Sipsey Street Irregulars

Friday, August 8, 2014

From the land of great ideas and engineering (You know, the folks who brought us Zyklon B). When some German starts talking about how Americans "must" do something, I get nervous.

German gun designer’s quest for a smarter weapon infuriates U.S. gun rights advocates

“I love Ernst, and his contributions to firearms are incredible,” said Jim Schatz, a gun industry consultant who worked for Mauch at Heckler & Koch. “But he doesn’t understand that the anti-gunners will use this to infringe on a constitutional right. They don’t have a Second Amendment in Germany.”

“Anyone can make a gun or a pistol. But if the potential is here to make it safer, we have to do it. We absolutely must.”

Call me when you've indicted the eighth man -- the leader of the conspiracy -- Barack Hussein Obama.

Seventh man indicted in slaying of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Rep. Honda announces bill to ban civilians from military-grade body armor

Rep. Mike Honda, D-San Jose, today announced legislation that would block civilians from accessing military-grade body armor to prevent criminals from using them in gun battles with law enforcement. . . "There's nothing more dangerous than an unstoppable, well-armored shooter," he said. "The law enforcement community sees an increase in use of body armor in violent, gun-related crimes."

"We should be asking ourselves, why is this armor available to just anyone, if it was designed to be used only by our solders to take to war?" Honda said. He said he introduced the bill, H.R. 5344, the Responsible Body Armor Possession Act of 2014, in Congress last week. The proposed law would prohibit the sale, transfer or possession of military-level body armor by civilians. Honda said it has been endorsed by law enforcement organizations including the California State Sheriffs' Association, the Fraternal Order of Police and the Peace Officers Research Association of California, according to Honda.

The interview for the documentary was, I think, a success. The work involved in rearranging my living room for the shoot was incredible to me though. Just two guys humped in and set up an amazing amount of equipment and then afterward had to repeat the process in the other direction. Furniture had to be rearranged, then rearranged again to get the shot exactly right. Heck, we even had to take down Rosey's pots and pans from the overhead rack to get them out of the way of a portable light. Anyway, although they did most of the work, I still ended up doing too much. Now, having overslept, I'll have to get Rosey to work, but I'll try to have more later.

"Absolute Immunity": The Deadliest Weapon in the Prosecutor's Arsenal

“Prosecutors are rewarded for winning at all costs, they have no incentive to seek the truth rather than a conviction, and they are entirely unaccountable when they pervert justice in pursuit of victory,” observes Idaho resident John T. Bujak. “People shouldn't believe that their innocence provides any protection. The question isn't whether you have done anything wrong, but whether the criminal justice system is going to target you – and once you're in that system, you face prohibitive odds of emerging from it without being hurt.”

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Democrat sheriff typifies ‘progressive Only One’ hypocrisy on guns

“One thing Manfre said he and many other law enforcement officials would like to see in terms of sensible gun control is a ban on assault weapons,” the PR piece masked as news noted. “’In my opinion, there is no reason to have an assault weapon,’ he said.”

Missouri voters declare right to keep and bear arms 'unalienable' . . . sort of

Amendment 5, although a large positive step for Missouri gun owners, lends a veneer of legitimacy to the practice of allowing voters to decide whether or not government is to be forced to recognize our fundamental human rights as "unalienable," and Bloomberg is spending scores of millions to convince low information voters to give the government a free hand. Might we have given up more than we gained?

Busy morning

I have a documentary film crew showing up in a few minutes to interview me about the links between Waco and our response to the Bundy standoff. I'll have more later.

The latest anecdote in tthe chaos-by-design that is our border.

Murder in Rio Grande Valley: 'This Is Coming to a Town Near You'

Stictly speaking, this man was not "naked," he was "nekkid."

Guns Save Lives reports: "17 Year Old Alabama Boy Chases Naked Intruder Away With Dad’s Gun."

Once inside, the man stripped naked before being discovered by the teens. The 17 year old grabbed his dad’s gun and used it to chase the naked man out of the home at gunpoint. The teen’s called police who arrested Johnson a short while later when he returned to the home again. It seems there is a pretty good chance Johnson was inebriated in some way and police say he may have been trying to get to his mother’s home, who lives nearby. No word on why he was naked just yet.

Now I don't want to quibble, but this man was not, stictly speaking, "naked." He was "nekkid." As I learned from Lewis Grizzard shortly after I moved to Alabama in 1985, "naked" in the South means that you have no clothes. "Nekkid" means that you have no clothes AND ARE UP TO SOMETHING. This man was certainly nekkid rather than merely naked.

Here's the WAFF report.

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Gun retailers, payday lenders out of Choke Point’s crosshairs

Gun retailers are no longer on a hit list deemed “high risk” by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. after the banking regulator formally withdrew Monday the list it put together that outlined what merchants may be considered risky for banks to do business with as part of the Obama administration’s “Operation Choke Point.”

GOA forwards this link with the following comments:

The FDIC said its efforts to destroy the gun industry “led to misunderstandings.” But frankly, the only “misunderstanding” in the actions by the FDIC and Eric Holder’s “Operation Choke Point” involved Obama’s misunderstanding of the withering response to his slimy efforts to destroy the Second amendment “by the back door.” With the support of GOA, appropriations legislation in the House had language which would have eliminated Operation Choke Point entirely. And Harry Reid was forced to pull the bill and derail the appropriations process after Senator Rand Paul, with our urging, threatened to force endangered Democrats to vote on the issue in that chamber.

As is always the case with Barack Obama, one can never assume that he has backed away from his efforts to destroy the Second Amendment. But last week’s actions are pretty good news for the gun community. So thanks again for all your hard work!

Barack Obama’s Secret Terrorist-Tracking System, by the Numbers

Nearly half of the people on the U.S. government’s widely shared database of terrorist suspects are not connected to any known terrorist group, according to classified government documents obtained by The Intercept.

Directorate of Terrorist Identities (DTI) Strategic Accomplishments 2013

U.S. Officials Say There's a Second Snowden Leaking Security Documents

More roughness.

I'll try to have more later, including some of the original work I've been struggling with. Keep me in your prayers.

Thad Cochran, Democrat White Knight.

Democratic activists were behind controversial Klan ads in Mississippi

Chris McDaniel challenges Mississippi Senate runoff

Your tax dollars at work,

Obama’s FBI to hire firm to rate ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ stories about the agency

Monday, August 4, 2014

Like this was some sort of big secret. O'Malley's ego grows with his appetite for other peoples' liberty, property and lives.

Gov. O'Malley is 'seriously considering' running for president in 2016

Kiss me arse.

Trail shows ‘Nevadans for Background Checks’ a front group for ‘Everytown’

Putting the astro in astro-turf.

Pardon me while I puke.

Juan Williams: Holder exclusive — 'Proud to be an activist'

Johnny Dronehunter: Defender of Privacy

Link.

"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.