Functional printed semi-auto pistol shoots new nail into 'gun control's' coffin

All the rejuvenated talk of banning all semi-automatic firearms, "high capacity" magazines ("progressive"-speak for "standard capacity magazines), and private sales (and a mandate for "universal background checks" would be just that--a ban of private sales) ignores the fact that technology is on the verge of making such endeavors utterly irrelevant. When one can after all simply print these items at home, without asking the government's permission, "gun control" will have suffered its long and richly deserved death without dignity.

Will try to update as I fly home. (And Obama flies in as I fly out.)

My flights(s) from Denver to Memphis to B'ham will occupy most of today, taking about ten hours if everything goes right. I'll work on my report on this amazing trip on the way and post it tomorrow.

LATER: Just learned that Obama is flying in today to do a fundraiser for Udall. Some German tourists were watching television in the food area and commented excitedly when this was announced: "Ooh, der President ist coming!" "Ja," I responded sourly, "Seig heil." I don't think that's what they were expecting. Hope the bastard doesn't fly in until after I've left. I don't want anything to slow my return trip to Rosey.

More potential blows to the empire's Mandate of Heaven

VA whistleblowers to detail retribution

Benghazi panel ramps up

Gee, I wonder if the Kochs would like to return the favor by funding investigations into the corrupt Reid machine in Vegas? Behind Harry Reid’s war against the Koch brothers

Behind Harry Reid’s war against the Koch brothers.

After Reid’s ad-libbed comments, his office developed a strategy for a coordinated campaign that’s expected to resume this month and carry clear through Election Day and beyond. It’s been shaped and reinforced by Reid’s staff, including former operatives of the liberal Center for American Progress, which had pioneered Koch-bashing politics years earlier. An eclectic cast of characters was also involved, including Reid’s wife, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a top Democratic pollster, two brothers who wrote a business-management book and various liberal super PACs and nonprofits. This story, drawn from more than a dozen interviews with people involved in various phases of the effort — most of whom requested anonymity to discuss ongoing political deliberations — reveals for the first time the key players and considerations behind Harry Reid’s War on the Kochs, the risky strategy on which Democrats are hinging their midterm election hopes.

Day over, meetings all done. I'm ready to fly out tomorrow.

Exhausted. Keep me in your prayers.

Target gun poser photo provokes angry backlash

“You can't protect me and my family nor replace them in an event a psycho murders one of my family members,” Lo wrote in the comment accompanying photos of him holding a handgun while standing in a Target facility and kneeling next to a little girl riding in a stroller shopping cart, pointing the gun in a manner that appears to violate fundamental gun safety rules. “My right is my right and no government agency or corporation can protect them from violence!”

Biden: ‘Tea Baggers’ Preventing New Gun-Control Laws

Vice president Joe Biden has disparaged gun-rights advocates as “tea baggers,” CNN host John Walsh told reporters today. Walsh, the former host of America’s Most Wanted, recounted that he bonded with Biden over the need for more gun control and their distaste for the National Rifle Association..

For those of you who doubted me about the western outpost of Abenaki Tribal Lands.

Westcliffe CO Independence Day video.

Link. (Some of my speech is at the end.)

Goin' somewhere, Dirty Harry?

Harry Reid’s land sale to gold mine is boon for him and opportunity for Searchlight

Meanwhile, there is speculation that Democrats up for re-election should replace Harry Reid. Perhaps, but the only people who can get rid of Harry Reid and the killer bureaucracy that responds to his orders are the Las Vegas Gang of Four casino owners whose creature he is. Maybe we can all work on that. I have some ideas, one of which I'm working on in a meeting today.

Have three meetings today and will fly out tomorrow.

This Colorado trip has been the most successful I have ever done. The networking that we are doing in preparation for the premier of the Hickenlooper Harassment Tour will pay off big time in October. There are now three critical battlegrounds for us Three Percenters -- Connecticut, Colorado and Nevada. I intend to do what I can to assist the fight in all three. Must hit the shower. More later when I get to Denver.

So-called "Three Percenters" on the Border. "This video is no longer available because the uploader has closed their YouTube account."

I have received many forwards from readers of this YouTube video which now says "This video is no longer available because the uploader has closed their YouTube account."

The link is variously presented along with this BuzzFeed story: Militia Leader Calls On Members “To Go Armed” To The U.S.–Mexico Border or this original story in the Brownsville Herald "Militia group says it’s heading to help secure Texas border." At issue is the call to action from one Chris "Three Percenter" Davis.

Though the video has been self-sanitized, the Herald is helpful enough to provide this snippet:

However, in a 21-minute Youtube video featuring a man who identifies himself as Cmdr. Chris Davis, the person said it’s time to secure the borders. “How?” he asked on the video. “You see an illegal. You point your gun dead at him, right between his eyes, and you say, ‘Get back across the border or you will be shot.’”

Now, I have already gone on record about this cluster coitus in the making here. I stand by my conclusion:

"What is accomplished by a picket line of armed volunteers threatening to shoot unarmed, half-starved and thirsty children? I agree that the invasion is devilish in its conception, carried out by collectivists who could give a shit less about how many kids die along the way, but will the proposed COA do ANYTHING about it other than to help make the other side's propaganda points? Only the Oath Keepers can answer Question 5 for the Oath Keepers. As for my advice to Three Percenters, based on what I know now, stay as far away from this incipient exercise in cluster coitus as you can."

I have been chastised by some for that answer. I stand by it.

CT Gun Czar Michael Lawlor, he of the KGB file, is back in the news. Doesn't have the sack to enforce one law, now he wants everybody in the country to adopt another.

“You can either surrender the weapon to us, destroy the weapon, or sell it to a federal firearms licensee. After that date (January 1, 2014) that hasn’t been declared or register is banned and if you get caught, you’re going to get arrested." -- Michael Lawlor.

Readers will recall my on-going search for the KGB file of CT Governor Dannel Malloy's favorite firearm confiscation "czar" Michael Lawlor. See also: On "Nightcrawlers" and Treason; and The Depraved Indifference of the "Prison Commissar"; and Of anti-Catholic jihads and spitting on your heritage; not to mention my letter to the Russian ambassador.

Well now Lawlor is back in the news, courtesy of Pravda-on-the-Potomac: States look to gun-seizure law after mass killings

Michael Lawlor, Connecticut’s undersecretary for criminal justice planning and policy, believes the state’s gun-seizure law could have prevented the killings of 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary in December 2012, if police had been made aware that gunman Adam Lanza had mental-health problems and access to his mother’s legally owned guns. “That’s the kind of situation where you see the red flags and the warning signs are there, you do something about it,” Lawlor said. “In many shootings around the country, after the fact it’s clear that the warning signs were there.”

Gun rights advocates oppose gun-seizure laws, saying they allow police to take people’s firearms based only on allegations and before the gun owners can present their side of the story to a judge. They say they are concerned the laws violate constitutional rights.

“The government taking things away from people is never a good thing,” said Rich Burgess, president of the gun rights group Connecticut Carry. “They come take your stuff and give you 14 days for a hearing. Would anybody else be okay if they just came and took your car and gave you 14 days for a hearing?”

Rachel Baird, a Connecticut lawyer who has represented many gun owners, said one of the biggest problems with the state’s law is that police are abusing it. She said she has had eight clients whose guns were seized by police before the required warrants were obtained.

Of course Lawlor and his master Malloy don't have the collective sack to enforce the Intolerable Act that they passed which now has an 85% non-compliance rate. Malloy, it is said, crapped his pants when told he would have to open up prison camps with tents, barbed wire and towers to accommodate the estimated 100,000 new felons they created. Photoshops of camp gates with "Arbeit Macht Frei" over them and signs on the wire that say "Dannell Malloy Permanent Holiday Camp for CT Firearm Owners" are just not the kind of optics you want when you are desperately trying to get re-elected. The whispered orders have gone out to the CT State Police, "Don't enforce this law until at least after the election."

"What's wrong with holiday camps for gun owners?"

Obviously Malloy thinks letting his attack dog Lawlor bark for this old CT law is non-threatening to his re-election or he wouldn't have let him off his chain to do so. We'll see how this plays out as it gets toward November. Personally, I'm glad to see that the CT tyrants are cocky enough to keep the firearm issue in any form in front of the voters. We are still just one government stupidity away from civil war in Connecticut.

What a "common law" crock of shit. Dead Federal civil war veterans threaten Obama. . . by authority of Abraham Lincoln?

The "Grand Army of the Republic" comes back from the dead. "URGENT DECLARATION OF CIVIL WAR!!!!!! JULY 4TH 2014!"

Somewhere in Custer County, Colorado, secret training is carried out on Abenaki tribal lands.

(Click on the picture and note the sentiment on the hat.)

Nevada sheriff says Cliven Bundy must be held accountable for standoff

Las Vegas Wizards: Sheriff Gillespie gets his marching orders from Harry Reid. "Master feed Dougie. Master love Dougie."

A Nevada sheriff has said that rancher Cliven Bundy must bear responsibility for actions that led to a standoff between federal agents and militia members earlier this year, but added that the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) must reconsider some of its methods used prior to the confrontation.

See also: But Gillespie said he doesn’t believe Bundy’s vitriol toward him inspired the couple to attack officers. “I can’t totally discount that, but today, based on what I know, do I believe that was a reason the Millers did what they did?” he asked. “No. I don’t believe that to be the case.”

We are all soldiers in a cold war provoked by our own government. My speech at Canon City CO, 5 July 2014.

The German general and military theorist Clausewitz said that "war is politics by other means." I have been traveling our country for the past year or so, from the East Coast to Nevada and from Florida and Texas to the upper Midwest and I would like to advance a corollary to that-- politics is war by another means.

Now there's hot wars and there's cold wars -- the difference being whether or not there's shooting going on. Of course in the famous cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union, shooting would flare up between them and client states from time to time but never did they shoot at each other directly -- the reason was a doctrine called "mutual assured destruction." With nuclear weapons available on both sides, neither wished to risk annihilation. But the deterrence represented by mutual assured destruction rested upon the understanding of both parties that it was possible, and had either party not comprehended that in 1962 when I was ten, large swaths of this country would still be uninhabitable radioactive wasteland.

Another way of putting that is George Washington's stolen quote from the Roman Republic that those who wish for peace should be prepared for war.

John Locke in his Second Treatise on Government, written in 1690, said,

The reason why men enter into society, is the preservation of their property; and the end why they chuse and authorize a legislative, is, that there may be laws made, and rules set, as guards and fences to the properties of all the members of the society, to limit the power, and moderate the dominion, of every part and member of the society: for since it can never be supposed to be the will of the society, that the legislative should have a power to destroy that which every one designs to secure, by entering into society, and for which the people submitted themselves to legislators of their own making; whenever the legislators endeavour to take away, and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience, and are left to the common refuge, which God hath provided for all men, against force and violence.

I have been a soldier of liberty in a cold war with my own government for twenty years now. This was not my choice. I would rather have been left alone to tend to the truly important things -- life, love, family, faith, opportunity -- those wonderful gifts of God that the Founders expected would be secured by a government of limited and counter-balanced powers, that would both secure the rule of law and live within it. But the last three administrations run by the elites of both corrupt political parties have NOT left me alone -- just as they did not leave YOU alone. They have smashed flat the rule of law in service to their own power -- in furtherance of their insatiable huger for other peoples liberty and property and lives. Pat Buchanan once said that these parties were two wings of the same bird of prey, and he was right.

From Ruby Ridge, to Waco, to the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban to the deliberate failure to secure our borders, to the PATRIOT Act, to Obamacare, to NSA spying, to the use of the IRS against political opponents, to the creation and sustenance of the Frankenstein monster of a vertically-integrated militarized police state -- the appetites of the elites of both parties have put themselves into a continual war with the people. It may have been a cold war up to now but it could turn hot at any moment. Just ask the Bundys.

I am a soldier in that war. And want to, or not -- like it, or not -- SO, TOO, ARE ALL OF YOU.

We did not declare war on the federal government -- but by their actions, by their continued depredations our liberty, our property and the looting of the public treasury to fund those depredations, THEY have declared war on US. John Locke would tell you so were he here. So, too, would the Founders.

It is not a shooting war. Not yet. Although from Nevada to Connecticut to New York to Colorado, armed civil disobedience to Intolerable Acts and intolerable actions is growing. At the Bundy Ranch and elsewhere we stand facing each other -- the people and the government -- like two sides of an incipient bar fight and it would take only a stupid move on the part of somebody -- anybody -- to knock the beer bottle off the bar and start the donnybrook.

And a very bloody donnybrook it would be.

But we are not there yet.

Not yet.

And I pray to God we never are.

But that's not the way to bet.

So until someone on a federal paycheck, someone wearing a state police uniform, or merely an out-of-control local cop knocks the beer bottle off the bar, we have a cold war and what we have available to us is politics -- politics and preparedness. Preparedness for the day when politics fails. Preparedness so effective and so obvious to the other side that even the most clueless among them will understand that resort to violence really does amount to the assured destruction of all their tyrannical plans -- of their hunger to control the rest of us -- indeed, assured destruction of their own lives. Perhaps if they internalize THAT and ease up out of the faces of people who merely wish to be left alone -- well, perhaps we can get out of this situation they've made without a cold war turning into a hot one.

But until that happens we should understand that we are all soldiers in a cold war being waged by our own government against the people. We should understand that and we should act like it.

For we are all in fact two countries now, sharing a common border and (mostly) a common language, but divided along the answer to this fundamental question -- Does the government serve the people or do the people serve the government?

This is not a question whose different answers can be compromised or finessed or even ignored. It is either one or the other and it cannot be both. So when Harry Reid promises us in the wake of the Bundy standoff that "this isn't over," he's right. It can never be over until one side or the other wins. It can never be over until we answer that question -- for good or evil -- and it will either be the Founders; answer or King George's. Or, I should say, King Barack's.

For when we see the actions of the federally empowered militarized police today, or understand the tyranny behind the IRS attacks on the Tea Parties, or any of hundreds of other abuses and usurpations of power, it is impossible not to see the wisdom of my friend Billy Beck's observation that "today all politics is dress rehearsal for civil war."

And over all it -- over all of us -- hangs the imminent threat of systemic economic collapse represented by $60 Trillion in debt that is the product of these evil elites of both corrupt political parties.

And when that anvil falls -- when their rotten system collapses -- it will smash flat the guilty and innocent alike.

So we must be there, we cold warriors of liberty and the Founders' Republic. We must be there, ready to save what can be saved. For there is no one else to do it.

By politics or force of arms -- and it is the tyrant's choice -- we must be there.

We must be ready.

For there is no one else.

Rats already leaving Hickenlooper's sinking ship.

Eric Brown, the unflappable mouthpiece for John Hickenlooper, is leaving government for a communications job in the private sector. The former journalist and city editor at the Rocky Mountain News oversaw the newspaper’s award-winning coverage of Hickenlooper’s first election as Denver mayor in 2003 and then went to work for him in 2009 after the Rocky closed.

Looking forward to seeing some of you at the Canon City CO park this morning.

Yesterday was a great time of meeting old friends and new and building up networks that will be needed to bring the fight back to Hickenlooper in October just before the election.

Gun-toting marchers draw cheer from Westcliffe parade crowd

It was a day of guns, God and Old Glory Friday at Westcliffe's July 4 parade.