Son of Anality

Pretend-tough guy Ron Perlman lets slip his inner Nazi:

• Embraces German subhuman ideology
• Calls political opponents cockroaches.*  You know, vermin to be exterminated.
• Wishes death for Trump, and by logical extension, those he's an avatar for.

And he wants ultimate power to make his dreams come true. But God help you if you do this when he gets it.

I agree: What a punk.

And a "sexist pig."

And an apologist for accused Hollywood sex abusers. And accused Hollywood pedophiles. 

*I think it's both funny and telling that on his own, Shillboy doesn't know the difference between "your" and "you're." Meanwhile, his sycophants praise what a great writer he is and totally ignore that he had to bring in professional help.

Drew Barrymore trades anti-gun 'principles' for 'gun bling'

But what are principles when you're a Hollywood elite, and you can send mixed messages with impunity? [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a mixed message from yet another Hollywood hoplophobe.

Also get E*Trade Baby commentary on the latest action film, and read some alerts from Oregon, where NRA partners with the Bradys, and where a lying, teen-diddling mayor thinks it's a pretty good idea to disarm the parents.

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Hollywood Commies for Obommie

[Scroll down to "Warren Beatty Feted in Hollywood Left-Fest"]

The guest list combined Beatty's interest in movies and liberal politics, starting with the continual playing of the Communist Party anthem, "The International," which was featured in Beatty's Oscar-winning movie "Reds."

If there's anything more endearing to men like me than rich and famous Bolsheviks gathering at a banquet to bestow awards on each other, I don't know what it could be.

So why am I flashing back to an old Firesign Theater quote?

The most heartwarming tribute of the evening?

Among the many video tributes that were interspersed (rather skillfully, I might add) with the live speeches was one from Sen. John McCain. He and Beatty are actually quite good friends as it turns out, even though their politics — as each has pointed out — are very different.

Right, "very different."

You'd agree with that, wouldn't you, Professor Quigley?

A Funny Thing Happened at the Exclusive Hollywood Benefit Screening

We just saw some Hollywood celebrities demanding disarmament.

They really ought to sit down and talk with this guy before being so cavalier about it.  Funny, how the mob didn't see sympathetic "progressives."  It only saw potential victims.

We've visited Mr. Avrech's work before here, some years back. He sure knows how to tell a story. This reminds me I'll need to make the time to visit it more often.

Hooray for Hollywood!

The Democratic National Committee and members of Congress are turning to Hollywood for help with voter turnout and messaging ahead of the midterm elections and 2020 presidential campaign, quietly consulting with a group of actors, writers and producers here. [More]

Yo, FEC: Does this square with "in kind contributions"?

Still, who better to educate us on guns?

And where's Skip Coolzip when you really need him?

[Via Mack H

GUNS Magazine: December 1957

IT IS DIFFICULT, at least for anyone having more than a passing interest in guns, to witness one of Hollywood's standard slam-bang Western movies without raising a skeptical eyebrow now and again during the smokey flow of film. Admiration often gives way to a snicker when a single bullet, fired from the hero's hip, neatly disarms a distant badman. The snicker evolves into a sneer when later the same hero bags his seventh, eighth, or ninth (depending upon the casting director's budget) outlaw with his trusty but unreloaded six-gun.

Questions arise. "Who the hell does Hollywood think it's kidding?" is one of the most frequent. [More]

True, but if it's Anne Francis doing the kidding...

What were we talking about? Oh, yeah, the December 1957 issue of GUNS Magazine is now online. I think they talk about some other stuff, too.

Is James Bond Above Cooper’s Rules?

There’s a bit of a debate that’s been going on over at a Facebook post on my James Bond piece. I had my say in the article and typically don’t involve myself much in commenting in order to give everyone else a chance to have their say. Plus, I just don’t have time. That said, there are a few points raised I want to address, then I need to bow out and focus on the priorities demanded by the queue of developing stories.

I will say, the way this one spread surprised me. Invariably, stories I consider important, like ones I break and major media claims as theirs a day or more later, yield mediocre readership returns, and the ones that are just quick asides, that don’t require much research or validation of exclusive information, seem to be the ones that spread. I can’t figure it out.

I’m not going to give a synopsis to explain each of the following responses. If you’re interested, what prompted them is over in the Facebook thread.

Tier two cigar. But a 90-rated tier two.

Yes, I’m well aware that old Bond posters and most of Hollywood’s portrayal of gun handling was and remains abysmal. In the old days, most people didn't know better. And that doesn't mean we should stand by now and let known gun-grabbers, who call themselves “gun safety advocates” these days, set bad examples – or at least not have fun calling them on being hypocrites. The sad truth is, a certain percentage of idiots play monkey-see/monkey-do and try to pose like that – you can find no shortage of photos on the internet, and I’m calling the antis out for not encouraging their “progressive” friends in Hollywood to realize that by “demanding,” which is what they do best, that they not promote flagrant rules violations -- "for the children" and "if it saves one life." (One point not in the Facebook discussion, but raised in article comments, is that "we have bigger fish to fry."  No one said "we" didn't. That doesn't mean pointing stuff like this out will cause a multi-tasking overload, unless walking and chewing gun are also a challenge.)

As for Bond being "Tier 1," as I recall from reading the books many years ago, the PPK was forced on him by M, and his preferred gun of choice was a jamming-prone Beretta .25. I don’t for a second have reason to believe that was a consideration of the photographer and publicists behind the poster (and that seems borne out by those previous Bond posters). As for the wider argument that operators are above safety rules that apply to us mundanes, I have no specific knowledge of that and would like to see some corroboration from an official source. I’m admittedly not qualified to argue with someone’s superior training, and think the best course to take in debates like this is to produce documentation that others can independently validate.

That Screwy Ballyhooey Hollywood

Hollywood's Apocalypse NOW: Rich and famous are fleeing in droves as liberal politics and coronavirus turn City of Dreams into cesspit plagued by junkies and violent criminals [More]

Ah yes, the lottery winners who presume to lecture the rest of us on how a society should be run...

By the way, if you've never read the lyrics...

Betomania

Well if Hollywood is for him, he must be just what the Republic needs. [More]

I'm recalling a Firesign Theater line:

Presenting honest stories of working people as told by rich Hollywood stars.

And another...

[Via Jess]

Redline Hollywood

... Kap was kicked to the curb in 2017 by the NFL for his constitutionally guaranteed stance ... [More]

I have a right to break your rules and use your facilities and your trademarks while being paid to represent you in a forum you have paid for to impose my political agenda on and drive away a sizeable portion of your customers? That's what the First Amendment says? 

Is that what Deadline Hollywood lets its "reporters" do, Dominic Patten, you fraudulent useful idiot?

Would you have made such an absurd argument had a player wished to conduct a protest on behalf of "White Lives Matter"? That’s something he wouldn’t be able to get away with even out of uniform and off the field.

Or is it all about reaching the end zone?

Too Little Too Late

To serve Hollywood's marquee felons like Mark Wahlberg (currently brandishing a Glock 17 as a cop in Patriots Day) and Danny Trejo (most recently armed with an M1911A1 pistol in 2013's Machete Kills) — who aren't allowed by law to bear arms — ISS has a roster of realistic electronic guns (also known as e-guns or non-guns) that can stand in for everything from Smith & Wessons to Uzis. [More]

Sure, after I exposed him -- and importantly, their liability under U.S. Code for knowingly providing him with real guns.

This after-the-fact cleanup diverts attention from what was done before he was outed. The films all have extensive financial and inventory records with designated retention periods in case of later tax audits. Those include records for  the armorers that could be easily checked.

Besides, this slick cover-up ignores one incontrovertible piece of evidence: Pokey trained at Front Sight.

If people are truly interested in "equal justice for all," a nobody rapper should not be treated differently in the eyes of the law than "progressive" Hollywood establishment elites. As ATF did when it showed deliberate indifference.

[Via Ravenwood]

A Very Particular Set of Skills

I had the "opportunity" the other night to finally watch The Marksman.

We've visited this money-maker before.

Anti-gun in real-life Liam Neeson plays an Arizona rancher/former Marine sniper intent on getting an "unaccompanied minor" illegal alien to his relatives of unknown legal status living in anti-gun Chicago.

Spoiler alerts aplenty follow.

Just to show how ignorant scriptwriters are about the laws Hollywood types are desperate to pile on, when stopped by a cop in pre-"constitutional carry"Texas and asked if he has any firearms, the Arizonan admits to a handgun under his seat and a rifle in the back of his truck. But he assures him they're both "registered."

Being pursued by cartels who came across the border -- legally, with visas -- he stops at a brick-and-mortar gun store in Oklahoma to buy more guns. Apparently being from out of state is no problem. The FFL tells him the system is down, so he has to come back the next day. He assures the FFL he needs them and is not a criminal, inducing the man who has his whole life tied up in his store that he isn't being played, which is all it takes to get the man to tell Neesom OK, he'll just "report them as stolen."

A bit later he figures he needs to teach the kid how to shoot and does so without eye and ear protection, and ends up handing the child a gun to keep on his person.

Once in Illinois, just south of Chicago, the FOIDless Neesom engages in the grand finale gun battle with the cartel and then drops the child off with said unknown-status relatives who, if any reality can be injected into things at this point, will no doubt raise him so that, once his "pathway to citizenship" has been bestowed, he will grow up to become a "gun sense" Democrat politician.

I haven't been this unimpressed with Hollywood's "knowledge" of gun laws since that crappy Death Wish remake where Bruce Willis buys a new machinegun from a Chi-Town gun store.

The stuff that dreams are made of, indeed...

Hollywood Anti-Gun Hypocrisy Not New

When it comes to guns, Hollywood suffers from a self-imposed dissociative identity disorder. On the one hand, we have stars like Arnold Schwarzenegger making fabulous careers for themselves portraying heroes who solve problems using guns as tools to fight evil, and on the other hand, we have politicians like Arnold Schwarzenegger signing edicts that infringe on the ability of his audience and constituents to do just that.

This isn't new. Here's an example from half a century ago. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner looks through a window to the past.

Also get the latest from my fellow GREs.

Tell a friend?

Just Imagine

Hollywood Is Facing an Existential Crisis - The industry is confronting a grim future: What if theaters stay dark all year? What if people are too afraid to go back when cinemas reopen? [More]

Has their luck run out?

I see Hollywood's rich, woke useful idiots think atheistic communism is the answer (that's what that evil song is about, you know). As long as they get to keep what's theirs.

Nick Searcy has a better idea:

My favorite Firesign Theater line comes to mind.

[Via Carlos Perdue]

Saved by the Gun!

I have a suggestion for a somewhat different type of reality show. Maybe a network such as Fox would be interested. Numerous bloggers as well as the NRA have long cataloged the fleeting newspaper accounts of firearms being used defensively to protect life and property.

How about a weekly docu-drama TV show that recreates some of these news stories where civilian possession of a firearm saves a life? Such reenactments would have all the necessary ingredients for a ratings hit: Drama, excitement, tension, a potential victim being stalked, a bad guy, and a happy ending!

I'm sure we could get someone such as David Codrea or Clayton Cramer for series producer.

Thank you, Jeff Soyer--I guess great minds really do think alike, or at least yours understands my inferior one :)

I have no idea how you came up with me being a likely candidate for involvement in such a program. But when I saw your post, memories from the past came flooding back to when I had just started meeting with a group of friends to dream up creative ways to promote Second Amendment activism.

This is what I came up with and introduced to the group (I needed to scan papers I pulled out of my files--I could only find a few, but not all of these in electronic format--if I still have those in Word they're on a floppy disk somewhere I couldn't locate on short notice from the clutter):
Here's a mock-up TV schedule ad I created with scissors and tape. Note I was proposing Eric Estrada as host. He was a fairly regular attendee at California Rifle and Pistol Association annual banquets at the time, along with Robert Stack and Paul Sorvino, which meant that he was not afraid to identify himself with the pro-gun community, and I just thought he'd be a natural. Note this was all in the "blue sky" proposal stage and we never advanced to the point of approaching him on this, so this was done without his knowledge or consent, and without the knowledge and consent of UPN 13, whose logo I appropriated for the mock-up:


Here's how I envisioned the program to flow:


Here's the upshot--one of our group members, who has beaucoup Hollywood contacts, went around and pitched this to several producers, none of whom showed the slightest interest. There were a lot of reasons for that, first and foremost a distaste for such things among the entertainment elite. Still, I thought at the time their love of money would be enough to overcome such transient, ephemeral things as show business principles, but that's where another dynamic came into play: The money people aren't, by and large, very creative or visionary--they play the margins and stick with known formulas, hence the preponderance of copycat programming when something new takes off. Yes, you can be sure, if a new formula works, they'll be quick to pile onto the trend while it's hot, but that's after someone else has risked his capital and reputation blazing the trail.

Simply put, we didn't have the juice to make this happen.

Could it work today, particularly with the tremendous expansion of cable channels and programming that simply did not exist back in 1997? Yeah, I think it could, but this time I'd go for a younger and hipper format--my proposal really was rooted in the dynamic of its time and my own creative limitations, but the core concept would still remain valid.

So, Mr. Studio Executive, or Mr. Hollywood Venture Capitalist: Have your girl call my girl. Let's do lunch. Love ya, baby, you look fantastic!

And thank you, Jeff. I'd have probably not given this another thought but for your post. That was a lot of fun taking this stuff out of a drawer where it's been sleeping all these years--even if just to recapture a dream from long ago for a few brief moments today.

We're the Only...Where Did He Go...?

A motorcyclist-riding gunman twice eluded police in North Hollywood remained at large.

But don't worry--"The Only Ones" will protect you from him--once they catch him.

In the meantime, you're on your own.

Disarmed by law if you share a street with the blasting biker, and on your own.

One other minor point: A "motorcyclist-riding gunman"? Well, it is North Hollywood...

Feb. 1956 GUNS Now Online

A youth spent in New York City, where even admiration for a gun struck terror in the hearts of one’s elders, kept me from gun appreciation for some time. In fact, it wasn’t until I was in the service that I made close contact with firearms. And out of the welter of guns they threw at us, my fondest association was with the Colt.45 Automatic Pistol. It’s a tricky little devil, but has always paralleled, for me, the kind of punch I admire in the ring—short, well-aimed, and devastating.--Jeff Chandler

When was the last time you heard a movie star speak admiringly of his favorite gun? Yet that's the way things were when this was written.


The February, 1956 issue of GUNS Magazine is now posted for free download.

Back to Mr. Chandler's testament on page 8, for a moment: Writing half a century ago, he confirms something for us that helps to understand the present. As far back as his youth--and he was born in Brooklyn in 1918, New York City has been hostile to gun ownership (the Sullivan Laws were passed in 1911). No wonder things are the way they are there, and a disarmament attitude permeates the culture. It's their tradition.

Another Hollywood giant and avid gunman is featured, the King of the Cowboys and a personal favorite, the great Roy Rogers. Here's a picture of Roy horrifying today's enuretics by mixing kids with ...GASP...guns!!! Someone call Child Protective Services!


Round things out with a feature on the authenticity of "The Last Hunt" (one of the almost non-existent Westerns that shows people reloading), starring Robert Taylor and Stewart Granger (that's him on the cover sighting in a buffalo).

But it's not all Hollywood. There's a well-reasoned argument for hunting helping deer populations, and another advocating shotguns for the military. There's a "Workshop" article on "Fitting a New Rifle Barrel." Read why the over/under was considered "The Glamour Girl of the Shotgun World." And there's much more, including the ads, which really let you know what a different world it was back in 1956.

And, like I said, it's free. Enjoy.

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.50 Caliber Frauds

That kind of power has drawn a customer base of gun enthusiasts, Hollywood actors..."It's like, what does a 55-year-old man do with a Corvette? You drive it around and enjoy it," said Barrett, 51, whose customers include doctors, lawyers, movie makers and actors. "I know all the current actors who are Barrett rifle shooters, some Academy Award-winning people. But they don't publicize it. They love to play with them and have fun. Shooting is very fun."

So aside from having "fun," what are these privileged dilettantes doing to help shoulder the load of protecting the right to keep and bear arms? Hollywood's public statements overwhelmingly disparage guns in a very high-profile manner.

It's pretty much the same with pampered, overpaid sports "heroes," who own guns at a higher rate than the general populace while their leagues and teams, and the networks and advertisers that bring them into American homes, help fuel the anti-defense propaganda machine.

Where are the rich and notable individuals willing to step to the forefront on the Second Amendment--to use their talents and positions to proclaim the truth, and to pledge their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to the cause of liberty?

Ain't gonna happen. They're too focused on the universe revolving around their navels. If things are going to change, those of us without famous names or fabulous wealth are going to be the ones to make it happen.

50 Cent Defends Controversial Gun Poster

The film's director, Jim Sheridan, agreed that people were making too much of the poster, and that people need to focus on real guns, and not Hollywood props.

He said: "I'm not really so concerned about cardboard guns on a poster. I'd be much more concerned about real guns. I think they should make a bigger effort to get rid of the guns."

Like most in Hollywood, this idiot doesn't realize that all freedoms are tied together. If he wants to disarm people, I'd like to see him start by trying with Fitty and his posse...

“AB352 is pro-forensic, not anti-gun.”

Our anonymous comment poster in “Microstamping-An Alternative View” does not believe Assemblyman Paul Koretz’s AB352, requiring semiautomatic handguns to emply microstamp identifiers is a “gun control” measure.

Remember, according to the bill’s language, “This bill would…expand the definition of unsafe handgun to include semiautomatic pistols that are not [so] designed and equipped…”

Gun owners have particular reason to concern themselves with any firearm-related bills proposed by Mr. Koretz. From his biography:

“While on the [West Hollywood] City Council, Koretz played a key role on many high profile issues, foremost among them gun control issues. In 1988, Paul sponsored a ban on military-style assault weapons, which built momentum for a subsequent statewide ban. In 1996, Koretz co-sponsored the City's ban on ‘Saturday Night Specials.’ West Hollywood was the first city to enact such a ban, which survived various legal assaults by the NRA. Koretz also sponsored an ordinance limiting handgun purchases to one gun per month, to cut the resale of guns on the black market.”

Let’s examine his “Saturday Night Special” ban. Here was his reasoning behind it:

“Because the inferior quality of the alloys these parts are made of, the gun cannot reliably contain its own ballistic power. This means they are chambered to fire high pressure ammunition without the reliable ability to contain the pressures generated by the force of a bullet leaving the gun's chamber and barrel.”

Furthermore, that bill deemed that “as a result of inferior craftsmanship, Saturday Night Specials are not sufficiently accurate or reliable...as a...means of personal protection...they are not well suited for this purpose."

I took exception to that claim a few years back, but the bottom line is, Mr. Koretz has a history of banning guns he deems “unsafe.”

Now he wants to codify into state law the claim that semiauto handguns that don’t employ microstamping are “unsafe.”

And we’re supposed to give credence to the anonymous comment that “AB352 [which will ban the sale of all semiauto handguns in the state of California that Mr. Koretz & Co. claim are 'unsafe'] is pro-forensic, not anti-gun.”