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Gun Meme of the Day: I Dunno About This One Edition
Look, first of all, 20? You gotta pump those numbers up, man. Those are rookie numbers.
Second…there’s pretty much nothing about this meme that I like haha. You’re welcome. Can’t win ’em all.
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Judge Rules New York Attorney General Can’t Dissolve the NRA
After serial revelations of alleged corruption that pervaded (pervades?) the highest levels of the National Rifle Association, New York Attorney General Letitia James sued to have the association dissolved after a long investigation into Wayne LaPierre and the association he’s run for decades. However, despite the AG’s desire to euthanize the pro-gun rights org, the New York law places a high bar over which the state must jump to make the case that a non-profit should get the corporate “death penalty.”
Today, a New York Supreme Court judge ruled that James has failed to make that case.
NSSF: Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee And The Firearm Industry
By Larry Keane from the NSSF . . .
President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer gives him his first chance to put a lasting stamp on the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Jackson, who was only recently elevated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, has authored just two opinions on the merits, both in the past month. Her judicial record tells us truly little about her views on the Second Amendment or about the firearm industry.
NRA-ILA, Gun Control Orgs Weigh In On Biden Supreme Court Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson
Joe Biden really loves his ice cream and as such was sorely disappointed to hear of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement. At the same time, even Stevie Wonder could see that Old Joe would nominate someone far to the left of the political center to fill the SCOTUS seat. Someone who supports laws that keep Americans on the gun control plantation.
Thanks in part to a reported agreement that was struck during his presidential run, Biden promised to choose a black woman to fill the next high court opening and now Judge Kentanji Brown Jackson has gotten the nod.
NICJR Study Proves Politicians, Law Enforcement Should be Targeting Criminals, Not Guns
By Larry Keane
A new study from the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform revealed who is driving the vast majority of criminal firearm misuse in the Nation’s Capital. Go figure it’s a small number of lawbreakers and not law-abiding gun owners.
Stating that gun crimes in Washington, D.C., are shown to be committed by a “very tightly concentrated” group of individuals, the study’s author said, “This very small number of high risk individuals are identifiable.
Gun Control: Rich White Liberals Sniffing at Normals Wanting to Defend Their Own Lives
Let’s talk about gun congrol. Banning or restricting firearms is the most white privileged idea ever. Rich liberals scoffing at the notion that a person might need to defend their own life is a tower so ivory you can’t look at it in direct sunlight. It’s the personal safety equivalent of saying, ‘Just have the maid do it.”
— Seen on Twitter
Gun Meme of the Day: AR-15 Starter Pack Edition
Just drove the gun right through a Pep Boys and everything stuck to it.
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Gun Control Law Fail: Restraining Order Failed to Keep David Mora-Rojas From Murdering His Children, Another Man, Then Committing Suicide
By Kathleen Ronayne and Stefanie Dazio, AP
A man who was under a restraining order and not supposed to have a gun fatally shot his three daughters, a chaperone and himself during a supervised visit with the girls at a California church, officials said Tuesday.
Investigators were trying to piece together the father’s motive and how he got the weapon used in the shooting that occurred at about 5 p.m. Monday.
Man Open-Carrying in Alabama Walmart Has Gun Snatched and a Shot Fired at Him
Open carry requires practitioners to maintain a heightened sense of situational awareness, especially when carrying in a non-retention rig. Why? Because drunks do stupid things and because criminals might try to snatch your handgun. That’s what happened recently at a Homewood, Alabama Walmart where a man traveling with his family had his (openly) carry gun snatched after an altercation.
The man who grabbed the gun fired off a shot at the gun owner.
Gun Reviews: Tokarev USA TX3 12HD Retro Riot Gun
I’m the shotgun nerd around these parts, and that lead me to the SDS Imports and Tokarev USA booth at SHOT Show’s Range Day 2022. There, I handled their TX3 12HD, aka the Retro Riot Gun. Anytime you slap a bayonet on a shotgun, I’m going to pay attention.
I shot the stainless and standard model and walked away impressed. I exchanged cards with the owner and reached out when I got home.
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Ukraine: Arming Civilians Proves Public Trust Is Essential To Defense and Preparedness
In another recent article, I pointed out that arming civilians at the last minute to fight an existential threat isn’t the best plan for success. If you really want to have armed civilians be a last line of defense, it’s better to at least ensure they have some experience. But that’s still better than nothing and appears to be making a difference.
One Ukrainian Twitter account, however, made a very good point .
Chicago: Where Guns – Not Gangs – Are Our Common Enemy
Some say we don’t do enough for the police. Others say we do too much. All of this must stop.
We have a common enemy: it’s guns & the violence they bring.
— Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot (@chicagosmayor) August 8, 2021
“We have a common enemy: it’s guns & the violence they bring.”
— Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot at Twitter
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Gun Meme of the Day: Tank at the Waffle House Edition
It’s not about miles per gallon so much as gallons per mile. But she’ll get ya there safely.
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Chicago’s Palace Guard Media Shields Pritzker From Ken Griffin’s ‘Gun Violence’ Criticism
What happens when you dare to criticize a powerful elected official in a state where the major media outlets agree with the big man in charge? You get savaged by the palace guard, that’s what happens. And it doesn’t even matter that their claims of hypocrisy are laughably flimsy. The message to all is still clear: shut up, or we’ll come after you and anyone else who doesn’t keep their head down.
Illinois is basically a one-party state.
Biden’s High Court Nominee’s Experience Should Motivate Her Defense of All Constitutional Rights
From the Firearms Policy Coalition . . .
Following President Biden’s announcement nominating Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) released the following statement:
As we’ve said before, the justices of the Supreme Court should, and indeed must, do what the Constitution’s text and liberty compel. One need not look further than the current Russian invasion of Ukraine to fully comprehend that the human right to keep and bear arms is as relevant and necessary today as ever.
Gun Review: Savage Arms Stance 9mm Pistol
Savage has been around since 1894, and in that time, they’ve produced a wide variety of firearms. The modern Savage has mostly been a rifle company, with some shotguns sprinkled in along the way.
Recently Savage has been producing a number of interesting weapons. We have the Impulse, a straight-pull bolt action rifle, the Renegauge, a gas-operated semi-auto rifle. And now we have the Savage Stance, 9mm subcompact pistol.
The Stance is Savage’s first pistol in about 100 years.
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A Wisconsin Woman Tries to Use Sex Trafficking as a Defense for Shooting and Killing Her Abuser
By Todd Richmond, AP
On a June night in 2018, 17-year-old Chrystul Kizer put a .38-caliber pistol in her book bag and took an Uber from Milwaukee to Kenosha.
She walked into Randall Volar’s home. She had met Volar on a sex trafficking website and for the past year he had been molesting her and selling her as a prostitute, according to court documents.
Kizer would tell detectives later that Volar, 34, tried to touch her.
Ukraine and The Left Suddenly Embrace Civilian Gun Rights
Sometimes you just have to go out and look at the stars. Sure, you could do that to relax, but right now we need to give the heavens a quick check to see if the Earth has been sucked through a wormhole and into an alternate universe.
Why? Because it’s sure looking like we’re in a some kind of bizarro world where the authoritarian left loves guns. Check this out that’s making its way around the Twitterverse .
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No Arrests Made Yet After 14 Shot, 1 Killed in Late Night Vegas Hookah Parlor Party Shooting
From the AP . . .
Fourteen people were shot during a party at a Las Vegas hookah lounge early Saturday, including one man who was killed and two others who were critically wounded.
The shooting happened about 3:15 a.m. and preliminary information indicated there was a party during which two people got into an altercation and exchanged gunfire, said police Capt. Dori Koren.
Koren told reporters no arrests have been made and no suspect descriptions were immediately available but that authorities did not believe there was any danger to the general public.
Germany Gives In, Authorizes Arms Shipments to Ukraine
Before Saturday’s turnaround, senior Ukrainian officials had been complaining bitterly for weeks about Germany’s refusal to allow arms shipments to bolster Ukraine’s defenses.
Estonia, in particular, had said it wanted to send old howitzers but was prevented from doing so because Germany was withholding its approval. Estonia bought the weapons from Finland, which gave its sign-off, but Germany also has to OK the transfer because it originally sold the howitzers to Finland.
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