An Explosive Proposition

That’s why the “clarification” they issued within days of being exposed came across like nothing so much as the late Gilda Radner’s Emily Litella character on the original Saturday Night Live show. Remember how she’d go on a rant about a subject she misheard? Then when advised she had everything wrong, look right at the camera, smile and say “Never mind”?

That’s pretty much what ATF did in a newsletter addendum titled “Nitrocellulose Update.” [More]

My latest GUNS Magazine "Rights Watch" column looks at ATF's latest misadventure in industry relations.

We're the Only Ones Anonymous Enough

For nine years, DEA withholds names of masked agents who violently raided two innocent women. Federal court shrugs. [More]

Yes, Col. Cooper?  You have something to add...?

I have been criticized by referring to our federal masked men as “ninja” … Let us reflect upon the fact that a man who covers his face shows reason to be ashamed of what he is doing. A man who takes it upon himself to shed blood while concealing his identity is a revolting perversion of the warrior ethic. It has long been my conviction that a masked man with a gun is a target. I see no reason to change that view.

[Via Florida Guy]   

Mainstream Progress Report

Edwin Vieira and John Cones will be appearing in "MAINSTREAM – How the Hollywood Movies and New York Media Are Promoting the Globalist Agenda." [More]

Without a Trace

And these are just the classification letters...

Poor overworked ATF.  Aren't the risks of registration worth it if it can solve one crime?  [More]

Speaking of that, out of the "more than 340,000 tracing requests every year to help law enforcement solve crimes," how many crimes have been solved that would otherwise not have been had ATF not identified a name gleaned from a retailer's 4473 copy? Factoring in the costs of these operations, how much does that work out to per solved crime?

Anybody know? House Oversight? Bueller?

And while it's interesting to see "how the ATF traces guns in America," I'm actually more interested in seeing them be just as forthcoming explaining how the hell they expect us to believe they were trying to trace guns in Mexico.

[Via Robert E]

Up in Smoke

A federal ban on the sale of guns to medical marijuana card holders does not violate the Second Amendment, a federal appeals court said Wednesday. [More]

I hate to say "I told you so"...

Living Large

"The Natural Man" will make a statement today at 12:30 p.m. Mountain Time. [More]

He certainly is unique.  Those who would control us don't like that.

The Blame Game

Responding to Glock’s lawsuit, she referenced news stories about a sheriff's deputy accidentally firing a Glock pistol in San Francisco’s Hall of Justice, a Los Angeles police officer who was paralyzed from the waist down after his 3-year-old son accidentally fired his Glock pistol, and a Massachusetts man who was dancing at a July 4th party when his Glock handgun fired while it was in his pocket. [More]

Damn -- if all that ain't the fault of the gun, I don't know what is!

This Maura Healey character certainly is a piece of ... work.

[Via Roger J]

It Depends upon what the Meaning of the Word 'Violation' is.

“One issue we see often is that the same mistake on a form repeated each time, like ‘Y’ instead of ‘Yes’ or an abbreviation of a county, gets misrepresented as ‘hundreds of violations’ by anti-gun interest groups. ATF says they have to note each one of the violations. So the ‘number of violations’ a dealer might have can be very misleading”... [More]

Yep.

I'm sipping coffee as we "speak" from my Red's Trading Post insulated stainless steel coffee mug.

If Only...

Those are some pretty big "ifs." [More] 

Here's one that -- barring something totally unforeseen -- is a given: IF Trump doesn't win, Hillary will.

It's not a question of whether or not we like that "choice" (or lack thereof), and for the purpose of this argument it's not even a value judgment or a warning -- it's simply an acknowledgement of a reality that, again, barring something totally unforeseen, we're trapped in.

Disagree if you like. Bring facts that can be independently validated, not mere opinions, if you expect to persuade.

ATF Nitrocellulose Addendum: Authorized Practices Not Affected (Yet)

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Here's the download source link.

Anti-Gun, Pro-‘Pathway to Citizenship’ Johnson Wants Control of U.S. Elections

What won’t Johnson’s Homeland operators be able to do, using “national security” as justification? [More]

What could go wrong?

Heroes of the Soviet Union

This is a couple years old -- I just ran across it and, while it's relevant to nothing in particular, just thought it was both funny and cool, as well as a thumb in the eye of "authority." [More]

Racist Group Doesn't Accept Blacks in Top Positions

I don't see any Latinos, either... [More]

Making Lemonade Out of Lemons

A Candidate's Death Could Delay or Eliminate the Presidential Election [More]

The Anti-Colin

A Virginia Tech graduate who lived through the 2007 mass shooting on that campus said he perceived a cultural bias in favor of anti-carry partisans. Nicholas Roland, a Ph.D. candidate in U.S. history at UT, said the “worst situation is to have no defense back” in the event of a mass shooting. “The police were not fast enough and 32 people died” in the Virginia Tech massacre because no one else was armed. [More]

You mean someone who had time to call 911 would have had time to defend himself and possibly save a lot of lives...? Instead of dedicating his life (for pay) to making sure everyone else is mandated by "law" to be just as useless as he was?

Oh, and her's one other thing I'm calling BS on:

Ana Lopez, the co-founder of Students Against Campus Carry at UT, said that though the “Campus (DILDO) Carry” protest on Wednesday went smoothly, she received online death threats after the protest.

Someone actually said he was going to kill you Ana? And you turned that over to law enforcement? That's what a death threat is. It's not some troll expressing a hope that you suffer the consequences you would  impose on others.

I see the death threat card played a lot by these hive insects, trying to make themselves out to be martyrs / victims and gun owners to all be murderers-in-waiting -- that is, lying.

[Via Mack H]

Freedom isn't Free

There's this little matter of fees on top of all the other infringements. [More]

Hey, Intolerable Acts aren't cheap, you know...

Capture the Flag

This has resurfaced due to rich dilettante Kaepernick's recent bellyaching. If he did this today, Monday would be condemned by "progressives" for being a right-wing hater and free speech violator, and probably charged with assault and theft to boot.

Here's the rest of the story.

The "protester," William Thomas, and his then-11-year-old son, have faded into well-deserved obscurity.  I wonder if either one would resurface if Rick Monday pursued the $1M offer for the flag, which he kept ...

[Via Geordan]

He Learned Nothing

The first step toward any reconciliation of policy positions will be an acknowledgement from individuals on both sides that they can be both right and wrong at the same time. [More]

Is "reconciliation" the new word for "surrender"?

And after all this, the writer still spouts crap like "guns also cause a significant number of preventable deaths"...?

Assuming he was accurately quoted, this Brian Hiebert character sounds like a real ...uh..."sportsman."

[Via Michael G]

An Explosive Development

ATF’s sudden and unexpected change in policy on wetted nitrocellulose will likely have a significant impact on industry’s ability to deliver products to the military and commercial markets. Industry members have relied on the exemption for wetted nitrocellulose for many years and are aware of no accidental detonations or diversion of this product into illicit channels. Consequently, it is unclear why ATF believed it necessary to change its policy and, more importantly, why ATF announced the change in a newsletter article with no advance notice to industry. [More]

It's because they're being directed to do so by totalitarian scum who want to disarm Americans, and this is just another of the thousand in-your-face cuts they'll inflict to make that happen.

It's because Thomas Brandon is a "just following orders" tool.

Anybody see anybody in Congress doing anything about this?  You know, all those people gun owners helped into power?

Anybody going to contact representatives backed by gun owners and ask?

I did.

An Open Door Policy

Because if there's one thing monsters who have never earned it -- or anything else -- demand, it's "respect." [More] 

[Via William T]