GRE Round Up, Nov. 30

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Mike Stollenwerk/DC:

• Federal employees can make tax deductible gun rights gifts 'till Jan. 17

David Codrea/National:

• Former congressman urges ATF oversight hearings

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• In the battle against crime, whose wisdom prevails – SPD or SAF?

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Major BATFE 'house cleaning' most pressing gun rights need

More importantly, though, we need stringent congressional oversight of the BATFE's activities. As it happens, former congressman Jim Lightfoot has recommended just that. Having once been chairman of the committee that approved the BATFE's budget, he has some knowledge of that agency, and what he knows about it ain't pretty. [More]

That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.

GRE Round Up, Nov. 29

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:

• Safer Streets 2011: Is incoming Congress serious about smaller government?

David Codrea/National:

• ATF attempting to reclassify small arms ammunition without public input


• ‘The Social Contract’ exposes Southern Poverty Law Center


• Felon laments he can’t vote for gun control

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Rendell veto closes link between anti-gun and anti-self-defense philosophies

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Living with 'prohibited person' no grounds for forcible citizen disarmament

As problematical as it is to designate a large segment of the population as undeserving of the exercise the right to keep and bear arms, the problem is brought into even sharper relief when one considers the fact that someone who has in no other respect been deemed unworthy of that right could be prosecuted for exercising it while living with (or being visited by?) a "prohibited person." [More]

That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.

GRE Round Up, Nov. 26

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Happy Thanksgiving to all who support the right to keep and bear arms


• Anti-gun rappers' aim to curb violence off target

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Animal rights extremists declare war


• Let’s see Bloomberg explain this one

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Armed St. Louisan gives would-be predator a pain in the rear

The young thug (thuglet?) was taken to the hospital, with non-life-threatening injuries. He also has a story that I suspect he would prefer not to share with his fellow residents in whatever facility he is sent to--such a story is unlikely to go far in burnishing one's tough-guy credentials. One would hope that in his trip to the store, he also picked up a bit of much needed (desperately needed, really) wisdom. That would suit him much better than the bag of potato chips he tried to steal. [More]

That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.

As American gun owners, we have much for which to give thanks

I have the privilege of calling some of today's heirs of that proud legacy friends, and all of them allies. I am secure in the knowledge that I will not be alone in refusing to ever surrender so much as a square inch of the moral and Constitutional high ground. [More]

That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Happy Thanksgiving, folks.

Another blogroll addition

Last week, I added No Lawyers - Only Guns and Money to the blogroll.

Today, I'm adding An NC Gun Blog (No Lawyers is also a North Carolina blog--something about all those paratroopers must do something good for a state). Do yourself a favor, and check both of them out.

GRE Round Up, Nov. 24

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:

• Safer Streets 2011: Safer airlines 2011, maybe?

David Codrea/National:

• Should those who oppose TSA excesses be ‘prohibited persons’ for gun ownership?

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Why we should be thankful…and other stuff

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Brady Campaign and VPC not opposed to repealing Hughes Amendment?

Oddly, though, both those organizations also argue, when it suits them, that semi-automatic and fully-automatic firearms are essentially similar. In arguing for a ban of so-called "assault weapons," for example, the VPC claims that not only are semi-autos no less "deadly" than full-autos--they might be more so . . . [More]

That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Hope you give it a look, and tell a friend.

GRE Round Up, Nov. 23

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:

• Safer Streets 2011: We are not supervised; We do the supervising. Republicans, call your office.

David Codrea/National:

• Philadelphia ‘secret police’ threaten to ‘lock up’ citizen for open carrying

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

St Louis #1 in violent crime--and 'authorities' disparage armed self-defense

There are some races in which it would be best to come in last. Unfortunately, in perhaps the best example of such a race, St. Louis leads the pack. [More]

That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. By the way--this is something I just thought of, in reference to Slay's "warning" to Troupe about carry laws and City Hall:

I'm not saying that Mayor Slay's apparent hostility to the idea of Alderman Troupe being armed has anything to do with Troupe's race, but that wouldn't seem out of keeping with the attitudes of that group's founder.

Please give it a look, and tell a friend.

GRE Round Up, Nov. 22

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:

• Guns on campus, president mistaken or ?

David Codrea/National:

• Sharpton endorses NYPD community gun snitch program to promote 'civil rights'


• ATF ‘cease and desist’ order to parts-maker defies logic and law


• NJ radio station urges Gov. Christie to ‘Free Brian Aitken’

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• SAF sues in New Jersey; More on gun ‘dealer’ bust

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

College president lying about concealed carry, and media covering for him

This is, of course, utter hogwash (to be polite), as the Luby's Cafeteria massacre occurred in 1991--five years before the legalization of concealed carry in Texas, and the only guns present were in the hands of the deranged psychopath responsible for the slaughter. In fact, one of the prime movers in the effort that brought legal concealed carry to Texas in 1996 is Dr. Suzanna Gratia Hupp. She was at Luby's that horrible, fateful day, with her parents, and in compliance with Texas law at the time, had left her handgun behind, and was thus powerless to prevent the murder of both her parents. [More]

That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Hope you stop by, and tell a friend.

Where there's a will, there's a way

Pretty amazing:



Makes me feel like a wuss, for giving up long guns when I became paraplegic (because they're awkward for someone confined to a wheelchair.

GRE Round Up, Nov. 19

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Do mental health study findings demand disarming one in five Americans?

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Getting the story straight about Friday’s arrest and the Puyallup gun show

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

National Ammo Day

Today is the day.

The "official" idea is to buy 100 rounds of centerfire ammo.

Me? I decided to multiply that by 25.

Why? Oh--I don't know . . .

In 1972, when the ATF separated from the Internal Revenue Service and became its own bureau within the Treasury Department, it had about 2,500 agents. At the time, the FBI had 8,700, the DEA 1,500 and the U.S. Marshals 1,900.

Thirty-eight years later, the FBI is up to 13,000, the DEA has more than tripled to 5,000, and there are 3,300 federal marshals.

The ATF, now a part of the Justice Department, remains at 2,500.

Just seemed like an appropriate observance of the nomination of Andrew Traver as head JBT.

These folks would be happy to help you in your observance, I'm sure.

Robert J. Spitzer's views on Second Amendment are far from 'distinguished'

Right from the beginning, he stakes out his opposition to the idea of a Constitutional guarantee of an individual right to keep and bear arms, with his "militia-based" qualifier--and then he declares the right "obsolete." And he's just getting started . . . [More]

That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please stop by, and tell a friend.

GRE Round Up, Nov. 18

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Brady Campaign endorsed ‘gun criminal’ legislator

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Traver nomination to lead BATFE sparks hot opposition

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Focus on the crime, not the gun

I understand the desire to silence any "soft on crime" accusations from the forcible citizen disarmament lobby, but doing that is simply not worth giving up an inch of ground on the "tough on Constitutional rights violation" front. [More]

That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.

GRE Round Up, Nov. 17

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Paul Valone/Charlotte:

• 'In Due Time' raises civil liberty issues of concern to all

Sean McClanahan/Des Moines:

• Another Sheriff hits the panic button

David Codrea/National:

• Obama could appoint Traver to head ATF without Senate approval

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Supreme Court’s 8-0 ruling affirms efforts of Carlson and ‘gun lobby’

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Supreme Court agrees with the NRA--AGAINST gun rights

I realize, of course, that the NRA doesn't share my objection--executive vice president Wayne LaPierre has, in fact, criticized the federal justice system for not using such prosecutorial gambits more often . . . [More]

That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.

Blogroll addition

This deserves a post of its own. I have only recently become aware of the gun blog No Lawyers - Only Guns and Money.

Please consider making it a daily stop--I seriously doubt you'll regret it.

GRE Round Up, Nov. 16

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• ATF testimony admits many unregistered machine guns allowed by ruling

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Budget cuts, stand your ground and the ‘Wild’ West

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Obama names anti-gun extremist as next BATFE head

The question now is whether or not the Senate will confirm him. The New York Times article says "he may face a confirmation fight" (and David Codrea points out that there had better be one). The recent Washington Post anti-gun series (discussed here) seems to imply that such a fight is inevitable: [More]

That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.

GRE Round Up, Nov. 15

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Mike Stollenwerk/DC:

• Open carry Governors win elections


• Black is back

David Codrea/National:

• ACLU head Romero responds to Gresham


• Gun owners dodged bullet on lead ammo ban


• ATF position on pistol grip 'shotguns' creates new danger

Sean Caranna/Seattle:

• Florida community leaders willfully ignoring state firearms laws

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• ‘Winning firearms freedom, one lawsuit at a time'

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

And . . .

Join National Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea and the Sipsey Street Irregulars' Mike Vanderboegh tonight on the Watchmen Radio Network, discussing the BATFE's new threat to gun owners, the Airsoft fiasco, and more.

Listen live here at 8 PM EST.

'Gun control' gets a new poster boy

Virginia Tech shooting victim Colin Goddard has found that which innumerable medieval alchemists sought so desperately (and so unsuccessfully): a way to transmute lead to gold. The lead in the four bullets with which he was shot is now the gold of a paid position as "professional victim" for the Brady Campaign. [More]

That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.

GRE Round Up, Nov. 12

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Why did ATF issue—and then rescind—a ruling declaring air guns ‘firearms’?

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Hard ‘Boyle-d’ justice

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Airsoft fiasco just latest example of why BATFE must be held accountable

While I agree with Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, in their contention that we need to "boot the ATF," I am realistic enough to realize it's not likely to happen any time soon. In the meantime, I urge gun owners to push Congress--now reinforced with many new Republicans who at least give lip service to "supporting the Second Amendment"--to pass H.R. 1923, the "Fairness in Firearms Testing Act." [More]

That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.

GRE Round Up, Nov. 11

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:

• Happy Veterans Day!

David Codrea/National:

• Why shouldn’t ‘human targets’ shoot back?

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Don’t tell me why you didn’t vote, explain it to a vet

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Killing for 'gun control'?

Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but when, in a discussion about government violence, Horwitz brings up the "unbelievable amount of firepower on the streets" the officers are "faced with," it seems as if he's saying that law enforcement would kill fewer citizens, if gun laws were even more restrictive than they are now. In other words (while I'm going out on a limb here anyway), maybe if we banned so-called "assault weapons" (for example), fewer citizens would be gunned down by their supposed "protectors." [More]

That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.

GRE Round Up, Nov. 10

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Anthony Bouchard/Cheyenne:

• City of Cody Wyoming challenging lawful carry with nuisance code

David Codrea/National:

• Violent leftists agree with SPLC and 'Waco Jim' on threat from the armed right

Regular readers will know that I'm a big admirer of David's work, but the series that he has done this week is especially excellent. See parts 1 and 2.

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Portland mayor sends signal that WA gun owners better heed

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• Michigan Firearms

East St. Louisans taking responsibility for their own security

Well, Mayor--it seems some residents have a plan, too. Of course, one problem with the residents' plan is that they are attempting to implement it in Illinois, where armed self-defense in public is utterly prohibited. In fact, about a year ago, I wrote about Mayor Parks' response to the idea of lowly, non-"Only Ones" having the temerity to insist on having the means to defend themselves in public: [More]

That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Stop on by, and tell a friend.

GRE Round Up, Nov. 9

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Sean McClanahan/Des Moines:

• Iowa Firearms Coalition announces their 2011 legislation agenda

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:

• Safer Streets 2011: The second amendment after the election.


• Safer Streets 2011: Guns on campus mean safer campuses 2011.


• Safer Streets 2011: Recommended reading after the election.

David Codrea/National:

• How Duke the sun-loving bull helped kill a BB gun ban


• Did SPLC just make it dangerous to have a ‘conservative’ bumper sticker?


• Is ATF's Cavanaugh a credible SPLC spokesman?

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Fitting end to a barbaric crime, and other news items


• ‘What I did doesn’t deserve a life sentence’

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• Michigan Firearms

Liberty News/Safer Streets

• Click here for the latest from Los Angeles GRE John Longenecker.

Brady Campaign's Dennis Henigan, and the ideology of 'gun control'

If gun rights advocacy is "ideological," it is no less so than "gun control" advocacy, and what's more, a pro-liberty ideology is hardly something to be ashamed of. [More]

That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please give it a look, and tell a friend.

GRE Round Up, Nov. 5

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:

• Did Tennessee Democratic Party's mudslinging backfire?

David Codrea/National:

• Should 'insolence' be cause for losing guns?

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Starbucks redux: Money talks and B.S. walks

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• Michigan Firearms

'Great election night' for Second Amendment?

All this is to say that if Mr. Kopel's optimism is warranted, then what I said Wednesday goes double--Tuesday's election results have put gun rights advocates in a stronger position, but we'll have to use that muscle, if we are to gain any benefit from it. [More]

That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Take a look, tell a friend, make Sarah Brady cry?

GRE Round Up, Nov. 4

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• ACLU attacks conservatives as 'extremists' in fundraising appeal

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• ‘Earn this’ is message to Republicans; A note for KIRO’s Dori Monson

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• Michigan Firearms

GRE Round Up, Nov. 3

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Paul Valone/Charlotte:

• Pro-gun majority captures North Carolina legislature

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:

• A new beginning for the 2nd Amendment in the Sooner State

Sean Caranna/Orlando:

• No laurels for the victors to rest on in Florida

David Codrea/National:

• Was election a victory for gun owners?

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• While dust settles, gun owners count wins, losses

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• Michigan Firearms

Liberty News/Safer Streets

• Click here for the latest from Los Angeles GRE John Longenecker.

Time for Republicans to earn the support they got from gun owners

But we are not going to gratefully accept just fighting off more attacks on that which shall not be infringed--we will not be content with merely holding our ground. We want to see some gains--significant gains. There's nothing unrealistic about that. In the face of the Democrats' near hegemony in Congress, and the most anti-gun presidential administration in U.S. history, no new federal gun laws were inflicted on us, and gun rights even made some minor progress on the federal level (national park carry, Amtrak ban lifted). [More]

That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Please check it out, and tell a friend.

GRE Round Up, Nov. 2

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Does the Tea Party have a 'gun problem'?

Please welcome Sean Caranna/Orlando:

• Janet Reno's Ban on Open Carry in Florida

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Is it time in Washington for ‘constitutional carry?'

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• Michigan Firearms
  

The 'gun problem' is not in the Tea Party

Adam Winkler, who teaches Constitutional law at UCLA, claims in a Daily Beast article that Tea Party candidates' support of gun rights is "radical." [More]

That's today's St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner. Stop on by.

GRE Round Up, Nov. 1

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Paul Valone/Charlotte:

• Pro-gun or anti-gun? Will the real Heath Shuler please stand up?

Anthony Bouchard/Cheyenne:

• President of Wyoming Family Coalition lies to gun owners about Matt Mead

Mike Stollenwerk/DC:

• California's Least Wanted

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:

• Arkansas Game and Fish goes wild


• Firearm rights candidates

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:

• TVA contacts needed

John Longenecker/Los Angeles:

• Safer Streets 2010: Which gun laws to repeal first, Part II.

David Codrea/National:

• Interview with GOA's Larry Pratt


• NYC gun proposal gets mixed response from store owners


• Will gun owners vote based on personal research or group endorsements?

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• It is time to vote; use it but don’t abuse it

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• Michigan Firearms
  

NYC's Bloomberg should call his group 'Mayors Against Armed Dark-Skinned People'

Herbert points out that in 575,000 "stops and frisks" last year, almost 505,000 of them turned up nothing illegal. Gun seizures are even more rare, with 99.85% of the searches not turning up an "illegal gun."

Even more damningly, Herbert cites respected Columbia University Law Professor Jeffrey Fagan, who describes the blatantly racist nature of this policy . . . [More]

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