Pfleger Gun Turn-In Raises Legality and Safety Questions

His involvement of St. Sabina Catholic Church in advocating for anti-gun legislation (and even involving himself in partisan politics) have earned him rebukes from the Church and even a suspension, but they’ve been afraid to replace him, fearing too many parishioners who place a collectivist “social justice” agenda over religion would follow him out the door. And so far, he’s managed to skate by without official scrutiny of his church’s tax exempt status. [More]

Snuffy is still going full Pfleger. Never go full Pfleger.

We're the Only Ones Cutting Short Enough

The Louisiana law enforcement officer found guilty of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a 6-year-old boy with autism has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. [More]

He "feared" the guy was going to back up?  It didn't actually happen?

[Via Bluesgal]

Too Many Chiefs

Navajo Nation considers implementing gun registration [More]

Shotguns and rifles? And if there were "automatic guns," wouldn't the CLEO have already signed off on them?

Just which criminals are tribal elders hoping to control?

[Via Bluesgal]

Inspired by His Passion

Muslim Teen Accepted to Stanford After Writing #BlackLivesMatter 100 Times on Application [More]

Assuming the date of his "tweet" has no significance, I haven't been this inspired since Ahmed the Clock Boy.

If that's what it takes to "win," maybe an art contestant can write #ShallNotBeInfringed 100 times on his submission...?

[Via Michael G]

A Taxing Proposition

FAIR Files Formal Exhaustive Complaint with the IRS: SPLC Violated Its Tax Exempt Status Repeatedly in the Last Election Cycle Alleges FAIR [More]

VLLA SELLA 'n all that...

[Via several of you]

More than 'Reputation' is at 'Risk'

But one thing is clear: Those who prize America’s Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, or who simply appreciate the many benefits of owning firearms, are no longer welcomed within the group’s ranks. [More]

Like I said last time we talked about this:

Keep being stupid, fellas.

[Via Michael G]

'The Founders Could Have Never Imagined'

But it is not true that repeating arms, which can fire multiple times without reloading, were unimagined in 1791. To the contrary, repeating arms long predate the 1606 founding of the first English colony in America. As of 1791, repeating arms were available but expensive. [More]

You have to wonder how many who claim the contrary are actually clueless vs. how many know they're liars out to gin up ignorant indignation.

But they keep bringing it up anyway.

[Via Mack H]

Attention Arizonans

Please contact Governor Ducey and urge him to sign SB 1344. [More]

Come on. We're talking a few seconds here...

Rule of Thumb

I guess Amy ruined the old system for them.

Looks like guns aren't the only things she -- and her apologists -- are delusional about.

Fancy That

During the attack, the couple said the woman said she was "sick of fancy white people." [More]

Leave it to our good friends the "Authorized Journalists" to refer to this as a "possible hate crime."

[Via Florida Guy]   

Enquiring Minds Want to Know

It's worth asking why the "mommies" and the NC Sheriff's Association are so interested in maintaining the Jim Crow-era pistol purchase permitting system... [More]

I guess -- as long as you don't expect an honest answer out of them.

You Can But You Can't

The new law goes into effect immediately, BUT DO NOT CARRY outside your vehicle in Georgia until the Georgia Attorney General shows Virginia permits as being honored on his website.  (The Georgia Attorney General is similar to our own Attorney General when it comes to guns and reciprocity. And, like our Attorney General, the Georgia General Assembly has just put him in his place.) [More]

What, you mean the guy who was chief of staff for this "staunch defender of the Second Amendment" and appointed as AG by this " steadfast support[er] of the Second Amendment" is against the right of the people to bear arms...?

So I guess the "shall not be infringed" part is also off the table with him?

What the hell did he actually promise to do when he took that oath?

[Via Keith B]

Congressional Art Contest Chance for ‘Young Guns’ to Honor Second Amendment

Why not encourage young people who have been raised to value the importance of the Second Amendment to enter the contest, potentially educate some of their peers, and show that a counter exists to indoctrinated “snowflakes”? Why not urge students to submit art promoting the right of the people to keep and bear arms? [More]

Have you raised any high school students who understand the relationship between the right to keep and bear arms and their freedom after you're gone, and who are willing to help counter the control-enabling propaganda of their indoctrinated peers?

'Militia Terrorism'

Creates crime of militia terrorism. Punishes by maximum of five years’ imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both. [More]

Firearms Policy Coalition explains.

Those proposing this certainly seem confident their enforcers can make it work. But it sure doesn't make it attractive for those facing such charges to just give up.

I was getting ready to post this and saw a tangentially-related email from WarOnGuns Correspondent Mack H on how some in the conservative mainstream have declared we're in a civil war.

I've been referring to it as a "cold civil war" for years. Looks like the Prozis are bent on heating it up.

If they succeed, I'm not sure they'll be as personally unaffected as they appear to believe.  There are people who have reached the Kennedy conclusion and aren't inclined to just roll over for in-their-faces ultimatums.

Sign of the Times

[More]

That's pretty funny. They ought to auction it.

Incidentally, Leo Carrillo was an interesting guy. I'm catching up with old Cisco Kid episodes on Hulu before I fall asleep, so I thought I'd look him up. I also hadn't realized Duncan Renaldo was a soul brother.

[Via Steve T] 

Not So Young Turk -- But the Ambition is the Same

“Do you represent the NRA?” asked Representative Gerald Connelly, a Virginia Democrat, his voice rising. “Or do you represent the American people at the ATF? Turk began to answer, but Connelly cut him off. “I represent victims from Virginia Tech,” Connelly said, referencing a 2007 mass shooting at the university. “We buried 6 young people. And I couldn’t explain to them why an ATF … representative might think that legalizing silencers might be a good idea.” [More]

And suppressors had exactly what to do with that, moron?

Aside from the fact that Connelly is a phonily self-righteous career stool sample whose idiotic subversion of 2A all but guarantees future Virginia Techs, I find two other points of interest here:

• Turk showed up this time.
• I can't quite figure if he's teaming up with AD Brandon to wag tails and lick the new master's hand, or if he's playing this solo, and if offering concessions is calculated to either propel him from Number Two to Number One -- or to keep him from being caught up in a purge.

UPDATE: Oops.

Not Exactly in Sync with Sun Tzu

All this has become something of a preoccupation for the 53-year-old Mr. Haidt. A longtime liberal—he ran a gun-control group as an undergraduate at Yale—he admits he “had never encountered conservative ideas” until his mid-40s.  [More]

Those who would tear down that on which they're completely ignorant are basically mindless vandals, which pretty much tracks with conclusions by those who have made efforts to understand the enemy.

At least when I engaged in directed destruction of knowledge, I had the basic awareness to know what I was doing, and to rue my role.

[Via Mack H]

Trying to Please the New Master

ATF vows to help Jeff Sessions reduce gun crimes [More]

You can start, "Acting Director" Brandon, by spilling everything you know and giving up names on Gunwalker.

If you're still out of jail, we can discuss how you're going to atone for abetting stonewalling.

In Strawman Use at the Time

Bear arms, eh? OK, now try selling it without observing any regulations, professional liars.

You'd think with all that AstroTurf money, a high-powered ad agency and plenty of free media publicity this piece of crap would have received more than 7,000 views over the past week:

So much for "grassroots" demand. Take advantage of "thumbs down" and commenting before they decide the overwhelming sentiment necessitates removal.

"A native of Germany," eh? Looks like he's got a bit of an industry reputation and then some...

Kiss THAT Job Goodbye

New Orleans police say an Uber driver has shot and wounded one of two men he told authorities had tried to carjack him. [More]

Who's the boss here, anyway? Doesn't this insubordinate realize his "employers" would prefer to see him murdered than armed?