GRE Round Up, Sept 30

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• CleanUpATF speculates on imminent management shakeup

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Are lawmakers quietly trying to bury state’s unique self-defense statute?


• WA universities should study Oregon ruling on campus CCW

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• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
  Big shakeup at ATF underway?
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Judge rules Constitutionally guaranteed right to bear arms merely a privilege

No, your honor--it is most definitely within the purview of the courts to rein in the legislature's unconstitutional excesses through judicial review. If you are unable or unwilling to do that, what good are you?

. . .

If the court's role in government is merely as a rubber stamp for the legislative and executive branches, Cummings is probably just fine for the job. The flip side of that, of course, is that if we the people cannot count on the courts to rein in an overzealous legislature and executive, we will have to do take that on ourselves. That could get messy. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Sept 29

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

Latino media Gunwalker query shows need to bypass elites to ask tough questions

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Issaquah incident shows fallacy of ‘gun free’ school zones

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.

GRE Round Up, Sept 28

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Senate Judiciary Committee staffer corroborates ATF gunwalking purchases

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Grassley puts it bluntly: ‘It’s a lie’


• In tough times for fish and game, WDFW wants more money for…wolves?


• Holder revives Wales investigation; Is this to deflect F&F attention?

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
  Next Gunwalker hearing to be held jointly with Senate and House


• Grassley on gunwalker--"there's something sinister going on"
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

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

'Terrorist watch list' gun bans likely for life, even if cleared of wrongdoing

As blogger Thirdpower points out, you're "Guilty until proven innocent--and then you're still guilty."

Henigan went incandescent with outrage when House Judiciary Committee Republicans killed a proposal to block gun sales to those on the "watch list." How likely is it, one might wonder, that he will change his mind, knowing now that if he gets his way, denial of the Constitutionally guaranteed, fundamental human right of the individual to keep and bear arms would not end with being found not guilty of any wrongdoing? [More]

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GRE Round Up, Sept 27

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Mike Stollenwerk/DC:

• Unless vetoed, California bill will require long gun carry in public

Rob Reed/Detroit:

• David Codrea named 'Gun rights journalist of the year' at 2011 GRPC

David Codrea/National:

• ATF Chief Counsel’s office warned management of Gun Rights Examiner column

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Another F&F ‘bombshell’ and a familiar name rises to surface


• ATF letter to FFLs makes it clear: No guns for pot users

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
  Gunwalker bombshell 2--ATF feared early reports of scandal
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

GRE Round Up, Sept 26

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Richard Nascak/Ft. Myers:

• October 1st is a special day for Florida's gun carriers

David Codrea/National:

• Letter implicates ATF in committing straw purchases for Gunwalker

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• LaPierre asks right F&F questions, McGinn makes wrong public safety move


• GRPC 2011: Grassroots at the ground level energizes activists


• Issaquah gunman: Didn’t take long for nuts to blame NRA, gun rights

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
  Special prosecutor for Gunwalker scandal to come from Holder's DOJ?
• Gunwalker bombshell--"there never was a 'sting'"
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Our gangster government: 'Project Gunwalker's' newest, most depraved twist

By the way, it is also instructive to compare what BATFE Agent John Dodson was directed to do, to the language in Representative Carolyn Maloney's (D-NY) H.R. 2554, the "Stop Gun Trafficking and Strengthen Law Enforcement Act of 2011." These latest "Gunwalker" revelations would seem to indicate that every one of the provisions of that bill was broken--by the very people who would be in charge of enforcing it, if it becomes law.

More importantly, with "Project Gunwalker" being every day more conlusively proven not to have been a "botched sting," there is only one other thing it could have been--an attempt to justify more "gun control." [More]

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GRE Round Up, Sept 23

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• AZ congressman, sheriff at F&F panel Monday; Newell 'supplements' statement


• Dept. of Irony: Budget axe gets honed as Obama comes to town

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

'KKK began as gun-control organization'--confirms 'Racist Roots of Gun Control'

Everitt's article also claimed that prior to the summer of 2010 (when the Supreme Court ruled on the McDonald v. City of Chicago case), "you would have had to explore the darkest corners of the gun rights movement to find anyone openly exclaiming that 'gun control is racist.'” Since a great many of us have been shouting that message a great deal longer than that, there would seem to have been rather a crowd of "darkest corners."

Professor Winkler apparently missed the summer of 2010 deadline for "darkest corner" status, but if he drops the "Tea Party's Gun Problem" silliness, he's welcome as an honorary "dark corner," regardless. CSGV's and friends' most desperate efforts notwithstanding, we shall overcome. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Sept 22

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• ATF Counsel email to Melson on Gunwalker-Terry murder link preceded intimidation

Yih-Chau Chang/Oakland:

• Churchill's Voice Heard In Struggle To Retain The Civil Right To Self Defense

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Grassley-Issa letter to IG suggests obstruction

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
  Uncovered email shows cover-up, intimidation by ATF officials
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

Issa's 'Project Gunwalker' investigation making him target

Interestingly, the audio tapes being revealed this week by CBS News show Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) agent Hope MacAllister expressing a desire to hire a private investigator to dig up dirt on Senator Grassley, in order to force him to back off. From Redstate:

According to the tapes, made between ATF Agent Hope MacAllister and a gun dealer named Andre Howard, Agent MacAllister admitted she had suggested the ATF hire a private investigator to dig up dirt on U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley to persuade Grassley to stop investigating the ATF.

. . .

There is nowhere for the Obama government to hide from "Project Gunwalker," but as long as mendacious libels offer any hope of some sort of cover, the administration will not hesitate to grasp at that dishonorable straw. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Sept 21

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• Issa holds telephone press conference on ‘Gunwalker’ with bloggers

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Proof positive: Gun sales up, violent crime down...again!


• Mexican body count climbs as Fast & Furious unravels in audio tape

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.

Breitbart is right--we DO have the guns

Horwitz and his fellow sick ideologues recognize that the very notion that the people, and not the government, are responsible for enforcing their rights, is directly antithetical to the "progressive" agenda of an ever-growing central government on which the people are utterly dependent, and to which they are utterly subservient.

We do have the guns, CSGV, and you had best not forget it. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Sept 20

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

David Codrea/National:

• ‘Elite’ media treatment of Gunwalker is scandalous

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• EXCLUSIVE: Grassley says F&F ‘bigger than when we first got into it’


• Issa calls Fast & Furious ‘dumb, useless and lethal’

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
  Breaking news--Congressman Issa discards mainstream media for bloggers
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

'Gunwalker' conspirators right to fear Grassley and Issa; Leahy--not so much

It is only Representative Darrell Issa's (R-CA) position as Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (because of the Republican House majority) that has allowed the investigation to get anywhere so far. The ranking Democrat on that committee, Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD), has done everything he can to bury the investigation. Mr. Codrea has, in fact, pointed out that Cummings could have prevented this monstrosity before it happened, if not for his history of ignoring whistleblowers' concerns.

A Democrat House majority, to go along with their Senate majority, would have meant, in other words, that there would be almost no hope of justice for Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agent Jaime Zapata, and the hundreds of "nameless, faceless dead" in Mexico. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Sept 19

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Richard Nascak/Ft. Myers:

• Committee on HR 822 told the "whole truth" by Commish Ramsey?

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:

• These Boots walked to Tennessee

David Codrea/National:

• VA gun owner ‘not guilty’ on brandishing charge-media reporting arrest ignores


• ATF agents fear new leadership looks like more of same

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• NY Times’ anti-gun extremism threatens its relevancy


• BREAKING: Audio uncovered about 3rd Terry crime scene rifle

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

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

Mexico--like American people--still not getting answers on 'Project Gunwalker'

While "thousands more victims" may be an exaggeration (so far--the "gunwalking" may have ended, but the killing almost certainly hasn't, and will not for years), she is perhaps granting the perpetrators of "Project Gunwalker" far too much benefit of the doubt, in attributing the atrocity to "inpetitude," rather than ruthless, calculated evil.

The Obama administration has made clear that it will reveal nothing more about this monstrosity than it is forced to. Both the Mexican government and the American people must do a far better job of applying that force than we have so far. [More]

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GRE Round Up, Sept 16

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Liston Matthews/Knoxville:

• National reciprocity

David Codrea/National:

• Angry citizens arm in defiance of order- no one killed!

Dave Workman/Seattle:

• Arrests in Kent shootout highlight gang problem


• Bellevue v. Bloomberg over riot predictions

Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

• Albuquerque Libertarian
• Cochise County Libertarian
• Conservative
  Will a scandal a day keep reelection away?
• LA Anti-Establishment
• Michigan Firearms

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

When a scandal isn't a scandal; when a 'gunwalked' gun isn't 'gunwalked'

I guess we now know where William Newell, former Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) Special Agent in Charge of the Tucson field office, came by his remarkably narrow definition of "walking" guns.

So there you have it--guns weren't "walked" unless the perpetrators say so, and there's no scandal, unless the administration's apologists say there is.

It's good to be king. [More]

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