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Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists

  • Anti-gun nutball pleads guilty

    This was a big story last Spring when a minor actress tried to frame her soon-to-be-ex-husband with sending ricin to the president, Mayor Bloomberg and the director of “Mayors Against Illegal Guns”. Of course, it didn’t hurt that Shannon Guess Richardson’s husband, Nathan Richardson, is a veteran. But the media kind of lost interest in the story when it was discovered that nutball, here, is an anti-gun person, and her husband hadn’t been involved. Anyway, the Associated Press does report that she pleaded guilty to sending the poison;

    On the morning of May 20, Richardson said, she waited for Nathan Richardson to go to work.

    “After he left the house, I printed the mailing labels for President Barack Obama, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Mark Glaze with The Raben Group,” Richardson said in the document. Glaze is director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Bloomberg’s group advocating for tougher gun control.

    The letter to Obama, according to the document, read: “What’s in this letter is nothing compared to what ive got in store for you mr president.”

    “You will have to kill me and my family before you get my guns,” the letter read. “Anyone wants to come to my house will get shot in the face.”

    After mailing the letters, she admitted to trying to blame her husband and lying to authorities.

    In another article that we quoted when this started falling off the media’s radar, Richardson said that the main reason that they were having problems in their marriage is because her husband had a gun in their house and even though she was in some bloody TV show as a guest Zombie, she didn’t like firearms. So like every other good anti-gun nut, she made shit up to get her way.

  • Jailtime for Air Soft guns in NJ

    jerry920 sends us a link to an article in Fox News about the strict gun laws in New Jersey which include BB guns and Air Soft guns, apparently.

    As recently as October, a man was arrested in New Jersey for shooting an airsoft gun at a rubber duck for target practice, in his own yard. Idyriss Thomas, 22, was arrested in Glassboro, N.J., after police responded to multiple 911 calls from neighbors who reported seeing a man with a gun. Once police determined the gun was unlicensed, Thomas was taken to jail and charged with unlawful possession of a weapon. His family posted a $2,500 bond.

    “I didn’t realize that what I had in my hand would cause the events that happened today,” Thomas told Philadelphia’s WPVI. “I had the airsoft gun in my hand, playing with it, taking shots at a rubber ducky – not harming anybody.”

    Understandably, the law treats criminals with BB and other toys as if they had a real weapon in the commission of their various crimes, but the example above is just stupid. A fellow in his yard, shooting at targets isn’t hurting anyone. Yeah, his neighbors were upset, but that’s their problem for being ignorant hand-wringing pussies.

  • NYC to confiscate guns

    I goofed. A few weeks back a very good friend sent me a copy of the letter that New York City sent to 500 residents ordering them to turn-in, alter or move out of the city their rifles which could have more than five rounds ready to fire. I thought it was a bogus story, because I’d never heard of any such law, and I knew that NYS’ SAFE Act limited guns to seven rounds. But according to Fox News, New York City has had that law on the books since 2010 and just now decided to enforce it;

    The demand came in the form of some 500 letters mailed out to owners of registered long guns that are in violation of a 2010 city ordinance. The first option for the letter’s recipient is to, “Immediately surrender your Rifle and/or Shotgun to your local police precinct, and notify this office of the invoice number. The firearm may be sold or permanently removed from the City of New York thereafter.”

    The notices, mailed Nov. 18, also give owners the options of demonstrating the gun has been moved out of NYPD jurisdiction or modified by a licensed gunsmith to comply with the law.

    Although an NYPD spokeswoman told FoxNews.com the law has been on the books since 2010, critics say this year is the first time the notices were so widely dispersed.

    But, you know, gun registration should never be construed as a means to come for your guns…until it happens. Here’s the letter;

    New York gun letter

  • The de-Bateman continues

    The discussion that Lieutenant Colonel Robert Lake Bateman started the other day, when he said that he wanted to take our guns from our cold, dead hands in Esquire Magazine continues. There are some pictures and articles about another Col. Robert J. Bateman floating around the internet, but that’s not this guy. So be careful out there.

    Folks who know Bateman have been telling us that Robert L. Bateman hasn’t commanded infantry troops since he was a Second Lieutenant. They tell me that his company command was a Headquarters Company – not there’s anything wrong with that – but he should have told us that to him “managing violence” means having a layout inspection in the motorpool. Or signing statements of charges for the equipment he can’t account for in the unit.

    In other places on the internet, he makes a big deal about being a Ranger – which is a big deal – but he also admits that he doesn’t have a Combat Infantryman Badge. Which means that he’s never heard a shot fired in anger, except maybe on Victory Drive when he was running loose during Infantry Officers’ Basic Course. I can’t for the life of me think of an excuse big enough for an infantry LTC to not have a CIB after more than a decade of war. Even I tried to get back in the Army during the surge in Iraq. It was one thing during my time for an officer to miss out on Grenada, Panama or Desert Storm, quite another to miss the Global War on Terror, you know, what with it being global and everything.

    Our buddy, and frequent commenter on TAH, Michael Z. Williamson, writes this morning about how even Mr. Williamson’s daughter thinks Bateman is a huge pansy.

    In response to comments and outrage, he called a documented SF soldier a “faker,” a former AF Security Policeman who’s now a federal agent a “peacetime veteran,” and a gay, black 2nd Amendment supporter a “fake persona,” because no gay black man could POSSIBLY support gun ownership. (That person’s an acquaintance of mine. Gay, black, gun owning, conservative, union train engineer. How awesome is THAT combination?)

    In short, he’s the textbook example of the small-dicked little limpwrist who joined the military to prove he’s not, and hates guns because he does have something to compensate for. Likely why he’s been cuckolded twice and divorced. He doesn’t measure up, literally and emotionally. Google “psychological projection.”

    Bateman uses his rank and military experience, or rather the lack thereof as proof of his authority on the subject, then when people criticize the fact that he comes up short in the credentials thing, he says we’re “dick measuring”, well, he shouldn’t have brought that pathetic little thing out in the first place.

  • Bateman on guns – it’s time to shut up

    Several of you have sent us a link today written by Lieutenant Colonel Robert Lake Bateman, who does happen to be an infantry officer and is currently assigned to HQ ARRC in the UK. His article in Esquire is pretty much what we expect to read from hippies at Enquirer, but not from an infantry officer who has sworn to protect and defend the Constitution. Basically, he wants you to own only weapons which were last modern in the late 19th century;

    The only guns permitted will be the following:

    a. Smoothbore or Rifled muzzle-loading blackpowder muskets. No 7-11 in history has ever been held up with one of these.
    b. Double-barrel breech-loading shotguns. Hunting with these is valid.
    c. Bolt-action rifles with a magazine capacity no greater than five rounds. Like I said, hunting is valid. But if you cannot bring down a defenseless deer in under five rounds, then you have no fking reason to be holding a killing tool in the first place.

    If you think that gun ownership is limited to hunting, you have no f*cking reason to be participating in this debate, Bobbie.

    We will pry your gun from your cold, dead, fingers. That is because I am willing to wait until you die, hopefully of natural causes. Guns, except for the three approved categories, cannot be inherited. When you die your weapons must be turned into the local police department, which will then destroy them. (Weapons of historical significance will be de-milled, but may be preserved.)

    So, when you die, your gun dies with you. Never mind that you’ve invested thousands in your collection and you’d hoped it would be part of your legacy for your children and on down the line like Americans have done for genrations, Bobbie says ‘no’, so you can’t, and just because some woman shot another person over the results of a sports match. It’s not her fault, it’s all of us.

    Police departments are no longer allowed to sell or auction weapons used in crimes after the cases have been closed. (That will piss off some cops, since they really need this money. But you know what they need more? Less violence and death. By continuing the process of weapon recirculation, they are only making their jobs — or the jobs of some other cops — harder.)

    I say we stop buy back programs, because they don’t do anything anyway except those those cheapo Saturday night into drug cash for users. But, Bobbie, in his infinite wisdom, thinks they work, so he wants to expand the program;

    We will initiate a nationwide “buy-back” program, effective immediately, with the payouts coming from the DoD budget. This buy-back program will start purchasing weapons at 200 percent of their face value the first year, 150 percent the second year, 100 percent the third year. Thereafter there will be a 10 year pause, at which point the guns can be sold to the government at 10 percent of their value for the next 50 years.

    Yeah, because that’s what the DoD does so well – operate social welfare programs. Dumbass.

    We will submit a new tax on ammunition. In the first two years it will be 400 percent of the current retail cost of that type of ammunition. (Exemptions for the ammo used by the approved weapons.) Thereafter it will increase by 20 percent per year.

    Taxes are always a solution. Personally, I have several years worth of ammo to maintain my training for the day Bobbie decides to come for my guns.

    The major gun manufactures of the United States, less those who create weapons for the federal government and the armed forces, will be bought out by the United States of America, for our own damned good.

    Because the Federal Government always knows what’s best for us and always acts in our interests, right, Bobbie? Take healthcare for example.

    It’s come to my attention that little Bobbie Bateman has taken to threatening people who disagree with him. Threaten me, Bobbie.

    These opinions are those of the author and do not reflect the United States government, the United States Department of Defense, the United States Army, or any other official body. As for the NRA, they can sit on it.

    They can’t sit on it while you have it jammed up your ass, Bobbie, you pole-smoking Leftist freak. Like I said, he’s got his Hello Kitties underoos bunched because some halfwit woman shot someone over the outcome of the Alabama game the other day. Millions of gun owners didn’t shoot anyone that day, including me, but apparently Bobbie Bateman wants to punish the tens of millions of gun owners because one was a moron. Do you think someone that stupid will turn in their guns so Bobbie will stop wetting his panties? Seriously?

    Shut up, Bateman, you’re just another hand-wringing pussy from the Left.

  • New York jumps the gun on SAFE Act

    You all remember when the New York State legislature rammed their draconian Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act (SAFE Act) down the throats of New York gun owners during the irrational hysteria over the Sandy Hook shootings and the murder of some fire fighters in Webster, NY earlier this year. That law is scheduled to go into effect on January 15th, 2014, but that little detail hasn’t prevented New York from prosecuting citizens for violations of the Act before it’s actually a law according to Syracuse.com;

    Nearly 1,000 people have been charged under the NY Safe Act in the eight months since the tougher gun control law was passed, according to the state’s Division of Criminal Justice Services.

    […]

    Take, for example, possession of a magazine that holds more than 10 rounds.

    Across the state, 20 people have been charged with this misdemeanor, according to data The Post-Standard and Syracuse Media Group requested from DCJS. That includes three people in Onondaga County, according to the stats.

    […]

    Others interpret that part of the law differently. Certain large capacity magazines are now unlawful under the Safe Act, though owners have until Jan. 15 to get rid of them. And, people caught with a large magazine can have an extra 30 days to get rid of it to avoid the misdemeanor.

    But, Onondaga County Chief Assistant District Attorney Joseph Coolican added: “That doesn’t mean that if I’m caught with one (now), I can’t be charged,” he said this week.

    Then why even have an effective date for a law? It’s obvious to me that this law has nothing to do with “gun safety” and everything to do with gun owner control. It’s apparently being used to make otherwise law-abiding citizens into criminals. If I still lived in Onondaga County (around Syracuse), I’d be voting against a district attorney who prosecutes laws that don’t actually exist yet.

    Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.

  • Giffords/Kelly’s veterans’ gun control group

    Chief Tango sends us a link to a CNN article about the new group of veterans being sponsored by the Gabby Giffords/Mark Kelly organization, the misnamed Americans for Responsible Solutions, calling it Veterans for Responsible Solutions. From their own press release, here is their list of members;

    Founding Members
    Veterans for Responsible Solutions
    November 8, 2013
    Major General Vance Coleman, US Army (Ret.), Sun City, AZ
    Rear Admiral James A. Barnett, US Navy (Ret.), Arlington, VA
    Brigadier General Stephen A. Cheney, US Marine Corps (Ret.), Alexandria, VA
    Brigadier General Evelyn “Pat” Foote, US Army (Ret.), Accotink, MD
    Brigadier General Keith H. Kerr, California State Military Reserve (Ret.), Santa Rosa,
    CA
    Captain Joan E. Darrah, US Navy (Ret.), Alexandria, Virginia
    Captain Gail P. Kulisch, US Coast Guard (Ret.), Reston, VA
    Captain April F. Heinze, US Navy (Ret.), Coronado, CA
    Captain James Jordan, US Navy (Ret.), Fairwood, WA
    Former Captain John Gillies, US Navy, Lynden, WA
    Former Captain Howard Christofersen, US Navy, Chesterton, IN
    Former Captain Bill Kingston, US Marine Corps, New Castle, NH
    Former Captain Frank Quinn, US Marine Corps, Bay City, MI
    Colonel Thomas F. Field, US Army Reserve (Ret.), Arlington, VA
    Commander Beth F. Coye, US Navy (Ret.), Ashland, OR
    Commander George Trotman, US Navy (Ret.), Philadelphia, PA
    Former First Lieutenant Colonel Frederic Stephens, US Army, Roseville, MN
    Lieutenant Colonel Victor J. Fehrenbach, US Air Force (Ret.), Dayton, OH
    Lieutenant Colonel Victor J. Fehrenbach, US Air Force (Ret.), Dayton, OH
    Former Lieutenant Commander Jim Engelking, US Navy, Golden, CO
    Former Lieutenant Commander Phil Green, US Navy, Portage, MI
    Former Lieutenant Commander John Gadzinski, US Navy, Virginia Beach, VA
    Former Lieutenant Commander G.K. Desjarlais, US Navy, Drummonds, TN
    Major Michael Almy, US Air Force (Ret.), Dayton, OH
    Major Colleen Jew, US Army (Ret.), Oakland, CA
    Former Major Schwartz Malibu, US Army, Los Angeles, CA
    Former Major Charles Arnold, U.S. Air Force, Lompoc, CA
    Former Captain Susanne Scott, US Air Force, Sequim, WA
    Former Captain Joe Wiederhold, US Air Force, Bellingham, WA
    Former Captain Jacobo Van, US Army, San Juan, PR
    Former Captain Anthony C. Woods, US Army, University Park, MD
    Former Captain Kenneth Richards, US Army, Evergreen, CO
    Former Captain Joe Meyer, US Army, Amery, WI
    Former Captain and Vietnam veteran Ralph Siewers, US Army, Sedgwick, ME
    Former Lieutenant Junior Grade Daniel Cripe, US Navy, Missoula, MT
    Former Lieutenant Junior Grade Gary Bogle, U.S. Naval Reserve, St. Helena, CA
    Former Lieutenant Junior Grade Robert Austin, US Navy, Norwalk, CT
    Former Lieutenant Junior Grade Glenn Nichols, US Navy, Philadelphia, PA
    Former First Lieutenant Marx Bowens, US Naval Reserve, Worchester, MA
    Former First Lieutenant Barry Wolfer, US Air Force, Houston, TX
    Former First Lieutenant David Small, US Army, Middleboro, MA
    Former First Lieutenant Cooper Wood, US Army, Casselberry, FL
    Former First Lieutenant Ann Marie Briggs, US Air Force, Kennebunkport, ME
    Former First Lieutenant and World War II veteran Edgar Peara, US Army, Eugene, OR
    Former First Lieutenant Ronald Wos, US Army, Chicago, IL
    Former First Lieutenant Craig Richmond, US Air Force, Cincinnati, OH
    Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard Vincent W. Patton III, Ed.D., US Coast
    Guard (Ret.), Alexandria, VA
    Former Sergeant Major Jerry Corbin, US Army, Jonesboro, AR
    Senior Master Sergeant Rick Etheridge, US Air Force (Ret.), Port Angeles, WA
    Former Sergeant First Class Camelus Walker, US Army, Clinton, MD
    Former Petty Officer Joe Fouts, US Navy, Avon, OH
    Former Senior Chief Petty Officer Nelson Miller, US Navy SEALs, Tucson, AZ
    Former Private First Class Earsell Leslie, Sr., US Army, Los Angeles, CA
    Former Radarman 1st Class Michael Taccardi, US Navy, Norwich, CT
    Former Staff Sergeant Eric F. Alva, USMC, San Antonio, TX
    Former Sergeant Paul Madarasz, US Air Force
    Former Sergeant Frank Gifford, US Navy, Oakland, ME
    Former Sergeant Martin Wong, US Army, Boulder, CO
    Former Sergeant Mel Pontious, US Army, North Platte, NE
    Former Sergeant Edward Silha, US Army Austin, TX
    Former Sergeant Larry Butler, US Marine Corps, New York, NY
    Former Sergeant and Vietnam War veteran Bob Buckman, US Air Force, Houston, TX
    Former Sergeant Dave Ogilvie, US Army, Santa Barbara, CA
    Former Sergeant Neil Friedman, US Army, Brooklyn, NY
    Former Sergeant Thomas Adamski, US Air Force, Oxford, CT
    Former Radarman 2nd Class John Schaefers, US Navy, Seven Fields, PA
    Former Staff Sergeant Laura Giblin, US Air Force, Alexandria, VA
    Former Sergeant Shane Gibney, US Marine Corps, Alexandria, VA
    Former Engineman 2nd Class Francis C. Hynds, US Navy, Upper St. Clair, PA
    Former Staff Sergeant John Brophy, US Marine Corps, Vista, CA
    Former Sergeant Michael Alexander, US Army, Northville, MI
    Former Sergeant Nelson Van Brunt, US Army, Kensington, MD
    Master Sergeant Douglas Poore, US Air Force (Ret.), Vacaville, CA
    Former Staff Sergeant Christel Holcomb, US Air Force, Amery, WI
    Former Sergeant and Vietnam veteran Joseph Thomas, US Air Force, Holt, MO
    Former Staff Sergeant David Hall, US Air Force, Washington, DC
    Former Sergeant Tony Kourtakis, US Marine Corps, Novi, MI
    Former Storekeeper 2nd Class Robert Houseman, US Navy, Liberty, MO
    Former Sergeant Ruben Neria, US Army, Dallas, TX
    Former Sergeant Bob Simons, US Army, Ardmore, PA
    Former Sergeant Thomas McKenna, US Army, Lake Forest, CA
    Former Sergeant Mara Solberg, US National Guard, Fargo, ND
    Former Sergeant Michelle Wilmot, US Army, Athens, GA
    Former Specialist Guy Stoddard, US Army, Los Altos Hills, CA
    Former Petty Officer Third Class Don Morgan, US Navy, Magalia, CA
    Former Senior Airman Emory Stevens, US Air Force, Las Vegas, NV
    Former Petty Officer Third Class Robert Hadden, US Coast Guard, Cincinnati, OH
    Former Specialist William Herrera, US Army, Walnut Creek, CA
    Former Petty Officer Third Class S. Scales, US Navy, Buda, TX
    Former Corporal David Farwell, US Marine Corps, San Jose, CA
    Former Senior Airmen Richard Anderson, US Air Force, Milwaukee, WI
    Former Petty Officer Third Class Leonard Banaszak, US Navy, Saint Louis, MO
    Former Specialist Vivian Ghazarian, US Army, Penn Wynne, PA
    Former Specialist Odis (Chuck) Tanner, US Army, Russellville, AR
    Former Corporal Rickie Byers, US Army, Lynnwood, WA
    Former Specialist Larry Barton, US Army, Crookston, MN
    Former Corporal Kevin McGowan, US Army, Danbury, CT
    Former Aviation Boatswain Mate 3rd Class Arthur McDonald, US Navy, Gilette, NJ
    Former Petty Officer Third Class Thomas Futch, US Navy, High Springs, FL
    Former Petty Officer Third Class Dave Elvin, US Navy, Seattle, WA
    Former Specialist Tom Herr, US Army, Westerville, OH
    Former Specialist Third Class Hooker Horton, US Army, Raleigh, NC
    Former Corporal John Helfrich, US Army, Burbank, CA
    Former Senior Airman Dave Ogilvie, US Air Force, Santa Barbara, CA
    Former Specialist Victor Daub, US Army, Tucson, AZ
    Former Specialist 5 Howard J. Kendall, US Army, Yarmouth Port, MA
    Former Corporal Robert Parson, US Army, Tucson, AZ
    Former Buck Sergeant Frances Kellogg, US Army Air Corps, Gwynedd, PA
    Former Corporal Earl Nikkel, US Marine Corps, Denver, CO
    Former Seaman Albert Rossignol, US Navy, Seal Beach, CA
    Former Airman First Class Leon Demars, US Air Force, Ajo, AZ
    Former Private First Class Sidney Cholmar, US Army, Berkshire, MA
    Former Private 1st Class Dennis Kreiner, US Army, Carpentersville, IL
    Former Airman First Class Rennie Ferris, US Air Force, Newport, OR
    Former Lance Corporal, Robert Raiche Sr., US Marine Corps, Manchester, NH
    Former Private Second Class John Stickler, US Army, Los Angeles, CA
    Former Private First Class Richard Meader, US Army, Austin, TX
    Former Airmen Robert J. Stedman, US Air Force, Las Vegas, NV
    Former Private 1st Class Eric Serati, US Army, De Sotto, IL
    Former Seaman Apprentice Mercer Gewin, US Coast Guard, Country Club, MO
    Former Seaman Jeff Nisbet, US Navy, Waterford, WI
    Former Cadet Devon Maness, US Army, Rainbow City, AL

    From the CNN article;

    “We’re for gun rights,” said James Barnett, a retired rear admiral.

    Instead, Veterans for Responsible Solutions wants commonsense actions like universal background checks, Kelly said.

    These are background checks an overwhelming majority of Americans have said they support, polls show.

    Vance Coleman, a retired Army major general, said on the call that he also owns guns. But not everyone should, Coleman continued, namely criminals and the mentally ill.

    “They should not own guns and the Congress needs to do something about that,” Coleman said.

    No one who joins forces with the crackpots at Americans for Responsible Solutions is for gun rights if they have a measure of common sense. It’s not the “gun lobby” that opposes the ownership of guns by criminals and the mentally ill. Jared Loughner who shot Gabby Giffords, should have been in the national background check system, but the police who had contact with him never arrested him in previous encounters, so he was never on the list.

    It’s the doctors and law enforcement who aren’t putting the criminals and mentally ill in the system – background checks are working in their current form, but when the people responsible for putting names in there aren’t doing their job under the current law, the solution isn’t making new laws – unless you want to make doctors and law enforcement do their job and hold up their end of the bargain.

    This is yet another exploitation of the “veterans” brand, using our the honor and trust that Americans have for their veterans to force some vacuous ideology into the national discussion that we never had after the President promised us that we’d have a discussion.

    The CNN article says that Veterans for Responsible Solutions “will be doing little more than lending their names while others will be pursuing a greater measure of activism, perhaps by writing newspaper editorials” – attention whores all. It’s nothing more that VoteVets, IAVA, March Forward – organizations that used the “veterans” brand to influence politics, mostly in conflict with our own interests.

  • Daylight shooting in DC claims four

    Speaking of guns and DC, the Washington Times reports that four men were shot during daylight today in Northeast DC;

    First responders were called to the 3900 block of Minnesota Avenue Northeast at 1:11 p.m. and located four gunshot victims, said D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services spokesman Tim Wilson.

    Two men suffered life-threatening injuries and a spokesman for the police department said one man had been shot multiple times and another once in the chest. A third man was shot in the leg and the fourth victim’s injuries were not known.

    It was not known whether the victims were adults or juveniles.

    See, I don’t believe the story – after all, guns are heavily restricted in the nation’s capitol and no one is supposed to take their weapons out of their homes. So unless the four were shot from one of the nearby houses, I have to call bullshit on the article. Because everyone knows that gun control legislation works.