Firearms in commerce hearing to examine BATFE practices

I just received the following by email from a Senate press secretary who chooses not to be identified for attribution...[More]

This development warranted a follow-up to today's earlier Gun Rights Examiner column.

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A Lever Long Enough

"Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I will move the world." -Archimedes 230 BC.

Got a place to stand? [More]

That's One Way to Break Up a Crowd

Long Island Man Arrested For Defending Home With AK-47
Says Many Gang Members Were Coming After His Family [More]

A gazillion of you sent me this link. I was going to base today's Gun Rights Examiner column on this but then ran into the Firearms in Commerce Hearings story.

Maybe tomorrow...

Meanwhile, go read what Liberty Belles has to say.

We're the Only Ones Denying Enough

When we last visited Ramsey County, Minnesota Sheriff Bob Fletcher, he was left trying to explain just why his handgun carry permit denial rate was so much higher than any other county in Minnesota, and exactly why the data that his own office reported to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency required by law to collect such numbers once a year from each of the 87 counties in Minnesota) appeared to provide direct evidence that someone in Fletcher's office was trying to hide an even higher denial rate from the BCA as well as the public at large. [More]

Why?

Oh, that's easy. Because he can. If he couldn't, he wouldn't.

This investigative report from Northern Muckraker is the kind of stuff you'll never see coming out of blogger-disparaging "Authorized Journalists."

Fox Guarding Hen House: "All is Well."

Nothing to see here. [Read]

Hey, if you can't trust the government, who can you trust?

[Via Harvey]

All Good Things...

...must come to an end. [Read]

No worries--it looks like his replacement [?] will be just as evil and a whole lot smarter.

[Via Mama Liberty]

Senate committee to hold firearms in commerce hearings-why is information so scarce?

"The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing entitled 'Firearms in Commerce: Assessing the Need for Reform in the Federal Regulatory Process' for Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building," the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary website informs us. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column asks what's it all about. I wish I could say it's unbelievable how getting a straight answer out of some people is like pulling teeth, but I would actually expect nothing less than what is chronicled here.

Also put on your politically incorrect T-shirts and join us today on Trigger Sports LIVE!

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This Day in History: September 8

September 8, 1778 at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts - On September 8, a British raiding force attacked the island of Martha's Vineyard. They destroyed several vessels and seized a large number of sheep and oxen for the British army. Conclusion: British Victory [More]

GRE Round Up for September 7

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:
Disarming heroes and shooting cops in self-defense

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
Why is the left hostile to America?

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Is this what Washington Post calls "sensible" gun regulation?

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:
Legal self-defense in Chicago: the poor need not apply

School's anti-gun bigotry is what's offensive

It reminds me of nothing so much as a paraphrasing of the Mr. Mackey character from South Park: "Guns are bad, mmkay?" And those other ridiculous cartoon characters in San Francisco who would also eradicate the mere image of guns from the public consciousness... [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column finds perverse rules of the narrow-minded a lot more offensive than any slogan.

Also get an update on an unarmed war vet and an unshouldered "Only One."

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A Vegetative State

“I don’t want to see guns,” said Zsuzsanna Legradi, a 42-year-old gardener. “No one should have guns. It is bad enough that people have knives.” [More]

Or shovels, rakes and weeders, you f-ing idiot.

"Staying Safe" in the City of Brotherly Love

Many Asian students who walk into South Philadelphia High on Tuesday morning will be carrying something besides books.

In pockets and purses, they'll tote a pamphlet called "Staying Safe." [More]

So, like, are they supposed to make a Millwall brick with it or what?

Gee, what's this hostility against Asians by the race card players about? But what do I know--being a "right wing extremist" automatically makes me the hatriot here.

[Via Brian F]

The Restroom Horror

Nothing was found in Tennessee Tech’s Johnson Hall Tuesday afternoon after the building was put on lock down and later evacuated when someone reported having seen a person with bullets in one of the building’s bathrooms. [More]

How easy it is to shut everything down. At least, thank goodness, no canisters were involved.

Maybe it was just a fashion statement...?

And why does a GFW sound like a liberal arts degree?

[Via Carl S]

A Message for Kevin

Stop being an @$$hole. If that's possible for you.

I have an elderly relative whose home was broken into. I can tell you first-hand the sense of violation and lingering fear that put into this sweet soul generates an anger in those of us inclined to be protective that you do not ever want to encounter.

Trust me on that one.

[Via Carl S]

The Wrong Victim

Naturally, the "Authorized Journalists" focus on the "cop" part. [Read]

Seeing as how that choice is available in FL to non-"Only Ones" (albeit permitted ones), I'd prefer to focus on the "armed citizen" aspect.

[Via William T]

That's ONE Perspective...

"People in Arizona carry guns," said Detective David Ramer, a Chandler police spokesman. "You better be careful about who you are picking on." [More]

I'd actually recommend not picking on anyone, but I'm coming from a different worldview...

[Via Tom S]

How Dare You Exercise Your Rights...

...without OUR permission! [Read]

Having worked in a job where I had to deal with city bureaucracies for permits, I've seen first-hand where the petty tyranny and corruption leading up to Lord Acton's truism begins. Mean little people, with no personal success but power over others who are out there achieving...

There was always left a trace of 1930s Germany in the air of those offices.

It's either a testament to American tolerance that more sneering, bullying martinets aren't dragged over the counter and onto the streets, or an indictment on how far we've allowed ourselves to be abused.

[Via Darrel W]

No, I Don't Mind

From Kerodin, via email:

Hi David,

I hope you don’t mind, I wrote on your Only Ones concept today...

You can read what he wrote here.

For the record: Of course I don't mind. It makes me happy every time I see the term used--it's what I'd hoped for, and if it can spread far and wide, I'll be delighted.

Besides, it's not my concept. I just borrowed it.

Lee Paige gets all the credit.

So Kerodin might want to ask him if he minds...:)

We're the Only Ones Unexplained Enough

"All of the agents on the stand were confused. Nobody knew what the law was," Pierson said. "How could they hold this man to that higher standard and convict him of a felony when they couldn't explain the law?" [More]

Now if we could just apply this rationale to everyone, and not just "Only Ones"...

This Day in History: September 7

On September 7, 1778, Blackfish's force arrived outside Boonesborough. Boone counted 444 Native Americans and 12 white men. The former were mostly Shawnees, with a number of Cherokees, Wyandots, Miamis, Delawares, and Mingos. The latter were French-Canadian militiamen from Detroit, former French subjects now fighting on behalf of the British Crown. Although this was the largest force yet sent against the Kentucky settlements, taking a fortified position like Boonesborough would still be difficult without artillery to reduce the stronghold. [More]