Brady Center Blows Firearms Freedom Act Brief

So none of their co-signers "sought or received permission to" be listed? And their attorney didn't file the required motion to represent them? [More]

This development warranted a second Gun Rights Examiner column.

Now This One P****s Me Off

Particularly the "ram it down your throat" thug, but some of the others are only marginally less offensive. [View]

What a bullying Nazi punk. I wonder how brave and mouthy he'd be one-on-one outside of his protective bubble?

OAS Firearms Convention "Incompatible with Liberties"

I want to show you something.

It's my shocked face.

Eh, that's not fair. A lot of good work and truth went into this, and I shouldn't be so dismissive.

I'm just to the point where it's like, bring it on.

Anyone who would try to infringe on RKBA via a treaty is just a damned foreign or domestic enemy. What more do we really need to know?

We're the Only Ones Accommodating Enough

A witness in a murder case was beaten up after Hennepin County jailers mistakenly placed him in the same holding cell as the man he'd implicated. [More]

Good grief.

[Via Rhett]

Kevin Patrick

Restore rally volunteer, running for state legislature in West Virginia [Read]

Figure it would be safe to give this guy a pass on this...? I probably still will--it may help.

Learn more.

We're the Only Ones Following in the Footsteps...uh..Step of the Master Enough

An APD officer accidentally shot himself in the foot during a weapons training class Wednesday afternoon. [More]

It's been done...

[Via Mike III]

Down for the Count Quartet

NJ Mom Recognizes Census Worker as Sex Offender [More]

It seems like only yesterday we reached the "spate" mark.

Oh, wait, it was.

And now for the comedy gold:

"I figured this is a government worker, I'm safe...

Jeez, it's getting to the point where I'm going to start making some assumptions if one of these cats shows up at my door...

Do I hear "Five"?

[Via William T]

"A Fundamental Reordering"

I guess that sounds more polite than just going ahead and calling them domestic enemies...[More]

The Best Thing Ever

Barack Obama [More]

Yep.

[Via Len Savage]

Louisiana Parks Bill Passes in Senate

The Senate voted 36-0 for the measure Senate Bill 534 sponsored by state Sen. Troy Hebert, D-Jeanerette. [More]

I thought Hebert left the dems and was now an independent...? That's what his site says, and I figure he should know.

It goes to the House next. LA gun owners: Contact your reps.

Anyway, you can get more background on this here, and from my secondary feature update here.

Funny how much of the reporting on this has been done by some guy in Ohio, as opposed to by the folks who have the resources and the ostensible purpose to inform citizens of government actions affecting their rights...ah well, it looks like a grudging, albeit abbreviated and buried acknowledgment has begun...

Share this with your friends in Louisiana?

[Via retrotruckman]

Elitist 'Police Perspective' On Open Carry Attacks Our Right to Keep and Bear Arms

[W]hy Chief James allows his men to carry them seems a fair question. And he should surrender his immediately. But then, who would be qualified to accept it? [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at a typical "Only One" who's got his, and now wants to make sure you can't get yours.

Also watch a compelling video from Chile where women chant "We want guns!" and catch yesterday's "Trigger Sports LIVE!" (except it won't be).

This Day in History: May 20

Sir William Howe as his last act as CinC of Crown forces in American sent two major columns out of the city in an attempt to "bag" the Marquis and bring him back to the city as a prisoner. Howe went so far as to plan for a dinner with the young Frenchman as the guest of honor after which he planned to return to England with the young Marquis as his "guest". [More]

GRE Round Up for May 19

There's some good stuff being turned out by the Gun Rights Examiners. I hope you're availing yourself of it, and importantly, sharing these links via emails, on blogs and forums, with your local newspaper editor, etc.

A common complaint is media bias and absence of representation for "our side."

These people work hard to change that and ask for nothing from those of us their labors serve other than to help spread the word. I hope no one thinks that's too much to ask.

Here are their latest offerings:

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:
Oklahoma governor vetoes Firearms Freedom Act… again

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
NRA 2010 convention in Charlotte, Part II: Friday leadership forum features Sarah Palin

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Is Sacramento’s Braziel SPD top cop front runner?

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

A look at the Brady Campaign's brief against the Montana Firearms Freedom Act

Go. Read. And please share these links.

You're doing that, right?

Four Hutaree Members Released from Jail

"Three of nine members of a Midwest militia accused of conspiring to overthrow the government were released from jail Tuesday," reports Ed White of the Associated Press.

And now today, a fourth member, Kristopher T. Sickles of Ohio has been released. [More]

Today's second GRE...it seems the government has backed off on some claims they were adamant about just a while ago. Which makes me wonder what else they're being less than truthful about...

Share the link?

We're the Only Ones Arresting Development Enough

Her friend, a 15-year veteran Lee county sheriff's deputy, played along in the mock arrest and handcuffed the child and put him in the back of a cruiser. [More]

Isn't that unlawful detention...or is this "Only One" able to "lawfully" do this to anyone he wants?

As for the idiot mother, the telling thing is, the on-site poll show the majority of readers currently agree with her by a 60/40 landslide.

Eloi crying for the Morlocks...

[Via Ed M]

Having had a few moments to think about this, teaching him to fear someone who would do this to him under color of authority may just be a valuable, albeit unintended lesson she just taught the child.

A "Down for the Count" Spate

You remember spates, don't you?

What did Ian Fleming write in "Goldfinger"?

Once is happenstance.

Twice is coincidence.

The third time it's enemy action.

Because Nothing Says Security Like Robot Eyelids

Leave it to Boston government to make such things even creepier. And even more useless. [Read]

And, of course, leave it to the spokesonlyone and our trusted "Authorized Journalist" watchdogs to completely miss a key point:

The entire cost, he said, will be paid by Homeland Security.

Yeah. With their money that they earned.

Sure glad that well is bottomless.

[Via Ed M]

Just Imagine!

Imagine parents who have lost a family member to gun violence having to allow a renter to possess firearms. [More]

Or parents who have suffered a miscarriage having to allow a renter to possess Planned Parenthood literature...

Or parents who have lost a family member to Islamic terrorists having to allow a renter to possess a Quran...

Or...

And by the way, "laws" notwithstanding, I believe the most effective and moral means of combating marketplace discrimination is through free market choices.

WaPo just keeps getting more and more shrill and ridiculous, but "imperil[ing] homeland security" has to be about the most transparently Orwellian argument, especially when juxtaposed against what the Founders knew to be "necessary to the security of a free State"...

I may take up a collection and send their editorial staff a box of these...

Another NRA "A" Rating

NRA Endorses Gov. Phil Bredesen

Pay it forward, Phil. Pay it forward.

Maybe you and Brad can get together for a laugh.

"Hindsight Bias"

That's rich, coming from criminal accomplices who are biased against foresight... [Read]

Unsurprisingly, the true crime on the university's part has been completely ignored.

[Via Ed M]