Pistol Training with Phil Strader & Max Michel at MGM Junior Training Camp

THIS WEEK, beginning November 7th, on ATSN TV:

Phil Strader and Max Michel teach students, including ATSN Field Correspondent, Molly Smith, at the MGM Junior Shooters Camp at Parma Rod & Gun Club in Parma, Idaho.

Phil Strader is a  former U.S. Capitol Police firearms instructor and three-time Steel Challenge champion and Max Michel is three-time World Speed Shooting Champion and six-time USPSA National Championships among nearly 100 other major championship wins.

Learn what the juniors are practicing to improve pistol shooting speed and accuracy and try it yourself!

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A Dead Girl or a Live Boy

I don't think even Edwin Edwards, for all his corruption and reliance on a degraded supporters, ever envisioned how much the right constituency would let someone get away with, as evidenced by this and this.

Keeping Things in Perspective

We are everywhere.

[Via Capitalism Institute]

We're the Only Ones Mystified Enough

“At this point, it’s unclear what the motive was. We’re looking at a variety of possibilities. One of them is an obvious robbery. We’re also looking at the background of the victim, trying to see if there are any disputes that might have resulted in this,” said Anthony Guglielmi, Baltimore City Police spokesperson. [More]

Yeah, gee, whatever could have motivated this? If only there were some clue...

And any chance Jesse or Al will be interested in helping to get some justice and peace...?

When I Was a Child...

This dislike of firearms continued into my adulthood...[More]

As far as I can tell, you've never reached it. But thanks for illustrating that the compulsion to ban guns and control others really does spring from childish fears, ignorance, personal incompetence and self-loathing.

We're the Only Ones PO'd Enough

"I said really, he is 3 years old, and he said it doesn't matter," said Dillan's grandmother, Jennifer Warden. "[He said] It is public urination. I said we are on our property and he said it's in public view."[More]

As is typical more often than not, we know the name of the mom and the grandmother, and we even know the name of the three-year-old, but the the name of the badged pissant spraying all over those he has been given power over is somehow a state secret the Authorized Urinalists dare not divulge. At least it looks like the mayor and chief ended up reversing things as far as the ticket goes--but here's the thing: Not only is their unfixed dog out there throwing his authoritah around and bullying the people he's supposed to be serving, his "courtesy" of writing a $2,500 fine we learn about in the first link turns out to be utterly without merit under state law.

Protection of public employees being what it is these days, things are probably set up so they can't fire Barney Fife outright, but I'd say the public has a right to know who this menace to society is, and see what other examples of abuse they can pin on him--surely this can't be the first time he's whizzed on a citizen. At the least, people ought to be able to simulate taking a leak every time he passes by, and then point and laugh at the silly sumbich.

[Via Jeffersonian]

This is It

Ayup. This is it, all right.

I'll have something to say later in the day. Maybe. Meanwhile, some links:

• Second Amendment Results
• Doomed Beyond All Hope of Redemption
• One thing should be clear to everybody, if it wasn't before.

This Day in History: November 7

On November 7, 1780 General Orders noted: “The fire engine being put in good repairs the Garrison Q’r M’r [Quarter Master] will see that it is properly executed and a proper number of men from the artificers assigned to work it.” [More]

Feinstein rumored to be pushing semi-auto ban if Obama reelected

"The ATF personnel noted are indeed the players,” the source replied, “but what is noticeably absent is anyone from the executive level, AD or DAD [Assistant Director/Deputy Assistant Director]--the policy implementer/makers. That part is strange and shows that while ATF may have had to go to the meeting, the Bureau and DoJ are not necessarily supportive. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report shares a pre-election rumor--and a prediction about toast.

How to Reply

So I'm giving it some thought on how to reply. Suggestions? [More] 

Yeah, I have a suggestion. Present the mall manager with a Gun Surrender Protection Contract, adapted from the one I designed to use at "buybacks":

Personal Safety Guarantee 

The [Name of Company or Agency: ____________________________] agrees that a special relationship exists between our organization and [Name of Individual Entering Premises Disarmed: _____________________________] by virtue of his/her abiding by our “No Firearms” mandate. Because we have encouraged him/her to be personally defenseless, we hereby agree to assume responsibility for his/her personal safety and protection, and admit liability should we fail in this duty.

_____________________________
[Signature/Title/Date] 

And Penn Square Mall, being in Oklahoma, means it's a "one party consent" situation, meaning you ought to be able to lawfully secretly video-record their refusal and post it in on YouTube.


[Via Jeffersonian]

The Great Password

The country is in danger. We will march out of the shadows. We will go forward. Forward is the great password. [More]

Despite All Those Background Checks

One of the top Secret Service Agents assigned to President Obama's protective detail has apparently taken his own life. [More]

I can't shake the feeling there is a lot more to this story that we many never learn.

A Right Wing Conspiracy Theory

If Issa really wants to save U.S. and Mexican lives, he should convene hearings on banning the sale of high-powered weapons. I think Holder would be happy to testify.  [More]

Alrighty then.

And anytime this buffoon wants to compare original sourced notes on Wide Receiver...

Psychopathological

Anyone who can equate the ownership of semi-automatic weapons with the abuse of children is obviously teetering on the edge. [More]

Teetering?

Preemptive Violence

Could I use non-deadly force to bring him down and render him not a threat? [More]

I'd like to see you try. Really. What are you going to do, slap him with your ghillie brogues?

This is the little CSGV/Brady fanboy who wanted to report Kurt to the FBI and get him fired. Naturally, he's also a Benedict Arnold fan.

[Via Jeffersonian]

Important Second Amendment Case, And Why Elections Matter

Something to consider as you do what your informed conscience tells you is the right thing...[Read]

This Day in History: November 6

While I sincerely lament the distressed and exhausted situation of the Southern States, I cannot but hope the Enemy have committed themselves so far as to be made to repent their temerity; especially since I have received information of a more recent date than Your Letter, of the success of the Militia against Col Ferguson: this I flatter myself will give a better aspect to your affairs, and will awaken more extensively that spirit of bravery and enterprise which displayed itself so conspicuously on the occasion. [More]

Gun ban group goes nuclear in latest hysterical attack on rights advocate

What kind of cowardly slave wouldn’t fight against such bloody tyrants? [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner offering introduces you to some.

TSA Keeping Us Safe

I put my 87-year-old mother on an airplane this morning.  They took her aside and wanded/patted her down.

Not Following the Rules

See, you're allowed to scream for him... [Watch]

Hotmail Hacked

My Hotmail edress got hijacked and sent out what I must assume is a malware link to my address book.  Either that or someone is spoofing my email address.  I just changed my password and am doing a scan to see if anyone has gotten into my machine.

Sorry for the inconvenience--please know I surf responsibly, don't open suspicious links or go to sites unapproved by my McAfee site adviser, and also do regular Malware Bytes scans.

If you clicked on the link in the email you received, better scan your computer.

UPDATE: Malwarebytes scan:

 Now I'll do a McAfee scan.

UPDATE: Clean:

I sent out emails to everyone in my address book warning against the bogus emails--it looks like everyone got several of them because Hotmail kept telling me the messages weren't sent so I sent them again.

I'm not sure how this whole sorry episode happened--one person suggested it may be a Facebook app allowing it to access Hotmail, but I don't use that for anything but posting links.  Anyway, my productivity for the day has been pretty much shot.

A More Limited Scale.

Guns sure are a handy tool, for the brutal murderer or the wounded spouse or the depressed teenager who has been bullied at school...I am a gun owner, myself... [More]

Why?

[Via Scott J]

We're the Only Ones Capped Enough

If I think of all the times I--and every other kid I played with--shot cap guns at other people and each other when we were "former youths"... [Read]

It's what they were made for. It is such a different world...

[Via Kevin Starrett]

This Day in History: November 5

[More]

Radio Sunday

I'll be on two programs today:

• Talking Guns with Kate Kruger, at 3:10 p.m. Eastern time (listen live)
• Armed American Radio with Mark Walters for the 10 p.m. Eastern time Roundtable (station list/listen live)

But before then, I have a ton of leaves to rake up--and quietly, lest I wake the young princelings...

‘Crime gun’ trace map withholds key data needed to draw meaningful conclusions

Note the widget doesn't tell the whole story--and that's a calculated decision. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes there are lies, damned lies, and interactive maps prepared by public radio weenies with an agenda.

Affecting the Outcome

So can you, "friend."

Why won't you?

What was Ambassador Steven's role in the Gun Running?

Good question.  Not that this administration will want to answer. [Read]

I don't have any real faith the next one will, either, assuming the get in.

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones Securing the Blessings of Liberty Enough

Police are allowed in some circumstances to install hidden surveillance cameras on private property without obtaining a search warrant, a federal judge said yesterday. [More]

Why?

And I note this wretch was nominated by the "Vote Freedom First President."

The Smoking Gun

PJ Media picked up Matt Bracken's latest. [Read]

They Must Not Need Help All That Bad

Nonunion Ala. crews turned away from Sandy recovery [More]

The hell with 'em then.

When Human Targets Fight Back

"He felt like it was going to be easy especially when he saw me on oxygen and a woman. I can take her down, sorry," the victim said. [More]

Speaking of "sorry"...

[Via William T]

Easy to Believe

Feds Let Mexican Cartel Hit Men Kill in U.S., Senior Lawman Told Stratfor [More] 

Isn't that something? I don't have a problem in the world believing that conclusion without even reading the article. Which I recommend you do.

And then watch this video about U.S. troops and the Mexican drug war.

[Via bondmen]

Cause and Effect

Poverty causes gun crime [More]

Shoot. I wish my parents and immigrant grandparents had known about that moral "out" back in the Depression.  Heck, I even qualified back in college, when I was renting a closet in a house where my bed touched three walls, working a minimum wage part-time job and going to school full time. 

What the Commie-in-Chief is saying is more than the moral equivalent of blaming rape victims for being attractive targets.  He's justifying savagery and evil.  He's approving it.

In the Docket

Leonard Embody's case... [More] 

Here's the cert petition.

Will SCOTUS elect to hear it? I know many on "our side" put the guy down for being provocative, and others are worried that it's not the right case at the right time and will set bad precedent, but really, since when are self-designated Second Amendment activists supposed to side with "Only Ones" taking any of the people hostage at gunpoint for simply bearing arms?

There's something to be said for knowing what limits the courts think can be imposed. You can't push them if you don't know exactly where they are.

It's a Howl

Howling for Wolves plans to protest outside DNR headquarters in St. Paul Friday and at Lake Superior Plaza West in Duluth Saturday. [More]

"Howling for Wolves."

That's almost as funny as "Adopt a Coyote."

Aloha Oe

This is the first time a sitting NRA president has ever visited Hawaii in an official capacity. The Forum is inviting everyone to this unique free opportunity to the talk on 2nd Amendment issues of importance to all citizens. [More]

Hey, somebody asked him why they cheesed out on putting the squeeze on Romney, and what that means about their commitment...

Shooting Destination Night

Precision long-range shooting tonight on American Trigger Sports Network...[Details]

No It Does Not Either

It goes against the Constitution, which gives me the right to keep and bear arms and that right shall not be infringed." [More]

I hate when people say that and others spread it.  A big and unnecessary part of the problem is that "The 2nd Amendment is my concealed carry permit" line popularized by Ted Nugent.

I know what they're trying to say, but that ain't the way to say it.

The Eye of the Storm

Perhaps scariest of all is how many were totally unprepared, totally clueless as to how to provide even the most basic of necessities for themselves, and how the “solution” articulated by their leadership is to be dependent on others. [More]

My latest "Rights Watch" column for GUNS Magazine is now online.

Yesterday was my deadline, but I the way things are going, I hope I don't need to rewrite this completely before it goes to the printer.

The Great Outdoors

Another Fudd for Obama says anybody worried about Barry and gun control is a paranoid. [More]

There's something about "sportswriters." That's how Keith Olbermann got his start. And we've revisited Mike Lupica's subversion ad nauseum... And don't get me started on David Petzal...

Vigilante Justice

How dare she take the law into her own hands?  [More]

Doesn't she know if she had let them shoot her, the Bradys could have used this to decry another casualty of "gun violence," and their professional male spokesvictim wouldn't have had to deal with yet another woman showing him how an adult is supposed to behave?

This Day in History: November 2

[More]

Jedi Mind Tricks

You know, convincing us he's this big supporter of the Emperor all the while profiteering off the Rebellion...

Seriously, how hypocritical and just plain cheesy is a socialist billionaire dodging  taxes?

5 Questions...

...with Ted Nugent [More]

Here's a sixth (actually, I asked mine first): What possible excuse can you have for not doing this?

Happy Halloween!

Yeah, I know it's a day late, but I just got sent the link to this video. [Watch]

[Via Len Savage]  

UPDATE: Sean Sorrentino points us to a follow-up.

The Way Things Oughtta Be

Excellent! [Read]

If I lived there, this guy would be my banker.

[Via Mama Liberty]

"A Staunch Gun Advocate"

I actually condone this action...Gun owners - be reasonable. [More]

Tell you what, why don't you do what you want and stay the hell out of my private affairs?

You call for more "gun laws," make a point of telling everyone how law-abiding you are, and then turn around and tell us "Even if a business is posted, I carry anyway."

If the antis were really for "reasonable" background checks they'd be pushing for BIDS, which would allow for those without creating a purchase record. But what they're really interested in is that purchase record.

In the meantime, we don't need useful kapos ceding  ground in the guise of "staunch gun advocates."

[Via bondmen]

Unpreppers

"I don't have any lights and need this gasoline for my generator," Abdul Rahim Anwar told Reuters as he waited at a Getty service station in Gowanus, Brooklyn. [More]

What? Abdul, old sport, you didn't know a Big-Ass Hurricane was coming your way?

And now it's "to each according to his need"?

Won't things get interesting when something even bigger, more widespread and longer-lasting comes along? They still might.

Yet "preppers" are figures to be ridiculed and even demonized.

Hey, maybe we can charge them with hoarding and "take back" what should rightfully be mi...uh...ours.

Students Teaching...

Well, that's your problem right there. They're supposed to be learning. [More]

I guess if someone really wants to be offended, they'll find a way. If this is all they have to worry about, life must be pretty good. 

S.T.A.R. reminds me of that group created by Al Capp...

Still Plagiarizing After All These Years

"As they say in my business, I'm going to give you the whole load today," said Biden. [More]

I guess a leopard never changes its spots.

But really, word-for-word?

Giving the Devil His Due

“It's about time we start taking this sh—back," the youth, who identified himself as Jesse James, told the Daily News. [More]

Right, because you've no doubt spent a lifetime putting so much in and giving so much, so it's your entitlement.

This Day in History: November 1

That such of the sixteen additional regiments as have not been annexed to the line of some particular state and all the seperate light corps of the army, both of horse and foot, [(Colonel Hazen's regiment, Colonel Armands and Major Lee's corps excepted)] and also the German battalion, be reduced on the 1st day of January next: that the non-commissioned officers and privates in those several corps, be incorporated with the troops of their respective states, and that such of them as do not belong to any particular state, be annexed to such corps as the commander in chief shall direct. [More]

Gun ‘Buybacks’ Endanger Citizens, Help Crooks and Crooked Officials

“The idea is to cut down on the amount of potential guns that could be stolen during house breaks,” the mayor is quoted as saying. If someone were breaking into their house, would the people he’s appealing to not wish to have the means to protect themselves and their loved ones?  Would Hizzoner? [More]

I just posted this short piece over at AmmoLand.

Rhymes with "Ditch"

Guess who? [More]

Hit it, Gomer.

Texas church bludgeoning shows no place is safe from violence

Whether or not the church in Forest Hill was posted is unclear at this time. What should be crystal clear is the law, particularly if criminal penalties can be applied to those unwittingly violating it, or if it has the consequence of discouraging people from protecting themselves. [More]

This morning's Gun Rights Examiner report notes that purposeful obscuring of rights creates a clear and present danger that may not be resolved solely with prayer.

Burden of Proof

And if you have evidence that your use of force was justified, it’s the state’s burden to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that it wasn’t. [More] 

So what we need is a system of guilty until proven innocent? Do you think Emily Bazelon ever listens to herself? And she's a Slate senior editor?

Liars, Damn Liars and...

...this tool [Read]

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

"It's going to be really scary," Jennifer Maldonado said. [More]

From the "Peekaboo!" school of thought--the childish notion that if you can't see it, it doesn't exist.

Daft as a  hairbrush...

On another note, look at all those on "our side" who have viciously attacked open carriers. Thank goodness we have activists willing to ignore them and press on to normalize and expand the recognition of rights for all of us--even their "pro-gun" detractors.

The Kitchen Loophole

It's hard to determine whether New York style anti-knife laws actually make the streets safer. According to the FBI, knives were used in 13 percent of homicides in 2010. Jan Billeb, the executive director of the American Knife and Tool Institute ("Imagine Your Life Without a Knife"), claims that the overwhelming majority of knife crimes are committed with kitchen knives. [More]

And people on the terror watchlist can get them!  Without background checks! Something must be done!  For the children!

We're the Only Ones Game Enough

Securing the blessings of Liberty 'n all that... [More]

[Via cycjec]

We're the Only Ones Demonstrative Enough

Let me show you what happens to people who do not listen to the police. [More]

Why no criminal charges?

Sorry, stupid question...

[Via several of you]

ATSNTV Long Range Shooting

From American Trigger Sports Network:

John Paul of JP Rifles on Long Range Shooting at JP RM3G with Host James B. Towle, NRA Whittington Center, Raton, NM

ATSN TV Host, James B. Towle, discusses long range shooting with John Paul of JP Rifles, host sponsor of the JP Rocky Mountain 3 Gun event in Raton, NM. ATSN sponsors the 10 th Anniversary JP RM3G side match, “The Long Range Challenge” and gets tips before the event. If you are a long range rifle shooter and want to fine tune your precision rifle shots, tune in to this episode!

Pursuit Channel (DirecTV 604 PRST/ Dish /Network 240 HUNT)

Showtimes
Wednesdays
2:00pm PST
5:00pm EST

Thursdays
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Fridays-Shooting Destination Night
6:00pm PST
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This Day in History: October 31

HMS Ontario was a British warship that sank in a storm in Lake Ontario on October 31, 1780, during the American Revolutionary War. She was a 22-gun snow, and, at 80 feet (24 m) in length, the largest British warship on the Great Lakes at the time. [More]

It's a Shame We Have to Play Things Like This...

...but it looks like they intend to ignore it unless they can't.

Fortunately, by now I'm pretty used to this approach.

Physician Heal Thyself

[I]t is time for everyone to get the AAP message that "the most effective measure to prevent suicide, homicide, and unintentional firearm-related injuries to children and adolescents is the absence of guns from homes and communities." [More] 

They posted my comment:

(8) David Codrea says:

So, Dr. Ianelli, will you complete one of these forms and let me post it?

Let's see if/how he responds.

[Via Jake S]

Death Panel Prospects...

...for Obama...[More]

(Pre-Order) Oath Keepers Challenge Coin

[Details]

24 Mil Muertos

Here's the original story and the Google Translate English version.

You know what would stop this?  Aside from that new form Southwest border gun shops have to fill out and making it illegal for you and me to have semi-automatics...?

Ve're de Only Vones Hog Vild Enough

Police say when a police officer arrived, the boar attacked him and cut his leg before he pulled his gun and killed the animal with "multiple shots." [More]

Everybody else just has to assume their place in the food chain.

[Via William T]

Cross-Border Authority

Bracken nails it. [Read]

A Long-Time Registered Republican

[Posted at...] 

Sure you are, pal. Sure you are.

#wearebetterthanthis

Kurt makes hash out of a tag. [More]

I Got Your Truce Right Here

The NRA could have, and should have, accepted President Obama’s invitation to sit together to discuss gun-rights legislation in 2011. The organization disappointingly refused the invitation for cooperation.[More]

Why? We know what he wants, you stupid Fudd.

The only truce that needs to be called is when those attacking us wish to surrender.  Do you really think the reason we won't "compromise" is because we're worried about protecting NRA salaries? And that the answer is more socialism?

Where do they get these guys?

This Day in History: October 30

"During the engagement Captain Anderson (a brave man and true Whig) was shot down by my side. He cried out - Oh Lord, I'm a dead man; what shall I do? - Adjutant Raiford who was as brave as ever lived, but who stuttered very badly, replied - Gu Gu_d in it l-l-lye close... poor Anderson's woound was mortal -- we were ordered [illegible], set out sentinels, and lay on our arms till morning." [More]

‘Serious inconsistencies’ noted in ATF gun dealer reviews

“We have contacted ATF HQ regarding the inconsistent documenting of violations but to date have received no reply,” he explained. [More]

This evening's Gun Rights Examiner report notes the only standard at ATF seems to be the lack of them.

Issa, Grassley staffers issue second joint Fast and Furious report

To suggest the AG was still blissfully oblivious about the activities of his command at that time and under those circumstances, and remained that way until happening across mainstream news accounts some months later, strains all semblances of credibility, particularly when considered against the since-corroborated reports that had been compiled by free agents, with no official information resources at their disposal, compared to the unlimited network at his. [More]

This afternoon's Gun Rights Examiner report looks at the second "book" in a promised trilogy.

An Obama Nominee

Amy Berman Jackson...[More]

You know, the one judging the Fast and Furious case against Holder...

We're the Only Ones Protective Enough

Even if we have to send out SWAT to threaten to kill you. [More]

A Non-Envisioned Outcome

Democrats are favored to hold on to the Senate — an outcome few prognosticators envisioned at the beginning of the year. [More]

So why is a "single issue organization" helping ensure that by not considering partisan support for "the most anti-gun president in American history" as a grading factor/endorsement disqualifier?

We're the Only Ones Responsive Enough

Investigators say if the incident had happened earlier in the day, while First Lady Michelle Obama was visiting San Diego, the law enforcement response would likely have been much more severe. [More]

What, they would have just whacked him?

I love the reaction from across the pond in Sarah Brady Paradise:

Cops looking for underage drinkers find massive arsenal in student's trunk containing NINE guns including SNIPER RIFLE

It seems there's a lot more this story doesn't tell us than what it does. This one will be interesting to watch.

[Via several of you]

This Day in History: October 29

After marching about a mile, Hartman in advance spotted an Indian and fired. The Indian fell to the ground and a Tory near him fired at Hartman. He was hit in the shoulder and the air was now filled with smoke and whizzing musket balls. [More]

Armed American Radio Tonight

The program will be on from 8 to 11 p.m. Eastern.  I'll be joining in at 10 for the Roundtable.

Host Mark Walters says he'll be following a Penny Gun Auction live on air, that they'll be doing a Crossbreed holster giveaway, and that listeners can get their name on the list for the giveaway and free bids for the auction before the show by visiting www.facebook.com/armedmericanradio.

Click here to find a station near you or to listen via live streaming.

ATF whistleblower Cefalu calls on Romney to address Fast and Furious gunwalking

“As one of the ATF whistleblowers involved in the Fast and Furious case, we EXPECT President Romney to follow through, support oversight and most importantly consequences and accountability for those responsible for the death of two of our brothers Agents Terry and Zapata AND the 300 innocent Mexican citizens,” Cefalu wrote to the campaign. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner exclusive report welcomes an important voice to the exasperating quest to get Romney to back up his fine words with a commitment.

Alynski Rule 5

Ridicule. [More]

Bracken Broadcasting

Tonight on Kim Wade-No Excuses on 103.9 FM WYAB at 5:00 pm Eastern. Meaning within an hour. They'll be discussing "When the Music Stops."  I'm told those of us not in the Jackson, MS area can listen via live streaming here.

The Hofmann Menace

CSGV is not only trying to get Kurt booted from Examiner, their Facebook fanboys (it sounds like a steam room in there) are reporting him to the FBI. [More]

Former NRA director challenges reliability of candidate grades

What does his recent compilation of data over the last few years tell us? Per Howard, “It tells you that the NRA is protecting anti-gun incumbents, and advancing anti-gun challengers, under cover of phony grades and lies. [More]

Today's second Gun Rights Examiner feature doesn't mean to start a fight, but it probably will. People need to know this stuff.

Ga. church shooting shows attacker aided by law disarming victims

Since when is it a legitimate and constitutional function of government for legislators to impose their religious convictions on others under force of law, and how is that different from Taliban-imposed Sharia? That's the real issue, and thus one so-called "progressives" refuse to even acknowledge, let alone object to if they are to be consistent with that church/state "wall of separation" they rush to erect every time it suits their agenda. [More]

This morning's Gun Rights Examiner report looks at a crazy evil law victimizing the good and the sane.

It is a Lot Like Stockholm Syndrome.

Kenn Blanchard says what needs to be said. Very well done. [More]

That's a Simple Case, Alright

The guy ignored a restraining order and then a "No Guns" sign, but if a background check had been required, why we'd all be drinkin' that free Bubble Up and eatin' that rainbow stew. [More]


"And, make no mistake," he writes, "this is a conversation the American public wants to have."

Not the ones with the real money, Dan, the ones pushing you to the side, the ones taking over from you...

And Nod is a Little Head

More brilliance from Matt Bracken... [Read]

Missed Out on Any GRE Posts?

Check out Constitution Watch, which has been aggregating links to my stuff along with Workman's and Kurt's. [More]

Shooting Destination Night

Pistol Training at MGM Junior Training Camp, tonight on American Trigger Sports Network...[More]

2A and the Elections

Dave Kopel gives his take based on NRA grades. [Read]

I'm working on a piece now I hope to have posted later today with a somewhat different one.

This Day in History: October 26

The Executive of this State think it expedient, under our present circumstances, that the prisoners of war under the Convention of Saratoga, be removed from their present situation. [More]

We're the Only Ones Anthropophagic Enough

Gilberto Valle, alleged NYPD "cannibal cop," plotted to kidnap, cook women, authorities say [More]

And what better place to get away with it than "Furious Mike Paradise," where his prime concerns would be if he sauteed them in trans fat-laden oil, used too much salt and washed it all down with a Big Gulp soda...?

[Via Kevin Starrett]

We're the Only Ones Trafficking Enough

Phoenix-area officers arrest three of their own suspected in assisting major crime ring [More]

And they're looking into seven more "community heroes...

Parables of Modern Life

More great stuff from Matthew Bracken...really. [Read]

Mr. Popular

“There are so many people in Washington who come and talk to us about the Constitution and the rights that they want kept sacred and that not do anything about them. (sic) That we not change them. That we not amend them,” said Hinojosa. “And I can tell you that — I’m drawing a blank on the Second Amendment, but I think it’s the weapons, isn’t it? The NRA?”

...

“And especially those machine guns. Why in the hell do we have to have machine guns? And don’t touch that, because NRA will come and put you on the black list,” Hinojosa said. “Well, I didn’t go up there to be Mr. Popular. I went up there to do the right thing. To help our community. To protect them.” [More]

What an utter dolt.

That he gets elected in his district is tyranny of the majority in action.

In a sane world, this would be actionable malpractice for gross incompetence.

[via bondmen]