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).

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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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