‘Controversy’ over ‘gun-packing Santa’ manufactured by TV news

It’s ridiculous, but it does show the divide between hoplophobes, that is, those with an irrational fear of weapons, and those of us who responsibly own, use and enjoy firearms, and who raise our children with our values.

It’s also ridiculous because this is one isolated complaint. Any wider “controversy” has been entirely manufactured by the “Authorized Journalists” at KCRA. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a Christmas miracle of sorts: Making something out of nothing.

Also make the first in a series of New Year's resolutions.

Resolve to share the link?

GRE Round Up for December 10

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow GREs:

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:

• Gun shop owners put Second Amendment rights up for sale

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Story about wounded illegal proves stupidity of Seattle’s ‘sanctuary policy'

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Thank veterans by protecting their right to self-defense

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Liberty News/Safer Streets Newsletter

Longenecker's latest...[Read]

The Tovarisch Solution

"I just don't see any opposition to it," Lavin said. "I've talked to quite a few of my comrades, and they seem to like it." [More]

Well, yeah...anybody who goes by "Comrade" probably would...

Show Me the Money

“They have been showing you drugs and arms, but where is the money?” asked Rafael Correia, 22, who works at a furniture store in Alemão. “We had tons of money here. Complexo do Alemão was a money mine. So did the criminals leave here with all that money? Or where is it now?” [More]

Silly Rafael.

I'll bet you think you've seen all the guns and drugs, too.

How do you say "Only Ones" in Portuguese?

We're the Only Ones...

...Neighborly Enough
...With Just the Right Prescription Enough
...Not Afraid to Make the First Move Enough
...Promotable Enough
...Motivating Kids Enough
...All in the Family Enough
...One More for the Road Enough
...Behind a Protective Shield Enough
...Stopping Enough
...Penetrating Enough
...For the Children Enough

Today's "few bad apples" sampling of those officially deemed more trustworthy than the rest of us...

[Via FFFW]

Determined to Hang Separately

You limited horizons barkeeps just don't get it, do you? [Read]

That's OK by me if your ability to conduct your business as you see fit is progressively eroded.  Too bad for you that instead of partnering with freedom advocates, and maybe learning something, you're determined to impose limitations on them instead.

It's Friday. That means after I grill my steaks (thanks for the Cajun spices, Mr. G!) it's the enclosed porch for me, with maybe about two--hell, make it three-- fingers of the good stuff (at a fraction of what you'd charge), a nice maduro (with nobody telling me I can't light up), genuine companionship, and unfettered access to whatever I decide is appropriate in terms of personal security measures.

What do I need you for again?

On the bright side, maybe you can all become cop hangouts.

We're the Only Ones Not Finding Enough

A tip about stolen property and weapons launched a search that included several homes and lasted several hours on Tuesday. [More]

Let's hope they had several warrants--the story doesn't say.

"Two stolen weapons in one home and a small amount of cocaine in another" hardly seems like much of a success for a joint county/BATFU community clusterfrak, does it?  Sounds like need to lean a little harder on their snitch.

[Via Jeffersonian]

Obama Backs Gun Rights. Period.

...for all you "sportsmen." [More]

I left a comment, but the one I really want to call your attention to is the one by "Tree Hugger."

All such creatures have is their own ugliness.  What an ass.

[Via Brian F]

Doubling Down

Your year-end gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar, up to $800,000, by a small group of very generous SPLC supporters, allowing your contribution to go twice as far in the fight against hate and injustice. [More]

So say the masters of hate and injustice.

Won't you please help Moe and the rest of his stooges live the lifestyle they're accustomed to?

I love them using a photo to make it look like "the little people" are donating coins when these astroturfing hatemongers just admitted they have a nucleus of rich benefactors.  Not to mention $200 million in their reserve fund. And not to mention a failing audit grade from the Better Business Bureau's "Wise Giving Alliance"...

[Thanks to Wayne Lutton for the tip]

No Expulsion?

Michael Carl has been in email correspondence with the school superintendent about the girl who left her hunting rifle locked in a case in her car trunk.

He has received assurances that "[C]ommon sense and understanding will be used in the matter as in all such matters. I could not and will not recommend expulsion in this matter."

Let's hope.

We're the Only Ones Proven Effective Enough

Sorry, but this is funny.

[Via The Bitter Clinger]

"Skidmark" Speaks

We talked about the VA gun owner being charged with brandishing and obstruction for pointing a finger and about a potential law enforcement conflict of interest.

He describes the incident in a video posted here.

The "authorities" really don't like people who know their rights, do they?

Virginia Tech official in denial before shootings and after report

the neThat Hincker thinks he and his colleagues acted appropriately is hardly surprising though. After all, this is the same administrator who, before the shootings, publicly ridiculed an adult student advocating for campus concealed carry... [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes that denial is sometimes the result of being clueless, and other times a tactic to avoid consequences.

Share the link?  Just think--in about a minute, you personally could notify more people about this than Hincker et al. did when lives were at stake, and it took them over two hours. 

This Day in History: December 10

Thursday, December 10, 1778 -- According to order, the house proceeded to the election of a President, and the ballots being taken, the Hon. John Jay, Esq. was elected. [More]

GRE Round Up for December 9

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow GREs:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• ‘Zero tolerance’ may not always mean zero intelligence
• EXTRA! Seattle park attacks underscore why gun groups opposed ban

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Is the lack of a gun registry dangerous, or just 'annoying'?

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

We're the Only Ones Handy with a Gun Enough

Police did a full investigation, as is protocol for any shooting. [More]

I guess that full investigation included a review of Pocatello City Code 9.32.020: DISCHARGE OF FIREARMS PROHIBITED:

It is unlawful for any person to discharge firearms of any kind or description;

Oh, yeah, here it is:

provided, however, that this shall not apply to police officers or other persons licensed to carry firearms, in the discharge of their duties...

Was he discharging his duties--or just his gun?

[Via Steve T]

Destructive of These Ends

The Obama administration now claims a right to kill American citizens without trial, without notice, and without any chance for the marked men or women to object legally. [More]

Anybody think that won't be applied domestically if the ongoing cold war against Liberty activists heats up?

But talk about "Second Amendment remedies" against tyranny and you're the extremist.

[Via Ron W]

As We All Know, 90% of Pirate Arms Come from American Gun Shows

According to several secret State Department cables made public by WikiLeaks, the tanks not only were headed to southern Sudan, but they were the latest installment of several underground arms shipments. [More]

Hey, you guys have any chatter on Mexican cartel guns?

The fact that they're reduced to going after this Assange guy on a leaky condom charge pretty much works in his favor with me.

[Via Ed M]

The State of Utah "Authorized Journalists"

But that isn’t the kind of notoriety the state needs... Naming a state gun is problematic because a gun is, after all, a killing tool. [More]

How about a state incontinence pad?

What's in an Acronym?

WIFLE? [Read]

Is that what Elmer cawwies?

And why am I reminded of Lilly Von Schtupp? (Oh, it's twue, it's twue!)

I guess something more true to their mission, say, Constitution-Usurping Nazi Terrorist Sows, might not make for effective PR...

We're the Only Ones Judgmental Enough

The chamber voted overwhelmingly to convict U.S. District Judge Thomas Porteous on four articles of impeachment stemming from corruption and perjury charges; on the first charge, involving corruption charges from his tenure as a state court judge, the vote was 96-0. [More]

I think I'm going to start using "porteous" as an adjective...

[Via DJK]

They Must All Hang Up Together...

...or most assuredly they shall all hang up separately. [More]

“I don’t care what you think of my views,” he said. “And I don’t care what your readers think of them either.”

So there. I know you are, but what am I? Sticks and stones. I'm rubber, you're glue.


Why, the idiot is a child...

And not a very bright one.

[Found at Yankee Gun Nuts]

We're the Only Ones with a Shocking Loss Enough

Coincidentally enough, it happened across the pond in Sarah Brady Paradise... [Read]

Still, if we're too hard on the hapless chap it might demean him and injure his self-esteem. After all, it's hardly his fault he suffers from OONS (Only Ones Negligence Syndrome)...

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

People who break the law should no longer be branded offenders, a leading criminal justice campaigner has said.


Frances Crook, head of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said the "insulting" term demeans individuals and hinders their rehabilitation. [More]

How about "Alternative Morality Disorder (AMD) sufferers"? They have feelings, too, you know.

A rose by any other name.

Don't call me Norman. Call me "Chubsy-Ubsy."

We're the Only Ones Pocketing Enough

Okiwe allegedly told probationers to pay their probation fees in cash, which he pocketed, otherwise he would "violate" them by hauling them into court on a probation violation and possibly send them back to jail, according to sources. [More]

Take a tip from someone who does...?

Chicago database a tool to discourage gun ownership, not to fight crime

That, of course, is nonsense, a cover story for the gullible that masks true intent. This is part of Daley’s revenge for his court loss, an attempt to make things as difficult as he can “legally” get away with, and a way to set traps for gun owners in the bargain. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a systematic harassment campaign backed up by the threat of lethal force that includes the potential for state-sponsored terrorism.

You know, the Chicago way.

Also, hear some sharp words and pointed commentary.

Share the link?

This Day in History: December 9

Henry Laurens
Fourth President of the Continental Congress of the United States of America
Served November 1, 1777 to December 9, 1778 [More]

Battle of Beliefs?

When a young man is pulled over carrying guns with filed-off serial numbers, Nick and Pete try to get the charges thrown out on the next episode of The Defenders.

EXPIRED PROMO REMOVED BY CBS. 

For the time, being, you can watch the complete episode here. Or maybe not--I couldn't load it.  You're not missing much.

Hollywood dramatizes "illegal guns" and RKBA?

Vigilantes? Heavily armed? Darn right I'm in.

Allow me to predict a smear job that makes pretenses at presenting sympathy for all sides. Something about guns killing federal agents--and knowing CBS is behind this--tells me there's an agenda.

Here's hoping I'm wrong and that I owe all concerned an apology.

I'll know tonight.

UPDATE: All you need to know--Helmke liked it.

GRE Round Up for December 8

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:

• Arkansas legislator files open carry bill

Richard Nascak/Ft. Myers:

• HB 45 filed in Florida, will give teeth to 23-year old preemption statute.

Sean Carrana/Orlando:

• Florida House Bill 45 aims to protect Florida gun owners

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• At what age does a person's life become worth defending?

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Breaking News: Rosenberg Arrested

We've just received word that our friend and fellow activist Joel Rosenberg has been arrested by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office on a felony warrant, signed by Judge Janet Poston, over his lawful carry of a handgun into Minneapolis City Hall on November 5 of this year... [More]

You can see what a menace to society Joel is here (make sure you also watch parts 2 and 3).

The Northern Muckraker has the lead on this, so check that site for timely updates.

We're the Only Ones Paternal Enough

Marshallville police officer arrested, accused of shooting in direction of sons [More]

Now just a dang minute here...

I thought the law presumed "Only Ones" could handle their liquor better than us mere mortals.

Oh, now it's clear:

Moore filed an Equal Employment Opportunity complaint against Fort Valley police in which he alleged that Anderson does not promote or provide training opportunities for black officers...

Well, why didn't you say so?

While my initial reaction is to say I never needed training opportunities to tell me not to get boozed up and shoot at my boys, or to slam on my brakes in a fit of road rage to cause an accident, or to lie, well, that probably just means SPLC is right, and people like me are hate-filled bigots.

Either that or this angry, racist ticking time bomb is just a defective, self-entitled headcase blaming everyone and everything else for his being a loser...

[Via  John G]

Betray Neighbors. Live Better.

Alvie notices cheap indoctrination alongside the cheap merchandise. [Read]

A timely repeat of this was just on the other night.

Like the Man Said...

"Let's roll." [Watch]

[Via Carl S]

We're the Only Ones...

...Busing Enough

...Shocking Enough

...Tipping Enough

...Paying Down Enough

...Hitting Enough

...Drunk with Power Enough

...With a "Winn"ing Attitude Enough

...Resigned Enough

[Via FFFW]

S'OK

If I were a lawyer, my conscience wouldn't let me work for them anyway. [Read]

No Surprise

IACP Endorses Traver To Head ATF [More]

You know.

These guys.

Hell, I'd have been surprised if they hadn't.

Poster Boys

Dennis and Josh...

It's not that they're unoriginal so much as it being a matter of why let a good pejorative go to waste, especially if you can turn it into a meme...?

And these particular poster boys are good at that.

A Domestic Terrorist

A teenage hunter in Montana is facing a school hearing in a few days that could derail her college plans, career hopes and even risk her identification as a "domestic terrorist" after she inadvertently parked in a school parking lot with a hunting rifle locked in a case inside her car trunk. [More]

Gary Marbut issued an email alert on this yesterday and I just had too much on my plate to address it. Glad to see Bob Unruh has done his typical excellent job of laying out the essentials.

Yeah, the blessings of Liberty will be secured by hammering this girl down on  the "zero tolerance" anvil.

Every time I see some functionary falling back on that as an excuse to preempt human volition, it reaffirms how subversive the hive mentality is.

The Domestic Enemy

The American people do not want to give tax cuts to billionaires. [More]

Think about that, and what it really means.

The Kensington Horror

Fear Mounts in Kensington After Another Violent Attack [Watch]

You know what they need? 

More stringent Philadelphia-specific citizen disarmament laws!

No expansion of castle walls!

And get this menace off the streets!

That'll fix things, alright.

We're the Only Ones Targeted Enough

Cop targeted in ATF gun-dealing probe [More]

With a special guest appearance by "Wrong Way" Crenshaw!

Say, just how many guns do you have to sell in a given period of time before you're a "dealer," anyway?

A Modest Proposal

So I propose this: Until such time as I make up my mind about the inherent good or evil of guns, the United States should eradicate the Second Amendment entirely. [More]

So, Emily...you really don't see any holes in that proposal?

[Via Michael R]

The Fools on the Hill

All Yoko and the Bradys want you to be able to do if somebody attacks you is twist and shout...[Read]

Are ‘guns in bars’ automatically ‘a dangerous combination’?

Naturally, the cop organizations are against you having a choice in the matter. But guess who’s exempt? [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column offers an alternative to the staggeringly bad idea of disarming the sober-minded.

Also meet a new GRE and take a stab at the heart of knife control on Trigger Sports LIVE!

Share the link?

This Day in History: December 8

The unsuccessful attempts which have been made to ratify the Treaty of Convention of Saratoga and the asperity which seems to have crept into the Correspondence between Sir Henry Clinton and the American Congress leaves it to be conjectured that the humane purpose of a General Cartel of Exchange of Prisoners of War and Troops of the Convention will not have force so soon as good men like yourself could wish. [More]

GRE Round Up for December 7

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:

• Repeal the Arkansas Gun Tax

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:

• Safer Streets 2011: Anti-liberty debates examined.

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Gregoire’s special session may signal upcoming challenges

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Urban violence spreading to parks--national park carry vindicated

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Henick Court Documents Online

In regards to my Gun Rights Examiner two-parter yesterday:

Authorities charge gun owner with brandishing…his finger
and
Do Surry County deputies have conflict of interest in gun brandishing case?

The court documents are posted on Virginia's Judicial System website.  To access:

• Go to http://courts.state.va.us/
• In the left sidebar, scroll over "Case Status and Information" to "General District Course" to "Case Information" and click on that link.
• Enter the CAPTCHA code.
• Select "Surry County" court and enter "Henick, Paul" as search term.
• Select either "OBSTRUCT JUSTICE W/O FORCE"/Complainant Deputy R. Hill or "POINT/BRANDISH FIREARM"/Complainant Wyche, Albert Lee.

Or you could just trust me when I tell you this is what you'll find (Click to enlarge):

[Via Mack H]

We're the Only Ones Rectum? Damn Near Killed 'im Enough

"When I was face down ... my legs were held and I felt a sharp jabbing pain into my rectum," Johnson testified.  [More]

And remember--if you lift a finger.

You just lift your legs.

Funny thing about health Nazi "Furious Mike": He wants to ban smoking, trans fat, salt, guns...

Funny how power junkies stay addicted to something that's so demonstrably bad for everybody else's health...

We're the Only Ones Recovering Merchandise Enough

Adrian SWAT team members, Dundee police and an agent from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives surrounded the house and used flash bombs to enter. [More]

Huh. That's funny. They didn't bring out the big guns for this shoplifter, or this one, and they knew they were armed and trained to be dangerous.

I wonder why...

[Via Steve T]

We're the Only Ones "You've Got Mail" (And So Do We) Enough

Feds Check Wrong Person's E-Mail In Spam Probe
Typo Blamed For Mix-Up [More]

The keyboard went off.

[Via Jeffersonian]

Keeping and bearing arms applies to knives as well as guns

Yeah, right. Privileged, multi-generational career parasite Cyrus Vance and some politically-ambitious cop administrators don’t trust you to have the judgment to carry a knife without their say-so, and their answer is “No.” [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column celebrates sharp-dressed men and women.

Take a stab at sending the link to your friends?

This Day in History: December 7

Sir: As the Convention Troops will have passed above you by the time this reaches you, the object of your Station at the Clove will have been effected. You will therefore be pleased to move down to Paramus with the Carolina Brigade and quarter your Men in as compact a manner as the situation of the Buildings will permit. You shall, upon my arrival at Middle Brook receive more particular instructions. I would recommend it to you, as soon as you have taken post, to make yourself acquainted with the Roads leading to the North River and have pickets established upon them at proper distances from you. You are in no danger from any other quarter. Should the Enemy move up the River in any considerable force, you are immediately to fall back to your former position at Sufferan's and send your Baggage to Pompton. Colo. Morgan furnished Mr. Erskine at Ringwood Iron Works with a guard of a serjeant and be pleased to send the like number to releive them. They are to remain there during the Winter, as Mr. Erskine will be compleating some valuable surveys for the public. [More]

Also on this day in 1941, my father turned 21. What a birthday present he received. He spent the next several years in the Pacific with the Marines, including on Guam.

Do Surry County deputies have conflict of interest in gun brandishing case?

Add to this information I obtained after posting today’s earlier report alleging the deputy responding to the Jamestown-Scotland Ferry incident also works part time at the ferry as a security guard employed by Securigard, the private contractor retained by VDOT, that he is one of two deputies employed there, and that both responded to the call...If this information is substantiated, the appearance of a professional conflict of interest becomes a fair matter for investigation and consideration in determining both sides’ accounts of what happened and whether reasonable doubt about incentives will become a factor in the outcome.[More]

In light of this development, a second Gun Rights Examiner column today is warranted.

I trust there is no conflict of interest in sharing this link?

GRE Round Up for December 6

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:

• No time for cops to be politicians

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• WA gun activists should take lesson from Pennsylvania publisher

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Has Obama promised BATFE accountability?

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Wenn Sie Etwas Sehen, Etwas Sagen!

Verstehen?

I say let's do. Let's give them what they want.


If you can't pull back, go forward.

UPDATE: Alvie's take.

We're the Only Ones Exhausted Enough

Come to think of it, I could use some relief myself.

I know--I think I'll go torch a body--maybe one that my buddy shot--right after we beat the hell out  the dead guy's companions.  That always seems to help.

Plus having my lawyer assure everyone that it's not a crime, merely PTSD (Post-Torching Statist Disorder),  doesn't hurt.


You have no idea what a relief it is to get rid of all this stress!  Why a fella could get to where he actually kind of enjoys this!

[Via Defender]

We're the Only Ones Penetrating Enough

Scott Allen Cole, 41, of Hesperia was charged with sexual penetration with a foreign object of a victim under the age of 18...[More]

Something about the way this story is related just makes it seem unreal--but then I remember that there's not an entry in the "Only Ones" Files that isn't unbelievable in its own way.

[Via Curtis]

We're the Only Ones Solicitous Enough

Michigan State Police are investigating whether a member of the city’s Public Safety Commission solicited a prostitute.

A firearm belonging to Commissioner Jerry King was discovered in the possession of a woman who approached a plainclothes officer. [More]

Sounds like a real blow to public service...

[Via Harvey]

We're the Only Ones Old-Fashioned Enough

“All of that could have been avoided,” said Jones, who was not home at the time. “Whatever happened to good old-fashioned investigating?” [More]

It's not as effective at fostering terror as good old-fashioned storm-trooping.

[Via William T]

It Can't Happen Here?

Why?  If the price was right? Not to mention for the sense of power? [Read]

[Via FFFW]

I Think I May Have Found the Problem

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police reports the only crossbows prohibited in Canada are those that can be fired with one hand and are 19 inches (50 centimeters) or less in length. A license or registration certificate is not required to own crossbows longer than 19 inches that require two hands to use. Such crossbows are sold in hunting shops across Canada. [More]

See? Easy access and lax laws are to blame!

And why stop at crossbows?

[Via Sam W]

We're the Only Ones Pounding the Pavement Enough

With your body. [Read]

[Via FFFW]

A Sharp-Dressed Man

Several of you sent me this link about "knife rights." [Read]

Barring anything bigger pushing it to a back burner, I plan on talking about this in tomorrow's Gun Rights Examiner column.

Ten Little RINOs

Until this reduces down to "and then there were none," the betrayals will continue. [Read]

Regional Freedom Exchange

Here's the deal: You surrender your tools of liberty and we'll treat you with the contempt you deserve. [Read]

At least they're getting paid what they're worth.

[Via Ed M]

The Siege Engine

On January 21, 2011, the Guardians of Liberty will lay siege to federal offices in DC and all over the country. These peaceful sieges will remain in effect until:
Obamacare is Repealed
The Federal Reserve is Audited and Ended
Our rights are recognized by every government agency
No Compromises!
Join Us on the Firing Line [More]

They're doing it by rotation. Click on the link to learn more.

No Permission Slip Required

“I have a right to protect myself and my family,” he said. [More]

Indeed.  And no one has the moral authority to require you to apply for and receive permission from them before you do. Nor to charge you for the "privilege."

Authorities charge gun owner with brandishing…his finger

If that can be established, it will lend credence to the suspicion that this entire incident is one of abuse of authority in order to get back at a citizen for knowing—and insisting on his rights. And realizing their liability now that it's been exposed, those who started this fight are trying to cut a deal. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at how authoritarians react to well-made points.

Point the link out to your friends?

This Day in History: December 6

December 6, 1778
"Arrival at Quebec of the prisoners taken by Carleton during his raid. Among them were Nathan and Marshall Smith of Bridport, Benjamin Kellogg, Ward and Joseph Everest of Addison, Holcomb Spaulding, two Ferrises, Granby of Panton, and Hinckly of Shoreham. The last two were liberated to care for the women and children, who, after Burgoyne's defeat, had returned to their abandoned homes. Kellogg and Everest had been partners in the carrying trade, owning sloops together. Kellogg, after escaping the following spring and being retaken, died in prison during the winter of '79. Everest succeeded in escaping a second time from his captors and finally reached home. The party escaping from Quebec had only a small sack of flour, a frying pan, hatchet (or tomahawk) and small compass..."  [More]

Why did NFATCA president forward claimant email about legal case to ATF?

Why?  Why would Brown be passing ATF information in their then-ongoing case?  What should we infer from the fact that he forwarded it without comment? Why would he do this without first consulting Savage, or telling him afterward? [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at an interesting correspondence.

Inform a friend by sharing the link?

Vanishing Act

I typically don't blog much on weekends, reserving postings here for GRE column announcements, but WRSA has a message for us.

Seems I've seen this basic idea employed in another time, another place, another manner...

I still think this whole mess may have something to do with this.

Ohio governor proposed licensing firearms possession

"The governor said Tuesday that the sale of a murder gun to a Cincinnati youth prompted him to advocate this course of action. He said he is looking into the possibility of asking the next legislature to make it a felony to obtain lethal weapons for minors and to require the licensing of firearms for private possession." [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column travels back in time a bit, and notes we didn't get where we are today by accident.

Share the link?

GRE Round Up for December 3

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:

• Head of corrupt Tulsa Police Department opposes open carry

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Gun prohibitionist hysteria derailed

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Guns on a train

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Anybody have a good source for cheap toy robots? [Read]

They'd be a good alternative to Lite-Brite Mooninites, which are so hard to find these days, and Kermit the Frog has already been done to death.

Seriously, this is all it takes?

At least Klaatu had a real robot with frickin' laser beams and everything...

[Via William T]

UPDATE: Vanderboegh had a similar reaction.

It's a Jersey Thing Redux

First Newark and now Camden...[Read]

Fortunately, they still have the resources to keep this hard-boiled character locked up in the animal house where they evidently think he belongs.

[Via William T]

What Might Have Been

On Wednesday, the town's K-8 school was on lockdown, because a woman going through a divorce told officers that her husband might have been driving around with a gun. [More]

See how easy it is? That's all it takes. And if they happen to get spooked and squeeze a few into him and it turns out he was unarmed, that's when department protocol kicks in.

Mentioning divorce in a Disney community does remind me of an old joke, though...

[Via William T]

Not Ripe?

Keep acting like "shall not be infringed" is subordinate to legalistic incantations and chicanery, and that may change... [Read]

Oh, the Weather Outside is Frightful

But the fire is delightful... [More]

I want one too. I'd say it looks like a blast but such a groaner might get me flamed..

We're the Only Ones Sensitive Enough

Police are not releasing the officer's mugshot because he works in a sensitive role at Metro and cannot have his picture shown. [More]

Yeah, besides, people who are in control of themselves tend to get a bit sensitive when some drunk with a gun and a badge starts ordering them around.

[Via Parrothead Jeff]

And They Say There Are No Stupid Questions...

Which Americans don’t want liberty, or support tyranny?[More]

Umm...you?

[Via Ed M]

We're the Only Ones Standardized Enough

“As law enforcement officers, we are held to a higher standard..." [More]

Yo, Chief Lopez: Is that like a standard talking point of yours or what?

That was kind of weird--it's almost like WRAL has a standard template where they can just plug in the new information...

[Via Cocked and Loaded]

If At First You Don't Succeed...

...try, try again. [Read]

For some reason, I don't think those hospitals passed my questions along to their risk management departments...

No Need to Widen Castle Doctrine

The opinion-molders at the York Daily Record will protect you. [Read]

Right after they get this damn thing seated properly...

We're the Only Ones Scrawling Our Signature Enough

It's the signature program for Baltimore police — curtail violence by getting guns off city streets. [More]

Quite simply put, we will brook no competition.

If You Go Out In the Woods Today...

...you'd better go in disguise. [Play]

Vanderboegh reminds us this is the weekend the teddy bears have their picnic. [Read]

Dialog on campus guns helps clear up perceptions

Enter Jack Burch, CEO of Hill Country Shooting Sports Center in Kerrville, Texas. Burch approached Holda with courtesy and reason, and was responded to in kind. They conducted a conversation via email, and he obtained Dr. Holda’s permission to share his thoughts with a wider audience.

To that end, Mr. Burch is allowing me to share it with Gun Rights Examiner readers.[More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column shows some enlightenment happening in the most unlikely of places, an institute of "higher learning".

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This Day in History: December 3

Lee sent repeated letters to congressmen, members of the military, and the press attacking the character of Washington and complaining of mistreatment by the Continental Congress. After reading Lee's defamatory "Vindication," published in the Pennsylvania Packet on December 3, 1778, Colonel John Laurens challenged Lee to a duel over his slanderous remarks about Washington's character. In the duel, Lee was wounded and could not fight a second duel requested by General Wayne. [More]

GRE Round Up for December 2

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:

• Safer Streets 2011: How the first amendment protects the second amendment.
• Book Review: Poor Lenin's Almanac.

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• ‘Three Strikes’ in CA, no balls in Portland, no brains in Jersey

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Citizen disarmament wears a white coat

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

We're the Only Ones Cheating in More Ways Than One Enough

An off-duty cop kills a man who finds the cop sleeping with his wife. Again, the force exonerates its own without charges being filed. [More]

Yes, they think they can take it all.

And we're supposed to believe primae noctis is a fiction...well, maybe first is...

[Via John Richardson]

Checkpoint Charlie

Mostly trucks were being checked...[Read]

Mostly.

They came first for the trucks...

What are your options for refusing if they come for you?

Will they make you go through this?

What have you got to hide?

Squeeze.

And remember: They hate us because we're free!

[Via cycjec]

We're the Only Ones...

...Agreeable Enough

...Secretive Enough

...Playing "Cash Cab" Enough

...Reckless Enough

...Helping Ourselves Enough

...Giving You an Earful Enough

[Via FFFW] 

So Will They Be Having...

...a bear buy-back? [Read]

Liberty News

Longenecker's latest...[Read]

Truth in Government Advertising

Hell, once they can get you to obey as a conditioned response, why wouldn't they automatically think this? [More]

[Via Ed M]

I Don't Want Her, You Can Have Her

Women accused of hiding merchandise in body fat [More]

I hope they used gloves to retrieve it, and that they're not going to restock it on the shelves.

Why am I reminded that Shar Peis should be frequently bathed lest the bacteria that collects in the folds of their skin begins to fester and smell?

Class, thy name is  Ailene.

You too,  Shmeco (not to be confused with Groucho, Harpo and Chico...?)

Mr. Godfrey? Your cue:

I get dizzy

I get numb-o

when I'm dancing with my jum-jum-jumbo..

It's OK

It doesn't matter. [Read]

He doesn't mean it anyway. Neither of them do. 

Besides, it's not like Establishment "left" and "right" isn't just a sleight-of-mind game anyway.

Can corrupt government legitimately decide who it allows to keep and bear arms?

This is not “just a few bad apples,” as the ubiquitous police [state] apologists would have us believe. For every one exposed, there’s an entire support system of co-workers, superiors and subordinates who witness attitudes,  behaviors and actions every day and keep silent, going along to get along, to protect their own place at the table and/or activities.  [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a whole rotten barrel.

Also see more citizen disarmament foolishness in Portland, and join a celebration.

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This Day in History: December 2

[More]

GRE Round Up for December 1

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• New Jersey case sparks national outrage

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• VPC attempting to link concealed carry to suicide

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• Michigan Firearms