Grassley asks Holder to expedite answers to Gunwalker questions

"Historically, the Justice Department generally takes five to eight months to respond to QFRs,” he acknowledged. “However, because of my ongoing investigation into the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), I would appreciate receiving responses to questions on this topic much sooner." [More]

This evening's Gun Rights Examiner column presents a letter with some great follow-up questions. I'm particularly happy to see Sen. Grassley asking about walked guns turning up at crime scenes on both sides of the border.

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GRE Round Up for May 18

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow Gun Rights Examiners:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• ATF Phoenix ‘Gunrunner’ shakeup as Lieberman backs long gun reports

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner honored by Coalition to Stop Gun Violence?

Change of Venue

Western Rifle Shooters Association has loaded up the truck and moved to some fancy new digs with a ce-ment pond.

Take your shoes off.

Set a spell.

Update your bookmarks and blogroll.

Y'all come back now, hear?

Three Times is Enemy Action

I've been getting quite a few emails lately from people who have corresponded with me occasionally before, that share something else in common--no subject line, no explanation of what it is about, and a link to God-knows-where.

I'd chalk it up to spoofing/hijacking of email and not take it personally, except many of them also have the edresses of other RKBA activists in the "To" field.  Sure, it could just be coincidental, but at that point, it is not unreasonable to suspect direction and intent aimed at ideology.

Any emails fitting this description will not be opened.  I suggest all of you apply the same filter.

Constitution-Free Zones

The school officials are arguing "that the First Amendment does not apply to elementary school students" ... [More]

See, it's not like we're teaching them to be free individuals with unalienable rights, as opposed to inmates who will do what we say...

Lieberman calls for more power for ATF while abetting ‘Gunwalker’ stonewalling

Still, if Sen. Lieberman is so concerned about semi-automatic rifles wending their way from U.S. gun shops to Mexican cartels, perhaps someone ought to ask him why he’s not demanding full and open hearings into “Project Gunrunner” allegations, and insisting on getting to the bottom of ATF management stonewalling accusations—before insisting on giving them yet more power over the very area where their own employees are saying they can’t be trusted.

Oh, someone has?  And some time ago? [More]

This morning's Gun Rights Examiner column  looks at the principle-devoid poltroon that is the senior senator from Connecticut.

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This Day in History: May 18

The cries of the distressed, of the fatherless and the Widows, come to me from all quarters. [More]

"You'd Think It Would Be a Slam Dunk, But..."

NRA PUSHES GUN CONTROL – JEOPARDIZES CONSTITUTIONAL CARRY [More]

Let the debates begin...


[Via Evan Nappen]


UPDATE: Zach in comments directs us to NRA's rebuttal.

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Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise...

They're terrified of girls. [Read]

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And Your Point Is?

This allows the individual to make his or her own eligibility determination...[More]

Yeah, how 'bout that?  How did you think it was supposed to work?


The fraud of the "pro-gun Democrat" continues.

Come to think of it, anybody see Baucus or Tester stepping up to the Gunwalker plate?


Don't expect them to, unless somebody stops with all the talking that gives him the illusion of being a media go-to guy leader on exposing the scandal and actually starts doing something...




My bad. I must have missed the memo where we decided it is about hunting.  Or as Wayne says when he takes the suit off, "Huntin'."

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UPDATE TO LAST NIGHT'S POST ON ATF GUNWALKER SUBPOENA RESPONSE DIRECTIVE

I have added the text of the directive. This is going to take some time to analyze and mull over, and may help shape questions to be asked and provide a roadmap for documents to be requested.

To read the directive, go here and scroll down to the 5/18 update. And share the link...?

BREAKING NEWS: ATF employees given directive for congressional inquiry/subpoena responses

One read of this could argue that Headquarters is trying to do the right thing, although a special directive to remind professional law enforcement employees that they must answer subpoenas completely and truthfully seems...curious.

Another read, especially in light of the news that top managers in ATF's Phoenix office have been replaced and key "Gunwalker" figures have been moved to Washington, points to all the wagons being circled, and to the extent they can be controlled, responding employees will have everything vetted by a legal damage control team answering to the very top. [More]

This evening's Gun Rights Examiner report confirms what flows downhill.

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GRE Round Up for May 17

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow Gun Rights Examiners:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Fed. judge’s ruling on concealed carry faces appeal 
• Issa: Gunrunner hearings will be held; ATF names new SAC in Phoenix

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• HB 294 would kick Mayor Bloomberg's 'sting operations' out of Missouri

We're the Only Ones T.J. Hooker Enough

Wait, I misread that...

BJ hooker... [Read]

We're the Only Ones Having It Our Way Enough

A Polk County deputy was suspended in April after an investigation found he demanded driver licenses from Burger King workers and called a police officer after the restaurant incorrectly filled his wife's order. [More]

Hey, at least it wasn't a McDonalds this time.

Or a Wendy's.

No doubt just a few bad apple turnovers.

True Lies

So The Sperminator can't be trusted.

Who knew?

Safer Streets

Here's John Longenecker's latest Newsletter and Commentary. [Read]

'Four star model of sensible gun laws’ does nothing to protect lives on campus

Here’s one other reality: The Brady Campaign, which would apparently rather see adults who can be trusted with a firearm elsewhere in society dead instead of armed on college properties, disparages Utah in a most intolerant way for allowing campus carry and enacting other "pro-gun" measures. [More]

This morning's [Last Thursday's] Gun Rights Examiner commentary notes four stars from the Brady Campaign have very little practical or "sensible" effect in a Gun Free Zone active shooter situation.

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Pod People...

...but the good kind...[Read]

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Will judge’s anti-concealed carry ruling lead to Catch-22 for CA gun owners?

In other words, “may issue” has been upheld, despite the clear proscription, applicable to the states, that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. And despite the documented cronyism and discrimination rife in California’s permit system. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report looks at yet another worthless "Republican" appointee who just did as much damage as any Democrat with a ruling that soon may mean all doors are closed to those who wish to bear arms (legally) in the Golden State.

Also tune in to two "Project Guntalker" interviews.

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