Monday, June 11, 2012

Sunday's Armed American Radio Program

Last night turned into an impromptu Round Table.  Host Mark Walters was joined in studio by attorney John Monroe of Georgia Carry and on the phone by George Hill (The Mad Ogre), and producer Sean Young. I came in at 8:30 and stayed on for two-and-a-half more hours, and in that time we were joined by Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America who had just gotten back from helping the shovel  brigade in Tombstone.

I haven't had time to listen to the podcast but I have the nagging feeling that I slipped up when I meant to refer to Atticus Finch when talking about shooting a mad dog and may have called his last name Stevens.  I don't know why I would have made that mistake, but I am getting old.  Maybe I didn't.  Who cares?

Listen at your leisure/play in the background while you surf and share with your friends:

CBS scoops contempt vote, claims credit for nationally breaking Fast and Furious

Regardless, here's the exhaustively-documented truth: This story, that now reaches into the highest levels of government, was exposed nationally for the first time by new media, not old. [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes acknowledgement involves a lot more more than simply proper attribution.

Registration-Bound

These are absolute, bald-faced lies. ATF has been copying FFL Bound Books for years – with or without FFL permission. During annual compliance inspections in other states, FFL dealers have reported that ATF industry operations investigators (IOI) brought in digital cameras and photographed the entire dealer “Bound Book” without permission of the FFL holder. Other dealers reported investigators brought in digital scanners and scanned portions of the Bound Book – line by line. Of course, the Bound Book contains the dealer’s full record of lawful firearm sales transaction records. [More] 
If it's not isolated and discontinued, as we've been led to believe, who can help amass documentation to see how widespread and long of a practice this has been/is?

Has a congressman just been lied to? Anyone willing to come forward and help prove it, or  is the specter of retaliation enough to keep this discussion confined to "gun blogs,"  the only ones with the incentive to press forward on a story like this, that is, with principled interest?

Just One Question


What do you think she'd be prepared to do about it if someone disobeyed?

Community Hero

Meet Alan Rosenfeld. [Read]

No wonder government and public sector unions want to raise taxes so you pay your "fair share."  And if you don't like it, you're a teabagger, you teabagger.

Man Visited by Armed EPA Agents...

...and doesn't that just say it all? [Read]

The Root of the Problem

Each year, across the country, about 7,000 African Americans are murdered, more than nine times out of 10 by other African Americans. [More]
Dang.

You know what would fix that?

Marching on gun shops!

We're the Only Ones Who Know What's Good Enough

“(Russellville Police Chief Tom McMillen) stated that having one in your car’s probably good enough and you could get to it if you have to”... [More]
Y'know, I can conjure up a thought experiment where ol' elitist Chiefie here can show us by example how that wold work. Without going into further detail, it includes force initiators screaming "IS THIS GOOD ENOUGH???"

Oh, look: His mission is all about "securing a feeling of security and safety."  No wonder bleaters who make that their priority would trust it to this authoritarian meathead.

Two Approaches, One Solution

He taught them responsibility. [More]
As opposed to the shrieking avoidance and blue-nosed, self-righteous prohibition, which is the purview of the antis.

Securing the Blessings of Liberty: Environmentalcase Bureaucrat-Style

The owl is a threatened species, and until a few days ago its presence in fire-scorched Miller Canyon was a matter of speculation. [More]
So why is my first thought lynx hair...?

Who Decides?

"The Latino community in Colorado can ultimately determine who ends up being the next president of the United States," he told KBNO's listeners. [More]
And the usual suspects, Democrats, SEIU, et al, are exploiting that for all it's worth.

I don't suppose circulating these would be an option...?


Let me know if relying on Google Translate was a mistake--I can do a quick turnaround text change if need be.

This Day in History: June 11

The enemy, by attempting to hold conquests so remote, must dissipate their force, and of course afford opportunities of striking one or the other extremity. [More]

Sunday, June 10, 2012

ATF whistleblower site members not buying Holder’s ‘Fast and Furious’ testimony

“This man needs to be impeached, prosecuted here in the states then handed over to the sovereign nation of Mexico for terrorist crimes against the Mexican people who died because of his failed attempt to push more gun control,” he concluded. [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes more dissension in the ranks.

Saturday, June 09, 2012

TV panel analyzes home defense incident and anti-gun hypocrisy

Two topics were selected for discussion, the first being a case of armed home defense and the second being the hypocrisy of anti-gun politicians and other elites who nonetheless enjoy armed protection themselves. [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column hopes you can find 20 minutes to sit back and enjoy the show.

Friday, June 08, 2012

Holder testimony belies early and continued citizen journalist reports

In order to buy into that, one must also believe that the head of the United States Department of Justice, with the virtually unlimited resources of the federal apparatus at his disposal, knew less than two relatively obscure, home-based bloggers in Alabama and Ohio, who had uncovered and amassed quite a bit of documentation, and obtained significantly wider recognition of those efforts by the time Holder claims, under oath, he got his first inkling. [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes contradictions can be identified if one knows where to look--and wants to. At this point, they've been dared to do something about it. If investigators don't press forward with consequences it will be because they don't want to.

A Durham Democrat

Sen. Floyd McKissick, a Durham Democrat, had a similar concern. “We keep going down a path and I don’t know where it ends,” he said. “We continue to allow guns in more and more places.” [More] 
In other words he's just another race cardshark who thinks photo IDs discriminate against black voters but evidently not against black gun owners? And he thinks his function is to "allow"?

Feel free to let this freedom-hating gasbag know your concerns.

"The Gun Went Off"

"He wasn't driving down the road in a passenger vehicle. He wasn't on a road at all. He was in their yard when the tractor rolled over on him and killed him," the lawyer said. [More]
All by its own self. "Acute ethanol intoxication" had nothing to do with it.


Which reminds me of a joke.

Bloody Good Ideas

The Swiss Army Survival Tampon — 10 Survival Uses [More] 
I don't think I'd better type what I'm thinking.

[Via Russ H]

What We MEANT to Say

Army officials acknowledged June 6 that TACOM’s message was poorly written and not intended as a directive on the use of PMAGs. [More]
SNAFU...

[Via W3]

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