GRE Round Up, July 29

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:

• Tennesse 6th Senate District candidate Victoria DeFreese

David Codrea/National:

• McCarthy blames Norway shootings on ‘lax U.S. gun laws’!

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• 'OUTRAGE' UPDATE: 2nd profanity-laced video involving Canton, OH cop surfaces

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.

Gun trafficking as compared to William Newell's definition of 'gunwalking'

H.R. 2554 is pure legislative theater, with no chance of accomplishing anything useful, although it would have been interesting to see how much of the Obama administration could have been swept up in the "Conspiracy" provision. Thus, charging someone with, and convicting him for, gun trafficking, requires clearing a vastly lower bar than would need to be cleared to meet Newell's definition of "gunwalking."

Remember when public servants were held to a higher standard of conduct than the public they ostensibly served? [More]

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GRE Round Up, July 28

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Appropriations Committee calls for independent Gunwalker investigation
  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


• Operation Castaway seller denies shipping guns to Honduras


• ATF multiple long gun reporting form sent to FFLs

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• The Fast & Furious e-mail; White House denies connection

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
  Deliberate smear--Media Matters story on ATF gun smuggling
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Holder and Obama: The only senior government officials NOT in on 'Gunwalker'?

So, that brings us back to the question in today's title--if Holder and Obama didn't know about "Project Gunwalker," were they the only senior government officials so out of touch? Well, we can probably assume Vice President Biden wasn't in on it either. Otherwise, he would probably not have managed to avoid calling it a "big f---ing deal" within range of a microphone. [More]

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GRE Round Up, July 27

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Appropriations Committee calls for independent Gunwalker investigation

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• FURY: Canton, OH council president lashes out at cop critics


• Fast & Furious: The man who knew too little

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
  ATF scandal reporter banned from hearing, gets ambushed by Media Matters
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Demonizing the Mini-14

William Ruger is dead now, though, and the company he founded seems to have moved past his Neville Chamberlainesque policy of appeasing the gun-haters. Those gun haters should grow the moral and intellectual honesty to say what they mean--that they want all guns banned. [More]

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GRE Round Up, July 26

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• BREAKING NEWS: ATF attaché calls Gunwalker 'perfect storm of idiocy'


• ATF’s Phoenix SAC emailed Gunwalker info to National Security Council


• Transcript of Newell questioning related to NSC's O'Reilly

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Fast and Furious the ‘Perfect storm of idiocy,’ — ATF attaché


• ATF agents denounce ‘Fast & Furious’ as Dems push gun control agenda

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
  Breaking updates on House investigation of DOJ-ATF gun smuggling
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

FBI complicity in 'Gunwalker' refutes 'rogue operation by leaderless ATF' claim

In fact, in the sidebar video, Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA, and Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee) hammers home the point that for Attorney General Eric Holder, there are only two possibilities. Either he knew about about this monstrosity, approved it, and has since been lying to cover it up; or he has been utterly clueless about the actions of the Cabinet level department he was chosen by President Obama, and approved by the Democrat-controlled Senate, to lead. That kind of "leadership" in not just "phoning it in"--a closer metaphor would be that he attempted to meet his responsibilities by keeping in touch via an occasional postcard. [More]

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GRE Round Up, July 25

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Anthony Bouchard/Cheyenne:

• Repeal of school gun free zones introduced in the U.S. House

David Codrea/National:

• Norway terror attacks illustrate observable truths


• Rep. David Wu—poster boy for ‘progressive’ gun control


• ‘Project Gunwalker’ T-shirts help raise public consciousness

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• KCSO circulates Ohio police dash cam video as tempers stay hot


• Bloody weekend aftermath: ‘Does this happen at gun shows?’

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
  FOX: FBI allowed firearms to criminals after consulting with ATF
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

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

Exploitation of Norway attacks for more 'gun control' elsewhere already underway

Using the dead, to justify attacking the rights of the living (and in the process, reducing their ability to defend themselves from the same fate). The forcible citizen disarmament lobby must be proud. [More]

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'Reward' Congressional oathbreakers with a white feather

The newest addition to the blogroll is (author of the Constitution Watch blog, and former Tucson Gun Rights Examiner) Chris Woodard's The White Feather.

I'll let Chris explain it:

The concept of the White Feather.

For years I’ve been fascinated with GIVING of the White Feather. The idea appears to have first started by the British Military in the mid 1800s. The single White Feather was given to a fellow in the military who the giver considered a coward. This was the ULTIMATE insult and had serious consequences.

If I gave a White Feather to someone, the receiver could not give the White Feather back. He would have to prove to me that the reason I gave him the feather no longer existed. If that prove to be the case, then it would be up to me to ask for the return of the feather to me. He CANNOT just give it back. I have to ask.

A new concept for the White Feather. BREAKING THE OATH OF OFFICE.

Each and every politician, whether National, State, or Local takes an oath of office. It is the intention of this site to give a White Feather to every politician who breaks his/her “Oath of Office’ by either sponsoring or cosponsoring a piece of legislation that is Unconstitutional. The criteria is: Nationally, if the legislation is NOT within the enumerated powers granted congress under Article 1 § 8 of the Constitution, it is Unconstitutional. Abuse of the likes of the Commerce Clause, and other clauses does NOT make it Constitutional regardless of any Supreme Court decisions/opinions. The Supreme Courts authority is clearly stated in the Constitution.

So, for now, the White Feather is reserved for our various congress critters for breaking their Oath of Office. A serious offense legally which far outweighs a political agenda.

Go take a look.

GRE Round Up, July 22

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Anthony Bouchard/Cheyenne:

• Just in case you've never seen an anti-gun cop on steroids, here it is

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• ‘The cop heard round the world’ – Ohio incident puts law in crosshairs


• Grassley to Fox News: ‘Melson gave documents to DOJ, but we didn’t get them’

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

'To protect and serve'? Not in Canton, Ohio--or in many other places

And about that "on camera" part. That was the squad car's dashcam. Officer Harless, in other words, knew about it--he wasn't being surreptitiously recorded, like the not-quite-equally-thuggish police officers in Philadelphia. If he knew about it, and did it anyway, he apparently didn't expect to get in trouble over it. It turns out he was wrong (although not wrong enough), but what does it say about more general attitudes in that department, that he could be anything less than positive that such behavior is utterly unacceptable? Also, what do incidents like this one (and the Philadelphia one) say about some jurisdictions' laws against making audio/video recordings of police officers? What are they trying to hide? [More]

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GRE Round Up, July 21

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Canton OH 'Only Ones' put the lie to public pledge--not to mention their oaths

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• More signs that Fast & Furious was fiasco; Dem defends Holder, deflects blame


• OUTRAGE: Fury erupts over Ohio traffic stop video; NW activists join debate

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Is 'Gunwalker' whistleblower John Dodson victim of retaliatory smear campaign?

Those who want to see the "Project Gunwalker" scandal buried benefit in two ways from these retaliatory smears. First, if they discredit the whistleblowers badly enough to undermine their credibility, it becomes easier for the public (with some help from the fawning media) to dismiss the allegations. Second, the example serves as a stark warning to potential future whistleblowers.

Those behind any smear campaign against Dodson are only compounding their crimes. [More]

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GRE Round Up, July 20

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Jersey City gun ‘buyback’ illustrates character of characters behind it


• Exclusive: Story of central ‘Operation Castaway’ figure in his own words

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• BULLETIN: Third Fast & Furious hearing scheduled next Tuesday

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Issa not losing sight of anti-gun attitudes of 'Gunwalker' principals

Then last night, Rep. Issa was on the NRA News show "Cam and Company," with Cam Edwards and Ginny Simone, talking about the scandal. It's very much worth watching in its entirety, but the short (1 minute, 5 seconds) segment in the sidebar video is especially interesting, in that it shows that Issa has not lost sight of the fact that those political appointees at the top of this debacle have a long, well known history of hostility to gun rights. [More]

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GRE Round Up, July 19

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Fast and Furious: Melson says DOJ ‘response…was a disaster’


• Story changing rapidly about South Seattle shooting, ‘person of interest’

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
  More connections in ATF scandal: drug cartel stashes weapons at Columbus, MN
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

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

Can I call him "Fast and Furious Mike" now?

David Codrea has long referred to NYC's gun hating, authority-crazed Mayor Mike Bloomberg as "Furious Mike," in honor of the gun paint color named after him, after he had gun paints banned.

Now that he has weighed in on "Operation Fast and Furious" (using it as an excuse to repeal the Tiahrt Amendment), I think it's time for his name to evolve.

'Gunwalker' could have major impact on Mexican politics

With extradition being highly unlikely, a savvy politician in Mexico might try to use this new source of anger toward the U.S. to score political points. "Project Gunwalker," then, on top of everything else may have caused severe damage to our relationship with Mexico--damage that will last for years. [More]

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GRE Round Up, July 18

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Sometimes, it does take a village…


• The Devil and Daniel Webster

Yih-Chau Chang/Oakland:

• Modern American Exceptionalism And The 2nd Amendment

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Fast and Furious meltdown, and the attempts to prevent it


• Momentum builds, web expands on Fast and Furious investigation


• In Seattle, they’re thanking the San Francisco police for good marksmanship

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
• New Mexico connection--innocent citizen jailed for cooperating with ATF
• Sources--FBI more deeply involved than ATF in gun smuggling scandal
• Breaking update on New Mexico connection in gun smuggling scandal
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

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

Hezbollah in Mexico--and not arming themselves through any 'gun show loophole'

Stolen from Iraq, and then smuggled across an ocean to Mexico, when there's a "virtually unregulated bazaar of military-style firearms" to shop from right here

Of course, not every wannabe jihadist has a cousin in Iraq to help him steal weapons there. No problem--there's plenty of firepower to be had all over Latin America--and that's without the Obama government "walking" guns to killers in Mexico and Honduras. [More]

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No excuse for any congressman to be unaware of 'Project Gunwalker'

In other words, the government's own efforts to cover up "Project Gunwalker"--which looks very suspiciously to have been intended as a pro-"gun control" propaganda tool--are now being used to justify the release of information that would be used to attack private gun ownership in the U.S.

Probably shouldn't be a surprise. [More]

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GRE Round Up, July 15

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• SAF, NRA slam U.N. arms treaty as Dems push new gun control scheme


• Canadian anti-gunner reveals much about prohibitionist mindset

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

House Appropriations Committee Republicans protecting gun rights

In other words, gun rights went three for three in that committee hearing.

Whether or not the appropriations bill to which the amendments are attached will pass in both the House and the Senate, and the Rehberg and Carter amendments survive the process, is of course impossible to know at this time. Still, the committee did the right thing that day. [More]

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GRE Round Up, July 14

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Will Gunwalker export violations bust criminal investigation wide open?

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• ‘Fast and Furious’ not a ‘renegade operation,’ sources say

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

'Gunwalking' to forcible citizen disarmament tyranny--compelling new evidence

A closer look at the sender of those emails, though, seems to indicate that Rep. Issa and Sen. Grassley are being quite generous with the benefit of the doubt. It was Mark Chait's office, after all, that produced the internal BATFE report that Sipsey Street Irregular Mike Vanderboegh calls "The Official ATF Field Manual of the Gunwalker Scandal." In that blog post, Mr. Vanderboegh also quoted a Center for Public Integrity article, featuring an interview with Chait . . . [More]

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GRE Round Up, July 13

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• The Dirty Dozen, Gunwalker-style: Will they all come out like it's Halloween?
  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


• Shut up, Tom Ridge—Bachmann’s a better candidate than you would be!

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• BREAKING: Issa, Grassley ask for communications between 12 DoJ officials
  Again, 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


• Federal trial in New Orleans underscores SAF/NRA post-Katrina lawsuit


• House vote derails Obama administration gun reporting scheme

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

'Gunwalker' scandal continues explosive growth

Tomorrow will mark one week since this column made the statement that "Those trying to stay abreast of the 'Project Gunwalker' scandal have had their work cut out for them this week." Keeping up with the fiasco has become no less a full-time job this week.
[More]

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GRE Round Up, July 12

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Racist death threat for Oath Keeper Rhodes debunks SPLC ‘hate watch’ lie


• Bilirakis questions Holder, Melson on Tampa gunwalking allegations


• The Dirty Dozen, Gunwalker-style: Will they all come out like it's Halloween?

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• BREAKING: New Fast & Furious allegation about witness access to documents


• BREAKING: Issa, Grassley ask for communications between 12 DoJ officials

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

'Gunwalker' apologists exploiting misconceptions to discredit the real story

The bottom line is that no amount of confusion over the difference between "Project Gunrunner" and "Operation Fast and Furious" can begin to absolve the people behind this monstrosity. [More]

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GRE Round Up, July 11

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Rediscovered information on Project Gunrunner leading to misconceptions


• Gun ‘preppers’ go mainstream as more people realize no one is immune to disaster


• DoJ proceeds with long gun reporting requirement

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Wisconsin wins, Illinois loses, F&F a fiasco; the common ‘D’-nominator


• Stink rises over gun rights restoration for ex-Pierce sheriff


• Bellevue v. UN as int’l gun control battle intensifies


• BREAKING: DoJ announces gun reporting requirements; Issa, Grassley respond

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
  Are multiple local offices of ATF involved in gun smuggling scandal?
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

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

Using the courts to remind Illinois of the 'bear' in 'keep and bear arms'

That would seem to indicate that the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals now does acknowledge that the right to keep and bear arms, as protected by the Second Amendment, is a fundamental right. To deny the motion for an injunction against a total ban of defensive firearm carry, the court would have to edit "and bear" out of "keep and bear arms."

Editing inconvenient parts out of the Second Amendment might be acceptable for Brady Campaign legal director Dennis "What People?" Henigan, but it cannot be borne in the courts. [More]

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On last day of MidwayUSA's 4th of July promotion, did my patriotic duty of protecting 2nd Amendment

At midnight tonight, MidwayUSA's Independence Day promotion ends.

Just submitted my order for over $300 (mostly ammo--.454 Casull ain't cheap, and I can't very well let the brand new Raging Judge Magnum starve, can I?). The promotion nets me a $30 discount. Two thirds of that went right back to a quadruple helping of Midway's "12*12*12 Project," whereby they match each $5 donation to the National Endowment for the Protection of the Second Amendment:

About the National Endowment for the Protection of the Second Amendment The NRA created this endowment in 1991 to help ensure the future of the Second Amendment. The contributions are never spent, but allowed to grow forever. Each year 5% of the balance, or the earnings – whichever is less, are used on legal efforts to protect the Second Amendment. Today the balance in the endowment is $8,328,114. Your NRA Round-Up contributions through MidwayUSA have gone into this endowment since January 2, 1992.

With Midway's matching $20, that's $40--plus a few cents from "NRA Round-Up" that so upsets Mother Jones, CSGV and VPC--going to legal efforts to protect the Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms..

VPC's Josh Sugarmann, remember, wants us to be outraged about 74 cents going to the Round-Up, from a purchase made by a murderous POS:

A copy of the e-mail receipt sent to Sodini from MidwayUSA for his purchase of 9mm and .45 ammunition that was shipped to him courtesy of McClure-Volker includes a donation of 74 cents from the mass shooter to the NRA via the Round-Up Program.

40 bucks and change may not sound like much . . . but it's more than enough to have kept CSGV on the web for more than three years.

Plagiarism--it's not just for Sari Horwitz anymore (Updated!)

Update at Sean's NC Gun Blog:

After emailed conversation with WND Editor Joseph Farah, they have pulled the shirt from their e-store! He has given me his personal assurance that a full investigation will commence as soon as everyone gets back to the office on Monday

That's doing the right thing, WND. Thank you.

We talked about the "Gunwalker" T-shirts, and where to get them (from the concept's originator, Sean Sorrentino) on Friday.

Now, as it happens, World Net Daily is stealing the idea, word for word. Go to that link to see what you can do for Sean.

WND may not be as famous and well-established as the Washington Post, but they seem determined to match Wa Po in one respect. Just as Wa Po pays known plagiarist Sari Horwitz a handsome salary, WND is similarly keen on stealing the intellectual property of others.

That kind of conduct makes, I suppose, a certain degenerate sense for a collectivist rag like Wa Po (Pravda on the Potomac, as Mike Vanderboegh calls them). For WND, where liberty and the free markets are supposedly respected, it reeks of hypocrisy.

GRE Round Up, July 8

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Breaking News: Tampa SAC 'in full meltdown...shredders are buzzing'
  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.


• ATF’s Melson urged to prove he’s still director and stop alleged Tampa cover-up

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Bellevue v. Illinois: SAF seeks injunction against state carry ban


• Media storm clouds form over administration’s ‘Fast & Furious’ cover-up

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
  Frantic cover-up at Tampa ATF; West calls for special prosecutor
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

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

Is this really any more 'felony stupid' than 'Project Gunwalker'?

Saw the following video this morning, and have no idea as to whether or not it's authentic (Update: and now know, courtesy of Sean, that it is not, but that doesn't really change my point), and realized that I can't think of many reasons to believe that giving a loaded automatic rifle to a chimpanzee is any more criminally irresponsible than facilitating the trafficking of thousands of firearms to known murderers. I tweeted it, as "BATFE's next trick?" but decided I had a little more than 140 characters to say about it.



If, as I am firmly convinced, the motive behind the Obama government's gun trafficking--and abetting mass murder--was to fabricate a justification for more forcible citizen disarmament laws, arming the chimp was dramatically less evil.

Get your 'Gunwalker' T-shirt today!

I'll let Sean explain it.

Obama administration pretends moral authority on guns, plans new restrictions

Sipsey Street Irregular Mike Vanderboegh warns us today not to make "Project Gunwalker" all about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE). This is much bigger than that one agency, and much bigger than guns.

This is a question of the very legitimacy of this administration's governance, coming (coincidentally?) at a time that the same regime is discussing ways to make resistance against an illegitimate government more difficult. [More]

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GRE Round Up, July 7

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:

• July TFA guest speaker is Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett

David Codrea/National:

• Breaking News: Source claims ATF's Tampa SAC walked guns to Honduras
  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.


• Gungrabbers can count on Authorized Journalists to help with their deception


• Breaking News: Tampa SAC 'in full meltdown...shredders are buzzing'

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• WA hunters questioning origins of Teanaway wolves


• Sources: Melson met secretly with investigators so DOJ ‘wouldn’t know about it’

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Stunning new 'Gunwalker' allegations expose massive scale of scandal

If these allegations, or even a substantial portion of them, prove out, even diehards will have to abandon talk about the problem being a "leaderless BATFE," or one ill-conceived operation gone bad. "Project Gunwalker" was national policy, implemented by multiple top officials, in multiple agencies, within the Obama administration.

For the objective not to have been to justify more draconian U.S. gun regulation, it would seem that the entire Obama government would have to be the underpants gnomes' board of directors. [More]

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GRE Round Up, July 6

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Complaint filed on lying Bloomberg ad


• Melson 'sick to stomach' over Gunwalker


• Breaking News: Source claims ATF's Tampa SAC walked guns to Honduras

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Melson’s explosive F&F allegations; ‘taxpayer dollars’ may have been used!


• BREAKING: Bellevue v. Chicago; SAF wins injunction v. gun range ban!

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Let's bring 'Project Gunwalker' to Obama's 'Twitter Town Hall meeting' about the economy

In light of stunning new revelations in BATFE Acting Director Kenneth Melson's testimony Monday to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, as revealed by Fox News:

In a separate development, congressional sources have learned that not only was U.S. taxpayer money being used to buy guns that were later sent to Mexico, but the main target of the investigation was actually a FBI informant and former drug dealer who had been deported years ago.

This seems a good question to tweet for Obama's "Twitter Town Hall Meeting" on the economy, which just started:

#AskObama With a foundering economy & enormous deficit, why did our taxes buy illegal guns for "Project #Gunwalker"? http://fxn.ws/nJgqXu

I just tweeted it--care to retweet?

Is Obama deciding 'whose ass to kick' over 'Project Gunwalker'?

Seeing Obama's statement about "talking to experts," during the oil spill days reminds me of something, though. Where have we recently heard about "talking to experts" about "Operation Fast and Furious"? Oh, yeah--the supposed "expertise" assembled by Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) for his "Gunwalker" show trial against gun rights (it was not an actual hearing) last week. Care to guess "whose ass" their report (which was released before Cummings' little event) recommends kicking? If you guessed the American gun owner's, you're right on target. [More]

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GRE Round Up, July 5

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Mike Stollenwerk/DC:

• Virginia Attorney General says UVA cannot ban gun carry

David Codrea/National:

• Obama: Good U.S.-Mexican relations demand we spare guilty and let innocent die

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Redacted F&F e-mail possibly tells more than it was supposed to
  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.


• Northwest wolf lovers may be howling today in Boise


• BREAKING: F&F firestorm: Mexican officials want to prosecute U.S. officials

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signs bill to protect gun owners' privacy

We've talked about this rather a lot (most recently in late May, when the state legislature passed the bill, with broad bipartisan support). It is the position of St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner that the entire "government accountability" argument for release of the data is bogus. There shouldn't be a FOID system--whereby citizens must approach the state, hat in hand, to request to be ruled "fit" to exercise their Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms--to begin with. Therefore, this data isn't legitimately the state's to "account for" in the first place. [More]

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GRE Round Up, July 4

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Spelling isn’t only thing SNUG does backwards

Yih-Chau Chang/Oakland:

• Energized 2nd Amendment Activists Defend Their Civil Rights In Sunnyvale, CA

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• As Helmke leaves, MI editorial shows why his message lost, even in NW


• Redacted F&F e-mail possibly tells more than it was supposed to

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.

Independence and 'government monopoly on force' are mutually exclusive

There can be no independence when citizens must depend on armed agents of the government to come to rescue them--something the government is under no obligation to do--when predatory evil threatens.

There can be no independence when citizens must depend on the government being willing to "license" their Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms.

And finally, there can be no independence when citizens must depend on the government to honor the Constitutional limits on its power, without we the people having the means to enforce those limits. [More]

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

GRE Round Up, July 1

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• ABC15 Phoenix links walked guns to local crime

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Starting today, sportsmen will discover the ‘Discover Pass’

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.