The Commie's Straw Vanishes

Green Party used Photoshop to add reusable cup and metal straw to photo of Elizabeth May [More]

Who says you need new ideas to be a "progressive"?

Nice to see time-honored practices never go out of style...

Things that Make You Go Hmmm

The National Rifle Association’s executive vice president and CEO, Wayne LaPierre, has named Jason Ouimet to serve as executive director of the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA). The NRA Board of Directors unanimously affirmed Ouimet's selection at its recent board meeting. [More]

Hmmm...

The Most Useful of Idiots

The communists will eat you fools if those you're undermining fall. [More]

We're the Only Ones Discounting Enough

A police officer accused of using counterfeit bar codes to pay significantly lower prices for collectibles he bought at stores while in his police uniform has been convicted of theft and official misconduct. [More]

So he called in the tip himself?

[Via Neil W]

It Doesn't Hurt to Ask

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I just submitted the following FOIL request:

Per a Sept. 23, 2019 story in The New York Post (https://nypost.com/2019/09/23/letitia-james-orders-companies-to-stop-selling-ghost-guns/) AG Letitia James "ordered 16 online companies to quit selling untraceable “ghost guns” [but]  did not identify for fear of directing them business."

I am a journalist covering firearms-related issues whose work has appeared for decades in national magazines and internet sites. My readership and I have a legitimate interest in knowing which companies have received orders that include the potential for criminal prosecutions.

Please provide complete copies of all orders, to include the names of the companies and if applicable, the person the order was directed to the attention of.

We'll see what happens.

And Some of Us Propose Something Altogether Different

"My proposal would be to do what Australia did, which would be to have a buyback," Swalwell said. He added that under his proposal gun owners would be able to use their "military-style" weapons at a shooting range or a hunting club, but "nowhere else in our community." [More]

Keep squeezing, Eric.

Until our eyeballs bleed.

[Via Mack H]

She's Not the 'Only One'

A former Tulsa police officer admitted during testimony before the House Judiciary Committee that she would "not comply" with an assault-style weapons ban if Congress were to pass one. [More]

According to NRA, that means she's not honest.

[Via Mack H]

The Criminal Mind

Research suggests brain exams can detect would-be murderers [More]

So can we ease up on the phrenology now?

[Via Michael G]

Upholding a Time-Honored Tradition

DC government worker charged with dealing fentanyl outside his office [More]

Run that man for mayor!

[Via Michael G]

Only Two to One?.

No, you want to know ultimately why 2/3rds of both houses need to approve a law? Because 66 people against 33 have a much, much better chance of winning in a straight-up fight than 51 or 52 or 53 against 49, 48, or 47. Such a good chance, in fact, that the fight is unlikely to happen. And the constitution is drafted in such a way that people aren’t supposed to feel tempted to have a violent argument about things that are passed into it and then people have to live by.  [More]

Those committed to freedom have faced greater odds than that.

[Via Michael G]

Meanwhile.Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise...

Asif, who says “instinct just kicked in”, chased the men off with a pair of kitchen knives while terrified they would harm his wife Charlotte, 30, who was upstairs. [More]

The Church of England wishes they had.

[Via Wynn A] 

Taking Bets

ST. LOUIS – PeaceFest 2019 is this Sunday, September and is expected to attract thousands to Bellefontaine Park for a day of live music, food, and fun. [More]

You know what I'm going to ask next.

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones Reinstatable Enough

Suspended Broward Sheriff Scott Israel should get his job back, a special investigator for the Florida Senate recommended in a stunning rebuke to Gov. Ron DeSantis. [More]

You've gotta admit, he does have a proven track record.

[Via bondmen]

Hiatus

A Senate staffer tells me gun legislation is dead, at least for the time being, because of the impeachment inquiry. [More]

Figured as much.

[Via bondmen]

Let's Make a Deal

Illinois man reaches plea deal in shootout with ATF agents [More]

Tell me he'll get more than 6 1/2 years.

[Via bondmen]

A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?

US Army warns about possible mass shootings by incels at ‘Joker’ screenings [More]

That's exactly what I warn against in a soon-to-be-published AmmoLandpiece.  All the hysterical advance publicity the antis have been generating suggests some would find that very exploitable.

[Via bondmen]

And Now a Word from the Rope-Selling Capitalists...

NSSF PRAISES STATES FOR RECORD SUBMISSION OF DISQUALIFYING MENTAL HEALTH RECORDS TO BACKGROUND CHECK SYSTEM [More]

Of course they do.

[Via Jeffersonian]

We're the Only Ones on the Same Paige Enough

During the training exercise, a law enforcement deputy accidentally discharged his weapon during the “un-holstering” process. The deputy sustained a gunshot wound to the leg as a result of the accidental discharge.  [More]

Paige...

Paging Mr. Paige...

As Long as I'm Doing Memes Today

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I was forwarded the  David Hogg version with the suggestion that someone ought to redo it with Beto. The problem with the Hogg meme, as the latter-day national socialists argue back, and the gun-grabbers, national socialists in their own right, are happy to exploit, is:

Unfortunately for those who would like to link Hitler and the National Socialists with gun control, the entire premise for such an effort is false. German firearms legislation under Hitler, far from banning private ownership, actually facilitated the keeping and bearing of arms by German citizens by eliminating or ameliorating restrictive laws which had been enacted by the government preceding his: a left-center government which had contained a number of Jews.

What's missing from that "Gotcha!" rejoinder is the totalitarian monstrousness of utterly disenfranchising a segment of society which was not homogenous with the ideology and agenda of the rulers. And for the record, no matter what linguistic contortions the deniers go through, Hitler "was, at heart, a left-winger."

[Via Jess]

A Gannett Publication Redux

Here's a follow-up for yesterday's post:

Des Moines Register Adds Police Presence After Criticism Turns Threatening [More]

It's déjà vu all over again.

Just to Be Consistent

[Concept via Stephen S]