Notes from the Resistance
ATF Revoked More Licenses in Fiscal Year 2024 Than in Any of the Past 20 Years [More]
The “independent journalists” at The Trace can’t help but gloat. Good thing they promise Bloomberg “seed money” has no influence on their “reporting.”
While reviewing this for history, text, and tradition, the most relevant Founding era viewpoint I could find says “He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.”
And here’s the most relevant contemporary article I could find about the character of such officers, in all their “glory.”
[Via Jess]
One murder with @ 5M members at the time? Is there a more peaceable population on the planet?
According to the nonpartisan, nonprofit newsroom The Trace… [Watch]
That’s all I need to hear.
They didn’t even have to add “Jennifer Mascia” and CBS.
[Via Dan Gifford]
The Country’s Biggest Ghost Gun Manufacturer Has Shuttered [More]
C’mon, Bloomberg/Trace: Take credit for your part in it, along with the virtually unlimited special interest war chest these makers of a legal product, supposedly protected by the Second Amendment, just could not withstand.
[Via Jess]
Over 200,000 firearms found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico between 2015 and 2022 were linked back to the U.S., recent data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) shows. [More]
Remember last time they were pushing this line?
[Via bondmen]
Antigun Activists Ambushed Me – The New York Times disparaged my research based on vague criticisms by progressive academics. [More]
Y’oughta see what they say about John Lott!
You’ll have to excuse Jennifer. She’s got Daddy Issues.
[Via David G]
“McWhirter noted, “If there was ever a political situation in which PLCAA was rolled back, they would stop making AR-15s tomorrow because it would just be legally impossible. And, and all, every other gun would be really problematic.” [More]
It’s always been about taking your guns.
And The Trace has always been about its damaged propagandists, who no doubt are delusional enough to believe themselves champions of “commonsense gun safety. “
Maryland is among the states looking to follow California in taxing the gun industry to support hospitals, violence intervention programs, and services for victims of gun violence. [More]
All the best totalitarian regimes do it!
It’s not like Democrats are going to penalize the real cuprits: Their constituents and themselves.
Here’s the video of the hearing. Too bad it doesn’t have a transcript to allow homing in on specific “data” lies, and exposing those at the committee level is something funded “gun groups” ought to be putting resources into.
I did get one laugh out of this:
Chip is a reporter at The Trace…
Good one!
[Via Antigone]
The Trace story quotes Byrna’s founder, president and chief executive officer, Bryan Ganz. However, on Friday, Ganz told the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project that he had never even heard of the Trace until the story appeared Thursday morning. The freelance writer who wrote the story claimed it would appear in a different publication. [More]
How can you be an industry leader and be so oblivious about the media environment you’re operating in?
Jennifer Mascia, Crackpots, and the AR-15 [More]
Now be nice. Meadow Soprano has Daddy Issues.
Shannon Watts just didn’t want people seeing any reminders of her past.
Pistol braces are popular accessories intended to increase the accuracy and stability of AR-15-style pistols. [More]
Just to be clear, the “commonsense gun safety law” prohibitionists, the violence monopoly beneficiaries, and their enforcers are all trying to gaslight voters into believing it’s in the public interest for firearms to be more inaccurate and unstable.
That’s Orwellian, fanatical, and insane, in other words, SOP for Bloomberg’s The Trace. The only people who would support such absurd, destructive diktats are stupid, evil, or both.
With President Biden announcing new executive orders on guns Tuesday, CNN Newsroom invited Jennifer Mascia, senior writer for The Trace (an anti-gun rights publication), to share her dubious study. According to Mascia, a CNN contributor, gun manufacturers were directly in control of gun deaths in America as she suggested “when gunmakers ramped up production, gun deaths rose.” Of course, CNN gushed for this purported evidence to back their anti-gun rights agenda. [More]
And Meadow Sopran… uh, I mean Jennifer, of course, wants you disarmed in case homicidal thugs like Daddy come calling.
As a side issue, Google is really, really suppressing and silencing my voice. It does not list that article, making it impossible to find unless you know about it. And a “Google News” search, which used to return thousands of hits including my AmmoLand stuff, now only results in a handful of hits.
[Via Michael G]
The National Rifle Association saw revenue continue to decline in 2021, when it collected $227 million, the lowest figure in a decade and a 20 percent drop from the year before, according to the group’s most recent IRS filing. Back in 2016, the organization took in a record $367 million. [More]
Bloomberg-“seeded” The Trace takes its mouth off his teat long enough to gloat.
That said, numbers don’t lie, and the board knows what it needs to do to begin to appeal to member confidence. Except Wayne has his fingers dug in and wrapped around the spine, lest he falls off the tiger and gets devoured.
[Via Jess]
The most high-profile effort has come from Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, who has emerged as one of the most prominent critics of what he describes as the corrupting influence of dark money on the court. He has proposed a bill that would treat amicus filers more like lobbyists, subjecting them to registration and financial reporting. [More]
While Sheldon gets to influence as a perk.
That’s pretty rich, considering the indignation is being stirred up by a Bloomberg Machine beneficiary. You know, the same machine that has for years been quietly setting up infrastructure in the states (that means with the media keeping mum) to make legal challenges to infringements necessary…
[Via Remarks]
More Changes to State Policies and New Court Developments After the Bruen Case [More]
MA and CA, not to mention Bloomberg Central, ought to have some wailing and teeth gnashing going on. And this means Bonta is going back to Benitez.
Sometimes The Trace can be useful, even though it’s no secret what they’re rooting for.
According to law enforcement, the 18-year-old gunman wore what’s known as a plate carrier: a vest, often made of ordinary fabric, that holds hard armor plates designed to protect against rifle rounds. The legislation signed by Hochul bans the purchase of “body vests,” which are defined in state law as “a bullet-resistant soft body armor.” Soft body armor is flexible, more concealable, and designed to stop small-caliber rounds. [More]
Bloomberg’s The Trace puts the lie to “Enough.” It will never be.
