Category: General Blog

The Gold Standard of Politicians

Trump and his trolls trying to primary this informed patriot are being destructive asses.

Tangentially-Related UPDATE

At a Senate Homeland Security hearing on the Second Amendment, Senators Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, and Josh Hawley question witnesses over concerns about efforts to weaken constitutional gun rights. The exchange highlights sharp divisions over how far federal policy should go in regulating firearms. Watch the three most talked-about moments from the hearing right here. [Watch]

But we always come back to what are they gonna do about it, don’t we?

[Via 1Gat]

Supermarket Sweep

Target and Whole Foods LEAVE NYC… as Mamdani Launches 5 FREE GROCERY STORES [Watch]

“Free”…

But good. Let the rope-selling capitalists see what life under politicians they enable will be like. And I can’t wait to see flash mobs, rioters, arsonists, and looters running wild at MamdaniMarts, especially if security opens fire on them.

[Via Jess]

Excreting Sheila from the Body Politic

The momentum for expulsion comes after a House ethics subcommittee found Cherfilus-McCormick guilty of more than two dozen ethics violations in March, including allegations related to stealing millions of disaster relief funds to finance her congressional run. She is also facing a separate federal criminal indictment that could result in more than 53 years in prison if convicted. [More]

What is it with ethical dwarfs supported by prohibitionist groups wanting our guns?

And what is it with voters in her district electing a scumbagette to replace a scumbag?

Adventures in Rigorousness

A Department of Homeland Security official was killed in Georgia by a naturalized U.S. citizen with a prior criminal record, a case that is raising new questions about the federal government’s vetting process after the agency recently acknowledged significant screening gaps. [More]

It’s just now “raising questions”?

Y’know, I read somewhere that the Preamble offers guidance on who should be eligible for admission…

Dismissal of Immigration Threat is What the Gun Prohibitionists’ Want

A Rebuttal to Cam Edwards’ Article ‘Should 2A Groups Make Opposition to Legal Immigration an Issue? A Response to David Codrea’ [More]

By disparaging thoughts on what a “pathway to citizenship” means for future “gun votes,” widely followed “gun rights influencers” are discouraging even discussing the issue.

Not Here for the Ratio

So that’s how they get away with it!

And their “solution”?

Then again, even blind pigs can find the occasional acorn:

[Via Jess]

Cabal News

Sudden GOP infighting explodes over bipartisan immigration reform bill [More]

How undignified!

Vichycons for Haitian Hammer Killers… ?

But wait! There’s more:

While the Salazar-Lawler bill is the worst of it, there are other efforts afoot from the same cabal of anti-MAGA “Republicans.” Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa.) has reintroduced H.R. 5494, the Essential Workers for Economic Advancement Act. The bill expands visas for up to 500,000 alien laborers in the construction, hospitality, and other sectors and proposes a new H-2C visa program for critical jobs that do not require a college degree but are essential to business operations and U.S. economic growth.

With a name like Smucker, he has to be good (from 2016):

Change my mind on how his supporting a massive influx of foreign nationals will be good for the future of 2A.

Enforce Existing Intolerable Acts?

Bring back Project Exile (1997) since this law remains on the books. We need to enforce the laws we have, there seems to be little need for new laws , in my opinion. [More]

No and no.

The problem is, louder subsidized voices with longer reach dominate the discussion, and us niche-within-a-niche guys don’t even make it to most gun owners’ radar.

Case in point…

Text, history, and tradition tell us the Framers and the ratifiers would have rejected infringements. And reality tells us that citizen disarmament gives both predators and tyrants the advantage they need to succeed.

You’re a Daisy if You Do

New York Lawmakers Move to Restrict BB and Pellet Guns – Proposed legislation would redefine air guns as ‘imitation weapons’ and impose new regulations. [More]

In other words, I had more freedom as a boy in the Shah’s Iran than Americans do in the Land of the Second Amendment.

[Via Jess]

The Fix is In

The Democratic governor’s changes to House Bill 217/Senate Bill 749 remove the word “fixed” from part of the bill’s definition of an assault firearm, which could sharply expand the range of semi-automatic rifles and pistols swept into the ban, Republicans say. [More]

It’s good that DOJ is going to fight this, but let’s be careful not to turn “common use” into a trap.

Ultimately, it boils down to how many Virginians are committed to the Commonwealth’s motto.

Once More Unto the Breach

Trump has just announced thanks to Gun Owners America that they are going to reconsider the Biden era frame and receiver rule. Is this a shock? Should we have freaked out last week? Well, we’re going to talk about it because as I said last week in another video, I told you so. [Watch]

If so, great, but where I come from, “going to reconsider” doesn’t mean “will,” “may” can also mean “may not,” and we should all be hearing this in an unequivocal announcement from the administration, not parceled out to a select few supportive influencers.

Sorry if my first impression is that this sounds like an electioneering tactic from someone skilled at telling gun owners what they want to hear, but he’s been playing this game on us for years, so everyone will have to forgive me if I suspect this is more of the same — and if he does do it, it will be more out of manipulation than sincere conviction.

Change my mind.

[Via Jess]

Attack of the Vichycons

Dem-led push to extend protections for Haitians faces outrage after brutal hammer killing – Four Republicans crossed party lines to join Rep Ayanna Pressley in forcing a vote to extend TPS for three years – – Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., and Don Bacon, R-Neb., crossed party lines in support of forcing a chamber-wide vote on Pressley’s bill. [More]

Or linked a different way:

Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., and Don Bacon, R-Neb., crossed party lines in support of forcing a chamber-wide vote on Pressley’s bill.

UPDATE

A correspondent just forwarded me this email from NumbersUSA: