Credit Where Due

Oh no, this gentleman informed me (and I didn’t get his name, sorry, he split while I was fussing with my computer). Chris Cox had been on top of the situation for a year before David and Mike jumped in and used the information Cox had gathered to write their posts. [More]

It's all true.  I plagiarized everything I've ever written on Gunwalker from NRA--particularly most of the stuff appearing here. And Mike is sorry for that "weinermobile" crack.

Can they ever forgive us?

So When Will the Hilarity Ensue?

This snarky Bookman character isn't as witty as he thinks he is. [Read]

I'd like to see him use his smug sense of relevance to the debate on someone willing to slap his cheek or worse, that is, someone who initiates force as a matter of self-interest and without giving it one second of moral evaluation.  Such creatures do exist, you know.  All over the damn place.

I doubt it would be an NRA member, but possibly hilarity would ensue. Or maybe not.

This Day in History: April 16

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No charges filed in Fast and Furious suspect’s drug and gun bust

Left unsaid about that is why no charges were filed, albeit the Fox report acknowledges a motive advanced by “critics...[More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report provides further corroboration, not only for yesterday's column, but for a motive advanced by those shining a light and disparaged by those trying to keep us in the dark.

Project GunTALKER

I'll be joining Mark Walters on Armed American Radio tonight at 9:30 Eastern to talk about the latest Gunwalker revelations.

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Vanderboegh Medical Update

This time he called me. That's a good sign.

He understandably sounds weak but says he's doing a little better than yesterday although it's "premature" to guess when he'll be able to get released from the hospital. He said he may post something later today.  I cautioned him against overtaxing himself, but acknowledged having the motivation to reengage may be the best medicine.

I still ask you to hold off on emails and Sipsey Street comments that he will feel compelled to address.  I've told him about the well-wishes and prayers, and he's very gratified.

Vanderboegh Medical Update

I finally got through to Mike a few minutes ago, after earlier calls to his phone, his wife's and the hospital room went unanswered and left me worried.

His response to my asking how he is:

I've been better. They haven't killed me yet.

He was tired but alert. I filled him in on some of what's been going on and passed along well-wishes that many of you, his friends, have asked me to share with him.

All in all, happy news.

‘Gunwalker’ suspect arrested for cocaine month before ATF released him

Now, Gun Rights Examiner has obtained a copy of the April 2 Phoenix Police Department arrest reports for Celis-Acosta and his alleged accomplices from a source who has provided corroborated documents in the past. Of note: A handgun was seen being thrown out of the suspects’ car before police arrested them, Celis-Acosta was “arrested for possession of narcotics, Class Four felony” for a substance that “field tested positive to cocaine,” and arresting officers reported finding “multiple shell casings on the passenger seat and the floorboard on the driver side and passenger side.” [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report wonders just what the heck a gunwalker has to do to stay arrested.  Besides have his federal handlers get caught.

Stand Your Ground

What we’re seeing in terms of strategy on the part of doctrinaire anti-gunners is nothing new. They’ve always exploited anecdotal tragedies to whip up emotions, and then used that to go after our rights. [More]

My latest GUNS Magazine "Rights Watch column is now online. It was submitted for print publication on April 1, thus the reference that "Zimmerman...at this writing has been charged with no crime."

Now That's Funny

I laughed. [Read]

'Stand your ground’ laws must be applied equally for all

Still, morally, are we dealing with the same circumstances and different outcomes?  [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column advocates for the radical concept of equal justice.

The Lie Behind the ATT

Paul Gallant, Alan Chwick, & Joanne D. Eisen continue with their great series of exposés on the global gun grab. [Read]

We're the Only Ones with a Firm Grasp of the Situation Enough

Good grief. [More]

The most telling part:

They had plenty of opportunities over the course of many years to do something about it and they refused to...

Yet they still released him on an unsuspecting public.

[Via more of you than I can shake a...uh...stick at]

There's an App for That

And they say there are no stupid questions. [Read]

Which, naturally, means there's a federally-funded "answer."

[Via Chris C]

NBC Would Misrepresent on Guns?

Say it ain't so! [More]

We've come to rely on them so.

Besides, what incentive would "experts" have...?

Where Angels Fear to Tread

The HSI Special Response Team serves warrants and apprehends international criminals considered too dangerous for other law enforcement to go up against. [More]

Yeah, like deadly Minnesota hackers.

And ferocious California counterfeit software traffickers and embezzling technology company CEOs!

Watch out--this one's got a shotgun! Whew, that was close.

Just remember: They intend to go home at the end of their shift, and yes, whatever they do to get there will fall under approved department protocol.

You wouldn't be one of those rightwing extremists who have a problem with that, would you?

[Via Plug Nickel Times]

Stop the Threat

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Calderon Misfires

Kopel does a pretty good job here with what's on top of the table. [Read]

Me, I still think if the cartels wanted the guy dead, he'd be dead. Meaning no way do I believe his hands are clean.

What New York Needs

It ain't a microstamping law. [Read]

Those "Authorized Journalist" Fourth Estate Fifth Columnists get more shrill by the day.

The New Scarlet Letter

A regressive propagandist is trying to tag Matthew Bracken with the "R-word." [Read]

We had this conversation here almost four years ago. Why this is being resurrected now is interesting, and I suppose we can expect to see that brush used to tar those of us who have enjoyed and endorsed Matt's work.

It's a curious double standard. For instance, in a prior award-nominated work of disaster fiction (one the "liberal press" deemed "wildly entertaining" and "a work in the grand tradition") the subject of cannibalism practiced by some of the characters did not result in such accusations. Gee, I wonder why.

Anyway, prepare yourself for some opportunistic feigned indignation and name-calling. As I told Matt when he called the pending article to my attention:

Looks to me like you're handling it just fine--the guy has an obvious agenda to tear you down in front of his progressive echo chamber--and I doubt it will sell any books--so your only incentive to play is to get your words in, which his fanboys will ignore. But if you do decide to do a Q&A, the one thing I would make loud and clear is that it would be cowardly and racist to avoid the issues you raise--kind of like when Hollywood changed Tom Clancy's Arab terrorists to neo-Nazis in "The Sum of All Fears"--political correctness is a form of tyranny, and is racist on its face--you won't play that game. If he thinks it is improbable for people of any race to devolve into unspeakably brutal practices when their daily survival is at stake, it's up to him to substantiate that loopy conclusion--and urban areas will be the ones where high demand competition for resources will quickly separate the sheep from the wolves--and a gang predator hierarchy already exists there, so guess who's going to dominate, and guess how important a role moral constraints will play in their conduct?

I'll say this much more: I've been communicating with Matthew Bracken for years, and in all that time he has never uttered a remotely racist sentiment--not a name, not an observation, not a joke...and I do not maintain relationships with anyone who does.  Everybody I know and like treats others based on what their actions as individuals merit.

It's not people like us trying to disarm and further restrict the rights of the minority community, or using that as an excuse to disarm everyone else.  It's the ones pointing their fingers.