A Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer has been charged with assaulting his daughter's coach during a softball game in Mooresville. [More]Charlotte-Mecklenburg?
Well madam Ginsburg, how about the "wisdom" of a judge that states: "The law, passed last month, says a husband can demand sex with his wife every four days unless she is ill or would be harmed by intercourse — a clause that critics say legalizes marital rape." [More]Only if we can stone her afterward for tempting us.
Hence, reloading ammunition -- or putting together a lawful firearm from a kit -- is clearly “illicit manufacturing.” [More]Yep.
The passenger was looking through a carry-on bag when she apparently realized that she was carrying a Swiss army knife with a 1 1/2 inch blade and another knife with a 2 1/2 inch blade, authorities said.Why she said a word is beyond me--I guess the conditioning is stronger than the ability to think.
She told a crew member and the plane was turned around. [More]
There's No Such Thing As Sensible Gun Laws [More]So why are the people hosting this link so adamant about enforcing them?
[I]t's past time Americans had a chance to look at Oath Keepers side-by-side against oath breakers, and see for themselves how they compare. Perhaps fearing people may do this partially explains why Janet Napolitano's DHS report is so quick to tar veterans with the "extremist" brush...? [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column compares patriotic Americans to an opportunistic political turncoat.
The detachments of the 3rd. 4th. and 10th. Pennsylvania Regiments, are to form one Detachment, and be under the Command of Major Harmar till their respective Regiments arrive. This detachment thus formed are to march for Boundbrook, by 6 o'clock to morrow morning, as is also the Eastern Detachment, under the Command of Col Zebulon Butler -- The whole to receive their orders from Major Genl. Lincoln, when they arrive there. [More]
Daley couldn't imagine anyone wanting to hurt him. [More]Rep. Sam Crump doesn't want us to talk about this in plain terms. I disagree.
On the day the new Congress convened this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband's real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms. [More]I can understand why she's all for citizen disarmament.
The YWC’s agenda has some overlap with the platform of the Republican Party, but the group has defined itself in some ways as an opposition movement. The Republican party dodged red meat issues like immigration during the 2008 campaign, and its losses were in part a consequence of that, Saucier said. The YWC seeks to highlight the very issues that Republican groups have decided to place on the back burner, he said.Yeah, that's the problem. George Bush and John McCain were too extreme right. Right? We need to reach across the aisle in a spirit of bipartisanship and cooperation. Oh, and the perfect is the enemy of the good.
Rendell posits that if there was a "secret ballot" cast, his gun control schemes would easily pass congress. The insinuation there is that congress really wants gun control, but is fearful of facing their constituents after voting away their rights. [More]Scurrying from the light?
Two FBI workers are accused of using surveillance equipment to spy on teenage girls as they undressed and tried on prom gowns at a charity event at a West Virginia mall. The FBI employees have been charged with conspiracy and committing criminal invasion of privacy...Teenage girls? Any of them legally minors? If so, is there any reason--aside from "Only One" status--that they're not being charged as felonious sexual predators, so that we can forever disarm them and track where they live online?
Gary Sutton Jr., 40, of New Milton and Charles Hommema of Buckhannon have been charged with the misdemeanors and face fines and up to a year in jail on each charge if convicted. [More]
Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia wants to spend about $7 million in federal stimulus money to lease and staff a helicopter, buy a covert surveillance van and add machine guns to boats that patrol the Houston Ship Channel. [More]Let's see, it's Homeland Security lucre, so it can't be foreign pirates. Maybe there's a rightwing extremist threat? Because as we all know, these weapons of war are designed solely to kill as many human beings as possible and belong on the battlefield, not on our streets.
Funny thing about Knob Creek. Ordinary Americans have access to all kinds of firepower and yet 15,000 of them manage to get along just fine.Today's Gun Rights Examiner column covers a lot of ground, from a range in Kentucky to:
Maybe, just maybe it's not the guns...? [More]
The Enemy, unprovided with Horses and Carriages or any means of moving by land, cannot go off the Island and penetrate the Country, and I should imagine that it would not require any great number, properly Stationed, to prevent their ravaging the Coast. [More]Wrap your mind around that. Washington regarded those who insisted--with force--that they were his lawful government--and fellow countrymen who sided with them--as "The Enemy."
It's huge because the Second Amendment has not been held to be incorporated --and thus binding-- on the states. [More]This one warranted a second Gun Rights Examiner column.
A former member of our unit (but now a cop) told me homeland security is telling all law enforcement to find excuses to search the vehicles of anyone they suspect of being militia and to seize their firearms for any charge they can make up even when they know the firearms will have to be returned or on the pretext of checking the serial numbers so while they have them the BATF can ballisticly test (and put the ballistic forensics into a data base) of all the firearms they can take. He said on the AR-15s the BATF is also checking for M16 parts and testing to see if they will malfunction and double. [More]No idea if this is valid, but the way it "feels" to me, I thought it best to air vs. sit on. I call it to your attention as a precaution and recommend treating it with appropriate questioning while not dismissing it outright.
In exchange for Harman’s help, the sources said, the suspected Israeli agent pledged to help lobby Nancy Pelosi , D-Calif., then-House minority leader, to appoint Harman chair of the Intelligence Committee after the 2006 elections, which the Democrats were heavily favored to win. [More]This is wrong on so many levels--and not just with foreign powers and democrats, but with their republican cronies as well.
West said a customer of his recently stocked up on .223-caliber rounds, a caliber often used in assault-style weapons. The customer bought 1,000 rounds a few months ago through a mail order company.Thank God.
Shortly after the purchase, he received a visit from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, whose interest was apparently piqued by a large-scale purchase of that caliber. [More]
Mexican and U.S. authorities disagree on just what type of gun it was. Federal police coordinator Gen. Rodolfo Cruz maintains it was .50-caliber anti-air craft machine gun. ATF, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said it was an unmodified .50-caliber semiautomatic rifle made by TNW, a U.S. firearms manufacturer. [More]Whose Paranoid brings us a conflicted report.
THIS is not a .50 anti aircraft machine gun. It is a 1917-1918A series 30 Cal thousands of which have been given to Latin American Countries over the years and which has not been in the US inventory for almost 50 years.Perhaps someone can help clarify all these seeming disconnects...?
The "Jan" listed as a gun-owning father in this story is Jan Nickels - an old friend from grade/high school, who still currently lives only about 5 miles from me. He is an ex-Marine and is well-schooled in firearms and firearm safety. We are fellow members of the same local shooting club.
I called Jan as soon as I read the story. As it turns out, ABC News tricked Jan and others to participate in what was obviously always been intended to be an anti-gun attack. In fact, this story starts with a false premise and goes quickly downhill. At this point I will let Jan tell the rest of his story... [More]
"I challenge the president of the United States and the media to prove that 90 percent of the guns used by the drug cartels are being smuggled," Mr. LaPierre said...Of course he didn't. That's because Mr. Rendell is a tyrannical fraud.
Mr. Rendell did not address the statistic. [More]
Obama blames U.S. guns in Mexico [More]Of course he does.
The public are fast losing patience with thuggish policing... [More]Why? They're the ones with the force monopoly. Isn't that what you lot wanted?
Curry also found out firsthand what federal drug enforcement agents have long understood. The drug war, with the savagery it brings, knows no bounds. It had landed in his back yard, in the foothills of the Appalachians, in Alabama's wealthiest county, around the corner from The Home Depot.Government usurpation, corruption and negligence have led us to this. And the solution is to give them more power to disarm us?
One thousand, twenty-four miles from the Mexico border. [More]
We can do so much better than crossing our fingers and wishing. But right now, that's really the only preemptive measure in place. Everything else is just a response. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column questions why the best preemptive solution the gun grabbers have against school shootings involves keeping your fingers crossed. It seems a fair question. Funny how there's not a mass outcry demanding an answer.
XL. And whereas it is of the utmost importance to the safety of every State that it should always be in a condition of defence; and it is the duty of every man who enjoys the protection of society to be prepared and willing to defend it; this convention therefore, in the name and by the authority of the good people of this State, doth ordain, determine, and declare that the militia of this State, at all times hereafter, as well in peace as in war, shall be armed and disciplined, and in readiness for service. [More]New York, folks. Founding document.
Dear David,
Just a quick question, I hope you can help educate me.
My wife and I went to a gun show today in Austin, TX. I wasn't planning on buying anything big so I only took $120 with me. Then I found a particular model shotgun I've been looking for but unable to find, price $450. My wife (bless her heart) said we could put it on her credit card.
I told the dealer we wanted to purchase it, so he asked for ID. I gave him my driver's license, and my wife took out her credit card. He said, "Sorry, the person who purchases the gun needs to be the one to fill out the paperwork." Fine, my wife said she'd do it. Dealer then said, "No, I can't sell you the gun now because he [meaning me] already said the gun was for him." I actually didn't say "I" wanted
to purchase it, I said "we"; it just so happens that I handed him my driver's license instead of my wife's. I wouldn't say the dealer was being a complete dick, but he was... dick-ish. We just walked away.
I've purchased other guns in the past using my wife's credit card -- one time at a gun show where she filled out the NICS paperwork, another time at a local store where I did the paperwork but they took her card without saying a word. We've been married for 8 years, live at the same address, have the same last names, shoot together... we were simply dumbfounded. I don't have a single credit card in my name, swore off the damn evil things 5 years ago and haven't needed one since (until today, I guess...). The dealer made no effort to try to find a way to accommodate us. He clearly didn't want our business, so he didn't get it.
I understand that the first line on form 4473 is “I am the buyer of this firearm” and the purchaser must answer honestly yes or no in ink, in his or her own handwriting. Our stated intention was to purchase the shotgun for our home. Everything in our home is community property, as any divorce court would maintain, so if my wife answered "yes" on Line 1 she would have been telling the truth. We were not trying to pull one over on the dealer or circumvent the law.
I can also understand that dealers have to cover themselves from the feds who want to put them out of business for typos and punctuation errors on their FFL forms and all.. but was what we were doing in any way improper or illegal?
In the end, this whole episode left a really bad taste in our mouths, to the point where we've agreed never to buy at a gun show again and support our local dealers instead.
Thanks for any advice or insight you might offer.
Unfortunately, the ATF has become so aggressive on "straw purchasers" that dealers are afraid to do anything that might cause scrutiny. With what Bloomberg did to gun dealers with his Mintz Group "investigative teams" is enough to trigger this type of response. He does not know you and for all he knows, you were antis or undercovers trying to set him up. You could very well encounter this same response in a store.Who has something to add?
Whether or not his fears are legally founded is something I'd have difficulty answering without consulting a knowledgeable attorney, so I can see where he figured the profit he'd make on a $450 sale was not worth taking any risk.
About 100 supporters of a bill tightening Virginia gun control staged a lie-in on the Capitol lawn, but were outnumbered 3-1 yesterday by opponents who wielded signs declaring "Here Lie Disarmed Victims." [More]I recall one of my fellow gun bloggers took my fantasy of Evel Knievel jumping a bike over the lie-in line and Photoshopped a pretty funny picture. I can't find it now--if anybody remembers this, please let us know so I can link to it.
Thanks, Yuri Orlov!
Jackie Chan has triggered controversy by claiming Chinese people are so chaotic they need to be firmly controlled by the government...I guess you've got yours, right, "action hero"? And if your own people can't be trusted with freedom, how much less we "foreigners"?
The actor told a forum on the southern Chinese island of Hainan, whose attendees included Wen Jiabao, the Chinese prime minister, he was not sure "freedom" was necessary. [More]
Senile 'have a duty to die' [More]Things to come, from the wonderful disarmed global socialist workers' paradise that will give us all "free health care."
[T]he idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man; and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet laureate.As ridiculous as you, Baroness.
No, Not Terrorist, Most gun toters are either immature weinies that would rather have their toys than save childrens lives, (just like Pit Bull owners),or just chicken s**ts who are AFRAID of their own shadow, always worried someone is coming to get them! The sad thing is somebody should.I know I shouldn't, but this seemed like fun, so I replied:
Fine. YOU "come get" me, asshole.And he replied:
I wouldn't walk acrossed the street to piss in your mouth you CHICKEN-SHITAnd I replied:
No, no--come on--I'm the chicken shit, so that must mean you're braver than me.And he replied:
Why not arrange to show me?
See, you assholes always prove my point for me. It's always, 'oh yeah, my dad can beat up your dad or lets have a pissing contest. You sound like a fifth grader. (probably didn't make it thru.) I'm sorry you where abused as a child, but rest of us stable people don't need you & your 'wingnut' friends making life more dangerous for our children.(I'm sure you don't have any, what woman in her right mind would let you near her). Grow up! Nobody cares how 'brave' you are & it won't make your mother love you.(if you even knew where or who she was.) Do us all a favor & put 'ALL' of you brave guns in your mouth & pull the triggers tough guy.I know, I should know better.
On this day in history, American patriots said "No" to their government's attempt at disarming them... [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column asks if we're worthy. Also see related Patriots Day and other columns from my fellow GREs.
Shakah Anderson is accused of shooting dead Mohamed Korneh and Selorn Gbesenete, both 21, at the Tudor Rose night club in Southall at Unarmed 2, dedicated to stopping gun crime among young black people, the jury was told. [More]That's what we need to "stop the violence".
A federal jury unanimously convicted Williams in December of three counts of possessing unregistered firearms after a three-day trial. The charges were in connection with Williams illegally taking personal possession of illegal weapons seized by his police department. [More]Now hold the phone a minute--he got them "off the streets" and into the hands of a highly-trained "Only One," didn't he?
The Federal Bureau of Investigation earlier this year launched a nationwide operation targeting white supremacists and "militia/sovereign-citizen extremist groups," including a focus on veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, according to memos sent from bureau headquarters to field offices. [More]I guess a nascent movement like Oath Keepers requires an official demonization effort to discredit it...?
Sullivan said he enjoyed doing double duty with his stint as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.Well...if a song is all that's needed for these Heroes of the Fatherland...
“In many ways they are the unsung heroes of law enforcement,” he said. “They take very little credit for themselves” [More]
The Supreme Court of Ohio ruled today that, under R.C. 1531.14, a state wildlife officer has authority to enter private land when acting in the normal, peaceful and lawful enforcement of game and fish laws or rules regardless of whether the officer has “good cause” to believe that a law has been violated at the time of entry. [More]
The April 1959 issue of Guns Magazine is now online, and I call your special attention to the article starting on page 38, "The American Rifleman in Civil Defense" by and William B. EdwardsDavid Soule. [More]Real "Homeland Security" cannot be accomplished without "Civil Defense." Today's Gun Rights Examiner column introduces an article from half-a-century ago explaining an important aspect of that. Plus, you'll get to read the whole magazine, which is always a treat.
General McDougall, in a letter of his, dated the 12th. Insvt. writes, "that you in a Letter to him of the 31st. Ulto. informed him that Dr. Warren had advised you that the Inoculation of the forces at Fishkill was countermanded." [More]
Simply put, SB776 would mandate the registration of all magazines capable of holding more than ten rounds of ammunition. The possession of unregistered magazines would be a crime and punishable up to a year in prison. [More]Equally simply put, I have two questions:
On the second anniversary Thursday of the mass killings at Virginia Tech University, the families of two slain students sued the state, the school and its counseling center, several top university officials and a local mental health agency, claiming gross negligence...Yeah, I'd say when it comes to Hincker, "gross" and "negligent" are a pretty good start. But if this does nothing to force the dumping of all Cho Empowerment Zone policies, the plaintiff's won't be doing a thing to prevent other families from suffering future losses.
Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker, who is named as a defendant along with Steger, would only confirm the lawsuits had been filed. [More]
Now add Republican Senator Richard Lugar to the list of politicians cited the bogus 90% number. [More]It doesn't surprise me.
Florida officials get around this by claiming the defendants are going to jail not for their debts but for violating a court order.See, it's not what it looks like if we call it something else. Don't think of it as rape, think of it as government employee gratification.
Eight police officers serving with Scotland's largest force listed their official religion as Jedi in voluntary diversity forms, it has emerged. [More]So does that make these "Only Ones" Imperial Storm Troopers?
My (rather conservative) British father-in-law was visiting recently around the time that four Oakland police officers were killed by gunfire. Watching the news coverage, he said to me, "I just don't understand America's obsession with guns." I considered telling him about the Wild West of yesteryear and John Wayne and Clint Eastwood and of the perceived sanctity of the Second Amendment. But, then I thought about it as a father and as a physician and replied simply, "I don't either."I left this comment here:
Hey, Doc--I've been getting this whining noise under the hood of my car followed by a series of muffled thumps. The engine light comes on after about 5 minutes and the temperature gauge needle pegs into the upper range.Feel free to leave a comment of your own.
What do you think it is?
What? That's outside your area of expertise, certification, training...?
You have credentials on giving out advice on guns, right? So if a patient follows your advice and disarms, and then gets hurt or killed, your malpractice insurance will cover you because you did everything according to your training, right?
And you'll sign a qualification and liability form attesting to this?
http://www.keepandbeararms.com/downloads/gund...
Doc...?
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) blasted "tea party" protests yesterday, labeling the activities "despicable" and shameful." [More]Which is no doubt why she wants us disarmed.
Despicable? Tell that to her felon swindler husband. You know, the one who helped run "Camp Obama". Just more of the corrupt Chicago political machine at work. 
If there's one thing we've learned from the gun grabbers, it's they're like salivating weasels trying to get into a chicken coop. If one entry is blocked, they'll try to nose out another. [More]
That the Enemy are upon the point of opening the Campaign can scarce admit of a doubt—where, or in what manner, is yet uncertain; it behooves us however to be as well prepard as possible, & keep every thing in such order as to move at an hours warning—one step towards this is, to have the number of our Posts reduced—the Men drawn a little more compactly together—and Scouts to supply the places of Stationary Guards, along the Enemys Lines—By this means we shall have it more in our power to move quick; shall be less liable to surprizes; and can give aid much quicker than in cases where Men upon any alarm, or Movement of the Enemy are to be assembled from several different Posts, at a distance from each other. [More]
President Obama will announce in a visit here today that he will push the U.S. Senate to ratify an inter-American arms trafficking treaty designed to curb the flow of guns and ammunition to drug cartels and other armed groups in the hemisphere. [More]In yesterday's Gun Rights Examiner column, I talked about a "global gun control" column in The New York Times by Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, and I linked to the UN Firearms Protocol.
U.S. gun-rights groups participated as observers in drafting the treaty, which experts say includes language stating that it does not impinge on the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment.I understand the motivation to do this--I really do. It's just that, to my mind, an American leader would tell foreign powers to mind their own damned business and keep their tyrannical mitts off our Bill of Rights if they know what's good for them.
Proposing that American gun-rights advocates confer with the United Nations is not only a waste of time and resources that are needed at home, but also lends such venues unearned legitimacy--as if the UN should have any stance on American liberty other than to shut up and learn.Which resulted in this from my good friends at the NRA Members Councils:
Yet despite this, those like David Codrea, in an article in the September 2003 issue of “Guns and Ammo”, would continue to council disengagement, retreat from the global battlefield, and a kind of pseudo-isolationism that fails to recognize that there are no protective oceans to hide behind in a world-wide battle of ideas. It is apparently more important for Codrea and his ilk to maintain an ideological purity of thought, rather than achieve any of the incremental positional successes that could best guarantee eventual victory. What is more, it is hard to imagine how an almost Islamist-like exclusionary world-view will enable the Codreas of the world to convert more than the occasional wandering “Aryan” to the paradise of a rapidly diminishing gunowner “reservation”.OK, pally. Looks like we're going to do things your way.
I have a natural antipathy towards guns in the home (I have known three people whose death coincided with the improperly stored guns in a house). [More]Who have you been hanging out with, Scott? I'm trying to recall if I've ever personally known anyone "whose death coincided with the improperly stored guns in a house" (what the hell does that even mean?), and I've known quite a few gun owners. Nope--none in my circle of relatives, friends and acquaintances...
Let me answer Luke Johnson’s piece, How so-called 'gun-owners rights' hurt U.S.-Mexican relations, LA Foreign Policy Examiner. [More]John Longenecker shows more courtesy to an ignorant little pinko than I would have.
Due to the pending expiration of the arkansasmilitia.com URL, I have registered 2 additional URL's for the militia website. The new domain names are http://www.arkansasmilitia.org and http://www.arkansasmilitia.info which are actually more appropriate since the militia is not a commercial organization.
Coincidentally, I was looking at the statistics for tonysrants.com seeing how much traffic the site has gotten, from where, etc. See below for an interesting little statistic. The 12th most common visitor to my site is the Department of Homeland Security! [More]It doesn't surprise me. He's also a member of the radical Weathermen's Denver cell.
One official said that led the agency to inadvertently “target” groups of Americans and collect their domestic communications without proper court authority. [More]I wonder if it would be fair to speculate on which "groups"...?
So, by decree of the Metro council, they have announced that they have suspended your rights for an area extending 15 blocks east-to-west, and 3 blocks north-to-south!The Pulse of KC3 recommends that gun owners fight this, up to and including telling the Kentucky Derby Festival "that you won't be spending your money at the Derby or any related events as long as this policy is in place."
In blatant violation of the laws and constitution of Kentucky, the Louisville Metro county government has revoked the right to self-defense - and will be searching you at random to enforce their decree! [More]
By now, most of us should be aware of the recent "domestic terrorism report" that the collectivists have helped draft against true Patriots...Qi Ji Guang tells us, along with what we ought to do about it.
Just why are they doing this? [More]
Excuse me? This is the WSJ talking? What exactly is the whole reason behind their paper if not to encourage investments? Are they calling every one of their readers greedy? Are reporters Alex Roth and Betsy McKay greedy, since I'm assuming they got paid for this hit piece? How about everyone else in the production and distribution chain?
Why did News Corp. acquire them? Why did a supermajority of Dow Jones shareholders approve the deal? Is there more than a little Gordon Gekko projection going on here? [More]
General Lachlan McIntosh begins to move his Continentals south. Gwinnett orders his militia to stay in Sunbury. When McIntosh finds out about Gwinnett's order he tries to draw supplies to which he is entitled from the quartermaster. Gwinnett has the quartermaster refuse the request. [More]
U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan is resigning to take a job in the private sector. [More]Don't let the door hit you in the be-hind, Maximum Mike.
We can do both. We can curb the proliferation of assault weapons — without infringing on Second Amendment rights — and address a culture spawning too many violent teens. We have to. [More]No "we" can't, Ernest Hooper, if by "we" you include "you."
I personally wish that no one in America owned a gun, for hunting or otherwise; I've seen the twisted and sick glee hunters get from killing animals, and it makes me wonder sometimes about what they would do to a human being if given the chance.Actually, Aida, I do not give a damn about how "some Americans" view me--not if they're anything like you. You've just relieved us of any responsibility to care what you think.
Still, it's obvious that the government needs to do something. Perhaps government officials just need to work out a way to better control gun ownership with stricter rules on who can own a gun and what gun owners have to do to earn the right to possess one. They also need to put a limit on the number of weapons gun owners can possess and develop stricter penalties for sellers who don't abide by the laws when selling weapons. It may or may not help, but they need to take some kind of action.Go away, you immoral neurotic fool.
We have in our midst millions of one-man militias - trusting no one, cynical about life in a changing society, convinced of the likelihood of more dysfunction and gun violence, and convinced, above all, that few in elected office have the guts to do anything about it. [More]Start acting like you believe that, Dan, and stop with the hand-wringing and wishful subversive thinking, and you just may be able to co-exist here. Because we will not disarm.
I'd like to see everyone take a minute to contact this...thing...and don't even write a message--just send her this link.