We're the Only Ones Exerting Pier Pressure Enough

An off-duty sheriff's deputy is under investigation for allegedly firing a gun on the crowded Redondo Beach pier during an argument with his girlfriend. [More]

I know that pier well. It used to be a walk from our house. We've patronized many of the places there, for years, including the restaurant mentioned in this story. We've taken the kids there many times, always seeming to wind up in the Fun Factory arcade.

And then you have this stupid bastard endangering families because--because what, he's a frickin' armed headcase with a badge?

Good luck trying to get a carry permit if you live in Redondo. Only "Only Ones" can be trusted there. You're at their mercy.

His psycho mug shot sure looked familiar, inspiring a "separated at birth" insight:

They'll see and they'll know and they'll say "Why he wouldn't even harm a fly."

[Via David R]

Homeland Security

The Preamble is a statement of political purpose, a legal mandate and requirement, and a strict rule of interpretation. All the powers and disabilities (that is, absences of power) that follow in the body of the Constitution are to be construed in light of, and to be employed so as to advance, all of the goals the Preamble sets forth, not to thwart, subvert, or ignore any of them. [More]

Too many have fallen for the fraud that being secured is the same thing as being secure.

[Via Tina Terry]

We're the Only Ones "And Leave the Driving to Us" Enough

An Anderson police officer has been arrested, charged with raping a woman on the way to jail. [More]

Huh. It certainly reveals an attitude that he can do whatever he pleases with someone he has power over. How you treat those really does define character, don't you think?

Kind of makes you wonder why he felt so confident that he could get away with it, doesn't it?

[Via Harvey]

Time to Ban Assault Crosses

Committee holsters guns-in-church bill [More]

I'm sure State Sen. Karen Peterson, D-New Orleans, who "voted against the bill" would be real useful in a situation where someone ignored the damn law and did what they felt like.

Still, perhaps the politicians are focusing on the wrong weapon:

80-year-old beaten cross likely used as a murder weapon, say police.

Churchgoing Lilian Wilson...was found by the pastor of her church Central United Methodist in Hamlin, Ark., Sunday afternoon...

I wonder if someone being bludgeoned to death in church by a maniac would find themselves wishing they could make it stop?

Not that the subversive United Methodist establishment is capable of doing more than regurgitating its collective cud while playing the role of useful idiot.

It's not the first time a cross ban has come up here...

Government to Make Silencers Legal?

Well, political silencers, yeah...[Read]

And who do we have to thank for making the "campaign finance reform" fraud a reality in the first place?

[Via Ron W]

Trivial Pursuits

I know how Mike H feels. My head is a lint trap for minutia, too. Still, sometimes paying attention to the seemingly trivial yields useful situational information overlooked by the more serious (and often-times less imaginative and creative) minded. [Read]

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise...

Here it comes:

Now an MP is calling on the Home Secretary to look at legislation to stop people having access to guns, as Derrick Bird did. [More]

Orange County for Gun Control!

Sheriff Hutchens wins election [More]

The people have spoken, and your rights ARE subject to their will--if you let them be.

OK, then citizens, reap what you sow. Too bad good people will be hurt. Too bad enough of them didn't choose to educate and involve themselves.

What Does Sharron Angle Victory in Nevada U.S. Senate Primary Mean for Gun Owners?

Ah yes. If you believe in that Constitution Reid swore an oath to uphold, you're "wacky." Let the conflation with extremists and haters begin. You know, the "progressive" M.O. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column explores the all-too-familiar divide between "pragmatist" and "principles freak."

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This Day in History: June 9

In Congress, June 9, 1778: Whereas doubts have arisen, as to the sum which shall be paid for the rations which now may be due and owing to officers in the service of these states ... resolved, that the value of the rations due since the first day of last January till the first instant, be estimated at one third of a dollar... [More]

GRE Round Up for June 8

Here are the latest Gun Rights Examiner posts:

Anthony Bouchard/Cheyenne:

The NRA endorses anti-gun McCain

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
Arcturus - a book review

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: An editorial against our ideology?

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Personal safety, ‘vigilante justice’ and another lesson from Paladin

Kurt Hofmann/St.Louis:

Privacy another casualty of 'War on Terror'

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And while you're at it, be sure and check out these other liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Kent McManigal/Albuquerque Libertarian
• Kevin Wilmeth/Anchorage Libertarian
• Jesse Mathewson/Cochise County Libertarian
• Anthony Martin/Conservative

Second Chance

For those of you who missed this...

You can attend this...

Mike says he's going.

Elsie's Womanhood

John Jacob H discusses shooting to wound, and how long that literary device has been around...[Read]

To Serve Man

A global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of climate change, a UN report said today. [More]

Unless you're one of the Kanamit rulers:

Chi-Town Three.333pers

The report’s authors estimated about 1,400 black-market gun sales occurred each year in the Grand Boulevard-Washington Park neighborhood, “or about one sale per year for every 30 people living in this very high-crime neighborhood.” [More]

Me, I think Tim-Tom and Jody the Brave ought to personally go down there and round 'em all up--and stick a bayonet up the butt of anyone who objects.

[Via maxomai]

Who Ordered the McDonald's Combo?

NRA-ILA's Chris Cox has a column about the McDonald case in the July issue of Guns & Ammo. It's not online that I can find, but here's something I'm having trouble with:

This month, the Supreme Court is expected to issue its ruling in the combined cases of McDonald et al. v. City of Chicago and NRA et al. v. Village of Oak Park, Illinois, challenging Chicago's and Oak Park's handgun bans...The two Illinois cases, now commonly referred to as McDonald, follow the Court's landmark 2008 Heller decision, which struck down Washington, D.C.'s handgun ban on Second Amendment grounds..."

Can anyone point to where the High Court accepted any case other than the McDonald case filed by the Second Amendment Foundation? Because they did not accept the NRA's case for review.

I'm trying to square the G&A claim Cox makes about "combined cases" with this:

The Federal District Court, though not combining the three cases, acknowledged that all three were substantially the same lawsuits, and accepted Gura’s case rather than allowing all three to run through the court simultaneously, which is not uncommon.

Sorry, but I've just seen too many times where credit has been an issue--and it's never been due to SAF.

And yeah, I'm aware of Paul Clement's due process argument. That still doesn't mean the cases were "combined."

Anyone have knowledge to let us know there's nothing to see here?

So What Exactly IS...

...a Freedom Outlaw? [More]

And are you one?

I also like the concept of "law pollution" and think we all ought to use it.

It's Time...

...for “In Your Face” Tactics [More]

Hopefully it's not past time...

[Via Ron W]

A Winning Strategy

Don’t let the Conservatives win on gun control [More]

Follow us and we can all lose, eh?

A New Slogan

Attorneys for Legal Community Against Violence will host a conference call with political leaders, law enforcement officials and others to brief members of the media on McDonald v. Chicago on the day the Supreme Court announces its decision. [More]

To add to Orwell's maxims, no doubt?

You know:

War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.

And now:

Losing is winning.

In a way. But hold off on any victory dance. Yes, expect a close decision that the outright ban must go. But, as with Heller, don't think for a moment that a thousand infringements won't be allowed to stand--and even move forward. And all the High Court has to do to "approve" them is not hear a challenge.

Expect LCAV to tell us all about how they plan on persisting to subvert.

Nevada's U.S. Senate Primary Features Three Gun Rights Questionnaire Respondents and One Holdout

What better race to assert ourselves than one with the potential to unseat one of the nation's most powerful politicians? And what better primary to have maximum influence on than one with a predicted low turnout? [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a lever and a place to stand.

This Day in History: June 8

From the kind anxiety expressed in your letter as well as from other sources of information we discover that our enemies have filled Europe with Thrasonic accounts of victories they had never won and conquests they were fated never to make. While these accounts alarmed our friends in Europe they afforded us diversion. We have long been out of all fear for the event of the war. I enclose you a list of the killed, wounded, and captives of the enemy from the commencement of hostilities at Lexington in April, 1775, until November, 1777, since which there has been no event of any consequence. This is the best history of the war which can be brought within the compass of a letter. [More]

GRE Round Up for June 7

Here are the latest Gun Rights Examiner posts:

Dan Bidstrup/Denver:
Talking across the aisle

Rob Reed/Detroit:
A Michigan House committee to hear legislation to eliminate the pistol 'purchase permit' requirement

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Safer Streets 2010: Forget the Republicans, they're not listening.

Safer Streets 2010: California's AB 1934.

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Focus on SCOTUS: Chicago ruling due, Kagan nomination will heat

Kurt Hofmann/St.Louis:

NRA endorses anti-gun extremist John McCain in AZ Republican Senate primary

The Brady Campaign sure knows how to pick 'visionaries'

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And while you're at it, be sure and check out these other liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Kent McManigal/Albuquerque Libertarian
• Kevin Wilmeth/Anchorage Libertarian
• Jesse Mathewson/Cochise County Libertarian
• Anthony Martin/Conservative

The Iron Law

Lawyers like Josh Horwitz and Casey Anderson (authors of Guns, Democracy and the Insurrectionist Idea) would have you believe that the state’s monopoly on the use of force is essential to the ’survival of democracy and ordered liberty’. [More]

Except they misquote their ideological hero, Nazi-ascension-to-power enabler Max Weber, who actually called for a "monopoly of violence."

I talked a bit about that creepiness here. I have more to say, but it's in a GUNS Magazine column that hasn't been published yet, so I'll probably hold off on further comment until then.

Candid Camera

What with laws against videotaping "Only Ones" once more gaining attention, correspondent Todd reminds us of an earlier U.S. District Court decision in favor of the citizen... [Read]

An Assault Weapon

As opposed to a "patrol vehicle"...? [Read]

[Via retrotruckman]

We're the Only Ones "Joke's On YOU" Enough

Cop walks as DUI charges dropped in fatal '07 crash
'IT'S A JOKE' | Victims' families upset, but may press civil case [More]

I don't get why everyone is so surprised.

Haven't we established cops and booze have a special "Only Ones" relationship?

[Via The_Chef, who has more]

NOT "Assault Weapons"...

"Patrol rifles"... [Read]

That old black magic...

[Via Carl S who wrote them a letter about this. I'll make sure and link to it if they publish it.]

Null and Void

Unlike Judge Weinstein, I have reflexively incorporated into my jury instructions what can only be viewed as an anti-nullification charge: “You should not be concerned about the wisdom of any rule I state. Regardless of any opinion that you may have as to what the law may be or ought to be, it would violate your sworn duty to base a verdict on any view of the law other than that which I give you.” [More]

And then he goes on to tell us that doesn't work. Typical. But not surprising from the Brady talking points he cites.

Screw him. Vote your conscience and nullify the influence of judicial tyrants.

If it doesn't help secure the Blessings of Liberty, the hell with what these arrogant authoritarians say. Besides, they routinely break a more solemn oath every time they put on the black robe...

And yeah, I realize this is a year old. Unfortunately, as long as it is still "relevant," it will remain a timely reference.

[Via cycjec]

Mentally-Challenged Weiss Confused

Weis: 'Homicides continue to challenge us' [More]

Or as Yul Brynner observed in "The King and I":

Is a puzzlement.

Forget it Jake, it's Chi-Town.

Full Disclosure

Democrats pushing legislation to require that groups airing political advertisements disclose their donors are trying to prevent the National Rifle Association and AFL-CIO from joining the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in opposing the measure. [More]

I don't get it--I know NRA fought "campaign finance reform," but then they turned around and endorsed one of its primary architects...twice now...

Are Police the Only Ones Who Should be Armed in Establishments Serving Alcohol?

You don't go copping unwelcome feels off people, joke or not.

But there are ways of dealing with those who do that do not involve executing them on the spot. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column gives a sobering look at what can happen when we assume employment equates with trustworthiness.

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This Day in History: June 7

James Warren, on June 7, 1778, tried to summarize the effect of the recent election on him and the state. He had not been reelected by Plymouth voters in May, and the legislature did not promote him to the Council. “[If I were] dismissed from the Navy Board I should be truly a private Man, and an Independent Farmer. . . . I am tired of public life tho’ I was determined never to desert the Colours I helped to hoist. . . . If you Enquire how all this came to pass, I must tell you it is oweing to various causes. The people feel themselves uneasy and don’t know the reason. They have therefore shifted their members more generally than ever.” [More]

GRE Weekend Round Up

Here are the latest Gun Rights Examiner posts:

Dan Bidstrup/Denver:
Easy political activism for gun rights

Rob Reed/Detroit:
The tide turns in the battle for gun rights as the Brady Campaign withers away

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:
Does Joyce Elliott and Robbie Wills really care about gun rights in Arkansas?

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
Restaurant carry again legal in Tennessee

Kurt Hofmann/St.Louis:

A government monopoly on force . . . at the flick of a switch

I do hope you realize the importance of sharing these links and show these guys your support by doing so...?

And while you're at it, be sure and check out these other liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Kent McManigal/Albuquerque Libertarian
• Kevin Wilmeth/Anchorage Libertarian
• Jesse Mathewson/Cochise County Libertarian
• Anthony Martin/Conservative

Gun-Savvy Citizen Shoots Hostage-Takers, Saves Family and Police Chief

A citizen competent in firearms use saved the day--not to mention a police chief. And this gripping story is but one entry from "Guns in the News" in a just-republished issue of GUNS Magazine.

From 50 years ago. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column provides a literal blast from the past. Two, actually...

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This Day in History: June 6

We will resume War of the Rebellion Year 1778 tomorrow.

Should Law Require 'Shooting to Wound'?

That any would believe Lone Ranger outcomes can be mandated by legislation speaks more to the childish ignorance of much of the political class running our cities. It figures this would be proposed in New York. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column shows what juveniles some urban politicians are when you strip away their mask of pretend authority.

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This Day in History: June 5

If the movement of the Enemy from Philadelphia should oblige the Army to quit this ground before you arrive, I will leave directions for you. I imagine the business you are at present upon cannot suffer by a temporary absence. [More]

GRE Round Up for June 4

Here are the latest Gun Rights Examiner posts:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

Brit shooting aftermath: One psychologist clarifies why restrictive gun laws fail…anywhere

Kurt Hofmann/St.Louis:

Has national park carry saved its first lives?

Chris Woodard/Tucson:
Arizona in the Fed’s firing line - Oh well

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"Fortunately"

Fortunately, NRA members can be confident that NRA will continue, as it has for years, to defend its members’ privacy and its ability to communicate freely with the American people. [More]

By endorsing one of the prime architects of the "campaign finance reform" abomination...? How exactly does that work?

Champion Losers

In yet another nod to the protection of fledgling self-esteem, an Ottawa children’s soccer league has introduced a rule that says any team that wins a game by more than five points will lose by default. [More]

Time was, "Harrison Bergeron" was considered absurd exaggeration to make a point.

What kind of twisted bastard would do this to a child? What kind of loser parent would allow their child to remain under this sick influence? What kind of society would promote this as a policy and expect to survive?

What other species teaches its young to fail?

And how does it serve the ends of those engineering it?

We're the Only Ones "Sexy Time!" Enough

The victims were reportedly as young as 10 years old at the time of the alleged assaults and the assaults continued throughout their teenage years...[More]

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An ex-cop was convicted Wednesday of sexually abusing two women who he promised jobs and child-care program applications. Now he faces a rape trial. [More]

[Via Harvey]

We're the Only Ones Not Smiling and Not on Candid Camera Enough

We talked about this the other day.

Here's more.

These are what all freedom-minded people should regard as "Intolerable Acts."

[Via Todd F]

Cull...Uh...Calling All FFLs,,,

"ATF, in an effort to ensure consistency within the Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) community, initiated the ruling released today which provides ATF headquarters oversight of all administrative actions prior to notices being sent to the licensee." [More]

And how is Special K going to do that?

Here's how.

They not only initiate the action, they get to decide any appeals. What could be unfair about that?

What, you can't afford to mortgage your house while we've got your business closed down to fight us in court? Bummer.

The Legend of the West

You might want to have this playing in the background before reading on...

We've got this guy.

And we've even got this guy.

So naturally, NRA puts their money on this guy.

You know, the guy who wanted to effectively end private sales...

I'm sure there's a perfectly pragmatic political reason why we "principles freaks" should just shut up with our silly, unrealistic SNBI naivete and trust the chessmasters know better how to play the game...

Assuming the game they're gambling on is chess...

What the Leopard Taught the Eagle

California bill would increase rules on rifles [More]

Damn state is near drowning with existing debt and we've seen the Canadian experience with a long gun registry--so by all means, blow more government resources on this.

And naturally, Mike "Der" Feuer is at the center of things.

Maybe give 'em what they want instead of resisting? If they won't let you pull back, push forward? There's more than one way to kill a leopard.

DOJ Report Says ATF Unprepared for WMD Response

Meanwhile, we can all sleep a little more soundly tonight knowing we're well protected from the Airsoft Menace and that firearms transfers have been arbitrarily redefined to create industry-wide problems where none existed before. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a report critical of ATF's utter failure to carry out an assigned critical responsibility--issued by the department they report to.

It sure looks like somebody's setting somebody up to take a hit.

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This Day in History: June 4

June 4, 1778: “Today I was ordered to No. 10, but was taken along on this expedition. At the ruined inn called the Risin Sun, to which the command marched, I was detached with 15 men to a hill on the right side of the road where I place 5 sentinels.”
—Journal of Lieutenant John Charles Philip von Krafft, pp. 38-39. [More]

GRE Round Up for June 3

Here are the latest Gun Rights Examiner posts:

Anthony Bouchard/Cheyenne:
Machinegun and cannon shoot, this weekend in Casper

Dan Bidstrup/Denver:
Anyone, anytime, anywhere: Are you aware?

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:
Guns On Campus: Mistaken notions cost student safety.

Safer Streets 2010: Do California and the L.A. Times oppose safer streets?

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Chicago’s 2nd recent self-defense shooting ‘validates lawsuit,’ says SAF founder

Kurt Hofmann/St.Louis:
Will British gun laws get any more restrictive? Is that even possible?

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Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise...

Teachers leave boy, 5, stranded in tree because of health and safety (then report passer-by who helped him down to police) [More]

Right then.

In case anyone is wondering why I haven't said anything yet about the Cumbria shooting, I'm wrapping up a column this afternoon on that for my "Rights Watch" submission to GUNS Magazine. I needed to wait for some pertinent information to be reported and now have what I need to finish the article.

We're NOT the Only Ones Catty Enough

Because if we were, there'd be none of this:

He was booked into the Middle River Regional Jail, where he is being held without bond. [More]

How Do You Say "Wascally Wabbit" in Belgian?

European regulators on Monday urged EU governments to adopt new rules banning the international export of hunting rifles and other arms for civilian use. [More]

Well, gee, "sportsmen," maybe there's a reason some of you ought not be so quick to throw EBRs under the bus...what with hanging together/hanging separately 'n all that...

Although I'm sure some sporting gun owners may perceive no need for a EuroFudd "sniper rifle"...

[Via Harvey]

We're the Only Ones Off the Record Enough

In Spite of State Law, Maryland Law Enforcement Officials Still Arresting, Charging People for Recording Cops [More]

Here's the relationship:

We watch you.

You don't watch us.

Or else. Backed by armed force.

Get it?

Uppity damn "civilians."

[Via Mack H]

What Have You Got To Hide?

Under the new bill, anyone buying a prepaid phone would have to give identification, and retailers would have to keep the records for 18 months. [More]

And what legitimate reason could you possibly have for not wanting the government to know?

If you're not doing anything wrong, you've got nothing to worry about.

Right?

[Via Mack H]

We're the Only Ones Shaming You Enough

The men featured on the flier do not face charges in the slaying or outstanding warrants for other offenses...[More]

In other words, they haven't even been charged with anything, let alone tried and convicted, but government feels it can single them out for special negative public treatment.

First, that assumes hard core gang members capable of feeling shame--some revel in notoriety, and this solidifies a street reputation that they've pulled something over on the man.

Second, it assumes it is the function of government to punish people who are legally innocent of any crime. If they can do this to gang members, they can do this to people who self-identify as militia members.

And we've seen where that leads.

[Via Ed M]

ATF, ESF-13 and WMD

So what is the real scary thing? That ATF has been put in charge of "Emergency Support Function 13" to "ensure public safety and security in the event a WMD incident overwhelms state and local law enforcement"? Or that two years later, they still haven't done jack shit about it? Both? [More]

Glad to see Vanderboegh bring this up. I was going to do something about it on Gun Rights Examiner today but opted to cover the Hutaree development because I've been following that story.

I still may post some relevant documents on this tomorrow.

How's That DC "Gun Control" Working Out?

Yeah, this seems like a pretty good reason to tell guys like Dick Heller that they don't have a "fundamental right"...[Read]

No shortage of people out there who can't be trusted without custodians...

The Rise of the Thug Left

"Rise"?

Seems to me they've been thugs from Day One. [Read]

[Via Len Savage]

Indictment Adds Weapons Charges Against Hutaree

This raises questions about what role the reported infiltrator may have played, and importantly, will the government be relying on the NFRTR to prove its case? [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a new tack by the government--and asks if an old problem will factor into things.

Also catch yesterday's Trigger Sports LIVE! program.

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This Day in History: June 3

Thomas Shanks was convicted by a ‘Board of General Officers’ at Valley Forge on June 3, 1778, for ‘being a Spy in the Service of the Enemy,’ and sentenced to be hanged. [More]