A Matter of Emphasis

Woman Robbed With Semi-Automatic Weapon...a robber with a semi-automatic weapon...the robber was armed with a black semi-automatic pistol... a man suspected of robbing a woman with a semi-automatic weapon... [More] 

Everybody got what kind of gun it was, right? Good ol' "Authorized Journalists"!

Forget it Jake, it's CBS2 Chi-Town.

We're the Only Ones Fearing-Impaired Enough

Police use Taser on deaf crime victim [More]

Hey, Koskovich wanted to get home at the end of his shift.

[Via William T]

Now THAT'S Funny

Len Savage, on hooking up with me and Mike at this weekend's Georgia Carry Convention:

If nothing else, if the three of us get together, satellites may crash into one another...

The Most Important Press Conference in U.S. History

Part I.

Part II.

So naturally it will go unnoticed by most and unpublicized by the "Authorized Journalists."  And naturally, the ones bringing this to us in spite of that are struggling to keep the doors open.

A generality I've noticed: "We" have the grassroots. "They" don't.  "They" have the financial backers. "We" don't.

There is a way around that--but it means "we" need to actually be personally willing to commit effort and treasure.  Unfortunately, another generality I've noticed is that much of the professed support limits itself to making an occasional comment on a blog post--when it comes time to actually do something, be it to send a small donation or volunteer some time or send a letter or email, or even share a frickin' link, far too many figure somebody else is going to do it and the absence of their shoulder from the wheel won't be missed.

I wish I knew how to change that, but I don't.  And I fear much suffering that could have been prevented will visit us all because of it.

This Day in History: August 7

The Burning of Mouzon's Home by his "Friend" [More]

About Last Night...

...on Armed American Radio:

• 8-5-2012 Hour 1:  Mark Walters, producer Sean C. Young and guest host "Newschick" Val DeOre.
• 8-5-2012 Hour 2: Mark, Sean and Val are joined by Hank Whaley of PennyGunAuction.com and Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation.
• 8-5-2012 Hour 3:  George "Mad Ogre" Hill and I chime in and talk everything from Gunwalker to the Reese trial to grilling while armed.

Worth Finding the Answer To

He was kicked out of the U.S. Army in 1998 for reasons unknown. [More]

 So was he a "prohibited person"?

I'm Not a Gun Owner, BUT...

Bruce Bialosky, you get it.  Good man!  [Read]

Previously unknown program of strict gun control made public by news agency

Importantly, and lending teeth to the measure, “[t]hose who violate the rules, resulting in ‘stern consequences,’ are subject to administrative and criminal liabilities.” [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report evaluates some "common sense gun safety regulations."

A Sign of the Times

I'll bet these work a whole lot better than the other kind. [View]

Streamlining Tyranny

Maybe if they got rid of unconstitutional offices, they wouldn't need to make the approval process more efficient. [Read]

[Via DMJ]

A Punishment Befitting the Crime

A weapon tied to "Operation Fast and Furious" was seized in Tijuana in connection with a drug cartel's conspiracy to kill the police chief of Tijuana, Baja California, who later became the Juárez police chief, according to a U.S. government report. [More]

Project Gunwhacker?

Hmmm.  This sounds like a personnel policy matter.  Maybe we need to reassign some people!

Open Note to Edward Stack, CEO of Dick's Sporting Goods

These bleating ungulates are not your customers. [Read]

Not that I expect you  to, but if you publicly told them to all go [do something to] themselves and they organized a boycott in retaliation, I'd fully expect the gun community could turn it around to where it would beat Chick-fil-A's record sales day by an order of magnitude.

False Advertising

The Best Reporting on Guns in America [More] 

I wouldn't even call it the best anti-gun propaganda, since what they're highlighting is obvious and transparent hooey, and note the two stories related to Gunwalker are Eban's "Fortune" piece and one from the Gray Lady milking the 90% meme for all its worth.

But it serves their purpose to promote these.

Just look at the list of luminaries behind the claim: Privileged elites all. Their "journalism advisory board" list is topped by "Jill Abramson, executive editor, The New York Times."

Make no mistake: Establishment media is not about to go gentle into that good night, and well-financed efforts like this are designed to dominate the public discourse.

We're the Only Ones Hot Dogging Enough

Ohio police dog dies after being left in hot patrol car [More]

And we've had some hot days recently, the kind where you open up your car to get in and have to leave the doors open and get the air conditioning going, and you can't rest your arm on anything that's been exposed to sunlight.

What a way to die.  What an inexcusable thing to do.

Check Your Bags?

Gay St Theatre Monday night batman movie. Checking bags only. [More]

Liston Matthews brings the details to an earlier post that he was the source for.

This Day in History: August 6

The Battle of Hanging Rock (August 6, 1780) was a battle in the American Revolutionary War that occurred between the American Patriots and the British. It was part of a campaign by militia General Thomas Sumter to harass or destroy British outposts in the South Carolina backcountry...[More]

Armed American Radio Tonight

It's on from 8 to 11 Eastern, adjust for your time zone.

Mark Walters' guest host will be Val DeOre, "the Newschick," and other guests include trainer Rob Pincus and Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation.

I'll be joining in during the 10 pm "Roundtable" to talk about NAFA fisking Fortune and B. Todd dodging the truth.

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

ATF head Jones avoiding volunteered evidence about earlier gun operation

“If you’re sincere in wanting to get to the bottom of the gunwalking scandal then you’ll need to start at the beginning and that is me and Operation Wide Receiver,” Detty advised Jones. “Throughout my time as a CI, I kept meticulous notes--some 600 pages worth. In fact, it was my journal that raised the ire of SAC Newell. Once he learned of my documentation he ordered the field agents not to accept any new cases from me. He knew immediately that my records, irrefutable and unimpeachable, would prove troublesome for him at some point in the future.” [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes sincerity often does not offer anywhere near the personal incentives that plausible deniability  does.

Of Course You Realize This Means War

Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A “Vision” of the Future

Analyses from:

• WRSA 
• Sipsey Street Irregulars

And from the folks with real reach:

[Via Matthew Bracken]