum goal...?

Me, with all this incitement, I'm waiting for somebody to snap.

The Anu ... uh ... Onus is Shifty ... uh ... Shifted

Leave it to Opposite Day "progressives" to pervert "the supreme Law of the Land" into a weapon for attacking the Bill of Rights. [More]

Moms Demand a Piece of the Action

Watts said the group is not anti-gun ... she said they oppose ... [More]

Who's interferin'? We're takin' over.

Of Course You Realize This Means War

That's what "they're" gearing up for. [More]

The cold civil war is heating up. I've never seen it like this. I'm trying to think what will surprise me.

Did Somebody Say 'Fake News'?

These people are shameful and must be stopped! [More]

Blend Over

From WarOnGuns Correspondent Henry Bowman:

Just about a year ago, the propeller-heads at NRA Training rolled out a new "Blended Training" doctrine for their handgun course.  Instead of the standard NRA handgun courses they have been offering for decades, this new course would require all prospective students to log in online first, create a training account at the NRA, pay to take a CAI version of the classroom work, and receive a "chit" certificate.  They would then take the chit to a local instructor who would arrange the practical (range) portion of the training.

As is typical of anything done by Fairfax Training guys, this was all imposed top-down with no advance notice before it was carved in stone.  It was not based on any sort of instructors' feedback to the NRA saying "we need this."  It was never passed by instructors for comment before implementation.  It was never passed by instructors for testing before imposition.  The first we heard about it was when the NRA said it was going to happen on a given date, and we could sample the online offering for ourselves for free.

And, of course, the old front-to-back classroom NRA courses and written NRA training materials were now OBSOLETED, and we were forbidden to teach them past that date (as NRA courses, anyway).

The tubez lit up with objections.

NRA was charging $60 for the online portion of the course.  Now, there are a lot of instructors out here in distressed areas holding entire courses for $100-$150, and offering family discounts.  NRA didn't take $60 worth of load off these instructors, so they had just reduced demand for their courses by raising the price.  Plus, it entirely destroyed the efforts of nonprofit orgs holding these courses for FREE for victimized groups.

The initial classroom portion of the course was valuable to teachers to get a sense of the student's overall attitude towards accepting instruction, safety, and the like, before allowing them to handle guns, let along loaded guns.  NRA had just removed that evaluation period and replaced it with a paper certificate.

The change to Blended Training of necessity discontinued the First Steps courses entirely (in which a student learns all the relevant material as it applies to his gun and his gun only, and not every style of pistol and action).  Personally, these were all I ever taught anymore, given that most people just want to qualify for a CCW, the First Steps class can be done in one day, and the full class takes two to five days when done conscientiously.

The new doctrine complicated the student's transition from online to classroom — the student had to make sure that after taking the CAI portion, there would be a classroom near them scheduled to complete the second half of the course.  Conversely, instructors had to ensure they had enough students to run a course without any assurance that an adequate number were going to complete the CAI successfully by any given date.

Finally, senior students were likely to be flummoxed and discouraged by having to do any nontrivial portion of anything online.

Anyway, the Yahoogroup was pretty much flooded with instructors replying they couldn't continue to teach NRA courses within this framework, and that they were putting together their own offerings based on the previous model.  And, unlike the celebrities who threatened to emigrate after losing the election, these instructors carried through.

Last week, we received this communication:

On 12/9/2016 5:40 PM,  xxx [nrainstructors] wrote:

Great News!

My NRA Friends Field Rep told me they were informed by Wayne LaPierre at their annual meeting last week. That the NRA had made a huge mistake in rolling out the Blended Pistol training. And that it was being terminated and the original Instructor lead Basic Pistol course would be reinstated!

We should have an official notification soon.

Bottom line is that the NRA destroyed its own course offerings for the period of a year, and alienated scads of master instructors who may never come back.  

Wonder if anybody gets fired over this… or promoted?

Money for Nothin' and Your Chicks for Free.

To put it bluntly, the state has decided to pimp out its nubile young women to the migrant men it brought into the country through its collective madness. [More]

The minds behind this know exactly what they're doing.

[Via Florida Guy]   

Exactly what Worries

For all of his vulnerabilities, Trump has often proven to be a highly effective operator when he focuses on getting what he wants. That’s exactly what worries Democrats. [More]

And that's exactly what worries establishment "Republicans," and why they have the knives out for him over unelaborated CIA careerist insinuations and tax cuts.

[Via Mack H]

True Colors

A group of Washington State University professors have decried “discourses of free speech” in an open letter to the campus community, suggesting such defenses of the First Amendment hurt “marginalized students.” [More]

How very "progressive."

Look at who signed the letter, and at their fields of "expertise." I had to look some of them up.

And here is one fruit of such "labors." It's telling of him to admit his kind are so dangerously violent to those with alternative views that providing security to protect them is cost-prohibitive.

[Via Michael G]

The High Country

"The Cuban and Colombian cartels are buying up land to grow marijuana in Colorado. We need to look at the safety of the schools and the kids." [More]

True, but "we" also need to look at how these cartels have been allowed to enter and stay.

And who is doing everything in their power to help them take over.

[Via cydl]

A Study in Weasel-Wording

We conclude that, even though the California Constitution may preclude the Legislature from actually conferring postsecondary education benefits on undocumented immigrants attending the University of California, the Legislature has made these students “eligible” for such benefits within the meaning of the federal statute. [More]

And if you think that's impressive, you oughtta see what we can do with "shall not be infringed"!

[Via Geordan]

'Giuliani Has Earned Consideration'

Really, Mark Hammond of GOA? (About 6:17 in.) [More]

You've got a retraction for all this? And for this?

The Spirit of the Season

A CATHOLIC priest has sparked outrage after he cancelled a nativity scene out of fear it could offend Muslims. [More]

And after all, isn't that what Christmas is really about?

Opposite Day 'Progressive' Irresistible Charms

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Not even with full PPE, but keep dreaming.

And what are these racists doing with that flag? I feel harassed!

Sure, MC -- you're not actually needed right now, but go ahead.

Meltdown

Press encouraged to turn up heat on Trump [More]

Like it hasn't been going full blast?

Just like the election outcome caught them totally flat-footed, they still refuse to get it, or to accept that they've been seen for what they are.

It's like the lemming solution is to march faster...

It is a Tale. Told by an Idiot, Full of Sound and Fury.

Signifying the destruction of everything that has gone before. [More]

To be, or not to be, that is the question...

Seriously.

Meanwhile, Everywhere Else in the Known Universe...

Earth woefully unprepared for surprise comet or asteroid, Nasa [sic] scientist warns [More]

Well maybe "we" wouldn't be, plus there'd be Space Station V, Moon Base Alpha, a Martian research station and mining operations on various asteroids and gas giant moons by now if those tasked to work the issue were more concerned with the final frontier and less focused on "global wealth transfer scams" and flying George Takei out to make sure everyone is toeing the diversity line.

Of course, innovator/explorers/investors would need to get government bureaucracies out of the picture...