The merger between Cabela’s and Bass Pro Shop always seemed odd to me. I knew that both stores were doing extremely well. It all makes sense now.
Capitalism is an ungodly form of economics. Socialism is an ungodly form of economics. What we have today in America is the worst of both. The Biblical form of economics is the free market, free from control, and free from evil things like this.
Springfield, VA — On December 2, 2019, the Home Defense and Competitive Shooting Act was introduced in the House of Representatives by Congressman Roger Marshall.
The bill undoes the egregiously unconstitutional registration, taxation, and regulation of short-barreled rifles by removing them from the National Firearms Act (NFA) and forcing the ATF to destroy all related records.
“The introduction of this bill is yet another landmark towards restoring the constitutionally-recognized right to keep and bear arms without infringement by federal regulations and whimsical rulemaking by anti-gun D.C. bureaucrats,” said Aidan Johnston, Director of Federal Affairs for GOA. “When the Founding Fathers wrote the Second Amendment, intending to protect individuals from infringements, they did not ‘leave room’ for a federal agency to regulate barrel lengths on rifles or pistols.”
Under current law, the difference between a “pistol AR-15” and a “short barreled rifle AR-15” is ATF rulemaking and mind-numbing definitions and differences between “rifle stocks” and “pistol braces.”
GOA supports a full repeal of the NFA and has challenged the NFA’s unconstitutional regulation of suppressors with the Silencers Help Us Save Hearing Act, the Hearing Protection Act, and Kettler v. US. But for far too long, other aspects of the National Firearms Act—an act of gun control by nature—have gone unchallenged in Congress.
“Now gun owners have a legislative vehicle to attack another element of the National Firearms Act’s meaningless regulation,” Johnston concluded. “GOA urges every member of the House of Representatives to cosponsor this bill.”
Okay. Even if this goes nowhere (as I suspect it will in the den of demons, gargoyles and pit vipers we call Washington, D.C.), I am now a fan of two members of the House, the first being Thomas Massie. Roger Marshall can be added to the list of good guys. It’s a short list.
Whiskey Warrior 556 aka Alex Booth’s standoff with the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office has ended peacefully. Booth, 28, is an Afghan war veteran who served in the U.S. Army.
A sheriff’s office spokesperson confirmed to Heavy.com just before 1 a.m. on November 24 that nobody was hurt as Booth surrendered to officers. The standoff took place in the town of Mahopac, just under 60 miles north of New York City, in Westchester County.
Alexander Booth goes by Whiskey_Warrior_556 on Instagram, where he streamed parts of the Putnam County NY police standoff and posted videos and sent messages to his followers.
“The negotiators were very close many times to getting the individual to come out of the residence peacefully and the posts that were on Instagram were just inviting him,” Carmel Police Chief Michael Cazzari told NBC New York. “This is a person in crisis having mental illness and having issues and he didn’t need the people on social media telling him that his rights were being violated.”
The six-hour standoff ended about 9 p.m. on Saturday, November 23. Booth was booked at the Putnam County Correctional Facility at 12:35 a.m. on Sunday, November 24, online records show. He remained in custody Sunday afternoon.
A press release from the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office said that an officer went to the home at 2:19 p.m. on November 23 after a deputy heard what he thought was a gunshot coming from Booth’s home. Nearby homes were evacuated and back-up was called to the scene. At that stage, the sheriff’s office says that Booth became barricaded in his home.
“The officer hearing what he believed to be a gunshot come from the residence requested backup,” the press release said. “When additional officers arrived Mr. Booth was observed in the doorway acting in an agitated state before returning inside his garage apartment and barricading himself. As a safety precaution officers evacuated the neighboring houses and alerted the Putnam County Emergency Response Team and Negotiation Team.”
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The Carmel Police Department said that Booth was subsequently arraigned on multiple charges related to incidents connected to a past domestic incident involving his wife. Booth was wanted on a felony warrant issued by Thomas Jacobellis charging him with second-degree burglary, a felony, and several misdemeanors, including criminal trespass, criminal contempt, aggravated harassment and petit larceny. Booth is not facing any charges in relation to the standoff. His arraignment was held at Carmel Town Justice Court.
The press release concludes by saying that no weapons or ammunition were seized from Booth’s home despite “false social media posts to the contrary.” Many on social media believed that Booth was a victim of the Red Flag Law in the state of New York.
It may be useful to watch this video from Mrgunsngear.
My goal isn’t to fisk what happened or why. I really couldn’t care less for the purposes of this post. Perhaps the video is correct and this had nothing to do with red flag laws. Or perhaps it did. In either case, my goal is to make a few related observations.
Most military writers and would-be military scholars talk about “swarm theory” at some point in their career to make themselves look smart. To most writers, a “swarm” is when a lot of fighters show up at once. To a bee keeper, this is nothing like the truth, and most military writers have no idea what they’re talking about.
I’m not a bee keeper, but my son is. He’s seen guard bees pull the wings off of drones and evict them to the ground where the ants eat them. Bees are relentless in their preparation for keeping the hive alive, and a drone does not gather nectar or pollen. Bee colonies are brutal.
What bees are good at, however, is subtle signals between the hive that only they understand, sometimes chemical signals, that alert the colony that something important is going down. It might be swarming behavior if the colony decides that there isn’t enough room for storage of nectar for the winter, but in any case, the entire colony acts in concert if it thinks it needs a larger or different hive. You can spend your own time on a Google or Bing search of “waggle dance.”
It’s difficult to shut this down, although there are strategies for it for a bee keeper just as there are in swarm behavior in humans. What happened in the case of Whiskey Warrior 556 and those who came to his defense is the behavior you might see in a bee colony, at least in one aspect.
Interestingly, Mrgunsngear found that his Instagram and Facebook posts were deleted, perhaps at the behest of the police involved in the incident. Social media went viral with this event, and within hours as many as a hundred people showed up at his home as a warning to the police should he be deprived of his right to keep and bear arms.
Learn from this incident. Swarm theory isn’t just for bees, and understanding how to shut this down (and how to get around defeaters) isn’t just for bees either. Swarm theory isn’t about a whole lot of anything showing up to an event or incident. It’s about communication.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Barr said his concerns were prompted by the numerous irregularities at the New York jail where Epstein was being held. But he said after the FBI and the Justice Department’s inspector general continued to investigate, he realized there were a “series” of mistakes made that gave Epstein the chance to take his own life.
“I can understand people who immediately, whose minds went to sort of the worst-case scenario because it was a perfect storm of screw-ups,” Barr told the AP as he flew to Montana for an event.
So I guess Epstein did indeed kill himself, according to Barr.
And for those of you who really believed that anyone in the bureaucracy would actually take on the deep state … sucker.
BALTIMORE (WBFF) – Baltimore City Solicitor Andre Davis said the city will consider suing gun manufacturers if lawsuits related to the Sandy Hook shooting are successful.
The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled Sandy Hook families can pursue legal action against Remington Arms.
Councilman Zeke Cohen brought up the matter at Tuesday’s city council hearing asking Davis what the city is doing to hold gun manufacturers accountable now.
Solicitor Davis told Cohen every city in America is monitoring what’s happening with the Sandy Hook lawsuits.
Davis said if they are able to succeed in their cases, Baltimore will then considering holding gun manufacturers responsible.
“America would be tremendously served if the courts could find a way to say to the gun manufacturers, ‘You do have some responsibility here,’ so we are very definitely monitoring it,” he said.
Former Baltimore City Police Commissioner Ed Norris says it’s civil remedy to a criminal problem that won’t solve anything.
“So you sue a gun company, and you win hypothetically, what has that done for the city of Baltimore? How have we improved? Are fewer people going to die? No. What is the point of this exercise? I just don’t get it,” he said.
Forget for a moment what a travesty of justice something like this is. The point is that the Supreme Court refusal to shut down the Sandy Hook lawsuits may open the flood gate to lawsuits against every manufacturer in America, leading eventually to their bankruptcy.
Their goal, of course, is to do exactly that, with a few notables surviving for supply to law enforcement. They shouldn’t be indemnified for their malfeasance, but this doctrine is so ensconced in the American “justice” system that the firearms manufacturers will be protected when cops shoot innocent people, just not when anyone else does it.
When the government kills someone, it’s called war. If you do it, it’s called murder. If a cop shoots an innocent person, it’s called the “thin blue line,” “serving and protecting,” and other claptrap. If you do it you go to prison.
Uncle attaches this photo, and says the following.
That story promptly went away for no reason. But the UK press has been covering it. That piece is a few months old. But it does put to rest the conspiracy theory that he didn’t really use a bump stuck .. On the right, that is pretty clearly a bump stock.
Sorry, but that photo proves nothing. No one has demonstrated yet that he actually used a bump stock, or even what weapons were used. Remember, Uncle? The FBI prevented the ATF from examining the firearms in the room. Wonder why they did that?
Say, I did notice how clean that room was. Clean ceiling, clean floor, clean carpet, spotless lamp shades, everything is spotless. Just like he had discharged thousands of rounds in that very location. Or perhaps they accidentally let the maid in before they took the picture. Yea, that’s got to be it.
I’ll repeat the question my former Marine asked after this event: “Have you ever discharged thousands of rounds in a confined space like that? Do you know what it looks like after a battle like that? I have, and I do.”
“…Trump’s transgression in his words was that Trump was violating the foreign policy of the USA – read carefully here – as articulated and decided upon by the “interagency.” The interagency or NSC, is the alliance of State, CIA, NSA, DOD, DHS, etc., Treasury too, who decide foreign policy collectively. HUD probably does not have a rep on interagency. IRS probably not either. Commerce Dept probably no rep there. This group sets foreign policy- they run the USA. Trump tried to go outside that and this is the source of the complaint- the firsthand people like Vindman went to Ciaramella or whoever tf this clown is, and used him as a focus point given his contacts with Adam Shitt to fashion the complaint…
Doubtless true. For me, the Trump mistakes run deeper.
Trump made a huge error in surrounding himself with bad people. I think he is an awful judge of character because he essentially has no character himself. He left Comey in charge for too long. He left McCabe in place for too long. He has had deep state hacks in charge of very important positions for too long, and didn’t empty the offices of the Department of State as soon as he walked in the door. Reince Priebus was a big mistake, but I repeat myself. General Kelly was an equally big mistake, but McMaster was nearly the biggest mistake of all, perhaps right after Comey. No, correction. The biggest mistake of all was the absolute zero, Jeff Sessions, who left the deep state active, and even defended it.
He could also have made progress on the wall on the Southern border if he had chosen to focus on it early on in his tenure. Ironically, I think he wanted a delayed wall and to be surrounded by the deep state. He wanted the drama of the deep state to penetrate his presidency, and he wanted both the deep state and the wall as issues to run on in 2020. Also ironically, 2020 may be too late for him.
His big mistake for me is his love of big government and gun control.
Perhaps the biggest factor that stands between modern America and another civil war is obvious: the armed forces. Prior to the American Civil War in 1860, the U.S. military consisted of a mere 16,000 men. As the civil war broke out, one in five of the U.S. Army’s officers resigned to join the confederacy, leaving the armed forces too small and powerless to put a stop to what was occurring. Such a thing would be impossible today with how vast and expansive America’s military is now. The groups vowing to rally around Trump if he should be impeached, such as the Oath Keepers and United Constitutional Patriots, are unauthorized and scarce in number, making them a minor threat to America’s military.
Nothing says “Thanks for your service” like ignoring the needs of U.S. troops. But apparently, that’s the most our military can hope for under Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) majority. While the president tries to deal with conflicts around the globe, contain the threats from ISIS and rogue nations like North Korea, you’ll be relieved to know that the House is hard at work on its most important mission: ushering into the military people who are in conflict over their biological sex. And they’re willing to tie up the most important bill of the year to do it.
Federal agents refrained from naming the Chinese manufacturers involved. But over the years, Aventura received shipments from more than 40 different suppliers in China. The network surveillance equipment also suffered from publicly known vulnerabilities documented by the Department of Homeland Security that could pave the way for remote takeovers.
Well then. I guess the Chinese can watch while the U.S. military tries to keep the peace across 3.8 million square miles of land in the case of any trouble. That is, unless they’re not using rifles because they’re in mutilation surgery.
Ruling that the Trump administration violated U.S. law, a federal judge on Tuesday tossed out an agreement that last year allowed, for a brief time, an Austin company to publish firearm schematics, including how-to files for 3D-printed guns, online.
U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik in Seattle had previously blocked publication of the gun plans after Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, joined by 19 other states, filed a lawsuit challenging a July 2018 administration agreement that allowed Defense Distributed of Austin to publish gun blueprints online.
In voiding that agreement Tuesday, Lasnik said the policy change was not reported to Congress as required by federal law.
The administration also failed to offer any justification for changing a State Department policy that banned the publication of schematics for 3D-printed guns as “a threat to world peace and the security and foreign policy of the United States,” the judge said.
“Some of its concerns related specifically to the undetectable nature of a gun made from plastic: because they could slip through conventional security equipment, the State Department feared that they could be used in assassination attempts, hijackings, piracy, and terrorist activities,” Lasnik wrote. “Because the agency action was arbitrary and capricious (in changing the policy without justification), it is unlawful and must be set aside.”
Ferguson said the ruling will improve safety.
“It is baffling that the Trump administration continued to work so hard to allow domestic abusers, felons and terrorists access to untraceable, undetectable 3D-printed guns,” Ferguson said. “Even the president himself said in a tweet that this decision didn’t make any sense — one of the rare instances when I agreed with him. I’m thankful the court agrees, too.”
Chad Flores, a lawyer for Defense Distributed, said the ruling will be appealed.
“The First Amendment protects the freedom of speech from all abridgment — including indirect censorship efforts like this one,” Flores said.
Taking a deep dive into politics, are you judge? And since we’re so wrapped around the axle on Trump administration illegality, why don’t you toss the bump stock ruling too, since that was law-making bypassing Congress?
Oh, do your political concerns get in the way of that too?
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