The military recovered an M79 grenade launcher and two rounds of ammunition from an abandoned safehouse reportedly belonging to Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels accused of attacking civilian communities in central Mindanao, a military official said.Well, now we know why they make 'em wear burkhas...
"Which risk is more likely: that someone is going to accidentally set off a gun in class and God forbid hit a student, or someone will come in off the highway and start a random shooting spree?" said Doug Pennington, a spokesman for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.What, you mean like this guy, Doug?
I am 100 percent pro gun rights, but...Oh stop lying. You are not.
The city prosecutor's office here threw out the illegal possession of firearm charge against a scion of a political family here on technical grounds.Yeah, see, technically, even though he's not an official "Only One," he gets a pass because technically, it's an exclusive club and we take care of our own.
Gun crime 60pc higher than official figuresAh, life in Sarah Brady Paradise.
The true level of gun crime is far higher than the Government admits in official statistics, it can be revealed.
...Figures to be published by the Home Office this week will massively understate the scale of the problem.
For those who understand, no explanation is needed.Click on the title link for a slide show.
For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.
Pennsylvania's gun laws got tougher Friday as Gov. Ed Rendell signed a bill increasing the mandatory sentence for anyone convicted of shooting a firearm at a police officer and for crimes committed with illegally purchased guns.What about if the shooting is defensive? And how about increasing penalties for "Only Ones" unjustifiably shooting citizens (instead of the standard "he did not violate any department policies"?)
Rendell signed the wide-reaching bill at the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police lodge.
"My story is based on fiction," said Poole, who faces a second-degree felony terrorist threatening charge. "It's a fake story. I made it up. I've been working on one of my short stories, (and) the short story they found was about zombies. Yes, it did say a high school. It was about a high school over ran by zombies."Gee, detective, I possess all kinds of matter pertaining to schools and their functions, and I even recommend that people ignore the damn law and carry weapons on campuses when their mature judgment as responsible and sovereign citizens tells them doing so would be prudent. Anybody wants to make a felony rap out of that, let's dance.
Even so, police say the nature of the story makes it a felony. "Anytime you make any threat or possess matter involving a school or function it's a felony in the state of Kentucky," said Winchester Police detective Steven Caudill.
A small software company trying to create a program to help gun dealers comply with federal regulations now believes that the government purposefully stalled and then swiped the technology to create a copycat program of its own.We briefly touched on this yesterday. Considering what we're dealing with, I'm still not sure why this would surprise anyone. I mean, the whole purpose of BATFU is to mess with people and their property...under threat of armed force.
"I am not in favor of concealed weapons," Obama said. "I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations."Not that that surprises anyone who's been paying attention, but The Liberty Sphere provides a source (click on title link).
On October 18, the Americans surrounded Chambly and began the attack with a cannonade barrage on the British stone fort. This alone proved adequately persuasive against the British. Maj. ?? Stopford, commander of the British force inside the fort, surrendered his garrison of 10 officers and 78 enlisted men of the Royal Fusilers. The fort also housed 81 women and children.
The American force confinscated military stuff including 125 stand of British arms, 6 tons of gunpowder, and 6,500 musket cartridges. They also confinscated foodstuffs including 134 barrels of pork, 80 barrels of flour, and s bunch of rice, butter, and peas. The sentimental trophy was the British regimental colors, which was sent to Congress. Conclusion: American Victory
There are times when cops really ought to be kicking in doors.We want to go home at the end of your shift, too, guys...
A hostage-taker threatening the lives of innocents unless he gets what he wants?
Go for it.
A terrorist tinkering with poison gas in his basement workshop for the greater glory of whatever?
Hey, let me loan you a sledge hammer.
An elderly man whose grandson unknowingly bought a hot cell phone?
Not so much.
Anonymous said...and
I am retired. I do not have any recent pictures of me out of uniform. Therefore, I am not violating any regulations. Check that if you want, but I am not representing the Army. If I had a picture of me in a Spiderman costume would you be so offended? I think not. So, if I am retired and the picture is a couple of years old, the regulations do not apply to me. That is sufficient an answer as you are going to get regardless of whether you all think you know the regulations or not.
Sincerely, retired Senior Non-Com
10/16/2008 5:05 PM
Anonymous said...I'll reply to the "highlights" such as they are--and let me qualify this by stipulating I have no idea if the anonymous commentator is who he represents himself to be. I'll proceed as if he is.
You will also note that I do not condone gang members in my former line of endeavor. I want all gun owners to be responsible members of a lawful society. And if you open you eyes you will see on my old uniform that I have the Army Lapel Pin on my lapel. Meaning, I am either a. retired, or have been Honorably discharged. And judging by my former rank, (which I get to keep the title long after I am retired), I am long past my contractual obligations to the Army or the Armed Forces. And you are right, you are just a simple little militant who knows nothing about anything except how to attack persons you should damn well leave alone for voicing their "earned" rights of free speech as opposed to those who feel entitled by birth or racist affiliations. I hope next time you check your facts before you find the NSA at your door asking you questions. You pathetic little turd.
Retire that.
10/16/2008 5:15 PM
Presumably she’ll push more than gun rights... We’d like to think we’re deeper than that.I know you'd like to think that--but you let the one be gutted and just watch what happens to all the other issues you're so passionate about.
The same Philadelphia City Council members who have challenged the state's supremacy on gun laws introduced two new gun-control bills yesterday, one aimed at closing what critics say is a big loophole in the secondhand gun market...Can you imagine what the men who once risked everything, to forge a Republic conceived in Liberty, would have thought of these wretched petty tyrants? Right after you told them Independence Hall would one day be a UN World Heritage site?
The other bill introduced yesterday would raise the city penalty for carrying a gun illegally from $300 to $1,900 and would allow police to confiscate a car driven by someone illegally carrying a gun - regardless of ownership of the car.
A University of Arizona student fatally shot two men who forced their way into his off-campus home early Thursday, Tucson police said.Too bad he didn't live ON campus. Then he could be dead, which would serve the purposes of those seeking even more control just fine.
Other weapons were found in locked premises. It is understood the arms, including a hand gun and rifles, were linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)...Peace at last to the Emerald Isle. And I believe in the wee people, too...
In May last year, the UVF effectively declared an end to its campaign of violence by announcing the organisation was adopting a non-military and civilian role. Recruitment, military training and targeting had ceased, intelligence rendered obsolete and all guns "put beyond reach".
What's the connection to the 2008 presidential election? Well, much of the media analysis, and even the strategies of the campaigns themselves, is based on the ongoing poll results indicating voter preferences state-by-state and nationwide. But I suspect that we are observing the Clever Hans Effect on a massive scale, and that the polls are in fact unreliable. Worse than "unreliable," actually: they are inaccurate because to some degree they reflect not the honest feelings of the respondents but rather what the pollers want to hear.Interesting line of thought and analysis here--well worth the read...
In Wilmington, North Carolina, the colony's Committee of Safety orders the creation and sale of certificates proving one's loyalty to the American cause. To encourage their sale, the committee orders that no business be conducted with any citizen of the county unless they produce one of the certificates.
Pumpkin symbol marks sex offenders' homesThe immediate thought strikes that making copies of the sticker and putting it on innocent houses would be a better Halloween prank than soaping windows or TPing. And if the offenders have to leave their lights off, how are people going to see the sign?
The marquee supporting the GOP ticket in "an area that is strongly African American was like putting a stink bomb in the middle of the living room," said University of Maryland political Professor Ron Walters.
You can almost hear the thought process behind Madonna's red-carpet footwear. "OK, those pesky tabloids won't stop with my whole divorce thing and my film's about to get panned. What can I do to take the heat off? I know - gun shoes! That'll get them talking." [More]
I am horrified that Madonna can see these shoes as fashion. As a mother herself I would have thought that she would have paused for a second and thought about all the young people here and in her own country that have died because of gun crime. She should have thought about all the young people that have died because of gun crime. We need the whole of society to take responsibility and action in stopping the glamorization of weapons. Celebrities have a massive part to play and an icon like Madonna should have more sense. It’s uncaring. Surely she reads the news and realizes that young people are dying every day.
These guns will have the FULL ORANGE TIP as required by Federal Law.Somebody call BATFU! Somebody call Furious Mike!
In accordance with New York State law, these guns are available for shipment to the state of New York except in New York City.
I lobbied Barack Obama extensively while he was an Illinois State Senator. As a result of that experience, I know Obama's attitudes toward guns and gun owners better than anyone. The truth be told, in all my years in the Capitol I have never met a legislator who harbors more contempt for the law-abiding firearm owner than does Barack Obama.Careful there, Mr. Pearson. Considering his exalted status as a Lightworker, "that rare kind of attuned being who...can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet," you're getting awful close to heresy...
When he turned, he looked directly at me. Eye to eye. He spoke no words. The look on his face said everything. It seemed to be, 'What will you do? It's your turn now.'Mike H has a celluloid dream...
The number of justifiable homicides committed by police and private citizens has been rising in the past two years to their highest levels in more than a decade, reflecting a shoot-first philosophy in dealing with crime, say law enforcement analysts.Bummer. All the li'l tykes were doing was reaching out to find their path...
A Lufkin woman received a surprise visit from the Secret Service last week because of a "death threat" comment she reportedly made about Sen. Barack Obama to a campaign volunteer asking for her support of the presidential candidate.All it takes is an unsubstantiated accusation by an acolyte against an infidel?
Victor Wells, who runs a program in North Chicago called X-Cons Save Our Kids, said he had been working with Starks and trying to help him find a construction job.Well he couldn't have been too bright. When you reach out, it's generally a good idea not to be pointing a gun at another human being with one hand while you clutch for his money with the other. And while he may not have found his path, he certainly had no trouble finding the pavement.
"This was a very bright young man," Wells said. "He was reaching out to find his path in life."
Starks was sent to prison in 2006 for residential burglary and school vandalism. He got a 4-year sentence and was two years into that sentence when he was paroled last month.
The maritime minister of France sends orders to officials in port towns urging them to prevent American ships from loading war munitions.
City Attorney Bernard A. Pishko said his office will prosecute Hampton resident Dan Moore for trespassing after he was ordered to leave Waterside for wearing a gun on his hip, and, according to police, refused to leave.This confirms what we broke here last night.
Pishko said that although Waterside has received millions of dollars of taxpayer dollars in its 25 years, it is a private institution, owned by Waterside Associates, and thus can ban guns.Yet the Virginia-Pilot reported in March:
The city’s housing authority bought the marketplace from its private owner in early 1999. At the time, Norfolk leaders said they planned to eventually find a private owner and get out of the landlord business.Methinks this creature is neither fish nor fowl, but some confounded corporate hybrid and legal labyrinth--and perhaps the technicalities involved can be exploited to advantage. But it's premature to speculate on what should be the purview of a good pitbull attorney.
Nearly 10 years later, the city still owns Waterside, which has become less of a boon to municipal coffers.
Let me say it straight out: a John McCain presidency would be far worse than a Barack Obama presidency. With a Democrat in the White House, conservatives and Christians suddenly find their principles and are able to offer resistance. Put a Republican in the Oval Office, however, and those same people become blind, deaf, and dumb to most any principle they profess.I was chided recently for neglecting Chuck Baldwin and the Constitution Party. My critic was right--he is the most faithful candidate on guns. And for those worried he would impose a conservative theocracy, I'd counter that he understands the Constitutional limits of the executive better than the other candidates.
High-tech Onlyonemobiles. Because I guess regular cars aren't good enough, and hey, gotta spend it to justify next year's budget increase, when we can complain about how outgunned and outcarred we are.This is one of the best articles I've ever seen on the subject. I thought you'd enjoy it - and maybe the rest of the site...She's right. Click on the title link and see for yourself.
Dodge Correctional Institution guard who sprayed nephew-inmate gets off easy in WisconsinJust when you thought my groaner titles to these things couldn't get any cheesier...
Well, that’s nice that Barack Obama’s not going to take Biden’s Beretta shotguns — not that Biden would ever need them, with that armed security detail provided to him by the American taxpayers — but what about my Springfield Armory M1911A1 pistol, or the DPMS AR-type semi-automatic rifle I’d like to have?Erik Onstott nails it. He also gives us another kind of hope for change. There are some real journalists out there (as opposed to the hollow frauds), ones who are interested in the truth and knowledgeable about what they write. When we find them, let's encourage their publishers and broadcasters to give us more.
Lebanon County Judge Robert Eby, who said he also is a gun owner with a concealed weapons permit, said the law required him to return Hain's permit.The hell it doesn't. The only argument is about who's doing the fearing.
But he questioned her judgment, saying she "scared the devil" out of others at the soccer field.
"Fear doesn't belong at a kid's soccer game from any source," Eby said.
One Sub, one serjt. and twenty-five Rank and File from each of the four Brigades in the Lines, and in Cambridge, to parade to morrow morning at Sun-rise upon Cambridge Common to cut Fire-wood for the army. The Qr. Mr. General or his deputy, will attend upon the common in Cambridge to give directions to the Officer commanding the party.
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The city's Commonwealth's Attorney has told the President of VCDL today that he will in fact prosecute Dan Moore.
Among the supporters of the proposed ordinance is David Blankenhorn, Pottsville, who said one of his pistols was stolen from him about 20 years ago and police discovered it seven years later.I thought PA had state preemption. And we've been through the self-incrimination exemption for prohibited persons. There would also seem to be a 5th Amendment consideration if your firearm is stolen from your vehicle and you did not have it secured in accordance with state law.
“It turned up in a drug raid in Auburn. Because I reported it in 24 hours, because I cooperated with the law, I was given that gun back. This ordinance can have a major benefit. If you simply follow the law, it works with you,” Blankenhorn said.
China's weapons laws are among the world's toughest. Its blanket ban on private ownership of rifles, pistols and even gun replicas is a core tenet of social policy...Damned American gun shows.
Yet, these days, reports about gun crimes turn up as often as several times a week even in the tightly controlled state-run media.
Councilman W. Wilson Goode Jr. was unapologetic in City Council yesterday as he addressed a television investigation questioning the work habits of a top employee.And we all know that every time a white person displeases a black one, it must be racism at work.
Goode indirectly defended his aide, Latrice Bryant, who last week flashed handwritten signs in Council Chambers comparing a Fox29 news reporter to the Ku Klux Klan. Goode and Bryant are African American; Fox29 reporter Jeff Cole is white.
Lawyers for the city of San Francisco told a federal judge Thursday that the city's ban on cigarette sales by pharmacies has nothing to do with free speech.Perhaps not, but it has everything to do with free conduct.
For more than two years, U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan has been consumed by the latest entry on his resume: acting chief of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.What--there's no demand for breaking up rocks or making license plates, you know, kind of a Big Tent to Big House transition...?
The Republican has been balancing both jobs while dealing with opposition to his ATF confirmation from members of his own party in the Senate. Now, with the presidential election a month away and Congress adjourned, Sullivan, 54, could soon end up unemployed.
At various times, he's been talked about in state Republican circles as a possible candidate for governor, state attorney general and the U.S. Senate.Yeah, maybe a John Kerry/Ted Kennedy/Brady Campaign endorsement will clinch it for him.
The classic and well-worn illustration is that it is irresponsible - not to mention illegal - to shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater, though the right to free speech is one of America's most cherished. The reason for the prohibition is that people might be hurt in a stampede to escape.The Virginia-Pilot said it, I believe it, that settles it.
But in the past 18 months, in this city of 176,000, bullets and bare knuckles have given way to 4- or 5- or 6-inch blades. The use of knives in crimes is up 9.5 percent to 231 instances, through Aug. 31, compared with the same period in 2007, while the use of guns in crimes fell 16.8 percent to 94 instances in the same period, according to Worcester police.So now knives are the "weapons of choice"? It's tough keeping up--the choice keeps changing so much.
Turn the camera off.By what authority?
If you could, would you drop Wayne a note and encourage him. He is discouraged and feels very cut-off from everything. I spent Friday evening, part of Saturday, and again part of Sunday encouraging Miss Linda and Wayne to stay on course.Friday, Wayne was ready to give up and do it all pro se, which would be a disaster. He looked at the amount of money it is going to take...and was at the point of losing all hope.Please send correspondence to:
Hollis Wayne Fincher
07863-010
P.O. Box 9000
Forrest City, Arkansas
72336
In London, Secretary of State Lord Suffolk receives intelligence that the colony of Pennsylvania is preparing an armed fleet and floating batteries to prevent the passage of the King's ships through the Delaware River. He recommends that the Admiralty dispatch vessels to destroy the floating batteries.
The Sheriff's Department has begun the process of revoking hundreds of concealed weapon permits across Orange County.Because, as your owner, Sandra Hutchens is the "Only One" empowered to determine if your life is worth defending. At least until you realize that you are and do something about it.
An NYPD officer and a retired cop are at the center of a federal probe into a violent crew that allegedly robbed and kidnapped drug dealers.Cool. And being Bloomberg Bullies, they have that "Only Ones" no finger-lifting advantage.
Crimes involving assault weapons have become so common that police officials across the nation are discussing how to contain the national problem, Sheriff Kevin Beary said this week. "We need to have a round-table with the Police Executive Research Foundation to get some answers," he said.Yeah, you have your executive round table, Kevin. But if you're looking for answers that involve banning militia-suitable weaponry, I can save you some time:
One in three recent Atlanta Police Academy graduates have criminal records...But becoming "Only Ones" magically makes them more trustworthy to openly carry than you and me.
Obama's neighbors have been forced to give up certain of their personal freedoms in order to ensure his safety...There's a solution: Constitution-free zones.
There's no telling how many guns would be taken off the street in gang- and drug-plagued neighborhoods if police were to set up roadblocks and search everyone going into those areas.
For those of you who argue that what I am proposing violates basic civil rights, forget it...
This is Chicago, not Alaska.
A Coral Springs police officer whose K-9 dog suffocated inside his police car last summer will not be charged, authorities said today...Well, I guess as long as it wasn't willful...
The officer, whose name has not been released because he works undercover, remains on duty at the Police Department.
A British gardener’s local council has ordered him to remove a 3-foot high barbed wire fence around his property in case thieves hurt themselves on it...Just close your eyes and think of England...
First a Cook County sheriff's officer was nabbed parking his squad car illegally in a disabled parking spot.Acton's Law in action, with denials and everything...
Now a volunteer with Palos Hills Emergency Disaster Agency has been snapped trying to pull the same stunt in a marked city vehicle...
"Just because she had a cop car, or what looked like a cop car, she doesn't get to break the rules...
"She denied it and said, 'No I didn't,' but I told her I saw her," Wall said. "She's supposed to be enforcing the rules, not breaking them."
We have reached a point in the case of U.S. v. Hollis Wayne Fincher where we must once again ask you to consider supporting Wayne and his fight for our Second Amendment rights. As you may know, Wayne lost on appeal to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, and a Petition for Rehearing was filed requesting that the entire 8th Circuit rehear the appeal. As you may also know, the 8th Circuit summarily dismissed the Petition for Rehearing.Read the whole thing.
To support Wayne and your Second Amendment rights please send checks to:
The Wayne Fincher Defense Fund
P.O. Box 215
Elkins Arkansas 72727
On Friday, October 13, 1775, meeting in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress voted to fit out two sailing vessels, armed with ten carriage guns, as well as swivel guns, and manned by crews of eighty, and to send them out on a cruise of three months to intercept transports carrying munitions and stores to the British army in America. This was the original legislation out of which the Continental Navy grew and as such constitutes the birth certificate of the navy.
A Zanesville city corrections officer faces a misdemeanor charge of improperly handling a weapon in a motor vehicle...Let's see, drinking, crashing, fleeing the scene, trying to think up an elaborate lie about the car being stolen---and no, I have no idea how that shell got there or how the acci9dent happened. And oh, yeah--a deer made me swerve.
Investigating deputies said they found a loaded .45-caliber pistol behind the driver's seat underneath a piece of paper. One spent cartridge was located on the front floor of the driver's side seat....
Police Capt. Mark W. Louney said residents from several places in the city called to get unwanted firearms out of their houses.I wish I could say I was surprised. Sadly, from many I expect it.
“They just didn’t want them around anymore,” he said. “I was kind of surprised we recovered so many.”
Police have begun an internal investigation of a weekend confrontation between police and members of a wedding party that led to the arrest of Astros pitcher Brandon Backe.I always cry at weddings. Especially with my eyes full of Oleoresin Capsicum.
Witnesses said Monday that police needlessly beat, Tasered and pepper-sprayed wedding guests who were trying to comply with police commands during an incident in which officers arrested 10 people, including Backe, at an outdoor bar at the San Luis Hotel on Seawall Boulevard.
"You will feel the most helpless, humiliated, betrayed, that you will ever feel."Bingo. And doesn't that sound like a great slogan for another "Only Ones" commemorative t-shirt?
The National Rifle Association’s (NRA) Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and NRA Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) Chairman Chris W. Cox will be traveling to Pittsburgh, Pa., Springfield, Mo., Colorado Springs, Colo. and Reno, Nev. Thursday, October 9 for a series of press conferences where they will make a very important announcement regarding the 2008 Presidential elections.
'Defiance’ is based on a true story, three Jewish brothers (Daniel Craig, Jamie Bell and Liev Schreiber) escape Nazi-occupied Poland and head into the forest to join Russian resistance fighters and try to save the lives of other Jews.Watch the trailer. Then ask yourself how the idiot can be anti-gun in real life.
As the nationwide mortgage crisis puts the squeeze on homeowners, the Cook County sheriff's office is on pace to evict more people than ever from foreclosed homes.That's the purview of Cook County "Only Ones"? Their opinion on "social justice" decides what's enforceable?
At least it was until Wednesday, when Sheriff Tom Dart announced he wouldn't do it anymore.
...By refusing to do any foreclosure-related evictions, the hope is that banks will change their policies.
The 2nd New Jersey Regiment was raised, on October 9, 1775, at Trenton, New Jersey for service with the Continental Army under the command of Colonel William Maxwell. The regiment would see action at the Battle of Trois-Rivières,Battle of Valcour Island, Battle of Brandywine, Battle of Germantown, Battle of Crooked Billet, Battle of Monmouth, Sullivan Expedition, Battle of Springfield and the Battle of Yorktown.
