David Codrea:

Claiming to be “a conservative on economic matters,” billionaire David Koch told ABC News in a Sunday interview that he considers himself “a social liberal.”

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While Americans for Prosperity (provided with start-up funds by AFP Foundation Chairman Koch with his brother Charles) claims it is “’sitting out’ the immigration debate …

Very well.  We may decide to sit out the next election too.  We’ll see what’s most important to the David Koch and the GOP – immigration issues (and the Chamber of Commerce) or control over the government.  Queue it up and make your decision, boys.

Kurt Hofmann:

So, to whom should Bushmaster, Camfour, and Riverside Sales not have “entrusted” an AR-15 rifle? Any private citizen–any civilian who is not a law enforcement officer. Any of us, in other words, who are not paid government muscle.

That’s what they’re really after.  It’s an attempted end run around God-given rights to bear arms.  It’s unclear at the moment what will happen in the progressive, activist courts in the Northeast, but if it turns sour, gun manufacturers know where they’re welcome.  You do know that, right?

Joe Newby:

A Houston police officer has sparked an internal investigation after an encounter with an open-carry activist legally carrying an AR-15, The Blaze reported Wednesday. The encounter was captured on video, Jon Street said, after the officer attempted to delete the video. After threatening to jail the man for not having ID, he is heard telling the protester that he was “tired” of seeing open-carry “idiots.”

Well, we’re tired of you too, so the feeling is mutual.

David Codrea:

In both cases, the slain individuals were black. That suggests this latest DeWine effort has less to do with training and more to do with Ohio officials being scared to death they’ll see community rage erupt in their cities as has happened in Ferguson and elsewhere. The Brooklyn slaying of two NYPD officers will no doubt put an even more critical urgency to the matter.  It’s a shame, because racial fears that appear to be at the heart of DeWine’s new-found embrace of police training standards did not even factor into the request he rejected, as it was predicated on the assumption that all peaceable people have a right to keep and bear arms, regardless of skin color or any other irrelevant factor.

They do, and so apparently DeWine is a racist.

Daily Caller notes that some pro-gun legislation was enacted in the most recent obscene spending spree.  Whatever.  Here’s a note to the rulers from me.  I don’t bow down for table scraps.  And you’d better untie that cord of servitude to the Chamber of Commerce on immigration issues, or you won’t see me at the polls any more.