Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Weapons Laws of the Russian Federation
Wow, what an undertaking to translate this--suggest bookmarking it as a resource. [Read]
TV panel discusses Mexican hunting dangers and inhumane Humane Society practices
Two topics were selected for discussion, the first being hunting in Mexico, often under armed guards due to cartel terror (with a segue into Fast and Furious), and the second being the blackmail-style pressure the Humane Society of the United States brings to bear on conservation charities to not accept contributions from hunters. Their ruthlessness is shocking, and it actually works against their advertised mission and creates a devastating and wholly unjustifiable extinction threat to endangered species. This is a story that’s been underreported and is probably news to even most hunters. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column reports on the second in what will hopefully turn out to be a long series of appearances, and includes the embedded video.
THIS WEEK, beginning June 12th, on ATSN TV, Season 2
15th Annual SW Regional ICORE Championship
Hogue Action Pistol Range, San Luis Obispo, CA
Molly Smith, ATSN Field Correspondent, takes us to the 15th Annual SW Regional ICORE Championship at the Hogue Action Pistol Range in San Luis Obispo, CA.
Molly competes in the match and describes the challenging stages. She has a chance to talk to top shooters Rich Wolfe, John Bagakis as well as the founder of the match, Rich Richards.
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Stand Your Ground is RACIST!
That's the new meme and they're sticking to it. [Read]
Even if they're demonstrably full of sh...:
Even if they're demonstrably full of sh...:
I go on to point out ways in which a robust right of self-defense has historically proved to protect the interests of victims of domestic violence and racial minorities. (On the latter, see, for example, cases from Ossian Sweet’s in the 1920s to the present day; more here and here, and from my Cato colleague Jonathan Blanks here.)
A Legal Right
Student’s legal right to possess weapon not entirely clear [More]Sure it is. It's the recognition of it that's being intentionally blurred.
[Via Darrel]
A Note About Yesterday's Post
This one, about CBS...
It has been suggested on one forum by someone with no dog in the fight, and who has not invested thousands of hours of their life with the attendant exertion and financial/emotional strain, that "credit" doesn't matter as long as the story gets out.
That's my point: The whole story is NOT getting out when the mainstream press is what controls the megaphone, and as I pointed out, even Wikipedia deletes all references to we who forced people to pay attention and who continue to expose new facets. Sharyl's done great work, but there is plenty she and Fox and all the other reporters and bloggers have not touched on that is only available on mine and Mike's sites. As I wrote recently, there are also stories I have had to spike recently because we're just not big enough fish to be able to do anything about it if retaliation is the government response, so my sources, with Republican squishiness being among other factors, asked me not to post my finished drafts. As their protection is my priority, I of course complied.
On top of that, there's information Mike and I have that we've not yet disclosed--in some cases big stuff that eats at us, that we're itching to get out, and that we just can't yet, and who knows when we'll be able to? As our best defense--because we are small fry--has always been to make noise, believe me when I say that situation makes me feel very vulnerable, because as long as it resides only with us, it is containable. And we're dealing with people who would engineer guns being walked to Mexican criminals here...
Another person suggested we write a book, but that requires an interested publisher, and an advance so that we can eat in the mean time. Speaking of which, that's the reason I keep asking regulars--you who evidently get value from the work because you keep returning--to share the GRE links, and the reason why getting them out to a larger readership is important--at least to me...
Oh, and there's one other great reason why we should just not sit back and say let CBS be the final word on Guwalker. This one. Moonves could pull the plug at any time.
It has been suggested on one forum by someone with no dog in the fight, and who has not invested thousands of hours of their life with the attendant exertion and financial/emotional strain, that "credit" doesn't matter as long as the story gets out.
That's my point: The whole story is NOT getting out when the mainstream press is what controls the megaphone, and as I pointed out, even Wikipedia deletes all references to we who forced people to pay attention and who continue to expose new facets. Sharyl's done great work, but there is plenty she and Fox and all the other reporters and bloggers have not touched on that is only available on mine and Mike's sites. As I wrote recently, there are also stories I have had to spike recently because we're just not big enough fish to be able to do anything about it if retaliation is the government response, so my sources, with Republican squishiness being among other factors, asked me not to post my finished drafts. As their protection is my priority, I of course complied.
On top of that, there's information Mike and I have that we've not yet disclosed--in some cases big stuff that eats at us, that we're itching to get out, and that we just can't yet, and who knows when we'll be able to? As our best defense--because we are small fry--has always been to make noise, believe me when I say that situation makes me feel very vulnerable, because as long as it resides only with us, it is containable. And we're dealing with people who would engineer guns being walked to Mexican criminals here...
Another person suggested we write a book, but that requires an interested publisher, and an advance so that we can eat in the mean time. Speaking of which, that's the reason I keep asking regulars--you who evidently get value from the work because you keep returning--to share the GRE links, and the reason why getting them out to a larger readership is important--at least to me...
Oh, and there's one other great reason why we should just not sit back and say let CBS be the final word on Guwalker. This one. Moonves could pull the plug at any time.
Shipley Hearing Today
On record reconstruction... [Read]
Why would they have to do that?
Oh.
Copies of the defense attorney's objection to producing what should be privileged work papers/documents and an update memo from DOJ on the US Attorney assigned to the case are also posted.
If you're unfamiliar with the Shipley case, check these out:
You who are still part of a machine that hasn't turned on you (yet) might want to keep that in mind.
Why would they have to do that?
Oh.
Copies of the defense attorney's objection to producing what should be privileged work papers/documents and an update memo from DOJ on the US Attorney assigned to the case are also posted.
If you're unfamiliar with the Shipley case, check these out:
- Is FBI agent Mexican 'crime gun' source?
- Is FBI agent in Mexican gun case being persecuted?
- Is FBI agent charged with illegal gun dealing just a collector?
- Jury finds FBI's Shipley guilty on gun charges
- Family of FBI agent convicted on gun charges: 'Battle lost, war still on'
You who are still part of a machine that hasn't turned on you (yet) might want to keep that in mind.
To OURSELVES and OUR Posterity
Justified
A series on justifiable homicides from MLive.com, where they go from the defenders' points of view, deal with aftermaths, etc...[Read]
I had time to read the editorial intro and it looks interesting. I'll have to somehow find more to check out their follow-through.
I had time to read the editorial intro and it looks interesting. I'll have to somehow find more to check out their follow-through.
Sounds Like She Gets It--And HE Doesn't
Hazmat shares the response he got on Gunwalker from Rep. Cynthis Lummis. [Read]
She sure did a lot better than the equivocating, say-nothing weasel words I got from my ever-useless RINO Rep. Steve LaTourettesyndrome:
He will keep my position in mind. How nice of him.
Ditto.
She sure did a lot better than the equivocating, say-nothing weasel words I got from my ever-useless RINO Rep. Steve LaTourettesyndrome:
He will keep my position in mind. How nice of him.
Ditto.
Monday, June 11, 2012
Sunday's Armed American Radio Program
I haven't had time to listen to the podcast but I have the nagging feeling that I slipped up when I meant to refer to Atticus Finch when talking about shooting a mad dog and may have called his last name Stevens. I don't know why I would have made that mistake, but I am getting old. Maybe I didn't. Who cares?
Listen at your leisure/play in the background while you surf and share with your friends:
CBS scoops contempt vote, claims credit for nationally breaking Fast and Furious
Regardless, here's the exhaustively-documented truth: This story, that now reaches into the highest levels of government, was exposed nationally for the first time by new media, not old. [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes acknowledgement involves a lot more more than simply proper attribution.
Registration-Bound
These are absolute, bald-faced lies. ATF has been copying FFL Bound Books for years – with or without FFL permission. During annual compliance inspections in other states, FFL dealers have reported that ATF industry operations investigators (IOI) brought in digital cameras and photographed the entire dealer “Bound Book” without permission of the FFL holder. Other dealers reported investigators brought in digital scanners and scanned portions of the Bound Book – line by line. Of course, the Bound Book contains the dealer’s full record of lawful firearm sales transaction records. [More]If it's not isolated and discontinued, as we've been led to believe, who can help amass documentation to see how widespread and long of a practice this has been/is?
Has a congressman just been lied to? Anyone willing to come forward and help prove it, or is the specter of retaliation enough to keep this discussion confined to "gun blogs," the only ones with the incentive to press forward on a story like this, that is, with principled interest?
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