And Your Point Is?

This allows the individual to make his or her own eligibility determination...[More]

Yeah, how 'bout that?  How did you think it was supposed to work?


The fraud of the "pro-gun Democrat" continues.

Come to think of it, anybody see Baucus or Tester stepping up to the Gunwalker plate?


Don't expect them to, unless somebody stops with all the talking that gives him the illusion of being a media go-to guy leader on exposing the scandal and actually starts doing something...




My bad. I must have missed the memo where we decided it is about hunting.  Or as Wayne says when he takes the suit off, "Huntin'."

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UPDATE TO LAST NIGHT'S POST ON ATF GUNWALKER SUBPOENA RESPONSE DIRECTIVE

I have added the text of the directive. This is going to take some time to analyze and mull over, and may help shape questions to be asked and provide a roadmap for documents to be requested.

To read the directive, go here and scroll down to the 5/18 update. And share the link...?

BREAKING NEWS: ATF employees given directive for congressional inquiry/subpoena responses

One read of this could argue that Headquarters is trying to do the right thing, although a special directive to remind professional law enforcement employees that they must answer subpoenas completely and truthfully seems...curious.

Another read, especially in light of the news that top managers in ATF's Phoenix office have been replaced and key "Gunwalker" figures have been moved to Washington, points to all the wagons being circled, and to the extent they can be controlled, responding employees will have everything vetted by a legal damage control team answering to the very top. [More]

This evening's Gun Rights Examiner report confirms what flows downhill.

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GRE Round Up for May 17

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow Gun Rights Examiners:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Fed. judge’s ruling on concealed carry faces appeal 
• Issa: Gunrunner hearings will be held; ATF names new SAC in Phoenix

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• HB 294 would kick Mayor Bloomberg's 'sting operations' out of Missouri

We're the Only Ones T.J. Hooker Enough

Wait, I misread that...

BJ hooker... [Read]

We're the Only Ones Having It Our Way Enough

A Polk County deputy was suspended in April after an investigation found he demanded driver licenses from Burger King workers and called a police officer after the restaurant incorrectly filled his wife's order. [More]

Hey, at least it wasn't a McDonalds this time.

Or a Wendy's.

No doubt just a few bad apple turnovers.

True Lies

So The Sperminator can't be trusted.

Who knew?

Safer Streets

Here's John Longenecker's latest Newsletter and Commentary. [Read]

'Four star model of sensible gun laws’ does nothing to protect lives on campus

Here’s one other reality: The Brady Campaign, which would apparently rather see adults who can be trusted with a firearm elsewhere in society dead instead of armed on college properties, disparages Utah in a most intolerant way for allowing campus carry and enacting other "pro-gun" measures. [More]

This morning's [Last Thursday's] Gun Rights Examiner commentary notes four stars from the Brady Campaign have very little practical or "sensible" effect in a Gun Free Zone active shooter situation.

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Pod People...

...but the good kind...[Read]

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Will judge’s anti-concealed carry ruling lead to Catch-22 for CA gun owners?

In other words, “may issue” has been upheld, despite the clear proscription, applicable to the states, that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. And despite the documented cronyism and discrimination rife in California’s permit system. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report looks at yet another worthless "Republican" appointee who just did as much damage as any Democrat with a ruling that soon may mean all doors are closed to those who wish to bear arms (legally) in the Golden State.

Also tune in to two "Project Guntalker" interviews.

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This Day in History: May 17

The Resolution of the States General, to convoy their Trade and fit out 32 ships of War for that Purpose, has an Appearance of Decision, and I hope will...have some Tendency to bring the English to Reason. They have given one Symptom of some remaining Justice and Humanity in the late Exchange of Prisoners, which is the only Instance of any Appearance of Candor or sincerity; that I can recollect in their Conduct, since the Repeal of the Stamp Act. [More]

Project Gunboater?

The navy said the gunmen opened fire first when the marines discovered the camp, which the gang is believed to have used as a launching point for smuggling marijuana into Texas by speedboat. Marines seized more than 20 guns after the shootout, including several assault rifles.[More]

Via Facebook correspondent Marc P, who "wonder[s] how many were Gunwalker?"

That's a legitimate question, and brings up another--has ATF issued a law enforcement bulletin with all known "walked" gun serial numbers so that firearms turning up at crime scenes can be matched and accounted for?  Or does the "jeopardize ongoing investigations" card trump all--particularly when the ongoing investigation is of them?

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UPDATE: This was the genesis for yesterday's GRE.

What's in a Name?

Now that's funny.

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GRE Round Up for May 16

Here are the latest offerings from my fellow Gun Rights Examiners:

Yih-Chau Chang/Oakland:

• Author John Longenecker Explains How Gun Rights Make For Safer Streets (Part I)

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• UPDATE: Have SAF, NRA lawsuits pushed IL solons to reconsider concealed carry? 
• FLASH: WA delegation nearly absent from Nat’l CCW Reciprocity bill

Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:

• Concealed carry 'compromise' considered in Illinois actually abject surrender

The Best Defense

They're bound and determined to prove the adage true. [Read]

In the Can

Connecticut Citizens Defense League (CCDL) is now collecting canned goods at all of their meetings and events. [More]

Good idea.

When I was still living in LA, a friend at our NRA Members Council organized blood drives. Or you could adopt a highway, or do a women's shelter Christmas gift collection, or...

There are all kinds of simple ways to show people who we really are.

Thing Along with Mitch

I was under the weather this weekend and did not post--many of you sent me the story about the idiot subversive judge who said you cannot resist unlawful entry by police, and my first reaction was to see who was primarily responsible for elevating that wretched fraud to a position of power.

Turns out it was Mitch Daniels who foisted this judicial thing on us, and who offered this as his reason why: 

The governor said that from Judge David, he heard “the clearest expression of commitment to proper restraint in jurisprudence and deep respect for the boundaries of judicial decision-making. He will be a judge who interprets, rather than invents our laws.”

I'd hate to see who came in second.

Daniels has been OK on some RKBA stuff, but he's one of those "enforce existing gun laws" types rather than someone who actually understands the issue.

Vox Day has more, including:

And Daniels has thus far remained silent on the issue, when anything short of an abject apology for David's appointment combined with a demand for David's immediate resignation, and the resignation of the other two judges who sided with David, is absolutely necessary for him to remain a credible governor, let alone a president.

How can law enforcement tell if crime scene guns were ‘walked’?

"Are you telling me, Mr. Melson, that ATF has no records of the serial numbers and descriptions of the Project Gunrunner firearms that would enable any other law enforcement agency, domestic or foreign, to identify them in its own data bases as crime guns?" [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report  shows how Congress--and importantly, state attorneys general--may be able to crack open a jar of slippery electric eels.

Why not send the link to your federal and state representatives--and ask them what they intend to do to ensure that information is not being deliberately withheld from those investigating violent crimes...?

Swimsuit Competition

Lucky Gunner is having a beauty contest of sorts, and it looks like I'm in the running. You can vote here for all the various categories.

Thanks and all.  If I did this to be popular, I'd be writing about Justin Bieber. But what the heck, a nod is as good as a link, and they give both.

I'm not sure who I'm going to vote for. I'm leaning toward John Richardson, because he does a good job of bridging the oft-contentious divide between Threepers and Prags and getting needed information into both camps.  Yeah, what the hell. Done.

By the way, years back, I actually did buy a can of Olde Frothingslosh, "the pale stale ale with the foam on the bottom."