These bleating ungulates are not your customers. [Read]
Not that I expect you to, but if you publicly told them to all go [do something to] themselves and they organized a boycott in retaliation, I'd fully expect the gun community could turn it around to where it would beat Chick-fil-A's record sales day by an order of magnitude.
Monday, August 06, 2012
False Advertising
The Best Reporting on Guns in America [More]
I wouldn't even call it the best anti-gun propaganda, since what they're highlighting is obvious and transparent hooey, and note the two stories related to Gunwalker are Eban's "Fortune" piece and one from the Gray Lady milking the 90% meme for all its worth.
But it serves their purpose to promote these.
Just look at the list of luminaries behind the claim: Privileged elites all. Their "journalism advisory board" list is topped by "Jill Abramson, executive editor, The New York Times."
Make no mistake: Establishment media is not about to go gentle into that good night, and well-financed efforts like this are designed to dominate the public discourse.
We're the Only Ones Hot Dogging Enough
Ohio police dog dies after being left in hot patrol car [More]And we've had some hot days recently, the kind where you open up your car to get in and have to leave the doors open and get the air conditioning going, and you can't rest your arm on anything that's been exposed to sunlight.
What a way to die. What an inexcusable thing to do.
Check Your Bags?
Gay St Theatre Monday night batman movie. Checking bags only. [More]Liston Matthews brings the details to an earlier post that he was the source for.
This Day in History: August 6
The Battle of Hanging Rock (August 6, 1780) was a battle in the American Revolutionary War that occurred between the American Patriots and the British. It was part of a campaign by militia General Thomas Sumter to harass or destroy British outposts in the South Carolina backcountry...[More]
Sunday, August 05, 2012
Armed American Radio Tonight
Mark Walters' guest host will be Val DeOre, "the Newschick," and other guests include trainer Rob Pincus and Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation.
I'll be joining in during the 10 pm "Roundtable" to talk about NAFA fisking Fortune and B. Todd dodging the truth.
Click here to find a station near you or to listen live via the internet.
ATF head Jones avoiding volunteered evidence about earlier gun operation
“If you’re sincere in wanting to get to the bottom of the gunwalking scandal then you’ll need to start at the beginning and that is me and Operation Wide Receiver,” Detty advised Jones. “Throughout my time as a CI, I kept meticulous notes--some 600 pages worth. In fact, it was my journal that raised the ire of SAC Newell. Once he learned of my documentation he ordered the field agents not to accept any new cases from me. He knew immediately that my records, irrefutable and unimpeachable, would prove troublesome for him at some point in the future.” [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes sincerity often does not offer anywhere near the personal incentives that plausible deniability does.
Of Course You Realize This Means War
Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A “Vision” of the Future
Analyses from:
And from the folks with real reach:
[Via Matthew Bracken]
Analyses from:
And from the folks with real reach:
Saturday, August 04, 2012
‘Gun Laws by State’ provides valuable resource
The website is cool. It’s easy to navigate and explore. It has a ton of readily-accessible, logically-organized and presented information. You can learn about national and state transport and carry laws, or individual state statutes. You can drill down through an interactive map, which makes understanding reciprocity easy. And they even offer a blog, where more detailed information can be shared and discussed.Today's Gun Rights Examiner column reviews a resource I believe will give a lot of value to a lot of gun owners. See if you don't agree.
Best of all is the price, because you’ll notice the link gives full site access. [More]
Search Me
Nope. I don't want to see any movie that badly.
I just got a report from someone in Tennessee that at least one movie theater is looking through bags and purses for firearms, and am curious about the legality of searching people in private establishments--and if doing so could be the basis for a lawsuit.
As I understand it, private membership stores like Sam's Club can, ON EXITING, check merchandise in the CART against receipts as part of an agreement you voluntarily sign, and if you don't allow it they can cancel your membership, but if any store open to the general public wants to look through your shopping bags WHEN LEAVING, you have the right to tell the employee to go pound sand. If they have strong enough suspicion you've stolen something, their only option is to call the cops--who you can again refuse giving search consent to, and it's up to them to determine if they have probable cause. And they and the store can be sued if it turns out they didn't.
I'm not sure what statutory provisions exist--and I imagine they'd vary state-to-state--for demanding a personal search as a condition of entry, and it sure seems like that could be challenged--especially if you've already purchased your ticket and it was not a clearly stated as a condition--or whether it's legal even if it was.
Understand that the report I got is, as yet, uncorroborated, so the intent here is not to gin up outrage over something that may not prove out. At this point, I'm strictly in information-gathering mode, and trying to find out if anyone else has heard of this occurring. I'll go back to my source and see if I can get more details on where this is reportedly happening, and if it's a specific chain. In the mean time, if you know of anyone doing this, please advise in "Comments."
I just got a report from someone in Tennessee that at least one movie theater is looking through bags and purses for firearms, and am curious about the legality of searching people in private establishments--and if doing so could be the basis for a lawsuit.
As I understand it, private membership stores like Sam's Club can, ON EXITING, check merchandise in the CART against receipts as part of an agreement you voluntarily sign, and if you don't allow it they can cancel your membership, but if any store open to the general public wants to look through your shopping bags WHEN LEAVING, you have the right to tell the employee to go pound sand. If they have strong enough suspicion you've stolen something, their only option is to call the cops--who you can again refuse giving search consent to, and it's up to them to determine if they have probable cause. And they and the store can be sued if it turns out they didn't.
I'm not sure what statutory provisions exist--and I imagine they'd vary state-to-state--for demanding a personal search as a condition of entry, and it sure seems like that could be challenged--especially if you've already purchased your ticket and it was not a clearly stated as a condition--or whether it's legal even if it was.
Understand that the report I got is, as yet, uncorroborated, so the intent here is not to gin up outrage over something that may not prove out. At this point, I'm strictly in information-gathering mode, and trying to find out if anyone else has heard of this occurring. I'll go back to my source and see if I can get more details on where this is reportedly happening, and if it's a specific chain. In the mean time, if you know of anyone doing this, please advise in "Comments."
Friday, August 03, 2012
Hell Officially Frozen Over
NBC leads the pack with a Fast and Furious story. [Read]
That's probably as big a development as the story itself, which is that House Republicans are going to court to compel Holder to submit subpoenaed documents.
I'd love to get my hands on the NBC emails and memos concerning their coverage and lack thereof, and know what prompted this sea change.
Still, "ill-fated gun tracing operation" could be more credibly replaced with "Underpants Gnome hunt."
That's probably as big a development as the story itself, which is that House Republicans are going to court to compel Holder to submit subpoenaed documents.
I'd love to get my hands on the NBC emails and memos concerning their coverage and lack thereof, and know what prompted this sea change.
Still, "ill-fated gun tracing operation" could be more credibly replaced with "Underpants Gnome hunt."
Federal agents take aim at Fortune's Fast and Furious report
“NAFA would be very interested in learning just how ATF supervisors thought they were going to be able to ‘track’ thousands of firearms once they went south of the border,” the article continues, in response to Eban’s recounting of why weapons were not seized. “Amusing!” [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner report cites some folks who have a bit better insight on how things work than an "Authorized Journalist" administration sympathizer.
Remember Rallying to the Defense of Badger?
We shouldn't have. Look at what the guy's brother has done with the phoenix that rose from those ashes:
Who the hell would do business with these jackboot-licking collaborators? Yeah, I know, no shortage of Fudds...
I understand Wisconsin Carry is investigating this, but don't readily see anything on their site and don't have time to search right now.
[Via Sean Y]
Nasci's department started running background checks on everyone using the Badger Guns range in 2009, an arrangement that Adam Allan agreed to, though no law required him to do so.This is much worse than that kapo in Texas. These snitches are turning in their customers. Utterly inexcusable and unforgivable.
Nasci said since late 2009, he has run more than 25,000 names of range users through his system.
Who the hell would do business with these jackboot-licking collaborators? Yeah, I know, no shortage of Fudds...
I understand Wisconsin Carry is investigating this, but don't readily see anything on their site and don't have time to search right now.
[Via Sean Y]
A Test of Skills
"And until we get a factual report and a complete record from the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General, which is our normal process, and make the referral to our internal affairs division, then there are rights that employees have." [More]
Oh, you mean never?
Still, you have to admit his skill set includes mastery of Pynchon. He's got everybody asking the wrong questions.
Meanwhile, just to keep things in perspective, over in the private sector you can get unceremoniously canned for mouthing off to a Chick-fil-A employee...
Ancient Chinese Secret, Huh?*
A teenager killed eight people with a knife and wounded five more in northeast China after falling out with his girlfriend, state media said Thursday. [More]Thank goodness no one committed any human rights violations!
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[Via William T]
We're the Only Ones Crushed Enough
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