Lou Dobbs Tonight?

My info says they'll be talking Olofson at some point. I won't be able to verify that until it airs.

Check your local listings and let's hope this proves out.

We're the Only Ones Who Luv You Enough

A Fordland reserve police officer has been suspended from duty after being charged with forcible rape of a 14-year-old girl...

She said the first time the two had sex was after they had been out to dinner. Thompson ripped her T-shirt off and later kept her clothes, the statement said, sending her home in other clothes.

A romantic dinner for two, "Only Ones" style...

The burning question: Happy or Big Kids' Meal?

[Via KABA Newslinks]

A Blatantly False Swipe?

Here's an exchange you may find interesting. Let's hope it's discussed in detail at the Annual Meeting.

-----Original Message-----
From: len savage
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:00 AM
To: Sanders, Robert E.; Brown, LtC. Robert K.
Cc: Ouimet, Jason
Subject: US v. Olofson

Yesterday the government has redefined what a machine gun is--any firearm that malfunctions and fires more than one round before jamming. [US v. Olofson]

I am awaiting the transcript of the hearing, however:

Judge Clevert [I am told] stated is does not matter what ammunition, or what error rate ATF testing has, or that a malfunction occurred, or even if it required ATF to modify the firearm, just that more than one round be fired per function of the trigger.
Every firearm in possession of your membership is a "machine gun" under this narrow interpretation. This is scientific fact, not my opinion. For example:
*A double barrel shotgun firing both barrels with a single trigger pull.
*A Colt single action loaded with thin primer ammo. [the pierced primer will "fan" the hammer with gas pressure] Look up Georgia machine gun statute, they exempted it by stating a machine gun must fire more than 6 shots per function of the trigger.
*The ATF firearms technology branch can test a rifle 100 different times, if they can manipulate it just once out of 100, your indicted.

The NRA's Jason Ouimet has been aware of this situation at ATF since before the congressional hearings on "the Virginia gun show incident" [I was supposed to testify at the hearings about the ATF testing issues at that time]. Much to my frustration, the hearing I was supposed to testify at was canceled. According to Jason, it was NRA who pulled the plug on me.

Now that the whole of the NRA membership is in jeopardy just by owning a firearm, will Wayne LaPierre, Chris Cox, and the NRA board going to do something about this during this week's convention?

Please pass this on to them:

Words will not be sufficient. If this gets "unplugged", as in the NRA refuses to address this issue, I WILL no choice but to go to the media with documents and emails from NRA that were generated during the last round of hearings. I WILL pull back the rug and show the world where NRA swept this mess under to hide it.

Please forgive my abrupt and obtuse attitude. It is born of frustration, and deaf ears of the NRA leadership. I am there if I can to help the NRA, thus to date the NRA have refused to address this.

My question to NRA leadership:

Is this weekends convention going to be your finest hour, or will this be noted in history as the beginning of the end of the NRA?

Respectfully,

Len Savage
Historic Arms LLC

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Original message from "Ouimet, Jason" :

Len,

You sent me an email not long ago titled "olive branch" where you indicated that you wanted to be able to have an open dialogue with me and keep me posted on relevant firearms, issues, cases, etc. and I agreed. However, in this email you took as nasty , blatantly FALSE swipe at me and the NRA, and sent it to other people I don't even know. So from this point forward consider our relationship terminated. Do not call or email me again in the future.

Jason

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From: len savage
Sent:Wed 5/14/08 10:18 AM
To: Ouimet, Jason

Jason,

Swipe?

By the way those "Unknown people" are on the NRA legislative action committee. As a Federal liaison you don't know them?

Cut the crap Jason, when is the last time you took my calls or answered a voice mail to call me back?

Len Savage

Dial 911 and I Don't Give a Sh**

Hey, at least he was honest.

Original Intent

The term “machinegun” means any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.

As we saw in our recent interview with David E. Young, original intent can play a significant role in (honest) judicial proceedings. Supporting briefs are counting on documentation of founding era thought to guide the ruling in Heller.

The same should be done for Olofson. And the advantage here is, not only should records exist, but many of the legislative "founders" who approved U.S. Code firearm-related definitions are still around.

I've been told--but have not verified--that the discussion of malfunctions came up and was dismissed because it was considered a "gimme." Anyway, at this point, it's hard to imagine what the defense would have to lose by looking into whether the "framers" of the machinegun definition intended to include malfunctioning semiautos.

Study Shows Hunters Should All Be Dead

The meat in your freezer from the deer you shot last fall may be contaminated...

Wait a minute...your headline says "Study Shows," not "Study May Show"...

A study released today by the Peregrine Fund and Washington State University shows that people who consume venison from game animals killed with lead bullets risk ingestion of the poisonous metal.

No agenda or anti-hunting (by humans) bias there, I'm sure, and who can argue that if you're eating something killed with a lead projectile that the risk will be zero?

"[P]rocessed ground venison from 80 percent of the deer sampled in the research contained metal fragments..."

And the reason you specifically did not say "lead fragments" is...?

Previous studies have found lead residues in birds of prey and scavengers including California Condors...

Yeah. But they haven't documented that it's caused by ammunition ingestion.

We've talked the lead issue before, including the Leonardo DiCaprio connection, as well as the foolishness of taking food out of the mouths of poor people by derailing (and intentionally destroying public confidence in)"Hunters for the Hungry" programs.

I'll have more to say on this, but later. It's the topic of my latest GUNS Magazine column, submitted two weeks ago and on the stands in a few months. In the mean time, those of you who have consumed meat from game animals: What are you doing walking around? Don't you know you're deathly ill?

[Via AvgJoe]

Facing Mecca in Dickson

Here's an update to this:

“Our officers did not know what to expect. They could be walking into situations similar to shootings at school campuses and other public events,” said council President Barbara Mecca.

That's what you think of your constituents, Barbara? That they're all potential depraved and psychotic mass muderers? Yet you have no such reaction when it's an armed "Only One" because...?

Perhaps you're right, Barbara. Perhaps anyone who would vote for you can't be trusted with a gun.

Is It Time Yet?

To talk "machine guns," that is? (What did you think I was referring to?)

I ask because when some of us criticized people on the "pro gun" side who made public statements dissing machine guns, others in the "moderate" camp counseled us that it's a losing argument--people aren't ready to hear about it--it will scare them. It's dumb to even bring it up.

Never mind that some of us were not bringing it up, but were responding to one of theirs unnecessarily doing so.

So can we talk about machine guns yet? I ask, because the government has just redefined what a machine gun is--any firearm that malfunctions and fires more than one round before jamming.

So how about it--can we talk semiautomatics? Or is it too soon?

Common Ground

"We've had our disagreements, everybody knows it," NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday. "I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on those. We're not foolish enough to ignore the vast areas of agreement in which John McCain has been a friend to gun owners."

That must be why he is requiring them to disarm to show fealty during the perversely-named "Celebration of American Values" at the annual meeting. And I'm waiting for the first apologist to come in here with a straight face and tell me that's not his choice and not totally within the control of his orders and actions. What's his security detail gonna do--arrest him?

Guess what, gun owners--we don't have a horse in this race. You can rationalize otherwise ad nauseum and that won't change. The reason we don't have a choice is because we have allowed ourselves to be used for years and never insisted on one. The Republicans are counting on gun owners being so desperate and afraid they can present us with anything, and Wayne & Co. will help gussy it up. They've been prepping us to swallow this for some months now.

Oh, but McCain voted against the "assault weapons" ban . True, but more recently than that, he told the Los Angeles Times he "Supports ban on certain assault weapons...McCain said he was open to voting for an assault weapon ban, depending on the details."

The AP also reported "McCain favors outlawing cheaply made handguns called Saturday night specials, and favors mandating safety locks on certain guns. He said he is intrigued by new technology that electronically identifies a person handling a gun, allowing only the owner to fire it. McCain rallied Senate Republicans behind a Democratic measure requiring background checks at gun shows."

Vote for McCain and you'll be voting for "The Vote Freedom First President" on steroids. Just look at what's happening now, with Bush appointee "Pro-Gun" Mukasey running DoJ, and Bush/Kennedy/Kerry nominee "Maximum Mike" running BATFU. Yesterday's Olofson outrage happened on his "the buck stops here" watch. They're not even masking the contempt any more. They know they can rely on gun owner Judenrat "leadership" to take whatever they slop on the dish and serve it up to the membership as good for them.

And they're betting you will eat it.

UPDATE: FatWhiteMan has a copy of the Celebration of Amerikan Values disarmament edict email.

And I forgot to add: NRA could always say "No dice," too, if they wanted to. Go speak somewhere else--maybe to La Raza. That'd not only make headlines, the egg on his face would be priceless.

Courageous "gun rights leaders" would. If you think it through, he needs us worse than we need him--unless you're one of those who say we're going to "lose our gun rights," that is, surrender them with a whimper.

This Day in History: May 14

The Federal Convention convened in the State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia on May 14, 1787, to revise the Articles of Confederation.

David Olofson: The Fix is In

A Wisconsin man whose federal conviction for illegally transferring a machine gun drew national attention on CNN and the Internet was sentenced Tuesday to 30 months in prison...

Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory Haanstad noted that Olofson had two previous gun-related convictions, including carrying a concealed weapon with his children trick-or-treating. He also noted that Olofson was reprimanded for corrupting Army computers and perhaps providing militia groups access to sensitive information.

He protects his children. And since when is an unproven "perhaps" on a totally different subject even relevant?

I guess they need to put as much spin on this as they can, in the hopes that enough will be fooled.

Olofson Convicted, Sentenced

Kevin Baker reports that according to the thread at arfcom, Olofson was sentenced to 30 Months incarceration, 2 Years probation.

I have not confirmed this, but Kevin is a reliable man. I have a call in to Len Savage. He and I were discussing this by phone this morning, and this is not the indication he had of how things would turn out.

Right now, prayers for Mr. Olofson and his family are in order.

Prayers for the rest of us should probably follow.

More as it develops.

UPDATE-8:53 PM: The original comment was entered by "FMD" who may be a friend of Olofson. Right now principles/lawyers in the case aren't answering their cell phones.

UPDATE-9:12 PM: The conviction and sentence are confirmed. Per Len, the reason no one was answering their cell phones is because the judge had them confiscated until afterward. His position was the statute makes no distinction or exemption for a malfunction. He denied a motion to suspend sentence pending appeal and is considering extending bond. I have been told Mr. Olofson is going home tonight. The courtroom was packed. Estimates are most of those in attendance were ATF personnel. Bill Tucker from CNN was in attendance, so this will be followed on Lou Dobbs.

NOTE-9:20 PM: I just want to caution everyone that by going live like this, I do not have the luxury of confirming information from multiple sources--so take everything you see here as raw information only. It's either this or I keep quiet until everything can be pegged down.

"Comment on this Article"

Please do. I could think of worse things than these folks noticing.

BATFU Can't Be Burdened

In evaluating the burden to ATF, the Court should consider the “cumulative” impact on ATF, i.e., the likelihood that ATF would be burdened with request for deposition testimony in other cases.

Slightly further down that same page, you find this:

ATF properly determined that the burdens to ATF from having the ATF employees respond to written questions outweighs any benefit to Adventure Outdoors.

Ahab shows us how BATFU is throwing Adventure Outdoors under the bus by reneging on agent depositions.

I guess they only have resources to support legal proceedings for shutting down gun dealers. Funny how that works, isn't it, almost as if they have an agenda...?

Who's the Real Criminal ?

Jennifer Freeman asks a rhetorical question.

We're the Only Ones Recording Enough

In a flash, a police officer draws a handgun from its holster. Less than two seconds later, a red laser and bright light shine at whatever is in the gun barrel's path while a mini-camera records it all.

Two seconds?

Sorry--I'm all for holding "Only Ones" accountable, but this is just foolish, and at $700 per unit, forgive me if I wonder just who the supplier knows. It's also not lost on me that "smart guns" were initially developed as a "solution" to police takeaway incidents, and now all proposals to mandate their use exempt them and impose on us.

Add to this a seeming preponderance of guns "going off" (although if the camera activates when removed from the holster, the next officer leaving their piece on a toilet ought to make for a "funniest video" moment), and I just don't see where making a system more complex and relying on technology--instead of focusing on improving the human operator--will create anything but unintended consequences.

[Via Dave Licht]

"Come Attend Dickson City Council Meeting Tuesday, 13 May, 7PM!"

And now its time for gun owners to act and attend the Dickson City Council meeting and support those speaking to the Council on this matter.

Here's an update to this and all the details.

That's tonight. If you live in the area you should go.

[Via ChareltonHest and Skullz]

What Cleveland Needs

Even by tough, urban-crime standards it was a grisly attack: Up to 15 people chased a man, then kicked and beat him to death on the street. Before police arrived, one attacker urinated on the victim's head.

Y'know what Cleveland needs to stop the madness?

Another toy gun buyback!

We're the Only Ones Going Swimmingly Enough

A Florida man is suing after he was ticketed on a beach for wearing a Speedo bathing suit...

"I'm a civilian out here who’s been picked on by a little bully deputy and that’s wrong. It’s just wrong."

While they admittedly creep me out, and always seem to evoke the punchline from the potato joke, one has to wonder if there's no real crime for the "Only Ones" of the Lee County Sheriff's Department to pursue.

Oh, look, there is! Maybe the "little bully deputy" is worried that if he approaches one of these fugitives, they'll stuff a potato down his pants.

Indementia Jones and the Kingdom in His Crusty Skull

Although on screen Ford has starred in many action-packed, gun-toting thrillers...Ford abhors liberal US gun laws.

"I'm very troubled by the proliferation of arms, at the fact so many people in the United States carry guns. It obviously contributes greatly to the crime problems we have. I'm sure gun laws should be strengthened in the United States. I just don't know the correct mechanism."

It figures. These people we attribute fictional character virtues to so often prove to be little more than stage props. This gun business isn't news, by the way--the article is from 2003. I just thought it fitting, with his new movie coming out, to revisit the fact that in real life, he'd limit Indy's defensive options to a whip.

I've got "the correct mechanism" for ya, Dr. Jones. Why not wax your chest? It worked to save the "rainforest" (has "jungle" become politically incorrect somewhere along the way and I just missed it?).

Good grief.

I mean, it's not like three homes in LA, a ranch in Wyoming and a property in New York leave much of a carbon footprint, not to mention flying private helicopters and jet planes.

None of which I begrudge anyone, by the way. I just don't particularly appreciate the in-your-face-I've-got-mine hypocrisy that seems to be the rule in Hollywood.

Aging anti-gun "action heroes." Is there anything they don't know?