Notes from the Resistance...
Under Project Gunrunner — now frequently and sarcastically dubbed “Gunwalker” — and the Phoenix off-shoot, “Fast and Furious,” the ATF encouraged gun store owners to sell to straw buyers — consumers who they suspected of working on behalf of Mexican drug cartels...[More]I love seeing the "gunwalker" term used more and more in the media.
Titled "Good, Bad, and Ugly," the episode spoofs Sergio Leone's famous "spaghetti western" of a similar name, this time placing Attorney General Eric Holder with an executive order against the Second Amendment and a Mexican drug cartel gangster with a "walked" gun in the respective roles of "Ugly" and "Bad." [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes a movie parody of sort. The original had one of the most true movie lines of all time: "There are two kinds of men in the world: Those with guns and those who dig."
He says he has seen a memo from a top aide to Attorney General Eric Holder, approving a plan to sell guns to Mexican drug gangs, in the hope the sales would yield evidence of crimes in Mexico. [More]UPDATE: WLS has pulled the quote from the story on their website about Grassley claiming he saw the memo. Mike Vanderboegh advises the recording does not contain such a statement. I am leaving this post as originally written rather than pulling it down. Until this is cleared up, treat the original WLS claim as unfounded. I sent the link to this article to WLS reporter John Dempsey, saying "A clarification/for-the-record quote on why it said that would certainly be appreciated."
Since judges were typically handing out sentences of less than a year for straw purchasers and just over a year for providing false information on a firearms application – the most common charges brought against gun traffickers – U.S. attorneys said that it wasn't worth their time to prosecute cases with only one or two charges against the defendant. The attorneys told ATF that if they wanted a gun-trafficking case prosecuted, the defendant needed a minimum of 10 to 20 separate offenses against him and there needed to be a tie between a gun the defendant had purchased and at least one violent crime. [More]
Diaz, who has been linked with Matt Dillon, Justin Timberlake and now Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, has pretty specific ideas on what makes a relationship work. [More]No doubt. After all, she's evidently had so many.
The NRA "misstates" that [the "shall issue" ] bill has the additional benefit of eliminating Wisconsin's 1,000 ft. School Zone nonsense. Both bills bring it down to just the school property. (See the last sentence of page 2 onto page 3 of the Constitutional Carry legislative bureau's summary.)See:
These are two cases that illustrate how “gun control” can affect all of us, even those trying to abide by the law, and they’re the springboards for my latest GUNS Magazine “Rights Watch” column, now posted on the magazine’s website. [Read]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column illustrates why we should view something that affects one of us as something that affects all of us.
Then, on May 6, 1779, terror struck Sillimans family while they slept. Eight Tories broke into their home and ordered Silliman and his son William to come with them. [More]
Do you believe an Unorganized Militia presence is essential to effective early disaster preparedness and disaster management? [Read]
A man left bloodied by Denver police officers two years ago after a routine traffic stop was given a $795,000 settlement by the City Council on Monday. [More]Yeah...routine...along with "lying on reports concerning other violent incidents..."
Sources tell KDKA Investigator Marty Griffin eight prison guards who’ve been suspended from Western Penitentiary made up a secret vigilante group that dished out their own form of justice on convicted sex offenders. [More]I guess the concept of committing sex offenses on sex offenders didn't strike them as...ironic?
The 84-count indictment includes 11 other defendants, including Columbus Mayor Eddie Espinoza, 51 and former Columbus Police Chief Angelo Vega, 40, who are accused of running firearms into Mexico. [More]If only we banned "assault weapons" and closed the "gun show loophole"...that, and made sure government officials were the "only ones"...
A Jackson County grand jury has indicted a Kansas City, Kan., police officer with three felonies for allegedly shooting a bouncer at a Kansas City club while intoxicated in March. [More]See, that's why you and I can't be trusted to carry concealed while taking our families out to dinner at Applebees.
