Parker Poll at SayUncle's

Go take it.

Oh, Jeez, Now What...?

Canada's homicide rate and number of gang-related murders has increased since the federal government's firearms registry and licensing program was
implemented...

Well, that didn't work. Maybe what you people need is a "buyback" or an ad campaign...

[Via 1894C]

"I Think that Guns are the Worst Thing in the World"

Yeah, a "buyback" to vandalize antiques. That'll sure "stop the violence." I mean, it's not like these people don't know who the enabled troublemakers in their neighborhoods (and families) are.

And what story would be complete without the timeless "If you save one life, it's worth it"?

Is it really so wrong to fantasize about an ND while these boobs are prying at trigger assemblies with crowbars?

You're in Good Hands with Bloomberg

A new ad campaign announced yesterday will paper the city with stark black-and-white warnings that packing an illegal weapon carries a big risk.

Yeah, hit 'em with snappy captions brainstormed in committee by urban liberals. I'm sure the gangbangers are shaking in their sneaks.

Dancin' to the Jailhouse Glock

Locked in solitary confinement 23 hours a day, Patrick Hawkins still managed to get a gun in the Mississippi State Penitentiary's super-maximum security Unit 32.

Officials said they don't know how Hawkins, jailed for armed robbery and aggravated assault from Holmes County, got the weapon

Oh, gee, I wonder.

More proof that gun bans work...

We're the Only Ones Getting a Break Enough

A Clinton Township police officer who was arrested in April by authorities who feared he posed a threat to students at a private school pleaded guilty Tuesday to a weapons charge and was allowed to enter a pretrial intervention program...

Peltack has been barred form working in law enforcement under terms of a plea deal he previously accepted in Hunterdon County for covering up a hit-and-run accident he was involved in.

Two plea deals in a row for this guy? Must be nice to be an "Only One."

Red's Recap

They began to go through our books, searching intently for some errors. One of our supporters came in and began taking some photos of them.

I hope Ryan Horsley posts those pictures.

This brings to mind the germ of an idea: Red's Minute Men (or use the name of any other gun store): a list of supporter/volunteers who are willing to be placed on a call list--when BATFU shows up, as many as can get away muster to the shop to audit the auditors, take pictures, ask questions...and maybe even follow them around to restaurants and back to their hotel with protest signs...

[More on Red's Trading Post from WarOnGuns]

This Day in History: July 18

It cannot be supposed that the small number of Continental Troops at present assembled at Fort Edward are alone sufficient to check the progress of the Enemy, to the Militia therefore we must, look for support in this time of Trial...

The day may come again.

The BATFU In-and-Out

Wish I knew what Area Supervisor Linda Young meant by "We're done!" Be nice if they really were...

Click on title link for details from Ryan Horsley at Red's Blog...

[Via George K]

Someone's Got a Sense of Humor...

...and when you're dealing with BATFU, that ain't easy. Having coined and routinely employed the acronym, I would expect Google searches to put WarOnGuns at the top of the hit list. But we were edged out not just by the agency itself, but by the link to their "Kid's Page"!

I'm still disappointed my art submission will never make it to their exhibit wall...

A War of Attrition

“We’ve spent $70,000 [on legal fees] so far . . . and there’s still no court date,” Horsley told American Free Press on July 11. He believes the ATF and U.S attorneys want to avoid setting a court date since the feds might lose the case and receive unwanted publicity.

Their tactic appears to be: Find clerical glitches, if any, make court filings and exhaust Red’s finances.

“They’re trying to win by attrition,” said Horsley, adding that every legal rebuttal to the citations from each ATF visit costs the store $5,000 to $6,000.

Mark Anderson of AmericanFreePress.net gives us a good summation of the continued BATFU assault tactics on Red's Trading Post.

In related news, Ted Nugent may get involved.

[Via Ryan Horsley]

By Popular Demand

2 of the 100 comments the university received about the new policy supported it.

"Baaaa," said one supporter.

"Oink, oink," said the other.

Equality Under the Law

A Facebook profile containing a photograph of young men posing with guns has been cited as a factor in a police shooting that killed an 18-year-old robbery suspect last December.

Hmmm...

The Sex...Uh...Gun Offender Registry

In an effort to fight the city's spike in gun-related crime, Mayor Sheila Dixon yesterday introduced legislation that would let police - and possibly the public - know home addresses of people convicted of gun violations.

These people just won't stop, will they?

Please Please Me

The Democratic governor said he was pleased with the level of security he is provided.

Tell it to Rick Stanley, governor, who was arrested for open carry in Denver despite the clear wording of the Second Amendment and the Colorado Constitution. Hopefully Parker will be the beginning of the end of "home rule" gun bans that allow politicians to enjoy publicly-funded armed security details, but prohibit We the People from protecting ourselves.

Brady/VPC Spin on Fenty Appeal

Brady Center:

If the U.S. Supreme Court follows the words of the U.S. Constitution and the Court's own precedents, it should reverse the Appeals Court ruling and allow the District's law to stand.

Just because Paul Helmke says so, apparently.

Violence Policy Center:

Washington, DC's ban on handguns in the home has long protected DC's residents as measured by the District of Columbia's firearm suicide and overall
suicide rate.

I guess that all depends on who is being protected. If you follow the VPC link, it claims 5 reported suicides per 100,000 persons related to firearms in 2004, with no evidence that the absence of a gun would not have resulted in a different choice of method. In the same year, their murder rate was reported at 35.8 per 100,000, almost seven times higher than the national average of 5.5.

This Day in History: July 17

Washington is waiting our motions here, & has detached Sullivan with about 2500 men, as I learn, to Albany.- My intention is for Pensilvania where I expect to meet Washington, but if he goes to the Northw.d contrary to my / and you can keep him at Bay, be assured I shall soon be after him to relieve you.

Looks Like I Got My Wish...

...to be proven wrong on Parker:

Sources told News4 on Monday that D.C. Mayor Adrian
Fenty will appeal a federal circuit court's decision to overturn the city's 30-year-old handgun ban.

Fenty will have to appeal the case to the Supreme Court.

I hope this is true.

Looks like it's been confirmed.

[Via SayUncle]

We're the Only Ones Going Off Enough

Trooper's Gun Goes Off...Police said Randall McKlveen was unarmed when a trooper's weapon accidentally discharged...The trooper's gun went off...

All by its own self, yet once again, no doubt...

Oh, and government watchdog "authorized journalists": Nah, I don't suppose knowing "the trooper's" name would be in the public interest. Forget I mentioned it.

[More from "The Only Ones" files]

Group Hug

"There's a reason they go out and shoot each other, because they don't love themselves. And the reason they don't love themselves is because we are not loving them enough."

Kumbaya, my Lord, Kumbaya...

Love for everyone! That is, unless you're Obama's pal "the Reverend" Snuffy Pfleger, calling on the mob to "snuff out...John R-I-G-G-I-O."

What better way to promote glowing warmth and good will than by promoting edicts that will result in storm troopers killing anyone who doesn't bend to your will and surrender their personal defense tools?

Do I hear an "Amen"?

Oh, and what do you know? The Vernon Park Church of God, which just gave an exclusive forum to a presidential candidate, doesn't file with the IRS because they're tax exempt. I'm sure The Separatists will get right on it.

(Fits has more.)