It’s a Big Club and You Ain’t In It

Congressman Mike Kelly—the lawmaker blocking access to critical documents about the Butler assassination attempt—must not be allowed to advance a bill that ignores glaring conflicts of interest in behavioral health linked to the Butler, PA assassination attempt of President Trump. KILL THE BILL: HR 2085 [More]

Yeah, I know, he’s “good” on guns, but does he really understand why?

“This bill unnecessarily restricts the rights of hunters and sportsmen rather than targeting violent criminals.”

[Via bondmen]

Flattery Will Get You Everywhere…?

“We’re honored to have Gretchen Whitmer from Michigan, great state of Michigan. And, she’s been — she’s really done an excellent job. And a very good person,” Trump said. [More]

Really?

As opposed to Thomas Massie, who he called “a third rate Grandstander”?

How are we supposed to take anything he says seriously and sincerely?

Banking on Disarmament

WHAT IS HB38?: HB38, the Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act, prevents payment card networks from using a firearms code for purchases in North Carolina. It would also prevent payment card networks from maintaining a record of individuals residing in this State who own firearms. More importantly, it would prohibit a payment card network from discriminating against a firearms merchant, including refusing to serve or declining a lawful payment card transaction. [More]

What, they don’t want the Department of PreCrime snitchware being pushed by a communist bank?

What’s the Difference Between a Diktat and an Edict?

When Bureaucrats Rewrite Law: What the Supreme Court’s Ghost Gun Ruling Means for Gun Owners & Small Businesses~ Deep Dive [More]

This, and the podcast it reports on, merit wider gun owner congnizance.

The only thing I would add is that those “consistent governing laws” being called for are illegitimate if they infringe.

Continued Adventures in Baselessness

Director of National Intelligence Reveals EVIDENCE of Rigged 2020 Election, Machines Switching Votes [Watch]

I repeat: Now that Justice reports to him, it’s time for Trump to put up.

Can you imagine if every law, appointment, EO, budget, treaty, and pardon signed by Joe Biden was null and void?

A boy can dream, can’t he?

[Via Jess]

The Emergency State

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) has declared a state of emergency for Albuquerque, ordering the National Guard to help combat crime in the state’s largest city. [More]

Wasn’t an “emergency” the same pretext she used to mandate widespread citizen defenselessness?

I wonder if chalking voting for Democrats up exclusively to ignorance, prejudice, and stupidity is enough. I’m thinking there’s a mass of their constituents that are parasites and criminal breeders who see the advantages such “government” confers on their self-interests.

[Via Jess]

The Wrong Side

DOJ just asked the Supreme Court for a THIRD extension in its Biden-era lawsuit attacking Missouri’s Second Amendment Protection Act, which prevents local law enforcement from working with ATF. @AGPamBondi needs to reverse course & support the Second Amendment. [More]

Bipolar, I tell ya

[Via Jess]

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back in the Water

He emphasized the danger of anglers trying to lure white sharks onto the beach during the busy summer season, when tourists flock to Cape Cod en masse. They can’t coexist,” Silva said. [More]

There’s an analogy in here somewhere…

More than one

[Via Edmund M]

We’re the Only Ones Helping Ourselves Enough

Former Walker County Sheriff’s lieutenant pleads guilty to theft… Bradley admitted to pocketing funds between 2018 and 2022 and must repay over $70,000 to Walker County.[More]

What, no charges against a criminally negligent/malfeasant sheriff whose incompetence and/or deliberate indifference let her get away with it for years…?

Care to add your congratulations…? 2018…? Looks like she didn’t waste any time figuring out the vulnerabilities and getting started…

I don’t suppose standardized sign-off procedures and audits have been put in place, not just in Walker County but throughout the state…?

There’s Never as Padded Cell Around When You Need One

Trans ‘Zizian’ cult suspect dragged from court after shouting allegations of de-transition, murder [More]

I don’t claim to be as educated and professionally accomplished as Ketanji Brown Jackson, and my hands-on experience with biology didn’t go past dissecting a fetal pig, which leads to another story about putting it on a tray and walking through the dorm cafeteria line (and don’t get me started on modifying a test tube centrifuge in Chemistry to play roulette), but that ain’t a woman.

As a side note, I don’t see any of my classmates who paid attention being cited here

We’re the Only Ones Visionary Enough

Officers opened fire within about 12 seconds of getting out of their patrol cars and made no apparent effort to de-escalate the situation. “Everybody was trying to tell the police, no, no,” Vazquez said. “Those four officers didn’t care. They didn’t ask what was happening, what was the situation.”“How’s he going to jump the fence when he can barely walk?” she said. [More]

Who called 911? A neighbor wouldn’t know of his condition?

Shot nine times. Good job with that “vision” there, chief.

No other choice? Really?

Especially we know your guys have used less than lethal options before in more threatening situations?

Visionary “gun violence” sculpture, there, Pocatello!

Points/Counterpoints

I see some comments on my new piece on Brian Fitzpatrick that I’m going to address here. I rarely add comments over at AmmoLand because I’ve had my say, it’s the readers’ turn, and I just don’t have the time to get drawn into debates. That and I can better handle things here when trolls attempt to disrupt and redirect by going off topic, or hijacking the conversation I’m inviting completely with insulting squabbles (see “Comment House Rules” in right sidebar).

Bucks county is the burbs of Philly, lots of wealthy liberal democrats. Getting a pro 2a to run much less win in that area is practically impossible.

The reality is, and I included a link in my article, Fitzpatrick won 56+% to 43+%. Republicans will win there. This defeatist presumption presupposes, without evidence to back up the assertion, that such Republicans must be overt gun-grabbers, spreads a “there’s nothing we can do about it” attitude that several readers upvoted and agreed with, and signals the GOP that Lee (“Who else are they going to vote for?”) Atwater was right and it can continue to ignore and even sabotage gun owner interests.

This is not the way we fight to win. But the Democrats love it.

https://foac-pac.org/ is the only 2A group I know of in PA. Residents should be a member.

2A is about more than “crime,” they only have 570 x.com followers and haven’t posted to it since 2023. They do somewhat better with 14K Facebook followers, which is still a head-scratcher considering the number of gun owners in PA (and is not the same as active organization membership), and haven’t posted anything this year but a “Happy New Year” message, with nothing about what is going on at the municpal, state, and federal level.

You could come up with similar dismal analyses for Pennsylvania Gun Rights, GOA-Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania Firearms Association, leading me to ask in my piece, “And for that matter, why is it so hard to find any information on any Pennsylvania pro-2A groups alerting their members to mobilize against Fitzpatrick?”

In fairness, such groups can only do so much with most gun owners not picking one and supporting it, and with (generously) 10% of the members doing 90% of the work.

Back to the first comment: It’s not that there’s nothing PA gun owners can do about it. Of course there is. It’s just that most won’t try.

My greatest failure as an armed citizens advocate is I’ve never figured out what to do about that.

All Reasonable Requests

1) Stop advocating for gun control;
2) Withdraw the U.S. Surgeon General Advisory declaring “gun violence” a public health crisis rather than a crime issue
3) Study the effects of gun-free zones in which over 90% of all mass public shootings take place
4) Study the damage caused to the hearing of hunters, sportsmen, and home defenders by the lack of widespread use of sound suppression technology
5) Study the current media coverage practices concerning mass public shootings which a growing body of evidence suggests may increase the likelihood of future mass public murders
6) Study firearm injury treatments and medical practices; and
7) Restore the self-defense statistics which were censored from the CDC’s website [More]

Will Bobby be reasonable?

What choice does he have, with his former party pulling the knives out for him?

New Bump Stock Ban: Fitzpatrick Gets Away with Gun Grabs Because Republicans Allow It

The GOP needs to understand, in no uncertain terms, that embedded Democrats are unacceptable, and the Party must do a better job of reining in politicos who want to go left. [More]

Donald Trump should instruct Party shakers and movers to find an acceptable replacement and give enemy-in-the-gates Fitzpatrick the boot.

‘Shall Not Be Infringed’? Good One!

Colorado governor signs into law major gun control bill targeting semi-automatic rifles, pistols – Senate Bill 3 was among the most bitter legislative fights this session and represents the furthest expansion yet of gun control in the state [More]

I don’t suppose SCOTUS would like to get off its @$$ and rule on Snope or Ocean State Tactical…?

[Via cydl]

Related UPDATE

POLIS: “This law is not a ban, and I have been clear that I oppose banning types of firearms…” [More]

Who’s bannin’? We’re educatin’.

To Themselves and Their Posterity

The 14 members appointed so far represent immigrant communities from Ghana, Haiti, India, Kenya, Liberia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Somalia, and South Korea. A fifteenth spot has not been filled yet after an applicant withdrew. [More]

Good thing this has nothing to do with that “single issue.” And I have that on good authority.

[Via JG]

Life in the Black Matriarchy

House Dem in Ohio Swing District Turns to Liberal Firebrand Jasmine Crockett for Fundraising Help – Emilia Sykes launched joint fundraising committee with Crockett shortly after infamous ‘Governor Hot Wheels’ remark [More]

She my non-rep, “thanks” to changing lines on the map, along with pampered and privileged virtue-signaling Hudson white women.

And the Republicans can’t seem to offer anyone but an uninspiring squish.

[Via bondmen]

We’re the Only Ones Unsuspended Enough

A Miami Beach officer has not been suspended for her part in a friendly-fire shooting on the Venetian Causeway over the weekend, police told the Miami Herald…Shenaqua Stringer, who’s been with the department for eight years and two months, was identified as the cop who shot fellow officer Fabio Bolanos… [More]

None dare call it DEI

[Via bondmen]

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