Saturday, November 06, 2010

How Duke the sun-loving bull helped kill a BB gun ban

Nelson's recollections are part of "Know Your Lawmakers," a regular feature from GUNS Magazine--50 years ago. Every month, GUNS posts issues from the corresponding month from half a century before on its website...

A free download of the November 1960 issue is now online. [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column opens a window to a past some of us are old enough to remember.  No bull.

Can you think of any friends who would enjoy looking through it?  Why not send them the  link and see?

Friday, November 05, 2010

GRE Round Up for November 5

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:
Dave Workman/Seattle:
Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:
Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

Pricey

Pricey weapon perhaps used in weekend drive-by...

Butler has extensive knowledge of .223 rifles, especially those based on the AR-15 platform. [More]
I can't claim such expertise.

But even I know where the going price for one is two hundred bucks. In gas.

"Authorized Journalist" Curt Sprang, ABC News. Breathlessly parroting the government line instead of doing his own investigating since...hey, Curt, how long have you been at this now...?

[Via Matt S]

We're the Only Ones Taking Notice Enough

The truck was parked along the National Mall near the National Air and Space Museum Wednesday afternoon, when an officer noticed something suspicious inside. [More]
Assuming "Only Ones" really don't have powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men, just how is that possible?

[Via Ed M]

We're the Only Ones Properly Labeled Enough

Officials in Wyoming want people to be on the lookout for a black box with white lettering that says "METH," after a deputy lost a stash used to train police dogs. [More]
No worries. Everything's under control:
Whalen says his office is taking action to make sure the mistake isn't repeated.
How? By making the moron who lost it wear a black shirt shirt with white lettering that says "STUPID"?

[Via Ed M]

Just Kidding Revisited

Remember this?

Here's the latest.  The victim fails to see the humor.

Someone to watch over me.  You know, a bully thug with an "authoritah" complex.

[Updates via  several of you]

Call for Dismissal

Everybody knows "shall not be infringed" doesn't really mean that, but was instead a call for "experimentation." Why, the finest legal minds and oodles of precedent all agree. Besides, the petitioner didn't say the right incantation.  So there. [Read]

We're the Only Ones Unfamiliar Enough

Not being familiar with the Smith & Wesson Springfield .40-caliber handgun, although he said it was his personal gun that he also uses for work, "he thought if he pulled the trigger the magazine would seat properly," Glickauf told police. [More]
Doesn't he know that in order for that to work, you need to first be pointing it at your five-year-old?

We're the Only Ones Punished Enough

A city police officer has been suspended for five days after his arrest last weekend for allegedly waving a gun outside a restaurant in Newport, R.I. [More]
That'll teach him!

After all:
Silvia was arrested on two counts of felony assault and one count of carrying a gun while intoxicated after allegedly waving a .380 automatic Kel-Tac gun at two employees of Christie's restaurant at 14 Perry Mill Wharf early Sunday morning.
Newport Police Lt. William Fitzgerald said that, according to witnesses, the incident started after Silvia and his friend, Eric C. Santos, were found by two employees on the side patio after closing where Santos was urinating in a planter.
Damn "civilians" probably got insolent and deserved it.

[Via Ed M]

The Mark 1 of the Beast


We just got done marveling at the price tag for his pending visit to India.  Read about what he took with him to the G-20 summit. 500 staff, 200 Secret Service personnel, 10 lords a-leaping...

For a guy who once voted against allowing his constituents to even have a gun for self defense, The One sure makes us take care of Number One, does he not? 

Wonder why...

[Via Jrp1947]

The First Big Test

Expect "the Republican leadership" to fail.  It will be a good indicator on their commitment to preserve the status quo, though, and not actually make any truly radical changes now that they're tapped into the power source. [Read]

Please...PLEASE prove me wrong.

Should 'insolence' be cause for losing guns?

What I expect is for someone who took an oath to the Constitution to understand that free citizens have a right to be where they want to be, that their right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.

That's what I expect. [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column shows what you can expect when you don't properly demonstrate your obeisance to Philadelphia's finest.

You will respect their authoritah!

Will you also share the link?

This Day in History: November 5

Thursday, November 04, 2010

GRE Round Up for November 4

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

Sweeping? As in "Under the Rug"?

Special assistant to Malden mayor charged in sweeping crime ring remains on job [More]
But of course...

I mean, just look at the group we're dealing with...

[Via Ed M]

Dead-End Kid

NRA Backs Fimian...[More]
Hey, he got it right on Virgina Tech! [Watch]

Then Defenseless Citizens for Non Sequiturs attacked him. [Watch]

Now we see what he's really made of! [Watch]

And he brings in his damage control professional weaselworder :
Edson refused to say if Fimian would support legislation without knowing the exact details. [More]
Huh. Maybe if he wasn't an oily damn liar, more people might have gotten fires in their belly to support the guy and this wouldn't have happened.

Good. I'm so sick of "pro-gun" fork-tongued frauds.  Let him lose. And let his cowardly betrayal follow him around every time he pops his head up scrounging for a position of authority.

The only way we'll ever stop this is to let these charlatans know that some of  us will do our utmost to make sure it's a political evolutionary dead end.

[Via Mack H]

We're the Only Ones Immune Enough

Judge RIchard Schoenstedt ruled earlier this month that prosecutors had failed to prove Peterson's semiautomatic rifle wasn't protected under a federal law that gives police officers general immunity to own weapons that are illegal under state law. [More]
What more do you need to know?

[Via William T and Jeffersonian]

"Assault Squash"

Now that's the proper mindset. [Read]

[Via William T]

Don't Let Those Crocodile Tears Fall Into All That Blood You're Dancing In

You might slip! [Read]
Our hearts go out to Ms. Hain's children, whose mother was taken from them by a senseless act of gun violence.
You forget something Paul? In all your "see, we told you so" smugness blaming the victim?

Like her husband, who was the actual armed danger, "was a Berks County parole officer and a former prison guard." (Amazing, how that's buried here, and how hard that is to find in other "Authorized Journalist" accounts...it's almost like they share an agenda or something.)

You know, one of the "Only Ones" Paul & Co. tell us can be trusted with guns.

We're the Only Ones Unimaginative Enough

“I can’t imagine any reason why I would not conceal,” one cop said. “What’s your logic for not concealing?” [More]
Oh, I don't know, Officer "Only One". What the hell's yours?

Why are so many of these unimaginative types seemingly attracted to this line of work?  Unfortunately, I see the logic behind recruiting them...