What’s also clear is they are being prosecuted by the same branch of government that won’t comply with subpoenas when its own role in allowing guns to fall into cartel hands is scrutinized. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes there's justice and there's Justice...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Jailed gun dealer family hearing scheduled for this morning
On Self-Referential Links
Where would you have had us link to? [Read]
Because we've also had the direct opposite complaint--someone would come into it for the first time and it would be like trying to watch part of a third-season episode of "Lost" and make sense of the storyline and characters. That's too confusing and too much work, so they would just give up and switch channels.
Because we've also had the direct opposite complaint--someone would come into it for the first time and it would be like trying to watch part of a third-season episode of "Lost" and make sense of the storyline and characters. That's too confusing and too much work, so they would just give up and switch channels.
Where to Begin?
“There’s no rational reason to own a gun in the city. Gophers aren’t chewing up our fields, we have no black bears going through our garbage bins and the raccoons aren’t dangerous enough,” said Councillor Adam Vaughan in an interview. “I appreciate that people like them as a sporting hobby. I appreciate that people like their guns and love their activities, but those are emotional arguments. And I’m sorry, the risks that are presented from the stores, the selling and the possession of weapons in this city is presenting too big a problem.” [More]Actually, there's no need to begin anywhere. He's clearly either insane or evil, quite possibly both, and the only rational response would be to repel him if he gets too close.
Welcome to the Party, φιλαράκος
"I have never even considered owning a gun before, but I am seriously worried about what might happen after the election." [More]If you were serious, you wouldn't just be "considering."
Stupid Guns
"Stupid Tree!"These people think and act like children.
Project Gun Wokker
The Chinese authorities said on Tuesday that they had detained 23 suspects here and had broken up an international gun trafficking ring that conspired with a United States soldier to smuggle firearms into China. [More]Doesn't he know that's a human rights violation?
Bealls, For All Your Father's Day Shopping Needs: Not
“Father’s Day is a time when people think about family ... or people that have passed on,” said Bill Webster, director of public and government affairs for Bealls. “It’s a time when people might reflect on the future and participate in the program.” [More]It's also a time when we might reflect on telling Bill Webster and Bealls to go **** themselves, and that there are plenty of other retailers we can patronize who are not helping to subvert public perception of guns in private hands. Those, incidentally, help keep more people from "passing on" than the monopoly of violence thugs and the useful idiot rope-sellers conducting the "buyback" want us to know about.
What do they call a father who has not assumed responsibility to protect his family, to include having the mindset, the training and the tools to do it? Aside from that. A Bealls customer.
Meanwhile, Over in Furious Mike Paradise
Bible-college student’s pocketknife spoils trip to New York City [More]
It wasn't the knife that spoiled it.
By the way, why isn't "the officer's" name relevant if one of the prime objectives of journalism is to be a government watchdog keeping the public fully informed of abuses and abusers?
We're the Only Ones Incomprehensible Enough
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
May I Have the Envelope, Please...
Click graphic to enlarge. Links contained in original:
- http://www.rtdna.org/pages/media_items/2012-national-edward-r.-murrow-award-winners2089.php
- http://vimeo.com/album/1834393
Weapons Laws of the Russian Federation
Wow, what an undertaking to translate this--suggest bookmarking it as a resource. [Read]
TV panel discusses Mexican hunting dangers and inhumane Humane Society practices
Two topics were selected for discussion, the first being hunting in Mexico, often under armed guards due to cartel terror (with a segue into Fast and Furious), and the second being the blackmail-style pressure the Humane Society of the United States brings to bear on conservation charities to not accept contributions from hunters. Their ruthlessness is shocking, and it actually works against their advertised mission and creates a devastating and wholly unjustifiable extinction threat to endangered species. This is a story that’s been underreported and is probably news to even most hunters. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column reports on the second in what will hopefully turn out to be a long series of appearances, and includes the embedded video.
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Stand Your Ground is RACIST!
That's the new meme and they're sticking to it. [Read]
Even if they're demonstrably full of sh...:
Even if they're demonstrably full of sh...:
I go on to point out ways in which a robust right of self-defense has historically proved to protect the interests of victims of domestic violence and racial minorities. (On the latter, see, for example, cases from Ossian Sweet’s in the 1920s to the present day; more here and here, and from my Cato colleague Jonathan Blanks here.)
A Legal Right
Student’s legal right to possess weapon not entirely clear [More]Sure it is. It's the recognition of it that's being intentionally blurred.
[Via Darrel]
A Note About Yesterday's Post
This one, about CBS...
It has been suggested on one forum by someone with no dog in the fight, and who has not invested thousands of hours of their life with the attendant exertion and financial/emotional strain, that "credit" doesn't matter as long as the story gets out.
That's my point: The whole story is NOT getting out when the mainstream press is what controls the megaphone, and as I pointed out, even Wikipedia deletes all references to we who forced people to pay attention and who continue to expose new facets. Sharyl's done great work, but there is plenty she and Fox and all the other reporters and bloggers have not touched on that is only available on mine and Mike's sites. As I wrote recently, there are also stories I have had to spike recently because we're just not big enough fish to be able to do anything about it if retaliation is the government response, so my sources, with Republican squishiness being among other factors, asked me not to post my finished drafts. As their protection is my priority, I of course complied.
On top of that, there's information Mike and I have that we've not yet disclosed--in some cases big stuff that eats at us, that we're itching to get out, and that we just can't yet, and who knows when we'll be able to? As our best defense--because we are small fry--has always been to make noise, believe me when I say that situation makes me feel very vulnerable, because as long as it resides only with us, it is containable. And we're dealing with people who would engineer guns being walked to Mexican criminals here...
Another person suggested we write a book, but that requires an interested publisher, and an advance so that we can eat in the mean time. Speaking of which, that's the reason I keep asking regulars--you who evidently get value from the work because you keep returning--to share the GRE links, and the reason why getting them out to a larger readership is important--at least to me...
Oh, and there's one other great reason why we should just not sit back and say let CBS be the final word on Guwalker. This one. Moonves could pull the plug at any time.
It has been suggested on one forum by someone with no dog in the fight, and who has not invested thousands of hours of their life with the attendant exertion and financial/emotional strain, that "credit" doesn't matter as long as the story gets out.
That's my point: The whole story is NOT getting out when the mainstream press is what controls the megaphone, and as I pointed out, even Wikipedia deletes all references to we who forced people to pay attention and who continue to expose new facets. Sharyl's done great work, but there is plenty she and Fox and all the other reporters and bloggers have not touched on that is only available on mine and Mike's sites. As I wrote recently, there are also stories I have had to spike recently because we're just not big enough fish to be able to do anything about it if retaliation is the government response, so my sources, with Republican squishiness being among other factors, asked me not to post my finished drafts. As their protection is my priority, I of course complied.
On top of that, there's information Mike and I have that we've not yet disclosed--in some cases big stuff that eats at us, that we're itching to get out, and that we just can't yet, and who knows when we'll be able to? As our best defense--because we are small fry--has always been to make noise, believe me when I say that situation makes me feel very vulnerable, because as long as it resides only with us, it is containable. And we're dealing with people who would engineer guns being walked to Mexican criminals here...
Another person suggested we write a book, but that requires an interested publisher, and an advance so that we can eat in the mean time. Speaking of which, that's the reason I keep asking regulars--you who evidently get value from the work because you keep returning--to share the GRE links, and the reason why getting them out to a larger readership is important--at least to me...
Oh, and there's one other great reason why we should just not sit back and say let CBS be the final word on Guwalker. This one. Moonves could pull the plug at any time.
Shipley Hearing Today
On record reconstruction... [Read]
Why would they have to do that?
Oh.
Copies of the defense attorney's objection to producing what should be privileged work papers/documents and an update memo from DOJ on the US Attorney assigned to the case are also posted.
If you're unfamiliar with the Shipley case, check these out:
You who are still part of a machine that hasn't turned on you (yet) might want to keep that in mind.
Why would they have to do that?
Oh.
Copies of the defense attorney's objection to producing what should be privileged work papers/documents and an update memo from DOJ on the US Attorney assigned to the case are also posted.
If you're unfamiliar with the Shipley case, check these out:
- Is FBI agent Mexican 'crime gun' source?
- Is FBI agent in Mexican gun case being persecuted?
- Is FBI agent charged with illegal gun dealing just a collector?
- Jury finds FBI's Shipley guilty on gun charges
- Family of FBI agent convicted on gun charges: 'Battle lost, war still on'
You who are still part of a machine that hasn't turned on you (yet) might want to keep that in mind.
To OURSELVES and OUR Posterity
Justified
A series on justifiable homicides from MLive.com, where they go from the defenders' points of view, deal with aftermaths, etc...[Read]
I had time to read the editorial intro and it looks interesting. I'll have to somehow find more to check out their follow-through.
I had time to read the editorial intro and it looks interesting. I'll have to somehow find more to check out their follow-through.
Sounds Like She Gets It--And HE Doesn't
Hazmat shares the response he got on Gunwalker from Rep. Cynthis Lummis. [Read]
She sure did a lot better than the equivocating, say-nothing weasel words I got from my ever-useless RINO Rep. Steve LaTourettesyndrome:
He will keep my position in mind. How nice of him.
Ditto.
She sure did a lot better than the equivocating, say-nothing weasel words I got from my ever-useless RINO Rep. Steve LaTourettesyndrome:
He will keep my position in mind. How nice of him.
Ditto.
Monday, June 11, 2012
Sunday's Armed American Radio Program
I haven't had time to listen to the podcast but I have the nagging feeling that I slipped up when I meant to refer to Atticus Finch when talking about shooting a mad dog and may have called his last name Stevens. I don't know why I would have made that mistake, but I am getting old. Maybe I didn't. Who cares?
Listen at your leisure/play in the background while you surf and share with your friends:
CBS scoops contempt vote, claims credit for nationally breaking Fast and Furious
Regardless, here's the exhaustively-documented truth: This story, that now reaches into the highest levels of government, was exposed nationally for the first time by new media, not old. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes acknowledgement involves a lot more more than simply proper attribution.
Registration-Bound
These are absolute, bald-faced lies. ATF has been copying FFL Bound Books for years – with or without FFL permission. During annual compliance inspections in other states, FFL dealers have reported that ATF industry operations investigators (IOI) brought in digital cameras and photographed the entire dealer “Bound Book” without permission of the FFL holder. Other dealers reported investigators brought in digital scanners and scanned portions of the Bound Book – line by line. Of course, the Bound Book contains the dealer’s full record of lawful firearm sales transaction records. [More]If it's not isolated and discontinued, as we've been led to believe, who can help amass documentation to see how widespread and long of a practice this has been/is?
Has a congressman just been lied to? Anyone willing to come forward and help prove it, or is the specter of retaliation enough to keep this discussion confined to "gun blogs," the only ones with the incentive to press forward on a story like this, that is, with principled interest?
Community Hero
Meet Alan Rosenfeld. [Read]
No wonder government and public sector unions want to raise taxes so you pay your "fair share." And if you don't like it, you're a teabagger, you teabagger.
No wonder government and public sector unions want to raise taxes so you pay your "fair share." And if you don't like it, you're a teabagger, you teabagger.
The Root of the Problem
Each year, across the country, about 7,000 African Americans are murdered, more than nine times out of 10 by other African Americans. [More]Dang.
You know what would fix that?
Marching on gun shops!
We're the Only Ones Who Know What's Good Enough
“(Russellville Police Chief Tom McMillen) stated that having one in your car’s probably good enough and you could get to it if you have to”... [More]Y'know, I can conjure up a thought experiment where ol' elitist Chiefie here can show us by example how that wold work. Without going into further detail, it includes force initiators screaming "IS THIS GOOD ENOUGH???"
Oh, look: His mission is all about "securing a feeling of security and safety." No wonder bleaters who make that their priority would trust it to this authoritarian meathead.
Two Approaches, One Solution
He taught them responsibility. [More]As opposed to the shrieking avoidance and blue-nosed, self-righteous prohibition, which is the purview of the antis.
Securing the Blessings of Liberty: Environmentalcase Bureaucrat-Style
Who Decides?
"The Latino community in Colorado can ultimately determine who ends up being the next president of the United States," he told KBNO's listeners. [More]And the usual suspects, Democrats, SEIU, et al, are exploiting that for all it's worth.
I don't suppose circulating these would be an option...?
Let me know if relying on Google Translate was a mistake--I can do a quick turnaround text change if need be.
This Day in History: June 11
The enemy, by attempting to hold conquests so remote, must dissipate their force, and of course afford opportunities of striking one or the other extremity. [More]
Sunday, June 10, 2012
ATF whistleblower site members not buying Holder’s ‘Fast and Furious’ testimony
“This man needs to be impeached, prosecuted here in the states then handed over to the sovereign nation of Mexico for terrorist crimes against the Mexican people who died because of his failed attempt to push more gun control,” he concluded. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes more dissension in the ranks.
Saturday, June 09, 2012
TV panel analyzes home defense incident and anti-gun hypocrisy
Two topics were selected for discussion, the first being a case of armed home defense and the second being the hypocrisy of anti-gun politicians and other elites who nonetheless enjoy armed protection themselves. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column hopes you can find 20 minutes to sit back and enjoy the show.
Friday, June 08, 2012
Holder testimony belies early and continued citizen journalist reports
In order to buy into that, one must also believe that the head of the United States Department of Justice, with the virtually unlimited resources of the federal apparatus at his disposal, knew less than two relatively obscure, home-based bloggers in Alabama and Ohio, who had uncovered and amassed quite a bit of documentation, and obtained significantly wider recognition of those efforts by the time Holder claims, under oath, he got his first inkling. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes contradictions can be identified if one knows where to look--and wants to. At this point, they've been dared to do something about it. If investigators don't press forward with consequences it will be because they don't want to.
A Durham Democrat
Sen. Floyd McKissick, a Durham Democrat, had a similar concern. “We keep going down a path and I don’t know where it ends,” he said. “We continue to allow guns in more and more places.” [More]In other words he's just another race cardshark who thinks photo IDs discriminate against black voters but evidently not against black gun owners? And he thinks his function is to "allow"?
Feel free to let this freedom-hating gasbag know your concerns.
"The Gun Went Off"
"He wasn't driving down the road in a passenger vehicle. He wasn't on a road at all. He was in their yard when the tractor rolled over on him and killed him," the lawyer said. [More]All by its own self. "Acute ethanol intoxication" had nothing to do with it.
Which reminds me of a joke.
Bloody Good Ideas
The Swiss Army Survival Tampon — 10 Survival Uses [More]I don't think I'd better type what I'm thinking.
[Via Russ H]
What We MEANT to Say
We're the Only Ones Pompous and Circumstantial Enough
Seventeen-year-old Tiarra Brown was focused on her future, but the excitement about graduation turned to fear when police came to her school and arrested her.I imagine an honor roll student could learn a valuable lesson from this educational opportunity.
Prosecutors said they dropped the case after realizing she was not involved in a crime. It appears to be a horrific case of mistaken identity... [More]
[Via William T]
We're the Only Ones "It's Not Easy Being Green" Enough
A Utah police officer fired for dropping his pants and flaunting a green Speedo during a "Princess and the Frog" birthday skit at a school function wants his job back. [More]Maybe if he'd said "Ribbit, ribbit" instead of "Rub it, rub it"...
[Via Bad Cyborg]
Things Going Swimmingly Down Under
Diamond in the Rough
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If At First You Don't Succeed...
...sue. [Read]
Lot'ta leftist snouts in that trough...
Don't they realize what could happen if a southern bluefin tuna or a Spix's macaw swallowed one of these...? And let's not even get into the environmental impact of producing these things, from tapping trees and exploiting indigenous labor in Brazil or Southeast Asia, to creating molds and manufacturing equipment, to production operations (say, have you seen some of the stuff that requires, like sulfur and ammonia and "PAN bad actor" chemicals like zinc oxide they use for vulcanizing agents?) all the way to clogging sewer systems after disposal...
Besides, if they're going to pass out promotional swag, I'd much rather have a Center for Biological Diversity gorilla hand ashtray for those cigars I get that are probably rolled from tobacco grown on slashed and burned rainforest land...
Lot'ta leftist snouts in that trough...
Don't they realize what could happen if a southern bluefin tuna or a Spix's macaw swallowed one of these...? And let's not even get into the environmental impact of producing these things, from tapping trees and exploiting indigenous labor in Brazil or Southeast Asia, to creating molds and manufacturing equipment, to production operations (say, have you seen some of the stuff that requires, like sulfur and ammonia and "PAN bad actor" chemicals like zinc oxide they use for vulcanizing agents?) all the way to clogging sewer systems after disposal...
Besides, if they're going to pass out promotional swag, I'd much rather have a Center for Biological Diversity gorilla hand ashtray for those cigars I get that are probably rolled from tobacco grown on slashed and burned rainforest land...
Gadgetwise, Pound Foolish
[More]
Who? Oh, you mean the guy who was already on the phone with the dispatcher?
I hope this guy is just being sarcastic.
[Via ParaLarry]
This Day in History: June 8
Union Square on Elizabeth Avenue is best known for being the site of the Continental Outpost of the battle of June 8, 1780. Five thousand British Regulars arrived in Port Elizabeth and marched down Elizabeth Avenue-known as one of the oldest streets in North America-to attack General Washington and the Continental Army. [More]
Thursday, June 07, 2012
510,000 people, 126,654 guns
Heavens! Why isn't that ratio reversed? [Read]
I guess it's a more sensationalistic headline to help bring about those "tougher restrictions" Roland Browne is stamping his feet for than the more honest "Gun Registration an Utter Failure at Reducing Violent Crime."
I guess it's a more sensationalistic headline to help bring about those "tougher restrictions" Roland Browne is stamping his feet for than the more honest "Gun Registration an Utter Failure at Reducing Violent Crime."
'Stand your ground' needs to go
Yeah, well, f-you, Lloyd Constantine. You need to go. [More]
I see you were an adviser to Spitzer-Swallows. Did you tell him what socks to wear?
I see you were an adviser to Spitzer-Swallows. Did you tell him what socks to wear?
Mexican attorney prepares civil lawsuit on Fast and Furious
"I'm risking my life, my things, my family, everything, but it's something that someone has to do,” González Saldaña told Proceso, saying she is proceeding because “everyone is afraid” and “because nobody has had the pants to do so. I cannot believe no one has come up with this idea.” [More]Today's second Gun Rights Examiner report introduces us to a lady whose courageous example should shame our so-called "leaders."
Holder to appear before House Judiciary Committee on Fast and Furious
Perceived stonewalling, not only by the Justice Department in responding to subpoenaed information by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, but also by the Republican leadership in aggressively pressing forward, has resulted in competing speculation on the willingness of investigators to proceed with a threatened contempt of Congress citation against the Attorney General. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner asks if this morning's hearing will result in fireworks or fizzle, and includes a link to the live hearing feed.
We're the Only Ones Domesticated Enough
Authorities say a western Massachusetts police officer responding to a domestic violence call has been fatally shot by a New York City correction officer who critically wounded his former girlfriend before killing himself. [More]This kind of stuff could shake our confidence, not just in Bloombergian dungeon masters...I mean, "New York's boldest," but also in the efficacy of restraining orders in general!
[Via Kevin Starrett]
This Day in History: June 7
The Battle of Connecticut Farms, fought June 7, 1780, was one of the last major battles between British and American forces in the northern colonies during the American Revolutionary War. Hessian General Wilhelm von Knyphausen, in command of the British garrison at New York City, made an attempt to reach the principal Continental Army encampment at Morristown, New Jersey. Knyphausen's advance was strongly met by companies of the New Jersey militia at Connecticut Farms (present-day Union Township). After stiff resistance, the militia were forced to withdraw, but the battle and skirmishing that preceded it sufficiently delayed Knyphausen's advance that he remained there for the night. After realizing that further advance on Morristown would probably be met by even more resistance, Knyphausen withdrew back toward New York. [More]
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Romney backers ignore Fast and Furious at own peril
Gun owners are watching equivocation from the Republican leadership and from its candidate, and are seeing real-world effects that inexplicable timidity yields in not only frustrating justice, but in making the suppression of new information an inevitable outcome as sources become afraid to come forward. More and more Fast and Furious watchers are expressing frustration, anger, resignation and expectation of betrayal, they have been for some time, and they will not be ignored. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column cautions those living in an ivory tower to check its foundations. I'd like to see the link to this sent to both the Mitt Romney campaign and the RNC by everyone who wants them to get serious:
http://www.mittromney.com/forms/other
info@gop.com
Well, that's one...
The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury, recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, died on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91 after a long illness. He lived in Los Angeles. [More]R.I.P.
Recession-Proof
Let's see, if there's a market for the tools of personal freedom, maybe there's a market for other personal freedom-oriented products and services...and just maybe helping people secure personal freedom so they can pursue happiness is the answer to the whole economic mess... [Read]
The Obvious Solution
The message was this: Most of the gun-wielders in the city are young men -- if not children -- and many of the future shooters are currently incarcerated or otherwise involved in the criminal justice system. [More]Well then isn't it clear to all that the only "common sense" solution is to keep you and me disarmed?
We're the Only Ones Removing Childhood Barriers Enough
“They had multiple machine pistols pointed at my son. I could see the laser sights on his body and he began to freak out. While I was cuffed I had to calm him down while the officers broke down his bedroom door,” she said. [More]What do you mean the suspect doesn't live here any more...?
[Via Ron W]
Gunwalker Ping-Pong
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| Ping-pong, anyone...? |
Boehner Aides in Talks With Justice Dept. on Gun-Running Inquiry By CHARLIE SAVAGE [More]
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Boehner spokesman: NY Times story about Holder Fast and Furious compromise is false By Matthew Boyle [More]
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And then there's this, from Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole, talking about "ongoing conversations" with staff that "stand in contrast with [Issa's] tone."
Stay tuned. And get your paddles ready.
UPDATE: They're boiling up a pot of crawfish over at Vanderboegh's...
UPDATE: They're boiling up a pot of crawfish over at Vanderboegh's...
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Akin Cosponsor’s “Second Amendment Sovereignty Act” [More]So how the hell come there are only four?
This Day in History: June 6
On June 6, 1780, British troops boarded boats on Staten Island bound for Elizabeth, New Jersey. At midnight, 5,000 troops started to land. They expected the Continental Army to give little resistance, believing that they were tired of the war and were poorly fed and paid. They also expected the citizens of New Jersey to welcome them. They were wrong on both counts. [More]
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Bipartisan Support
"How I Became Mr. Popular"
...popular gun-rights activist and commentator David Codrea... [More]If they only knew...
Anyway, I was looking for a suitable graphic to accompany this post and got completely sidetracked when I found this by accident. I'm still laughing, it is so damn bizarre.
Oversight says ‘senior DOJ officials were informed of gunwalking’
Referencing “immense detail” in sealed wiretap applications obtained by the committee that had been approved by these officials, Issa claimed “The close involvement of these officials – much greater than previously known – is shocking.” [More]Today's second Gun Rights Examiner offering is something I just put together in response to an Oversight Committee press release. I figured readers here ought to know about it, plus it includes a new video and updates us on Thursday's Judiciary hearing. That said, I'm past ready for the cage match and want things upped to nets and tridents.
MA Democrats require photo ID despite racism charges
As stated before, the government can’t have it both ways. By their own admission and actions, they consider a requirement to produce official photo identification as discriminatory, with a significant statistical impact on the enfranchisement of minority rights. Heller and McDonald leave no doubt that the Second Amendment articulates an individual right recognized by the federal government and applicable to the states and it is the duty of the Department of Justice to ensure that denials of rights are prosecuted. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes astonishing and contradictory hypocrisy, that is, SOP for the gang of collectivist sociopaths who presume to rule free men.
Gun Owner Opposition to NRA-Backed SB1034 Compromise
Kurt wrote about the bill here. I was asked to but did not have time to do the requisite research--I still haven't. But I do note there is some strongly-felt opposition from within the gun owner community, and, as their voice is not a loudly or widely heard, am going to paste an email I received on this below for reader consideration:
Feel free to add your opinion in comments. If you disagree, let's hear why.
During the last minute secession that saw the NRA compromise on an amendment too SB1034, State Representative Mike Bost threw an absolute fit on the House floor because he said they didn’t have time to consider and ponder over the legislation sent to them. (video link below it’s 1.33 minutes long, a must see)
The bad part is even with the claim that the Illinois House didn’t have time to consider and ponder over legislation the House still passed SB1034 because the NRA told them too! Now thanks to this list minute deal the “NO FLY LIST, TERROR WATCH LIST and VETERANS DISARMAMENT LIST” can be added to the FOID data base. PLUS the amendment will allow for a massive up-grade too the data base the runs the current outdated FOID card system.
Attorney General Eric Holder wanted the up-grades and the NRA capitulated. Apparently the NRA is happy with the gun control requirements of the Illinois FOID card. The Bill is BAD and it was made at the last minute without any regards to the people their property or their lives! We don’t need the FOID card in Illinois so why did the NRA/ISRA save it again?
We still have a chance to stop this bill by having the governor to veto the bill.
http://www.chicagonow.com/dennis-byrnes-barbershop/2012/05/rep-mike-bost-speaks-for-all-of-illinois Another link.. http://www.infowars.com/illinois-rep-explodes-over-tyranny-on-house-floor
Here is the URL for the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0sU-tSd4rA&feature=player_embedded
Feel free to add your opinion in comments. If you disagree, let's hear why.
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Canada has modified its controversial position on a United Nations arms control treaty.Does bending over qualify as a "modified...controversial position"?
In a new position paper submitted to the UN, the federal government has dropped its proposal to exclude all sporting and hunting firearms from the international Arms Trade Treaty, an agreement that seeks to regulate the import, export and transfer of all conventional weapons. [More]
And here we all thought "sporting purposes" was going to be our salvation...
We're the Only Ones Non-Reciprocal Enough
“Somebody is going get away with killing a cop because of this law.” [More]But the other way around is consistent with department protocol? So in a nutshell, it should be illegal to defend yourself and your property against government enforcers?
Good ol' Bloomberg "News", adding a totally new intent to the term "government watchdog." The police state union flack spews it and the "Authorized Journalist" laps it up and regurgitates it.
Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirate's Life for Me
Pirates making hundreds of millions in ransoms, as attacks intensify off Somali coast [More]How am I supposed to feel the least bit of sympathy for anyone captured by Somali pirates? It's not like we don't know what would stop it, and we all know that won't be allowed. So if you choose to go there in spite of that, why would I care about what happened to you any more than if you chose to crawl over all the barriers to enter a lion habitat enclosure? And if you did, why would you expect anyone to expend his treasure or risk his life to save you?
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We're the Only Ones Your Wish is Our Command Enough
A sheriff is supposed to be out there responding to the wishes of the people, just as the police do. [More]How many do I get and what will the response be when I wish they'd just leave me alone?
This Day in History: June 5
Lord Charles Cornwallis assumes command of the British Army in the South. [More]
Monday, June 04, 2012
Siskel and Ebert Rave
And your vote is more important than theirs, because you can do it every day until June 8.
Global Norming On Guns Heats Up
Yet such a monopoly is what the global gungrabbers and their US counterparts, both savvy domestic enemies and their useful idiot camp followers, are working toward with every demand for new edicts, always presented as “common sense gun laws” and “a good first step.” [More]My latest "Rights Watch" column for GUNS Magazine is now online.
Republicans balking on Fast and Furious help suppress new information
“Through the lack of aggressive leadership by the Republicans, two things are happening,” this correspondent observed. “People who want to come forward with information, information that I have and can now not share, are backing off because they’re scared that they’re going to be left out to hang.” [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report shares the fruits of gutlessness.
Do As We Say
Did You Know That Women Are Still Paid Less Than Men? [More]Not as we do.
Besides, it's not as cut and dried as they'd have us believe.
Another Year Older
Today marks the 23rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, but in China any mention of that day remains forbidden. [More]Any questions?
Back By Popular Demand!
Due to lack of donations and interest from the public, the "Guns for Gift Cards" gun buy-back program set for Saturday, June 2, has been canceled. [More]Alameda County?
Everybody must be getting ready for the gun show...
We're the Only Ones Getting Guns Off the Street Enough
We're the Only Ones Searching Enough
Pictures from the scene show police officers armed with shields and weapons as they made contact with each car. Adults were handcuffed and led away. Children that were present followed. [More]Or in the immortal words of Inspector Clouseau, "I suspect everyone and I suspect no one."
[Via CH]
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