Unless Republicans everywhere understand RINO aspirants are unacceptable, they'll keep foisting them on us and counting on people swallowing whatever rotten offerings they serve out of fear of what the other guy will do to them. Some of us won't play that game any more. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at what the Republican establishment considers a "different" kind of candidate.
The ministers and embassadors of those who are called rebels and enemies are in Paris; in Paris they transact the reciprocal interests of America and France. Can there be a more mortifying insult? Can even our ministers sustain a more humiliating disgrace? Do they dare to resent it? Do they presume even to hint a vindication of their honor, and the dignity of the state, by requiring the dismission of the plenipotentiaries of America? Such is the degradation to which they have reduced the glories of England! [More]Also...Happy Promise Death to Tyrants Day.
In the railway part of the attack, two of the terrorists indiscriminately fired at passengers with AK-47 assault rifles. [More]That they retrieved from their checked-in luggage?
Recent Illinois Law (PA 95-0564) provides that health care professionals report patients to the state police anyone that they believe might pose a danger to themselves or others. ISRA has learned of situations where a party has been admitted to a hospital for stress, alcohol treatment, or other scenarios where part of the admission procedure included a short interview with a psychologist on staff. Questions asked, include gun ownership, and/or the Possession of a FOID card. Within a few weeks that individual receives a notice from the Illinois State Police revoking his or her FOID. [More]Dang. That really sucks.
Chuck Schumer joined Ben Nelson for Husker-Sooner football and pheasant hunting a week ago. Nelson reports that Schumer "got three pheasants, no dogs, no lawyers." [More]Ha ha. Ha.
“For us, it’s a dangerous precedent to set,” said state police spokesman Sgt. Kern Swoboda. [More]For us too, Sgt. Swoboda.
Most of us would probably think that a man who found himself being followed down a dark street by two people at midnight and turned to ask, "why are you following me?" while holding a folding pocket knife pointed down along his leg was just being careful. His actions seem especially reasonable when you know that he put the knife away upon hearing that his apparent stalkers actually meant no harm. But in New Hampshire, Dustin Almon was convicted of a misdemeanor because the two fellow pedestrians were plainclothes police officers. [More]So naturally the "Only Ones" charged and arrested him upon determining that he was compliant and no criminal threat, and the judge took full advantage of an opportunity to put a presumptuous peon in his place.
Still, Schumer is nothing if not crafty. He knows there is a motherlode of untapped paranoia to exploit here, and using twin threats of terrorism and guns is a time-tested and reliable tactic for spooking and stampeding the herd.Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a bit of counter-intelligence, seasoned subversive gungrabber-style.
And why stop with radical Islamic terror suspects? In truth, you can't, by law. So we need to include all those "homegrown terrorists" Janet Napolitano warned us about in that DHS report on "right wing extremists." And then we need to stop gun sales to all those potential threats who have been scrutinized--especially you...you Oath Keepers...and maybe even you or me. [More]
Congress submits the Articles of Confederation to the states for ratification. [More]
The victim got out of his car, knocked out the other driver's window and began to pull the man out of the vehicle. The 29-year-old then shot at the 33-year-old, hitting him twice, Stephens said. The 29-year-old had a valid permit for the gun. [More]Yeah, that sure sounds like a victim to me. Which must make the guy who defended himself the victimizer.
[This story has been changed since it was first posted. It originally gave an innacurate description of how Gottlieb "refers to" Lautenberg.]Wait a damn minute.
Gottlieb refers to the Jewish Lautenberg as a "Zionist...gun hater."Where the hell is their complete and specific online retraction--along with their profound apology?
That's because County Fire-Rescue Capt. Edwin O'Berry helped stop an armed suspect who nearly beat a police officer to death. He stopped suspect Mauricio Cruz by shooting him. [More]See, I'd like to think I, and everyone I know, would not hesitate to help a peace officer in need--and that we'd want to.
Battling with one of the world's highest murder rates, Venezuela on Wednesday crushed more than 30,000 guns seized from the streets during police raids this year. [More]Because we all know the "Only Ones" who ought to be trusted with guns in Venezuela are Hugo Chavez's commie thugs.
Erroll Southers, who was serving as an FBI special agent at the time of the censure, asked a co-worker's husband who worked for the San Diego Police Department to run a background check on his ex-wife's boyfriend. [More]That sure makes him sound like a stalker, doesn't it? And sweetie's taste in men is a surprise?
Exterminating ignorance gives me hope.Interesting choice there, "exterminating," eh?
Allah...Help us make our planet green gives me hopeMan, I sure wouldn't want any radical imams thinking I was blaspheming to help advance control of globalist infidels and American corporations over sovereignty in Islamic lands...
Interesting, considering recent headlines, that one group is conspicuously not listed as currently active...[More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner looks at the Southern Poverty Law Center's indoctrination of the Eugene Police Department and further assists them in spotting and identifying dangerous Constitutionalists.
As large quantities of materials for cartridges have been issued, and a few cartridges returned to the Commissary of military stores; returns are to be made to morrow afternoon by each brigade of the number of cartridges in their possession. These returns are to shew the number in each regiment, how many are in the hands of the soldiers, and where the residue are deposited. [More]
Tonight, AMC premieres their "The Prisoner" remake miniseries.I'm still livid with "Gunsmoke" for replacing Chester with Festus. Candy was an interloper who should have been driven off the Ponderosa--or better yet, hanged for Adam's disappearance. Who the hell are Ernie and Uncle Charlie, how did they get into the Douglas house on "My Three Sons," and what the hell did they do with Mike and Bub (I'm suspecting pod people here)? And "Zorro"--dude, you dress in black to evade pursuit on dark nights. What bad mescal could you have possibly been drinking to think replacing black Tornado with white Phantom was a tactically sound idea?As for tonight? I guess I'll see.
It's infuriating, considering the abuses Napolitano outlines, and then reflecting on how little so many of our countrymen seem to be aware of them, and how little they seem to care. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column spotlights a key question very few in power are asking, and even fewer are giving honest answers to.
After considerable debate and alteration, the Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Continental Congress on November 15, 1777. This document served as the United States' first constitution, and was in force from March 1, 1781, until 1789 when the present day Constitution went into effect. [More]
"You have the right to bear arms, but you have the right to bear them within your home, not on the streets, not in your cars, not inside stores," Parks said. [More]I guess that settles it then, doesn't it?
Guarded by police, woman slain [More]See, you don't need a gun--the "Only Ones" will protect you. Besides, her assailant would have just taken it away from her and used it against her.
Chicago Police are accused of offering a crooked "get out of jail free" card. The catch? A woman says she was told to plant a gun for it. Now the city has paid her $50,000 in a settlement, and the cops have been suspended without pay. CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot explains. [More]That's strange...since when don't "Authorized Journalists" tell us the names of "the officers"...?
The SPD has opened an internal investigation into the violent arrest of a suspect. [More]Dang--what did the guy do? And will we find this is all within approved department protocol?
A Tennessee state trooper who accidentally sent an e-mail proclaiming white pride to 787 state employees has been suspended for 15 days without pay and will have to attend diversity training. [More]Ah, here he is getting therapy now:
Something is going to happen today in Seattle that gun owners everywhere should be interested in following: A citizen is going to defy a gun ban. Live and in person, and apparently for everyone who is interested to watch. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner brings you breaking news that's about to unfold. This one needs eyes on it, so please spread the link far and wide this morning. The more of us watching this, the less chance there will be an over-reaction, and anyone who would bar a fellow human being from keeping and bearing arms--under force of state arms--has already demonstrated there is no perversion of justice they are incapable of.
I am sorry to find, by the tenor of your Letter of the 6th. instant, that we still unhappily differ in our Ideas of those just and reasonable Terms, upon which a General exchange of Prisoners might take place, and that an event, so desireable, is, probably, yet at a distance. [More]
I, as a fellow gun owner and Second Amendment defender, enjoy what you are trying to do... [More]That must be why he thinks bearing arms should not include long ones?
Sgt. Lori Lavorato said police received a report of a woman possibly being abducted after an argument at a Target store along Merle Hay Road.Loki1776 shows us how this was all made possible:
Offenders can expect little sympathy from Master Sgt. Isaiah Vega of the Illinois State Police.Isaiah said it, I believe it, that settles it. How wonderful we have someone authorized to tell us what our rights are. Let's hope this attitude never results in "little sympathy" for him.
“Driving is a privilege, and drivers should take every precaution,” he said. Hanging anything from the rear-view-mirror “could be a dangerous if not deadly error,” Vega said. [More]
The only exceptions are government-issued items such as I-PASS boxes and parking stickers.Funny. If this is coming from the ISP, I wonder why I don't see an exception to hang a rat-tailed comb from the mirror...?
Chicagoans likely will never see the names of the 662 Chicago Police officers with 10 or more complaints against them. [More]Because the purpose of government is to secure the Blessings of "Only One" status. And the more "Only" they are, the more Blessings they get.
Two men enter, one man leaves. Except I won't acknowledge either of these morons as a man--not in the sense of a whole one.I have been a hunter for over 50 years. Yet, I have never owned a pistol and have no intentions of owning one or an assault rifle. On the Internet, I found 361,000 automatic weapons for sale. Why are so many needed?Or this weed (sorry, link requires a password, so I only have the KABA summary):
I'm a strong Second Amendment rights person. I stand against fire arms registration and government control and confiscation of our guns. But I strongly feel that the firearm manufacturers of our country are making a big mistake in producing the AR-15 sporting rifles.Hobbies. Yeah, that's what people are willing to fight for.
“My children have to appear in court,” Erica Russell, the mother of two eighth-grade girls who spent eight hours in jail, said Tuesday. “They were handcuffed, slammed in a wagon, had their mug shots taken and treated like real criminals.” [More]I'm sorry, Erica. What exactly did you think they're being conditioned to be treated like?
"I thought it was my duty to hand it in and get it off the streets." [More]No, your first duty is to be a free man and defy tyranny.
Authorities said 46-year-old Henry L. Hollins is accused of handcuffing a woman at gunpoint June 30 and taking her in his squad car to a warehouse. He then undressed and raped her while she remained shackled...[More]If true, perhaps this explains why New Orleans "Only Ones" wanted to disarm everybody...
"If we were aware of his full background," an aide said, "it would have been done differently." [More]Let me get this straight--you can't be armed because genius here thinks it's his job to keep us safe.
Through a practice he calls “Practical Emotional Self-Defense (PESD),” Dean discusses how to deal with people from the annoying to the dangerous. Naturally, the right to armed defense factors into the latter. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column is actually a book review that has been a pleasant--and surprising--find for me.
I mentioned, that it was not our interest to expedite the passage of the prisoners to England. [More]
[T]o his surprise, he has become a much followed Gun Rights activist who is changing minds on the War on Guns! [More]More like astonishment.
Among the observers Unruh cites:I put out a second Gun Rights Examiner column today to send readers to WorldNetDaily's current headline article.
Walter Olson at Overlawyered.com
Bryan Myrick at RedCounty.com
The National Association for Gun Rights
Dave Kopel at the Independence Institute
and yours truly... [More]
In a prior post about the new Threeper Nyberg Flag patch, it looks like the zip code was wrong. It wasn't my fault--honest--I made a mistake once back in '56 when I was four and vowed never again.Court records show that Moore has a long history of violent crimes dating back to 1999. He was convicted twice on harassment charges, three times for assault and twice for violating protective orders. [More]Well then it sounds like nothing else could have been done to stop him.
A state trooper in northwest Ohio who was once honored for making the most DUI arrests has been charged with drunken driving. [More]I thought the "40" the "Only Ones" were professional enough to handle was supposed to be a Glock...
Therefore, although it may claim to be done under Congress's tax power, that claim will fail and the fall-back position of the federal government will be Congress's authority to regulate commerce "among the states." Thus, NFA-asserted tax power would actually fall exactly under the commerce clause power challenge that is the core of the MFFA and its clones around the U.S.Today's Gun Rights Examiner column presents a rebuttal to a naysayer.
Also, it's helpful to keep in mind that the MFFA and its clones are really a states' rights exercise, a challenge to federal commerce clause power on Tenth Amendment and other grounds. It is more about federal power than firearms. States' rights are the subject; firearms are the object. [More]
I can easily account for the nine old Virginia Regiments calling more frequently upon you for Clothing than any others, they were the whole winter in the Field and were reduced almost to nakedness. [More]
I called their number, (925) 937-3376. I let the phone ring several times. Eventually, a message played, a female voice confirming the closure and seizure of firearms as evidence, and that they are non-returnable until the case is closed. [More]California news sources aren't covering this, so I guess the guy in Ohio will have to.
A Passaic police officer indicted in September on counts of aggravated assault and official misconduct in connection with a confrontation with a city resident was arraigned in state court in Paterson Monday.Yep, I've thought since Day One that he's not guilty. Which doesn't mean I'm not thinking a jury won't amend that. Except it won't surpise me to see him emerge an innocent man, with full back pay and compensatory damages.
Police Officer Joseph Rios III pleaded not guilty during his appearance before state Superior Court Assignment Judge Donald J. Volkert Jr. [More]
Unfortunately, America loves Guns. We love guns to a point where that uh we see devastation on a daily basis. You don’t blame a group. [More]He says while protected by taxpayer-funded armed bodyguards...and using more of that tax money to teach us how to speak Arabic...
[Via Michael R]
As a result, he expects his annual budget could grow to $6 million this year, considerably more than the $3.6 million that SAF, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, took in last year...[More]What's your point, Rick Anderson?
Congress has rightly set out to both expand insurance coverage and reduce health-care costs for all Americans. But without an effective and enforceable individual mandate that guarantees the participation of everyone, neither goal is attainable. [More]I don't see anything in there about where the feds get their Constitutional authority to do this--it's certainly not a delegated enumerated power, and the Founders would roll over in their graves and ask us why we haven't horsewhipped any "official" who would dare to suggest the Commerce Clause gives them that power.
Pointing out ignorance and manipulation in this story is easy--it's not a question of where to start--it's a question of when to stop. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner looks at a reporter who appears to be either lying or ignorant. I can't think of a third explanation for her deplorable piece of...journalism.
I have received your Letter of the 4th. containing an apology for sending an agreeable piece of Intelligence which you have since discover'd to be false; mistakes of this kind are not uncommon and most frequently happen to those whose zeal and sanguineness allow no room for scepticism when any thing favorable to their Country is plausibly related. [More]
Harley Swarm, Constitution Party member running for governor of Minnesota contacted me and submitted his answers to the questionnaire, and I want to share them with you. I think when you read them you'll see why... [More]It's pretty nice when candidates approach me and volunteer answers to the questionnaire. So I wrote a second Gun Rights Examiner column today to highlight the experience.
The rifle allegedly used in the cowardly slaying of Seattle Police Officer Timothy Q. Brenton on Halloween night is not a “military-style assault rifle” as asserted in a Seattle Times report, which was subsequently used by Seattle Weekly reporter Nina Shapiro in an attempt to blister a local gun rights advocate, Alan Gottlieb. [More]Dave Workman takes an ignorant "crusading journalist" who wants to "ban assault weapons" to task.
A grandfather was arrested in a dawn raid and held in a police cell for six hours - for using a single swear word in front of a council official. [More]Enquiring minds want to know who the "official" was, so that we can perhaps send him sentiments of our own--along with an invitation to do something about it.
Ware claims that certain Chicago Police Officers have a history of making false arrests because they get overtime pay to attend court, "regardless of the arrests' validity." [More]So why shouldn't they be able to kidnap you? They're not just "Only Ones," they're Chicago "Only Ones."
An officer accidentally shot himself in the ankle at the Arizona Law Enforcement Academy Monday morning. [More]I suppose if I pointed out that "negligently" might be a better word, or that this is yet one more example of police not being the "Only Ones" professional enough to carry guns, it would all be academic?
Mike Mataria said he hates guns, but a second apparent armed robbery at one of his convenience stores “forced” him to buy one. [More]Actually, Mike, it's the people who hate guns who introduce force into the equation. They don't want you to have a say in the matter, and they're willing to set state enforcers on you to make it so.
Why, whatever can we do about it? As I reported last month, the Binational Task Force on the United States-Mexico Border thinks reinstituting a ban on semiautomatic firearms here in the U.S. is just the ticket. The theory is, if you restrict choices for honest, peaceable people, you'll reduce options for the corrupt and violent. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column headline demonstrates that there are, in fact, stupid questions. I ask one to show how monumentally stupid the answers some come up with truly are.
With respect to the views of the Navy Board for securing the Frigates. The situation of the Army would not admit of a compliance with them, supposing they would Answer the end. I have therefore written to the Board in the most pressing terms to have the Frigates scutled in such way, that they may be raised when it shall be necessary, and that in the mean time, they may not be liable to injury from floating ice. I see no measure so likely to secure them to us and against the Enemy's attempts. I have been extremely fearful they would have possessed and employed them with the Delaware and their [floating] Batteries on the rear of the Gallies and the Fort, while the Ships below attacked in Front. I need not point out the probable consequences of such an Event, they are too obvious. [More]Also, in another land and another time, some people who did not have guns were cleaning up broken glass...
