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Florida Carry: GOA’s Legislative Director is an Unguided Missile
By Lee Williams
Luis Valdes, the Florida state director for Gun Owners of America, should have taken a few more civics classes – something the GOA leadership is learning for themselves, the hard way.
This entire saga began with a tirade on Facebook. Valdes blamed one Republican lawmaker, Rep. Cord Byrd, for the fact that Florida still doesn’t have constitutional carry.
Valdes didn’t understand that the problem is much bigger than any one politician.
CRPA: September 14th and the Newsom Recall Are Critical for California Gun Rights
From the California Rifle & Pistol Association . . .
September 14th is an important date in California history. It is the day that we have the opportunity to remove one of the most anti-gun governors in California history. The recall election will present voters with two questions. The first will ask whether Governor Gavin Newsom should be recalled from the office of Governor.
We recommend a YES vote.
ATF Not Amused by the Number of ‘Giggle Switches’ Turning Up on District of Columbia Streets
“It used to be we’d have an incident where a round or two was fired, and that’s bad enough,” [ATF D.C. field office special agent in charge Charlie J.] Patterson said. “Now you’re having crime scenes where there are 15 or more rounds fired. . . . That’s doubling or tripling the potential for death.”
Patterson also said authorities take a dim view of the term “giggle switch,” though it has made its way into police reports and court documents.
GOA: Compromise Is Hurting Gun Rights in Florida
By Tim Macy
This week, a Florida gun group launched an attack on our state director Luis Valdes and, by extension, on Gun Owners of America.
This broadside was then reprinted by a national group, as well as another state gun group in Florida.
GOA has made it a practice not to speak ill of other pro-gun groups, and so I don’t intend to do so here. At the same time, given the coordinated attacks by several groups, it’s necessary that I respond to the false allegations because there are surely many gun owners who have read the articles, and they want to hear our side of the story.
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Florida Kerfuffle: GOA’s Luis Valdes Attacked For Calling Out an Allegedly Pro-Gun Politician
TTAG contributor Luis Valdes, in his role as Florida Director for Gun Owners of America, called out a so-called pro-gun Republican for blocking five of six major pro-gun bills in his leadership position in the Florida House of Representatives. That led to Florida Carry spokesman Lee Williams writing an attack piece that United Sportsmen of Florida’s Executive Director Marion Hammer emailed to USF’s members as well as at least some of NRA’s Sunshine State membership.
Former Georgia DA Indicted for Failing to Prosecute Suspects in the Ahmaud Arbery Shooting
By Russ Bynum, AP
A former Georgia prosecutor was indicted Thursday on misconduct charges alleging she used her position to shield the men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery from being charged with crimes immediately after the shootings.
A grand jury in coastal Glynn County indicted former Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson on a felony count of violating her oath of office and hindering a law enforcement officer, a misdemeanor.
Tactical Rabbi Selling Shabbat Clothing For Armed Ultra-Orthodox Jews
Rabbi Raziel Cohen doesn’t want you to have to draw a gun in synagogue. But if you must, he doesn’t want you to waste precious time unbuttoning your kapota, a type of jacket worn by men in the Chabad Hasidic community on Shabbat and Jewish holidays.
So Cohen, a firearms instructor who goes by the moniker “The Tactical Rabbi,” worked with Shaul Snovsky, who sells kapotas in South Florida, to create the Tactical Kapota.
Virginia Citizens Defense League Files $450,000 Libel Suit Against Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
Gun control industry groups and their supporters in politics and the media love to throw around epithets about those of us in the gun rights community. They’re fond of describing law-abiding firearm owners and those who support Second Amendment rights as violent insurrectionists and terrorists.
Earlier this year, the civilian disarmament advocates at the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence issued a press release touting the nomination (again) of Democrat Terry McAuliffe for Governor of Virginia.
Gun Meme of the Day: Arming The Taliban, Part 5
Speaking just for myself here, I’ve had about enough of apocalypse bingo over the last 18 months. Have a good weekend! Bonus meme:
…still waiting for my surplus M240! Can I at least get some NODS? Hello? Mr. Biden? I’ve got a Costco box of pudding cups for The Big Guy…
Here’s an image from the NY Times showing what we’ve left behind for the Taliban (and others):
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ISIS Terrorist Under Surveillance Stabs 6 in New Zealand Before Being Shot to Death by Police
You’ve heard the old saw before. When seconds count, police are only minutes away. Rarely has that been demonstrated more clearly than yesterday in Auckland, New Zealand. An ISIS sympathizer — who New Zealand’s intelligence apparatus had been monitoring since 2016 — walked into a grocery store, pulled a knife from a display and began stabbing people.
The Sri Lankan man had been followed into the store by the equivalent of two SWAT officers.
Defensive Gun Use: Syracuse Concealed Carrier Killed a Shooter, Saving the Lives of ‘Several Individuals’
By Brandon Curtis
A concealed carry permit holder successfully stopped a gunman who had begun firing into a crowd of people, saving countless lives. The incident happened in Syracuse, New York, on Tuesday at around 2:30 p.m.
The suspect, Demetrius Jackson, had opened fire on a group of people with a 9mm handgun. An armed man at the scene, who is a concealed carry permit holder, drew his firearm and shot the suspect in the head.
What Happens When USA Today’s Factchecker is Factchecked Himself
By Lee Williams
The USA TODAY factchecker we profiled Tuesday, Daniel Funke, might want to find another line of work. He seems to have a problem getting his “facts” right.
In our story titled “Fake News: Fact Checking the Media’s Anti-Gun Fact Checkers,” we showed how Funke only focuses on conservatives and conservative issues. His stories have targeted gun owners, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, Donald Trump, QAnon, election fraud, anti-vaxxers, and the NRA, while providing cover for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, mask mandates, mandatory vaccinations and Dr.
Load More Ammo and Save More Money With the Frankford Arsenal M-Press Coaxial Press
The Frankford Arsenal M-Press single stage reloading press was designed for the serious reloader to deliver the most precise ammunition possible. With its quick-change, standard 7/8″-14 reloading die system, the M-Press has an easy-to-adjust integral “floating” shell holder plate system and an easy-empty spent primer catcher.
With three removable die blocks, switching from resizing, seating, or crimping has never been so simple. And the M-Press‘s ambidextrous top handle makes reloading smooth for both right-and left-handed reloaders.
CZ Announces the New P-10 M Micro-Compact Concealed Carry 9mm Pistol
From CZ-USA . . .
CZ-USA has announced a new era in concealed carry pistols with the much-anticipated micro-compact P-10 M pistol release. This gun has everything people love about CZ pistols while being engineered explicitly for flawless concealed carry.
The ultra-slick and affordable 9mm P-10 M is sized just right for easy concealability while retaining the famed ergonomics of the full-size P-10 pistol in the ever-expanding line of polymer-framed handguns.
David Frum Wants You to Give Up Your Guns and Leave Firearm Ownership to the Barbarians
The Atlantic’s David Frum thinks firearms are icky and should be left to society’s barbarians (and then outlawed from there, once all the good people have been disarmed). The way to reduce “gun violence,” as he sees it, is by convincing ordinary, responsible gun owners that their firearms make them less safe. What he doesn’t know — or refuses to acknowledge — is that ordinary, responsible gun owners know that is simply a lie.
Gun Meme of the Day: Arming The Taliban, Part 4
Yes, yes, they “forgot.” This meme is far too generous.
Here’s an image from the NY Times showing what we’ve left behind for the Taliban (and others):
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Constitutional Carry Bill Introduced Again in Florida…Is the Third Time the Charm?
Gun Owners of America and Florida State Representative Anthony Sabatini held a press conference on August 23rd at the Florida state capitol to bring constitutional carry to the forefront. Why? Because the Republican party in Florida has stated numerous times that they don’t feel pro-gun legislation is an issue this coming session and it doesn’t need to be brought up for debate.
Mind you, the Biden administration in Washington is going all-out in its assaults on Americans’ gun rights.
A Tipton Nope Rope Belongs in Every Range Bag
Whether you love to clean your guns or hate it, a clean bore is a happy bore. And keeping your bore clean has never been faster or easier than running a Tipton Nope Rope through it.
Tipton’s unique Nope Rope pull-through barrel cleaning ropes come in nine calibers. The most popular calibers — 9mm, .223/5.56, and 12 ga. — come in handy two-packs so you’ll always have one in your bag and another one on your bench.
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August US Gun Sales Second Highest On Record
From the NSSF . . .
Retail firearm sales remain steady and are still above historic norms. August 2021’s figures rose slightly over July 2021’s figures and this indicates that there is a continued strong and steady demand from Americans choosing to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
August 2021’s adjusted totals are the second strongest of any August, only behind the outlier year of 2020 – when 21 million background checks were conducted for gun sales.
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Of Course: San Francisco Will Pay Multiple Offenders $300 Per Month to Stop Shooting People
It’s called the Dream Keeper Fellowship, and is borne from SFPD data showing that more than half of all San Francisco gun killings involve the same 12 criminal groups and gangs. The idea is to target those at high risk of being on either end of a shooting with a $300 monthly payment. Subjects could then receive up to $200 extra for other certain milestones like getting a job interview, complying with probation conditions, or participating in a mentoring program, in what’s sure to be a highly controversial intervention.