Champions of the Little Guy

Just 22 People Have Combined To Give $43 Million to Pro-Clinton Super PACs [More]

It's a big club and you ain't in it.

Hitting the Ground Running

Matthew Vanderboegh emerges from the SSI starting gate looking strong:

• Rules for Comments: Stay on point, don't be a jackass, and don't link to haters/disinfo sites. It's a shame that trolls are trying to surface there -- every so often one of the anonymous cowards tries to hate Mike here. To send such messages to his son is beneath contemptible. 
• Defensive Operations in Urban Areas: Five fundamental lessons learned...

Fast and Furious Document Release Highlights Continued Arrogant Stonewalling

It’s pretty representative of how “progressives” in power view an armed citizenry. And it’s a good indication that their priorities don’t include justice for Brian Terry and other s killed by “official” criminal acts, let alone living up to a prime directive for having this government in the first place, “to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” [More]

If you don’t want the government to stonewall answers for Fast and Furious, the solution is simple: Stop asking them questions. Right?

Change of Command

Mike Vanderboegh passes the torch to his son Matthew. [More]

Here's a bit more about him.

A Deaf Ear

Florida Supreme Court Won’t Hear Challenge To UF’s Gun Policy [More]

That way, we can pretend there's no problem.

What?

I said that way, we can pretend there's no problem.

What?

[Via Mike M]

We're the Only Ones Coming Up Empty Enough

A University of South Alabama student was cited for "causing alarm" by wearing an empty holster on campus. [More]

"And I will put in there your attitude, you understand?”

[Via Keith B]

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Piers Morgan Paradise

Take a look at the guns you can legally buy in the UK [More]

Then take a look at guns you can illegally buy.

[Via Jess]

Getting down toward the end.

Message from Mike... [More]

Not the Only Ones

Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed to Strike Down Gun Control Exemptions for Retired Law Enforcement Officers [More]

Good. Although that can't be making NRA too happy.

Curious, though. It relies heavily on Silveira and is backed by Calguns.  They were the ones who kicked me off their forum for rebutting a prominent Calguns member attacking me, among other reasons, for supporting Silveira. That would be the same Silveira the establishment did its best to kill (and incidentally, NRO then reneged on a promised rebuttal).

It's also curious that a primary reason Silveira failed was due to an earlier case that the"establishment" gun groups backed with this result:

After conducting a full analysis of the amendment, its history, and its purpose, we reaffirm our conclusion in Hickman v. Block, 81 F.3d 98 (9th Cir.1996), that it is this collective rights model which provides the best interpretation of the Second Amendment. 

Silveira also resulted in an outstanding dissent.

Coming Soon to a Theater Near You?

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I guess that depends on the willingness of those who are aware of this film to become force multipliers and spread the word...

Jackwagon Gets a Flat

It's not like Bloomberg isn't pushing full speed against out-funded grassroots activists for what "Gunny" handed him. And "enforce the laws on the books"? How is that different from someone in the pre-War of the Rebellion era advocating to enforce existing Intolerable Acts?

Judge for Yourself

How can you tell if
Barbara Bellis is lying?

Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis said that a 2005 federal law protecting gun-makers from lawsuits does not prevent lawyers for the victims' families from arguing that the semi-automatic rifle is a military weapon and should not have been sold to civilians. [More]

They can argue all they want.  Someone else shouldn't be forced to listen. Or put at risk to pay for someone else's evil.

This is the kind of crap ruling that ought to get a judge removed, but that presents a dilemma for CT Democrats in power  -- see, Bellis was appointed by a Republican, albeit a twice-convicted felon/prohibited person Republican who betrayed his NRA endorsement (surprise!) to push for "ballistic fingerprinting" with Richard Blumenthal). So even though the Dems might prefer one of their own behind the bench, why change out a reliable player with insider access to the other camp?

Until such time as it is understood that "in common use at the time" refers to true military grade weaponry, and that any "official" deviation from that interpretation will not be tolerated, subversives like Bellis will continue to undermine liberty.

UPDATE: Standing Liberty advises "Bellis has been featured guest at Plaintiff's law firm."

It's a big club and you ain't in it.

NRA Annual Meeting Headlining Obama Supporter Toby Keith

Even more curiously, Keith has admitted voting for Bill Clinton twice, meaning he voted for him after the 1994 “assault weapon” ban. And while some may say his subsequent votes for George Bush indicated a change of heart, it hardly explains his political actions after that. Because five years after Keith wowed NRA members in Orlando, he declared himself a supporter of the man NRA’s Wayne LaPierre called “the most anti-gun president ever to occupy the Oval Office.” Keith praised Barack Obama, calling him “the best Democratic candidate we’ve had since Bill Clinton. And that’s coming from a Democrat.” And Keith went on to honor Obama by performing at his 2009 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo. [More]

It’s not unreasonable to ask – with all the entertainers out there – why Toby Keith? That and can people carry at the concert? Yes or no?

'Prowler Chase'

While finishing a romantic dinner, a couple hears noises outside. The husband goes out to investigate and is ambushed by a prowler−the scuffle turns to chaos. [More]

This week on "Stop the Threat"...

Will Some Pro-gun Reps. Try to Kill Constitutional Concealed Carry?

No. By definition, if they try to do that, they are anti-gun. [More]

But some pro-gun congressman are suffering from a type of “Stockholm syndrome,” where prisoners become so oppressed that they begin to think like their captors. There are some pro-gun members of Congress who have allowed anti-gun crazies like Chuck Schumer to convince them that the freedom citizens enjoy in Constitutional Carry states is just too much.

OK, who are they?

Those are the ones who should be identified and deluged with reminders that betrayals have consequences.  That would make a lot more sense than asking members who live in districts dominated by antis to waste time and effort contacting someone who can safely treat them with contempt.

Greatest Hits

Making the rounds on social media:

The Power to Destroy

US territory passes $1000 gun tax after courts smack down gun ban as unconstitutional [More]

As long as they're so enthusiastic about embracing "progressive" values, and seeing as how "our diversity is our strength," what objection could there be to resettling some Syrians and Somalis there?

[Via Standing Liberty]

Stun Gun

The 'Stunning Hypocrisy' of Dennis Hastert: Speaker, Coach, Sexual Abuser [More]

And then there was the gunning hypocrisy...

[Via Mack H]

Seeing How Well I-594 Hasn't Worked....

...AstroTurfers for Totalitarianism says funding elimination of due process is now the way to go. [More]

Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Obamaphone

FCC kept 'Obamaphone' fraud under wraps until after it expanded program [More]

Gosh, and it seemed like such a worthwhile program...