"D.C. official says ATF changed from Fast and Furious era."

Riiiight. And the evidence for that is what, exactly?

David Codrea: Hollywood continues to exemplify hypocrisy on guns

"Action Heroes" -- again.

Logistics: Picked up a Rock River Arms case in a thrift store for $4.97 today.

It is the blue plastic one in the photo below, upper left corner. Dug out all the change in my pocket and in the car console to get it.

Kurt Hofmann: Escapees from rights-challenged lands revere 2nd Amd. more than many born here.

You never know what you have until you lose it.

They leave only one thing out -- the part where they start a civil war and we kill their tyrannical asses.

I somehow missed this when it first came out back in December, but a reader recently sent it to me: How to Ban Guns: A step by step, long term process

Dogs and ponies seem uninspired.

Senators tread cautiously at gun hearing

Neither side seemed like it was playing to win. For Republicans, especially, this was a hearing to survive. No YouTube moments or arguments with Mark Kelly, Giffords’s husband. For Democrats, this was about avoiding unforced errors and not doing anything that would stall whatever momentum there is for action on gun control.

LATER: The Dead Elephants are already running: Gun control: inklings of a compromise in the Great Gun Debate

Untutored hypocrisy in North Carolina.

I note this OpEd in the Davidson County NC Dispatch: "Gun rally on MLK Day not appreciated."

I don't do Facebook, so I am unable to leave my comment. Would someone be so kind as to post it there?

Ms. Myers, if she knew her history better, might recall that Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders slept soundly, safe from harm by the Klan, when they were guarded by the Deacons for Defense and Justice, a black militia made up largely of veterans and CARRYING MILITARY SURPLUS WEAPONS they had brought back from World War 2 and Korea.

She might also recall that the first gun control laws (and many afterward) were written to keep firearms out the hands of black folks, even freedmen. Martin Luther King was no saint, but he understood that cowards in sheets were less likely to be overawed by Gandhian civil disobedience than by a single full-auto M-2 carbine with a thirty round magazine in the hands of a black man who knew how to use it. If he saw any hypocrisy in that, it is lost to history. A history, not to put too fine a point on it, that Ms. Myers would do well to study before summoning a faux outrage about Martin Luther King that he himself did not share.

Mike Vanderboegh

http:sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com

Punishing the citizen disarmament appeasers.

"I have Herr Hitler's guarantee. . ."

Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show: What Postponement of the U.S.'s Largest Gun Show Says About America.

The media is missing the real story behind the “postponement” of the largest outdoor show in America. This is a story of ignorance, bias and a gross misunderstanding of America and Americans.

This unfortunate fight began when Reed Exhibitions, a British events organizing company, announced that firearms and products associated with modern sporting rifles (guns the media has given the dubious label “assault rifles”) wouldn’t be allowed at the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show. The show was scheduled to begin on February 2 in Harrisburg, Penn.

Reed Exhibitions prohibition also extended to images of modern sporting rifles. They wanted to whitewash a firearm category with Orwellian zeal from the show because they deem these semi-automatic rifles to be too militaristic for civilian use. They mandated this ban at America’s largest outdoor show, a show that regularly attracts 200,000 outdoor enthusiasts and pumps an estimated $44 million into the region’s economy. . .

The backlash was fast and grassroots. Reports that companies were pulling out of the show quickly began to snowball. Cabela’s, a major sponsor (Cabela’s has a store in Harrisburg), was one of the first to announce it wouldn’t participate. Soon groups like the National Rifle Association, the National Wild Turkey Federation, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, and companies like Ruger, Smith & Wesson, Crimson Trace, Trijicon and many more started to publicly announce they were canceling plans to attend in protest—this despite real costs to their bottom lines.

Logistics: Demand still high but supplies are flowing (they just get snapped up quickly). Life among the WalMart "store jumpers."

"What the hell are you in such a hurry for, Ernie? They'll only sell you three boxes a day."

"Ammo Out of Stock? Maybe not."

Now that we're down to one car, my daily drive takes me past a number of WalMarts, and I lose little in gas expenditure when I stop by to window shop and gauge the marketplace. The WalMarts around here actually got some .22 Long Rifle in about 48 hours ago, but within 12 - 24 hours, depending upon the store, they were gone. There is a growing band of "store jumpers" who, when they learn that one store received some, go to every store they can easily reach (for some that may mean within a twenty mile radius) to see if any are left at other locations. They see each other at the various locations and smile knowingly. The rationing of 3 boxes per person per day is still on, so it is not entirely a matter of a horse race, winner take all -- hence the smiles.

But one fellow I asked said that he was memorizing when the regular sporting goods counter person would go to lunch and then wait in the parking lot until he could double up on his cull with the relief. He sniffed at my observation that the gas money was probably killing him.

"So?" he replied. "At least I'm getting the ammo." But why .22, I asked? I mean, I could understand combat ammo in 12 Gauge and military and police rifle and pistol calibers but why did he think that .22 Long Rifle was so scarce?

"It's the only thing I can afford to shoot these days," came the answer.

And that's life among the WalMart "store jumpers."

David Codrea: Remaining jailed New Mexico gun dealer family members granted bond

"After 18 months behind bars, Rick and Ryin Reese have been granted bond today."

The latest twist in the Reese family agony. David Codrea has done a hell of a job following this story and I hope y'all make his Examiner column a regular stop every day.

Green Berets Sign Letter Supporting 2nd Amendment

The ones the regime has to worry about are those who, on active duty, DIDN'T sign the letter.

Jesse Trentadue gets closer to ripping off the masks of the FBI's highly-placed “Sensitive Informant Program.”

In his motion, Trentadue described the program as one used by the bureau “to recruit and/or place informants on the staffs of members of the United States Congress and perhaps even federal judges, in the national media, within other federal agencies as well as the White House, on defense teams in high-profile federal and/or state criminal prosecutions, inside state and local law enforcement agencies, and even among the clergy of organized religions.”

Now we know why he's for amnesty -- it ought to facilitate getting voter registration cards to those underage prostitutes he's been exploiting.

FBI wraps up raid at West Palm Beach office of doctor tied to U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez.

"Obama goes 'skeet shooting all the time'? Hardly ever, sources say."

Well, there's a big surprise.

More on the slow-walked sellout.

House, Holder may near deal on Fast and Furious contempt.

Kurt Hofmann: Descendant of Holocaust survivors wants us less capable of resisting holocausts

"Knowing full well the epic scope of genocidal mass murder that can be perpetrated by a government, unless millions of determined and well armed "John Q. Publics" are prepared to stop it, he nevertheless wants to dramatically reduce the firepower available to the citizenry."

"Citadel: Fortress or fiction?"

More positive press for Kerodin & Co.

Today's collectivist dog-and-pony show.

Senators, guns sharing center stage at hearing

Senators gripe: We can't bring guns to hearing

Michael Bloomberg: Joe Biden has ‘set of balls’

Bloomberg’s Washington footprint explodes

Gabby Giffords to testify at Senate gun hearing

"Feds accused of fomenting 'blood in our streets'"

The highest levels of the U.S. government are fomenting “civil unrest” that soon could leave “blood in our streets,” a key Christian pastor said Tuesday at a pro-Second Amendment rally in Washington.

Martha Raddatz, Steve Kroft: Voluntary Tools of the State

Latest candidates for the Julius Streicher award.

The Calculus of Genocide

Historically, when action against a particular group is envisioned, (for the greater good of course,) that group is often depersonalized or demonized prior to action being taken. After all, if the subjects of your depredations aren't human, then whatever happens to them is their own fault, isn't it?

The gang that STILL can't shoot straight.

ATF's Milwaukee sting operation marred by mistakes, failures

"We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine, and what's yours is negotiable.'"

"Compromise."

David Codrea: Hearing yields explosive testimony about law enforcement corruption in gun case

No wonder they wanted to keep the public out.

Kurt Hofmann: With GOP sellout on private sales looming, non-compliance is second-to-last step

Sometimes, one is faced with the choice of being "law-abiding," or of being free. In such times, "law-abiding" comes in as a very distant second, in terms of quality of choices.

"Come and Take It" Updated.

San Diego Police Chief: We Can Disarm Americans Within a Generation

He could be dead tomorrow, too, if God calls him to account. The future is an uncertain place to be making predictions -- especially those that fly in the face of the law of unintended consequences.

"Seattle Gun BuyBack Get’s JACKED! Turns Into a Damn Gun Show! LOL"

I love it.

Kurt Hofmann: Government prepares for war with the people, and mass media approves

Get that? Law enforcement officers "need" to be capable of "killing large numbers of people." What part of maintaining law and order requires mass slaughter?

Kurt Hofmann summarizes the activities of the Julius Streicher wing of the collectivist media complex.

Julius Streicher, Hitler's favorite "journalist," after dancing the executioner's jig at Nuremberg, 1946.

Dead Elephant party maneuvering for a sellout on private sales.

Senate gearing up for battle over gun legislation.

The bill coming out of Leahy’s committee is expected to include universal background checks but not a more contentious ban on the sale of assault weapons pushed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Schumer, a co-sponsor.

Schumer has also been seeking bipartisan backing for his own universal background checks proposal, including talks with Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.). Another conservative Republican, Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, has signaled that he’d be open to such a proposal but has not endorsed a bill yet.

The Feinstein bill was a red herring all along. It's forcing us to get the government's approval for private sales (and the registration lists that flow from that) that they're really after,

Celebrating gelded stupidity.

Why I gave up my guns

"Come Armed, Come Masked." The Day of the 4473 Parties Arrives.

Years ago I wrote a fiction piece about the necessity for 4473 parties in the case of universal registration. James Wesley, Rawles now calls for us to get ready for them.

Nunc Pro Tunc: The Coming Day of Burn Barrels and Blessings.

This is a standing invitation to my fellow Americans: If congress ever enacts a law mandating the registration and/or a production ban of detachable magazine semiautomatic rifles then you are hereby invited to the town square of your local community. There, burn barrels will be set up and we will publicly burn Form 4473s, FFL Bound Books, state and local registration records, and the sales receipts for every firearm in the United States. On that same day, FFL holders and public officials holding electronic firearms records will simultaneously erase those records, permanently and irretrievably. (Using special file erasure software such as Blancco, X-Ways, and Stellar Wipe, or though the physical destruction of disk drives.)

Spontaneous Gatherings, Spontaneous Combustion

This burn barrel day--likely to be held the day after the President signs any new draconian legislation--will include speeches, public prayers, and the blessing of those who have gathered by ministers, rabbis, and priests.

The core of the activities on that day will be stalwart public defiance of any new unconstitutional law(s), the open and notorious destruction of records that might be used to enslave us, and vocal public affirmations of solidarity of free men and women, in the face of tyranny. This will be a defining moment for America--a line drawn in the sand. We will forthrightly declare that we will not obey any unconstitutional law and that we will treat it dismissively, as if it had never been enacted -- nunc pro tunc. We will pledge ourselves to the defense of liberty, both individually and collectively. We will vow that if ever called to jury duty, we will nullify any unconstitutional laws, vacating the charges against the accused, in accordance with our long-standing right as jurors. (See: www.FIJA.org.)

The Law is On Our Side

We will publicly re-affirm some long standing precepts of American jurisprudence, to wit:

"The General rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of it's enactment and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it. An unconstitutional law, in legal contemplation, is as inoperative as if it had never been passed. Such a statute leaves the question that it purports to settle just as it would be had the statute not been enacted.

Since an unconstitutional law is void, the general principles follow that it imposes no duties, confers no rights, creates no office, bestows no power or authority on anyone, affords no protection, and justifies no acts performed under it...

A void act cannot be legally consistent with a valid one. An unconstitutional law cannot operate to supersede any existing valid law. Indeed, insofar as a statute runs counter to the fundamental law of the lend, it is superseded thereby.

No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it." - 16 Am Jur 2d, Sec 177 late 2d, Sec 256

Never Again!

Recognizing the many sad lessons of civilian disarmament and subsequent genocides in the 20th Century, we will make bold and forthright statement: Never Again! We will not submit to the unlawful decrees of tyrants. We will not meekly go their jails and internment camps. We will fight for our liberty, to our dying breath.

Come Armed, Come Masked

I recommend that all adults who publicly assemble at these burn barrel events do so armed, as is our right. And those who come armed should also wear masks, to protect themselves from malicious prosecution. I plan to wear a Guy Fawkes mask, but you can wear a bandana, face muffler, or the face mask of your choice. Joining you, also wearing masks, will be many mayors, sheriffs and their deputies, chiefs of police and their officers, town council members, clergy, and people of all walks of life. We vastly outnumber the tyrants. The tyrants deserve nothing but our scorn and derision. Their fate is already sealed.

Plausible Denial

After this fateful day has come and gone, FFL holders and public officials will be able to recount: "I had no choice. My records were taken by men with guns who were wearing masks!" (So they'll have no excuse if they don't cooperate with this nationwide display of civil disobedience.)

God Bless The Republic. Down with Tyrants. We Will Prevail!

- James Wesley, Rawles - January 28, 2013

B. Toad Jones runs into trouble.

Obama's new choice for ATF

Riiiight. . . Barack Obama: 'I go shooting all the time'

Killing people with drones doesn't count, Barack.

I guess they know something we don't.

If ‘Assault Weapons’ Are Bad…Why Does DHS Want to Buy 7,000 of Them for ‘Personal Defense’?

Also, from David Codrea: Government procurement reveals hypocrisy on ‘assault weapon’ terminology

Only rebellion can save America.

"The US federal government has strayed so far from the Constitution and the rule of law that it can now be considered rogue and illegitimate."

Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is a retired colonel with 29 years of service in the US Army Reserve and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. Colonel Sellin is the author of “Afghanistan and the Culture of Military Leadership“.

Horrors! New York Times discovers kids being instructed in gun safety!

Whatever shall we do?

The Star Chamber. Reese family agony continues as Feds seek secret trial proceedings.

Judge rejects prosecution motion to bar public from Reese hearing

Moisin Nagants by the crate.

Just in case you wanted something to hand to all your grasshopper neighbors who show up frightened at the last minute.

False advertising in the Kingdom of Rahmeses the Worst.

A gun show without guns.

Collectivists attack First Amendment to get at the Second.

"To Stop Gun Violence, We Need to Remember We Can Regulate Corporate Speech and Advertising."

Dead Elephant Party "Poised To Lose The Second Amendment Battle."

This actually gives the GOP too much credit. "Progressives are never content to win an argument, election or debate, nor would they even be capable if they were honest about their agenda. Instead they focus on the long war, small pieces and coordinated, seemingly disparate actions on different tracks and never stop until they reach their goal. Meanwhile, Republicans are busy contradicting one another, capitulating and/or fighting to be the Democratic Media Complex’s flavor of the week."

LATER: More No Balls Boehner -- What passes for "leadership" in the GOP these days.

It seems a lot of people are.

I have been trying to find lead wheel weights around this town and all my traditional sources have a. dried up because of long-term commitments to others who contracted to buy them all and b. the prices for what's available have doubled or tripled. Oh, well.

Of course, when they decide to get opponents off the streets, they will declare us "crazy" too.

"Ending Gun Violence Requires Commitment, Not All Of It Voluntary."

Does China Plan To Establish “China Cities” And “Special Economic Zones” All Over America?

Over the past several years, the Chinese government and large Chinese corporations (which are often at least partially owned by the government) have been systematically buying up businesses, homes, farmland, real estate, infrastructure and natural resources all over America.

Anonymous hacks US Sentencing Commission, distributes files

Late evening Friday, January 25, U.S. Sentencing Commission website was hacked and government files distributed by Anonymous in what the group calls "Operation Last Resort."

Praxis: Data Mining

Data Masters See The Future. Perhaps, but this does little to defeat 4th Generation open source insurgency when the practitioners aren't part of even a loosely based network, but act individually and in small teams based upon ideas and informal rules of engagement and the targeting of elite decision makers.

‘I Need You in the Game’: Wis. Sheriff Tells Residents to Learn How to Use a Gun to Defend Themselves

Safety is “no longer a spectator sport.” It never was.

Senate Hearings begin Wednesday.

"Democrats May Stand in Obama's Way on Gun Measures." The Senate, which never could be bothered about holding hearings on Fast and Furious, rushes to have them on citizen disarmament.

Another country heard from. Paul M. Bangiola, Esq. Responds to Bruce Krafft

"Well Bruce, you have convinced me that you are probably somebody to worry about. But, I still don’t think you represent most gun owners. many of whom I know and who are disgusted by people who own stupid guns like Bushmasters, the cynical politicization of gun violence for profit by the NRA, and those wannabe leaders-without-followers like you, who talk about armed rebellion when they are upset that their candidate didn’t get the most votes in a recent election, or maybe just because they are unhealthy social misfits, with unmet needs of one kind or another."

Vignettes of a civilization in slow collapse. Attack on family in Compton latest incident in wave of anti-black violence

The race war intensifies. (And guess what? There aren't any white faces in this story. I thought only white folks were racist.) A Latino gang is intimidating blacks into leaving the city that was once an African American enclave. It's part of a violent trend seen in other parts of the L.A. area.

Kurt Hofmann: Feinstein presumes to legislate limits on Constitutional rights

Well, of course she does.

Well, I made enough to pay the electric bill.

Which made the whole exercise worthwhile. Thanks for all your suggestions about what a fair price was. Unfortunately the Bessemer show is small, so the numbers of folks looking for AK74 stuff was smaller (not that there weren't long lines out to the highway standing waiting to get in). Still, it was enough although I was seriusly insulted by some of the first offers. Many of the prices for weapons were still outrageous compared to a few months ago, but, hey, that's the market.

What's a fair price for these?

Need to raise some quick money for utility bills and meds so I am taking some items to the Bessemer gun show tomorrow. What I'd like to know is what is a fair price for the AK-74 magazines and ammo I have to sell? (Long ago sold my 74 and I found these in the basement while cleaning out looking for reloading components.)

First is a orange bakelite 30 rounder (East German, I think). It looks like this:

Next I have 4 polymer Bulgarian 30 rounders, 2 from Factory 10, 1 from Factory 21, 1 from Factory 25:

The last magazine is a steel one (Romanian?) that looks like this:

All are in used but excellent condition. Finally I have 360 rounds of Russian 5.45 x 39 ammunition, repacked in AK-74 stripper clips and US 4 pocket bandoleers with the stripper clip guides.

The prices on the Internet are no guide because everybody is out of stock. I was thinking $250-$300 for the whole, but a buddy just called me to say $400.00 was more reflective of what's there. Fair? You tell me.

That's 16 posts for today, so I'm done.

Feinstein gun ban bill draft now online

A draft of the much-anticipated "assault weapon" ban bill authored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein was posted online this afternoon in advance of it's posting on the Library of Congress THOMAS legislative database site. Gun Rights Examiner has received a copy and posted it on the SCRIBD document archive site.

Kurt Hofmann: GOP, NRA may invent distinction between 'loopholes' at gun shows and away

The GOP seems to have decided that on the question of universal background checks for gun purchases (an outright ban, in other words, on private sales), not only is discretion the better part of valor, but abject cowardice is the better part of discretion.

Will computers kill gun control?

3-D printing technology could make efforts to curb weapons impossible.

Amazing that this comes from one of the Hollywood elite.

Gun Laws and the Fools of Chelm

Communists Cheer On Obama’s Gun Grab

Well, of course they do.

James “Jake” McNiece, 506th PIR pathfinder and leader of "The Filthy Thirteen," crosses over to meet his Maker.

Clarence C. Ware and Charles R. Plaudo of "The Filthy Thirteen" painting each other's faces on the afternoon of June 5, 1944

James “Jake” McNiece has died. Leader of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment's Pathfinders, dubbed "The Filthy Thirteen," McNiece and his men were parachuted into France on the night before D-Day to blow up bridges over the Douve River. McNeice's 18 men destroyed two bridges and controlled a third to prevent German reinforcements from moving into Normandy and to cut off retreating German troops. Sixteen of his men were killed during the 36 days after D-Day, during which they were also tasked with cutting enemy communications and supply lines.

From the Daily Oklahoman:

McNiece never achieved a rank higher than first sergeant because he had trouble with regulations and extending his leaves without permission. He was a sergeant in combat but usually was demoted to private for his behavior between missions.

The paratroopers in his squadron often showed a reluctance to follow military regulations and procedures, and his outfit became known as the “Filthy 13.”

The D-Day jump was the first of four jumps McNiece made behind enemy lines. Before the mission, he shaved most of his head, leaving a scalp lock that ran down the middle of his head. He joked to his squadron it was an American Indian custom to do that before battle, but he really shaved his head for sanitary reasons to avoid lice, realizing he could spend days without bathing. Most other squadron members shaved their heads also.

By dawn on June 6, McNiece and his squad had destroyed their two assigned bridges and had a third wired for detonation. Their orders were to hold the bridge over the (Douve) River and save it if possible so advancing Allied troops and tanks could use it. His men held the bridge for three days until American warplanes swooped down and bombed the structure.

In September 1944, McNiece led paratroopers who were dropped near Eindhoven, Holland, to hold key bridges in the liberation of the town the Germans had occupied for five years.

After fighting 78 days in Holland . . . He led paratroopers at Bastogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge. His last jump was Feb. 13, 1945, near Prume, Germany, to resupply Gen. George Patton’s 3rd Army.

More news from the Dead Elephant party.

Saxby Chambliss to retire. This is both good and bad news. Good because he's another RINO "deal maker" and bad because he can do a lot of damage now that he has no pressure on him to seek re-election -- especially when it comes to a sellout on firearms rights.

Newt Gingrich to Piers Morgan: Lovely gun ‘propaganda’ Yeah, well I remember distinctly a conversation with Gingrich's chief of staff right after they won power in '94, promising us a repeal of the first AWB -- which we never got. Heck, they didn't even try in a serious fashion because Bob Dole didn't want them to.

More "Under-the-radar" Obama citizen disarmament. DoD once again breaks law and begins to destroy military brass

David Codrea discovers: Fort Drum brass destruction threatens reloading supply and more. There is a link to the original document uncovered by David there as well.

A report received yesterday by Gun Rights Examiner indicates at least one military installation is still destroying expended ammunition brass, despite a furor raised in the gun community a few years back that resulted in two senators intervening to stop the practice and allow for its resale for reloading. The Dec. 2012 Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan for Fort Drum, N.Y., marked “Revision 1,” describes its policy for brass and expended munitions as part of its installation recycling program, which includes rendering expended ammunition brass unsuitable for anything but scrap.

We need to make this go viral, folks. Send it to every Second Amendment and pro-liberty email list you can.

LATER: Also from David Codrea -- ‘Cross lobby’ shows 'progressive' hypocrisy on church-state separation

Kurt Hofmann: Known 'gun criminal' David Gregory goes uncharged; life-saving hero may not

What does one call a society that excuses law-breaking done for the purpose of propagandizing a fabricated justification for still more freedom-crushing laws, but throws the book at someone whose "crime" was saving the life of a child?

Georgia Rally, 8 February.

Lord of the Flies. Beelzebub grants full approval for the gun ban.

Copyright Beef

Chicago's Collectivist Despot presses economic warfare against gun makers.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, moving to take a lead role in the gun control debate, is turning up the pressure on banks that do business with firearms manufacturers.

Emanuel is sending letters to two major financial institutions, TD Bank and Bank of America, which offer lines of credit to gun makers suggesting that they stop lending money to the manufacturers if they don’t come out for new gun restrictions.

If he survives the civil war he seems intent upon starting maybe we can have the war crimes trials in Nuremberg, Pennsylvania.

Nazi war criminal Hans Frank after dancing the executioner's jig at Nuremberg, 1946.

Really? Salt Lake Tribune says cops need the ability to kill "large numbers of people."

"Assault weapons that can fire numerous times in seconds are designed for only one thing: killing large numbers of people. The military and law enforcement officers need that ability; ordinary law-abiding citizens do not."

I'd say that the Tribune just made our point.

David Codrea: Chicago's ‘shoot first’ training endangers citizens and non-uniformed officers

More Only Ones BS

Also from David: Sell-out Point Man.

Prayer Request

John Russell, a long time friend, Vietnam veteran and newsman at IRN Radio in Memphis has had a stroke. He is going to a rehab facility now and needs your prayers.

Building the "progressive people's army."

I was chatting with a current serving veteran of four deployments today about this: Combat Ban for Women to End

I pointed out that this would only get more line infantry people killed, because of the lack of stamina and upper body strength in females as well as the complex sociology interactions that would be threats to good order and discipline. He responded, "Well, it's not like the progressives' kids are going to get killed, is it?" He later added:

If you think about what women in combat roles would do and why the progressive admin would want to push for it you have to look a little further back to women's suffrage. What happened after women got the right to vote was that increasingly in each election cycle the women's vote became more and more socialist/democrat/progressive. As you plainly saw in the last two election cycles, the presidential election is nothing more than a Dancing with the Stars popularity vote. What person in their right mind would vote for the boring Mormon guy who is good with numbers? Besides, like, Obama knows Beyonce and Jay-Z, and he takes publicity pictures hanging curtains, and he loves his dog Bo and his wife and two daughters, and he is sooo cool. If women have shifted the balance of the electorate to debase the electoral process to such base feelings then why would it not work for the military? If you could get enough women and feminized men in the military then eventually the paradigm would shift from a bunch of sons of red state hicks and political wanna-be's to a progressive people's army that they always dreamed of. It does not have to make sense but I am sure where you can see the logic. If their little experiment bears fruit then to their detriment they will learn that having a gun does not make you a rifleman. But like I said, it is not like this social experiment will involve their daughters.

Feinstein's Intolerable Act

Feinstein: ‘The Purpose Is to Dry Up the Supply of These Weapons Over Time’

If anyone has a complete copy of the press release and/or bill, please forward it to me at GeorgeMasonATaol.com.

Because American schools are not turning out communists fast enough. . .

Obama Wants 100,000 American Students to Study in Communist China

(CNSNews.com) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday will celebrate the launch of a newly rebranded organization called the “100,000 Strong Foundation,” which aims to have 100,000 American students studying in China by 2014.

Thursday's event will "underscore the importance of study abroad in China and the benefits to our strategic relationship with China as well as the personal benefits individuals receive through these exciting experiences," the news release said.

Until now, the 100,000 Strong Initiative -- announced by President Obama on his trip to China in 2009 -- has operated inside the State Department. Thursday's 1 p.m. ceremony marks its transition to a non-profit, nongovernmental organization operating independently.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton officially launched the Obama initiative in May 2010 in Beijing. "China has established dozens of Confucius Institutes across the United States that offer Chinese language instruction and cultural programs to help Americans better understand China," Clinton said at the time. "We would like to see similar American language and culture centers on the campuses of Chinese universities."

Here's another boycott target.

Buffalo Wild Wings stance against guns has some people up in arms. See also: Buffalo Wid Wings "leave your gun in the car'

Kurt Hofmann: Missouri state senator wants to 'shame' gun owning parents

The new "Scarlet Letter": "This act requires a parent or guardian to notify a school district, or the governing body of a private or charter school, that he or she owns a firearm within 30 days of enrolling the child in school or becoming the owner of a firearm."

Citizen disarmament appeasers suffer economic damage. Good.

NRA boycott kills outdoors show that banned assault weapons

Star Wars meets Sharia

Lego accused of racism with Star Wars set. Almost makes me want to run out and buy one for my grandson Gabriel.

MY tax dollars at work.

The new Huffman High School complex, constructed at an estimated $50 million, after the old buildings were vandalized to death.

Birmingham teacher gives R-rated 'Django' assignment to students; parents question exercise.

I wouldn't worry about the students being propagandized for race war, though, since I see most of them playing hooky, cruising around during school hours and hanging at the liquor store in the old strip mall next door (which also includes my favorite thrift store).

I guess he'll go quietly to the principal's office.

Vidkun Quisling is alive and well in Colorado.

Colorado Sheriff Blasts Peers who Refuse to Enforce New Gun Laws

Another anti-liberty business to boycott.

GEICO Insurance Cultural Marxist Hypocrisy – Gun Manufacturer Auto Policy Canceled Because He Is In Firearm Business….

More from the spineless jellyfish of the GOP. Here comes "gun control."

Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell near filibuster deal. What the GOP lacked the cojones to demand when they controlled the Senate is now being agreed to by those same treasonous fossils. It is important to remember that the War Between the States came about as the result of repeated failures of the political leadership of all parties. Here we go again.

Another country heard from. The "zombification of patriots."

This link was sent to me by a friend who commented that it represented further "zombification of patriots." White, “Christian” and Treasonous: Who Will They Kill?

Well, I would answer that question with "If you try to take our firearms, we will kill you." Clear enough?

"With Ammunition Scarce Can Reloading Supplies Be Next?"

By getting into reloading, you can control your own destiny with ammunition. Buy primers even if you don’t need them at the moment—the beauty is that they aren’t that expensive and you’ll see just how economical handloading can be.

Dead Elephant party goes all wobbly on private sales.

"Don't go all wobbly on me now George" -- Margaret Thatcher to George H. W. Bush.

Background Checks: Senate Republicans In Disarray Over Popular Gun Control Measure.

Kurt Hofmann: Oath keeping sheriffs pledge their lives to protect counties from 'gun control'

But choose wisely, for while the true Grail will bring you life, the false Grail will take it from you. -- Grail Knight in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

"He chose . . . poorly."

"If the federal government expects a potential "war at home" to be one sided, it is making an enormous, and very possibly fatal, mistake. The battle lines are being drawn, and every American citizen, whether on the government payroll or not, may very soon be forced to pick a side. Choose wisely."

Pretty funny.

Deer hunting after the Obama gun ban

Wicked Witch of the West's citizen disarmament bill to be introduced tomorrow.

Ought to scare the bejeezus out of the red state Democrat senators.

"At what point do people step beyond the protection of the 'Unified Front' clause of the RKBA Movement?"

It has always been a dubious "protection" just ask Neal Knox.

Bruce Krafft: Shooting Holes in Shooting Holes in the Second Amendment

"What you and your collectivist buddies should be afraid of (although you probably don’t even realize it) is when the Leviathan goes that one step too far. When it passes just one more 'shoulder thing that goes up' ban, burns down just one more church full of women and children or even just railroads one more gun-owner on a bullshit 'machine-gun' charge, all of a sudden you have a few hundred thousand seriously pissed off gun owners."

Rep. Charlie Rangel on Guns: ‘Some of the Southern Areas Have Cultures that We Have to Overcome’

Good luck with that, Charlie.

The resident Julius Streicher at CBS.

Julius Streicher, Hitler's favorite newspaperman, after being hung at Nuremberg.

"They hate me, they really hate me."

NRA's LaPierre: Absolutism is virtue, not vice

Mind you, with Wayne, talk is cheap. Watch what he does, not what he says.

Fidel Castro's "common sense" gun control pitch

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Welcome to your new home, workers: Chinese villagers moved into prison-like new town.

I can't tell if this is to keep the proletariat in or out.

Two from David Codrea.

Apologia for Church in Vatican Radio gun rights attack rings hollow

‘Gun-free zone’ enables Texas campus shooting

Logistics: Panic subsides but still demand is high and rationing grows.

I was required by events to shuttle around Birmingham and its outskirts today, so I made a point of checking in on firearm and ammunition retailers. At Academy Sports in Trussville, this sign was put up about every four feet on the ammo shelves, which were almost bare:

Due To product availability, we are currently limiting purchase quantities on the following:

AMMUNITION

The following ammunition calibers are located at Customer Service and limited to:

One (1) box per caliber, three (3) boxes total per customer, per day for: 9mm, 40, 45, .223, 5.56, .308 and 22LR

We are committed to servicing as many customers as possible.

I checked WalMarts in Birmingham, Trussville, Leeds and Pell City. They also had a three box per day maximum imposed, although they had more ammo on the shelves as supplies begin to flow through their system again.

For example, I was told by one manager that they had a relatively large shipment of Winchester 12 Gauge come in yesterday. (This was true of all four stores which are served by the same distribution center.) It consisted of 2.75' and 3" 00 Buckshot and slugs in 5 and 15 round boxes. Even with the restrictions, by this afternoon all four stores were pretty well cleaned out of the shipment. Two managers (one of whom knows me) assured me that the rumors floating around that WalMart is going to stop selling ammunition, or that they are holding product in the warehouses, are categorically untrue.

I chatted with several customers at all the stores I visited and there was no sense of "I-gotta-get-it-before-it-becomes-unobtainium." Rather, most were just "stocking up," as one put it, "because one of these days we're going to have to use it."

One small gunshop had a sign on the door: "No hi-cap magazines for ARs, AKs, etc." While I was leaving, a fellow came up to the door, read the sign, and walked back to his car.

And now the Idaho Statesman gets involved . . .

Application fees for Idaho Citadel being sent to group linked to extortionist.

Missouri Sheriffs Pledge To Not Enforce Obama’s Gun Control Laws

“It appears to me and many Americans that there is a genuine desire on the part of your administration to restrict the Second Amendment rights of law abiding American citizens in the interest of curbing gun violence in our nation,” Heiss wrote. “Any attempt to restrict these Second Amendment rights through executive order is unconstitutional and tantamount to an all-out assault on the United States Constitution.”

"Free People Will Not Give Up Their Guns."

Coverage of the Austin rally.

Speaking uncommon good sense to the collectivist insensate.

Thomas Sowell's latest:Do Gun Control Laws Control Guns?

Gun control laws allow some people to vent their emotions, politicians to grandstand and self-righteous people to "make a statement" -- but all at the cost of other people's lives.

Of course, but this is not about facts, nor about crime, unless you count tyranny as a crime -- the greatest crime -- which I do.

Collectivist Gauleiter Self-Registration. Making a list and checking it twice.

A friend reminds me that the citizen disarmament advocates at Mayors Against Illegal Guns have very cooperatively given us a list of their Gauleiters & Collectivist Myrmidons Society: Coalition Members. For future reference? That's up to them.

Kurt Hofmann: NRA unlikely to strongly fight private sales ban unless pushed to do so

With NRA membership surging, leadership (if that's not too kind a term) appears poised to beat a hasty retreat. It's time for them to grow a spine--and they had better hurry--and they will only do so if we demand it. Drop them a line.

More collectivist press on the warmed-over feudalism of the "Citadel."

The History Of The Prepper Paradise Known As The Citadel

I was talking to a buddy the other day and he called the whole concept "warmed-over feudalism," asking "who do you think will call the shots in this 'patriot paradise?'" He added, "Once they've got the investors' money, even if they ever get that God-forsaken patch of undeveloped land put into livable shape with OPM and people move in, it will be Kerodin and Company who rule it. . . It reminds me of the Jim Jones character 'The Governor' who runs that Georgia town in 'The Walking Dead.'" (MBV Note: 'OPM' is his shorthand for 'Other People's Money,' which my friend pronounces as 'opium.')

LATER: The collectivists pile on: Yet more on poster boy Kerodin.

Utah sheriffs warn Obama of deadly war over guns

Forwarded to me by a friend who observes: "Looks like battle lines are being drawn...Holy smokes they don't beat around the bush. The final line leaves no room for interpretation." -- "In the most strident warning over gun control to President Obama yet, the Utah Sheriffs' Association is pledging to go to war over any administration plan to take guns away, even if it means losing their lives."

Text of the letter.

John Mackey and Stewart Rhodes at Idaho Gun Rally

At this rally, John Mackey read the great public statement of Bonners County Idaho Sheriff Daryl Wheeler, wherein the Sheriff makes it clear that his oath was to defend the Constitution, not to obey politicians who have strayed beyond its bounds.

David Codrea: New York magazine ban waves red flag at ‘patriotic’ gun safety program

Cuomo's attack on the CMP.

Kurt Hofmann: Congressman wants to censor Internet of 'high capacity' magazine plans

"Meanwhile, Defense Distributed has successfully printed fully functional 30 round AR-15 magazines (see sidebar video), and have made the file freely available to anyone with Internet access. Rep. Israel is apparently keeping close tabs on the Wiki Weapons project, because within days of their announcement of success in printing the magazine, Israel put out a hysterical press release vowing to ban the Internet publishing of CAD (computer aided design) files for printing the magazines."

If Steve Israel doesn't want you to have them, be sure and go download them now so they can be shared later.

All in a day's work. How I spent inauguration day.

Today was a prep day -- we cast about 800 230 Grain .45 ACP lead bullets and deprimed a couple thousand pieces of .45, .38 & .30-06 brass, as well as sorted a mess of range pick-ups. We will eventually run the .45s through a Dillon RL1050 after we have components to build a couple of thousand of them.

Sorry about my absence from the blog but I have to tell you the camaraderie and repetitive manual labor went well together. I really enjoyed the break from the computer.

I'm headed to a reloading party today. Given that it is inauguration day for the most anti-firearm regime in American history, it seemed appropriate.

I've been hoeing out the basement lately, gathering components bought years ago and today I'll spend the morning at a reloading party to put them together into something more complete. Can't afford (or find locally) 230 Grain .45 FMJs so we're going to be casting some lead pills out of wheel weights and such. Consider this my Ammunition Appreciation Day.

Back later.

Now, because they wouldn't get off their asses to affect the legislation, the game is going to be played for higher stakes.

Hit us with your best shot, Andy!

Assault-rifle owners statewide are organizing a mass boycott of Gov. Cuomo’s new law mandating they register their weapons, daring officials to “come and take it away,” The Post has learned.

Gun-range owners and gun-rights advocates are encouraging hundreds of thousands of owners to defy the law, saying it’d be the largest act of civil disobedience in state history.

“I’ve heard from hundreds of people that they’re prepared to defy the law, and that number will be magnified by the thousands, by the tens of thousands, when the registration deadline comes,’’ said Brian Olesen, president of the American Shooters Supply, one of the largest gun dealers in the state.

Let New York be a lesson to us all.

"Gun lobby had its silencer on last week."

Thousands of firearm owners turned out at “Gun Appreciation Day” rallies across the state on Saturday, denouncing Gov. Cuomo and decrying his new gun control law. It was a surprising spectacle, considering that in the weeks and days leading up to the Legislature’s passage of the sweeping reform bill last week, ardent Second Amendment supporters were nowhere to be seen.

“It goes against past experience,” Assemblyman Micah Kellner, a Manhattan Democrat who voted for the bill, said of the pro-gun paradox in Albany. “There was plenty of time to be there and be heard.”

A few dozen workers from the upstate Remington gun manufacturing plant trekked to Albany to demonstrate, no doubt worried about their jobs. But otherwise the absence of protestors at the Capitol was particularly astonishing, given the gun lobby’s vow to rile up its troops once it became clear in December that Cuomo was pushing for speedy passage of an expansion of the state’s assault weapons ban and a limit on the size of ammunition magazines, among other measures.

The turnout was in stark contrast to the gay marriage debate of two years ago, when the Capitol’s hallways were clogged with advocates on both sides of the issue as the Legislature considered the legalization proposal it was destined to approve.

And, earlier this month, it was hard to miss the hundreds of anti-hydrofracking protesters who lined a Capitol-plaza concourse that lawmakers had to use to reach the venue for Cuomo’s State of the State address.

Thomas King, who is head of the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association and a member of the National Rifle Association’s national board, was one of those who promised a major pushback against Cuomo’s drive to curb gun violence. Explaining the lobby’s misfire of advocacy, he said many gun owners couldn’t give up a day of work to come to the Capitol.

“Yes, we’re all in favor of doing whatever it takes to support the Second Amendment, but these guys have to work,” he said. “It’s not like the unions who get paid to go to Albany to protest. It’s tough for them to get out during the week.”

He said gun owners “trusted in their legislators who had always supported them in the past, the Republican Senate, to continue to do so.”

The Founders must be spinning in their graves.

Masshole Files Gun Violence Legislation

Provisions in the bill include . . .

· ·

Requires that all large capacity weapons and grandfathered assault weapons must be stored at gun clubs or target ranges. . .

· ·

Imposes 25% sales tax on ammunition, firearms, shotguns, and rifles; dedicates funds towards firearms licensing, police training, mental health services, and victim’s services.

Good. It's past time that our side quit being so deferential to Only Ones.

Gun range prohibits police after city considers ban

You know, I was talking to Bob Wright by telephone last night and he was making this point, that it is long past time that our side quit being so deferential to Only Ones (LEOs) and he included the military in that assessment as well. I agreed, pointing out that corporation generals like Stanley McChrystal are predisposed from their careers (anyone one star and above can be confidently described as a military politician) to go-along get-along with the regime.

It is the oath and the actions taken in support of it that is the key to determining who is deserving of our support and trust. (And keep an eye on 'em anyway.)

David Codrea: ‘Voice of the Pope’ backs Obama gun edicts

Cristeros hanging from telegraph poles after the Vatican signed a peace accord with the Mexican government selling them out under pain of ex-communication.

Shades of the Cristeros.

It was inevitable that SPLC would notice Kerodin sooner or later.

In fact, I predicted it when I first heard about his criminal record. Now they have: Convicted extortionist a key player in Idaho citadel project

And of course it's my fault and not their own:

This week, Kerodin responded angrily on his blog, saying “Little Mikey Vanderboegh is attempting, once again, to hurt hundreds of Patriots, using me as a weapon.”

He asked if Vanderboegh had enough “courage to ever meet me face-to-face and repeat your written words,” and dared him to show up at a meeting on April 19, the anniversary of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. “Insignificant people like Vanderboegh will always seek to attack the winners in life,” the convicted felon sniffed. “For those Patriots involved in the Citadel project, march on!”

. . . Kerodin’s associate, James L. Miller, who identifies himself as president of III Arms Co., also responded angrily to the project’s critics on the Citadel’s Facebook page. “Folks, we are being slandered by some very disgusting people, and that slander has been furthered by someone a lot of us probably both trusted and respected: James Wesley, Rawles,” Miller wrote.

“Mr. Rawles, without researching a single bit of the cut/paste hatchet job from a cancer ridden, soon-to-expire self-admitted communist, has insulted the intelligence of Patriots all across the globe,” Miller wrote.

Not that facts matter to either Kerodin or Miller, but that's a self-admitted EX-communist and, in view of that experience, ardent ANTI-communist. Also, reports of my impending death have been greatly exaggerated, even if sincerely wished for by Eric Holder, my ex-wife and, apparently Kerodin and his ilk.

The funniest thing is Mr. Hyman's challenge. As I recall the Code Duello, as the challenged party in a duel I have the choice of weapons. But since Mr. Hyman/Kerodin is a convicted felon, presumably he's not allowed modern firearms (although I'm sure the ATF might be persuaded to give him a note of permission in this case). What then should I agree to, gentle readers? Suggestions?

Chuck the Schmuck sez "Says the NRA Is an Extreme ‘Fringe Group.'"

You ain't seen "extreme" yet, Chuckie.

More "Black Jesus" propaganda.

Inauguration Poster Likens Obama to Jesus

NY Democrat pleads with Republican not to share document proposing confiscation of guns

A New York Assemblyman has pleaded with his Republican colleague not to release a list of Democrat proposals on gun control that seek to undermine the 2nd Amendment

1. Confiscation of "assault weapons"

2. Confiscation o ten round clips

3. Statewide database for ALL Guns

4. Continue to allow pistol permit holder's information to be replaced to the public

5. Label semiautomatic shotguns with more than 5 rounds or pistol grips as "assault weapons”

6. Limit the number of rounds in a magazine to 5 and confiscation and forfeiture of banned magazines

7. Limit possession to no more than two (2) magazines

8. Limit purchase of guns to one gun per person per month

9. Require re-licensing of all pistol permit owners

10. Require renewal of all pistol permits every five years

11. State issued pistol permits

12. Micro-stamping of all guns in New York State

13. Require licensing of all gun ammo dealers

14. Mandatory locking of guns at home

15. Fee for licensing, registering weapons

An Assault Smoothbore, actually, but the concept was the same.

"We were unarmed." Tiananmen Square Activist Turned American Second Amendment Activist. Must see video.

Tiananmen Square Activist Turned American Second Amendment Activist.

The past Monday I decided to visit the Minuteman Park in Lexington and pay tribute to Captain John Parker and his fellow minutemen. A thought came to my mind, that the founding fathers of the United States and Chairman Mao had one thing in common: they all realized that guns are important political instruments. Their similarities, however, ended there:

Chairman Mao wrote: ‘Political power grows out of barrel of a gun’, and he dictated: ‘The party shall command the gun’. James Madison and his compatriots, however, believing that the power of the state is derived from the consent of the governed, ratified that ‘the right to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed’.

"23 years ago, I was a college freshman exercising my freedom of speech and assembly in Tian’anmen Square, much like we are doing here today. We grew frustrated by the restriction of personal freedoms and the corrupted Chinese government, and we thought peaceful protest would make the country better. Our young passion and patriotism was crushed by hails of full metal jackets out of AK47’s. (Some AK purists here would argue they were really type 56’s). We could not fight back, because we did not have an inch of iron in our hands, to borrow a Chinese expression: we were unarmed."

Another unenforceable citizen disarmament law.

US representative calls for outlawing 3-D printed gun magazines

Gun-makers already offer polymer magazines that Slater confirmed would be more or less equivalent to any created in a home printer. She said that Israel is not targeting those companies, but is more "focused on the lone wolf" who might make one at home.

She did not say how legislation could be crafted that would prohibit one but not the other; the proposal is being re-drafted in light of the new requirements, and the language isn't set down yet. They expect to be able to reintroduce the bill within a month or two.

Thousands of armed protestors gather at state capitols in pro-assault rifle rallies across the country.

Somebody knows their Woody Guthrie. An outstanding poster. Not only is it true, it will irk and ire all the Alinsky collectivists with their memories of the good old "New Left" days.

"Thousands of gun advocates gathered peacefully Saturday at state capitals around the U.S. to rally against stricter limits on firearms, with demonstrators carrying rifles and pistols in some places while those elsewhere settled for waving hand-scrawled signs or screaming themselves hoarse."

A the Gunwalker cover-up sputters to a largely successful conclusion . . .

Rep. Issa calls ATF nomination 'slap in the face' to family of slain agent

Ludicrous disinformation.

Air Force General James Mattoon Scott (who bears a striking resemblance to Burt Lancaster) plans to confiscate your firearms according to this ludicrous piece of disinformation.

A number of readers have sent me links to this article: "Military Drawing Up Plans for Nation-wide Gun Confiscations."

A snippet:

WASHINGTON, DC – A senior U.S. general has confirmed that the military has secretly drawn up plans to round up large numbers of privately-owned firearms from American gun owners.

General James M. Scott of the U.S. Air Force confirmed that the Pentagon received a series of formal directives from the White House between November 7 and December 13 to begin plans for a massive nationwide operation to confiscate guns using a series of federal databases compiled over the last few decades.

General Scott spoke with Duffel Blog reporters in a parking garage in northern Virginia.

Scott also confirmed that a certain four-star general who heads the U.S. Transportation Command was intimately involved in the planning. General Scott would not reveal the general’s name out of concerns for his safety.

The plan, known in the military as Operation PREAKNESS, combines a series of tactics developed for house sweeps and room clearing in Iraq and Afghanistan, which General Scott admitted had been used as test-runs for the U.S.

C'mon people! Haven't you ever read Seven Days in May or seen the movie at least? The plot to overthrow the government in 7DIM is called Operation Preakness and the principal conspirator is Air Force General James Mattoon Scott (played in the movie by Burt Lancaster). There's a lot of disinformation out there right now but this one is just too easy to spot. Somebody's pulling your leg.

A counterfeit Fudd?

"Okay, Elmer, let me see your hunting license."

A reader links this article -- "Assault weapons are too easy to find," and appends this comment:

There is a letter in the Saturday Cedar Rapids Gazette calling for stricter gun controls and arguing from the authority of being a hunting sportsman. A typical Fudd? But the letter is full of things that just seem wrong for an actual hunter to say, particularly the sentence, "I do not use bullets that implode upon contact." Even if you assume a simple slip of the tongue saying 'implode' when he meant 'expand' or 'explode' (an extremely odd slip of the tongue), do you know a single actual hunter who doesn't use expanding ammunition? I suspect this 'Vern Miller' is actually a fake Fudd.