Just looked at this Hill article Insty linked to,

and it's a statement of what a disaster for Obama this vote is, followed by
Blame the gun lobby. Blame Republicans. Blame a handful of skittish Democrats who gave the GOP cover. Blame the entire band of demagogues who killed the modest attempt to close loopholes in a law requiring background checks for guns.

Blame them, too, for jeopardizing President Obama’s entire legislative agenda. That was the point, anyhow, right?
From which they proceed to push every 'The NRA lied, Paul lied, most people wanted this' talking point.  And near the end there's this:
What if voters who support the Second Amendment and commonsense gun regulation get angry at Congress for ignoring them?
They really, really push that 'whatever Obama wanted was commonsense, it's just all those rednecks and racists and obstructionists lying about it!' crap.

Like I asked someone the other day, "If 90% of the people WANT this background check/registration system, why would Congress have a problem voting for it?  They're not that scared of the NRA and the other groups."
I think what really pisses them off is the number of Democrats and RINOs who are not scared/respectful/kiss-ass enough of Obama to go against all the voters telling them "I don't care what Obama promised you, we will throw your ass out of that office if you vote for this."

Yes!

The Senate delivered a devastating blow to President Obama’s agenda to regulate guns Wednesday by defeating a bipartisan proposal to expand background checks.
It failed by a vote of 54 to 46, with 5 Democrats voting against it. Only 4 Republicans supported it.
Who're the RINOs?
GOP Sens. John McCain (Ariz.), Susan Collins (Maine), Pat Toomey (Pa.) and Mark Kirk (Ill.) voted yes.

And Manchin is all upset:
Manchin also criticized the NRA, who had given him an A rating, for distorting the substance of his amendment.

“I was surprised when the latest alerts from the NRA was filled with so much misinformation about the firearms background check legislation,” he said. 

Manchin said the gun-owners rights’ group told members the bill would criminalize the private transfer of firearms. 

“I don’t know how to put the words any plainer than this: that is a lie,” he said. 

Manchin and Toomey are likely to see their NRA rating downgraded as a result of leading the charge to expand background checks. 

 Translation: "How dare they!  I'm Senator MANCHIN, and they were supposed to do what I wanted!?"

Added: ran across this from Obama throwing his fit:

He looks pissed, and Sheriff Joe looks like Walter after someone put a habanero on the end of the stick up his ass.



From SNBQ earlier:
The Democrats have pulled the amendment that would restore gun rights non-violent felons, so CCRBKA has pulled their support for Toomey-Manchin. They never should have done this in the first place. You don’t give up something concrete for a promise. 
And on the vote itself:
4:12PM: Voting is proceeding. Lautenberg is on the floor and voted. He was not expected to return to the Senate.
4:27PM: Manchin-Toomey goes down 54-46. It failed to achieve cloture.
4:29PM: The Grassley-Cruz-Graham substitute is up for a vote.
4:45PM: The Grassley-Cruz-Graham substitute fails 52-48.
4:46PM: The Leahy-Collins amendment is up for a vote. Cruz asks people to vote against, because it could ensnare honest citizens. This is the trafficking bill.
5:00PM: The Leahy-Collins Amendment fails 58-42.
5:03PM: Here we go with the National Concealed Carry Reciprocity Amendment.
5:04PM: Cornyn’s is speaking on behalf of his amendment, noting that it would be like a drivers’ license.
5:04PM: Schumer notes that every single police officer in America will tell you concealed carry would be a disaster. Really? He notes it’ll be mass chaos. Dogs and cats living together! It’s offensive to the New York way of life. Schumer should realize the Bill of Rights is a “way of life” for all Americans.

The fight ain't over, but this IS a defeat for the gun bigots and hoplophobes.

Added: the section on Drudge:
SENATE KILLS GUN DEAL...

Bloomberg RAGES...

Feinstein Fumes...

Biden Wipes Away Tears...

Cuomo Complains...

GALLUP: Only 4% of Americans Think Gun Control Important Problem...

Just a point about one of the Presidents' advisors and friends:

Reports coming in from Boston are describing the deadly bombs as devices similar to the Weather Underground nail bomb that exploded prematurely in 1970, killing three of Ayers' terrorist friends. That device was intended to be detonated at a soldiers' dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey.


I have now been informed by the hoplophobe from the other day that the NYEffingTimes and Daily Kos demanding the 2nd Amendment either be dumped or rewritten proves that 'All the good people demand it!'
Add that to the odd use of capitals, remotely diagnosing people and so forth, and I'm concerned she's off her meds.

Stolen from here.  Along with this:

Note: some posts probably NSFW


The crap an honest citizen in Australia has to go through in order to buy a rifle.  Stage 1, Stage 2.


Who the hell is Jay Mohr, and why and I supposed to give a rats ass what he thinks?
'2nd Amendment must go'? Fuck you, Mohr.


Boehner doesn't like the idea of actually digging into Benghazi; We don't like the idea of this clown being in the position he is.

From across the pond, in response to my post on gun bigots

and hoplophobes(the one yesterday):
I've lived through three doses of gun confiscation in the country thats legal system spawned that of the united state.

1987 1998 1999
Semi auto centrefire rifles
centrefire pistols
rimfire pistols

amongst my neighbours, one had his guns confiscated a couple of weeks back - firing a gun within 50 feet of the centre of a road

another had the cops armed response unit visit him last summer - a neighbour's cat had been hit with an airgun pellet.

a few years back, another neighbour fell through a shed roof, breaking both his legs, so the cops arrived and confiscated his guns

also a few years back, another neighbour returned from visiting his quack to find an armed response unit waiting for him - to take his guns away.

I had a cops at the door a few weeks back, checking up on me, and seeing that all my guns are safely locked away. - but I'm stupid enough to be on their lists, so they know where to come.

expect to get the same with knobs on it if the legislation goes through. if, like me, you're stupid enough to be on a list.
And never forget, they really, BADLY want that list made.  So they can use it just this way.

I'm not sure if they'd class as a gun bigot or hoplophobe, maybe a combination thereof:

I have now been informed that
If I believe politicians when they say they want to confiscate guns, I'm paranoid.

If I object to 'universal background checks', I should be first in line for mental testing.

Insurance should be required on each gun: Yes, Insurance WiLL Cut down on Criminal use. If proof of Insurance is Mandatory for a Weapon to be in Public, with ALL Uninsured Weapons going into the Grinder, soon, they'll be too precious to Lose 0r lose track of. Might take a decade or two. But it will work.
Because bad guys A: Obey the law and B: would NEVER think of smuggling guns in, that being illegal and all...


Been interesting.  Appeals to authority(I WORK in mental health, I know what paranoid is!), appeals to I'm descended from some of the first settlers in America!, etc. ad Bullshit.
Oh, and all you have a right to is a musket or blunderbuss, 'cause there were no rifles or pistols or shotguns back then, and...  At this point I have to go with hoplophobia and gun bigotry really being mental disorders. Nasty ones.

Hey, Chief Gary Smith, Temple Texas PD: what the hell is wrong

with the clowns you're the boss of?
This is the kind of idiocy that should, at the least, cause that clown-with-a-badge to go back to school; at most be fired.

Of course, if this is indeed something Temple PD has done before, then Chief Smith needs to be told to find another job, and that slot filled by someone who actually meets the definition of 'Peace Officer'.

And one of the other threats in the mental-health aspect:

They can change the definitions.  Expand them.
Biden called adjudication “a very high standard, basically being involuntarily committed to a mental institution.”

“We’re going to introduce legislation next week that says that if you are believed to be a risk to yourself or to others by your health care professional(no definition given, or standards), that that health care professional would have an obligation to report that fact to a police agency who then would initiate a process to — to make sure that you do not possess a firearm,” said the vice president’s son.

“You would have due process rights and you have a judicial proceeding(for now). But to make sure that those people who are mentally ill, that doctors believe shouldn’t be in possession of a weapon, don’t have them,” Biden continued. “Only 1300 people in 2010, for instance, were prohibited from possessing firearms because they were adjudicated mentally ill. This will broaden that category of people. We’ll have due process built into it. It will be constitutional and I think save lives, ultimately.”
Because we need LOTS of people banned from arms for this excus-ah, reason. Because it makes it so easy to disarm people, especially the way they'll decide things...

Apparently this crap runs in the Biden family.

Odd definition of the word...

I was just informed on the book of face that, with the President and a bunch of others speaking openly of registration and confiscation, that we're paranoid for- well, I guess for believing they mean it.


Also, we should be forced to buy insurance because Why should Innocent bystanders risk Injury/Death/Poverty because Someone Else didn't take gun safety seriously.
???
Buying insurance prevents...  I just can't follow that.

So, Missouri, is he just not wanting to deal with the heat,

or is Long the sacrifice they hope will take the heat off?
Gov. Jay Nixon today announced that Missouri Department of Revenue Director Brian Long has resigned. The resignation is effective immediately. The Governor has named Deputy Director of Revenue John Mollenkamp as acting director of the department.

Among the links, from a few days ago
A federal agent who received information on all of Missouri’s concealed carry permit holders decided not to pursue his investigation after obtaining a readable disc earlier this year, a federal official said Friday.
Got that?  Now the update:
On Monday, the Office of the Inspector General for the Social Security Administration emailed the Post-Dispatch to reverse its position. The agency now says the disc was not readable.
Now, I'm familiar with bureaucracy, a bit, and not getting their crap together before saying something isn't unusual, but not getting something like this right?  When there's this much noise and trouble?  Seems iffy, at the least.

From the new article:
U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-St. Elizabeth, also was told Friday that the second list was readable. He held a news conference in Jefferson City this morning, discussing his own effort to look into the request for lists of all Missourians permitted to carry concealed weapons. The news conference was held before the office reversed its earlier position.
“I am absolutely furious that the (Social Security Administration) would put out false information like this," Luetkemeyer said after hearing of change in information. "They are an investigatory body and should know better than to provide information unless it is verified. I am now more determined than ever to meet with the (inspector general) in person and get to the bottom of this. This just can't happen. We are really going to go after this now.”
Which is good.  Real good.  Because
According to testimony from various hearings, Schilb was investigating Social Security fraud. He planned to compare the list of permit holders with a list of Social Security recipients to see whether anyone who had met the mental health qualifications for a concealed carry permit had also sought benefits for a mental disability.
Gee, I wonder where he got that idea?

And on the state side,
Speaking to the House Government Oversight Committee today, Replogle(MO HP) defended the legality of the release, while also promising more scrutiny and formal process in the future. His office is working to implement new policies on how to deal with such requests. He said he would be willing to work with lawmakers on adjusting state laws, as well.
Awww, isn't that nice?  He's 'willing to work with lawmakers'...

On to something a little less depressing

Remember the Saturn V rocket?
Some engineers found out they could learn a lot from the engines.  Like, since they didn't have a lot of the manufacturing tech we do now,
"Oh, the welds!" interrupted Case. "The welds on this engine are just a work of art, and everything on here was welded." The admiration in his voice was obvious. "Today, we look at ways of reducing that, but that was something I picked up on from this engine: just how many welds there were, and how great they looked."

And read this, and think about it:
As with everything else about the F-1, even the gas generator boasts impressive specs. It churns out about 31,000 pounds of thrust (138 kilonewtons), more than an F-16 fighter's engine running at full afterburner, and it was used to drive a turbine that produced 55,000 shaft horsepower. (That's 55,000 horsepower just to run the F-1's fuel and oxidizer pumps—the F-1 itself produced the equivalent of something like 32 million horsepower, though accurately measuring a rocket's thrust at that scale is complicated.)

Since the usual suspects are blaming 'The Right'

for the bombs in Boston, this from last year ought to be copied onto a bat and then used on Tingles' head.

Oh, you hadn't heard?
Before any information was available that might indicate who is responsible for the horrific Boston Marathon bombings, Esquire’s Charles P. Pierce cautioned readers against “jumping to conclusions” and blaming the attack on “foreign terrorism.”
Except
However, he was compelled to remind people that Monday is the “official Patriots Day holiday” in Massachusetts, celebrating the Battles at Lexington and Concord. He also pointed out that April 19, the actual date of the battles, is connected to Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh, who apparently considered himself a “waterer of the tree of liberty and the like,” according to Pierce.
Yep.  Don't jump to conclusions unless it's to blame those right-wingers.
And
“I’ll bet good money it’s a right-wing nutjob. Today is April 15, Boston Harbor was where the original Tea Party took place and the on-going gun-safety legislation makes it the mostly likely culprit,” commenter Linda Ginsburg wrote.
Yes, because blowing up a bunch of people at a race would be SO helpful...

The aforementioned Tingles.
Ace put it Fat, drunk and Matthews is no way to go through life, son.  I started to change that to 'Fat, stupid and Matthews' but realized the either the middle or the last  would be redundant.

Just look around; there's plenty of this crap to find.

Well, crap

Multiple bombs during the Boston Marathon.

Toomey and Manchin suck on a Hoover On Steroids level,

and Gottlieb is either a fool or a sucker.  Two of the piles of steaming crap in this:
1. The provision which claims to outlaw national gun registration in fact authorizes a national gun registry.
2. The provision which is supposed to strengthen existing federal law protecting the interstate transportation of personal firearms in fact cripples that protection.

Lamppost, rope, politician.  Etc.

Yes, it's the day to pay off the extortionists in DC

And also Buy A Gun Day.   Which, unfortunately, can't do right now.  Normally I'd buy ammo, but...

If true, a bunch of officials in New York need to be fired,

and charged, and prosecuted:
Claiming information from multiple sources that ought to require the resignations of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and State Police Superintendent Joe D’Amico, WBEN Buffalo radio host Tom Bauerle yesterday told listeners he’s had it confirmed that New York State Police are lying when they say they made a mistake when they confiscated an Erie County resident’s guns. Instead, Bauerle charges, there is a high-level conspiracy to violate the Fourth Amendment rights of New Yorkers that reaches up to the Obama administration’s Department of Homeland Security.
Yeah, might sound like conspiracy-theory stuff; then you remember what's come out in Missouri...

Yep, it's in Californicated

Pass a ammunition ban.
Tell everyone it bans ALL hollowpoint ammo.
Get challenged with a lawsuit, and admit the only ammo it actually bans is stuff that hasn't been made in twenty frikkin' years...

If you don't believe in evil,

look up some of the information on the Gosnell.  Just consider his picture to be a face of evil.
Because it is.

I'm not going to go over all of it, if you're interested it's easy enough to find(especially since some of our professional journalists have been shamed into actually covering it); I'd suggest having a bucket handy, as some of it will make you sick.

Also sickening is the excuse-making from said sorry excuses for reporters; some of whom are at least honest enough to confess:
But I understand why my readers suspect me, and other pro-choice mainstream journalists, of being selective—of not wanting to cover the story because it showcased the ugliest possibilities of abortion rights. The truth is that most of us tend to be less interested in sick-making stories—if the sick-making was done by "our side." 
Nothing we didn't know, we've seen the same kind of selective 'reporting' on anything liberals/progressives don't like; nice to have one of them say it outright, though.

I've gone through the abortion argument before.  My general statement has been
If you want to get an abortion, get one.  BUT
Don't tell me I have to help pay for it.
Don't try to force me to say "It's no big deal."
And the way that it's come to be seen by so many as just another method of birth control makes my skin crawl.

Still think that.  I'm also thinking "How the hell can you keep referring to it as a 'cluster of cells' when you're talking about inducing delivery and then killing what comes out?"  That strikes me as 'Say anything it takes to defend it.  No matter what.'


Speaking of- well, it doesn't make my skin crawl, it pisses me off, Obama & Co. taking blood-dancing to a new level.  Sean has a response:
It doesn’t matter how smart, articulate, warm, and bereaved you are when you are asking to demolish my civil rights. At a certain point it’s time to stand up to you directly, and forcefully, to back off.
Get away from my rights. I don’t care how bad it hurts that your child got murdered. I didn’t do it, so leave me alone. Your children were murdered by a crazy person who broke so many laws that it looked like he was going for a high score in the Lawbreaking Olympics. I know that you are in pain, but you can’t take your rage at the killer and use it to attack me.
...
I’m going to be called “uncivil.” That’s how the Left deals with everyone who doesn’t submit to their emotional blackmail. Well fuck them. I’m going to stick to the truth. And the truth is that I have a right to defend myself. I have a right to keep and bear arms to defend myself. And that right to keep and bear arms includes the right to own an AR15 rifle. And if you come to take away my rights, I will fight. And I won’t be alone.

It would be better for all concerned if you would go home, grieve for your murdered children, and leave the rest of us alone.

Nothing suspicious

here, is there?
Remington CEOs have decided to stay in New York, however, following a meeting with Sens. James Seward, Hugh Farley and Joseph Griffo, as well as Assemblymen Marc Butler, Claudia Tenney, and Anthony Brindisi. Shortly after the meeting, Congressman Richard Hanna announced that the Pentagon would award Remington an $80 million contract to make 5,000 sniper rifles over the next decade for the US Special Operations Command.
My first two thoughts:
Well, we know what Remington's price is, and
No Remington anything in my future.

Y'know that piece of Toomey-Manchin crap they voted on?

The one THEY HADN'T EVEN SEEN?  Sebastian finally got the whole text, and between him and commenters found a lot of the potholes in the thing just waiting to turn into sinkholes.

Mr. President(bad language ahead):

Fuck you, you miserable little thieving politician.

It is not your damned business to force people into a government-run retirement account; it is even less you damned business to decide for someone else what a 'reasonable level of retirement savings' is for anyone else, let alone EVERYONE else.

Who the HELL do you think you are, effing Stalin?  This crap is none of your business and I defy you to show me where in the Constitution- you know, that document you swore to uphold?- it says the .gov has any damned business being involved in this.

Get your damned hand out of my pocket- ALL our pockets- and your nose out of our lives.  You really want to give the economy a kick?  Resign.

And take Biden with you.

Sincerely, etc.

And even more wonders from New Effing York

“Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs said that late today he received a call from the New York State Police informing him that they had provided information on the wrong person when they notified his office of someone whose permit should be suspended because of the new mental health provisions in New York’s SAFE Act,” the release begins. 

“When the State Police called to tell us they made a mistake and had the wrong person … it become clear that the state did not do their job here and now we all look foolish,” the release went on to say in a quote from Clerk Jacobs.
Nooo... incompetent, intrusive, disgusting, yes.
And there's still the question of "Just how did these supposedly confidential medical records make their way to the StaasiState Police, anyway?"

No, I do NOT want the nice kitty

coming to visit.


Which probably gives Obama & Co. fond thoughts(also from Tam):
What do they have to gain?  Hell, I don't know, their people would be better off festooning lampposts with their bodies and surrendering.  The trouble with that theory is that the north Korean people have been so isolated for so long; Kim Il Sung (and Kim Jong Il and Kim Jang Un) is their religion and their reason for being.


Yeah, this sounds good to me; from Insty:
 A reader emails: “Your post about Missouri secretly sharing CCW info highlights a core problem with restrictions on what government can and can’t do. As the background check proposals in Congress would at least theoretically make it possible to create gun registration, we don’t simply need a law prohibiting doing so; Republicans should propose an amendment that makes creation or assistance in the creation of such a registry a felony under federal law, with mandatory prison time and loss of sovereign immunity. If all the Democrats want is background checks, surely they wouldn’t object.” 

Yes, there should be criminal liability, and also civil liability, with each affected person entitled to recover minimum damages of, say, $10,000 plus attorney’s fees and with sovereign immunity waived.
Damn straight.


That there might be downsides to a DoD more worried about being PC than about warfighting, well, why the hell would that be a surprise to anyone?


Sixteen Republicans voted in favor of the motion, while two Democrats — both from states President Obama lost in the 2012 election, voted against it. The two Democrats were Sens. Mark Begich (Alaska) and Mark Pryor (Ark.), both of whom face reelection next year.

The sixteen Republicans who voted to proceed were Sens. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Richard Burr (N.C.), Saxby Chambliss (Ga.), Tom Coburn (Okla.), Susan Collins (Maine). Bob Corker (Tenn.), Jeff Flake (Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Dean Heller (Nev.), John Hoeven (N.D.), Johnny Isakson (Ga.), Mark Kirk (Ill.), John McCain (Ariz.), Pat Toomey (Pa.) and Roger Wicker (Miss.). 
Ok, Coburn, we're holding you to your words:
 I will not vote for any bill that limits the gun rights of law abiding citizens. While I support a debate in the Senate on gun related issues—including reaffirming these rights and forcing gun-control advocates to have their votes on record and be held accountable for their votes—I will not only support, but lead a filibuster to prevent the passage of any bill that limits the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.
So let's see you do it.



How bad is the Manchin-Toomey piece of shit?
Toomey and Manchin will claim that their bill only covers “gun show sales” and Internet sales. But if you’ve ever talked about your gun and /or let it be known you’d like to sell or buy a gun on the Internet, this language covers you. If you advertise your gun in the church bulletin and the bulletin is put on the Internet, you’re covered.

The only exemption is for sales that are sold exclusively by word of mouth. The increased number of background checks would likely exacerbate the system breakdowns (inherent to NICS) which have shut down gun shows over and over again. It would mean that Americans who were illegally denied firearms because their names were similar to other people's would effectively be barred from owning a gun. (We would never tolerate such delays for voting rights or other freedoms that we are guaranteed.)

And for those Republicans who think they’re going to be able to offer their useless amendments, guess what? Reid is reportedly going to use a procedure to block out all amendments (called an “amendment tree”). And there are plenty of Senators standing in line to make sure that the Senate doesn’t give “unanimous consent” to let those Republicans offer their amendments.

So if you live in a rural area, you’re effectively barred from selling or buying a gun - or it at least becomes very, very difficult.

Incidentally, the Toomey-Manchin-Schumer “national registry” language is full of holes. There will be a national gun registry as a result of this sell-out.

But that’s not the worst part. Under an amendment in the bill to HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), you could have your guns taken away because your private shrink thinks you’re “dangerous” and could send your name directly to the FBI Instant Check system.

Did you think it was terrible that 150,000 military veterans had been added into the NICS system because they’d seen a VA shrink about their PTSD? Well guess what? Now it’s going to happen to the rest of the population ... by the millions!

And the next step, of course, will be to begin to sue psychiatrists that don’t send every single patient’s name to the Instant Check system, and to make sure that their lives are ruined if they don’t send a patient to NICS and anything goes wrong.

The bottom line: “See a shrink; lose your guns.”

All of this will reportedly be on an amendment tree with the Feinstein gun ban and magazine bans.
And we're supposed to see this as a 'reasonable compromise'...


And just a little more on "Manchin is an asshole."
A fine pair of backstabbing, miserable little bastards, aren't they?

First that dirtbag senator in Colorado, now the New Republic says

'Stop listening to voters, unless they say things we like.'
They don't really like this 'republic' thing, do they?


A suggestion to reform the law on suppressors creates massive PSH.
Note that they make it plain they WANT kids to be scared of guns in every way possible; which ought to count as child abuse.  Bastards.


If you live in Missouri and either CCW or care about the law, you've been screwed:
The Missouri State Highway Patrol has twice turned over the entire list of Missouri concealed weapon permit holders to federal authorities, most recently in January, Sen. Kurt Schaefer said Wednesday.
And add this fun fact in:
“Apparently from what I understand, they wanted to match up anyone who had a mental diagnosis or disability with also having a concealed carry license,” Schaefer said. “What I am told is there is no written request for that information.”
So: Missouri HP violated state law, AND were trying to dig through what's SUPPOSED to be confidential medical records, just like in New Effing York; AND, in what can only be 'Let's not leave evidence behind' thinking, went after the medical records without putting anything in writing...
If you live there, or know someone there, you really need to pass this around and start yelling at your state reps.  This is such utter bullshit people need to be both fired and prosecuted, and not a damn thing will happen if you don't make enough noise and trouble.


One more reason we need a whipping post in the DC town square for arrogant dirtbag bureaucrats:
A 2009 "Search Warrant Handbook" from the IRS Criminal Tax Division's Office of Chief Counsel baldly asserts that "the Fourth Amendment does not protect communications held in electronic storage, such as email messages stored on a server, because internet users do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in such communications." Again in 2010, a presentation by the IRS Office of Chief Counsel asserts that the "4th Amendment Does Not Protect Emails Stored on Server" and there is "No Privacy Expectation" in those emails.'"


The Interior Ministry said thieves broke into a warehouse and stole a
huge amount of firearms and ammunition. The ministry said 20,000 U.S.-origin M-16 assault rifles and 15,000 rounds for 9mm pistols were stolen.  “There were no guards during the break-in,” the ministry said on April 7.
So, do they go directly to the 'resistance' in Syria, or get traded for AKs to muddy the trail?

Great, one more way for a thunderstorm to screw with you

Dark lightning.

Glad it's not directional.  That we know of.

I would say CMP is, ah, rather busy right now...

CMP sales update just received:

CMP TELEPHONE DISRUPTION. As most of our customers know, there is currently a surge in the country for the purchase of rifles, parts, ammunition and anything related to firearms. Several businesses have stopped taking calls altogether and the FBI NICS operation has indefinitely discontinued taking customer service calls for status of NICS background checks. CMP is also experiencing an extraordinarily large daily volume of calls that occasionally result in temporary meltdown of our phone and voice mail systems. Callers report that they stay on the lines for hours and move up in the queue only to be disconnected or directed to leave a message. We apologize for the inconvenience and highly recommend that callers not remain on hold for more than 10 minutes. Please hang up and try again later or contact us via email at custserve@thecmp.org. This situation is temporary and will resolve itself in time. 

CONNECTICUT.   Effective immediately, all customers purchasing any CMP rifle to be delivered in CT must have the rifle shipped to a CT licensed FFL dealer to be in compliance with new CT legal requirements. Copy of dealer's license and shipping information must be provided with rifle orders. Ammunition orders may still be shipped directly to the customer until 30 Sep, 2013.  CMP will not ship ammunition directly to individual homes after that date. We assume that additional guidance will be provided by CT prior to that date. CT customers who have already mailed their rifle orders to CMP should provide custserve@thecmp.org with dealer information or revised shipping instructions or order cancellation instructions. Information can also be faxed to 256-835-3527 or mailed to CMP Customer Service, (Attn: CT Order), 1401 Commerce Blvd., Anniston, AL 36207.

COLLECTOR AND CORRECT GRADE M1 GARANDS. Because of the high demand and the scarcity of the M1 Correct and Collector Grades, these grades will only be available for sale through the CMP auction site http://cmpauction.thecmp.org/.

CMP STORE INVENTORIES LOW. The CMP currently has over 17,000 unfilled orders for rifles, ammo and other items. We also still have thousands of M1 Garands. These rifles all require inspection / repair / grading before being offered for sale. At times the customer demand exceeds the amount  that our staff can make ready for sale. This is the case now with the field and service grade M1 Garand rifles. As the CMP armory produces the rifles, they are used to fill existing mail orders, some from as far back as the beginning of January. Until we catch up on mail orders, there may not be any field or service grade rifles in the stores at Anniston or Camp Perry. For now, we only have the HRA M1 Service Grade Special ($950), M1 CMP Special ($995), M1C, M1D, M1NM, and Kimber model .82 (.22LR) regularly in stock at both stores. Other options may or may not be available in the stores on any given day. We expect the store racks to remain relatively empty until late June. Lately we have had several customers at both stores very disappointed after driving many hours, only to find empty racks.

AMMO SHORTAGE.  The CMP is sold out of Aguila caliber .22LR rimfire and Aguila .30 carbine ammunition. The manufacturer, Aguila, has advised that the earliest we can expect resupply is October, 2013, at slightly higher pricing. We are still accepting orders and will fill those orders as soon as we have received new inventory. At the rate that orders are being received for this backordered ammunition, the entire resupply quantity may be sold before it is even received. Anyone interested in purchasing this ammo should place their order on estore now and get on the list. http://estore.thecmp.org/store/catalog/catalog.aspx?pg=catalogList&cat=AMC.

CMP SALES AT EASTERN GAMES.  The

CMP Eastern Games will once again be held at Camp Butner, NC, with registration beginning on 3 May, 2013. The event schedule shows that sales of rifles and ammunition will not start until 4 May. As a result of lessons learned this past weekend at the CMP Oklahoma Games, early sales of rifles and ammunition will start on 3 May, 2013 for registered event competitors ONLY.  Sales to individuals who have not registered for the shooting events will begin as scheduled on 4 May.
 

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

That's one for 'Don't filibuster,

make the Democrats own it.'
Which reminds me of the Obamacare mess: in that case the Democrats controlled both Houses and could have passed it, but they desperately wanted some Republicans to share blame.  Here they probably can't pass it in the Senate without some R help, and damn sure can't in the House without the Rs going along.  And neither side wants to pay the price for it at the next election, except for the zealots like Schumer, and they're mostly in safe districts.

Speaking of which, got a e-mail from Sen. Coburn last night:
Thank you for taking the time to write me to express your opinion and concerns about the various gun control proposals. I am encouraged so many Oklahomans are making their voices heard. I have received an overwhelming number of letters, and in order to respond in a timely manner, I am writing a response that encompasses my entire position. If you have additional questions or concerns, please write me again. 

I want to be clear: I remain committed to defending and protecting our Constitution; namely the Second Amendment. I have long protected the rights of law-abiding citizens to own guns. I am opposed to a ban on assault rifles and I oppose limiting magazines. I will not vote for any bill that limits the gun rights of law abiding citizens. While I support a debate in the Senate on gun related issues—including reaffirming these rights and forcing gun-control advocates to have their votes on record and be held accountable for their votes—I will not only support, but lead a filibuster to prevent the passage of any bill that limits the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. The news reports are correct that I have been involved in discussions to write legislation improving the existing background checks to enable private citizens to check a database and ensure the person they seek to sell their gun to is legally allowed to own a firearm. I believe it is good public policy to make sure that those who are mentally-ill or a felon (both are already prohibited from owning a gun), do not have access to a weapon. However, I oppose record keeping and will not agree to legislation that expands record keeping to private sales. 

The concern I am hearing over and over is not just about people maintaining their right to own firearms—it is a concern about how to preserve liberty. When our Constitution was adopted, we had just won a war fought largely by Minute Men and localized, or unofficial, militias (Sons of Liberty, etc). The first shots fired at Concord were, in part, to preserve a local supply of firearms that the British sought to confiscate. Our founders believed very strongly that the individual right to bear arms would preserve the independence and freedom won in 1781, just as they had enabled our founders to win the revolutionary war. They feared tyranny and centralized power—which is why our Constitution was established. In addition to the checks created by balancing power between a legislature and executive—and checked by a judiciary—the Bill of Rights sought to limit the federal government and clearly stated that those powers not enumerated in the Constitution and delegated to the federal government would remain with the states and the people (the 9th and 10th Amendments). 

Yet, our federal government regularly legislates on matters that belong to the states and the people. Our freedoms are being gradually encroached and choked by ever-increasing regulations, laws, agencies, and overspending. This concerns me greatly and I fight daily to rein in the size, scope and spending of our federal government. I believe the greatest threat to our Republic is apathy as our overindulgent federal government, through indebtedness, spends the money of future generations. James Madison, the architect of our Constitution, said something similar in 1788 in a speech in Virginia when he said, “Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” I am aware of this and I work to push back on all attacks to our Constitution, including those to our Second Amendment. Congress must be careful not to legislate in a way that makes criminals out of law-abiding, gun-owning citizens. 

Thank you for being involved and allowing me these last eight years to fight to protect our Constitution. I daily think about the sacrifices of past generations and I am grateful. In these last four years, as I finish out my second term, I remain committed to protecting your Second Amendment rights and working to limit our federal government and reduce federal spending. 
Sincerely, 
Tom A. Coburn, M.D. 
United States Senator
So yes, he's in favor of UBC; he's against any type of record-keeping.  Right now I can't decide if he believes agencies like the EffingBI and BATF won't illegally keep records like they already do, or figures the Democrats won't go for the bill unless they can officially keep records.
And I have yet to figure how "Go to a FFL or police station and pay a fee and do paperwork and THEN you can buy/sell a gun" does not count as 'limits the Second Amendment rights'.  And it damn sure doesn't pass the Jews in the attic test.  As to these clowns obeying the law,
Sylvia Burwell, President Obama’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), told Congress that she’s “uncomfortable” with the idea of promising to publish the Obama administration’s regulatory agenda by the legally-deadline.
“Because I don’t know the facts behind what happened, that’s why I’m uncomfortable making a commitment, because I don’t know the facts behind the issue,” Burwell told Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, today during a Senate hearing.
This is real damn simple: the law says "Publish the agenda by the deadline."  But they don't, and the nominee is 'uncomfortable' with doing so.  So tell me again why we should trust these bastards on ANYTHING?


One idea of why Obama keeps pushing this:
So why is President Obama making gun control his number one issue, when it has zero chance of becoming law, and the political impact is negative for some of his own senators? I can think of only two reasons. First, he wants to whip the Democrats’ base into a frenzy in hopes of capturing the House next year, and the base hates guns. I think this motivation accounts for much of what Obama does, but does it really make sense to endanger Democratic control over the Senate, in hopes of a long-shot victory in the House? One wouldn’t think so. Second, Obama may view the gun issue purely as a distraction: anything is better than talking about the economy. Or Obamacare. Or Benghazi. Or Iran. Or North Korea. Maybe he arrives at gun control through a process of elimination. It isn’t a great theory, but it’s the best I can come up with.
There is another: he really, really wants the commoners disarmed, and thinks it's worth the damage to the Evil Party to try. 


On the Hypocrites in the News front,
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, keep pushing for stricter gun laws as they continue to own weapons for recreational purposes, including the same type of gun used in the January 2011 shooting rampage that left Giffords wounded.

However, the couple's 9 mm Glock holds fewer bullets than the one used the Tucson shooting spree. Limiting the size of ammunition magazines is one of the goals of a new political action committee formed by Giffords and Kelly.
Except they don't just want to ban those extended magazines, oh no, they want to ban the standard magazines just like the ones they own.
Some enterprising journalist needs to ask them if they've gotten rid of all the evil standard-capacity magazines they own and replaced them with non-evil ten-rounders.


PTR Industries is leaving CT.


And this is just... bleargh:
Campus police officers responded without firearms to multiple reports of a lone gunman at the University of Rhode Island (URI), on Thursday, due to a state policy that prohibits deputized campus police officers from carrying firearms on public campuses.

It is Oklahoma in early April

Which means the forecast went from the last two days of "SEVERE weather, BIG hail, WE MAY ALL DIE!!" to this:

• Tonight Rain showers before midnight, then rain, possibly mixed with freezing rain. Some thunder is also possible. Low around 31. Windy, with a north northwest wind 11 to 16 mph increasing to 20 to 25 mph in the evening. Winds could gust as high as 36 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Total nighttime ice accumulation of less than a 0.1 of an inch possible.
• Wednesday Freezing rain likely before 1pm. Some thunder is also possible. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 45. North northwest wind 20 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New ice accumulation of less than a 0.1 of an inch possible. 

So I just spent a while covering up everything in the garden, sacrificing half-a-dozen of the jugs I was saving for bullet testing to cover the tomatoes.  Also pulling grass out of the compost heap to cover some other stuff.

Bleeping weather.

The roads should be warm enough that they shouldn't get bad; otherwise this is bleeping strange.  At least it waited till after Med-Fair.

"Your medical records are confidential. Except

when we decide they aren't."
James Tresmond Esq confirmed in our conversation that the above mentioned case is occurring in Erie County NY, it is his client that has been effected, and as yet unknown sources have seen fit to take it upon themselves to share confidential medical records with NY State Officials without authorization, a massive HIPPA violation.

It seems these supposedly confidential records are then compared against a list of known NY pistol license holders and letters are sent out demanding their Pistol Owner ID Cards be surrendered, as well as any firearms and accessories.

This is an unprecedented violation of a Citizens 2nd, 4th, and 5th Amendment RIGHTS, brought to fruition by power and control hungry tyrants holding elected office who swore an Oath to uphold and defend the very rights they are now actively stripping from their constituents.
So: New Effing York is doing exactly the kind of crap they denied they had ANY intention of.  But we're paranoids and nuts for worrying about it.


Of course, the BATFEIEIO is covering itself with even more glory as well:
ATF agents running an undercover storefront in Milwaukee used a brain-damaged man with a low IQ to set up gun and drug deals, paying him in cigarettes, merchandise and money, according to federal documents obtained by the Journal Sentinel.
...
Once authorities shut down the operation, they charged the 28-year-old man with federal gun and drug counts.
And remember, this is on top of ...ATF guns, including a machine gun, were stolen from an agent's vehicle; agents lost a ballistic shield; the storefront was burglarized of what agents said was nearly $40,000 in merchandise; agents left behind sensitive documents after they shut down the operation; and at least three of the wrong people were charged.

Sigi had a comment the other day on .22 prices

at Tulsa that included
This is precisely the free market working correctly; price arbitrage correcting a too-low price on Friday and maintaining supply on Saturday for those willing to pay a market price.

As always - even when it's in a market that makes us personally sensitive - "price gouging" is really "keeping supply available".
I do understand that; I was just pointing out that
The only people buying at the $70/brick price were those who flat had none and needed some, and nobody was buying the $100+/brick stuff.
And they can indeed price it out the ass if they choose; and they run the risk of both not selling any, and pissing off people who might have been future customers.


Australia just decided to screw over those who actually have saved for the future; that'll go over well.  But it's supposed to be fine because it's only on people with 'too much' retirement income from said savings.
And, to answer the question near the end, No, I do NOT trust a lot of these greedy bastards not to try the same thing here.


The People's Republic of MA: "Don't have or do anything that might somehow be used to make anything your fault, and hide in the corner and wait for The Authorities if there is a problem."


Yes, Obama started his political career in the home of and with the help of a terrorist.


Study says most cops think Obama and the other gun bigots are liars and fools; you'll never hear about it from the major media.  Especially with it starting like this:
More than 15,000 verified law enforcement professionals took part in the survey, which aimed to bring together the thoughts and opinions of the only professional group devoted to limiting and defeating gun violence as part of their sworn responsibility.

Totaling just shy of 30 questions, the survey allowed officers across the United States to share their perspectives on issues spanning from gun control and gun violence to gun rights.
Top Line Takeaways
Breaking down the results, it's important to note that 70 percent of respondents are field-level law enforcers — those who are face-to-face in the fight against violent crime on a daily basis — not office-bound, non-sworn administrators or perpetually-campaigning elected officials.


Politician says "I'm going to block this bill until I know exactly what's in it"; Reid & Co. use whines about dead children to try to make him go away.


A less-offensive(they think) way of saying "You're not smart enough to make your own choices, you NEED government telling you what to do!" 


Margaret Thatcher died the other day.  Being human and willing to actually do something, she had her good and bad points, but because her good included having the balls to say 'Communism is bad' some of the left immediately proceeded to piss on her grave.  Which tells us who the assholes are.


The Diana DeGette Guide to Gun Safety, including

And two more celebrity dirtbags helping keep Cuba in a hole.

Let's start off with McCain proving once again

why we think he sucks.
Because progressive jerks like you want to run our lives, Mccain; that's why.


Speaking of which, Democrats pushing faked-up groups to claim "We gun-owners want more gun control laws."


So why can't DHS transfer some of what they bought to Border Patrol?
Due to budget concerns and ammunition availability, we will not be getting issued any proficiency ammunition for next quarter.  In addition to these reductions, we are also being limited to qualification ammo only.   What this means to you is that you will not receive the normal 150 rounds for practice and we will not have any extra ammunition for a combat course following normal qualifications.
The whole e-mail at the link.
And think about that line: quarterly they've received 150 rounds for practice; how many do you go through?


If the left was honest, they'd say "Screw the Koch brothers, we only want OUR money involved in politics!"
But they don't say that, do they?


That's because Obama WANTS energy to become unaffordable to most.


David Hemenway; because gun bigotry also seems to require a level of stupid that's sometimes awful to behold.


Gee, why would the BATFEIEIO want such a database, hmmmm?


Now the grass is demanding attention.  Because if I don't cut it before the next rain, I'll have a section of shortgrass prarie out there.

How was your weekend?

My end, things did work out and Dad and I went to the big Tulsa gun show.  Where else you gonna see both new-packed survival foods and a 18th-century headsmans axe?

Not to mention all the usual "I need to win the lottery" stuff.  Like some gorgeous Shiloh Sharps rifles, and some old S&W revolvers, and Mausers and MNs and- all the usual, to cut it short.

Big thing I was watching for(without much hope) was some powder and bullets.  Powder, there was some, but nowhere near previous selection.  Primers, well, a couple of dealers had them, and at normal to somewhat-elevated prices; they were mostly bought-out by people who paid for 'get in on Friday' tickets and other dealers; and the other dealers marked the damn things up.  As in CCI primers, instead of around $35/brick, were $50.

Ammo: think of bricks of .22 and bulk-packs marked anywhere from $70 to $100.  But the real prize was one dealer who had the 525-round bulk-packs of Remington Golden Bullets marked $209.95.
No, I am not kidding.
And no, they were not selling.  Guess why?

One of the big ammo dealers I asked(they had no .22 of any kind) said they'd had a fair amount Friday; guess who bought most of it and marked it up?  Same for everyone who'd had any marked at normal or near-normal prices.  Yeah, some of them managed to sell a few at those prices, but what they mostly bought was ill-will, as in "I'm gonna remember who was gouging this way, and damned if they'll ever get ANY of my money again!" as one guy loudly put it.  In somewhat less-polite language.  Free market at work: you can charge whatever you want, but ought to remember both that you might sell less AND you might piss people off for a long time to come.

Speaking of ammo: those who did have 9mm ball were charging about $35/box, .45acp marked up about the same level; not-as-in-demand stuff was much closer to or at regular prices.

Firearms mostly seemed to be at or near prices you'd expect.  And the elusive K-32 continues to elude; not only nothing of the type I want, not a single one even to be seen.

We will not return to normal bloggage.

I'm not dead yet!

Though I ache enough for doubts.

Something interesting, or at least better than nothing, later.  Maybe tomorrow later.

Hey, Colorado, you paying attention? You'd better.

The Outdoor Channel leaves Colorado.  As he notes, they're not a big business, but CO got a lot of promotion from them; what's losing that going to cost?  And
Obviously, part of this is due to our own commitment to the right to keep and bear arms, but it also reflects 3 lawyers' opinions that these laws are so poorly drafted and so designed to trap otherwise legal citizens into a crime (one of our attorneys referred to them as "flypaper laws") that it is simply too dangerous for us to film here.
If you think a lot of people don't pay attention to that, you're a fool.  Nobody wants to wind up in jail because some LE with hard-on for enforcement busts them on something that's either iffy or flat bullshit, but the way the crap is worded he can get away with doing it.

On to the People's Republic of Maryland:
New legislation is forcing gun manufacturing company Beretta to uproot and take their business elsewhere.
At the end is a fine example of the idiocy they're leaving behind:
One legislator stated: “Other than target shooting, the only other reason [for a semi-automic firearm] would be for self-defense… [Why would you need a] rifle that accommodates 20 rounds semi-automatic for deer hunting? … It’s only very infrequently that someone commits a crime with an assault weapon – why do you need one for self-defense?”
This one at least seems to recognize self-defense as something good; however, the rest of this...


Evidence of just how desperate Democrats are to make SOME kind of new restriction on our rights.
They'd hoped to shove their whole wish list through; now this.  keep yelling at the legislators.  Loudly.

And that's it for today at least.  More when there's time, whenever that is.

Tab clearing while I have a minute

Hey, he was doing abortions, so what's the problem with the homicides and stuff, right?


The new law that it advocated, indeed, is one of the most absurd specimens of jackass legislation ever heard of, even in this paradise of legislative donkeyism. Its single and sole effect would be to exaggerate enormously all of the evils it proposes to put down. It would not take pistols out of the hands of rogues and fools; it would simply take them out of the hands of honest men. The gunman today has great advantages everywhere. He has artillery in his pocket, and he may assume that, in the large cities, at least two-thirds of his prospective victims are unarmed. But if the Nation’s proposed law (or amendment) were passed and enforced, he could assume safely that all of them were unarmed.
That is from 1925.  And much thanks to Tam and  Roberta X for it.


What Columbia University considers a wonderful choice for professor: a domestic terrorist (communist, of course) involved in murder, robbery and plans for mass murder.


The People's Republic of New Effing York; where anything is an excuse to steal someone's guns.


That is one big damn spider.


Obama lies.  Again.


Because politicians are special and shouldn't have to obey the laws they pass.


Just like those fucking 'Democrats CARE' bumper stickers, taken to a new level.


Yeah, it's about crime, right...
"It had begun to do what we wanted it to do, which is to drive down the number of these guns over time," she said.

Not much today;

it's wet, and chilly, and I ache.  And things to do, so probably a bit thin on posting the next couple of days.
I will leave you with three things:
Three guys from WWII of the 'need a custom jockstrap' variety.

When the ACLU has a problem with your anti-gun-ownership bill, you've got problems.

More on the idiot 'clips vs. magazines' politician.

And the clown politicians in CT follow the New York model:

The press officer for the Connecticut House Republicans confirmed that the bipartisan bill formalizing these proposals will go directly to a vote tomorrow (Wednesday, April 3) under emergency certification, which precludes referrals to committees and public hearings. That means nobody gets to raise any objections, such as pointing out that the guns Adam Lanza used were registered to his mother. She qualified to own firearms under the old rules and there's no reason to believe the new restrictions would have barred her ownership of guns in any way.
These bastards really don't like having to listen to what the voters think, or giving the voters a chance to find out what the hell they're doing, do they?

Also, I'm curious how they intend to register magazines that don't have serial numbers.  Are the going to tell the cops to start engraving them?  Or do they just want another way to throw people in jail?
You'll notice that violations of the new Connecticut gun laws all seem to be felonies. Making something a felony is a modern legislator's way of puffing out his or her chest and saying, "I'm really serious." But, while there's no denying that being convicted of a felony carries serious inconveniences in penalties and legal restrictions, we're long past the point where making an act a felony stigmatizes it in any way. Harvey Silverglate famously estimated that Americans commit Three Felonies a Day in the course of going about their normal business. Connecticut residents, at least gun owners, may have to assume they've upped their daily felony allotment to four and just extend care to not be caught to more areas of life.
I'll bet Biden and Obama and Bloomberg have been spending money and influence like water down a drain on these clowns; I wonder just how much their integrity and honor(assuming they had any) sold for?

It appears Cuomo has problems

Between his ears, as well as the others.  All for wearing a Remington cap at the gate:
But once inside the Mansion, Tenney, a lawyer and mother of a 21-year-old Marine, was surrounded by a number of nervous Cuomo aides including Larry Schwartz, the governor’s secretary, who feared she’d defiantly put on the cap during Cuomo’s remarks. ”Larry put his hand on Claudia’s arm and said, ‘Are you going to wear that during the breakfast because if you are, we’re going to have to ask you to leave’,’’ said the witness …”
Note that this is a elected rep of a district being told she'll have to leave a breakfast visit at the Governor's house if she wears the hat; which, let us remind the bastard does not belong to him...
Well, let's rephrase: they'll 'ask her to leave'.  My question is, what if she did, and wouldn't?  Going to call the cops on her?  Oh, that'd go over REAL well.


Tesla is apparently run by bigots and hoplophobes.  Fucking idiots, actually.
Industry sources suggest that the reveal was supposed to take place one week later, at the NASCAR race at Texas Motor Speedway, but with the announcement that the National Rifle Association would be the title sponsor of that race, the federal government decided to move the announcement to Martinsville. "We aren't sure how many fans would be friendly toward alternative energy at an event sponsored by the NRA," said the source, "and we have to assume a large percentage of them will be armed."
Allow me to  inform you of two things, Mr. Source:
NASCAR fans aren't bothered by electric cars; they're bothered by crooked jerks using taxpayer money.  Build the thing on your own dime, and it works, they'll be interested.
Second, by your bigoted comments about the millions of members and supporters of the NRA, you've revealed what kind of fool you are.  So piss off.

"Who owns Obama would properly be who offers the most

when he thinks he needs it.  However,

Matt Bennett of Third Way wishes Congress could vote in secret because then he could buy votes without us nasty peasants getting in the way.

Screw you, Bennett, you want secret votes by government go to Cuba or the PRC.  Or some other socialist paradise.


Among the ways we're being screwed by the ethanol mandate.

Guy asks Kate Upton to the prom;

Upton responds with class, and that freaking progressive nutcase Marcotte can't stand it.  Joined in her search for female victimhood by Kat Stoeffel(whoever the hell she is).

Let's see, guy asks her out, she politely says 'no', and that means the guy victimized her... these people are so full of shit they should be standing in the fields to fertilize the crops.


Of course, this fits nicely with progressives crapping on blacks who don't follow the leftist line in all things.


This just in: ignore a lot of information and you, too, can blame white males for EVERYTHING!!!


At this point, I think Carrey talks out of his ass because his brain is so far up it.
No one in my employ is allowed to carry a large magazine and NO ONE IS ASKING ANYONE TO GIVE UP THEIR RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, though it is in the vested interests of those who profit by gun sales to make it seem so.
And those who tell the dancing monkey that that's all he is?  Well, we're BULLYING!
Especially when we call him for the liar he is.


CO State Rep. Diana DeGette (D, of course) is such a- well, read it:
“The Congresswoman has been working on a high-capacity assault magazine ban for years, and has been deeply involved in the issue; she simply misspoke in referring to ‘magazines’ when she should have referred to ‘clips,’ which cannot be reused because they don’t have a feeding mechanism,"
If you're wondering what the hell is going through her mind, go read the whole piece.  It's worse than you may think.


And something I need to pay more attention to getting word out on: the current E-Mail Postal Match.

When we win, they win. When we lose,

THEY LOSE!
Thoughts from Mr. James on what he's heard from folks in Europe.  Short version: They're hoping- somewhat desperately- we win and stop the gun bigots and hoplophobes.

Chris Matthews is a tool of the first order

Which was already known; just that deciding to change the definition of words, and the history, this was really points it out.


Apparently being a terrorist who helps murder people and hates America is just what you need to get a position at a university.


'Communists, old and new, fit a pattern; only leftists surprised'


Colorado losing lots of competitions; for some reason people don't want to put themselves at risk of being arrested due to those idiotic new laws.
Add this to hunters cancelling trips, and the businesses moving to better places, and the economic footprint alone is going to be very painful.

How many feminists does it take to kill an April Fool's Day post?

"That's not funny."

Want. might beat the Remington loads

Years of research and development have gone into these highly effective 12 gauge shells that can turn even Joe Biden’s double barrel shotgun into an instant anti-aircraft platform. Specially formulated propellant is capable of launching 9 pellets of depleted uranium rounds up to 1 km straight up into the air. With accurate shot placement, this armor piercing buckshot will disable vital systems on modern military drones. At minimum, the force of impact will disable navigation systems, but in over 60% of our field tests, the drones were incapable of remaining airborne after contact with our Anti-Drone Loads.
NOTE: Drone Loads are intended for entertainment use only and not intended to be used in any manner not in accordance with federal and local laws. Lucky Gunner assumes no responsibility for any illegal activity involving Tacnition Drone Ammo.

Why yes, I do

The EPA demonstrates once again they don't care what damage they do,

as long as they can force people to do what the clowns want:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could soon issue a final ruling that aims to force oil companies to replace E10, gasoline mixed with 10 percent ethanol, with E15.

They don't give a rats ass the damage this would do all the way down the line.

That 'Bureaucrat, rope, lamppost' sticker is sounding better and better.

Of course it's from a college, and of COURSE a friggin' 'Diversity Committee' is involved.

A microaggression is a brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignity, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicates a hostile, derogatory, or negative slight or insult toward people of non-dominant identities. [Smith College]
Translation: ANYTHING said by ANYONE that makes ANY member of a protected species(women, homosexuals, muslims, Democrats and communists, etc.) feel uncomfortable or unhappy or hurts their feelings now has a Proper Name So We Can Deal With It.

I have to admit I don't kn ow who Duncan Sheik is,

just that- from this- he's another celebritute trying to get some publicity by threatening someone and insulting them.  And getting all upset when the threat is taken seriously.


Both from commenter Henick and Jennifer, got a link to this blog: The Law of Self Defense.  Haven't had time to check more than a couple of the entries, but seems to be some very good 'this is something you probably wouldn't want to do or say' information.

Hey, they're lucky; at least these cops didn't kick in the doors

and shoot the dogs.


Should D.C.'s food laws try to protect consumers and public safety? Or should they try to protect brick-and-mortar restaurants from competition?

D.C.'s restaurant lobbyists, along with many local politicians and bureaucrats, seem to think the government's job is to save the delis and diners, bistros and brasseries from the scourge of falafel trucks, barbecue buses and weenie wagons.


Why don't we trust most media?  Because CBS referred to this as  hundreds of mischievous teens:
What actually happened was that a mob of black thugs took part in an apparently pre-planned attack on mostly white shoppers in a mostly white and wealthy neighborhood.
Related, from Second City Cop:
All the local media outlets had to cover it - there were too many witnesses downtown to brush it under the carpet the way they did the entire summer of 2011 and early part of 2012. The Channel 2 website had over 3,500 comments at last count. National headlines were made everywhere.
We particularly enjoyed the comment by the woman who said she pays $17,000 a year in property taxes. You're getting ripped off lady. And Rahm? This is the sort of person who can afford to leave the city when it gets this bad. We're sure there are thousands more. You're going to be remembered as Mayor Murder - and the victim will be the City of Chicago.


There was a vote in the Senate the other day:

All Democrats an Independants, for some reason...


Why don't we trust that Obama respects all the Amendments?
“If you think that checking someone’s criminal record before he can check out a gun show is common sense, you’ve got to make yourself heard.”
There's apparently some argument that he misspoke and actually mean 'buy a gun at'; considering his past actions and words, I think he meant exactly what he said.


And why don't we trust most of the federal LE clowns?

No illegal explosives were found and no arrests were made, but considering the unprecedented arsenal stocked at one of the locations, the agents considered confiscating Myers’ weapons. “The idea at one of the locations was to take firearms, but they did not do that,” an ATF spokesperson said, according to Onlineathens.com.

Did you catch that? Even though there was nothing remotely illegal going on, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Very Large Fires considered confiscating firearms anyway. Apparently only a senior agent had the brains to suggest they can’t steal property.
Or maybe the local Sheriff had to clue them in.


And we know we can't trust what we read about firearms in most media; they say things like a .323-caliber bolt-action rifle and A loaded 12-gauge shotgun was found in the glove compartment of the Honda Civic Lanza drove to the school with two magazines containing 70 rounds of Winchester 12-gauge shotgun rounds.
Hey, journalists; can you at least TRY to make an effort to find out what the hell you're writing about?
I know, silly question.


Another company leaving Colorado, and more gun-related business going somewhere else.
I wonder if those politicians trusting Bloomberg money and Obama influence to protect them are wondering if they shouldn't have listened to that clown Senator who told them 'don't read the e-mails or answer the phone calls, they're just telling you not to do this'?

Yes, it's started; yes, it's coming from a Democrat

The first effort emerged in Texas. Legislation proposed by Dallas Democratic Rep. Yvonne Davis would remove any sheriff or law enforcement officer who refuses to enforce state or federal laws. 

What's more, it would remove any elected or appointed law enforcement officer for simply stating or signing any document stating that they will not obey federal orders.


St. Louis mayor Francis Slay: fine with wanting to hand sovereignty over to the UN, not so good with answering questions about it.
Chickenshit.

Founders vs. Biden & Co.

"Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state government, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people" (Tench Coxe)

"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for few public officials." (George Mason)

"The Constitution shall never be construed....to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms" (Samuel Adams)

"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence ... From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to insure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable . . . the very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that is good" (George Washington)
Windy notes that the above is considered apocryphal; so here's one that's not:
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government

vs.

“And lastly, but not least, the Assault Weapons ban and the limitation on the size of magazines, let me say this as clearly as I can: this is just the beginning. We believe that weapons of war have no place on our streets. That’s the message that the retired admirals and generals have spoken to us about. The comment one of them used was: if you want to learn how to use a semi-automatic weapon, join the United States military, but these are weapons of war, and we believe there’s no rational reason why someone would need a clip that can hold fifteen, twenty, thirty, one-hundred bullets, one-hundred rounds. We have to do more and we will do more.”  (Joe Biden)

Please note a couple of things in particular:
...if you want to learn how to use a semi-automatic weapon, join the United States military...
Got that? Now SEMI-AUTO firearms are 'weapons of war.
And he makes it plain that most standard-capacity magazines are too big to suit him.
No trust in the people, a serious fear and loathing of the commoners possessing arms; reminds me of something...*

"If I could have banned them all - Mr. And Mrs. America turn in your guns - I would have!" (Senator Diane Feinstein)

"When we got organized as a country, they wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to Americans, it was assumed that Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly. When personal freedom is being abused, you have to move to limit it." - (Bill Clinton)

"Gun registration is not enough. Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal." - (Janet Reno)


*"Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA, ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State." - Heinrich Himmler

A serious kick in the balls is needed by the clowns in the DoD

responsible for this crap.
Assuming they have any.


Speaking of clowns with no balls, let's talk about that idiot Toure' and his slanders against someone he's not fit to sniff the dirty underwear of.


Want to improve things?  Close down every damned one of these fusion centers.
In trying to clear up the ‘misconceptions’ about the conduct of fusion centers, Arkansas State Fusion Center Director Richard Davis simply confirmed Americans’ fears: the center does in fact spy on Americans – but only on those who are suspected to be ‘anti-government’.
And if you ask who decides, and how, they'll put YOU on the list.