This post has nothing to do with guns or money or lawyers. It just has to do with one of the best advertisements that I’ve ever seen in a long time. I thought it was the perfect something for a Monday morning. It brought a smile to my face and I’ve been up half the night hacking up a lung with some viral crud. If it can do that, it must be a pretty powerful ad.
I know you are shocked to hear that Shannon Watts lied on Twitter about a new NRA video that features Dana Loesch. Now it is no secret that no love is lost between these two. Dana has called out Shannon many a time for her lies and her use of no-neck armed guards hired by Michael Bloomberg.
Here are the tweets in question:
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#NRA video implies all U.S. moms are 1) eager to shoot “thugs” in face 2) Christian 3) Leather Tuscadero https://t.co/d8eihIP8FS #gunsense
— Shannon (@shannonrwatts) September 12, 2015
Parody? #NRA‘s new video about their version of American ninja moms https://t.co/d8eihIP8FS @MomsDemand #gunsense pic.twitter.com/dSmd01lnY2
— Shannon (@shannonrwatts) September 12, 2015
If you watch the video below, you never hear a thing about Christianity nor do you hear any encouragement of shooting a thug in the face. What Dana said is that the media buries stories of defensive gun uses by mothers. As to the “Leather Tuscadero” Happy Days reference, that is just Shannon Watts’ cattiness about Dana’s leather jacket and the effectiveness of this video.
The best response on Twitter was by someone named Tom Sawyer who just nailed it!
@shannonrwatts
1) She never mentions shooting anyone
2) She never mentions religion
3) You’re an idiot
#WhateverItTakes
@DLoesch
#gunsense
— Tom Sawyer (@TomSmokin) September 12, 2015
Shannon Watts of Everytown Moms for Illegal Mayors loves her corrupt politicians. At least the ones that are for more and more gun control while they have their own armed security details. She tweeted the pictures below of Hillary Clinton signing a “whatever it takes” poster yesterday.
.@HillaryClinton signed on today to Moms’ pledge to do #WhateverItTakes to stop gun violence @MomsDemand #gunsense pic.twitter.com/Ffekuq8ky5
— Shannon (@shannonrwatts) September 10, 2015
Hillary probably thought she was signing a poster with her campaign motto.
If you are a dog owner, you know and fear parvo aka canine parvovirus. It attacks rapidly dividing cells in a dog’s body especially in the intestinal tract. This causes severe, often bloody, diarrhea in the dog and can be fatal. The virus also attacks white blood cells and can damage the heart. This is why it is so important to vaccinate all dogs and puppies against parvo.
With this little intro to canine health issues you can understand why my head shook when I read this release from Head Down Products. They make fairly decent rifles from what I understand. I’ve never shot one of their firearms before but that is the impression I had.
From their press release:
Dallas, GA – Head Down Products is proud to announce the Uncle Parvo line, a line of AR-15 rifles specifically designed for predator hunting applications and the specific needs of hunters.
While the value of the AR-15 platform is well known in the hunting world, quite often the AR-15 market leans toward the tactical/defense application and not the outdoorsman. Head Down Products is proud to change that.
The Uncle Parvo line of rifles are lightweight, tough and includes a modular rail featuring KeyMod™. This rifle features a 14.5″ barrel equipped with a mid-length gas system. The Uncle Parvo ships suppressor ready, with a Gemtech G5 QD/muzzle brake pinned for ATF compliance.
While it looks like a fine rifle, I wonder how many hunters, especially those that own dogs, are going to look at that name and say, “WTF?” I know I would.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation released their adjusted NICS checks for August 2015 yesterday. After hitting an all time high for a July in the previous month, the NSSF adjusted NICS checks were only the second highest on record for the the month.
The August 2015 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,031,959 is the second-highest August on record for the 17-year-old system, with an increase of 4.3 percent compared to the August 2014 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 989,337. For comparison, the unadjusted August 2015 NICS figure of 1,735,911 reflects a 12.8 percent increase from the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,538,347 in August 2014.
The previous high had been set in August 2012.
Looking back to 2012 to see what might have made it the highest month, I find stories regarding an AWB for Illinois, the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin case, and the UN’s Arms Trade Treaty. Project Gunwalker aka Operation Fast and Furious had finally started to make the news as well.
While August is traditionally one of the slower months, we are also starting to see a trend of year over prior year increases starting up again.
As always, it should be noted that NICS checks do not have a perfect correlation with sales. Many states use them for checking on concealed carry holders. Moreover, in many states such as North Carolina, a CCW takes the place of having to run a NICS check. However, as a general indicator of the direction of sales, the adjusted NICS checks are quite adequate.
I had heard Michael Bane make reference to the Ithaca Auto & Burglar shotgun pistol but had never seen one. Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons shows two examples of these any other weapons that are up for auction at Rock Island Auctions.
While these would have been a beast to handle in 12 gauge, in the lesser gauges like 20 or 28, I think they’d still provide more than adequate protection against highwaymen and carjackers.
The Florida State Seminoles start each home game with their mascot Osceola racing across to midfield on his horse Renegade and sticking a flaming spear in the ground. In a figurative sense, that is just what gun rights organization Florida Carry did today when it filed suit against FSU, FSU President John Thrasher, and FSU police chief David Perry.
Before John Thrasher became President of Florida State University, he was a successful lawyer, politician, and lobbyist. He served in both the Florida House and Senate and was the chairman of the Florida GOP in 2010. When he was a state senator, Thrasher as noted below in the Florida Carry release told them that they should look to the courts rather than the legislature to correct unconstitutional infringements on the right to keep and bear arms in the Sunshine State. They are making him eat his words.
The lawsuit was filed in Leon County Circuit Court. They are seeking an injunction and declaratory relief stating that the defendants are violating Florida statutes. The complaint can be found here.
Tallahassee, Florida – In 2014 then Senator Thrasher admonished Florida
Carry during a legislative committee hearing for supporting a pro-Second
Amendment bill that corrected an unconstitutional infringement on the
right to bear arms rather than going to the courts and bringing a
lawsuit.Today Florida Carry is taking his advice.
Florida
Carry, Inc. joins FSU Graduate Student Bekah Hargrove of Florida
Students for Concealed Carry in filing Florida Carry v. Thrasher today
seeking an emergency injunction against John Thrasher, now President of
Florida State University, the university, and FSU Police Chief David
Perry.In 2013 the Florida First District Court of Appeals made
it crystal clear, in the case of Florida Carry v. UNF, that Universities
have no authority to regulate the lawful possession of firearms that
are properly stored in private vehicles on campus. Despite the fact that
FSU, Chief Perry, and President Thrasher are well aware of the law and
the binding decision of the court, they have chosen to continue
illegally prohibiting the possession of firearms in people’s private
vehicles. They even go so far as to use their own police force to
publicly threaten criminal enforcement of their unlawful regulations.A recent release published by the FSU Police Department instructs that:
“Weapons and/or firearms are not permitted to be stored in a vehicle on the FSU campus at any time, including game days.“(Emphasis in original)The “FSU Game Day Plan 2015 – New Info” publication goes on to flout the laws of Florida by stating that:
“Weapons
are prohibited on the Florida State University Campus at all times
including football games. Fan may not store firearms or other weapons in
their vehicles parked on campus while attending the game. Possession of
a firearm or weapon on the FSU campus constitutes a felony and
violators are subject to arrest pursuant to Florida Statute 790.115.”The
FSU Student Code of Conduct also attempts to enforce these illegal
policies by prohibiting all “On-campus possession or use of firearms…”
without an exception for firearm possession in a private vehicle and
even “Off-campus… or unauthorized possession or use of firearms…”
https://dos.fsu.edu/srr/_localDocuments/student-conduct-code.pdf“It
has a chilling effect on the right to bear arms when law abiding gun
owners are lied to by public officials, especially ones who control
their own Police Forces, and are told that they will be breaking a law
by the legal possession of their firearms.”Said Sean Caranna, Executive Director of Florida Carry, Inc.“These
publications are a blatant attempt by FSU President Thrasher, and his
anti-Second Amendment employees, to enforce illegal gun control with the
threat of throwing good people in jail for the lawful exercise of their
right to bear arms. We demand that public officials follow the law and
will stand for nothing less.”
Millennials have been a hard group to reach for conservative and (some) libertarian organizations. It is why the NRA started their younger commentator series featuring Colion Noir, Natalie Foster, Dom Raso, etc.
I just came across a series from the Independent Institute called “Love Gov”. It features Alexis, a fun loving, independent young woman, and Scott “Gov” Govinski, her creepy, intrusive boyfriend. It is an allegory using the boyfriend as a stand-in for our current government. In Episode 5 below, Alexis has broken up with Gov and now he is intruding upon her privacy.
Kudos to whomever at the Independent Institute came up with this. I found it a very effective way to reach 20-somethings. Now if we could just get them to look up from their smart phones and see what else is happening in the world.
Willie Dixie, Jr. is the Special Agent in Charge of the BATFE’s Charlotte Field Division. He was interviewed earlier this week by WCNC – NBC Charlotte regarding gun thefts in North and South Carolina.
“We are the supplier of those firearms that end up in the northern cities,” Wayne Dixie, Jr. said.
Last year there were 256 guns stolen in South Carolina that ended up in just New York. Another 279 from North Carolina ended up there. And those numbers have been pretty steady over the last five years.
It’s not just stolen guns from here that make their way up North, others are bought here legally and make the same trek.
“North and South Carolina are source states…a lot of times people from the North will come down here and purchase firearms here because of lax gun laws.”
Sorry SAC Dixie, “we” aren’t the suppliers. Thieves and criminal organizations are the suppliers. When examining the BATFE’s own gun trace data for New York for 2014, North and South Carolina are not even the top source states. That honor goes to New York itself with five times as many traced guns as either North or South Carolina.
Also, what the hell do you mean by “lax gun laws”? Do you mean that because North Carolina has a greater appreciation for the Constitution (to which you took an oath) that we are “lax”?
Straw purchases are illegal whether done in downtown Charlotte or downtown Manhattan. Moreover, even private sales of handguns in North Carolina require either a pistol purchase permit or a concealed handgun permit to be legal. That pistol purchase permit system, by the way, was instituted by Democrats to keep African-Americans like yourself disarmed.
Your office conveniently proclaims when they have been involved in a conviction of any sort. Despite your so-called surge of FFL inspections started in 2014, I see only one reported set of convictions for either firearms theft or trafficking in the last two years. Indeed, more people were convicted of smuggling cigarettes than firearms if your releases are any indication.
No dealer ever wants to see firearms from his or her store used in a crime. Furthermore, none of them want to see firearms stolen from their store. Gun stores go to great lengths to protect their inventory and, unless I am mistaken, this is part of your inspection process.
You can see SAC Dixie’s statements below in his interview with Michelee Boudin of WCNC.
Imagine, if you will, a proposed ordinance from a San Francisco supervisor stating the proprietors of medical marijuana dispensaries must have a multi-zone video system in place and then forward the video along with records of every purchaser to the San Francisco Police Department. Mind you, even though marijuana for medical purposes can be prescribed under California law, it is still a Federal crime.
Being that it is San Francisco, let’s imagine another scenario. Say it was 1981 and the AIDS epidemic was starting. Public health officials knew it was hitting gay men disproportionately and suspected it was related to having multiple sexual partners. So as a public health measure, a San Francisco supervisor proposed that a video system be put in place at the city’s bath houses which were known meeting places for sex used by gay men. All the video along with a record of everyone who entered these bath houses was to be sent the SF Department of Public Health.
Can you imagine the outrage that either of these scenarios would cause? Any supervisor who even made such a proposal like either of these would be run out of town and encouraged to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge will he was at it.
SF Supervisor Mark Farrell has made such a proposal. However, it isn’t aimed at marijuana users or gay men but rather legal purchasers of arms and ammunition. A purchase which is not only made in full compliance with Federal and state law but is part of an enumerated right under the Constitution.
The first portion of Supervisor Farrell’s gun control package would simply require the videotaping of all gun and ammunition sales within San Francisco. The videotaping would also apply to other critical areas of the business premises, including, but not limited to, all places where firearms or ammunition are stored, handled, sold, transferred, or carried, including, but not limited to, all counters, safes, vaults, cabinets, cases, entryways, and parking lots.
The second portion of Supervisor Farrell’s gun control package would require any permittee who has the proper documentation to sell or transfer ammunition to keep records of their ammunition sales and transfer data for up to five-years, and electronically transmit the ammunition sales data at least weekly to the SFPD. The SFPD would develop the forms and information that would need to be regularly transmitted to the department, and at a minimum will include:
(1) The date of the transaction;
(2) The name, address and date of birth of the transferee;
(3) The number of the transferee’s current driver’s license or other government issued identification card containing a photograph of the transferee, and the name of the governmental authority that issued it;
(4) The brand, type, caliber or gauge, and amount of ammunition transferred;
(5) The transferee’s signature; and
(6) The name of the permittee’s agent or employee who processed the transaction.
Farrell, a lawyer and venture capitalist, represents some of the most expensive neighborhoods in San Francisco. Places where guns are considered icky except when in the hands of private security guards. He first made the proposal in July and plans to introduce them when the Board of Supervisors comes back from recess this month.
The impact of Farrell’s ordinance would be to force High Bridge Arms, the only gun store in San Francisco, to close or move out of San Francisco. Owner Steve Alcairo said they have 17 surveillance cameras in the store and shares the video with police when requested by court orders. However, this ordinance goes much further and Alcairo said he’d probably close if it passes.
“What we don’t do is voluntarily give private information to the police department. Voluntarily, we just don’t do that. People are very private about their information,” Alcairo told KPIX 5.
He believes if the new law passes it will have a chilling effect on his business…
“The element we’re concerned with, they don’t shop here. They don’t,” Alcairo said. “I mean you’re going to get video surveillance of people who are coming in here legally buying stuff with their identification, criminals are not doing that.”
Mr. Alcairo is correct. Criminals in San Francisco don’t shop at High Bridge Arms. They get their guns from former Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) and his tong friend Shrimp Boy among other illegal places.
This measure has nothing to do with crime, preventing criminals from getting guns, or public safety. It is a feel good measure by Supv. Farrell to look good among his constituents as they go home to their Victorian and Edwardian mansions in his Jordan Park-Laurel Heights neighborhood and shop in its high priced boutiques.