GRE Round Up, June 30

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Anthony Bouchard/Cheyenne:

• They laughed when I said I wanted to restore gun rights in Wyoming

Rob Reed/Detroit:

• Congressional gun trafficking report ignores "Operation Gunrunner" misconduct

David Codrea/National:

• NRA warns firearms dealers of anti-gun survey

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Dem report on gun running follows gun control agenda, has NW link


• Did Tacoma Mall gunman cheat death again in prison break attempt?

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

An open letter to 'Gunwalker underpants gnome' Jon Stewart

And Mr. Stewart, despite your obvious disapproval of the Operation Fast and Furious "strategy," you are apparently so willing to believe that it actually was a strategy for combating gun trafficking, developed by career law enforcement officials and prosecutors, that you ridicule those who suspect that the strategy instead had another, far more sinister, goal. You, in fact, ridicule those who report the news that such questions have been raised anywhere.

That, I think, qualifies you for "Gunwalker underpants gnome" status. You can bill me for the little green pointed hat, but the beard is your responsibility. [More]

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GRE Round Up, June 29

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Cummings, Schumer to hold ‘Gunwalker’ show trial against gun rights

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• SPD rifle flap punctures public perception about cops as gun safety experts


• Cummings’ Thursday Fast & Furious ‘forum’ called a smokescreen

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Would-be terrorists STILL not using 'gun show loophole'

That last sentence, "The weapons were inoperable," is interesting, isn't it? You mean that's how a gun sting operation is done, if the goal is to catch and prosecute suspects, rather than contribute to the deaths of many innocent people, and then blame those deaths on "lax gun laws"? At risk of being accused of pushing a "baseless conspiracy theory," I gotta wonder why another famous gun "sting operation" (so we're told) didn't try something similar.

Maybe you have to be an underpants gnome to understand. [More]

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GRE Round Up, June 28

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Calling out excuse-mongering Jon Stewart and Media Matters on Gunwalker intent

Yih-Chau Chang/Oakland:

• Yoga Instructor Finds Her Balance By Supporting 2nd Amendment Rights

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Chicago’s top cop plays race card in gun rights debate; NW activists react


• BREAKING: Grassley to get ‘F&F’ files for Senate votes; ATF fires whistleblower

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Finally, and just as importantly, see John Longenecker's Liberty News/Safer Streets newsletter.

Do 'Gunwalker' apologists REALLY think DoJ no smarter than 'Underpants Gnomes'?

David Codrea suggests we start referring to the "brains" behind "Project Gunwalker" as "underpants gnomes," and try to make the meme stick. Let's do that. Let's make the "Gunwalker" apologists defend the notion that the United States Department of Justice is run by people no smarter than underpants gnomes. [More]

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GRE Round Up, June 27

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• A Journalist's Guide to 'Project Gunwalker'-Part Four


• ‘Day by Day’ does best Gunwalker cartoon yet!


• New Eminem video continues entertainment industry’s ugly portrayal of guns

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• George Custer, meet Ken Melson and Eric Holder


• Bellevue v. Big Apple: SAF files for summary judgment in permit case


• Inslee makes it official; his nagging ‘F’ rating stands


• NRA News scores big with Fast & Furious interviews

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Illinois stands alone in banning armed self-defense

In the end, though, it should be admitted that today's title is not entirely accurate. By mandating defenselessness, the government of Illinois has guaranteed itself a plentiful supply of allies: armed robbers, rapists, psychopaths, "flash mobs," etc. who can be confident that their intended victims will not have an effective means to resist their predations.

And Governor Quinn is proud of it. [More]

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GRE Round Up, June 24

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Top Chi-Town cop invokes Orwellian definition of racism to disarm citizenry

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Helmke leaving Brady Camp; Melson clings to ATF post


• Wannabe terrorists are here, and they don’t shop at gun shows

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Melson refusing to be 'Gunwalker' fall guy

Melson is, in other words, up to his eyeballs in the scandal, and cannot be holding out even the faintest of hopes that his extensive involvement is unknown (or even unproven). That means that he can be pinning his hopes of keeping his pension (and his freedom?) on only one thing: his ability to help the congressional investigation land bigger fish.

"Bigger fish," in his chain of command, would be Department of "Justice" officials senior to the head of the BATFE. There aren't very many of those between Melson and Attorney General Eric Holder. Furthermore, for Melson's ploy to have any chance of success, he needs to be able to offer something that congressional investigation leaders Rep. Issa (R-CA) and Sen. Grassley (R-IA) think can net them a bigger fish than they could land without Melson's help. [More]

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GRE Round Up, June 23

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• ‘A Tale of Two Pharmacies’ shows danger of giving attackers what they want


• Breaking: ATF heeds Issa's 'no retaliation' warning by...retaliating

Yih-Chau Chang/Oakland:

• Restaurant Security Glad That Customer Needed A Handgun To Buy A Cheeseburger

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Issa heading to Mexico as more F&F guns linked to bloodshed

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Latest attack on Issa reeks of desperation to deflect 'Gunwalker' culpability

Perhaps the most ridiculous aspect of the smear campaign against Rep. Issa is that even if he did know, from the beginning, all the filthy details about "Project Gunwalker," and is thus tainted with the same evil that blights the officials behind this monstrous plot, that does nothing to exculpate those officials. "Everybody else was doing it, too" doesn't cut any mustard when it comes to involvement in a conspiracy to facilitate mass murder. [More]

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GRE Round Up, June 22

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• ‘Paper of record’ should recognize hypocrisy better than most


• Issa to ATF's Hoover: There will be no retaliation against whistleblowers

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Obama defender blames NRA for ‘Fast & Furious’
  Yeah, I know I posted the above link in last night's Round Up, but I added it late, and it's too important to risk allowing it to be missed.


• Washington Post raises questions about Fast & Furious credibility

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Finally, and just as importantly, see John Longenecker's Liberty News/Safer Streets newsletter.

'Project Gunwalker' makes Jon Stewart's 'Daily Show'

Jon Stewart is an entertainer, and his show is clearly intended to draw laughs (the fact that its host channel is Comedy Central is one clue), but that doesn't mean it can never raise serious questions. And here's a very serious question: are we really expected to believe that senior Justice Department officials, going at least as high as Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, were so clueless about law enforcement and prosecution, so "felony stupid," as to approve a plan that deliberately facilitated the arming of known mass murderers, in an operation that clearly had zero utility for arresting and prosecuting the perpetrators--and actually expect the operation to bag them a "kingpin"? [More]

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GRE Round Up, June 21

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Cain’s ‘in your face message’ still does not face gun questions


• Pakistani disarmament advocate says ‘gun control’ needed to reduce clubbings

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Speculation ramps up that ATF's Melson is headed toward the door
  Yeah, I know I posted the above link in last night's Round Up, but I added it late, and it's too important to risk allowing it to be missed.


• ‘Melson should go’ says Issa as pressure builds


• Obama defender blames NRA for ‘Fast & Furious’

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

'Leaderless ATF' meme apparently preferred gun prohibitionist lobby gambit

The even bigger problem is that even if "lack of leadership" is to blame here, that lack exists above the BATFE directorship (whether acting or permanent). The Department of Justice has its fingerprints all over "Project Gunwalker," at least as high as Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer. Going back to Rep. Issa's appearance on Fox and Friends this morning, when Brian Kilmeade asked him if Attorney General Eric Holder knew about the operation, Issa's answer was right on the mark:

I believe he should have known; I believe it was his obligation to know. The fact that there was a "don't ask, don't tell" policy at Eric Holder's office is to say he wasn't doing his job, if he didn't know.

[More]

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GRE Round Up, June 20

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Report on Melson ouster further boosts confidential source credibility

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Administration apologists working ‘Fast and Furiously’ to counter revelations


• Speculation ramps up that ATF's Melson is headed toward the door

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Finally, and just as importantly, see John Longenecker's Liberty News/Safer Streets newsletter.

What 'Project Gunwalker' says about extent of gun trafficking to Mexico

If the sale of 359 firearms in a month can be connected with the bloodiest month in half a decade, what does that say about the supposed (and supposedly vast) "iron river" of guns flowing from the U.S. into Mexico? Remember this claim (pdf file) from the Brady Campaign?

An estimated 2,000 weapons per day are flowing from the U.S. into Mexico

359 firearms could hardly be statistically significant, if conventional "wisdom" is to be believed. [More]

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GRE Round Up, June 17

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Steve D. Jones/Fort Smith:

• Out of control much, ATF?

David Codrea/National:

• Is the Second Amendment check against tyranny obsolete?

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Issa: ‘Administration should be ashamed’ of Fast and Furious


• Fathers and sons, and why we remember

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Tip of the 'Gunwalker' iceberg? Are there MORE 'Operations Fast and Furious'?

And come to think of it, if the motive behind the Obama administration's "gunwalking" is to build public support for more restrictive gun regulation, why would it be restricted to guns most likely to go to Mexico? "Crime guns" right here in the U.S., and the splashy, lurid headlines they generate, can be (and routinely are) exploited for the forcible citizen disarmament lobby's purposes, even better than those south of the border.

Is "Operation Fast and Furious" merely the tip of the "Project Gunwalker" iceberg? Seems a fair question. [More]

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GRE Round Up, June 16

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Anti-gun congressman: Gunwalker shows need to give ATF more power

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Gunrunner: ATF Director Melson ‘very much in the weeds’
  Yeah, I know I posted the above link in last night's Round Up, but I added it late, and it's too important to risk allowing it to be missed.


• Fast? No. Furious? Definitely. Grassley’s statement paves way for ATF overhaul


• Anti-gun Weiner was anti-gun Schumer’s protégé

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Issa asks THE question at 'gunwalker' hearing; anti-gunners scramble for excuses

Melson, even as Acting Director, had the power, and indeed the responsibility, to, well . . . act as a director. He certainly had the power to not pressure gun shops into helping gun traffickers. Instead, he enthusiastically jumped into "gunwalking" with both feet.

The atrocity that is "Project Gunwalker" stems not from a lack of leadership within the BATFE, but from a lack of scruples and decency in the leadership above the BATFE. Now we need to find out just how high above. [More]

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GRE Round Up, June 15

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Anti-gunners counterattack Gunwalker by blaming gun laws, smearing Issa

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• BREAKING: Explosive ‘Fast and Furious’ report quotes ATF whistleblowers
  Yeah, I know I posted the above link in last night's Round Up, but I added it late, and it's too important to risk allowing it to be missed.


• Fast & Furious Explodes: Issa calls operation ‘felony stupid’


• Gunrunner: ATF Director Melson ‘very much in the weeds’

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Violence Policy Center apparently blames 'gun violence' on free enterprise

If a high volume of sales of so-called "assault weapons" is to be considered a bad thing (as Sugarmann clearly believes), it would seem that he should be blaming not the gun industry, but market forces. Free enterprise capitalism is itself the enemy. Come to think of it, that makes a kind of sense--collectivists have historically feared an armed citizenry, and with good reason.

And that, in turn, seems a superb reason to be part of that armed citizenry. [More]

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GRE Round Up, June 14

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• ‘Deliberate false denial’ discredits Brady gun ownership claims

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• BREAKING: 1st Gunrunner hearing offers no surprises
  Yeah, I know I posted the above link in Friday's Round Up, but I added it late, and it's too important to risk allowing it to be missed.


• Dems circle wagons on Gunrunner, float perennial gun ban agenda


• UPDATE: Marauding Stevens Co. dogs killed; was one a wolf hybrid?


• BREAKING: Explosive ‘Fast and Furious’ report quotes ATF whistleblowers

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

'Land of the free?' A musical riposte

I have just become aware of a project, "My Country, My Ass," intended to wake The People up to the fact that the freedoms that great Americans of the past died to secure as our birthright are rapidly eroding--and we're letting it happen.

I have a project and I need the help of like minded people. I will try to be brief.
I have recorded a protest song. The style is country-rock, and the song is pretty direct.
I need people to request it on radio stations.
My goals are-
1. The short answer is, I want to influence the mass psychology of the entire nation. I want politicians and their staff to hear it and recognize that We the People do not like what they are doing, and I want all other government employees
to hear it and recognize that they are NOT just ordinary Americans trying to earn a living, they are on the wrong side and we do not like what they are doing either.
If you want to read the long answer click here
This is not about my music career. I do not have a music career. It is a hobby. I work hard and am taxed and regulated to death too.
The Plan-
1. I send copies of the song to country radio stations, state by state. Generally speaking, they are not going to play it.
2. Set up a web page for each state with a list of all radio stations that have the song, along with links to their request pages,
and e-mail addresses for Program Directors and requests.
3. Try to get people to request the song. The song title is "My Country, My Ass" (I said it was direct) by John Ringer.

If you think this is a silly idea, read this post from Mises.org. It talks about the "social pivot" and the cultural mindset that enables a government gone crazy. This project will change the collective mindset of alot of people, but it needs YOU to help.

Here's a simple video, with lyrics:



Be sure to go to Mr. Ringer's website (here it is again), to see how you can be a part of this.

'Gunwalker' hearings start; senators tout Project Gunrunner's 'notable success'

Rabidly anti-gun U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), along with two of her senatorial forcible citizen disarmament cronies, Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), released a "report" today: "Halting U.S. Firearms Trafficking to Mexico" (pdf file). As should be surprising to no one, the senators blamed the commercial gun market in the U.S. for "arming" the Mexican drug syndicates, sidestepping the truth with the same old dance steps we've been seeing for years now in the "Mexico's 'gun violence' is our fault!" two-step . . . [More]

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GRE Round Up, June 13

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Daily morning drive time show to return fire in ‘War on Guns’


• Would Founders be ‘horrified’ by today’s firearms technology?

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Olympia photojournalist exercises 2A when 1A threatened


• BREAKING: 1st Gunrunner hearing offers no surprises

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
  House panel considers subpoena power in DOJ-ATF gun smuggling scandal
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Finally, and just as importantly, see John Longenecker's Liberty News/Safer Streets newsletter.

More than guns: 'Gunwalker' tests very legitimacy of administration's governance

The point here is that the very legitimacy of a government that would facilitate murder, in order to "justify" (in the view of some) infringements on a right that the Constitution itself demands not be infringed, is horribly compromised. If that government shrinks from its vital duty of repairing that breach of the public's trust, and holding accountable those responsible--no matter how high in the administration--that government loses all claim on the people's loyalty.

Today's hearing had better be the beginning of the process of the government policing itself. If not, we the people must take up that mantle. That's not likely to be pretty. [More]

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War on Guns takes to the airwaves

Starting tomorrow, June 13, David Codrea will take the resistance to the collectivists' war on guns to the airwaves, on Scottsdale's KBSZ 1260AM/96.1FM on weekdays at 7:00 AM-8:00 AM. I'm assuming that's Mountain Time (Scottsdale, AZ time), but will post an update when I know for sure.

See the notice at National Gun Rights Examiner for more details.

Update: OK--apparently the time is indeed Mountain Time, but as David points out, Arizona does not observe Daylight Savings Time, so the time slot is 7:00-8:00 AM MST, rather than MDT. Where I am, here in the Central Time Zone, that would make it 9:00-10:00 AM during the summer hours, and 8:00-9:00 AM after we set the clocks back in the fall.

GRE Round Up, June 10

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Open letter to Herman Cain on the right to keep and bear arms

Yih-Chau Chang/Oakland:

• AB 144--A Paradigm Of California's Disgraced Political Culture

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Dangerous dogs: Stevens County Sheriff says ‘defend yourselves’

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Finally, and just as importantly, see John Longenecker's Liberty News/Safer Streets newsletter.

'Flash mobs': What 'works' in Chicago?

During his presidential campaign, then-candidate Obama said about "gun control," that "what works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne." Perhaps he needs to reassess how well Chicago's "solutions" are working there, too, and perhaps in the course of that reassessment, he should ask Chicago's tourism industry. [More]

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GRE Round Up, June 9

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Police continue to dispel myth they are ‘only ones’ trusted enough to bear arms


• Second ‘Gunwalker’ hearing to ‘examine tragic consequences of Fast and Furious'

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Methow ranchers indicted for wolf killings as battle lines drawn


• BREAKING: 2nd ‘Fast and Furious’ hearing set; Grassley, Dodson to testify!

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Schools left defenseless, while Education Department conducts paramilitary raids

Are we to believe, then, that "guns and education don't mix," but "guns and (federal) goons do mix"? Is it permissible to ask under what enumerated power is federal authority over education justified in the first place? Or is that question redolent of "insurrectionism"? [More]

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GRE Round Up, June 8

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Anthony Bouchard/Cheyenne:

• Dept. of Education behind a police raid terrorizing children at 6am

David Codrea/National:

• California politicians reveal total hypocrisy on ‘gun control’

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Controversial wildlife biologist calls WA wolf draft plan ‘disgusting’

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Media Matters pivots, in order to double down on Gadahn's 'fully automatic' lie

A kit for converting a semi-automatic firearm to a machine gun is considered, in the eyes of the law, to be a machine gun. Possession or sale of an unregistered one is a federal felony. Conducting such sales openly at a gun show would be a superb way to spend years in prison, and get slapped with a $100,000 fine. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) is so eager to make such a bust that they railroaded an honorably discharged Army veteran into prison because the rifle he lent out malfunctioned into firing multiple rounds per trigger pull--and lack of illegal intent was explicitly ruled irrelevant. [More]

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GRE Round Up, June 7

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Anthony Bouchard/Cheyenne:

• Mitt Romney - cannot be trusted with your gun rights

David Codrea/National:

• Weiner gives insight into mind of someone who does not trust us with freedom


• Issa releases witness list for first 'Gunwalker' hearing

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• 1st Gunrunner hearing to ‘lay the groundwork’ - witnesses identified


• BREAKING: McKenna to announce for governor

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
  Hearings on ATF-DOJ gun smuggling scandal to begin June 13
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Adam Gadahn: New spokesman for 'gun control'?

"They hate us for our freedoms," former president George W. Bush is often paraphrased as having said after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Perhaps. If so, though, the terrorists have allies in the "gun control" groups. [More]

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GRE Round Up, June 6

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Anthony Bouchard/Cheyenne:

• Washington D.C. - gun free zones and corruption

David Codrea/National:

• House Democrats urge White House to come clean on Gunwalker


• Issa: Gunwalker 'not a rogue operation'
  Yeah, I know I posted the above links in Friday's Round Up, but I added them late, and they're too important to risk allowing them to be missed.


• Tea Party Express preemptively surrenders gun rights to RINOs

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• House Dems ask White House for truth about ‘Gunrunner’
  Again, I know I posted the above link in Friday's Round Up, but I added it late, and it's too important to risk allowing it to be missed.


• Washington is new front in ‘Wolf war’


• The heroes who came down from the sky, and up from the surf


• Washington’s wolf war heating up fast


• BREAKING: 1st ‘Gunrunner’ hearing scheduled next week

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Finally, and just as importantly, see John Longenecker's Liberty News/Safer Streets newsletter.

Confirmed: Mexican military helicopter was shot down with 'gunwalked' rifle

It also comes at a time when the "Project Gunwalker" architects already had a lot to worry about. National Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea reported Friday night that even House Democrats are now urging the Obama administration to come clean on the fiasco. Even worse for them, Congressman (and Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee) Darrell Issa (R-CA) has announced a very aggressive investigation into who is responsible. As Congressman Issa told Fox News . . . [More]

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Terrorists prefer Americans unarmed, just as the 'gun control' lobby does

A frequent topic of discussion here at St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner has been the constant accusations of "treason" tossed around so casually by the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV)--we just talked about that Thursday, actually. As both the Days of Our Trailers and Gun Free Zone blogs pointed out last night, it ain't us gun rights advocates who are rendering aid and comfort to our nation's enemies. [More]

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GRE Round Up, June 3

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Anti-campus carry editorial reveals ignorance-based fear


• House Democrats urge White House to come clean on Gunwalker


• Issa: Gunwalker 'not a rogue operation'

Yih-Chau Chang/Oakland:

• Is San Francisco County Sheriff Michael Hennessey Above The Law?

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Alarmed WA hunters doing the math on wolf program


• Roundup: AZ shooter from WA, John Edwards & ‘Matt Dillon’


• House Dems ask White House for truth about ‘Gunrunner’

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Finally, and just as importantly, see John Longenecker's Liberty News/Safer Streets newsletter.

Author John Longenecker guest blogs St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner

Today, Second Amendment and liberty advocate John Longenecker, author of Safe Streets in the Nationwide Concealed Carry of Handguns, and now, Even Safer Streets 2011—The 2nd Amendment As A Mainstream American Value, explains how liberty advocates can reclaim the hijacked term of "militia," and how to respond to groups who first argue that the Second Amendment only protects militias, but then strenuously resist the formation of those same militias. [More]

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GRE Round Up, June 2

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Media more concerned with Weinergate then Project Gunwalker

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Seized .50 cal. rifle, Mexican chopper downing linked to Gunrunner?


• Romney’s in, but NW activists remember his firearms flip-flop

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Finally, and just as importantly, see John Longenecker's Liberty News/Safer Streets newsletter.

Coalition to Stop Gun Violence: The return of McCarthyism?

A nation of people who meekly accept the notion that they commit "treason," merely by stating the obvious fact that the Second Amendment exists to guarantee their ability to resist government tyranny, is indeed a nation of sheep. That's the nation the CSGV would like to see the U.S. become.

Over my dead body, CSGV--and I won't die alone. [More]

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GRE Round Up, June 1

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Accurate Mexican crime gun reporting better late than never

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Canadian gun trafficking case has unintended revelations

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Finally, and just as importantly, see John Longenecker's Liberty News/Safer Streets newsletter.

'Project Gunwalker': Senator Grassley, check your email

That's the email address Senator Grassley provides for whistleblowers, in his government oversight capacity. On the one hand, this could be a good sign--could there be such a flood of whistleblower emails that Sen. Grassley's inbox can't hold them all? Don't bet against it.

On the other hand, we can't afford to have potential whistleblowers missed, because they couldn't get through. Check your email, Senator. [More]

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