Well...Bye

Not really, but I am getting out of here for a while and will be back around Aug. 3 or thereabouts. Feral sons Uday and Qusay will be let out of the basement to prowl the house until then and hopefully won't run out of intruder bones and escape.

I've turned off blog comments because I won't be moderating. Please hold all email and social media tips as I just won't be able to get to what accumulates when I return.

I do have two more AmmoLand articles due out soon-- one on Lori Lightfoot and Chi-Town (UPDATE: Just published), and the other on the always-wretched John Kasich. You can look for them on my "landing page" and do the same with Firearms News columns you haven't seen yet.  As always, if you get value from any of them, send the links to anyone else you think may get the same.

Be seeing you.

UPDATE: This was recorded a few weeks ago and just got released:

Speaking of Shoulder Things That Go Up...

The traveler from East Orange, NJ, was traveling through the airport when TSA discovered the rifle, which had “a high-powered magazine and an arsenal of ammunition.” [More]

At least it wasn't a "30 magazine clip".

Or a "magazine with 100 clips in it."

Or...

We're the Only Ones Minimized Enough

“We expect to see the same justice with this white officer and a Black female victim as we would see with a Black officer,” Lewis said. [More]

So the Houston Chronicle has gone full AP?

I was going to focus on the story but calling out this new "standard" whenever I see it seems of more general importance than allegations that have the distinct odor of setting up an easy mark.

[Via Neil W]

Anyone Who's Not a Democrat is a Racist

Joe Biden calls Trump the country’s ‘first’ racist president [More]

Seeing as how Trump is an avatar for those who supported his 2016 agenda, Joe Biden is parroting the antifa/bLM* smear that anyone opposed to a communist takeover is a racist.

* I'm going to start spelling it that way "thanks" to AP.

Pretty Much

Schools Are Closing Not Because They Should, But Because They Can. [More]

Don't get me started on public schools.

[Via Michael G]

I've Heard of the Camel's Nose Under the Tent

What about Kamala's face...? [More]

I know, catty.

And hypocritical, seeing as how I've been treated by a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon.

[Via Jess]

No Safe Space

A civilization that can achieve this is what the destroyers who create and achieve nothing are trying to tear down. [More]

Tangentially related: Leave it to bureaucrats with a budget to not have an original idea in their heads.

Speaking of which...

Blast from the Past: Vanderboegh on Black Lives Matter

So before you wear a slogan like THAT," (and I pointed at his shirt), "you'd better think this shit through. [More]

It's as timely today as it was five years ago, if not more so.

[Reminder via Anonymous]

Ebony and ivory

AP says it will capitalize Black but not white [More]

Because white people are racists.

They're also xenophobes.

Bad white people! Bad!

Tell 'em, George...

UPDATE: In protest, I'm going to start using "bLM." Be nice to see a Steisand Effect of sorts here. I wonder how soon that will get me kicked off social media.

Give 'em What They Voted For -- Good and Hard

Yep, looks like Virginia’s Democrats are allowing the statue-toppling, paint-throwing mobs to dictate the agenda next month. [More]

Part of me says "Good, let everybody see how quickly the collectivists devolve everything into CHAZ/CHOP."  Another part says unless it personally affects them, anybody who's not already motivated is unlikely to wake up and do a damn thing about it.

If the nation's and the state's largest and most influential "gun groups" refuse to acknowledge what even The New York Times knows, it's unrealistic to expect the average person to self-educate.

[Via Mack H]

Conduct Unbecoming

Video shows uniformed sailor screaming ‘F*** Trump!’ and angrily confronting protesters [More]

So will they boot her and will she still get benefits?

A Driving Force

Northam signs law allowing undocumented immigrants to get driver's licenses in Virginia [More]

The Democrats flaunt their takeover. And is it just me, or does that screenshot make Ralph look creepy, like he has a tarnished halo and demon wings?

Good thing this has nothing to do with that "single issue."

[Via Mack H]

Banking on Disarmament

US banks and financial institutions have been slowly severing ties with the gun industry [More]

Then they won't need bailouts or government contracts or FDIC guarantees...

I'd like to see a gun group organize a lobbying campaign if "we" win in November.

That Ought to Be a Given

18-to-20-Year-Olds Have a Right to Buy Handguns [More]

I guess my question is why do we need a judge to tell us that?

Well, That's Your Problem Right There

News Outlets Turn a Blind Eye on The Trace's Anti-Gun Bent [More]

The first mistake is considering the DSM "news" outlets.

Survey SAYS...

Take The Gun Feed's presidential poll. [More]

Don't Give Aid and Comfort to the Enemy

The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has launched a public campaign alerting gun owners about businesses and their CEOs who push for increased gun control and prohibition, identifying the culprits. [More]

Here's the list.

As with the NRA list of years past, we're stumped if somebody asks us "What did they do?" about a particular target for our wrath.

I hope they consider that and expand the information. We're not a mob. We should know what our specific objections are and be able to prove them.

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise

A young offender stabbed another teenager to death at Hillingdon Council's offices while on a knife awareness course, a court has heard. [More]

Suffice it to say they were both aware of knives.

I note they can't name the juvenile reptile to protect his innocence or some such-- plus you wouldn't want people to be aware of a dangerous sociopath in their midst.

My money says it's not "Cedric," Reggie, or Nigel." Any takers?

[Via Steve T] 

My Kind of Town

15 shot after exchange of gunfire after South Side funeral: Chicago police [More]

That's a pretty convincing fallacy there...

Forget it, Jake. It's Chi-Town.

[Via bondmen]

Music hath Charms to Soothe a Savage Breast

The off-duty officer radioed for assistance and two of the suspects were located a short time later in the area. They were 16 and 15 years of age, respectively, and remanded to the Juvenile Courts. Police said the remaining suspect, the one with the gun, was not found. [More]

Nothing here we can't fix with trumpets...

[Via bondmen]

We're the Fauxnly Ones Honorary Enough

A security guard attempted to stop Hawkins, who showed a sheriff’s office credential and claimed he was with the agency. He then threatened to arrest the security guard, officials said. Hawkins holds the honorary title of special deputy with the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office, but is not a certified law enforcement officer and has no arrest powers... [More]

Imagine how he'll behave if voters give him even more power.

And remember the lesson of the Fauxnly Ones, just in case your legal defense is that you weren't sure the scary person you resisted was really an "Only One."

[Via bondmen]

Wrong Side PAC

Founder of Never-Trump Super PAC Arrested in $60M Bribery Scheme ... Just last month, Borges joined with former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci in launching Right Side PAC. [More]

And we know what his partner thinks about your guns.

Screw this punk. If found guilty, don't give him any "white privilege" and stick him in gen pop.

[Via Michael G]

UPDATE-- The plot thickens:

Ohio House Speaker Arrested In Connection With $60 Million Bribery Scheme

Curious how an A+-graded hunter and sport shooter can share a bed with gun-grabber enablers. It's almost like the ratings are unreliable or something...

What You Mean 'We'?

BLM speaker: "There is one common enemy: the white man ... we need to get rid of them" [More]

Looking at this awesome specimen of physical prowess, he should have said "YOU need to..."

Anybody else getting a Napoleon Dynamite vibe off this freak?

[Via Michael G]

Speaking of Secession

Distressed by the civil unrest in Portland and other urban cities in recent months, a coalition of Oregon citizens in rural counties have launched “Greater Idaho,” a movement to “Move Oregon’s Borders” and make themselves part of Idaho. [More]

Maybe Gen. Milley should call in an airstrike against those traitors.

[Via Michael G]

Thoroughly Modern Milley

The Confederacy has been the excuse for some of today's rioting, property destruction and grossly uninformed statements. Among the latter is the testimony before the House Armed Services Committee by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley in favor of renaming Confederate-named military bases. He said: "The Confederacy, the American Civil War, was fought, and it was an act of rebellion. It was an act of treason, at the time, against the Union, against the Stars and Stripes, against the U.S. Constitution." [More]

By that ignorant assertion he has proven himself unfit for command and should be fired. Then he can add his name to this list of Benedict Arnolds.

It's not too removed an analogy to liken secession rejection to a refusal to let someone leave a relationship and giving all the power to the stalker.

[Via Michael G]

There Will Be Blood

Who thinks peaceful coexistence with violent Marxists is possible?

[Via TM]

Gosar Votes Against NDAA

"While the bill contains several substantive provisions, including key funding for Marine Corps Air Station Yuma and Yuma Proving Ground, I could not vote for the bill in its current form since it includes an unconstitutional gun confiscation program, backdoor access for Chinese Community Party members to buy U.S. visas, handicaps the Secretary of Defense’s border security efforts, restricts the President’s ability to restore law and order in times of unrest, contains many ‘green initiatives’ that are not relevant to national defense, and undercuts military readiness." [More]

Let the Democrats take it all in November and look for any pretense of being for national defense to drop.

[Via CDT]

Win Stupid Prizes

One of the bystanders exchanged words with Osuna. Moments later, Osuna made a u-turn to come back to the bystander. Osuna exited his vehicle and pulled out a loaded revolver and pointed the firearm at the bystander. [More]

Give that man a custodian...

[Via Dave Licht]

Burn, Baby, Burn

A charred body was found in the wreckage of a Minneapolis pawnshop this week — nearly two months after the building was burned down in the protests that followed George Floyd’s police-custody death. [More]

So charred-black lives don't matter?

[Via Michael G]

We'll MAKE It Work

‘This is bizarre’: Patricia McCloskey’s gun was inoperable when police seized it, but firearms experts reassembled it to make it ‘lethal’ [More]

Let me guess: Duct tape, plastic ties, and chains...?

As an aside, both husband and wife could use some basic training, because the need for reassembly wasn't the only thing that was bizarre.

[Via Michael G]

My Friend the Witch Doctor, He Taught Me What to Say

UConn Med. School May Shutter Honor Society Amid Diversity Feud - Merit requirement keeps society too white, faculty say [More]

This is full-blown insane.

What with the gunquack phenomenon and other forays into "progressivism," the "medical profession" has increasingly devolved into the practice of fraudulent politics rather than science.

I wonder who the virtue-oozers that came up with this bright idea would want operating on them.

If anyone is "underrepresented" in any field, it's the best and the brightest, and they don't appear to be running the UConn School of Medicine.

[Via Michael G]

Suicide Squad

By its very nature, the group has already lost the support of Trump’s most vociferous critics on the left. [More]

As if they will ever consider the Lincoln Project to be anything but useful idiots, disposable once their usefulness is ended.

[Via Michael G]

One Pill Makes You Larger and One Pill Makes You Small...

And then the medication arrives in a form of a white pill. To be sure they’ve taken it, the prisoners’ mouths are roughly forced open and searched. The mysterious drug — a tranquilliser of some sort — soon induces a state of miserable mental numbness. [More]

Boy, you white nationalists sure are human rights violators!

Y'know, if you'd just board the Antifa/BLM train they'd "do it right this time."

It could never happen here, right?

[Via Laocoön]

Where There's a Will

George Will reveals he is voting for Joe Biden... [More]

What a surprise.

Maybe This'll be the Straw

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday morning said that officer should be stripped of his gun and badge over the threat of deadly force. [More]

Figures.

His security detail should walk off the job.

The Hunt is On

UPDATE: 3 Friends Massacred While Fishing, Sheriff Grady Judd Requesting Information [More]

We see means and opportunity.  Looking at a video from another report, I'm wondering if we see motive:

[Via Jim S]

UPDATE-- Probably not:

Judd described Tony as "pure evil in the flesh" and said he has 230 previous felony charges.

There ought'a be a law.

Meanwhile, Over in the Land of the First Amendment...

High School Teacher in Michigan Fired for Saying 'Trump Is Our President' on Social Media [More]

So the principal and superintendent, acting in their capacity as government officials, have banned political speech?

That seems like more than a civil lawsuit is in order.

[Via Michael G]

Our Best Friend This Side of Jesus

As history’s most forthright, pro-Second Amendment president and as a fellow NRA member, President Donald J. Trump has championed the constitutional rights of law-abiding gun owners across our nation. His support has been and continues to be unrelenting, and that is why NRA-PVF proudly endorsed him this week.  [More]

Could we do it without the hyperbole?

I guess we members aren't sophisticated enough to deal with a candid analysis of the whole truth? We're big enough boys to deal with reality and grok the alternative is Biden.

By doing it this way, they remove any pressure to stop with the betrayals.

That's Understandable

Minn. Attorney General Keith Ellison Says He Doesn’t Want Police Officers Responding To Rape Calls [More]

That's the last thing someone who abuses women would want.

[Via Mack H]

A Technical Issue

Google Appears To Blacklist Non-Mainstream News Sites, Calls It ‘Technical Issue’ [More]

Technically, if their technicians have arranged it, they're right.

I notice it myself all the time, but you know what? I still get better results with them than with anyone, and see the most pathetic returns from the much-ballyhooed "DuckDuckGo."

[Via Mack H]

The Briar Patch Threat

Once again, Nancy Pelosi and her comrades are trying to sneak a gun confiscation scheme onto a giant piece of legislation ... Tell your Representative that anyone who supports this gun confiscation will be regarded as anti-gun in GOA’s congressional rating. [More]

What if your representative is Nancy Pelosi? 

Not that repeated suggestions over the years will ever be heeded.

Let the Show Trials Begin

Eleven commonwealth’s attorneys who collectively represent more than 40 percent of the state’s population formed an advocacy group this month to back criminal justice reform proposals, dubbing themselves Virginia Progressive Prosecutors for Justice. [More]

Do I detect a hidden hand...?

[Via Mack H]

We're the Only Ones Fair Game Enough

Some Virginia Democrats want to ‘defelonize’ assaults on cops. [More]

I'm going to need to consult Mr. Benny on this one.

[Via Mack H]

The Damage is Done

The Atlantic Finally Admits Its Police Abolition Piece Is Based On A False Narrative [More]

Not that any minds over there have been changed, or that the extent of the fraud will be cared about by any outside of a much smaller niche readership...

[Via Michael G]

Another Reason Why I Won't Watch MSNBC

The apparatchik "host" doesn't even make a pretense of this being news. [Watch]

I don't know who this leftist pudge is, but  10 seconds of watching him set things up for that lunatic hatemonger Marxine Waters tell me all I want or need to know about him.

[Via Michael G]

A Gathering Storm

What a Second American Civil War Could Look Like [More]

This seems as plausible a bit of speculation as any...

Got resolve?

[Via SamAdams1776] 

A Right Delayed

SAF, ISRA FILE FED. LAWSUIT DEMANDING STATE POLICE STOP FOID CARD DELAY [More]

I know that there is an especially heightened need for personal defense in this time of widespread civil unrest, but in fairness, ISP has offered plenty of defensive alternatives like vomiting and rat tail combs...

Resolving Nothing

Madison County Board passes resolution warning residents of security on the Metrolink... [More]

I don't suppose they'd ...? Nah, forget it ...

[Via bondmen]

Well, They Say It Does Change Perception of Time...

The chief is a throwback to another time, actually arguing that marijuana leads to homicide. [More]

So by "another time" they mean since 2012...?

[Via bondmen]

Talk about Someone You Need a Gun Against

Police had to de-escalate a situation in Lansingburgh on Sunday as protesters briefly blocked the entrance to a church that was giving away an AR-15 rifle ... Another protester can then be heard off-camera making a threat to the church: "Your church is going up in flames tonight." [More]

What is it with violent gun-grabbers? That's a terrorist threat and he should have been identified and arrested.

[Via bondmen]

When Seconds Count

So if a 77 year-old is attacked with a knife right across the street from the Headquarters of most professional policing organization in Michigan and they were not able to interrupt the attack, then how can any thinking person deny that ordinary citizens (who are much farther away from the Michigan State Police Headquarters) need the means to protect themselves? [More]

He had to go and stick in that "thinking person" qualifier...

[Via Michael G]

The Man with the Plan

“First we get rid of the feds. Number 2, we contain and de-escalate the situation. Number 3, we clean up downtown. Number 4 we open up for business, that’s the plan,” Wheeler said. [More]

Why does that remind me of the Underpants Gnomes?

[Via Michael G]

Make the Right Choice

Received via email:

[More]

Yeah, but NRA did not ENDORSE him and also gives Marshall an A+.

And WTF?

• NumbersUSA/Kobach
• NumbersUSA Marshall

Why are there no numbers for Kobach this late in the game, especially for a candidate whose stances have subjected him to attacks of being an "extremist"?

Two other things work in his favor for me:

• The Swamp desperately wants Marshall.
• Marshall supported that miserable gun-grabbing traitor John Kasich.

[Via several of you]

The Horns of the Bull

Red Bull has just shown the way forward for all who want to prevent a total Marxist-style takeover of business and government in America. There is no appeasing these people, the only way forward is to fire them as quickly as possible, and with no mercy. [More]

I have never felt the need or had any interest in trying an "energy drink."  If I do, or if you do, I guess these guys deserve the business.

[Via Michael G]

The NRA Member Menace

Atlanta Mayor Blames Legal Gun owners For Rise In Shootings [More]

Well, yeah.  Otherwise, she'd have to admit her own culpability in creating the social conditions that make feral violence inevitable.

[Via Jess]

Where There's a Will There's a Way

Here in the UK, we can't have semi-auto firearms BUT - we can load our guns with as much ammo as we can (no magazine restrictions!). Therefore I believe this set-up offers the most fire power you can legally own here in the UK. [Watch]

That's ingenious as things go, and it reminds me of attempts in this country to bypass restrictions to come up with workarounds like "bullet buttons." Ultimately, though, accepting such restrictions and devising alternatives instead of defying infringements reminds me of an observation made years ago by good friend and patriot Brian Puckett in his classic "Why I Will Not Obey California's Gun Registration Edict":

I will certainly not do as the NRA Members Councils suggest on their internet site, which is to saw off the pistol grip of one's AR-style rifle to make it "legal". Understand this: in America it is already legal. I sometimes wonder whether the socialists will issue an edict requiring all firearms to have a pink ribbon tied to the barrel, just to get a belly laugh as the panicked descendants of once-proud American patriots scurry to comply.

[Via Matthew L]

We Can Do This the Easy Way or the Hard Way

If the government doesn't use its delegated powers to pursue the purposes for its existence identified in the Preamble, then it will fall back on those who will "not go gentle into that good night" to adopt "extra-Constitutional" tactics if they wish to survive.

[Via Agustin B]

Diminishing Options

Roy Den Hollander may have been hunting foes after cancer diagnosis [More]

There are all kinds of ways besides that to make someone feel like they have nothing to lose.

[Via several of you]

The Finest Persecution Money Can Buy

"St. Louis prosecutor Kim Gardner is engaged in a political prosecution. I entered the case seeking a dismissal," tweeted Schmitt.. [More]

I guess we'll see who has more resources.

[Via several of you]

Speaking of 'The 1619 Project'...

It’s far worse than I thought. In addition to the many links between the family that owns the New York Times and the Civil War’s Confederacy, new evidence shows that members of the extended family were slaveholders. [More]

Say, isn't "The Newsraper of Record" the one pointing a finger at the rest of us...?

[Via Jess]

A Matter of Trust

Massachusetts Bail Fund Freeing Defendants Facing Serious, Violent Charges [More]

So they can be trusted without a custodian...?

[Via Michael G]

Contingency Plan

GET OFF THE BENCH. Build skills and connect with others in your area to prepare for the worst-case scenario. [More]

I just found out about these folks and can't claim to know any more about them than what you can see by following the link. I do note the FAQ says they are not "like a militia."

My standard caveat-- if you involve yourself with people "in your area" you don't really know, remember that and act accordingly. I'd be interested to see what they teach about the CI/provocateur potentials and how to manage risks.

[Via Matthew L]

Trumpet for Guns Program Putting Kids at Risk

After all, the city filed a lawsuit against gun manufacturers in 1998 claiming guns that weren’t “child-proofed” were “unsafe.” Now, with the sanction of its top cop, the city is urging children to handle and transfer the very guns it sought detailed damages over. [More]

So it’s now a good idea for kids like this to handle guns as long as they can trade them in for a trumpet?

Takin' It to the Streets

Denver Police Stand Down as ‘Antifa’ Paramilitary Forces Attack Michelle Malkin and Peaceful Pro-Police Demonstrators [More]

Cowards.

And whatever "private security" she had was clearly not up to the task.

By the time things devolve into this, it's past time for a change in tactics.

Speaking of 'One Neighborhood at a Time'...

Rioters have broken out windows to a Downtown Starbucks and lit the inside on fire. [More]

Now where are non-customers going to poop?

[Via  An Hour of Wolves]

LIAR!

Ex-Gov. John Kasich slated to speak at the Democratic National Convention for Joe Biden [More]

So this guy:

.@JohnKasich was endorsed & given an "A" rating by the NRA for defending Ohioans' 2nd amendment rights. #GOPDebate pic.twitter.com/D4hp0tr0J8

— John Kasich (@JohnKasich) January 15, 2016

Is urging us to vote for this guy?

Gun manufacturers — if I’m elected I’m coming for you. #DemDebate

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) February 26, 2020

Talk about painful and embarrassing...

[Via Mack H]

We're the Only Ones Flushed Out Enough

...while working as on-duty officers, Rabago and Reginald Ramones conspired to force an individual to lick a urinal in a public bathroom. According to court documents, in a separate and unrelated incident ... Rabago made another individual place his head in a public bathroom toilet in order to avoid arrest. [More]

I'm starting to see why Hawaii doesn't want any armed citizens.

Fighting Words

Over the past two months, multiple conservative students at Syracuse University have been threatened with assault and murder. [More]

You don't report those to the chancellor-- you report those to the police. And you certainly don't black out any names of those making threats or otherwise make it hard for readers to contact the threat-makers.

Also, file a formal grievance. And sue them if they don't follow their own policy.

[Via Michael G]

A Democrat Dilemma

In primaries, who do they cheat for? [More]

[Via Michael G]

A War Zone in the Making

Agitators promoting Black Lives Matter blocked a major intersection in Lansing, Michigan, on Friday evening and pointed guns at a motorcyclist who tried to pass through. [More]

That ain't this.

That merits and requires an immediate forceful response. Anybody who thinks that would further inflame things is forgetting a more widespread alternative:

If the "Only Ones" are too gutless to stop it, citizens are going to start doing it on their own.

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones Posting Enough

The resolution, which was unanimously approved, ordered the Police Department to install a poster of at least 32 by 24 inches in each district station within 30 days. The poster must “prominently and exclusively” feature the phrase “Black lives matter” and it must be displayed in a place visible to station visitors. [More]

Here's the resolution. I note it doesn't mandate what language it has to be in...

[Via bondmen]

How About 'No'?

Kelly’s point in the Post op-ed is millions upon millions of those firearms are owned by working Americans, who will have to scrape together $200 per rifle in order to retain them. [More]

Or they could just, you know, continue with the new paradigm...

[Via bondmen]

UPDATE: I didn't see the original article the above is based on since WaPo is paywalled, but the Star Tribune has it. The writer is an über-collectivist, which is useful if we're talking about demotivating Democrat votes, but don't mistake her for anything but an enemy.

Only Themselves to Blame

She Vowed To Protect The 2A. Now’s She’s Hired A Veteran Gun Control Activist. [More]

More to the point, what kind of gun-owning idiots would believe and then vote for a Democrat who centers her pitch on hunting?

[Via bondmen]

Good Guy with a Gun

A fourth man, a passing motorist, shot and killed the gunman... [More]

Nice to see the perp listed in the "Gun Violence Archive."

[Via bondmen]

Point of Clarification

Violent crime in US cities surges in summer amid pandemic, protests: ‘perfect storm of distress’ [More]

U.S. Democrat cities...

[Via bondmen]

Jemele's Main 'Talents'

If you vote for Donald Trump, you are a racist. You have no wiggle room. [More]

She has a real knack for being stupid and offensive.

New York, New York, It's a Wonderful Town!

10 shot, one killed in bloody Saturday as NYC shootings skyrocket [More]

I wrote this the day before.

[Via Roger J]

UPDATE:

As Violent Crime in New York Soars, De Blasio Assigns 27 Cops to Protect ‘Black Lives Matter’ Mural

[Via bondmen]