Notes from the Resistance...
Police officers from two Chicago suburbs are being sued after one of them allegedly Tasered a man having a diabetic seizure because the diabetic involuntarily hit the officer while being taken to an ambulance. [More]My prediction: It will be held they were following protocol. I'm only surprised he's not facing charges for resisting arrest and assaulting an "Only One"...
Chief Bob Terry said he believes the case "illustrates the frustration of many people in this community who are fed up and do not want their stuff stolen. But we don't know yet if that is what was happening or not, and we do not advise that shooting is the correct course of action to take," Chief Terry said. [More]I'll be interested to see how this one pans out. I've never been a big fan of "warning shots."
Excuse me while I go to my neighbor’s barn and begin shoveling... [More]MOWCA Blog takes exception to this.
Firearms do have a place in church. [More]Ed Stone tells us why he believes that.
Here are Andy Martin's responses...[More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks for a suitable replacement for Mark Kirk in an attempt to send the GOP a strong message about the unacceptability of anti-gunners in their ranks.
You request in your letter that I would candidly give my opinion of your conduct, while you acted under me in a military capacity; what I think of your ability in discharging the duties of your department; and, also, that I would recollect, if possible, all that passed between us relative to the acceptance and resignation of your appointment to it. [More]
Here are some statements politicians holding national office provided to GUNS Magazine when asked to comment on the Second Amendment. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column gives us a glimpse in how we got to here from there...
General Washington followed his success at Trenton with another on January 3, 1777, when, again crossing the Delaware, he outmarched General Charles Cornwallis, and approaching from the rear defeated three British regiments and three companies of light cavalry at Princeton, New Jersey. [More]
According to a Sullivan County Sheriff's Office spokesman, a Remington model 870 12-gauge shotgun and a Bush Master AR-15 were stolen from WCSO Detective Heather Salyer's unmarked WCSO vehicle while parked at a residence between Dec. 23 and Dec. 29. [More]What, she left guns in the car unattended and unchecked for that long?
harish lathia wrote:Because a cop didn't control his weapon.
Dear all American Brothers and Sisters
Please get rid of these guns.
You are a very intelligent and rich/ educated people, please TRUST IN GOD, not guns.
Do not fear, but analyse yourselves and you will see that your essence is a spark of divinity as you are human beings.
With this knowledge and your other endowments you can lead us to a better world.
You do not need guns.
Harish Lathia
January 2, 2010 12:34 PM GMT [More]
The only things that are clear: Good, rational people don't behave like thugs. The presence of weapons doesn't change that. And rules don't stop rule-breakers. The "laws" are useless at changing these fundamental truths--which means they've been enacted for another reason altogether.Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at more of the exemplary behavior we've come to expect from our bread-and-circus clowns...I mean, sports heroes.
But what? [More]
January 2, Washington forwards to governor Nicholas Cooke a letter from General James Varnum advising him that Rhode Island's troop quota should be completed with blacks. Washington urges Cooke to give the recruiting officers every assistance. [More]
Do something.Here's my last resolution. I think it's the most important one.
Every day.
Start today. [More]
The Southern Poverty Law Centre, which tracks extremist organisations, says it has so far counted more than 300 patriot groups this year...[More]So the Sarah Brady Paradise "Authorized Journalist" wants to call American patriots who believe in the Constitution "extreme," and then tell his readers with a straight face that we should consider SPLC to be "researchers," with the aura of legitimacy and honest brokerage that implies?
Oops.Bailey had told authorities his truck was unlocked but his glove compartment was locked.
...That model truck doesn't have a locking glove compartment. [More]
HB 2249: Courts - As enacted, requires courts to collect to order the collection and reporting of certain information regarding individuals who have been adjudicated as a mental defective or judicially committed to a mental institution; clarifies that a person may not obtain a handgun carry permit if the person has been "judicially committed to a mental institution" instead of "committed to or hospitalized in a mental institution"; requires that certain notice be provided to persons detained for evaluation or treatment; revises various related provisions. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 8; Title 16; Title 33; Title 38; Title 39; Title 40; Title 49; Title 54; Title 55 and Title 65. [More]As opposed to just a commitment.
The argument seems to boil down to if peaceable armed citizens cross certain property lines, our behavior changes. We degenerate into hot-tempered, conscienceless, out-of-control binge-drinking frat boys and drunken cowboys, ready to blast for any reason--or for no reason at all. Oh, and avenging vigilantes...that's what the antis are calling self-defense these days, isn't it? [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column asks how people who can't be trusted with guns in prohibited locations can be trusted with them anywhere.
As this day begins the new year The General orders a gill of spirits to be Served to each non-commission'd Officer andAs regular readers know, I use this feature to bring us a daily entry from the Founding Era/Revolutionary War period as a way of illustrating the efforts and sacrifices made by those who bequeathed to us a Republic. I focused last year on 1777. This year we will look at 1778.soldier; And to avoid the irregular and partial distribution of this Article (which has been a good deal complaind of) he expressly orders that no Spirits shall issue to any part of the Troops in future but in Consequence of general or special orders from Head Quarters. A deviation from this rule will be at the risque and peril of the Issuing Commissary. [More]
I will attempt to keep all of the suggested gun rights resolutions. [More]Today's resolution is the most ambitious. Also see one from Dave Workman and three from Ed Stone.
That is the only way to describe it. [More]Yeah, but he's our drunken, lying slob...isn't he?
I think Reid is a communist and a traitor who does what he does on guns because the political climate in NV forces him to. Anyone who thinks they can make a binding deal with a communist and traitor shouldn't act surprised when they find themselves being devoured.We need to look at the totality of a politician's actions. Fact is, Baucus supported Obama. Baucus supported Eric Holder. Baucus supported Sotomayor. Anyone acting like his other votes happen in a vacuum will have no one but themselves to blame when they find they can no longer breathe.
I'm done with political compromises--that's what got us to this point. Some of us aren't backing up any more. A lot of us. And we're pissed.
I'm unimpressed with the Durbin argument. If he gets in and wants to squeeze harder, I suppose some will obey. Just as some of us will not. Interesting times.
Freedom is not won by those afraid to take risks. And to back Reid because someone perceptibly worse might get in is not the type of attitude that will win it.
Shkupolli killed his ex-girlfriend in a nearby apartment with an unlicensed handgun before heading to the mall, Kaski said...What can I say, except "Authorized Journalists"...?
...[P]olice launched a manhunt for the heavily armed killer. [More]
Tennessee State Guard commander Richard Hamblen said it's his Second Amendment right as part of a militia to convert assault rifles into fully automatic weapons. The Sixth US Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed. [More]Because "shall not be infringed" is such a squishy and undefined concept...
...Point of clarification: ...I did not convert any guns from semiauto--all mine were remanufactured from de-milled machine gun kits. They always were machine guns, always were intended to be machine guns, and were nothing but machine guns, the "standard issue weapon", as Solicitor General Clement said in Heller, of the National Guard.If you haven't been following this case, here's what I've got.
The whole point is the constitutionality of the NFA of 1934 and therefore all gun laws. The Supreme Court ruled on what is protected by the Second Amendment in Miller in 1939. All I ask is that they honor their ruling and apply it to the law. And if that ruling is no longer correct, then they need to explain, with constitutional citations, why it is no longer correct.
A United States Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld the constitutionality of pointing a gun at any citizen daring to carry, lawfully, a concealed weapon in public. [More]Atlanta Gun Rights Examiner Ed Stone fleshes out the meaning behind a story we touched on here.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Rodney Monroe said "it would be naive" to believe that the officer hadn't assaulted other women. [More]And we haven't even gotten into the drunk-driving drunk-driving advisor, the speeding killer, the jealous rampaging lesbian...
I know it's supposed to be "no questions asked," but here are some questions Jim, Frank, and the LA Sheriffs Department ought to be answering...[More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column wonders how many gun laws anti-gunners are breaking right in front of a fawning media's eyes.
On December 31, 1777; George Washington reverses previous policy and allows the recruitment of black soldiers. some 5,000 participate in the Revolutionary War. [More]
She may have been sick. [More]I don't know what is more outrageous--this government parasite or the commentators defending her.
This will at most cost you 5 minutes and a couple stamps. Less if you email. [More]Here's today's resolution suggestion.
Recently, Leonard Embody was detained by park rangers after being seen with an AK-47 handgun in Radnor Lake State Park. [More]Knoxville Gun Rights Examiner Liston Matthews shares his thoughts on this incident.
Police found the two doormen, Dwayne Troupe, 22, and Ambrosio Silva, 28, were carrying guns, and on searching the building, found a woman with a gun, Zenobia Mills, 28, as well as five other handguns in other parts of the building. The three were charged with felony unlawful use of a weapon and other gun-related crimes, and are being held in lieu of bail at the Cook County Jail. [More]In gun-free Tim-Tom Paradise? Impossible. Besides, who would ever think to open a speakeasy in Chicago of all places?
"California will become like Cuba with cars," said Lawrence Keane, senior counsel for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, which represents the gun industry. "You will only be able to get very old models of guns." [More]Pretty much, Mr. Keane, and that's the way the rulers want it.
Democratic freshman Sen. Kristin Gillibrand is one of her party's most vulnerable incumbents, but New York Republicans can't come up with a political heavyweight to knock her on the ropes, and her campaign gains momentum with each passing day. [More]It doesn't matter. New York Republicans can't come up with a principled candidate anyway.
OK, fine. But lots of politicians tell us they support the Second Amendment--and then immediately follow up by showing us their big "buts." Are any of these three willing to give us unequivocal answers to specific questions that will allow us to determine exactly what they mean, with no room for doubt? Do you think they'd answer the Gun Rights Questionnaire? [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at three candidates who say they support us. I'd like to find out how much they really do.
We have taken up our quarters in such a way that from the battalion alarm places each brigade can march into the city (as well as conditions and order will permit) and also behind the redoubts within the city. [More]
This is a dangerous and insidious new way of attacking our right to keep and bear arms. It's incumbent on each of us to first read and understand the document, discuss it among ourselves, and come up with a way to defy and resist this. [More]This development necessitated another Gun Rights Examiner column. The antis will not stop. And they'll use whatever means at hand to attack us, including keeping our representatives out of the loop.
This one is meaningful for me. I wrote some years ago about being subjected to insults for presuming to march through Santa Monica, CA as part of the Second Amendment contingent in their Constitution parade--it seems that particular amendment wasn't very welcome in the People's Republic. And I wrote a few years after that about how our local counter-demonstration to the so-called "Million Mom March" in Westwood, CA, only drew several hundreds of supporters--despite an area gun show a few weekends before attracting over 40,000 gun owners. [More]Suggested resolutions posted to date:
Click to enlarge"Further, whether or not passers-by saw the gun is immaterial to the question of whether an objective officer who observed Schubert walking in such a manner would possess reasonable suspicion of criminal activity." [More]Who does this upstart think he is, having a gun in a republic where we've sworn an oath to support the supreme law of the land, which says the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed? An "Only One"?
Winchester secured a Homeland Security contract for up to 200 million rounds of .40 S&W, ammo that will be used by Immigrations, Customs and Enforcement. The load is a 135-grain hollowpoint. No ballistics are available as this load is not yet cataloged, but it will fall under the Winchester Ranger brand. [More]I'd be interested in knowing the time period/quantities/shipment intervals the contract specifies.
Note symbol on turbolift door (click to enlarge)[W]hat incentive do we give the GOP to ever change if we continually allow them to get away with treating us like political hostages by rewarding them with power? [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column presents a question I've been asking for years. I still haven't gotten a good answer, and gun owners still keep electing rotten Republicans out of fear.
George Washington’s words in this letter represent a stirring plea for help at the darkest moment of the American Revolution. As few other documents do, this famous letter illustrates Valley Forge as an icon of American perseverance and resolve in the face of cruel fortune and overwhelming odds. [More]
