'Gun control' not top priority even for gun ban lobby's newest hero

In other words, according to "another great column" (so says CSGV), this "undecided voter" (despite apparently also being a registered Democrat) would vote not for the candidate who has vowed to seek to renew the "assault weapons ban," but for the one who has vowed (credibly or not) to oppose it, if the latter can convince her that he would be better for the economy.

An army of gun rights advocates would be willing to die to prevent the forcible disarmament of America--and a willingness to die for a cause implies a willingness to kill for it, as well. How many "gun control" advocates are willing to die for an "assault weapons" ban? Whatever the number, we have enough ammo for all of them. [More]

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CSGV director worries more about political ideology than about machine guns

In other words, the government is to be empowered to demand respect, and failure to comply "borders on" the capital crime of treason.

With every word, CSGV more clearly reveals that the group wants our guns taken, but only as a means to an end. The desired end is a docile, obedient nation of herbivores that relies on the government so completely that the mere thought of resistance against that government, for any reason, is impossible.

A citizenry that allows that end to be realized can only blame itself for whatever happens to it. [More]

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St. Louis mayor hopes to combat 'gun crime' with baseball

Still, a mayor who disparages the idea of citizens protecting themselves from violent crime, but instead asks them to rely on the Cardinals to provide their security is a mayor who could be said to have a rather tenuous grasp on reality. At least one former Cardinal would probably agree.

Could be worse, though--at least he is apparently not counting on a Rams playoff run to save the city. [More]

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Obama's condemnation of 'cheap handguns' reeks of self-defense 'poll tax'

With the Supreme Court, after all, having ruled that the right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right of the people, and if the nominal cost of photo ID is an illegal imposition on the right to vote, how can banning "cheap handguns" be anything but an imposition on the Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms?

Still, racial issues aside, a president with a well known, long established proclivity for "gun control," who now seems willing to impose such control by making firearms too expensive to own, could be said to have an incentive to govern in such a way as to foster a moribund economy that renders vast numbers of Americans of all races too poor to defend themselves. [More]

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In debate, Obama abandons 'under the radar' path to forcible citizen disamament

Obama once supposedly assured Sarah Brady that he was working "under the radar" on forcible citizen disarmament. He has apparently now decided that the time for stealth has ended.

The gloves are coming off--ours must as well. [More]

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Former Supreme Court Justice cites flawed interpretation of flawed decision

The forcible citizen disarmament lobby's reliance on the (badly, and probably deliberately, misinterpreted) Miller decision is notable for another reason. Has so much weight ever been accorded to any other Supreme Court decision in which there was no oral argument given--nor even a written brief filed--for the defense?

That, one could argue, is just what one might expect from the Second Amendment deniers. Like a government bent on tyranny (or a thug bent on rape, or a lunatic bent on mass murder), they greatly prefer that their objective be undefended, and their agenda unopposed. [More]

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Ryan punts on 'Project Gunwalker' as debate issue, but it could have been worse

Eventually, of course, the Brady staffer's tenuous connection to reality solidified enough to force the realization that this Facebook post made the group a laughingstock, so the post was taken down and replaced (how much more embarrassing can a post be, than for one's only hope to salvage a tiny shred of dignity is to replace it with a whining plea for attention?).

Yes, last night was a disappointment, but at least no one came out of it looking like the Brady Campaign. [More]

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VPC finds high rate of 'gun deaths' in jurisdictions with very strict gun laws

In other words, if, as VPC seems to claim, shooting deaths in the "DMV" (District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia) are remarkably high relative to the rest of the country, the logical conclusion would seem to be that restrictive gun laws are not an effective deterrent to "gun violence." That comes as no surprise to those of us who have honestly followed the gun rights vs. "gun control" debate for any length of time (some, in fact, convincingly argue exactly the opposite), but not a conclusion one would expect the VPC to lead us to. [More]

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CSGV backs government 'right' to political violence against citizens

Never mind that CSGV had never before placed that particular qualifier on their "monopoly" advocacy. The point is to remember that the discussion here was about the "government monopoly on force," so if that monopoly is about the use of "political violence," then what they're advocating is not only rendering the people's effective resistance to a tyrannical government impossible, but also that governments do have a right to use violence against citizens for political purposes. President Obama is presumably grateful. [More]

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Illinois Democrats seek new punitive taxes on ammunition

Meanwhile, there are also proposals for new ammunition taxes at the state level. Illinois HB 1274 and HB 5167 do not look likely to go anywhere, but they do serve well as further demonstrations (if such demonstrations were necessary) of Illinois Democrats' desire to punish peaceable gun owners for the crimes of violent thugs.

If we are to have a "violence tax," then we should impose it directly on the criminals committing the violence, and make it payable in blood. [More]

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Government will push back against home manufactured guns

In other words, one should not expect even widespread availability of the means to easily make effective firearms at home to win the war on "gun control" by itself. In the end, it will still require decent people willing to fight and die--or, preferably, kill--for their liberty. The government's problem is our hands--they're not cold and dead yet. [More]

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CSGV becoming increasingly frantic over 'printable gun'

Andrew Goddard is the father of professional victim Colin "The Alchemist" Goddard, and generally tries to portray himself as passionately opposed to "gun violence"--and here he is wishing the decapitation by firearm of an American citizen. Interestingly, CSGV has tacitly endorsed Goddard's bloody wish by not criticizing the comment or deleting it (CSGV routinely deletes comments it doesn't like, including over half of them on this post--so much for "reasoned discourse"--but Goddard's is still there. In fact, four people gave that comment the "thumbs up" of approval.

CSGV and their fellow travelers are so committed to their sick agenda of a "government monopoly on force" that they wish death on those who would make that monopoly impossible. Such people are exactly the reason the "Wiki Weapon" project is so vital to not only Americans, but to the world. [More]

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Michael Bannerman (AKA 'Laci the Dog') doesn't want arresting people to require any broken laws

Earlier this week, I wrote about the "Wiki Gun" project, headed by a young man named Cody Wilson, to develop a design for a handgun to be made in its entirety by a 3-D printer, and to then make that design available, free of charge, to anyone with internet access. It's an ambitious project, and not all of the difficulties are mechanical in nature (the makers of the high-end 3-D printer revoked the lease without warning when they became aware of the nature of the project).

Yesterday, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence noted this development on their Facebook page. This is not the first time CSGV has been disturbed by this impending death of "gun control"--an earlier article of mine prompted this anguished bleating on CSGV's Facebook page (check out the comments, too--they're hilarious):

The latest in gun nuttery: Insurrectionists threatening to make AK-47s out of printers if new gun laws enacted.

They also mentioned it on Twitter.

The latest comment replying to yesterday's CSGV Facebook post is especially interesting:

Michael Bannerman: He should be arrested for doing this.

If the name "Michael Bannerman" sounds familiar, there is a good reason for that. Bannerman is the real name of the rabidly, virulently, anti-guns, anti-rights, subhuman sack of vileness who more often writes under the name of his hideous, mangy, rodent-like "dog," to whom he refers as "Laci the Dog."

I've talked about this little parasite a couple times before. Nowadays, he doesn't seem to be currently active on any blogs of his own, but often spews his intellectually and morally bankrupt verbal pollution at "Mikeb302000"--just the place for such sewage.

Now he is advocating the arrest of a man against whom there is exactly ZERO evidence of any crimes (oh, and did I mention that Bannerman is a lawyer?). Pretty much par for the course, I suppose.

If people like that ever acquire any power, we're going to have to get our hands very bloody. I'm ready.

Update: CSGV is now worried enough about Cody Wilson (the "Wiki Weapon" visionary) to have hung the dreaded "insurrectionist" label on him (and again, check out the comments--they're precious). In fact, he has even made their silly "Insurrectionism Timeline":

I like this guy better and better all the time.

St. Louis police chief wants federal gun laws to control local crime

Obviously, no matter what the answers to these questions are (and holding one's breath waiting for those answers from Isom is probably a bad idea), we will still not even have touched an explanation of how to reconcile such laws with shall not be infringed, or why every peaceable gun owner in the U.S. should suffer more oppressive gun regulation because of the crimes of St. Louis thugs.

Isom has been an enemy of gun rights his entire tenure in St. Louis, and apparently plans to end that tenure with no change to that status. And now, he will be teaching that anti-rights attitude to criminology students. [More]

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VA Tech professor touts radical new advance in weapons technology

She must know something about some imminent advance in weaponry, because obviously she cannot be contending that weapons themselves are obsolete. As long as the strong continue to prey on the weak, the large on the small, the numerous on the few, weapons, with their ability to make predation even by the strong risky, will be necessary.

On a larger scale, as long as people are organized under governments, people must have the power to destroy those governments and their hired muscle, when those governments seek to abuse their power. In other words, weapons are unlikely ever to become obsolete. [More]

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An arms factory in every home: Gun control fights against its inevitable demise

That, though, is largely beside the point. The Wiki Gun project is more a proof of concept than an attempt to produce practical firearms right now. This is something we have discussed before, and will be the death of "gun control." The "government monopoly on force" so beloved of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence is becoming idle fantasy.

Not a moment too soon. [More]

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Administration's 'Gunwalking' facilitated bloodiest massacres in Mexico

The massacres of young people could be said to have in a way been the point of "Project Gunwalker"--provoking visceral outrage over the appalling waste of innocent life, in order to engender public support for stricter gun regulation. It is well past time for Americans--and Mexicans--to punish those responsible for this abomination--this human sacrifice in service of a political goal (and an evil, unconstitutional, freedom crushing, genocide enabling goal at that). "No blood for 'gun control.'" [More]

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The government's war at home

Taken separately, each of these developments is more than a little ominous. Taken together, the conclusion that the government is preparing for war against the people becomes difficult to escape (particularly when looked at alongside the government's apparent hostility to the Oath Keepers). In light of that, it would seem that the people would be well advised to step up our own preparations. As Mike Vanderboegh often asks, "Got militia?" [More]

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Communists for 'gun control'

Those who dub themselves "progressive" cannot tolerate a society in which the people have the power, or even the desire, to defend themselves and their interests, rather than rely on the government to do it.

A disarmed citizenry is a helpless citizenry. That is precisely the kind of citizenry that collectivists want, and precisely the kind that "gun control" groups want. And oops--the previous sentence looks like another redundancy. [More]

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Help put out the fire

Late to the party, as usual, I should long ago have added my voice to those of numerous other gun bloggers calling for support for a new documentary--"Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire."

When the subject of California’s gun control laws are discussed, rarely are they associated with the civil rights movement and the quest for equal rights for all. This film will compare the historical aspects of gun control targeting the indigenous tribes of North America and emancipated slaves through the Jim Crow era to today’s laws that favor elitists and denies the rights guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment to the most vulnerable in our society. The film takes a critical look at the original intent of the current California guns laws in contrast with crime and murder statistics before and since their implementation; and compares these laws to those of the adjacent states. Story threads also look at the myriad of concealed carry permitting processes across the state to illustrate that not all residents are treated equal.

Please help out any way you can--and soon.

'An Act of Bravery': Otis McDonald biography now available

McDonald took on the most oppressive forcible citizen disarmament laws in the country, which Chicago's mayor at the time defended with millions of Chicago taxpayers' dollars--and won. This quiet man could no longer stay quiet in the face of the denial of his Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms. He could no longer meekly submit to laws that denied his right to defend his life and loved ones. [More]

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Gun ownership, and even militia membership, becoming more popular, diverse

The Brady Campaign's Dennis "What People?" Henigan has complained in the past about media coverage of the militia movement that fails to portray those involved as racist terrorists. The fact that the Herald-Tribune refuses to paint them in that light, and that the same militia will soon be featured in programs on both MTV and National Geographic, will undoubtedly make him even more unhappy.

The Brady Campaign, VPC, CSGV and the Southern Poverty Law Center would all prefer that the public share their fear and loathing of militias. The question to ask them, perhaps, is if militias are "necessary to the security of a free state," then who are the "traitors" to America--the militia members, or those who oppose them? [More]

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Obama straight up lies to Hispanic voters about 'Project Gunwalker'

What excuse for this lie will be offered in Obama's defense? Will it be claimed that it was just a "mistake"--that he still has not learned enough about the "Gunwalker" atrocity to have even figured out when it started (since presumably, even his most desperate defenders will not try to claim he forgot when his administration began)? If so, would Hispanic voters not be justified in asking how a president could be so callously indifferent about establishing the facts about a U.S. federal government operation that resulted in hundreds of dead Mexican citizens, and will undoubtedly continue to cause more deaths (on both sides of the border--and even farther abroad) for years to come?

Could Hispanic voters further be forgiven for wondering why an administration that sent thousands of the firearms Obama most wants banned as being "too dangerous" for private citizens, to brutal killers in Mexico, won't let Latinos have forks in Obama's presence? You can bet that there will be no "Project Forkwalker" under this administration. [More]

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St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner once again honored by CSGV

That's objectionable?

Only to those who believe that governments should get a free pass to commit evil with impunity. Those would be the same folks who clamor for a "government monopoly on force."

There is as much nobility in being despised by the despicable, as in being admired by the admirable. The contempt and loathing of those who advocate forcible citizen disarmament is thus a great honor indeed. Thank you, CSGV. [More]

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OIG 'Gunwalker' report does not 'exonerate' Holder, but is still whitewash

Remember also that, although the IG investigation covered only the DoJ, there were at least two other Cabinet-level departments involved in Operation Fast and Furious (Department of Homeland Security and Treasury, and it is difficult to imagine the State Department being left completely in the dark). IG Horowitz explained today that his investigation sought a voluntary interview with a DHS agent, but could not compel the agent to speak, because being outside the DoJ, the agent had the right to refuse--a right he exercised.

Somehow, then, we are expected to believe that this multiple Cabinet level department operation was going on without the head of the most central department knowing about it. [More]

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Josh Horwitz laughably accuses gun rights advocates of disregarding Constitution

According to Horwitz, in order to have "faith" in the Constitution, one must believe that a power hungry government can be thwarted in its desires to usurp the power of the people, simply because words on parchment say that it must not. That is, obviously, a ludicrous notion. The Constitution itself protects nothing, unless it is enforced.

The enforcers must be the people--us--and enforcement may require something stronger than harsh language. The Founders knew this--knew that, as Edward R. Murrow said, "A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." A disarmed citizenry--a citizenry that allows itself to be disarmed--is indeed "a nation of sheep." That is what CSGV would have us be. [More]

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Obama administration colludes with Media Matters to bury 'Gunwalker' scandal

As has been observed previously, MM is well compensated for its rabidly pro-administration, anti-gun positions (by the same virulently anti-gun foundation on whose board Obama served for eight years), although that apparently hasn't stopped MM founder David Brock from making his own, sometimes illegal, armed security arrangements.

For "the most transparent administration ever," this one certainly likes to maintain tight control over what is said about it. [More]

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Gun 'buy backs,' and using the enemies' own resources against them

Still, though, that does not mean that resourceful gun rights advocates cannot use these "buy backs" to come out ahead. A central Illinois gun rights group, Guns Save Life (sometimes called the Champaign County Rifle Association) has perfected this strategy (for years, and years), collecting junk guns, selling them to the "buy back," and using the proceeds to fund such worthy gun rights advocacy efforts as youth shooting camps (building the next generation of gun rights advocates).

. . .

It must take a lot of the fun out of working for the suppression of the Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms. [More]

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Why we need 'high capacity' magazines: Because there are more than 10 Democrats

As has been pointed out elsewhere, party platforms fall far short of telling the whole story, because they are not binding on any individual politician within the party. Still, they do give a sense of the position that the party leadership would like to take the party. Viewed in that light, it becomes obvious that the Democrats want guns regulated to a draconian degree this country has never seen.

They must be stopped. By whatever means necessary. [More]

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Gun haters in Congress try to ban ammo sales; government buys milions of rounds

Lautenberg and McCarthy have their priorities exactly backward. It is none of the government's business how much ammunition a free citizen buys, and it is very much the business of the public to know how much, of what kind, and for what purpose is the government buying ammunition. [More]

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Please welcome to the arms room: The .50 BMG magazine-fed AR-15 'pistol'

I've finally reached the point that a so-called "assault weapon" chambered for merely the .50 Beowulf isn't enough for me (although I am of course keeping it, and the 6.5mm Grendel). I needed the real .50 caliber--the one that terrifies the cud-chewers (and certain domestic enemies). Gotta have the .50 BMG.

I'm blaming David Codrea for inspiring me on this. It was from him that I found out that the BATFE was planning to designate .50 BMG upper receivers for AR-15s as "firearms," subject to all the restrictions applied to other firearms.

That was one year ago today, and as often happens when new gun restrictions are being discussed, I was inspired to get the very thing that was to be restricted. The BATFE has not, to this point, moved to implement such a policy, perhaps due in part to the attention David's warning brought to it.

And David certainly cannot be stuck with all the blame. The fact that California democrats Senator Dianne Feinstein and Representative Henry Waxman are both desperately frightened of the .50 BMG's ability to defeat the armor of a politician's limousine, even at long ranges, makes the acquisition of such an arm quite tempting all by itself. As I said before:

The common theme here is that Feinstein, Waxman and others seem to have identified .50 caliber rifles as a personal threat to their own lives.

This is a good thing. Those who take it upon themselves to write the laws by which the rest of us must live should fear the wrath of the people they seek to govern. For the nation to be truly free, those who seek to exceed the limits on their power imposed by the Constitution must be made to live in mortal terror of the consequences.

But what made the idea of getting a .50 BMG AR-15 upper receiver utterly irresistible for me was finding out that there is a way to do it in such a way that the finished gun is a magazine-fed repeater. And as of today, I have what has to be one of the only repeating .50 BMG "pistols" in the world.

Actually, I was tempted to post the following pics, instead, and see how many cud-chewing, bed-wetting ignoramuses I could send into a panic when they saw it had two magazines, including a 90-round snail drum, despite the fact that the 90-rounder would of course not serve any functional purpose:

Yesterday, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn hijacked a perfectly good bill, passed by an overwhelming bipartisan majority, and turned it into a bill to ban, among other things, guns just like that one. Perhaps he is getting nervous about the limitations of his limousine's armor.

Good.

Governor Quinn violates U.S. and Illinois constitutions simultaneously

The new law would be confiscatory, in that even owners of banned items owned before the ban would have to surrender them if they could not prove having owned them previously. Quinn even has the gall to claim to be "a strong supporter of the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution– the right to bear arms." His idea of a joke, perhaps.

But trampling the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is not enough for Quinn, because using (abusing) the amendatory veto process in this manner is itself a violation of the Illinois constitution, as Charles N. Wheeler III explains in Illinois Issues . . . [More]

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Gun rights: Of rights, needs and 'sporting purposes'

Let us ignore all that, and further, let's ignore the fact that the first ten amendments to the Constitution are not called the "Bill of Needs." In other words, let's accept for now the dubious assertion that not only do we not need these things, but that our lack of such a need justifies Congress banning them.

So, then, how does one square bans justified by a lack of "need," with other gun bans based on lack of sporting use? No one, after all, needs sports, which perhaps explains why the Second Amendment is silent about the "right to keep and bear sporting goods."

Gun ban extremists like Feinstein, Lautenberg and McCarthy would ban guns that (they claim) we don't "need." They also claim the authority to ban guns that (again, they claim) are not suitable for purposes more frivolous than need. What does that leave? [More]

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Gun ban groups threaten to sue CA Att. Gen. for not altering English language

Still, though, even Harris is evidently balking at the pressure the gun ban groups are trying to mount. That would indicate that she understands that a magazine that cannot be removed without a tool is not "detachable." Diamond blade, high speed circular saws are tools, after all, as are plasma cutting torches, and no magazine would stay "attached" for long against efforts to remove them with such tools.

The anti-gun groups, then, are threatening to sue her if she does not redefine the word "detachable." Not particularly surprising--the same groups certainly have a strange way of defining shall not be infringed. [More]

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New York Times hosts call to 'get rid of the right to bear arms'

In the end, whether or not Professor Price (and Bill Maher and his guests) like it or not, the Second Amendment is the Constitutional guarantee of the fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms. Amending it out of the Constitution is theoretically possible, but to thwart such an effort, only 13 states would have to resist it. In America, when it comes to fighting tyranny, 13 is definitely a lucky number. And repealing the Second Amendment would still not cancel a right that is, after all, unalienable.

Those who would nullify the right to keep and bear arms had best be prepared to kill--by the tens of thousands--to do it. That's not easy, when the would-be victims are armed. That difficulty is the reason for the Second Amendment. [More]

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Numerous Cabinet-level departments in on Operation Fast and Furious

With at least three, and more probably four, Cabinet-level departments involved with Operation Fast and Furious, it strains credulity to believe that the heads of those departments were somehow unaware of the operation while it was going on, and yet that's exactly what they claim. Are we to believe that low-level bureaucrats took it upon themselves to cross three or four department lines to conduct this operation, without mentioning it to their bosses? [More]

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More importantly, it is actually dangerous to argue that government oversight must be abandoned when the economic situation becomes dire. In doing so, one gives an administration with a desire to take actions that would not stand up to scrutiny an incentive to first wreck the economy.

Almost sounds like a variation on Cloward-Piven, doesn't it? [More]

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CNN's claimed 'truth' about Fast and Furious is anything but

The claim, then, is that although there never was any "gunwalking," the Obama administration has admitted to it anyway, in order "to avoid a rhetorical battle over gun control." Does CNN expect anyone to buy that?

Perhaps so--another recent CNN op-ed tells us, with an apparent intent to be taken seriously, not to be "nosy" about "Project Gunwalker" atrocity:

And sometimes the federal government deems it necessary to get its hands a little dirty in the hopes of achieving something we generally accept as good for the country.

The deaths of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, ICE Agent Jaime Zapata, and hundreds of Mexican citizens are merely the result of the federal government getting "its hands a little dirty [or scrambling some eggs, in the words of CNN hero David Voth]," for the good of the country. No wonder they don't like whistleblowers at CNN. [More]

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'Mind-numbingly stupid' conspiracy theory about Holder contempt gaining traction

By the way, speaking of "racism," how racist is it for the Obama administration to deliberately arm brutal killers in Mexico with what the gun ban lobby refers to as "military-style assault weapons," but will not allow Hispanic elected and appointed officials near Obama with forks? Good thing for the president that there wasn't a "Project Forkwalker" going on (although the diners were urged to finish their lunch at a "fast and furious" pace). [More]

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Rachel Maddow's disparagement of 'Gunwalker' scandal devoid of honor, facts

Maddow will hope viewers don't ask how anyone in law enforcement would have thought this plan would have helped interdict gun trafficking, when not only was the Mexican government left in the dark about the operation, but the BATFE's own personnel in Mexico were, as well. She hopes no one asks how a gun trafficking interdiction plan could have involved ordering BATFE agents to break off surveillance of the suspected traffickers. She certainly hopes no one thinks to ask how a plan that could only "track" the guns by finding them next to dead bodies could possibly be seen as a sensible way to reduce violence. [More]

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Chris Matthews claims 'ethnic' motivation behind contempt citation

The most interesting aspect of this, however, might be Matthews' choice of wording to describe what he would like to characterize as the "racist" act of pursuing contempt charges against Holder: "stop-and-frisk." The racial implications of an aggressive stop-and-frisk approach to law enforcement, particularly as implemented in New York City, has been a topic of discussion here more than once. Even rabidly anti-gun New York Times columnist Bob Herbert has had nothing but blistering criticism of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's blatantly bigoted enforcement of his law against being "armed while dark-skinned." [More]

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Obama now owns 'Project Gunwalker' scandal

This is a pivotal moment. By claiming executive privilege, Obama is very actively, and publicly, obstructing the investigation. This makes it official that Obama is--at the very least--an accessory after the fact to the crimes referred to as "Project Gunwalker." Obama, who on his very first day of office promised the "most transparent government in history," has now become the "Stonewaller in Chief."

More fundamentally, if, as the administration has argued from the very beginning, Obama had no involvement with, or knowledge of, the "gunwalking," on what possible grounds can he claim executive privilege? Would it be unfair to see this asssertion of executive privilege as something of a confession? [More]

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AG Holder's very selective 'superior knowledge' of 'Project Gunwalker'

Um--"superior knowledge"? From the man who makes Sergeant Schultz, of Hogan's Heroes, sound as if he is claiming omniscience? How can one claim to have been utterly clueless about the abomination, and also claim to possess "superior knowledge"? Anyone who believes that is gullible enough to believe that the DoJ implemented the Underpants Gnome approach to gun trafficking interdiction. [More]

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CSGV tries to expand 'gun lobby' opposition beyond 'gun control' zealots

CSGV would have us beat our swords not into plowshares, but into hammers and sickles, and if that means, to paraphrase Ben Franklin, that we will be destined to labor for those who keep their swords (government monopoly on force, remember), that suits CSGV just fine. [More]

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Suddenly, Holder embraces 'Bush did it too' defense in 'gunwalker' scandal

In fact, Holder has himself more than once found himself forced to acknowledge (under oath) the many fundamental differences between this administration's "gunwalking" and older operations. During the November 8 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, in an exchange with Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), Holder found himself making this admission:

Senator, I have not tried to equate the two--I have not tried to equate Wide Receiver with Fast and Furious. . . . Again, I'm not trying to equate the two.

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Jesse Jackson vows attacks on most successful part of economy

"Guns out; jobs in," he chanted, his audience faithfully parroting him.

As Ms. Pavlich points out, though, protesting against both the gun industry and the weak job market seems to ignore the reality that the gun industry is one of the very few bright spots in today's economy, providing both good jobs and desperately sought tax dollars to both federal and state governments. [More]

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Venezuela gun ban proves 'progressive' agenda cannot tolerate armed citizenry

In the eyes of statists, that very attitude must be stamped out. A "progressive" society depends on the government for everything, including protection from violence (even, bizarrely enough, from government violence). A society in which the people believe themselves to be the last line of defense against attacks on their lives and liberty will never be sufficiently dependent on a wise, benevolent government's own protection of the people's interests (interests, naturally, that the government defines). [More]

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Illinois passes amended SB 1034, neglects far better option

But must it be as bad as all that? In most states, after all, the state police do not play any role in approving (or denying) gun sales. When a gun shop customer wants to buy a gun, the gun dealer dials up the federal NICS system, and finds out whether or not the sale may proceed--no state police involvement whatsoever.

Why not get Illinois out of the business of enforcing federal gun laws altogether? Why not scrap the FOID program, of which the vast majority of states have no equivalent, and do not seem to miss it? [More]

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