Bound and Determined

The controversy erupted in April after Anchorage gun shops revealed that an ATF agent had visited them earlier this year, requesting access to their “bound books,” the volumes that firearms dealers are required by law to maintain, with every transaction involving gun purchases, sales, or other transactions...Great Northern Guns refused to cooperate with the ATF agent’s request, because it is against the law. [More]

Hooray for them--that is a brave and principled stand. Now we need to help them watch their back against retaliation/"Economic Waco."

Here's my problem:

Young’s office appears satisfied that the gun shop flap has been put to rest...

Why, because he received "assurances" after ATF was caught usurping authority, harassing gun stores and violating the frickin' law?  I'm not satisfied and you shouldn't be either.  Let these same bastards catch one of us in a technical violation and they'd come down on us with the full force of the state behind them. 

When Hidden Compartments are Outlawed...

If you live in Ohio, you need to get involved now, as this latest bit of presumptuous police state enabling/ forced degradation has been fast-tracked. [Read]

Ohioans for Concealed Carry elaborates via email: 

URGENT - IF YOU ARE CONCERNED BY THE DANGERS THAT SB305 WILL BRING TO MOTORISTS IN OHIO YOU MUST CALL YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES IMMEDIATELY AND EVERY SINGLE DAY THIS WEEK - DO NOT EMAIL THEM AS EMAIL HAS BEEN RENDERED USELESS -- CALL THEM, LEAVE A MESSAGE IF YOU MUST, AND HAVE EVERYONE YOU KNOW DO THE SAME. THIS BILL IMPACTS EVERYONE -- NOT JUST GUN OWNERS. To identify your representative go to http://www.legislature.state.oh.us -- On the right side of that page click on "House" and "Zip Code" and then enter your zip code. If more than one representative is listed CALL BOTH OF THEM. Leave them a voicemail and tell them you share Ohioans For Concealed Carry's concerns over SB305 and that you do not want it fast tracked to the Governor until it is improved -- or defeated. 

I just did. The staffer for my rep, Kristina Roegner, did not know her position on this but said they had been getting quite a few calls. I conveyed my expectation that we will see leadership from her on this, including a public statement.I got the typical promise that my message would be passed on, but no commitment that my representative would represent liberty.

We shall see, and then we shall react accordingly.  In a perfect world, "leaders" wouldn't need to be led.

UPDATE:

Embedded Assets

Here’s a great way to reduce overhead and be effective at running a national organization dedicated to infringing on the gun rights of everyday people all at the same time… Have cities hire your people for you so that tax payers cover ¼ of your people’s salary and benefits, pay for most of their operational costs, and finance all of their other resources! It also embeds your people as leaders in city government so that you don’t have to lobby there! [More]

Sean Carrana has uncovered a bombshell story, once again proving the value of "Unauthorized Journalists" over the deliberately indifferent/biased/ignorant "professionals."

How unsurprising of hive insect queen Bloomberg to rely on the Chicom final insult of charging for the executioner's bullet.

This one needs to go viral, and safeguards need to be established to send these jackals howling back into the darkness.

UPDATE:  Kurt weighs in.

Core Constituency

53,000 Dead Voters Found in Florida [More]

But requiring ID would be racist.

Except for this.

No Dark Sarcasm in the Classroom

Teacher leave them kids alone [Read]

It's like they go out of their way to hire emotionally-challenged incompetents.

The Big Disconnect

“Every election year, the members of Congress come to pro-gun voters asking to be re-elected, yet we don’t have any pro-gun votes scheduled to come to the House and Senate floor.”[More]

Gee, it's almost like we're being conned or something.

This Day in History: May 21

In a prelude to the Great Raid of 1780, Sir John Johnson and his small army of Tories and Indians invaded Johnstown on May 21, 1780. Their raid began at midnight when they entered the town and systematically killed local patriots and destroyed their homes and property. Local Tories, who had an early warning about the raid, assisted with the raid on their fellow neighbors. [More]

Reaction to serial impregnator shows same mindset as demands for ‘gun control’

So due to outrageous abuses by some, a central government “solution” must be imposed on all. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner offering notes that when it comes to freedom, basing it on the lowest common denominator comes up short.

Armed American Radio Tonight

I'll be joining Armed American Radio host Mark Walters tonight at 9:30 pm Eastern to discuss the latest "Gunwalker" developments, and he invited me to stay over for the 10:00 "Roundtable" segment.

Also on the program, which begins at 8:00: Trainer Rob Pincus,  Top Shot contestant Chris Collins and "The Mad Ogre" George Hill.

Click here to find a station near you or to listen live via your computer.

Breyer push for more protection illustrates elite double standard

That Breyer demands armed police protection provided at taxpayer expense illustrates no small amount of elitist hypocrisy considering his dissent in the landmark District of Columbia v. Heller case... [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner offering  notes some people--those would be our rulers--think they're just more entitled than the rest of us.

Appeals court denies extension in Shipley case despite strangely lost testimony

“The optical media (CDs) marked as Exhibits C & D were imaged, although the file system was corrupted. It is unknown how or why the media was corrupted. The optical media (CD) marked as Exhibit E was visibly scratched. The agent reported that in his opinion, the scratches, in a swirl format, was intentionally done,” a case document reveals. [More] 

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column asks what's a little bit of sabotaged court records among friends?

The State of the Union

Good grief. [Read]

We're the Only Ones Civilly Disobedient Enough

NY Supreme Court Justice Gustin Reichbach Admits to Smoking Illegal Marijuana for Cancer [More] 

So as long as you have a reason you think is good, the law should be disregarded, Judge? I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you--I'm just wondering how you would rule if I had what I thought were good reasons for exercising an uninfringed right to keep and bear arms in New York...?

From the looks of things, particularly the bit about "drawing the distinction between preventing people who need something from getting it, and preventing people who just want to blaze recreationally from doing their thing," it appears you're the arbiter of acceptable rationales.

That is unacceptable.

Pander Mountain

I've sent you a fair question that your gun owning customer base deserves an unequivocal explanation for.  Several of us have.

While I can't seem to locate it to copy and paste here WEAU.com tells us:

In a posting on its Facebook page, Gander Mountain says it's been a longtime partner of the NRA, but that its customers are diverse and have varied interests, so it established a policy recently which prohibits it from hosting events on behalf of political causes or candidates.

We understand. You just want to sell rope.


You corporate Quislings can try to hide from politics, but that doesn't mean politics won't find you.  Do you know nothing about grassroots vs. AstroTurf?  Do your own sales records not show you that your "diverse" customers are buying guns and ammo in record numbers? Do you truly think the unreconstructed Occupiers/domestic enemies who make up the "Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort" are the ones guaranteeing your bottom line, as opposed to being environmentalcases who would ban all "blood sports" and relegate much of the wilderness off limits even to the bear bells crowd? When they're not raiding animal labs or pooping on cop cars?

For people who deal with hunters and the wild, you'd think you know that jackals don't spare those who appear weak. They target them.


Don't expect those who believe like me to take a stand when Brady/VPC/ CSGV circles you and moves in  for being "gun violence profiteers" selling semiautomatic handguns and "assault rifles", or when PETA tells their fellow human-haters how you abet untold animal murders in the name of corporate greed!

Now that you've voluntarily separated yourselves from the pack, you've separated yourself from its protection, and you'll never be more vulnerable.

Spinning Wheels

We commend Rep. Issa for producing this important document and moving toward following through on his threats, but we renew our call for a fully empowered and truly independent investigator to get to the bottom of the F&F debacle. [More] 

A-yup. That this isn't a "gimme" tells you all you need to know about the sorry state of corruption in our highest offices.

Fortunately, fully 243 fellow patriots care deeply enough to donate as little as one dollar to help get the truth out.

Say, have you heard J-Lo is going to be leaving American Idol?

Securing the Blessings of Liberty...

One scoop at a time... [Read]

Strange Bedfellows

And if the tea party is going to lead the way to try and shed some light on it, I’ll be right behind the tea party on it. [Read] 

It would be nice to think there's a crack in the dam.

Me, I think he's up to  something.  Or I should say they're up to something.

ATSN TV - Shooting Destination Night

From American Trigger Sports Network:

TONIGHT ON PURSUIT! 

Host James B. Towle and the Trigger Sports TV crew attend the Pirates of Texas Carbine Championship at Texas Carbine, the new shooting club in Corpus Christi. Watch fast and challenging stages and great weather that made for an unmatched event! 

6:00pm Pacific/7:00pm Mountain/8:00pm Central/9:00pm Eastern

DirecTV Channel 608 PRST DISH Network Channel 240 HUNT

Miss an episode? Find it at www.ATSN.tv and now on YouTube at YouTube.com/ATSNTV

So Proud to Live, So Proud to Lie

Elizabeth Warren would be more than happy to take away our way of life, and essentially turn the entire Republic into an updated version of Cherokee Nation.  At the risk of exposing Fauxcahontas even more...

That was just plain a mean thing to do to you and I apologize, but I wanted to make sure everybody knew this juvenile trick because it's always appealed to my immature sense of humor, and besides, maybe somebody with more reach will pick up on using similar imagery to gin up public ridicule that will help send her continued political aspirations to the Happy Hunting Grounds.

This Day in History: May 18

On May 18, 1780, Lt. General Charles Cornwallis commanding 2,500 men marched out of Charleston with orders from General Clinton to subdue the backcountry and establish outposts. [More]