Notes from the Resistance
You get what you vote for. Good and hard. And some want it gooder and harder. [More]
Why are the so-called “gun safety groups” afraid to be associated with this anti-gun “Democrat”? Why not ask them?
Accidental Shooting Statistics: A Review of Unintentional Firearm Deaths from 1979-2024 [More]
I’d use “negligent,” but we know is meant.
I read how “the first six months of 2025 had 608 accidental shootings, which is lower than previous years (2015-2024)” and wondered if we ought to get David Hogg to credit more Democrats.
The New York City Police Department cannot immediately fire dozens of rookie officers, including some with criminal records, who were allegedly hired illegally by the department, a New York Supreme Court judge ruled. The NYPD said an internal investigation found the 31 officers lied about their backgrounds on applications and should be relieved of their duties, but the judge’s ruling means the department must wait until next week to take action. [More]
What’s the problem? They seem like naturals.
[Via Jess]
San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus, who told the county supervisors she didn’t know about her department’s request to buy 10 massage chairs, actually tried to pass off the bill for the chairs to the sheriff’s bureaus in different cities to minimize scrutiny, according to an email from her HR manager…In March… Corpus purchased two soft-serve ice cream machines for employees in the county jails. In January, the Post reported that she had purchased a $74,000 conference room table. The 22-foot by 10-foot table includes 12 “cooling fans” in the legs and 10 “lockable access doors”… At a June 24 hearing, Supervisor Speier asked Corpus why she put in a request for a $600,000 TV for the headquarters conference room. [More]
Tell us again how “critical components of the county’s budget and operations specifically associated to programs such as Public Safety… are at significant risk”…
At least they have enough resources for “gun buybacks“…
“The Democrats’ Choice,” naturally…
[Via Steve T]
Jasmine Crockett claims most people vote the ‘wrong way’ due to a lack of education [More]
What, is she speaking from constituent experience…?
I’m wondering how a “real reporter” could file this story and not think to look into that. It was the first thing I thought of, but I’m #justablogger.
[Via bondmen]
“When the officers are shooting him in the back, he’s not a threat. You cannot shoot civilians in the back. That’s the worst of it and most of the shots were in the back,” Pleban said. [More]
Inigo responds to “Back the Blue.”
[Via bondmen]
The report, ordered by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, reveals that the Secret Service received classified intelligence regarding a threat to Trump’s life 10 days before the rally, but failed to share the information with other key agencies. [More]
So THAT explains ordinary people seeing the shooter before they did and not going up on that “sloped roof”…
It’s hard to believe they’re this lazy and incompetent and that no one who knows what they’re doing has taken advantage of that.
[Via bondmen]
Hawai‘i Police Department (HPD) will hold two public hearings in August 2025, one in Hilo and one in Kona, regarding its proposal to repeal “Rules and Regulations of the Hawai’i Police Department Governing the Issuance of Licenses to Carry Concealed and Unconcealed Weapons” adopted October 29, 1997, and to adopt Rule 1 relating to Firearms Permits and Licenses, in its entirety, as well as adopt Rule 2 relating to Contested Cases. [More]
So much for where to go for updates…
C’mon, guys… No one wants to take on the work of updating and growing? If this is the extent of the following and updates, how is anyone going to take you seriously?
@MayorBMScott has gotten no where near the credit he deserves for helping lead Baltimore to a record low in gun violence. He’s leading the way and there’s lots to learn from how Baltimore achieved this. [More]
What did he actually do and what’s the methodology used to determine effects? Otherwise, this is just more correlation ≠ causation BS to plant a meme in what passes for minds of the gullible.
That and the year ain’t over yet.
[Via Jess]
Instead of addressing the factors driving this violence—such as massive and uncontrolled immigration—the reaction is a grotesque distraction: proposing “trap condoms” with internal spikes designed to injure the attacker’s penis. [More]
And it didn’t work then, either.
Maybe if they combined it with anti-rape electric underwear…
I guess it doesn’t occur to pro-invader/anti-gun “progressive” women that the very act of inserting one of these obscenities is an act of self-rape performed for the dominating pleasure of their masters.
This is what they would reduce us all to.
[Via Michael G]
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) confirmed to a judge that it will not return Forced Reset Triggers (FRTs) to Nevada or other plaintiff states. Rare Breed Triggers, the largest U.S. supplier of FRTs, also confirmed it will not sell these devices in the plaintiff states. Consequently, the coalition is withdrawing its motion for a preliminary injunction. [More]
AG Aaron Ford doesn’t seem to grok that citizen ownership of “devices designed only to kill” makes tyrants think twice. On second thought, maybe he does. (Thanks for voting Democrat, Clark County! And I’m also glad to see Trump protecting illegals cleaning toilets for the elites is a bigger priority than honoring a pledge to his base.)
And we now see how far to the mat Bondi’s DOJ and the new and improved ATF are willing to go.
Who keeps the citizens’ unreturned property, and what will they do with it?
[Via Andy M]
Related UPDATE
Speaking of “clearly disagree[ing] on the Second Amendment,] how does caving to plaintiff states and banning FRTs in handguns comply with “shall not be infringed”?
Democrats’ ‘violent rhetoric’ is precisely the point [More]
Words have meaning.
They can inspire.
And they can come back to haunt.
Those egging on violence would do well to remember that.
All in all, there is hardly any evidence that handgun waiting period laws make a difference in homicides or suicides… As far as suicides are concerned, they have no effect on either gun suicide rates or total suicide rates. [More]
Another prohibitionist bit of calculated misdirection, that is…
Everybody here is totally aware of Gun Facts and relies on it as a go-to resource, right?
As with every anti-firearm “political agreement” at the UN, had it succeeded, U.S. manufacturers, retailers and users would be forced to comply with a global regulatory regime that no Congress ever approved and no American citizen voted for. [More]
How, without complicity and betrayal by the U.S. government?
Naturally, NSSF is all for international engagement.
I’ve made my views on giving foreign prohibitionists any say at all clear, bringing this rebuke from an NRA flack:
Yet despite this, those like David Codrea, in an article in the September 2003 issue of “Guns and Ammo”, would continue to council disengagement, retreat from the global battlefield, and a kind of pseudo-isolationism that fails to recognize that there are no protective oceans to hide behind in a world-wide battle of ideas. It is apparently more important for Codrea and his ilk to maintain an ideological purity of thought, rather than achieve any of the incremental positional successes that could best guarantee eventual victory. What is more, it is hard to imagine how an almost Islamist-like exclusionary world-view will enable the Codreas of the world to convert more than the occasional wandering “Aryan” to the paradise of a rapidly diminishing gunowner “reservation”.
The only response to globalist gun-grabbers is, “No. Your move.” And any trade pressure should be met with crushing pressure of or own.
This was a heroic action by the employee and undoubtedly saved who knows how many lives. [More]
So the position of the industry is “gun control” works but NICS needs a vigilante assist?
Doesn’t that also play into the hands of lawfaring gun-grabbers who argue dealers without psychic abilities are negligent and liable? And can they still do that if the person is the “wrong” color?
I note they’re prosecuting the guy for lying on the 4473. Guess he didn’t have the right dad.
