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It Ain’t Easy Being Green

Woke up to over 40 emails from WordFence with the same brute force attack alert:

A user with IP address 85.203.23.21 has been locked out from signing in or using the password recovery form for the following reason: Exceeded the maximum number of login failures which is: 20. The last username they tried to sign in with was: ‘admin’.
The duration of the lockout is 4 hours.
User IP: 85.203.23.21
User hostname: 85.203.23.21
User location: Bukit Merah Estate, Singapore

Somebody wants in. Or somebody’s “robot.” And who knows if it’s really Singapore or just a proxy bouncing things around?

It’s hardly the first time.

Combine that with recurring shared server issues leading to “Too many requests” 429 errors, and suppresive Google algorithms and social media “community standards” disallowing links, and I’m starting to think this “gunblogging” business may not be the lucrative royal road to Easy Street everybody thinks it is– especially since I don’t generate any revenue on this blog and don’t ask for or accept donations (hence my money back guarantee in the sidebar and the reason why I don’t pony up for a private server or hire a professional to free me to just do my thing).

And it’s not like the big Second Amendment groups are interested in promoting someone who criticizes them when they deserve it, which is often.

Thing is, I’ll remain green at this. I don’t (and won’t) get too deep into the technical aspects because I just don’t have time to learn how to be a competent site administrator– that’s not why I spend so much time doing what I do, and I just don’t have time for more. That and I have a life.

So, I don’t have any solutions to the site issues– just saw the latest set of warnings and thought I’d share some of what goes on behind the scenes with those of you who might be under the impression that the two-fisted, lucrative, fun-filled world of 2A agitation is just an endless succession of incentives and rewards.

A Shapeshifter Proclivity?

In 2024, according to the CRPC research, transgender individuals were 12 times as likely to commit an active shooting attack compared to the population as a whole. [More]

Pumping “Now Hulk MAD!” levels of ‘roid rage-inducing testosterone into female bodies that aren’t evolved for it can’t help.

But hey, if they just took everyone’s guns away, they could slice and dice with impunity!

Trump DOJ Stands Idly by as States Destroy the Second Amendment

Where is that plan of action that was due 30 days after the President’s Executive Order, Protecting Second Amendment Rights, dated February 7, 2025? Where is the DOJ on these grave violations of Americans’ gun rights? Why is the subversion of our Constitution so commonplace that lawmakers feel free to adopt infringements from countries that do not recognize a God-given right to defend life and liberty from tyranny? [More]

Harmeet needs to up her game.

Honolulu Police Department Responds to Request for Approved Firearm Instructors

This created a dilemma for Hawaii’s gun owners, the post explained, because it “left residents seeking lawful training with no independent way to confirm who was approved.” [More]

Catch-22…

Bringing a Flag to a Gunfight

In Florida? Where they have permitless and now open carry?

So he’d be bringing a flag to a gunfight if people simply exercised their rights?

And if Noem, Patel, Trump, and Pirro recognized them…?

[Via Michael G]

Driven to Despair

But when asked for their thoughts on safety measures, cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer readers suggested that arming drivers wouldn’t matter. “It seems some people who own guns must get trigger happy,” another wrote. “If drivers are shot indiscriminately being armed won’t help.” [More]

Kinda explains why they get their “news” from the Plain Dealer…

But I will cede one point: You put your back to an assailant to impede turning around and returning fire and you’re definitely going to be at a disadvantage. So the title premise is right: It’s just not worth it.

Not that Johnny Cabs will be an improvement…

[Via JG]

We’re All Suspects Now

Gun store owner says FBI asked him to check firearm sales against list of names, pics in Guthrie case… He said none of the names returned a match for firearm purchases within the past year. According to Martin, the agent told him investigators planned to visit additional gun stores to determine whether anyone on the list had recently bought a weapon. [More]

Why didn’t they just ask ATF?

What did Inspector Clouseau say?

[Via Steve T]

But Not for Thee

Councilor Loretta Smith, who represents East Portland in District 1, has drafted a city ordinance to allow city councilors to openly carry a firearm while conducting city business. [More]

Shall we consult text, history, and tradition?

I ask, Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.

For “progressives,” every day is Opposite Day.

[Via Steve T]

A Proper Understanding

The State previously filed an answer brief taking the position that Appellant Christopher Morgan was properly convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm. On further reflection, the Attorney General is of the view that the conviction violated Morgan’s Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Properly understood, the Second Amendment permits the government to dispossess felons whose convictions indicate that the felon is dangerous, but not merely all felons as a categorical matter. [More]

So… which Republican AG approved that previous answer?

And point of order– it’s nice to see the insistence on punishing nonviolent offenders forever has been reconsidered, but what good does a lifetime disability on violent ones do if they’re then allowed to stalk among us?

That’ll Teach Gun Owners to be ‘Law-Abiding’

Today, the National Rifle Association and Second Amendment Foundation filed an amicus brief in Hall v. Sig Sauer, urging a Pennsylvania federal court to reconsider an order requiring Sig Sauer to disclose its customers’ names and contact information without their consent. [More]

It’s nice to see they’ve finally learned their lesson about not sharing credit where due.

Hey, guess whose names are safe!

[Via Jess]

Insensitive Places

[A]s Bruen explained, larger, open places like cities, sidewalks, and parks cannot be considered sensitive places because it would effectively nullify the Second Amendment right to categorically exclude them from its coverage. [More]

Thanks for throwing your fellow gun-grabbers under the public transit bus!

Now acknowledge that even with closed space “protection,” “it’s”Only Ones” who claimed credit for stopping attacks have been reported to be hiding while a citizen subdued the attacker, and then there’s the not insignificant matter of making it to or from the “sensitive area” in one piece.

[Via Jess]

Big Brother is Watching You

California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves [More]

That report on you…

I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen legislation that abrogates so many of the amendments in the Bill of Rights in one edict.

But…but…but it’s for the greater good…

[Via TactiCool Memes]

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