Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists

The Washington Times reports that a member of the staff of anti-gun zealot John Conyers brought a gun into a Detroit Federal building;

Betty Petrenz, who works as office manager for Mr. Conyers, brought a gun inside her purse into a federal building in Detroit, The Daily Caller reported.

But officers let her off with a warning — no ticket, no fine, no jail time. Typically, carting a weapon into a federal building is against the law.

It was the first thing we learned in our Concealed Carry class – we couldn’t even take a gun into a post office to mail a letter. While across the country, we see children punished for pointing their toaster pastry at people, pointing their fingers at classmates, wearing an NRA T-shirt, etc…. But, “our betters” are given a pass when they actually violate the nation’s gun laws. I wonder how Conyers will justify his office manager being armed while he does his level best to disarm the rest of us?

Buzzfeed reports that the junior senator of West Virginia, Joe Manchin, formerly endorsed by the NRA, will be fêted by anti-gun lunatic, New York City mayor Michael “Nanny” Bloomberg for Manchin’s attempts to push through the Senate a backdoor federal gun registration measure disguised as “enhanced background checks”.

The fundraiser, scheduled for July 22, marks Bloomberg’s efforts to reward those who supported the gun control campaign and punish those senators who voted against it, including four Democratic senators: Montana’s Max Baucus, Alaska’s Mark Begich, North Dakota’s Heidi Heitkamp, and Arkansas’ Mark Pryor. Last month, the New York City mayor appealed to state donors to cut off contributions to the four lawmakers.

Yeah, but Manchin launched a video this last month to tell us that he hadn’t chnged, that he was the same Joe Manchin who we voted for in November. Hardly. I didn’t vote for a Northeast liberal, I voted for the guy who introduced federal CCW legislation to the Senate, which has apparently died on the vine.

I’m fairly certain that you couldn’t find two West Virginians to rub together who welcomes this new alliance between Manchin and Bloomberg. But, obviously, since Manchin isn’t in danger of losing his job for five more years, he doesn’t care much what his constituents think of his new-found friendship with the anti-gun crowd.

West Virginia legislators tried to woo Beretta away from their facilities in Maryland when that state doubled down on their laws that would make many of the weapons that Beretta manufactures illegal there. But, company officials say that because Joe Manchin, the junior Senator from West Virginia is so adamant about gun control proposals, they won’t be moving to West Virginia;

[Jeffrey Reh, a Beretta USA executive] said the company decided to rule West Virginia out of any potential expansion because of Manchin’s bill and the fact that he worked on it with Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., whom he called one of the Senate’s most liberal members.

Manchin said Beretta USA is distorting his bill’s intent.

“I believe that my legislation, which an independent poll just showed that 75 percent of West Virginians agree with, is a reasonable approach that in no way infringes on our right to bear arms,” Manchin said in a written statement Friday. “It’s shameful that Beretta, who seems to have no intention of moving from one of the most gun restrictive states in the country, is deceiving the great people of West Virginia in attempting to score a political point.”

Since the intent of Manchin’s cooperation with Chuck Schumer is to lay the ground work for a national gun registry, and Manchin is actively hiding that fact from West Virginians, I doubt 75% of West Virginians support his bill.

Thanks to Concerned Citizen for the link to the Charleston Gazette.

I saw hints of this last week on Twitter, but I’m not in the habit of scooping folks, so I’ve been waiting for Ace of Spades blogger John Ekdahl to tell the story. But it looks like Nanny Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns (more accurately “Mayors Against Guns We Don’t Own”) has been using the City of New York taxpayers-paid internet to host the 501(c)4 organization’s website;

At first I pinged mayorsagainstillegalguns.org and found that it was resolving at a New York City government IP address.

It turns out I didn’t even have to look that closely, because the mayorsagainstillegalguns.org domain is registered to the city of New York. As you can see there, the registrant name is “NYC DoITT”, which is the New York City Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications.

Bloomberg’s spokesdingus says;

Bloomberg’s aides forcefully defended the arrangement, batting down questions of impropriety by pointing out the distinction between Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which is the coalition of mayors, and the group’s “action fund,” which is the vehicle for political spending.

The activities of the mayors’ group “are in the interest of keeping New York City safe,” John McCarthy, a spokesman for Bloomberg, told Politico. “He is acting in his capacity as mayor of New York City.”

Yeah, I’m not a tax code lawyer or anything, but it seems to me that this is illegal, and if it’s not illegal, it’s unethical for the mayor of New York (who really isn’t anyone, any-f*cking-way outside of New York City) to stick his nose in national politics with a “non-profit” organization funded by the taxpayers with or against their wills. Do you mean to tell me that Hiz-Dingus can’t afford to find his own hosting service somewhere? I mean, I did and I’m almost, but not quite, as rich as Bloomberg. Why is he saddling the taxpayers with this – like I said, if it’s not illegal, it’s unethical to say the least.

Oh, yeah, the name of the organization is “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” there’s an “s” after the first word, to me that means the word is plural, so why are New York City taxpayers picking up the tab for those other cities who want to stick their nose in our business?

Charles sends us a link to the New York Times “The Gun Report” which recounts the discussion between dingus Heidi Yewman, who we discussed last week, and her editor, Michele Kort at Ms. Magazine, because “gun blogs” had discovered her series of articles about how she was an untrained gun owner and endangering everyone within at least 25 yards of her;

What was Kort’s solution to this dilemma? Incredibly, it was to kill the rest of Yewman’s series. “I don’t think I should post the next two installments of this—they’ll only fire up the troops again, and we’re just not equipped to handle this on our blog,” Kort wrote. When I reached out to Kort, suggesting that Ms. had allowed itself to be censored by Second Amendment absolutists, she would not respond on the record. Suffice it to say that Ms. disagrees with this assessment. But I don’t see how you could view it in any other way. Ms. published something the N.R.A.-types didn’t like; they responded by bullying Ms. online, and Ms. folded.

N.R.A. 1, Ms. Magazine, 0. Here is today’s report.

Um, yeah, no, the NRA didn’t defeat Ms. Yewman or her magazine – common sense beat her. All of us who are in the least bit controversial and incite enemies has had our addresses posted on the internet – that’s why some of us have guns and CCW permits. It hasn’t affected us or our public opinions in the least. The point remains, and the NRA has always said, that gun owners need to be responsible and learn how to use the tool with which they’ve chosen to defend themselves.

Ms. Yewman was a huge threat to her community. I, for one, feel safer knowing that she gave up the the idiot point that she was trying to make. No one I know has ever bought a gun without knowing how to load it or fire it effectively. Yewman thought that by becoming her perception of the stereotypical brainless gun owner that she was making a legitimate point, when if fact, she was making our point – gun owners need to be responsible or go home. If the NRA won anything, and if the NRA had anything to do with Ms. canceling the series, they got one careless gun owner off the streets with her gun.

By the way, the NRA didn’t send me the article and demand that I make it the Big Issue last week, one of my readers sent the article, like they send everything I write about here. So suck it, New York Times.

The other day we learned that among the list of “victims” of gun violence included the Boston Marathon Bomber. Today, Buzzfeed reports that at least ten other criminals, including LA cop killer Christopher Dorner were among the names read aloud.

Also among the gun violence “victims” listed by the demonstrators:

Rick Odell Smith, who was killed in a shootout with police in Manchester, Illinois after he allegedly broke into an apartment and shot six people with a shotgun.

Kurt Myers, who was killed by police in Herkimer, New York after firing on them, and allegedly killing four people a day earlier. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo commended the police who took Myers down for “ending this horrific spree of violence and bloodshed.”

James L. Gilkerson, who was killed after opening fire on police officers in Middlefield, Ohio. After further investigation, law enforcement officials began referring to Gilkerson as a “terrorist” and said they believed he was planning a large-scale attack.

Jeremy Peter Goulet, who was killed by police in Santa Cruz, California after allegedly murdering two police detectives.

Anthony James Galla, who was killed in a shootout with police in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania at the end of a manhunt that was prompted by his suspected involvement in another shooting.

Esteban J. Smith, a former Marine who allegedly stabbed and killed his wife before going on a “shooting rampage,” and was killed in a shootout with police in Elden, Texas.

Emmanuel Gatewood and Kourtney Hahn, murder suspects who were killed together in a shootout with police in Columbus, Ohio.

Nanny’s spokesdingus sends;

The names of victims since the Newtown tragedy are being read by survivors and others to show the very real and personal cost of gun violence. A small number of names on the public list compiled by Slate.com entitled ‘How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown?’ have been of people who were absolutely not victims, which was a mistake that is being corrected, and for which we apologize.

Yeah, well, if there were so many people who have been killed, who were legitimate victims of gun crimes, why did you have to eulogize these criminals along with the victims?