Breaking News: Olofson Attorney on Lou Dobbs

One of Olofson's attorney's, Herb Titus, will be interviewed live tonight on Lou Dobbs. The program airs at 7:00 pm EST on CNN, so check your local listings in your time zone. I'm told significant information will be disclosed, and hope to have an update to this story soon to include documents just made public. [More]

I've just issued a breaking story on Gun Rights Examiner. Go there if you'd like to know more.

UPDATE: I've added a link to oral arguments.--4:11 PM EST

UPDATE 2: Larry Pratt says Titus won't be live, but reporter Bill Tucker will give an update on the hearing.--4:34 PM EST

UPDATE 3: I posted a recap of tonight's program, provide some supplemental information, and anticipate having more information soon.--9:45 PM EST

Crouch Down and Lick the What...???

Oops--wrong Sam Adams. [More]

I wonder if this is why Mayors Against (Your) Guns hasn't updated their membership gallery, and still features former mayor Tom Potter in their Legion of Doom roster?


[Via Ed M]

We're the Only Ones with Brain Freeze Enough

Mexico police chief's head found in ice box... [More]

There's gotta be a damned American gun shows nexus in here somewhere...

...unless it slipped out through that loophole...

[Via Zachary G]

MOWCA Updates

From Paul W. Davis, via email:

MOWCA Blog has posted two new items: 'U.S. v. Fincher Update' and
'Education or Entertainment'

You may view the posts at:
http://arkansasmilitia.com/blog/?p=62
http://arkansasmilitia.com/blog/?p=53

Time to Ban Assault Bricks

A woman is accused of pointing a gun at a man and smashing his windshield with a brick in a dispute over money, police said. [More]

Now wait just a minute--she's a "prohibited person"--could it be that "gun control" laws don't work?

The other thing I wonder--if in the hands of an "Only One," would it be a "patrol brick"?

[Via Ed M]

More Blood for Larry Hincker

On Wednesday, Jan 21, at 7:06 p.m., Virginia Tech Police received a 911 call reporting that a female was being assaulted in the cafe at the Graduate Life Center at Donaldson-Brown...[More]

Gee, Larry, why is it you don't come right out and tell people she was brutally stabbed to death in that gun-free zone you're so damn proud of?

I can't help but wonder how useless you'd have been had you been there to witness it, Larry. If the killer had turned his attention to you, do you think you'd have pleaded, blubbered, sobbed, girly-screamed and animal-howled?

And how wonderful you offer after-the-atrocity counseling.

If anyone would like to counsel Larry, go for it: hincker@vt.edu

Oh, and look: President Charles W. Steger is slinging BS around like the seasoned pro that he is:

We will continue to do everything we can to support the Virginia Tech family.

Really, Charlie? You'll rescind the firearms prohibition in Section 10 of your Student Conduct Code and get the hell out of the way of human beings who choose to be able to defend themselves? And ditto for section 2.7.3 of your Faculty Policies and Procedures? And Section 2.2 of your ludicrously-titled "Campus Workplace Violence Prevention Policy"?

How are those documents working out for you, Charlie? And if you say you can't do this, does it mean you're lying when you promise to do everything you can?


[Via Curses! Foiled Again!]

Imagining Gun Control in America

Several readers have sent me this law review article. [More]

Dr. Lott says simply:

Well Respected Law Professor Predicts that the Heller Decision will be Overturned

Read the entire paper for yourself.

I found good information in re the "gun show loophole" to use in today's Gun Rights Examiner column.

Here's the bottom line for me: In order to do what would need to be done to enact total gun control, mass disobedience and defiance would be the guaranteed reaction. There's no getting around that, and in this sense, this article is extremely useful, if for no other reason than to point out "You don't want to go there."

As for imagining such gun control, I already have. That's why I'll fight to keep it from happening until my dying breath.

"Baloney and Lies"

The claims are baloney and lies, based on distorted date and misrepresentations of results from ones with better data. [More]

Satisfied Rapex customers attack John Lott.

The new study in question is here. Look at all the vitriol and snottiness, particularly in "Comments."

These children have no idea what the fight is really about, do they?

I'll be sure and link to the rebuttal when it happens.

[Via Al N]

The Gathering Storm

If you think I'm rough on the Lairds of Fairfax, check out Michael Gaddy's latest...[More]

[Via Zachary G, who writes "Please be sure to click on the hyperlink 'possible accomplices.'"]

Fair and Balanced

But members of the grassroots organization Georgiacarry.org say many statistics are twisted and guns can save lives if they’re in the right hands. [More]

This is the kind of coverage you couldn't buy. Sure, they give the obligatory nod to the antis, but overall, my source from Georgia Carry tells me:

Reporters can be won over. Ashley Olmstead ran a news story recently on the surge in firearms license applications in Georgia that had some factual and legal errors in it. When GCO members pointed this out to her, she immediately corrected the errors. In response, local GCO members invited her shooting this morning. She had never shot a pistol before, and neither had her cameraman. They ended up having a blast and stayed so long that they were late for a subsequent story. Here is a link to the news video that ran this evening. http://www.georgiacarry.org/ with the headline, Grassroots Group Fights for More Gun Rights. It is a good piece, and our members represented themselves very well.

[Via Ben G and Georgia Carry]

Closing the Bill of Rights Loophole

Come we now to Team Obama's next hope for change:

"They support closing the gun show loophole...

[More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner offering...

Please share it with other gun owners, or anyone who might be interested in looking at gun shows from an angle they won't get in most media outlets...

This Day in History: January 22

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BREAKING: HOLDER DELAYED

The confirmation vote has been postponed for a week. [More]

Tripping Traps and Other News

I've posted another Gun Rights Examiner column to deal with developments from Gun Owners of America, Oregon Firearms Federation and Montana Shooting Sports Association. [More]

Dreams of Obama

So what are Obama and Biden going to do that fits any objective definition of "commonsense"? Make things more illegal for the above list? Or come up with more foolishness that won't work, but will infringe on the right of the people from Chicago to Cheyenne to keep and bear arms...? You know, that Second Amendment he respects so much... [More]

This is the second in this week's Gun Rights Examiner series on what the new President has in mind for us. If you missed the first article, it's here.

I need extra help today to spread the word on this--I think I missed a deadline last night on a site I get good traffic referrals from.

Tell a friend? Post on forums? Etc.?

Gary, We Hardly Knew Ye

The mayor of Racine, Wis., resigned on Tuesday, days after being accused of trying to arrange a sexual encounter with someone he thought was an underage girl. [More]

Yes, another one. What is it about these degenerates who will not control themselves, yet want so desperately to control those of us who do not share in their despicable weaknesses?

And thus goes ever unanswered the age-old question...

[Via The Drawn Cutlass, which notices something missing...]

A Cabana Kiboshes Rum

The return of Burka Abeam?

Hey, I was just looking to see if I could find any hidden Satanic messages...[More]

The Hireling

From Plug Nickel Times, via email:

Hello David,

No big deal - I just thought you might find this telling and even funny (in a sense).

I'd written you earlier about a visit of mine to a Walmart a couple weeks ago where they were pretty low on common caliber ammo. Today in a different store and different town I was at another Walmart. This time the shelves were almost bare. Apart from some 50rd boxes of .22 - there weren't more than a few dozen boxes of ammo on the whole shelving unit! (none in common calibers)

I asked him with a straight face if they planned on restocking. He assured me that they did - but he wasn't sure when. He seemed to think that in a month or so they'd be back up to full stock.

He went into a rant from there - saying that it was all the fault of people being fearful of the latest regime - panic buying, etc. I thought it was kinda' funny and encouraged him to take a more optimistic view of the matter but he'd have none of it!

I didn't decide to use the title "Plug Nickel Times" for nothing - but from a certain perspective it is kinda' funny to see all that ammo and armament flying off the shelves. It's a helluva' message - restless peasants and all.

What would Ceausescu do? What would Machiavelli have advised?

(was it?)Mel Brooks - "gads - those peasants _are_ revolting!"

I submit this is the difference between a hireling, a mere employee with no vested interests other than his own, and an engaged sovereign citizen.

Too bad the manager didn't hear the exchange. The clerk deserved to be fired.

A lot of hirelings do. But somehow, I don't think the new management expects them to be all that customer-friendly.

Number One Salesman

Since November 4, one of the interesting trends we've seen is a sharp increase in the purchase of firearms. People who would have probably NEVER have considered owning firearms before the election are now full-fledged gun-owners.Beginning immediately after the election, gun shops across the country noted increases in sales by 42% over the previous November. December numbers increased further after the announcement of Eric Holder as nominee for Attorney General.

Now, again, in January, we are seeing a further increase in sales of firearms. [More]

The writer of this piece is new to guns, but as you can see, open-minded.

Here's a great chance to encourage that and approach his "outside the choir" readers. Here's a chance to be ambassadors, so that a whole new set of minds might want to learn more...

Here's a chance to be Number One Salesmen and Saleswomen.

We're the Only Ones Not Excessive Enough

Lund says he was feeding ducks at the park on Nov. 25, 2006 when officers with their guns drawn surrounded him and ordered him to raise his hands over his head. The suit claims Lund told the officers he could not raise his arms above shoulder level because of a disability but was tackled, handcuffed, dropped repeatedly on the ground and dragged across concrete. [More]

Plus, the reason he was approached in the first place is because of a vendetta by a person who had already wronged him.

Most disturbing are the assorted comments from "Only Ones" who think their brother officers deserve to be able to assault innocent 74-year-old disabled war vets and give them blood clots on the brain with impunity. No doubt they are some of those "few bad apples" we hear about, or do you think they might be more representative than the apologists care to admit?

One thing's for sure. As far as this crowd is concerned, it is "us vs. them."

The opinion is here.

[Via Al N]

UPDATE: Looks like the title-linked article has been removed. Wonder why.

UPDATE 2: Thanks to Tom in comments, we can preserve the comments by these exemplary public servants. Be sure you click on the profile links, so you can see just who it is that thinks this is a great way to protect and serve the public. I'm pasting them below anticipating the cache will go away at some point. I'm not sure if I can be legally ordered to take this down or not or if fair use and public interest will prevail, so view it/copy while you can.

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  copdog5515

  about 1 month ago

  8 comments

  Sounds like a good ruling from the bench ! So rare these day's.

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  LIDARguy

  about 1 month ago

  180 comments

  Ok, why does he need $10 million? I hope he continues to get what he deserves - absolutely nothing.

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  OFFICER_K_CPD

  about 1 month ago

  1234 comments

  Cool

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  Irishcop1961

  about 1 month ago

  2094 comments

  Lets hear for the Judge

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  Gtoli

  about 1 month ago

  776 comments

  Hopefully the third Officer will fair as well.

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  blueline111095

  about 1 month ago

  220 comments

  Glad too see a judge using his head

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  CaptainDan166

  about 1 month ago

  758 comments

  I've sat where those officers are sitting, at the wrong table! It was the one of the toughest few weeks in my life. Glad the officers made it and thank you to the Judge.

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  Jason_Reel

  about 1 month ago

  1390 comments

  Alright!!!! There is a Judge out there with some common sense.

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  phudson

  about 1 month ago

  342 comments

  At leasat the judge could see through the BS.

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  DeputyDuck

  about 1 month ago

  750 comments

  Finally one for the good guys