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Tinkling With Mike McCune

On a slope of loose rock the ground was so heavily littered with spent bullets that when a member of our group dragged his walking stick, the ground tinkled.

I picked up a silver-colored bullet 1½ inches long. If this was left by a hunter, he must have been looking for water buffalo.

"Authorized Journalist" Mike McCune doesn't know the difference between a shell casing and a spent bullet, nor apparently that that indicates where the shots were fired from, not where they hit. And Mike, I'd love to see you go after a water buffalo with what sounds like a varmint round.

Who better to have an absolutist opinion than the most ignorant among us? Sounds like a good reason to close a range to me.

Why not let the lunatics run the asylum? Look how well they're running The Hartford Courant.

Come on, Mike, 'fess up: it wasn't the ground that tinkled, it was you.

The tinklers are making this an expensive fight. Here's how you can help:
(Everyone)

...Donate today by check, payable to Save Blue Trail Range, Inc. and mail to the Treasurer, Buddy Niezgorski, 58 Walnut Lane, Wallingford, CT, 06492 or visit the website and hit the “Pay” button to direct you to a Paypal account for donations to this fund.

(Locals)

Write letters to the editor of all of your local newspapers supporting the Blue Trail Range...Call your radio and television stations supporting the Blue Trail Range.

[Via Jason A]

The Great Clearfield County Bean Can Bust

A Clearfield County man who gave undercover federal agents explicit instructions on how to make what he called “bean can grenades” has been arrested on weapons charges.

"Possible militia activity..."

I really have no idea what this is about, but do offer some hip shots:

There seems to be no shortage of informants and provocateurs. That's just a fact.

It appears safer to make examples out of people like these than to plant someone who wants to go home at the end of the day in one of these groups...plus, you still get the headlines and a handy demon to exploit.

[Via Carl S]

Servant Gets Written Warning

GCO has written the chief of the Glynn County Police Department, asking for this department to cease detaining people solely for open carrying. The letter was prompted by a GCO member being twice detained by GCPD for no reason other than the members’ open carrying.

My favorite line from the letter:

Officer Varnadoe volunteered his opinion that Mr. Belt did not "need" a gun, "because that is what you pay the police for."

Yo, Varnadoe: I hear they have some openings in New London, and it sounds like you'd fit right in.

Let's hope if satisfaction is not immediately received, along with a sincere apology, that GOC puts the Dickson solution into operation.

[Via Jeffersonian]

I Wish I Was in Dickson, Hooray! Hooray!

As a direct and proximate result of the foregoing, the Defendants have caused the Plaintiffs to suffer significant indignities, and other damages and have deprived the Plaintiffs of their rights and privileges as citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania...

Looks like the open carriers in Dickson are mad as hell and not gonna take it any more.

Going on the offense!

Excellent!

[Via Skullz]

200

The overhaul is intended to modernize a force that has grown over the decades from a small group of bodyguards and drivers into a 200-person operation that provides security at the State Capitol, at the governor’s private residence and at the executive mansion in Albany.

And this heroic figure wants to disarm you and me.

That all but the severely retarded can't see through the fraud baffles the hell out of me some times.

[Via Declan]

We're the Only Ones Apologized To Enough

Pickerington High School’s Scott Reeves apologized in front of 14 police officers after the Ohio Fraternal Order of Police organized a campaign against him for daring to vouch for the character of a man who mistook raiding cops for armed robbers during the raid.

And when "The Only Ones" demand an apology, smart citizens comply!

Why do I immediately think of this?

[Via Chris Horton]

We're the Only Ones Who Fail to See the Humor Enough

A British man who was so amused with BBC1’s "Have I Got News for You" that he fell off his couch in a fit of laughter was not so happy when it got him arrested and pepper sprayed.

That'll teach him to react to government programming with the response it was designed to elicit! Condition the rats to react to stimuli one way, and when it becomes automatic, switch reward to punishment--that's so deviously ingenious it's elegant!

The UK has created the perfect paradox, and have "The Only Ones" to make sure it's implemented.

Cryptic Subterranean has more.

[Via Plug Nickel Times]

A Commentary on the Times

Voice your support for Winnebago Co.'s CCW Resolution here!

On the one hand, it's for permits. On the other hand, what have they got now?

Do what you think is right.

[Via Less]

We're the Only Ones Dumb Enough

A Federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a man who was barred from the New London police force because he scored too high on an intelligence test.

Good grief. I am dumbfounded.

Perhaps if "The Only Ones" are too bright, they might start questioning things...?

[Via Cigar Rollers]

A New Kinda Cool

Two new directives signed by President Bush establish sweeping authority for federal executive departments and agencies to establish a coordinated "framework" to collect and retain biometric data on U.S. citizens identified as "known and suspected terrorists," without requiring public or congressional disclosure of the procedures.

That includes all you "Homegrown Terrorists" out there.

Hey, when did this start authorizing self-delegation of powers by the executive? Isn't that a bit like this?


Good thing this was done by our friend the "Vote Freedom First President." I'd shudder to think what Thulsa/The Lightworker could do with such self-appointed powers.

What was that statement that so horrified all us non-democrats when made by Paul Begala during the Clinton administration? Oh, yeah:

Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool.

[Via JT McAdams]

On the Avenue...First Avenue...

In April, the Toledo-based Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence testified against the bill. Executive Director Toby Hoover told us on Wednesday: "It's a message again that you can go ahead and use deadly force and I think that's the wrong message. That shouldn't be your first avenue."

Yeah. Toby would rather see this happen.

Here, Toby. You need one of these.

Maybe you could put your logo on them and sell them as a fundraiser.

On the One Hand...

Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting John McCain praised New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg during a visit to the Big Apple and hinted that Bloomberg could be considered as a possible running mate.

On the one hand, I've long been suspect of Newsmax as a credible source for anything, and "conservative" Richard Mellon Scaife changing his tune on Hillary was nothing short of bipolar.

On the other hand, McCain straddling both sides of the fence is nothing new.

I'm going to start referring to him as "The Award-Winning John McCain."

Oh, That Brother

...the Kenyan with American nationality...

That's pretty funny.

This Day in History: June 12

WHEREAS the infatuated multitudes, who have long suffered themselves to be conducted by certain well known Incendiaries and Traitors, in a fatal progression of crimes, against the constitutional authority of the state, have at length proceeded to avowed rebellion; and the good effects which were expected arise from the patience and lenity of the King's government, have been often frustated, and are now rendered hopeless, by the influence of the same evil counsels; it only remains for those who are entrusted with supreme rule, as well for the punishment of the guilty, as the protection of the well-affected, to prove they do not bear the sword in vain.

You would do well to read this and ask yourself what parallels can be drawn with contemporary attitudes...

Off for a While...

...back later. I may or may not blog again today.

Concise

Exclusive to David Codrea's War on Guns Blogspot
by Mike Vanderboegh
10 June 2008

(Author's note: David has recently taken me to task, not without reason, for being too long winded. Therefore, I have written the mini-essay below just for War on Guns.)

"Tell me," I was once asked, "What do you think about gun control? Give me the short answer." To which I replied, "If you try to take our firearms we will kill you."

The End

[Ouch! DC]

Yeah, Right

Can you imagine being suicidal and then saying "I'm not going to do this after all because I was checked out by local authorities instead of NICS"?

And, of course, the criminal population, surprisingly the one with fewer options and more stress and depression, bypasses the system completely.

Good grief--they couldn't even do a study for Milwaukee proper because "the city does not have a federally licensed gun shop." So naturally, the mayor is all for local checks.

This is just more smoke and mirrors aimed at eliminating private sales and establishing a database of gun owners. I don't have time this morning to dig deeper into it--maybe I can get back to this story soon--and hopefully, John Lott is preparing something to expose this as the agenda-driven foolishness it sounds like.

We're the Only Ones Winning Our Job Back

A Houston police supervisor fired in the fallout after roughly 30 guns went missing from the property room won his job back Tuesday, arguing he had little control over widespread security failures though top HPD officials knew about the problems and did nothing.

On the bright side, if they ended up in Mexico, the resultant photo op could give "Only Ones" on both sides of the border a wonderful opportunity to state their case for more federal grant money...

Following the Pesos

At least 80 percent of all of the weapons used by drug traffickers in Mexico to kill one another as well as police and soldiers come from the U.S., Mexican officials say. They've repeatedly asked the U.S. government for more help in stopping the flow of weapons from Texas and other border states into Mexico.

What are they gonna say?

On the one hand, the government is posting pictures of what they identify as M16s (as opposed to AR-15s)and grenade launchers--hardly stuff that is picked up as a straw purchase or through a "gun show loophole"...

See, if they tell us the stuff all comes from us, there's money in it for those "Mexican officials" and our alphabet agencies...reason enough to be suspect, particularly considering the rampant corruption among all concerned.

But yeah, of course stuff does cross the border--both ways. Some of us have been pointing that out. Mention the solution to that and watch governments on both sides of the border scream blue bloody murder and worse--racism.

That they even brought up the seizure of one "FN Herstal 5.7 mm pistol chambered to fire a bullet that can penetrate body armor" shows me this is pure hysteria designed to gin up a we must do something sentiment among the uninformed.

If we really wanted to secure the border, we could do it in a matter of days. That we haven't says there are too many powerful people making too much money at this con--they know they have to make it look like they're doing something, so they might as well kill two birds with one stone--we know both candidates are set on closing that "loophole," and we're really just another "mass shooting" or two away from giving a democrat majority the juice they need to get the assault weapon chupacabra breathing again.