Notes from the Resistance
For now, let’s take a look at the likely contenders and see what they’ve said about the right to keep and bear arms, and more importantly, what they’ve done… [More]
Just in time for tonight’s debate where we’ll see if the subject even comes up…
Israel’s Shin Bet Actively Disarming Some Near Front Lines – Israelis receiving military firearms are part of security services NOT regular citizens. Handguns and shotguns are still VERY difficult to purchase. [More]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
They’re making it awfully tough…
[Via Jess]
Tangentially Related UPDATE
Gun License Applications and Firearm Sales Surging in Israel [More]
Can you hurry up with that approval? The paragliders are right outside…
[Via bondmen]
Firearms News will be exploring where these contenders stand on the Second Amendment, in both a separate analysis documenting actions, positions, and statements, and via a questionnaire, the subject of this article, designed to produce unequivocal answers. [More]
Finding out who shines us on, who sends us boilerplate, and who is not afraid to lead on the Second Amendment, could be useful to know for the primaries.
That “chatbots” can “hallucinate” sounds like something out of science fiction, and what that actually means and how it differs from program corruption, coding errors or simply bad source inputs is still not clear: This is all new stuff. [More]
GILO: Garbage in, libel out…
In this case, Klepper and his team set out to get gun owners with no media experience on camera responding to set-up questions and then to selectively present who would be shown and how much of their answers would be included. The intent was to present them as representative and make all of us look like ignorant rubes so that we could be laughed at, and so the entire movement of right to keep and bear arms advocacy could be dismissed as the province of morons and paranoids. [More]
Anything you say to the media can and will be held against you.
While parallels to the situation in Ukraine are understandable enough to make with this new move to recruit civilians into the defense equation, the biggest similarity (and biggest mistake) is, both nations waited until the wolf was at the door to start the process. [More]
Once again, citizen disarmament is proving destructive to those who presume to hold a monopoly of violence.
FG42: The Awesome 7.92X57MM Fallschirmjäger Machine Rifle (2nd Edition) [More]
Some of you may remember the first edition.
You don’t need a crystal ball to know that Protasiewicz will side with the gun prohibitionist violence monopolists every chance she gets. [More]
Not only will a defacto Demanding Mom be ruling from the High Court, Cheesehead commies are pushing a bill (AB 51) to allow DACA enforcers to be on state police and sheriff departments — hey, who needs to import blue helmets to help confiscate guns from citizens when we’ve got a ready-made pool of foreign nationals to draw from?
[W]e are not doing ourselves or those depending on us to stand for freedom any favors if we deliberately ignore Trump’s willful failures on guns. Because this is going to end one of two ways – strengthening his renewed bid for a return to the White House, or ending any chances of it. If he wins, we need to be able to collectively influence his 2A decisions and judicial appointments and get him to understand what the bad ones are before he makes them. If he loses, we need to be ready to do the same with whomever the Republicans nominate to carry the standard. [More]
Gun owners need to look and assess with no illusions if they hope to have any influence on how power, once granted, is ultimately wielded.
As a fraudulent criminal in government, Luna played the citizen disarmament game using the same narrative lies prohibitionists here were exploiting to try and swindle American citizens out of their birthright. [More]
Criminals in government are the same murderous and greedy gun-grabbing swine on both sides of the border.
I have two articles in the March issue of Firearms News, one on Maryland’s harassment of a vet and another on a new ATF report with the same old gun grab goals, now available at newsstands throughout the Republic.
“Intervenors came before this court and referenced UN mandates, which … is a well-documented trope meant to invoke white supremacist, antisemitic fear of a takeover of our country by outsiders and minorities who are manipulated by an elite class of supervillains,” Egan wrote. The Columbia County ordinance (and by implication, all Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions throughout the Republic) has “antisemitic and racist origins,” he declares. [More]
With judges adopting Antifa’s rhetoric, can communist “people’s courts” for counterrevolutionaries be far off?
Despite extensive evidence proving his self-defense claims, Maryland continues to prosecute U.S. Army Veteran Alejandro Gonzalez and hold him without trial for more than 14 months. [More]
If they can do this to him they can do this to you.
I’ll be out all of tomorrow and have much to do behind the scenes today.
I’ll try to get to some of the email tips sent since yesterday later this afternoon, but no guarantees. My priority will be on publicizing articles I expect to be published on AmmoLand and Firearms News, and on working on a couple of new ones I’ve started drafting.
Please hold off on further correspondence until Thursday, because chances are I won’t be able to do anything with it. Also, don’t be surprised if comment moderation is delayed more than usual.
The thought of a foreigner doing it seems intolerable. What could go wrong with our cities employing what amounts to latter-day Hessian mercenaries, with incentives to follow orders above all else, especially since rocking the boat or blowing the whistle could jeopardize more than their jobs, but also their eligibility to remain in this country? [More]
Back the blue…helmets?
Blue states are attempting to circumvent the U.S. Constitution and federal law to go after “assault weapons.” [More]
My latest piece…
But don’t worry. No one is trying to take your guns.
Big Tech argues they deserve exemptions because they are not content providers. Acting as content deniers, suppressing anything that does not advance a state-approved “progressive” narrative, and facilitating the universal spread of that which does, effectively amounts to the same thing. [More]
How is removing legal content at the demand of Democrat politicians not a de facto First Amendment violation?
Unfortunately, or more likely as planned, the answer to keeping U.S. arms from being smuggled across the border into Mexico is something those screaming the loudest for citizen disarmament and against an uncontrolled northward flow of drugs and illegal aliens don’t want to hear about: Control the damn border. [More]
There is no new thing under the sun and the more things change the more they stay the same. Hey, it’s not like a low-information public deliberately being kept that way will recognize old lies being dusted off and reintroduced as “truths”.
“The victim can be seen on police body-worn cameras telling the police that Mr. Muldrow probably saved his life,” the informational alert concluded. “Many other witnesses on the scene spoke up for Mr. Muldrow’s heroic actions. None of that mattered.” [More]
I interviewed Muldrow for Firearms News to get what happened straight from him.
“MAYBE what it will do is get some Member(s) of Congress to request GAO to do a forensic audit of the NFRTR to determine its accuracy and reliability,” another one of my “small cadre” advisors chimed in, pointing out the elephant in the room that “amnesty” proponents don’t much want to talk about. [More]
They have no authority to do it, they have no capability to do it, and on top of that, it’s a trap. Sounds like SOP for ATF.
“Some of those answers will come from Republicans, not the extremists that we are dealing with every single day,” Ryan continued, to show how conciliatory he can be. “We’ve got to kill and confront that movement, but working with normal mainstream Republicans, that’s going to be really, really important.” [More]
So if you don’t let radical gun-grabbing Democrats have the final word on who qualifies as a “normal mainstream Republican,” you’re an “extremist.”
I see the emails, social media messages and news tips are backed up from Friday night. After doing my Firearms News article promo, I’m just getting re-started here now because I spent the morning writing an AmmoLand piece on the “Republicans” who voted for the “assault weapon” ban I expect will be out before too long.
Oh, and first I had to deal with the aftermath of yesterday’s large family gathering we hosted. Where’d that crater in the backyard come from, and why are there bullet holes in the basement?
Bottom line– I’ll get to what I can. But I sure wouldn’t mind a slowdown on inputs.
Thank you to those of you who take the time out of your busy lives to reach out and guide me to interesting and important stories I might otherwise miss. I appreciate your understanding.
The software would know “prohibited person” status? How? Are banks now going to tap into NICS and perform after-the-fact “background checks”? How is such data sharing with private parties authorized by law? [More]
Rope-selling phony “capitalists,” that is, embedded Marxists and economic fascists, are banking on disarmament.
We’re coming up on the end of the week and I haven’t even gotten to news tips sent in yesterday morning yet. Sorry, but the article work that lets me do all this has to come first, and I’ve been up to my neck in that, with a pending article on Merchant Category Codes for Firearms News and the “Active Shooter” Alert bill for AmmoLand.
I’ll get to what I can but chances are I won’t get to most.
Thanks for understanding.
What’s not to celebrate? By all means, let’s do. Realistically. Let’s just not forget we’ve got a long way to go to “shall not be infringed” and it’s important to understand that some of the opinions from the majority will be more helpful toward getting there than others. [More]
Along with the admitted good come some exploitable (and unnecessary) concessions that Democrat states are already taking full advantage of, and that will take years to wrangle through.
Gowdy should know all that, but again, we’re dealing with someone who presents the illusion of being “conservative.” [More]
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.”
We don’t need a “hero” to carry our load because doing it ourselves it what makes us strong and becoming dependent is the worst thing that can happen to a free people… [More]
“Conservatives” getting their hopes up are going to be disappointed.
