A Real Paradox...

How the "highest court" can have the lowest traitors...[Read]

We're the Fauxnly Ones...

Detroit Police are searching for some fake cops who are kicking down doors and robbing and terrorizing people in their own homes. [More]

These stories often prompt "What's the difference?" comments.

Exactly.

So just be aware that there are plenty of news accounts out there, just in case you ever need to use the confusion as a defense.

[Via Smiley Starfish]

We're the Only Ones Urban Legends Enough

The Captain says the violent gang exists.  The Chief says they're a rumor. [Read]

I find it hard to believe--after all, we're talkin' Milwaukee here...

[Via Michael R]

We're the Only Ones Stung Enough

“I think we’re all sick” about the allegations, Police Chief Rick Armstrong said yesterday. I think we’re embarrassed.” [More]

No doubt. Having this stuff come to light about your "elites" has gotta be a real downer.  Kind'a makes me wonder about the ones who aren't so special and trusted...

[Via Michael R]

Injustice Everywhere

One of the great injustices is that so many "Authorized Journalists" who have utterly abandoned any sense of being government watchdogs are so well rewarded, while the lonely voices working day in and day out in relative obscurity constantly struggle to eke out a minimalist existence.

Reader Mark Matis submitted this as a comment on my plea for Vanderboegh (everyone who visits him regularly has done something, right?). I didn't approve the comment there because I think it merits a standalone mention, so as not to get buried and ignored in an old post, which, face it, very few go back to visit.

The guy who runs this site:
http://www.injusticeeverywhere.com/
could use some help as well, although he would probably prefer any leads towards a job using his skills. He provides and compiles his info in an unbiased manner and I believe he deserves support for his efforts.

Happy New Year!

I note there is a "Donate" button. 

Gun owners should be aware of multiple ATF developments

Several updates to stories previously discussed in this column that involve the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives ought to be understood by all gun owners interested in keeping informed. [More]

This morning's Gun Rights Examiner column links to the latest on Andrew Traver and BATFU's "emergency" long gun registration scheme, and shows us how the Bureau intends to tighten its belt--or at least give that appearance.

Also note the return of an important resource, meet an editorial enabler and watch a rerun in case you missed the live performance.

Share the link?

This Day in History: January 6

Battle of Sunbury - Fort commander John McIntosh replies "Come and take it" to the British demand for surrender. [More]

ATF source confirms ‘walking’ guns to Mexico to ‘pad’ statistics

"It's true. Pure fact verified. Ongoing inv(estigation..." [More]

I have done everything I can to responsibly investigate and verify this--otherwise, I would not have run it. It would be foolish to assume that certain people do not want this looked into. It just seems turning on the lights is the most prudent course.

Help me do that by sharing the link?

GRE Round Up for January 5

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow GREs:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Economics 101: Rising fuel prices hurt sportsmen and a WA congressman can help

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Prominent nationally syndicated columnist calls for despotism in gun regulation

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

It's a Bird! It's a Plane!

It's gonna be Deadman if this comical fool ever runs up against the wrong arch-villain. [Read]

Somehow, he doesn't impress me as being faster than a speeding bullet.

[Via Plug Nickel Times]

Protecting the Environment

University president Michael Young wrote in a memo that “having weapons in plain sight on this campus creates a fearful and intimidating campus environment.” [More]

I dunno, Mike, if we're talking environmental issues here, have you seen how long it takes these things to degrade in a landfill?

Assuming you ever change yours...?

[Via Michael R]

We're the Only Ones Tossed Enough

Lee Paige, the founding father/patron saint of the "Only Ones" continues to bring us comedy gold. [Read]

[Via lots of you]

We're the Only Ones Nutty Enough

A State Highway Patrol officer who was named his post's Trooper of the Year in 2008 was arrested Sunday during the game at Browns Stadium after he was accused of throwing peanuts at two deputies and vandalizing a jail cell. [More]

"Trooper of the Year"?

So he's not a "bad apple"?

Just a violent nut case?  One who keeps us safe from other drunken cops?

Communist Dreams

More interesting to me than the main rant, which truly didn't interest me at all, are the comments. [Read]

Does anyone seriously think there can be peace with these nasty hive insects? Has their evil doctrine ever produced anything but genocide, killing fields, poverty and starvation?

Is it any wonder they host these subversives?

Maybe it's time to ask "Republicans" Paul Helmke and Sarah and Jim Brady why they happily partner with a site that openly promotes the destruction of capitalism...

I'm wondering if this entire disgusting lot doesn't qualify for the term "domestic enemies," who does?

We're the Only Ones Biting Enough

San Leandro police Monday were investigating an incident with a K-9 unit dog that was involved in a deadly attack on another dog over the holidays. [More]

Good thing this happened in Brentwood.

Otherwise, the other dog's owner may have been armed.  And you can get in serious trouble for injuring a  police dog.

The Intent of the Founders

How often have we heard some anti claim the Founders never meant for people to have modern weapons because all they had were muskets, or some such lie built along those lines?

I guess they never meant for us to be secure in our electronic effects, either...

Either that or the California Supreme Court is dominated by domestic enemies.

Ordnance crossing into Mexico over border—its southern one

Regular readers will recall how the criminal enterprise started by rogue Mexican special forces operatives has expanded its influence—first as enforcers for the Gulf Cartel and now as a rival power. That they’ve established themselves in neighboring Guatemala is hardly surprising, and would appear to circumstantially dovetail with another development being reported by Tim Johnson, Mexico Bureau Chief for McClatchy Newspapers...[More]

This Gun Rights Examiner column notes that ours isn't the only border with Mexico.

Also tune in to the first...uh...live Trigger Sports LIVE! of the new year.

Share the link?

This Day in History: January 5

The American prisoners, finding themselves confined, employed considerable Yankee ingenuity attempting to escape. On January 5, 1779 alone, 100 escaped from Old Mill Prison. "Some went over the wall, some tunneled under the wall, others bribed guards, some walked out dressed as officials, another tried to get into a coffin as a replacement for one of their number who had died, while several less scrupulous connived with members of the local populace who helped them escape and then brought them back to collect the five pounds reward, which they afterwards shared." Splitting the reward was a good way for the prisoners to raise money. Once they escaped they needed money to purchase their passage to France. [More]

Emergency Justification

Gunleaders.com links us to documents BATFU filed with OMB to "justify" their latest scheme.  [Read]

GRE Round Up for January 4

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow GREs:

Mike Stollenwerk/DC:

• Iowa AG picks gun fight he can't win

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:

• Consistency needed for Arkansas’s college students who desire concealed carry

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:

• Safer Streets 2011: A credentialed anti-gun position???

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• A proposed gun law for WA that makes sense

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• East St. Louisans on their own against criminals

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Tandem Monitoring

I've noticed visits from DoJ have started happening in pairs--the same IP address, but two different computers, one using Netscape, the other IE, and within seconds of each other.

As I've explained before, per Site Meter, "If there were no out clicks on the last page viewed, the view time of that page will be 0 because it is unknown how long the page was actually viewed."

So--anybody have any ideas for why two simultaneous visits?

A Single Issue Organization

"The single purpose of society, indeed, is to protect the individual, and to give him the strength of the public arm, in defence of his just and natural right." – John Witherspoon, The Druid, Article II, The Works of John Witherspoon, pg. 156 [Read]

It's not about guns, it's about freedom.

[Via Paul W. Davis]

We're the Only Ones Sick Enough

The president of Fraternal Order of Police Union Lodge 126 says he believes the men who called in sick Friday were actually sick and not participating in a work stoppage as a letter hand delivered to most of the officers said.

Nearly all of the scheduled police officers on the 3 to 11 p.m. shift called off sick one hour before they were scheduled to report to work. [More]

Yeah, just a coincidence, I'm sure.

Maybe it will show people how little they really need these corrupt thugs.

[Via Hawk Eye]

The Brady Toolkit

John Richardson opens it up.  Unlike Craftsman, I don't see a lifetime guarantee... [Read]

We're the Only Ones Packing Heat in Parks Enough

After receiving the tip...[More]

Oh, they mean Internal Affairs, not  the 24-year-old backseat babe...

[Via Ed M]

We're the Only Ones Who Know When to Fold 'em Enough

Know when to walk away

Know when to run...[Read]

[Via Harvey]

We're the Only Ones Ousted Enough

City Manager Tom George said that he had moved up Chief Brian Tooley's planned retirement date to Monday. [More]

Because of Chip here. Nice to see the evil little punk getting his comeuppance, too.

Anybody think it would have happened without the video followed by public outrage and pressure?

Anybody think the reason the "Only Ones" don't want you taping them is for any other reason than to allow them to get away with thuggish behavior leaving things to your word against theirs?

Anybody automatically think their word is more credible than anyone else's?

I've been part of enough juries to know that many still believe that.  It would be nice to think that someday, our efforts will result in it not being "most."

[Via William T]

Wilding in Wisconsin

Where concealed carry is illegal, just in case anyone intent on serious mayhem wants to take note. [Read]

Didn't Janet II say malls were being considered for DHS "enhancements"...?

That might add a whole new meaning to browsing at The Gap...

[Via William T]

Before the Dam Breaks?

I wish I could believe this will really be allowed to make a difference. [Read]

There Will Be Blood

"No refusal"?

Really?

Back in the Old Days We Had "Peace Officers"

We also had these guys. [Read]

Doing "The French Mistake"

Listen to him. [Read]

The Human Target, who is NOT anti-gun (just ask ABC!), agrees wholeheartedly with Monsieur LaPierre that:

We believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America's schools, period ... with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained security personnel.

Thanks for handing him the ammo. I guess that tepid backpedaling a while back wasn't a loud or credible enough repudiation...?

Voilà!

Taranaki Daily News pulls Texas gun column

Which is why it’s incumbent on those of us who aren’t “Authorized Journalists” to heed Patrick Henry and apply his “Guard with jealous attention the public liberty” admonition to every hit piece where we see ignorance, an agenda, and outright...uh...fabrications. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes the media's "top men" say it's absurd to expect them to present the simple truth. Based on results, it's even more absurd for us to expect them to.

Which means it's up to us if we want it out there.

Help do that by sharing the link?

This Day in History: January 4

[More]

GRE Round Up for January 3

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow GREs:

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:

• Ohio Supreme Court case strengthens Arkansas preemption law

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:

• Safer Streets 2011: A credentialed anti-gun position???

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Why the sky isn’t falling as New Year begins

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Urge Congressman Issa to investigate BATFE

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Media coverage of ATF corruption investigation developments nonexistent

You won’t find this story in any newspaper or network. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at dereliction of duty and betrayal by those entrusted to defend freedom.

If you agree that mainstream press coverage of the gun rights issue demands a counter-balance, please help me spread the word by sharing Gun Rights Examiner links with your friends via emails, and in online discussion boards, blogs, etc.

UPDATE: Had a Guns Magazine "Rights Watch" column due today that used up all my rant time--so unless something huge comes along, I'll be devoting the rest of the day to the demands of my other life, and expect to be back tomorrow.

This Day in History: January 3

Boardman escaped from the prison a third time on January 3, 1779; this time he made it back to America. [More]

Shania Twain wedding displays elitist attitude toward guns

But here’s the thing about the privileged Ms. Twain employing armed guards (lawbreaking or otherwise) in the first place—she’s a big advocate of infringements against those of us who can’t afford an armed security presence and must rely on being our own first line of defense. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column  notes those who've got theirs don't necessarily care if you get yours...besides, if you were anybody important, you'd have been invited.

Invite a friend by sharing the link?

Does Ohio state gun law preemption do ‘violence’ to ‘home rule’?

Funny. I don’t seem to recall any of the anti-personal defense crowd recommending regional “home rule” carve-out exclusions to any of their dream edicts. They always seem to be binding everywhere…you know, one size fits all…

And by the way, what exactly "works in Chicago"? [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes "home rule" begins at home, not at City Hall or the State House, and that the object is properly "self rule."

Also resolve to do something today. And tomorrow. And the next day.

Resolve to share the link--from your home to someone else's?

Ohio gun ruling must be followed up with police training

There’s more at issue than that—nothing less than the lives and safety of gun owners who are breaking no law—but are nonetheless being physically endangered by those sworn to uphold and protect the law. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes the biggest danger presented by open carry comes from "Only Ones" openly carrying in the service of the state.

Also catch the premier (well, at least en encore performance) of Gun Talk TV, and then resolve to do...uh...everything.

Resolve to openly carry the link to your friends?

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It's New Year's Eve and I'm prepping for a big family dinner, so that's it for today.  Sorry to all who sent me links.  I do note John Longenecker has a new Safer Streets edition out, and you can catch the latest from my fellow GREs from the sidebar links.

Happy New Year, everybody.  My older brother is bringing over some Spanish champagne (oh, excuse me, purists, "sparkling wine"), and James Towle sent me a cigar for Christmas that tonight will meet a fiery doom.

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One update I simply had to share: These evil subversives will be astonished if they keep pushing--or if they're not, we'll have failed. The only confusion is that which they intentionally create through lies and manipulation.

Translation is only needed to decipher the intent of these Fourth Estate Fifth Columnists: What they're saying is, we can't claim our rights because we don't understand them.  So somebody will have to define the lengths of our chains for us.  And they'll explain it in terms we can understand.

I guess until one of them disappears and is erased and a new explanation supplants the last one...

GRE Round Up for December 30

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow GREs:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Does Ohio Supreme Court ruling send signal about Seattle parks gun ban case?

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Enemies of gun rights can't hide their hostility to Constitution

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

We're the Only Ones a Real Chip Off the Old Block Enough

The bad apple doesn't fall far from the tree...[Read]

What a punk. 

But no, no special treatment here...

[Via Harvey]

We're the Only Ones Remorseful Enough

I'm...BAM! BAM!..so very sorry for your loss... [Read]

[Via Harvey]

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

Will there be a gun massacre in Ambridge? [Read]

Yeah, I know it's just a show, but it's one written to evoke emotional effects in its audience. And it does prove truth is stranger than fiction.

Because the real question is, if there were a massacre in a real village, who would be equipped to do a damn thing about it?

And we all know the answer to that question.

Note: I can't get this page to display in Firefox for some reason--perhaps my popup blocker is affecting it. I had to use IE to read the linked article.

[Via cycjec]

A Real Good Job of It

“I’m new and different,’’ he said in a soft voice. “But I realize that deep inside me there is still that ugliness, and I know that I have to deal with that and control that, and I’m doing a real good job of it.’’ [More]

Far be it from Massachusetts to try something new and different...

[Via Ed M]

We're the Only Ones Beating Out the Competition Enough

However, Clarke and an RCMP firearms-enforcement officer who initiated the raids and is named in the suit have both started side businesses pursuing the law-enforcement market, the same clientele pursued by Travis Bader's Silvercore Advanced Training Systems. [More]

I wish I could say "unbelievable." I really, truly do.

[Sorry, got this tip a few days ago and can't find the email to give credit]

The Obvious Solution

A woman was bitten on the face by another woman while her brother had his jaw smashed and arm broken in the second beating on Kaikoura streets in six weeks, a victim's partner says. [More]

Why didn't they just use a fire extinguisher?

I thought New Zealanders were made of sterner stuff...

[Via William T]

Down in the West Texas Town of El Paso...

Last month El Paso, a sprawling southwest Texas city of 700,000 residents, was named the safest city of its size in the United States for the first time, and it is on track to close out 2010 with just five murders.

But just over the shallow concrete trench of the Rio Grande in Ciudad Juarez, more than 3,000 people have been tortured, shot and blasted to death in gang warfare this year, clinching its grim reputation as the world's most dangerous city. [More]

Damned lax American gun laws...

[Via Ed M]

Mixed Ruling

John Richardson updates us on Woollard v Sheridan, a lawsuit challenging Maryland concealed carry law on Second And Fourteenth Amendment grounds. Considering it's Maryland, "a win and a tie" is something. [Read]

Dave Workman gave us an overview of the case a while back.

"Fork-Tongued Performance"

Kevin D. Williamson at National Review Online assesses the serpentine Andrew Traver, who sounds like he'd fit right in at the BATFU snakehole. [Read]

Still no word on this...

[Via Michael G]

UPDATE: Vanderboegh turns up the calypso music and explores the possibility he's in limbo...

Media disinformation on guns continues in Texas open carry hit piece

Or maybe you’re just…uh…making it all up...[More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a queasy, delusional lying hoplophobe.

You know, an "Authorized Journalist."

Also watch a 2010 Trigger Sports wrap-up and resolve to shine a light on shadow creatures.

Enlighten your friends with a link?

This Day in History: December 30

These characters must not slumber nor sleep at home in such times of pressing danger; they must not content themselves in the enjoyment of places of honor or profit in their own country while the common interests of America are moldering and sinking into irretrievable (if a remedy is not soon applied) ruin, in which theirs also must ultimately be involved. [More]

Yep.

GRE Round Up for December 29

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow GREs:

Richard Nascak/Ft. Myers:

• Anti-gun Florida Chamber of Commerce at it again!

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Biggest gun rights story of 2010 based in Bellevue, ignored by local press

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• CSGV renews push for 'microstamping'

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Aaron Zelman, rest in peace

Goodbye, my friend.  What an honor it was to know you. I am so grateful for the work you did on behalf of freedom, and for the legacy you leave behind.

May we be worthy of it. [More]

Incredibly sad news I just learned of...

If you'll excuse me, I'm taking the rest of the day off to deal with my sadness.

Filibusted!

Progressives, liberals and left of center politicians have teamed up to radically curtail the rights of Republican Senators in the next Congress. They have a plan to “kill the filibuster,” so that they can establish a top down system of control next year in the Senate. [More]

Thanks, "true champion of the Second Amendment" Harry Reid!

[Via Mack H]

For the Children

The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence today filed a brief in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas urging the dismissal of an NRA lawsuit claiming that teens and young persons ages 18-20 have a constitutional right to buy handguns from gun shops. [More]

But we're not "anti-gun" and we'll prove it:

We're all for "Only Ones" having them. Even those who are 18.

"Defending the Second Amendment"

...a time honored tradition of hunting...

...As a sportsman...

...Americans rightly deserve the option of transporting a firearm in a responsible way...

...give residents in states like Mississippi with concealed-carry permits the ability to carry their firearms in another state... [More]

Good grief.

And this is from a "champion."

We're NOT the Only Ones...

...thank goodness. [Read]

Are You Serious...?

As in "Where in the Constitution...?"

Hey, it's an emergency.

Besides, it's not like anybody's going to actually do anything about it...

Maybe that Republican sweep will save us!

Propaganda ‘journalism’ blames U.S. gun laws for Mexican violence

The 90% canard has been exposed so many times, and for so long, that a professional “Authorized Journalist” using it again here can only be explained by a truth-be-damned agenda.

As has the astounding corruption of both Mexican military and police forces, from whose ranks the narcoterrorist Los Zetas sprang, first as enforcers, and now as prime players in their own right.

But we’re to believe it’s due to that “wide gulf in gun laws.” [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at an "Authorized Journalist" doing what they do best.

Also, resolve to demonstrate.

Demonstrate your resolve to share the link? Because the "recognized" media spreading their lies has a lot longer of a reach than I do...

This Day in History: December 29

When the British attacked Savannah on December 29, 1778, the defending Continental forces, numbering about 650 men under command of Maj. Gen. Robert Howe, were posted across Sea Island Road (now Wheaton street) approximately 100 yards east of this marker. [More]

GRE Round Up for December 28

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow GREs:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Do the math: Washington, with liberal gun laws, relatively safe

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Mayors bill taxpayers for security; would forbid them to defend themselves

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

We're the Fauxnly Ones...

Tampa men posed as cops, tried to pull woman over, authorities say [More]

Remember that the next time some "Only One" decries armed citizens using the excuse that a cop arriving on scene won't be able to tell who the bad guy is.

And just in case the cop arriving on scene is the bad guy...real or fake being irrelevant.

[Via Ed M]

They Look Like AT-ST Imperial Walkers

I wonder how tough it would be to bring one down?  Hypothetically speaking, of course... [Watch]

I understand from the economic fasc...uh...public/private partnership video put out by ICx Technologies, themselves a group of connected "access capitalists," that that tinted glass will stop a 7.62 armor-piercing round.

And, of course, if you need to return the compliment, the Sky Watch Frontier model provides "optional ballistic capabilities."

This certainly makes me feel a lot better about buying all my Chinese goods at WalMart!

[Via Skip]

Some Kind of Tool

Hey, remember earlier today when I said New Zealanders need some kind of tool...?

The Tasmanians have one.

His name is Roland Browne.

Free Joel

Because getting out of jail isn't free. [Read]

More...

Going Dutch

As of January, people who use violence to defend themselves against burglars or robbers will be treated more leniently by the police and the public prosecutors' office.

They will no longer be immediately arrested and questioned as suspects, but instead will be allowed to assist the police in their inquiries at a different time. [More]

What do the antis call this? Condoning vigilantism?

Lead on, brave soldiers of Orange!

You people are so fricking lost...


[Via J.R. Bailey]

When Machetes Are Outlawed...

Two 14-year-old boys have now been charged with attempting to murder policemen in the space of a fortnight after a second attack on an officer involving a machete and a knife. [More]

Good thing NZ has restrictions in place to cut down on those child gun deaths!

If this could happen to a baton/pepper spray-wielding constable, just think how the average citizen would fare being forced by "the law" to go hand-to-hand...y'know, you'd think there'd be some kind of tool...

[Via William T]

Are We Not Men?

Anne Arundel County police said the women were leaving The Rose Restaurant on Belle Grove Road just after 7 p.m. Saturday when a man approached them, threatened them with a claw hammer and took their purses. [More]

That was no man. Men don't do that.

That was a cowardly animal.

What is the law? Are we not men?

[Via William T]

A Printing Error

Thumbprints, ID required for the sale of ammunition [More]

Yeah, it's the "Anti-Gang Neighborhood Protection Act"...that'll stop 'em!

California gun owners--you're giving them the wrong print.

Death Wish

In correspondence with BFA, McGlone said that at 9:30AM on the same morning his letter was published, "I received a phone call at my home. The caller asked if this was Mark and if I wrote the editorial. I replied yes. Than the caller said 'well I hope someone shoots you and your family'!" [More]

I'd have laughed and invited the pussy to make good. I can say that, because I've done it in the past.

And yes, I also called the police--not for protection though. I wanted an official report establishing the event and my attempt at lawful resolution, just in case I needed evidence for my defense if a body was tied back to me.

We're the Only Ones En Masse Enough

Because  walking up and explaining neighbor concerns and ordinances in a respectful manner doesn't show people who the occupying force is. [Read]

Especially when the ordinance doesn't support your case.  Then it becomes paramount to tack on some resisting arrest/assaulting cop charges--just to even out those 20-to-one odds.

[Via Michael G]

When Battle Axes are Banned...

Two men are in jail, accused of robbing an Inver Grove Heights man and attacking him with a battle axe. [More]

Dang. Didn't they know that was illegal?

[Via Defender]

Just what does someone have to do for ABC to consider him ‘anti-gun’?

But Colin’s not “anti-gun.”

And neither is oozing-with-sympathy Roberts, who tells him “I'm so glad that you're doing well and you’re doing the work…that you are doing, Colin.”

...You believe that, right?[More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at some people who say they merely want to set a few standards.

Also set some personal training standards of your own.

I trust sharing these links has become a standard all the regulars here actively promote?

This Day in History: December 28

British Attack on Savannah December 28, 1778
By 1778, the British altered their strategy to subdue the American rebellion. An army of over 3,000 British regulars, German mercenaries and American Loyalists sailed from New York to capture Savannah. Under the command of Lt. Col. Archibald Campbell, the expedition would use the city as a base of operations against Patriot forces in the South. The British advance into Savannah was virtually uncontested by the surprised Georgia Continentals. For the duration of the war in America, Savannah was an occupied city. [More]

GRE Round Up for December 27

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow GREs:

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:

• Murder at Knoxville credit union

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• ‘Twas the night before Christmas…
• Renton road rage shooting: How stupid is that?

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Ask your congressman to join Rep. Rehberg effort to block BATFE power grab
• Attorney General Holder fans flames of 'homegrown terrorism' suspicion

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Stepping Up Security

[Read]

Shooting the Moon

Vanderboegh bitch-slaps a cloistered fool who presumes to teach but who has shown himself incapable of learning. [Read]

Nicely done.

We're the Only Ones On Santa's "Nice" List Enough

Santas steal gun from Swedish palace guard [More]

That's some serious protection that official Swedish meatball was providing there...which explains the justification for all this...

[Via Michael G]

Liberty News/Safer Streets

Longenecker's latest... [Read]

We're the Only Ones Low Brow Enough

James Debrow, that is, who evidently specializes in creative tyranny. [Read]

When Cannibals Attack

Vanderboegh describes a feeding frenzy in the making. [Read]

A "Legal" Resource

...for those who pay attention to such things...[Read]

Waiting for the Die-Off

As the older hunters start to lay down their guns, hunting advocates fear for the age-old American pastime, especially with the younger generation preferring video games over waiting in a tree for hours until an animal arrives. [More]

I have a feeling the way things are going a lot more Americans are going to take it up.  Especially if electricity becomes a more valued commodity.

[Via Ed M]

WikiLeaks cables: Mexican military have ‘little faith’ in police

Draw your own conclusions on the character of those who propose infringing on our right to keep and bear arms as a solution to any of this. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column asks if you can't trust Los Unicos, who can you trust?

Also get an update on some ethics-challenged "Authorized Journalists" and resolve to stop with the unsubstantiated rumors already.

Rumor has it you'll share the link?

This Day in History: December 27

On December 27, 1778 British landed at Girardeau's plantation and attacked two days later. A battery at the site of the present Fort Jackson lay in ruins near the landing point. One map of the scene shows Girardeau's Plantation mistakenly labeled "Gordon's." British forces won control of the city. [More]

State of Emergency

Leave those guns at home, folks. [Read]

It's the law!

It's not like government doesn't have ample evidence to show the dangers of going around armed in severe winter weather...

UPDATE: Looks like they're learning to be "gun shy."

We're the Only Ones...

...Evident Enough

...Prescribing Enough

...Giving You a Warme Feeling Enough

...Not Necessarily Through Enough

...Time to Turn In Enough

...Unprotective Enough

...Not Watching the Clock Enough

...Promoting Free Trade Enough

...Childlike Enough

[Via FFFW]

All I Want for Christmas...

When we first met this young man, we saw a rather unique and creative way to encourage the next generation. Here's an update that's fitting for the season:

This is Payton’s Christmas list:

- Shotgun
- Butt stock shell holder
- Gun case for shotgun - Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Meyer
- Fireproof safe to keep knives and other valuables
- Rotary tool (Dremel)
- Medicine ball

Sounds like their parenting methods are working just fine.  I can only imagine how horrified the Gungrinches must be.

This Day in History...

Different war. More details. Interesting site. [Read]

[Via Michael G]

Free Bird

“This is not about just one man. This is about all of us..." [More]

Bingo.

[Via Ed M]

Will Baucus-Tester opposition to ATF rule be used to forgive bad votes?

They keep the house looking freshly-painted while those they enable tunnel underneath eroding the foundations. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at what is either a sincere and principled stance, or else a superficial clean-up effort.

Also resolve to arm the children!

Share the link?

This Day in History: December 26

On December 26, 1778, nine German mercenaries froze at their posts in Newport, Rhode Island that later became known as the Hessian Storm. [More]

Have a Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas.

Now: What in the world are you doing here? [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column...ah forget it.  It's Christmas.

An Important Message for All Sipsey Street Irregulars...uh...Regulars

While society rewards the likes of Snooki from Jersey Shore with celebrity and fortune, and while  lying, incompetent "Authorized Journalists" enjoy their paychecks, benefits, matching 401K contributions and the like, the market for liberty leadership is flat.

We need the leaders, but no one seems willing to pay for them.

Friends of Mike Vanderboegh have contacted me and are concerned that he's financially hurting.  I know for a fact that he is--with health problems also being a concern--and have been wondering what we who look to him on a regular basis for analysis, guidance and leadership can do.

As would be expected, Mike is not only proud, but selfless.  When I contacted him about saying something--because I don't wish to embarrass him--his response did not surprise me in the least.  I don't make a practice of sharing private emails, and I trust he'll forgive me for sharing a portion of this one--while admitting the difficult time his family is facing, this was his primary response:

I am loath to ask other people for money when things are so very tight everywhere and they should be preparing themselves.

Regulars here know I never ask for money for myself (although I do shamelessly hound to share my Examiner links so those cheap ########! can pay me).  In this case, I'm not going to ask you to send Mike a donation either.

Not a cent in gift money.

What I will ask you to do --all of you who visit his site every day and receive value from it--is pay for that value.  I'm asking you to voluntarily subscribe to Sipsey Street Irregulars and help Mike continue to bring YOU his daily reports and insights.

Just so we're clear: This is NOT CHARITY.  This is PAYMENT FOR SERVICES BEING RENDERED.

How much?  I won't put a ceiling on the maximum, but would submit the recommended minimum should be something we all, with very few exceptions/excuses can afford: A dollar a month.

I see from Mike's Site Meter that SSI brings in around 2,400 discrete visitors each day.  That means if we all do this, the guy will actually be able to pay most of the bills and focus on giving us what he's been selflessly providing every day for years--with no compensation or expectations of personal gain.

What is this guy, our slave?  Do people pay you for what you do?

I'll accept that some--a few--are simply not in a position to do this, with financial straits of their own.  But I bet most of us are able. How much do we spend a year on ammo?  Do you think we can get through this without intellectual ammunition and leadership?

How many will man up and do the right thing? 3/4? Half?Under a dozen of you?

My experience with trying to get simple things done, like sharing a link or sending an email, does not fill me with great hopes. Sorry, not trying to start a fight here, but I've said before, if anything induces me to finally hang things up and take care of Number One, it will be those "Profiles in Apathy" that to me represent a greater threat than the antis will ever be capable of presenting.

I don't want to hear great words of Liberty and "Is it time yet?" and all the other brave words of defiance from thousands of self-professed Threepers who won't even do this small thing.  If you won't do it, if you won't help when you know in your heart you could, my guess is it will show the oppressor all he needs to know about the personal commitment of those who say they'll stand up to him.

Regulars here know I never ask anyone to do anything I'm not willing to do myself.

My envelope with my $12 annual subscription fee is in the mail.

Mike Vanderboegh

P.O. Box 926

Pinson, AL 35126.

If you agree with me, yours will be too, and you'll spread the word.

And I apologize to Mike if this embarrasses him. I did not get his permission to do this. But unless he tells me flat out that leaving this plea up will end our friendship, I'll not obey any orders from him to take this post down.

We're the Only Ones Eluded Enough

“I didn’t know an Escort could go that fast,” he said. “Not the best escape vehicle you would think.” [More]

You're right. I would think that.


[Via Hazmat]

Once You Are Approved

You can’t just go pick up a pistol license. Oneida County Judge Michael Dwyer, the county’s chief pistol license officer, requires prospective applicants to complete the first eight hours of the National Rifle Association basic pistol course.

“After that, you can make an appointment to be fingerprinted, and it’s a four-month process (background checks and more),” Sullivan said. “Once you are approved, you can buy a gun.” [More]

They're not only oath breakers, they're blasphemers.

But perhaps I'm being too hard on them, and too ungrateful for the safeguards and protections they offer: After all, if they can get the violent criminals to do this, they're keeping us all a lot safer.

And remember: Enforce existing gun laws!

We're the Only Ones Pulling Out Enough

Harpole says the 42-year-old officer, a 9-year veteran of the force, pulled out his gun and shot the man with the knife. [More]

"Only Ones" can do that in Milwaukee.

A Disarming Video

Three days after he posted a series of six video clips recorded with a cell phone camera at San Francisco International Airport, four federal air marshals and two sheriff's deputies arrived at his house to confiscate his federally-issued firearm. The pilot recorded that event as well and provided all the video to News10.

At the same time as the federal marshals took the pilot's gun, a deputy sheriff asked him to surrender his state-issued permit to carry a concealed weapon.

A follow-up letter from the sheriff's department said the CCW permit would be reevaluated following the outcome of the federal investigation. [More]

Make sure you watch the video. That's quite a gang-up. I'm surprised they didn't at least kill his dog.

So much for depending on the government for permission to keep and bear arms.  They don't like you and so much for that.  But doesn't this just show the ridiculousness of the whole presumption--that videotaping official thugs and boobs makes someone who knows them when he sees them too dangerous to be trusted with a firearm.

But he can still fly.

So say the "Only Ones."

[Via Lots of You]

We're the Only Ones Instructive Enough

An instructor for the Ohio Peace Officers Training Academy is recovering from a gunshot wound suffered during a training session Tuesday in Summit County. [More]

He "was shot."

And "the shooting happened."

And no, of course they won't tell us who he is. Which will make entering his name as a Lee Paige Award finalist problematic...