Wahlberg pardon bid ignores outstanding gun questions

The questions those processing his pardon application may want to investigate include, has Wahlberg -- and those providing him with weapons in the course of his acting career -- been in violation of the law on multiple occasions over the years? What would happen to a “prohibited person” of lesser fame, wealth and connections for possessing firearms without receiving a full pardon, and would they have the means to obtain one? [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes anti-gun actors shouldn't be the only ones who can flout "gun laws."

The Handmaiden of Apathy

I'm talking about negativity. I see it being used all the time as an excuse for doing nothing, in particular as a response to observations on how gun owners could pressure NRA to help repeal Obamacare by scoring votes. It generally manifests itself in three ways:

• It's not part of the "single issue" and NRA should stick to guns: It IS a "gun issue" if those making that charge would actually read the article and face the points it makes. And as shown in yesterday's follow-up, that is exactly what the antis are hoping gun owners will say.
• It's useless to try to get the NRA to do anything: Oh really?  That will come as a shock to those of us who dragged them kicking and screaming into Gunwalker, and into scoring votes on Kagan, Sotomayor and Murthy, or who made sure they knew the ruckus that would be raised if they caved after Sandy Hook. Funny how MOST saying that have never tried, or of the ones who have, how many have helped to create outside pressure. A friend tells those who maintain NRA is unresponsive: "They figure they've already got your money, and they figure if you're lobbying them directly instead of embarrassing them publicly and multiplying your effort to hundreds or thousands of other members, then you're not a threat and they've got you in the harmless trap of thinking they give a crap what you think. IMHO, forget lobbying the NRA directly. Forward widely [he's talking about my article] and call the talk shows. That's where the NRA can be pressured, where they can't keep you from directly and indirectly informing other members and donors. There are lots of folks who are donors and annual members who could be pushed to GOA. Only lever on the NRA, only thing they really give a flying F about is $$$,$$$,$$$ and power. If they get too much heat they will be forced to take a position to keep from losing members." 
• Someone else quoted the definition of insanity the other day, without ever documenting what it is he has done over and over again, or how a new idea being offered for the first time qualified as a repeat. I'll tell you a same result you can expect every time: Badmouthing as an excuse to do nothing, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy to claim "See? I told you so!" Lather, rinse, repeat. That's what's insane. And toxic to freedom.

Rational and moral people will do everything in their power to protect themselves and their loved ones from the terrible and personally unpredictable consequences of everything going to hell. Why anyone should believe that those who, through inaction guarantee such an outcome, will suddenly summon all that is needed to resist and prevail under a bold "Molon Labe!" cry of Internet defiance, is beyond me, especially when many of those same people invariably reject and discourage simple things they are easily capable of supporting.

I sure hope Mike is right about Three Percent who are actually serious, with all that implies. We're going to need every one of them, because I have no doubt most comment commandos are neither prepared nor predisposed to actually do anything besides bitch and act like anonymous badasses. The enemy is counting on those talking the liberty game to be doing just that, too personally ignorant and weak, disorganized and squabbling to even put on a decent show of strength to peaceably resolve something they all complain about -- while that is still possible.

I've seen too many powerful concepts expire unnoticed in the crib from ideological SIDS instead of growing to their full potential, all of their premature deaths preventable, but all condemned by neglect. That and by infiltrator/disruptors.

A Day That Will Live in My Heart

It was more than a day of infamy.

The man who gave me the love, support and example I needed turned 21.

I miss you, Dad.

Other Key Facts

Comment from "Carlos Perdue" under yesterday's GRE:

Excellent article. Another key fact, Obamacare passed cloture with exactly 60 votes. Only one Democrat would have needed to be flipped and it never would have passed. On Christmas eve day 2009, the day of the cloture vote, the NRA had 10 "A" & "A+" rated Dems, 2 "B" rated (including Harry Reid), and 4 "C" rated. They could've easily flipped one D for the reasons Mr. Codrea points out. But they followed the establishment Republican/NRA tradition and worked with Reid & Obama to "fix" a socialist program, giving "A" & "B" rated Dems in pro-gun states the necessary cover to vote for it. Doesn't take much searching to find articles with statements like this: "U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wrote the now famous Obamacare gun provision which he inserted into PL 111-148 with the help of NRA President Wayne LaPierre. Why would a Democrat, Senator Reid, do this? When Senator Reid was up for re-election a couple years ago, he (a well known gun advocate) contacted Mr. LaPierre to help him get gun owners to vote for him." The NRA is responsible for the passage of Obamacare. But the NRA can now undo the damage and play the key role in repealing it. For the reasons Mr. Codrea discusses, now that 0-care is increasingly unpopular with the electorate and even anti-gun Democrats like Schumer are showing buyer's remorse, if the NRA does the right thing it could be easier in 2015 to get a 2/3 majority of those voting (e.g. 12 D votes for 66/99), than it would've been to get just one vote to kill it in the first place on Christmas eve day 2009. That's because it may again be the case that all the NRA has to do is flip one vote and the rest will follow, like the cascading fall of the Iron Curtain after Poland legalized Solidarity and it won 99% of the seats up for election, followed by the mass defection of 600 East Germans into Austria at the Pan-European Picnic. Given Zerocare's unpopularity and buyer's regret, it would most assuredly be far easier to get one "A" to flip now than it would've been in 2009, even though there are not as many "A" rated Dems now. But chances are the NRA would get every "A", and some or all "Bs" and "Cs", and indirectly some Ds and Fs, like Schumer. The NRA can be pressured to do the right thing by members, gun rights activists and conservatives calling talk shows, and by quitting NRA and moving to Gun Owners of America. GOA identified Obamacare as gun control and a Trojan Horse confiscation vehicle from day one, still maintains that position, and never fell for the Reid-NRA "fix". Similarly, the NRA is the key to winning the immigration/amnesty issue. The same pressure can be applied to get the NRA to stop indirectly supporting amnesty and excessive immigration. GOA has been alone among national gun rights groups in identifying invasion and amnesty as the great destroyer of gun rights in America, pointing to the tragic immigration-induced loss of California and studies showing that today's immigrants, including Catholics, come from corrupt, anti-freedom, anti-gun cultures and continue to lean heavily Democrat, socialist, and anti-gun after they get here despite craven establishment-Republican his pandering efforts. Others such as Rush Limbaugh observe that "Amnesty is Republican Party Suicide" -- which means it is also permanent gun rights suicide.

Those are important factors to include in the mix.  Compare them to this bit of "apologia":

Looks like the type of "reasoned" sentiment we routinely see from self-styled "pragmatists" arguing limited "political capital," doesn't it?  Thing is, a quick click on the guy's DISQUS profile shows other comments including "Another Teahadist meets her maker" in response to a "gundeath" from someone who actually appeared to be one of his. That marks him as a troll, acting out the demonstrable sadist-psychopath / infiltrator-disruptor role that defines such pathetic moral and intellectual defectives.

Still, the comment is not without value -- just as we see editorials and statements by doctrinaire Democrats advising what Republicans should do on this or that issue -- under the guise of being helpfully observant, of course -- what's really happening is they're hoping idiots will be persuaded to put their (and our) heads in a noose. What's obvious is, "progressives" do not want NRA to become more effective by including issues that impact gun rights in the scoring criteria -- and that ostensible "pro-gun" voices discouraging that by crying "Single issue!" (a demonstrably false excuse) are pulling on the same side of the rope as the gun-grabbers.

They can try, but there's no getting around that key fact.

Anti-gun bigot’s projection shows just who the true ignorant and fearful haters are

Funny, isn't it, how “progressives” represent themselves as caring about the people on the lower-end of the economic spectrum, yet are the biggest cheerleaders the “One Percent” could hope for when it comes to the true egalitarian power sharing that an armed citizenry provides. And it’s curious, how an ideology that once extolled the virtues of “peasants” and “workers,” at least until power was secured, has produced effete snobs who attack the worth and question the refinement of other human beings who do not share their infatuation with degenerate totalitarianism. [More]

My latest JPFO Alert notes a self-styled sophisticate, who in true "progressive" Opposite Day fashion, reveals himself to be just another prejudiced, provincial clod.

A Winning Combo

Your entries and this month's gun giveaway contests... [More]

We're the Only Ones Illuminating Enough

A Denver police officer accidentally fired his gun while trying to turn on a flashlight mounted on his weapon in March, the department's third flashlight-related discharge in two years, records show. [More]

I can't tell you how many times that's happened to me.

Maybe that's why Chief White calls for "progress on gun control," questioning why we mere citizens would want the same "no practical use ... soldiers in a war" firearms his trained "light'em up" Only Ones are obviously so much more qualified to handle.

Illuminating, isn't it?

[Via cydl]

Pardoning Pokey Poke

Mark Wahlberg seeks pardon from Massachusetts for assaults committed in 1988 [More]

The article seems kind of tame in describing what this guy did. And why would he need a pardon?

Maybe there's something to that "speculation" about him not being able to touch guns in the course of his employment...

Wannabe Gun-Grabbing Hack Admits "Progressives" Lied About Murthy

Obama should deliver on gun control promise [More]

And how would he do that?

He can do that by appointing a surgeon general.

But wait a sec-- weren't Viv and his supporters trying to allay our fears on his doing just that?

Murthy ... said at the hearing that he believed the surgeon general should focus on areas where there is broad agreement, including prevention of chronic diseases, efforts to curb smoking, and programs to improve diets. And [Sen. Elizabeth] Warren said Monday that the surgeon general has no authority to set gun control policy.

"Progressives."  Opposite Day. Liars.

Is it any wonder we should love them so?

If gun owners demanded it, NRA could lead repeal of Obamacare

That’s where NRA could come in – if Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and ILA Executive Director Chris Cox wanted it to, or could be persuaded to follow through on. NRA political grades are a powerful tool the politicians in all but incontestable “blue states” vie for, and there are so-called “pro-gun Democrats” in states like Montana who are dependent on them to retain their seats. Even those currently rated lower than an “A” would have powerful incentives not to go into their next election with a markedly lower rating than their challenger. It may even take only one or two “defections” to act like a crack in the dam, convincing balkers that their political fortunes are best served by opposing an administration centerpiece that Americans are increasingly rejecting, with approval at “a new numerical low” providing additional cover for crossing party lines.[More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes the power is in "our" hands --where it's always been, if "we" would only realize it and use it.

The Best Laid Schemes O' Mice an' Moms

Gang aft agley... [More]

Give Them an Inch

You can't compromise with totalitarians any more than you can negotiate with terrorists.  As their name implies, they want it all. [More]

Ayoob on Ferguson

Liston Matthews sums things up. [More]

We're the Only Ones Authorized Enough

Despite their background and prior experience as U.S. soldiers, police, or firefighters, civilians seeking to offset what the police are trained, equipped, fully-relegated, and LEGALLY authorized to do is tantamount to allowing the local boy scouts’ troop to camp out in the battle-torn terrain of Taliban insurgents. Catastrophic results seem imminent.

Respectfully-speaking... [More]

You mean anything but "respectfully speaking." Capped by this:

Language on the Oath Keepers’ web site hints at extremism and anti-government sentiment.

"Progressives."

Opposite Day.

Combine that with "Only Ones" arrogance, and this obnoxious Oswinski character comes off like the perfect tool for the police state.  I wonder if there are any orders he would not obey, and if so, how he would justify it.

[Via Stewart Rhodes]

Thanks to You it Works

Now, more than ever, we need your help in defense of the right to bear arms and the right to defense of life, liberty, and property. We simply can't do our work without your financial support. [More]

If you're a Florida gun owner, why wouldn't you help?  I just don't get people who enjoy the benefits of hard work by others and do nothing to support them.  Seems to me, they belong on "the other side."

Toys for Totalitarians

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! [More]


[Via Florida Guy]   

We're the Only Ones Cleared Enough

Yeah, why not add more fuel to the fire? [More]


[Via Florida Guy]   

A "Progressive" Inconsistency

Not that we've ever seen those before, but I thought these were the same folks who would insist only police should have guns... [More]

Hey, when you see a crack in the "progressive" dam, I say break out the sledgehammers...

[Via cydl]

The Background Check Loophole

Hey, I thought these were the guys we were promised would be stopped... [More]

Just in Time for Christmas

A judge of this Court having made a sua sponte call for a vote on whether this case should be reheard en banc, the parties shall file, within 21 days from the date of this order, simultaneous briefs setting forth their respective positions on whether this case should be reheard en banc. [More]

Oh, and look:

This sort of “sua sponte” call for rehearing en banc, even without a petition, is a pretty well-settled procedure, though not one that’s often used.

It's used a hell of a lot more by black-robed judicial Nazgul than "shall not be infringed," that's for damn sure...

But It LOOKS Like We Seriously Oppose It!

The House of Representatives took its first action protesting President Obama’s executive action on immigration. The bill, which was called “purely symbolic” by critics, is unlikely to be considered by the Democrat-controlled Senate. [More]

But what can they do?

Oh, I don't know.

And this, the allegation that it's not really an executive order but a department-level memorandum, makes such an action appear even more doable. I haven't given up on exploring the details, including who would have standing.

A Faith-Based Initiative

"I believe we will remain in charge of the technology for a decently long time and the potential of it to solve many of the world problems will be realised," said Rollo Carpenter, creator of Cleverbot. [More]

Ain't it something, Rollo? You believe.

Based on what?  Got any empirical backing for that conclusion, or is it actually about as well-defined and measurable, as, say, a religious proclamation, if not even less so? What the hell do you actually know, aside from the fact that there could be a nice paycheck waiting for you some day, and consequences be damned? What does anyone know?

And define "decently long time."  What happens then?

When we wanted to carry guns in national parks, some damn "progressive" judge-for-life said we needed to study environmental impacts first. Meanwhile, the engineers and conductors responsible for her ticket on board that gravy train continue to stoke a smoke-belching engine.

I guess I should feel fortunate CERN didn't 'disappear" us in a black hole while searching for the "God Particle."

I don't mean to come off like the "Mr. Scientist" military head in South Park.  But as we all know, real science is quite different from agenda (Opposite Day) "science," or as it should be properly regarded, cult doctrine.

This Day in History: December 5

Motion in re Coercing Vermont [More]

Molen Labia

Ron Molen, that is. [More]

Comment posters I've seen so far are no better, including the obligatory "gun owner and former NRA member" who is incensed and indignant over the right to keep and bear arms meaning just that, and all the Markley's Law hacks who seem to think they;re being original.  Maybe there's something in the water...?

Oh, yeah: Salt.

Victory in Corvallis

...for now. [More]

And then there's this bit of doublethink/newspeak:

Davis added that she supports the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

Right. That's why she's against it.

"Progressives."

Opposite Day.

I reminded of Brian on "Family Guy" asking Peter "Do you listen to yourself when you talk?"

We Get Letters

From the Feb. 2015 issue of GUNS Magazine, now in mailboxes and at newsstands throughout the Republic:

He's referring to this column.

I've never seen that explained in a gun mag before. The thought strikes: I may be a bad influence on these people...

Laughing here. This made my day. Can't wait to show the wife.

Activists defy new Washington gun law to demonstrate its unenforceability

Further explaining he and the seller are not exempt from background check requirements, the physical transfer of a “Glock Model 22” for “a wad of cash” is then completed. What’s not clear is if there is anything authorities can do about it. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes a great tool for exposing Bloomberg "background check" ballot measures for the total scams that they are, that will all utterly fail at keeping their fraudulent core promise.

Captain's Log

• A superior "progressive"*
• The Butterfly Effect
• Notes

* Or, technically, something else... (and I may have more to say on this Morford later.)

The Irrelevant Collaborator

“The immigration system is broken, but this is an issue that should be addressed through collaborative federal action, not unilateral action by the president.” [More]

Hey, no fair! I want to help sell out the Republic, too...

KSDK, Where the News Comes First

Yeah, I guess in this case the race of the bad guys and their dead victim isn't important for people to be told. [More]

"A Gannett Company."

Figures.


[Via Florida Guy]   

An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Yeah, we'll eat at the Wooloworths lunch counter. The rest of you stand around and hold hands in solidarity. [More]

Segregation!

"Progressives"!

Opposite Day!

You Can't Stop the Signal

See for yourself. [Watch]

[Via Keith D]

Saturation Point

In 2012, Slate.com crunched numbers from a variety of manufacturers, as well as federal statistics on background checks, and extrapolated that nearly 3.3 million AR-15s were in the country. But that was before Newtown and calls for bans, which drove sales through the roof. In congressional testimony last year, the National Shooting Sports Foundation estimated assault-style weapons domestically in the range of five million-8.2 million. [More]

"In common use at the time," baby.

"The best laid schemes o' mice and men..."

This Day in History: December 4

We are Under sails With 9 ships of the line, And about 6000 Men Recruits Included [More]

Michael Brown Died for Our Sins

Damn us gun owners anyway... [More]

"Progressives." Is it any wonder I love them so?

Stop the Threat: "Fighting Back"

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We're the Only Ones Getting You All Choked Up Enough

I can't breathe. I can't breathe. [Watch and Read]

Well, jeez, being accused of selling unlicensed cigarettes, why the surprise?

I see our old pal Liberty-Lynchin' Patrick of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association-- and talk about your Orwellian oxymorons -- is "pleased."

Well  no wonder:

The guy lifted several fingers.

Suddenly, these lyrics take on new meaning:

Bad boys, bad boys

What'cha gonna do?

What'cha gonna do when they come for you?

I wonder if they ever think about that.

Oath Keepers reject orders, refuse to stand down, remain on Ferguson rooftops

“To assert that the property owners of Ferguson do not have the right to invite the Oath Keepers to assist them would be tantamount to telling an individual that they do not have the right to assist a neighbor in need. Additionally the property owners and Oath Keepers have numerous other Rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution including the right to freely assemble which may not be restricted by any County Ordinance or State Statute.” [More]

This afternoon's Gun Rights Examiner report notes an order that will not be obeyed.

Anonymous Baltimore gun tip reward line creates new dangers

What is clear is the promise of a reward and the guarantee that the person receiving it will not have to provide their name lends itself to the potential for abuse. Not only could gangland competitors be effectively removed, an opportunistic criminal could reap rewards for phoning such a calculated tip in, including the possibility of exploiting unsuspecting police to permanently eliminate reported rivals. Also unstated is what safeguards are in place to ensure rogue law enforcement officers don’t themselves create a tip to do an end run around Fourth Amendment protections, artificially establishing phony “probable cause” opportunities for stops, searches and seizures that would otherwise not present themselves. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes nothing quite creates more opportunities to say "he went for his waistband" and set the stage for more Fergusons like Opposite Day "progressives" setting out to reduce minority "gundeaths."

Moms Demand Wrong Action

It's not like Opposite Day "progressives" know of any other kind... [More]

FFLGuard December vBlast

The last one for 2014... [Watch]

Hoist with His Own Petard

Not that I expect self-enabled martyrdom to shake anyone's "progressive" faith... [More]

[Via Michael G]

No Justice No Pizza?

Paging Al and Jesse... [More]

Barack Obama, Eric Holder, the Congressional Black Caucus and Minister Farrakhan may want to weigh in on this as well...

We're the Only Ones Mollified Enough

‘I was stupid': Boy apologizes to Cleveland police for having BB gun [More]

I evidently have some serious groveling to do myself.

A Symbolic Vote

In the meeting, “the lawmakers began coalescing around a two-part plan that would allow a symbolic vote to show their frustration with President Obama’s executive action on immigration, before funding the government ahead of a Dec. 11 deadline,” according to the New York Times. [More]

Frustrated? Getting cold feet?

Just slip on a pair of George F.U. Bush socks!

This is how establishment Republicans have their feet held to the fire.

This Day in History: December 3

From a consultation with the Secy at War we concluded that it would be fruitless, and therefore unadvisable to solicit either a repayment or sale of powder from the Magazines of the U. States. We were informed by him however that there are in the magazine within Virginia three hundred thirty six barrels of loose powder and seventy of fixed ammunition: that additional supplies will be forwarded as prudence may suggest; that this resource will on all emergencies be open to the State, and to ensure it the more satisfactorily that orders will be given to the Keepers in cases of invasion particularly, to comply with requisitions from the Executive. [More]

Nevada grassroots gun rights group challenges invalid Bloomberg signatures

The letter to Sec. Miller, signed by Nevadans for State Gun Rights President Don Turner, contained three requests for invalidation. The first noted petitions delivered after the required submission date. The second pointed out the lack of required affidavits for each page of signatures submitted, and that it specified the wrong county. The third showed an example of an affidavit signed and dated before all the signatures appearing on it had been obtained. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes some of the sloppiest election rigging money can buy, and not just on the part of Bloomberg's hired signature gatherers.

Corvallis Reminder

If you're an Oregon gun owner, you already knew about this, right, and you've already taken steps to spread the word and provide/urge support for the people fighting on your behalf? [More]

Yeah...?

We're the Only Ones Going to the Dogs Enough

Probably not, as long as they don't face personally-compelling consequences to incentivize alternatives. [More]

Oh, and "Mark @ 11/27/2014 11:21 AM"-- I can't wait for you to retire, either.


[Via Florida Guy]   

Another Ben Carson Gunfail

Sorry, those still promoting this guy for high office. The answer is "No." [More]

I also find it hard to believe someone advocating something this ignorant --strictly from a physiological capacity standpoint -- is qualified to be a medical professional.

We're the Only Ones Anti-Social Enough

Anti-social media, that is. [More]

Really? "[D]isorderly conduct and illegal use of computer communications"...?

These guy ever hear of the Streisand Effect?

Once and For All

I see plenty of opportunities here to destabilize things by upping the violent crime numbers and creating an (amplified) outcry for government to "do something." [More]

You know, kick the agenda into higher gear...

Unsatisfied

"After careful consideration of the iP1’s design, we have determined that it does not satisfy the statutory definition (of a smart gun) because, as a matter of design, the pistol may be fired by a person who is not an authorized or recognized user. That is, as long as the pistol is situated within 10 inches of the enabling wristwatch, it may be fired by anyone - the authorized user or any other person who is able to pull the trigger." [More]

The antis will never be satisfied anyway, but good.  Let's hope they're sputtering in impotent rage.

Funny -- they seem awful quiet about it at this writing. Nothing on their website, their blog or Facebook page yet, either.

I'm sure we'll see something soon, won't we? Perhaps they want to put more thought and patience into their excuse-making than they did in their lawsuit...?

Speaking of "Progressives"...

One of those  sadist-psychopath / infiltrator-disruptors is trying to reframe the terms to exempt his brand of "pure" collectivism.

Gosh, "Newspeak" to discourage all but approved communication. No one's ever thought of that before.

A Disparity of Force

This German incident brings to mind a question of potential life or death: Which would you rather have? An equalizer or a memorial candlelight vigil? [More]

Curious, how Opposite Day "progressives," who represent themselves as being egalitarian and pro-choice, would impose the latter on us all under force of state arms, whether we agreed with them or not.

[Via William T]

Behind Closed Doors

Why?  Doesn't this affect all of us? [More]

One thing's for sure. They won't try this as a delaying move to stop things in their tracks.

American Gunfighter

Check out the latest edition. [More]

Unauthorized Journalists Need Not Apply

What? You mean Opposite Day "progressives" aren't against all forms of discrimination? [Watch]

So Jesse Jackson wants to come to town and badmouth guns and gun owners, and the only chroniclers the general public are likely to hear from are all "legitimate news media."

What are you, personally, going to do to change that? Will you take a moment -- right now -- and share the video link?

Keep Calm and Carry

• Behind Enemy Lines
• Meeting Mike Vanderboegh

The November 2014 Connecticut Carry Newsletter is out, and guess who is featured on pp 26 - 32. [More]

Mr. Mencken Said It Best

"No one in this world, so far as I know ... has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."

The manipulators are counting on it.  [More]

The rags at the checkout counter are all focused on celebrity scandals and the like, instead of on issues free people must be aware of and conversant in. I see it every day checking Examiner results, where the trivial buries the substantive.  The "top 5" writers this morning focus respectively on: "Dog News, Celebrity Fitness and Health, Pet Rescue, Paranormal, Sex & Relationships."

Look what's trending!

Hosea comes to mind. That and the pH Factor.

Slam Fire

All owners of Remington Model 887 shotguns are advised to STOP USING THEIR SHOTGUN(S) IMMEDIATELY. [More]

I wonder if we'll see any breathlessly indignant protests from the antis asserting the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act shields the manufacturer from product defect liability ... and if so, how widespread, furiously sputtering and loud they'll get.

This Day in History: December 2

The Secy. of F. Affairs communicated to me a few days ago his determination speedily to resign his office He asked me in the course of conversation whether I thought Mr. Jefferson would prefer the vacancy to his foreign appointment I answered him in the negative. He then asked whether I supposed he wd. accept the commission of Jay at Madrid in case the latter should prefer the secretariship of foreign affairs and be appointed to it. I told him I could not answer that question, but doubted much whether Congress would consent to part with the services of Mr Jay as a negociator of peace. [More]

Last Night on Armed American Radio

An update from AAR Contributor Alan Gottlieb, and the great one, the Godfather of self-defense, Massad Ayoob explains the Ferguson incident in terms every CCW holder MUST hear. Commentary from the best in the business, David Codrea, Neil McCabe, George "The Mad Ogre" Hill [More]

Exclusive: The Going Rate

And there are other groups that happily accept “cooking the books” because doing so fits in with an agenda they support: the media and the gun-grabbers. That way Michael Bloomberg’s “Everytown” can claim 90 percent of the public and most NRA members support registration and confiscation-enabling “background checks,” when results on a recent Washington State ballot measure show it took a relentless, billionaire-backed media campaign to get the measure to pass with under 60 percent of a perennial blue state’s vote. [More]

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

Police threatening Ferguson Oath Keepers undermining own interests

This is an idea that’s been floating around for years, but it’s starting to spread a bit more, and goes something like this: If we didn't allow white people to have guns, there would be fewer guns to steal, and thus fewer armed criminals, removing the need to arm police and thus reducing the number of minority “victims” they need to shoot. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report warns bell ringers some not to ask for whom it also tolls.

The Price

Mike tells a poignant tale. [More]

My mother can still weep for her kid brother if you get her going.

We're the Only Ones Third Time's Not a Charm Enough

Firearm exam results obtained from the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office via the state's Open Public Records Act (OPRA) reveal that Mercuro failed the course three times on Aug. 7, scoring below the required 80 percent average on each trial. [More]

I'm sorry, I know this isn't fair, but the guy even looks like a clueless dolt in that photo.

[Via Florida Guy]   .

We're the Only Ones Getting a Head Enough

Caplan is accused of shooting a 20-year-old woman who was driving on the 610 Loop at Stella Link about two weeks ago. [More]

There's gotta be something they can charge her with...


[Via Florida Guy]   

We're the Only Ones Unwarranted Enough

A Texas appeals court has struck down a law allowing police officers to conduct warrantless blood tests on suspected drunk drivers. [More]

That's a better alternative for everyone than having to track them to their resting places and driving stakes through their hearts.

[Via Michael G]

Misery Loves Company

Gosh, you mean admitting toxic bipolar headcases into your life brings everybody down? [More]

They must not have read the book...

Captain's Log

• Voodoo case up for review
• Talking turkeys
• Notes

Not in My Living Room

But, I guess as long as they're expending their energies and resources so ineffectively, we probably ought to encourage more of it, so don't tell them they're being ridiculous. [More]

We're the Only Ones Making Enough

A former state Division of Criminal Investigation supervisor acknowledged last year that he made and sold guns without a license, confirming allegations by a whistleblower who has since been fired. [More]

If you and I can do the same thing, I've got no problem with this.

Can we?

Fourth Estate Fifth Columnists

At least this guy admits ethics standards for unbiased journalism is a myth, and they exist to manipulate people into being ruled, although he doesn't quite say it like that. [More]

Workman give us another example.

We're the Only Ones Exceptionally Noncompetitive Enough

Section 1. Providing Conversion Authority. I find that conditions of good administration (specifically, the need to make the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Department of Justice (ATF), competitive in recruiting high quality special agents by giving the ATF an authority held by other Federal law enforcement agencies) make necessary an exception to the competitive examination rules for appointment to certain positions in the Federal civil service. [More]

Yeah, you see, because it's so competitive and they're so exceptional, why make 'em compete?  Or something...

Because nothing says "high quality" quite like lowering the bar?

Anybody able to shed light on this? Is it anything like giving all the kids trophies, whether they actually win anything or not? Does this one entail self-esteem badges and guns?

This Day in History: December 1

A gentleman in whom the Governor places the fullest Confidence gives the following Information respecting the Enemy’s Force on Long Island. [More]

Tonight on Armed American Radio

• Hour One: Alan Gottlieb
• Hour Two: Massad Ayoob
• Hour Three: Yours truly, George "Mad Ogre" Hill, Neil W. McCabe

The program broadcasts from 8 to 11 p.m. Eastern (adjust for your locale). Click here to find a list of stations nationwide, or here to listen via live streaming.

Negligent Gun Fatality Brings Out the ‘Progressive’ Hate

Not that this will make any impression on the LMAO haters reveling in a human death because they suspected she held a different creed or place in the social spectrum than they. How telling that such bigotry and intolerance should emanate from an ideology that represents itself as inclusive and egalitarian. 

Opposite Day, remember? [More]

My latest JPFO Alert notes the biggest haters of officially disfavored groups are...wait for it... national socialists.

‘Progressives’ with environmental objections to guns silent on amnesty impacts

The reason for the injunction was that an environmental impact study for the effects of allowing guns in national parks had not been completed as required by law ... How much more of an impact will the president’s immigration directives have on the environment than the off-chance a person defending their life may (or may not) need to fire off rounds of ammunition that may (or may not) leave traces within national park boundaries? If the law and judicial precedent for halting executive actions on environmental grounds pending an impact study exist, why not employ the same legal tactics as anti-gunners and environmentalcases do, and use them? [More]

Today's Gun Right Examiner report notes now that judicial precedent has been established, why not use tactics first pulled by the collectivists to attack freedom against them?

When Black Friday Comes

I wonder how many people looking for deals do their part to keep the whole thing going... [More]

And why is it you never see gun owners acting like this at store sales?

In re the observation about existing gun laws not being enforced:  We wouldn't say "Enforce existing Intolerable Acts."

REPEAL existing gun laws.

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise

After government warnings that the threat to Britain from Islamist fanatics is ‘greater than ever’, officers handed out leaflets telling the public to ‘run, hide and tell’ if they are caught up in an attack. [More]

Provided, I guess, you can run fast enough or hide well enough to live to tell.

So have they cleared those leaflets with the cultural sensitivity bureaucrats to make sue no group is offended?

[Via cycjec] 

Likely?

Slain Austin shooter likely had anti-government motive [More]

What makes it so likely?

The unidentified suspect was described as white male in his 50s with a criminal record.

Oh, well then he likely fits the profile of everyone I hang with, so the preliminary narrative-shaping is likely justified...

On a side note, the results of starting a firefight in front of a place where people are likely to be armed don't seem all that unlikely.

[Via Michael G]

Freedom is Slavery

Barack Obama is not merely the president of the United States. He is also apparently the president of the Meryl Streep fan club, a position he made very clear on Monday afternoon while presenting the Oscar-winning actress with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. [More]

Yeah, that Meryl Streep.

"Progressives." Opposite Day.

We're the Only Ones Bananas Enough

According to an arrest affidavit, Mesa County deputies Joshua Bunch and Donald Love said they feared for their lives even though they saw that the object was yellow. Bunch wrote in the affidavit that he has seen handguns in many shapes and colors. [More]

Bunch and bananas?  And the guy was from Fruitvale?

This is a joke, right, or do "public servants" willing to destroy a citizen's life for such stupid, cowardly and petty "reasons" really exist?

[Via Harvey]

Imams Demand Action...

...and get a lot more than they bargained for. [More]

[Via Jeet]

They Got Those Hickenlooper Blues

Every one of the 100+ employees losing a job worked like hell to defeat the "law" and the tyrants behind it, right? [More]

[Via Steve S]

UPDATE: Workman weighs in.

The Right of ALL People

One, a 6-foot-8-inches man named Derrick Jordan — “Stretch,” as friends call him — whisked an AR-15 assault rifle out from a pickup truck parked near the entrance. Jordan, 37, was one of four black Ferguson residents who spent Tuesday night planted in front of the store, pistols tucked into their waistbands, waiting to ward off looters or catch shoplifters. Jordan and the others guarding the gas station are all black. The station’s owner is white. [More]

As long as brothers from the same and different mothers share an ideology, sharing DNA is irrelevant.

And it seems to me Stretch whisked an AR-15 defense rifle, not that I expect "real reporters" to be sensitive to the distinction.

[Via Florida Guy]   

But Don't Take MY Word for It

In their own words: Oregon anti gun politicians and activists admit that "universal background checks", "assault weapons" ban, and "gun free zones" won't work! [More from LaughingAtLiberals]

The Kill Switch

Echoing an attitude shared by many gun enthusiasts, David Codrea, an editor at Guns magazine, cautions that “stupid electronic doodads” could render a firearm useless, would be ignored by criminals and would raise the price of firearms for everyone else. [More]

I just became aware of this article from a year ago, but yeah, I said that.

The Doorman

Ross Bransford, a CHL instructor, says he anticipates open carry passing, but wants the law to include doing so with a permit and training. [More]

Don't forget to give the doorman a tip for his "service."

A Well Neglected Militia, Being Necessary to the Destruction of a Free State

“Gun controllers’” recondite but real intent is to render the formation of “well regulated Militia” in the several States exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, by denying the community the collective right to keep and bear the very firearms particularly suitable for service in the Militia, through the denial to individuals of the right to keep and bear such arms—thus stripping the community of the collective ability to defend itself most effectively against usurpers and tyrants. [More]

And guess who has been consistently derelict in even addressing this, let alone doing anything about it.

Coincidentally, from just a week back:

Might there be a reason the founders considered a well regulated militia to be necessary to the security of a free State, leaving the right of the people to keep and bear arms off limits to infringements, so that when a need arose there would be those capable of answering the call? Rather than disparaging and harassing armed Americans, shouldn't dutiful civil authority, upholding the oath to the Constitution that is required of its members, be encouraging them and training with them?

This Day in History: November 28

I have no direct Powers from Congress to transact Exchanges, but have taken the Liberty in your Case, to absolve the Parole of Captain Francis Dundas, of the first Regiment, now a Prisoner on Parole in London, on Condition that yours be also fully discharged. [More]

Only ‘progressive’ turkeys thankful for Opposite Day role reversal

The greasy-lipped masters have to be laughing like hell as they reach across their table of plunder and rip off another drumstick... [More]

My annual "Night of the Evil Butterball" Thanksgiving offering...

Speaking of which, as soon as I'm done publicizing this, I'm off the computer with much housework and dinner prep to be ready for all the company we're having over today.

Have a joyful day filled with love and camaraderie. And a couple fingers of the good stuff and a nice maduro...

The Slippery Precipice

In his latest JPFO Alert, Kurt takes on a bow-tied Bolshevik who did us the great service of not being able to contain himself enough to keep from revealing the end game. [More]

Obama compares pardoning turkeys to executive order on immigration

“Today, I’m taking an action fully within my legal authority,” the president remarked in a seeming mocking dig at critics of his policy of allowing federal law to be flouted and rewarding those who break it. “I know some will call this amnesty, but don’t worry, there’s plenty of turkey to go around.” [More]

This afternoon's Gun Rights Examiner report questions who should feel more disrespected: Americans who oppose imperial decrees and amnesty, or undocumented foreign nationals who were compared as the equivalents of turkeys.

Entirely Predictable

And Vik did predict it. [More]

Turnabout seen as fair play for publishing Ferguson Officer Wilson's home street

It’s obvious the practice of providing physical addresses of people for whom anger exists can heighten physical dangers. Real risks also exist that persons with the same or similar names could be targeted instead. Likewise, the lives and homes of neighbors of Officer Wilson have now been put at risk by The Times' decision to narrow the hunt for him by those bent on murderous revenge, upping the probabilities for expanded violence and further rage-fueled confrontations with authorities. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes some sauce for the gander, or in deference to tomorrow's holiday, a pair of turkeys.

Memories are Made of This

He had time to center it in his view-finder... [More]

Kind'a reminds me of something...

About Those Black-Eyed Virgins

Poke 'em if you got 'em. [More]

Savages.

This Day in History: November 26

By Mr. Madison It was proposed that Congress should declare that when ever it sd. appear that the whole of the bills emitted prior to the 18th. of M. 1780 shall have been collected into the Treasuries of the several States, Congress wd. proceed to give such credit for any surplus above the quotas assigned as equity might require, and debit the deficient States accordingly. [More]