Slowing Down?

Arms Makers Fall Back From Obama Surge [More]

Not that this experience hasn't been valuable, but perhaps we'll see gun and ammo availability and price improvements soon.

[Via Ed M]

Remorseless Killer Executed

The chain saw severed branch after branch with a buzz and a crack and a bang. Dust and sap and heat seeped out. [More]

And notice what the car did, all by its own self.

Where have we run across this mentality before?

[Via Ed M]

We're the Only Ones Parroting Enough

Pirone and his attorney say he was parroting an epithet that Grant first hurled at him... [More]

He badmouthed an "Only One"? Well hell, then, the guy obviously got what was coming to him. Even if the recording doesn't back up that claim.

[Via Andre]

No Borders

Kent McManigal challenges "borderists."

It's his 100th column and he'd like to see it widely read.

I have said I disagree with him. But continuing that debate here is not something I can focus on right now.

Go read what he has to say, and if you have comments, share them with him.

Click here to do that.

South Africa Gun Owners Get Reprieve

Fortunately, some of their citizens recognize madness when they see it. The challenge to the FCA, and the interim reprieve granted by the court, are hopeful indicators. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes a legal stay of execution.

Also find out who AHSA is endorsing, and get the latest from my fellow GREs.

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This Day in History: June 29

I this moment received an express from Capt Bouker of Otter Creek by way of Coll Hammond, informing that Ticonderoga is besieged and the communication is cut off by eleven hundred men this side the lake. You are therefor requiered if possible to raise one quarter part of your militia and send forward without loss of time otherwise that Importan[t] Place will be lost [More]

Why not focus on Mexican Cartel/Police Alliance Instead of U.S. Guns?

Who in their right mind believes Mexican police and military personnel rely on "straw purchasers" at U.S. gun shops and gun shows to obtain military-grade firepower? [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a culture where only the police and military (legally) have guns. The results are what anyone who is rational would expect.

Also get the latest from my fellow GREs.

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This Day in History: June 27

SPANKTOWN June 27, 1777
Gen. Charles Scott's light horse and Col. Daniel Morgan's Rangers harass British after evacuation of New Brunswick. [More]

That's All, Folks!

At least for today. I have out-of-state relatives staying with us. I'll try to get at least a Gun Rights Examiner column out each day during their visit, which will last until early next week.

Please hold off on tips and emails, as I won't be able to attend to them. I will be checking in on occasion to keep the spammers and trolls from taking over "Comments".

What is the Agenda?

A little advertising discretion might go a long way in quieting fears that are manipulated by gun control advocates. [More]

I might well ask what your agenda is, Roberts, making an asinine recommendation like that. Do you really think presenting a kinder, gentler face will make your enemies not hate you?

The agenda is domination and tyranny, something I don't see you addressing, in all your prattling on about "beautiful lines" and "beautiful animals."

Good grief.

[Via Zachary G]

They Hate Us Because We're Free

Oak Forest baseball coach suspended after accusation of tobacco use [More]

This ain't the America I grew up in...

I Wonder if They Have a Corporate Logo T-Shirt?

What were they thinking? [More]

Anti-Gun Book Reviews Hide an Agenda

Still, one of the comments on Workman's article led me to explore something I found interesting--not the book, but its reviews on Amazon.com. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at what people are saying about an anti-gun book--and then looks at the people.

Also read an update on a gun bill in Oregon, and get the latest from my fellow GREs.

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This Day in History: June 26

At the Battle of the Short Hills on the 26th, at four in the morning, Lord Cornwallis marched from Amboy with upwards to 5,000 troops. He met Lord Sterling's Brigade of about 1,400 men and lost 3 pieces of cannon, 70 prisoners, and about 100 men killed and wounded. (June 26, 1777) [More]

Don't Collaborate for the Other Guy

Feds and Firearms Industry team up to stop so-called “straw purchases.” [More]

Sorry, Lawrence Keane. When you abet infringements on the right of the people to keep and bear arms, you lose me.

You think being their bitch will make the antis like you, and the overlords respect you? They may have you convinced they'll eat you last, but eat you they will.

[Via Lane]

We're the Only Ones Defending Ourselves Enough

An off-duty police officer shot and wounded two men who had assaulted him in the crowded Angel Stadium parking lot...[More]

Lucky for him he's one of the anointed.

Because Sandra Hutchens says the rest of us don't have lives worth defending. Just wanting to is not "good cause," plus we all know how much more trustworthy the "Only Ones" are.

[Via Ed M]

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Post-Nuclear Holocaust Sarah Brady Paradise

In calm bureaucratic language -- loaded with code words to render the book meaningless to those not in the know -- the document describes how as the crisis worsened, civil servants would introduce censorship, evacuate all but the sickest patients from hospitals and eventually be sent to one of 12 underground bunkers scattered around the country.

Britain was to be governed from these bunkers after a nuclear attack, with officials exercising powers of martial law over the remaining population. [More]

And it sounds like they had things planned down to a remarkable level of detail:

Nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely. Greenhouses could maintain plantlife. Animals could be bred and slaughtered. A quick survey would have to be made of all the available mine sites in the country. But I would guess... that ah, dwelling space for several hundred thousands of our people could easily be provided...And a computer could be set and programmed to accept factors from youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross section of necessary skills. Of course it would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included to foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition. Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time, and little to do. But ah with the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of say, ten females to each male, I would guess that they could then work their way back to the present gross national product within say, twenty years.

It would not be difficult, mein Fuhrer! Especially with the population disarmed and dependent.

We must not allow a wheelie-bin gap!

[Via Ed M]

2009-06-25: Press Release: SA Hunters Judgment‏

Email reposted in its entirety:

From: Gun Owners of South Africa (gosa@gunownerssa.org)
Sent: Thu 6/25/09 4:13 AM
To: gosa-press-list@gunownerssa.org

2009-06-25: Press Release: SA Hunters judgement

"Is it still possible for justice to emerge from the chaos in the South African legal system?"

Gunowners SA are waiting with bated breath to see whether Judge Bill Prinsloo will deliver judgement tomorrow which confirms that which we already know (and have seen demonstrated many times over the last few years) to be the case. His judgement in the SA Hunters and Game Conservation Association (SA Hunters) v Minister of Police case heard before him this week in the North Gauteng High Court may be a pivotal case for South African democracy. If His Honour finds for the plaintiffs (SA Hunters), he will be shining a bright light on the lies and deceit that the South African Police Service, and their Central Firearms registry, have attempted to use to defraud the law-abiding South African gun owners of their lawful (and valuable) possessions... Also their most potent means of self defence in these criminally-plagued times.

In the convoluted meanderings of the legal system justice is very often the sacrificial offering burnt on the altar of political expedience. In this case the implementation of the Firearms Control Act (Act 60 of 2000) is challenged because of the disgracefully inept fashion in which the Central Firearms Registry of the SAPS has gone about their duty. The FCA is purported to be concerned with the 'fight against crime', is in reality entirely focussed on already licensed firearms with which, according to the SAPS themselves, no statistically relevant crime is ever committed - in other words, statisticians consider the occurrence of crime with licensed firearms so low that they don't measure it. The FCA itself is subject to a number of Constitutional challenges on various grounds.

SA Hunters is merely seeking to prevent the imminent criminalisation of more than a million law-abiding South African citizens by this unneeded, unwanted, and unimplementable legislation. These million or more citizens are already licensed to own their firearms and have committed no crime at all. At the stroke of midnight on 30 June 2009 they will turn into criminals, subject to jail sentences of 15 years if convicted in a court.

It is up to Judge Bill Prinsloo to put a stop to this nightmarish fairy-tale of the damned.

Paul Oxley
Executive Member (Mr. Oxley may be contacted on: 082 900 8750)

Gun Owners of South Africa
PO Box 2522
Clareinch
7740
South Africa
Tel: +27-21-6894481
www.gunownerssa.org

Prescience

"Gentleman, your world is going to change. I know most of you hunt. I doubt there is anyone here that doesn’t own a firearm. The day is coming when the Federal government is going to try and disarm you. I won’t see it, but you will. Mark my words and be on your guard, the Second Amendment is the only thing standing between you and the suffering you can’t comprehend. Class is dismissed." [More]

Tim Case looks at the past and then looks at the present.

Incidentally, if you missed them, I addressed the three current examples he cites here, here and here.

[Via Ron W]

Another Child Gun Death

Nashville police say a 21-year-old home invasion robbery suspect was fatally wounded by 1 of his victims. [More]

I guess some consider them to fall under the "kids" category up to age 24.

You know, the same people who would prefer the home invasion victims had been disarmed...

[Via John G]