‘Restrictive’ New Zealand Gun Laws Useless at Stopping Mosque Massacres

New Zealand requires criminal and mental health checks with third-party character references. It has licensing and registration “of individual civilians licensed to acquire, possess, sell or transfer a firearm or ammunition.” It has domestic violence prohibitions.  Compare that to the “Universal Background Check” and “Red Flag/ERPO” edicts demanded for the U.S. as “common sense.” Private sales require a license, and “The buyer of a firearm in a private sale in New Zealand is obliged to pass official background checks before taking possession.” [More]

The very measures the gun-grabbers say will "work" here did not work there. Be honest: Who's surprised?

Founding Intent

Their function is to sustain a modern fighting force that does not consist of professional soldiers but of civilians who are able and willing to defend their communities. They are in fact a check and balance to an overreaching tyrannical government. [More]

Which pretty much makes legislation infringing on that capability a deliberate weakening of the security of a free State, and an act of treason...

[Via Bill C]

A Good First Step

Andrew McDaniel, (R-Deering), introduced House Bill 1108 on Feb. 28. According to the bill’s description, it would establish the McDaniel Militia Act, “which requires every person between 18 and 35 years of age who can legally possess a firearm to own an AR-15 and authorizes a tax credit for a purchase of an AR-15.” [More]

As long as it also accommodates those conscientiously scrupulous of bearing arms, you bet.

If it's really a militia act, why not M16s and military grade AKs?

[Via Jess]

We're the Only Ones Digitized Enough

Court: Middle finger protected by the constitution [More]

If it's a different circuit, it doesn't apply to Liberty Lynchin' Patrick, does it?

[Via Mack H]

Future Führers of Amerika

Student senators voted to rescind their support for state legislation that would protect the free speech and free association of college students, after learning that it would let Christian student organizations uphold sexuality standards for their leaders. [More]

I guess they're just not that diverse and inclusive. And why would you be, with "haters"...

[Via Michael G]

Cutting Edge Control

Cornwall MP ridiculed over knife GPS tweet [More]

Tell me he was joking and everyone who thinks otherwise needs to have their sarcasm meter adjusted.

But if he wasn't, and if the money is there to pay for this, I'd also like to suggest StabSpotter, microphones embedded everywhere attuned to detect the sound of stabbings and alert authorities. I bet it would be every bit as effective at stopping acts of violence as its gunshot-locating counterpart.

[Via Steve T] 

An Inconvenient Truth

Trump Just Said His Friends in the Military, Police, and a Biker Group Might Get “Tough” on Democrats [More]

They might. And more.

Keep pushing and find out.

Did you think it could be otherwise?

[Via Mack H]

UPDATE: And naturally, context matters.

I should have expected default dishonesty from Slate.

Two Wolves and a Sheep

In a party-line decision, the state Senate voted 25-16 on Tuesday night to make New Mexico part of a multistate compact that would elect the president by popular vote. [More]

Are they planning on seceding? Because last I checked, the Constitution, enacted by Founders who warned against the tyranny of an unchecked majority, was still "the supreme Law of the Land" and Section. 4. mandates:

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government...

The alternative being plotted here is eviscerates checks and balances against manipulation of the populace. There's nothing to stop them from all getting together and declaring the Bill of Rights, which were considered at the time to be unalienable, revoked.

This is a Rubicon that demands free men rebel against. No wonder those pushing it want us disarmed.

[Via Mack H]

What Good Can A Handgun Do Against An Army? Redux

Herschel picks up where Mike left off. [More]

How Very Civil of Them

They are creating a new type of search warrant in the state that would be specific to gun owners only: a civil search warrant.  This civil search warrant would be issued along with the initial temporary ERPO, meaning the very first contact between law enforcement and the accused would be a search of the home with the goal being to confiscate firearms. [More]

Some may not react civilly to Intolerable Acts.

[Via Neil W]

As the Culture Terraforms

SAID IN SPANISH: LA’s Treason Lobby Mayor Garcetti, Mexicans, Plan Further CA Colonization; U.S. Spanish-Language Media Denounces CHINESE Birth Tourism! ETC. [FOUR ITEMS] [More]

Shouldn't you European intruders go back while you can (assuming the Caliphate will let you)?

Bad to the Bone

ATF official says White House budget would trim it to the bone [More]

Good. Maybe they won't be able to bone as many of us.

[Via Jess]

We're the Only Ones Informative Enough

He is among four former St. Louis officers who pleaded guilty in the case, admitting they took money to provide nonpublic information to a chiropractor and his wife, who used the information to solicit patients. [More]

"So take a tip from a cop who does..." [National Lampoon's Radio Dinner]

[Via bondmen]

Pushback

More counties join Second Amendment Sanctuary movement; recall efforts beginning to take shape [More]

Every opportunity is being presented to settle this civilly.

[Via cydl]