Sipsey Street Irregulars

Friday, January 17, 2014

Another view of the ATF sign at the SHOT show.

BATFE Gets Trolled at SHOT

Anti-cartel vigilantes reject disarming in Mexico standoff

The Mexican 90-rounder.

\While I appreciate the job he's trying to do, this is a perfect waste of packing tape.

Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong confirmed the talks had taken place, and said the government was offering jobs as police to qualified members of the self-defense forces. The spokesman for the vigilante movement, Estanislao Beltran, previously said the vigilantes weren't interested in such offers. "We don't want jobs as policemen. We're fighting for the freedom of our families," he said.

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Well, at least they're going to have ATF oversight hearings. But are they going to subpoena James P. "Little Jimmy" Vann and ask him -- under oath -- about Ramsey Bear and economic Wacos?

Congressional committees to investigate botched ATF stings

Schumer playing with his tectonic plates again.

Charlie Schumer's favorite image when he claims near-victory on anything is that "the tectonic plates are shifting." He did it with gun control in the 90s (see image above). He claimed it again during the 2008 election. Now he's back playing with his plates again -- Schumer: 'Tectonic plates' are shifting. He should cut that serial masturbatory fantasy stuff out. He might grow hair on his palms.

"Hate speech"? Isn't that what the collectivists say I'm doing?

13 House Democrats offer bill demanding government study on Internet hate speech

Gun owners unafraid of threatened Weinstein and Streep NRA-bashing film

If Weinstein wishes to spend millions of dollars on a social engineering project, all gun owners need do is nothing, except maybe ridicule him and dare him to.

Update.

It's been a rocky past couple of days. I had the barium swallow and the conclusion at the moment is that the esophogeal fistula caused by the dropped stitch in my surgery (almost two years ago now) is no longer draining out my back. Of course yesterday just happened to begin with that wound on my back opening up in the shower and copiously draining a serosanguineous cocktail after previously appearing to heal. The docs say it's not coming from the gastric system, but is some sort of localized leftover from when it WAS draining out my back. Keep me in your prayers. The fight goes on. Will try to have more later.

Movie mogul says new Streep film to make NRA ‘wish they weren’t alive’

Ooooh. Now that's a threat.

Mr. Stern asked Mr. Weinstein on Wednesday whether he owned a gun. The Hollywood heavyweight replied that he did not and never would. “I don’t think we need guns in this country. And I hate it,” the producer said. “I think the NRA is a disaster area.”

Mr. Weinstein then revealed his secret project about the gun rights group. “I shouldn’t say this, but I’ll tell it to you, Howard,” he said. “I’m going to make a movie with Meryl Streep, and we’re going to take this head-on. And they’re going to wish they weren’t alive after I’m done with them.”

Yeah, well, good luck with that.

"Ethical gun makers shun money from anti-American governments from Pakistan to CA"

"Anti-American," yeah. Especially Kalifornia.

Somebody defaces ATF sign at SHOT Show. CPT Ramsey A. Bear denies responsibility.

David Codrea passes on the image above with the comment: "Now THAT's Funny!" Suspicion immediately was focused on Ramsey A. Bear, who has been known to frequent previous SHOT Shows. In response to my request for a statement, CPT Bear states, "I deny any involvement in the incident. I not only know how to correctly spell molṑn labé but I was having coffee at the time with CPT Tuttle, MAJ Murdock and COL Robert "Mad Bob" REDACTED of Alabama's own Dogtown Rangers Militia so my alibi is solid. As for who the perpetrator might be, my suspicion would be that it was one of those 'reverse hate crime' things. From the ignorance of the misspelling, I would guess it was probably engineered by James P. 'Little Jimmy' Vann."

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Sean Penn owning guns after domestic violence plea raises legal questions

Yeah, how does that happen, exactly?

Smuggling update.

Contributions, both monetary and magazines, continue to dribble in. If you send either and want to specify a politician or state of destination -- CO, CT, MD, NY or the District of Columbia -- feel free to do so with your contribution. If you send a mag, be sure and let me know if it is problematic or unserviceable. Those we classify as "politician grade" and taunt the antis with. If it is brand new like the 6 P-Mags new-in-the-wrap that I received today, we classify those as "freedom fighter grade." If you want to be a volunteer recipient of those, let me know by email or snail mail, but understand that they come with a risk attached. You are putting your own ass on the line.

'Bump fire' triggers could be Feinstein's next 'sky is falling' moment

And thus, very soon, Feinstein might be telling us we have a new reason to fear "assault weapons," which is her way of saying that she has a new reason to fear them. The more the better, as far as I'm concerned--liberty depends on oath-breaking government officials fearing the righteous wrath of the people.

Need hi-res copy of this graphic.

It has been requested by a couple of journalists writing about the subject and I've lost the original.

Two doctors' appointments today (had one yesterday) and a barium swallow (yum!).

I'll try to have more later, but no promises. Keep me in your prayers.

Catchy lyrics, but can you get collectivists to dance to the tune?

Fresh from having his head handed to him when he tried to compromise away our rights last year (see here, here, and here), Alan Gottlieb sez, "If Democrats Want Guns Off The Street, They Should Take Them Off The Table." Catchy lyrics, Alan, but can you get collectivists to dance to the tune? I very much doubt it. Side B of this recording will doubtless feature Alan's golden oldie, "Don't cross my mutable line in the shifting sands."

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.