ATF’s new snitch app will help remove trigger-pullers from the streets [More]
[Via Michael G]
Wolf in the Fold
Scott argued he can unify the GOP with a positive, forward-looking message built around a compelling personal story and upbeat demeanor… [More]
I dunno… we’ve already seen some of the Swamp-protecting results of that “Wall Street backing”…
Never forget he picked Lisa Murkowski over Kelly Tshibaka. That and he’s a lying prior restraint/no real due process gun-grabber.
The fat cats want him because they think he’ll be able to diffuse accusations that they’re racists. If they think that’ll faze the Democrats one bit, they’re delusional.
People of Their Importance
The British government stopped providing security after Harry and his wife, Meghan, quit their royal duties and moved to California in 2020. A lawyer for the government argued in court that it should allow hiring of “police officers as private bodyguards for the wealthy.” Harry has said he doesn’t feel safe visiting Britain with his young children, and has cited aggressive press photographers. [More]
While Wallis Simps…uh…Meghan sucks up to the Demanding Moms…? And since when are we admitting the “gun-safety” realm isn’t safe?
I was all for piling on until I read Harry wants to sic them on the DSM. Now I’m torn.
Still, I keep coming back to Thomas Paine…
Trusting the ‘Custodian’
Man allegedly kills grandma with hammer, summons housekeeper to clean up [More]
Delusional. And how irredeemably broken do you need to be to not be able to be trusted with a hammer?
[Via Michael G]
Useful Idiot
DuMB
Dave Matthews rails against gun violence: ‘No one is coming for your guns’ [More]
Don’t tell us. Tell all the fanatics who say they are.
Nothing helps me make up my mind more than a rich leftist celebrity opinion!
[Via bondmen]
Call Options, Put Options, and No Options
Buried in the detailed account is a little noticed footnote stating that Clinton General Counsel Marc Elias “declined to be voluntarily interviewed by the Office.” Likewise, Durham noted that “no one at Fusion GPS … would agree to voluntarily speak with the Office” while both the DNC and Clinton campaign invoked privileges to refuse to answer certain questions. [More]
And you know what Congress will do with that?
The same thing the OIG did (didn’t do) when it “exonerated” (that’s what the media called it) Eric Holder in Gunwalker:
Case in point, Chapter One of the report identifies key individuals who declined to be interviewed, significantly including “Criminal Chief [Patrick J.] Cunningham [who] declined through counsel our request for a follow-up interview…We also requested an interview with Kevin O’Reilly, a member of the White House’s National Security Staff[who] declined our request through his personal counsel.”
The Republic won’t be saved with threats of Krakens that can’t get it up.
[Via bondmen]
Not Just Haters, But Barbarians and Brutes
The right-wing movement surrounding Daniel Penny is barbaric – Republicans and right-wing pundits see vigilante brutality as something to champion. [More]
Parroting talking points — how “progressive” and original.
Per the DSM, defending people against attacks by violent lunatics at great personal risk is vigilantism, and Republicans are just not as civilized as the native Pakistan that first-generation anchor commie Zeeshan Aleem’s parents fled.
[Via bondmen]
We’re the Only Ones Corrupt Enough
How This Corrupt Cop Secretly Ran A Whole City [More]
Yo, Rep. Crenshaw: Got some more exemptions for ya…
[Via Jess]
And There Was War in Heaven
As I said on Monday, the gloves have come off and the powers that be at the NRA have created an implacable enemy in former 1st VP Willes Lee. Now that he is free from the constraints of being both an officer and a member of the Special Litigation Committee, Lee is feeling no remorse about starting to air dirty laundry. [More]
When I met him in Pittsburgh last October at the 2022 NRA-ILA Firearms Law & the Second Amendment Symposium, I thought from the impression I had of him being a Fairfax loyalist that he’d have a real problem with me. Instead, he was gracious, told me voices like mine needed to be heard, and asked me to introduce him to Stephen Stamboulieh. The possibility was there in the back of my mind but I didn’t get the sense I was being played.
Seeing how his years of being the good soldier have been repaid you gotta wonder why– and why Wayne et al. thought that was a good idea. Maybe now that he’s freeing himself up to be candid about its inner workings, perhaps we’ll find out why, as it’s increasingly obvious that his loyalty is to NRA as an institution and its staff.
NRA in Danger blog has more background.
Criminal Minds
Here to Stay
Since assault weapons bans aren’t coming back and AR-15-style rifles are here to stay, the most important thing we can do is modernize the background check system, around which there’s a modicum of bipartisan consensus. [More]
What, you mean the system that the National Institute of Justice says requires registration to be effective, and that criminals won’t subject themselves to anyway…?
Still, nice of him to admit they don’t have the juice to get rid of them. In The New York Times, no less…
[Via Jess]
We’re the Only Ones Cowboying Up Enough
Going with What Works
A ‘Tragic Accident’
Shannon Brandt pled guilty to manslaughter after Cayler Ellingson was killed when he was hit by Brandt’s vehicle in September 2022. The guilty plea comes just weeks after the charges were reduced from murder to manslaughter. [More]
Now imagine the sentence is Brandt were the “Republican extremist” and his victim had been [insert preferred woke category here].
[Via Michael G]
This is My Shocked Face
Aman who had his federal life sentence commuted by President Obama in 2015 shot a woman on a Chicago expressway leaving her brain dead earlier this week, according to prosecutors. [More]
Who could have predicted someone with three felony strikes against him already would get in trouble again?
[Via Remarks]
Armorer Wanted, Inquire Within
Alec Baldwin to star in film about Kent State shootings in 1970 [More]
OK, in this shot, Alec, I want you to point the gun right at the protesting students…
Armed Defense of Vatican Highlights Church Hypocrisy on Guns
This is a belief in authoritarian supremacy and the magic of the badge of the “Only Ones,” like the Pontifical Swiss Guard and Gendarmerie Corps. [More]
Armed guards with state-of-the-art weaponry for them and martyrdom for the rest of us…
Daily Defense Redux
David Codrea discusses the War on Guns for the hour with Mark [Listen]
As usual, we ended up talking about a lot more than that.
We’re the Only Ones Truthful Enough
A bill Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw introduced Friday could streamline Border Patrol’s hiring process by eliminating the polygraph requirement for some candidates with law enforcement or military credentials. [More]
Because nothing says “more trustworthy than you” like being an “Only One.”
This Crenshaw character certainly has proved to be a continual disappointment.