Just the Essentials

Guns and ammunition sellers allowed to operate, exempted in law from ‘nonessential’ business shutdown [More]

So the Silver State hasn't gone full Clark County yet...

[Via Jess]

That 'Can't Do' Attitude

CDC Lied to Trump, HHS Secretary About Ability to Make Wuhan Coronavirus Test [More]

Well, they earned their reputation lying about guns, so who's really surprised that liars lie about everything?

[Via Michael G]

Came and Took It

I guess Dallas County doesn't consider that which is "necessary to the security of a free State" to be "essential." [More]

Fudds can't argue that's how they get their food? And that reminds me-- anybody see which states have closed down the ability to get hunting tags?

[Via Jess]

A Plan Comes Together

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Denies Appeal of Gun Store Closures, All Shops Ordered Closed on Monday [More]

And the dissenters were all Democrats...?

[Via Felix B]

It's Only 'Common Sense'

The following recreation and entertainment businesses are considered non-essential and must close to the public beginning at 11:59 PM on Tuesday, March 24, 2020: ... indoor shooting ranges ... [More]

It's not like we want you newbies to learn how to safely shoot those guns you just bought...

[Via Roger J]

For Those Who Need More Than One

3 Reasons to Abolish the ATF [Watch]

Just be sure not to make things worse.

[Via  An Hour of Wolves]

The Obvious Solution

Mexico Worries About Catching WuFlu From US! [More]

I just flashed on Spanky from "The Little Rascals" saying, "Say gang, I've got a swell idea!"

Keeping It Classy

[More]

What professional position has this c-word ever held where Mommy's connections and influence were not factors?

[Via Michael G]

UPDATE: Ha!

I guess @Jack wants to make it look like he's fair and balanced.

Having Fouled Their Nests...

Hoping to escape coronavirus, city dwellers are fleeing to California's deserts and mountains [More]

There's a lesson in there somewhere...

A Sense of Entitlement

A woman arrested for assaulting her boyfriend shouted “I have the coronavirus” before intentionally coughing in the face of a paramedic who she sprayed with “copious amounts of saliva,” police charge ... The man said he was lying in bed with Holmes, 38, when she “told the victim she wanted to have sex,” according to a probable cause affidavit. The victim recalled that he declined to engage with Holmes “since she is leaving him to get back with her ex-husband.” [More]

What a nice woman. Any chance she might be a Republican?

And There was War in Heaven

Former Staffers Sue Bloomberg Campaign, Alleging They Were Promised Pay Through Nov. [More]

In fairness, the ones he shared pizza with might be contagious.

East is East and West is West

Spit On, Yelled At, Attacked: Chinese-Americans Fear for Their Safety [More]

And they cite examples from Democrat havens of tolerance and inclusion like  "San Francisco ... Manhattan ... San Fernando Valley ... New York City ... Washington, D.C. ... Rockville, MD ... Syracuse, NY..."

Boy, us flyover rubes sure are racist.

They Call It 'Distributive Justice'

[More]

Think of it as "social justice" (you know, Marxist "to each according to his need" central planning diktats) with a death penalty for those the state determines to purge, which is generally how such things end for those deemed "useless eaters."

The newsraper of record article requires signing up. If you just want the death panel authorization without editorial comment, the 2015 anticipatory document spells it out on page 42.

[Via @retrosinestro]

More Proof of Who the Real Threat Is

White supremacists encouraging their members to spread coronavirus to cops, Jews, FBI says [More]

So a CI/provocateur got a low-hanging fruit moron or two to make some outrageous statements and the narrative to tar you and me with the dangerous racist extremist brush advances.

Any bets if the complete set of circumstances is ever made known that my assessment won't be close?

Hosea 4:6

Pelosi is holding up relief for millions of tax-paying Americans who are hurting so she can be seen handing it to illegal aliens. That is Russian Roulette. The waitresses who have a percentage of their sales receipts withheld from their pay based on imputed income, that is, tips they might have received, would be particularly angry with Mrs Pelosi if they ever figured that out. [More]

So we'll never tell them and blame Trump instead, which we've got them conditioned to believe without questioning.

[Via Michael G]

Pinkey Swear

Judge Pinky Carr: The Idiot In The Courtroom [More]

Who's the bigger idiot? Her or the 36,505 morons who voted for her?

[Via Michael G]

You Never Want a Serious Crisis to Go to Waste

Democrats’ Rescue Bill Plan: “This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision” [More]

They love it when a plan comes together.

[Via Michael G]

The Chicago Way

As life in Chicago largely comes to a halt, shootings continue on South, West sides - As of Sunday evening, 10 people had been gunned down in weekend shootings across the city, one of them fatally. [More]

Forget it, Jake, it's Chi-Town.

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones Furious Enough

The NYPD is trying to reassure its rank-and-file during the coronavirus pandemic that has gripped the Big Apple — but cops feel like the top brass couldn’t care less about their well-being. [More]

That is what it's all about, is it not?

And that goes double for these guys.

[Via bondmen]

Republicans for Infringements

Pennsylvania State Representative Thomas Murt (R) represents parts of Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties and is pushing the ammunition permit requirement for the state of Pennsylvania. Murt’s biography on his website talks about his time in the Army Reserve from 1990-2008, where he deployed in 2003 to Tikrit, Iraq. His service in the military is appreciated as it should be, but that does not mean he has the right to push for a permit that will require legal, law-abiding citizens to get licenses to purchase firearm ammunition. [More]

Kind'a reminds me of another famous "war hero"...

This isn't the only gun bill where he's sided with the enemy.

Any gun owner who voted for this dolt deserves to be disarmed.  Sure, his commie Democrat opponent was a piece of crap, but tolerating this within the Republican party is a surefire guarantee for more betrayals as soon as the "moderates" think it's safe to turn coat.

Like Murt did. His district looks pretty reliably Republican, but unless and until PAGOP fields an acceptable candidate, they should just feel our pain.

[Via Michael G]

We're the Only Ones Unresponsive Enough

Dallas Police Say They Will No Longer Respond To Calls about Theft [Watch]

That album title says it all.

[Via Thaddeus F]

The Best Laid Schemes o' Mice and Men

States Can't Shut Down Non-Essential Businesses Without Harming Essential Ones - The coronavirus outbreak offers another view of the limits of central planning. [More]

Unintended consequences abound.

[Via Mack H]

When Seconds Count

ANJRPC PREPARING MAJOR LAWSUIT AS GOVERNOR MURPHY UNILATERALLY SHUTS DOWN NJ GUN STORES, NICS SYSTEM, AND RANGES [More]

The need is now, meaning "peaceful revolution" is impossible.

[Via Felix B]

UPDATE- Different groups, same goal:

I'll come back to this with a link to the complaint when SAF posts it.

UPDATE: As promised...

And yeah...

I remember that song.

We're the Only Ones Business-Friendly Enough

Customs and Border Protection officials are defying the Trump administration’s directive to block all nonessential foreign travel into the United States from Mexico, allowing noncitizens claiming to be on shopping trips to continue entering, according to two officials involved in the implementation of the order. [More]

So fire, arrest and prosecute them.

[Via Jess]

Misinformation?

Fact check: Did the coronavirus originate in a Chinese laboratory? [More]

Agreed, it's incumbent on accusers to back up their allegations.

If only I could believe USA Today...

UPDATE [Via Wynn A]: On the other hand, we have Francis Boyle, a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law, who "believes the virus is potentially lethal and an offensive biological warfare weapon or dual-use biowarfare weapons agent genetically modified with gain of function properties, which is why the Chinese government originally tried to cover it up and is now taking drastic measures to contain it. The Wuhan BSL-4 lab is also a specially designated World Health Organization (WHO) research lab and Dr. Boyle contends that the WHO knows full well what is occurring."

Note if his interpretation is attacked, see how much of the rebuttal focuses on what he's claiming as opposed to on his "contrarian" politics.

If true, it looks like there's plenty of incentive on both sides to suppress this information.

UPDATE [Via Michael G]: And then we have the Stanford epidemiologist, who argues the overreaction is "like an elephant being attacked by a house cat." If he's attacked, see how much of the rebuttal focuses on what he's claiming as opposed to his hair.

And So It Begins

National Guard arrives in Baltimore to assist city agencies, Young says [More]

Oh, is that why they're there?

Anybody else see a potential for Democrat urban areas throughout the land to go up in flames with the right provocative catalyst...?

UPDATE [Via Jess]: California, too.

We Could Tell You But Then We'd Have to Kill You

EXCLUSIVE: INSIDE THE MILITARY'S TOP SECRET PLANS IF CORONAVIRUS CRIPPLES THE GOVERNMENT [More]

Nope, nothing in there about what's "necessary to the security of a free State"...

It may be a long, hot summer...

[Via several of you]

Obama Mask Shortage

In short, even though the Obama administration was advised to replenish the national stockpile of the N95 respirator masks, they didn’t. [More]

Anybody surprised that the true face is uglier than any mask?

[Via Michael G]

Shining Sunlight

Via email:

and:

When Leftists Collide

Madness: Teachers Accuse NYC Schools of Covering Up Chinese Coronavirus Threat [More]

That's nothing.

The madness will start when the purging of factions begins.

[Via Michael G]

Nah, That’s Crazy Talk

Are they positioning NY Governor Andrew Cuomo to exit the DNC convention as the consensus nominee; the chosen one? [More]

What's crazy talk is "conservative" Sean Hannity agreeing with Cuomo's and Newsom's "non-essential businesses" mandates.

Not being able to trust "our" government and prominent purveyors of reliable information are what lead to crazy talk. It's almost like some are counting on that as a way to distract and divert.

[Via Wynn A] 

We're the Only Ones Subversive Enough

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has an unorthodox plan for ensuring public safety during the COVID-19 pandemic: free imprisoned inmates, look the other way on crime, and try to suppress law-abiding citizens from exercising their Second Amendment rights. [More]

On the plus side, it facilitates their identification when domestic enemies wear a uniform...

[Via Jess]

A Sure Cure

The Justice Department has quietly asked Congress for the ability to ask chief judges to detain people indefinitely without trial during emergencies — part of a push for new powers that comes as the novel coronavirus spreads throughout the United States. [More]

Why not? It worked against "terrorism."

Didn't it?

[Via Felix B]

UPDATE [Via Jess]:

[More]

The power would go to judges, not DOJ.

Well, alrighty then. We know how respectful of the Constitution they are.

Means, Motive and Opportunity

Who stood to gain by panicking the nation & shutting down our entire economy, over an epidemic that will likely kill fewer Americans than the ‘regular old flu’? [More]

No one you'll be able to take it out on, that's for sure.

I note this also mentions chloroquine. I'd sure like to see some science on this.

[Via Ron W]

An Unexpected Ally

Supplies for Essential Businesses and Operations. Businesses that sell, manufacture, or supply other Essential Businesses and Operations with the support or materials necessary to operate, including ... firearm and ammunition suppliers and retailers for purposes of safety and security; o. Transportation. [More]

Just to be clear, an acknowledged "anti-gun Democrat" is doing more to preserve what is "necessary to the security of a free State" than our "pro-gun president's" administration.

A Plan Comes Together

But what is really driving this extreme public and government response, needlessly shutting down parts of the economy, is a combination of 1) hyped up danger claims from the WHO and the CDC (both puppets of Big Pharma), 2) gutless leadership that is fearful of being held responsible if things go really bad and 3) certain conspiratorial aspects of the establishment who want to accustom the people to government lockdown and control. [More]

Whether we are intentionally being fed hysterical information or whether critical information is being deliberately withheld, one thing's for sure: Ain't no one of importance going to be held accountable when it's all said and done.

[Via Tristan M]

Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Group

Dozens of Michael Bloomberg campaign staffers learned they were exposed to coronavirus hours before getting laid off and days before they'll lose their health insurance [More]

Well, he didn't get to be a billionaire by putting others first.

Besides, he shared his pizza with them.

[Via Roger J]

The Real Costs of 'Cheap' Labor

Now, sadly, we are paying the price. [More]

I don't know if "sadly" is the adverb I'd use to describe what the economic fascist "profiteers" and their political whores have done to us, knowing full well that catastrophe and death in one form or another will be the inevitable result.

[Via Agustin B]

We're the Only Ones Shuttering Enough

In a time of quarantines and stay-at-home orders, should a gun store be considered an “essential business?” That’s the debate in Alameda County as sheriff’s deputies order shut gun stores that continue to defy the shelter-in-place order. For the past week, the sheriff’s office has repeatedly told Solar Tactical in Castro Valley to shut down and, on Friday, the store’s owner finally closed up shop after the district attorney threatened him with prosecution. [More]

Imagine that.

"Castro Valley." That's almost funny.

I think the disconnect is the "necessary to the security of a FREE State" qualifier...

Tell me again how most police support the Second Amendment...

[Via Jess

Any Excuse to Wring Their Hands

At gun stores from California to New York, the American people are stocking up in enormous numbers, almost as if the end was near. [More]

So MSN/ABC News, with all their resources and professional "real reporters," are unaware of stay at home orders in California and New York where gun stores are not recognized as "essential'?

El Sentimiento Prevaleciente

Others are buying...can you believe it? Guns, firearms, ammunition. [More]

There are those who don't want to admit the hard truth who counter that "we" ought to be focused on outreach instead of "alienating" potential converts.

You'll notice none of them are doing it.

And what those who make excuses have no specifics for is what will be needed to overcome cultural predispositions solidified by overwhelmingly immersive indoctrination from the education, political and media establishments. Not to mention the way such efforts will be further suppressed by those who control what is allowed to be spread on social media...

[Via Michael G]

What Goes Around

Latin America Scrambles To Stop U.S. Globalization From Infecting Them With COVID-19 [More]

So you can have your pastel and eat it too?

And do we call these folks racists or xenophobes?

An Effective Deterrent

European doctor: Fear of being called racist contributing factor to spread of coronavirus in Italy [More]

I've noticed a similarly-motivated reluctance to acknowledge a connection from "pragmatic" gun groups and bloggers.

[Via Michael G]

So the Great White North is Full of Deplorables?

CANADA GUN STORES REPORT 'EXTREME SURGE' OF SALES AMID CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK [More]

They're not all side-saddlers...

[Via Roger J] who notes "Leave it to NewsWEAK to illustrate an article about Canadian gun sales with a photo taken in Ottawa, OHIO."

Because God Forbid They Have a Stake in Capitalism

Ocasio-Cortez: 'Members of Congress should not be allowed to own individual stock' [More]

Limit it to the ones who support presumed-guilty-before-a-crime-is-committed "Red Flag laws" and let's talk.

[Via Steve T] 

We're the Only Ones Double Your Pleasure Enough

A NEW YORK POLICE OFFICER WAS CAUGHT ON CAMERA APPARENTLY PLANTING MARIJUANA IN A CAR — FOR THE SECOND TIME [More]

Liberty Lynchin' Patrick's finest...

Can there be any doubt that there are "Only Ones" not just willing to guard the camps, but to do so with sadistic, enthusiastic and repeated acts of personal cruelty?

[Via Neil W]

Coming Soon to a Death Panel Near You

Israeli medical doctor Gai Peleg told Israeli television that in northern Italy the orders are not to allow those over 60 access to respiratory machines. [More]

So "to each according to his need" is also a lie...?

At least Italy has the distinction of being "most woke" before the big sleep...

[Via Laocoön]

Ohio on Lockdown Starting Monday Night

Leaving home for essential activities will be permitted, DeWine said. [More]

I've been trying for the last 20 minutes waiting for the governor's damn website to load for a copy of the order to see just what it is he considers "essential."  Who could have anticipated people would want to know?

UPDATE-- Here is the order:

Ohio Shelter in Place Order by CincinnatiEnquirer on Scribd

I don't see the right of the people to acquire firearms and ammunition as "essential" on an initial scan and I have to go out for a bit before I can do a thorough read.

UPDATE--On page 6:

Firearms Friday Redux

Here's my segment on this morning's broadcast of The Michael Dukes Show for anyone who missed it live and wants to hear what we talked about:

Monopoly

Washington, D.C.’s only federally licensed gun dealer Charles Sykes is no longer accepting firearms for transfers, meaning residents can’t legally buy new handguns in D.C., he told the Daily Caller Thursday. [More]

That's one way to do it.

I forget how this situation arose-- is he just the only one because no one else wanted to get in the business, or is there some kind of ordinance naming him the official dispenser of rights?

In any case, it'll be a relief to see headlines like this go away for a while.

What?

[Via Jim Simpson for Congress]

Above His Pay Grade

Tennessee Governor lacks authority to regulate firearms during an emergency [More]

Well, there's gotta be somebody around here who can overrule our God-given rights...

[Via Felix B]

The Worst Kind of Racism

What kind of deplorable haters would say bad things about the ChiComs? [More]

[Via Michael G]

Turnabout is Now Foul Play?

Schiff claims 'immunity' in bid to keep impeachment phone subpoenas secret [More]

So that door doesn't swing both ways?

[Via Michael G]

Youth Must Be Served

Trending: Out-of-control teenagers coughing on grocery store produce [More]

They're changing the world! Sign 'em up!

[Via Mack H]

It Depends Upon What the Meaning of the Word 'Constitutional' Is

Idaho One Step From Full Constitutional Carry! [More]

So no more "gun-free zones"?

[Via Dave Licht]

Ultimate Insider Trading

Senators sold off their stocks ahead of coronavirus economic crash [More]

$6M for DiFi?  But she didn't know anything about it, right?

It's a big club and you ain't in it.

[Via Mack H]

The Cost of 'Cheap Labor'

Most of their answers had to do with demographics and aging, with Italy having a much larger proportion of senior citizens than other countries. None of them, however, made mention of the tens of thousands of Chinese laborers working in clothing plants in northern Italy, where their COVID-19 outbreak was first detected in February. [More]

So there is a price.  Just not one reflected on the tag or paid by the profiteers.

[Via Michael G]

Shining a Light

One professor expressed concern that "right wing sites" could expose what is being taught in college courses. [More]

So much for "Democracy dies in darkness."

[Via Michael G]

Looks Like It's Gonna Be a Long, Hot Summer

Are You Ready To Have Your Civil Liberties Severely Restricted? Because That's Where This Is Headed... [More]

I'm waiting for the first shooting of someone who won't obey lockdown orders by authorities in an urban area.

That and for the concertina wire to go up around all those under-bridge homeless settlements...

[Via bondmen]

Desperado, Why Don't You Come to Your Senses?

In 1981, he pleaded guilty to kidnapping and was sentenced to five years’ probation. It’s unclear what has happened to him since. [More]

He must have ended up not needing a custodian. Either that or he did but got away with all kinds of stuff that will never be traced back to him.

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones Vaginal Enough

St. Louis County Police promotes first woman to lead the department [More]

If that doesn't fix everything, nothing they do will.

[Via bondmen]

The Obvious Solution

‘Violence-Free Zone’ signs to fight St. Louis gun violence [More]

Is Shirley Washington really that stupid, or just her viewers?

Fox2Now truly lives up to the "News you can wipe with" slogan.

[Via bondmen]

By Hook or By Crook

Cities Run By Liberals Shut Down Gun Sales Using The Coronavirus Pandemic As An Excuse [More]

A-yup.

[Via bondmen]

The Voice of Moderation

"If the legislature and the governor, before they go home this week, if they don't change the statute to allow for an all-mail election system for the primary and the general election this year, they should be shot." [Watch]

So this guy is "one of the last moderates"? Can you imagine the howls for his head if someone along the lines of a Tucker Carlson said that?

At first, I thought he said "all-male," and wanted to see what Mr. Benny had to say...

[Via Tristan M]

A Simple Solution

Syracuse U. race protesters will continue sit-in despite evacuation of campus [More]

So charge them with trespassing. And with resisting arrest if they still don't go.

They're there to learn about real adult life, aren't they?

[Via Michael G]

Blinding Us with Science

“One thing is clear, those who kept insisting that the ‘white lab coat guys’ be in charge of this health emergency should all shut up once and for all.  It is in the job description of bureaucrat scientists at the Food and Drug Administration that they be risk averse, and this very aversion is an obstacle to taking every step to avert a disaster that these very public health experts claim may kill more than a million Americans. [More]

OK, but will those taking novel pharmaceuticals end up with a Thalidomide surprise?

"Conservative HQ" is talking Chloroquine. "Not so fast," CD Tavares advises.

At this point, anyone who claims to understand risks for either "side" is talking out of their ... ear.

Let's ask Valeria.

[Via Mack H]

One of the More Sinister Sights

[Watch]

I won't lose any sleep if this effete Limey [Aussie] son of a bitch ends up sodomized to death by "refugees."

As for "first-time buyers," if I were an FFL and could determine they voted for gun-grabbers, I'd tell them to get the hell out of my store.

[Via Jess]

Hope for the Future

[Watch]

Well-researched and well-presented...

It's nice to know not all young people have been brainwashed into ceding their birthrights.

It's incumbent on us to encourage more to step forward and to start assuming leadership roles among their peers. That means it's up to you to offer this remarkable young man a word of encouragement and to back those words up by helping him spread his message far and wide.

Consider that today's "Five Minute Activism" project.

A Sense of Entitlement

Drivers Protest Outside Uber Offices, Demand COVID-19 Sick Leave And Relief For Gig Workers Under CA Law [More]

If the people who pay for the rides want to foot the bill, fine.

If they don't, I guess somebody's gotta make some decisions about what they have invested in themselves to be marketable.

Or they would if it wasn't easier to pressure politicians into mandating something and destroying things in the process.

[Via Steve T] 

An Opposite Day 'Progressive' Forward-Thinking Solution

Regress! [More]

Well Wad'ya Know? Ignorance Really IS Strength

Fear Makes Power [More]

And ignorance makes fear.

[Via Mack H]

If You Expect to Rate as a Gentleman You Will Not Expectorate on the Staff

Arrest as man 'deliberately coughs on shop workers and claims to have coronavirus' [More]

Who would actually feel bad if this story ended with the clerks beating this piece of crap to death?

Firearms Friday

I'll be joining Michael Dukes again this morning at 10:24 Eastern to talk about the current gun events I've been covering and whatever else he wants to bring up.

You can find a local radio station in Alaska or listen via live stream on the show's website.

I always have fun talking to this guy.  I hope people have fun listening.