Friday, March 09, 2018

NRA Sues Florida

Plaintiff seeks declaratory and injunctive relief: a declaration that Florida’s law banning adult, law-abiding citizens under the age of 21 from  purchasing firearms of any kind is unconstitutional under the Second and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution... [More]
Good. And they mentioned those being disabled are members of the militia per U.S. Code, so double-good.

See? I can say nice things about Fairfax when they merit it.

Still...



The Impossible Dream

Va. House speaker looks to boost school security, in a year, without wading into gun debate [More]
How, since what's necessary to security relies on the right of the people to keep and bear arms not being infringed?

[Via Mack H]

We're the Only Ones Unfriended Enough

A sheriff's deputy had his ex-wife arrested because he didn't like what she wrote about him on Facebook [More]
But in fairness, nobody explained the law to the poor judge...

Good grief.

[Via William T]

But I Have Promises to Keep. And Miles to Go Before I Sleep.

Brother of Slain Border Patrol Agent: Trump Keeping Promise With Release of 'Fast & Furious' Records [More]
We shall see

His State Department isn't acting like it.

[Via Jess]

That's Pretty Bad


You know, when you can't even get "Dodge City" in Kansas... [More]

[Via Michael G]

What's In a Name?

Writing to local newspapers, Kennard was upset that the firebombers were called “eco-terrorists.” This, he argued, did not reflect the “broader perspective of the issues.” He felt the term “eco-patriots” was more appropriate. [More]
Does that make it OK to call for his and the Seattle Times editorial board's recycling?

[Via Michael G]

If at First You Don't Succeed

It’s time to give socialism a try [More]
Was this bimbo asleep during history class?

Oh, look: She's down with a monopoly of violence, too.

The Slyest Fox?


I guess we can hope for that, and that Trump is playing masterful 3-D chess on guns... [More]

That doesn't mean our role must be relegated to that of  Big Mouth Billy Bass.

[Via Jess]

Cutting the Throat of Whiteness

White South Africans face genocide... [More]
And there is no shortage of "progressives" who will rationalize that, justify it, and even celebrate it.

No worries. They have "commonsense gun safety laws."

Anyone still think "It can't happen here"?

[Via Matthew L]

Among the Other Claims...

...linked to the “Operation Fast and Furious” gun scandal... [More]
I have not had time to check on this and quite probably will not with the workload I'm facing at the moment. I hope someone who does will, because "experience hath shewn" that sometimes revelations come from unlikely independents.

With that I counsel "press onward" but with a grain of salt, which no one should object to. And I'll add this, possibly but not definitively related, from a story I was working on in January 2015 but did not develop enough credible corroboration to run with -- here's from my unanswered email to ATF's Baltimore SAC:
I have been told a subject of an FBI investigation was a Baltimore police officer assigned to the ATF  Gun Task Force.  I am further told the FBI advised the ATF SAC in Baltimore, and that this information was then shared with the subject. I am told the subject then made calls revealing he knew of this that were picked up on the FBI wire, including the name of the ATF source. 
I suppose if LE finally decides to break down and contacts me back, I'll need to see if my eminently credible source insists on me protecting his name, which is what Mike V and I always did above all else.

[Via Florida Guy

Keys to the Kingdom

It is believed that the 7-year-old autistic boy knew the gun was in a small locked safe in a closet and he knew where the keys were kept. [More]
As noted before, there is no one-size-fits-all solution to this. In this case, it sounds like what was picked was a poor fit for a unique situation. So expect the antis to make grand generalizations binding on us all when they get wind of this.

[Via Florida Guy]   

We're the Only Ones News-Authorizing Enough

“…From this point forward when KSP is working an investigation, you are to wait until OUR (KSP) press release is sent out before putting anything out on social media, radio, and newspaper,” the KSP spokesman said in an email. “No more posting inaccurate information from Sheriff’s or anyone else.” [More]
Well yeah. After all, they are superheroes. Just ask 'em.


Shane.Jacobs@ky.gov, eh?

You can also tell the KSP just what you think of this on Facebook and Twitter.

[Via Florida Guy]   

Behaving Like a Hogg

'Extremely Counterproductive': FL Student Rips David Hogg for Hanging Up on Trump [More]
What else would we expect?

The more exposure they get, the more important they feel, and the more free to reveal what they're really like inside.

I love it. They're not as formidable as those who wish to dishearten would have us believe. They're odious, sanctimonious and subversive little punks, and should be spoken of and treated as such.

On Being Necessary

They ought consciously and carefully to devise and enact legislation that revives the organization of local militias throughout the United States, as the Constitution expects them to do. [More]
I've had problems with Alan Keyes in the past. Not on this.

This seems like a project that could be organized to find and then help an honorable rep to write and introduce such a bill, and then to rally gun owners behind it. This seems like the type of thing that could really make a group like GOA take off in terms of influence, and really show Fairfax for the insincere weaselworders that they are.

Perhaps Rep. Massie...?

I'd also like to see lawsuits -- based on equal protection, and on U.S. Code factoring in "ordinary military equipment [that] could contribute to the common defense."

Passionate Young Voice for ‘Commonsense Gun Safety Laws’ Speaks from Experience


Romano was convicted of attempted murder and reckless endangerment, the Times Union notes, and will be up for parole in March 2021. He says he wants “to advocate for gun safety and mental health reform” when he gets out. [More]
If you believe in citizen disarmament and support the upcoming "March for Our Lives," who better to listen to than someone who tried to indiscriminately slaughter schoolchildren?

Know Your Candidate


I just ran across an old post that has relevance to the situation we find ourselves in today, and that was one of the catalysts for developing my candidate questionnaire to establish an unequivocal record to hold polticians accountable to. [More]

Now Everybody Read from This Page

NRA needs to spend more time getting out there among the people, and most importantly educating them, and offering the tools they need to be successful. [More]
The question becomes "Successful at what?" The Fairfax agenda will brook no dissent.

Sorry, but I won't be attending any meetings where the agenda is to help push for bump stock bans, erosions of due process and prior restraints. Ditto for throwing political support behind obvious lying squishes and frauds.

Back when I was an officer with the Westside Los Angeles NRA Members Council, NRA's state "grassroots coordinator"  (read "lackey for the Lairds") tried to shut down a meeting where we were calling Sacramento to urge proper action on a bill. I had to stand up and defy him, and tell him he did not have authority to dismiss us.  This was the same character who caused me to write a letter to then-ILA head James Baker because he was discouraging other gun groups from supporting our effort to petition John Ashcroft to enforce the Second Amendment by libeling us as "wild-eyed extremists." Hell, he was trying to strangle it in its crib. And when I stood down from being nominated for president, and instead endorsed someone who I believed could be more successful due to better name recognition, this was the same lickspittle wormtongue who threatened to sue the new president if he organized a public demonstration using the NRA name (which is the reason why a few years earlier I had opposed becoming a Members' Council and wanted to leave things at "affiliated club.")

NRA will always be fake grassroots because Wayne and Chris demand total control, something more than apparent by the way they make sure the Board will always be comprised of rubber stamps.

If you want to organize, do it locally with those of like mind and purpose. You're going to need to learn who you can count on anyway in your AO. Don't turn your back on opportunities to join in coalitions, but only if your goals are the same and never at the cost of losing your autonomy.

Putting the 'R' in tRaitor

Florida Republicans Pass Gun Control Bill [More]
Seeing as how the trend is not confined to Florida, we all just moved a big step closer to Mr. Kennedy's nightmare scenario.

How would voting for any of these betrayers ever again be any different than being a willing cuck?

But then the Democrats would win! 

Yeah.

How does that alter the outcome?

Modern Brainwashing


You have to wonder about who willingly subjects themselves to such.... programming. [More]

The Voice of Moderation

And if you’re a hunter and shooter who’s thinking, “Screw REI, and its customers. Who needs ’em?” hold on just a second.  [More]
Actually, I was thinking that about Outdoor Life. I'd think you guys would have learned better by now.

Taken for Granted

The Constitution Gives Gun Owners Greater Rights Than Women [More]
No, in fact it does not, you ignoranus.

But it would be a total waste of time to explain why that is to such as these.  Hell, trying to do just that -- to gun owners -- resulted in angry outbusts questioning my loyalties and my intellect.

Karen Mallard for Prison



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It doesn't matter if she then destroyed it further or gave the remains to the police. For a period of time she was in violation.

In terms of her being a gun owner, if you're an FFL who knows about this and you sell guns and ammo to this loudmouthed politiucal opportunist against rights, or her husband (and what an interesting dynamic that must be), you deserve to be boycotted.

As an aside, I wanted to find out more about this guncriminal and came across this telling comment of support on her website:


Well we know who's in Karen's corner. Wanting to find out who this prize is, I right-clicked the avatar to do a Google image search and this was the result:


Technology's really coming along, isn't it?