"It's all about the almighty dollar," Kosick said. "It's a really poor system" for protecting workers, customers and expensive drugs, many of which are sought by illegal drug users and dealers. [More]I always figured my life trumped their ignorance. I wonder if they would sign a statement of liability if someone accedes to their demands and ends up getting killed because of it.
...ATF is reportedly scrambling to take possession of the guns from DEA to avoid further bad publicity. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column will do what it can to not let them do that. Avoid publicity, that is.
"Historically, the Justice Department generally takes five to eight months to respond to QFRs,” he acknowledged. “However, because of my ongoing investigation into the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), I would appreciate receiving responses to questions on this topic much sooner." [More]This evening's Gun Rights Examiner column presents a letter with some great follow-up questions. I'm particularly happy to see Sen. Grassley asking about walked guns turning up at crime scenes on both sides of the border.
The school officials are arguing "that the First Amendment does not apply to elementary school students" ... [More]See, it's not like we're teaching them to be free individuals with unalienable rights, as opposed to inmates who will do what we say...
Still, if Sen. Lieberman is so concerned about semi-automatic rifles wending their way from U.S. gun shops to Mexican cartels, perhaps someone ought to ask him why he’s not demanding full and open hearings into “Project Gunrunner” allegations, and insisting on getting to the bottom of ATF management stonewalling accusations—before insisting on giving them yet more power over the very area where their own employees are saying they can’t be trusted.This morning's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at the principle-devoid poltroon that is the senior senator from Connecticut.
Oh, someone has? And some time ago? [More]
The cries of the distressed, of the fatherless and the Widows, come to me from all quarters. [More]
NRA PUSHES GUN CONTROL – JEOPARDIZES CONSTITUTIONAL CARRY [More]Let the debates begin...
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?
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.This evening's Gun Rights Examiner report confirms what flows downhill.
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]
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.
