Here are the latest offerings from my fellow GREs:
Dave Workman/Seattle:
Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Texas Campus Carry Bill Scheduled for Tomorrow and Holder Stiffs Smith
From Jack Burch, via email:
Also:
Just an update on campus carry in Texas. Last Tuesday Senate Bill 354 was heard in the Criminal Justice committee with public comment. After 4.5 hours of public comment the committee left it pending. I called the committee clerk this morning to find out the status of this bill as the committee is scheduled to meet again today. She told me that the bill was not currently scheduled for a vote but felt that it would probably be voted on by the committee on the floor of the Senate by the committee members instead of in the committee chambers. A call to the author of the bill, Senator Wentworth, was fruitless as well as they said they knew nothing. The bill has the support of at least 5 of the 8 committee members at this time so passage is likely. As it progresses I will keep you informed. In the house the bill has been passed out of committee and is currently waiting to go to the floor for a vote by the entire house. I suspect it will wait for the Senate to move forward before it goes to the house floor.
As an update, he just sent me this:
SB354 Texas Campus carry is scheduled for a vote in the Criminal Justice committee tomorrow. No question that it will pass and be heard on the Senate floor. Rumor control has it that one senator will offer a floor amendment to change the bill to require private institutions to allow CHL carry. This senator is against the bill and is trying to bring problems to it on the floor. In any event carry in college buildings looks like a good bet.
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On another note, I just got off the phone with Cong. Lamar Smith's office to find out what he is doing as the chair of the Judiciary Committee on Fast & Furious. As you might remember Mr. Smith sent a letter to Eric Holder demanding answers and gave him a deadline of 18 March to answer. To date I have not seen any answers published. To no surprise I got "We are not aware of any reply by Mr. Holder". I contacted our local rep from his office and she stated that she would call and find out what she could. Guess I'm a dumb redneck but it looks like they will not answer until Holder et al are brought in front of a committee and put under oath. Wonder how long it will take to get them there. Adding pressure where possible.
If At First You Don't Succeed...
Since its inception in March 2001, a total 311,859 shell casings have been cataloged. At an estimated cost of $4 million dollars per year, $40 million dollars has been spent on CoBIS over the past decade.So naturally, we need to up the ante with microstamping.
What have taxpayers received for this? Absolutely nothing. Not a single crime has been solved because of it. [More]
What's the definition of insanity again?
[Via William T]
Safer Streets/Liberty News
John Longenecker asks "what would happen if America saw the repeal of all gun laws?" [More]
‘Pro-gun Democrats’ AWOL from ‘Project Gunwalker’
So then where the hell are the supposedly “pro-gun Democrats”?Today's Gun Rights Examiner commentary challenges NRA to expend some political capital to do what is necessary.
Why has not one stepped forward and demanded full and open investigative hearings in both the House and Senate? [More]
Regular readers: Take it from one of the guys who made this whole Project Gunwalker story happen--your support in this is absolutely critical. Please contact NRA and please share the link. Right now.
I hope you don't think either Mike or I have sufficient influence without your being a force multiplier, and if we can't force the Democrat-dominated Senate Judiciary Committee's hand, Chuck Grassley, for all his fine efforts to date, will remain a caged cat.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
GRE Round Up for March 29
Here are the latest offerings from my fellow GREs:
Dave Workman/Seattle:
Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:
Dave Workman/Seattle:
- ‘Bordergate’ – Seattle’s gunrunning case: Shades of ‘Project gunrunner?’
- UPDATE: Not Guilty verdict in dog ‘warning shot’ case
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ATF to grant ‘Project Gunwalker’ FOIA inquiry ‘in part’
This will have been vetted with intense scrutiny by a Department of Justice that has proven itself artful at withholding information and stonewalling. [More]This afternoon's Gun Rights Examiner report wonders which parts won't be granted.
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Lunch with the Girls
Just got my invitation!
Because Lynne and Liz Cheney are such noted Second Amendment authorities.
I guess there's no better use that the kind of dough they're asking for could be put to...
I wonder if they'll be keeping the riff-raff out of the Blog Bash again this year...?
I guess there's no better use that the kind of dough they're asking for could be put to...
I wonder if they'll be keeping the riff-raff out of the Blog Bash again this year...?
Resistance is Futile!
I always thought that this argument was hogwash. [More]As opposed to arguments that are unimaginative and cowardly? Or those of a subversive who knows what he's doing?
The ignorance-based arrogance, if that's what it is, is a two-edged sword.
On the one hand, it's to our advantage in a basic Sun-Tzu kind'a way--that is, if he truly doesn't know those he would make his enemy.
On the other hand, if that fear he ridicules and disparages ever loses its restraining power, that will make things a whole lot more dangerous for everyone, because people who don't fear an "or else" take risks they otherwise would not.
An Ounce of Prevention
The plan I am supporting is, in my view, common sense. And it respects the constitutional rights we all share. [More]No it's not. It's ridiculous.
And no it does not either.
Anything else you care to be wrong about?
Obviously We Need Stronger Gun Laws
The mother told investigators she did not want to press charges against Hachero, because she had recently been accepted to several Ivy League colleges. [More]Yep. It's not like there's anything else at play here.
I mean, it's not like weakling mothers producing, enabling and virtually guaranteeing amoral entitled little sociopath monsters has anything to do with anything.
Interesting, where the gun is said to have come from...
A Second Amendment Leader
Ross to Lead Second Amendment Task ForceCool.
Says Group Will Fight to Protect Second Amendment in Congress [More]
How ya doin' on leading the demand for "Project Gunwalker" investigations, Congressman?
Congressman...?
Some leadership here...?
Anti-gun campus cop displays 'Only Ones' elitism
If we’re to follow Sgt. Stucky’s “logic” to its inevitable conclusion, and if we accept that the place for guns is not the classroom, we must also accept that there is no place for guns in any public setting—at least by non-“Only Ones." Because any danger “unofficial” armed adults would pose on campus premises would apply to wherever they are. [More]This morning's Gun Rights Examiner report looks at someone who considers himself just plain better than the rest of us when it comes to keeping and bearing arms.
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This Day in History: March 29
A letter, of 25, from Baron Steuben was read, accompanied with a system of regulations for the infantry of the United States; also, a letter from the Board of War, representing that Baron Steuben, inspector general, has formed a system of exercise and discipline for the infantry of the United States; that the same has been submitted to the inspection of the Commander in Chief, and his remarks thereon and amendments incorporated in the work: that it has been examined with attention by the Board, and is highly approved, as being calculated to produce important advantages to the states; and therefore praying "that it may receive the sanction of Congress, and be committed to the press..." [More]
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