Firearms Friday Redux

Here's my segment on this morning's broadcast of The Michael Dukes Show for anyone who missed it live and wants to hear what we talked about:

Monopoly

Washington, D.C.’s only federally licensed gun dealer Charles Sykes is no longer accepting firearms for transfers, meaning residents can’t legally buy new handguns in D.C., he told the Daily Caller Thursday. [More]

That's one way to do it.

I forget how this situation arose-- is he just the only one because no one else wanted to get in the business, or is there some kind of ordinance naming him the official dispenser of rights?

In any case, it'll be a relief to see headlines like this go away for a while.

What?

[Via Jim Simpson for Congress]

Above His Pay Grade

Tennessee Governor lacks authority to regulate firearms during an emergency [More]

Well, there's gotta be somebody around here who can overrule our God-given rights...

[Via Felix B]

The Worst Kind of Racism

What kind of deplorable haters would say bad things about the ChiComs? [More]

[Via Michael G]

Turnabout is Now Foul Play?

Schiff claims 'immunity' in bid to keep impeachment phone subpoenas secret [More]

So that door doesn't swing both ways?

[Via Michael G]

Youth Must Be Served

Trending: Out-of-control teenagers coughing on grocery store produce [More]

They're changing the world! Sign 'em up!

[Via Mack H]

It Depends Upon What the Meaning of the Word 'Constitutional' Is

Idaho One Step From Full Constitutional Carry! [More]

So no more "gun-free zones"?

[Via Dave Licht]

Ultimate Insider Trading

Senators sold off their stocks ahead of coronavirus economic crash [More]

$6M for DiFi?  But she didn't know anything about it, right?

It's a big club and you ain't in it.

[Via Mack H]

The Cost of 'Cheap Labor'

Most of their answers had to do with demographics and aging, with Italy having a much larger proportion of senior citizens than other countries. None of them, however, made mention of the tens of thousands of Chinese laborers working in clothing plants in northern Italy, where their COVID-19 outbreak was first detected in February. [More]

So there is a price.  Just not one reflected on the tag or paid by the profiteers.

[Via Michael G]

Shining a Light

One professor expressed concern that "right wing sites" could expose what is being taught in college courses. [More]

So much for "Democracy dies in darkness."

[Via Michael G]

Looks Like It's Gonna Be a Long, Hot Summer

Are You Ready To Have Your Civil Liberties Severely Restricted? Because That's Where This Is Headed... [More]

I'm waiting for the first shooting of someone who won't obey lockdown orders by authorities in an urban area.

That and for the concertina wire to go up around all those under-bridge homeless settlements...

[Via bondmen]

Desperado, Why Don't You Come to Your Senses?

In 1981, he pleaded guilty to kidnapping and was sentenced to five years’ probation. It’s unclear what has happened to him since. [More]

He must have ended up not needing a custodian. Either that or he did but got away with all kinds of stuff that will never be traced back to him.

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones Vaginal Enough

St. Louis County Police promotes first woman to lead the department [More]

If that doesn't fix everything, nothing they do will.

[Via bondmen]

The Obvious Solution

‘Violence-Free Zone’ signs to fight St. Louis gun violence [More]

Is Shirley Washington really that stupid, or just her viewers?

Fox2Now truly lives up to the "News you can wipe with" slogan.

[Via bondmen]

By Hook or By Crook

Cities Run By Liberals Shut Down Gun Sales Using The Coronavirus Pandemic As An Excuse [More]

A-yup.

[Via bondmen]

The Voice of Moderation

"If the legislature and the governor, before they go home this week, if they don't change the statute to allow for an all-mail election system for the primary and the general election this year, they should be shot." [Watch]

So this guy is "one of the last moderates"? Can you imagine the howls for his head if someone along the lines of a Tucker Carlson said that?

At first, I thought he said "all-male," and wanted to see what Mr. Benny had to say...

[Via Tristan M]

A Simple Solution

Syracuse U. race protesters will continue sit-in despite evacuation of campus [More]

So charge them with trespassing. And with resisting arrest if they still don't go.

They're there to learn about real adult life, aren't they?

[Via Michael G]

Blinding Us with Science

“One thing is clear, those who kept insisting that the ‘white lab coat guys’ be in charge of this health emergency should all shut up once and for all.  It is in the job description of bureaucrat scientists at the Food and Drug Administration that they be risk averse, and this very aversion is an obstacle to taking every step to avert a disaster that these very public health experts claim may kill more than a million Americans. [More]

OK, but will those taking novel pharmaceuticals end up with a Thalidomide surprise?

"Conservative HQ" is talking Chloroquine. "Not so fast," CD Tavares advises.

At this point, anyone who claims to understand risks for either "side" is talking out of their ... ear.

Let's ask Valeria.

[Via Mack H]

One of the More Sinister Sights

[Watch]

I won't lose any sleep if this effete Limey [Aussie] son of a bitch ends up sodomized to death by "refugees."

As for "first-time buyers," if I were an FFL and could determine they voted for gun-grabbers, I'd tell them to get the hell out of my store.

[Via Jess]

Hope for the Future

[Watch]

Well-researched and well-presented...

It's nice to know not all young people have been brainwashed into ceding their birthrights.

It's incumbent on us to encourage more to step forward and to start assuming leadership roles among their peers. That means it's up to you to offer this remarkable young man a word of encouragement and to back those words up by helping him spread his message far and wide.

Consider that today's "Five Minute Activism" project.

A Sense of Entitlement

Drivers Protest Outside Uber Offices, Demand COVID-19 Sick Leave And Relief For Gig Workers Under CA Law [More]

If the people who pay for the rides want to foot the bill, fine.

If they don't, I guess somebody's gotta make some decisions about what they have invested in themselves to be marketable.

Or they would if it wasn't easier to pressure politicians into mandating something and destroying things in the process.

[Via Steve T] 

An Opposite Day 'Progressive' Forward-Thinking Solution

Regress! [More]

Well Wad'ya Know? Ignorance Really IS Strength

Fear Makes Power [More]

And ignorance makes fear.

[Via Mack H]

If You Expect to Rate as a Gentleman You Will Not Expectorate on the Staff

Arrest as man 'deliberately coughs on shop workers and claims to have coronavirus' [More]

Who would actually feel bad if this story ended with the clerks beating this piece of crap to death?

Firearms Friday

I'll be joining Michael Dukes again this morning at 10:24 Eastern to talk about the current gun events I've been covering and whatever else he wants to bring up.

You can find a local radio station in Alaska or listen via live stream on the show's website.

I always have fun talking to this guy.  I hope people have fun listening.