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Saturday, December 26, 2020
Thursday, December 24, 2020
New AmmoLand Piece
https://www.ammoland.com/2020/12/atf-rules-capricious-arbitrary-political-and-stupid/ I'm having trouble figuring out how to use the Blogger publishing tool on my phone but the above link can be copied and pasted to take you to my latest article.
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
I'll Be (Away from) Home for Christmas
My wife and I will be spending Christmas away from home this year. That means The War on Guns blog is going to go silent until my return. I've turned off blog comments for the duration. Please don't send me any news tips before my return, because I just won't be able to do anything with them and it will be a wasted effort on your part.
I have two articles submitted and awaiting publication, one for AmmoLand and one for Firearms News. When they're published, I'll break my "no work when on vacation" rule and update this post/send out Facebook/Twitter notices, but that's probably the extent of what you'll see from me (and that's assuming I can figure out how to do it from my old pull-start phone).
We have earned some time off. That said, there is so much going on right now part of me hates to leave, but the truth is, there is always so much going on, and we'll no doubt be up to our necks in it when I return.
I hope that you have a wonderful Christmas or whatever. Far be it from me to want to offend anyone.
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
ATF Brace ‘Factors’ Feign ‘Understanding’ Backed Up by Future Threat
What we’re seeing is an emboldened ATF leadership ramping up those infringements in what looks for all the world like Acting Director Regina Lombardo auditioning for a permanent spot with the Harris administration (and yeah, that was intentional). Between the braces, colluding with Team Biden and the Polymer80 raid, breaking claims of another company raided over Form 1 suppressor build parts, they are signaling that they are ready, willing, and eager to do whatever it takes to facilitate the Democrat citizen disarmament agenda. [More]
We sure are a far cry from “shall not be infringed,” are we not?
Best Not to Say a Word
Time for a Biden-Inspired “Tragic Boating Accident” [More]
Why? Lying to the feds will get you in the slammer and on the "prohibited persons" list as fast as anything.
Be smart about who you do talk to.
Don't be that "low-hanging fruit."
[Via Michael G]
OK, and Then What?
Gun grab sparks 'Defund ATF' movement [More]
What good would that do with the "laws" still on the books?
[Via Michael G]
Suggested Comments
We need you to make your voice heard! [More]
I like John, but these corrupt bastards are under orders to dictate the terms of surrender and have no intention of being persuaded by reason.
[Via Mack H]
The Philosopher Kings
It's Not Like the Voters Have a Need to Know
Too Bad To Check: Did Warnock Stiff Georgia On Unemployment Taxes While Helming New Georgia Project? [More]
Funny. I can't find a word about this from the DSM. It probably wouldn't matter though to anyone who would vote for him in this post-Edwin Edwards era.
[Via Michael G]
Abridge Too Far
Ohio bans restrictive college free speech zones, enhances protections for student expression [More]
That any further addition to 1A is deemed needed confirms how far from the vision of the Founders "we" have strayed. Speaking of which, when is that little weasel DeWine going to act on "stand your ground"?
[Via Michael G]
The Voice of Reason
How Immigrants Make America Great Again (and Again and Again) [More]
I notice no one from Cato and Reason is interested in answering my challenge.
[Via bondmen]
We're the Only Ones Tax-Free Enough
Missouri lawmaker wants to eliminate state income tax for law enforcement [More]
So much for equal protection. Leave it to a dumbass "law and order Republican" to come up with an offensively stupid proposal like this instead of focusing on what was really designed to be "necessary to the security of a free State."
[Via bondmen]
Making Threats
Obscure neo-Nazi Satanist group Order of Nine Angles becomes latest domestic terror threat: CIA and FBI fear extremely violent group is making inroads among supremacists' [More]
This is what they use to smear all of us with.
I wonder how many are embeds, provocateurs, and CIs...?
Hey, you can't have a "Two Minutes Hate" without Emmanuel Goldstein.
[Via bondmen]
...That the Democrat Rolls Grew Three Sizes That Day
Merry Christmas, US Readers! Don’t Let Open Borders Fanatics Hijack Your Holiday [More]
Good thing this has nothing to do with that "single issue."
When Next We Meet
2021 NRA ANNUAL MEETINGS & EXHIBITS - GEORGE R. BROWN CONVENTION CENTER, HOUSTON, TX - SEPTEMBER 3-5, 2021 [More]
I wonder if there will be another last-minute "surprise." Then there's the reality of who runs the town.
That "reality" is everywhere though: What city has a large enough facility they can hold it in that is not run by oath-breakers and worse?
[Via Jess]
It Depends Upon What the Meaning of the Word 'Firearm' Is
Former ATF Agent Testifies AR Receivers Don't Meet Legal Definition [Watch]
We talked about this in February. Naturally, no one in power wants to admit the truth.
Here I thought a firearm was whatever ATF says is one -- especially if it's a machinegun.
Also see: ATF Solvent Trap Brace 80% Lowers And Walmart
[Via Jess]
Today's 'Stop the Steal' Aggregator
As always, this post will be updated throughout the day as new, non-repetitive links are received. As always, it's up to you if you find them credible.
- Barr undercuts Trump on election and Hunter Biden inquiries
- Smartmatic, Dominion to sue Powell and Wood?
- Did Trump indeed consider martial law as an option?
- The Immaculate Deception
The Way 'Progressive' Power Works
This kind of riot line and equipment deployment seemed to be utterly missing from riots caused by antifa and Black Lives Matter throughout 2020 in multiple cities across Oregon. Yet when the people of Oregon try to exercise their constitutional rights to watch in person as their representatives do the business of the people, however, an army of police came out. [More]
You're either helping to advance the agenda or you're going to get put down. What's so hard to understand about that?
[Via Michael G]
And There Was War in Heaven
Ilhan Omar slams lawmakers like AOC for ‘shameful’ COVID vaccination ... The Minnesota congresswoman has joined a growing number of lawmakers who have vowed not to take the miracle Pfizer drug out of concerns they are jumping the line. [More]
Delighted to see dissension in the ranks and I love it that these stupid commie b*****s can't wait to purge each other, but I do wonder if the real reason some "lawmakers" are delaying is to let others be the coal mine canaries...
No, no, you first, I insist...
And with that, it looks like this post will be today's Covid aggregator.
- "Relief bill" includes reincarnation of Dalai Lama
- Vaccine distribution must prioritize prisoners
- Newsom Hints at Longer Lockdown
- Rand Paul savages GOP colleagues who voted for relief bill
- COVID/Ommibus bill funds CDC “gun violence” research
Does This Mean We Get Virgins in Paradise?
CNN’s Brian Stelter Compares ISIS To Trump Supporters ‘Radicalized’ By The ‘Right-Wing Media Machine’ [More]
I was just thinking that exact thing the other day as I was sawing off a DSM reporter's head.
Monday, December 21, 2020
Speaking of Securing the Blessings of Liberty...
Firearms Safety Info from NSSF [More]
Funny-- I don't see them telling us to lock ammunition up separately.
They probably just don't know as much as Gungrabby Gabby or the MILMs.
[Via Mack H]
UPDATE: Looks like I didn't look things over closely enough and spoke too soon.No Agreement to Disagree
Maybe He Was Just Shooting to Wound?
ACLU Attorney Reportedly Fired Gun At Car His Kids Were In [More]
What is it about ACLU members and guns?
[Via Michael G]
New Chains for Old
Statue of Robert E. Lee removed from U.S. capitol overnight [More]
Now that Northam's appeased the cultural Marxists they ought to go away and leave us alone, right?
Aiming to Misbehave
Everything that lies ahead points to the irreconcilable – pitting the absolute majority that voted Dem in the Atlantic-Pacific nodes versus the South and a deeply divided Midwest. As much as Biden-Harris is bound to isolate the South even more, their prospects of “pacifying” the Midwest are less than zero. [More]
Especially when they come for the guns.
[Via bondmen]
Now Trending
We're the Only Ones Heightening Enough
NYPD tactics during George Floyd protests ‘heightened tensions’: DOI report [More]
A commie-sympathizing administration of power-hungry subversives vs. Liberty Lynchin' Patrick and his league of fascist self-servers: Sounds like the best is yet to come.
[Via bondmen]
Thank a 'Gun Rights Leader'!
Democrats Relying on Results of Mass Immigration to Flip Georgia Blue [More]
Good thing this has nothing to do with that "single issue." Otherwise, we'd rightfully expect those who say they're on "our side" to speak up.
And we'd expect gun owners who know better to demand it of them.
[Via Andy M]
Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise...
A Free Speech Judicial Triumph In The UK: "Freedom Only To Speak Inoffensively Is Not Worth Having." [More]
That this even makes it to the courts is a good indicator of how far gone that country is on the path to self-destruction.
Once More with Feeling
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) was the most influential newspaperman of his era and a prolific author of iconoclastic books and essays. This is reprinted from The Evening Sun of Baltimore, November 30, 1925. Copyright 1925 by The Evening Sun. [More]
A classic essay on the futility and predictable consequences of "gun control"...
[Via Michael G]
A Matter of Trust
Unclear on the Concept
It's a Big Club and You Ain't In It
Usually, three brushes with the law can invoke serious punishment. Not for Caroline Biden, 33, who is the niece of presumptive President-elect Joe Biden [More]As late TV pitchman Billy Mays used to say: But wait! There's more!
Biden’s car contained pill bottles for carisoprodol and lorazepam, both of which are controlled substances. A blood test later confirmed those and other drugs were in her system at the time of the crash.
The Not Ready for Primetime Players
That's quite the testimonial.
This could be you. By government order.
Meanwhile, over near Chi-Town:
Four employees experienced adverse reactions - including tingling and elevated heartrate - shortly after vaccination...
Humphrie the carni-pig still wants no part of it.
And they'd better pray none of the "disproportionately affected" die. Especially considering:
Every single US state is being advised to consider ethnic minorities as critical groups for vaccination with HALF prioritizing black and Hispanic residents over white.
It's fair to ask if "citizenship" will be a factor, considering who is footing the bill.
And, with this just in, it looks like I'm turning this post into today's Covid aggregator:
We're the Only Ones Justified Enough
Daniel Hernandez approached the officers with a knife, ignored commands to drop the knife, and was shot. He was shot twice, dropped to the ground, got up, and was then shot again four times. He partially dropped to the ground again after the third shot and was then shot for the fifth and sixth time as he staggered to the side. [More]
I'm not criticizing her shooting him. I'd have hoped to be able to do the same.
That's the point. If you or I obeyed the law in "May (Not) Issue" L.A., chances are we wouldn't have been able to.
[Via Michael G]
We're the Only Ones Compensated Enough
The HPD ‘Top 10 Earners’ list shows one police corporal bringing in $255K in just nine months of 2019—this would equal $341K for the full 12 months [More]
Anyone that highly paid must be qualified to tell you and me we can't have guns.
Hawaii Most Obedient State in USA
Life in the Igeocracy!
What paradise haven't control freak kleptocrats ruined?
No Need to Hide It Any Longer
DE BLASIO: "I'd like to say very bluntly: our mission is to redistribute wealth." [Watch]
I'd like to say very bluntly his mission is to enslave. If you think it through, there's really no other honest way to put it.
[Via An Hour of Wolves]
Today's Adventures in 'Stop the Steal'
This will be updated throughout the day as new, non-repetitive links are received. As always, evaluate entries for yourself based on how claims track with what can be proven.
- Trump Weighed Naming Powell as Special Counsel
- Martial law = Fake News
- Gen. Flynn: Clearly There Was Foreign Dominion Influence
- Ratcliffe to CBS News: there was foreign election interference
- WAIT 4 YEARS? NO WAY!
- Will GA Voting Machines Be Audited Before Data Erased?
- ‘Red Slime’ Lawsuit Could Sink Right-Wing Media
[Via Jess, An Hour of Wolves,
Once More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends
SAF LAWSUIT CHALLENGES CALIFORNIA’S ONE-GUN-PER-MONTH RESTRICTION [More]
It mentions "militia" only once -- when it quotes the Second Amendment. I'm wondering at what point an argument will revolve around core purpose.
Collaborators Discover the Enemy Does Not Respect Them
The Never Trumpers Are Already Sinking Without Their Favorite Target and Their Desperation Is a Joy [More]
Wake me when the commies have them standing in front of a lime pit.
Who Needs Causation When You've Got Correlation?
Donahue later, using a different methodology, found that right to carry laws “are associated with 13-15 percent higher aggregate violent crime rates ten years after adoption.” [More]
Unless he can prove that the increase was due to a corresponding uptick in previously non-"prohibited persons" going off the rails, I'd say this guy is an agenda-driven fraud.
The grabbers don't want "honest debate" because they know it would expose them for what they are. When they talk about the need for a "national conversation on guns," that means they do all the talking. and that it's limited to their lies, demands, name-calling, and death wishes.
No Relief in Sight?
New York City's outdoor dining patrons who needed to relieve themselves were left out in the cold briefly by a state policy that forbade them from using a restaurant's indoor bathroom. [More]
Can you imagine the mindset of some damn tax trough-feeding bureaucrat telling an adult human being they may NOT go to the bathroom?
I used to write policies, albeit for private industry. Someone demanded this, someone wrote it, someone reviewed it and someone approved it. Those someones ought to be staked out so those who object can do so in a punishment-fits-the-crime sort'a way.
Saturday, December 19, 2020
FDR’s ‘Second Bill of Rights’ and UN Declaration Show How ‘Progressives’ View You
Every time politicians presume to “improve” on the wisdom of the Founders, they screw everything up. [More]
It's not just amazing how many unthinking Americans think the government "gives" them their rights, it's also calculated, and has been for some time.
Friday, December 18, 2020
Low-Hanging Fruit Prepped for Slicing
6 suspects in alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer indicted by federal grand jury [More]
How come this report doesn't say anything about the BLM supporter and anti-Trump anarchists in their ranks?
[Via Mack H]
Banking on Disarmament
Why Not Take Up a Collection?
Collectible Weapons: How to Protect Your Wealth – and Your Family – With Valuable Guns [More]
I never caught the bug, myself. I'm more an "animating contest of freedom" kind'a guy, and while the hardware is crucial, it's the ideology that keeps me motivated.
That said, I admit to being an odd duck and that plenty of readers ought to get value from this piece.
I'll Tip My Hat to the New Constitution?
The identity policy mindset has become so pervasive—not only in the academy and media, but in government policy—that more and more thinkers and politicians see the United States as now having two rival constitutions: the official one framed in 1787, and an unofficial one of much more recent vintage—the identity politics constitution. [More]
So "the supreme Law of the Land" vs. a treasonous coup blueprint...?
And if I don't consent?
Interesting timing for me to get this. I have an AmmoLand article that will post soon on a "second bill of rights" that I give the same assessment of.
[Via Mack H]
Ginning Up the Mob
It is our hope that scholarly resistance will lay the groundwork for wide-scale resistance. [More]
But we're the insurrectionists and traitors...
[Via Mack H]
Tales Out of School
While many private schools have reopened completely or partially, some of the nation’s largest school districts are still closed. In Washington, D.C., the city’s teachers union rejected an agreement with the public school system to reopen campuses in November. In Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Topeka, San Diego and multiple other cities, districts put off their plans to reopen in mid-November and gave no set date for reopening. [More]
Why would The Daily Caller readers want to immerse their children back into that?
[Via Mack H]
Let 'em Fight It Out
Texas AG announces multistate lawsuit against Google [More]
Curious how the story ends with a smear job against the AG over bribery and adultery. I wonder if he did it, and if anyone in politics or globalist corporate "leadership" is clean.
[Via Michael G]
UPDATE: He's also going after Cheaper Than Dirt for price gouging. That was a constant complaint I was getting from readers when they were posting my stuff and I never knew how to answer them because all I was trying to do was get my stuff in front of a larger readership, had nothing to do with that end of things, and in fact, was placed there by an agent who sold my articles to them and then paid me. That said, I'm basically a supply and demand type. If people think you screwed them today, they're less inclined to give you business tomorrow when they have alternatives. That ought to be enough.[Via Jess]
It's a Small World After All
Hungary: "Europe's Borders Must be Protected" [More]
And give Ireland back to the Irish!
[Via Michael G]
Escape from New York
Fifty-four percent of registered voters pay no taxes in New York City, according to a new study by Liberty Tree of America. This means that taxpayers who paying the highest taxes in the nation have no effective voice in governance. This toxic structural bias against taxpayers has resulted in an outright revolt that will result in a calamity unless steps are taken immediately to restore taxpayer confidence. [More]
Yeah, the jackals are circling, emboldened rather than satiated by all the scraps of flesh that have been tossed to them by those exuding fear. They smell blood and they intend to bring their prey down, rip its throat out, and feast.
I'm sure they'll be as impressed by an "oversight board" that has a "true advocate" as they are by Marty.
What was it the Vulcans on the Intrepid felt?
[Via Michael G]
Just Give Them What They Want
Former Goldman CFO Calls For Universal Basic Income "To Stave Off Revolution" [More]
They're just working up their nerve.
They're going to eat you, Marty, you cowardly fool.
[Via bondmen]
Water's Getting Kind of Warm, Isn't It?
Yet, once he takes that oath, we should do everything in our power to make certain he serves out his term while opposing him ... You see, Kamala Harris is much more complicated than Joe but also much more dangerous. [More]
Nope. We're too far gone for that. This is existential.
We don't want it to be more tolerable. We want the frog to jump.
Let the Democrat schism widen. Let the tyranny reveal itself as more and more overtly draconian and widespread.
[Via bondmen]
You've Got to Give a Little, Take a Little
“They were dropping off packages that they had delivered and as they would see packages on other porches, they were going up and stealing them,” St. Charles County Police Chief Kurt Frisz said. [More]
So why not identify them so everyone can join in and let them know what @$$holes they think they are?
Show of hands: How many people think they're probably Republicans?
[Via bondmen]
Today's 'Stop the Steal' Assortment
This post will be updated throughout the day as new, non-repetitive links are received. It's up to you to evaluate entries for yourself based on how claims track with what can be proven.
- 'Arizona Certified Fraudulent Votes’ Data Scientists Claim
- ZUCKERBERG EXPOSED IN DARK MONEY SCHEME
- Former Kemp Staffer Helped Dominion Land $107M Contract
- Dominion CEO: Some Machines Can Connect to the Internet
- Joint Statement on Dominion-Linked Cybersecurity Attack
- GA to conduct statewide signature-match review
- 700k STOLEN VOTES, This Changes Everything
- Wood, Powell Call on Trump to Impound Voting Machines
What's Trending
[More]
Funny, I don't see pistol braces in the top five. We need to change that.Here's what is being "offered" for comment:
UPDATE: Here it is.And I don't know if it's just my local connection or if this is more widespread, but when I go to Regulations.gov to find it so I can comment, I'm getting error messages, which reminds me of what they did with bump stock comments. Since they "give" us until Jan. 4, it's on them to get things up and running now. If you have a direct link, please post it in "comments."
I'll be putting an AmmoLand piece together on this soon.
[Via Roger J]
Allan Wall Interview
COVID-19 In Mexico, The 2020 U.S. Election And The Mexican Voter Registration System [More]
If you're a regular reader here, I link to his stuff all the time.
Pascrell Demands Removing ‘Treasonous’ Republicans from Congress
To paraphrase Seinfeld’s Soup Nazi, if you’re a Republican who thinks the “official” election tallies stink, “No representation for you.” [More]
The maniac is creating an enemies list of the most heavily-armed freedom demanders on the planet.
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Once a Grabber
DeWine Doesn’t Want “Stand Your Ground” Without His Reforms [More]
Ever the "principled statesman"...
For the record, every time he has been on the ballot I have left that position blank.
[Via Michael G]
Better Check Joe's Expiration Date
Calls Begin for Kamala Harris to Have a ‘More Important Job’ Than ‘Just the Vice President’ [More]
What job would that be and who couldn't see that coming?
So do I call on Gomer of the Etrade Baby for this?
[Via Michael G]
We Have Met the Enemy and He is Evidently You and Me
Right-Wing Embrace Of Conspiracy Is 'Mass Radicalization,' Experts Warn [More]
Who doesn't recognize the narrative this is adding to?
Speaking of conspiracies and disinformation, wasn't Mary McCord the one pushing a Trump/Russia nexus?
[Via DDS]
The Mything Link
You probably know what was officially called “Project Gunrunner” as “Operation Fast and Furious.” Started under George W. Bush, this ATF policy audaciously grew under President Obama... [More]
I'm really getting tired of still correcting the record years later.
As a side note, this is the third Gunwalker post today.
A Fate Worse Than Death?
Key accomplice Hayat Boumeddiene, the so-called “Islamic State Princess,” was tried in absentia and given a 30-year jail sentence. Boumeddiene, the 26-year-old widow of one of the attackers, is believed to be hiding in Syria. [More]
At long last, justice for the victims! Could any punishment be worse than not being able to go to France?
[Via Michael G]
Green to Reds
If He Had Sons...
Barack Obama Praises Courageous Defund the Police Activists as Violent Crime Rates Rise [More]
So I take it Trevor Noah didn't "joke" about wiping them out?
[Via BP]
Brace Yourselves
ATF to Institute Rulemaking/Guidance Regarding Stabilizing Braces and Require Registration of Currently Owned Braces [More]
When they do, I'll ask everyone here to comment.
It's not a question of whether it will do any good at changing minds.
[Via Jess]
GOA has more.UPDATE -- The above cites have links to the unofficial draft. I don't know if there are any changes, but this is the official language that will be posted tomorrow:
[Via Roger J]
An Insider's Perspective
Jeez, we got done talking Fast and Furious. Who'da thunk this would be the very next news tip?
[Via Jess]
Project Conwalker
ATF blew it and taxpayer-funded guns vanished into Mexico. [More]
And we know about the two Kalashnikov pistols, but I am not recalling any evidence that the rest weren't paid for by "straw purchasers." Take a few minutes and read our report. This is the kind of stuff we were routinely putting out there and having ignored. Perhaps it will help explain the level of contempt I have for so many "real reporters" who either wouldn't touch the story or else dismissed it, twisted it, and lied about it to help shield the guilty.
As for the speculation that power-hungry Democrat control freaks (but I repeat myself) may be creating and exacerbating deadly problems to advance their agenda, yes, that is what they do. Why not release predators to terrorize the herd into demanding more controls that only "government" can provide?
[Via Mack H]