ATF whistleblower Cefalu wins stay on termination

“[T]he agency’s removal of Mr. Cefalu on these grounds constituted a violation of his First Amendment right to free speech and, thus, the merit system principle,” the OSC alleged. [More]

This morning's Gun Rights Examiner report notes someone who's just begun to fight.

This Day in History: October 25

The government under the new Commonwealth of Massachusetts began on October 25, 1780. [More]

Rediscovered news account sheds light on Fast and Furious deception

What Newell gave no hint of was the involvement of his office in doing its utmost to ensure that would happen, and by the time he opportunistically used the media as his mouthpiece, we know from the Congressional Joint Staff Report on Fast and Furious subtitled “Fueling Cartel Violence,” he was masking his involvement in upping the numbers at the same time he was exploiting gun trafficking as a public relations tool. [More] 

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report looks to the past to define the problems and obstacles, and to the future for the solution--albeit one that just won't work without you, personally, right now in the present.

The Definition of Insanity

Gray said allowing guns on campus would be unnecessary because of the job campus law enforcement already do. [More]

There are actually people who vote for this madness.

“I was academic coordinator to the Razorbacks at one time and never, never felt uncomfortable or afraid on the university campus,” Gray added.

It doesn't occur to her that if she had, it would have been too late? Or that she has no moral claim to make that choice for anyone else?

Pistol Training at MGM Junior Training Camp

From American Trigger Sports Network:

Competition Pistol Training with Randi Rogers & BJ Norris helped sharpen the shooting skills for many Juniors attending the MGM Junior Training Camp in Parma, ID. Field Correspondent, Molly Smith was selected to attend this exclusive group and her experience brings viewers first-hand knowledge and training tips from top shooters.

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Wednesday
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Fridays-Shooting Destination Night
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The Top 20

And they don't trust us. [Read] 

[Via Jeffersonian]

A Public Service Announcement for Furious Mike Paradise Lower East Side Criminals

If you're busted for gun possession this Sunday before 4 p.m., tell them you were taking it to the Rutgers Houses community center on Madison Street, and then have your lawyer ask what method of transport others used to legally get their guns there and argue entrapment. [Read]

The Paper It's Written On

And yet for all the hysteria, the Obama White House has shied away from taking the initiative in gun-control legislation, including worthy efforts to renew the 1994 assault weapons ban that expired in 2004. [More]

I guess nobody at the Canadian-owned Crackron Leakin' Urinal watched the second debate:

Responding to a question from an audience member about reinstating the federal (so-called) “assault weapon“ ban, President Obama acknowledged his desire to resurrect the ban, falsely equating firearms with cosmetic similarities to military firearms as “weapons designed for soldiers [that] don’t belong on our streets,” repeating the standard anti-gunner ploy of conflating automatic weapons with the semi-automatic variants that was originated to confuse the public by the Violence Policy Center. Obama also let slip another target of interest that has long been a goal of gun-banners with his reference to “cheap handguns.”

They've been guilty of that conflation themselves, and unapologetic about it.

They save all their apologia for the administration on Fast and Furious.

Surprise, surprise, surprise.

This Day in History: October 24

Two parties from Canada composed of regulars tories Canadians and savages and amounting to about 1000 each have entered their frontiers, the one by the way of lake George, the other by the way of the Oneida lake. [More]

I've Got Mail

Nice to see NSSF is still using my stuff, this time on the Senate campaign.


Sure wish they'd use it properly.

Technical Difficulties

Mike is undergoing some tests today and asks those of you waiting for more Sipsey Street updates to please stand by.

UPDATE: The signal is back.

Good For Me, But...

Adams served as deputy mayor under Kwame Kilpatrick...[More]

You remember, ol' Mayor Against Guns Kwame...?

[Via Jess]

Intimate Touching Tools

"We touch a lot of people's lives in a lot of intimate ways," Kennedy said. "We really wanted to give citizens tools." [More]

Yes you do and yes you are.

This is obscene.

Hey, shouldn't the address your paycheck gets sent to be a public record?

[Via several of you]

The Ratings Game

Oregon Firearms Federation invites you to play. [Read]

This Can Beat Obama

Dear CHRIS

So can this. And it won't cost a cent. But you need to act RIGHT NOW

We're the Only Ones Sidestepped Enough

Radcliffe Haughton sidestepped Brown Deer police for years [More]

Combine that with violating the terms of a restraining order and a "No Guns" policy at the spa...

[Via bondmen]

Issa, Grassley demand documents on ATF whistleblower inquisition

Issa and Grassley cited ATF’s failure, after two months, to answer questions about its approval of “double-dipping” by Assistant Director William McMahon, a figure in the Fast and Furious gunwalking operation whom Issa previously had said “lied to Congress, that will probably be referred for criminal prosecution,” and who has been authorized to accept overseas employment from financial giant JPMorgan while still in public employ. 

They then went on to question Jones about an apparently retaliatory internal affairs investigation against John Dodson, the special agent who came forward and put a face to the whistleblowers in the groundbreaking interview by Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News. [More]

Today's second Gun Rights Examiner feature notes the same old in-your-face stonewalling and retaliation will continue unless and until someone with the power puts a stop to it. 

Fast and Furious, Mexico, absent from last night’s foreign policy debate

But the blame for continuing a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on Fast and Furious can’t be entirely placed at Schieffer’s feet, particularly as NBC observed, the candidates “debated domestic policy almost as much as they did foreign policy during the third and final presidential debate.” [More] 

This morning's Gun Rights Examiner debate postmortem looks at another opportunity not so much lost as sealed off.

And I Guess that was Your Accomplice in the Wood Chipper

Vanderboegh forces one through the grinder. [Read]

This Day in History: October 23

To Tyrants, Tyranny is always very dear: they take no delight but in exercising it...[More]